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

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

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 The Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us a rewrite around the Tennessee Valley. Brett Beaird, welcome in. Where the statement of the day is, Lane, please. Good afternoon. Welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Tuesday to you and the listeners, yes. Steve Sarkeesian and Greg Sankey not happy about a couple of things. We'll talk about that during the show, along with Joe Cox of Saturday Down South, previewing the final week of the SEC baseball season.

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 Bruce Marshall, Las Vegas Insider, will talk about some of the top headlines in college sports this week.

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 But right now, Roger is here to recap a big weekend for Alabama baseball and softball.

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 The man who needs to have his own energy drink named after him. He is all over the place, like the Beatles, 25 hours a day, eight days a week.

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 Roger Hoover on the call, no matter the ball, on the Alabama Crimson Tide Network.

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 Roger, welcome in. How are you?

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 Boomo Bugg. Doing really well. Hope you guys are, too.

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 You're good?

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 Well, we are, Roger. Where and where do you start this week?

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 What is Roger Hoover's life like when you're in a unique position, do you not?

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 How many teams out there had a playoff team in football, had a playoff team in basketball, now got one in baseball, got one in softball?

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 Roger, how do you juggle all those balls?

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 Yeah, we have taken this year to the max, I would say.

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 It seemed like outside of playing the final two rounds of the college football playoff, we played as much as we possibly could, having played the SEC championship game in football.

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 And then it felt like the next morning we were in Oklahoma for that first-round playoff game.

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 So it's been definitely a busy year, but it's been a good one as well.

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 I think fans are starting to see that all the hard work these coaches and players have put in is really paying off.

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 And, you know, with our baseball team, I think people are realizing, you know what, maybe we do need to stay patient and not over-attack if Alabama loses the game to South Alabama or UAB.

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 They're still possible and great things.

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 I think that's a good lesson for all of us as we go in the next few years, but fans are going to be fans, I know.

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 But I think they are getting something they can really be proud of right now with Alabama.

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 Now, listen, summarize the South Carolina series for us.

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 In the first game, Tyler Faye pitched really well.

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 Luke Vaughn with a couple of home runs.

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 Miles Upchurch in the last game.

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 Quite impressive in his freshman campaign.

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 Alabama now, Roger, 35-17, 16-11.

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 Roger, your thoughts on the sweep in Columbia.

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 Well, more good starting pitching from the Crimson Tide and then very timely hitting, especially with the long ball in that first game.

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 Luke Vaughn getting a couple of homers.

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 Justin LeBron getting a home run.

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 You lose Brady Neal mid-game with injury.

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 We knew that LeBron wasn't going to be good to go as he was dealing with a hard collision at first base and had to miss the final couple of games.

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 It was a series dealing with some neck pain and still being checked out in the concussion protocol.

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 Different people step up.

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 Hartsville High School, I know they may have, I don't know if they've had their graduation yet,

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 but they may have let kids out yesterday to celebrate, to have a town parade for JoJo Williamson,

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 who homered for the Crimson Tide and played a great job at second base for Alabama with everything kind of shuffling after LeBron went out.

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 It was just a good weekend for the home run ball.

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 We saw that from Eric Hines, Will Platter, who was pressed into action.

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 Got three hits cold off the bench, taking over for Brady Neal on Saturday.

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 Then Sunday, you build up a 7-0 lead, and I honestly was thinking about a run rule and seeing if I could get the Buc-ee's a little earlier that evening.

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 But it turned out that we had a one-run rule, and that was a one-run victory for Alabama in the end after it was 7-0.

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 It became 7-6.

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 You're nervous as can be in the ninth.

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 It just came down the way to win a game that probably a few weeks ago they would have lost to be going on in the city.

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 So that felt really good, and we were able to get on the road.

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 I was able to get my brisket sandwich and beaver nuggets and feel good after that.

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 Priorities, man.

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 Roger, Hoover, Crimson Tide Network.

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 I appreciate you shouting out for Hartzell High.

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 Great high school town.

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 Those folks down there are crazy.

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 I don't care what season it is.

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 Roger, talk to us about now it comes down to this.

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 It's the end of the road for the regular season.

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 You've got to try to play and get one of those top-four spots locked down.

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 It's a crowded field.

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 This starting rotation, if they can get through this weekend, we'll have gone through the entire year

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 going back to Valentine's Day weekend against Washington State.

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 With Tyler Faye on Fridays, Miles Upshurst on Saturdays, or excuse me, St. Adams on Saturdays,

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 I think the only kind of lingering question for this team getting ready for Ole Miss is the health of Justin LeBron and Brady Neal.

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 After dealing with those concussion-like symptoms, being cleared in protocol, not even being in the dugout for the hot day on Sunday that we had in Columbia to close it out.

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 And Mike Bianco is a good winner, especially at this time of the year with Ole Miss.

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 Patrick Murphy was pumped when he learned and the team learned about Alabama going to be the number one seed in the NCAA softball tournament.

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 They did not beat Texas, did not win the SEC tournament, but my goodness, 49 wins, 49-7 the most since 2021.

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 They're hitting the ball much better this year.

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 And this is about the best you can feel about Alabama softball.

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 Vince Montana, Fouts was on campus.

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 And then a few years later made it back to Oklahoma City for the World Series as well.

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 So, everybody on this campus is really fired up about what's in store for them because they do it the right way.

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 So, if they can get their free wins, move on, and be hosting a Super Regional next weekend, it would be very special and tough to lose.

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 People in softball and baseball sometimes, they look at the front of a jersey and say,

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 we know some of the top-of-the-line players that your power-for schools can go on to bigger and brighter things.

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 So they're able to attract a high caliber of athlete looking for a college experience first and then the softball second.

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 So you never want to line up across the court or the field from them because they're going to be scrappy as can be.

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 I saw this on Twitter.

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 The Braves fans had the worst week probably in the history of the franchise, losing John Sterling, Ted Turner,

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 and then Bobby Cox on Saturday.

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 You talked about a memory when you were with the Jacksonville Jimbo Shrimp

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 when Jack McKeon and Bobby Cox came into your booth and just sat down and started talking.

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 Reminisce with us about that.

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 You had all these great teams coming in, all these great prospects.

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 And the Braves at the time were with the Mississippi Braves out of Jackson, Mississippi.

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 And they had a young man named Ronald Acuna.

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 That's it.

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 And so Bobby Cox, it wasn't far from him.

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 I think he had a home in Florida, maybe even St. Augustine.

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 He was at the ballpark.

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 We were able to talk to him and set up an interview in the radio booth.

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 We started our interview.

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 And Jack McKeon was in town, the former Florida Marlins manager working in an advisory role for the Marlins.

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 He was in town.

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 And he and I had known each other for years at that point, with Jacksonville being a longtime Marlins affiliate.

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 So already we had done a few interviews.

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 Even that day, he had done like an hour-long podcast interview all about the 2003 World Series and beating the Cubs and the NLCS, all that stuff.

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 Well, Jack would sit up in the press box a few boxes away in the writer's booth, which had our radio broadcast on during the game.

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 So Bobby and I are getting into the interview, and I mentioned, you know, Jack McKeon's at the ballpark.

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 I haven't seen him in years.

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 Here comes Jack McKeon with an unlit cigar in hand.

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 He had stopped smoking by that point, but he always carried around cigars, just out of habit.

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 And just immediately, I looked at my radio equipment, found a wireless microphone we used for post-game interviews, handed it to Jack McKeon, and just let them talk and just kind of hold court, catch up on the air.

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 I asked Jack what it was like managing against Bobby.

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 The top of the fourth ended.

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 You know, some stories, I will say, the only time when I was in Jacksonville that the F word ever got us on our airwaves was by Mr. McKeon.

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 I think he knew he was on live radio, but he said it anyway.

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 But, again, it was just a fun, amazing memory.

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 And then the coolest thing of all was, you know, we'd normally got pictures with anybody who came in the booth.

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 And as soon as we learned the news, we all started texting each other on Saturday with those pictures being like,

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 can you believe we got to sit there and listen in the minor league ballgames to Jack McKeon and Bobby Cox.

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 I mean, that was in 2017 before Ronald had made it to the big leagues and done anything at that point.

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 Trader Jack is, again, one of my absolute favorite people I've ever gotten to meet in sports.

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 And his personality, I think even brought Bobby's personality out a little more than I could as a guy in my 20s trying to do the interview.

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 Yeah, you can't say that 400F word on the radio.

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 It's called fish.

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 You mentioned the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.

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 Quick, they talked to the folks in Florence.

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 The reason I'm bringing it up, the pride of Florence High, Braxton Garrett, is with the Jumbos right now.

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 I wish that had become the permanent home as opposed to Greenville, which is another good town.

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 We appreciate you reminiscing with us.

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 Lauren Johnson from Nashville.

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 as well as our softball broadcasters, Tom and Gray, will give a report to get you fully prepared for the Regional.

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 So, we're definitely focused on baseball and softball this week, while keeping one eye on all the football news that's going on.

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 But, yeah, look forward to having Alabama against Ole Miss.

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 And then the next time we talk next week, we'll get to stay home for me here in Hoover for the SEC tournament.

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 Looking forward to hopefully a shorter week near the end of the week if Alabama can take care of business this week against Ole Miss.

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 Sounds great.

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 Sounds like you're busy.

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 Again, you have our vote to make the Jumbo Shrimps Hall of Fame.

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 Stay safe out there, Roger, and keep up the good work, okay?

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 All right.

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 Thank you, guys.

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 He has got the whole world in his hands when it comes to the SEC.

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 Yeah, gee, I'd hate for anybody to not notice him for any given five minutes of time, but I don't think we're going to have a problem there.

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 I was very skeptical when they hired him, and he's really worked out well with that part of it, you know, really elevated that program.

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 But now he's at a place where nothing except the best is going to satisfy, and you can say anything you want to say at LSU if you win enough games.

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 So it's going to get real interesting starting this fall.

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 Well, the thing is, it's an ugly divorce that turned out at Ole Miss.

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 But to come out after all those years and alleged that racism played a part in recruiting at Ole Miss, I mean, where do you start in responding to that?

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 I mean, let's just say it's true.

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 I mean, I just think people say they try to tolerate Lane.

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 And, you know, the other thing I want to add to what you said there, if you're sincere about it, who is in better position to do something about it than the head football coach at Ole Miss?

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 So it's hard to take it too seriously because it didn't seem to bother him enough to do anything about it just to use it as a talking point.

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 Joe, isn't it amazing?

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 I mean, they're a little over half a run better in ERA than any team in the league.

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 And meanwhile, Georgia's down there at 11th.

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 And then, you know, yeah, you go to the long ball and that's Georgia's game.

438
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 And Auburn doesn't even have half as many home runs as Georgia.

439
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 But, you know, it's really a good chance to kind of feel out the neglected side of things.

440
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,480
 Let's see how Auburn's bats do in this series.

441
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:39,860
 Let's see how Georgia's pitching does in this series because I think that will probably ultimately tell the tale of how far both of those teams go.

442
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 We know Auburn can pitch and Georgia can hit, but can they handle the other side?

443
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:44,340
 That's the story.

444
00:27:44,740 --> 00:27:47,280
 Joe Kotz got it all covered there Saturday down south.

445
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 Joe, baseball, like any sports, the big mo game, getting hot at the right time.

446
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 Postseason's coming up.

447
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 Curtain coming down.

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 The regular season coming up here soon.

449
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,540
 Right now, in your opinion, who has the most big mo going into the postseason?

450
00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:07,900
 Well, I mean, it's hard to go against Georgia just as good as they've been all year.

451
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 And, I mean, they've got it locked up heading into this final weekend, which is a good thing.

452
00:28:13,060 --> 00:28:14,420
 Alabama's playing really well.

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 Let's give them some credit.

454
00:28:16,780 --> 00:28:25,700
 I think the good news for folks down in your area is probably that both the Tide and the Tigers likely have those top eight spots locked up.

455
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 It's a little bit dicier for Alabama, but I think probably a win this weekend will take care of them and probably lock down the top eight spot.

456
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 And that's where you want to be because you can have all the big games at home all the way to Omaha.

457
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 And, you know, you're looking at a couple of teams there locally that could be making that Nebraska run.

458
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 Joe, let me ask you about who's not hot.

459
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 Vanderbilt, Tim Corbin, it's hard to believe this.

460
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:58,200
 It's 11-16 Alabama swept them two weekends ago, unless they do something in Hoover.

461
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 A lot of people saying, well, he may not make it this year.

462
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 We know LSU won't make it.

463
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 9-18, isn't it hard to believe, Joe, Vandy and LSU looking at the outside in for the postseason?

464
00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:16,480
 Yeah, I don't think anybody would have forecast that.

465
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 And I do want to dive in on that Vandy point and just say completely agree, they're in a weird situation.

466
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 And they could sweep this weekend and be 14-16 and still get left out because their RPI is just horrible.

467
00:29:30,340 --> 00:29:31,280
 I was looking at that earlier.

468
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 I think they're somewhere in the 70s.

469
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 And the SEC, you can look at the RPI, and it's a very clear line there.

470
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 Kentucky and Tennessee are like 30-31, and they're both probably in.

471
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 And then the big gap, and then LSU's next is like 58.

472
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 So there's a very clear line of demarcation of the teams that should be in good shape versus the teams that, yeah,

473
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 barring showing up in Hoover and just going great guns on everybody are probably headed home.

474
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 Joe, talk about Tennessee before we let you go.

475
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 We had a good friend of ours, Vince Ferrara, who covers, he actually does some of the color for Tennessee baseball.

476
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 He said, just about the time you get ready to put the dirt on the grave, Tennessee comes up and has a good weekend.

477
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 Boy, they have had up and down years.

478
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 Joe, your thoughts on Tennessee?

479
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 Yeah, it's really been a challenging season, and I think we all recognize that the transition post-Tony Vitello was going to be a difficult one,

480
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 but I think it's gone kind of above and beyond that.

481
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 But the good news, again, that RPI, they're at 31 coming into this weekend, already got 13 league wins.

482
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 I would like to see them pick up one more win this weekend in Oklahoma because you'd feel just double extra special safe,

483
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 but probably even if they got swept, they're probably in the field.

484
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 And, of course, as you and I like to talk about, Ole Miss showed us a couple years ago,

485
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 you can be the last team to get your day cold, and you can be the last team standing at the end of the day.

486
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 So just getting in is the game.

487
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 It is amazing, Joe.

488
00:31:03,460 --> 00:31:06,420
 Hey, you can go from the penthouse to that house in the SEC.

489
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 Real, real quick, listen, I always enjoy the conversation.

490
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 Nobody knows baseball in the SEC better than Joe Cox.

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 Where can we get online to get all the great stuff?

492
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:23,080
 Check us out Saturday down south, and I'll probably be varying it up a little bit.

493
00:31:23,140 --> 00:31:31,960
 I've always done the power rankings, but I hope to do kind of an overview of what I see when we get to add NCAA bracket in a couple weeks.

494
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:38,840
 Might try the same thing in Hoover, but then again, we've got to get to our talking point next week about do you even want to win in Hoover?

495
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:42,620
 I'm going to leave that out there as a teaser because I want to revisit that one.

496
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,000
 Great point, Joe.

497
00:31:45,100 --> 00:31:50,300
 We'll delve deeper into that next time, but in the meantime, thank you so much, and stay safe out there, okay?

498
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,860
 All right, I'll do it.

499
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 You guys take care.

500
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 Thank you, bud.

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 How are you?

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 Hey, how you doing there, Harold?

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 Is it bigger and better?

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 I mean, I'm looking at basketball.

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 So, you know, they're fine.

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 I mean, they'd love the NFL to have a 25-week season if they could.

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 And who knows?

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 I mean, it's a big deal.

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 And I mean, I thought it was too big.

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 You know, 60.

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 I mean, they went to 64.

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 You think about it.

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 In 85, they finally went to 64.

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 They had been at 48, and I think they went to 52, 53, 64.

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 And then they only added four more in the next 41 years.

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 So maybe it's time for that.

642
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 Though I remember, you guys do, too.

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 I mean, before 75, I mean, these tournaments, it's like a 23- to 25-team tournament.

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 So, I mean, it's really gross.

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646
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 And I think the TV networks, too.

647
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 They'd rather have playoff games than conference championships, especially since in a lot of these, you know,

648
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 the both teams and the big conferences are already going to be there.

649
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 Or like in the ACC last year, I guess there was some drama if Virginia ended up winning.

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 I guess they would have gotten in, I think.

651
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 Maybe not.

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 They didn't even get in.

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667
00:40:39,420 --> 00:40:40,740
 You're squeezing it even more.

668
00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:44,620
 What's your reaction to even more paywalls to see the NFL?

669
00:40:45,620 --> 00:40:52,800
 The only thing that will stop that, or slow it down at least, because I think it's just they'll keep going and going and going.

670
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,840
 They never have enough.

671
00:40:54,600 --> 00:41:05,420
 But they are running the risk here of running afoul of their antitrust exemption, because that was all, when they did that right,

672
00:41:06,420 --> 00:41:12,980
 and this one that's still applicable was done right when the merger happened in 1970, I think.

673
00:41:13,540 --> 00:41:21,260
 But at that point, I mean, most of the games were on over-the-ear TV, free TV, and they were not part of that thing.

674
00:41:21,260 --> 00:41:28,640
 But, you know, the paywalls and things like that, and even the cable was around then, certainly not like it is now.

675
00:41:28,780 --> 00:41:30,500
 It's just for, like, the hinterlands.

676
00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:34,660
 The whole pay concept in TV wasn't part of it.

677
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:43,240
 So if they think they're running into some risk with that, I think that's the only way,

678
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:50,140
 and they think they see that as a real threat that would take some do-gooders in Congress to do that.

679
00:41:50,260 --> 00:41:53,380
 And I'm not sure I hold out much hope, but it's possible, because we've heard that.

680
00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:58,720
 That's the only way I see this stopping, because they will keep squeezing,

681
00:41:58,780 --> 00:42:02,140
 and squeezing this thing, and squeezing it, and squeezing it.

682
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,820
 And as long as people keep paying, they'll do it.

683
00:42:06,940 --> 00:42:10,600
 And, look, it's just like with these ticket prices, Super Bowl, you know, whatever.

684
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,720
 I mean, as long as there's people with a lot of money who just don't care and they'll spend anything,

685
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,020
 you know, the NFL will price his product accordingly.

686
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,520
 And I am worried about them pricing out a lot of fans.

687
00:42:21,860 --> 00:42:25,020
 But, you know, it's just the almighty dollar that's all that seems to matter.

688
00:42:25,620 --> 00:42:28,760
 But the only thing I think they could stop it is if there's some threat to the antitrust exemption.

689
00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:30,480
 And then that may slow it down a bit.

690
00:42:30,540 --> 00:42:30,780
 We'll see.

691
00:42:31,780 --> 00:42:40,640
 Bama, Ohio State, now official, your favorite coach in college football, Ryan Day, hosting Alabama in 2027.

692
00:42:41,420 --> 00:42:43,320
 Bama, Oklahoma State, gone.

693
00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:46,140
 Georgia, Florida State, gone.

694
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,940
 USC, Notre Dame, trying to renew.

695
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,120
 And I know you know that rivalry very well.

696
00:42:52,560 --> 00:43:02,900
 Speaking of going to 24, how will that impact future non-conference big games such as Bama, Ohio State, in the future?

697
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:04,880
 That's a good question.

698
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:12,780
 And I've been worried lately that, you know, we're – but we have had a few examples of some good games.

699
00:43:12,900 --> 00:43:15,440
 And I give – actually, Ohio State, rare credit there.

700
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,820
 And that's one area I don't think Ryan Day is too off.

701
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:20,460
 They played Texas.

702
00:43:20,460 --> 00:43:21,760
 They're going to play Texas again this year.

703
00:43:21,860 --> 00:43:23,040
 They played Texas last year.

704
00:43:23,540 --> 00:43:25,440
 I guess they've got this Bama thing coming up.

705
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,940
 So, you know, we still get a few of those.

706
00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:32,280
 But the conference schedules now have squeezed this so much.

707
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,840
 You've only got a few non-conference games.

708
00:43:35,340 --> 00:43:41,340
 And, like, we mentioned this on – I think I did this with Ryan Fowler, Tuscaloosa, last month.

709
00:43:41,460 --> 00:43:49,460
 I was kind of going over the schedules for SEC schools, you know, back in the – you know, back in the 70s.

710
00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:57,260
 And how you never saw – rarely would you see a game against what would have been, you know,

711
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,260
 a 1AA or a lower division school back then.

712
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,360
 Now, those are the days before the conference expansion.

713
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:08,640
 And a lot of schools are independents before Conference USA or the American or any of those with the Big East.

714
00:44:09,420 --> 00:44:13,780
 But if there's only room for one – this is what bothers me.

715
00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:19,520
 Now the big conferences seem to think, okay, we need to schedule one game against Power 4 or Power 5.

716
00:44:20,260 --> 00:44:22,140
 And then the other couple games you don't have to.

717
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,120
 But that's what bothers me is that playing the Furmans in the Western Carolinas,

718
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,680
 the fan bases really don't want to see that.

719
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:35,720
 There's enough, you know, FBS schools that you can face.

720
00:44:36,540 --> 00:44:40,820
 But I don't know how that's going to impact it if the playoff expands,

721
00:44:40,900 --> 00:44:43,160
 if that's going to shrink the number of these intersectionals more.

722
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,320
 I'm kind of actually heartened that a couple of these want to play.

723
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,480
 And maybe that's actually good news.

724
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:51,840
 We'll see.

725
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:54,540
 Bruce Marshall looking out with us.

726
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:57,040
 He is busy there amongst other places, Vegas Insider.

727
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,260
 Bruce, what's your perception of Greg Sankey?

728
00:44:59,340 --> 00:45:03,260
 At one time he was carrying a big stick and walks off and all that.

729
00:45:03,740 --> 00:45:08,300
 And now a lot of folks down in this neck of the woods says basically he is bowing and kissing

730
00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:12,080
 the ring of the power brokers in college football.

731
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,300
 Well, what's your objective take on the job, Greg?

732
00:45:15,380 --> 00:45:18,300
 I think he's doing in terms of having the back of the SEC.

733
00:45:19,580 --> 00:45:22,320
 I actually think he's probably doing an okay job.

734
00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:25,460
 I think he's the bureaucrat's bureaucrat.

735
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,700
 And anybody, and he kind of came up through academia.

736
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:34,720
 And I generally distrust these sorts of guys running a big enterprise like that,

737
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,540
 though I don't think he's done that badly with it.

738
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:43,960
 I tend to like guys more like your mark out of the Big 12 who comes from outside of academia.

739
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,620
 And I believe Tony Petiti is the same thing out of the Big 10.

740
00:45:48,100 --> 00:45:51,900
 But guys who just kind of grew up all through academia like that,

741
00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:56,200
 I just don't think they have a concept of where business in the world goes.

742
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:01,540
 Now, I think a lot of the SEC's popularity here, and it was happening,

743
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:06,380
 it was starting before Sankey took over, though he was in the office I know for a while,

744
00:46:07,060 --> 00:46:09,260
 but during the Mike Slive years.

745
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:11,900
 But it's not because of him.

746
00:46:12,740 --> 00:46:16,320
 Sometimes I get the idea that he and some of these other commissioners think it's because of them

747
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,840
 that these TV contracts keep expanding.

748
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,140
 It's in spite of them.

749
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,880
 And he's just sort of got to steward this thing.

750
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,260
 And I don't think he's done a bad job with that.

751
00:46:25,420 --> 00:46:27,720
 So I don't want to be too critical.

752
00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:30,040
 I think there's guys that can probably do a better job.

753
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:33,400
 And I think your mark is brilliant in the Big 12

754
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,300
 because he's got to be a little bit more creative, a little bit more aggressive with it.

755
00:46:38,020 --> 00:46:40,300
 But so those guys I put it high above.

756
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,140
 But I don't think Sankey's done that bad a job, though, really.

757
00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:48,240
 Have you noticed, speaking of the Big 12, they think out of the box,

758
00:46:48,740 --> 00:46:51,120
 they wanted to go with this private equity.

759
00:46:51,300 --> 00:46:52,920
 I think it's a Redbird.

760
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,080
 And they've made some deals with them.

761
00:46:56,140 --> 00:46:59,480
 And they've got a $30 million line of credit for these schools.

762
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,740
 None of the schools in the Big 12 have taken them up on the offer.

763
00:47:04,140 --> 00:47:06,880
 Because, Bruce, sooner or later, you've got to pay it back.

764
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:12,120
 Your thoughts, will private equity, they talked about it, again,

765
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,560
 trying to get money to meet Brad's share and everything else.

766
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,860
 Where are we going with private equity in college sports?

767
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:21,760
 That is really a good question, Brad.

768
00:47:21,820 --> 00:47:23,180
 I think you sort of hit it on the head.

769
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:28,280
 Because when you raise money through private equity, that term equity is in there.

770
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:33,180
 They get a share of the private.

771
00:47:33,580 --> 00:47:34,740
 I mean, it becomes theirs.

772
00:47:35,020 --> 00:47:38,920
 So you're, you know, you're sort of, I don't want to say you're making a deal with the devil.

773
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,840
 But I, this is sort of why, you know,

774
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:46,480
 the Big 10 was really close to doing something like this.

775
00:47:47,100 --> 00:47:53,760
 And I think in, you would see in Michigan, they needed a unanimous vote if I have this correct in my mind.

776
00:47:54,260 --> 00:47:57,840
 And USC and Michigan rejected it, or at least stalled it.

777
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,140
 So we're not ready to sign off on this yet.

778
00:48:00,980 --> 00:48:04,340
 Because this looks like just like a short-term loan, sort of.

779
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:05,260
 And you've got to pay it back.

780
00:48:05,300 --> 00:48:09,740
 And I don't think we should be giving up equity in our, in our, in our thing.

781
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:13,320
 Now, we see this, you know, mentioning Redbird.

782
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,940
 I mean, they're overseas now, European soccer.

783
00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:17,180
 They're involved over there.

784
00:48:17,340 --> 00:48:24,320
 And you do have some teams and leagues over there that have made these sorts of deals with the private equity.

785
00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:27,360
 But they are losing percentage of ownership in the thing.

786
00:48:28,180 --> 00:48:34,280
 So it's kind of a, you know, the, the answer is if you run your ship properly,

787
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:38,260
 and there's so much money coming in, you shouldn't have to do this.

788
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:42,560
 But it's just like, you know, a family, you know, budgeting at home.

789
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,880
 You know, and don't give your wife a credit card.

790
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,700
 You know, let her, you know, you got to pay it back, you know.

791
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,980
 So that, that's sort of where they're at.

792
00:48:53,120 --> 00:49:02,820
 I, but I think that's kind of where it's going because, again, I mean, if they keep, so many of these schools are running at a deficit.

793
00:49:04,100 --> 00:49:08,260
 And, you know, there's interest they have to pay on, on that.

794
00:49:09,460 --> 00:49:14,340
 The only way to wipe that out might be to give up some of the ownership, but you, you clear up the decks.

795
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,120
 It's a tough deal.

796
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:23,860
 And I think the tough, the Big Ten example is tough because even though it's an entity, a big entity like that, there are still a lot of individual parts to it.

797
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,480
 And if you have to get all the parts to agree, it might not be easy.

798
00:49:27,540 --> 00:49:32,680
 So I'm not totally shocked that some of the Big 12 schools are hitting, tapping the brakes just a little bit on this thing.

799
00:49:32,860 --> 00:49:37,620
 I think it's still coming, but I understand the reluctance on the part of some schools to get involved.

800
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:42,360
 Yes, it may change, but right now I can sort of see why they'd be tapping the brakes a bit.

801
00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:50,940
 Bruce, the message I'm getting here is do not give your wife the credit card, a filth of Jack Daniels, and a trip with the girls in a ticky bar in the Caribbean.

802
00:49:51,100 --> 00:49:54,860
 So they just want to add to your point there, for your point.

803
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,100
 But right now it's the crazy season.

804
00:49:57,240 --> 00:49:58,320
 What is hot in Vegas?

805
00:49:58,460 --> 00:50:01,800
 You've got NBA, you've got the hot ice NHL.

806
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,340
 What's going on for the folks who want to play the game?

807
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,580
 Well, tonight we've got a game here in Vegas.

808
00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:13,140
 We've got game five of the Gold Knights and the Ducks, so the NHL is really heating up in the NBA.

809
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:20,440
 Now we've got Oklahoma City into the West Final, and San Antonio is going to take a little longer, or maybe Minnesota can upset them.

810
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:21,100
 I don't think so.

811
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,340
 But there's interest all the way here.

812
00:50:24,500 --> 00:50:27,080
 And, you know, there's one other night happening this week.

813
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:32,700
 It's Thursday, I believe, where the NFL's schedule, and they're making such a big deal of this now.

814
00:50:33,980 --> 00:50:37,580
 Listen, I can remember when they did that years ago, and my friends and I,

815
00:50:37,580 --> 00:50:42,360
 it would be in the paper the next morning, and we would predict the scores for the rest of the year.

816
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:43,460
 But people are betting.

817
00:50:43,540 --> 00:50:48,180
 There are going to be people betting Thursday night on NFL games not taking place five, six months from now.

818
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:48,800
 Wow.

819
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:49,820
 But that's coming up, too.

820
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,860
 But there's so much going on still in Vegas.

821
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,000
 And my picks, like I said, wagertalk.com.

822
00:50:57,060 --> 00:50:58,060
 That's the big umbrella now.

823
00:50:58,380 --> 00:50:59,920
 All my stuff underneath that.

824
00:50:59,980 --> 00:51:00,420
 Picks there.

825
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,420
 Also, winners and winers, picksandparlies.com, and goldsheet.com.

826
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,900
 We'll start populating that closer to football season.

827
00:51:07,820 --> 00:51:10,560
 Never, never, ever does it dry up for you, Bruce.

828
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:11,680
 Man, thank you so much.

829
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,480
 Keep up the good work out in the desert, okay?

830
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:14,880
 Okay, gentlemen.

831
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:15,400
 Have a good week.

832
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:15,900
 Thank you, buddy.

833
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:16,500
 You, too.

834
00:51:16,580 --> 00:51:20,120
 Bruce Marshall, the one and the only there amongst other places to goldsheet.

835
00:51:20,380 --> 00:51:28,620
 Just after we jumped ship yesterday, Alabama picked up, as they say, a big one from Tennessee on the recruiting trail.

836
00:51:28,860 --> 00:51:30,680
 Yeah, Harold, he is a big one.

837
00:51:31,180 --> 00:51:36,280
 Again, his dad is a Tennessee legacy, a four-star linebacker.

838
00:51:36,780 --> 00:51:42,380
 A lot of people thought he might be going to Tennessee, but his dad was smart enough to leave him alone.

839
00:51:43,060 --> 00:51:43,700
 And he chose.

840
00:51:43,940 --> 00:51:45,860
 We were wondering which way he was going.

841
00:51:45,860 --> 00:51:49,920
 I predicted Alabama, and that's who he ended up choosing yesterday.

842
00:51:50,380 --> 00:51:52,440
 He said, the people asked him how he did it.

843
00:51:52,460 --> 00:51:55,100
 He said, basically, he listened to the Lord instead of his dad.

844
00:51:55,180 --> 00:51:58,220
 He prayed about it, and he's on his way to Tuscaloosa.

845
00:51:58,220 --> 00:51:58,780
 That's a good decision.

846
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:00,720
 Good advice.

847
00:52:01,240 --> 00:52:04,980
 Kenneth Simon II on his way from Brentwood Academy to Tuscaloosa.

848
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,280
 In the meantime, it's time for us to head on down to the plains.

849
00:52:08,380 --> 00:52:09,520
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850
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 Randy Kennedy is going to be setting the stage across the entire state at AL.com.

851
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852
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990
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 Logan, welcome in.

991
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 Happy Tuesday to you.

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 How are you?

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 Doing very well, guys.

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 How are you all?

995
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 Hey, man.

996
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 Man, a little known facts here, Logan.

997
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 A little fun with it.

998
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 Most folks around here think football at Jordan here didn't kick off until, what, August, September.

999
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 But correct us if we're wrong.

1000
01:00:24,260 --> 01:00:29,480
 Auburn says they've already sold 75,000 tickets for a football match next month.

1001
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,880
 Now, less than a month, June 9th, between Argentina and Iceland.

1002
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 Football and what they call football, soccer.

1003
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:38,540
 That's an interesting tidbit, is it not, Logan?

1004
01:00:39,220 --> 01:00:41,460
 Yeah, that's a really cool event.

1005
01:00:42,660 --> 01:00:47,540
 You know, I would certainly hate to have to navigate my way through downtown Auburn that weekend.

1006
01:00:48,100 --> 01:00:50,760
 But, no, I mean, super cool event.

1007
01:00:51,980 --> 01:00:55,680
 You know, obviously you're talking about the world champion in Argentina and Iceland.

1008
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 I can't sit here and say that I'm a big soccer guy myself.

1009
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:08,020
 But, I mean, just really cool for Auburn and that community to get to, you know, see something of that nature in Jordan-Hare Stadium.

1010
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:13,500
 I can't wait to see the, how many T-shirts say, go Reykjavik on the planes?

1011
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 You don't get that very often.

1012
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:18,700
 Logan, let's come back to American football and talk recruiting.

1013
01:01:19,060 --> 01:01:26,200
 Anytime you pick up a quarterback, inquiring minds want to know about quarterback Gary Chapman Jr.

1014
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:28,000
 Yeah.

1015
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:39,240
 Yeah, you know, 2027 quarterback, Auburn, completed the flip of him last week after he backed off his pledge to Wake Forest early in May.

1016
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 And, you know, I mean, obviously nothing is ever set until they sign.

1017
01:01:44,020 --> 01:01:48,400
 But, you know, it looks like Auburn has his quarterback for the 2027 class.

1018
01:01:48,500 --> 01:01:51,580
 They lost out and, you know, moved on from a couple of other targets.

1019
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,940
 But, you know, I think that, I think they found a great fit and I think it's found the right fit.

1020
01:01:56,460 --> 01:02:01,180
 You know, Gary Chapman, 6'1", 190 out of Brookwood, Georgia.

1021
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 He wasn't a super highly rated guy.

1022
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 I think he's the 55th ranked quarterback in the class per 247 sports.

1023
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 You know, I don't have his, you know, his high school numbers in front of me, but I have seen some clips of him.

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 And I think he's a great prospect for Joel Gordon and Alex Golesh to work on throughout the years.

1025
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 And obviously if he'll come in and stick with it and develop, I think that's a great pickup for Auburn.

1026
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 You know, obviously now they can move their attention to the 2028 class with, you know, at that position.

1027
01:02:32,820 --> 01:02:38,160
 You know, you talk about overall rankings with this Auburn, you know, this 2027 class.

1028
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 They were sitting in the 50s last month.

1029
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 And then at the time of Chapman's commitment last weekend, which is commitment number five for Auburn,

1030
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 Auburn jumped up to 31.

1031
01:02:48,540 --> 01:02:50,640
 Now it's at 39.

1032
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:56,200
 And, you know, again, we talked about it last time, but Big Cat weekend's coming up this Saturday.

1033
01:02:56,200 --> 01:03:02,300
 And, you know, I don't have a list of all the visitors that Auburn's going to have on campus.

1034
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 And, you know, I'm certainly no recruiting guru, I guess, but I do think that Auburn's going to make some waves this weekend.

1035
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 And, you know, obviously it's the contact period now where coaches are out on the road visiting recruits

1036
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 and trying to make some more relationships.

1037
01:03:16,300 --> 01:03:18,520
 So I think you're going to see Auburn make some noise this weekend.

1038
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:25,180
 Obviously, I think, you know, everyone's hopeful that they'll leave with a commit or two after Big Cat weekend Saturday.

1039
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:27,460
 Let's talk a little bit about the strategy.

1040
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:29,940
 Every school has got a different one, of course.

1041
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 You've got some schools that have alumni that's got more money than they've got cents, like Indiana.

1042
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1043
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1044
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 But they also like to bring in a lot of non-household words as opposed to LSU.

1045
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:45,740
 Lane can't get enough of Lane.

1046
01:03:45,740 --> 01:03:50,420
 He wants to go and do the bling-bling, make the big splash, all that stuff, write a check, come on down.

1047
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,700
 Your thoughts about Auburn, where are they as far as the personnel,

1048
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 just indiscriminately writing checks so they can win the press conference

1049
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:03,040
 and trying to sit here and squeeze the dollar and get more value for it?

1050
01:04:03,100 --> 01:04:07,160
 Your thoughts about their strategy, let's face it, it's like the NFL.

1051
01:04:07,300 --> 01:04:10,380
 You've got to figure out your budget and divide the pie accordingly.

1052
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 Yeah, you know, I think that that's something that Auburn had to work on with this new staff.

1053
01:04:16,820 --> 01:04:21,280
 You know, coming in and they kind of changed up how they're going to allot their resources,

1054
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1055
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:31,920
 You know, you talk about we can't give you, you know, we're not going to promise you X amount of money up front right here.

1056
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:35,840
 What we're going to do instead is, hey, let's keep you here.

1057
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:43,440
 Let's give you this right here and maybe add some more incentive-based deals that take place throughout your career.

1058
01:04:43,580 --> 01:04:46,420
 So I really do like that strategy from Alex Golesh.

1059
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:52,480
 I think that, you know, while I think it's great, I think that obviously, you know,

1060
01:04:52,520 --> 01:04:57,480
 if you have, you know, Byron Brown who exceeds expectations

1061
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,840
 and you're able to pay him more money throughout his career, that's great.

1062
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:07,220
 You know, could you see Auburn miss out on some top-end talent, you know,

1063
01:05:07,240 --> 01:05:09,280
 throughout the recruiting process because of that?

1064
01:05:09,660 --> 01:05:10,500
 Probably so.

1065
01:05:11,320 --> 01:05:19,000
 You know, it seemed like the previous regime gave out more money up front than it did,

1066
01:05:19,620 --> 01:05:22,000
 like you're going to see with this regime right here.

1067
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:27,100
 So I do think that it could bite Auburn in the butt a little bit trying to get top-end talent.

1068
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:28,180
 To the planes.

1069
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,700
 But all in all, I think that it's something that's going to work out great for Alex Golesh and this staff.

1070
01:05:32,860 --> 01:05:35,060
 I think that you're going to get more buy-in from the players.

1071
01:05:35,460 --> 01:05:38,320
 You're going to get people who, and Alex Golesh has talked about this a ton,

1072
01:05:38,420 --> 01:05:40,740
 you know, you're going to get people who want to be at Auburn.

1073
01:05:41,780 --> 01:05:46,400
 You know, you're not just going to be bringing in, you know, guys for the heck of it

1074
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:47,360
 just because they're getting paid.

1075
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:51,040
 So, you know, I do like that strategy from Auburn.

1076
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,220
 I think it's going to pay dividends down the road.

1077
01:05:54,340 --> 01:05:56,620
 And then obviously I think here in a few years,

1078
01:05:56,700 --> 01:06:01,040
 we're going to have to see some, you know, something's got to change.

1079
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:08,980
 You know, the going number right now is close to $50 million a year out for a college football roster.

1080
01:06:09,120 --> 01:06:12,260
 And it's just, I mean, everybody talks, it's simply not sustainable.

1081
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:15,220
 You know, you talk about high-end boosters with a lot of money.

1082
01:06:16,140 --> 01:06:18,880
 At some point, they're going to get tired of it.

1083
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,440
 You know, is Mark even going to throw out, you know,

1084
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,240
 $50 million every year for Indiana to win a championship?

1085
01:06:24,740 --> 01:06:25,460
 Who knows?

1086
01:06:25,620 --> 01:06:28,300
 I mean, Indiana's probably not going to win a championship every year, right?

1087
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:29,220
 So, I don't know.

1088
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:31,180
 Something's definitely got to give on that front.

1089
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:35,540
 And I don't know what it is, but there's got to be some guardrails.

1090
01:06:35,940 --> 01:06:37,180
 You know, wouldn't it be nice?

1091
01:06:37,220 --> 01:06:37,960
 It's not going to happen.

1092
01:06:38,060 --> 01:06:38,900
 Just a fun topic.

1093
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:39,760
 See what you think.

1094
01:06:39,900 --> 01:06:43,540
 As far as equity across the board, and how about this?

1095
01:06:43,740 --> 01:06:45,760
 You come up, and this is the money.

1096
01:06:46,020 --> 01:06:47,940
 Everybody's going to be paying the same money, okay?

1097
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:49,660
 Pick a number, whatever it is.

1098
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:52,140
 But then, back to your point about incentive.

1099
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:56,260
 If you hit this mark, this mark, this mark, then you get the bonus, bonus, bonus.

1100
01:06:56,380 --> 01:07:00,260
 Would that not be a better world as opposed to paying some of these guys all this money,

1101
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:04,020
 and then they go out, and in game two, they get hurt, and they keep on collecting checks.

1102
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:05,520
 Just like the kid last year at Tennessee.

1103
01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:06,780
 He didn't play anything.

1104
01:07:06,900 --> 01:07:07,600
 He still made money.

1105
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:09,100
 Yeah, absolutely.

1106
01:07:10,180 --> 01:07:12,840
 You know, what was the running back?

1107
01:07:12,980 --> 01:07:16,280
 I think it was Jeremiah Love from Notre Dame was asked in a press conference.

1108
01:07:16,420 --> 01:07:17,560
 It's a little bit off topic here.

1109
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:22,300
 But, you know, within the last week or so, like, hey, what are you going to do with this

1110
01:07:22,300 --> 01:07:23,660
 signing bonus that you just got?

1111
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:26,240
 And he's like, man, I'm not even going to touch it.

1112
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:28,540
 Like, I'm just going to put it away from my grandkids and my kids.

1113
01:07:28,700 --> 01:07:29,180
 Thank you.

1114
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 I've made enough money at Notre Dame and in college to where I'm pretty much set.

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 And I just, I mean, wow, that's awesome, and it gives, you know, there's pros and cons to it.

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 I think that it gives kids who maybe come from a tough situation, you know, a way out of, you know, the norm, I guess,

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 and allows them to essentially change their lives and change their family's lives.

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 But it's like you said, I mean, Auburn pays, you know, Joe Schmoe $2 million to come play for them this year,

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 and he gets hurt in game one, and he's out for the rest of the season.

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 Now you're out, you know, $2 million who you could have paid for another guy to come in.

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 So, you know, I don't know.

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 I think that if you could incentivize all around college football and make it fair to where, hey,

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 you get X amount of money to spend on your roster, do it however you want, give it to them up front,

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 or incentivize them, that's up to you.

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 I do think, you know, obviously there's been more parity in college football over the years,

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 but I think you'd see even more with that.

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 Logan, I saw speaking of recruiting Big Cat Weekend, another, I think this is going to be a trend in the next five to ten years.

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 Now there are a lot of players, certainly in the United States,

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 but I saw a list yesterday of the top ten offensive prospects that Auburn's looking at.

1131
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 There was a guy on there by the name of Nico Compass.

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 He's an offensive tackle.

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 Now, who in the world is that?

1134
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 This guy is attending the NFL Academy in England.

1135
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 He's originally from Germany.

1136
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 He's 6'7", 280.

1137
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 Steven Pearl is going to be bringing in probably the last player on the roster, I think, in the next month.

1138
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 Basketball has gotten into so many European players.

1139
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 I'm going to be curious to see, but it was interesting.

1140
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 I thought that Auburn was looking at this guy, the NFL Academy in England is these players, you know, former soccer players or athletes

1141
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 who are attending an NFL Academy in England to prepare themselves to play a college ball or eventually the NFL.

1142
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 I thought that was interesting now that Auburn is looking at this guy originally from Germany going to England.

1143
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 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, you make a great point.

1144
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 It's obviously becoming a lot more common in basketball.

1145
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 You know, that's something that we've obviously grown to see a bunch of.

1146
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 But, yeah, Nico Kompas is, you know, there was a big tackle who Auburn got a commitment from in last year's class to the one before.

1147
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 And I can't even remember his name, but he was a big kid, came from the NFL Academy, hadn't played a whole lot of football.

1148
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 But, you know, it seems like a lot of the kids that come out of that NFL Academy are a lot of big offensive linemen, just mammoth offensive linemen.

1149
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 I mean, this kid is 6'7", 280 pounds.

1150
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 So, yeah, I mean, that's certainly a wrap that you can see starting to ramp up, especially across college football and in the SEC,

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 which it seems like there's a ton of national, international players in basketball across the league.

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 But, I don't know, maybe it could be a thing where, you know, we talk about offensive linemen.

1153
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 Obviously, teams love to go to Australia for punters and for kickers.

1154
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 So, could that be kind of a pathway for these offensive linemen to, you know, to make it to America and start playing college football and eventually get into the NFL?

1155
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 I think that that's certainly something that you could see more of.

1156
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 We talked about this a little bit earlier today, but Auburn baseball hosting Georgia.

1157
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 They're just knocking the cover off the ball with 140 home runs, big series beginning Thursday.

1158
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 Both these teams may end up in the Elite Eight.

1159
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 Auburn now with six consecutive series since they lost to Alabama, got swept late March.

1160
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 They're on the roll, but I'll tell you one thing.

1161
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 Somebody else who's on the roll, Georgia coming in on Thursday.

1162
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 Yeah.

1163
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 Yeah, you've got Georgia coming in on Thursday.

1164
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 Obviously, they are the SEC regular season champions.

1165
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 They just come off a sweep of LSE in a home and 21-6 mark in the conference.

1166
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 So, that's obviously going to be, you know, a big series like you talked about.

1167
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 They're just absolutely dangerous at the play, 140 home runs.

1168
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 Daniel Jackson, their catcher, is, you know, a national player of the year candidate, 25 homers and nearly a 400 batting average.

1169
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 But, you know, that's not going to start until this weekend, and Auburn plays a big one tonight against Jacksonville State.

1170
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 You know, the first meeting between those two teams was Auburn's largest margin of defeat this year, which was they get beat by 11 runs.

1171
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 Jacksonville State and Georgia, which are obviously Auburn's two opponents this week, are two of the 17s in the country with 40 or more wins.

1172
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 So, you know, you've got a doozy of a week to wrap things up.

1173
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 I think Auburn's done enough with its resume and where it sits in the RPI to not necessarily have to worry about hosting.

1174
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 But, you know, if you could obviously find a way to win at Jacksonville State tonight and maybe still one or two for Georgia and get some momentum rolling into the postseason, that would be great.

1175
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 But, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's certainly what Auburn has done over the last six weeks is just really remarkable.

1176
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 I mean, you just talked about it the first time since 1995 that Auburn's won six consecutive SEC series in the same season.

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 2017 was the last time they picked up a win, a series win in Starkville.

1178
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 They did that this weekend after losing game one on Thursday night.

1179
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 So this team's just finding ways to win.

1180
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 They're starting to hit the ball really well.

1181
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 The pitching staff is continuing to really thrive.

1182
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 You know, Ethan Bingaman for Auburn is swinging the bat really well right now and has won his third SEC honor of the year this year.

1183
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 So lots to like about what Auburn's doing on the diamond.

1184
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 And I think that they're sitting in a really good place come postseason time.

1185
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 Absolutely.

1186
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 And just to close, Auburn, Wisconsin going to be playing basketball in Nashville December the 19th.

1187
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 That's a nice preseason game that Auburn can tell.

1188
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 Logan, great stuff as always, bud.

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 Where can we get online and get all the good stuff?

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 Absolutely.

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 Sounds great.

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 Listen, man, thanks so much.

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 Have a great week.

1195
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 Okay, Logan?

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 You all as well.

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 Thank you, bud.

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 Any word, Randy, as far as the early word on the best in Bama as far as high school kids,

1337
01:21:13,360 --> 01:21:15,760
 maybe top edge rushers, or where do you start?

1338
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:19,860
 Yeah, we're going through that right now where we're going position by position.

1339
01:21:19,860 --> 01:21:25,440
 The last one we have done is edge rushers, which is amazing because in the past we would

1340
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:30,120
 have just done defensive line, but this year, man, there's so many of these guys who are

1341
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:35,640
 that really coveted position of whatever you call outside linebacker, defensive end, basically

1342
01:21:35,640 --> 01:21:37,280
 guys who can rush the passer.

1343
01:21:37,620 --> 01:21:39,500
 And so we decided to break them up.

1344
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,620
 So in a couple of weeks, we'll do the interior defensive lineman.

1345
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:47,920
 But man, it is a really, really good year for edge rushers, just like we talked about a few

1346
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:48,300
 weeks ago.

1347
01:21:48,360 --> 01:21:51,880
 It's such a great year for quarterbacks in the state, expected to be this coming year

1348
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:52,240
 as well.

1349
01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:58,380
 Randy, if you are in charge of this, in the old days, it was a silly question I had to ask

1350
01:21:58,380 --> 01:22:01,720
 because you just went out and got you to meet five stars, hopefully from your neck of the

1351
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:04,400
 woods you could, but we know where we're going with this.

1352
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:09,560
 In the modern NIL era, do you put all this money down on a high school kid and lock him

1353
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:15,620
 down, or do you take that same money and go shopping the NIL where somebody somewhere else may not

1354
01:22:15,620 --> 01:22:19,660
 have been all that highly regarded in high school, but they've proven that they're kind

1355
01:22:19,660 --> 01:22:22,020
 of precocious, they've grown up in the last year or two.

1356
01:22:22,620 --> 01:22:24,700
 Why do you see that from that standpoint, Randy?

1357
01:22:24,740 --> 01:22:26,500
 Because it's not as simple as it once was.

1358
01:22:26,500 --> 01:22:30,420
 You just went and automatically tried to lasso that five-star because you didn't have to

1359
01:22:30,420 --> 01:22:30,860
 pay them.

1360
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:32,640
 Now you've got to be careful with that budget.

1361
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:34,760
 Plus, in high school, it's all relative.

1362
01:22:34,900 --> 01:22:38,780
 You may be playing in a division where you're just a man amongst boys, but once you get in

1363
01:22:38,780 --> 01:22:40,840
 the SEC, then everybody's as good as you are.

1364
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:45,880
 How do you see the modern era of locking down some of these, if you will, creme de la creme

1365
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:46,700
 kids in the state?

1366
01:22:47,260 --> 01:22:50,860
 You know, it's so interesting because I don't think anybody's figured it out yet.

1367
01:22:51,020 --> 01:22:56,140
 I mean, because you look at different schools like SEC schools or Big Ten or whatever, there

1368
01:22:56,140 --> 01:22:59,800
 are very different philosophies of how people are going about this.

1369
01:22:59,960 --> 01:23:03,960
 You know, you look at, like at Alabama, the perfect example is you look at the quarterbacks

1370
01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:04,520
 at Alabama.

1371
01:23:05,100 --> 01:23:09,320
 Everybody who plays quarterback at Alabama going all the way back to Jake Coker, they've

1372
01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:13,080
 been guys at Alabama, big-time recruits at Alabama, signed out of high school.

1373
01:23:13,500 --> 01:23:17,080
 They went to Alabama, they played their whole career at Alabama, and then they went to the

1374
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:17,320
 NFL.

1375
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:21,800
 Darren Hurst did have to leave because he was there at the same time as Tua Tonga-Vailoa, but

1376
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:23,660
 that's the formula at Alabama.

1377
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:25,940
 It's the same as it was 50 years ago.

1378
01:23:26,460 --> 01:23:30,140
 Very few people going that route at other schools.

1379
01:23:30,260 --> 01:23:31,620
 You look at Auburn.

1380
01:23:31,620 --> 01:23:37,060
 You know, the last person who signed with Auburn out of high school, became a starter, and then

1381
01:23:37,060 --> 01:23:40,460
 graduated, stayed at Auburn through the end of his career, all the way back to Barrett

1382
01:23:40,460 --> 01:23:40,940
 Trotter.

1383
01:23:41,460 --> 01:23:42,700
 That's how far we've got to go.

1384
01:23:43,180 --> 01:23:48,640
 He's the last guy coming out of Briarwood that signed with Auburn, earned the starting

1385
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:50,460
 spot, and then finished his career at Auburn.

1386
01:23:50,780 --> 01:23:52,360
 I mean, that's a long time, you know?

1387
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,200
 That's a long time ago, so they've gone completely the opposite way.

1388
01:23:55,580 --> 01:23:59,380
 You've seen like at Miami, where they're just basically, we're going to be the highest bidder

1389
01:23:59,380 --> 01:24:02,140
 for whoever the best transfer quarterback is going to be.

1390
01:24:02,300 --> 01:24:07,600
 So there really are different philosophies here of how teams are going about this.

1391
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:11,660
 I don't know if there is a right way, but it's certainly changed the recruiting game.

1392
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:16,580
 Randy, let me ask you about two of the top prospects in the state of Alabama.

1393
01:24:17,440 --> 01:24:22,960
 A lot of our listeners know about Chicken, and we'll talk about one of Chicken's teammates

1394
01:24:22,960 --> 01:24:24,700
 in a few minutes.

1395
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:29,640
 But Clay Chalkville and Muscle Shoals have played some great games the last two or three

1396
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:30,060
 years.

1397
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,960
 They've got a guy who is nicknamed the Terminator.

1398
01:24:34,600 --> 01:24:42,300
 Keith Richmond out of Clay Chalkville, 72 tackles, 12 sacks, 20 quarterback hurries, and you

1399
01:24:42,300 --> 01:24:43,680
 go on and on and on.

1400
01:24:44,180 --> 01:24:48,180
 Believe me, Randy, the power for confidence to know where Clay Chalkville is.

1401
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:50,940
 Randy, tell us about the Terminator.

1402
01:24:51,860 --> 01:24:54,300
 You know, it's so interesting that, yeah, he's the Terminator.

1403
01:24:54,540 --> 01:24:58,840
 So anybody can, you know, now with social media, you just basically are almost obligated to

1404
01:24:58,840 --> 01:24:59,620
 give yourself a nickname.

1405
01:24:59,620 --> 01:24:59,980
 Yes.

1406
01:25:00,700 --> 01:25:05,860
 Like the kid from Sierra Land that's on this edge rush list, a kid named Snipes, his nickname

1407
01:25:05,860 --> 01:25:06,880
 is Peekaboo.

1408
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:08,240
 That's where he goes by.

1409
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:10,400
 I'm like, you know, I'm a grown man.

1410
01:25:10,500 --> 01:25:11,000
 I'm a journalist.

1411
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:13,040
 I'm not sure I'm going to call that kid Peekaboo.

1412
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:14,860
 But Chicken, on the other hand...

1413
01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:20,100
 But Chicken, that's really his name.

1414
01:25:20,180 --> 01:25:23,460
 I mean, like, that's not his given name on his birth certificate, but that's all anybody's

1415
01:25:23,460 --> 01:25:24,320
 ever called him.

1416
01:25:24,480 --> 01:25:29,020
 So I've kind of come around to, well, if that's what, you know, the old thing, that's what

1417
01:25:29,020 --> 01:25:30,900
 his mama calls him, that's what I'm going to call him, you know?

1418
01:25:31,440 --> 01:25:34,480
 So, yeah, but you were mentioning about Clay Chalkville.

1419
01:25:34,480 --> 01:25:40,240
 Look, the thing is that the recruits will find you anywhere, but it's a lot easier to get

1420
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:44,180
 noticed when you're playing in state championship games and you're playing at the very highest

1421
01:25:44,180 --> 01:25:46,260
 level against the best competition.

1422
01:25:46,620 --> 01:25:50,940
 And so, yeah, Clay Chalkville is always going to have a bunch of guys, and the Terminator

1423
01:25:50,940 --> 01:25:54,280
 certainly is somebody who's going to be one of these national recruits coming out of the

1424
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:54,780
 state this year.

1425
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:59,340
 Checking in from the other side of the stage, Randy Kennedy, let's talk about a guy down the

1426
01:25:59,340 --> 01:26:03,620
 road who's been in a lot of big games, and that is one of the pride of Morris Hill.

1427
01:26:03,620 --> 01:26:07,360
 It's almost like year in and year out, there's two things you can mention, Clay Chalkville,

1428
01:26:07,500 --> 01:26:11,000
 Thompson, but Morris Hill is also going to have some elite guys there.

1429
01:26:11,140 --> 01:26:13,860
 Talk to us, a fellow right now looks like anyway.

1430
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:19,480
 Last report, uncommitted, at a coveted position, offensive line, Cored Pig at a Mars Hill Bible.

1431
01:26:20,700 --> 01:26:21,580
 Yeah, it's a great program.

1432
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:25,780
 You guys know as much or more about me than I do, but, you know, baseball, they're great.

1433
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:30,880
 Whatever sport, whatever we're talking about, that's just a great, great athletic program.

1434
01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:34,540
 Another guy was, you talk about they're going to find you.

1435
01:26:34,580 --> 01:26:40,200
 Well, they're playing all the way to the 15th week every year, just about, you know, and that's a big deal.

1436
01:26:40,260 --> 01:26:44,880
 Plus, you know, if you've got an offensive lineman named Pig, I mean, come on, that's destiny, right?

1437
01:26:45,060 --> 01:26:49,140
 I mean, that's the guy who's supposed to be great at playing offensive lines.

1438
01:26:49,520 --> 01:26:56,040
 So, yeah, that's just one of the, again, like we're talking about with Clay Chalkville, one of the premier programs in the state.

1439
01:26:56,680 --> 01:27:01,680
 Obviously, they're going to have great players, and he's going to be a guy who is a SEC-level offensive lineman.

1440
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:06,560
 Randy, let me ask you about another potential SEC offensive lineman.

1441
01:27:06,700 --> 01:27:08,400
 Stafford Willis from A-Round.

1442
01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:16,000
 6'5", 290, UCLA, South Carolina, very good size.

1443
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:19,120
 Alabama is certainly looking at him.

1444
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,440
 Your thoughts on him, and we talked about Chicken.

1445
01:27:23,020 --> 01:27:34,040
 Randy, also talk about Isaac McNeil, Chicken's teammate, 6'2", linebacker, who's got half the SEC looking at him.

1446
01:27:34,680 --> 01:27:34,920
 Yep.

1447
01:27:35,280 --> 01:27:38,880
 He's a really fast riser here late, and that Biger defense.

1448
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:43,740
 I mean, if you guys saw him play late into the season, all the way into the state championship game last year,

1449
01:27:43,780 --> 01:27:46,320
 they had just athletes all over the place.

1450
01:27:46,420 --> 01:27:50,940
 In fact, you know, it's one of those things where Chicken Grower is a really good national prospect,

1451
01:27:51,160 --> 01:27:53,680
 but you would almost have to ask somebody, which one is he?

1452
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:57,780
 Because when you watch Biger play defense, there were like five or six guys that looked like,

1453
01:27:57,900 --> 01:27:59,920
 all right, he looks like a future SEC guy.

1454
01:28:00,420 --> 01:28:02,280
 You know, that whole defense looked like that.

1455
01:28:02,380 --> 01:28:03,260
 So he's one of those.

1456
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:08,200
 The kid at A-Round, I'll tell you what, you better be checking today if you're looking at

1457
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:14,120
 who's looking at him because it seems like every day it's like, oh, wait, Ohio State offered

1458
01:28:14,120 --> 01:28:19,040
 or Michigan offered or, as you said, UCLA offered or, you know, whoever it is,

1459
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:25,100
 he is really hot on the recruiting trail, and he is a very, very good prospect at A-Round High School.

1460
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,960
 Randy, let me ask you about one more name before we let you go.

1461
01:28:29,200 --> 01:28:32,720
 I knew about Junior James at Thompson.

1462
01:28:33,300 --> 01:28:39,120
 Mark Freeman just puts these guys, Randy, in an incubator, and they just come out every year.

1463
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,520
 Well, we were talking about nicknames.

1464
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:43,840
 He's got a new last name, Tupo.

1465
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:49,700
 Randy, talk about Junior James, now Tupo at a Thompson.

1466
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:54,320
 Although he could be James Tupo Jr., but no, he's not that.

1467
01:28:54,820 --> 01:29:00,340
 He just, yeah, he added another name that's, you know, that's, you know, to honor a family member

1468
01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:01,520
 or whatever, he's big time.

1469
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:08,880
 Big time guy who is, again, going to be, just name a power for school, and he could go there

1470
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:09,560
 if he wanted to.

1471
01:29:11,060 --> 01:29:17,100
 Great size for a defensive back, could probably even step down and be kind of an outside backer

1472
01:29:17,100 --> 01:29:18,940
 if he wanted to be, but great size.

1473
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:22,320
 Every major school in the country is after him.

1474
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:26,200
 And, again, we're talking about these great programs, these winning programs for a reason.

1475
01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:30,020
 When you talk about, you know, Clay Chalkville and Mars Hill and Thompson and whatever,

1476
01:29:30,240 --> 01:29:34,940
 there's a reason why those teams are playing 15 games a year,

1477
01:29:35,340 --> 01:29:38,100
 because it's these great prospects, one leads to the other.

1478
01:29:38,740 --> 01:29:39,180
 Absolutely.

1479
01:29:39,580 --> 01:29:41,920
 Best of Bama coming out later this summer.

1480
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:46,520
 Tell us again, your next is Forrest Prospects.

1481
01:29:46,620 --> 01:29:48,520
 Randy, where can we get online and get it?

1482
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:52,140
 Yeah, al.com is where you will find that.

1483
01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:56,000
 You can also just follow me on Twitter, Kennedy underscore Randy.

1484
01:29:56,660 --> 01:30:00,740
 What we're doing now is we're going through all the position groups of who the candidates are

1485
01:30:00,740 --> 01:30:01,500
 to make the list.

1486
01:30:01,500 --> 01:30:06,160
 I got to tell you, we're going to get it down to 50 total, which is every classification.

1487
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:08,680
 You know, that's seniors all the way through.

1488
01:30:09,060 --> 01:30:13,140
 As you guys know, we've talked about last year, we had a couple of eighth graders make the list.

1489
01:30:14,740 --> 01:30:18,320
 And those guys who were eighth graders made it, almost certainly are going to make it.

1490
01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:21,020
 As ninth graders this year, they have progressed to that point.

1491
01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:24,000
 So we'll do defensive line coming up in a week and a half.

1492
01:30:24,340 --> 01:30:25,460
 That'll be the next installment.

1493
01:30:25,580 --> 01:30:27,160
 But right now out there, we've got the edge record.

1494
01:30:28,920 --> 01:30:31,660
 I'm just thinking back to a young man from A-Rab.

1495
01:30:31,740 --> 01:30:35,080
 Can you imagine the folks in Ohio State and Yankee country?

1496
01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:37,720
 I can't imagine when they have their staff meeting.

1497
01:30:37,860 --> 01:30:39,400
 Who's this Arab guy?

1498
01:30:41,300 --> 01:30:42,200
 I know.

1499
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:44,040
 And then there's the Knights as well.

1500
01:30:44,280 --> 01:30:46,480
 They're like the Arabian Knights, right?

1501
01:30:46,480 --> 01:30:46,860
 That's right.

1502
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:50,480
 Randy's always out of the park.

1503
01:30:50,580 --> 01:30:51,300
 Thank you so much.

1504
01:30:51,340 --> 01:30:52,620
 And keep up the good work, okay?

1505
01:30:53,460 --> 01:30:54,220
 Great talking to you guys.

1506
01:30:54,300 --> 01:30:54,800
 Thank you, bud.

1507
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 You too.

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1585
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1586
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 The Score.

1622
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:40,600
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1623
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:41,900
 Welcome back in.

1624
01:36:41,940 --> 01:36:45,200
 It's always a pleasure to open the door and say hello to Matt Merchelle.

1625
01:36:45,320 --> 01:36:47,360
 He's a college insider with the Orlando Sindel.

1626
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:49,720
 His podcast called Gridiron 365.

1627
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:51,300
 Double M, welcome in.

1628
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:51,900
 How are you?

1629
01:36:52,860 --> 01:36:53,620
 I'm doing good.

1630
01:36:53,660 --> 01:36:54,440
 How are you guys doing today?

1631
01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:55,800
 We're doing all right, Matt.

1632
01:36:55,860 --> 01:36:56,500
 Thanks for asking.

1633
01:36:56,560 --> 01:37:01,900
 We talk a lot about college, but indulge us just for a second to talk about a fellow

1634
01:37:01,900 --> 01:37:05,940
 who spent a lot of springs in your backyard there in Florida, Bobby Cox.

1635
01:37:06,220 --> 01:37:08,880
 What a week it's been for the Atlanta Braves, has it not?

1636
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:13,520
 Bobby Cox, Ted Turner, two guys who put the Braves on the map.

1637
01:37:13,960 --> 01:37:18,620
 Your thoughts about the loss of not one, but two legend in Braves' Lord.

1638
01:37:19,560 --> 01:37:22,800
 Yeah, I mean, you talk about Atlanta Braves as a franchise.

1639
01:37:23,140 --> 01:37:28,340
 I think you couldn't really have the history of that franchise without those two gentlemen.

1640
01:37:28,580 --> 01:37:31,600
 You couldn't have it without Ted Turner, and you couldn't have it without Bobby Cox.

1641
01:37:31,600 --> 01:37:36,320
 And I think that, you know, to lose them both within a matter of a little over a week,

1642
01:37:36,380 --> 01:37:39,340
 I mean, that's a huge impact on the franchise.

1643
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:40,740
 And, you know, you're right.

1644
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:45,520
 You know, we had them here in our backyard for many years, you know, with spring baseball

1645
01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:47,560
 being in some sort of area.

1646
01:37:48,380 --> 01:37:50,540
 And both those guys have been a big part of that.

1647
01:37:50,780 --> 01:37:55,200
 So to have them both, you know, what they were able to do with the franchise,

1648
01:37:55,820 --> 01:38:00,360
 to have the success that they were able to have, you know, turn things around for a program

1649
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:02,300
 like that, I mean, it was, it's incredible.

1650
01:38:02,500 --> 01:38:04,740
 And I'm sure both those two are going to be missed.

1651
01:38:04,980 --> 01:38:08,380
 And it's a huge blow to have as the season goes on right now.

1652
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:12,640
 You know, man, just obviously what they did in a positive way was fun,

1653
01:38:12,700 --> 01:38:15,720
 but they actually put spice in the game.

1654
01:38:16,040 --> 01:38:17,920
 For young guys who said, who's Ted Turner?

1655
01:38:18,020 --> 01:38:18,800
 Well, he was the owner.

1656
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:20,340
 Remember, he came down and managed.

1657
01:38:20,740 --> 01:38:23,820
 He got in the dugout until the commissioners threw him out.

1658
01:38:24,340 --> 01:38:30,780
 And then Bobby Cox was ejected over 160 times by the umpires over his career.

1659
01:38:30,860 --> 01:38:31,920
 You don't see that anymore.

1660
01:38:32,180 --> 01:38:33,560
 It's so antiseptic.

1661
01:38:33,620 --> 01:38:34,420
 It's so corporate.

1662
01:38:34,420 --> 01:38:38,960
 But these guys, back in the day, they helped put spice into the game.

1663
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:41,100
 Yeah, very much so.

1664
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:42,660
 I mean, and that's, and that's true.

1665
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:47,700
 You know, you talk about old school, you know, how the game has changed, you know what I mean?

1666
01:38:48,200 --> 01:38:49,820
 Bobby Cox, there isn't much more.

1667
01:38:49,940 --> 01:38:54,540
 I mean, he goes down as probably one of the last great, you know, old school managers.

1668
01:38:54,900 --> 01:39:00,000
 You know, a guy who was, you know, wouldn't be afraid to cut out and argue a ball strike,

1669
01:39:00,100 --> 01:39:04,560
 wouldn't be afraid to get into it, you know, with, you know, an umpire, you know,

1670
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:08,320
 but also was a good tactician, you know, someone who understood the game

1671
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:11,720
 and understood what needs to, what needs to happen and understood, you know,

1672
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:14,300
 coaching a variety of different personalities.

1673
01:39:14,300 --> 01:39:17,920
 I mean, you think about over the years where he was at, you know,

1674
01:39:18,020 --> 01:39:21,020
 and some of the personalities he had on those teams, you know,

1675
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:25,220
 somewhat, probably perhaps one of the best, if not, you know, the best pitching staff

1676
01:39:25,220 --> 01:39:31,180
 in all of Major League Baseball, you know, Glavin and Greg Maddox and John Smoltz

1677
01:39:31,180 --> 01:39:32,860
 and, you know, you had Tripper Jones.

1678
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:36,060
 You think about those teams in the 80s, you know, and 90s that were, you know,

1679
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:38,280
 really strong, strong teams.

1680
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:39,300
 And then you mentioned Ted Turner.

1681
01:39:39,300 --> 01:39:43,800
 I mean, Ted Turner revolutionized, you know, not just, you know, television

1682
01:39:43,800 --> 01:39:50,040
 and how we view television and the idea of, you know, 24-hour-a-day television.

1683
01:39:50,340 --> 01:39:50,940
 With a satellite.

1684
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:54,680
 Yeah, with a satellite, but also what he did with baseball, you know what I mean?

1685
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:56,860
 Just kind of pushing to have it.

1686
01:39:56,980 --> 01:39:59,960
 I mean, I think if you're a kid growing up in certain areas of the country,

1687
01:40:00,460 --> 01:40:02,580
 you know, Atlanta Braves baseball was always on.

1688
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:07,360
 Much like if I was growing up in Chicago, you know, Chicago Cubs games were always on,

1689
01:40:07,480 --> 01:40:07,920
 you know what I mean?

1690
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:09,540
 But you could always find a Braves game on.

1691
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:14,020
 And then I think that was something that was just crucial for the growth of that franchise

1692
01:40:14,020 --> 01:40:16,260
 and the growth of Major League Baseball as a whole.

1693
01:40:16,620 --> 01:40:19,460
 Yeah, WGN in Chicago, you're right.

1694
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:25,620
 As much as we follow sports and athletics, it intertwines with life.

1695
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:32,880
 Missouri running back Ahmaud Hardy shot at a concert in Mississippi early Sunday morning.

1696
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:37,280
 Matt, I haven't seen an update today, but last I saw, he was in stable condition.

1697
01:40:37,980 --> 01:40:41,360
 I know some people wondering, you know, can he get back to last year well?

1698
01:40:41,700 --> 01:40:43,220
 He's got to get well first.

1699
01:40:43,340 --> 01:40:48,460
 But, Matt, when you consider the number of athletes we've got in this country,

1700
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:51,240
 it's a wonder this doesn't happen every weekend.

1701
01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:53,020
 Yeah, it is.

1702
01:40:53,020 --> 01:40:56,040
 I mean, you know, I think, you know, we've talked about this many times before that I

1703
01:40:56,040 --> 01:41:01,160
 think when you get to the offseason, you know, it's a part of the, I think every coach will

1704
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:05,140
 tell you, you know, that they get, they get just a little nervous about players going in

1705
01:41:05,140 --> 01:41:07,000
 the offseason because you don't know what's going to happen.

1706
01:41:07,120 --> 01:41:09,620
 You know, you, you, you want to make sure your players are safe.

1707
01:41:09,700 --> 01:41:11,080
 You want to make sure they're doing the right thing.

1708
01:41:11,640 --> 01:41:15,340
 And, you know, it's something like this happens and you think, okay, well, you know,

1709
01:41:15,340 --> 01:41:19,020
 we're talking about, you know, Hardy getting back on the, on the football field and being

1710
01:41:19,020 --> 01:41:20,000
 like he played last year.

1711
01:41:20,060 --> 01:41:24,260
 Well, to this point, you know, you, you just want to be able to live your life normal,

1712
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:26,500
 you know, I mean, at that point and hope that that happens.

1713
01:41:26,500 --> 01:41:31,060
 So, um, I know that there's a lot of, there's still more information that needs to come out

1714
01:41:31,060 --> 01:41:32,160
 about it and things like that.

1715
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:36,960
 But I mean, I think for any, for any parent or coach, it's, it's something that you, you

1716
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:39,880
 don't want to get that phone call early in the morning, you know, basically something's

1717
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:43,260
 happened because you spend a lot of time trying to figure out what's going on.

1718
01:41:43,320 --> 01:41:48,460
 And, you know, you can't babysit every, every, every player, every athlete, um, to make

1719
01:41:48,460 --> 01:41:50,360
 sure nothing gets, nothing bad happens.

1720
01:41:50,360 --> 01:41:53,960
 So you just have to hope everyone does what they need to do to kind of stay, stay out of

1721
01:41:53,960 --> 01:41:57,740
 trouble and, and, uh, you know, and, and try to stay out of, of harm's way.

1722
01:41:58,420 --> 01:42:01,800
 And let's face it, especially in the modern era, because these kids, let's face it.

1723
01:42:01,800 --> 01:42:03,740
 In some cases, they're already multimillionaires.

1724
01:42:03,900 --> 01:42:07,700
 They got money, but they don't have experience in life, which means you're going to draw

1725
01:42:07,700 --> 01:42:09,780
 quote friends and parentheses around you.

1726
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:14,040
 Matt, speaking of that, your, your thoughts about some of the money games in the sunshine

1727
01:42:14,040 --> 01:42:19,780
 state is, uh, Norvell, is he merited being one of the top 10 highest paid coaches in

1728
01:42:19,780 --> 01:42:23,760
 college football and the other side of the coin on your other side, down at

1729
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:28,060
 Miami, your thoughts about how Miami is putting together their roster, just basically

1730
01:42:28,060 --> 01:42:30,040
 saying, Hey man, here's a blank check.

1731
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:31,360
 Go put us together a team.

1732
01:42:32,380 --> 01:42:36,940
 Well, yeah, I think that's just, that's what's what college football has become right

1733
01:42:36,940 --> 01:42:37,140
 now.

1734
01:42:37,140 --> 01:42:40,840
 You know, they're the haves and have nots, you know, you've got schools like Miami

1735
01:42:40,840 --> 01:42:45,640
 who can, who could go through and decide we're going to spend 30 to $40 million on our roster

1736
01:42:45,640 --> 01:42:51,180
 and you will find a way to get around all the, you know, all the hoops and hoopla that you

1737
01:42:51,180 --> 01:42:54,960
 have to go through when it comes to revenue sharing, but you know, you just walk around

1738
01:42:54,960 --> 01:42:56,180
 and you say, we need this guy.

1739
01:42:56,240 --> 01:42:56,860
 We need this guy.

1740
01:42:56,920 --> 01:43:02,540
 Um, and, and you're able to get that for the most part now, Florida state, you know,

1741
01:43:02,540 --> 01:43:06,220
 they have their, they have their issues, you know, they have their financial restraints,

1742
01:43:06,220 --> 01:43:08,420
 you know, they have to figure out what can they do?

1743
01:43:08,480 --> 01:43:09,600
 What are they able to do?

1744
01:43:10,140 --> 01:43:14,680
 Um, plus, you know, you look at this, I mean, when we asked about this earlier today, you

1745
01:43:14,680 --> 01:43:19,640
 know, Mike Norvell's got to be under the, under the gun, this, this, you know, uh, this off

1746
01:43:19,640 --> 01:43:24,940
 the season, because you look at the fact that he has had a bad year last year, has a massive

1747
01:43:24,940 --> 01:43:26,740
 contract with a massive buyout.

1748
01:43:26,980 --> 01:43:31,020
 You know, they, the Florida state fans want them to have success.

1749
01:43:31,020 --> 01:43:34,080
 Well, if he doesn't have success this year, what happened?

1750
01:43:34,460 --> 01:43:37,940
 You know, he, I think he's got like a, um, that massive buyout's going to be something

1751
01:43:37,940 --> 01:43:42,000
 that's going to maybe prevent Florida state from trying to make a move or maybe not, maybe

1752
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:43,340
 someone will come up with some money.

1753
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:47,020
 It's very different dynamics of money.

1754
01:43:47,020 --> 01:43:51,680
 And I think this is why college, why fans, the average fan are getting tired of college

1755
01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:55,800
 athletics in a lot of ways now, because all we're talking about in the off season is money.

1756
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:57,900
 All we're talking about is how is this money being made?

1757
01:43:58,220 --> 01:43:59,340
 How's the money being spent?

1758
01:44:00,000 --> 01:44:04,100
 And, you know, you, you kind of lose the grasp of, okay, now you're, you know, we're not

1759
01:44:04,100 --> 01:44:07,080
 even talking about how, which one of these teams is going to play better, or who's got

1760
01:44:07,080 --> 01:44:11,100
 a better quarterback, who's got better running backs, or who's a, who's, who's leading the

1761
01:44:11,100 --> 01:44:11,920
 recruiting rankings.

1762
01:44:12,140 --> 01:44:14,280
 We're more worried about what, what these teams are making.

1763
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:15,740
 And it's, it's, it's been very difficult.

1764
01:44:15,880 --> 01:44:20,440
 I'm sure the higher ups in the sport are really trying to figure out a way how to get

1765
01:44:20,440 --> 01:44:23,060
 past that, because this is what I talk with fans all the time.

1766
01:44:23,300 --> 01:44:27,020
 We talk about the X's and O's, but a lot of times it's the dollars and cents.

1767
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:32,600
 Uh, man, the other thing we've been hearing this week is coaches and conference

1768
01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:34,100
 commissioners going off.

1769
01:44:34,620 --> 01:44:40,840
 Greg Sankey is not very happy with the coaches, the college football coach association and their

1770
01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:42,960
 criteria for the playoffs.

1771
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:49,260
 I got amused also at Steve Sarkeesian, the coach at Texas did an interview with Matt Hayes

1772
01:44:49,260 --> 01:44:54,140
 of USA Today about academic standards are different at Texas.

1773
01:44:54,140 --> 01:45:01,300
 Texas, and I quote, at Texas, we will only take 50% of a player's academic credit hours, but

1774
01:45:01,300 --> 01:45:06,240
 at Ole Miss, all you have to do is take basket weaving and you can get a degree.

1775
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:10,680
 Uh, interesting shot from Steve Sarkeesian, Matt.

1776
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:14,240
 Yeah, you know, listen, I, I, I think it's great.

1777
01:45:14,340 --> 01:45:18,540
 And I, and I, and I'm going to, I'm going to try to be generous about it or nice about

1778
01:45:18,540 --> 01:45:23,460
 this, I think it's great to talk about academics because you want to believe that academics are

1779
01:45:23,460 --> 01:45:24,980
 still important in college athletics.

1780
01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:33,320
 They just aren't anymore, you know, I mean, you talk about players coming to schools now

1781
01:45:33,320 --> 01:45:37,120
 and you ask a transfer, what is important to your, you're coming here.

1782
01:45:37,560 --> 01:45:42,760
 And the majority of them are going to tell you, uh, maybe not talk specifics, but they'll

1783
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:43,660
 talk about money.

1784
01:45:43,760 --> 01:45:47,520
 They'll talk about what, you know, what the coach is offering, you know, things like that.

1785
01:45:47,620 --> 01:45:53,260
 I very rarely get a player say to me, well, I really liked their oceanography program.

1786
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:56,560
 Well, I really like, you know, I really look at their business program.

1787
01:45:56,800 --> 01:45:57,400
 You know what I mean?

1788
01:45:57,400 --> 01:45:58,880
 It's like, I like, I'm like, oh, okay.

1789
01:45:58,880 --> 01:46:01,380
 When that happens, I'm almost, I'm almost floored.

1790
01:46:01,440 --> 01:46:03,020
 I want to get up and say, okay, well, that's great.

1791
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:03,700
 Talk about that.

1792
01:46:03,700 --> 01:46:08,120
 Because most of these players, you know, right now they're making decisions based on

1793
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:08,620
 finances.

1794
01:46:08,620 --> 01:46:10,660
 They're making, where can they make their money?

1795
01:46:10,760 --> 01:46:14,840
 Where can they be, you know, where can they be beneficial, you know, and, and, and find

1796
01:46:14,840 --> 01:46:15,320
 success.

1797
01:46:15,320 --> 01:46:17,740
 And, and I get what Greg's talking about too.

1798
01:46:17,780 --> 01:46:18,740
 I mean, I, I understand.

1799
01:46:19,260 --> 01:46:20,140
 I just think it's funny.

1800
01:46:20,200 --> 01:46:23,920
 We're in that, you could tell we're a definite prime offseason because we're pointing

1801
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:28,380
 at stuff that's like, you know, where everyone's pointing fingers and everyone's trying to

1802
01:46:28,380 --> 01:46:29,560
 figure out who's got doing what.

1803
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:33,560
 And it's like, you know, this is why the sport, I know it's possible.

1804
01:46:33,700 --> 01:46:37,640
 And I go back to what I just said earlier, I know it's popular, but they've got to be

1805
01:46:37,640 --> 01:46:43,160
 careful because they're starting to turn people off on this idea of, of college athletics being

1806
01:46:43,160 --> 01:46:44,800
 something that people enjoy watching.

1807
01:46:44,940 --> 01:46:49,840
 It's, it's, it's almost feels like you're, you're watching the NBA or, or a professional

1808
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:54,120
 league fight about, you know, like what, you know, about things that it shouldn't be fighting

1809
01:46:54,120 --> 01:46:55,680
 about, but, um, but people love it.

1810
01:46:55,700 --> 01:46:56,340
 People love that.

1811
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:58,560
 I'm sure it's all, but taking their shots.

1812
01:46:58,660 --> 01:47:00,400
 Ole Miss, Ole Miss has already had a rough week.

1813
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:05,600
 I'm sure this is going to be just more to pile on, on Ole Miss this week.

1814
01:47:06,380 --> 01:47:09,020
 I had some classes of football players back in the day.

1815
01:47:09,100 --> 01:47:11,900
 They couldn't even spell, spell, they could spell cheerleader.

1816
01:47:11,980 --> 01:47:12,860
 And that was about it.

1817
01:47:12,940 --> 01:47:17,340
 But I mean, if they just be transparent about it, I think more people would accept it.

1818
01:47:17,820 --> 01:47:20,560
 Matt, uh, your thoughts, where is it going?

1819
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:25,400
 I mean, as you, as you mentioned, as long as we buy it, all we're going to do is complain,

1820
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:26,720
 but nothing's going to change.

1821
01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:28,140
 And yeah, let's face it.

1822
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:30,380
 The poster child for this is Carson Beck.

1823
01:47:30,440 --> 01:47:33,520
 What was he said in his interview this past season?

1824
01:47:33,800 --> 01:47:35,920
 I haven't been in a class basically in two years.

1825
01:47:36,940 --> 01:47:37,300
 Yeah.

1826
01:47:37,700 --> 01:47:38,060
 Yeah.

1827
01:47:38,140 --> 01:47:39,720
 I mean, there's, there's a lot of that.

1828
01:47:39,800 --> 01:47:44,620
 There's a lot of, there are a lot of guys or they don't go to an actual physical classroom.

1829
01:47:44,620 --> 01:47:49,360
 They go to a virtual classroom, you know, where you're, um, you know, where you, you

1830
01:47:49,360 --> 01:47:53,060
 just, you just go through and you're zoom into a professor or whatever.

1831
01:47:53,060 --> 01:47:54,320
 And, and that's it.

1832
01:47:54,320 --> 01:47:54,780
 You know what I mean?

1833
01:47:54,800 --> 01:47:57,100
 I, um, it's, it's tough.

1834
01:47:57,220 --> 01:48:00,120
 It's, it's gotta be tough because there are a lot of, especially for a lot of old school

1835
01:48:00,120 --> 01:48:04,820
 coaches who, you know, they were, they did care about academics that do care about

1836
01:48:04,820 --> 01:48:08,520
 academics and they're, and they're not saying that there are athletes out there who do

1837
01:48:08,520 --> 01:48:08,780
 care.

1838
01:48:08,900 --> 01:48:13,040
 I'm, I've run into a bunch of them that are, that are really smart and, and, and, you

1839
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:15,720
 know, really do care about, you know, what their degree is in.

1840
01:48:16,060 --> 01:48:20,360
 But when you think about where the sport is right now, the majority of the players are

1841
01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:25,680
 coming in, they're not picking a school because of, of, you know, it's academic prowess.

1842
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:29,060
 They're not, they're not picking a school about, they're picking a school for the most part

1843
01:48:29,060 --> 01:48:34,380
 because of money or opportunity or being closer to home or whatever, but it's, it's nowhere

1844
01:48:34,380 --> 01:48:35,420
 near what it should be.

1845
01:48:35,880 --> 01:48:36,700
 You know, and it's difficult.

1846
01:48:36,820 --> 01:48:41,020
 I, I tell the story when I started in this business, I remember sitting at a press conference

1847
01:48:41,020 --> 01:48:47,360
 with a, with a, at a, at a D1 basketball, after a D1 basketball game and, and the player

1848
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:51,780
 came in and I went to, I was in college at this point and the player came in and sat

1849
01:48:51,780 --> 01:48:55,900
 down and recognized me and said, Hey Matt, I've missed class for this whole month.

1850
01:48:56,200 --> 01:48:56,960
 What did I miss?

1851
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:01,400
 You know, and I remember just putting my head down in my lap, like, what are you doing?

1852
01:49:01,400 --> 01:49:02,800
 You know, I don't know.

1853
01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:03,760
 I missed it too.

1854
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:05,000
 Yeah, exactly.

1855
01:49:05,440 --> 01:49:08,520
 You know, so I mean, it was like, first of all, you're asking the wrong guy.

1856
01:49:09,220 --> 01:49:13,540
 I mean, but I mean, second of all, um, but I'm just saying that sometimes, you know, at

1857
01:49:13,540 --> 01:49:18,380
 schools, because there's so much money being invested right now, schools find ways.

1858
01:49:18,440 --> 01:49:21,980
 I mean, they bring in tutors, they bring in, you know, multiple tutors, you know, multiple

1859
01:49:21,980 --> 01:49:23,080
 academic advisors.

1860
01:49:23,260 --> 01:49:28,020
 I mean, you know, used to be 10 years ago, you maybe had one academic advisor and maybe a few

1861
01:49:28,020 --> 01:49:32,600
 tutors now, you know, a football team has a fleet of people helping them, you know, making

1862
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:37,760
 sure that those remember guys, we used to get really nervous about this time because grades

1863
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:42,320
 would come out, which player is not going to make the cut and he was not going to be able

1864
01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:45,220
 to get, and all of a sudden you don't ever worry about that anymore.

1865
01:49:45,220 --> 01:49:48,980
 You never get a story about a kid not passing a class and not being able to play.

1866
01:49:49,340 --> 01:49:49,740
 Absolutely.

1867
01:49:50,120 --> 01:49:54,440
 Listen, before we let you go, I just wanted to give, Harold and I wanted to give you our

1868
01:49:54,440 --> 01:49:55,680
 deepest condolence.

1869
01:49:56,160 --> 01:50:01,540
 I know you lost your beloved mother very recently, and I know Mother's Day was a tough

1870
01:50:01,540 --> 01:50:06,660
 day for you, but it's tough any time you do that.

1871
01:50:06,740 --> 01:50:12,060
 I know one thing, she raised a good son, and we enjoy talking with you on a weekly basis,

1872
01:50:12,060 --> 01:50:18,220
 but wanted to give you our deepest condolence about that, but where can we get online now

1873
01:50:18,220 --> 01:50:19,900
 and get all your great stuff?

1874
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:21,880
 Well, I appreciate that, guys.

1875
01:50:21,900 --> 01:50:22,700
 That means a lot to me.

1876
01:50:22,700 --> 01:50:28,820
 Like I said, she was a good one, and we had to move her into hospice a couple weeks

1877
01:50:28,820 --> 01:50:34,760
 ago, and she went pretty quickly, but I do appreciate the sentiment, and if you guys want

1878
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:39,640
 to check out more of my stuff, you go to orlandosentinel.com, or you can go on social media and follow me

1879
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:40,580
 at OS Matt Merchell.

1880
01:50:41,820 --> 01:50:43,200
 I echo Brad's sentiment.

1881
01:50:43,360 --> 01:50:44,820
 Thanks so much for your time today, Matt.

1882
01:50:44,900 --> 01:50:45,520
 Hang in there, buddy.

1883
01:50:45,580 --> 01:50:45,860
 Okay?

1884
01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:46,940
 All right.

1885
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:47,480
 Take care, guys.

1886
01:50:47,540 --> 01:50:47,980
 Thank you, bud.

1887
01:50:48,200 --> 01:50:49,940
 Matt Merchell, the Orlando Sentinel.

1888
01:50:50,040 --> 01:50:51,460
 Maybe a little braze news here.

1889
01:50:51,580 --> 01:50:54,200
 They got Sean Murphy back on the IL.

1890
01:50:54,480 --> 01:50:54,900
 Oh, no.

1891
01:50:55,100 --> 01:50:58,840
 He injured his finger, fractured his finger, matter of fact, in the game over the weekend,

1892
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:00,640
 so he is back on it.

1893
01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:06,540
 They have signed 37-year-old catcher Sandy Leon to provide depth at the backstop position,

1894
01:51:06,700 --> 01:51:12,780
 also selecting outfitter Jose Azokar a day after optioning infielder Jim Jarvis to AAA Gwinnett,

1895
01:51:12,860 --> 01:51:14,560
 so some news to the Braves.

1896
01:51:14,640 --> 01:51:16,520
 They get back in action, not against the Cubs, BB.

1897
01:51:16,820 --> 01:51:19,280
 Two of the best teams in the major leagues.

1898
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,120
 You can hear that game on 93-9.

1899
01:51:21,220 --> 01:51:24,560
 The score, Murphy's had a tough two or three years.

1900
01:51:24,680 --> 01:51:28,580
 By the way, Kim, the shortstop, I think he's going to be coming back later this week, too.

1901
01:51:28,640 --> 01:51:29,540
 That's some good news.

1902
01:51:30,060 --> 01:51:33,720
 So check out the Braves and the boys from Chicago tonight.

1903
01:51:33,820 --> 01:51:36,800
 Mr. Holmes on the mound for the Atlanta Braves.

1904
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:40,880
 That's going to take care of biz for now on behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here.

1905
01:51:41,320 --> 01:51:43,340
 Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1906
01:51:43,340 --> 01:51:45,980
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two for the Boomwell Buck Show,

1907
01:51:46,080 --> 01:51:48,320
 back here on Sports Radio 93-9, the score.