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

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

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 Good afternoon and welcome in to the Boomo Bugg Show. I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird. Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley. Brett Beaird, welcome in. Where can you say welcome to the coaching shuffle in the shows? Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Wednesday to you and the listeners. You are exactly correct. Brooks football coach Tim Bowens was officially hired last night as assistant athletic director at Florence High School.

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 Florence also picked up former Auburn star baseball player Hunter Morris to be the baseball coach.

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 One of the best coaches in North Alabama, Jeff Mason at Lauderdale County football coach has stepped down.

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 And Morris Hill boys basketball coach Jeremy Pounders is now headed to Southside Gaston to be the girls coach.

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 In baseball last night, Morris Hill Bible sweeps Red Bay 21-6 and 4-3 to advance to the Class 2A Baseball Championship Series.

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 And Jimmy's here right now to talk all things Alabama.

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 I wonder if Jimmy's called two men in a truck too. It seems like everybody's on the move.

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 We'll check and confirm or deny that with Mr. Jimmy himself.

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 Jimmy Stein, co-host of Locked On Bama, part of the Locked On Network.

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 Jimmy, welcome in. Are you still with us or are you on the move too?

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 Nope. I'm sitting right here in Tuscaloosa. There's only 84 days until practice starts.

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 I'm not going to lose my spot.

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 Jimmy, let me ask you this. For that September opener, is it bacon and eggs and pigskins?

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 Brett Beaird's favorite kickoff time.

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 11 o'clock in early September. Can life get any better, Jimmy?

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 Well, with someone that sits in the stadium, I'm not in the press box of games.

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 I don't want to be. I like sitting in the crowd and someone that will be baking with the rest of everyone else.

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 It's not exactly my favorite kickoff time either, especially for the early September game.

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 But I'm so hungry for football by that time of the year.

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 Hey, bring it on. I'm just ready to watch the ball.

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 Your thoughts about what Alabama is going to take in this opener.

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 Last year, do you get the feeling, Jimmy, that maybe all the talk, there's so many verbal bouquets thrown around

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 that I think some of these players actually believed what they were reading,

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 that we're great and Florida State's not.

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 We saw what happened. It set the tone that day and for the season as well.

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 What lessons? Forget about the balance of the season.

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 Let's start with first things first.

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 It's East Carolina. They're not a brand name like sometimes Alabama will kick off.

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 Certainly under Nick, they did.

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 He loved to go out and get that momentum going early and get all the verbal bouquets himself and publicity.

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 But your thoughts just from a mindset of how Alabama is going to approach this one against the Pirates from East Carolina.

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 It's a little different than last year.

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 Last year, starting out on the road against the Power Four team.

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 And we all know how the game went five ways.

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 I think in retrospect, and I had re-watched the game actually not too long ago, a couple weeks ago.

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 You know, I think some say, well, Alabama just wasn't ready to play.

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 I don't really believe that's the case because Alabama came out playing well right out of the gate.

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 They had an offensive possession that was, frankly, one of the better drives of the year, a 16-play drive.

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 They used three backs.

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 They threw it.

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 They ran it.

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 It was an impressive offensive drive to start the year.

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 It was a penalty.

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 They kept that drive alive that Florida State would eventually score.

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 I think there's a difference between not being ready to play and not being ready to respond to adversity.

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 I don't think the team was ready to get punched in the mouth and get back up.

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 Now, they would later in the year, and they rebounded really well.

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 But really, that first game was about the game went sideways, and Alabama didn't have an answer, couldn't respond.

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 I don't think it was that they weren't ready to play.

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 Now, I think this year's opener is much different in that you're not playing the brand Florida State.

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 You're at home, not on the road.

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 But what I would hope Alabama fans realize is last year in the home opener, Alabama absolutely crushed a terribly outmanned team, Louisiana Monroe.

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 I think it was, I don't know, 73 to nothing.

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 Well, East Carolina may not have a name, but that's a pretty good football team.

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 It's not Louisiana Monroe from 2025.

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 East Carolina won nine games a year ago.

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 They beat Pittsburgh in the bowl game.

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 They played other power four teams fairly close.

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 They beat Tulane.

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 They have two veteran quarterbacks who played big-time football, including Miami Hurricanes' number two quarterback.

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 He's likely to be the starter, but he's battling a guy that was at Wake Forest and, I think, Texas Tech.

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 Their new offensive coordinator was the OC of the number one offense in college football a year ago.

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 So, I'm not warning Alabama fans, you know, be on upset alert or anything like that.

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 I'm not doing that.

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 I'm just saying this isn't going to be like 73 to nothing against Louisiana Monroe.

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 I think East Carolina is too good for that, and that's a good, you know, that's good for Alabama.

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 You need to have some questions answered in game one because week two up in Lexington, Kentucky, you better be ready to play.

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 So, maybe East Carolina presenting some level of challenge will be good for Alabama.

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 Jimmy, just to reiterate your point, not only did they win nine games, but this year they've got a new offensive coordinator, Jordan Davis,

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 who is with North Texas, and you're exactly right.

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 North Texas last year, first in FBS and scoring 512 yards per game.

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 The quarterback, Mitch Griffiths, he's competing with Emory Williams.

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 Griffiths is 25 years old, and then they've got a veteran team.

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 They've got 22 redshirt seniors, or actually, what they've got is four seniors and 20 redshirt juniors.

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 That's a veteran team, Jimmy.

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 It really is.

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 And, again, obviously Alabama's going to be favored by a lot of points, and Alabama should beat East Carolina by a lot of points.

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 But I think fans, and you hope not the team, but the fans see that name, East Carolina, and they don't think much of it.

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 I think they can be that good.

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 Now, is that a team that should play with Alabama and keep it close for four quarters?

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 Alabama should win and pull away.

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 But, again, what my point is, I don't think we're going to see 73 to nothing like we saw in last year's home opener.

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 As they say, stay tuned and stay locked in with Jimmy Stein at Locked on Bama.

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 Jimmy, let's talk recruiting.

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 Alabama going shopping in the volunteer state and picking up a young man with deep roots to the volunteers in Tennessee.

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 Kenneth Simon II, Kenneth Simon I, was a two-time All-SEC player under Phil Fulmer at Tennessee.

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 Later on, Director of Player Development at Tennessee.

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 And what does his son say, I'm on my way to play in Tuscaloosa, the four-star linebacker from Brentwood, Tennessee Academy.

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 What can you tell us about Kenneth Simon II?

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 Yeah, even more interesting, Harold, he tells his mother, told Andrew Bone over BOL this week,

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 that actually he picked Alabama over Georgia, so Tennessee didn't even finish in second half for Kenneth Simon.

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 Which is certainly, I mean, that's interesting, because you would have thought, you know,

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 when I first, you know, became aware of this prospect several months ago, like everyone else,

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 you just kind of assume, well, this kid's going to go to Tennessee like his dad.

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 And then it became pretty apparent on his visit that he was extremely open to considering other places.

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 He did visit Georgia, he visited Alabama.

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 Alabama just remained the favorite all along.

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 Very good prospect.

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 I think he's a national top 150 type prospect.

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 That makes him pretty elite in the recruiting ranks.

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 He's an off-ball linebacker.

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 Up 6'2", 210, played safety.

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 His ninth and tenth grade years at Brentwood Academy in Nashville.

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 Really good prospect like his dad.

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 His dad was a 245-pound player, so you can't help but think Kenneth Simon's going to get bigger.

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 Again, he's up to 6'2", 210, but all that growth is late.

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 Again, he played safety in the ninth and tenth grade, so getting bigger.

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 Obviously, you've got to like the DNA.

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 Dad was an all-SEC player.

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 This was a good pickup for Alabama because he's a player that can play in space.

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 You know, off-ball linebackers in the modern game, they're sort of like big safety.

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 I mean, they've got to drop.

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 They have to play laterally.

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 They're asked to do a lot of things, not just trade paint with a fullback in the hole like they used to back in the old days.

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 But, you know, today's off-ball linebacker is an athlete's first, and Kenneth Simon really fits that description.

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 Jimmy, Andrew Bones also told us on the show Alabama was signed a smaller line class.

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 Last year, five offensive linemen, five defensive linemen.

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 Antonio Berry from Tupelo, Mississippi.

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 Ismael Kamara from Gilmore, Texas.

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 Mitchell Turner from Louisville, Mississippi.

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 Antoine Jackson from Memphis.

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 And K.J. Green from Stone Mountain.

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 But after it, with 10 last year, this will be a smaller class.

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 I mean, you can't just pile them all into one room.

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 They signed a number of linemen last year.

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 Normally, the year after you do that, it's a smaller group, just to make the numbers work.

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 The targets are pretty impressive players, though.

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 You know, obviously, quantity doesn't matter as much as quality.

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 And they are aiming pretty high for the linemen in the group, particularly like Mitchell Turner,

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 who I think, you know, has a chance to be a top 50 player, even nationally.

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 The two offensive linemen that you mentioned are, again, super elite-type players, both Kamara, you know, and Barry from Tupelo.

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 It's interesting, you know, in 2028, when you're probably getting back to signing a more regular-sized group,

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 two of the better offensive linemen that Alabama are recruiting are from North Alabama, both from the Huntsville area,

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 and Joey Fleming and Samuel Bailey, who are maybe two of the better offensive line prospects in the South.

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 They just both happen to be from the Huntsville area.

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 That's in 28, though.

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 I do think it's going to be a smaller group.

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 One other thing to keep in mind, though, not just a smaller group at the line of scrimmage,

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 the five-for-five rule change, meaning if that happens and it's expected to,

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 every player in college football will have five years of eligibility.

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 So now you're losing.

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 Now some of your seniors actually will have another year to come back.

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 because you're probably getting more guys back than you expected.

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 That's a very good point, Jimmy.

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 Let's switch gears.

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 It's hard to believe the end is near for the regular season in the SEC baseball.

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 Alabama pulling the curtain on that part of the schedule against Ole Miss.

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 I'm assuming Lane Kiffin will not be there rooting for Ole Miss.

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 Jimmy, your thoughts about this Alabama team getting ready for the SEC tournament?

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 You know, as bad as Alabama has been at points this season, and I'm not being melodramatic there,

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 Alabama baseball at times has been a pretty bad baseball team.

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 Alabama is not only hosting a regional.

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 They're in position to potentially host a super regional.

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 But if they can win the regional in their own part, that's amazing considering how many times they've been swept,

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 how many times they've looked terrible in the midweek game.

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 Yet here you are, and why?

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 Because at times they're really good.

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 This team, their highs are really high, and their lows are really low.

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 They're the only team in the SEC, the only one out of 16 teams,

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 that has started the same starting pitcher on the Friday night game,

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 Keeping all three starting pitchers, one, two, three, healthy,

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 and pitching well and consistently well all season long.

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 That's the reason I think Alabama's in the position they are,

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 because other elements of the team have been less consistent,

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 Yeah, you're exactly right.

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 Jimmy, great stuff as always.

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 Where can we get online and get some podcasts with you and Luke Robinson?

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 You also work with Clint Lamb.

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 Where can we get the best podcasts about Alabama sports on the planet?

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 Sounds great, Jimmy.

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 Listen, man, thanks so much.

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 It is a pleasure for us to head on up the road to a place called Nashville and check in with Blade Lovell.

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 Blade Lovell, happy Wednesday the 13th.

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing well, guys.

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 Good to talk to you.

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 You too.

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 Blake, it's a good time of the year to kind of tap the brace, take a little pit stop and talk about some stuff.

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 That's a part of the game, but sometimes during the season can kind of get overlooked.

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 A good situation here to look at, and that is the most expensive rosters in college football.

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 Blake, we remember when Bo Nix got a deal with Milo T, and we thought, how outrageous.

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 He's getting that much money.

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 I've forgotten now what it was.

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 Peanuts.

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 And a lot of people said, that's just a crack in the d*** weight and showing up here it comes.

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 Alabama, let's put this thing in perspective.

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 Everybody's talking about Texas Tech and Tennessee originally.

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 Both of them are just over $36 million.

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 They're in the top 10.

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 It's a lot of cabbage.

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 Alabama's actually eighth on this list at just over $37 million.

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 I'll fast forward.

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 Texas is king of the hill, shock, shock, 47.9.

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 In other words, almost $48 million.

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 Blake, you know what?

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 And we ain't seen nothing yet, have we?

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 No.

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 If you think this number for Texas is staying at $48 million about five years from now,

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 that's going to be about $56 million and we'll get up to whatever.

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 Yeah, I mean, it's just, like you said, it's the nature of the game now.

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 And I think it puts a lot in perspective in terms of what your expectations have to be if you're a fan.

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 And again, fair or unfair.

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 I mean, I think it's like if you look at just eight and nine on the list, which is Alabama and Tennessee,

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 and you see a difference of whatever, $0.5 million or whatever it is,

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 what's the difference in expectations for those two teams?

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 And so if you're Texas and you are almost $4 million higher than Miami at two,

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 should you not have the expectation that if we don't win the national championship, it is disappointing?

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 And I think that's exactly where we are now.

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 And that's why I think, you know, you look at Sark going into the season,

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 and obviously you've had some interesting comments the past few days about other schools.

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 But, I mean, they should be the team that wins the whole thing if you're just basing it off of this kind of stuff.

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 And again, fair or unfair, we are going to base it a lot on that because you're paying players

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 there should be no reason why you're upset if you don't exactly meet those expectations because of this number.

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 The folks who might have missed it, is that where we're getting now?

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 They're going to sit here and complain about everything and everybody, whether it's legit or not.

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 Your thoughts of what's going on, if you're Greg Sankey, what message would you send to Sark, to Lane?

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 Of course, Lane, I'm not smart enough to figure out Lane's mind.

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 He actually loves it.

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 Most people would sit here and say, please.

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 Your thoughts just about what's going on as far as these people run their mouths.

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 Yeah, like you said, I'm not going to try to figure out Lane.

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 Lane's going to say what's most beneficial to Lane, and that's really what it comes down to.

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 It doesn't matter where he is or who he's with.

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 If it benefits him, they'll say it.

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 And I think when you look at it, like you said, from the perspective of we've seen this in different sports.

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 We talked about it, I think, specifically in basketball a lot over the years.

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 You see some of these coaches getting out of the game that are older and all that, and we see it because of all the changes.

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 Sark's not that old, but I think he absolutely, to me right now, based on things that he's saying,

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 whether it is simply getting into that game of taking some shots at other schools,

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 whether it is talking about the playoff and all these things, I feel like he is a coach that is on the way out

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 from college football in the next year or two, right?

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 You can push back on the guy doing these things at the same time we just mentioned.

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 He's got a roster this year that can be $48 million.

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 No excuses.

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 Right?

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 whether it's Lane, always just being Lane, whether you have a guy like Sark,

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 that maybe it's a little, you know, uncharacteristic, you're not used to him saying things like this.

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 I just think the pressure is there now, given all the money, the numbers get out there, and all that.

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 And that's why, again, you're going to see guys, to me, like Sark,

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 but it's just going to be a much different dynamic than it is right now,

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 based on kind of our college football and college sports landscape, so.

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00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:13,420
 I thought it was interesting.

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 They're playing in Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

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 with a lot of new players to play at Bridgestone to get ready for the SEC tournament in March.

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 But I also wonder if there's an NIL tied to this, too.

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 And Alabama and Tennessee are, around Thanksgiving, they're going back to Las Vegas for the second consecutive year

464
00:26:56,220 --> 00:27:02,020
 to play in the Players' Era Tournament, which that is NIL to the players.

465
00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:11,240
 Now that every school's trying to be creative and find more money, what was your first thought when you saw Auburn and Wisconsin at Bridgestone?

466
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:19,880
 Yeah, I think, you know, Nashville, as we know, has also not been shy about finding ways to keep their entertainment high.

467
00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:23,920
 And, you know, again, whether that's just simply the new stadium and all this other stuff.

468
00:27:24,020 --> 00:27:29,560
 I mean, we've seen, go back to last year, the most random game I can ever remember basketball-wise in this city,

469
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,600
 when Virginia played Ohio State in basketball.

470
00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:33,140
 What was that?

471
00:27:33,180 --> 00:27:35,040
 I think it was in February or something like that.

472
00:27:35,060 --> 00:27:39,540
 Just a completely random game at Bridgestone Arena, which did not make a lot of sense to me.

473
00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:45,320
 But, again, I don't know just the full, you know, financial experience or anything like that that was involved in it.

474
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:49,680
 And so, like you said, I think you're going to see a lot of this kind of stuff.

475
00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:54,520
 And I know some Auburn fans would say, hey, there's a lot of Auburn fans in Nashville, and there certainly are.

476
00:27:55,060 --> 00:27:58,860
 You know, we've seen that over the years just in terms of whether tournaments or anything else here.

477
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,160
 And so, yeah, it's going to be interesting.

478
00:28:01,380 --> 00:28:09,780
 And I think this is where when you see games like this being scheduled, it's not anything that out of the norm when it comes to just the teams involved, maybe location.

479
00:28:10,020 --> 00:28:12,040
 Yeah, you've got, you know, perk up a little bit.

480
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,800
 But, you know, whether it's the thing in Vegas, whether it's some of these other things,

481
00:28:16,420 --> 00:28:21,200
 I just think this is the way forward when it comes to scheduling in college basketball.

482
00:28:21,420 --> 00:28:22,900
 And I've had some pushback on that.

483
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,040
 You know, ah, the NCAA is still going to look out for the little guys.

484
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,960
 They're still going to get their bye games and all that.

485
00:28:28,020 --> 00:28:29,340
 I'm like, they may this year.

486
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:37,620
 But when we see that first tournament bracket release next March and you see of those final eight additional teams in,

487
00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:42,980
 when you start to see, you know, seven of those teams are all power conference teams,

488
00:28:42,980 --> 00:28:46,780
 then let's start to see how many bye games you're going to have next year and the year after that.

489
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,040
 Because there's not going to be a reason to do it.

490
00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:54,700
 And, look, I'm all for watching a great game, whether it's Auburn, Wisconsin, Virginia, Ohio State, anybody else.

491
00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,160
 But at a certain point, like we've said before, I think these are just the kind of games you're going to see a lot more of.

492
00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:07,280
 And you're not going to see as much of the, you know, the bye games that, yes, you still have to sell season tickets and all this other stuff.

493
00:29:07,420 --> 00:29:15,380
 But, guys, you'll be able to fill those with, you know, NATO's bringing in three top 20 teams to Tuscaloosa, bringing in a Purdue, bringing in whoever else.

494
00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:15,640
 Right.

495
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,720
 And so I just think that that scheduling gap is going to get pretty wide here.

496
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,340
 And, you know, maybe it starts with games like this that have been pretty familiar.

497
00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:26,200
 But I think you're going to see a lot more of this as we move forward.

498
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:32,080
 Blake, quickly, as a young man, I had a summer job back in the day in Nashville and fell in love with the place.

499
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,100
 It's grown quite a bit since then, to the point where they have a pro hockey team, pro football team.

500
00:29:37,540 --> 00:29:39,440
 At what point will Nashville entertain?

501
00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:41,320
 We've talked about this before and touched on it.

502
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:46,360
 But, realistically, if and when Nashville will get a major league baseball team?

503
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:48,960
 Yeah, I think it's got to happen.

504
00:29:49,100 --> 00:30:00,140
 I think if you're comparing Nashville to all the other potential options that are realistic for major league baseball, I still think, and I feel like there was some kind of study done a couple years ago.

505
00:30:00,140 --> 00:30:04,720
 Or maybe it was the Athletic that put something out when it came to just polling and all that.

506
00:30:04,780 --> 00:30:06,260
 It may have just been a players-based thing.

507
00:30:06,460 --> 00:30:09,200
 But, again, players have some weight in this kind of stuff, too.

508
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:21,080
 And so I think if you are looking at just the different options that are available out there, there's no question, especially when you're looking at just the infrastructure that now exists in Nashville.

509
00:30:21,620 --> 00:30:35,220
 We know if you're talking about just simply interest, I think there's plenty of kind of data you can point to that there would be enough interest to drive Nashville as a city that would be able to support season tickets and all these other things.

510
00:30:35,220 --> 00:30:37,740
 Because, you know, look at what you've been able to do with the NFL.

511
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:47,320
 And, certainly, I think if you were picking an order right now, I would think that major league baseball is certainly your next one that you would go after ahead of the NBA.

512
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,060
 I just think it would be more of a fit.

513
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,800
 I know there's been a lot of debate about, you know, Memphis and Nashville and the Grizzlies and all that.

514
00:30:53,860 --> 00:30:59,780
 But I just think baseball is a much more sensible option for the city based on the goals that they want to have.

515
00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:03,580
 And, again, it's just looking at all the new stuff that's here and with the stadium.

516
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,400
 There's just so many different things you can do now.

517
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,900
 But, yeah, I think there's plenty of spots around Nashville.

518
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,860
 But there's a builder right now, guys, saying, oh, I got the perfect spot for this baseball stadium.

519
00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:14,460
 I guarantee you.

520
00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:16,900
 You know, they're just salivating at that idea.

521
00:31:17,420 --> 00:31:19,640
 Let me ask you about 90 seconds.

522
00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:23,480
 Will Amari Allen stay in the NBA drought?

523
00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:25,540
 He's going through the combine this week.

524
00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:27,540
 And I keep hearing late 20s.

525
00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:31,160
 Will he stay in the combine or come back?

526
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,240
 And, second, where can we get online to get all the great podcasts?

527
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:42,660
 Yeah, boy, Amari Allen, unfortunately, the ruler kind of got him a little bit when it came to the measurements.

528
00:31:43,060 --> 00:31:48,220
 Someone who looked at his 6'7 1⁄2", 6'8", measured around 6'5".

529
00:31:48,220 --> 00:31:48,420
 Really?

530
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:49,900
 That didn't help.

531
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:50,620
 Come on.

532
00:31:50,740 --> 00:31:51,180
 Come on.

533
00:31:51,180 --> 00:31:52,720
 Yeah, I mean, that's just a couple.

534
00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:56,160
 The NBA doesn't care about that at all.

535
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,880
 They don't care about those little tiny details.

536
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,460
 But I think it's gotten a little more interesting, guys, just based on that factor.

537
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,560
 Fair or unfair, I honestly think it has.

538
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,120
 I don't know.

539
00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:09,260
 I think some teams still kind of saw him as a wing-type player or whatever, potentially.

540
00:32:09,460 --> 00:32:11,140
 So, I don't think it dramatically hurts him.

541
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,620
 If I had to guess right now, I'd say he probably stays in.

542
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,880
 But if he comes back, boy, Alabama's roster gets a lot more intriguing.

543
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,400
 But, yeah, we'll see how it plays out with him and all these other guys in the NBA draft and all that.

544
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,760
 But, yeah, guys, you can find all their stuff.

545
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 Southeastern 16 on YouTube.

546
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 Of course, the daily basketball, baseball, football stuff.

547
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 It's all there, Southeastern 16.

548
00:32:28,860 --> 00:32:29,920
 Six-five today.

549
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,020
 As he ages, he'll be 5-5 as time goes by.

550
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,600
 Blake, as always, good to hook up with you, man.

551
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,540
 Thanks so much for your time today and have a good one, okay?

552
00:32:39,220 --> 00:32:39,760
 Thanks, guys.

553
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,100
 You too.

554
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:40,760
 Thank you, bud.

555
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:41,300
 All right.

556
00:32:41,340 --> 00:32:42,320
 Blake Love will hook up with us.

557
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 Southeastern 16.

558
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 Coming up, checking about Alabama.

559
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 Let's take you to T-Town.

560
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563
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564
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628
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629
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 Atlanta Braves winners yesterday beat the Chicago Cubs 5-2.

630
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631
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633
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634
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635
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636
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637
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 The Auburn Tigers dropped to 35-16.

638
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 Third-ranked Georgia Tech lost at home.

639
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 They fell to Mercer 12-9.

640
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641
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642
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683
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684
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686
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687
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688
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 Doing well, Harold.

689
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690
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 Hey, buddy.

691
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692
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693
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 You got baseball.

694
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 Before we get into some of these specifics, what a year it's been for Alabama, making the postseason in football and now in softball and baseball.

695
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:08,300
 What's next, Rodney?

696
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:08,880
 Pickleball?

697
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,000
 It's been a good year overall for this program, has it not?

698
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,020
 Yeah, I mean, I think it certainly has.

699
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,340
 I mean, obviously, you know, the things they achieved in football, the things they achieved in basketball.

700
00:39:20,620 --> 00:39:24,340
 Obviously, baseball doing really well right now on a nice roll.

701
00:39:24,580 --> 00:39:29,380
 And then having the number one overall seed in the softball upcoming tournament.

702
00:39:29,740 --> 00:39:37,720
 So, yeah, I mean, I don't think many can complain for, especially for a program, Harold and Brett, that these people on tighterinsider tell me is broke.

703
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,320
 They don't have any money to be competitive NIO-wise.

704
00:39:40,980 --> 00:39:41,700
 So they're pretty good.

705
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:43,720
 I don't know how Greg Byrne does it.

706
00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:50,800
 I really don't know how Greg Byrne does it, but he probably deserves a raise because he's doing more with less than anyone in the country.

707
00:39:51,220 --> 00:39:53,500
 If they can find more money, that's the key to everything.

708
00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:56,180
 But let me ask you this about softball and baseball.

709
00:39:56,460 --> 00:40:05,140
 When you watch a game, you can't help but notice the vibe is entirely different when you watch a baseball game because of its pace.

710
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:08,600
 And these girls, to say it mildly, they're unpredictable.

711
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,100
 You never know what they're going to do.

712
00:40:10,540 --> 00:40:11,720
 They have a loyal following.

713
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:12,860
 You're in Tuscaloosa.

714
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,820
 Where is the bigger energy, with the baseball team or the softball team?

715
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:18,320
 Say that again.

716
00:40:18,420 --> 00:40:19,220
 What is the bigger what?

717
00:40:19,260 --> 00:40:19,600
 I'm sorry.

718
00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:21,740
 The energy as far as the fan reaction.

719
00:40:21,940 --> 00:40:24,680
 Which sport tends to have more passion from the fans?

720
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:25,220
 Yeah.

721
00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:25,660
 Yeah.

722
00:40:25,660 --> 00:40:29,120
 That's a great question because we actually talked about that last night.

723
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,720
 You know, we had Titer and Sider TV.

724
00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:32,520
 Gary and I talked about it afterwards.

725
00:40:33,340 --> 00:40:36,400
 And really, right now, you have to say softball.

726
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:36,640
 Yeah.

727
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:36,960
 Yeah.

728
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:42,680
 And I think a lot of that, Harold, is because the success that they've had, where they are right now.

729
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:50,820
 Now, if baseball starts getting back to the Jim Wells level, then, you know, you'll start seeing that turn a little bit.

730
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:55,020
 But I do think right now, if you're pinpointing one, I would say softball.

731
00:40:55,780 --> 00:41:02,460
 Ronnie, let me ask you about the question that every Alabama football fan has about Kaelin DeBoer and this program.

732
00:41:03,260 --> 00:41:04,780
 Are they going to be more physical?

733
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:06,600
 Are they going to run the ball?

734
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,740
 Are they going to control the line of scrimmage at the point of attack?

735
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:19,200
 You had an article on Adrian Clem, Alabama's new offensive line coach, and you have impeccable sources.

736
00:41:19,460 --> 00:41:24,760
 And a lot of them have been saying, yes, the practices in the spring were more physical.

737
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:31,420
 They went longer, good on good, which is something Saban loved to do all the time.

738
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:33,720
 Ronnie, again, we'll see.

739
00:41:34,060 --> 00:41:36,360
 You've got a lot of new offensive linemen.

740
00:41:36,460 --> 00:41:39,340
 They've figured out some stuff in the spring.

741
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:41,460
 But it does look promising.

742
00:41:42,260 --> 00:41:44,700
 Clem wants a physical run game.

743
00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:45,680
 Well, how do you do that?

744
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,260
 You've got to be physical in the line of scrimmage.

745
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,780
 Ronnie, according to your article, again, we've got to see it in the fall.

746
00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:57,500
 But at least in the spring, the results may be promising.

747
00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:00,120
 Well, we'll see.

748
00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:08,920
 I know that, again, talking to some people that had the opportunity to be there at every practice this spring,

749
00:42:09,420 --> 00:42:10,800
 they saw some hints of that.

750
00:42:11,260 --> 00:42:14,640
 And I think, you know, Clem is a guy.

751
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,180
 That's his reputation.

752
00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:21,140
 And I think there was one thing that I pointed out in this little article that I did, Brad,

753
00:42:22,140 --> 00:42:29,400
 that someone that was basically at every practice or had the opportunity to watch every practice and said, you know,

754
00:42:29,460 --> 00:42:34,620
 there was, I think it was practice 12 they had, that they had a 20-minute, what he called a run period,

755
00:42:34,740 --> 00:42:41,740
 where it's basically the offensive line and defensive line just going to war in the trenches.

756
00:42:41,740 --> 00:42:48,620
 And, you know, that's the thing that really develops mental, physical toughness, you know, in a team.

757
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:54,960
 And, you know, he hoped to see more of that, you know, in these practices because he really thought that, you know,

758
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,980
 this team could use that basically every day in the spring to develop that.

759
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:00,560
 And, you know, again, we'll see.

760
00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:05,880
 But I can tell you, based on some other things that I've heard, that, you know, Clem at least,

761
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:12,640
 now I can only speak for what I've heard about Clem, and that is that he really likes to line up in physical.

762
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,420
 There's nothing real finesse about him.

763
00:43:16,580 --> 00:43:21,480
 Rodney Oren is the place to get, if you'd like, interactive boards across not just the state,

764
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,460
 but the entire globe at tighterinsider.com.

765
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:25,560
 Rodney, your thoughts?

766
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,360
 You predicted this about the young man from Tennessee coming to Alabama.

767
00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:30,380
 We know the back story.

768
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,620
 Daddy played at Tennessee under a fellow by the name of Phil Fulmer.

769
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,960
 I guess I'm allowed to say that on this side of the state line, not be stoned.

770
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:43,800
 Two-time SEC linebacker with the big orange, later the player development up there, manager.

771
00:43:45,180 --> 00:43:49,600
 Legacy player, a four-star, still lives in Tennessee in the Nashville area.

772
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,860
 Your thoughts about that, and does it not illustrate where we are in the modern era?

773
00:43:53,980 --> 00:43:56,220
 Because Tennessee fans are going to say, okay, so what?

774
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:57,400
 Cornelius Bennett's son.

775
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,080
 He's a legacy player at Alabama.

776
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:00,220
 He wound up at Tennessee.

777
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,820
 This kid, his dad played at Tennessee, winds up at Alabama.

778
00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:07,580
 It just illustrates, you can't see here and say everything is automatic,

779
00:44:07,820 --> 00:44:11,860
 but your thoughts about that, the modern athlete, the kid, more socially,

780
00:44:12,100 --> 00:44:16,100
 and all these social media interaction and everything across state lines,

781
00:44:16,180 --> 00:44:20,320
 but your thoughts about that and about what Alabama's getting in the young man?

782
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,380
 Yeah, I mean, I just think you're right.

783
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,920
 I mean, I think it does kind of indicate some things have changed, obviously,

784
00:44:28,060 --> 00:44:32,540
 and I do think that kids, whether they have allegiance to one school,

785
00:44:33,060 --> 00:44:35,160
 you know, they want to cut their own path sometimes.

786
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,920
 You know, they have an opportunity to meet all these coaches.

787
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:39,840
 You go to camps.

788
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,260
 You build relationships, and, you know, sometimes it's just that fit at that time, Harold.

789
00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:49,340
 I mean, you know, it could be that Simon feels really, and I know he does,

790
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,600
 but he feels really comfortable with the board, the coaching staff here,

791
00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:56,840
 the coaches here on the defensive side of the ball, the system,

792
00:44:57,300 --> 00:44:58,460
 that how he would fit in.

793
00:44:58,620 --> 00:45:01,500
 All of those things are really important, and like you said,

794
00:45:01,500 --> 00:45:05,700
 I mean, I think, you know, you can be a lead, you can have some allegiance to a school,

795
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:07,800
 but, you know, when it comes down to making a decision,

796
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:13,180
 we could go back to 2014, actually, and I remember everybody said,

797
00:45:13,860 --> 00:45:16,080
 and you may, I know Brett will remember,

798
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,560
 I caught a lot of grief on Titer and Sider when I suggested that

799
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,720
 Rashawn Evans might actually pick Alabama.

800
00:45:21,940 --> 00:45:28,920
 And, you know, it came down to, you know, the difference in the system.

801
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,440
 There was a big difference, and Rashawn was a better fit for what they wanted to do here at Alabama.

802
00:45:35,020 --> 00:45:39,300
 So, I mean, those things come into play, obviously, and have always come into play.

803
00:45:40,460 --> 00:45:43,880
 But as far as Simon is concerned, no, he's a really good player.

804
00:45:45,580 --> 00:45:50,480
 You know, I don't think he's a level of Rashawn Evans, if you want to use that kind of comparison.

805
00:45:51,020 --> 00:45:56,100
 I think he's a really good player, and I think he's got a chance to develop into a really good player.

806
00:45:56,540 --> 00:45:58,060
 But it may take a little bit of time.

807
00:45:58,140 --> 00:45:59,880
 It took Rashawn a little time, for that matter.

808
00:46:00,020 --> 00:46:07,760
 But I do think, Harold, he's a really good prospect and a really good pickup for this recruiting class.

809
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,460
 Rodney, I thought they were going to hang you in effigy after you came out and said that.

810
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,120
 I remember that really well.

811
00:46:14,620 --> 00:46:21,240
 We are two weeks away from the first big official weekend, Memorial weekend,

812
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:26,700
 and a lot of dudes are coming to Tuscaloosa looking at your list,

813
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:28,240
 and I'm sure they've added to this.

814
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,740
 Four five-stars, sales wide receiver, and then Mo Link was doing his thing again.

815
00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:39,300
 Three five-star, well, I'm sorry, two five-star cornerbacks,

816
00:46:39,420 --> 00:46:42,140
 John Meredith and Stelp, and then Darius White.

817
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,860
 Again, these tall, lone kids.

818
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:46,220
 And, Rodney, we'll see.

819
00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:48,220
 This list is going to fluctuate.

820
00:46:48,220 --> 00:46:52,960
 But once again, when you get to late May now in June,

821
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:58,220
 the visits start, and there are some very talented young men coming into Tuscaloosa.

822
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:00,340
 No doubt.

823
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,240
 I mean, they've got a nice list set up.

824
00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:04,060
 You talked about it.

825
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,400
 I mean, it starts on May 29th.

826
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,000
 It runs through, I think it's the 19th.

827
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,120
 It's the last weekend of June that you're going to have kids in.

828
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:17,820
 And some of those, there are some visitors that will come in like late in the week or midweek.

829
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,780
 You know, there may be a couple that do that over that month.

830
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:28,960
 But I think, Brett and Harold, that most of the guys that Alabama gets in this class,

831
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,400
 I'd say most, will probably be among that group that visits over the summer.

832
00:47:34,060 --> 00:47:36,580
 And there's going to be some that they'll offer later.

833
00:47:36,580 --> 00:47:42,980
 It always happens you've got a guy or two in the fall or maybe more that, you know,

834
00:47:43,020 --> 00:47:46,560
 you start recruiting more heavily and things happen and like that.

835
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,580
 But, yes, it's an impressive list.

836
00:47:48,660 --> 00:47:54,940
 The only thing I would say is that strikes me, I just, again,

837
00:47:55,220 --> 00:48:00,060
 I know they've got guys coming back on the offensive and defensive line as you look at it now.

838
00:48:00,820 --> 00:48:06,560
 But I think there's, you know, I would probably say I would be a little surprised

839
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:13,440
 at the number of, or the lack of offensive and defensive linemen that are coming in for visits.

840
00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:16,020
 That's the one thing that would strike me.

841
00:48:16,380 --> 00:48:18,940
 Now, again, you also are going to have the portal.

842
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,700
 Maybe, perhaps, they do kind of similar to what they did this year

843
00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:25,700
 when they hit the portal pretty hard at the line of scrimmage.

844
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:27,720
 Well, your point's well made.

845
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:33,920
 You can't count on 10 linemen who came in for this season being around next year, Rodney,

846
00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,840
 or being around in December when the transfer portal opens.

847
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:43,520
 You mentioned Titer Insider TV, the 24-7 message board.

848
00:48:44,220 --> 00:48:48,180
 But as Harold mentioned, baseball, softball, all sorts of good stuff.

849
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,700
 Recruiting really about to get cranked up.

850
00:48:51,220 --> 00:48:55,920
 Rodney, where can we get online and get Titer Insider for a very nominal price?

851
00:48:55,920 --> 00:49:03,340
 And also being beach time and time to look at other five stars, where can we get online and get your book?

852
00:49:04,380 --> 00:49:06,320
 Yeah, well, it's TiterInsider.com.

853
00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:11,000
 It's only $48 a year, and you can get instant access with your credit card right now.

854
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,140
 If you prefer, there is an address there to send a check.

855
00:49:13,220 --> 00:49:15,400
 It gives you the premium information.

856
00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:22,320
 But also, we're on there right now, Harold and Brett, talking about NIL and where Alabama sits with that.

857
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,520
 There's a lot of debate going on about that and how competitive Alabama can be.

858
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:34,220
 But also, our book, Bigger Than Bama, as you mentioned, you can go to RodneyOr.com, or you can go to Amazon, find it there.

859
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 Bigger Than Bama.

860
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 Have all the details if you're interested.

861
00:49:37,740 --> 00:49:38,400
 Sounds great.

862
00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,220
 Rodney, listen, man, it's always good to hook up with you.

863
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,840
 Good luck if you're heading to the beach on your recruiting trip, okay?

864
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,760
 I don't plan that right now, Harold.

865
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:47,140
 Okay.

866
00:49:48,220 --> 00:49:49,020
 Stay tuned.

867
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:53,380
 Rodney Orr, looking up with us, visit there at TiterInsider.com.

868
00:49:53,440 --> 00:50:00,560
 Quickly, BB, for the folks who might have missed it, the Battle of Bulls between Mars Hill Bible and Red Bay in the playoffs.

869
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,080
 Yeah, Mars Hill won the Battle of the Bulls.

870
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:04,660
 In fact, they swept Red Bay.

871
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,420
 The first game just got away from Red Bay.

872
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:15,220
 Mars Hill had their hitting shoes on, 21-6, and Red Bay jumped out 3-0 in the second game.

873
00:50:15,300 --> 00:50:19,600
 But Mars Hill, to their credit, came back, took the lead, and held on.

874
00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:25,960
 And Mars Hill will advance once again to the championship series in Class 2-8.

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00:50:26,420 --> 00:50:31,740
 I think Josh Willingham and Mars Hill Bible, they're going to start paying property tax down that neck of the woods this time of the year.

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 Coming up the next hour, Drew DeArmond is going to be on board.

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 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville is sponsoring a bill that increases the vetting process for immigrants seeking to enter the U.S.

932
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 The bill would also put an end to the visa lottery and chain migration.

933
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 Tuberville spoke about it on Newsmax.

934
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 Our immigration system, Ed, is broken.

935
00:54:11,740 --> 00:54:24,120
 It needs to be fixed, and I've got a bill out now called the Assimilation Act, and it prioritizes people that want to come over and assimilate, but it also does away with chain migration, does away with the visa lottery.

936
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 A lot of those things, and it's not going to happen.

937
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938
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 We're going to go back to 1920.

939
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 We didn't have any immigration.

940
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 We stopped it, and if we have to do that to correct this problem we've got, which is huge, we need to do that, but we are losing our country every day because of the nonsense of these people coming from other countries and saying, hey, we want to change this country to the country we came from.

941
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 Well, heck, you're doing that.

942
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 Why don't you just stay at home?

943
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 We don't need you here.

944
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 You're not ruining our country, folks.

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955
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956
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 Race car bobbleheads.

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 Little chihuahua bobbleheads.

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 Does he need them?

993
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 No.

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 Ooh, horse bobblehead.

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 Now, get ready to roll Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

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1048
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 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1049
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:05,220
 Welcome back in our truly Boomo Bugg Show.

1050
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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

1051
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:10,140
 Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1052
01:00:10,140 --> 01:00:16,560
 And we need to take a long ride across the Mississippi River to hog heaven, if you will.

1053
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,820
 Trey Biddy is hooking up with us, publisher of hogsports.com.

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 And a fine contributor to Dry Sports on K-A-B-Z-1037, The Buzz.

1056
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 And kind enough to take time out and join our little huddle today.

1057
01:00:32,180 --> 01:00:33,160
 Trey Biddy, welcome in.

1058
01:00:33,220 --> 01:00:33,920
 How are you?

1059
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,420
 I'm doing good.

1060
01:00:35,580 --> 01:00:40,840
 If you're going to ask me about football, then we probably maybe should get the heaven part

1061
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:43,060
 and just say, let's try to get out of hog h***.

1062
01:00:45,140 --> 01:00:46,720
 I'll tell you what, since we like you, Trey.

1063
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:47,260
 Well put.

1064
01:00:47,740 --> 01:00:49,620
 Let's start with tennis.

1065
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:52,080
 We don't get to do this very often.

1066
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:53,860
 And you have to stay with us.

1067
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,160
 I know you know what we're talking about.

1068
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:59,240
 For the folks who don't do this for a living every day, we're looking at some of the budgets

1069
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:00,600
 while I go, Trey, for football.

1070
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,980
 Texas, shock, shock, nearly $49 million.

1071
01:01:03,380 --> 01:01:05,000
 Somehow Alabama's in the top ten.

1072
01:01:05,060 --> 01:01:08,460
 They got to make do on a mere $37 million plus.

1073
01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:10,440
 What's the old saying?

1074
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,560
 Somebody somewhere has got to pay the bills.

1075
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,500
 And talk to us about the situation.

1076
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:20,160
 I think Arkansas made some ripples saying, here we go, cutting, and correct me if I'm wrong,

1077
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:23,200
 cutting men's and women's tennis from the program.

1078
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,000
 Yeah, there's a lot that's gone into that.

1079
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:33,900
 Now, Arkansas has made a major push over the last several months to inject more money into

1080
01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:39,180
 the athletic department and specifically into football because they have been lagging, as

1081
01:01:39,180 --> 01:01:39,960
 those numbers show.

1082
01:01:40,140 --> 01:01:46,100
 And they have goals of, you know, injecting $30 million over the next three years into

1083
01:01:46,100 --> 01:01:48,140
 football and raising more money.

1084
01:01:48,260 --> 01:01:59,980
 The board of trustees came up with a resolution for the football program to basically come up

1085
01:01:59,980 --> 01:02:02,680
 with $15 million more.

1086
01:02:02,860 --> 01:02:04,740
 And they did it several different ways.

1087
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:11,480
 There was the onus put on the athletic department to raise $5 million.

1088
01:02:12,580 --> 01:02:19,240
 They removed what basically the athletic department was paying in rent to the university, which was

1089
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:26,220
 about $4.4 million, which was, I think, I think it's 3% of the revenue or something like

1090
01:02:26,220 --> 01:02:26,600
 that.

1091
01:02:27,860 --> 01:02:30,060
 I think this year it's going to be like $5 million.

1092
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:40,020
 So they removed that and they also came up with a way for the university to basically donate

1093
01:02:40,020 --> 01:02:43,240
 $6 million a year to the athletic department.

1094
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:47,660
 Well, the university made several different changes.

1095
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,820
 They did things like, like the athletic department had been playing, paying for the band.

1096
01:02:51,940 --> 01:02:54,400
 So now the university takes that over.

1097
01:02:54,520 --> 01:03:00,480
 So there's half a million dollars or, you know, they removed the $125,000.

1098
01:03:00,480 --> 01:03:07,500
 for alcohol awareness training and, you know, removed the, uh, the athletic department

1099
01:03:07,500 --> 01:03:10,040
 having to pay for transit during game days.

1100
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:11,360
 And now the university takes that.

1101
01:03:11,420 --> 01:03:14,840
 Well, that came out to about $3.4 million after all that.

1102
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:17,460
 And then, you know, you start talking about where can they raise the rest of the money?

1103
01:03:17,540 --> 01:03:21,800
 Well, they could, they could, uh, impose a student athletics fee.

1104
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:28,160
 Um, you know, but when you start taking money from outside the actual, the athletic department,

1105
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:32,880
 as you notice, like instead of the university, just giving them $6 million, they figured out

1106
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,040
 other ways to change the money.

1107
01:03:35,180 --> 01:03:40,480
 So Arkansas is a self-sustaining, uh, athletic department, meaning they don't have, they don't

1108
01:03:40,480 --> 01:03:44,080
 take money from outside the athletic department.

1109
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,000
 They're one of like 20 programs in the country.

1110
01:03:46,180 --> 01:03:52,560
 And the benefits of that is, Hey, we want to, we need to spend $25,000 on some new weight

1111
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:53,120
 room equipment.

1112
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,700
 Well, that takes a signature basically and get it done.

1113
01:03:57,060 --> 01:04:00,160
 Once you start taking money outside, then it's got to go through somebody else.

1114
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:01,400
 Somebody else has got to look at it.

1115
01:04:01,460 --> 01:04:04,440
 Somebody else has got to approve, you know, you start doing all that kind of stuff and

1116
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:05,160
 it slows things down.

1117
01:04:05,220 --> 01:04:06,040
 So they didn't want to do that.

1118
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,100
 So that's find money elsewhere.

1119
01:04:08,460 --> 01:04:14,460
 And this appears to be one of the ways that, uh, tennis operates at about $2.5 million deficit.

1120
01:04:14,940 --> 01:04:19,300
 And they made the decision now there's been an outpouring, uh, to get tennis back.

1121
01:04:19,300 --> 01:04:23,840
 And I think they've raised maybe $5 million, you know, but that, what does that get you

1122
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:29,360
 a couple of years of tennis and, you know, plus the, the property that the tennis facility

1123
01:04:29,360 --> 01:04:31,260
 is on, you know, what's the value of that?

1124
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:31,920
 Yeah.

1125
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:35,540
 You know, what could that be turned into that could generate money?

1126
01:04:35,540 --> 01:04:37,100
 So there's all those aspects.

1127
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,680
 That's a long range of anything you wanted, but there you go.

1128
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,960
 Because the perception of Arkansas is for a captain, it has to be one of the richer states

1129
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:46,040
 as far as people who could ride a chick.

1130
01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:47,620
 You got Jerry Jones down at Dallas.

1131
01:04:47,900 --> 01:04:50,060
 You got the Walton family up at Walmart.

1132
01:04:50,380 --> 01:04:55,320
 You, you got, uh, the Tyson family, you, you got Jay, what the hunt trucking company.

1133
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,500
 So on, on paper, you say, well, they got all these potential donors here.

1134
01:04:59,560 --> 01:05:03,740
 I'm, I don't know where the fine line is, how much they contribute, but that's an interesting

1135
01:05:03,740 --> 01:05:04,160
 take.

1136
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:05,480
 I appreciate you sharing that.

1137
01:05:06,020 --> 01:05:06,380
 Yeah.

1138
01:05:06,500 --> 01:05:06,660
 Yeah.

1139
01:05:06,780 --> 01:05:12,480
 And they do, you know, Jerry Jones has contributed a lot over the years of the Gene and Jerry Jones

1140
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,700
 Student Athlete Success Center.

1141
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:21,480
 Um, you know, Tyson, you'll see Tyson patches on all the jerseys for the athletic, you know,

1142
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,040
 for, for athletics, but you're right.

1143
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:29,320
 I mean, Walmart is the world's largest retailer and Tyson is the world's largest meat producer.

1144
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:33,900
 It's all, you know, they're just a few miles apart from each other in the headquarters of

1145
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:36,240
 both of those places up in Northwest Arkansas.

1146
01:05:36,580 --> 01:05:41,340
 So a lot of people don't know that, but yeah, there is, you know, there is, there is that you,

1147
01:05:41,340 --> 01:05:43,840
 you'd, you'd like to maybe get a little bit more from Walmart.

1148
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,640
 You got some, you got some Missouri grads sprinkled in there with that Walmart family too.

1149
01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:53,520
 But, um, you know, they do a lot for the community up here, but Tyson definitely has really

1150
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:55,900
 stepped up, especially, uh, in basketball.

1151
01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:03,220
 Trey, you've seen some very good staffs over the years, some not so good at Arkansas and

1152
01:06:03,220 --> 01:06:04,080
 in the SEC.

1153
01:06:04,700 --> 01:06:09,380
 Your initial impressions of this staff, Ryan Silverfield coming from Memphis.

1154
01:06:09,380 --> 01:06:16,500
 He brought his offensive coordinator, Tim Cransby, Ron Roberts, who is in a, been at Auburn in

1155
01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:23,860
 Florida, DC, and I believe, uh, the time to end's coach returned in another coach at Arkansas,

1156
01:06:23,860 --> 01:06:25,660
 who is there two years ago.

1157
01:06:25,820 --> 01:06:28,800
 Your initial impressions of this staff?

1158
01:06:29,500 --> 01:06:35,180
 I think they've got what it takes to have as much success as, as any of the new hires around

1159
01:06:35,180 --> 01:06:36,200
 college football.

1160
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:40,020
 It's just, do they have the resources that others have, you know?

1161
01:06:40,100 --> 01:06:45,320
 And I can remember Chad Morris's first practice during the spring, going out there and being

1162
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,100
 like, oh my gosh, this is, this feels so chaotic.

1163
01:06:48,100 --> 01:06:50,400
 Like there's a drone flying overhead.

1164
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:55,000
 Chad Morris has, you know, a headphone on that's connected to a loudspeaker that's not working

1165
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:55,480
 players.

1166
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:57,680
 And I'm like, yes, it's supposed to be like this.

1167
01:06:57,720 --> 01:06:59,180
 They want the practice to feel chaotic.

1168
01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:02,340
 So the game will feel less, you know, just try to talk myself into it.

1169
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:07,960
 Uh, they were much more structured, uh, with Sam Pittman, obviously when he came on board

1170
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:14,940
 and, and still with, um, with Ryan Silverfield, the difference I think versus it was Pittman.

1171
01:07:15,380 --> 01:07:20,500
 Pittman was hired for a job that he didn't get, you know, the job changed dramatically on him.

1172
01:07:20,500 --> 01:07:28,580
 He was, he was a recruiter and, uh, it turned into basically the end of relationships and the

1173
01:07:28,580 --> 01:07:33,580
 introduction of how much money am I going to get, you know, uh, while he was in Arkansas and

1174
01:07:33,580 --> 01:07:34,940
 he wasn't supported very well.

1175
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:37,600
 He did not have near the NIL that he needed.

1176
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:42,220
 And, you know, part of that was because people, you know, weren't wanting to support Pittman,

1177
01:07:42,300 --> 01:07:44,320
 you know, things that already kind of taken a down return.

1178
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,360
 And, you know, people were like, well, let's see them win and then I'll donate.

1179
01:07:48,500 --> 01:07:49,820
 Well, that's not really how it works.

1180
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:56,340
 So you had to have, you had to start over if you're Arkansas and, um, it appears that they

1181
01:07:56,340 --> 01:08:00,300
 have generated more funds and do have more NIL.

1182
01:08:00,300 --> 01:08:06,480
 Uh, I would reject Arkansas based on what I've heard somewhere around 25 million, which should

1183
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:09,980
 put them maybe just inside the upper half of the SEC.

1184
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:16,720
 Whereas in the past, they were probably, you know, around 14, uh, in NIL budget, which just

1185
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:18,400
 isn't going to get it done in this conference.

1186
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,680
 So, um, no, it's not in the upper echelon, but it's Arkansas has always kind of had to

1187
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:24,100
 do more with, with less.

1188
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:27,300
 And you can tell that they have more money with the roster that they assembled up, but

1189
01:08:27,300 --> 01:08:33,140
 they did a good job, you know, getting guys from the G5 level who, um, you know, were very

1190
01:08:33,140 --> 01:08:38,420
 productive and highly sought by, by SEC teams and, you know, getting some guys from, you

1191
01:08:38,420 --> 01:08:43,700
 know, power conferences who were also very highly sought and, and also getting guys who

1192
01:08:43,700 --> 01:08:50,080
 are like the defensive line, for example, uh, getting guys who were, you know, going into

1193
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:56,620
 that third year, which on average, you're, it's about like 2.5 years when a defensive

1194
01:08:56,620 --> 01:09:01,060
 lineman in the SEC really starts to make an impact, uh, on the college level.

1195
01:09:01,060 --> 01:09:06,700
 And they got guys that, you know, like the Davian Sims, who was the number 112 overall

1196
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:12,700
 prospect, Jamonte Waller from Auburn, who was number 95 overall prospect in his class, Hunter

1197
01:09:12,700 --> 01:09:18,320
 Osborne, Carlin Jones from USC, Hunter Osborne from Alabama into Virginia, uh, if you guys

1198
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:24,080
 remember him and then, um, uh, Carlin Jones at USC, Trajan Odom at Ohio state, all those

1199
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:31,080
 guys are, you know, got some eligibility left and you'd like to think that, you know, they

1200
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:32,480
 should be kind of coming into their own.

1201
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:36,460
 So they, they did a good job in my opinion of getting kind of a mix of players.

1202
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,480
 The one question I have is just a quarterback.

1203
01:09:39,480 --> 01:09:43,580
 I just, I feel like the roster is good enough to compete.

1204
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:46,220
 I just wonder if they have a quarterback.

1205
01:09:46,220 --> 01:09:51,920
 And the fact is we, we're, we're not going to know you can practice these guys and have

1206
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,500
 all this competition and, and all this stuff.

1207
01:09:54,500 --> 01:09:57,300
 And you're still going to start Felipe Franks over Kyle Trask.

1208
01:09:57,300 --> 01:10:02,520
 You know, you're still going to try everything you can do to find somebody out there.

1209
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,680
 Who's going to be better than Stetson Bennett, because he's not going to be able to get you

1210
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:06,180
 over the hump.

1211
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:12,240
 You know, you're still going to start, uh, Austin Simmons over Trinidad Chambliss.

1212
01:10:12,660 --> 01:10:17,760
 You know, you can do all this stuff in practice, but you just, you can't measure what a guy has

1213
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:19,960
 going on upstairs until you put him under the light.

1214
01:10:20,380 --> 01:10:21,100
 Great point.

1215
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:22,300
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1216
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 Hogsports.com is the place to get the latest with Trey.

1217
01:10:25,580 --> 01:10:27,280
 It's H-A-W-G sports.com.

1218
01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:32,260
 You would think Trey, that Ryan Silverfield will be able to go into basically a gold mine

1219
01:10:32,260 --> 01:10:33,360
 when it comes to recruiting.

1220
01:10:33,500 --> 01:10:35,660
 The Memphis area has put out some gems over the years.

1221
01:10:35,740 --> 01:10:40,960
 You got the Delta down to your South there, and then you got to the Boothill in West Tennessee.

1222
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,800
 So you would think that he'd be able to have some name recognition there.

1223
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:49,060
 If those kids are not able to go to some of these money schools that you mentioned, your

1224
01:10:49,060 --> 01:10:49,920
 thoughts on that.

1225
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:55,220
 And then how many times we had this conversation, it's all relative to your schedule.

1226
01:10:55,220 --> 01:11:00,120
 And over the years, who's had a tougher, uh, slate, uh, road to hoe than Arkansas.

1227
01:11:00,420 --> 01:11:02,240
 Your thoughts about this schedule, Trey.

1228
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,720
 You know, I told everyone, Arkansas has had a couple of years.

1229
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:11,480
 Where they've been on the road in the SEC to open SEC play or, uh, even two games on the

1230
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:11,620
 road.

1231
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:16,640
 When you look at the rest of the conferences, nobody, nobody opens like as tough as Arkansas

1232
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:21,000
 does in terms of opening on the road or the number of games they have away from home to

1233
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:21,680
 open the season.

1234
01:11:21,900 --> 01:11:25,960
 And I said, when the schedule was about to be released, I said, they're either going to

1235
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:29,560
 send Arkansas on the road or they'll give them Georgia game one.

1236
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:32,680
 And it's exactly what they did.

1237
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:35,160
 Georgia, Georgia game one.

1238
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:41,040
 Uh, it's, I mean, game three on the schedule, but the first SEC game, that Utah game is going

1239
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,720
 to be really big for Arkansas at Utah.

1240
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:48,100
 You know, I think it's maybe a blessing to them that they also had a coaching change, uh, instead

1241
01:11:48,100 --> 01:11:50,380
 of just keeping things rolling as they have been.

1242
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:55,140
 So, uh, maybe that'll benefit Arkansas, but in this day and age with so many transfers, Arkansas

1243
01:11:55,140 --> 01:11:58,500
 has 65 new total players on the roster on scholarship.

1244
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:02,940
 Uh, you have to build that buy-in early.

1245
01:12:02,940 --> 01:12:08,840
 I firmly believe the way Arkansas started last season, you know, driving for the game winning

1246
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:15,560
 score against Ole Miss and then fumbling the ball in Ole Miss territory, uh, in their red

1247
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:21,120
 area, changed the whole season and then they let down the next week against Memphis and

1248
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:26,240
 lost the exact same way as they did with Ole Miss and everything just spiraled out of control.

1249
01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:30,580
 You've got so many new players wanting to buy in and, you know, Hey, you know, these coaches,

1250
01:12:30,780 --> 01:12:31,580
 they've got our backs.

1251
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,260
 These coaches are doing what they said they're going to do, all that kind of stuff versus,

1252
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,800
 you know, it's easy to let go of the rope.

1253
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:42,520
 I think when you've got such, you know, more shallow relationships now, and I fully believe

1254
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:47,760
 that that win that Ole Miss had helped propel them to have in the season that they had.

1255
01:12:48,220 --> 01:12:53,180
 Um, as far as recruiting, to answer your question on recruiting, you know, for Arkansas, if NIL

1256
01:12:53,180 --> 01:12:56,740
 is embraced, that can be the difference for this program.

1257
01:12:56,920 --> 01:13:02,880
 What has always separated Arkansas, in my opinion, from other teams in the SEC is access to elite

1258
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:03,280
 talent.

1259
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:04,600
 It's a smaller state.

1260
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:09,700
 It doesn't produce nearly as highly as the state like Mississippi, who has a similar population

1261
01:13:09,700 --> 01:13:10,340
 as Arkansas.

1262
01:13:11,260 --> 01:13:15,120
 Um, so Arkansas has always had to go a little farther for recruits.

1263
01:13:15,240 --> 01:13:22,240
 I mean, you look at Auburn and how many good sized cities are around Auburn for them to pull

1264
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:23,000
 talent from.

1265
01:13:23,060 --> 01:13:25,280
 And Arkansas just doesn't have that.

1266
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:31,220
 Uh, but you look at their roster now and with the NIL game and NIL has improved, as I mentioned,

1267
01:13:31,260 --> 01:13:37,520
 when I was talking about those defensive linemen, I mean, consider that they got a defensive lineman

1268
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:42,420
 who's again, should be coming into that area of life where he starts really making an impact,

1269
01:13:42,540 --> 01:13:47,220
 but they got a guy from, you know, who went to Oregon and they got a guy who went to Ohio

1270
01:13:47,220 --> 01:13:47,700
 state.

1271
01:13:47,700 --> 01:13:52,020
 They got a guy who originally went to Alabama and then Virginia and played a big role for the

1272
01:13:52,020 --> 01:13:53,020
 Cavaliers last season.

1273
01:13:53,200 --> 01:14:00,520
 They won 11 games and, um, and got a guy from USC, you know, when is Arkansas going to beat

1274
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:05,440
 a kid from North Carolina who is picking Ohio state?

1275
01:14:06,060 --> 01:14:10,000
 You know, when, when, when are they going to beat Ohio state out for a guy like that?

1276
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:16,420
 NIL has changed things in terms of how far out you can go and get talent and, um, and players

1277
01:14:16,420 --> 01:14:18,480
 are looking farther than they ever have before.

1278
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:24,260
 So I think that benefits Arkansas if NIL is embraced, which, uh, understand Pittman, it

1279
01:14:24,260 --> 01:14:27,480
 just, it just was not, they were just way behind.

1280
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:32,900
 So, um, I, again, I think they've done the things that they need to do to put together a

1281
01:14:32,900 --> 01:14:33,540
 solid roster.

1282
01:14:33,540 --> 01:14:38,180
 I just, I worry about the schedule, obviously, as you always do in this conference, you know,

1283
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:43,420
 the early, how tough it is early on, um, and the quarterback position, they may be fine

1284
01:14:43,420 --> 01:14:46,440
 at quarterback, but you, you just don't know.

1285
01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:47,640
 You just don't know.

1286
01:14:47,700 --> 01:14:52,000
 And good teams out there, they don't sit around and just be like, Hey, well, the next guy up,

1287
01:14:52,460 --> 01:14:58,200
 you know, it seems like Alabama or Ohio state, you know, they had Simpson and, and, uh, saying,

1288
01:14:58,360 --> 01:14:59,940
 you know, those guys came up through the program.

1289
01:14:59,940 --> 01:15:03,500
 They were five-star recruits, I guess, but, uh, programs like,

1290
01:15:03,540 --> 01:15:07,460
 that have a lot of talent around them, you know, maybe can afford to do that.

1291
01:15:07,540 --> 01:15:11,120
 But Lane Kiffin didn't just go like, who's our next quarterback on the roster?

1292
01:15:11,440 --> 01:15:15,620
 You know, Texas tech, you know, with the, you know, they had a guy that was brought up

1293
01:15:15,620 --> 01:15:18,040
 to the system, but they didn't just go like, okay, who's after him?

1294
01:15:18,440 --> 01:15:22,120
 You know, they went out and got Brennan Soresby, the number two guy, uh, who's obviously got

1295
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:26,880
 some issues going on now, but the point is like Miami just basically said, Hey, we'll just

1296
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:33,040
 go get this Duke quarterback, you know, to be our next guy, like programs that, um, you

1297
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,760
 know, are competing at a high level, aren't just settling at quarterback and let's see

1298
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:37,760
 what the next guy has.

1299
01:15:37,900 --> 01:15:39,320
 They can't afford to do that.

1300
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:42,380
 And, and Arkansas unfortunately did that this year.

1301
01:15:42,540 --> 01:15:44,100
 So it's just an unknown.

1302
01:15:44,820 --> 01:15:45,580
 Yeah, absolutely.

1303
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:46,100
 Yeah.

1304
01:15:46,180 --> 01:15:52,160
 And speaking of schedules, you've got, uh, North Alabama, UNA, the second game of the year,

1305
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:54,000
 which that's going to be very interesting.

1306
01:15:54,460 --> 01:15:58,120
 Nobody does a better job of covering Arkansas than Trey Biddy.

1307
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,440
 And we've enjoyed working with you, Lord.

1308
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:03,540
 I think now it's been about 15 years or so.

1309
01:16:04,260 --> 01:16:07,760
 And, and I, I, I'm curious to see what Hunter Osborne does.

1310
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:12,380
 He got dinged up early in his career at Alabama and got caught up in a numbers game.

1311
01:16:12,380 --> 01:16:15,880
 And I think he is going to be pretty good for Arkansas.

1312
01:16:16,180 --> 01:16:19,000
 Trey, where can we get online and get all your great stuff?

1313
01:16:19,940 --> 01:16:25,120
 Yeah, you can go to hogsports.com, H-A-W-G sports.com, part of the 24 seven sports network,

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 which is 50% off right now.

1315
01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:30,840
 Uh, you can check out our content on the hogsports YouTube page.

1316
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,680
 You can follow me on X at Trey Biddy, T-R-E-Y-B-I-D-D-Y.

1317
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:40,420
 Uh, so a lot of different ways for the, as I like to say, the lonely Arkansas fan in Alabama.

1318
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:42,820
 There's some, believe me, there's some here.

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01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:46,960
 They, they love hog heaven, Trey.

1320
01:16:47,100 --> 01:16:48,700
 Hog heaven is the name of the game.

1321
01:16:48,780 --> 01:16:49,880
 Listen, man, thanks so much.

1322
01:16:49,940 --> 01:16:50,740
 Have a great week.

1323
01:16:50,740 --> 01:16:51,120
 Okay.

1324
01:16:51,740 --> 01:16:51,980
 Yep.

1325
01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:52,380
 Okay.

1326
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:53,240
 Thank you, bud.

1327
01:16:53,480 --> 01:16:53,780
 All right.

1328
01:16:53,840 --> 01:16:58,840
 Trey, uh, Biddy Hook, and I'm on this mission there again, H-A-W-G, that's hogsports.com.

1329
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:00,620
 Coming up, what do they call Bill Shanks?

1330
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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1451
01:22:45,500 --> 01:22:46,240
 Welcome back in.

1452
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 It is an absolute pleasure for us to jump over the state line of the Peachtree State

1453
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 and say hello to Mr. Georgia himself, Bill Shanks,

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 Online at thesesuperstations.com and on the tube at 41 NBC.

1456
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:02,620
 Bill, welcome in.

1457
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:03,360
 How are you?

1458
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:04,660
 I'm doing well.

1459
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:05,120
 How are y'all?

1460
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:06,820
 Two words, Bill.

1461
01:23:06,900 --> 01:23:09,240
 We saw the news about Bobby Cox.

1462
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 Man, we thought of you.

1463
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 We knew Bobby from afar.

1464
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 The umpires had their perspective on Bobby Cox.

1465
01:23:17,140 --> 01:23:20,800
 But, Bill, you knew him as a manager and as a person.

1466
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,380
 Where do you start in talking about the legend?

1467
01:23:24,820 --> 01:23:25,780
 Well, it's hard.

1468
01:23:25,980 --> 01:23:33,160
 I mean, it's been a crazy ten days, really, with the deaths of John Sterling

1469
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:36,580
 and Ted Turner and then Bobby.

1470
01:23:36,940 --> 01:23:38,280
 It was just amazing.

1471
01:23:38,460 --> 01:23:43,820
 Within a six-day period, you had three pretty big names that died all together.

1472
01:23:44,100 --> 01:23:47,420
 Bobby was a great man.

1473
01:23:47,740 --> 01:23:49,900
 He was all baseball.

1474
01:23:50,420 --> 01:23:55,480
 You know, he just absolutely loved the game of baseball.

1475
01:23:55,660 --> 01:23:56,560
 He loved everything about it.

1476
01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:57,520
 He got there at noon.

1477
01:23:57,700 --> 01:24:02,920
 He wanted to get there as early as he could for a night game.

1478
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,720
 He just loved his players.

1479
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:06,760
 They loved him.

1480
01:24:07,580 --> 01:24:09,800
 He loved everything the game represented.

1481
01:24:10,960 --> 01:24:16,300
 There was just little that he didn't enjoy about it.

1482
01:24:16,340 --> 01:24:18,440
 He just was all baseball.

1483
01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:27,780
 So, it's just been a wave of emotion for anybody who was around the team in his time period.

1484
01:24:27,780 --> 01:24:31,220
 And I was definitely around it for a pretty good chunk of the time.

1485
01:24:31,460 --> 01:24:35,440
 And he was, you know, he was something to be around for sure.

1486
01:24:36,220 --> 01:24:44,060
 Reading your Twitter the last two weeks has been like more or less gaining a history lesson on the Braves.

1487
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:50,540
 One of them, and a lot of people may not think much about this, but I know it meant a lot to you.

1488
01:24:50,980 --> 01:24:52,300
 You were doing an interview.

1489
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 You were running late, or the interview was taking longer.

1490
01:24:56,540 --> 01:25:02,780
 And Bobby Cox came down to the dugout, and you were thinking, well, he's going to chew me out with this.

1491
01:25:02,820 --> 01:25:05,260
 And he walks up and says, hey, Shanksie.

1492
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:07,640
 And he gave you a nickname.

1493
01:25:07,860 --> 01:25:13,360
 I bet he could have given you a car, and it would not have meant as much to you as that nickname.

1494
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,700
 No, I've been caught a lot of things in my life, especially by the two of you guys.

1495
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 Yep, you're right.

1496
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 Right, right.

1497
01:25:19,180 --> 01:25:22,840
 That was, I really wasn't doing an interview.

1498
01:25:23,060 --> 01:25:25,060
 I was standing there talking to one of the players.

1499
01:25:26,340 --> 01:25:29,400
 And I'm like, I've got to get out of here.

1500
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 I saw my peripheral vision.

1501
01:25:31,900 --> 01:25:33,120
 I saw him walking toward me.

1502
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:33,920
 I'm like, I'm screwed.

1503
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:35,200
 I'm in big trouble here.

1504
01:25:35,780 --> 01:25:40,020
 He just, you know, and he was horrible with names.

1505
01:25:40,220 --> 01:25:45,480
 I mean, even 20 years ago, the man just, and I'm not very good with names myself.

1506
01:25:45,700 --> 01:25:46,280
 I hear you.

1507
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:53,160
 He just, he, Roger McDowell, his old pitching coach, or his former coach, I should say.

1508
01:25:53,680 --> 01:26:03,160
 Roger used to stand behind him sometime and prompt him, but someone was walking toward him if he knew who it was to let him know who the, what the name was of the person approaching him.

1509
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:08,280
 But he knew my name that day, and he wasn't mad at all.

1510
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:16,340
 Well, he just, you know, said, hey, Shanksy, and it was something, you know, it was a great story, great memory, obviously.

1511
01:26:17,340 --> 01:26:27,180
 And he, you know, it was kind of a, somewhat of an acceptance, I guess, to a certain extent, that he wasn't furious with me or wondering what the heck I'm doing in there.

1512
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:33,160
 But he gave everybody nicknames, Roachie and Chip, and, you know, Chipper was a nickname.

1513
01:26:33,260 --> 01:26:35,000
 Of course, he made it Chip.

1514
01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:41,580
 You know, he would use initials, you know, a lot.

1515
01:26:41,700 --> 01:26:42,400
 That would be something.

1516
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:47,300
 Tommy would be for Glavin or Smoltzy, of course, or something of that nature.

1517
01:26:48,260 --> 01:26:49,600
 Chef for Sheffield.

1518
01:26:49,940 --> 01:26:52,500
 And so I got one that day, that's for sure.

1519
01:26:52,640 --> 01:27:00,660
 And he, you know, he had no clue when he said those two words what it was going to mean to me or that 20 years later I'd still be telling the story.

1520
01:27:00,740 --> 01:27:01,840
 That's for sure.

1521
01:27:02,260 --> 01:27:08,300
 Thing is, it's all about respect, and you saw the same clip we did where he threw out the honorary first pitch.

1522
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:14,420
 The umpires gathered around him, and they came up there, and they threw him out of the game after he threw out the honorary first pitch.

1523
01:27:14,540 --> 01:27:16,100
 Of course, this is in his latter years.

1524
01:27:16,420 --> 01:27:21,880
 The other story I thought was funny this week, Bill, and you've got a ton of them, I'm sure, was Jeff Rancur now on the network.

1525
01:27:22,260 --> 01:27:27,180
 He and Bobby both got tossed the same game, and he went to Bobby and says, I've never been tossed.

1526
01:27:27,260 --> 01:27:27,820
 What did we do?

1527
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:30,680
 Bobby said, well, we'll go to the tub and we'll drink some beer.

1528
01:27:30,740 --> 01:27:36,300
 He can relate to people, that was his key.

1529
01:27:36,980 --> 01:27:42,000
 Well, you know what, he knew that every game mattered, but it wasn't life and death.

1530
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:42,340
 Right.

1531
01:27:42,420 --> 01:27:51,740
 And he knew that it took six months over the course of a season, and he, but their relationship, you know, people always talk about the Braves way.

1532
01:27:52,520 --> 01:28:00,100
 Braves way, okay, we can talk about how they used to wear their hats and how they used to do things and so forth and some of the rules.

1533
01:28:00,100 --> 01:28:01,820
 It was mostly about relationships.

1534
01:28:01,820 --> 01:28:03,160
 It was mostly about people.

1535
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:19,780
 It was mostly about how people like Bobby Dews and Bruce Dahl-Canton and Bobby Cox and Paul Snyder and those kind of people just treated each other and you.

1536
01:28:20,340 --> 01:28:23,740
 If you were around them, I mean, you know, I love those people.

1537
01:28:24,060 --> 01:28:34,980
 Those are special people to me and a lot of the same people that Brian Snicker was thanking in his retirement thing and his Hall of Fame thing a couple of weeks ago.

1538
01:28:35,180 --> 01:28:37,220
 I mean, they're just special people.

1539
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:38,760
 They're old school baseball people.

1540
01:28:38,900 --> 01:28:40,700
 You know, there's bull c*** going on today.

1541
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:41,340
 Yeah.

1542
01:28:41,540 --> 01:28:43,920
 And it's, you know, it was just different back then.

1543
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:48,980
 And you, and, you know, you had a, I mean, I've told you this too.

1544
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,400
 It's like, you know, I started watching the Braves in 1978.

1545
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:53,400
 I was eight years old.

1546
01:28:53,460 --> 01:29:01,660
 That's when WTCG, which is the precursor to the superstition, came from Atlanta and was put on our cable system.

1547
01:29:01,820 --> 01:29:02,840
 So I was eight years old.

1548
01:29:03,260 --> 01:29:05,300
 That was Bobby Cox's first year as manager.

1549
01:29:05,460 --> 01:29:08,200
 And that was Dale Murphy's first year as a full-time player.

1550
01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:12,500
 And, and, you know, Bobby, so I was eight years old.

1551
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:17,020
 Well, I'm 56 now and Bobby still having an impact on this team.

1552
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:21,400
 I mean, Walt Weiss is there right now in part because of Bobby.

1553
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:29,320
 I mean, eight years ago when Snicker was looking for a bench coach, Bobby said, if you thought about Walt Weiss.

1554
01:29:29,460 --> 01:29:36,160
 And of course that was all it took for Bobby to say that because Snicker talked to Walt and he liked him and he hired him.

1555
01:29:36,240 --> 01:29:37,580
 And that was, that was it.

1556
01:29:37,660 --> 01:29:42,660
 Well, I mean, if that hadn't happened, Walt Weiss probably wouldn't be the manager of the Atlanta Braves today.

1557
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,980
 So we're still seeing his impact decades later.

1558
01:29:46,160 --> 01:29:47,860
 I mean, 48 years later.

1559
01:29:47,860 --> 01:29:52,620
 And, and I think we're going to see his impact on this organization for many years to come.

1560
01:29:52,840 --> 01:30:06,220
 I wish we had another hour with you today, but let me ask you quickly about Ted Turner, the incredible impact he had on the Braves, the Hawks, the state of Georgia, TV period.

1561
01:30:06,480 --> 01:30:12,180
 Be it cable, CNN, the Superstation, which your stations are named after.

1562
01:30:12,940 --> 01:30:24,220
 I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure again, but listen, he was a character and he was a flake, but he was a good flake and what an impact that he had on so many people.

1563
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:31,440
 Well, there's probably not any one person in the last 50 years that's had the impact on our state than Ted Turner.

1564
01:30:31,580 --> 01:30:37,880
 And you can expand that into your area and Tennessee and South Carolina.

1565
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:55,980
 I mean, you know, TBS, and that's one of the reasons why I did kind of, in reference to the Superstation, named my radio station after that, is there used to be every, that station was like the fourth network in South.

1566
01:30:56,340 --> 01:31:04,040
 I mean, I mean, before there was Fox and before there was a hundred million cable channels and streaming channels and all that.

1567
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:08,020
 It was ABC, CBS, NBC, and the Superstation.

1568
01:31:08,460 --> 01:31:08,560
 Right.

1569
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:12,920
 And you had on that Superstation old shows that were great.

1570
01:31:13,060 --> 01:31:13,260
 Yep.

1571
01:31:13,340 --> 01:31:22,020
 You had Braves Baseball and you had wrestling and Andy Griffith Show and the Jetsons and Flintstones and Space Giants.

1572
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:24,800
 Well, what more do you need out of an entertainment day, right?

1573
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:27,780
 News update at 2 a.m.

1574
01:31:28,660 --> 01:31:32,600
 Well, it was unbelievable to watch that station.

1575
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:35,320
 And, I mean, I never watch TBS now.

1576
01:31:35,500 --> 01:31:39,000
 I don't know what the h***'s on there except Friends for 10 hours a day.

1577
01:31:39,100 --> 01:31:41,920
 And if you like Friends, you probably love that, but I don't, so I don't.

1578
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:46,880
 But, I mean, that used to be the fourth station for many of us here in the South.

1579
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:50,400
 And everything we needed to watch was on there.

1580
01:31:51,260 --> 01:31:53,420
 Baseball, wrestling, and the Andy Griffith Show.

1581
01:31:53,600 --> 01:31:55,820
 Well, what else do you need right there?

1582
01:31:56,200 --> 01:31:57,660
 So, Ted did all that.

1583
01:31:57,860 --> 01:32:04,060
 And, you know, the unbelievable thing about Ted being tied with Bobby because of the three-day gap there in their death,

1584
01:32:04,780 --> 01:32:14,840
 the decision Ted made to hire Bobby and bring him back as the GM is the most important decision ever made in Braves history.

1585
01:32:15,460 --> 01:32:15,760
 Ever.

1586
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:21,100
 More than John Scherlitz coming in five years later, and that's no knock on John.

1587
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:21,720
 Right.

1588
01:32:21,720 --> 01:32:30,200
 But, and it was kind of a timing thing because Ted wanted Bobby to manage again, and Bobby was managing the Blue Jays in the playoffs.

1589
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 So, he didn't know if he was going to be able to get him back.

1590
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 Well, he was worried he was going to get shut out that if the Blue Jays won the World Series, they'd never let Bobby go, he'd want to stay, et cetera.

1591
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 So, he hired Chuck Tanner instead.

1592
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 And, and at the end of that first week of the off-season for the 1985, after 1985, Chuck had been fired by Pittsburgh, and then two weeks later, Toronto had been eliminated, and Bobby said, well, you know, I still would like to come back.

1593
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 And so, Bobby was made of the GM, and if that hadn't happened, if it had been Chuck as the GM and Bobby as the manager, we don't know that those things that Bobby did as the GM, like, hey, we're going to go all pitching.

1594
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 That may have never been done, you know, and so that decision by Ted Turner and just the kind of the weird, weird timing and the luck of that changed his franchise over the last 40 years.

1595
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 Well, I know it's been a rough week for you.

1596
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 I texted you Saturday.

1597
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 I couldn't believe when I saw Bobby had passed away, too.

1598
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 And as I mentioned, I advocate getting on your Twitter post, and it is a history lesson every day, and particularly a lot of it is very funny because you saw it firsthand, but a lot of it is pointed.

1599
01:33:50,540 --> 01:33:58,800
 It is amazing at how those three guys, and we didn't even get into John Sterling, how they changed baseball and life in the South.

1600
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:02,020
 And we'll get into that a little bit more.

1601
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:06,580
 I know you're going to be talking about this more on your show this afternoon.

1602
01:34:07,100 --> 01:34:09,820
 Where can our listeners get online and listen to it?

1603
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 Yeah, we're going to have Stan Kasten on it for a lot of Eastern time.

1604
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 He's the former president of the Braves, who, of course, worked side-by-side with – well, Ted hired him, and then, of course, he worked with Bobby.

1605
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 But theseuperstations.com is the website.

1606
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 Yeah, that's right.

1607
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 I know it's been a rough week for you, Bill.

1608
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 I appreciate you coming up and giving us the whole back story as much as we could today.

1609
01:34:30,660 --> 01:34:31,700
 Thank you so much, my friend.

1610
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 Keep up the good work.

1611
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 All right, guys.

1612
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 Thank you.

1613
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 See you, buddy.

1614
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1615
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 Quick story here.

1616
01:34:39,420 --> 01:34:41,240
 He was a genius when it came to marketing.

1617
01:34:41,640 --> 01:34:46,340
 His initials were TBS, and everybody thought, well, he got Turner Broadcasting System just out of the sky.

1618
01:34:46,480 --> 01:34:53,620
 No, actually, those were the call letters of the stage-to-campus station at MIT in the Boston area.

1619
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 Ted Turner went up and said, I gave you $50,000 to have the rights to TBS, and as they say, BB, the rest is history.

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1691
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1693
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 How are you all?

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 Man, what direction are you going this week if you're following Alabama?

1739
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 Is it going to be softball?

1740
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 Is it going to be baseball?

1741
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 Is it going to be recruiting?

1742
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 Drew, what path are you taking this week?

1743
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 Well, I mean, I guess it would be all of the above.

1744
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 There's a lot at stake in all three.

1745
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 You know, probably if you had to rank them, I would guess it would be softball, considering

1746
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 that the regional starts this week in Tuscaloosa.

1747
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 It'll be another chance for Patrick Murphy to advance to the Supers and then potentially to another

1748
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 College World Series.

1749
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 And a lot at stake for Alabama baseball.

1750
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 If they can win two out of three from the Rebels, I think they're going to host a regional

1751
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 for the second time, you know, in four years, which would be, you know, really significant

1752
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 in the first under Ralph Vaughn.

1753
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 And, of course, in recruiting, they get an outstanding player in Kenneth Simon, the second, of course,

1754
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 the son of Kevin Simon, former ball standout.

1755
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 So that's a nice team for Alabama.

1756
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 And we know at the end of this month, the recruiting will really crank up as the summer

1757
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 official visits start.

1758
01:42:06,100 --> 01:42:09,180
 So a lot going on around the Crimson Tide, no doubt.

1759
01:42:09,580 --> 01:42:12,840
 You know, you bring up a good point before we delve a little bit deeper into the recruiting,

1760
01:42:12,980 --> 01:42:14,340
 which is always topic du jour.

1761
01:42:14,480 --> 01:42:18,760
 But the thing about it is, this is kind of a slow time of the year for a relatively small

1762
01:42:18,760 --> 01:42:20,120
 community like Tuscaloosa.

1763
01:42:20,380 --> 01:42:26,360
 But you've got a possibility, you've got people coming in on softball, possibly next week with

1764
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 baseball.

1765
01:42:27,260 --> 01:42:30,940
 You know, the winner already is the city of Tuscaloosa.

1766
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 They've got a back-to-back potential big paychecks at a time of the year that's not football.

1767
01:42:37,140 --> 01:42:37,540
 Yeah.

1768
01:42:37,620 --> 01:42:42,880
 I mean, certainly anytime you can bring that kind of economy into your city, you'll bring

1769
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:46,760
 in certainly the Bama fans and then the opposing team fans.

1770
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:51,120
 And it certainly helps the economy, the restaurants, the hotels, and everything else.

1771
01:42:51,660 --> 01:42:53,660
 And they just had graduation as well.

1772
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:56,420
 That's another way to kind of generate it.

1773
01:42:56,640 --> 01:42:59,240
 And of course, none of us is going to top Morgan Wallen.

1774
01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:00,940
 That was probably $5 million.

1775
01:43:01,540 --> 01:43:04,240
 But certainly that was a huge success.

1776
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 And I'm sure in the future, there are going to be more events held at Bryant-Denny Stadium

1777
01:43:09,260 --> 01:43:10,480
 with how well that went off.

1778
01:43:10,660 --> 01:43:11,960
 But yeah, absolutely.

1779
01:43:11,960 --> 01:43:17,380
 I mean, I think it would be big and, you know, who knows if Alabama can win impressively

1780
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 and play well against Ole Miss with their RPI and their schedule strength.

1781
01:43:22,060 --> 01:43:26,160
 And if they can win a game or two in Hoover, maybe they're even a top eight national team

1782
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:29,520
 because their metrics are really close to what Auburn's are.

1783
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 We know Auburn got beat by a really good Jack State team last night and got swept by them.

1784
01:43:35,400 --> 01:43:37,300
 And Alabama actually swept Jack State.

1785
01:43:37,300 --> 01:43:42,220
 But they did have the midweek losses to UAB, Detroit, and South Alabama.

1786
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 So it kind of all evens out.

1787
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 But I do think Alabama definitely is, you know, in position to earn a host spot

1788
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 and maybe even a top eight national team.

1789
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 And they haven't hosted a Super since 2006 when they lost two games to none

1790
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 and got walked off by a really, really good and under-seeded North Carolina team.

1791
01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:13,020
 D2, 16-11 in the SEC, this Alabama baseball team, maybe the most consistent position has been starting pitcher.

1792
01:44:13,160 --> 01:44:18,740
 Tyler Faye, of course, had the no-hitter against Florida, pitched really well against South Carolina.

1793
01:44:18,900 --> 01:44:21,340
 Zane Adams, Miles Upchurch, the freshman.

1794
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,900
 Eric Hines has hit some timely home runs.

1795
01:44:25,440 --> 01:44:30,260
 Bryce Fowler, Liam, as you mentioned, they got an RPI 5.

1796
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 Justin LeBron got clotheslined literally at first base against South Carolina.

1797
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:38,440
 Brady Neal a little nicked up.

1798
01:44:39,240 --> 01:44:42,120
 How healthy is Bama going into the Ole Miss series?

1799
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:47,740
 Well, I mean, hopefully, you know, I haven't heard how practice has gone as far as availability.

1800
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 You would think that after being held out for the majority of the series against South Carolina,

1801
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 both LeBron and Brady Neal, that they would be ready to go after entering concussion protocol.

1802
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 And the best thing about that South Carolina series, besides the fact they got really good starting pitching again,

1803
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:10,020
 was that, you know, the depth showed up and some guys stepped up.

1804
01:45:10,140 --> 01:45:10,340
 Yeah.

1805
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 Joe Williamson, who hadn't played a lot and has been hurt quite a bit his first few years.

1806
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 The Hartzell alum, you know, he stepped up, got a big three-run homer on Saturday.

1807
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 Certainly, that was a huge part of that comeback from down 4-1 to winning 9-6.

1808
01:45:26,380 --> 01:45:34,020
 And then once, you know, Brady Neal goes out, and Brady's been, you know, arguably Alabama's best all-around player.

1809
01:45:34,120 --> 01:45:35,900
 He's done a great job catching.

1810
01:45:36,620 --> 01:45:41,080
 And, you know, in right field, and he's really had a renaissance this year behind the plate.

1811
01:45:41,180 --> 01:45:42,520
 He should be a high draft pick.

1812
01:45:42,680 --> 01:45:48,300
 But certainly, team captain Will Flattner stepped up, had three hits on Saturday.

1813
01:45:48,560 --> 01:45:51,620
 So, they have some confidence that they can replace those guys.

1814
01:45:51,740 --> 01:45:57,740
 But certainly, with Mike Bianco, the Hall of Fame coach and former national champion in 2021,

1815
01:45:58,280 --> 01:46:04,500
 you'd really like to, you know, be able to, you know, have everybody available.

1816
01:46:04,500 --> 01:46:08,940
 And so, I think more than likely that will happen, you know.

1817
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:12,600
 And this is a team, an Alabama team, you pointed it out, Brett.

1818
01:46:12,720 --> 01:46:17,240
 I mean, I think the starting pitching has been their most consistent aspect of the whole squad.

1819
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:24,500
 The bullpen, at least lately, the back end has been really good with Matthew Highberger early and Hagan Banks.

1820
01:46:25,340 --> 01:46:29,580
 You know, and Sam Mitchell's had a pretty good year from Bob Jones High School.

1821
01:46:29,580 --> 01:46:33,400
 But, really, the weakness has been defensively.

1822
01:46:33,860 --> 01:46:37,940
 But I thought they played, until Sunday, I thought they played clean baseball.

1823
01:46:38,400 --> 01:46:41,240
 But that's how a 7-1 lead evaporated.

1824
01:46:41,380 --> 01:46:43,200
 They nearly lost the Sunday game.

1825
01:46:43,300 --> 01:46:48,340
 If they can play clean defense against Ole Miss, keep the ball in the yard,

1826
01:46:48,420 --> 01:46:50,660
 because the Rebels have 92 home runs,

1827
01:46:51,140 --> 01:46:53,780
 then I think Alabama's got a chance to win two out of three,

1828
01:46:53,860 --> 01:46:58,040
 because I think their pitchers can get deep, certainly, in each game.

1829
01:46:58,460 --> 01:47:03,260
 And then, you made a great point with the Bama's big hurt, big Eric Kynes.

1830
01:47:03,380 --> 01:47:03,520
 Yeah.

1831
01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:06,820
 He has certainly changed that lineup with what he's done,

1832
01:47:07,180 --> 01:47:11,020
 with the at-bats late in the season, and his ability to stay in the lineup.

1833
01:47:11,680 --> 01:47:14,200
 And then, you know, Justin LeBron, hopefully,

1834
01:47:14,480 --> 01:47:17,320
 it looks like with that three-run homer, he might have a big weekend.

1835
01:47:17,480 --> 01:47:19,980
 Hopefully, he will have one against Ole Miss.

1836
01:47:20,120 --> 01:47:21,500
 They certainly need it.

1837
01:47:21,880 --> 01:47:27,060
 And if they can win two out of three, I think it would be immense for Rob Vaughn and Kroon.

1838
01:47:27,300 --> 01:47:32,200
 Because, you know, a show of improvement in year three would be hosting a regional,

1839
01:47:32,340 --> 01:47:35,860
 which they missed out probably by about one game last year.

1840
01:47:35,980 --> 01:47:39,620
 So, hopefully, they can host and have a chance to get to a super.

1841
01:47:39,820 --> 01:47:42,540
 Because I think, you know, with their starting pitching

1842
01:47:42,540 --> 01:47:45,420
 and with the offense starting to kind of round into form,

1843
01:47:45,420 --> 01:47:46,820
 John Lim has been hot.

1844
01:47:47,200 --> 01:47:48,720
 He's up to nine home runs.

1845
01:47:49,180 --> 01:47:52,180
 I think his best spot for the Tide is CH-ing.

1846
01:47:52,620 --> 01:47:56,060
 The two best catchers on the team, to me, are Brady Neal.

1847
01:47:56,140 --> 01:47:59,020
 I think that's when Alabama's at their best, when Brady can be behind the plate.

1848
01:47:59,480 --> 01:48:01,380
 And then, if not him, then Will Plattner.

1849
01:48:01,500 --> 01:48:04,820
 But, certainly, Alabama needs those guys back.

1850
01:48:04,900 --> 01:48:08,200
 And I think they've got a lineup that's getting better.

1851
01:48:08,740 --> 01:48:11,260
 And in baseball, it's kind of the hot team.

1852
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:12,700
 It's like, are you getting hot?

1853
01:48:12,700 --> 01:48:14,920
 Alabama has two straight SEC sweeps.

1854
01:48:15,240 --> 01:48:17,600
 They're going for a third straight weekend series win.

1855
01:48:18,200 --> 01:48:22,400
 And don't misunderstand anything.

1856
01:48:22,840 --> 01:48:28,360
 Another boon on their resume should be, if Auburn wins this series against the Georgia Bulldogs,

1857
01:48:28,720 --> 01:48:30,740
 it'll only be the second series Georgia's lost.

1858
01:48:30,920 --> 01:48:32,520
 Auburn would have won seven in a row.

1859
01:48:32,860 --> 01:48:34,520
 But they got swept by Alabama.

1860
01:48:34,740 --> 01:48:36,800
 So, their records are very similar.

1861
01:48:36,800 --> 01:48:42,660
 But Alabama's resume should be as strong as any coming out of the SEC if they can win this weekend.

1862
01:48:43,100 --> 01:48:44,500
 Quickly, Drew, if you will.

1863
01:48:44,860 --> 01:48:47,000
 Drew Jarman, 97.7 FM, the zone.

1864
01:48:47,060 --> 01:48:50,560
 How do you see the respective seedings with, I know it's all going to pin this weekend,

1865
01:48:50,660 --> 01:48:54,680
 but right now, what does your gut tell you about Bama and Auburn, the SEC tourney?

1866
01:48:55,500 --> 01:49:00,320
 Well, I think if Alabama can win this series two out of three, they're going to get a double bye.

1867
01:49:00,460 --> 01:49:03,460
 They'll be, they'll have the tiebreaker over Auburn.

1868
01:49:04,020 --> 01:49:12,780
 You know, they would be, unless Auburn sweeps Georgia, but they would be, you know, 18 and 12 if they win two out of three, certainly.

1869
01:49:13,340 --> 01:49:19,300
 And then that would give them a crucial double bye, because as you all know, in Hoover now, it's one and done.

1870
01:49:19,480 --> 01:49:20,940
 There's no double elimination.

1871
01:49:21,480 --> 01:49:23,620
 So, getting a double bye would be huge.

1872
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,960
 You could set your starting pitching up like a regular weekend.

1873
01:49:27,140 --> 01:49:28,240
 So, that would be huge.

1874
01:49:28,660 --> 01:49:31,180
 I think I like Alabama's chances against Ole Miss.

1875
01:49:31,580 --> 01:49:33,360
 Ole Miss is throwing the baseball better.

1876
01:49:33,460 --> 01:49:34,760
 They're pitching a little bit better.

1877
01:49:35,260 --> 01:49:39,640
 And they certainly beat a really good Texas A&M team this weekend two out of three.

1878
01:49:40,040 --> 01:49:44,700
 But, I think Alabama has much better starting pitching than Texas A&M.

1879
01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:52,220
 But, I will say, it's been one of the craziest, most top seed turbies, excuse me, years in the SEC in baseball.

1880
01:49:52,620 --> 01:49:54,820
 So, you don't ever take anything for granted.

1881
01:49:54,980 --> 01:49:58,320
 But, I do think Alabama, I think they can get a top four seed.

1882
01:49:58,700 --> 01:50:01,640
 Auburn is not out of the question, because there's a big log jam.

1883
01:50:01,640 --> 01:50:10,180
 But, if you had to ask me, I would say Auburn probably gets, you know, a bye to certainly into day two.

1884
01:50:10,600 --> 01:50:17,060
 And Alabama may get that two-day bye if they can just win two out of three for the Rebels who are coming over from Oxford.

1885
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:17,880
 Absolutely.

1886
01:50:18,420 --> 01:50:26,680
 And, D2, baseball, high school, as far as the semifinals, going to be tomorrow.

1887
01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:31,740
 Hazel Green, who surprised a lot of people, beating Homewood versus Hartzell.

1888
01:50:31,900 --> 01:50:34,520
 Brad Phillips has got that team there nearly every year.

1889
01:50:35,060 --> 01:50:41,160
 Central Florence at Westbrook Christian, that's going to be today, doubleheader at 430.

1890
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:50,700
 And then, Morris Hill did a tremendous job of beating Red Bay to advance to the championship series.

1891
01:50:50,820 --> 01:50:52,520
 Man, a lot of stuff going on.

1892
01:50:53,140 --> 01:50:58,840
 D2, where can we get online and get you and Scott every morning with an expanded show?

1893
01:50:59,500 --> 01:51:02,100
 Yeah, we're looking forward to actually talking to both those coaches.

1894
01:51:02,220 --> 01:51:05,380
 Andrew Dennis doing remarkable things in his first year at Hazel Green.

1895
01:51:05,780 --> 01:51:11,660
 He's joined us throughout their playoff run, and we'll catch up with Brad Phillips as well tomorrow.

1896
01:51:12,180 --> 01:51:15,460
 Hartzell Tigers, he's in his second year replacing the great William Booth.

1897
01:51:15,840 --> 01:51:18,240
 Won a state championship last year, trying to repeat.

1898
01:51:18,240 --> 01:51:21,380
 And so, that should be a great series over there at Hartzell.

1899
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:28,020
 But we certainly are having a talking ball each and every Monday through Friday from 7 to 10 a.m.

1900
01:51:28,380 --> 01:51:35,040
 We had a chance to talk to your good friend Bill Shanks yesterday and talk some Braves and Bobby Cox and Ted Turner.

1901
01:51:35,520 --> 01:51:44,400
 And, of course, their impact on the Braves, which is just immeasurable.

1902
01:51:44,900 --> 01:51:50,780
 Certainly, if you want to catch us, you can catch us at 977ESPN.com, or you can tune in live.

1903
01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:59,380
 And then, if you miss any of our content, you can certainly find it on our SoundCloud page, 97.7 The Zone ESPN, 97.7 The Zone.

1904
01:51:59,380 --> 01:52:04,520
 And, of course, you can follow us on X at 977ESPN.

1905
01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:07,240
 Busy, busy boy, Drew.

1906
01:52:07,340 --> 01:52:10,200
 Listen, man, keep it up, and thank you so much for your time today.

1907
01:52:10,760 --> 01:52:11,200
 Yes, sir.

1908
01:52:11,280 --> 01:52:11,680
 Thank you all.

1909
01:52:11,680 --> 01:52:12,140
 Thank you, buddy.

1910
01:52:12,460 --> 01:52:14,860
 Drew Jarman, 97.7 FM The Zone.

1911
01:52:15,160 --> 01:52:20,280
 BB, the Braves ready to head back to the office tonight to take on the Cubs.

1912
01:52:20,380 --> 01:52:25,180
 The battle of the two first-place teams in the East and the Central, the Braves, will start tonight.

1913
01:52:25,180 --> 01:52:32,020
 Nine full games up on the Phils and the Nationals, and the young gun is taking the mound by the name of Mr. Ritchie.

1914
01:52:32,780 --> 01:52:34,680
 Listen, Bill Shanks loves him.

1915
01:52:34,860 --> 01:52:40,900
 Harold, I really thought when the Braves won the series against the Dodgers, they may take off from here.

1916
01:52:41,020 --> 01:52:43,220
 One last night, five to two.

1917
01:52:44,500 --> 01:52:45,520
 And, again, we'll see.

1918
01:52:45,940 --> 01:52:49,860
 The Cubs are a very good team, as you mentioned, but the Braves are playing well right now.

1919
01:52:50,020 --> 01:52:54,560
 And I think you're playing on a lot of emotion by the name of Bobby Cox and Ted Turner.

1920
01:52:55,100 --> 01:53:00,780
 Hear that game, if you will, or see that game on the radio tonight later on here on 93.9 The Score.

1921
01:53:00,860 --> 01:53:02,040
 It's going to take care of business for now.

1922
01:53:02,400 --> 01:53:07,060
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here, Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1923
01:53:07,520 --> 01:53:12,380
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two, for the Bumal Buck Show, back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.

1924
01:53:25,020 --> 01:53:55,000
 We'll be right back.