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 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

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 The Boomo Bugg Show.

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 Your exclusive inside track to the Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC.

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

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 Good afternoon and welcome into the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in where the surprise, surprise, surprise the day is.

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 Everybody's wanting to go to 24 teams in college football when it comes to playoffs.

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 Guess who's the big boy who's standing in the way.

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 That and more coming up in just a short.

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 But in the meantime, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Thursday to you and the listeners.

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 I think Paul Feinbaum's one.

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 The Atlanta Braves extended baseball's best record to 30-13 with a 4-1 victory over the Cubbies last night.

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 Zach Pounders of the Shoals Sports Report will update us a little bit later about high school baseball semifinals

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 and who is advancing to the finals in softball at the Sportsplex.

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 But Bill Bender is here right now and he believes, Harold Bugg, expanding the college football playoff to 24 teams is an ideal that needs to be eliminated.

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 Well, he's going to have some pretty big boy company there.

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 Double B in the huddle with us.

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 Bill Bender, the national voice of the Sporting News.

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 Bill, welcome in.

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 First of all, the big question, has the temperature finally climbed above freezing in Ohio yet?

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 It's cold today.

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 It was better.

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 It's just, it's the old Forrest Gump box of chocolates thing.

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 You really never know what you're going to get with Ohio weather on a day-to-day basis.

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 I think I used the analogy right on a day-to-day basis.

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 But you guys are right, man.

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 Everybody's talking, this 2014 playoff talk is nonsense in my opinion.

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 But we're headed in that direction, unfortunately.

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 Or are we, Bill?

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 Because let's face it, we understand why the schools want to go.

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 Well, the coaches want to go because basically it's like getting four or five mulligans playing golf.

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 You know, back in the day, the pressure was on.

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 Are you going to make the final four?

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 Before that, the final two.

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 Hello, Gene Stallings and some of those other guys and back then coach Paul Bear Bryant.

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 But now it's at 12.

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 They've been talking about going to 16.

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 They've been talking about going to 24.

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 The one big giant in the room could be not you and I, although you would be a voice.

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 But ESPN says we are not in favor of 24.

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 I mean, at first glance, you say, I thought everybody said TV wants it.

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 Bill, your thoughts about that?

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 And could it be that ESPN is making money with their bowl games and you can only go to the well so many times to get water out of it?

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 And the bowl games won't make any money if you go to 24.

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 We've only been doing it for two years.

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 And I haven't heard ridiculous complaints other than some of the logistical pieces of it, like that it's too long or that the bye weeks have kind of thrown things off a little bit.

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 They made a successful tweak to it last year.

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 So 24 is too many, guys.

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 And if anybody thinks it's not, those that say it's going to change the regular season and make it more compelling, maybe for some.

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 I think you're exactly right.

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 Would you summarize an analogy you used in your article about Ohio high school football?

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 They expanded too quickly, but they had no sense to realize, wait a minute, this is not working.

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 Well, okay, so the best way to do it quickly is like my senior year, which is around 1998, we put four teams per region, 16 teams per division, and we had six divisions.

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 Then we put eight teams per region, and it became a 32-team playoff.

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 Then we put 16 per region, and it became a 64-team playoff.

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 And I'm going to tell you right now, first-round blowouts were, I mean, you guys have been to high school games where they put up big numbers, 72-0, running clock, not competitive games, seasons too long.

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 I still think it should be eight, but now you have 48 teams, and there's some club complaints about the bye weeks.

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 I think we're one of the few places that actually contracted its playoffs, and I think college football maybe could learn a lesson from that.

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 I don't know how many you guys put in the playoff in each division in Alabama, but I mean, 64 was too many.

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 To your point, Bill, we had a game last year.

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 I've forgotten the kids' names, the teams.

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 I want to embarrass them, but the score was actually that scored 100 points against another team.

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 So the Alabama High School Athletic Association had to change the rules because it was such a mismatch.

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 There's no sense in the embarrassing of 15, 16, 17, 18-year-old kid like that, or even for that matter, an adult, but certainly someone that age.

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 Bill Bender, the Sporting News.

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 Bill, how do you feel about this?

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 You love yourself some Notre Dame green.

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 The ACC is not as enamored with Notre Dame.

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 They're fussing, basically saying, in effect, they get the preferential treatment.

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 Bill, put on the Notre Dame hat and take off the Notre Dame hat and address this issue.

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 Well, I mean, if I'm Notre Dame, if somebody offered me what the ACC gave them, you take it.

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 If somebody offers you your own TV network, you take it.

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 And I was on their side in the playoff snub argument simply because the way that they were moved down at the last minute.

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 But if I'm the ACC, I would pressure them to become a full member.

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 If the ACC does that, says, all right, you're either all in or out, and Notre Dame says no, then the ACC loses that.

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 So I think that's the kind of catch-22 on both sides of that relationship, which is a weird relationship, no doubt.

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 You may not like Tom Cruise, but Tom Cruise is going to have his way.

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 Notre Dame is a magnet.

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 You may disagree with that.

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 Your thoughts overall about the ACC, they've got bigger problems than that because they just can't seem to get that baby on track.

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 Even with teams that have been there and done that, like basketball with North Carolina.

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 Let's face it, last year, an embarrassment, North Carolina, that is, in football.

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 If you were going to sit here and wave the magic wand to fix the woes of the ACC, what would it be?

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 You can complain about him, but I probably watch a few good men once every week.

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 We all do.

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 But as to the ACC, I thought they had a good year last year, honestly, on the football side.

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 But Miami did play for a national title.

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 Florida State also needs to be better.

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 They've had a bowl season, though, and they've had a good non-conference season.

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 The basketball, yeah, they should be a little concerned.

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 So, you know, it's the third wheel a little bit, but it's a pretty good third wheel.

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 And Jim Phillips, I think, for the most part, has made some really good decisions.

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 One of the best decisions the ACC made last year was putting us in the replay booth on the live replays.

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 I thought that was awesome.

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 But they're kind of – I feel like Jim Phillips and the ACC is a middleman of sorts to the SEC and the Big Ten

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 and all these negotiations, and they're trying to keep their place in the sport.

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 One of the reasons the Notre Dame story came out – by the way, I want to give credit to Mike DiCorsi,

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 I believe he's going to retire from the sporting news after the World Cup.

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 But he came up with the article,

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 Is it time for the ACC to tell Notre Dame to hit the road?

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 And the ACC had their spring meetings this week.

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 The ACC is coming up, Bill Bender, and the coaches are not happy.

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 Number one, they're not happy because of adding the extra conference game and staying at 12.

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 The bye week was a – they're disgruntled about that.

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 And now the coaches are sniping at each other, and everybody's shocked that Lane Kiffin is in the middle of all this stuff.

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 Oh, it is.

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 Not for Greg Sankey and what he says about the playoff.

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 We're waiting on that for the response to Lane Kiffin and his Vanity Fair article

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 where, you know, he ran into some trouble with that, as usual.

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 With Steve Sarkeesian talking about basket weaving, which I saw a pretty good article.

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 I haven't read it yet from AL.com.

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 But it's been, it must, it's the time of the year where we don't quite have football.

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 We've got to find something to write about.

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 And obviously Steve Sarkeesian and Lane Kiffin piling on Ole Miss this week.

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 I didn't, I didn't understand some of it.

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 But, you know, the Vanity Fair article, as soon as you, Brett, you knew as soon as you clicked on that,

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 it was going to generate that kind of reaction.

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 Thing is, though, that Lane knew that, too.

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 People say, why did he do it?

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 Because Lane loves the attention.

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 His theory is, it's like Hollywood.

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 There's no such thing as bad publicity because it's like the old, remember the old Eagle song,

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 Get Over It?

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 That he knows people will get over it.

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 In the meantime, he gets some extra mileage out there.

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 You mentioned Steve Sarkeesian.

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 First, I'll just tell you about Nick Saban.

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 Can you imagine Lane Kiffin and then Steve Sarkeesian back-to-back?

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 And you've got to be the boss of those two.

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 Are you kidding me, especially with Sark and his personal life?

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 And like Tim Brando said, Sark, be careful.

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 You live in a glass house, bud.

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 I don't think you want us to talk about Sark.

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 But let's do talk about Sark.

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 His payroll right now is coming up on $50 million, tops in the country.

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 What possible excuse?

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 He's got the rock star quarterback.

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 He's supposed to be this offensive genius.

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 He's got the roster to go around him.

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 What excuse does Sark have not to win a national championship?

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 Well, that's, you know, when you take a shot at academics at another school,

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 it's like, what disadvantage does Texas have?

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 from, you mentioned, the millions of dollars in NIL.

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 The, you know, the talent element, the number of NFL draft picks,

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 the high school football recruiting backyard that you're recruiting in.

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 And so, yeah, I think that also landed pretty hollow with me, Harold,

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 that he has all those advantages and that happens.

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 Listen, we got to run to a PGA golf update.

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 Always enjoy the conversation and discussion.

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 B.B., where can we get online and get your stuff in the teams?

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 At BillBender92 at SportingNews.com.

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 Welcome back in.

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 It's time to say hello to Michael Southern.

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 He's co-host of the Blue Collar Podcast, basketball contributor for Locked on Bama,

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 and also busy back in the day at the Tuscaloosa News and the Gadsden Tides.

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 Michael Southern, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Hey, I am doing great.

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 How are you guys doing?

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 Hey, bud.

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 And we're doing all right.

301
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 Michael, a lot to get to.

302
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 There's plenty of football to talk about, but you focus a lot also on basketball.

303
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 And before we get into the football talk, what was your take on the news this week with Amari Allen?

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 Now, a lot of folks initially said he said he was 6'7".

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 They broke out the ruler, and all of a sudden, like a lot of folks, as they get older, he lost a couple of inches.

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 I don't think Allen's that old.

307
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 Your thoughts about that, and the other part, what did, as far as the T-leaves, did you read in, well, if I'm not going to go in the first round, I'm coming back to Bama and cashing those big checks.

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 What's your take?

309
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 Yeah, a lot of things.

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 So let's all be honest here.

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 When you look into any, well, now, I used to say when you look into a program or media guy, but now everyone just goes to the website.

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 When you go to a website and you look at any of the measurables for college and high school players, yeah, you know there's a little bit of fudging going on.

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 Now, look, you know, I would like the University of Alabama to promote me because then I would be six foot tall.

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 I'd be happy.

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 I would love to say I was six foot tall.

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 So, you know, normally you get – I think you guys, it would be safe to say on average a lot of times with basketball heights, they fudge at least an inch.

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 Yeah, maybe Alabama was stretching it just a little bit.

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 He was going about, you know, maybe about two and a half inches on that one.

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 That was a little bit of a surprise.

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 I found it hilarious that Amar said, hey, you know, I say I'm 6'7".

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 I don't know why Alabama said I'm 6'8".

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 And when I'm measured with no shoes, I'm like 6'5".

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 So, that was just a little bit funny.

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 Wearing high heels.

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 Yeah.

326
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 And look, same thing with LeBaron Phylon.

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 Alabama said he was 6'4".

328
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 He measured at 6'2".

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 So, it is what it is.

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 He had the same thing with football with Bryce and Tua and all that.

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 Oh, yeah.

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 The thing I found telling, though, as far as the comments that have been circulated around where Amari Allen basically said, you know,

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 he needs a first-round promise from a team to stay in the draft.

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 Otherwise, he would come back to school.

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 I think that's pretty telling.

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 I'm not, you know, absolutely saying it's a lockdown guarantee that he's coming back.

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 But I think right now I would say it's a much better chance that Amari Allen does find his way back to Tuscaloosa.

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 Now, look, he may get a promise from a team.

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 But, you know, you get a promise from a team and you're right now projected as a mid- to late-20s-round pick.

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 I don't know if you're going to get that.

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 Yep.

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 So, and look, I'm almost positive that, you know, he knows what his role would be if he comes back.

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 He's got to have that information before he even went up to Chicago for the combine.

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 So, I think it's pretty much on the table that Alabama will give him every opportunity to showcase ball handling skills even more

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 because obviously there's some holes there or openings in the backcourt.

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 So, you, I feel pretty confident you will get a chance to see Amari Allen running the offense several times this upcoming year if he comes back.

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 I think it's the same thing.

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 You saw what LeBaron Phylon was able to do.

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 Everyone knew Phylon when he came back.

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 He had to work on his outside shot.

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 He did.

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 Look where he's at.

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 Now he's a potential lottery pick.

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 With Amari Allen, you know, he's got good size, but, you know, he needs to find or showcase even more skills so teams know what to do with him.

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 Now, look, the NBA is a different game now.

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 You know, before, you know, 15 years ago was all about the super teams with two or three superstars.

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 You're seeing teams like, you can see it right now with OKC and things like that.

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 They just overwhelm you with athletes.

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 They get young players.

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 They get depth, and they just bring people that can do a lot of good things, and I think Amari Allen kind of falls into that wheelhouse.

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 The other thing, too, is from a business standpoint, if you're not going to get that guaranteed first-round money, why would you not come back?

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 Because in the old days, you'd go to the NBA and roll the dice.

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 You're going to pick up some money.

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 And to illustrate that point, I know that we're talking basketball here.

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 The kid down at Texas A&M had great numbers running the ball at A&M.

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 Went undrafted by the NFL.

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 He signed just basically a free agent contract.

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 He walked off this week because two things.

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 Number one, he was only making just over $200,000 in the NFL due to the fact that he dropped down so low in the draft, and he made so much in college.

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 Apparently, he's set for life.

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 So, his option was, I'm not going to go in and just work for, quote, $200,000 and get killed.

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 I'm just going to take that money and go elsewhere.

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 So, I'm not saying that's what's going to happen here, but that is the different element with these kids, whether it be football or basketball now.

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 No, absolutely.

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 And, look, the introduction of revenue sharing and, more importantly, NIL has given far more options to the players.

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 I mean, if you want to see the best players in college, you're actually seeing that now.

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 Now, what you're not seeing is, you know, maybe the longevity of a player at a certain school.

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 What you're seeing is the sport is very, you know, migratory, but at least you're seeing, you know, a lot of the good players staying around for a good length of their college career.

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 It's only the surefire first-round lottery picks that, you know, go out and perform basketball.

380
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 Same thing in football.

381
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 You know, if you're not like a first-round grade, maybe even a second round, if you're like a junior or a senior and you can come back as a redshirt senior or something like that, they're all doing that, too, as well.

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 So, you're seeing a better quality as far as the talent is concerned, but, you know, you're having a hard time keeping it with all the roster movement.

383
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 How about that?

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 Michael, I know that Nate Oates is in a little bit of purgatory.

385
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 He's in a waiting position.

386
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 We should know probably in the next 10 days, if not sooner, what Amari Allen's going to do.

387
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 He mentioned again in another interview this week he wants to be the primary on-ball option.

388
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 Only God and the judge slash jury know what Aiden Holloway's future is going to be.

389
00:24:24,980 --> 00:24:29,480
 But you described his staff, I think, very well and call them ninjas.

390
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 Will they—do you anticipate in the next 30 days, be it the portal or high school or whatever, about bringing in possibly another guard?

391
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 What's Nate going to do now if he knows what Amari Allen's going to do in 10 days where they pick up someone else?

392
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 Yeah, I think it's really a domino effect the way I view it right now.

393
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 We're in a holding pattern until you know first what Amari Allen's going to do.

394
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 So, once you have the Amari Allen decision, then I think it becomes more transparent of what the staff is going to do.

395
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 I would expect them to pivot.

396
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:07,920
 So, let's just say this.

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 Say Amari Allen says, hey, I'm going to stay in the draft, guys.

398
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 I'm not coming back.

399
00:25:11,940 --> 00:25:26,280
 Well, I expect the staff to pivot immediately, and I would imagine that some of the players—I think their first option would be that I know they've been recruiting heavily two point guards, which would have been technically in the 28 class—no, 27 class.

400
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,600
 And maybe seeing if one of them could reclassify, if they can get some summer classes, they might try to push that option.

401
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:37,140
 But I think if Amari Allen opts to stay, then I think they may just stand pat.

402
00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:49,800
 And while I'm not saying it's a sure thing Aiden Holloway is going to come back, I think they at least think there's a possibility that Aiden Holloway's career is not done in Alabama, and when it's all said and done, he'll find a way back on the team.

403
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,460
 The only thing that gives me pause on that—and, again, I'm not a lawyer.

404
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 I don't know the intricacies of the law enforcement and things like that.

405
00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:06,560
 But if this arrest had been by the Tuscaloosa Police Department, I probably would have felt a lot better that a plea bargain would be worked out and that Aiden Holloway would be back on the team.

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00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:18,740
 But when you step it up one level and you go to the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force, and they're the ones who make the arrest, usually when agencies at a higher level get involved, they're looking for bigger fish to fry.

407
00:26:18,740 --> 00:26:26,280
 So that's, to me, thinking that, hey, yeah, they're probably not worried about Aiden Holloway and the fact that he had, you know, maybe two pounds of marijuana in his possession.

408
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 They're probably wanting to know, Aiden Holloway, where are you getting the two pounds of marijuana in your possession?

409
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 So that's the only thing that gives me pause on that one.

410
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,860
 Like I said, if it had been the Tuscaloosa PD, I might feel even better.

411
00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:40,380
 But, again, that's still a little bit of a wild card.

412
00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:43,120
 But, to me, it all depends on what happens with Amari Allen.

413
00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:46,480
 Once that decision is made, I think you'll see the staff react accordingly.

414
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 Michael, as always, football season two.

415
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 Obviously, Alabama busy now, trying to put together a recruiting class.

416
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:58,180
 The most recent addition, Kenneth Simon II out of Tennessee.

417
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,500
 Papa, we know by now, we've talked about it ad nauseum with the routes to the University of Tennessee.

418
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,280
 Two things on that, your reaction to that.

419
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,000
 And the other one, a lot of people, when this staff came down here, said they're going to have some challenges.

420
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:13,540
 They're from the out west.

421
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:14,720
 They may not be able to recruit.

422
00:27:15,500 --> 00:27:18,320
 I don't know where they're getting their powers and when it comes to quarterbacks.

423
00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:21,380
 But your thoughts about the staff and their recruiting clout.

424
00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:27,360
 Yeah, I think the staff has held up extremely well when it comes to just pure recruiting.

425
00:27:27,820 --> 00:27:28,840
 I think it's pretty obvious.

426
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:30,040
 They've been very successful.

427
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:35,140
 Now, are they recruiting at the level that Nick Saban did where you have the number one recruiting class every year?

428
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:35,960
 No, they're not.

429
00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:40,060
 But they're still a top five, top ten stable recruiting class year after year.

430
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,760
 And that's hard to do now because the biggest factor in all of this is NIL and revenue sharing.

431
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:45,280
 We know that.

432
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 That's probably 70% of it right now.

433
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:49,820
 So I think it speaks really well for the staff.

434
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,540
 It boils down to, like, everything else, you know, a combination of money and then also relationships.

435
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,240
 I think the staff has proven they're really strong on relationships.

436
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 And I think it's like anything else.

437
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:05,220
 You know, a lot of the kids that have come here, you don't see, like, the mass transfer out of the people they've recruited.

438
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:12,240
 And I think they do a really good job of showing the kids they're bringing in, like, this is how we develop, this is what we promised, and this is how we fulfill the promise.

439
00:28:12,580 --> 00:28:16,120
 We're not going to tell you anything that we can't do or, you know, give to you.

440
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:17,420
 And I think that works well.

441
00:28:17,540 --> 00:28:22,620
 And they've had, what, two, almost three years or three recruiting classes now for that to resonate with everybody.

442
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:23,880
 Absolutely.

443
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:30,020
 You can argue that this team is, it plays finesse football, and there's a lot of merit to that.

444
00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:32,880
 Again, it seems to be a little promising after the spring.

445
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,620
 Clem, in particular, wants to be fiscal and run the ball.

446
00:28:36,980 --> 00:28:38,900
 But you can't argue what you just said.

447
00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:40,940
 They've been very successful in recruiting.

448
00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:47,840
 Michael, the first big official weekend, Memorial Weekend, they got three five-stars coming in.

449
00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:52,940
 Monsoon Sales, nicknamed Bama, even though Indiana's trying to go after him.

450
00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:54,960
 John Meredith, Hayden Stale.

451
00:28:55,120 --> 00:29:01,000
 I'll tell you one thing, Moe Lindquist is just a recruiting genius for cornerbacks.

452
00:29:01,420 --> 00:29:05,280
 But that first weekend, in particular, Michael, they got some dudes coming in.

453
00:29:06,180 --> 00:29:09,440
 Well, look at the track record of the staff in the last prior recruiting season.

454
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,340
 They do most of their work in the summer.

455
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,440
 They usually have a lot of their recruiting class wrapped up before school even starts,

456
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,320
 before you even get to the fall.

457
00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:22,140
 So it would be a huge recruiting coup if they could get one of the three, two of the three.

458
00:29:22,140 --> 00:29:23,940
 And heaven forbid, if they get three of the three.

459
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:30,480
 Obviously, you know, I know there's a big emphasis on sales and there's concern about Indiana and Texas and those involved with him.

460
00:29:30,860 --> 00:29:36,500
 But, you know, if you were to walk away with what's perceived as the number one quarterback and the number one receiver in the class,

461
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,460
 I would say that's a pretty good testament.

462
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,740
 Now, again, let's not overlook what we talked about last time, guys.

463
00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:43,700
 You better get that offensive line fit.

464
00:29:43,860 --> 00:29:44,040
 Yeah.

465
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,920
 It's not going to matter what those field position players can do if you can't block somebody up front.

466
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:52,360
 So that still, to me, will always be the lifeblood of a football team.

467
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,540
 So we'll see.

468
00:29:54,460 --> 00:29:59,140
 You know, something else that's a lifeblood, I think, especially this time of the year on a football calendar,

469
00:29:59,140 --> 00:30:04,340
 is getting physical, which means you better have a good strength and conditioning program.

470
00:30:04,540 --> 00:30:06,760
 You say what you want about Scott Cochran back in the day.

471
00:30:06,820 --> 00:30:10,200
 He might have been crazy, but his teams were pretty effective.

472
00:30:10,660 --> 00:30:12,220
 Different ballgame, I know, back then.

473
00:30:12,220 --> 00:30:18,680
 But your thoughts just about where Alabama is trying to overcome, if not a reality, certainly a perception last year.

474
00:30:18,740 --> 00:30:19,920
 They just weren't very physical.

475
00:30:20,180 --> 00:30:24,040
 Where are you as far as the strength and conditioning program here in the offseason?

476
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,380
 You know, that's a tough question.

477
00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:30,740
 There's a lot of opinions on both sides on that.

478
00:30:30,780 --> 00:30:34,440
 I know the coaching staff loves the strength and conditioning team that they put together.

479
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,440
 They like the analytics.

480
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:36,360
 They like the data.

481
00:30:37,420 --> 00:30:42,000
 You know, they just weren't able to get anything to really generate or resonate out of that last year.

482
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,320
 And so, obviously, that's a concern.

483
00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:48,060
 You know, one of the things I thought was kind of telling, you know, I know Coach DeBoer had an interview with Greg McIlroy.

484
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:54,880
 And, you know, I think he made it pretty apparent that, you know, while he has a system and there are things that he's trying to do,

485
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,540
 you know, he knows that he needs to win games.

486
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,180
 So, he's going to pivot to the strengths of what the team can do.

487
00:31:00,660 --> 00:31:02,360
 I mean, let's just be honest, guys.

488
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:07,920
 The offensive line, and I don't know if it was a combination of coaching players.

489
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,560
 There's obvious talent there, but something just didn't work.

490
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,220
 And I think they probably knew they just couldn't run the ball consistently anyway.

491
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:20,360
 I want to see with this line when it comes in, now that they're going to have a whole summer working with the strength and conditioning,

492
00:31:20,820 --> 00:31:23,280
 this is truly Kalen DeBoer's offensive line.

493
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,480
 This is truly Ryan Grubb's offensive line.

494
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:31,200
 But let's see what kind of commitment and what kind of, I don't know, philosophy they're going to come up with for this year,

495
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,980
 because they're going to need to take some heat off whatever quarterback they put back there,

496
00:31:35,020 --> 00:31:37,840
 because that's not their first time as the guy under center.

497
00:31:38,180 --> 00:31:40,300
 So, they're going to need to have a little help there.

498
00:31:40,460 --> 00:31:42,740
 So, very curious to see how that works out.

499
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,920
 And I want to see what the team leans into.

500
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,840
 I mean, is this team going to have enough versatility that they can run when they want to

501
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,920
 and pass when they want to, not when they have to?

502
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:56,420
 Before we let you go, tell us again about Tide Hoop's history.

503
00:31:56,740 --> 00:31:59,840
 You mentioned during the summer, Nate's technicals.

504
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:07,520
 You're going to document Nate and take a day, every day for umpteen days or weeks,

505
00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:11,440
 and go into detail about when he had it, et cetera.

506
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,380
 Now, is that still on the docket for the summer?

507
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:17,760
 It is still under consideration.

508
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:23,340
 It's not an absolute guarantee yet, but I have been researching and looking at, you know,

509
00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:25,480
 what all I can put together as far as content.

510
00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:28,780
 That is a leading contender, and I would probably like to do it.

511
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,160
 We've been very consistent that we've had a good summer series with basketball,

512
00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,840
 and we usually do it, you know, during June or July.

513
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,240
 And then, yes, there's no doubt, you know,

514
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,420
 there's 32 games that Coach Ace has had a technical foul in.

515
00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:44,280
 There's 32 days of content that we just roll out there.

516
00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:49,600
 And now, while not every game I can find video of the actual time he got fouled,

517
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,320
 or I can find the press conference where he talks about it,

518
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:54,460
 I've found several that I can.

519
00:32:54,820 --> 00:32:57,920
 And then the ones that I don't have, like media to back it up,

520
00:32:57,940 --> 00:33:01,160
 I can just do some pictures from the actual game and write about it.

521
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,280
 But I'm really leaning heavily into that,

522
00:33:03,340 --> 00:33:05,560
 because what I've found so far is pretty funny.

523
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,480
 I mean, there is video from the post-game press conference

524
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,720
 when Nate Oates got his very first technical foul,

525
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:12,940
 and it's pretty funny.

526
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,000
 So I think we're probably going to roll with that.

527
00:33:15,260 --> 00:33:18,300
 If we do, we'll probably roll that out beginning in June,

528
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,960
 and it'll just be 32 days of just a lot of fun.

529
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,320
 I think people will get a kick out of it.

530
00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:22,900
 Absolutely.

531
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:25,800
 Listen, where can we get online, get tied,

532
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,020
 Hoops History, and also Blue Collar Podcast?

533
00:33:30,020 --> 00:33:30,300
 Yeah.

534
00:33:30,460 --> 00:33:34,220
 So on X, you guys want to jump on board for the summer series

535
00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:36,720
 that we'll be doing here pretty soon, it's at Bama History.

536
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,720
 Like I said, we try to not let basketball kind of fall to the wayside.

537
00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:43,560
 We try to keep it year-round, so we do fun stuff during the summer.

538
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,100
 So that'll be cranking up.

539
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,920
 Whether it's the technical fouls or something else,

540
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:51,800
 we will have something this summer to engage the fans with on that end.

541
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,580
 And then, you know, we did during the regular season,

542
00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:56,400
 we tried to do a podcast.

543
00:33:56,660 --> 00:33:58,340
 We have not done one since the season ended.

544
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,560
 I suspect that once we get this roster finally settled,

545
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,860
 after we know Amari Allen, we'll probably try to do at least one summer recap

546
00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:08,820
 as far as where the roster stands and what we can expect for the upcoming year.

547
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:11,100
 So still a lot of fun stuff, especially for basketball,

548
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:12,140
 even during the summertime.

549
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,820
 Sounds like Nate's trying to take a page out of the late, great Bobby Cox's book.

550
00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:18,820
 Michael, listen, man, it's always good to hook up with you.

551
00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:20,840
 Thanks so much, and keep up the good work, okay?

552
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:22,500
 Appreciate it, guys.

553
00:34:22,580 --> 00:34:23,140
 Always enjoy coming on.

554
00:34:23,140 --> 00:34:23,680
 Thank you, buddy.

555
00:34:23,980 --> 00:34:25,260
 Same right back at you.

556
00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:25,760
 There you have it.

557
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 Guess what Major League Baseball team has the best slate to date?

674
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 I'm guessing they play and air on 93.9 The Score, the Atlanta Braves.

675
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 Keep going.

676
00:40:13,660 --> 00:40:20,100
 Well, they're 30-13, Harold Bugg, after beating Chicago last night, 4-1.

677
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 What's even more impressive to me, they have an eight-game lead over the second-place team.

678
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 We're not even to Memorial Day yet.

679
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 You know what's even more amazing about that?

680
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 And we highly recommend you listen again tonight because they take on the Cubs.

681
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 And on the mound is Mr. Sale.

682
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 He's 6'2".

683
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 That's his record, not his height.

684
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 His ERA, a very impressive 2-2-0.

685
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 But you know what's amazing about that?

686
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 He's going to be taking on the pitcher with even better numbers.

687
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 Chris Brown, Ben Brown, I should say.

688
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 He's 1-1.

689
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 His ERA is a mere 1-82.

690
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 If you're anywhere near 2, certainly like in the sales part, he is, what, 2-2-0?

691
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 That's outstanding.

692
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 Brown is actually a .2-0 under 2.

693
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 This is going to be one heck of a pitching matchup.

694
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 And probably the final score will be 10-8.

695
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 But on paper, this is one of those matchups.

696
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 Well, it's the top pitching matchup, no doubt.

697
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 And, Harold, I've read this the last couple of days.

698
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 And people keep asking me, well, why are they so good this year?

699
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 Number one is pitching.

700
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 The relief pitching has been Suarez last night, scoreless 8th inning.

701
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 Iglesias came in and got his 8th save.

702
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 But everybody on this team plays well for two or three games.

703
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 Mauricio Dubon had a two-run homer last night.

704
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 Mike Yuskramski, who has struggled hitting the ball, had a key double last night.

705
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 But, listen, Olsen has had a nearly historic year.

706
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 Ball went with another fourth inning, 400-foot home run.

707
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 Everyone on this team.

708
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 Now, Murphy got hurt again, broke his hand.

709
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 He's going to be out for six to eight weeks again.

710
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 Again, he's got the Hee Haw theme song.

711
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 If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

712
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 But everybody on this team, Harold, has had a major input in this.

713
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 And they are playing so well.

714
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 Well, and back to some trivia for you, talking about Sel.

715
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 How about these numbers?

716
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 He is 17-2 with a .227 ERA at Truist Park since joining Atlanta in 2024.

717
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 Not bad numbers.

718
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 Again, a heck of a matchup coming up later on tonight.

719
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758
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 Four players tied for the lead at 3-under.

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852
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 That game at 7 o'clock.

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 And it's the first of three.

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 What's significant about this, BB?

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 This closes the regular season for a very good U and a baseball team.

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 7 o'clock tonight, 7 o'clock tomorrow night, and then 2 o'clock the matinee coming up on Saturday.

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 So, if you haven't seen this team, nor this new stadium, this is it as far as the regular season, BB.

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 Listen, it goes by in a hurry.

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 Now, U and a's not there yet, Harold Bugg, but U and a can mash the baseball.

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 But, again, a chance to see U and a starting at 7 o'clock tonight.

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999
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1000
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 Welcome back in our show of the Boomo Bugg Show.

1001
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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Redbeard.

1002
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 Thank you so much for giving us your ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1003
01:00:08,140 --> 01:00:14,140
 And for Justin Ferguson taking time out of his busy schedule covering the Auburn Tigers at the Auburn Observer.

1004
01:00:14,860 --> 01:00:15,800
 Justin, welcome in.

1005
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 How are you?

1006
01:00:17,500 --> 01:00:18,400
 I'm doing all right.

1007
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 How are y'all?

1008
01:00:18,820 --> 01:00:19,100
 Hey, Boone.

1009
01:00:19,260 --> 01:00:20,120
 Man, we're doing all right.

1010
01:00:20,340 --> 01:00:25,380
 People are always wondering about the starting time for that season opener, especially in the South.

1011
01:00:25,900 --> 01:00:29,340
 It can be hot no matter where you play in the Southeast.

1012
01:00:29,580 --> 01:00:37,020
 But I'm going to go ahead and go to the Lamb here and say when Auburn takes on Baylor in the opening game, it will be around 72 degrees.

1013
01:00:37,220 --> 01:00:39,020
 Would you agree with that, Justin?

1014
01:00:39,820 --> 01:00:42,180
 Yeah, it's going to be nice and climate controlled.

1015
01:00:42,180 --> 01:00:49,620
 I think that might be the only perk, I think, from a fan perspective of them moving this game from Auburn to Atlanta.

1016
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:54,160
 But, yeah, 2.30, that traditional, you know, kind of bigger game window.

1017
01:00:54,340 --> 01:00:55,460
 Not the biggest game of the weekend.

1018
01:00:55,740 --> 01:01:01,980
 But, yeah, you get that and you start getting those first few, you know, TV times rolling out.

1019
01:01:02,140 --> 01:01:03,680
 And, you know, it'll be here before you know it.

1020
01:01:04,140 --> 01:01:05,680
 Talk to us about that game.

1021
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,340
 Obviously, all games are important.

1022
01:01:07,340 --> 01:01:11,420
 But any time you have a changing of the guard, people are going to sit here and form an opinion.

1023
01:01:11,420 --> 01:01:15,360
 Since what's the old saying, you don't get a second chance for a first impression.

1024
01:01:15,820 --> 01:01:21,620
 Talk to us about the vibe coming into that game and the obvious question, the significance for this coaching staff.

1025
01:01:21,820 --> 01:01:23,100
 Set a tone early.

1026
01:01:24,020 --> 01:01:24,720
 Yeah, definitely.

1027
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:31,020
 I think when you look at, you know, as much as Auburn struggled last season, they went to Baylor and took care of business out on the road.

1028
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:41,140
 And you look at Auburn, you know, fell short of their expectations, really changed everything about, you know, who they were, especially on the offensive end, you know, with the new coaching staff.

1029
01:01:41,220 --> 01:01:47,540
 Meanwhile, Baylor decided to keep Dave Aranda, you know, after was, you know, there was a lot of hot seat talk with him.

1030
01:01:48,060 --> 01:01:51,280
 And, you know, so it'll be an interesting kind of pivot there.

1031
01:01:51,380 --> 01:01:53,860
 You get a team looking, you know, already made the move.

1032
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:59,380
 You've got another team where you've got a coach who's been on the hot seat and, you know, struggled to stop this Auburn team last year.

1033
01:01:59,500 --> 01:02:00,820
 So it'll be very interesting.

1034
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 I think it's a good opportunity for Auburn, you know, to get a solid win over, you know, a power conference program at the beginning of the year.

1035
01:02:10,260 --> 01:02:15,500
 You know, obviously Auburn will be pretty much brand new on the offensive side, but we'll see how all that goes.

1036
01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:18,540
 Baylor didn't have a great offseason overall in the portal.

1037
01:02:18,780 --> 01:02:20,940
 Auburn obviously had to do a lot of work.

1038
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 So it'll be a very interesting matchup for sure.

1039
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:28,540
 And I think, you know, again, Auburn, you know, most fans would have loved to have seen this game stay in Auburn.

1040
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:37,960
 But, you know, the fact that they're going to do this for NIL purposes and get more money and all that, playing in Atlanta, Auburn should have a pretty good crowd just because it's right down the road.

1041
01:02:38,340 --> 01:02:41,280
 That's exactly where I was going with this.

1042
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:48,820
 Obviously, the exposure, big, huge alumni in Atlanta, game of the year, national TV.

1043
01:02:49,600 --> 01:03:00,520
 But one more caveat here is AFLAC will provide opportunities for Auburn players to promote the game and earn money through NIL.

1044
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:15,040
 They will provide, and confirm this for me, AFLAC will provide $4 million up front and another $4 million if Auburn sells out its ticket allotment.

1045
01:03:15,420 --> 01:03:16,900
 Are those figures correct?

1046
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:21,140
 Yeah, I mean, those are the numbers I've heard as well for this.

1047
01:03:21,260 --> 01:03:22,560
 And it's really interesting.

1048
01:03:22,740 --> 01:03:28,100
 You know, I had a one-on-one interview earlier this week with Auburn basketball coach Stephen Perlin.

1049
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 He was talking about how, you know, they go out and play these neutral site games in basketball now because you have that opportunity to make that NIL money and help your budget moving forward.

1050
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1051
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 You really have just one shot to do it.

1052
01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:45,760
 So you kind of want to blow it all out.

1053
01:03:46,020 --> 01:03:56,040
 And so for Auburn, I think they had to really look at it and say if they were willing to give up a home game and go up the road to Atlanta, it better be worth their while financially.

1054
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 So they're just going to close dirt and hair for that deal going forward?

1055
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:00,960
 Wow.

1056
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:07,660
 It's like you can't take all of them away, but, you know, if you can sacrifice one, you'll take it.

1057
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 Justin, are you ready for some big cats this weekend?

1058
01:04:12,500 --> 01:04:15,100
 Yeah, it's a big weekend, obviously, for Auburn recruiting.

1059
01:04:15,220 --> 01:04:19,280
 They have gotten off to a solid start this, you know, kind of late spring, early summer.

1060
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:21,440
 Got to pick up a couple of really good commitments.

1061
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,080
 And I don't think Auburn is going to go out and sign a huge class this year.

1062
01:04:25,140 --> 01:04:29,920
 I think a lot of, you know, a lot of these guys, you know, Auburn's really targeting.

1063
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:37,000
 They look at them and say, hey, if we're willing to sign you, if we're willing to bring you in, knowing the transfer portal is the way it is,

1064
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:40,880
 we want to feel like you have an ability to come in and contribute right away.

1065
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:46,900
 So I think it's like a lot more of a quality than quantity kind of thing there for this class.

1066
01:04:46,980 --> 01:04:51,300
 And that's something Alex talked about, how he wants to, you know, have that approach moving forward.

1067
01:04:51,420 --> 01:04:56,320
 And so you look at some of the names coming in in Big Cat this weekend, it's definitely that kind of on the quality side.

1068
01:04:57,060 --> 01:04:59,180
 And it always helps to get a quarterback.

1069
01:04:59,980 --> 01:05:08,200
 Gary Chapman, Jr., Brookwood, Georgia, 1,500 yards passing again, a lot of potential there.

1070
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:13,540
 And so many schools want to get that quarterback early in April or May.

1071
01:05:13,540 --> 01:05:19,240
 So obviously that will attract receivers, maybe even offensive linemen.

1072
01:05:19,380 --> 01:05:22,340
 But Auburn picks up their 2027 quarterback.

1073
01:05:23,260 --> 01:05:27,080
 Yeah, you want to take a quarterback every cycle, knowing good and well that it may, you know,

1074
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:30,260
 you have that kind of a revolving door at that position usually.

1075
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:34,800
 So when you go out, like if you're Auburn right now, you look at, you know, next season, you know,

1076
01:05:34,860 --> 01:05:36,780
 there's not going to be Byron Brown.

1077
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,620
 But you will really like what you saw in Tristan Tia this spring.

1078
01:05:40,660 --> 01:05:42,760
 And you want him to maybe be that guy moving forward.

1079
01:05:42,860 --> 01:05:44,500
 Obviously the portal will be open spot.

1080
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,500
 They've got a couple other young quarterbacks on their roster right now.

1081
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:50,020
 Lachlan, you had Reese Brush among them.

1082
01:05:50,140 --> 01:05:53,040
 So they've got depth in that room, but you want to keep cycling, right?

1083
01:05:53,100 --> 01:05:55,080
 You want to keep being able to bring those guys.

1084
01:05:55,200 --> 01:06:01,200
 So you go get a guy like Chapman and, you know, not a home run hitter-like type of like, you know,

1085
01:06:01,500 --> 01:06:05,340
 blow you away type of talent in terms of his star rating.

1086
01:06:05,660 --> 01:06:09,560
 But a guy that when you watch his film, you know, fits the system a lot.

1087
01:06:10,140 --> 01:06:11,940
 You like the mobility.

1088
01:06:12,220 --> 01:06:14,220
 You like the arm that he's got on him.

1089
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:19,780
 He's got some, you know, he's got some real kind of go out there and get it done, like playmaker vibes to him.

1090
01:06:20,260 --> 01:06:24,520
 And that's definitely something that, you know, Auburn is prioritizing a quarterback moving forward.

1091
01:06:24,660 --> 01:06:31,340
 So, you know, I think Auburn swung big for some quarterbacks in this class that ended up going elsewhere, committing elsewhere.

1092
01:06:31,340 --> 01:06:36,980
 So with that in mind, they go find somebody they feel like could stay and develop here for the next few years.

1093
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,900
 Justin, let's face it, back in the day, you could sell this and you could sell that.

1094
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:43,660
 Loyalty, the school's great.

1095
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:45,820
 Let's be honest, it's a business decision.

1096
01:06:45,940 --> 01:06:49,040
 That's not to say that still doesn't influence guys, but it's money now.

1097
01:06:49,060 --> 01:06:50,680
 I don't care what color jersey you're wearing.

1098
01:06:51,260 --> 01:06:52,640
 We saw the numbers this week.

1099
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:57,480
 Texas leads the way, as far as their football cha-ching, at almost $50 million.

1100
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,180
 Alabama's down the list of like eighth at a mere $37 million.

1101
01:07:03,620 --> 01:07:07,820
 Do you have a number as far as, because this is one of those things, people sit around the coffee shop and say,

1102
01:07:07,860 --> 01:07:10,560
 I wonder what Auburn's money is as far as football.

1103
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,080
 Did you have a number in mind there?

1104
01:07:12,900 --> 01:07:14,320
 I don't have an exact number.

1105
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:20,180
 I tell you, I don't think it's nearly as high as obviously Texas or not be quite as high as Alabama as well.

1106
01:07:20,300 --> 01:07:28,420
 But they feel like they're in a position where their donations that made like, you know, the NIL and on to victory and stuff like that.

1107
01:07:28,480 --> 01:07:31,260
 I think Auburn feels like they can be competitive on the NCAA.

1108
01:07:31,260 --> 01:07:36,440
 They're not going to be a team that especially when you have had these losing seasons in a row are going to go like,

1109
01:07:36,580 --> 01:07:39,520
 they all in this championship or bust type of spending.

1110
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:43,500
 But, you know, I think both on the football and the men's basketball side,

1111
01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:51,480
 Auburn has been pretty pleased with the fact that they feel like they can be really competitive in these sports with the amount of money that they bring to the table.

1112
01:07:51,620 --> 01:07:56,420
 So, don't think it's going to be, it's up with the heavy hitters, but it's definitely something that can win you games in the SEC.

1113
01:07:56,860 --> 01:08:04,000
 Let me ask you this, one thing that influences that is, as you mentioned there, people still trying to get the bad taste out of their mouth,

1114
01:08:04,100 --> 01:08:06,460
 not only with you, but a series of bad coaches.

1115
01:08:06,460 --> 01:08:09,180
 That sets the tone for this staff to inherit.

1116
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:12,880
 What kind of mess did this staff inherit from those guys?

1117
01:08:13,800 --> 01:08:18,880
 I mean, I think, you know, this team was not, you know, kind of off in terms of talent-wise.

1118
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:21,520
 I mean, I think Hugh Freeze did a really good job of recruiting.

1119
01:08:21,700 --> 01:08:23,440
 It was just, we weren't getting it done on the field.

1120
01:08:23,620 --> 01:08:29,380
 So, you know, I think one of the big things for this staff is, and why you heard a lot about this in the spring,

1121
01:08:29,540 --> 01:08:30,820
 is it's about culture, right?

1122
01:08:31,100 --> 01:08:33,200
 Like, losing can be contagious.

1123
01:08:33,540 --> 01:08:35,060
 Losing can kind of be a mentality.

1124
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,620
 Losing can get you stuck, and Auburn's had that for the last several years.

1125
01:08:38,740 --> 01:08:45,860
 So, I think you have to do a whole lot of work finding new leaders, trying to kind of put your stamp on,

1126
01:08:45,860 --> 01:08:47,880
 these are the type of players we want in our program.

1127
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 This is how we're going to run things.

1128
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 This is how we're going to do things day in and day out.

1129
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:53,780
 And so, I think that's kind of the thing.

1130
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,840
 Like, I think any of us could have looked at Auburn last season and said,

1131
01:08:58,020 --> 01:08:59,200
 that's a talented football team.

1132
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,140
 They've got really good players, you know, left and right there,

1133
01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:03,780
 but they couldn't get it done on the field.

1134
01:09:03,860 --> 01:09:06,660
 And so, for this staff, what they inherited is, you know,

1135
01:09:06,660 --> 01:09:12,020
 a program that has tried to, you know, recruit and spend its way back to the top.

1136
01:09:12,020 --> 01:09:19,140
 But I think they've discovered these last few years that it's more than just, you know, the star power.

1137
01:09:19,420 --> 01:09:23,880
 It's, can you coach, can you execute, can you have a winning mentality?

1138
01:09:24,280 --> 01:09:26,780
 I think that's the priority right now for this team in year one.

1139
01:09:27,180 --> 01:09:33,100
 We talked about Big Cat coming back on Saturday, and we discussed this on our show Tuesday.

1140
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:44,200
 Isn't it interesting now, I saw a list of 10 top offensive prospects for Auburn on one of the websites earlier this week.

1141
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:51,760
 And this kid, Nico Kompas, K-A-E-M-P-A-S, well, he's originally from Germany.

1142
01:09:52,300 --> 01:09:57,220
 He's now going to the NFL Academy in England, not New England, England.

1143
01:09:57,660 --> 01:10:05,560
 He's 6'7", 280, and I guarantee you if he's from Germany, he played soccer at some point in his life.

1144
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:13,320
 But it's interesting, we talk about all these European players in basketball, but I'm seeing more every year.

1145
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:25,300
 It's going to be interesting to see how the SEC works with the NFL Academy in England to acquire some of this talent, some of this European talent for football.

1146
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:32,220
 Yeah, I mean, you have some kids that, you know, just quite frankly, if you're 6'7", and 280 pounds, you're just too big to play soccer at that point.

1147
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:35,680
 And you can't kind of control that.

1148
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:42,560
 So, yeah, I mean, I think what you're finding is, you know, the NFL has really pushed into more into Europe over the last couple decades.

1149
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:50,600
 And I think what you're seeing is you're seeing a generation of kids overseas grow up watching American football, liking American football.

1150
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:55,860
 And, you know, if they have the right body type, they think, hey, let me go ahead and give us a try there.

1151
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:57,860
 So, yeah, I mean, that's just one of those projects.

1152
01:10:57,960 --> 01:11:00,620
 I mean, Auburn's had a few international guys over the years.

1153
01:11:01,540 --> 01:11:06,120
 You know, Killian Zerer was a pretty good offensive tackle for them several years ago.

1154
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:13,180
 His little brother kind of got to grow up, you know, watching football and playing it a little bit more because of his brother.

1155
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:15,860
 He's on Auburn's roster right now.

1156
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,780
 So, that's another German kind of offensive tackle prospect.

1157
01:11:19,100 --> 01:11:21,180
 So, I mean, they've had some pretty good success with it.

1158
01:11:21,180 --> 01:11:26,780
 I think that's just a really good kind of untapped market for recruiting where, you know, you're just –

1159
01:11:26,780 --> 01:11:32,180
 I think there's just this new generation of kids that are aware of football and kind of know it

1160
01:11:32,180 --> 01:11:38,400
 and are willing to kind of make those moves overseas now that might not have been that case 10, 15 years ago

1161
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:41,840
 just because, you know, the game hadn't really penetrated that market yet.

1162
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:43,400
 It goes both ways.

1163
01:11:43,740 --> 01:11:46,720
 Auburn's going to be hosting football next month, right?

1164
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:48,220
 Argentina and Iceland.

1165
01:11:48,540 --> 01:11:49,440
 That football.

1166
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:51,620
 Yes, yes.

1167
01:11:51,620 --> 01:11:58,440
 And it is – I can't really kind of understand, like, how big of an event this is going to be for Auburn

1168
01:11:58,440 --> 01:12:03,280
 because, you know, it's a way that I think this athletic department under John Cohen

1169
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:09,720
 has really prioritized finding new ways to make more money and, you know, kind of generate revenue.

1170
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:15,120
 Obviously, Auburn's got that big, you know, those big facilities, renovations they're doing,

1171
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,960
 the north end zone and all that, and that stuff costs money.

1172
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:20,760
 And so, Auburn's trying to find ways with concerts and whatnot.

1173
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,800
 But, yeah, I mean, we're getting up to it here next month.

1174
01:12:24,260 --> 01:12:27,460
 Argentina and Iceland, I mean, Lionel Messi's supposed to be playing in it.

1175
01:12:27,660 --> 01:12:32,100
 It's their last – it's Argentina, the defending world champions' last friendly before the World Cup.

1176
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,240
 I mean, it doesn't get any bigger than that.

1177
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,400
 Maybe one of the best athletes to ever live is going to get to play in Jordan-Hare Stadium,

1178
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:41,260
 and that's going to be something that's going to bring a lot of attention

1179
01:12:41,260 --> 01:12:42,440
 and a whole lot of money to Auburn.

1180
01:12:43,020 --> 01:12:46,960
 Yeah, we heard 75,000 tickets have been sold so far.

1181
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:52,700
 Big, big baseball, young man, this week in Auburn, Georgia.

1182
01:12:53,380 --> 01:12:57,180
 All 140 home runs, 328 average.

1183
01:12:57,980 --> 01:13:05,200
 But Auburn's got leading the league in the SEC in ERA, 3.50, so that should be fascinating.

1184
01:13:05,860 --> 01:13:10,320
 All right, 6 a.m. emails, the mailbag.

1185
01:13:10,460 --> 01:13:13,100
 You've got an extensive interview with Stephen Pearl.

1186
01:13:13,260 --> 01:13:14,980
 I've seen excerpts on Twitter.

1187
01:13:15,860 --> 01:13:19,240
 The podcast, where can we get online to get all the good stuff?

1188
01:13:19,820 --> 01:13:21,420
 Yeah, AuburnObserver.com, check it out.

1189
01:13:21,480 --> 01:13:23,460
 Yeah, you mentioned the Stephen Pearl interview.

1190
01:13:23,620 --> 01:13:27,180
 He talked to him about an hour earlier this week and ran that.

1191
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:30,740
 So a lot of really interesting stuff in there about Auburn basketball and its future.

1192
01:13:31,140 --> 01:13:33,340
 I had some football earlier this week as well.

1193
01:13:33,380 --> 01:13:34,100
 I've got some Auburn baseball.

1194
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:37,300
 Our guy Henry Patton is going to be covering it up at Plainsman this weekend.

1195
01:13:37,380 --> 01:13:39,800
 Like you said, Monster Series coming up there.

1196
01:13:39,940 --> 01:13:43,800
 So if you want the latest on all that and Auburn football, men's basketball, and a little baseball,

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 go to AuburnObserver.com, sign up there.

1198
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:49,880
 You know what they say, Justin, when Argentina and Iceland get together,

1199
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 you can throw the record books out the window.

1200
01:13:52,380 --> 01:13:57,980
 Yeah, you know, you can never expect anything like that coming down the road.

1201
01:13:58,460 --> 01:14:03,300
 I want to know how many of those 75,000 knows what's going on unless they're from Argentina.

1202
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:08,860
 Hey, I'll tell you, there's going to be at least two because I got my tickets in it early.

1203
01:14:08,980 --> 01:14:09,600
 I got to watch it.

1204
01:14:10,340 --> 01:14:11,840
 His cars, we know that.

1205
01:14:11,940 --> 01:14:14,880
 Listen, thanks so much for your time today and just do it again soon, okay?

1206
01:14:15,460 --> 01:14:16,080
 Appreciate you.

1207
01:14:16,100 --> 01:14:16,560
 Thank you, buddy.

1208
01:14:16,900 --> 01:14:18,940
 Justin Ferguson, the Auburn Observer.

1209
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1210
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 Well, we're about to get an update.

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 And it's next on opening day.

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 Welcome back in.

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 You can run 26 miles plus and call it a marathon, or you can do like Zach Pounders and run more than that and not call it a marathon.

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 Zach, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Doing good.

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 How are y'all?

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 Hey, buddy.

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 Man, we're doing all right.

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 It's safe to say that you've run more than a marathon.

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 It's a busy time of the year.

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 Where do you start as far as high school baseball playoff action?

1316
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 Could it be picking up what we left off the last time with two big bulls now having faced each other in Mars Hill Bible and Red Bay?

1317
01:20:08,620 --> 01:20:19,300
 Yeah, that series, I asked Coach Wilhelm this morning that he was at the softball game for Mars Hill, and I asked him if he had ever seen a first inning like Mars Hill had in that first game.

1318
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 He said he may have, but he can't remember it too well.

1319
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 But I have never seen a first inning have 11 runs scored and only one error.

1320
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 Mars Hill barreled the baseball up like no other team has this year, I think, maybe.

1321
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 And it was just like barrels.

1322
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 It was basically in the center field, left field, far ground balls, and a homer also in the first inning.

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 But 11 runs in the first inning, five in the second.

1324
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 Wow.

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 To go up 16-1 after two, it was insane.

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 And then game two was more competitive.

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 Yeah.

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 Four to three.

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 But two really good teams.

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 Playoff season is going to be weird.

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 It's based on failure.

1333
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:04,000
 Great series, though.

1334
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:05,640
 And that's played three, back-to-back-to-back.

1335
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:06,700
 Really good series also.

1336
01:21:07,060 --> 01:21:08,060
 Last three is the playoff.

1337
01:21:11,500 --> 01:21:13,260
 The thing is, you can look at two guys.

1338
01:21:13,340 --> 01:21:15,060
 We talked about this in case you missed it.

1339
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:20,200
 Both coaches coming out of the Major League Baseball world, Josh Willingham and Coach Donovan Hand.

1340
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:23,960
 What was amazing, you summed it up well.

1341
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:25,380
 Baseball is a crazy game.

1342
01:21:25,380 --> 01:21:30,220
 You get off to that start, scoring all kinds of runs, holding a 16-1 lead.

1343
01:21:30,520 --> 01:21:35,800
 And then in game three, here's why I should say in game two.

1344
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:39,340
 But in game three, actually, what, Mars Hill Bible fell behind.

1345
01:21:39,740 --> 01:21:42,200
 What, three-nothing and came back and won it by one.

1346
01:21:43,260 --> 01:21:43,660
 Yes.

1347
01:21:44,060 --> 01:21:47,920
 You know some of the details that both of the pitching staff, that Red Bay threw their number

1348
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:49,660
 two in game and number one.

1349
01:21:50,220 --> 01:21:51,940
 And threw their number one in game two.

1350
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:54,360
 My coach has had different theories on this.

1351
01:21:54,500 --> 01:21:57,100
 And I kind of like this strategy of throwing your number one in game two.

1352
01:21:57,820 --> 01:21:59,060
 Because it's one of those things.

1353
01:21:59,620 --> 01:22:01,900
 It gets you back into the series if you can win the game.

1354
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,820
 If you lose the game, you lose your best with the best one.

1355
01:22:06,340 --> 01:22:09,120
 But if you win game one, you can get back into it.

1356
01:22:09,300 --> 01:22:11,920
 Or if you win game one, you can win the series with it.

1357
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:14,620
 If you lose game one, you get back into the series, you get to game three.

1358
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:21,340
 Central, Westbrook, Christian split a doubleheader yesterday.

1359
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:28,700
 Westbrook won the first game nine to seven, which actually snubbed a 15-game winning streak

1360
01:22:28,700 --> 01:22:30,700
 for Central.

1361
01:22:31,100 --> 01:22:34,700
 But the Wildcats rallied to win 14 to 10.

1362
01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:38,600
 Josh Fowler and friends are one game away.

1363
01:22:38,700 --> 01:22:41,080
 I believe that game is today at four o'clock.

1364
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:45,420
 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I knew this was going to be a great series.

1365
01:22:46,020 --> 01:22:48,560
 Listen, your thoughts on Westbrook and Central.

1366
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:53,700
 Well, I thought going into the series that Central's velocity pitching-wise

1367
01:22:53,700 --> 01:22:55,740
 was going to be down from what Deschler has.

1368
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:58,840
 Deschler's pitchers said about mid-80s to low-80s.

1369
01:22:59,440 --> 01:23:02,360
 Central's top is like low-80s to high-70s.

1370
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:04,520
 So it's not like it's the same kind of pitching.

1371
01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:08,780
 And Westbrook had to play Madison County and Deschler back-to-back weekend

1372
01:23:08,780 --> 01:23:12,360
 in the playoffs, number one of three teams in PBR's rankings.

1373
01:23:13,140 --> 01:23:15,440
 So you play number one, number three, back-to-back.

1374
01:23:15,620 --> 01:23:16,880
 That's tough on the team also.

1375
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,320
 And two and a half hours up the road is tough as well.

1376
01:23:20,420 --> 01:23:21,640
 And stay in the hotel room.

1377
01:23:21,740 --> 01:23:23,320
 You never know how it goes to the hospital boys.

1378
01:23:24,340 --> 01:23:26,900
 But it's going to be a good game.

1379
01:23:27,080 --> 01:23:28,140
 It should be a good game today.

1380
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:30,820
 All hands on deck as far as who all can throw today,

1381
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:32,620
 as far as who didn't throw yesterday,

1382
01:23:33,160 --> 01:23:35,420
 who still has pitches available with pitch count rules.

1383
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:37,300
 It's going to be all hands on deck, I think.

1384
01:23:37,580 --> 01:23:40,580
 And if the wheels get rolling for Central, they have a chance.

1385
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:41,840
 They should have won game one.

1386
01:23:42,380 --> 01:23:44,340
 They were up seven to four in the top of the seven.

1387
01:23:44,500 --> 01:23:47,720
 And Westbrook scored five back in and go up nine to seven.

1388
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,200
 So Central could have been sitting pretty last night

1389
01:23:50,200 --> 01:23:51,960
 and won both of them and been done today.

1390
01:23:54,640 --> 01:23:58,140
 Listen, you have been watching a ton of softball.

1391
01:23:58,560 --> 01:24:03,100
 Hamilton and Heckelberg advance to the championships next week.

1392
01:24:03,780 --> 01:24:09,700
 I know Langston and Colbert County were one win away from joining them.

1393
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:13,920
 I know Langston hit three inside the park home runs yesterday.

1394
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:16,060
 I saw that on your Twitter feed.

1395
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:20,340
 I got to ask you, by the way, Colbert County's got a pretty good pitcher.

1396
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:25,620
 And I hear a rumor that she had 19 strikeouts this morning.

1397
01:24:26,100 --> 01:24:27,440
 Can you confirm that?

1398
01:24:28,180 --> 01:24:28,560
 Yes.

1399
01:24:28,700 --> 01:24:30,020
 Not just 19 strikeouts.

1400
01:24:30,620 --> 01:24:33,240
 The first 18 outs of the game were all strikeouts.

1401
01:24:33,540 --> 01:24:34,880
 My, in a seven-inning game.

1402
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:36,960
 I mean, win one total out.

1403
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:37,580
 That's hilarious.

1404
01:24:39,020 --> 01:24:44,620
 Yes, and the crazy part is, her season high is 17 in the season until today.

1405
01:24:45,060 --> 01:24:47,500
 So she's been at 17 like four or five times this year.

1406
01:24:47,980 --> 01:24:51,620
 And I told the coach and her dad, I was like, she's stuck at 17 all the time.

1407
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:52,140
 I was like, what?

1408
01:24:52,860 --> 01:24:53,780
 She didn't get 18 or whatever.

1409
01:24:54,440 --> 01:24:55,240
 She had 18 today.

1410
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:55,800
 She didn't get 18.

1411
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,180
 And the first out of the sevens were a ground ball out.

1412
01:24:59,380 --> 01:25:01,920
 And then went through a three-run home run after two hits.

1413
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:04,040
 And then she struck out the last night for 19.

1414
01:25:04,820 --> 01:25:08,320
 But I don't think I've ever seen, and it's probably been a while in the majors,

1415
01:25:08,460 --> 01:25:12,580
 since anybody has struck out the first 18-back they have faced in a game.

1416
01:25:14,260 --> 01:25:16,400
 Who needs defense when you can get them out that way?

1417
01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:20,660
 Talk to us about, we talked earlier, touched on it earlier in the week about,

1418
01:25:20,820 --> 01:25:23,960
 I guess the best way to put it, and when it comes to high school coaches,

1419
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:29,220
 a lot throughout the shows are on the shelf of your reaction to what happened

1420
01:25:29,220 --> 01:25:31,800
 at Brooks, at Florence High, and other Plotterdale County.

1421
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:33,500
 A lot going on.

1422
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:36,740
 So if you want to catch us up to date on what's going on as far as our high school

1423
01:25:36,740 --> 01:25:37,120
 neighbors.

1424
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,460
 Yeah, we'll start at Brooks real quick.

1425
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:40,320
 That's the most recent one.

1426
01:25:40,380 --> 01:25:41,340
 I think everybody's seen.

1427
01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:45,740
 Coach Tim Bowens stepped down from football to take the assistant AD job at

1428
01:25:45,740 --> 01:25:46,160
 Florence.

1429
01:25:47,480 --> 01:25:51,080
 Coach Meyer Miles, people might be familiar with her from Brooks.

1430
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:51,420
 Yep.

1431
01:25:51,940 --> 01:25:53,260
 High level and a few more schools.

1432
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:58,260
 She came back up here as the AD for Florence for the next few years,

1433
01:25:58,480 --> 01:26:00,020
 and Coach Bowens is going to be her assistant AD.

1434
01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:03,780
 I think Florence hit two home runs to those hires.

1435
01:26:04,820 --> 01:26:07,240
 It's a really good program, and when it's good, it's great.

1436
01:26:08,100 --> 01:26:10,560
 And when you can have your biggest school in the area be good,

1437
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:12,840
 it's like a rising tide, that's all both.

1438
01:26:13,460 --> 01:26:17,340
 And then at Lardot County, Coach Jeff Mason is retiring.

1439
01:26:17,700 --> 01:26:22,300
 He's retiring, first off, he has had 15 years up there, I think.

1440
01:26:22,480 --> 01:26:22,660
 Yep.

1441
01:26:22,660 --> 01:26:24,140
 15 or 16 years at Lardot County.

1442
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:24,740
 Yeah, 16.

1443
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:25,320
 Ed coach.

1444
01:26:25,440 --> 01:26:25,620
 Yeah.

1445
01:26:26,420 --> 01:26:26,920
 Thank you.

1446
01:26:27,580 --> 01:26:30,820
 Multiple playoff appearances, made it to the third round a few times,

1447
01:26:30,900 --> 01:26:31,980
 second round a few times.

1448
01:26:32,140 --> 01:26:33,820
 Every year, they're using the playoffs in football.

1449
01:26:34,360 --> 01:26:36,640
 Lardot County is going to be in the playoffs, almost always.

1450
01:26:37,060 --> 01:26:37,280
 Yeah.

1451
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:40,760
 And they made that run a couple of years ago, and baseball made it run also.

1452
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,080
 It's the third round in football and fourth round in baseball.

1453
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:45,320
 Most of the same guys.

1454
01:26:46,420 --> 01:26:51,140
 And then at Mars Hill, Coach Junior Pounders sat down, I think, a few weeks ago

1455
01:26:51,140 --> 01:26:56,880
 and took the girls' job at Southside Gaston for next season over in Gaston.

1456
01:26:57,300 --> 01:26:58,900
 That would be the girls' basketball coach out there.

1457
01:27:00,520 --> 01:27:04,480
 I tell you what, Myra Miles is one of the best athletic directors.

1458
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:07,740
 Harold and I have talked to her a couple of times over the years.

1459
01:27:07,940 --> 01:27:09,480
 She is dynamite.

1460
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:16,520
 Now, also at Florence, they hired former Auburn star, and he played with the Huntsville Stars,

1461
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:17,640
 Hunter Morris.

1462
01:27:18,300 --> 01:27:23,000
 For the baseball coach, tell us a little bit about the baseball hire.

1463
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:26,360
 Yes, I'm not too familiar with him, but I do know this.

1464
01:27:26,580 --> 01:27:29,420
 Florence was a mostly young team this year for baseball.

1465
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:30,920
 They lose a few guys.

1466
01:27:31,100 --> 01:27:32,660
 I know one of the assistant coaches over there.

1467
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:36,100
 Asked him how old one of the players was that had a really good year.

1468
01:27:36,480 --> 01:27:39,000
 He's a sophomore, and the coach put it pretty well.

1469
01:27:39,660 --> 01:27:41,080
 He's a guy that cannot even light up.

1470
01:27:41,440 --> 01:27:43,680
 So, they have a really good young core coming up also.

1471
01:27:44,300 --> 01:27:45,140
 Lose a few seniors.

1472
01:27:45,340 --> 01:27:46,720
 I think they'll be easier to replace.

1473
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:50,980
 The only issue is you get a new 5A now where it's hard, so the Muscle Shoals,

1474
01:27:51,100 --> 01:27:55,180
 the Cater, Coleman, and all those kind of skills around here.

1475
01:27:55,820 --> 01:27:58,200
 It's going to be a gone 5A this year for Florence.

1476
01:27:58,820 --> 01:28:01,120
 Yeah, absolutely.

1477
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,540
 Listen, we sincerely appreciate it.

1478
01:28:03,580 --> 01:28:07,580
 You've been working your butt off this week, and you've got all of the recamps.

1479
01:28:08,340 --> 01:28:13,200
 Baseball, I know you're going to have the third game recap tonight,

1480
01:28:13,940 --> 01:28:19,340
 and also softball, but who is advancing to the championship game.

1481
01:28:19,460 --> 01:28:24,580
 Tell us where we can get the recamps, the players of the game, the schedule,

1482
01:28:24,860 --> 01:28:28,160
 everything else on social media and Facebook.

1483
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:36,300
 Yes, Facebook, Shoals, sports report, and on Twitter, at lowercase, S-H-O-A-L-S-P-O-R-T-S.

1484
01:28:36,740 --> 01:28:41,840
 And we will be live tonight recapping the last three days of softball and the baseball semifinals,

1485
01:28:42,480 --> 01:28:47,100
 as well as having recaps, stats, and basically whatever you could ask for,

1486
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,680
 for previews for State next week, who all is going and what not.

1487
01:28:50,140 --> 01:28:53,940
 Marziel plays in about 10 minutes for a chance to play for a chance at the State.

1488
01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:55,420
 And they've got to win.

1489
01:28:55,540 --> 01:28:59,080
 And Lexington has the game at 3-15 also to advance the State also.

1490
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:01,280
 Man.

1491
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:06,900
 Zach, as they say on the corner, the end is near only a couple of weeks left on the school calendar.

1492
01:29:07,020 --> 01:29:09,260
 So hang in there, and thank you so much for your time today.

1493
01:29:10,140 --> 01:29:10,740
 Thank you all, you too.

1494
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:11,400
 Thank you, buddy.

1495
01:29:11,860 --> 01:29:13,020
 Zach Founders is looking up with us.

1496
01:29:13,140 --> 01:29:15,140
 He's busy there at the Shoals Sports Report.

1497
01:29:15,260 --> 01:29:17,940
 Coming up, pretty busy times down in a place called Tuscaloosa.

1498
01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:19,980
 We'll take you there next with Ryan Fowler.

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 Welcome back in time to take a little road trip down to a place called Tuscaloosa, where Ryan Feller drives you home every afternoon.

1576
01:34:39,480 --> 01:34:42,680
 There is host of the game with Tide 109 FM.

1577
01:34:42,800 --> 01:34:43,820
 Ryan, welcome in.

1578
01:34:43,900 --> 01:34:44,680
 How are you?

1579
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:45,940
 I'm good.

1580
01:34:46,100 --> 01:34:46,600
 I'm good.

1581
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:49,300
 I'm glad I'm not covering Lane Kiffin.

1582
01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:51,960
 That would be a challenge.

1583
01:34:52,300 --> 01:34:54,660
 Because we remember those days in Tuscaloosa, right?

1584
01:34:54,740 --> 01:34:55,540
 I mean, we remember.

1585
01:34:55,820 --> 01:34:56,100
 Oh, yeah.

1586
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:57,540
 Oh, yeah.

1587
01:34:57,700 --> 01:34:58,020
 Wow.

1588
01:34:58,280 --> 01:34:58,520
 Wow.

1589
01:34:58,680 --> 01:35:04,420
 I never forget some of those text messages from the students out partying.

1590
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,480
 And Lane was out there right in the middle of it.

1591
01:35:07,640 --> 01:35:08,920
 Right out there in the middle of it.

1592
01:35:08,980 --> 01:35:10,660
 Was he chaperoning the young girls?

1593
01:35:10,740 --> 01:35:11,980
 Or what was the deal there, Ryan?

1594
01:35:12,020 --> 01:35:12,580
 We didn't get that.

1595
01:35:12,780 --> 01:35:13,040
 Yeah.

1596
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:17,280
 Yeah, that was one of those good old Nick's games.

1597
01:35:17,280 --> 01:35:18,300
 He was such a good guy.

1598
01:35:18,300 --> 01:35:21,000
 I mean, can you imagine the job of Nick Saban?

1599
01:35:21,580 --> 01:35:27,880
 You have Lane one day and Sark the next, and now they're going at it like two kids in the

1600
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:28,620
 fourth grade.

1601
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:32,140
 The mama gave some of them $5 and didn't give the other one $5.

1602
01:35:32,900 --> 01:35:34,460
 Here are multimillionaires.

1603
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:38,440
 They're 50-plus, and can it be said that they're acting like kids?

1604
01:35:39,380 --> 01:35:40,580
 No, no, they're absolutely.

1605
01:35:40,940 --> 01:35:45,380
 And listen, I put some of this responsibility on Greg Sankey.

1606
01:35:45,380 --> 01:35:47,940
 I know I've been hard on him for the last three or four months.

1607
01:35:48,020 --> 01:35:48,700
 No boundaries.

1608
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:50,200
 But he's got to reel this back in.

1609
01:35:50,620 --> 01:35:51,440
 He's got to.

1610
01:35:51,860 --> 01:35:55,980
 I mean, it's his conference because, you know, as the Big Ten sitting up there, they're

1611
01:35:55,980 --> 01:35:57,240
 laughing right now.

1612
01:35:57,660 --> 01:36:04,360
 I mean, they're literally laughing at who's got the worst history because we all live in

1613
01:36:04,360 --> 01:36:04,800
 the South.

1614
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:07,120
 We've all got a history attached to us, right?

1615
01:36:07,780 --> 01:36:09,100
 It's which one's worse.

1616
01:36:09,300 --> 01:36:11,420
 And then they're arguing on academics.

1617
01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:16,460
 And the Big Ten, you know, in the meantime, they're getting their way in every turn that

1618
01:36:16,460 --> 01:36:21,140
 they make, whether it's the 2014 playoff, whether it's certainly winning three in a row.

1619
01:36:21,340 --> 01:36:23,120
 And they're sitting here laughing at us.

1620
01:36:23,660 --> 01:36:26,740
 And we look, and I don't know what's going to change it.

1621
01:36:26,740 --> 01:36:32,520
 I don't know if Greg Sankey, but remember now, he let this get out of control back during

1622
01:36:32,520 --> 01:36:33,240
 the playoffs.

1623
01:36:34,040 --> 01:36:38,360
 I mean, this fight started then, and he could have done something about it.

1624
01:36:38,420 --> 01:36:42,540
 I'm not really, and guys, you guys can take a different approach.

1625
01:36:42,680 --> 01:36:46,460
 We're not conditioned to have the same exact opinion.

1626
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:50,800
 But I've just not been impressed with some of Greg Sankey's latest moves.

1627
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:56,700
 It just seems like he wants to put it on cruise control and just ride this thing, being the

1628
01:36:56,700 --> 01:36:58,860
 next commissioner of college football.

1629
01:36:59,400 --> 01:37:02,040
 Well, he got a lot of momentum from Mike's life.

1630
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:05,760
 He rode that wave a long time, and now it's his baby.

1631
01:37:05,820 --> 01:37:06,620
 He's got to deal with it.

1632
01:37:06,740 --> 01:37:08,760
 But Ryan, just a fun topic here.

1633
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:13,100
 Can you imagine, because there was a big group of people out there, when the change came,

1634
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:16,140
 they wanted Lane Kiffin to be the head football coach at Alabama.

1635
01:37:16,460 --> 01:37:17,900
 He had an option to go to Auburn.

1636
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:23,460
 Can you imagine if Lane had been offered the job at Alabama or if he'd accepted the job at

1637
01:37:23,460 --> 01:37:25,160
 Auburn, what would be in this state right now?

1638
01:37:26,620 --> 01:37:31,940
 No, no, and that's where Greg Byrne, when we talk about leadership, because many times

1639
01:37:31,940 --> 01:37:33,540
 you want to listen to the majority.

1640
01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:37,220
 At least give them a stake, because they are stakeholders, right?

1641
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:41,300
 I mean, give them an understanding that, hey, your opinion is appreciated.

1642
01:37:41,700 --> 01:37:46,720
 We had about 80%, and you guys may have a different percentage, but it's fine, but it was an

1643
01:37:46,720 --> 01:37:53,080
 overwhelming percentage of people who wanted Lane Kiffin to be the next Alabama football

1644
01:37:53,080 --> 01:37:53,360
 coach.

1645
01:37:53,420 --> 01:38:01,060
 January the 10th, 2024, when Nick Saban retired at 4.03 in the afternoon, people wanted

1646
01:38:01,060 --> 01:38:08,820
 Lane Kiffin to come to Tuscaloosa, and Greg Byrne refused the majority and said, no, we're

1647
01:38:08,820 --> 01:38:14,100
 not bringing him back to Tuscaloosa, and that was probably a wake-up call for Lane, because

1648
01:38:14,100 --> 01:38:17,620
 Lane had his eyes on this Alabama job.

1649
01:38:17,740 --> 01:38:21,360
 He wanted this Alabama job, and he didn't even get a phone call.

1650
01:38:21,360 --> 01:38:23,040
 I mean, he didn't even get a sniff.

1651
01:38:23,740 --> 01:38:28,760
 He had to look for another option, and that option was, obviously, LSU.

1652
01:38:29,100 --> 01:38:36,340
 He was looking for a way out, but keep in mind, there was multiple hiring cycles who passed

1653
01:38:36,340 --> 01:38:42,000
 over Lane Kiffin, and it also explains what we're fighting for with Lane Kiffin.

1654
01:38:42,340 --> 01:38:44,980
 I mean, college football fought over Lane Kiffin.

1655
01:38:45,060 --> 01:38:46,420
 Who was going to hire Lane Kiffin?

1656
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:47,860
 You know, Florida wanted him.

1657
01:38:48,120 --> 01:38:49,120
 LSU wanted him.

1658
01:38:49,300 --> 01:38:52,060
 Certainly, Auburn wanted him a couple of years ago.

1659
01:38:52,260 --> 01:38:56,140
 But if you think about Lane Kiffin, what has he really ever done?

1660
01:38:56,440 --> 01:38:59,160
 I mean, he built Ole Miss into a respectable brand.

1661
01:38:59,320 --> 01:38:59,940
 That's fair.

1662
01:39:00,740 --> 01:39:01,900
 And that's hard to do.

1663
01:39:02,740 --> 01:39:08,980
 But if you look at, I think this is all about Lane Kiffin trying to justify.

1664
01:39:09,500 --> 01:39:10,780
 And this is a pattern now.

1665
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:13,620
 You get to the postseason, and what happens?

1666
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:15,240
 He did it with Nick Saban.

1667
01:39:15,820 --> 01:39:17,320
 He's done it now with Ole Miss.

1668
01:39:17,620 --> 01:39:20,180
 And LSU, he'll leave you at some point.

1669
01:39:20,300 --> 01:39:21,540
 We don't know where that day is coming.

1670
01:39:21,540 --> 01:39:26,780
 But he will leave you, or he will do something so irresponsible

1671
01:39:26,780 --> 01:39:30,820
 that LSU has to stand up and make a decision.

1672
01:39:32,180 --> 01:39:33,300
 He did it with Nick Saban.

1673
01:39:33,380 --> 01:39:37,480
 I still think it's Nick Saban, one of his biggest mistakes, of firing Lane,

1674
01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:39,860
 because there was nothing Lane was doing in that last week

1675
01:39:39,860 --> 01:39:43,880
 that he wouldn't do in the previous two and three quarters of a year.

1676
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,320
 It was, I mean, that was who he was.

1677
01:39:47,620 --> 01:39:49,800
 I mean, this is who Lane Kiffin is.

1678
01:39:51,180 --> 01:39:52,440
 Man, what a behavior.

1679
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:53,220
 What a behavior.

1680
01:39:53,500 --> 01:39:57,260
 I hope I don't behave like that at 51 or 41.

1681
01:39:57,640 --> 01:39:59,220
 I didn't behave like that at 41.

1682
01:39:59,420 --> 01:40:04,060
 But, I mean, 51 years of age, still acting like a child.

1683
01:40:05,920 --> 01:40:06,400
 Wow.

1684
01:40:06,780 --> 01:40:12,180
 And remember now, Lane Kiffin also tried to fabricate a police story

1685
01:40:12,180 --> 01:40:15,180
 over in Ole Miss.

1686
01:40:15,260 --> 01:40:17,480
 Now, some of that was kind of swept under the rug

1687
01:40:17,480 --> 01:40:19,000
 because it was the playoff time.

1688
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:24,460
 But remember now, he accused Ole Miss fans of running him off the road.

1689
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,040
 Now, see, there was investigations done on that,

1690
01:40:27,240 --> 01:40:28,680
 and none of that was ever proven.

1691
01:40:29,060 --> 01:40:30,500
 That was a false report.

1692
01:40:30,820 --> 01:40:35,780
 And if Harold or Ryan or Brett did that, there would be criminal charges.

1693
01:40:36,160 --> 01:40:36,520
 Mm-hmm.

1694
01:40:36,640 --> 01:40:36,820
 Yeah.

1695
01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:43,560
 So, if I was Lane, I'd be careful about poking too many folks up in Mississippi

1696
01:40:43,560 --> 01:40:46,020
 because, I mean, he literally made a police report

1697
01:40:46,020 --> 01:40:48,320
 and said he was run off the road by Ole Miss fans.

1698
01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:48,960
 That never happened.

1699
01:40:50,020 --> 01:40:51,680
 I mean, you guys remember that, right?

1700
01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:52,020
 Yeah.

1701
01:40:52,480 --> 01:40:52,860
 I do, yeah.

1702
01:40:52,860 --> 01:40:55,120
 I mean, multiple reporters followed up on that.

1703
01:40:55,280 --> 01:40:55,460
 Yeah.

1704
01:40:55,900 --> 01:40:58,880
 Remember, Lane, those statute of limitations are still in place.

1705
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:02,020
 They can always go back and slap those on you

1706
01:41:02,020 --> 01:41:03,900
 because you made a false report.

1707
01:41:04,300 --> 01:41:04,700
 Absolutely.

1708
01:41:04,960 --> 01:41:08,980
 But, listen, let me ask you about three minutes before we get to the PGA update.

1709
01:41:09,620 --> 01:41:14,280
 How much buzz is there for Alabama Ole Miss baseball tonight,

1710
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:19,280
 Alabama softball tomorrow, 12 p.m. on the SEC Network?

1711
01:41:19,380 --> 01:41:21,780
 In fact, you can hear it on 93.9 The Score.

1712
01:41:22,620 --> 01:41:25,400
 What's the buzz for baseball and softball this week?

1713
01:41:26,100 --> 01:41:28,860
 Well, I mean, baseball, certainly, we haven't really got into baseball.

1714
01:41:28,980 --> 01:41:30,980
 We did feature Coach Patrick Murphy.

1715
01:41:31,220 --> 01:41:34,760
 There's been, listen, oh, this is going to sound like a shot.

1716
01:41:35,680 --> 01:41:38,640
 We get more calls around softball than we ever do.

1717
01:41:38,820 --> 01:41:39,360
 There you go.

1718
01:41:40,260 --> 01:41:42,600
 I mean, people just have a bigger interest.

1719
01:41:42,600 --> 01:41:49,780
 And I think it's crazy that it's more of an entertaining value

1720
01:41:49,780 --> 01:41:53,200
 because softball is such a fast-moving, you know,

1721
01:41:53,360 --> 01:41:57,000
 you can go out there and watch a game in a little bit over two hours,

1722
01:41:57,080 --> 01:42:00,240
 an hour 45 if it's two great pitchers going toe-to-toe.

1723
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:03,620
 But if you look back and you think about Alabama softball,

1724
01:42:03,820 --> 01:42:09,880
 Patrick Murphy, I think it's 25 or 26 straight regionals

1725
01:42:10,180 --> 01:42:13,140
 that he has participated in his 28th year.

1726
01:42:14,140 --> 01:42:16,080
 Once again, number one seed.

1727
01:42:16,620 --> 01:42:19,420
 And see, this Alabama softball team, they've got a chance to win it all.

1728
01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:22,820
 But now listen, let's go be fair to baseball for just a couple of minutes.

1729
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:24,640
 They win this weekend.

1730
01:42:24,900 --> 01:42:26,820
 They could be sitting there in one of those four spots.

1731
01:42:26,820 --> 01:42:27,420
 That's right.

1732
01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:31,700
 In the SEC tournament there in Hoover.

1733
01:42:31,860 --> 01:42:35,060
 So if you just kind of backtrack a little bit,

1734
01:42:35,600 --> 01:42:40,500
 that's an option for this Alabama baseball team.

1735
01:42:40,880 --> 01:42:42,300
 You know, I know it depends on everybody else,

1736
01:42:42,380 --> 01:42:44,820
 but if you go take care of business, you're in the driver's seat.

1737
01:42:44,820 --> 01:42:51,500
 So you can take full advantage of this weekend if Alabama baseball can take care of the Ole Miss Rebels.

1738
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:52,440
 Absolutely.

1739
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:54,740
 Listen, we've got to run to the update,

1740
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 but where can we get online to listen to your great show this afternoon?

1741
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 Yeah, tide109.com.

1742
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1743
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 We do it every day, starting 2 until 6.

1744
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 And always, always appreciate you guys.

1745
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 Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of the show.

1746
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 Have a great weekend.

1747
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 You too, buddy.

1748
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1773
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 60 degrees, but the sun is out.

1774
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 And so is last year's PGA champion Scotty Scheffler, who opens with two pars.

1775
01:44:37,820 --> 01:44:39,520
 Cameron Young with a birdie at three.

1776
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 He is one under, two back.

1777
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:43,920
 Four players share the lead at three under.

1778
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 Aldrich Potkeeter, Steven Yeager, Minwoo Lee, and Ryo Hisatsune all shoot 67.

1779
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:54,000
 Garrick Higgo would be tied for the lead if he wasn't late for his morning tee time.

1780
01:44:54,340 --> 01:44:56,180
 Higgo penalized two strokes.

1781
01:44:56,540 --> 01:44:58,640
 He still fired a one under 69.

1782
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 Rory McIlroy stumbles to a four over 74, including four straight bogeys to close the round.

1783
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1784
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1785
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 Bryson DeChambeau, six over 76.

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1865
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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Welcome back here.

1867
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 Quickly, BB, did you catch the word that Roy McIlroy's

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 in his post-tournament press conference,

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 what was the word that you can't utter on the radio?

1870
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 Well, if I uttered the word, Harold, we'd probably be fined

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 and lose the FCC license, so I'm going to pass on that.

1872
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 I was just wondering if it was sugar, but maybe we can check on that.

1873
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 Have you seen the video of the day from Oxford?

1874
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 This is Pete Golding, and he's doing something,

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 getting ready for recruits coming into Ole Miss.

1876
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 He is weaving a basket with Ole Miss on front.

1877
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 Steve Sarkees hasn't seen that yet, BB.

1878
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 I doubt it, but yeah, that's been one of the comments of the week.

1879
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 I would imagine Greg Sanky is going to have a talk

1880
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 with the SEC coaches in two weeks.

1881
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 We need to have a listen tonight.

1882
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 One of the best pitching matchups of the year here on 93.9 The Score, BB.

1883
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 Yeah, Mr. Sale is pitching game three.

1884
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 The Braves have already won the series over the Cubs.

1885
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 They can sweep them tonight, and if you think, Harold,

1886
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 his ERA is what, 2.1?

1887
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 The Cubs can change.

1888
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 Yeah, the Cubs pitcher is what, 1.8?

1889
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 Yeah, Brown.

1890
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 He's on the mound, and both of them have a whip under one.

1891
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 By the way, if you see that name on the screen, whip,

1892
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 that means anything under one.

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 It's like golf.

1894
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 The smaller the number, the better.

1895
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 So, both of them are under one, which means they're having Cy Young Award

1896
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 seasons so far.

1897
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 See what gives tonight.

1898
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 Later on, you're on 93.9 The Score.

1899
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 That's going to take care of us for now.

1900
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 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here, Harold Bogg.

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 Thank you so much for your time today.

1902
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 Let's do it again next time.

1903
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 Noon to 2 for the Boomhole Buck Show.

1904
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 Back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.