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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in where Alabama keeps it down home because on the recruiting trail

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 and the Big Orange loses a big piece of their defensive puzzle.

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 The Braves had a terrible month of June and Bill Shanks is going to tell us why.

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 I kind of feel like the odd man out here from one Brett to another Brett.

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 Brett Greenberg is the recruiting guru with Bama 24-7, part of the 24-7 sports family.

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 Brett, welcome in.

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 Kyle, like you guys just said, I'm ready for this calendar to 5th of July because it has been a brutal month for the Atlanta Braves,

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 Man, I think, you know what, Brett, just before, obviously, we're going to get into the topic de jure here,

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 I'm trying to ignore these Phillies and how hot they are, but they're inching closer, which I never, ever like to take.

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 Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Brett, your bailiwick commitments for Alabama football.

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 Your thoughts about, correct me from wrong, but the 12th commitment for this class,

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 and basically Alabama didn't have to spend a lot of money, they didn't have to go to Hawaii to get them, did they?

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 You're referring to Jeremy Beverly, who made this decision to commit to Alabama on Friday morning out of Hillcrest, Tuscaloosa.

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 And, you know, we talk about it a lot, I know you guys do, and I bring it up, so you want guys that want to be part of the program,

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 They just want to put on that crimson and white, and he's a perfect, perfect example of that.

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 Had kind of constant contact with Christian Robinson over the last couple years and earned that offer on campus on June 8th, and it was done from there.

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 He felt like that, you know, his lifelong opportunity, his lifelong dream was checked, so he went ahead and committed to Alabama.

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 I'm going to walk into that facility with a smile on my face and just know that I have an opportunity that a lot of other people in his position, especially locally, don't have.

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 Brad, it's been a good week for Alabama as far as sheer numbers of recruits committing.

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 Brett, I was listening to it here.

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 For the critics of this class who's saying three-star after three-star, Brett, what does this coaching staff know that recruiting fanatics do not know?

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 It was a big haul this year where there are as many marquee guys that, you know, Alabama fans would have liked.

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 I would probably agree with no, but I think they're showing they're going to allocate a little bit more money into the portal and getting, you know, a proven defense alignment, if you will, with years of experience rather than paying kind of a similar price for a high schooler that, you know, hasn't played a snap college football yet.

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 When he canceled his official visits to Tennessee and Notre Dame, I said, hmm, he may be a big priority for Alabama and has been.

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 It appears the tea leaves say he's going to choose Alabama.

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 And he continues to, you know, make plays out there and press the 247 sports scouting team.

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 I think, you know, I could already see, you know, you get a commitment from O'Sonny Gales.

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 What does it mean for Monson?

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 I want to, you know, O'Sonny Gales has every point, every potential to be in that five-star ranking by the time the final rankings are released in January.

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 Kind of that Swiss Army Knights, going to play that slot at Alabama, should he choose Alabama.

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 I know that's a strong comparison, but a lot of people have mentioned that to me.

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 But everybody I've talked to over the last couple weeks continues to feel more and more confident that the Crimson Tide are going to get O'Sonny Gales,

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 He said to commit on July 4th, Mississippi State and Maryland are kind of the other two shooters.

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 Those guys are completely shut down, are going to be at every home game this year.

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 You always like to see that.

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 You're going to have the absolute latest, Maura, on O'Sonny Gales.

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 Tell us where we can get online.

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 And you keep us updated just as fast as you can.

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 And number one, online, where can we find you?

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 Number two, Junior Tupo from Thompson, a tremendous defensive back.

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 We'll choose at 3 o'clock today from Texas, Alabama, Indiana, Auburn, and Oregon.

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 I know Alabama was in there for a while, but I think the Texas NIL may eventually win him over, if not Oregon.

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 Where can we find you online, and where do you think Tupo announces this afternoon?

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 So we've got a bunch of things on there, a bunch of topics, who could be next, as we talked about.

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 But you mentioned Junior Tupo, who is an outstanding, outstanding safety, 6'3", 190-plus pounds, out of Thompson High School.

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 Alabama's already got Trent Seaborn out of the national.

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 they've got some deep pockets over at Texas.

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 So, again, nothing's for certain, but I put a little note on Thursday night that I feel like the Longhorns are going to eventually get that one done.

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 There's a long way to go until December.

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 You've got Trent Seaborn, like I mentioned, in his year daily, and he's, you know, 45 minutes from campus.

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 So, a potential trip in the fall, despite, you know, potentially being committed to Texas, wouldn't be surprising.

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 The power of gold, as they say.

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 Brad, listen, man, it's always good to catch up with you.

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 How are you?

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 Hey, I'm doing great today, guys.

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 How are you doing?

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 Hey, Boone.

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 Man, we're doing all right.

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 You know, anytime there's a, how can we put this, a juicy job opening up in the world of

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 college basketball, especially if it's got roots to the state of Michigan, we know what

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 name pops up to Tuscaloosa.

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 So, Michael, your thoughts about Nate Oates, and to me, this is the way when your name

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 comes up and you're trying to build momentum, is it safe to say that Nate Oates knows how

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 really raging?

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 I mean, they already put this to arrest months ago, so this is a non-story.

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 I believe he already swatted it down already on ESPN radio.

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 Guys, let me ask you this.

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 Did you ever think you would see the day when the basketball coach has a higher buyout than

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 the football coach?

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 The times, they are changing.

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 That, to me, guys, that's the most shocking thing out there.

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 I never thought I would ever see anything like that, but, I mean, as far as college jobs are

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 rumblings about, maybe to be concerned one day, but always depends on circumstance and timing,

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 like anything else, the Michigan State, I'm not even concerned about Michigan.

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 As we joked about that, that buyout is pretty substantial, and again, he has made it clear

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 that he is very happy here.

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 He has gotten the commitment.

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 Now, obviously, you know, the basketball team is like the football team.

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 They're not going to outbid anybody.

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 They're going to be competitive.

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 They're going to sell you on the program of development, and this is where we can best

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 So, I think he's got everything that he wants right now, and I think he's very happy, and

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 again, he's still got two daughters that are still not in college, so that's another part

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 of everything that kind of keeps him tied to the area for right now.

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 Michael, that may be the most important part.

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 Any dad out there with two daughters knows, don't sit here and take that point lightly,

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 and he probably remembers those winters in Michigan, and the winters compared to Tuscaloosa.

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 He usually doesn't happen at all.

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 And the top money up there, too.

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 There's no doubt about that.

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 The buyout for Nate Oates, and again, this goes back to Greg Byrne nipping this in the bud

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 a couple of months ago.

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 Nate Oates' buyout is $15 million.

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 Now, that jumped once he signed a $7.25 million contract.

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 Now, one thing Nate Oates does really well is put players in the NBA draft.

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 Was he actually picked a little lower than you thought he would be?

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 So technically, maybe he slipped a little bit.

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 But I got to tell you, even though that's kind of a crowded backcourt with Tyrese Maxey and

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 Vijay Edgecombe, I actually like the fact that he fell to a contender.

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 Granted, they have injury issues themselves when it comes to Joel Embiid, but I like the

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 fact that, look, we know what kind of town Philadelphia is.

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 It's a good-sized media market.

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 It's not the largest, but it's one of the larger ones, and it is a blue-collar town.

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 So who is the best embodiment of blue-collar grittiness than LeBaron Phylon?

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 I mean, the guy practically had to beg and fight his way to Tuscaloosa via Auburn and

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 We know that's a blue-collar town.

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 One thing about it, you better be good up there, because this is a town that booed back

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 They're not shy up there, Michael.

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 So he's got to perform every night.

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 Michael, your thoughts.

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 If you follow Alabama basketball, that's been about as big an enemy for Alabama basketball

440
00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:40,060
 as the season itself.

441
00:26:40,580 --> 00:26:42,320
 Schedules, Don, and talk about that.

442
00:26:42,860 --> 00:26:48,100
 But what would be different this offseason to keep the injury bug from biting Alabama

443
00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:48,860
 from the word go?

444
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,180
 Well, I mean, you know, like anything else, once fall camp starts, you know, all bets are

445
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 off.

446
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:55,460
 That's when all the injuries happen.

447
00:26:55,460 --> 00:26:57,940
 You know they go like full contact karate.

448
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,220
 They don't hold back.

449
00:26:59,220 --> 00:26:59,640
 They do.

450
00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:02,520
 I mean, they're diving for loose balls.

451
00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:05,120
 I mean, he wants them to instinctively just go after it.

452
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,900
 So, I mean, that's why he recruits the way he does.

453
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,680
 He wants to have, basically, you'll see in the non-conference schedule, guys, remember,

454
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,720
 he plays 10 to 12 players in the non-conference, because that's what he's wanting.

455
00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:16,640
 He wants the depth.

456
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 He wants the experience.

457
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 He wants them to hustle.

458
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 And he wants them to earn their spot.

459
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 So, I don't think anything's going to change from that.

460
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,040
 You know, I was looking at the SEC schedule, the home and away.

461
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:27,620
 Obviously, we don't know the dates yet.

462
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,920
 But, you know, this is a daunting road schedule, depending on how it falls with the dates.

463
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:34,960
 But this is going to be tough.

464
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,100
 I really think this basketball team has the potential to be a better team, but could have

465
00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:40,740
 a worse record just based on the schedule.

466
00:27:41,740 --> 00:27:45,240
 So, I mean, you already know you're at Arkansas and Auburn.

467
00:27:45,660 --> 00:27:47,380
 Mississippi State, eh, not worried about that.

468
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,460
 But you're at Tennessee for the fifth year in a row.

469
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 You're at Kentucky.

470
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 You're at both Texas schools.

471
00:27:52,220 --> 00:27:54,220
 And both Texas schools are rising like a rocket.

472
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:56,340
 So, those are going to be two tough trips.

473
00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:58,420
 And then you say, well, you got Florida at home.

474
00:27:58,820 --> 00:27:59,500
 Well, you know what?

475
00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:03,840
 This year, I would have no problem if they played at Gainesville again.

476
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,660
 If you give me one of those Texas schools back in Tuscaloosa, I would swap that.

477
00:28:07,060 --> 00:28:08,200
 But you can't do it.

478
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,000
 So, we'll see how it falls.

479
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,800
 So, it is a very, very difficult road schedule this year for the basketball team.

480
00:28:15,220 --> 00:28:16,100
 Boy, it sure is.

481
00:28:16,220 --> 00:28:18,100
 And they've got Tennessee and Knoxville again.

482
00:28:18,220 --> 00:28:26,680
 I think that's in the SEC bylaws that Alabama basketball plays in Knoxville every frigging year.

483
00:28:27,660 --> 00:28:34,980
 Tide Hoops History, the 32-part series of Nate Oates Technicals, number 26.

484
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:37,700
 Nate Oates slams a clipboard.

485
00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:41,200
 And one of the officials did not miss it.

486
00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:47,380
 And I thought when I saw Don Daly, who's an Alabama all-time favorite as far as an official,

487
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 would slap Nate with a T.

488
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,500
 It was someone else.

489
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:53,780
 But you've had a great series here.

490
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,760
 This was a game in Missouri that Missouri won actually going away.

491
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,780
 But it was the infamous slamming or hitting the clipboard.

492
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:03,800
 Yeah.

493
00:29:04,140 --> 00:29:07,960
 So, remember, Missouri caught Alabama at the most perfect time.

494
00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:10,740
 It was a midweek home game for Missouri.

495
00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:15,360
 And Alabama was already coming off that tough home loss to Auburn in that monumental one versus two.

496
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,400
 So, you knew they were going to be a little bit flat.

497
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,220
 But, yes, the infamous slamming the clipboard when that happened.

498
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,100
 So, that was a pretty big event.

499
00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:24,180
 We were joking.

500
00:29:24,460 --> 00:29:29,420
 You know, when I go back and I've done this and I look at the – you know, I list the officials for each game.

501
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:30,820
 You know, you can tell.

502
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,040
 Like, there's some of the games where you basically have, like, Doug Shows and Don Daly.

503
00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:35,340
 Right.

504
00:29:35,380 --> 00:29:37,040
 Or you have Don Daly and Pat Adams.

505
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:37,360
 Yep.

506
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:44,260
 And I'm thinking, like, oh, good Lord, if you ever see a lineup with any of those two in it, you know there's a key coming for Nate O's.

507
00:29:44,340 --> 00:29:45,060
 It's a given.

508
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:51,040
 And, heaven forbid, it's like the officiating trinity of if you had Doug Shows, Pat Adams.

509
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:51,580
 Oh, Lord.

510
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:52,680
 And Don Daly.

511
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,140
 Shoot, Nate will get ejected.

512
00:29:54,220 --> 00:29:55,560
 He'll be ejected before halftime.

513
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:58,560
 That's exactly correct.

514
00:29:58,980 --> 00:29:59,740
 Great stuff.

515
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,160
 Listen, where can we – we always enjoy the conversation.

516
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,640
 Where can we get online to get all your good stuff?

517
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:06,620
 Oh, yeah.

518
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:13,600
 So, we've got six more installments left for the Nate O's to, you know, look at all the technical files they had.

519
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 So, six more to go.

520
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 So, come on out there.

521
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 And you can catch up on the other ones, too.

522
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 But we're at Bama History on X.

523
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 So, come take a look.

524
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 We've had a blast doing this.

525
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 And I've had a lot of fun splicing together the video packages, too.

526
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 Some of the stuff I'd actually forgot how funny some of it was.

527
00:30:28,180 --> 00:30:29,180
 So, it's been really good.

528
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:33,540
 He's going to have to open up a fresh can come this season.

529
00:30:33,660 --> 00:30:35,400
 Michael sees some fresh stuff next season.

530
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:37,040
 As always, good to catch up with you.

531
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:37,800
 Thank you so much.

532
00:30:37,860 --> 00:30:39,360
 Have a great and safe weekend, Michael.

533
00:30:40,060 --> 00:30:40,340
 All right.

534
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:40,860
 You, too, guys.

535
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,020
 Take care.

536
00:30:41,020 --> 00:30:41,440
 Thank you, bud.

537
00:30:41,980 --> 00:30:44,120
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542
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648
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 Bill Shanks, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 I'm doing well.

651
00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:07,560
 Good afternoon.

652
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 Hey, Boone.

653
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 Bill, Braves fans are spelling the Braves, T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

654
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 Obviously, a lot of questions, a lot of injuries.

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 Baseball fans, longtime baseball fans know it's a rollercoaster sport.

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 It's not a sprint.

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 It's a marathon.

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 You've got some highs.

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 You've got some lows.

660
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 Bill, where are you as far as being a longtime baseball fan with this latest chapter of the

661
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 Braves in June?

662
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 Well, they're in trouble.

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 I mean, I think when you've lost six and a half games in the standings and you've gone

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 from a ten and a half game lead to a four game lead, you're in trouble.

665
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 The midway point of the season is tomorrow night.

666
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 After the game in San Francisco, there'll be a game 81.

667
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 So we'll be halfway through the regular season.

668
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 First part of it was great.

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 Now, the last 20 games have been rough and the last 13 games have been rougher.

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 So they've got to snap out of this pretty pronto or if not, they're going to look up and

672
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 see the Phillies in first place by the All-Star break.

673
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 Well, if there's ever a chance to do it, it would be this weekend.

674
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 Let's face it.

675
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 The Giants have got all kinds of problems.

676
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 Time permitted, we can talk about some of that stuff on the field and off.

677
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 But if the Braves need a reset here, as you mentioned, near the halfway mark of the

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 regular season, this is a golden opportunity.

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680
00:38:27,020 --> 00:38:29,140
 Well, they've just kind of played better ball.

681
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:32,460
 And their pitching has been pretty brutal.

682
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:38,360
 In the month of June, the starting pitcher, ERA, is 5.72.

683
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:45,620
 You combine that with the fact they're last in baseball in runs scored and in home runs and

684
00:38:45,620 --> 00:38:49,660
 in OBP and in OPS, and that's going to give you a bad record.

685
00:38:49,660 --> 00:38:54,180
 They're probably lucky they're not worse than they are at 8-11 in the month of June.

686
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,220
 And they lost the last game of May, so they're 8-12 in their final last 20 games.

687
00:38:58,540 --> 00:39:02,460
 So they're probably lucky it's not worse than that, to be honest with you, considering those

688
00:39:02,460 --> 00:39:03,400
 two stats.

689
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:08,700
 So, yeah, they just have Ron Acuna's out.

690
00:39:09,460 --> 00:39:11,160
 We've got Eli White in the right field.

691
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:13,520
 So we're dealing with the same kind of thing we dealt with last year.

692
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:20,960
 When you have to call on your reserves, your bench, to play more than they need to, to play

693
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,700
 where they're...

694
00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:25,820
 I mean, Eli White is a very good reserve, but when you have to start it, you're in trouble.

695
00:39:26,180 --> 00:39:28,460
 For example, you know, that's kind of part of it.

696
00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:33,100
 And you could get by with that maybe for a couple days, but when it's an extended period

697
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:38,080
 of time and your lineup is that drastically impacted by it, and not to mention the fact

698
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,200
 that you have a shortstop, who I call Kardashian, because he's real expensive and he's worthless.

699
00:39:43,260 --> 00:39:47,880
 And, you know, I think you couple that $20 million being down the drain, you've got a

700
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:48,220
 problem.

701
00:39:48,980 --> 00:39:56,740
 One of the stats I always look at is scoring with runners in scoring position.

702
00:39:57,460 --> 00:40:01,100
 They're hitting 154 in the last 13 games.

703
00:40:01,220 --> 00:40:03,760
 They're 14-491.

704
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,800
 Now, I know Drake Baldwin came back and hit the longest home run in the major leagues, and

705
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,720
 since then, he's about one for 31 with 19 strikeouts.

706
00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:20,180
 And as you mentioned, with Acuna being out, I mean, it just kind of piled on top of each

707
00:40:20,180 --> 00:40:20,560
 other.

708
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:26,720
 But that's the one thing I always look at, is they get runners in scoring position and they

709
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:27,880
 just can't drive them in.

710
00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:32,340
 Well, they're just not a very dangerous lineup right now.

711
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:38,680
 They just, you know, Baldwin was brought back after one, he had one...

712
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:38,820
 Yeah.

713
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:45,920
 ...game in his rehab stint down in Jacksonville for AAA Gwinnett, hit a home run in that game,

714
00:40:45,940 --> 00:40:47,840
 and they're like, oh, well, he's fine.

715
00:40:47,940 --> 00:40:48,940
 Let's just bring you back.

716
00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:52,560
 Hit a home run in his first at-bat, the longest home run in baseball this year.

717
00:40:52,660 --> 00:40:54,540
 Everybody's like, oh, well, he didn't need to be down there.

718
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,920
 And now he can't hit, and you're like, well, maybe you should have left him down there a

719
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:58,420
 little bit longer.

720
00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,160
 So, you know, there's just a rush on all these things.

721
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:07,000
 You've got to rush the pitchers, you've got to rush the batters back from injuries, and so

722
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:07,840
 that was a mistake.

723
00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:13,440
 But, you know, the problem was they weren't getting any help at catcher from Sandy Leon

724
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,060
 and the others.

725
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,720
 They paraded in and out of there.

726
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,300
 Austin, whatever his name was, I mean, it's been hard to keep up with it.

727
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,940
 And now they have Joey Bart, who is the former number one overall pick, or excuse me, number

728
00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:28,120
 two overall pick out of Georgia Tech for San Francisco.

729
00:41:28,380 --> 00:41:29,080
 Played at Pittsburgh.

730
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:29,980
 They fired him.

731
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,240
 He had a home run the other night, so he's a little bit better option.

732
00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:36,980
 But, you know, they rushed Drake Baldwin, and they paid for it.

733
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,480
 And so, you know, the last two years have been awful.

734
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,560
 They've fallen apart, and injuries are a big reason for that.

735
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:46,440
 And you know what?

736
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,000
 I hate to say it, but here we go again.

737
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:48,320
 Yep.

738
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,320
 Check out Bill Shanks, leadsuperstations.com.

739
00:41:52,380 --> 00:41:56,060
 Bill, the other thing, too, that's going to be interesting this year compared to years

740
00:41:56,060 --> 00:41:59,940
 past, and that is, let's face it, you basically got a brand new manager.

741
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:01,700
 It's not like his first rodeo.

742
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,640
 As a skipper, I had time back in the day with Colorado, but this is going to be a test, because

743
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,820
 it's easy to sit here, and people point fingers in the clubhouse.

744
00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:13,960
 It's up to Walt Weiss' decision to say, guys, look, the sky's not falling.

745
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,040
 We're having a rough period.

746
00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:16,680
 We had a good period.

747
00:42:16,780 --> 00:42:19,180
 So it shows you that you can be up, you can be down.

748
00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:24,280
 Your thoughts just about how Weiss is going to handle this chapter to keep him in, and hopefully

749
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,640
 soon to get him back on track.

750
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:33,200
 Well, he had a team meeting, evidently, right when they were kind of going good, and everybody

751
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:38,120
 was like, well, that was probably a good thing to have that kind of reaction to trying to

752
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:45,020
 keep him somewhat level-headed and everything, and then I would imagine there's been a meeting

753
00:42:45,020 --> 00:42:54,080
 or two since then, but he's also got hope that there's some leadership in that clubhouse.

754
00:42:54,180 --> 00:42:54,800
 Who are the leaders?

755
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,320
 We asked this question last year.

756
00:42:56,380 --> 00:42:57,620
 Who are the leaders in that clubhouse?

757
00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:00,640
 I don't know who they are, and so that's the problem.

758
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:07,440
 That is the problem right there, and so they just got to figure that out, and I really don't

759
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,140
 know who it is.

760
00:43:08,380 --> 00:43:09,220
 I don't.

761
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:10,040
 I wish I did.

762
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:11,220
 I mean, maybe I'm wrong.

763
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,620
 Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know if there is one.

764
00:43:13,620 --> 00:43:19,640
 That's why five years ago, he had to go get one with Jock Peterson, who was kind of your

765
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,220
 SOB, for lack of a better term, that could kind of go through the clubhouse and start

766
00:43:23,220 --> 00:43:25,860
 pointing fingers and not care if somebody said, who are you?

767
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:30,200
 Well, he would say, I'm Jock Peterson, and I'm telling you, you know, I mean, I have that

768
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,460
 sometime in a clubhouse.

769
00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:34,000
 Regardless of the sport, regardless of the level, he's going to have that.

770
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,900
 At least the perception, you know him better than we do, Bill.

771
00:43:36,900 --> 00:43:39,340
 You would think that he would step up and take over that role.

772
00:43:39,340 --> 00:43:41,920
 Well, maybe he's just a Mr. Nice Guy.

773
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:43,780
 No, he doesn't have that personality.

774
00:43:44,220 --> 00:43:46,700
 I mean, he just doesn't.

775
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:48,240
 You know, there's some people who can do that.

776
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,360
 He's a follower, yeah.

777
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:51,600
 Well, I'm not saying he's a follower.

778
00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:57,260
 I just don't think he's got that demonstrative personality to take the reins and, you know,

779
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:02,220
 sometimes you do need somebody to go throw something in the clubhouse to get p***** off.

780
00:44:03,220 --> 00:44:04,800
 They didn't have that last year.

781
00:44:05,340 --> 00:44:06,220
 Like a Reggie Jackson.

782
00:44:07,860 --> 00:44:10,060
 Well, you know, sometimes it's not a bad thing.

783
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:16,920
 And you go through and look, and I'm not trying to be graphic here, but I mean, sometimes a team

784
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:22,080
 needs an SOB, sometimes you need somebody, and there's no other way to put it.

785
00:44:22,140 --> 00:44:25,600
 You can say, well, it does not mean that he's a bad guy, right?

786
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:32,220
 It just means someone who can kind of be that guy who's like, man, what a son of a guy.

787
00:44:32,580 --> 00:44:34,580
 And it's like, okay, who is that?

788
00:44:34,780 --> 00:44:39,000
 And because you do need, I asked Mike Kastrzemski in spring training, because of the situation

789
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:43,560
 that happened last year, I asked him, I said, look, you're a new, you're a veteran.

790
00:44:44,220 --> 00:44:45,920
 Can you be that type of player?

791
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,200
 And he said, well, you know, you have to kind of read the clubhouse a little bit.

792
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:56,320
 You don't know if you can kind of stand up and be a new guy.

793
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:57,620
 You have to kind of feel your way.

794
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:03,860
 How he feels now after being there for four months, I don't know, you know, but it is kind

795
00:45:03,860 --> 00:45:07,380
 of a dicey situation because you don't want people to say, well, who the heck is he?

796
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,140
 You know, but you've got to have that guy who doesn't care.

797
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:15,560
 You've got to have that guy who, I mean, John Peterson, I can't hold him in high regard

798
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:20,080
 for what happened in 2021 over everybody in uniform.

799
00:45:20,420 --> 00:45:21,280
 And I'm not kidding.

800
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:26,240
 They would not have won the World Series if not, you know, Soler and Rosario and Tyler

801
00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:28,840
 Magic and Max Freed and Freddie, fine.

802
00:45:29,380 --> 00:45:32,180
 But they're all contributing, they're all part of the story.

803
00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:33,160
 There's no question.

804
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,900
 They would not have won that World Series without John Peterson, period, in the story.

805
00:45:38,060 --> 00:45:40,700
 Partly because he was that SOB.

806
00:45:41,100 --> 00:45:45,480
 Tell me your thoughts on the starting rotation.

807
00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:46,600
 Grant Holmes.

808
00:45:47,100 --> 00:45:47,280
 Yeah.

809
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,820
 Grant Holmes at times can be solid.

810
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,320
 Bryce Elder's turned into Bryce Elder.

811
00:45:53,980 --> 00:45:57,220
 Lopez pitches tonight, which I know that thrills you.

812
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,440
 Chris Sale's still one of the best pitchers in the game.

813
00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:01,600
 And I'm like you.

814
00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:02,840
 I like J.R.

815
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,500
 Ritchie very much, but he's got to throw strikes.

816
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,080
 And I think they've sent him down.

817
00:46:08,180 --> 00:46:09,540
 Your thoughts on the starters?

818
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:12,180
 Well, number one, sending J.R.

819
00:46:12,220 --> 00:46:13,140
 Ritchie down is stupid.

820
00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:14,020
 Yeah, I agree.

821
00:46:14,020 --> 00:46:16,960
 Young pitchers on a yo-yo is not going to help them.

822
00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:17,520
 Yeah.

823
00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:18,280
 You're confident.

824
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:18,820
 Yep.

825
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,260
 Number two, Reynaldo Lopez starting tonight is stupid.

826
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,060
 You had him in the bullpen because he couldn't go deep in games.

827
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:29,400
 You think he's all of a sudden, I mean, you think he's going to go more than four innings

828
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:29,820
 tonight?

829
00:46:29,940 --> 00:46:30,180
 Yeah.

830
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:30,940
 I'll be shocked.

831
00:46:31,060 --> 00:46:31,220
 Yeah.

832
00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:36,840
 I mean, they've had one pitcher all month go more than 6.0 innings.

833
00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:37,480
 Wow.

834
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:41,420
 And Bryce Elder in the first game of the month of June on June the 2nd.

835
00:46:41,540 --> 00:46:41,700
 Yeah.

836
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,380
 All the rest of them have been below six innings.

837
00:46:44,980 --> 00:46:50,320
 And half, rather, I'm sorry, 10 of the 19 games, they've had a pitcher go five innings

838
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,240
 or less as a starting pitcher.

839
00:46:52,460 --> 00:46:52,720
 Mm-hmm.

840
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:58,360
 This rotation has, thank God it hadn't ruined the bullpen yet because it's unusual for your

841
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:05,560
 rotation to be so good at 5.7, or rather so bad at 5.72 ERA, and your bullpen ERA to

842
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:06,920
 be the best in baseball.

843
00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:09,060
 Because usually you're going to wear your bullpen out.

844
00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:09,840
 Thank you.

845
00:47:09,980 --> 00:47:13,860
 They've changed the bullpen a little bit, brought in Ian Hamilton, brought in James Kerenchak,

846
00:47:13,940 --> 00:47:15,000
 that's helped a little bit.

847
00:47:15,540 --> 00:47:19,400
 You know, Didier Fuentes' role, in my opinion, is ridiculous.

848
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,420
 I mean, he's got 30 innings through half a year.

849
00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:24,420
 You're pitching him once a week.

850
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:32,200
 I just, look, I, you know what I said Jock Peters was in 2021 to the Atlanta Braves?

851
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,440
 I am that when it comes to the use of pitchers in baseball today.

852
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:40,260
 And I want to tell you something, I don't care if it's Jeremy Hefner, the Braves pitching

853
00:47:40,260 --> 00:47:46,320
 coach, or last year's pitching coach, Rick Kerench, or anybody to try to convince me that what

854
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,500
 is done today in baseball with pitchers is, is correct.

855
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:52,480
 I don't agree with it.

856
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:53,500
 I don't like it.

857
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:57,860
 And you can talk to me until you're blue in the face and you're talking to a brick wall.

858
00:47:58,020 --> 00:48:02,200
 And you know what, I'm, I'm proven right because number one, the pitchers aren't staying

859
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:08,220
 healthy and consistency is out the window and the revolving door with their, with their

860
00:48:08,220 --> 00:48:12,740
 transaction wire, because of how you have to change these pitchers out because, you know,

861
00:48:12,740 --> 00:48:17,900
 I mean, the other day, I can't remember what day it was, one day in San Diego, Monday, maybe

862
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:24,520
 Monday, they had three relievers in the bullpen, three, they had three people available in the

863
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:24,980
 bullpen.

864
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,500
 And, and so, you know what, let them continue doing, and I, and it's not just the Braves

865
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:30,180
 issue now.

866
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:31,340
 No, it's trying to be baseball.

867
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,580
 This is not just the Braves issue.

868
00:48:33,580 --> 00:48:37,340
 It's not just the Braves who are doing these things that make me as someone who loves pitching

869
00:48:37,340 --> 00:48:42,780
 and scratch my head because I, I mean, but it's like, if you've gone three weeks and you

870
00:48:42,780 --> 00:48:47,440
 had one starting pitcher go more than 6.0 innings, you've got a problem.

871
00:48:47,660 --> 00:48:47,760
 Yeah.

872
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:53,700
 I'd love to see, Tim McCarver always said funny stories when he went to the mound, they

873
00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:56,160
 want to take Bob Gibson out of the mound.

874
00:48:56,380 --> 00:49:00,020
 Here's the guy in 1968, went every game, complete games.

875
00:49:00,100 --> 00:49:02,800
 He winds up with a 1-1-2 ERA, I believe it was.

876
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:07,360
 And I'd like to see somebody take Bob Gibson or Nolan Ryan.

877
00:49:07,420 --> 00:49:09,480
 You just don't get that kind of mentality anymore, Bill.

878
00:49:10,820 --> 00:49:14,940
 Well, you don't, I interviewed Warren Spahn six months before he died and I asked him

879
00:49:14,940 --> 00:49:15,320
 about it.

880
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:19,440
 I can't, I can't, I can't give you his response.

881
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:19,740
 Yeah.

882
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,320
 Greg fine $500,000.

883
00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:26,840
 So, I mean, um, it's awful.

884
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,440
 I mean, but, but they've developed these pictures to where they go deep in game.

885
00:49:30,580 --> 00:49:30,740
 Right.

886
00:49:30,860 --> 00:49:32,680
 They're not, they're not conditioned to go.

887
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,880
 It's not like you say, it's not like you sit down and say in screen training, Hey, look,

888
00:49:36,940 --> 00:49:39,900
 you're, you're, you're going to make, you're going to make 25 starts.

889
00:49:40,240 --> 00:49:46,420
 I want you to have at minimum of, of 150 innings at minimum and tell them that if you're not

890
00:49:46,420 --> 00:49:50,520
 at 150 innings, you're going to, you're going to look at this year as a failure.

891
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,380
 Well, first of all, the pitching coaches won't go deep in games because they're afraid that

892
00:49:54,380 --> 00:49:56,980
 if the pitcher gets hurt on their watch, they're going to get fired.

893
00:49:58,540 --> 00:50:01,040
 So, you know, what are the pitching coaches supposed to do?

894
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:04,520
 And then they're on these strict pitch counts, which haven't kept people from getting hurt.

895
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,340
 I mean, again, and I, I know I sound like just an old fart who's sitting there complaining

896
00:50:09,340 --> 00:50:11,680
 about it, but what they're doing is not working.

897
00:50:11,740 --> 00:50:12,100
 That's correct.

898
00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:13,580
 The, the J.R.

899
00:50:13,620 --> 00:50:14,260
 Ritchie thing.

900
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:15,220
 I mean, I love J.R.

901
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:15,520
 Ritchie.

902
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:15,960
 Okay.

903
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:16,820
 And I know J.R.

904
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,980
 Ritchie's gotten too many walks and he needs to be better with that.

905
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:26,400
 But what is, what, what's the big picture deal on sitting him down for a third time?

906
00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:26,700
 Yeah.

907
00:50:26,980 --> 00:50:33,420
 I mean, it's just not, look, they screwed that around and did that with Kyle Wright and,

908
00:50:33,420 --> 00:50:35,060
 and that, and it, what didn't work.

909
00:50:35,140 --> 00:50:40,060
 They finally left him alone in, in, in triple A Gwinnett for a full year.

910
00:50:40,220 --> 00:50:44,060
 He came up and the next year he, he won 21 games.

911
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:48,880
 Of course, the next year he blew his arm out, but I mean, still, you know, the yo-yo stuff

912
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:49,720
 just doesn't work.

913
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:54,480
 So, um, anyway, it's almost football season and Georgia's going to whip Alabama's a**.

914
00:50:54,620 --> 00:50:55,940
 That's the most important thing, Brett.

915
00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:01,720
 I think one of your guests mentioned that yesterday on your, on your show, didn't he?

916
00:51:02,620 --> 00:51:03,080
 Oh yeah.

917
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,420
 Brett Beaird said Georgia's going to whip Alabama's a**.

918
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:06,320
 It was on tape.

919
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,660
 If you go find it on my list.

920
00:51:07,660 --> 00:51:08,000
 No, no.

921
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:13,960
 I think you've got that kind of, uh, backwards there, but yeah, I can't remember that in some

922
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 ways.

923
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:20,100
 Well, now I know you sleep better at night, knowing Rob Manfred, your favorite commissioner

924
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:22,400
 of all time is in charge of baseball.

925
00:51:22,860 --> 00:51:24,220
 He's a d********.

926
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:26,580
 I mean, he's just ridiculous.

927
00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:28,060
 That's an insult to d*********, Bill.

928
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:28,800
 Oh my Lord.

929
00:51:28,820 --> 00:51:34,720
 Let me tell you, next year, I know we all, you and I, we all talk about spring football.

930
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,700
 Well, we're going to talk junior varsity spring football next spring because we ain't going

931
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:40,020
 to have no baseball to talk about.

932
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:40,740
 I can tell you that.

933
00:51:40,780 --> 00:51:42,040
 That's exactly right.

934
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:44,000
 We're going to be doing spring practice.

935
00:51:44,020 --> 00:51:44,700
 No, you're right.

936
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:48,520
 Every high school in our listing area, because there ain't going to be no d*** baseball going

937
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:48,780
 on.

938
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:50,520
 Oh Lord.

939
00:51:50,620 --> 00:51:55,060
 Well, listen, uh, try to keep those guests with their filthy mouth off your show.

940
00:51:55,460 --> 00:51:57,560
 Uh, who have you got on the show today?

941
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:03,140
 And where can we tune in with our incredible listeners who call you on a frequent basis?

942
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,020
 I hope they'll call more often.

943
00:52:05,020 --> 00:52:10,800
 Uh, Tyler Rucker from those ceilings, NBA.com will help me continue to, to, uh, look back

944
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,420
 on the hog strap, which I know I'm sure the previous segment was talking about.

945
00:52:14,420 --> 00:52:15,160
 No question.

946
00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:16,580
 No, it's coming up the next hour.

947
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:17,900
 Maybe, maybe, maybe later.

948
00:52:18,500 --> 00:52:20,880
 Y'all are just so anti-basketball around there.

949
00:52:21,100 --> 00:52:21,840
 Oh man.

950
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:22,920
 Unbelievable.

951
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 But, uh, the, the super stations.com.

952
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 Bill, listen, let's hope for a better, uh, outcome tonight in that great city of San Francisco

953
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 for the Braves, kick back and have a safe weekend.

954
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 Okay.

955
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 Great city for you.

956
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 I ain't going there.

957
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 Never been, never will.

958
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 Bill Shanks with these super stations.com coming up the next hour.

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1034
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 Westwood One Sports presents this world soccer update.

1035
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:36,200
 A sour end to the group stage for the United States with last night's loss to Turkey on the final shot of the match.

1036
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:41,460
 But head coach Mauricio Pochettino, who rested several starters, isn't focused on the result.

1037
00:56:42,020 --> 00:56:46,180
 Do you think it's going to change the mood of the player or what they think?

1038
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:50,980
 Because we conceded in the last moment a goal that is possible to concede.

1039
00:56:51,620 --> 00:56:55,460
 We should score before and win the game.

1040
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:57,560
 It's going to change my mood, my momentum.

1041
00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:57,900
 No.

1042
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:02,040
 Winning this game or not winning this game is not going to change.

1043
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:03,760
 The most important is that we compete.

1044
00:57:04,500 --> 00:57:09,100
 The U.S. will take on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32 Wednesday in San Francisco.

1045
00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:11,340
 Today's schedule starts an hour from now.

1046
00:57:11,460 --> 00:57:14,260
 France and Norway will play for first place in Group I.

1047
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:17,800
 Tonight, Spain and Egypt can win their respective groups with victories.

1048
00:57:18,340 --> 00:57:22,340
 With this 2026 World Soccer Update, I'm Brad Heller, Westwood One Sports.

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 You know, I used to think all money managers were the same until I spoke with Fisher Investments.

1050
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1051
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 How different are they?

1052
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 Fisher's investment counselors are dedicated to service, not sales, keeping clients up to date on their portfolio.

1053
00:57:40,900 --> 00:57:44,020
 Well, they probably just invest in a bunch of mutual funds like I do.

1054
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 Nope.

1055
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 They build a tailored portfolio based on their clients' personal goals, helping them stay on track for a comfortable retirement.

1056
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 Well, they must make commissions selling products.

1057
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 Actually, Fisher doesn't sell any commission-based products.

1058
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 They're a fiduciary, and they believe that's a conflict.

1059
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 Then they have some kind of complex fee structure.

1060
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:02,880
 Nope.

1061
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 Fisher has a simple, transparent fee that's a percentage of their clients' portfolio.

1062
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 So they do better when their clients do better.

1063
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:10,600
 Hmm.

1064
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 It sounds like Fisher really is different.

1065
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 Couldn't have said it better myself.

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1070
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 Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1071
00:58:31,620 --> 00:58:35,200
 Is it ever too early to get to those ACC football power rankings?

1072
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:35,520
 Never.

1073
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:36,220
 Never.

1074
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 This is from on3.com.

1075
00:58:38,740 --> 00:58:45,440
 Fodding Lang Kiffin's spread beard are at number six ahead of the Alabama Crimson Tides.

1076
00:58:45,500 --> 00:58:47,800
 They're basically in the middle of the pack.

1077
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:52,000
 Can you imagine a few years back saying Alabama is in the middle of the pack right now?

1078
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,100
 Well, I've said this for months.

1079
00:58:54,220 --> 00:59:00,360
 The reason Alabama, Harold, is anywhere from 10 to 15, they don't have a veteran quarterback.

1080
00:59:00,580 --> 00:59:06,700
 If Ty Simpson would have come back, Alabama would have probably been third in the SEC and

1081
00:59:06,700 --> 00:59:10,560
 eight or ninth in the majority of the national polls.

1082
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:16,160
 A lot of these polls, the guys that put them together, can't get past an experienced quarterback.

1083
00:59:16,460 --> 00:59:17,680
 I think that's why they're there.

1084
00:59:17,900 --> 00:59:18,620
 Auburn is 13.

1085
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:19,360
 You agree with that?

1086
00:59:19,740 --> 00:59:21,800
 Harold, I think they won't have a good year.

1087
00:59:21,900 --> 00:59:23,240
 They're going to have a winning season.

1088
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,840
 Again, they already know their identity, Harold.

1089
00:59:25,940 --> 00:59:30,460
 They're going to run the frigging ball, as Alex Golding said in the preseason.

1090
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:32,360
 What kind of ball are they going to run, Brent?

1091
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:39,620
 The boom old bug show, weekdays noon to two on 93.9 The Score.

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1102
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:17,020
 Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of northwest Alabama and southern Tennessee.

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

1104
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 The boom old bug show.

1105
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1106
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 Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

1107
01:00:32,900 --> 01:00:38,300
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1108
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:39,380
 Welcome back in.

1109
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:40,680
 Hour two to the boom old bug show.

1110
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:42,380
 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

1111
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 Thank you so much for giving us free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

1112
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 And pat yourself on the back.

1113
01:00:47,740 --> 01:00:48,300
 You made it.

1114
01:00:48,500 --> 01:00:52,020
 It's Friday, which means it's a great opportunity to say hello to Mike Hewitt.

1115
01:00:52,020 --> 01:00:56,000
 And the National College Football slash basketball analyst down in Orlando, Florida.

1116
01:00:56,180 --> 01:00:56,940
 Mike, welcome in.

1117
01:00:57,020 --> 01:00:57,600
 How are you?

1118
01:00:58,280 --> 01:00:59,020
 Doing well.

1119
01:00:59,180 --> 01:00:59,460
 Hey, bud.

1120
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 Mike, let's kick things off with something that I think a lot of folks in Big Orange Country

1121
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,160
 are not that surprised, but probably disappointed.

1122
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:07,840
 You go out.

1123
01:01:07,900 --> 01:01:09,280
 You roll the dice on the portal.

1124
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,800
 You bring in what you think is a big piece to the defense and Chaz Coleman.

1125
01:01:14,500 --> 01:01:19,280
 The kid comes down from Penn State with his teammates, following Jim Knowles from there, defensive

1126
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:20,480
 coordinator now at UT.

1127
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:25,220
 And this morning, finding out that he's been medically ruled ineligible.

1128
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:26,620
 That's a lot of money.

1129
01:01:27,180 --> 01:01:32,840
 And if any position is big, but his position on defense, that's especially big, especially

1130
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:38,140
 at this point in the cycle, Mike, your thoughts about what that sends a message to other coaches

1131
01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:42,700
 when you go out and get these guys in the portal and what it may or may not do for Tennessee's

1132
01:01:42,700 --> 01:01:43,660
 defense right now.

1133
01:01:44,020 --> 01:01:49,640
 Oh, I think the, I don't think it's going to change the way people recruit out of the

1134
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:49,840
 portal.

1135
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:51,920
 I think it does change Tennessee's defense.

1136
01:01:52,140 --> 01:01:58,080
 I think that we're counting on Coleman to be a, one of the best pass rushers in the SEC.

1137
01:01:58,380 --> 01:02:00,480
 You're one of the best pass rushers in the SEC.

1138
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:02,840
 That makes you one of the best in the country.

1139
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:08,760
 Um, I think now, you know, I think he, his ceiling was, you know, double digit sacks.

1140
01:02:09,060 --> 01:02:16,700
 I think now you have to go back to the well and find a handful of guys that can chip in

1141
01:02:16,700 --> 01:02:17,620
 with four or five.

1142
01:02:17,740 --> 01:02:20,040
 And, you know, Jim Knowles has been around for a long time.

1143
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,680
 Um, he has seen a lot of offenses.

1144
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,520
 He has developed a lot of defenses.

1145
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,220
 Um, he's developed some books packages.

1146
01:02:28,220 --> 01:02:35,560
 I think now that, you know, Coleman's not going to play that you, and I'm thinking they've

1147
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,300
 already sort of realized this.

1148
01:02:37,420 --> 01:02:40,780
 I'm thinking they have some, some things to do in mind.

1149
01:02:40,780 --> 01:02:45,780
 The timing is not great, obviously, but it's, you know, still, this isn't the first week

1150
01:02:45,780 --> 01:02:46,360
 of the season.

1151
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:51,060
 And you're finding out a guy who's not playing, you're finding this out in mid June.

1152
01:02:51,060 --> 01:02:52,560
 Um, it gives you some time to prep.

1153
01:02:53,220 --> 01:02:56,520
 Um, but you, but you know, Jim Knowles is better than Tim Banks.

1154
01:02:57,140 --> 01:02:59,900
 His defenses can be extremely complex.

1155
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:08,080
 Um, but at the same time, when his defenses are at peak efficiency, they are lethal to an

1156
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:08,840
 opposing offense.

1157
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,000
 So, um, I, if I'm a balls fan, yeah, I'm disappointed.

1158
01:03:13,140 --> 01:03:18,780
 Coleman's not playing, but I'm thinking, okay, Jim Knowles, um, you're making a lot of money for

1159
01:03:18,780 --> 01:03:21,340
 a reason, let's see, you earn your money.

1160
01:03:21,340 --> 01:03:25,860
 And there's a couple of guys on the roster now that you have your opportunity.

1161
01:03:26,220 --> 01:03:27,940
 Um, it's time to step up.

1162
01:03:28,260 --> 01:03:30,100
 Let me ask you about the NCAA.

1163
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:34,540
 We talked, uh, several times about the five years to play five.

1164
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:37,480
 That seems to be, uh, moving again.

1165
01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:42,460
 A lot of this stuff's got to be adopted, I believe in August, but they also this year

1166
01:03:42,460 --> 01:03:46,420
 whittled down the, uh, transfer portal window.

1167
01:03:46,420 --> 01:03:50,540
 We've gone from two windows at 45 days.

1168
01:03:50,540 --> 01:03:57,660
 Now, now down to one window, their proposal is only for 10, January the 4th through the

1169
01:03:57,660 --> 01:03:58,580
 13th.

1170
01:03:58,580 --> 01:04:02,400
 Again, that's going to be adopted, uh, which is interesting.

1171
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:06,440
 Um, I know people keep asking, uh, some of this is academics.

1172
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:10,200
 Why don't we wait until after the national championship game?

1173
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:18,220
 And then the other thing this week is OTAs, basically replacing spring practice, spring games.

1174
01:04:18,220 --> 01:04:21,940
 Mike, your thoughts on some of the proposals levied this week?

1175
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:27,100
 Yeah, I think the, the idea that they're going to become more like the NFL, no spring practice,

1176
01:04:27,100 --> 01:04:30,860
 but off season team acting, um, that's fine.

1177
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 I think that spring practice, it's practice at any time of the year is important, but I think

1178
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:46,080
 if the presumption is the coaches are cool with this change, uh, NFL coaches certainly like

1179
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:46,280
 it.

1180
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:49,440
 So I don't see that as a big negative.

1181
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 I think also if you have freshmen and transfers now who enroll in January, at least they're able

1182
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 to be a little bit more acclimated before they, the spring practice starts.

1183
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:03,780
 Um, you know, they spread it out.

1184
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:04,980
 So I think that's fine.

1185
01:05:05,020 --> 01:05:06,100
 It's become more like the NFL.

1186
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,680
 The 10 day transfer portal window.

1187
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:17,960
 I, I am blown away by the idea that, okay, like you said, they had two transfer windows

1188
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:22,640
 until this year, one transfer portal and let's shorten it even more.

1189
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:28,860
 That's ludicrous because you also have coaches exceedingly upset with tampering.

1190
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:30,080
 Let me say this.

1191
01:05:30,220 --> 01:05:38,480
 If you have a 10 day transfer portal, tampering is going to increase a hundred percent.

1192
01:05:38,900 --> 01:05:47,800
 You cannot tell me that a kid from state, you who plays in conference USA or the mountain

1193
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:55,460
 west or the Mac or the sunbelt is going to all of a sudden decide in December, I'll think

1194
01:05:55,460 --> 01:05:56,500
 I'm going to go into the portal.

1195
01:05:56,660 --> 01:06:01,660
 He's going to have been contacted in September, October, and November about going in.

1196
01:06:01,660 --> 01:06:07,840
 You're going to see more players going in with a do not contact sign that it's, you know,

1197
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:11,960
 it's like, Oh my God, we gave the player so much power with the transfer.

1198
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 We got to get it back.

1199
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 We got to reel this back in.

1200
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 It's, it's, it's ludicrous.

1201
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:23,500
 And again, if coaches think a 15 day transfer portal window is hectic, we're going to wait

1202
01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:24,380
 towards 10 days.

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 Stay tuned.

1204
01:06:26,820 --> 01:06:30,240
 Mike, you're in a great spot down in the heart of Florida there in Orlando to maybe answer

1205
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:31,000
 this question.

1206
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:33,340
 Listen to different people.

1207
01:06:33,420 --> 01:06:35,640
 We've always been asking about the dark horse in the SEC.

1208
01:06:35,980 --> 01:06:41,180
 A lot of folks are taking a guy who coached right down the interstate from you last year

1209
01:06:41,180 --> 01:06:46,620
 and by the name of Alex Gullish at Auburn, a lot of folks thought the next coach at Auburn

1210
01:06:46,620 --> 01:06:47,740
 will be Jon Sumrall.

1211
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:52,480
 He's going to be now in the state coaching the Gators up the road from you there in Gainesville.

1212
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:56,560
 Your, your thoughts about Gullish being the dark horse at Auburn and who got the better

1213
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:58,220
 deal, Florida or Auburn?

1214
01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:05,360
 Well, I think Florida did, um, Sumrall's got a little bit more of a track record or season

1215
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:12,480
 as a head coach, four seasons in, in a conference title game, Gullish's offense, um, is exceedingly

1216
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:13,300
 fun to watch.

1217
01:07:13,300 --> 01:07:14,840
 And he bought Byron Brown with him.

1218
01:07:15,100 --> 01:07:19,880
 I think the one thing that makes me worry a little bit about Gullish and his success at

1219
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:27,400
 Auburn, he also brought a ton of staffers with him and USF was a solid program in the American

1220
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:31,720
 um, SEC programs are vastly different.

1221
01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:36,180
 Um, I think you look at what, what Sumrall did with his staff.

1222
01:07:36,500 --> 01:07:42,160
 He brought two guys from, from playing with him and then hired a bunch of guys with some

1223
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:43,200
 SEC experience.

1224
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:53,160
 Um, I also think that the talent base at Florida that Sumrall took over is better than the one

1225
01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:54,680
 that Gullish took over at Auburn.

1226
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:59,480
 I don't think people realize how awful Billy Napier was.

1227
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:07,920
 Um, and yes, you, he wasn't exactly a world beater at Auburn, but I think there's more talent in

1228
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:09,520
 Gainville than I do at Auburn.

1229
01:08:09,820 --> 01:08:17,340
 Um, but I will say if you're an Auburn fan who was perturbed by your offense the last couple

1230
01:08:17,340 --> 01:08:22,360
 of years and why wouldn't you have been, I think what Gullish is going to put on the field

1231
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:28,940
 offensively is going to be a market improvement over what freeze did.

1232
01:08:28,940 --> 01:08:31,960
 Um, same defensive staff in place.

1233
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:37,760
 Um, but I, I still think that Florida is going to be better than Auburn this fall and they play

1234
01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:38,180
 too.

1235
01:08:38,300 --> 01:08:39,020
 So that'll be interesting.

1236
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:44,860
 Let me ask you about another dark horse and Alabama plays this team at second game of the

1237
01:08:44,860 --> 01:08:46,620
 year in Lexington.

1238
01:08:46,620 --> 01:08:48,320
 And that's obviously Kentucky.

1239
01:08:48,780 --> 01:08:50,420
 Kentucky needed to reboot.

1240
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:55,540
 Uh, listen, I think Mark Stoops did a really good job there for years, but the last couple

1241
01:08:55,540 --> 01:08:57,820
 of years, they had gone down.

1242
01:08:57,980 --> 01:09:04,360
 Will Stein's come in from Oregon with his high octane offense, uh, and he's got Mincy, the

1243
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,620
 backup quarterback from Notre Dame.

1244
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:12,520
 He's thrown for all of 212 yards, but, uh, is this a good reboot for Kentucky?

1245
01:09:12,980 --> 01:09:15,080
 I think it's a big swing.

1246
01:09:15,500 --> 01:09:20,400
 Um, you know, in 2019, Will Stein was a high school offensive coordinator.

1247
01:09:21,620 --> 01:09:25,520
 That's, uh, seven years ago, high school offensive coordinator.

1248
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:27,420
 Now he's the head coach of the school in the SEC.

1249
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:31,920
 Um, his offenses at Oregon were exceedingly prolific.

1250
01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:39,680
 Um, let's just say that the talent level at Kentucky, um, the talent level between Kentucky

1251
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:44,200
 and Oregon is about as far as the mileage is between Kentucky and Oregon.

1252
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:53,260
 Um, I, Mincy certainly has, from what people tell me, a very high end, what everybody reads,

1253
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:54,820
 he's got a lot of potential.

1254
01:09:54,820 --> 01:09:58,540
 Um, well, potential is one thing.

1255
01:09:58,580 --> 01:10:03,380
 Let's see if it, if it comes to fruition, um, Kentucky, I'm not sure how much really they're

1256
01:10:03,380 --> 01:10:04,900
 spending on their football program.

1257
01:10:05,100 --> 01:10:07,920
 They're still more worried about basketball as they should be.

1258
01:10:08,440 --> 01:10:11,700
 Um, I think it was a, yeah, I think it was an interesting swing.

1259
01:10:12,260 --> 01:10:18,420
 Um, you're taking a guy who's never been a head coach anywhere to, to be a head coach of

1260
01:10:18,420 --> 01:10:20,180
 an SEC school in his 30s.

1261
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:21,680
 So it's a big swing.

1262
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:22,740
 It could pay off big.

1263
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:26,940
 It could also be, you know, a, a, a three pitch strikeout too.

1264
01:10:26,980 --> 01:10:34,660
 So, um, I, I, I think the Kentucky talent level is such that I, I don't think they'd get to

1265
01:10:34,660 --> 01:10:35,720
 500 this year.

1266
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:41,400
 Um, I, I just think though, that's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a move.

1267
01:10:41,460 --> 01:10:44,840
 Kentucky had to make, there's no question, but that Mark Stoops went stale.

1268
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,680
 So like shelf life had passed.

1269
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:54,100
 Um, and again, I think Will Stein has an interesting way, uh, to run an offense.

1270
01:10:54,220 --> 01:10:55,600
 Let's, let's see if that works.

1271
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:59,120
 But again, he's going to, it's an interesting way to run an offense when you've got NFL caliber

1272
01:10:59,120 --> 01:10:59,660
 players.

1273
01:10:59,960 --> 01:11:02,220
 He does not have NFL caliber offensive players.

1274
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 Mike, before we jump off, you know, our zip code is now under three months for a chance

1275
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:10,800
 for Alabama to do revenge on Florida state.

1276
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:15,380
 We know what happened last year in Tallahassee, first game of the year.

1277
01:11:15,460 --> 01:11:19,760
 What's going to happen to third game of Florida state schedule this year in Tuscaloosa?

1278
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:22,300
 It's hard.

1279
01:11:22,580 --> 01:11:27,600
 You know, last year I said, if Alabama were to somehow lose to Florida state in the opener,

1280
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:31,020
 it was going to be a horrendous season because FSU was horrible.

1281
01:11:31,820 --> 01:11:33,260
 I'm going to say the exact same thing.

1282
01:11:33,380 --> 01:11:35,240
 I think FSU might be worse.

1283
01:11:36,100 --> 01:11:36,580
 Really?

1284
01:11:37,340 --> 01:11:39,740
 Ashton Daniels is not a, not a high level quarterback.

1285
01:11:40,340 --> 01:11:42,240
 Um, I think Auburn fans would agree with me.

1286
01:11:42,740 --> 01:11:47,000
 Um, I know Alabama is breaking in a new starting quarterback.

1287
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:51,900
 They need to reinvigorate their ground game in a big way.

1288
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:57,100
 Um, but again, Florida state, their defensive front is undersized.

1289
01:11:57,260 --> 01:11:58,580
 Their linebackers aren't good.

1290
01:11:59,300 --> 01:12:02,020
 Um, their offensive line is totally new.

1291
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,600
 Deuce Robinson's a really good receiver.

1292
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:07,180
 Micah Hedanze can fly.

1293
01:12:07,460 --> 01:12:11,240
 I'm not sure that Ashton Daniels will get them the ball consistently.

1294
01:12:12,020 --> 01:12:16,260
 Um, I, if you ask me right now, I think that's a three touchdown win for Alabama.

1295
01:12:17,260 --> 01:12:19,880
 I think a lot of people probably agree with that.

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1297
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1298
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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1399
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 Welcome back in time.

1400
01:17:29,420 --> 01:17:37,320
 Head on down I-65 to BHAM and say hello to Doug Segrist, former tri-host of The Zone, ABC 3340 in Birmingham.

1401
01:17:37,580 --> 01:17:42,700
 Named as one of 50 legends of the Alabama Sports Writers Association.

1402
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 And his book is called A Storm Came Up.

1403
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:47,260
 Doug Segrist, welcome in.

1404
01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:47,980
 How are you?

1405
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,380
 I could not be better.

1406
01:17:51,100 --> 01:17:52,800
 Are you world cupping, Doug?

1407
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:53,640
 Are you a world cupper?

1408
01:17:54,540 --> 01:17:55,640
 I'm a world cupper.

1409
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:59,000
 I just think this has just been an incredible couple of weeks.

1410
01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:02,620
 And now the real fun is about to start.

1411
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:05,280
 It's real impressive with Team USA so far.

1412
01:18:05,780 --> 01:18:08,240
 You know, I always, and I bet you you're a wordsmith.

1413
01:18:08,980 --> 01:18:12,300
 We've been misspelling the word turkey for a long time, have we not?

1414
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:17,180
 Are you going to have, for Thanksgiving, are you going to have that kind of turkey we saw last night for the spelling, Doug?

1415
01:18:17,660 --> 01:18:19,840
 Yeah, I'm going with the old-fashioned American.

1416
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:20,220
 Yes.

1417
01:18:22,660 --> 01:18:31,080
 Doug, a lot of folks from Tuscaloosa and Alabama fans, they want to go the old-fashioned recipe for putting together a recruiting class, i.e. under one Nick Saban.

1418
01:18:31,300 --> 01:18:38,320
 Doug, what message can you send to Alabama recruiting fans who are seeing the three stars fall on Alabama?

1419
01:18:39,980 --> 01:18:40,500
 Patience.

1420
01:18:40,700 --> 01:18:42,780
 It's very much a new world.

1421
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:46,160
 It is not about high school recruiting anymore.

1422
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:47,160
 It's a hybrid.

1423
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,920
 It's about, you know, guys you get in and you develop.

1424
01:18:51,500 --> 01:18:54,740
 It is about getting, filling needs in the portal.

1425
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:57,380
 This is, I think, what everybody's missing.

1426
01:18:57,580 --> 01:19:01,840
 The last two classes, 49 players, 48 are still on campus.

1427
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:02,840
 Yep.

1428
01:19:03,060 --> 01:19:08,120
 So the last thing you need is 25 new players who aren't going to play in.

1429
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:15,340
 You've got to kind of fill needs and then go to the portal and, you know, kind of fill in the gaps there.

1430
01:19:15,340 --> 01:19:19,480
 And, listen, this is a bold new strategy.

1431
01:19:19,740 --> 01:19:21,560
 We've kind of seen Georgia do the same thing.

1432
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:23,740
 Indiana has just done the opposite.

1433
01:19:24,960 --> 01:19:32,420
 But I think right now you just need patience because the last two recruiting classes, by every measure, were two of the best in the country.

1434
01:19:32,420 --> 01:19:34,020
 In fact, number two and three in the country.

1435
01:19:34,020 --> 01:19:38,900
 So the talent on hand, it's a good roster.

1436
01:19:39,900 --> 01:19:47,020
 I'm not sure right now you just need to throw, you know, a million dollars a pop at another 25 guys who aren't going to play.

1437
01:19:47,180 --> 01:19:49,900
 And then they end up somewhere else in two years.

1438
01:19:50,220 --> 01:19:57,020
 Well, to your point, what you're saying is Alabama's strategy is to reinvest what you've already got and not go out and do the two.

1439
01:19:57,160 --> 01:19:59,160
 The burden of hand usually is better than two in the bush.

1440
01:19:59,620 --> 01:20:02,680
 And the example of that, Doug, is what happened to Tennessee over the last few hours.

1441
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,220
 Jazz Coleman, he came down with a premium price from Penn State.

1442
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,140
 He was going to be a big piece of that defensive puzzle.

1443
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:13,440
 And now he's not going to play, quote, medical register or medical ineligibility.

1444
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:15,520
 All that money, all that time.

1445
01:20:15,580 --> 01:20:22,660
 And now you've got to go out and spend more money and take a roll of the dice to get that big piece filled on the defensive side of the ball.

1446
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:27,900
 Yeah, and I'm not sure what's going to be left in the two months until training camp starts.

1447
01:20:28,180 --> 01:20:30,940
 So this really hits Tennessee hard.

1448
01:20:30,940 --> 01:20:38,800
 If you've got the talent on the roster, you've got a better chance of developing it than filling it this late need.

1449
01:20:39,500 --> 01:20:41,020
 And I'll say this, too.

1450
01:20:41,620 --> 01:20:43,860
 You know, there's no guarantee it's going to work.

1451
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:50,620
 But I think it also shows you a lot about the culture they're building, that 48 out of 49 guys are still there.

1452
01:20:50,780 --> 01:20:53,620
 That's unheard of in this day and age.

1453
01:20:53,780 --> 01:20:59,300
 That's an incredible stat that we have not heard anyone else mention this week.

1454
01:20:59,920 --> 01:21:02,420
 And I'm glad that you said that.

1455
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:10,900
 And isn't it amazing, four years ago, if I had to ask you what does the general manager of a college football team does,

1456
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 you would have looked at me like I was absolutely crazy or crazier.

1457
01:21:16,420 --> 01:21:19,060
 Yeah, isn't it amazing now?

1458
01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:24,760
 These coaches must have a general manager to construct a roster.

1459
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:27,080
 Absolutely.

1460
01:21:27,460 --> 01:21:31,360
 And you've got to have a guy who, A, can recognize talent.

1461
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 B, have the contacts so that you can retrieve the talent when they go somewhere else.

1462
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 C, can manage money.

1463
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:42,420
 You know, and this is another thing Alabama's doing.

1464
01:21:42,540 --> 01:21:43,880
 Georgia's doing something similar.

1465
01:21:44,380 --> 01:21:50,080
 They're not going to be top 10 in terms of, you know, expenses on rosters.

1466
01:21:50,580 --> 01:21:52,300
 They've just decided not to go.

1467
01:21:52,580 --> 01:21:54,600
 Still, listen, they're spending a lot of money.

1468
01:21:54,700 --> 01:21:55,840
 There's no question about that.

1469
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:59,440
 But it's not going to be Texas A&M, Texas size.

1470
01:21:59,580 --> 01:21:59,800
 Really?

1471
01:22:00,300 --> 01:22:01,980
 Ohio State, Michigan size.

1472
01:22:02,220 --> 01:22:05,700
 So you've got to really have a good eye for talent.

1473
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:11,160
 And, again, that's where Kalen DeBoer's kind of put a lot of faith in Courtney Morgan.

1474
01:22:11,220 --> 01:22:16,680
 But the thing about him is he's known a lot of these guys since they were eighth graders.

1475
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:24,580
 So he's kind of got his ear to the ground of who can help and who might be available down the road.

1476
01:22:25,220 --> 01:22:33,120
 The NCAA this week's been busy not defending themselves in court, but actually coming up with some proposals.

1477
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:40,680
 The five-year to play five, we've discussed that with you, and we've been talking about that on and off for years.

1478
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:50,900
 They've whittled down the window for transfer from 45-2 now to one window in only 10.

1479
01:22:51,700 --> 01:23:01,020
 And then the OTAs, and I think I'm actually one who enjoyed the spring games, but the OTAs are going to be coming in NFL style.

1480
01:23:01,500 --> 01:23:06,260
 Your thoughts on transfer, OTAs, and the five-year to play five?

1481
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,580
 I think these are all common-sense moves.

1482
01:23:10,100 --> 01:23:14,340
 And, again, we love spring football in the past.

1483
01:23:15,140 --> 01:23:16,680
 You know, everybody loved the spring game.

1484
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:17,620
 It was free.

1485
01:23:17,820 --> 01:23:19,980
 You could kind of see players you haven't seen before.

1486
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:21,840
 But there's a problem with that.

1487
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:28,720
 Nobody wants those players to play in front of big crowds now because, boom, somebody starts recruiting them away.

1488
01:23:29,260 --> 01:23:31,280
 I just think OTA is better.

1489
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:37,040
 You've got more of a year-round connection with your players.

1490
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 It's not all at one time.

1491
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 It's periodic.

1492
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 You're making sure they're keeping up with more than just the weight room.

1493
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 And, you know, it's – I mean, in a lot of ways, high schools do that with a seven-on-seven.

1494
01:23:50,040 --> 01:24:01,340
 So, again, I think these are three just common-sense moves that shows that, you know, when they're pressured, the NCAA schools do smart things.

1495
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 In case you're wondering, OTA organized team activities.

1496
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 Doug, have you got any juice left in either your right arm or the left arm?

1497
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 And, if so, can you join the Atlanta Braves?

1498
01:24:13,340 --> 01:24:19,280
 I could throw a 50-mile-hour four-seamer for a strike right now.

1499
01:24:19,460 --> 01:24:20,060
 I have no doubt.

1500
01:24:21,020 --> 01:24:24,940
 I was just – that was an incredible pitcher for, like, three weeks in high school.

1501
01:24:24,940 --> 01:24:26,440
 Before I'm putting everything out.

1502
01:24:27,580 --> 01:24:29,720
 You know, they're about to get Waldrop back.

1503
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:31,920
 Smith-Schauber is about to start.

1504
01:24:32,180 --> 01:24:33,620
 But they're going to have to trade.

1505
01:24:33,740 --> 01:24:34,980
 I mean, there's just no question.

1506
01:24:35,900 --> 01:24:42,200
 There's some interesting – I mean, they now are loaded again with prospects just out of the blue.

1507
01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:42,560
 Yeah.

1508
01:24:43,340 --> 01:24:47,660
 And, you know, I'm all about the long-term.

1509
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:55,820
 And so, do you go out and get a Tarek Skubal, you know, and give up three players and then only have him for three months?

1510
01:24:56,360 --> 01:25:06,700
 I don't know if that's something you do or do you go get veterans like Sonny Gray and Casey Mize, which is the deal that really kind of excites me, too.

1511
01:25:07,420 --> 01:25:10,280
 Veteran arms, and you don't have to give as much.

1512
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:16,300
 And, oh, by the way, the increase in salary, you're saving that with Profar, with his suspension.

1513
01:25:16,540 --> 01:25:16,680
 Yeah.

1514
01:25:16,880 --> 01:25:18,300
 So, I kind of like that.

1515
01:25:18,340 --> 01:25:20,860
 I don't like giving up a lot of prospects.

1516
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:22,860
 Well, Sonny Gray would probably come with a discount.

1517
01:25:22,860 --> 01:25:23,520
 You've lacked him.

1518
01:25:23,620 --> 01:25:26,520
 He's from Murfreesboro, so basically Atlanta would be home for him.

1519
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:28,360
 Say that again?

1520
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,980
 I said, Sonny Gray, you might get a bit of a discount there because it'd be like him coming home.

1521
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:33,980
 He's from Murfreesboro.

1522
01:25:34,480 --> 01:25:37,520
 So, it'd be playing close to home in terms of Major League Baseball world.

1523
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:38,880
 Absolutely.

1524
01:25:39,100 --> 01:25:41,560
 Same with Casey Mize being from Springfield.

1525
01:25:41,740 --> 01:25:46,280
 I mean, those, you know, you've seen these guys come home.

1526
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:53,180
 And, I mean, look at Joey Bart, you know, somebody we never paid attention to with Bart, and he's already making an impact.

1527
01:25:53,180 --> 01:26:01,980
 You know, these guys grow up Braves fans, and sometimes they'll even take a discount just to be, you know, in familiar surroundings.

1528
01:26:02,540 --> 01:26:03,420
 Yeah, absolutely.

1529
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 Now, I want to ask you if this thought has gone through your head this week.

1530
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 Careful, careful, careful, careful.

1531
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:15,040
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1532
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:19,480
 There has not been a college sports event on TV.

1533
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:27,900
 Now, I know you're a World Cupper, and you've got the refreshments ready and the TV tested out.

1534
01:26:28,080 --> 01:26:38,760
 But your thoughts, has that thought crossed your mind that tomorrow will be the first Saturday in umpteen months that we do not have college sports on TV?

1535
01:26:39,460 --> 01:26:46,660
 Yeah, it crossed my mind, what was it, Monday night when Oklahoma won the national title.

1536
01:26:47,440 --> 01:26:49,720
 You know, this is why I get vacation.

1537
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:55,320
 This is why I get out of the house, because there's just not much, you know, or as much going on.

1538
01:26:55,500 --> 01:27:05,380
 But, you know, that's another change we need to see, where they have the 14 weeks dating back from Thanksgiving so that we don't have to even wait to Labor Day.

1539
01:27:05,820 --> 01:27:08,020
 I'm ready for week zero to become the norm.

1540
01:27:08,260 --> 01:27:10,780
 I'll tell you what, can you be the commissioner of college football?

1541
01:27:11,140 --> 01:27:17,620
 Harold and I are going to vote for you to be able to do that, or college sports in general.

1542
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 Listen, have a great weekend watching the World Cup and relaxing, and let's do this again with you again real soon.

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1600
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1606
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 The Score.

1633
01:32:49,700 --> 01:32:53,700
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1634
01:32:53,700 --> 01:32:55,020
 Welcome back in.

1635
01:32:55,140 --> 01:32:56,920
 You know, Brent, some people can do TV.

1636
01:32:57,240 --> 01:32:58,640
 Some people can do radio.

1637
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:01,380
 Some people can do newspaper with a pen and paper.

1638
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:01,680
 Yeah.

1639
01:33:01,980 --> 01:33:03,280
 Some folks online.

1640
01:33:03,540 --> 01:33:09,780
 It is rare to find someone who can wear all those hats, but by golly, I think we may have found him, BB.

1641
01:33:10,140 --> 01:33:11,180
 No question, Harold.

1642
01:33:11,720 --> 01:33:16,080
 Okay, Mr. Scarbinsky, busy there on TV in the Birmingham market.

1643
01:33:16,220 --> 01:33:22,020
 Also, he has all kinds of award-winning articles there at AL.com, the Birmingham News.

1644
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:27,540
 He is the face and voice of the Alabama High School Football Super 7 and State Basketball Finals.

1645
01:33:27,540 --> 01:33:32,300
 And did we mention, online, anytime, at Scarbo Knows.

1646
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:33,800
 Kevin Scarbinsky, welcome in.

1647
01:33:33,860 --> 01:33:34,480
 How are you?

1648
01:33:35,300 --> 01:33:36,160
 I'm good, guys.

1649
01:33:36,220 --> 01:33:36,680
 How are you today?

1650
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:38,360
 Man, we're doing all right.

1651
01:33:38,440 --> 01:33:39,780
 Kevin, we are exhausted.

1652
01:33:39,940 --> 01:33:43,940
 We finally have come to you because you've got all those things juggling in the air.

1653
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:51,180
 If you could sit down with your vast experience of all these coaches over the years, especially at Alabama in this case,

1654
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:58,860
 what message would you send Kalen DeBoer here in June before year number three as a head football coach at Tuscaloosa?

1655
01:34:00,220 --> 01:34:04,560
 Stop talking about being physical and running the ball and just do it.

1656
01:34:05,420 --> 01:34:06,440
 Just run the ball?

1657
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:09,820
 I've seen T-shirts where they dress it up differently, Kevin.

1658
01:34:09,980 --> 01:34:11,920
 Have you seen those T-shirts about running the ball?

1659
01:34:11,980 --> 01:34:13,460
 Yeah, I think there's an adjective in it.

1660
01:34:13,460 --> 01:34:15,600
 Before the word ball.

1661
01:34:17,720 --> 01:34:25,540
 Look, I appreciate the fact that he is open and is willing to do interviews, and he's done a number of them lately.

1662
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:33,720
 But when you're talking to people like Martin Houston, who paved the way for a lot of Alabama running backs to gain a lot of yards,

1663
01:34:33,940 --> 01:34:44,880
 and then Cole Kubelik, who did the same thing as a center at Auburn, and you're talking about your experience at Sioux Falls and winning national championships in the NAIA,

1664
01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:50,940
 and you still have some of the same principles that you had then because you played in the cold and you had to be able to run the ball.

1665
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:52,460
 Stop.

1666
01:34:52,660 --> 01:34:53,320
 Just stop.

1667
01:34:53,940 --> 01:34:57,640
 We saw your running game the last two years, especially last year.

1668
01:34:57,860 --> 01:34:59,060
 Well, we looked for it last year.

1669
01:34:59,100 --> 01:35:00,000
 We didn't see much of it.

1670
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:10,240
 And so there's nothing he can say on that subject that is going to change anyone's mind about whether his football team is – we won't call them soft.

1671
01:35:10,340 --> 01:35:11,240
 We'll call them finesse.

1672
01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:16,240
 Whether they're a finesse football team or whether they're a physical football team.

1673
01:35:16,320 --> 01:35:20,460
 We know what they were, especially last year, and we will see what they are this year.

1674
01:35:20,580 --> 01:35:27,340
 But I would – again, I would advise him to talk about something else rather than that.

1675
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:31,740
 Kevin, the numbers don't lie, I don't think, at least in this case.

1676
01:35:31,860 --> 01:35:38,600
 You look at the running game last year, they were 125th in the country, 126 as far as yards per carry on the average.

1677
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:47,520
 How did they go from the next seven days of having Heisman Trophy winners at the running back spot with offensive linemen going to the NFL to that?

1678
01:35:47,760 --> 01:35:57,720
 And the more important question, Kevin, if that was the deal last year, what realistically – you can talk, you can preach all day, but in this neck of the woods, you better practice what you preach.

1679
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:00,520
 What are they going to do different to improve those numbers this season?

1680
01:36:01,480 --> 01:36:03,880
 Well, I think that's what we all want to see, don't we?

1681
01:36:04,420 --> 01:36:13,720
 Because, you know, in his interview with Martin Houston, he said it's all about being physical is about mindset and execution.

1682
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:24,520
 Well, we've watched his offense, and I don't know that they have that physical grind it out, you know, ground and pound when you have to mentality.

1683
01:36:24,780 --> 01:36:27,560
 I'm not saying you have to run the ball 60 times a game.

1684
01:36:27,620 --> 01:36:36,340
 I'm not saying you have to run a Gene Stallings type of offense, but you have to be able to get yards between the tackles at times.

1685
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:46,840
 And you have to be able to do it without putting a 350-pound left tackle in the backfield as a gimmick and either handing him the ball or tossing him the ball on the perimeter.

1686
01:36:47,680 --> 01:36:50,240
 And that is mindset and execution.

1687
01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:57,120
 And they're going to have a very different offensive line this year, which remains to be seen how physical those guys will be.

1688
01:36:57,460 --> 01:37:01,680
 They have somewhat of a different cast of characters in the backfield.

1689
01:37:02,300 --> 01:37:13,280
 That's one – if you ask me, along with DeBoer's emphasis on the passing game, I think the biggest difference is they haven't had a real difference maker in the backfield.

1690
01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:16,900
 Jim Miller was a serviceable back, Daniel Hill.

1691
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:18,420
 I mean, those aren't game-breakers.

1692
01:37:18,560 --> 01:37:20,220
 Those aren't explosive guys.

1693
01:37:21,180 --> 01:37:25,640
 And I think E.J. Crowell has the potential to be that.

1694
01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:30,220
 Saw him play a number of times in high school for Jackson as they won back-to-back state titles.

1695
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:41,100
 And that guy, to me, looks like he's cut from the Mark Ingram, Trent Richardson mold, both physically and from a mentality standpoint.

1696
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:43,020
 He can gain the hard yard.

1697
01:37:43,220 --> 01:37:45,340
 He can break tackles.

1698
01:37:45,460 --> 01:37:46,820
 He can run away from people.

1699
01:37:46,900 --> 01:37:47,940
 He can run through people.

1700
01:37:48,440 --> 01:37:49,840
 I don't know how healthy he'll be.

1701
01:37:49,940 --> 01:37:52,360
 He's been dealing with – he's been coming back from an injury.

1702
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,580
 So we'll see how healthy he is when they get to the first game.

1703
01:37:55,720 --> 01:38:05,680
 But he's a guy that, again, could help bring that running game back to respectability, which is where it has to get to respectable before he gets to admirable.

1704
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:07,940
 That's exactly right.

1705
01:38:07,940 --> 01:38:20,360
 Kevin, when sports fans in Alabama get to May and early June, what they're basically doing is looking at Lindy Sports Magazine or the preseason magazines yearning for football.

1706
01:38:20,660 --> 01:38:24,320
 But this May and June was a little bit different.

1707
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:30,080
 And you chronicled that in a great article, Why Do I Love College Baseball?

1708
01:38:30,180 --> 01:38:33,800
 Because it still feels like college sports.

1709
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:37,040
 Troy in Alabama in the College World Series.

1710
01:38:37,220 --> 01:38:38,640
 Auburn in the Supers.

1711
01:38:39,180 --> 01:38:46,520
 There was a buzz in this state for about a month, and you detail that pretty well on AL.com.

1712
01:38:47,160 --> 01:38:48,320
 Well, thank you.

1713
01:38:48,620 --> 01:38:57,780
 And some of it was personal to me as an undergrad graduate of Troy many years ago to see the Trojans.

1714
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:03,240
 I went to the first game they played in the Super Regionals, and it was very surreal.

1715
01:39:03,580 --> 01:39:15,220
 Having been on that campus a lot of years ago when they were a Division II program, having tried to walk on to that baseball team as a true freshman and not getting very far under the legendary Chase Riddle.

1716
01:39:15,420 --> 01:39:22,580
 As he was just starting to build a mini dynasty there in D2, he would later win a couple of national championships in Division II in baseball.

1717
01:39:23,020 --> 01:39:26,760
 But this state, you guys know, this state has a proud history in baseball.

1718
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:38,240
 But it has certainly taken another step in recent years, and this year was hopefully not the culmination, but the beginning of a long run of trips to Omaha.

1719
01:39:38,660 --> 01:39:42,680
 And hopefully somebody will break through and win a Division I national championship.

1720
01:39:44,240 --> 01:39:50,420
 And it does feel, and that's one of the things, and one of my favorite events that I get to cover every year is the SEC baseball tournament.

1721
01:39:50,980 --> 01:40:06,940
 And there's just something, I don't know if it's the nature of the sport of baseball, it's seeing players from different teams, you know, going to the concession stand and getting an ice cream, you know, talking to little kids and signing autographs.

1722
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:14,220
 There seems to be a connection between the teams, the players, and the fans that you don't always get to see in other sports.

1723
01:40:15,020 --> 01:40:20,480
 And that's just, again, it just brings it down to earth that makes the guys seem more relatable.

1724
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:23,440
 Now, look, a lot of those guys are getting paid, and they're getting paid well.

1725
01:40:23,500 --> 01:40:29,540
 They're not getting paid football quarterback money, but they're making, but it just, I don't know why, it just does seem different.

1726
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:38,400
 And to see those schools have the success that they've had, and Jack State, you know, Jack State got to the regional.

1727
01:40:38,540 --> 01:40:39,720
 Alabama State got to a regional.

1728
01:40:39,820 --> 01:40:44,180
 We had five teams in the regionals, which I think is a record in Division I.

1729
01:40:44,180 --> 01:40:47,560
 So, no, it's fun to see, and I hope it will continue.

1730
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:51,740
 And given the coaches that are in charge at all those schools, I think it will continue.

1731
01:40:52,200 --> 01:40:58,200
 It used to be called America's Pastime until ESPN got involved and shoved the NBA and the NFL down their throats.

1732
01:40:58,440 --> 01:41:01,400
 So, let me ask you this, Kevin, your thoughts.

1733
01:41:01,480 --> 01:41:09,180
 What's your take on the Dusty Mays news and the timing of it, saying goodbye to one of the premier schools with lots of money at Michigan

1734
01:41:09,180 --> 01:41:12,560
 and going to the NBA in the Mark Cuban world?

1735
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:18,440
 And you've got a close connection from UAB to Michigan, but what message is Mays sending?

1736
01:41:18,540 --> 01:41:22,600
 A lot of folks says he's fed up with the way in the direction of college sports in general.

1737
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:24,520
 I don't want to babysit these guys.

1738
01:41:24,600 --> 01:41:26,700
 I'll just go to the NBA and take my chances there.

1739
01:41:26,700 --> 01:41:28,500
 What is your take on the news?

1740
01:41:29,020 --> 01:41:35,700
 And, again, talking about a guy who can identify a talent, Dusty Mays does, by coming to your backyard at UAB, does he not?

1741
01:41:37,140 --> 01:41:39,920
 Yeah, and he started out as an assistant.

1742
01:41:40,180 --> 01:41:40,960
 He didn't start out.

1743
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:43,520
 He'd been in the coaching profession before that.

1744
01:41:43,560 --> 01:41:47,700
 But Mike Davis hired him as an assistant when Mike became the head coach at UAB.

1745
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:55,320
 And Dusty has a good relationship with Andy Kennedy, even though he took his best player, Yaxel Lindeborg, a couple of years before last year.

1746
01:41:55,540 --> 01:41:56,260
 But I will say this.

1747
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:58,080
 I give Yaxel Lindeborg all kinds of credit.

1748
01:41:58,380 --> 01:42:02,860
 And UAB absolutely should claim him as one of their own because he spent two years there.

1749
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:04,980
 He got his undergraduate degree there.

1750
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:09,240
 He grew up and developed there more than anywhere else.

1751
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:11,560
 And Michigan was the beneficiary.

1752
01:42:11,800 --> 01:42:15,400
 And Yaxel was the beneficiary because he got paid handsomely to go there.

1753
01:42:15,420 --> 01:42:17,500
 And you can't fault him for that decision.

1754
01:42:18,740 --> 01:42:27,740
 But I don't know that I'm fully buying Dusty May and other people, you know, arguing that, well, this is the terrible state of college athletics.

1755
01:42:27,740 --> 01:42:31,400
 And it's pushing coaches like him to the pros.

1756
01:42:32,040 --> 01:42:33,660
 He didn't have to go.

1757
01:42:33,740 --> 01:42:34,740
 He could have stayed in Michigan.

1758
01:42:34,880 --> 01:42:42,440
 And by the way, Michigan is probably one of the easier places in the country to recruit because they have the resources.

1759
01:42:42,440 --> 01:42:46,700
 They're willing to spend the resources to bring in guys like Yaxel Lindeborg.

1760
01:42:46,700 --> 01:42:52,760
 I mean, they had, what, three of the top 12 draft picks in the NBA, three of the top 11 or 12.

1761
01:42:53,040 --> 01:42:59,460
 And all three of them were transfer guys that they brought in through the portal, including Yaxel Lindeborg.

1762
01:42:59,680 --> 01:43:07,920
 So I'm not weeping for a guy like Dusty May, who was exceedingly well paid at Michigan.

1763
01:43:08,300 --> 01:43:11,820
 He had one of the better recruiting situations of anyone in the country.

1764
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:17,200
 You don't have to chase high school guys for three or four years when you're at Michigan.

1765
01:43:17,380 --> 01:43:19,940
 You can go get Ade Mara from UCLA.

1766
01:43:20,540 --> 01:43:23,880
 You can get Mara's Johnson from, where did he come from, Illinois.

1767
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:26,080
 You can get Yaxel Lindeborg from UAB.

1768
01:43:27,100 --> 01:43:33,020
 And, again, they did have some high school guys, but they also had their point guard, Elliot Cadeau, came from North Carolina.

1769
01:43:33,620 --> 01:43:34,640
 And we could go on.

1770
01:43:34,880 --> 01:43:37,680
 But, look, he had a great opportunity, and he took it.

1771
01:43:38,040 --> 01:43:41,600
 That doesn't mean college basketball is collapsing.

1772
01:43:42,200 --> 01:43:44,980
 There are a lot of coaches that have been doing it a long time that are still doing it.

1773
01:43:44,980 --> 01:43:57,540
 And, yeah, they have frustrations with the state of the game and the uncertainty, the unequal application of NCAA eligibility rules, decisions of courts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

1774
01:43:57,900 --> 01:44:03,620
 But it's still – and that's why I admire Nate Oates, who is still at Alabama.

1775
01:44:04,040 --> 01:44:05,420
 He's had opportunities to go elsewhere.

1776
01:44:05,540 --> 01:44:10,580
 He could have been the Kentucky coach if he wanted to be a couple years ago, but he decided to stay in Tuscaloosa.

1777
01:44:10,920 --> 01:44:13,120
 He could be the Michigan coach today if he wanted.

1778
01:44:13,540 --> 01:44:22,480
 You think Michigan wouldn't have hired Nate Oates if he said, hey, if his agent hadn't called him up and said, you know what, I'd love to come back to the upper Midwest and coach again.

1779
01:44:22,700 --> 01:44:25,300
 But, no, he's staying in Tuscaloosa.

1780
01:44:26,220 --> 01:44:36,340
 So, good luck to Dusty May in the Western Conference where, in the same state, you've got to deal with San Antonio and Victor Wimbanana.

1781
01:44:36,340 --> 01:44:42,940
 And not that far up the road, you've got to deal with Oklahoma City, who's not going away either.

1782
01:44:43,140 --> 01:44:44,560
 So, good luck to him.

1783
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:46,200
 And good luck to him developing Cooper Flagg.

1784
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:47,660
 I think Cooper Flagg is a very good player.

1785
01:44:48,060 --> 01:44:51,000
 I'm not sure he's the guy you build a championship roster around.

1786
01:44:51,260 --> 01:44:51,760
 Time will tell.

1787
01:44:52,020 --> 01:45:03,220
 Well, we build a championship roster around Kevin Scarbinsky and have for years always a pleasure and a delight to talk with you about anything under the face of the sun.

1788
01:45:03,220 --> 01:45:05,840
 And where can we get online to get all your great stuff?

1789
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:07,600
 Well, I appreciate that.

1790
01:45:07,900 --> 01:45:09,160
 I always appreciate you guys.

1791
01:45:09,300 --> 01:45:13,440
 Best thing to do, follow me on Twitter or X, at Kevin Scarbinsky.

1792
01:45:13,640 --> 01:45:15,820
 Keep up with my columns in the Birmingham News.

1793
01:45:16,300 --> 01:45:19,500
 You can find links to those on AL.com as well.

1794
01:45:19,640 --> 01:45:20,540
 And go to YouTube.

1795
01:45:21,240 --> 01:45:22,900
 Check out my channel there.

1796
01:45:22,980 --> 01:45:25,920
 It's Kevin Scarbinsky-SkarboKnows.

1797
01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:27,100
 You can subscribe.

1798
01:45:27,260 --> 01:45:31,380
 It doesn't cost anything, but you'll get notifications every time I put out a new episode.

1799
01:45:31,620 --> 01:45:35,440
 I put out a couple this week about actual football on the field.

1800
01:45:35,560 --> 01:45:37,320
 Guys, one about Auburn, one about Alabama.

1801
01:45:37,600 --> 01:45:43,760
 And we've talked too little about football on the field and too much about football in courtrooms in Washington, D.C.

1802
01:45:45,500 --> 01:45:47,980
 That's almost sacrilegious to talk about something on the field.

1803
01:45:48,500 --> 01:45:50,520
 Kevin, as always, good to have a great week.

1804
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 And remember, run the ball, okay?

1805
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 Amen.

1806
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 Put it on my seat.

1807
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 Thank you, bud.

1808
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 See you guys.

1809
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 Subject of Kevin's next article, I'm sure.

1810
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1866
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 Welcome back in. Obviously, BB coming in.

1867
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 Albert Pierce. He's a busy boy these days, is he not?

1868
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 Of course. That's one reason.

1869
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 Elmer Pierce. Obviously, get out and see Elmer.

1870
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 He's busy right now at Garner Pierce Autos.

1871
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 Gives us an opportunity, BB, here to talk about the latest addition to the Alabama recruiting class.

1872
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 And you know how it works in the recruiting world.

1873
01:49:11,740 --> 01:49:15,540
 It's always, who's next and when is it coming, Brett Beaird?

1874
01:49:15,700 --> 01:49:23,180
 Well, Harold, the one they got today, the 12th commitment for Alabama is Jeremy Beverly.

1875
01:49:23,940 --> 01:49:26,220
 Ed's rusher at Hillcrest High School.

1876
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 He's about 6'4 and 230.

1877
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 Again, I think he's a pretty good prospect.

1878
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 What they are getting tomorrow that they know is a good prospect is Ossani Gales out of IMG Academy.

1879
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 He's a slot, very fast, very elusive, does a good job of running routes.

1880
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 I believe he announces tomorrow afternoon at 2 or 3.

1881
01:49:50,520 --> 01:49:59,920
 But Alabama, with their fourth commitment this week, they got three-star edge, Jeremiah Beverly from Hillcrest High School.

1882
01:50:00,160 --> 01:50:06,120
 In fact, he's former teammates with Jay Hall, who's on the Tuscaloosa campus now.

1883
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:12,520
 But I think they're going to pick up Ossani Gale tomorrow, the wide receiver from IMG.

1884
01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:14,480
 Let's not kid ourselves.

1885
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 This class right now is not exactly knocking it out of the park as far as stars compared to Nick Saban.

1886
01:50:20,060 --> 01:50:25,540
 But to be fair, what we're trying to do here is tell all the stuff minus all the sugarcoating and everything like that.

1887
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:30,340
 I thought Doug Segers brought up a good point to kind of put Alabama fans at ease a little bit.

1888
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 That basically, if you look at the numbers and you just do facts and take the emotion out of it,

1889
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 out of the 49, 48 are still on the roster.

1890
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 He gave the time frame.

1891
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 Put another way, what Alabama's strategy is.

1892
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 Let's go out and spend the big money where we need it.

1893
01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:48,820
 But let's sit here and supplement it and put money back into the roster as opposed to going out,

1894
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 rolling the dice, and bringing in the latest hotshot five-star, BB.

1895
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 Well, in the hotshot five-star, Harold wants $1 to $3 million, depending upon the position.

1896
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 That's an incredible stat when you think about it.

1897
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 They've been able to keep 48 of 49 players.

1898
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 And again, most of those guys could come back.

1899
01:51:09,160 --> 01:51:10,820
 Now, all of them are not, obviously.

1900
01:51:11,180 --> 01:51:16,640
 But, yeah, we'll continue to follow recruiting, follow up with Gales, certainly on Monday.

1901
01:51:16,640 --> 01:51:24,860
 But, yeah, I'm well aware you and I hear both about what fans, and they're so used to having a top three class with Nick Saban.

1902
01:51:24,980 --> 01:51:26,800
 This one is a little tough to handle.

1903
01:51:27,440 --> 01:51:31,580
 I think it's an absolutely brilliant strategy if it works, Brett Beaird.

1904
01:51:31,720 --> 01:51:34,980
 Will the Braves get back to work tonight against the Giants?

1905
01:51:35,200 --> 01:51:37,240
 They've got to get it going again.

1906
01:51:40,340 --> 01:51:47,460
 They've, again, with runners in scoring position, they've been abysmal, as the beloved Bill Shanks mentioned earlier.

1907
01:51:47,960 --> 01:51:52,560
 The pitchers rarely have gone past six innings this month.

1908
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:55,100
 Bryce Elder, I think, is pitching tomorrow.

1909
01:51:55,740 --> 01:51:56,420
 We'll see.

1910
01:51:56,600 --> 01:52:01,340
 Hopefully, I know the Giants are reeling themselves, so hopefully the Braves can take advantage.

1911
01:52:01,780 --> 01:52:03,780
 Well, they've got to keep the fields at bay.

1912
01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:04,720
 It's all relative.

1913
01:52:04,860 --> 01:52:11,480
 As someone had said, at the halfway mark of the regular season, when you take the Braves being in first place by four games over the fields, most folks would say, yeah.

1914
01:52:11,720 --> 01:52:11,880
 Yeah.

1915
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:14,980
 But after that hot start right now, Braves fans are saying, what?

1916
01:52:15,140 --> 01:52:16,800
 The fields are only four back?

1917
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:18,380
 It's all relative.

1918
01:52:18,580 --> 01:52:24,060
 See how they add to or take from later on tonight on the West Coast here on 93.9 The Score.

1919
01:52:24,160 --> 01:52:25,220
 It's going to take care of business for now.

1920
01:52:25,300 --> 01:52:29,980
 On behalf of BB, Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here, Harold Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1921
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:32,680
 Let's do it again Monday, noon to two for the BIMO Buck Show.

1922
01:52:32,980 --> 01:52:35,300
 Back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.