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 I would say probably give it an A there, A- if anything.

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 It could have been, you know, really, really good.

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 Like, it's put Auburn there close to that top ten recruiting class, which is a fantastic start for Alex Golesh, you know.

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 They got some elite guys, but, I mean, it's not a huge class of a ton of blue-chip guys, but they definitely put together a really, really solid first class, you know.

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 Ever since arriving, they've gotten to work, they've hit the ground running, and you're seeing it pay off right now.

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 I think Auburn's sitting right now at number 13 in the on-three recruiting rankings in the nation, and so just being right there, I mean, you're in conversations with a lot of guys that are picking a lot of schools that have had a lot more success over the last, you know, five to six years.

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 So, I mean, I was very impressed with how Auburn handled things and the way that they were able to get this recruiting class, you know, really, I mean, it all happened really fast, by the way, it felt like, there in June.

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 Caleb, congratulations, you've had a series of articles called The Path to the Plains, where you profiled the wide receivers, I'm looking at Keyshawn Singleton, and just a good opportunity to profile these guys, let your subscribers get a chance to know them a little bit better.

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 Talk about the series, and particularly for a receiver class, three of these guys coming from Central Florida, who I think are going to be very prominent this season.

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 Yeah, I mean, this Path to the Plains series that I've been working on over the last, you know, couple of weeks, I think it's important, you know, especially in today's days with the transfer portal and everything like that, I mean, there's really not a ton of carryover, especially when you have a new coaching staff.

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 So I think it's important for a lot of Auburn fans to kind of familiarize themselves with the roster, right, just kind of get to know who's going to be that makeup of the team, who's going to be the core of the team.

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 And so just kind of running through the two deep of some guys that have transferred over, a lot of the offense, I mean, most of the offense are incoming transfers, and like you mentioned, several wide receivers coming over from South Florida following Alex Golesh, following Cody Burns.

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 So it's been really cool to kind of see those journeys and how they played out.

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 You know, you've got some guys like Chaz Nimrod, who was recruited to Tennessee by Alex Golesh and Cody Burns, and then went to South Florida for a season, reuniting with those guys.

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 And then now he's here at Auburn back in the SEC with maybe a little bit of a chip on the shoulder, something to prove now, trying to get and excel in the SEC, something he was never able to do with Tennessee just because he was a really young player over there.

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 And then a guy like Keyshawn Singleton, who was, you know, USF through and through, and now he's over at Auburn after putting together one of the best seasons for an American Conference team last year.

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 And Auburn's done a really nice job, I think, of replacing some of the production that they lost through the transfer portal and guys like Cam Coleman, Eric Singleton Jr.

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 But he thought it might be, according to sources, Derek Plaz, P-L-A-Z-Z.

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 Would you agree with that?

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 Listen, I always enjoy it a little bit tight today because we've got a Wimbledon update coming on.

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 Caleb, where can we get on line and get all the good stuff?

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 We have got a ton of content coming up here, especially with football season, you know, a couple of months away, man.

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

479
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 Welcome back in.

480
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,900
 It is an absolute pleasure for us to say hello to Bruce Marshall.

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 He is the guru when he comes to Las Vegas.

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 And I bet you if we ask Bruce, there's even more to that train.

486
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 Bruce, welcome in.

487
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:14,800
 How are you?

488
00:34:15,340 --> 00:34:16,080
 Hey, pretty good.

489
00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:16,780
 How are you doing, guys?

490
00:34:17,580 --> 00:34:18,880
 Bruce, we need to ask you a question.

491
00:34:18,980 --> 00:34:25,140
 Was last night's World Cup game brought to you by Kleenex if you are a U.S. soccer team fan?

492
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,460
 The reason I say that, Bruce, last night my wife got a text from her friend.

493
00:34:29,460 --> 00:34:31,360
 They were glued to the tube.

494
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,160
 I go this morning to the dentist, the hygienist.

495
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,500
 She said she was glued to the tube.

496
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:37,700
 You get a drift here, Bruce.

497
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,420
 Did any men watch or was it all women watching that game last night?

498
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,560
 I don't know, but the All-American fans felt pretty bad after that.

499
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:46,340
 That was embarrassing.

500
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:52,140
 And it was sort of my worst fears, which I had voiced before the World Cup,

501
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:57,560
 but I had sort of softened my stance on Pochettino in the early rounds of the tournament.

502
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,960
 But that turned out to be fool's gold because they were playing teams that just,

503
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,940
 they were subpar and they couldn't, they were poor offensively,

504
00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:10,460
 and it allowed that style that Pochettino played to work.

505
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,620
 High press, creating overloads, turnovers, things like that.

506
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:21,060
 But the defense was always suspect, and we saw that in the run-up to the World Cup,

507
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,860
 even if it wasn't quite a full squad there in some of the games.

508
00:35:24,700 --> 00:35:31,380
 There was that Belgium game back in March in Atlanta that really started to concern me

509
00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:33,000
 because Belgium was just walking through them.

510
00:35:33,260 --> 00:35:36,040
 So was Portugal when they played them a week later down in Atlanta.

511
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,100
 And we saw that last night.

512
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:40,840
 They just were not up to it at all.

513
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:46,320
 And I think some of the events surrounding the game worked, inspired against the U.S. big time.

514
00:35:46,540 --> 00:35:48,640
 That was a very motivated Belgium.

515
00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:51,440
 I mean, supremely motivated Belgium last night.

516
00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,280
 And they punished the U.S.

517
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,200
 That looked worse than 4-1, actually.

518
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,180
 So sobering.

519
00:35:57,300 --> 00:35:59,040
 I don't think Pochettino stays as coach.

520
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,260
 This is for the World Cup.

521
00:36:01,380 --> 00:36:04,120
 I know they had talked about extending him to 2030,

522
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,260
 but that's four years now before the next World Cup,

523
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:08,420
 and I don't think he wants to stay.

524
00:36:08,460 --> 00:36:12,560
 I don't think he should because I thought he was sort of a vanity hire in the first place.

525
00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:16,860
 And that proved out to be right, even though the first couple of games looked differently.

526
00:36:17,020 --> 00:36:18,560
 But in the end, that's what it was.

527
00:36:19,220 --> 00:36:20,120
 I agree with you.

528
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:24,100
 I watched last night, and it was like sometimes you see teams when they're playing at home,

529
00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:27,200
 they play uptight, and it's just like they, right off the bat,

530
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,080
 Belgium came out, and what you do, if the odds are against you like that,

531
00:36:31,140 --> 00:36:31,980
 you do what they did.

532
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,180
 You take the crowd out early on, and they did.

533
00:36:34,780 --> 00:36:37,800
 Your thoughts just about the defense, what happened there?

534
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,660
 And to me, the team may have lost, but the Fox sales department,

535
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,900
 man, did they ever win and win big.

536
00:36:45,020 --> 00:36:48,100
 I can't wait to see the numbers as far as the rating for that game.

537
00:36:48,620 --> 00:36:50,000
 Yeah, really big.

538
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,640
 And it's been the building.

539
00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:54,820
 I hate to think the World Cup just built for that

540
00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:57,960
 because that England-Mexico game the night before was one of the best I ever saw.

541
00:36:58,140 --> 00:36:58,460
 Yeah.

542
00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:02,580
 So we'll see where it goes from there.

543
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,680
 One other issue here for the Americans,

544
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:07,880
 I mean, they had two MLS goalies on the team,

545
00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:11,860
 and we saw Turner, the 40-year-old.

546
00:37:12,020 --> 00:37:14,120
 I mean, we saw they ran him out there against Turkey,

547
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,600
 and we saw what happened that game.

548
00:37:15,740 --> 00:37:18,680
 But Matt Fries, no, he's not a top-class goalie.

549
00:37:18,860 --> 00:37:20,040
 And we saw that last night.

550
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,460
 That was an egregious mistake that he made.

551
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:22,740
 Yeah.

552
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,540
 And that was always a weakness that just the first two games,

553
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,620
 the first few games, and even the Bosnia game.

554
00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:29,380
 Bosnia was not a dangerous team to play.

555
00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:34,140
 Those shortcomings in goal were not exposed,

556
00:37:34,460 --> 00:37:37,740
 and they finally were against the first good team that the U.S. really played.

557
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,520
 So that's another issue there.

558
00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:45,320
 You know, goalkeeping has generally been pretty good for the U.S.,

559
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,360
 and this time, you know, it wasn't.

560
00:37:48,620 --> 00:37:50,560
 And, you know, by the way, right now, I mean,

561
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:55,620
 Argentina is losing to Egypt now, so this is the World Cup is really opening up.

562
00:37:56,020 --> 00:37:57,460
 That's what I was going to ask you.

563
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,100
 By the way, number one, you reviewed what you told us last week,

564
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:03,740
 and it came to fruition.

565
00:38:03,740 --> 00:38:09,400
 You were exactly right about the defense and suspect about the coach

566
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,760
 and some of the players.

567
00:38:11,380 --> 00:38:15,580
 Now that we're about to what I call the Elite Eight in the World Cup,

568
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,080
 who's going to play in the championship game?

569
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,580
 Yeah, we're at the business end now.

570
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:28,820
 We're probably going to, well, we should see a France-Spain semifinal next week.

571
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:32,440
 France is going to be everybody's favorite,

572
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,520
 but I would remind people that Spain has beaten them the last few times they played

573
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:41,280
 in the Euros two years ago and then in the Nations League last year.

574
00:38:42,220 --> 00:38:44,120
 I kind of think Spain will get there.

575
00:38:44,220 --> 00:38:46,700
 I think they'll get by Belgium, and I think Spain will probably be there.

576
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:49,980
 The other side, you know, England, I mean,

577
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,300
 I think they needed a week off after that game in Mexico City,

578
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:55,500
 so they won't play until Saturday.

579
00:38:56,340 --> 00:38:57,860
 Norway's been such a great story.

580
00:38:59,540 --> 00:39:03,960
 You know, England's probably the favorite in that end now because Argentina's in trouble,

581
00:39:04,140 --> 00:39:05,820
 and I think England will beat Argentina anyway.

582
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:11,480
 The second game today, Switzerland-Colombia,

583
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,300
 it looks like the winner of that one's going to get Egypt.

584
00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:20,160
 And I've been really impressed by, well, Colombia's look really good,

585
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:25,760
 Switzerland with this youngster, Johan Manzambi, who I hope plays today.

586
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,260
 They said he took a little knock in training the other day,

587
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,820
 but he's given them a completely different dimension.

588
00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:33,620
 Switzerland is the ultimate dark horse here.

589
00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:36,920
 I think they could actually make the final if they can get by Colombia today.

590
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:37,500
 We will see.

591
00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:41,060
 Bruce Marshall, amongst other places, Vegas Insider.

592
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596
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,780
 That would be this Tuesday, this Wednesday.

597
00:39:58,020 --> 00:39:58,620
 Your thoughts.

598
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,120
 As far as the Big 12,

599
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,520
 isn't it interesting to see where they are relative in 2026

600
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,540
 to the two big boys, the SEC and the Big Ten?

601
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,020
 Yeah, we're getting up to that,

602
00:40:11,260 --> 00:40:13,480
 and I guess I'll be down in Tampa.

603
00:40:13,540 --> 00:40:15,280
 I'm going to be in Charlotte, too, next week.

604
00:40:15,540 --> 00:40:15,740
 Let's see.

605
00:40:15,740 --> 00:40:16,160
 You're busy.

606
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:17,160
 At the end of next week,

607
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,640
 and then I'll go down to Florida from there.

608
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,760
 Big 12 is interesting, Eric,

609
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,860
 because so much of the talk has been around this Texas Tech stuff

610
00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:27,560
 in the offseason.

611
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,860
 So, you know, we'll see where that goes,

612
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,860
 and that remains too big of a storyline, I think, in the Big 12.

613
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,500
 But that is where it is there.

614
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,740
 I'm interested to see.

615
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:46,840
 I think of all of the coaching changes we saw last in the offseason,

616
00:40:48,220 --> 00:40:52,860
 Oklahoma State with his brother and Eric Morris from North Texas.

617
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,520
 We might have talked about this a couple months ago.

618
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,160
 You know, this is like an expansion team now.

619
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:00,440
 I mean, we've seen a lot of that.

620
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,980
 We saw Deion do that with Colorado and bring in 60, 65 guys.

621
00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:07,160
 It's like 90 new players he's got.

622
00:41:07,380 --> 00:41:08,600
 It's the whole new team.

623
00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:10,540
 And he's brought a lot of them from North Texas,

624
00:41:10,700 --> 00:41:12,300
 including his quarterback, Drew Messamaker.

625
00:41:12,460 --> 00:41:15,940
 So we've got to, like, throw out everything.

626
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,320
 This is a difficult thing about handicapping this stuff.

627
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,960
 Teams like Oklahoma State, what happened last year

628
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,540
 and that way that fell apart with Gundy and then the interim after that,

629
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,640
 we're going to have to just throw away.

630
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,760
 So I'm really curious to see if this stuff with Morris works there.

631
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:32,620
 That's going to be very interesting.

632
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,560
 You know, BYU is a side that looks like it should be there again.

633
00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:38,560
 Of course, the Texas Tech thing.

634
00:41:38,620 --> 00:41:40,020
 And I don't think they'll miss Soarsby at all.

635
00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:41,860
 I think Hammond is good enough.

636
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,000
 We saw enough of him last year in relief before he got hurt.

637
00:41:45,140 --> 00:41:48,060
 So I don't think they're going to get hurt at the quarterback there.

638
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:53,880
 The one I would watch is Houston, just because of Willie Fritz.

639
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,620
 They made a big jump their second year with him.

640
00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:58,320
 This is sort of what he did at Tulane.

641
00:41:58,380 --> 00:42:01,600
 It took a little bit, but they started to win and win big.

642
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,940
 I have enormous respect for Fritz.

643
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,080
 Connor Wigman is now in his 12th year's college eligibility.

644
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,500
 He's still their quarterback for them.

645
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,700
 They've got more returnees than most teams have.

646
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:18,900
 And I think that's still got to be probably a plus.

647
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,820
 And Houston did make a big jump last year.

648
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,140
 Watch Willie Fritz this year.

649
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,300
 And they actually get Texas Tech in the third game of the season.

650
00:42:28,420 --> 00:42:31,340
 That's going to be one of the big September games in the Big 12.

651
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,940
 Arizona is also maybe worth a look as well.

652
00:42:34,340 --> 00:42:35,940
 But I'm keeping an eye on Willie Fritz.

653
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:36,920
 We've seen him do it before.

654
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,260
 I agree with you.

655
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,200
 I've always been a Willie Fritz fan.

656
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,720
 I thought he did a really good job of doing the groundwork.

657
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:50,620
 And then, of course, that Florida coach, Jon Sumrall, followed him and did a really good job.

658
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:52,180
 You mentioned Deion Sanders.

659
00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:53,860
 We were watching him on the monitor.

660
00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:57,380
 He was just at the podium answering.

661
00:42:57,580 --> 00:42:59,800
 Most of the questions were about his health.

662
00:43:00,340 --> 00:43:03,020
 He had his gold-plated buttons on his shirt.

663
00:43:03,180 --> 00:43:05,600
 He was drafted to the tee.

664
00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:10,100
 Brett Yormack continues to impress me.

665
00:43:10,740 --> 00:43:11,980
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666
00:43:12,100 --> 00:43:18,820
 Now, Monster, the energy drink, is sponsoring the Big 12 media days in Frisco.

667
00:43:19,540 --> 00:43:30,220
 But they announced this morning a $20 million deal annually with Monster to 14 patches, logos on the field.

668
00:43:30,220 --> 00:43:34,180
 Now, every team is going to get $1 million out of this.

669
00:43:34,380 --> 00:43:38,500
 But people keep asking him, and that's one of the big questions this week.

670
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,420
 How are you going to make up the GALP in revenue?

671
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:49,080
 Well, I thought that was good to get Monster involved, and when Monster gets involved, they're bringing money.

672
00:43:50,260 --> 00:43:51,480
 I agree, Brett.

673
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,840
 And this guy is my favorite commissioner.

674
00:43:53,980 --> 00:43:55,380
 We might have mentioned this before.

675
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,320
 He thinks outside the box.

676
00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:57,760
 He does.

677
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:04,020
 He's from outside of academia, which I think is very important, which Greg Sankey is not.

678
00:44:04,420 --> 00:44:06,740
 So I don't think he's done all that bad a job.

679
00:44:06,820 --> 00:44:10,600
 But I really like what Yormack has done there.

680
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,720
 So give him credit for thinking outside the box with this stuff.

681
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:17,740
 I think that's really creative, what he's doing.

682
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:18,980
 And the Big 12's trying.

683
00:44:19,340 --> 00:44:23,080
 I mean, I like how he stood up to Cody Campbell from Texas Tech.

684
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,460
 So that's good for him.

685
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,120
 Bruce, you know where we are.

686
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:35,060
 Alabama fans right now are right on the brink of Panic City because they were used to this guy named Nick Saban's recruiting style,

687
00:44:35,060 --> 00:44:40,380
 where a four-star was cause for panic, and now a four-star is cause for a celebration.

688
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:44,940
 It looks like Alabama's going to be, as far as the roster, it looks great this season.

689
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:52,480
 The question is, what happens after this in terms of all these three stars who will then become into germination,

690
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,340
 as far as what you do as far as a portal at that point?

691
00:44:55,380 --> 00:45:00,180
 But what message can you tell Alabama football fans, given what's going on now with the recruiting?

692
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:06,400
 Patience, patience, because DeBoer has shown he can develop players and develop quarterbacks.

693
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,240
 And he's got another one in the NFL this year.

694
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,960
 You know, Simpson arrived there during Coach Saban's era.

695
00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:16,120
 But, you know, Milrose, Milrose in the NFL, too.

696
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,180
 He's up in Seattle, I think.

697
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:18,820
 And Simpson.

698
00:45:18,980 --> 00:45:23,220
 And now we'll see if it's Keelan Russell or whoever it is taking snaps this year, if they can do it.

699
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:31,460
 His track record, though, at developing talent, this goes back to his freshman teams, which were better than I thought.

700
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:41,900
 And then, of course, the first Washington team, we've got to remember, he took over a moribund Washington program that had just completely cratered,

701
00:45:41,940 --> 00:45:43,640
 immediately got them up to speed.

702
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,980
 So patience with him.

703
00:45:46,660 --> 00:45:51,120
 And I think he'll have, I have full faith that he will have Alabama contending.

704
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:57,940
 Now, if the bar is Coach Saban-like high, I don't know that any coach right now is going to be able to reach that.

705
00:45:58,100 --> 00:46:02,240
 And in this SEC, which is so tough these days, that's going to be tough.

706
00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:05,760
 But I would, you know, patience there.

707
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:12,740
 Actually, I like this schedule off the bat because East Carolina is a good test of the opener.

708
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:14,540
 Alabama, my favorite, probably should win that game.

709
00:46:14,580 --> 00:46:17,180
 But it's not one of these games versus an FCS team.

710
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:18,060
 East Carolina is not bad.

711
00:46:18,180 --> 00:46:19,120
 I won the bowl game last year.

712
00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:19,780
 I like the coach.

713
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:22,420
 So that'll be good.

714
00:46:22,540 --> 00:46:24,960
 And then you go to Kentucky with the new coach, Will Stein.

715
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:32,040
 And then that Florida State game, I think there's, I think there's 3-0 when the SEC starts.

716
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:37,200
 And you start off South Carolina in Tuscaloosa and then go to Starkville.

717
00:46:37,740 --> 00:46:44,220
 They could be 5-0 by the time Georgia comes into, comes into Brian Denny in early October.

718
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,600
 And then we're talking, we've got a completely different conversation at that point.

719
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,320
 Patience is my word for Bama fans.

720
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:57,820
 Yeah, and I keep saying, if they have an emotional win on Saturday night against Georgia, the next week's Knoxville.

721
00:46:58,820 --> 00:47:00,740
 So we'll see about that.

722
00:47:00,820 --> 00:47:02,340
 Let me ask you about the Pac-12.

723
00:47:02,740 --> 00:47:05,580
 They went from the Pac-12 to the Pac-2.

724
00:47:06,220 --> 00:47:08,440
 Now they're back up to the Pac-9 or 10.

725
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,920
 Boise State joined the party.

726
00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:13,920
 Oregon State, Washington State, the holdovers.

727
00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,680
 Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, et cetera.

728
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,700
 I've always enjoyed Pac-12 after dark.

729
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:22,960
 And I know they're going to continue that.

730
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,140
 A lot of people are overlooking.

731
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,400
 This league literally is the rebirth of the Pac-12.

732
00:47:29,980 --> 00:47:33,300
 Your comments the first year of the rebirth.

733
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:39,060
 Well, it is, except it looks to me more like the birth of the Mountain West 2.

734
00:47:39,140 --> 00:47:39,340
 Yeah.

735
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,840
 I mean, it's basically the Mountain West with a couple different twists.

736
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:43,140
 Right.

737
00:47:43,140 --> 00:47:53,980
 And that's one of the complaints a lot of people have on this region out here, was that Oregon State and Washington State could have opted to stay in the Mountain West where they played for a year.

738
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,360
 And then they played the basketball at the West Coast Conference the last two years.

739
00:47:58,460 --> 00:48:05,160
 And then it turned into a very ugly fight with the Mountain West because they weren't supposed to poach any of their schools.

740
00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:08,340
 Yet they did to form this new Pac-12.

741
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,960
 And exit fees and penalties.

742
00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:13,700
 This has been in court.

743
00:48:13,980 --> 00:48:15,180
 Arbitration couldn't get anywhere.

744
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:15,860
 Back to court.

745
00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:17,120
 They're trying to negotiate something.

746
00:48:17,900 --> 00:48:26,140
 I think the Pac-12 may have thought all along we can go with the legal route and at least minimize some of those damages.

747
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:33,180
 I think it was an underhanded move by the Pac-12 really to do that because Mountain West saved them for at least that first year.

748
00:48:33,720 --> 00:48:36,760
 And then they went out and poached from the WCC, Gonzaga, too.

749
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:42,460
 So this new big Pac-12 has changed.

750
00:48:42,740 --> 00:48:44,060
 The dominoes fell.

751
00:48:44,260 --> 00:48:45,900
 It weakened the Mountain West.

752
00:48:46,660 --> 00:48:50,280
 It weakened the WCC because you've lost your flagship, Gonzaga.

753
00:48:51,300 --> 00:48:56,980
 They've poached out of the Sunbelt, Texas State, which is an area there where they thought, you know,

754
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:00,980
 kind of a burgeoning area outside of Austin and San Marcos between San Antonio and Austin.

755
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:03,920
 And for what?

756
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,820
 The TV deals, from what I understand, are no better than they would have gotten in the Mountain West.

757
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,980
 Being that as it may, for us just watching the games, I think it's okay because, like you said, we'll get more.

758
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:16,840
 Pac-12 at night is back.

759
00:49:17,140 --> 00:49:25,980
 They did take, you know, some of the premier teams from the Mountain West, like Boise and San Diego State,

760
00:49:26,060 --> 00:49:28,660
 are probably the top two teams in the league this year.

761
00:49:29,660 --> 00:49:33,200
 Oregon State's got, has changed coaches, and so has Washington State.

762
00:49:33,340 --> 00:49:35,480
 I mean, it was a tough couple of years for them.

763
00:49:35,780 --> 00:49:38,520
 Washington State's on its third coach in as many years.

764
00:49:39,340 --> 00:49:46,220
 And then Oregon State really fell apart, and they brought in Jamarcus Shepard from the Bama staff, I think.

765
00:49:46,500 --> 00:49:51,800
 So, it remains to be seen, although entertainment-wise, I think we'll probably be okay.

766
00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:54,340
 Like you said, we love watching those late-night games.

767
00:49:54,460 --> 00:49:55,380
 We'll get more of those this year.

768
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:56,360
 Absolutely.

769
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:01,360
 Yeah, that Alabama assistant, I think, is going to do a good job there.

770
00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:06,840
 By the way, Joey McGuire steps up to the podium here in about 30 minutes.

771
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:13,200
 I wonder what kind of questions he's going to get from the media after a very entertaining summer.

772
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,120
 Listen, great stuff.

773
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,620
 Nobody does a better job of covering soccer in the whole nine yards.

774
00:50:18,940 --> 00:50:21,320
 Baseball, Major League Baseball still going on.

775
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:22,720
 Brace trying to hang on.

776
00:50:23,300 --> 00:50:25,460
 Where can we get online to get all the great stuff?

777
00:50:26,100 --> 00:50:32,920
 I'm surprised Cody Campbell's not up there sharing the stuff with Joey McGuire.

778
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:34,480
 Anyway, yeah, thanks, Brad.

779
00:50:34,540 --> 00:50:35,500
 Check me out online.

780
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 WagerTalk.com.

781
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 Under that umbrella is everything there.

782
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:39,300
 WagerTalk.com.

783
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,620
 That's where all the picks are at right now.

784
00:50:41,060 --> 00:50:44,960
 Goldsheet.com is there, but we won't start populating that site until we get towards football season.

785
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,840
 Kicks, and we're doing well in baseball, doing really good in the World Cup.

786
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:49,320
 WagerTalk.com.

787
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,940
 You can also find picks and parlays and winnersandwiners.com there as well.

788
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,000
 Bruce, as always, knocked it out of the park.

789
00:50:56,100 --> 00:50:56,820
 Thank you so much.

790
00:50:56,860 --> 00:50:57,180
 Your time.

791
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,400
 Stay safe out there, okay?

792
00:50:59,120 --> 00:50:59,640
 Okay, gentlemen.

793
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:00,160
 Thank you.

794
00:51:00,220 --> 00:51:00,700
 Thank you, bud.

795
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,500
 Bruce Marshall, a busy boy out in Las Vegas.

796
00:51:03,620 --> 00:51:04,820
 Quickly, we alluded to it.

797
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:09,600
 After a cup of coffee making his MLB debut with the Braves, Owen Murphy says,

798
00:51:10,180 --> 00:51:15,760
 I'm sorry, the 22-year-old headed back across town to AAA with Connor Thomas.

799
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,980
 So he came up and gave up two runs, and the Braves says you need to go back,

800
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,380
 and that just drives one bill change crazy.

801
00:51:21,540 --> 00:51:23,700
 I was going to say, he calls it yo-yoing,

802
00:51:23,820 --> 00:51:27,120
 and that's exactly what the Braves have been doing with some of these pitchers,

803
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,620
 again, the last couple of years.

804
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:29,400
 Absolutely.

805
00:51:29,660 --> 00:51:32,480
 Coming up with the next time, I'm going to be taking you all over the place.

806
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 Elmer Pierce is going to be on board.

807
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808
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901
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,920
 Western One Sports presents this World Soccer Update.

902
00:56:29,020 --> 00:56:29,480
 What a game.

903
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:31,380
 Winding down right now in Atlanta.

904
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,020
 It's Argentina defending World Cup champions and Egypt,

905
00:56:34,180 --> 00:56:36,180
 who before this World Cup had never won a game.

906
00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:41,000
 They scored 15 minutes in, ahead of from Yasser Ibrahim, 1-0 at the half.

907
00:56:41,660 --> 00:56:44,120
 58th minute apparent 2-0 lead for Egypt.

908
00:56:44,220 --> 00:56:46,600
 Took the ball the length of the field, put it in the net,

909
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:52,020
 but VAR took the ball with the goal off the board because of a foul well before the goal was scored.

910
00:56:52,100 --> 00:56:54,400
 But nine minutes later, Egypt scored anyway.

911
00:56:54,620 --> 00:56:55,480
 This one counted.

912
00:56:55,860 --> 00:56:59,320
 The same guy, Zico, some tremendous passing by Egypt.

913
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:05,040
 But Argentina has come back with an incredible comeback, having not scored for 79 minutes.

914
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,280
 Three goals in 13 minutes.

915
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:09,740
 Christian Romero, a header, 79th minute.

916
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,900
 Four minutes later, the tying goal scored by, you guessed it, Lionel Messi,

917
00:57:14,580 --> 00:57:16,780
 who had been stopped on a penalty kick in the first half.

918
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,140
 And moments ago, another header, Enzo Fernandez.

919
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:20,420
 Argentina's up 3-2.

920
00:57:20,780 --> 00:57:21,980
 That's their show at Westwood One Sports.

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928
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929
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930
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931
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932
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933
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936
00:58:35,500 --> 00:58:38,980
 Boomo Bugg on 93.9, The Score.

937
00:58:39,500 --> 00:58:43,320
 What do you say we're going down to the Sunshine State to say hello to John Florey.

938
00:58:43,460 --> 00:58:47,920
 He's busy there on 1021 FM, 1240 AM, WFOY in St. Augustine.

939
00:58:48,060 --> 00:58:49,280
 Thanks so much for your time today.

940
00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:49,940
 How are you?

941
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:51,600
 I'm doing great, Harold.

942
00:58:51,600 --> 00:59:01,540
 And I'll tell you, the only thing hotter than the Sunshine State right now and the temperature are all the women that chase the beard brothers at SEC media days.

943
00:59:01,860 --> 00:59:02,640
 That's about it.

944
00:59:02,860 --> 00:59:04,620
 What do you think the draw is there?

945
00:59:04,780 --> 00:59:06,420
 I mean, John, where do you start breaking down?

946
00:59:06,860 --> 00:59:10,720
 I mean, every guy right now, me and Sven, I mean, they break the bank.

947
00:59:10,940 --> 00:59:12,320
 They go to the DNA bank.

948
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:13,700
 They do all this surgery.

949
00:59:14,220 --> 00:59:16,080
 What is it about the Satchel Boys?

950
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,600
 I don't know, but it's like Thanksgiving dinner.

951
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,260
 I just had to try to hope to get a leftover, Harold.

952
00:59:22,460 --> 00:59:26,940
 They get the cake, we get the crumbs, right?

953
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:31,220
 The Boomo Bugg Show, weekdays noon to 2 on 93.9, The Score.

954
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:34,800
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955
00:59:35,380 --> 00:59:39,640
 Today, a 30% chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms with a high around 90.

956
00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,680
 Heat index values as high as 97.

957
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:46,000
 Tonight, partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers overnight and a low near 70.

958
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 Tomorrow, mostly sunny with a 30% chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms with a high around 90.

959
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 Tomorrow night, partly cloudy with a low near 70.

960
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961
00:59:59,780 --> 01:00:02,440
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962
01:00:03,900 --> 01:00:12,300
 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of Northwest Alabama and Southern Tennessee.

963
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:16,300
 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

964
01:00:19,300 --> 01:00:21,800
 The Boomo Bugg Show.

965
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:27,380
 Your exclusive inside track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

966
01:00:28,180 --> 01:00:33,580
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9, The Score.

967
01:00:34,180 --> 01:00:36,200
 Welcome back in our tour to the Boomo Bugg Show.

968
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:37,920
 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

969
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,660
 Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

970
01:00:40,780 --> 01:00:43,320
 And, B.B., by the way, good job again, James.

971
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:44,280
 Is he good or what?

972
01:00:44,360 --> 01:00:44,740
 He is.

973
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,060
 To follow up on that, we didn't get around to you answering the question.

974
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:55,720
 A lot of guys right now, they love football, but they'd love to have a chance at other games, too, B.B.

975
01:00:55,800 --> 01:01:02,560
 What advice can the dynamic duo of B&B give to all of us mortals out there?

976
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,240
 Well, Brent and I talked about that at one time, Harold.

977
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:11,480
 In fact, what we thought about doing is writing a book about what not to do in relationships with women.

978
01:01:11,940 --> 01:01:13,080
 How about that big book be?

979
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:17,960
 Now, that would be, well, first of all, it would probably be encyclopedia-like.

980
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:18,720
 Right, right.

981
01:01:19,140 --> 01:01:21,040
 And it would take a while to publish.

982
01:01:21,220 --> 01:01:27,840
 But, yeah, we could probably come up with a few things and tell men, this is not what you do in a relationship.

983
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:29,900
 Did you see that cartoon the other day?

984
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:34,460
 They had a contrast, you know, like a two-sided, like a line down the middle of it.

985
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,120
 And they had a book for men and a book for women.

986
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:38,640
 It's called Understanding Each.

987
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:46,140
 Like you said, the book for women, it's like they had like a ten encyclopedia over and over and over.

988
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:47,760
 A real thick book, you know.

989
01:01:48,260 --> 01:01:51,700
 The man's book was about the size of C-Spot Run.

990
01:01:51,780 --> 01:01:52,900
 It was like one or two pages.

991
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,160
 So, ladies, if you're listening right now, let's make it simple.

992
01:01:56,460 --> 01:01:58,460
 Could there be anything simpler than a man, B.B.?

993
01:01:58,460 --> 01:02:00,920
 It's not that complicated, is it?

994
01:02:01,580 --> 01:02:08,040
 Well, you know, Harold, I could say there are three or four things that are mandatory in a relationship with a man.

995
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:13,000
 But being family radio probably would be bad for me to stay away from that.

996
01:02:14,180 --> 01:02:16,400
 And some men can't wait to get on that list.

997
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,440
 Yes, they can experience that.

998
01:02:19,060 --> 01:02:23,420
 Obviously, it's hard to believe we're having to hook up with Coach Brett Mascot at the Lexington High.

999
01:02:23,420 --> 01:02:28,780
 This is what's fun about this station and this format as opposed to ESPN.

1000
01:02:29,260 --> 01:02:36,280
 I want to see the next time that ESPN features these high school coaches and players, B.B., from the Shoals area.

1001
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:43,680
 And the reason we love doing it is, in our minds, and we're not geniuses here, we think that these guys put in as much effort.

1002
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:48,020
 I was talking to the wife, speaking of that last night, about the U.S. soccer team.

1003
01:02:48,260 --> 01:02:49,720
 Everybody's talking about the pressure.

1004
01:02:50,220 --> 01:03:01,880
 And I told her, I said, look, if you go down to a little league park right now in the Shoals or anywhere in North Alabama, I promise you the pressure on those kids would be about the same as the pressure on those soccer players there.

1005
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:06,660
 Now, they've got a bigger stage, but those kids are bloody serious about winning.

1006
01:03:06,860 --> 01:03:16,360
 And that's why we love bringing on coaches here in our neck of the woods to give you a perspective, because they are about to ramp it up and go into another year.

1007
01:03:16,460 --> 01:03:19,680
 We're going to have France High head coach Kenny Morrison on with us tomorrow.

1008
01:03:19,680 --> 01:03:30,120
 But, to me, this is a great opportunity during this window before they, as they say, put their nose to the grindstone to talk about the respective communities and high schools here in the greater Shoals area.

1009
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,340
 Well, we've been doing this during the summer.

1010
01:03:32,740 --> 01:03:34,800
 You and I are coming on December now.

1011
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:36,920
 We've been doing this 24 years.

1012
01:03:38,220 --> 01:03:40,840
 And we always enjoy talking with them.

1013
01:03:41,260 --> 01:03:45,900
 In fact, we try to talk with them twice during the summer, usually in June or July.

1014
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:52,700
 And then, August, when they've got the team together and they've got a little bit better handle on their roster.

1015
01:03:52,860 --> 01:03:57,060
 But, Harold, these guys work, once you get in the season, 100 hours a week.

1016
01:03:57,340 --> 01:04:02,720
 Also, their coaching class, they're teaching two or three classes.

1017
01:04:02,740 --> 01:04:04,820
 And everything else going on.

1018
01:04:05,380 --> 01:04:10,600
 And they're not exactly making as much as what Nick Saban was making in Tuscaloosa.

1019
01:04:11,140 --> 01:04:16,760
 That's one of the reasons why I have so much respect for the high school coaches and all the sports.

1020
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:18,580
 And certainly, the assistant coaches.

1021
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:22,740
 The amount of time they put into this is absolutely incredible.

1022
01:04:23,060 --> 01:04:26,020
 And the injury here or there can derail the season.

1023
01:04:26,860 --> 01:04:30,340
 But, yeah, hopefully we can get Brett on today or sometime soon.

1024
01:04:30,820 --> 01:04:32,180
 He's done a very good job.

1025
01:04:32,740 --> 01:04:40,080
 A lot of our listeners remember five years at Colbert County High School from 2017 to 21.

1026
01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:45,340
 Had a 21-10 region record, 33-3 overall.

1027
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,660
 Three years as an assistant at Florence.

1028
01:04:48,820 --> 01:04:52,340
 And this come on at Langston was 8-4 last year.

1029
01:04:52,460 --> 01:04:53,240
 And I'll tell you one thing.

1030
01:04:53,320 --> 01:05:01,320
 If you like to see offensive display, his Langston team last year scored 467 points.

1031
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:03,620
 39 points a game.

1032
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:07,980
 Now, they ran into rush probes in the second round of the playoffs.

1033
01:05:08,380 --> 01:05:10,340
 And Kusa Christian won that game.

1034
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:15,600
 But, of course, everybody remembers his dad, Steve Mask.

1035
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:16,700
 He's now retired.

1036
01:05:17,420 --> 01:05:25,100
 His dad, 29 seasons coaching at Bradshaw, Buckhorn, Colbert County, St. Paul's, and Theodore.

1037
01:05:26,260 --> 01:05:29,940
 231 wins, 120 losses in 29 seasons.

1038
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:32,800
 But, believe me, the Mask family can coach.

1039
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:36,380
 Another thing I like about high school coaches, too.

1040
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:40,120
 And now, obviously, things are different now because they've got a different surface to play on.

1041
01:05:40,180 --> 01:05:44,960
 But back in the day, in addition to what you just said, I remember going out and doing it.

1042
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,500
 I don't know if you remember George Bennett.

1043
01:05:46,660 --> 01:05:49,420
 He was basically starting Madison Academy football.

1044
01:05:49,520 --> 01:05:49,680
 He did.

1045
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:52,520
 I mean, he basically planted a seed.

1046
01:05:52,620 --> 01:05:54,860
 Now, they went through some rough times over there.

1047
01:05:54,940 --> 01:06:00,060
 But he planted a seed because back in the day, Madison Academy was everybody's homecoming appointed.

1048
01:06:00,140 --> 01:06:01,780
 They happened to be in the same area as Cortland.

1049
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:03,900
 And let's just make it nice here.

1050
01:06:03,980 --> 01:06:08,480
 It wasn't pretty what Cortland did to Madison Academy back in the day at their heyday.

1051
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:12,300
 But the reason I bring up George, I'd go out about this time of the year.

1052
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:16,920
 And I went out with every intention of talking chalk, you know, the Jimmys and Joes.

1053
01:06:17,540 --> 01:06:20,160
 And I go out there on the field.

1054
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,060
 And this is back when I had just the natural turf.

1055
01:06:22,100 --> 01:06:24,260
 And he said, just a minute, I'm mowing the grass.

1056
01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:24,560
 Yeah.

1057
01:06:24,780 --> 01:06:32,700
 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think DeBoer, Gullish, Saban, any of those guys are out mowing the grass like these high school guys, BB.

1058
01:06:32,940 --> 01:06:41,540
 Well, Harold, the lawn maintenance, their plumber, they go out and raise money.

1059
01:06:41,540 --> 01:06:43,840
 Listen, I've known George Bennett for 30 years.

1060
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:50,580
 He was my economics teacher at Hazel Green when I was president of Junior Achievement Low many years ago.

1061
01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:57,300
 I remember talking to George that the first year he was at Madison Academy trying to bring that program alone.

1062
01:06:57,700 --> 01:07:03,720
 He said, listen, the first two days of practice, I had to show about 10 of my players and put the uniform on.

1063
01:07:05,860 --> 01:07:10,300
 It's ironic that we bring that up because our next guest, BB, and we can't say it enough,

1064
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:14,000
 but Madison Academy is an incredible story.

1065
01:07:14,060 --> 01:07:20,760
 The reason we bring it up, we just talked about George, and our next guest is going to have roots to the old Madison Academy.

1066
01:07:20,900 --> 01:07:22,700
 There are Max Luther in Huntsville.

1067
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:26,040
 Now, you're talking about a school that's had success, BB.

1068
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:31,780
 They have built a nice palatial estate because they did things that did things right because of people like George.

1069
01:07:31,900 --> 01:07:36,840
 That increased their enrollment, so now they've got a nice facility in Madison, Madison Academy.

1070
01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:37,880
 They used to be in Huntsville.

1071
01:07:37,980 --> 01:07:42,840
 We'll give more details on why we're bringing Dr. Thomas Moody to that location here in a second.

1072
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:53,840
 But the other thing, too, is when you start looking at high school football, one of the things that I find still sad about our area is, and I think I speak for a lot of folks,

1073
01:07:54,380 --> 01:08:01,480
 we still miss the heyday of folks here in Town Creek with Hazelwood and right down the road with Cortland.

1074
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,380
 And then you throw in Carbett County.

1075
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,540
 Can you imagine a stretch of road?

1076
01:08:07,020 --> 01:08:08,540
 I don't have a map in front of me.

1077
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,780
 It's a handful of miles between Leighton, Town Creek, and Cortland.

1078
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:19,620
 And when these guys were in their heyday, were there three schools that close together?

1079
01:08:20,100 --> 01:08:21,520
 First of all, everybody's related.

1080
01:08:22,580 --> 01:08:24,560
 They had their brother, sister, cousin, whatever.

1081
01:08:25,300 --> 01:08:30,140
 Can you imagine an area that's more concentrated with that high level of talent?

1082
01:08:30,140 --> 01:08:36,720
 Well, I remember, and I may miss the name here, Willie Goodloe played at Carbett County.

1083
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,560
 And he was one of the first ones that during that stretch there.

1084
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,260
 Now, obviously, Hazelwood had a lot of kids go down to Alabama.

1085
01:08:44,780 --> 01:08:47,640
 I think Bill Curry had a camping spot over there for the good boys.

1086
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:49,300
 But Willie went to Ole Miss.

1087
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:56,240
 And you look at a school that size, and you look at where they went to school.

1088
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:58,220
 To me, I still miss.

1089
01:08:58,220 --> 01:09:00,240
 Now, I know, obviously, Carbett County is still rocking.

1090
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:05,080
 But it's sad for a lot of longtime high school fans to not see a Hazelwood or a Cortland

1091
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:07,040
 doing what they could do back in the day.

1092
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:09,240
 Well, it was absolutely incredible.

1093
01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:13,780
 Harold Janky Ferguson at Hazelwood.

1094
01:09:13,900 --> 01:09:15,520
 And again, I know you joke about this.

1095
01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:17,260
 They won so many state championships.

1096
01:09:17,580 --> 01:09:21,540
 They didn't have enough room on the scoreboard to list all of them.

1097
01:09:21,540 --> 01:09:31,220
 And then you had the White family, you know, LeBron and his brother who retired from Bob Jones, and then his dad.

1098
01:09:31,660 --> 01:09:34,080
 But, no, there were some absolutely incredible.

1099
01:09:34,540 --> 01:09:35,440
 And I'll tell you one thing.

1100
01:09:35,500 --> 01:09:44,500
 When those teams got together for the rivalry in the fall, believe me, there were fans from about four counties there to watch it.

1101
01:09:44,620 --> 01:09:45,860
 And you know what else?

1102
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:49,960
 Coaches from the ACC from every team watching as well.

1103
01:09:50,300 --> 01:09:55,400
 You had to get there on Thursday to get a parking spot for Friday when those teams were at their heyday.

1104
01:09:55,780 --> 01:09:58,900
 Coming up, guys, we try to have a lot of fun here on the show.

1105
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:05,880
 But there is a serious side, and hopefully you'll take a little time and kind of set aside a few minutes.

1106
01:10:05,880 --> 01:10:13,940
 Because, as we mentioned, our next guest is coming to the old location of Madison Academy there in Huntsville on Max Luther tomorrow.

1107
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:22,640
 And there's nothing that will make him any happier and perhaps your own family any happier if it's in your plans to be able to be there, too.

1108
01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:23,560
 Why?

1109
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,840
 Detail straight ahead with Dr. Thomas Moody.

1110
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,540
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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1206
01:15:57,340 --> 01:15:58,300
 Welcome back in, BB.

1207
01:15:58,660 --> 01:15:59,740
 Just a quick update.

1208
01:15:59,860 --> 01:16:06,400
 We mentioned Willie Goodloe, and I failed to mention we lost Willie a while back in a car accident.

1209
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,080
 But one of the brightest guys.

1210
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 I think he was the president of his class.

1211
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 I think inducted into the Carbett County Hall of Fame.

1212
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 So I just want to make sure that we pay a nice tribute to now the late Willie Goodloe.

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 Absolutely.

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 He was quite an individual and quite a person as our next guest is.

1215
01:16:23,060 --> 01:16:30,020
 By the way, Harold, we have been talking with Dr. Moody and his staff now, I believe, for 15 years.

1216
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 Wow.

1217
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:32,640
 We started when he was, what, 16 years old or something like that?

1218
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 Exactly right.

1219
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 Yeah.

1220
01:16:33,860 --> 01:16:41,660
 We're almost to 30, which means what Dr. Thomas Moody says works because we follow his advice.

1221
01:16:41,780 --> 01:16:44,280
 Dr. Thomas Moody, Urology Health Foundation.

1222
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:47,240
 Dr. Thomas Moody, long time.

1223
01:16:47,340 --> 01:16:48,140
 Welcome back in.

1224
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:48,720
 How are you?

1225
01:16:49,420 --> 01:16:50,380
 Well, thank you.

1226
01:16:50,460 --> 01:16:51,460
 Thank you for having me.

1227
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:52,660
 I'm doing great.

1228
01:16:53,020 --> 01:16:54,080
 I'm doing great.

1229
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 And we really appreciate all the help you all have given us over the last 15 years.

1230
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 And we plan to make this trip to Huntsville next week an even better one.

1231
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:15,100
 Dr. Thomas Moody, let's talk a little bit about what you, as far as the overview, kind of a view from 10,000 feet.

1232
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 And here's what's ironic about it.

1233
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 Brett and I were just talking about some of the guys that we've covered over the years.

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 And one of the names helped start at the football program at Madison Academy, which is now at a brand new location.

1235
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 But where you're going for your big event is coming up was the old location of Madison Academy.

1236
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 It started there.

1237
01:17:33,020 --> 01:17:34,000
 They had so much success.

1238
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 They moved to a new location.

1239
01:17:35,740 --> 01:17:36,920
 It's on Max Luther.

1240
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 I want to say that.

1241
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 I can't say it enough because a lot of guys don't know where that is.

1242
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 That's in Huntsville.

1243
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 We cover all of North Alabama.

1244
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 It's very easy in.

1245
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 Just go to North Parkway.

1246
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 You get the Max Luther exit.

1247
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 Take a right, and you'll go down.

1248
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 You'll see all the traffic down there.

1249
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 Before we get into some of the specifics about that, Dr. Moody,

1250
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 talk to us about the importance because can you overemphasize it enough or underemphasize it enough

1251
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 to make sure that people understand how serious this can be?

1252
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 Yes.

1253
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 Well, prostate cancer is what we're coming to try to detect,

1254
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 and it's the second most common cancer of American men after skin cancers,

1255
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 and it's the second leading cause of death after lung cancer.

1256
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 So there's a lot of guys that die from prostate cancer,

1257
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 and I think it's estimated that about 500 men this year in Alabama will die from prostate cancer.

1258
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 And our job coming up there is to screen people, screen men, for prostate cancer.

1259
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 And the thing that I want to emphasize here is that early prostate cancer has no symptoms.

1260
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 So we often hear guys say, well, I feel fine.

1261
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 There's nothing wrong with me.

1262
01:19:06,980 --> 01:19:11,220
 Well, if you wait until you feel like something's wrong with you, then it's too late.

1263
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 Prostate cancer caught early is almost always curable.

1264
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 So we like to catch it early.

1265
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 And since you have no symptoms, the only way to do that is to be screened.

1266
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:38,440
 The other thing that I'd like to mention is that African American or black men get prostate cancer at an earlier age

1267
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 than their white counterparts, often starting in their 40s.

1268
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 And the degree to which they get the cancer is usually worse.

1269
01:19:50,720 --> 01:20:03,240
 So we particularly want to reach out to all the African American men in the area to come in to get checked.

1270
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 And we plan to be there.

1271
01:20:09,060 --> 01:20:17,520
 We're going to be at the public health department between 10 and 4 next week.

1272
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:21,880
 And Dr. Moody, it doesn't take very long.

1273
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:27,440
 Now, quite frankly, I hope they have to wait in line because you've got so many people going through the screening.

1274
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 But I've done this every year.

1275
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 You've got a very short physical exam that may last five minutes, and then you do a blood test.

1276
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:38,880
 There's no appointment needed.

1277
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:44,120
 Again, as you mentioned, 10 to 4 a week from today at the old Madison Academy.

1278
01:20:45,020 --> 01:20:49,080
 And I remember years ago, this was, quote, an old man's disease.

1279
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,940
 You didn't need to get checked until you're 60.

1280
01:20:52,440 --> 01:20:53,760
 Now it's 40.

1281
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 And you're exactly right.

1282
01:20:55,260 --> 01:20:57,260
 If you catch it early, it's very curable.

1283
01:20:58,660 --> 01:20:59,180
 Absolutely.

1284
01:20:59,900 --> 01:21:00,380
 Absolutely.

1285
01:21:00,660 --> 01:21:05,260
 And so we encourage all men to get checked.

1286
01:21:05,260 --> 01:21:15,480
 And we did a study a couple years ago that showed that even white men at low risk can get prostate cancer in their 40s.

1287
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:22,300
 So we just encourage all men to come out and get checked.

1288
01:21:22,940 --> 01:21:29,500
 And actually, the physical exam part of it lasts probably about 20 seconds.

1289
01:21:29,620 --> 01:21:32,200
 So it's really quick.

1290
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:36,380
 And we get the PSA blood test.

1291
01:21:37,220 --> 01:21:43,540
 And we will then notify everybody that comes of their results.

1292
01:21:44,780 --> 01:21:53,800
 And if we find somebody with an abnormal result, we make a good faith effort to call them.

1293
01:21:53,900 --> 01:21:58,200
 But we will send the result letters out to everybody that comes.

1294
01:21:58,740 --> 01:22:02,060
 And those that have abnormal values, it will be on the letter.

1295
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:10,640
 And, again, we will also make a good faith attempt to call those people that have abnormal results.

1296
01:22:11,260 --> 01:22:15,580
 Because this is a serious disease.

1297
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:22,640
 But the good news is that the death rate from prostate cancer has decreased.

1298
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:29,820
 In the state of Alabama, we've talked to the statistician at the state health department.

1299
01:22:29,820 --> 01:22:33,620
 And it's definitely decreased.

1300
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:45,500
 And the disparity between white and black men being diagnosed early has also decreased.

1301
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,480
 So all that's good news.

1302
01:22:48,620 --> 01:22:50,620
 But we still have a lot of work to be done.

1303
01:22:50,880 --> 01:22:56,220
 We can't stop working.

1304
01:22:56,440 --> 01:22:59,540
 Because if we do, then everything will go back to the way it was.

1305
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:00,940
 And we don't want that.

1306
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:02,740
 One is too many.

1307
01:23:02,740 --> 01:23:06,200
 I think you would agree, Dr. Thomas Moody, Urology Health Foundation.

1308
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:08,700
 You know the question a lot of folks are asking right now.

1309
01:23:08,740 --> 01:23:09,980
 That's all great.

1310
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,380
 What is it going to cost me?

1311
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,960
 And you know the cynic is going to say, you said what?

1312
01:23:17,300 --> 01:23:18,760
 There's got to be a catch to it.

1313
01:23:18,820 --> 01:23:21,280
 I won't steal your thunder, Dr. Moody.

1314
01:23:21,340 --> 01:23:23,000
 But everybody is going to ask that question.

1315
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:24,920
 They may have good intentions.

1316
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:29,840
 But they may be at a point in their life where the finances may be involved.

1317
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:33,660
 But really and truly, I'm safe to say that that is not an issue here.

1318
01:23:34,620 --> 01:23:36,460
 That is not an issue at all.

1319
01:23:36,620 --> 01:23:38,060
 It's all free.

1320
01:23:38,580 --> 01:23:50,920
 The only thing we ask people to bring with them is their name and a legitimate way to get in touch with them.

1321
01:23:51,460 --> 01:23:57,160
 We'd like to have an accurate address and phone number.

1322
01:23:57,580 --> 01:23:59,320
 And that's all they need to bring.

1323
01:23:59,460 --> 01:24:01,460
 This is totally free.

1324
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:08,520
 And, again, if we find somebody with a problem and they don't have the funds,

1325
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:15,280
 we will help make arrangements for them to get treated for free.

1326
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:29,700
 So we don't want any financial barriers in any way that would prevent men from coming in to get checked.

1327
01:24:30,440 --> 01:24:33,360
 So I just can't emphasize that enough.

1328
01:24:34,140 --> 01:24:39,540
 Dr. Moody, one of your assistants in coordinating this is a young lady by the name of Sherry Wilson.

1329
01:24:39,700 --> 01:24:41,300
 I've got to know her pretty well.

1330
01:24:41,860 --> 01:24:47,660
 And she told me last year, I believe they screened 185 people in Huntsville.

1331
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:48,920
 That's right.

1332
01:24:49,220 --> 01:24:51,780
 Let's try to get that over 200 this time.

1333
01:24:52,540 --> 01:24:54,300
 We would love to.

1334
01:24:56,900 --> 01:25:09,320
 Everybody's been so supportive, and it's been wonderful to see actually the community come out and support us.

1335
01:25:10,100 --> 01:25:14,720
 So we certainly would like to hit that 200 mark.

1336
01:25:15,980 --> 01:25:16,500
 Absolutely.

1337
01:25:16,900 --> 01:25:20,860
 Listen, tell us again the who, when, and where is about a week from today.

1338
01:25:21,700 --> 01:25:30,480
 Yeah, it's a week from today at the, I guess it's the Madison County Health Department.

1339
01:25:30,480 --> 01:25:31,120
 Yes, it is.

1340
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:34,560
 That's right, on Max Luther Drive.

1341
01:25:35,240 --> 01:25:42,080
 And if you just show up, all you need is just to come, and we'll take it from there.

1342
01:25:42,420 --> 01:25:53,400
 And we really are open to break that 200 mark this year, and we'll be there, and please come out and see us.

1343
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:56,140
 A super, super effort.

1344
01:25:56,300 --> 01:25:57,320
 Thanks so much for your time.

1345
01:25:57,440 --> 01:26:00,580
 Safe travels up and back, and thank you so much for your time today, Dr. Moody.

1346
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:03,160
 Thank you so much for having me.

1347
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:03,940
 Our pleasure.

1348
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1355
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 He was 8 when Novak won his first Grand Slam.

1356
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 They're playing a quarter-final match at Wimbledon.

1357
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 Djokovic won the first set in a tiebreaker, which is first to seven.

1358
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 He got a win by two, and it took until 12-10 before Djokovic won the set.

1359
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 They're on serve in the second, 4-3.

1360
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 There's been no service breaks in the match.

1361
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 Yannick Sinner today, a fourth straight three-set victory.

1362
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 Alex Zverev won in four sets.

1363
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 That was to finish his fourth-round match.

1364
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 He'll be back tomorrow to play Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals.

1365
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1366
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 Coco Goff, Jess Pagula, close friends off the court.

1367
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 Goff prevailed, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

1368
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1457
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 Welcome back in.

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 It may never rain in Southern California, but Ryan Abraham is always raining down the content

1459
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:17,340
 when it comes to USC football.

1460
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 That's because Ryan is the owner and publisher of, you got it, uscfootball.com.

1461
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 Ryan, long time.

1462
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 Welcome in.

1463
01:32:24,020 --> 01:32:24,660
 Welcome back.

1464
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 How have you been?

1465
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 I've been doing all right.

1466
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 Thanks for having me on again.

1467
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 It's always good when you guys call.

1468
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:31,320
 You know, college football is coming up.

1469
01:32:31,980 --> 01:32:37,100
 It's been a long off season, so ready for some real American football again.

1470
01:32:37,680 --> 01:32:38,860
 Ryan, correct me if I'm wrong.

1471
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,840
 The last time we talked, USC used to be in another conference.

1472
01:32:41,980 --> 01:32:47,920
 How's life changed since things have changed as far as the conference on the stationary?

1473
01:32:49,420 --> 01:32:51,060
 Wow, has it been that long, guys?

1474
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:51,560
 Yeah.

1475
01:32:51,560 --> 01:32:52,320
 Yeah, yeah.

1476
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 We've been trying forever, and you've been at Whataburger.

1477
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 You can't get through the drive-through.

1478
01:32:57,660 --> 01:32:58,320
 It's crazy.

1479
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:04,200
 It's, you know, the last two years I've been going to every away game,

1480
01:33:04,300 --> 01:33:06,460
 and it's certainly changed, like, the routine.

1481
01:33:06,740 --> 01:33:08,260
 You can see it with the players and coaches.

1482
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:12,020
 You know, you're used to going to, there's some weird trips in the Pac-12

1483
01:33:12,020 --> 01:33:15,460
 with, like, Pullman, Washington, or Tucson, Arizona.

1484
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:20,580
 But, you know, now you're going to, you know, to fly to Maryland or Michigan.

1485
01:33:21,020 --> 01:33:21,420
 It's crazy.

1486
01:33:21,620 --> 01:33:22,820
 There's a lot of M1s.

1487
01:33:22,820 --> 01:33:24,560
 Yeah, it's just been, it's been kind of nuts.

1488
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 And even just me traveling and covering the games, you get a little tired.

1489
01:33:29,060 --> 01:33:31,680
 So I can imagine what it does to the players and stuff.

1490
01:33:31,740 --> 01:33:35,540
 But I think they settled in last year, got a little bit better, winning some of those road

1491
01:33:35,540 --> 01:33:37,780
 games that they struggled with in the first year.

1492
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 You know, to get, like, a win against Michigan and Iowa, like, during your regular season,

1493
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 it's kind of weird.

1494
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:45,180
 But it's a little different.

1495
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:46,860
 But I think they're making the adjustment.

1496
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 And this is the year they're going to try to break through and, you know, try to rattle

1497
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:55,640
 some of the cages of those top programs in the Big Ten that have been winning a lot of championships

1498
01:33:55,640 --> 01:33:56,540
 the last few years.

1499
01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:58,400
 What's it done for the fan base?

1500
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 Obviously, you've got the best pulse in the world.

1501
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 You've got the premier website when it comes to the Trojans football.

1502
01:34:03,500 --> 01:34:07,740
 But let's face it, there's a generation of guys and gals out there that remember USC

1503
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 being rock and rolling.

1504
01:34:08,760 --> 01:34:11,560
 And then, like a lot of teams, they went through a lull.

1505
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:14,240
 And now it looks like they're kindling the fire again.

1506
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:20,160
 What does this change to the Big Ten do as far as rekindling some of those fires with USC fans?

1507
01:34:20,720 --> 01:34:25,240
 I think it steps things up, you know, where, like, you can be good.

1508
01:34:25,380 --> 01:34:31,400
 But, man, like, you still have to play the defending national champion in Ohio State and Oregon.

1509
01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:37,140
 And even if you're pretty good, like, if you're pretty good in the Pac-12, you're probably doing okay.

1510
01:34:37,140 --> 01:34:44,320
 And you have to beat those expectations because there's so many good teams, at least at the top, in the Big Ten.

1511
01:34:44,440 --> 01:34:46,820
 And I think the fan base is sort of mixed right now.

1512
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:51,280
 There's just a lot of fans that aren't enamored with Lincoln Riley.

1513
01:34:51,460 --> 01:34:57,480
 He's going into his fifth season and just leads to too many underachieving efforts there.

1514
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 So I think they like the fact that he's talked about the championship window being open.

1515
01:35:02,800 --> 01:35:04,940
 And they just want a season with no excuses.

1516
01:35:04,940 --> 01:35:08,760
 Like, just go out there and, you know, win some of these games.

1517
01:35:08,820 --> 01:35:10,280
 You've got some big games on the schedule.

1518
01:35:10,440 --> 01:35:11,920
 You don't have Notre Dame there anymore.

1519
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 So the fans are kind of like, show me.

1520
01:35:14,900 --> 01:35:20,660
 You know, they want Lincoln Riley to show them that they could take that step and make the college football playoff for the first time.

1521
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 Everybody knows about USC and Lincoln Riley's offense.

1522
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 In fact, last year, finished eighth nationally, 465 yards.

1523
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 Mavia is a very good quarterback.

1524
01:35:32,820 --> 01:35:37,780
 You've got two very talented running backs in King Miller and Jordan.

1525
01:35:37,780 --> 01:35:43,800
 But let me ask you about the defense, which has been the knock on him and then winning big games.

1526
01:35:44,360 --> 01:35:45,220
 Gary Patterson.

1527
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 Yes, that Gary Patterson from TCU is the defensive coordinator.

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 I've heard a lot of good things about this defensive front.

1529
01:35:54,220 --> 01:35:59,740
 Shelby, Crawford, Jakeem Stewart, the Penn State transfer, Fisher.

1530
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:04,880
 Your thoughts, is this defense improved with Gary Patterson?

1531
01:36:05,640 --> 01:36:12,320
 Yeah, I mean, that's going to be, for USC to make that step this year and go from like a nine-win team to like getting into the playoffs,

1532
01:36:12,620 --> 01:36:15,980
 the defense is going to need to improve.

1533
01:36:16,060 --> 01:36:19,140
 I think they did a pretty good job when Ditt and Lynn took over.

1534
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:24,740
 It got better, but it wasn't like top 25 good, you know.

1535
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 At least it was like top half of FBS good that was way better than what they had with Alex Grinch.

1536
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 But they just didn't get over the top and make that step.

1537
01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:38,080
 And that's what they're really hoping for with Gary Patterson in there.

1538
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:43,740
 I think when he first came in, guys, like I talked to people around USC and there was some optimism,

1539
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:49,020
 but there was also, I mean, a lot of people that I trust were like, this is like a 50-50 thing.

1540
01:36:49,100 --> 01:36:49,880
 Like this might work.

1541
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 He's a Hall of Fame coach or it might crash and burn.

1542
01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:59,780
 But after the first few months, after hearing from him, after seeing him interact with everybody during spring football,

1543
01:36:59,940 --> 01:37:01,120
 I think there's a lot more optimism.

1544
01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:02,600
 This can work.

1545
01:37:02,680 --> 01:37:05,080
 He seems to get along with Lincoln Riley.

1546
01:37:05,480 --> 01:37:09,260
 You know, whenever we talk about coaches like that, their egos are always involved.

1547
01:37:09,860 --> 01:37:11,440
 And that's where things could crash and burn.

1548
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:14,320
 But so far, it seems like it's worked okay.

1549
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:18,580
 And I think they have enough talent, you know, along the defensive front, like you mentioned.

1550
01:37:19,140 --> 01:37:24,140
 I think they like Alex Van Zumeren, the transfer from Michigan State, too, a bigger guy in the middle.

1551
01:37:24,700 --> 01:37:29,880
 They really need to get better play out of a linebacker spot, you know, replacing like Eric Jenger from last year.

1552
01:37:30,300 --> 01:37:34,260
 They need like a Desmond Stevens who looks the part to really step up and play.

1553
01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:40,260
 But I think that there's optimism there with Gary Patterson running the show

1554
01:37:40,260 --> 01:37:45,000
 and the way he's been able to do things at TCU and the kind of top defenses he's had.

1555
01:37:45,320 --> 01:37:50,680
 If you compare that with the top 10, top 5 kind of offense that Lincoln Riley typically has every year,

1556
01:37:51,300 --> 01:37:54,060
 they feel like they can win some big games there.

1557
01:37:54,300 --> 01:37:58,760
 But that's the big thing for me, guys, is the defense and how far Gary Patterson can take them.

1558
01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:02,500
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1559
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:04,480
 Ryan, there's a school, I thought you mentioned coaches.

1560
01:38:05,060 --> 01:38:08,940
 I would imagine I've heard fans say that Lincoln Riley seems to be more concerned

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1562
01:38:14,520 --> 01:38:16,420
 as opposed to getting the job done.

1563
01:38:16,420 --> 01:38:21,960
 Your thoughts, and how many people would have answered this question on the day of the press conference

1564
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:28,640
 that people right now would love to have Kurt Cignetti over Lincoln Riley.

1565
01:38:28,980 --> 01:38:32,240
 What has gone wrong with the Lincoln Riley experiment?

1566
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:35,180
 Yeah, I mean, to be fair, I don't know.

1567
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:39,240
 There's probably not a lot of programs that wouldn't trade out their coach for Kurt Cignetti right now.

1568
01:38:39,420 --> 01:38:41,940
 I mean, what he's done is absolutely ridiculous.

1569
01:38:41,940 --> 01:38:47,560
 I think he's changed our attitude about what, you know, oh, does it take, oh, if you can win,

1570
01:38:47,760 --> 01:38:52,180
 you can take a losing program of all time and win 11 games in year one and championship in year two.

1571
01:38:52,780 --> 01:38:55,960
 No one has any excuses about, oh, we need to do this and that.

1572
01:38:56,520 --> 01:39:02,400
 So I think that has just, I mean, I don't know what kind of pressure Cignetti puts on other programs,

1573
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:05,020
 but it's probably unfair because he's like a unicorn.

1574
01:39:05,180 --> 01:39:06,120
 He's done some crazy things.

1575
01:39:06,460 --> 01:39:08,140
 But for Lincoln Riley, it's year five.

1576
01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:11,620
 And I think there were issues when he got to USC.

1577
01:39:12,420 --> 01:39:17,700
 And certainly, you know, with NIL getting things ready, they fixed so much around Riley

1578
01:39:17,700 --> 01:39:20,420
 that their NIL game is much better now.

1579
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:22,500
 They're up there with all the top teams.

1580
01:39:22,940 --> 01:39:24,480
 They have a great general manager.

1581
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:27,120
 They got over Chad Bowden from Notre Dame.

1582
01:39:27,240 --> 01:39:31,280
 They brought in the number one recruiting class last year for high school players.

1583
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:33,020
 So they've fixed a lot.

1584
01:39:33,100 --> 01:39:38,220
 They have a new Bloom Center, the new football-only facility opening, you know,

1585
01:39:38,220 --> 01:39:39,220
 just in a couple of weeks.

1586
01:39:39,660 --> 01:39:45,660
 I think everything that sort of USC needed to fix in the football program has been fixed.

1587
01:39:45,660 --> 01:39:50,400
 And now there's only one, you know, the only place you can look at is Lincoln Riley.

1588
01:39:50,560 --> 01:39:53,400
 So it's going to be up to him to take that next step.

1589
01:39:53,460 --> 01:39:56,800
 So I feel like this is like the put up or shut up kind of year.

1590
01:39:56,940 --> 01:39:59,540
 And I think fans are like, look, you've got everything you wanted.

1591
01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:00,700
 You've asked for all these things.

1592
01:40:01,160 --> 01:40:01,920
 Now deliver.

1593
01:40:02,140 --> 01:40:04,360
 So they just got to go out and win some games.

1594
01:40:04,420 --> 01:40:06,740
 I think that's kind of where the fan base mentality is right now.

1595
01:40:06,780 --> 01:40:10,360
 There's a, you know, there's some fans that really like them and there's others that don't.

1596
01:40:10,440 --> 01:40:13,460
 But I think everyone's waiting for, okay, what are the results?

1597
01:40:13,460 --> 01:40:15,460
 The results are what's going to matter this year.

1598
01:40:15,540 --> 01:40:17,140
 No excuses for anything else.

1599
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:17,920
 Right.

1600
01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:18,820
 And correct me if I'm wrong.

1601
01:40:18,900 --> 01:40:20,340
 USC is a private school, right?

1602
01:40:20,400 --> 01:40:23,780
 I mean, so therefore you're not going to get the public numbers printed out there.

1603
01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:26,300
 But it is a private school at Vanderbilt, right?

1604
01:40:26,640 --> 01:40:28,180
 So, yes, it is.

1605
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:33,700
 Let me ask you about your quarterback, Jane Mavia.

1606
01:40:34,020 --> 01:40:39,720
 Had a really good, on paper, 24 touchdowns, 3,700 yards.

1607
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:44,880
 And I've heard some criticism as far as coming through in big games.

1608
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:46,820
 And I know he's done some of that.

1609
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:50,600
 What does he need to do, Ryan, this year to take it to the next level?

1610
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:54,220
 So, this is going to be his third year in the program.

1611
01:40:54,440 --> 01:40:59,920
 He started the last four games after Miller Moss got benched a couple years back.

1612
01:41:00,620 --> 01:41:06,080
 And I think the knock on him was there was a high ceiling but a lower floor.

1613
01:41:06,160 --> 01:41:10,660
 And I think he did a good job of raising that floor in 2025.

1614
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:14,400
 And I think they have to do that even a little bit more, take care of the ball better.

1615
01:41:14,540 --> 01:41:17,780
 But he's capable of making some spectacular plays.

1616
01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:24,140
 I think for this year, probably needs to take off and run a little bit more than we saw last season.

1617
01:41:24,140 --> 01:41:26,740
 I think he can be really effective using his legs.

1618
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:31,760
 But I think the most important thing is just him growing as a leader on the team.

1619
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:39,480
 He isn't a stand on the table and, you know, deliver some empowering speech at a critical moment kind of guy.

1620
01:41:39,740 --> 01:41:42,000
 It's more of a, you know, lead by example.

1621
01:41:42,120 --> 01:41:44,480
 And I think he's talking to the other players.

1622
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:48,940
 It seems like he has stepped up and become a better leader.

1623
01:41:49,100 --> 01:41:54,720
 He's doing, I think, a better job when, you know, he has to do a lot of media interviews, which isn't really his favorite thing.

1624
01:41:54,780 --> 01:42:10,600
 But I think all those things he's getting better at, because if they're going to make a run at the college football playoffs, like you need Maiava to have, you know, a great season, but also lead these guys, especially with, you know, you've got some young wide receivers coming in and you're not really sure who's going to be the star there.

1625
01:42:10,600 --> 01:42:13,720
 I think you're going to need your quarterback to kind of to lead the way.

1626
01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:19,880
 So I think really stepping up and being a leader and probably taking care of the ball a little bit better.

1627
01:42:19,980 --> 01:42:21,900
 I think those are the main things for Maiava this season.

1628
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:24,200
 You know, obviously I'm not telling you anything.

1629
01:42:24,240 --> 01:42:30,920
 You don't already know, Ryan, in L.A., you better make sure that you are good because it's so much competition for the sports dollar there.

1630
01:42:31,420 --> 01:42:34,440
 They have a few good teams, the Dodgers, the Lakers.

1631
01:42:34,700 --> 01:42:38,740
 By the way, is LeBron going to wind up at USC or UCLA?

1632
01:42:39,740 --> 01:42:45,260
 And your thoughts just as far as the chemistry, because at one time it's kind of like neck and neck.

1633
01:42:45,260 --> 01:42:47,760
 Is UCLA still playing football out there, Ryan?

1634
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:53,760
 You know, they really like Bob Chesney, who came over from James Madison.

1635
01:42:53,760 --> 01:42:57,540
 Trying to get maybe some of that Kurt Signetti magic.

1636
01:42:58,180 --> 01:43:02,000
 And just around the program, it's much more positive.

1637
01:43:02,140 --> 01:43:07,740
 I think when Chip Kelly was there and Deshaun Foster, there just wasn't a lot of momentum.

1638
01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:12,320
 And I think with Chesney there, he has so much energy.

1639
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:17,420
 He's going out and recruiting, and that's just something like Kelly didn't do a very good job of.

1640
01:43:17,460 --> 01:43:19,720
 I think they're doing a good job raising some money.

1641
01:43:20,100 --> 01:43:22,280
 So you should see UCLA make a little bit of noise.

1642
01:43:22,480 --> 01:43:24,760
 They had a great game last year with the Penn State.

1643
01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:26,440
 You know, that Penn State win was pretty fun.

1644
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:29,900
 But I think I like Chesney a lot, so I think he's going to help.

1645
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:32,240
 But, yeah, there are a lot of other things to do.

1646
01:43:32,980 --> 01:43:39,480
 You know, to watch Shoei Otani, like the greatest player we've ever seen, you know, pitch and hit home runs and stuff.

1647
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:43,180
 Yeah, you know, Lakers and everything that's going on with them, with Luka Dodgers.

1648
01:43:43,340 --> 01:43:46,040
 So there's a lot, and two NFL teams.

1649
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:51,800
 But I think both USC and UCLA are trying to make a little noise this offseason and get people's attention this fall.

1650
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:52,600
 Absolutely.

1651
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:57,480
 Listen, I can't tell you how much we enjoy talking with you two or three times a year.

1652
01:43:58,220 --> 01:43:59,860
 Listen, have a great summer.

1653
01:43:59,960 --> 01:44:02,080
 It's going to be here next time we turn around.

1654
01:44:02,620 --> 01:44:06,080
 Nobody covers USC better than you and your staff.

1655
01:44:06,660 --> 01:44:09,380
 Ryan, where can we get online and get all the good stuff?

1656
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,240
 Yeah, uscfootball.com, if you can believe.

1657
01:44:12,940 --> 01:44:14,320
 30 years ago is when I started.

1658
01:44:14,980 --> 01:44:15,220
 Wow.

1659
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:18,060
 Yeah, but check it out.

1660
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:18,980
 That's where we get all the stuff.

1661
01:44:19,060 --> 01:44:20,340
 But I appreciate you guys having me on.

1662
01:44:20,420 --> 01:44:21,060
 It's always fun.

1663
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:21,460
 I know.

1664
01:44:21,900 --> 01:44:24,840
 I know when I'm with you guys, college football season is going.

1665
01:44:24,960 --> 01:44:26,440
 We're going to get it going here, so I'm excited.

1666
01:44:27,440 --> 01:44:29,160
 Just check your Colorado day, Ryan.

1667
01:44:29,220 --> 01:44:32,040
 Stay safe out there and echo the sentiments there from BBE.

1668
01:44:32,220 --> 01:44:33,620
 Thank you so much for your time today.

1669
01:44:34,380 --> 01:44:34,660
 All right.

1670
01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:35,060
 Take care, guys.

1671
01:44:35,060 --> 01:44:35,540
 Thank you, bud.

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 Welcome back in.

1734
01:47:55,880 --> 01:47:58,600
 It is a pleasure for us to open the door and say hello to Elmer Pierce.

1735
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 He's the owner of Garner Pierce Autos.

1736
01:48:00,960 --> 01:48:01,920
 Elmer, welcome in.

1737
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:04,640
 Hope you and your family had a great and safe 4th of July.

1738
01:48:05,800 --> 01:48:06,980
 Absolutely, yeah.

1739
01:48:06,980 --> 01:48:15,480
 I still have all my appendages after shooting off several hundred dollars worth of V&D fireworks.

1740
01:48:15,860 --> 01:48:19,060
 So, I feel like I'm a lucky man today.

1741
01:48:19,540 --> 01:48:22,980
 You know when I lose two thumbs to the Tennessee River, I guarantee you.

1742
01:48:23,360 --> 01:48:27,920
 Elmer, my neighbor is a teacher and I saw her the other day and she's depressed because schools,

1743
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:31,400
 can you believe it, is going to be starting later on this month in some pockets out there,

1744
01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:35,360
 which is another way of saying there's still some time to hit the road,

1745
01:48:35,820 --> 01:48:38,840
 take that vacation down to the beach if you want to go.

1746
01:48:39,340 --> 01:48:45,100
 A lot of folks try to decide on maybe a new vehicle because the old one has just run its course

1747
01:48:45,100 --> 01:48:48,600
 or try to get in and get the one that got serviced.

1748
01:48:49,040 --> 01:48:52,580
 And a little birdie tells me, Elmer, that regardless of which way you want to go,

1749
01:48:52,660 --> 01:48:54,580
 you can take care of either one of those issues.

1750
01:48:55,360 --> 01:48:56,980
 Absolutely correct, guys.

1751
01:48:57,220 --> 01:48:58,140
 Absolutely correct.

1752
01:48:58,140 --> 01:49:01,500
 We do tons of service for folks.

1753
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:06,840
 I mean, like I said before, we have entire fleets of vehicles that we service,

1754
01:49:07,420 --> 01:49:12,180
 and that means everything from engine replacements to, you know, tire rotations.

1755
01:49:12,380 --> 01:49:17,220
 I mean, you know, you can't get it much simpler and much more difficult than those two things,

1756
01:49:17,240 --> 01:49:18,780
 and we do everything in between.

1757
01:49:19,020 --> 01:49:22,500
 So take care of a lot of different folks in service.

1758
01:49:24,220 --> 01:49:26,500
 UNA does a lot of service with us.

1759
01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:28,720
 City of Florence does some service with us.

1760
01:49:29,100 --> 01:49:30,480
 TVA does service with us.

1761
01:49:30,520 --> 01:49:34,780
 So we can take care of anything that you may need out there, service-related.

1762
01:49:35,240 --> 01:49:37,940
 And then on the flip side of that, exactly what you just said,

1763
01:49:38,440 --> 01:49:43,860
 I want to tell you about a 2021 Lexus we just got in, a local one-owner car,

1764
01:49:44,340 --> 01:49:46,440
 been garage-kept all of its life.

1765
01:49:46,840 --> 01:49:52,100
 Lexus, the LS460, or I'm sorry, LS500.

1766
01:49:52,100 --> 01:49:58,320
 So it's the big sedan, the four-door sedan, 41,000 original one-owner miles,

1767
01:49:58,420 --> 01:49:59,420
 out of Muscle Shoals.

1768
01:49:59,960 --> 01:50:01,940
 A car is incredible.

1769
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:06,000
 It's the largest car that Lexus makes.

1770
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:10,520
 And that car you can get into in the 50s,

1771
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:13,880
 and now the car new is over $120,000.

1772
01:50:14,260 --> 01:50:20,080
 So that is a lot of car for not a lot of money for what you're getting in that car.

1773
01:50:20,340 --> 01:50:22,900
 Elmer, we were talking about this the other day.

1774
01:50:23,400 --> 01:50:25,180
 You don't sell junk.

1775
01:50:25,580 --> 01:50:31,720
 In other words, you don't sell cars that were previously in accidents or they've had an engine

1776
01:50:31,720 --> 01:50:32,320
 problem.

1777
01:50:32,480 --> 01:50:34,440
 I know you do research on this.

1778
01:50:34,780 --> 01:50:40,500
 You know, whether it's one-owner, two-owners, it's 25,000 or 100,000 miles.

1779
01:50:40,620 --> 01:50:42,640
 That's something I know you try to avoid.

1780
01:50:43,460 --> 01:50:50,340
 Yeah, guys, I mean, you know, you can go just anywhere and buy a car where somebody just said,

1781
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:52,340
 yeah, I want the auction, I bought like these six.

1782
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:58,280
 Well, I'm here to tell you, it's hard for me to buy six because I want to know where the

1783
01:50:58,280 --> 01:50:59,080
 car came from.

1784
01:50:59,140 --> 01:51:00,640
 I want to know the history behind it.

1785
01:51:00,680 --> 01:51:05,600
 I want to know if it's had an accident, if it has, what kind of accident has it had.

1786
01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:11,440
 Those things are important if you want to maintain a good name in your community.

1787
01:51:11,820 --> 01:51:14,200
 And if you don't, hey, don't worry about it.

1788
01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:17,800
 You can go anywhere and buy a car because anybody will sell you a car that's had three accidents

1789
01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:22,260
 and, you know, been up north all of its life in Michigan or something, you know.

1790
01:51:22,700 --> 01:51:25,460
 But I don't carry that kind of stuff.

1791
01:51:25,580 --> 01:51:29,920
 I don't like that kind of stuff because that stuff's going to come back to bite you sooner

1792
01:51:29,920 --> 01:51:30,340
 or later.

1793
01:51:30,480 --> 01:51:34,380
 And whenever it does, it's usually in a really, really bad way.

1794
01:51:34,500 --> 01:51:36,280
 So I just try not to carry it.

1795
01:51:36,700 --> 01:51:37,060
 Absolutely.

1796
01:51:37,400 --> 01:51:43,300
 Listen, before me let you go, who, what, when, and where, service hours, days a week.

1797
01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:44,300
 Tell us about it.

1798
01:51:44,800 --> 01:51:48,880
 Monday through Friday on service, they're open from 8 till 5.

1799
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:54,880
 Sales is open from 8.30 to 5 on Monday through Friday.

1800
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:57,140
 9 to 2 on Saturday.

1801
01:51:57,860 --> 01:51:59,580
 Guys, don't worry about 5 o'clock.

1802
01:51:59,680 --> 01:52:05,060
 I don't know that I've left there before 5 o'clock in the last about nine months.

1803
01:52:05,360 --> 01:52:07,000
 So don't worry about that.

1804
01:52:07,140 --> 01:52:11,460
 If you want to make a sales appointment or service appointment after that, pick your car up.

1805
01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:16,320
 I met a lady at 5 minutes till 6 last night and still had not left the store.

1806
01:52:16,660 --> 01:52:18,640
 So not an issue at all.

1807
01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:32,440
 So come and see us, Garner Pierce Autos, www.garnerpeerceautos.com, or 2261 Florence Boulevard, right next to Applebee's there in Florence, or 256-768-5660.

1808
01:52:32,860 --> 01:52:34,920
 We can take care of you no matter what you need.

1809
01:52:35,480 --> 01:52:37,060
 You're exactly right about that.

1810
01:52:37,160 --> 01:52:40,280
 Listen, have a great week and pet those dogs of yours.

1811
01:52:41,500 --> 01:52:43,880
 Yeah, yeah, y'all got to come and see Atticus.

1812
01:52:44,180 --> 01:52:45,280
 He's the star of the show.

1813
01:52:45,300 --> 01:52:46,240
 Yes, he is.

1814
01:52:46,980 --> 01:52:49,480
 And he'll let you know it if you forget, I guarantee you.

1815
01:52:49,500 --> 01:52:50,320
 Elmer, thanks so much.

1816
01:52:50,380 --> 01:52:51,340
 Stay safe out there, okay?

1817
01:52:51,580 --> 01:52:52,340
 You got it, guys.

1818
01:52:52,440 --> 01:52:53,080
 Thank you, Elmer.

1819
01:52:53,300 --> 01:52:54,660
 Elmer Pierce taking it up with us.

1820
01:52:54,840 --> 01:52:57,560
 BB, the Braves are facing Paul Skeens tonight.

1821
01:52:57,680 --> 01:52:58,940
 He was a sensation last year.

1822
01:52:59,000 --> 01:52:59,980
 Welcome to the big leagues.

1823
01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:01,800
 Winless in nine starts.

1824
01:53:02,280 --> 01:53:03,360
 He's 6-8.

1825
01:53:03,960 --> 01:53:10,700
 The major leagues has a way of humbling people, so it's a good opportunity for the Braves to hopefully get back on track tonight against the Pirates.

1826
01:53:10,720 --> 01:53:15,620
 Yeah, they're hitting the ball a little bit better, but yeah, Skeens, just the reverse of last year.

1827
01:53:15,680 --> 01:53:21,780
 He was so good last year, but again, teams get a scouting report on you, and they've done that for him.

1828
01:53:21,780 --> 01:53:26,180
 But again, you can hear that game tonight on 93-9, the score.

1829
01:53:26,660 --> 01:53:29,780
 And the Braves will start the night three up on the Fiddled-up-up-fields.

1830
01:53:29,860 --> 01:53:30,500
 Enjoy the game.

1831
01:53:30,580 --> 01:53:31,740
 It's going to take care of business for now.

1832
01:53:31,820 --> 01:53:36,600
 On behalf of BB, Greg James Blair, the entire crew here, Harold Bugg, thank you so much for your time today.

1833
01:53:36,680 --> 01:53:39,000
 Let's do it again tomorrow, noon to two, for the Boomo Bugg Show.

1834
01:53:39,340 --> 01:53:41,500
 Back here on Sports Radio, 93-9, the score.

1835
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:44,040
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