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

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

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

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 Good afternoon and welcome here to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in and welcome back.

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 Braves baseball, my old friend and buckle up.

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 A mere six slash seven weeks from tomorrow, college football is back again.

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 Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Friday to you and the listeners.

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 I believe it's 50 days for Alabama to kick off.

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 We've been talking about Monsoon Bama Sails, what seems like three years.

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 He commenced to Indiana this morning.

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 How many national championships have they won?

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 The second Mark Sears basketball camp will be held at Muscle Shoals High School gym Saturday, August 1st.

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 And we'll talk to Mark and his dad, Chad, about that at 1.20.

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 But Jimmy is here right now to talk about Bama at ACC Media Days in the upcoming season.

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 Jimmy is Jimmy Stein, co-host of the daily Locked On Bama podcast with Luke Robinson, part of the Locked On Network.

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 And also, he's there at Cover Crimson with Clint Lamb.

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 Welcome to Talking to Brett Beaird and Harold Bugg.

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 How are you?

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 Are you ready for the unofficial opening of college football starting Monday in Tampa, Jimmy?

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 Heck, I started a couple weeks ago with Big 12 Media Days.

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 I can't wait that long.

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 I'm not waiting for SEC Media Days.

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 I hop in with Big 12 Media Days.

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 That was last week.

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 They call it talking season, you know, on SEC Network.

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 It's not far off.

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 You know, last night was, there's only going to be two more Thursday nights without college football or the NFL.

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 Just two more.

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 I like the way you think, Jimmy.

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 But first things first, Kaelin DeBoer and the Entourage will take you to the mics next week in Tampa, SEC Media Days.

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 So, what's going to be the concentrated question for DeBoer from that genius group of reporters, Jimmy?

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 I mean, that's probably first and foremost is, you know, the quarterback battle.

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 But what interests me, guys, about the questions he's going to get, if y'all remember, and I'm sure y'all do,

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 when Nick Saban was the head coach at Alabama, the questions he'd get at SEC Media Days were all about the state of college football.

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 So the assembled regional and national media would ask him about NIL and the portal and all these changes and expansion.

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 DeBoer didn't really get those questions, nor would he want those questions.

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 Jimmy, three esteemed representatives from Alabama, two of them from what may be the best secondary in the country,

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 Bray Hubbard and Sabian Brown, Mr. Playmaker.

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 Now, defense was different, guys, because they had several candidates to choose from on defense.

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 Yonsey Pierre is a guy that could have been there.

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 they were older guys.

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 This is a good marking point with this Alabama team going forward this season at the media day point compared to last year.

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 And we know, like we alluded to it earlier, the media is a bunch of geniuses.

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 They always have their poll at the end of the meeting, and they put their teams.

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 Here's my guess, and it might surprise people.

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 Now, I think there's seven SEC teams, to me, that are clear contenders to win the league.

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 In other words, I think most look at the league, and it would be shocking if someone other than Texas, Georgia, Texas A&M, LSU, Oklahoma, Ole Miss, and Alabama.

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 Those seven, because, I mean, who's next, Tennessee, South Carolina?

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 Is anyone putting them in the playoff?

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 But I think those seven that I named, they all consistently appear as the top seven in all these spring and summer preseason top 25s.

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 It's those seven.

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 I'm not going to be surprised to see the SEC media put Alabama seventh.

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 And that would be fine, based on the youth on offense and losing the quarterback and how last season ended getting blown out by Indiana.

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 You know, I wouldn't necessarily, if I was an Alabama fan, consider it disrespectful.

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 But you need to be in that top seven, because I think the teams outside of that top seven are more long shots to do things like make it to Atlanta or make it to the playoff or be a real noisy team.

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 Jimmy, let me ask you about the offensive line in a couple of minutes.

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 Jackson Lloyd, Dale Gaudi, Michael Carroll, again, you can make a case.

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 Those guys are penciled in the starters.

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 Jimmy and also right tackle.

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 Javon James, Nick Brooks, Will Sanders coming back from an injury.

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 Your thoughts, left guard and right tackle.

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 Yeah, I think you're smart, Brett, or wise, to kind of, those three spots you talked about, they're sort of pretty locked up.

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 I mean, Carroll's obviously starting.

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 The other two spots are not.

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 I've said all summer that my projection for the left guard would be Will Sanders, who's returning from last year.

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 He's a year three redshirt sophomore, although that redshirt term has now been flushed and will no longer use it.

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 So I've got to get used to not saying it and instead just say year three.

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 But Will Sanders is back.

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 He played quite a bit with the ones a year ago, but he missed the entirety of the spring.

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 I felt all summer he would end up winning the left guard spot, and I still feel that way.

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 I'm just saying that if you've missed the entirety of the spring, you might not be 100%.

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 I think he's got that job for now.

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 Jimmy, where can we get online and get the best Alabama coverage on the planet?

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 Yeah, Locked On Bama.

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 We have six brand-new shows a week.

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 Welcome back in.

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 Looking to know what's going on when it comes to high school football here on the cusp across the greater Shoals area.

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 Then you need to check out Zach Panners like us.

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 He's the founder and editor of Shoals Sports Report.

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 Zach, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Doing good.

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 How are y'all?

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 How are you doing?

308
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 It's close as to what it is, Zach.

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 You know it is when you have the media days in our neck of the woods.

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 Before we get into some of the specifics, is it safe to say, Zach, the word across the board, A to Z, would be reclassification.

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 How much was that talked about amongst the coaches?

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 Every program that I thought to, at least, it was brought in at least once or twice.

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 If not more, due to some of the reclassification.

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 So, what's the consensus?

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 I know everybody's going to have their opinions.

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 Some's going to like it.

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 Some's going to hate it.

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 Some's going to say, whatever, we've got to play.

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 Those are the rules.

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 What is the consensus across the board?

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 Well, 5A has been the hot debate all season as far as the older classic games to come back.

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 And Coach Kenny Morrison from Florence, classified as NCC North, where he was at Decatur a few days ago.

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 And multiple shows, they've embraced it, saying it's similar opponents, but it's also some older opponents on schedule as well.

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 And 2A has a few different ones also, with travel getting more out there for 2A.

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 1A is more localized.

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 And 3A gets it very localized with the county games.

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 And Wilson, Central, Lauderdale County, and Rogers are all in the same area now.

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 The same region for football.

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 Playing each other now will be a big asset of each school in the county, with the gates being bigger, because it's all closer games, more localized games, more rivalry games, more opportunities.

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 Absolutely.

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 You had a list of the coaches' tenures, how long they've been at their respective schools.

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 First of all, it amazes me not to see Jeff Mason, Daryl Higgins, and Tim Bowens on the coaching list.

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 They have moved on to other schools or to other jobs.

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 Heath Wood at Central, the dean of Shoals Coaches, he's entering his 16th year.

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 Ben Floyd at Cherokee, 7.

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 Daniel Garrett, 6 years at Rogers.

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 But the rest of these guys are 5 years or fewer.

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 Patrick Malone, 5 at Dashler.

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 Kenny Morrison, you just mentioned, at Florence.

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 Trey Lane, 4.

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 And then you've got 5 coaches with 2 years.

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 Of course, they've coached at other schools.

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 Very interesting not to see those 3 veterans on the list.

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 And 5 coaches with 2 years' tenure.

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 Yes, and you've got 5 with more than your age in the first year.

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 I think 10 teams in the Shoals have a first-year head coach, which is crazy.

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 It is.

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 But you have those veterans retired of 18 years with Coach Bass at most of the Shoals,

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 and then I think 10 years with Jeff Mason at Lardot County.

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 The average coaching age goes down.

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 And Coach Garrett at Rogers, now one of the more veteran coaches around the area,

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 he's only in year 6 and in his mid-30s.

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 So it's not like he's old necessarily, but it's not like he's 25 either.

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 I mean, it's crazy to think how the coaches at the age of seniors go up and down due to a few retirements here and there.

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 Zach, it ain't going to be interesting this year.

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 It's almost going to be a Freudian slip when we start talking about some of these teams.

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 We're going to say coached by, but no, they're no longer there.

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 They're Morris Hill, Russellville, Brooks, and there are others, Colbert County.

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 Your thoughts just about some of the new kids in the block.

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 As far as the new group coming in, what, in your opinion, is the most intriguing storyline?

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 I think Morris Hill, hiring Coach Chris Hill from Arkansas, is the most interesting.

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 He was at Harding for three years as the offense coordinator, and he coached high school ball for 30-plus years.

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 Was much recently at El Dorado in Arkansas, I think he's at media days, but it was at 6A high school.

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 He won over there.

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 So he didn't come over here to Morris Hill where a winning standard is going to be a big factor, I think.

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 And he even addressed how it's kind of intimidating.

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 He said he had something to tell him, you might be the dumbest person on the earth taking that job and all the pressure that comes with it.

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 But there's a lot of background with Coach Higgins in that job also.

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 Coach Higgins recommended him to the board at Morris Hill.

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 So a lot of background that we'll have in our media day recap on Morris Hill later this month.

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 Thanks to you, we were able to talk to Mike Horton, who replaced Tim Bowens at Brooks.

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 I'm very impressed with him.

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 And again, they have got an offense that scores a lot of points.

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 36-40, 37-33, he was the offensive coordinator.

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 It was at Florence for a long period of time.

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 He's excited.

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 I know he feels like their offense is going to continue at the pace they've had for the last four years.

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 And we talked to Brett Mask again at Lankington.

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 8-4, they scored an astounding 467 points last year.

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 He's got a crackerjack quarterback, as you know, and Zane Kilbourne.

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 Told us he's got five offensive linemen minimum coming back, I believe even more.

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 And you've already got an in-depth report preview about Brooks, and I know you've got a lot more coming this week and weekend.

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 Talk a little bit about Brooks and Lankington.

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 Yeah, I'll start with Brooks real quick.

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 Brooks has a track for a quarterback, Jackson Hartman, coming in from Muscle Shoals this offseason.

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 And he's already turned heads in the recruiting world.

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 He's a sophomore, but he was at the Elite 11 football camp last week and turned heads there.

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 And then Lankington has Zane Kilbourne coming back for his sophomore year, started all 12 games last year.

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 And he has also this whole offensive line coming back.

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 So, you have the whole offensive line and quarterback returning to a two-way school.

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 That's a huge asset to have.

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 Yeah.

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 For Lankington, even in the next few years, with Zane matured over the years as a junior and senior quarterback,

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 it could be turned into a desperate situation the last couple of years where they had Price, Thornton, Garrett, Reed,

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 and veterans on the offensive side.

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 But also, with Lankington, they've got to replace Will White on offensive production.

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 So, they've got to find a receiver and running back to produce consistently throughout the game, not just the quarterback.

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 Jack, obviously we know it's close.

399
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 For the folks keeping score at home, when does camp officially open?

400
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840
 And what about any potential jamborees?

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 What's the earliest date we can be looking for there?

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 So, the calendar right now is the dead week is next week.

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 I mean, they can do anything but practice with the ball.

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 They can have workouts, see meetings, but they can't do anything like practice.

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 And then after that, if you didn't do spring ball, you can start practice that next Monday.

406
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 Yeah.

407
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:03,440
 But if you do a spring game, spring practice, or whatever, you can not start practice until August 3rd to the first Monday of August.

408
00:25:04,140 --> 00:25:07,740
 August 14th, I think, is the Friday before the season starts.

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 That will be a jamboree weekend, August 3rd, 14th, Thursday, Friday.

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 And August 20th is Lexington and Larder County opening out of the hospital football.

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 And August 21st is week one opening Friday of the season for most everybody.

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 As far as a lot of seniors coming back, juniors or seniors, but we ask a lot of our guests this in college, but who's your sleeper, dark horse team in the shows this coming fall?

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 That's a tough question right now, but I would probably say some of the things that have had success lately as far as Florida County, Brooks, and some of the new coach teams.

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 Yeah.

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 But I will say, Wilson's don't want to count out.

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 Yep.

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 With the reclassification, their schedule, they don't have Brooks and Dester anymore or West Morgan, but three games you replace with teams like Clements, West Limestone, Rogers, Central, and all those.

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 It doesn't get easier, but it's more competitive as far as, like Coach Lane said at me in days, they've had games in the past couple years where they're playing teams with 70 guys on the sidelines.

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 Yeah.

420
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:18,120
 Wow.

421
00:26:18,220 --> 00:26:19,680
 Now, Wilson has 35 or 40.

422
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 Yep.

423
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:27,180
 So the depth issue is going to be solved this year by going into 3A, where it might be 50 versus 50 instead of 70 versus 20.

424
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 Wow.

425
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:27,960
 Yeah.

426
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 Yeah, absolutely.

427
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 I agree with you.

428
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 I've heard Wilson may surprise some people this year.

429
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 Listen, great stuff.

430
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 I know you enjoyed media days this week.

431
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 You've already got Brooks on the website.

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 You've got a lot more to go.

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 These are in-depth previews of teams, personnel, coaches, et cetera.

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 Where can we get on Facebook, get on social media, and get previews for the upcoming high school season?

435
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:59,260
 Our website is soldsportsreport.com, soldsportsreport.com.

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 Facebook page is Show of Sports Report.

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00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,960
 And we have one preview a day through the rest of the month.

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 And all that's first is our overhead previews of every football team in the shows, including play football, leading right up to August 20th, and play football begins this year.

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 In other words, just about a month from right now.

440
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 In the meantime, Zach, get some rest, have a good weekend, and thank you so much for your time today.

441
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 Thank you, y'all too.

442
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 Thank you, bud.

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

535
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,000
 Bill Shanks, welcome in.

536
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:26,520
 How are you?

537
00:32:27,540 --> 00:32:27,980
 Hot.

538
00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:29,860
 Yeah, yeah.

539
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,160
 Let's hope the Braves can get hot.

540
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,340
 They went through a cold spell tonight.

541
00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:35,460
 They are back.

542
00:32:35,860 --> 00:32:37,580
 It's the second half, Bill.

543
00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:40,140
 We know what they did through the first, what, 95 games.

544
00:32:40,220 --> 00:32:44,840
 The question is, what are they going to do now with these remaining 67 or so games left

545
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,040
 on the regular season schedule?

546
00:32:46,340 --> 00:32:47,540
 Already some good news.

547
00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:51,140
 The Phillies lost last night because the Braves were idle.

548
00:32:51,260 --> 00:32:53,100
 Their lead increases to two and a half.

549
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,760
 But, Bill, what do they do starting tonight against the Rangers?

550
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:57,760
 Boy, I can't wait to see.

551
00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:58,800
 I'm real curious.

552
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,180
 I don't know.

553
00:33:00,300 --> 00:33:03,280
 I mean, that's the question of the day, obviously, is what's next for this team

554
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,260
 and how are they going to work it out?

555
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:08,740
 I don't know.

556
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,140
 I mean, I truly am kind of curious.

557
00:33:12,860 --> 00:33:17,920
 And I'm hopeful, obviously, that it can be positive.

558
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,600
 But a lot of it depends on the pitching.

559
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:24,740
 Of course, the next two-plus weeks, you know, two weeks from Monday is the trade deadline,

560
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:25,620
 August 3rd.

561
00:33:25,660 --> 00:33:27,240
 So, we're close to that, obviously.

562
00:33:28,380 --> 00:33:35,100
 And I think there's an observation period here the next 10 days that will lead up to about,

563
00:33:35,180 --> 00:33:40,220
 you know, a little less than a week before the trade deadline, where the Braves and every

564
00:33:40,220 --> 00:33:44,100
 other team in baseball, except for maybe the seven who were pretty much out of it already,

565
00:33:44,580 --> 00:33:46,200
 that can say, all right, what are we?

566
00:33:46,580 --> 00:33:47,400
 What do we need?

567
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:48,540
 And what's available?

568
00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:49,440
 And what can we get?

569
00:33:49,620 --> 00:33:54,560
 So, I mean, I think these next 10 days, right off the bat, are going to determine what happens

570
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,280
 up to August 3rd in that trade deadline.

571
00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:57,520
 I agree with you, Bill.

572
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 It's buy or sell time.

573
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,020
 It's coming out of the chutes here at the All-Star break.

574
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:02,500
 Huge.

575
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,100
 But you think maybe like in NASCAR, you run the car to death.

576
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,100
 Let's face it, for lack of a better word, the Braves look like they're just out of gas,

577
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 kind of coasting to get to the All-Star break.

578
00:34:13,580 --> 00:34:14,840
 Now they've had the pit stop.

579
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,660
 Do you think maybe for the eternal optimist, this is what they need to catch the wind and

580
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 get back with some wins?

581
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,980
 Well, they don't have any starting rotation, you know.

582
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:25,620
 That's it.

583
00:34:25,620 --> 00:34:30,080
 But when you don't have a rotation, rotation means it's got to go around.

584
00:34:30,220 --> 00:34:32,400
 Well, they kind of get lost after the third start.

585
00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,100
 Yeah.

586
00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:37,780
 They kind of get on a detour and it's like, whoa, where are you going there, Cowboy?

587
00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:41,080
 So, that's the whole key to it.

588
00:34:41,140 --> 00:34:42,480
 I mean, look, they need better offense.

589
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 They need Riley to come back.

590
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 They need Acuna to come back.

591
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:51,420
 He's going to AAA tonight to start his rehab process there at that level after having a few

592
00:34:51,420 --> 00:34:53,560
 games in the camp lead down in Florida.

593
00:34:54,020 --> 00:34:56,960
 He, you know, we'll see what he is when he comes back.

594
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,940
 You got a lot of people who could come back, but what are they going to be when they get

595
00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:00,280
 back?

596
00:35:00,580 --> 00:35:02,120
 There's two prongs to that.

597
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:03,740
 Okay, getting them back is great.

598
00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:05,160
 That means they're off the injury list.

599
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 They're no longer injured.

600
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:07,120
 They can help you out.

601
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:08,440
 What are they going to be?

602
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,400
 I mean, people will talk about Spencer Strider.

603
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,060
 I don't have much confidence that Spencer Strider is going to be a starting pitcher who give

604
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 you six innings when he comes back from his arm injury.

605
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,200
 Maybe I'll be surprised, but I'm not.

606
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 I'm just not.

607
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 And, you know, so there's that of answering the question.

608
00:35:25,060 --> 00:35:25,540
 Okay, good.

609
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,620
 We're glad they're back.

610
00:35:27,060 --> 00:35:28,040
 You know, now what?

611
00:35:28,180 --> 00:35:30,060
 Riley's got to, of course, get on track.

612
00:35:30,540 --> 00:35:34,660
 But they're going to have to have outside help because they're just not good enough.

613
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,760
 That's what I was going to ask you again.

614
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,620
 And we talked about this last week.

615
00:35:38,620 --> 00:35:48,160
 What are some reasonable, and again, whether it is Anthopolis or Liberty Media making the

616
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:56,920
 final call, as far as, again, a starting veteran pitcher, and I know everybody wants one, but

617
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,100
 who are some reasonable alternatives?

618
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:06,420
 And also, don't raid the minor league, which I know you have noted has improved quite a bit

619
00:36:06,420 --> 00:36:07,960
 in the last two or three years.

620
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:12,200
 Well, first of all, we've got to get Liberty Media out of the conversation now, Brett, because

621
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,640
 they're not really involved anymore.

622
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,980
 It's a standalone company.

623
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:16,240
 They own a lot of the shares.

624
00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:16,520
 Right.

625
00:36:16,540 --> 00:36:21,120
 I don't really think, unfortunately, while I love to blame people, I don't think Liberty

626
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,500
 Media can be on that list.

627
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:28,160
 I think the standalone ownership of the Braves that starts with Terry McGurray can definitely

628
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,160
 be blamed, because I think he's a schmuck.

629
00:36:33,340 --> 00:36:38,700
 So, but anyway, I mean, I think you look, and they're going to have the $15 million that

630
00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,680
 Profar would have made, so there's that money that they can spend.

631
00:36:42,100 --> 00:36:47,300
 So that ought to get, especially, you know, that means if a $30 million player was already

632
00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:50,260
 at the halfway point of the season, they could afford him, not that they're going to get a

633
00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:51,200
 $30 million player.

634
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,340
 But I mean, even if that's the only amount of money they could spend, that's a pretty good

635
00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:56,540
 chunk of change right there.

636
00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:01,120
 So, I mean, I think you got that, but they got to have another starting pitcher.

637
00:37:01,460 --> 00:37:04,580
 I mean, and if they don't get Robert Suarez back, they're going to have to have another

638
00:37:04,580 --> 00:37:05,240
 relief pitcher.

639
00:37:05,780 --> 00:37:10,540
 And, you know, if there's an outfielder out there, I mean, h***, five years ago, Alex

640
00:37:10,540 --> 00:37:12,960
 and Todd was got four outfielders in two weeks.

641
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,740
 Adam Duvall, Jorge Soler, John Peterson, and Eddie Rosario.

642
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,100
 I don't think he needs that much, but he, you know, he needs it.

643
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
 You know, with me, a little bit of a hiccup there with the connection, Bill Shanks, these

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 superstations.com.

645
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,980
 Bill, speaking of outfielders, the boys in the state of Georgia have to come to Alabama

646
00:37:34,980 --> 00:37:36,680
 for some relief out of Huntsville.

647
00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:40,200
 Brewer-Hicklin, pretty good game heading into the All-Star break.

648
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:43,400
 Your thoughts about the future of the former Panther from Huntsville High?

649
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,480
 Well, I mean, he's been a AAA player, and he's done well in Gwinnett, and he had a nice

650
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,880
 game the other day, and I hope he'll continue to make contributions.

651
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:59,360
 I mean, you know, you put your AAA team pretty much low with those kind of players who have

652
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:05,080
 been kind of quad A who haven't broken through yet to see if they can, and then if they do,

653
00:38:05,140 --> 00:38:05,980
 if they can contribute.

654
00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:06,760
 And he did.

655
00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:09,200
 Jim Jarvis has obviously contributed.

656
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:20,700
 You've got to use a lot of players to get through a six-month season.

657
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:26,380
 So, that's why, I mean, they've got Andrew McCutcheon and Carlos Santana down in their Florida

658
00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:28,140
 camp league, if that tells you anything.

659
00:38:28,780 --> 00:38:33,620
 You're just trying to have bodies around to do the best you can to survive the six-month season.

660
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:40,360
 We talked about media days coming up Monday in Tampa, about what we want to see, and particularly

661
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,520
 interested in some of the new coaches.

662
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:49,160
 What's Bill Shanks top two of one, two, or three things he wants to see coming out of Tampa?

663
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,960
 Well, number one, how dominant can Georgia be?

664
00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:56,960
 Number two, how many points can they beat Alabama by?

665
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:58,120
 Oh, right, right.

666
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:03,040
 Number three, how many years will it be until Auburn beats Georgia?

667
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,800
 I mean, those are the main things, you know, from the top of my mind.

668
00:39:06,060 --> 00:39:06,700
 Now, you know what?

669
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,020
 Look, the coaches are definitely at the top of the list.

670
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,300
 I think you have to wonder how the coaches are going to sound.

671
00:39:12,540 --> 00:39:16,280
 I mean, and I warned everybody yesterday after our segment with you.

672
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:21,480
 I said, you know, look, these coaches, these new coaches, whether it's Gullish or Summerall

673
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:28,560
 or, you know, Ryan, Wahoo McDaniel in Arkansas or, you know, all these new people, of course,

674
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:31,260
 loud-mouthed at LSU, they're going to be full of p*** and vinegar.

675
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:32,780
 And they should be.

676
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:33,680
 You know, they should be.

677
00:39:33,780 --> 00:39:36,840
 That should be their – they've got to rile up the fan base.

678
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:41,020
 And most of the time they're there because the guy before him wasn't as good.

679
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:42,760
 And so they've got to be better.

680
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:46,800
 And they've got to get the fans ready and make them think that we can beat a Georgia

681
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,460
 or an Alabama or somebody good.

682
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:52,220
 And so I think we'll hear a little bit of that.

683
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:57,140
 But I think you've got to look through that and kind of hear the crux of how – you know,

684
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,360
 I just did an interview.

685
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:03,640
 I'm doing TV interviews with high school coaches for our TV station here at 41NBC.

686
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:10,160
 And I just did one an hour ago or so with a coach whose team was 0-10 last year.

687
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,260
 And, you know, he's the new coach and it wasn't his fault.

688
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:19,620
 And the guy who he replaced was a good man and a good coach, but it was a young team and they sucked.

689
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 unfortunately you have to take a wider view and a long view and kind of look at it and say,

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 well, okay, we want to win this year, we want to win as many as we can, but what's the bigger view?

692
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 Can we take that next step?

693
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 Well, I mean, you know, for a team like his, you know, 1-9 is going to be – they'll throw a parade for him.

694
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 Right.

695
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696
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699
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700
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701
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708
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 Welcome back in.

855
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 Obviously, B.B., when we saw the news earlier this week about the big flip from Auburn to Alabama,

856
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857
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 I think that's exactly what it was.

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 But it was really a case of, am I going to stay with Indiana and take the NIL or go with my heart and go to Alabama?

862
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 And I think when Cedric Simmons from Selma committed or flipped from Auburn earlier this year, that was a telling sign.

863
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 It was also interesting, Chris Hummer, who we've had on the show a few times over the years with 24-7 sports,

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 literally had the stat, the first five-star in the history of Indiana football.

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 Spain comes into Sunday's World Cup Final with six straight wins since they opened up with a scoreless tie against Cape Verde.

964
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 Since then, Spain's outscored the opposition 13-1.

965
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 Argentina, 7-0.

966
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 Narrow victories in each of the last four games.

967
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 They're the defending champs.

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 We asked Westwood One Soccer Analyst Jamie Watson how Spain can win.

969
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 The blueprint is there for Spain to win it.

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 Just do exactly what you did against France.

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 Against a slightly lesser team in Argentina, in my opinion.

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 But Argentina, they've got Lionel Messi.

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 How do you game plan?

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 How do you try to be able to beat that if you're Spain?

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 He's the one guy that can undo it all with a moment of brilliance.

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 Sunday's final ends a vastly successful World Cup in three North American nations.

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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of northwest Alabama and southern Tennessee.

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 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9.

1027
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 The score.

1028
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 Welcome back in, our tour of the Boomo Bugg Show.

1029
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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

1030
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:30,440
 Thank you so much for giving us a ride around the Tennessee Valley and for checking in with the man who knows the big orange better than anybody we know.

1031
01:00:30,500 --> 01:00:31,800
 And he's parched Ryan Callahan.

1032
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 He's busy there covering Tennessee at Go Vols 24-7.

1033
01:00:35,140 --> 01:00:36,060
 Ryan, welcome in.

1034
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:36,720
 How are you?

1035
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:38,120
 Hey, guys.

1036
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 Doing well.

1037
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:38,840
 How are you?

1038
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 Hey, buddy.

1039
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 Fine, Ryan.

1040
01:00:40,380 --> 01:00:43,120
 Next week, there's a T in Tennessee, Stanford, Tampa.

1041
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,300
 Are you ready for some big orange talk?

1042
01:00:46,260 --> 01:00:48,180
 Yeah, ready for some big orange talk.

1043
01:00:48,260 --> 01:00:51,800
 Now, that being said, we will – I personally will not be in Tampa.

1044
01:00:52,300 --> 01:00:58,640
 We often go, you know, three or four, however many we have on the Go Vols 24-7 staff.

1045
01:00:58,860 --> 01:01:06,640
 That's such a long trip, and the event becomes such a big circus, I actually won't even be making the trip this year.

1046
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:12,980
 But we're looking forward to hearing the talk from a distance, nonetheless, and tracking all that.

1047
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:14,780
 But, yeah, it's different.

1048
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:15,720
 They move it all around.

1049
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:19,620
 We like it better when it's in Hoover, Nashville, Atlanta, one of the places it's easy to get to.

1050
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:28,400
 Ryan, I wish you could be the commissioner because I think about 99% of the people in this biz, I guarantee you would agree with you.

1051
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:32,280
 So let's talk about what's going to be talked about from the folks who are there.

1052
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:33,580
 And can you confirm or deny it?

1053
01:01:33,580 --> 01:01:35,640
 First of all, will Smokey make the trip?

1054
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:39,320
 And if not, what are the ones who are representing Tennessee?

1055
01:01:39,540 --> 01:01:43,500
 What's going to be the most asked question, starting with one, Josh Heupel?

1056
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:52,300
 Yeah, so the three players going down there will be senior linebacker Arian Carter, who withdrew from the NFL draft earlier this year to come back

1057
01:01:52,300 --> 01:01:54,900
 and is the unquestioned leader of Tennessee's defense.

1058
01:01:54,900 --> 01:02:00,900
 And then his sidekick there at linebacker, Jeremiah T. Lander, a fellow senior.

1059
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 Those guys will potentially be Tennessee's starters there, but they've got some competition at that spot, at least going into preseason camp.

1060
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:10,340
 Quite possibly, Tennessee's starting linebacker tandem.

1061
01:02:10,340 --> 01:02:19,880
 And then Deshaun Bishop, the junior running back, coming off a 1,000-yard season after starting his career at Tennessee as a walk-on out of Knoxville's Carrins High School.

1062
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:21,680
 So that'll be the trio there.

1063
01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:27,100
 But, yeah, I think the obvious question, certainly for Josh Heupel, is going to be about his quarterback situation.

1064
01:02:27,580 --> 01:02:33,180
 He's going to get a lot of questions about George McIntyre, the redshirt freshman, and then Faison Brandon, the five-star freshman,

1065
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 what direction that competition's going to take, how they're going to approach it in August.

1066
01:02:38,180 --> 01:02:42,760
 And, you know, we've seen a few of those already throughout the Josh Heupel era.

1067
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,040
 It seems like every year there's been a quarterback competition of some sort.

1068
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:54,720
 Even the year Nico Iamaliava was really the assumed starter, and the year Joe Milton took over as the assumed starter,

1069
01:02:55,080 --> 01:02:56,900
 they still tried to keep the competition going.

1070
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:00,540
 So in a year like this where you know they're absolutely a competition,

1071
01:03:01,340 --> 01:03:06,540
 we pretty much know how he's going to approach it, that there's going to be no starter named for at least a couple weeks in camp.

1072
01:03:07,180 --> 01:03:11,380
 It's going to come down to the scrimmages and how those guys look in practice settings,

1073
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,600
 but he's still going to get a lot of questions about it and exactly what he's seen from those guys.

1074
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:19,660
 And then a lot of questions, I'm sure, about just how much different Tennessee's defense can look.

1075
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:23,880
 Jim Knowles, first-year defensive coordinator, Tennessee ranked in the 90s nationally

1076
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,420
 in a lot of major defensive categories last year.

1077
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,740
 So how much they can improve.

1078
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,360
 It's a revamped roster there, several new starters out of the transfer portal,

1079
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,500
 several major contributors out of the transfer portal.

1080
01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:39,520
 So it should be a very different-looking defense, and I'm sure a lot of questions about that.

1081
01:03:39,660 --> 01:03:43,120
 And, oh, yeah, a little bit of drama they had this offseason with one of those additions

1082
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:46,600
 from the transfer portal, Chaz Coleman, the Penn State edge transfer,

1083
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,240
 not ever seeing the field to play a snap at Tennessee.

1084
01:03:49,340 --> 01:03:50,980
 I'm sure there will be some questions about that as well.

1085
01:03:51,380 --> 01:03:58,540
 Yeah, Josh Heupel's had some experience with Nico and Boo and on and on and on.

1086
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,800
 You alluded to Jim Knowles, the defensive coordinator.

1087
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:02,800
 I agree with you.

1088
01:04:03,380 --> 01:04:06,320
 I think Heupel would get several questions about that.

1089
01:04:06,980 --> 01:04:09,160
 But we talked about that with you.

1090
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:15,760
 Again, he's got a complex defense, but he brought in, brought some coaches with him,

1091
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:17,420
 brought some players with him.

1092
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:24,920
 And I think maybe he has cut down or narrowed the acclimation period for this day.

1093
01:04:24,980 --> 01:04:28,920
 Again, it's still going to take some time, but I think that's going to be the big difference

1094
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,560
 in this team is the defense.

1095
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:36,920
 Yeah, it should be, and it has to be if this team's going to be anywhere near what they're

1096
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:41,720
 hoping they can be, because this is an important year for Josh Heupel.

1097
01:04:41,860 --> 01:04:45,200
 I don't think there's a lot of hot seat talk for him going into this season,

1098
01:04:45,340 --> 01:04:49,620
 but it's the kind of year that could turn into that if things were to go sideways in a couple

1099
01:04:49,620 --> 01:04:51,780
 of these games that they're expected to win.

1100
01:04:52,160 --> 01:04:56,540
 So they really need to keep things on the rails, and with a young quarterback, that's a challenge

1101
01:04:56,540 --> 01:04:58,320
 no matter who wins that job.

1102
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:02,980
 So the defense has got to take a big step forward, even if they jump from being in the

1103
01:05:02,980 --> 01:05:07,740
 90s in total defense, the scoring defense and things like that, to somewhere in the 30s

1104
01:05:07,740 --> 01:05:08,360
 or 40s.

1105
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:09,960
 That would be a pretty significant jump.

1106
01:05:10,220 --> 01:05:13,900
 So they don't have to be an elite defense to be noticeably better, and that would go a

1107
01:05:13,900 --> 01:05:16,820
 long way toward keeping Tennessee in some of these games that they really struggled to

1108
01:05:16,820 --> 01:05:21,640
 win last year, just because they had to get in kind of a track meet or couldn't make the

1109
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,040
 timely shots when they needed them.

1110
01:05:23,420 --> 01:05:26,500
 So yeah, they've got to be better on that side of the ball, and like you said, I think

1111
01:05:26,500 --> 01:05:31,800
 they're confident that the way they've approached building Jim Knowles' staff, bringing in a

1112
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:36,340
 few new assistants with him, guys that have worked with him at previous stops, I think

1113
01:05:36,340 --> 01:05:37,480
 they feel like that's really helped.

1114
01:05:37,580 --> 01:05:41,280
 And based on what they saw from the defense during the spring, I think they feel confident

1115
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:45,800
 in that too, that players picked up things pretty quickly, whether that's because they brought

1116
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:49,960
 in the assistants that knew Jim Knowles' way of doing things, or just they got some veterans

1117
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:51,540
 that they were able to pick things up quickly.

1118
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:55,880
 Whatever it was, it seemed like the transition went really well this spring, so I think they

1119
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,200
 feel pretty good about where things are.

1120
01:05:58,540 --> 01:06:01,520
 Your thoughts, Ryan, Ryan Callahan, go balls 24-7.

1121
01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:06,140
 Obviously, when you lose somebody big, like they did with a kid coming out from Penn State,

1122
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:07,280
 that begs two things.

1123
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:11,940
 Number one, does Tennessee have to eat that budget, which could be going to someone who

1124
01:06:11,940 --> 01:06:12,460
 could help?

1125
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:17,360
 And the other one, day-to-day, how do they, it's a crazy question to ask how do they fill

1126
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:21,880
 those shoes, because they can't, but how do they try to fill those shoes, given what

1127
01:06:21,880 --> 01:06:22,320
 they've got?

1128
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,220
 Yeah, that's one of the open questions.

1129
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,300
 We really don't know all the details, of course.

1130
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:32,340
 There's no transparency in all this stuff, but the bottom line is, Tennessee, there's nothing

1131
01:06:32,340 --> 01:06:35,620
 you can do with that money, regardless of whether they were able to recoup any of it.

1132
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,840
 I mean, there's nothing you can do with it at this point in the year.

1133
01:06:38,940 --> 01:06:40,720
 The transfer portal is not really open.

1134
01:06:41,020 --> 01:06:45,400
 There's nobody out there that's going to be a quality enough option to really give you

1135
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:45,840
 any help.

1136
01:06:45,980 --> 01:06:50,960
 So whether that money could be spent again next year or not, it can't help you this year.

1137
01:06:51,100 --> 01:06:55,100
 So bottom line, they earmarked that money for Chaz Coleman, and you don't get it back

1138
01:06:55,100 --> 01:06:56,620
 at least until next year, essentially.

1139
01:06:56,620 --> 01:07:01,620
 So your team is what it is at this point, and there's not much you can do to reinforce

1140
01:07:01,620 --> 01:07:02,780
 your roster a little bit.

1141
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:05,880
 And that's negative for a couple reasons.

1142
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:11,100
 For one, they didn't really cast a wide net in bringing in some help on the edge.

1143
01:07:11,300 --> 01:07:16,480
 They lost both Jordan Ross and Caleb Herring that went to SEC schools, Jordan Ross to LSU,

1144
01:07:16,980 --> 01:07:18,320
 Caleb Herring to South Carolina.

1145
01:07:18,420 --> 01:07:22,240
 Those guys were in line to be Tennessee's top two returning players to that position.

1146
01:07:22,660 --> 01:07:27,140
 You replaced them essentially with Chaz Coleman only, and they had some internal options.

1147
01:07:27,140 --> 01:07:31,360
 They've got some freshmen that are in there, but really not an obvious one-for-one replacement

1148
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:31,740
 there.

1149
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:35,520
 So it's either going to be a group effort, or more likely, what it looks like they're going

1150
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:39,840
 to do is probably play some slightly bigger defensive ends on that side of the ball, what

1151
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:42,940
 we considered the Leo position in Tim Banks' defense.

1152
01:07:43,300 --> 01:07:46,520
 It sounds like they're kind of transitioning to maybe calling that the Jack position a little

1153
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,780
 bit more like we hear in other defenses like Alabama's.

1154
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:55,100
 But it's not going to be just a one-for-one trade.

1155
01:07:55,160 --> 01:08:00,440
 It might be some 280-pound defensive ends on that other side, which makes you wonder how

1156
01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:02,000
 well they're going to get to the quarterback.

1157
01:08:02,460 --> 01:08:07,160
 That's a really open question about this team is how effective their pass rush off the edge

1158
01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:07,760
 is going to be.

1159
01:08:07,900 --> 01:08:10,000
 So I think you're going to see some different looks from Tennessee.

1160
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,600
 Jim Knowles might even experiment with some three and four linebacker sets because they've

1161
01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:15,000
 got a lot of depth at linebacker.

1162
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,620
 They're going to mix and match, but I don't think there's an obvious answer to that question

1163
01:08:18,620 --> 01:08:21,340
 right now as far as how they're going to generate the pass rush they really need.

1164
01:08:21,540 --> 01:08:28,480
 One of the top uncommitted prospects committed this morning in Bama sales, the wide five-star

1165
01:08:28,480 --> 01:08:33,780
 wide receiver, chose Indiana over Alabama and a few other schools.

1166
01:08:34,300 --> 01:08:39,120
 There is one more out there, and you know his name, running back David Gabriel Georges.

1167
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 If you could get paid money for the number of questions you've been asked about him, you

1168
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 might have a nest egg.

1169
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,540
 He's going to announce shortly.

1170
01:08:49,900 --> 01:08:50,740
 Where is he going?

1171
01:08:51,540 --> 01:08:54,380
 Yeah, he'll be announcing Wednesday evening.

1172
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:58,920
 He's got a ceremony scheduled for Baylor School in Chattanooga where he's getting ready for

1173
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 his senior season.

1174
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,920
 And originally from Canada, he'll have his family in town for that and everything.

1175
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 So this has been planned for weeks, and there were questions at some point over the past

1176
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 several weeks whether he'd last until July 22nd.

1177
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 But they've stuck to that plan, and he will be announcing on Wednesday.

1178
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:19,680
 It's been a Tennessee-Ohio State battle down the stretch, and it's been that way for a

1179
01:09:19,680 --> 01:09:22,060
 while, really, and that still appears to be the case.

1180
01:09:22,180 --> 01:09:26,080
 You know, Ole Miss is kind of the third hat on the table, but no one close to that one

1181
01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,380
 really thinks the Rebels are a major contender.

1182
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,440
 So it's pretty much down to the Vols and the Buckeyes.

1183
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:35,700
 And you know, you can't rule out anything in these types of battles just because, A, the

1184
01:09:35,700 --> 01:09:41,480
 era we're in, but also, B, we've seen situations where Ohio State, you know, sometimes guys just

1185
01:09:41,480 --> 01:09:42,860
 want to be at a program like that.

1186
01:09:42,860 --> 01:09:48,240
 The NFL track record and everything that the Buckeyes have to offer, it's obviously a top-notch

1187
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:54,180
 program, and in some ways, Tennessee might struggle to match everything Ohio State has to offer.

1188
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:58,720
 But there's still more reasons right now to think Tennessee might be the pick on Wednesday.

1189
01:09:58,900 --> 01:10:00,900
 We'll see how it shakes out on Wednesday.

1190
01:10:01,060 --> 01:10:05,460
 But Tennessee has kind of been all in on David Gabriel George from the start, really, and especially

1191
01:10:05,460 --> 01:10:06,800
 since last year.

1192
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:11,360
 They were in on another five-star running back in the 2026 class, Savion Hyder, went

1193
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 to Michigan.

1194
01:10:12,820 --> 01:10:16,740
 From the final month of that one forward, it pretty much looked like, you know what, Tennessee

1195
01:10:16,740 --> 01:10:21,040
 was okay to some degree if they missed out on Savion Hyder because they would just go all

1196
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:22,900
 in on David Gabriel George in this class.

1197
01:10:22,900 --> 01:10:25,100
 And that seems to have been their approach from the start.

1198
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 This is the guy that they want to be, the face of this class, and they've approached it

1199
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 that way several months now.

1200
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 So I think Tennessee's done a nice job with them.

1201
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:34,860
 He's been to Tennessee more than any other school.

1202
01:10:35,020 --> 01:10:40,680
 I've visited seven times in the past two years and has a couple teammates that are also from

1203
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:44,540
 Canada, or former teammates from Baylor, and Gabriel Lucinda, an offensive lineman, and

1204
01:10:44,540 --> 01:10:49,600
 Jamie and Theodore, a freshman cornerback, that are both guys that he's pretty close to.

1205
01:10:49,780 --> 01:10:52,400
 So multiple reasons to think Tennessee's going to be tough to beat.

1206
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:55,140
 But, you know, again, you never say never in this era.

1207
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:58,740
 But right now, I would lean toward the Vols being the favorites going into that one.

1208
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:00,640
 Two things before we let you go.

1209
01:11:00,780 --> 01:11:09,240
 Number one, do you anticipate this will be $1 million plus as far as, again, it's the price

1210
01:11:09,240 --> 01:11:12,900
 of business we know now with five-star players?

1211
01:11:13,020 --> 01:11:14,960
 And number two, tell us about your cover.

1212
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:20,080
 Where can we get online to get all the great coverage of SEC Media Days next week?

1213
01:11:20,820 --> 01:11:24,680
 Yeah, well, first of all, there's been enough reported out there.

1214
01:11:24,820 --> 01:11:28,940
 I think it is pretty safe to say that wherever David Gabriel George goes, it's going to be

1215
01:11:28,940 --> 01:11:32,500
 a seven-figure deal of some type.

1216
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:37,580
 There's been rumored, the rumored price tag could be in the vicinity of $2 million, depending

1217
01:11:37,580 --> 01:11:40,080
 on what you believe what's out there right now.

1218
01:11:40,180 --> 01:11:42,520
 But yeah, it's going to be a hefty price tag.

1219
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:47,100
 And we'll see, whatever it does, if it's seven figures, that would make him the highest-paid,

1220
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:52,060
 we believe, highest-paid running back coming out of high school in this NIL era.

1221
01:11:52,220 --> 01:11:53,740
 So we'll see if that works out.

1222
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,420
 It's a hefty price tag to put on a running back, a position that's obviously been kind

1223
01:11:57,420 --> 01:12:01,320
 of de-emphasized in the NFL, but a little bit different sometimes at the college level.

1224
01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,880
 Those guys can be difference makers, and whoever gets them will certainly be hoping that's the

1225
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:06,780
 case and counting on him to play right away.

1226
01:12:06,860 --> 01:12:10,980
 But yeah, lots of coverage of that, and obviously, SEC Media Days with Tennessee's appearance

1227
01:12:10,980 --> 01:12:13,500
 that are coming up on Monday at GoVals247.com.

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1233
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1234
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1235
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1236
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1237
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 Scotty Scheffler with a birdie at 14.

1240
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 The score.

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1327
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 Welcome back, Amber.

1328
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 What a privilege.

1329
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 He really needs no introduction.

1330
01:17:48,100 --> 01:17:51,160
 The legend at multiple shows, Alabama.

1331
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 The two-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA Summer League.

1332
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 Mark Sears.

1333
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 Obviously, the community very proud of Mark.

1334
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 But nobody prouder than his papa.

1335
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,900
 And together, they're teaming up for some big time just around the corner here in the shows, are they not?

1336
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 They're going to talk about life and basketball, Harold Bugg.

1337
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:17,360
 In fact, I had the privilege of interviewing Chad and Mark two years ago with the first camp.

1338
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:22,440
 And they decided to come back again Saturday, August the 1st.

1339
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 But this is one of the most incredible families.

1340
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:29,380
 And we will talk about the other two a little bit later in the interview.

1341
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:34,300
 An incredibly talented daughter and, of course, mother and wife.

1342
01:18:34,500 --> 01:18:41,960
 But, no, Harold, it is an absolute delight to bring in Chad Sears, father of the one and only Mark Sears,

1343
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 former MULSA Shoals and University of Alabama first-team All-American guard.

1344
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 And Chad Sears was the Teacher of the Year at Florence at Harlan Elementary in 2023.

1345
01:18:56,460 --> 01:19:01,020
 Harold, we're talking to one of the most talented families I've ever been associated with.

1346
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,200
 Well, I didn't do too well on the court nor in a classroom.

1347
01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,100
 So, we may not be able to interview you, Chad.

1348
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:06,660
 Welcome in.

1349
01:19:06,740 --> 01:19:07,260
 How are you?

1350
01:19:08,260 --> 01:19:08,760
 I'm doing well.

1351
01:19:08,860 --> 01:19:09,960
 Thank you, guys, for having me.

1352
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:10,380
 Thank you, guys.

1353
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:11,400
 Congratulations.

1354
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:13,440
 What's it like?

1355
01:19:13,540 --> 01:19:15,840
 I mean, first of all, congratulations to you.

1356
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 Because, to me, sports is actually easier than going to the classrooms.

1357
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 First of all, congratulations to you.

1358
01:19:23,540 --> 01:19:25,380
 What's in the genes of the Sears family?

1359
01:19:26,660 --> 01:19:29,280
 Well, like Mark said, you know, hard work is undefeated.

1360
01:19:29,420 --> 01:19:33,680
 You know, I've always taught them to work hard and they can achieve anything that they want.

1361
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 So, the key component is, you know, just to work hard.

1362
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 Let me ask you this.

1363
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 Obviously, Mark had, we're going to get to the camp here in a second, but Mark had all kinds of options to leave Alabama early.

1364
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 In your opinion, now that you're on this side of that decision, how wise was it, first of all, just from a growing up standpoint, obviously the deal was still there.

1365
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 What message can you tell kids and parents and those who are in a similar situation?

1366
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:08,960
 There's not many in a rarefied era there, as far as how you made that decision to go ahead and say, you know what, come back and let's go from there.

1367
01:20:10,020 --> 01:20:14,060
 Well, of course, at the end of the day, it was his decision, you know, to come back.

1368
01:20:14,140 --> 01:20:18,760
 You know, we just tried to, you know, tell him the pros and cons of staying and leaving.

1369
01:20:20,140 --> 01:20:23,920
 But, you know, in the beginning, you know, it's trials and tribulations in the beginning.

1370
01:20:25,460 --> 01:20:32,020
 And what I tell most young people is, you know, with the transfer reporter now, you know, just stay the course.

1371
01:20:32,720 --> 01:20:34,220
 You know, trust the coach.

1372
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:38,800
 And, you know, when a coach coaches you hard, you know, don't try to jump ship.

1373
01:20:39,300 --> 01:20:45,440
 Just trust the process because, you know, most people make the biggest jump in between the first and second year.

1374
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:53,520
 So, you know, like I said, with transfer reporter now, I think kids need to just stay at least two years.

1375
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:56,140
 Because the second year is always the best year.

1376
01:20:56,280 --> 01:21:04,100
 You know, you hear a lot of high school coaches and college coaches say, you know, teams make the biggest jump on the first and second, first to second game.

1377
01:21:04,180 --> 01:21:06,300
 And it's the same as in the transfer reporter.

1378
01:21:06,860 --> 01:21:10,280
 You know, a lot of kids make the biggest jump in between the first and second year.

1379
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:11,600
 Absolutely.

1380
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:14,220
 Chad, let's bring Mark in.

1381
01:21:14,500 --> 01:21:18,020
 Mark, first of all, it's a pleasure to talk to you again.

1382
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:22,980
 I know you're looking forward to getting back to most of the shows in a couple weeks.

1383
01:21:23,140 --> 01:21:27,060
 Listen, tell us about the NBA career, about the Summer League.

1384
01:21:27,180 --> 01:21:28,620
 How are things going so far?

1385
01:21:30,220 --> 01:21:37,880
 Yeah, so, yeah, the Summer League and the NBA, you know, it's been pretty good, you know, so far.

1386
01:21:38,100 --> 01:21:44,720
 You know, my first year, I played, you know, seven games for the Milwaukee Bucks and I did a lot of learning.

1387
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:55,420
 And, you know, I just took that as a tool to get better and really work on my game and just really, you know, put the work in.

1388
01:21:55,620 --> 01:22:06,540
 And, you know, I feel like so far in, you know, Summer League, you know, I've really been seeing parts of my game grow that I've been putting in since this offseason has started.

1389
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:17,840
 And, you know, speaking of, you know, one of last night's games we played, you know, I really feel like my work is really coming to a flow.

1390
01:22:19,300 --> 01:22:21,760
 Mark, obviously, it's a big jump.

1391
01:22:21,900 --> 01:22:25,620
 The SEC's got some good ball players and so does a lot of baseball players.

1392
01:22:25,700 --> 01:22:32,440
 We talked with David Weathers, who played almost 20 years in Major League Baseball, and asking about the biggest jump between playing at certain levels and going to the majors.

1393
01:22:33,020 --> 01:22:36,800
 He said, when you go to the majors, it's like throwing through a coffee cup, a coffee can.

1394
01:22:36,860 --> 01:22:38,280
 That's what you've got to hit every time.

1395
01:22:38,620 --> 01:22:39,120
 Talk to us.

1396
01:22:39,140 --> 01:22:43,140
 You played against some good competition across the SEC and across the nation.

1397
01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:44,780
 Congratulations again.

1398
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,260
 First team around All-American.

1399
01:22:46,420 --> 01:22:49,000
 So, obviously, it goes without saying you're pretty good yourself.

1400
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:53,320
 But what about the biggest difference, the biggest adjustment going from college play to the NBA?

1401
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,220
 Yeah, obviously, it's going to be more talented.

1402
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:02,580
 But one of the biggest adjustments is the physicality and strength level.

1403
01:23:02,980 --> 01:23:11,800
 It is to play at this level because, you know, you're dealing with people that have been working out for 10-plus years in the league.

1404
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:12,520
 Yeah.

1405
01:23:12,700 --> 01:23:15,000
 And you've got people coming from college.

1406
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:25,200
 You lift, but, you know, you're like a full-time college student as well, but you're dealing with guys that this is what they do for a living.

1407
01:23:25,540 --> 01:23:32,520
 So they can lock in on just, you know, making sure they're the best player version of themselves.

1408
01:23:32,940 --> 01:23:39,760
 Guys, I had the pleasure, as I mentioned earlier, of attending the camp two years ago.

1409
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:42,340
 And let me ask you both this.

1410
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:48,040
 You could have done this in Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham, somewhere else.

1411
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:48,500
 Yeah.

1412
01:23:48,580 --> 01:23:50,640
 But you're coming back to muscle shows.

1413
01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:54,120
 And, Chad, I know you've talked about this.

1414
01:23:54,320 --> 01:24:07,900
 When we did the interview a couple years ago, I know you mentioned to me that the local kids can see Mark now in the NBA was an All-American in Alabama.

1415
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:14,740
 That would give them some aspiration, some hope to take it to the next level on and off the court.

1416
01:24:14,780 --> 01:24:16,820
 Guys, let me ask you both.

1417
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:17,800
 What does it mean?

1418
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:23,100
 How important is it for you to have your second camp back at muscle shows?

1419
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:29,700
 Yeah, first, you know, that's where it all started, muscle shows, Alabama.

1420
01:24:30,060 --> 01:24:37,660
 And, you know, just I feel like for me to have it back there is just really just to, you know, give back to the kids.

1421
01:24:37,660 --> 01:24:45,280
 Because, you know, a lot of people, it's really hard to, you know, make it out of muscle shows and out of this area.

1422
01:24:45,540 --> 01:24:56,300
 And just for me to be able to come back in a poor game to the kids and the next generation coming up, I feel like that would really be helpful.

1423
01:24:58,720 --> 01:24:59,080
 Chad?

1424
01:24:59,220 --> 01:25:00,280
 Let me ask you this, Mark.

1425
01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:05,260
 And to you too, Chad, if you don't mind, what is the number one message you want to tell the kids?

1426
01:25:05,260 --> 01:25:07,620
 Because a lot of kids are God-gifted like you.

1427
01:25:07,700 --> 01:25:08,540
 They got the talent.

1428
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:11,040
 But let's face it, it takes so much more than that.

1429
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:17,120
 Attitude, being able to take coaching, as you mentioned a while ago, Chad, taking tough coaching, which to me is the best thing.

1430
01:25:17,140 --> 01:25:18,880
 Because a lot of guys are young bucks.

1431
01:25:19,020 --> 01:25:20,020
 They need some discipline.

1432
01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:23,400
 But what's the one message you would tell kids who will be coming to your camp?

1433
01:25:26,660 --> 01:25:27,060
 Okay.

1434
01:25:27,260 --> 01:25:34,300
 I think, like I mentioned earlier, this state, of course, you know, things, adversity will come, you know, especially through coaches.

1435
01:25:34,860 --> 01:25:39,480
 You know, in high school and at the collegiate and professional level, it's a tough field.

1436
01:25:40,580 --> 01:25:49,220
 But I think a lot of kids and parents need to, you know, we just got to stay the course and be ready to accept the tough coaching.

1437
01:25:49,220 --> 01:25:57,220
 And if you can accept the tough coaching, then I think you can, it'll be the first ingredient in order to become a really good basketball player.

1438
01:25:59,600 --> 01:26:00,700
 And Mark, what about you?

1439
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:01,720
 You've been there and done it.

1440
01:26:01,820 --> 01:26:02,700
 What would be the message?

1441
01:26:02,820 --> 01:26:09,320
 Because let's face it, when you have that kind of God-given talent and you're on the court with kids at that level, it's easy to take an attitude.

1442
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:13,060
 That's just part of being young and maybe immature at that point.

1443
01:26:13,140 --> 01:26:15,180
 That's not everybody, of course, but it's so common.

1444
01:26:15,260 --> 01:26:17,740
 But what message would you tell kids of this age group?

1445
01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:28,500
 Yeah, I just want to say, you know, the older, like, I've been through it that the harder, everything you want is on the other side of heart.

1446
01:26:29,180 --> 01:26:42,660
 And, you know, that's part of adversity, you know, when things are going hard and you push through it and you're mentally, you're able to mentally push through it, you're just going to, you're going to transform your mindset.

1447
01:26:42,660 --> 01:26:47,080
 It's going to be better and it's going to just sharpen your confidence.

1448
01:26:47,300 --> 01:26:50,920
 I just say, you know, everything that you want is on that other side of heart.

1449
01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:52,180
 You just got to push through it.

1450
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:53,200
 Absolutely.

1451
01:26:53,700 --> 01:26:57,100
 Shan, talk about that other child of yours, Mackenzie.

1452
01:26:58,020 --> 01:27:07,300
 Listen, she is an incredible talent herself in basketball, averaged 15 points, eight rebounds a game, All-State in volleyball.

1453
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:08,960
 She's amazing.

1454
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:11,200
 And I know something you're more proud of.

1455
01:27:11,260 --> 01:27:15,440
 She graduated from most of the shows earlier this year.

1456
01:27:15,440 --> 01:27:18,960
 And I know education is so big for you and your wife.

1457
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:23,540
 And speaking of your very talented wife, she's a traveling nurse.

1458
01:27:23,700 --> 01:27:29,060
 Um, she's an amateur fashion designer who I think does a very good job.

1459
01:27:29,300 --> 01:27:33,140
 Talk about the other two members of your family you're quite proud of.

1460
01:27:34,140 --> 01:27:34,760
 Oh, yeah.

1461
01:27:34,820 --> 01:27:41,620
 Of course, you know, you mentioned, you know, my wife, um, yeah, she, she, you know, she loves, she loves the television.

1462
01:27:41,780 --> 01:27:42,340
 I'm going to be honest.

1463
01:27:43,840 --> 01:27:52,020
 I'm the guy, I'm the guy that's kind of laid back and, you know, I just want to, you know, just kind of relax and kind of watch everything around me.

1464
01:27:52,020 --> 01:27:56,980
 Um, and my daughter, um, Mackenzie, you know, she, she is, um, she's very talented.

1465
01:27:57,620 --> 01:28:01,500
 Um, and of course, from a parent's point of view, you know, she could be even better.

1466
01:28:02,220 --> 01:28:16,220
 Um, but I think, you know, with her going to Northwest shows to play volleyball to see, you know, some of the girls that she'll be working with, um, I think she's found out that, um, she has to work, um, just like Mark mentioned, she has to work in order to get what she wants.

1467
01:28:16,220 --> 01:28:24,780
 Um, so, you know, those two, you know, they kind of like, you know, they, the boss of ladies of the family and, you know, we just kind of roll with it.

1468
01:28:25,440 --> 01:28:27,860
 That was, that was a smart answer.

1469
01:28:28,140 --> 01:28:35,060
 Listen, this has been an absolute pleasure to talk with both of you a little bit about life, advice on NIL.

1470
01:28:35,060 --> 01:28:38,540
 The camp, again, is going to be Saturday, August the 1st.

1471
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:46,360
 I'm going to try to get, uh, your, um, organizer, Dominic Johnson, on the show again soon to talk about it.

1472
01:28:46,440 --> 01:28:50,060
 But it's going to be, again, I believe it begins at 9 a.m.

1473
01:28:50,100 --> 01:28:55,820
 You've got two sessions, 9 a.m. for the younger and then for the older ones in the afternoon.

1474
01:28:56,440 --> 01:28:59,260
 Guys, uh, Mark, listen, God bless you.

1475
01:28:59,640 --> 01:29:01,760
 Good luck in the NBA with summer camp.

1476
01:29:01,860 --> 01:29:03,500
 Hope it continues to progress.

1477
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,760
 Chad, thank you for your time and thank you for raising an amazing family.

1478
01:29:08,760 --> 01:29:10,120
 Thank you guys for having me.

1479
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:11,520
 Thank you so much.

1480
01:29:11,660 --> 01:29:12,200
 There you have it.

1481
01:29:12,300 --> 01:29:16,200
 Papa, Chad, and son, Mark, what a dynamic deal.

1482
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:17,260
 We'll give you more details.

1483
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:18,240
 That is an event.

1484
01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:25,280
 If you've got a kid and you want to go to a camp and you don't want to go around and say to Timbuktu to get that kind of wisdom, highly recommend it.

1485
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:28,020
 Most of the shows, we'll give you some more details down the road.

1486
01:29:28,100 --> 01:29:32,460
 But, uh, speaking of the road, let's go all the way down to Auburn and talk Tigers with Justin Ferguson next.

1487
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1529
01:32:22,240 --> 01:32:23,000
 Welcome back in.

1530
01:32:23,060 --> 01:32:27,460
 Next week, they tell me that the SEC will be talking football down in Tampa.

1531
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,920
 And what about the latest chapter for the Auburn Tigers?

1532
01:32:30,120 --> 01:32:31,940
 Justin Ferguson's got that and more covered.

1533
01:32:32,460 --> 01:32:36,620
 Busy there, writing, podcasting, you name it, at the Auburn Observer.

1534
01:32:36,820 --> 01:32:37,760
 Justin, welcome in.

1535
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:40,020
 Are you ready for some SEC media days?

1536
01:32:41,060 --> 01:32:46,440
 Yeah, it's always a good time of year to get down there and kind of feel like, okay, the offseason's over.

1537
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:47,580
 It's been a good offseason.

1538
01:32:47,740 --> 01:32:51,200
 It's been a good break, but it's time to get closer to the season.

1539
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:56,420
 So I always look forward to the media days being kind of the start of what feels like football season.

1540
01:32:57,400 --> 01:33:01,560
 Did Auburn's head coach and quarterback have anything to do with locating it in Tampa?

1541
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:08,440
 I mean, what dynamic duo knows the city of Tampa better than Auburn's at least two of the entourage going down from the plains?

1542
01:33:09,500 --> 01:33:10,400
 Yeah, a really good time.

1543
01:33:10,480 --> 01:33:12,500
 And you have the media days in Tampa.

1544
01:33:12,780 --> 01:33:15,620
 I'm still trying to figure out why media days were in Tampa because...

1545
01:33:15,620 --> 01:33:16,040
 Money.

1546
01:33:16,940 --> 01:33:20,140
 Yeah, it's south of Gainesville, I guess.

1547
01:33:20,740 --> 01:33:27,300
 But, yeah, no, it's definitely going to be a cool scene down there for Alex Colish.

1548
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:34,780
 And Byron Brown going back to a place that, you know, put them on the map, you know, got them these roles that they are in now at Auburn.

1549
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:48,680
 And, you know, I think that's going to be something that, you know, just gives it an extra little edge there, a little bit more fun for those guys going back to a place where they had a whole lot of success these last few years, especially last season.

1550
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:56,540
 You've heard Alex Colish with the media, and he'll be asked, I'm sure, obviously about the transition.

1551
01:33:56,860 --> 01:33:58,000
 How is that going?

1552
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:02,220
 Brought in a lot of players from UCL, et cetera.

1553
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:08,680
 Any particular message that you think Alex is going to try to get across next week?

1554
01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:22,040
 Yeah, I think the big thing for Alex Colish is that he's been really kind of clear about how, you know, how much they've got to continue to work and how much they want to kind of hit this thing, you know, hit the ground running.

1555
01:34:22,460 --> 01:34:23,580
 And it sets the tone.

1556
01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:28,440
 I don't think you're going to hear a guy talk about kind of waiting around for recruits or anything like that.

1557
01:34:29,040 --> 01:34:40,520
 I think what you're going to hear from Alex Colish is, you know, a guy who comes in and says, hey, you know, we've got a hungry team, got a team full of guys that decided to stay and continue to compete at Auburn.

1558
01:34:40,560 --> 01:34:46,660
 And then a bunch of new guys that are in here who want to prove themselves that they belong at this level and they can win at this level.

1559
01:34:46,860 --> 01:34:48,660
 I think the coaching staff's got that mindset.

1560
01:34:48,820 --> 01:34:49,960
 I think the roster's got that mindset.

1561
01:34:50,120 --> 01:34:51,700
 So I think that's kind of been the message you heard.

1562
01:34:51,700 --> 01:34:56,540
 I don't think, you know, Auburn's going to sit here and say, hey, you know, we think we can win every single game.

1563
01:34:56,640 --> 01:34:59,320
 Or, hey, we're going to, you know, compete for the SEC championship right away.

1564
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:06,800
 I think, though, what you're going to hear is a team that's like, hey, Auburn needs to start winning more games in this streak of losing season.

1565
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:10,240
 And we think we have the team to go ahead and do that and start this new era.

1566
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:15,920
 I think that's going to be kind of the main kind of message from this team when you hear them next week.

1567
01:35:16,380 --> 01:35:21,440
 I saw the list of folks, the most impactful guys coming in via the transfer portal.

1568
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:24,320
 I don't think, here's what's ironic about it.

1569
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:28,100
 Number one on the list is Cam Coleman, which is his two-parter.

1570
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,500
 Number one, he came from, of course, Auburn.

1571
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:33,480
 It's sitting to ask the question, who's going to fill those shoes?

1572
01:35:33,540 --> 01:35:34,680
 And you've got that kind of potential.

1573
01:35:34,880 --> 01:35:37,280
 But the question of how Auburn will handle that.

1574
01:35:37,680 --> 01:35:43,340
 And the other one, on the other side of the coin, number 15 on the list was Byron Brown coming in as quarterback.

1575
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:48,540
 Is he the plug-and-play quarterback that a lot of folks, I know right now the answer would be yes.

1576
01:35:48,540 --> 01:35:55,340
 But your thoughts just about how realistic it will relative to SEC defenses and coordinators week in and week out.

1577
01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:57,980
 Yeah, no, I think he's definitely a guy.

1578
01:35:58,140 --> 01:36:01,400
 I mean, the Byron Brown has had success against the better teams.

1579
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:03,760
 I mean, last season they did go beat Florida in the swamp.

1580
01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:07,340
 He had some good plays against, you know, good moments against Miami.

1581
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:09,260
 I know that game was lopsided.

1582
01:36:09,580 --> 01:36:12,500
 Miami kind of had their way with USF's defense in that game.

1583
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:16,060
 But he had some good moments, some good plays against the Miami team that played for a national title.

1584
01:36:17,060 --> 01:36:21,580
 You know, he's a guy that I think has been really, really good these last several years.

1585
01:36:21,700 --> 01:36:23,180
 It just kind of rises the occasion.

1586
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:29,880
 You know, you can make the argument stats-wise, he's probably a top-five quarterback coming back in college football this year.

1587
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:34,960
 So, yes, there will be an adjustment to, you know, get used to playing at this level

1588
01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:39,180
 and how, you know, week in and week out the challenge is going to be there.

1589
01:36:39,580 --> 01:36:42,260
 But I do think that's kind of where Auburn's schedule comes in handy,

1590
01:36:42,620 --> 01:36:46,240
 where you have the Baylor game to open and you have some home games.

1591
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:49,900
 So, you're not getting thrown immediately into the fire as much as like, hey, you know,

1592
01:36:49,960 --> 01:36:52,360
 hey, you got to go play, you know, LSU next week.

1593
01:36:52,380 --> 01:36:55,120
 Or, hey, you got to go into Georgia next week or something like that.

1594
01:36:55,560 --> 01:36:59,600
 So, I think he's going to have time to kind of work himself into that and then that familiarity.

1595
01:37:00,160 --> 01:37:04,220
 You know, speaking of replacing Cam Coleman, you can't replace a dude at his talent level.

1596
01:37:04,440 --> 01:37:05,680
 He's, you know, a great show.

1597
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:09,720
 And I think he's going to have an incredible year at Texas, for sure.

1598
01:37:09,760 --> 01:37:10,800
 He's a really, really talented guy.

1599
01:37:10,900 --> 01:37:11,620
 With Archmanning.

1600
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:14,200
 Yeah, with Archmanning and throwing the ball.

1601
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:14,980
 That'll help a lot.

1602
01:37:15,420 --> 01:37:16,640
 Sarkeesian calling plays for him.

1603
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:17,420
 That'll help a lot, too.

1604
01:37:18,580 --> 01:37:21,440
 But I think when you're looking at replacing a guy like Cam Coleman,

1605
01:37:21,540 --> 01:37:24,300
 and I would also say, you know, Malcolm Simmons is now at Texas Tech.

1606
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:24,840
 He's another one.

1607
01:37:24,900 --> 01:37:27,000
 Eric Singleton is going to be at Florida now.

1608
01:37:27,580 --> 01:37:28,820
 Those are all really good receivers.

1609
01:37:29,420 --> 01:37:32,340
 When you look at the replacement for Auburn, they went with familiarity.

1610
01:37:32,660 --> 01:37:35,520
 And they went with, you know, guys who know the system inside and out

1611
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:38,000
 more than just big-name transfers to replace them.

1612
01:37:38,140 --> 01:37:44,420
 So, you go with guys like Keyshawn Singleton and Jeremiah Koger, Chaz Nimrod, Christian Neptune.

1613
01:37:44,420 --> 01:37:49,040
 These are all guys that have been really good in this offense playing with Byron Brown.

1614
01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:51,280
 And so, I think that's where Auburn's going to have to lean on.

1615
01:37:52,160 --> 01:37:54,420
 You know, this is not a star-study group.

1616
01:37:54,660 --> 01:37:56,660
 But these are guys who put up numbers in this offense.

1617
01:37:57,180 --> 01:37:58,060
 They spread the field.

1618
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:05,440
 You know, I think you look at last season, you know, Singleton and Koger,

1619
01:38:05,940 --> 01:38:10,040
 either one of those guys would have been Auburn's number one receiver in terms of just numbers last season

1620
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:12,260
 just because very, very productive in this offense.

1621
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:13,740
 So, it's going to be interesting.

1622
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:16,880
 I mean, you know, those guys are, you know, Cam's really, really talented.

1623
01:38:16,980 --> 01:38:18,660
 The guys that they left were really good.

1624
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:21,280
 But I think Auburn's kind of leaning in on, okay, here we go.

1625
01:38:21,300 --> 01:38:23,520
 We're going to go with guys who know the system inside and out

1626
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:25,960
 and try to kind of ease the transition that way

1627
01:38:26,580 --> 01:38:29,980
 because there isn't a five-star wide receiver walking through the door there.

1628
01:38:30,080 --> 01:38:31,040
 You're going to have to take some time.

1629
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:33,820
 But I do like Jeremiah Koger a lot.

1630
01:38:34,180 --> 01:38:37,760
 And I'm not saying he's Cam Coleman in terms of, you know, his skill set.

1631
01:38:38,220 --> 01:38:41,720
 You know, Cam's probably the best dude at tracking the ball in the air that I've ever seen.

1632
01:38:42,280 --> 01:38:46,740
 But Koger, you know, 6'3", super athletic, takes the top off of defense,

1633
01:38:47,300 --> 01:38:49,380
 had really good numbers last season, young.

1634
01:38:49,840 --> 01:38:52,900
 So, he's the kind of guy that I think, you know, maybe in a couple years

1635
01:38:52,900 --> 01:38:55,920
 we're talking about him as, you know, an NFL draft pick off of this team.

1636
01:38:55,920 --> 01:38:57,980
 Maybe not Cam Coleman, first-round talent.

1637
01:38:58,140 --> 01:39:02,420
 But I do like him kind of plugging into that role as being the vertical threat,

1638
01:39:02,520 --> 01:39:04,820
 the big guy downfield and going to win those one-on-one balls.

1639
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:10,160
 Brandon Marcello of CBS Sports had an interesting article about the NIL deal

1640
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:13,600
 with the Aflac kickoff game with Auburn and Baylor.

1641
01:39:14,060 --> 01:39:15,100
 $6 million.

1642
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:26,380
 A groundbreaking deal will be distributed among 24 Auburn players was the quote in the article.

1643
01:39:27,380 --> 01:39:31,200
 Why 24 and who selects the 24?

1644
01:39:32,660 --> 01:39:35,000
 Yeah, it's these individual NIL deals.

1645
01:39:35,140 --> 01:39:39,580
 And this is kind of part of the negotiation process when Auburn was recruiting some of these guys.

1646
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:44,780
 It's like, hey, if you want this kind of number, if this is what you're looking for, you know,

1647
01:39:45,300 --> 01:39:47,180
 at Auburn, here's what we can do for you.

1648
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,400
 We're going to be playing this game in Atlanta at the beginning of the year.

1649
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:55,380
 And, you know, we've got X number of players who can sign these deals for them.

1650
01:39:55,460 --> 01:40:00,740
 So, I would imagine kind of the bigger-name guys on this team, guys who stayed, you know,

1651
01:40:00,820 --> 01:40:04,600
 who Auburn retained and some of the bigger-name guys that they brought in.

1652
01:40:04,880 --> 01:40:05,700
 Yeah, it's just NIL.

1653
01:40:06,260 --> 01:40:12,860
 And it's a roundabout way of, you know, kind of, you know, the old ways of like NIL where it's like,

1654
01:40:12,940 --> 01:40:17,080
 hey, if you're a big-name player, you can get paid to basically do a brand deal.

1655
01:40:17,220 --> 01:40:21,320
 And this is kind of what you're doing here, but it's in a bulk kind of setting.

1656
01:40:21,480 --> 01:40:24,640
 It's in a, hey, we're doing this for your team.

1657
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,920
 So, you know, you have a variety of those.

1658
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:35,480
 I think about yesterday, Auburn announced and kind of showed off several guys, you know,

1659
01:40:35,480 --> 01:40:38,400
 on their team right now, including Byron Brown, including Xavier Atkins,

1660
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:40,160
 have NIL deals now with Nike.

1661
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:44,160
 And they've got that first full year under their belt with the contract.

1662
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:46,080
 They could start kind of promoting those.

1663
01:40:46,260 --> 01:40:47,480
 So, that was part of it.

1664
01:40:47,980 --> 01:40:51,020
 Michael Johnson Cook, the really elite running back, Auburn's got committed.

1665
01:40:51,220 --> 01:40:52,920
 He has an NIL deal with Nike now.

1666
01:40:53,700 --> 01:40:57,480
 So, it's a lot of that kind of stuff where, you know, it's these brands,

1667
01:40:57,640 --> 01:41:02,480
 it's these companies working closely with Auburn and Auburn being able to kind of,

1668
01:41:02,480 --> 01:41:05,640
 you know, funnel that money to the players that, you know,

1669
01:41:05,640 --> 01:41:08,780
 kind of demand the bigger payouts, you know,

1670
01:41:08,780 --> 01:41:10,880
 kind of what you would expect from NIL.

1671
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:13,120
 Absolutely.

1672
01:41:13,460 --> 01:41:18,200
 Listen, we've got to run to a update with the British Open,

1673
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:22,860
 but look forward to your coverage from Tamplin next week.

1674
01:41:22,940 --> 01:41:25,820
 But where can we get online, get the 6 a.m. emails,

1675
01:41:26,020 --> 01:41:29,900
 Rodney Mailbag, the great podcast, and everything else?

1676
01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:30,420
 Yep.

1677
01:41:30,660 --> 01:41:32,820
 AuburnObserver.com, 6 bucks a month or $60 here.

1678
01:41:32,860 --> 01:41:36,500
 Got a ton of stuff this week on the side about football and a little basketball as well.

1679
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:38,180
 And we'll be in Tamplin next week.

1680
01:41:38,240 --> 01:41:40,940
 So, jump on board and we'll get you covered from down there.

1681
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:44,140
 Sounds great, bud.

1682
01:41:44,380 --> 01:41:45,900
 Listen, have a safe trip.

1683
01:41:46,900 --> 01:41:49,040
 Justin Ferguson of the Auburn Observer.

1684
01:41:49,180 --> 01:41:53,020
 When we come back, talking Amber Pearce and his car lot

1685
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 Scotty Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau in the same group,

1694
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1695
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1696
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1697
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1698
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1699
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1700
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1701
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1702
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1703
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1704
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1705
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1706
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1707
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 The Atlanta Braves

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 return to play tonight

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 when the Braves play at home

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 against the Texas Rangers.

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 The Braves are 55-40 on the season.

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 Chris Sale will start for Atlanta.

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 He is 9-6 with a 2.20 ERA.

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 Cal Quantrill will start for Texas.

1820
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 He's 3-1.

1821
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 The World Cup is down to two matchups.

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 The third place game

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg

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 on 93.9 The Score.

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 Welcome back in quickly, baby.

1883
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 This is the last week

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 that the sun will set

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 Thank goodness

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 for some ACC football talk

1893
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 next week, my friend.

1894
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 Begins Monday.

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 Bonus coverage

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 on the Boomo Bugg show

1897
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 would be 11 to 2 o'clock.

1898
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 The lineup for Monday,

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 the Kentucky Wildcats,

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 Missouri, Oklahoma,

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 and Josh Heupel

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 with Tennessee.

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 And hopefully,

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 we're going to get

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 as many interviews

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 as possible.

1907
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 But again,

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 the unofficial start

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 of college football

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 begins Monday.

1911
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 The start of the second half

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 of Major League Baseball

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 is tonight.

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 Can the Braves

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 get off on the right foot

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 with Mr. Sell?

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01:49:30,880 --> 01:49:32,200
 With Mr. Sell

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 on the mound, they can.

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01:49:33,380 --> 01:49:33,740
 But again,

1920
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 they've got to get

1921
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 Austin Riley going.

1922
01:49:36,240 --> 01:49:36,640
 But again,

1923
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 as Bill mentioned,

1924
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 they have got to bring in

1925
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 a veteran starting pitcher.

1926
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 You know,

1927
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 whether it's Scooble

1928
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 or Sonny Gray

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 from the Red Sox,

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 whatever the case may be.

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 I really think

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 they need another bat.

1933
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 And when you look

1934
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 at the last two years

1935
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 with Acuna,

1936
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 if he can stay healthy,

1937
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 and they've got to get

1938
01:49:58,260 --> 01:49:59,480
 some of these guys going

1939
01:49:59,480 --> 01:50:00,820
 when Acuna gets back,

1940
01:50:00,900 --> 01:50:02,460
 hopefully he can do well.

1941
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:03,720
 But again,

1942
01:50:04,660 --> 01:50:05,600
 Harold,

1943
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 if you'd have told me

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 in April

1945
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 that they'd have

1946
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 a two-and-a-half game lead

1947
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 after the All-Star break,

1948
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 I would be giddy.

1949
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:13,520
 You know,

1950
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 we know what's happened.

1951
01:50:15,440 --> 01:50:15,740
 But yeah,

1952
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 they've still got

1953
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 a good chance to win it,

1954
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 but they need some help.

1955
01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:19,800
 I think, Gray,

1956
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 would crawl back

1957
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 to the south.

1958
01:50:21,820 --> 01:50:22,680
 He's from Murfreesboro.

1959
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 If you've ever been

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 to Boston,

1961
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 in all due respect

1962
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 to Beantown,

1963
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:26,880
 it ain't the south.

1964
01:50:26,980 --> 01:50:27,920
 He's from Murfreesboro.

1965
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 So I think,

1966
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 all things being equal,

1967
01:50:29,940 --> 01:50:31,380
 he'd love to come back home

1968
01:50:31,380 --> 01:50:31,920
 if he will.

1969
01:50:32,380 --> 01:50:33,340
 Catch the game tonight,

1970
01:50:33,440 --> 01:50:34,100
 the Braves

1971
01:50:34,100 --> 01:50:34,860
 and the Rangers.

1972
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:35,780
 They'll start tonight

1973
01:50:35,780 --> 01:50:37,180
 two-and-a-half games up

1974
01:50:37,180 --> 01:50:38,700
 on the second-place fields.

1975
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:39,720
 Check out tonight's game

1976
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:40,500
 with the Rangers again

1977
01:50:40,500 --> 01:50:41,980
 here at 93-9 to score.

1978
01:50:42,340 --> 01:50:43,200
 It's going to take care of business

1979
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 for now.

1980
01:50:43,600 --> 01:50:43,980
 On behalf of BB,

1981
01:50:44,100 --> 01:50:44,760
 Greg, James Blair,

1982
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:45,900
 and the entire crew here,

1983
01:50:45,960 --> 01:50:46,460
 Harold Buck,

1984
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 thank you so much

1985
01:50:47,140 --> 01:50:48,000
 for your time today.

1986
01:50:48,520 --> 01:50:49,280
 Let's do it again Monday,

1987
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 11 to 2.

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