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

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

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 We obviously fell short of our goals when it comes to winning the conference championship, winning more games and competing for our national championship in the playoffs, but there are some steps that I felt we took. I think there's a toughness, there's a culture that exists. You don't win that many games in our conference without, and we want to continue to build.

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 There you have it. The voice and man behind the scenes in Tuscaloosa, Coach Kalen DeBoer. Good afternoon. Welcome in to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in. Where the SEC media poll is out. Where does your favorite team roll? Good afternoon. Welcome in. And how are you?

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 Happy Friday to you and the listeners. The SEC media poll is out. Georgia 1, Texas 2, Alabama number 6, Tennessee number 8, Auburn is ranked number 12, according to the esteemed media, attending the SEC media days.

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 Mitch, Tennessee gets a commitment from the first $2 million running back in David Gabriel Georges.

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 But Jimmy is here right now to recount the tide in Tampa and preview the 2026 football season.

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 Jimmy is happy as co-host of Locked On Bama and the Locked On Network, but I would imagine he'd take that $2 million deal to top the rock for any SEC, or for that matter, any football team anywhere.

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 Maybe I'm wrong about that, Jimmy. Here's your chance to correct me. Otherwise, hello, welcome in, and how are you?

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 Oh, I'm good. I'm good. I'm just wondering if that Tennessee freshman running back is going to make more money than Ryan Silverfield at Arkansas.

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 Who's higher paid? I'm not sure.

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 Think about that, Jimmy. He is basically making half what Nick Saban got coming to Alabama to head up everything back in the day.

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 It really is. Well, I was going to say absurd. Who knows when we look back on this 10, 12 years from now, if it doesn't look absurd.

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 Sort of like how that Saban contract doesn't look absurd now, but there was an outcry when it happened back in 07.

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 It is crazy to me. I think Lane Kiffin explained this extremely well the other day about how the NFL has this right.

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 There's rules in place now where there's a rookie pay wage scale where the rookies don't make more money than the veterans.

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 Because, you know, if I'm Deshaun Bishop at Tennessee, who's their all-conference proven veteran running back, I'm wondering where my $2 million is.

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 Jimmy, there's the issue right there. I guarantee you every AD in the country is nervous now because, you know, human nature, just like you said there at Tennessee, it's not only at Tennessee.

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 What's going to happen if Crowell or any of these running backs at Alabama or down at Auburn, name a school, has a great year?

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 Guess what they're going to do? 30 seconds after chalking up the final numbers, they're going to be knocking on the door with their agent.

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 Show me the bag.

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 Yeah, I mean, this is what happens when you never know if it's someone's intent when it happens, but the reality of it is you somewhat set the market.

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 Or you set the expectation, you know, amongst other players and $2 million for a running back.

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 I mean, in the same year that per the same reporting from Pete Nacos and on three, you know, Manchun Sales, who was the nation's top receiver, who signed with Indiana or committed to Indiana, he's probably more like in the $1.2, $1.3 million range, which is still a lot.

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 But for the running back to make substantially more, gosh, it just seems like the sport is upside down.

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 But on the other hand, you know, here we are, and where do we go from here?

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 Jimmy, talking week in Tampa, and boy, did we ever get a lot of it.

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 But your thoughts on the Alabama contingent, the three players, and Kalen DeBoer at the bank?

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 Yeah, you know, one thing about Kalen DeBoer, I don't know, maybe boring is too harsh, but, you know, he's not going to be a guy that everyone looks forward to.

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 The 16 coaches, and you're talking to the writers, the journalists across the region, like, of the 16, who are you most looking forward to?

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 DeBoer's never going to be on that list.

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 That's okay.

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 It doesn't really matter, right?

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 I mean, how much does that matter?

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 But it is a change for Alabama fans, because for 17 years, Nick Saban headed that list, nor was near the top of it each and every year.

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 That's the coach that everybody wants to hear from.

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 Now that's probably more like Lane, maybe Kirby, maybe Sark, but, you know, DeBoer's not going to be Saban in this regard.

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 And I thought the three players he bought were all excellent.

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 We've got to remember that in the age of $2 million high school running backs, that these guys all have brands.

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 That's what college football is in 2026.

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 The thing is, you've got that kind of money with that kind of immaturity.

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 Jimmy Stein, co-host of Locked on Bama.

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 Media poll is out.

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 Jimmy, do you give one flip about it?

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 Because when's the last time you've really been right?

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 Alabama earlier basically said a lot of folks up maybe eight or nine middle of the pack.

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 That's not my personal prediction, but just where would they finish in this poll.

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 For instance, last year, and I'll look this up right before we went on air, last year Texas was picked to win the league.

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 So for that reason, I wouldn't look at this poll like it's, hey, this is how the season's going to play out.

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 Of Alabama's 15 opponents last year, nine.

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 Everyone in the SEC does that.

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 Jimmy Stein again, co-host of Locked on Bama.

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 Jimmy, your thoughts, analysis of this schedule, because it's not only who you're playing, where

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 If I'm not mistaken, of all the teams in the SEC, only Alabama has back-to-bat road games

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 Everybody in the SEC is playing tough schedules.

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 Of those seven, I think Alabama and Georgia have the most manageable schedules of those seven.

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 A lot of material this week.

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 Yeah, thanks, Brett.

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 Locked on Bama.

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 if you understandably don't want to see our faces.

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 So, either way, locked on Bama with myself and Luke Robinson.

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 Today's a week.

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 Let me put it to you this way, okay?

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 Like, would you quit your job before interviewing for another job or being offered another job?

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 No, no, nobody would.

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 But, right, but we have a portal that you can go in with a do not contact.

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 I'm going to quit my job where I'm getting paid.

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 And I'm going to go in saying I need a new job, but nobody can call me to interview.

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 Like, what have we created?

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 So, we've created it on top of representation for these players, right?

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 That it's their responsibility to make sure they get paid really well and they also have opportunities.

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 So, by design, it's put a lot of people in bad positions.

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 And let's not act like recruiting in college football for the last hundred years is the most moral thing, right, that's ever been existed.

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 I mean, like, what are we talking about here?

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 But, no, I mean, the model, obviously, has been broken.

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 And I'm all for everybody being on the same playing field and doing the same things.

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 I get it.

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 But I think that's in any job, right?

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 Like, coaches, we're under contract.

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 You don't think other ADs are calling us during the year?

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 Same ones that are b****** about all this stuff are the same ones calling coaches, right, to come to other schools, right, and everything.

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 So, it's everywhere.

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 It's in every profession.

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 So, I'm not saying I've got all the answers.

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 I'm not saying that at all, right?

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 Does that make sense?

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 So, we go by then the rules of the program, right, and how the flow, just like when you're on the interstate and people are flying by you, what do you start doing?

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 You're d*** right.

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 You're going to get hit, right?

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 Does that make sense?

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 In this profession, you're going to get fired.

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 Welcome back in to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 Those are thoughts of the one and only Pete Golding, and he had quite a few thoughts.

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 Harold's going to rejoin us here in just a minute, but delighted to bring in Blake Lovell, who does a tremendous job of covering the SEC for Southeastern 16.

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 Blake, did you write Pete Golding's script this week?

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 Not quite, Brad.

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 It was probably one that was predictable in terms of, like, what you expected with the delivery.

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 It's going to be very unpredictable in terms of what he actually said.

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 So, no, I mean, hey, there's not a lot of people like him, and I think that's why Ole Miss was like, you know what, we're fine with this guy as our head football coach.

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 Yeah, it was a colorful week.

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 The word fertilizer was used quite a bit.

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 Nick Saban twice, Jon Sumrall twice, and I think another one got slipped in there, too.

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 Your thoughts on media, Dave's?

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 I know a lot of the coaches talked about how to handle roster construction.

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 Everybody wanted to hear from the five new coaches.

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 I thought Silverfield, Ryan Silverfield at Arkansas did a very good job.

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 Sumrall, Stein, who's rather confident.

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 Golding, Golich, and, of course, we know Lane just switched schools.

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 Why couldn't teams run the ball?

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 And then Greg Sankey got everything started with the bang.

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 Your thoughts on media, Dave?

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 Yeah, like you said, I think it was a lot of the off-the-field stuff that was really the big discussion, as we expected,

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 whether it was, again, Greg Sankey starting off with, you know, I feel like the common theme this week is that the SEC is just, you know,

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 this big threat is facing SEC football, and I don't know if that's necessarily the case.

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 Obviously, you know, it's a difficult time, I think, for coaches and all that in terms of how they are constructing their rosters

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 and trying to figure out their path to playoffs, of course, that got into the whole nine-game schedule, and you just kind of keep going, again, in a lot of these things that I think that fans are interested in, but at the same time, you know, as well as anybody, but it's like fans also just want to hear about their teams.

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 They don't necessarily want to get into the ins and outs all the time of all these, again, systematic-type things that I feel like we have really just been all immersed in over the past, you know, couple years now,

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 and I think that's just something where all these things will eventually kind of work themselves out, but I thought that was it, really.

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 It's just, you know, probably fans are thinking, you know what, I would have liked to hear a lot more about my team, but you'll get that, of course, as we get closer to the season.

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 Blake Lovell, hooking it with us, Southeastern 16. Blake, obviously, the poll is out from the media. Maybe this year they'll get it right.

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 Everybody pretty much had Texas pencils in. They got Georgia being the top dog. Texas is second.

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 Relative to us, Blake, Alabama is number six. Auburn is number 12. A lot of folks criticizing the board. I will say this. Everybody loving Pete Golding. This is July.

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 It doesn't matter. We've been around this rodeo too many years. If you win, they don't care if you're a rattlesnake.

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 If you lose, they don't care if you've got a halo on your head. I'm talking about they being fans.

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 Your thoughts about the poll and Alabama and Auburn, respectively, at six and 12.

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 Well, let's keep this in mind, and this is where, as always, the poll is going to be put out, but without context, I think you're really missing a big part of this, because why?

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 Well, Ole Miss got 2,004 points in the poll at number three, and Oklahoma, at number seven, got 1,914 points.

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 So there's 90 points that are separated from teams three to seven.

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 I mean, there's just virtually no gap there when you talk about Ole Miss, A&M, LSU, Alabama, and Oklahoma when it comes to the voters in the preseason poll.

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 Yes, as expected, Georgia and Texas are going to have a few more than everybody else, and that was no surprise.

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 It was just going to be a matter of what order, and, of course, that one was very close, too.

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 So I think that's kind of been the theme of the offseason thus far, is that, you know, all those teams, like, it really is.

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 It was going to be those five.

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 They've been kind of a jumbled mess for people, and how do you sort out the order?

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 Well, we'll sort it out come September, but for now, I don't read a lot into it.

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 I just think it tells you that there are, you know, five teams there.

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 If you do want to kind of go with that peer system and say Georgia and Texas are above everyone, then you've kind of got this group here that feel like all of them, the expectation is to make the playoff this year.

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 That's probably not going to happen, and so who's going to be the team or team that is left out?

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 That becomes the big discussion, and then with Auburn, you know, honestly, I didn't have a great read on where I thought they would be picked.

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 I just thought, again, it was really going to come down to if you're really looking at the personnel and what your confidence is in Alex Colish.

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 In all honesty, I think I would probably have been a little bit fine putting Auburn ahead of a South Carolina, but the other teams, I don't think you can really argue that.

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 I think Florida is the team with the first-year coach minus, again, the Lane and Golding ones with guys who have already actually coached in this league or on their specific team.

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 I thought Florida would be the one that would get the most votes.

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 They did, and so Auburn, to me, I think is going to be right there in that sleeper-type category.

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 I thought Josh Heupel was in, for him, a particularly good mood on Tuesday.

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 We found out why on Wednesday when he gets a commitment from five-star running back David Gabriel Georges for a three-year contract at $2 million plus other incentives.

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 Your thoughts on the $2 million man?

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 Yeah, I mean, listen, you guys have heard it.

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 I've heard it from other people that I respect that this is one of the best players they've seen at the high school level, and I think that's just when you hear stuff like that.

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 Again, we're always going to maybe overreact to some more recent stuff with recency bias and everything, but you don't hear these kind of people talk guys up that way.

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 And I think when you look at just what his skill set is, and you've mentioned contracts, Josh Heupel's saying, yeah, let's bring up that contract word because he may be buying me a little bit more time here.

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 Because, again, Tennessee's picked eight in the preseason.

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 We know Tennessee fans don't want to be picked eight.

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 They want to be one, two, three.

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 They don't want to be an eight because that means you're probably on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoff and all that.

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 And so I think that was huge for Josh Heupel because what that does, and we know the impact of these kind of things, doesn't mean everything, but you better believe when you have a player like this coming in, you're going to give yourself a little bit of wiggle room there.

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 And so, of course, you can't go four and eight this year or anything like that, but if Tennessee can kind of, again, be what the expectation is or be better, then obviously that gives Josh Heupel a lot of momentum heading into next season when you add a player like this.

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 So, yeah, there's no doubt, very significant addition, and, again, someone who could be talked about for a long time to come if it translates the way we think it will.

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 And let's just be honest with you, Blake.

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 Smart business people, they don't always look in terms of what they're spending.

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 They look at what they're investing.

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 Alabama invested $4 million.

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 How much did they make back on that $4 million?

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 They could have gone out and probably got somebody probably for $900,000.

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 Where would they be now?

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 Sometimes it's cheaper to pay a high price than it is to go and nickel and dime yourself to death.

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 Yeah, and, look, I don't know what Tennessee's protocol is on selling their season tickets for next year yet, but if I'm there, go ahead and get them on sale right this time before you end up the game this year.

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 You've got the moment of bringing in this guy.

431
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 So, go ahead and get those tickets full for next year because I'm telling you, you know, it's going to probably, again, produce quite a bit of revenue and quite a financial haul that's going to be, I think, by bringing him in.

432
00:29:47,780 --> 00:29:50,040
 Blake, I saw some clips on that kid.

433
00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:54,100
 Well, I've seen some before, but I saw more yesterday.

434
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,640
 He looks like a young Hershel Walker.

435
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:57,560
 Oh, boy.

436
00:29:57,660 --> 00:30:16,360
 And, again, I know people are going to get carried away with this, but when you look at his clips, and you've got to take into account the caliber of competition that he was playing, but one play in particularly, he broke five tackles and just outran the secondary.

437
00:30:18,980 --> 00:30:20,780
 It's just the way he runs.

438
00:30:20,780 --> 00:30:30,480
 I think that's where, like you said, we can't compare guys to people who have had Hall of Fame careers and all this other stuff, but you can compare style.

439
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:39,380
 Like, you can compare, again, how guys play, and you can see, especially, I think, in a running back, the way they attack, and I think that's very important.

440
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:49,820
 You can see how a guy runs, and I think that has been kind of the main comparison is that if you do want to go ahead and get on the hype train, because it is, you know, right now he's not played a game in college,

441
00:30:49,820 --> 00:30:59,000
 but if you want to jump all in, it is easy to spot some of those similarities with some of the greats that we've seen because of how he runs, and I think that's the big thing,

442
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:08,160
 is he just feels like he's got the ultimate combination of everything you need to be a great, great running back, and so, yeah, and I think, again,

443
00:31:08,220 --> 00:31:16,020
 when you look at just kind of the state of Tennessee and knowing this year what all the talk's going to be, it's going to be around the quarterback position and maybe the unknown with the balls,

444
00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:22,900
 and I know Tennessee fans were absolutely shuddering at the idea when Josh Heupel mentioned possibly playing two quarterbacks.

445
00:31:23,020 --> 00:31:32,380
 We know what that means, but this is something that you can, again, really much lean on and feel like this is a guy who can be potentially a game changer for our program,

446
00:31:32,780 --> 00:31:34,980
 and again, I think a lot of it has to do with just the style.

447
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:35,840
 Absolutely.

448
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,780
 Well, listen, always great stuff.

449
00:31:38,780 --> 00:31:50,560
 I know Southeastern 16, your staff has got the college football preseason as far as schedules, teams, players, predictions, all of that handled.

450
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:59,580
 By the way, Nate Oates bringing in that seven-foot Canadian was quite interesting, as I know you noticed that earlier this week.

451
00:31:59,980 --> 00:32:02,020
 Where can we get online to get the great stuff?

452
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:03,860
 Yeah, I really appreciate it, guys.

453
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,520
 Yeah, check us out over at Southeastern 16, plenty of SEC football stuff to get you ready for the upcoming season,

454
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:11,180
 and, yeah, lots of off-season basketball and baseball stuff as well.

455
00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:12,600
 There's Southeastern 16 on YouTube.

456
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:13,700
 Thanks.

457
00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:14,920
 Listen, man, have a great weekend.

458
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:16,220
 Let's do it again soon, okay?

459
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:17,600
 Thanks, guys.

460
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:18,240
 Thank you, bud.

461
00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:20,200
 Great level of South Eastern 16.

462
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:26,620
 Can you imagine in this day and time, what would be the value of a Hershel Walker or a Bo Jackson baby right now?

463
00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,060
 Well, it's, yeah, I know.

464
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:28,660
 I know.

465
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,000
 It'd be incredible.

466
00:32:30,820 --> 00:32:33,660
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561
00:37:33,580 --> 00:37:34,260
 Welcome back in.

562
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,520
 So what do you talk about a day after ACC Media Days?

563
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,240
 Well, I think Ryan Callahan and a lot of folks may have the answer to that

564
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:42,480
 when it comes to talking Tennessee.

565
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 RC is busy there at Gold Balls 24-7.

566
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:47,100
 Ryan Callahan, welcome in.

567
00:37:47,180 --> 00:37:47,780
 How are you?

568
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:48,900
 Hey, guys.

569
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:49,300
 Doing well.

570
00:37:49,340 --> 00:37:49,600
 How are you?

571
00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:50,400
 Hey, buddy.

572
00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:53,500
 Man, we're just wondering, is there gold in them dar heels of East Tennessee?

573
00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:55,600
 We thought Fort Knox was in Kentucky.

574
00:37:56,060 --> 00:38:02,060
 But after this latest news about the running back, have they moved Fort Knox from Kentucky

575
00:38:02,060 --> 00:38:03,020
 to Knoxville?

576
00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:06,940
 Well, Tennessee got its guy, that's for sure.

577
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,280
 Five-star running back David Gabriel George of Baylor School in Chattanooga is committed

578
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:12,800
 to Tennessee.

579
00:38:13,020 --> 00:38:16,140
 He picked the balls over Ohio State and Ole Miss on Wednesday.

580
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:23,720
 Very lucrative deal, it sounds like, and definitely a situation where he was the guy Tennessee wanted

581
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,700
 from the beginning in this class.

582
00:38:25,900 --> 00:38:29,220
 And they were pretty much all in on him for the past year or more.

583
00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:34,940
 And so this was their plan all along, to devote whatever resources necessary, essentially,

584
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:40,400
 to get a running back that they view as kind of a generational talent, perhaps, in the

585
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:40,960
 state of Tennessee.

586
00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,000
 There have been some good running backs from this state over the years.

587
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,720
 You know, Jalen Hurd, Ty Chandler, and Eric Gray that played at Tennessee.

588
00:38:47,940 --> 00:38:49,760
 Master Teague that went to Ohio State.

589
00:38:50,260 --> 00:38:51,260
 There have been some good ones.

590
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:57,160
 But to have a guy like this come down from Canada and just happen to play at a school 90 minutes

591
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,900
 from Knoxville, I think Tennessee just viewed this as a rare opportunity to get a really

592
00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:02,740
 special player.

593
00:39:03,340 --> 00:39:06,700
 And just the kind of guy that once you saw what he was, I think Tennessee decided, you

594
00:39:06,700 --> 00:39:11,100
 know, we can't let this guy go to Ohio State or Georgia or somewhere else and be an All-American.

595
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,880
 We need to keep him in state.

596
00:39:13,060 --> 00:39:14,260
 And so they made it happen.

597
00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:15,600
 So give Tennessee credit.

598
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,480
 They've had a pretty remarkable track record in kind of getting their guy when they set their

599
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,220
 sights on a top target.

600
00:39:22,420 --> 00:39:24,340
 It's been Niko Iamaliava a few years ago.

601
00:39:24,740 --> 00:39:27,500
 David Sanders a couple years ago, Faison Brandon and T.K.

602
00:39:27,580 --> 00:39:28,520
 Keyes last year.

603
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:33,380
 So when they really zero in on someone like that, they tend to get their guy.

604
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:38,160
 And that's a statement for Josh Heupel's staff and certainly a reflection of the kind of

605
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,820
 resources they're able to devote to those guys.

606
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:41,260
 It's amazing, Ryan.

607
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,160
 When you're a good salesman, you got $2 million, what you can do with those skills, right?

608
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,340
 So let me ask you this.

609
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:52,140
 Obviously, Nick Saban said the other day, if you can play, you can play.

610
00:39:52,540 --> 00:39:53,900
 But all things are relative.

611
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,360
 How good is the competition there that Baylor has on the schedule?

612
00:39:57,580 --> 00:40:01,640
 Sometimes over the course of time, you get a man amongst boys.

613
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,900
 And then when you wrap it up, we saw this week with Diego Pavi.

614
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,140
 He was pretty good at Vanderbilt.

615
00:40:06,580 --> 00:40:09,340
 He goes to the NFL and it's like, pick a door, Diego.

616
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,240
 We'll see you later.

617
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:12,200
 How good is the competition for Baylor?

618
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,440
 You know, anywhere in Tennessee, I feel like it's pretty hit and miss.

619
00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:21,540
 You know, it's become a much better state for producing top-level talent over the past

620
00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:23,820
 10 to 15 years than it used to be.

621
00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:29,560
 But it's still, in terms of facing great players on a weekly basis, it's not the Atlanta area.

622
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:30,700
 It's not South Florida.

623
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:32,280
 You know, there's still a difference there.

624
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:36,820
 With that being said, Baylor faces some of the best competition that Tennessee has to

625
00:40:36,820 --> 00:40:39,520
 offer in that top private school division, Division II, AAA.

626
00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:45,660
 And to that point, on a pretty talented team and against some pretty talented competition,

627
00:40:46,260 --> 00:40:49,720
 this guy won Mr. Football as a sophomore at Baylor.

628
00:40:49,860 --> 00:40:52,200
 And he wasn't even the number one running back on his team.

629
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,640
 He was behind a guy named Shaqai Mills Knight, a four-star is now at Ole Miss.

630
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,060
 So as a guy splitting carries, he won that kind of honor as a sophomore in the state's top

631
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:02,720
 classification.

632
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,460
 Won it again last year, despite battling some injuries that kept him out of a couple games.

633
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:12,680
 In 10 games, ran for 1,700-plus yards and 27 touchdowns, had a 400-yard game in the playoff

634
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:17,320
 against Macaulay, a crosstown rival that's usually among Baylor's main competition for

635
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,120
 the state championship.

636
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,160
 So that's a very good competition that he did that against.

637
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,740
 An average 10.9 yards per carry.

638
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:28,280
 And that's the number that Andrew Ivins, our director of scouting, often points to in scouting

639
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:28,900
 running backs.

640
00:41:29,060 --> 00:41:32,920
 You know, you see lots of guys that rack up yards against, you know, small school competition

641
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:34,780
 in the public school ranks and things like that.

642
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:40,260
 But when a guy averages 10 yards per carry, that usually takes a, no matter of the competition,

643
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:42,360
 that takes some pretty special ability usually.

644
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:47,140
 So to have that kind of average yards per carry against that level of competition, I think,

645
00:41:47,180 --> 00:41:49,380
 is a reflection of the kind of talent you're talking about with him.

646
00:41:50,220 --> 00:41:58,160
 Ryan, without trying to get carried away here, I looked at several clips yesterday, and that's

647
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,860
 why I mentioned earlier about the question about the caliber.

648
00:42:01,860 --> 00:42:07,480
 But he just, as Blake Lovell, our friend that we talked to earlier in the show, said, he just

649
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:08,520
 attacks a defense.

650
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:15,340
 He brought five tackles, and then with his speed out, ran the secondary on one play that

651
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:16,240
 I saw.

652
00:42:16,540 --> 00:42:24,000
 And it's obvious that he is, I would agree now, again, we'll see, against SEC defenses would

653
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,900
 be a potential generational talent.

654
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:33,400
 Listen, he's not the only one that Tennessee's got commitments from for next season, as far

655
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:34,560
 as four and five stars.

656
00:42:34,740 --> 00:42:37,180
 Talk about some of the other jewels in this class.

657
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:43,460
 Yeah, it's not a class that's currently as deep as some they've had in recent years in

658
00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:46,520
 terms of highly ranked players, but they do have a handful of really good ones at the

659
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:47,180
 top of the class.

660
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:53,180
 And the interesting thing about this, the top, you know, all but one of the top 247 prospects

661
00:42:53,180 --> 00:42:55,280
 in their class are from the state of Tennessee.

662
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:59,780
 They've got Keyshawn Bowman, a wide receiver who's a top 100 player from Brentwood Academy.

663
00:43:00,220 --> 00:43:04,220
 Those two teams will square off in, I believe, a nationally televised showdown on a Thursday

664
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:05,180
 night next month.

665
00:43:05,260 --> 00:43:09,200
 So that'll be a fun one to watch with three Tennessee commitments in that game, including

666
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:13,760
 Kenneth Simon II, the former Alabama linebacker commitment who flipped to Tennessee last month.

667
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,380
 So those guys will all be on the same field, but those are three of the top guys in Tennessee's

668
00:43:17,380 --> 00:43:18,120
 class for sure.

669
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,280
 And then Malik Howard, a four-star tight end from Oak Ridge High School just down the road

670
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:22,980
 from Knoxville.

671
00:43:23,340 --> 00:43:26,260
 So those guys are kind of the headliners of Tennessee's class right now.

672
00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:32,380
 And then obviously Nico Kompass, the four-star offensive tackle from Germany, who's now at

673
00:43:32,380 --> 00:43:35,740
 NFL Academy in England, was one of Tennessee's more recent commitments.

674
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,540
 And he's also one of those top 247 guys.

675
00:43:38,660 --> 00:43:42,180
 And then another four-star from in-state, Princeton-Uefo, an offensive tackle from

676
00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:45,300
 Murfreesboro that gave Tennessee an early commitment last fall.

677
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,640
 So still some good players in this class, but maybe not quite the depth yet.

678
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,340
 They're up to 18 commitments total.

679
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,900
 So they're now in the top 25 nationally.

680
00:43:54,060 --> 00:43:56,620
 They've been kind of down there, kind of hanging out with Alabama.

681
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,160
 It's one of those classes that you're stretching your head about wondering how they're that far

682
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:00,500
 down.

683
00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:05,480
 But a big boost in the rankings yesterday or Wednesday with the addition of David Gabriel

684
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:05,920
 George.

685
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:10,080
 And starting to look a little more like the classes we're accustomed to seeing Tennessee sign.

686
00:44:10,140 --> 00:44:14,080
 And now it's going to be a question of maybe who they can flip during the season that might

687
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:15,680
 give them a chance to move up even farther.

688
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,460
 Ryan Callahan, Go Vols 24-7.

689
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,580
 The media geniuses are out with their poll, Ryan.

690
00:44:21,720 --> 00:44:25,900
 Basically, it says that half the teams in the SEC are better than Tennessee.

691
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,920
 The other half, Tennessee's better than them.

692
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,660
 In other words, pretty much smack dab in the middle.

693
00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:33,380
 They rate an eight in the SEC media poll.

694
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,840
 Your critique of that number?

695
00:44:36,780 --> 00:44:38,940
 Yeah, that's really where I thought they would be.

696
00:44:38,940 --> 00:44:41,960
 I was asked earlier this week, and my guess was eight.

697
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:45,440
 But somewhere in the middle of the pack, it seemed like they were pretty much destined

698
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,400
 to end up there.

699
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:52,540
 To Josh Heupel's credit, they've gotten Tennessee to the point that I think people kind of expect

700
00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:56,860
 them to be at least a decent team most years and kind of give that staff the benefit of

701
00:44:56,860 --> 00:44:57,160
 the doubt.

702
00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,880
 And they do have a good bit of talent on the roster.

703
00:45:00,140 --> 00:45:05,140
 And a lot of players around the quarterback on both sides of the ball, for that matter,

704
00:45:05,220 --> 00:45:07,240
 that make you think they could be pretty good this year.

705
00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:11,140
 At the same time, there's just so many good teams at the top of the SEC that don't have

706
00:45:11,140 --> 00:45:15,900
 the question a quarterback of having to break in either a true freshman or redshirt freshman

707
00:45:15,900 --> 00:45:20,740
 who's never started, that don't have the question marks on defense, where you've got a first-year

708
00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:24,160
 defensive coordinator and several new guys out of the transfer portal, and you're not quite

709
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:28,340
 sure how that's going to work out after Tennessee was ranked close to 100th nationally in a few

710
00:45:28,340 --> 00:45:29,100
 major categories.

711
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:32,840
 So just some question marks that are hard to overlook.

712
00:45:33,060 --> 00:45:37,000
 And yeah, look, I mean, the media, we knock it out of the park every year, right?

713
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,940
 I mean, how many times have we gotten the SEC championship?

714
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:39,540
 Right.

715
00:45:40,100 --> 00:45:43,860
 I think once in the last eight years or something like that, we've failed the SEC champion.

716
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,200
 It's hard to get it right.

717
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:49,820
 But yeah, I mean, I think that's a fair assessment probably of where Tennessee is.

718
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,700
 They're one of those teams that's probably in the second tier among the contenders where you

719
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:55,680
 don't expect them to make the college football playoff.

720
00:45:55,680 --> 00:46:00,000
 And a lot of things would have to fall into place for them, for them to be a college football

721
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:00,580
 playoff team.

722
00:46:00,740 --> 00:46:03,940
 But they're good enough that on any given Saturday, they're going to be a tough out for

723
00:46:03,940 --> 00:46:05,120
 most of the teams they face.

724
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,820
 And the SEC, that kind of puts you right smack dab in the middle.

725
00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:16,180
 Eli Drinkwood came out earlier this week and said, SEC coaches are going to regret going

726
00:46:16,180 --> 00:46:18,200
 to that ninth conference game.

727
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,320
 And with only one bye week, I think they already are.

728
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:27,260
 But we knew that now one thing I like about the new schedule is you're not going to have

729
00:46:27,260 --> 00:46:32,260
 teams going a decade without going to another team's venue.

730
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:43,300
 But isn't it interesting this year, Tennessee had played Florida for 34 consecutive, let me

731
00:46:43,300 --> 00:46:48,100
 see, 36 consecutive years and Georgia for 34.

732
00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:51,800
 Tennessee does not play Florida and Georgia this year.

733
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:56,080
 And when I looked at the schedule initially, I thought, am I saying that right?

734
00:46:56,720 --> 00:47:03,280
 What are your subscribers and Tennessee fans, they may be saying, thank you, God, we don't

735
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:04,540
 play Georgia this year.

736
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:10,760
 But with the tradition-rich SEC, what comments have you heard about that?

737
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:16,620
 Yeah, you know, I think fans have had a while to get used to it, so there's not been as much

738
00:47:16,620 --> 00:47:17,600
 talk about it recently.

739
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:22,440
 But it's still, yeah, it's very different to not have Florida coming to Knoxville this year.

740
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:23,700
 They were at the Swamp last year.

741
00:47:23,820 --> 00:47:30,640
 To not be going back to Georgia this year, it just became such an annual thing in the

742
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:35,000
 years of the SEC East, especially, that it's hard to imagine it being different.

743
00:47:35,140 --> 00:47:36,620
 So it is going to be very strange.

744
00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:40,120
 At the same time, you know, we've already kind of gotten used to the, you know, breaking

745
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:40,940
 out of division play.

746
00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:44,800
 Tennessee didn't play South Carolina the last couple of years, and that had become a very

747
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,820
 important and pretty competitive series for years, where Tennessee's had some damaging

748
00:47:48,820 --> 00:47:50,040
 losses to South Carolina.

749
00:47:50,660 --> 00:47:57,060
 And only because they have permanent rival status with them will Vanderbilt and Kentucky stay

750
00:47:57,060 --> 00:47:57,980
 on the schedule.

751
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,420
 You know, they haven't played Missouri recently, so it's a different world.

752
00:48:01,420 --> 00:48:05,380
 But yeah, those Florida and Georgia games in particular, those are going to be strange ones

753
00:48:05,380 --> 00:48:06,320
 not to see on the schedule.

754
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,940
 And we'll see how fans receive this over the long term.

755
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,760
 I think the fact that you're going to face teams like that about every other year takes

756
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,380
 away some of the sting, but it does recalibrate kind of how you view those games.

757
00:48:18,580 --> 00:48:23,200
 You know, you would imagine the rivalry status those teams once held, certainly Florida in

758
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,560
 particular for Tennessee, not going to be quite the same, I would imagine, with them being

759
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,080
 on the schedule twice every four years.

760
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,200
 So it's different, and yeah, a sign of the times.

761
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:35,040
 But I think if you ask most fans, I think all things considered, they would probably rather

762
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:39,580
 have it this way, because regardless, now, Eli Drinkwitz and those people, they're talking

763
00:48:39,580 --> 00:48:43,160
 about it from the coach's perspective, because it's going to be harder to get to eight wins,

764
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:44,780
 nine wins, especially ten wins.

765
00:48:45,460 --> 00:48:46,180
 They don't like that.

766
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:47,680
 That's about job security for them.

767
00:48:48,020 --> 00:48:52,380
 But for fans and for people just absorbing the product, it's going to be a better product.

768
00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:55,780
 You know, the NFL, you don't have to worry about having three games that are

769
00:48:55,780 --> 00:48:56,640
 gimmies on the schedule.

770
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,300
 College football, you've still got three.

771
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:01,400
 There's still three out of the 12 games you're going to watch that are essentially

772
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:02,520
 pushovers most years.

773
00:49:02,980 --> 00:49:07,440
 So this makes it a better product, and it's a grind, but it's going to be more fun for

774
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:11,120
 fans, because there's going to be fewer games you can pencil in as wins going into any season.

775
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:17,040
 Ryan, just about to put a rock and seal this talking season, you're going to be getting

776
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,620
 down to action before we know it.

777
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:24,720
 When does Tennessee open up camp, and what is your gut about the vibe for this team this

778
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,080
 season?

779
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:31,740
 Well, they start Wednesday, August 5th, since that's about exactly a month out from their

780
00:49:31,740 --> 00:49:34,320
 season opener against the performance, so I would imagine that's about the start date

781
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:34,900
 for everybody.

782
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,020
 But yeah, Tennessee will have a preseason media day on Tuesday, August 4th.

783
00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:41,900
 We'll hear from the quarterbacks that day, and that'll probably be the last time we hear

784
00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:44,120
 from those guys before a starter is named, I would imagine.

785
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:48,200
 Yeah, but that'll be getting started here in less than two weeks.

786
00:49:48,380 --> 00:49:53,140
 So yeah, I think the overall vibe for this team, it's interesting to hear Josh Heupel talk

787
00:49:53,140 --> 00:49:58,040
 about it this week at SEC media days, and sure, look, no coach goes down there and says, you

788
00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:58,900
 know, I think we're in trouble.

789
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,740
 I think we're really not in good shape.

790
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:08,640
 So with that caveat, still, he seemed rather loose and kind of upbeat about this team.

791
00:50:08,740 --> 00:50:13,120
 I think he feels he's got a pretty good football team, and for that matter, in talking about

792
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:17,180
 the biggest concern about this team, the quarterback situation, and some of this was from his years

793
00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:19,980
 at UCF, so that's a different level of competition you're facing there.

794
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,740
 But even with Nico Iamaliava a couple years ago when they made the college football playoff

795
00:50:23,740 --> 00:50:27,420
 with him as a redshirt freshman, he said, hey, look, we've done it a few times with freshman

796
00:50:27,420 --> 00:50:31,620
 quarterbacks, so he doesn't seem too concerned about that, and I think in their system, they

797
00:50:31,620 --> 00:50:35,440
 feel like there's some things they can do to make things a little simpler for a talented

798
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:38,540
 young quarterback, so that's the big question mark about this team.

799
00:50:38,620 --> 00:50:42,180
 If they can answer it as well as he seems to think they can, they've got a chance to maybe

800
00:50:42,180 --> 00:50:45,300
 surprise some people, because they do have a good bit of talent on both sides of the ball

801
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:48,660
 around that quarterback, but still some other questions to answer.

802
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:49,800
 We talked about the pass rush.

803
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:50,800
 They've got to figure that out.

804
00:50:51,140 --> 00:50:55,240
 The offensive line returns four starters from last year, but they didn't play that well at

805
00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:56,000
 the end of last season.

806
00:50:56,180 --> 00:50:59,620
 I saw one ranking recently that had them the seventh best offensive line in the country.

807
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,080
 If they play that well, they'll be a good team.

808
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,380
 If they don't, it might be a different story, so they've got some questions to answer, but

809
00:51:06,380 --> 00:51:08,100
 I think Josh Heupel feels pretty good about this team.

810
00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:12,900
 A lot of veterans outside of the quarterbacks, and still some things you can point to and say

811
00:51:12,900 --> 00:51:13,920
 they ought to be pretty good there.

812
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:14,920
 Absolutely.

813
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,680
 Ryan, I guess it's the traditionalist in me.

814
00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:23,360
 I still remember vividly the first night game in mid-September on CBS.

815
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:27,460
 It was Tennessee and Florida with Spurrier and Fulmer.

816
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:33,080
 So many great games there over the years, but you're right.

817
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:37,180
 Football evolves in mood zone, but great stuff.

818
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,520
 Thank you for coming on with short notice.

819
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:43,060
 Listen, glad you enjoyed media days.

820
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,820
 Had a lot of things to talk about this week.

821
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,760
 Where can we get online to get your stuff and the teams?

822
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,240
 Yeah, govolts247.com.

823
00:51:51,340 --> 00:51:54,520
 Plenty of coverage wrapping up SEC media days, including that preseason poll.

824
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:57,740
 The all-SEC teams just came out earlier as well.

825
00:51:58,300 --> 00:52:01,920
 So, yeah, breaking all that down and looking ahead to one more announcement coming up and

826
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,100
 involving a Tennessee target next week, Asa Barnes and in-state running backs of all.

827
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:08,540
 They're still hoping to add to go along with DGG that they added on Wednesday.

828
00:52:08,780 --> 00:52:11,180
 So, then preseason camp will be here before you know it.

829
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:14,120
 So, lots to check out and plenty of coverage at govolts247.com.

830
00:52:14,660 --> 00:52:16,180
 Ryan, as always, good to hook up with you.

831
00:52:16,220 --> 00:52:19,480
 By the way, send us some of that money you guys got up there in East Tennessee, okay?

832
00:52:20,420 --> 00:52:23,360
 I'm still trying to get an NIL deal myself working on that.

833
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:26,420
 Maybe we're getting lucky, right?

834
00:52:26,500 --> 00:52:27,720
 Listen, I hope you have a great weekend.

835
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:30,820
 Ryan Callahan busy there at Go Vols 24-7.

836
00:52:30,940 --> 00:52:33,420
 Coming up the next time, I'm going to be taking you all over the place.

837
00:52:33,500 --> 00:52:37,480
 The Hall of Famer, Doug Segrist, Justin Ferguson, talking about the Auburn Tigers.

838
00:52:38,020 --> 00:52:39,400
 Emmer Pierce is going to be on board.

839
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,120
 And it's all going to lead off with Mike Huguenen.

840
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:44,020
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 1819 News.

892
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:56,820
 U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville had some harsh words for the mayor of New York City, Zoran Mondani,

893
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,500
 who is also a self-proclaimed Muslim socialist.

894
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:04,820
 Mondani immigrated to the U.S. at the very same time that Tuberville started his run for the U.S. Senate.

895
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,580
 Now Mondani is the mayor of a major U.S. city.

896
00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:10,100
 Tuberville spoke about it on the Benny Johnson podcast.

897
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:11,480
 Yeah, the guy's a thug.

898
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:13,680
 You know, he came here eight years ago.

899
00:55:13,820 --> 00:55:15,560
 That's when I started running for this position.

900
00:55:15,700 --> 00:55:16,460
 It's amazing to me.

901
00:55:16,540 --> 00:55:24,800
 We allow a guy to come in this country just a few years ago, lie about everything on his papers to get into this country.

902
00:55:25,380 --> 00:55:33,280
 And for some reason, we have enough people in New York that would vote for this guy to run the largest and the most popular city in the world.

903
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:39,660
 It just goes to show you how close we are to losing our country because the guy hates this country.

904
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,120
 He wants to change it.

905
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:42,360
 And it's not going to happen.

906
00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:43,740
 It is not going to happen.

907
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:51,640
 We're not going to allow him, just because he's mayor of New York, to be able to change our Constitution and everything that we believe in.

908
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:54,040
 And that my dad died on active duty in this country.

909
00:55:54,560 --> 00:56:01,240
 And I tell you what, we owe it to the people that have lost their lives or given their lives or limbs to put this country where it's at.

910
00:56:01,300 --> 00:56:05,480
 And we're not going to allow a thug like this to change it and take us another direction.

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 Two people have been arrested by federal marshals after a two-year-old boy was abducted from his home in Enterprise.

918
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 Shamarco Moore and Kira Avery were arrested on Thursday.

919
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 They are awaiting extradition to Enterprise to face multiple charges.

920
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921
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945
00:57:58,280 --> 00:58:12,180
 tonight, Ozzie Albies and the Braves hit the road for a quick interleague stop in Baltimore, taking on the Orioles at Camden Yards.

946
00:58:12,180 --> 00:58:17,520
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949
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 Atlanta Braves baseball, tonight versus the Baltimore Orioles on 93.9 The Score.

950
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951
00:59:02,860 --> 00:59:06,320
 This is Daryl from Columbus, previously from the Paul Feinbaum Show.

952
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:07,620
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953
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 Let's just be honest with the callers and the listeners.

954
00:59:10,780 --> 00:59:18,480
 No person has ever replaced the GOAT successfully in any sport at any time, whether it's UCLA, whether it's Belichick.

955
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:24,260
 You can just go down the list of whoever you think the best coach is, and the person that comes after usually doesn't have a lot of success.

956
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:31,860
 The Paul Feinbaum Show, weekdays at 3 Eastern on the ESPN app and on the SEC network.

957
00:59:33,060 --> 00:59:36,040
 Evan, Canty, and Michelle are Unsportsmanlike.

958
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,240
 I think it's a very important year for Nick Sirianni.

959
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:45,300
 It's a pivotal year, and if they don't have the level of success that everybody thinks they should,

960
00:59:45,380 --> 00:59:48,400
 which is not only winning the division, but winning in the postseason,

961
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:54,920
 then I think there's a very real scenario where Nick Sirianni is no longer the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles after this season.

962
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:56,320
 Unsportsmanlike.

963
00:59:56,680 --> 01:00:01,080
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964
01:00:03,420 --> 01:00:05,580
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965
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966
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967
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968
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971
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 Now, get ready to roll, Shoals, Decatur, Athens, and all of northwest Alabama and southern Tennessee.

972
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,940
 It's time for the Valley's exclusive FM Sports Voice.

973
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:51,240
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974
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,900
 New exclusive inside track to the Tide.

975
01:00:54,060 --> 01:00:57,000
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976
01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:03,240
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

977
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:07,480
 You know, I made a challenging decision and change.

978
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:13,980
 And I think as I look back to that, I thought I could find a way for everybody to understand.

979
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,680
 And now as I look back later on, that was never going to happen.

980
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,560
 And I made a decision that I changed jobs.

981
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:28,680
 And as I get older and I go through things and losing both parents, I was actually talking to Ross Dellinger,

982
01:01:28,780 --> 01:01:34,500
 and I kind of said something that might sound kind of funny to you, but, you know, I watched the Hulk Hogan special.

983
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,600
 And I realized and I was like, we're all going to die.

984
01:01:39,380 --> 01:01:45,840
 And so some of the things that we put importance on, we worry about, and what this person says and that, like, really aren't going to matter.

985
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:47,940
 And when I lost my dad, I started thinking that.

986
01:01:48,100 --> 01:01:52,380
 And I really started thinking, when I grew up, there were two people that I thought just wouldn't die.

987
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,020
 My dad and Hulk Hogan.

988
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,700
 And then I watched that special and really, like, Hulk Hogan died too.

989
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,600
 Like, there was no way Hulk Hogan was ever going to not wrestle and die.

990
01:02:00,900 --> 01:02:01,460
 And he did.

991
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:09,400
 And so it just made me reflect really on, like, I can't be so concerned about little things and what people say and this.

992
01:02:09,540 --> 01:02:10,540
 And you've got to make decisions.

993
01:02:10,620 --> 01:02:11,320
 You've got to go with them.

994
01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:14,100
 There you have it.

995
01:02:14,100 --> 01:02:15,660
 Let's move over, Plato.

996
01:02:15,980 --> 01:02:22,520
 There is the philosopher of 2026, one Lane Kiffin, a.k.a. now the top tiger at LSU.

997
01:02:23,060 --> 01:02:25,280
 Welcome in our tour to the Boom Old Bug Show.

998
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:25,980
 I'm Harold Bugg.

999
01:02:26,060 --> 01:02:26,780
 That's Brett Beaird.

1000
01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:32,920
 And that is the man in Orlando, National College football slash basketball analyst, Mike Hogan.

1001
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:34,960
 Mike, welcome in.

1002
01:02:35,260 --> 01:02:36,200
 How are you?

1003
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:48,520
 You know, I wasn't at SEC Media Days, and I certainly didn't watch on TV, but I did read some of the transcripts and some of the, most of the stories written out of there.

1004
01:02:49,060 --> 01:02:53,400
 And, you know, Kiffin can be a very charming person.

1005
01:02:54,400 --> 01:03:04,320
 But I'm not, I'll be honest, when I read the quote about, I watched the Hulk Hogan documentary came away with, everybody's going to die.

1006
01:03:04,620 --> 01:03:08,980
 I don't think I need to see a documentary to realize that.

1007
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:15,640
 And to me, it was a very tortured way of saying you shouldn't care what people think.

1008
01:03:15,860 --> 01:03:16,420
 Thank you.

1009
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:21,380
 I don't think Lane Kiffin has ever told me what people think.

1010
01:03:21,420 --> 01:03:22,360
 Not the opposite, Mike.

1011
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:22,920
 He loves it.

1012
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:30,960
 Yeah, the idea he thought he could leave Ole Miss the way he did, and Ole Miss people would, oh, yeah, good job.

1013
01:03:31,060 --> 01:03:31,680
 Good job, Lane.

1014
01:03:31,860 --> 01:03:33,100
 Have fun in Baton Rouge.

1015
01:03:33,300 --> 01:03:34,400
 You know, come on.

1016
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:45,500
 It's more of his, you know, just like last year, in the middle of the season, Kiffin sits down with writers, I'm a changed man, blah, blah, blah.

1017
01:03:45,500 --> 01:03:48,320
 You know, he is who he is, and he always will be.

1018
01:03:48,900 --> 01:03:49,180
 Yeah.

1019
01:03:49,860 --> 01:03:52,340
 Well, I mean, let's face, he's got dimples.

1020
01:03:52,820 --> 01:03:54,520
 He's got a curl up top.

1021
01:03:54,580 --> 01:03:55,320
 He's well-coived.

1022
01:03:55,680 --> 01:04:01,140
 You know, you look at Lane, it's like he goes with a clothing consultant, makes sure that I look good.

1023
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:07,960
 And then you look at the guys replacing me at Ole Miss, and it looks like he's the guy that went down to the Salvation Army and said,

1024
01:04:08,020 --> 01:04:13,720
 give me some clothes, I've got to go to the SEC Media Days, and after that, I'm going to go to the bar and have a beer with the boys.

1025
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:15,880
 What a contrast for Ole Miss.

1026
01:04:19,540 --> 01:04:26,700
 Got the full-time job shortly after Kiffin left, and, you know, I'm not sure that's going to pay off.

1027
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:31,660
 Obviously, it was a smart move at the time, although I think they could have made him the interim.

1028
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:34,300
 Let's look at Pete Golding this way.

1029
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:47,840
 If we're sitting here a year ago today, if anybody would have asked, name five SEC assistants who will become an SEC head coach the quickest.

1030
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,540
 Absolutely nobody you talk to.

1031
01:04:50,540 --> 01:04:50,960
 That's right.

1032
01:04:51,300 --> 01:04:52,280
 No honest person.

1033
01:04:52,700 --> 01:04:53,740
 No, exactly.

1034
01:04:53,740 --> 01:04:58,400
 So, he certainly is different than Kiffin.

1035
01:04:59,420 --> 01:05:02,060
 I think he cuts corners like Kiffin, though.

1036
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:13,040
 He's going to have, you know, I think the Ole Miss defense will be as good as it was last year when it was good enough to get to the quarterfinals of the CSP.

1037
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:19,460
 But I'm extremely interested in seeing the offense, totally new coaching staff on that side of the ball.

1038
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:20,820
 Now, Chambliss is back.

1039
01:05:21,420 --> 01:05:22,740
 Keywon Lacy's back.

1040
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:24,040
 They've got some good receivers.

1041
01:05:24,740 --> 01:05:28,560
 But I still think Ole Miss takes a step back.

1042
01:05:28,780 --> 01:05:42,760
 And I think at some point this season, Ole Miss fans are going to say, you know, maybe we should have just made him the interim and gone out and gotten a coach because Kiffin made it into a good job.

1043
01:05:42,900 --> 01:05:43,020
 Yeah.

1044
01:05:43,420 --> 01:05:45,780
 And I think they took the easy way out.

1045
01:05:46,140 --> 01:05:52,140
 It was smart to have Golding finish out the year, but I'm not sure it was smart to make him the permanent coach.

1046
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:57,160
 Let me ask you about some of the themes of media days.

1047
01:05:57,300 --> 01:06:03,540
 One of them was the talking heads would ask each coach, how do you handle roster construction?

1048
01:06:04,340 --> 01:06:11,180
 Most of them have hired a general manager, which is a real key now in helping construct a roster.

1049
01:06:11,180 --> 01:06:20,000
 Ryan Silverfield, who I was impressed with yesterday, literally came out and said, look, we've got, I think he said, 80 new players.

1050
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,400
 Alabama's got 50 new players.

1051
01:06:22,580 --> 01:06:23,960
 And you just go on down the list.

1052
01:06:24,060 --> 01:06:31,520
 But he said, I'm still going to look at signing high school players, probably 20 to 25.

1053
01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:34,720
 We'll sign 10 to 20 transfer portal.

1054
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:43,100
 And then you mentioned something else that is new, which is what Kalen DeBoer has been talking about in the offseason is roster retention.

1055
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:48,060
 What we've got to be aware, first of all, you've got to develop these guys.

1056
01:06:48,060 --> 01:06:55,080
 But if they have a good year, we're going to have to pay them more money, in other words, to keep them here for another year.

1057
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:59,740
 But all the coaches said, look, it's a challenge now.

1058
01:06:59,740 --> 01:07:03,280
 You know the issue, but you followed the transfer portal for years.

1059
01:07:03,280 --> 01:07:13,140
 But I thought that was one of the central themes for SEC Media Days this week was asking the coaches about roster retention or construction.

1060
01:07:14,140 --> 01:07:24,280
 If any of the 16 had been truly honest, the first answer would have been said, well, you need a lot of money.

1061
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:29,900
 Because, you know, you can be the greatest X's and O's guy in the world.

1062
01:07:29,940 --> 01:07:30,400
 Thank you.

1063
01:07:30,580 --> 01:07:36,340
 But if your players are not high caliber, ultimately it's not going to matter.

1064
01:07:36,700 --> 01:07:44,740
 And then you had Sarkeesian on the other end saying, oh, you know, we had to make salary cap cuts because we wanted to bring in all these guys.

1065
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:51,940
 And I read that and I'm thinking, dude, you better win or else you should get fired.

1066
01:07:51,940 --> 01:07:57,340
 And you should get fired considering how much money you're spending and how cavalier you are about this.

1067
01:07:57,380 --> 01:08:08,000
 But I think, yeah, I think every coach, if everything was working right, would sign between 10 and, I would argue, 15 guys out of the portal.

1068
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,420
 I think roster retention is vital.

1069
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:15,040
 Most of your money, I think, should be tied up in those kind of players.

1070
01:08:15,660 --> 01:08:20,460
 The concern slash issue is I signed a kid out of high school.

1071
01:08:20,460 --> 01:08:26,300
 He plays in four games as a freshman and he's thinking, no, I'm gone.

1072
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:28,240
 And I think that's the issue.

1073
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:35,620
 You have to pay a lot of money to high school kids off their promise, not necessarily their production.

1074
01:08:36,100 --> 01:08:41,200
 Now, the kids who come in as freshmen and play right away, you know they're going to get their money.

1075
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,920
 But it is, I think, more difficult now.

1076
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,220
 In the old days, hey, you know, we've got a third-year sophomore who's worked his way up.

1077
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:55,680
 Well, chances are a third-year sophomore these days is at least his second school.

1078
01:08:57,420 --> 01:08:58,940
 Mike, you're going to be in the huddle with us.

1079
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,520
 Mike, did you notice the new kids on the block?

1080
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,500
 It was almost like they're already in competitive mode.

1081
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,800
 Will Stein comes out and he throws it down.

1082
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,160
 Then Alex Skolish comes out, he throws it down.

1083
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:12,760
 And then Jon Sumrall comes out, he throws it down.

1084
01:09:13,260 --> 01:09:15,860
 No lack of testosterone for the new kids on the block.

1085
01:09:15,940 --> 01:09:18,100
 Your thoughts about the new boys in the SEC?

1086
01:09:20,940 --> 01:09:26,240
 Will Stein certainly has a lot of confidence.

1087
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:37,540
 Will Stein also is leaving one of the best financial – he's leaving a program that is in a different financial strata than Kentucky.

1088
01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:40,120
 Will Stein has been coaching great players.

1089
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:45,320
 I don't think anybody looks at Kentucky and says, oh, man, that team is loaded.

1090
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,800
 And some of this stuff I think is false bravado.

1091
01:09:50,940 --> 01:09:53,580
 You have to put on a happy face, that kind of stuff.

1092
01:09:53,860 --> 01:09:58,160
 But, yeah, Silverfield, to me, has a bad team.

1093
01:09:58,860 --> 01:10:00,560
 Stein has a bad team.

1094
01:10:01,300 --> 01:10:08,600
 I think Gullish and Sumrall have the more talented squads, especially with the Auburn defense.

1095
01:10:09,060 --> 01:10:10,700
 That's a solid unit.

1096
01:10:10,700 --> 01:10:15,680
 But, yeah, I think it's going to be – let's put it this way.

1097
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:19,360
 There's four new coaches in the SEC this year, not counting Kiffin.

1098
01:10:20,580 --> 01:10:24,880
 Three years from now, I'm saying only two are going to still be there.

1099
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:25,480
 Wow.

1100
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 I think in this day and age, Kurt Cignetti made things more difficult for everybody.

1101
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 Yeah, absolutely.

1102
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 If you're not successful in year two now, I think you're on the chopping block.

1103
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 And it's – especially in the SEC.

1104
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 And maybe I should have said three – yeah, 20-29, maybe just two of these guys are there.

1105
01:10:51,180 --> 01:10:54,900
 I think Sumrall and Gullish are taking over the better programs.

1106
01:10:55,700 --> 01:10:59,360
 I think it's going to be a heck of a lot tougher for Stein and Silverfield.

1107
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 And people forget – Will Stein's a young guy.

1108
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 In 2019, Will Stein was an high school offensive coordinator in Austin.

1109
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 2019.

1110
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 And, you know, that's seven years ago.

1111
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 That's right.

1112
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 And now he's coaching the SEC team as the head coach.

1113
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 So, it was interesting to see how the new guys handled themselves.

1114
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 I think it was a little bit of false bravado on the part of Stein and Silverfield.

1115
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 Mike, I thought another theme was interesting from the talking heads was,

1116
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 why did some of the top teams in the SEC have such a problem running the ball last year?

1117
01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:38,820
 Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, and Alabama.

1118
01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:41,140
 Texas was 90th.

1119
01:11:41,140 --> 01:11:47,700
 Oklahoma, LSU, and Alabama were 113 to 123 nationally running the ball.

1120
01:11:47,780 --> 01:11:53,660
 Now, all four of these teams have made some major efforts to try to improve the run game this year.

1121
01:11:54,060 --> 01:11:55,360
 But that was interesting.

1122
01:11:55,860 --> 01:11:59,700
 A league that is known for physicality and run the ball,

1123
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:04,160
 that four or five of the top tens couldn't do it last year.

1124
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:12,200
 You know, this wasn't Kentucky and South Carolina and Missouri.

1125
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 You know, Missouri ran the ball on everybody.

1126
01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:14,680
 Yeah.

1127
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:20,660
 This was premier programs that couldn't get out of their own way when they ran the ball.

1128
01:12:21,020 --> 01:12:25,120
 I think part of that is their offensive line is all underachieved.

1129
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:30,720
 I'm not sure about the quality of the running back.

1130
01:12:32,100 --> 01:12:37,080
 And I think part of it, though, I mean, all those teams, I think, felt more comfortable throwing it.

1131
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,800
 But I think one reason for that is, well, we have to throw because we can't run.

1132
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 And I think the physicality aspect, certainly Alabama and certainly Texas and certainly LSU,

1133
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:56,460
 the idea that those guys were inept running the ball, that's embarrassing.

1134
01:12:57,260 --> 01:12:58,940
 And that cannot happen.

1135
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:07,680
 LSU didn't really run the ball during the Brian Kelly era, which is interesting because he was a guy who relied on the run in Notre Dame.

1136
01:13:07,820 --> 01:13:10,580
 So, I knew the importance of offensive linemen.

1137
01:13:10,820 --> 01:13:15,460
 So, you know, Alabama's got, what, I think three new starters on the offensive line.

1138
01:13:15,580 --> 01:13:16,760
 LSU's got four.

1139
01:13:17,860 --> 01:13:20,340
 Texas A&M's another one with four new starters.

1140
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:22,720
 Texas has new starters on the line.

1141
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:29,840
 The physicality aspect, SEC defensive lines, even the bad teams got guys who can play up front.

1142
01:13:30,340 --> 01:13:36,040
 And I think that showed last year when, yeah, you know, Texas, when they played Florida, was horrible last year.

1143
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 And Florida totally dominated Texas' offensive line.

1144
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:46,300
 So, that kind of stuff can happen if you're Steve Sarkeesian, if you're Kaelin DeBoer, and if you're Kip in the shoes.

1145
01:13:46,300 --> 01:13:49,700
 You have to run the ball to win games going forward.

1146
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 No question about it.

1147
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 Listen, we always enjoy talking ball with Mike Huguen.

1148
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 Listen, have a great weekend.

1149
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 We're one more Friday closer, EMH, to high school and college football.

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 Stay as cool as you can.

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 Have a great weekend.

1152
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 Let's do this again next Friday.

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 There you have it.

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 Mike Huguen and checking in from the big old Orlando.

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 That's my experiences over the years is you can see what the bar is at.

1237
01:19:08,100 --> 01:19:12,080
 And sometimes you can look at it and say you're this close and sometimes you're further away.

1238
01:19:12,620 --> 01:19:16,600
 And sometimes it's the perspective and the way you look at it.

1239
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:20,180
 A coach might look at it different than a fan or an analyst.

1240
01:19:20,420 --> 01:19:28,220
 But for us and the way I've accomplished it in the past is just really challenge every group in the team, wherever you're at, to improve.

1241
01:19:28,580 --> 01:19:31,360
 And we've got to address our weaknesses.

1242
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:37,460
 We've got to make sure we continue to keep our strengths in order and who we are, understanding our identity.

1243
01:19:38,140 --> 01:19:43,760
 And, you know, continue to learn from those things that have happened to us, both good and bad.

1244
01:19:44,540 --> 01:19:45,360
 There you have it.

1245
01:19:45,380 --> 01:19:48,020
 The one, the only, Bama boss, Kalen DeBoer.

1246
01:19:48,620 --> 01:19:51,940
 SEC Media Days down in Tee, Florida.

1247
01:19:52,380 --> 01:19:56,060
 And let's get our thoughts as far as analyzing that and everything else.

1248
01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:01,180
 Well, the man who's been named one of the 50 legends of the Alabama sports writers in this great state of ours.

1249
01:20:01,300 --> 01:20:02,960
 Also, the author of A Storm Came Up.

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 TV time, ABC 3340.

1251
01:20:05,860 --> 01:20:07,340
 Doug Segrist, welcome in.

1252
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 How are you?

1253
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:12,080
 I could not be better, but the weather could.

1254
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:14,160
 It's July.

1255
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:15,740
 It is not February.

1256
01:20:16,060 --> 01:20:18,760
 Can you do us a favor and give us some football weather, Doug?

1257
01:20:18,780 --> 01:20:20,040
 Is that too much to ask?

1258
01:20:20,420 --> 01:20:21,420
 It is not.

1259
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 It is the American way.

1260
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 Well, if you're a duck or a farmer, I guarantee you'll appreciate it.

1261
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:31,400
 Doug, does anything say SEC football more than Ocing Media Days in Tampa, Florida?

1262
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:36,900
 Today, it definitely does.

1263
01:20:37,640 --> 01:20:38,500
 Historically, no.

1264
01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:40,960
 But, listen, it's a good market.

1265
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 They're trying to move it around.

1266
01:20:43,780 --> 01:20:47,820
 You know, from a media standpoint, just keep it in Birmingham.

1267
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 I mean, just keep it located where everybody knows their way around.

1268
01:20:52,460 --> 01:20:53,940
 But I get it.

1269
01:20:53,940 --> 01:20:55,020
 You're trying to get attention.

1270
01:20:55,240 --> 01:20:57,300
 But it's not a fan event.

1271
01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:07,240
 You know, if you want to have it in the middle of the Georgia Dome and, you know, the coach speaks and there are people in the crowd, you know, that's one thing.

1272
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:10,380
 I get it from a marketing standpoint.

1273
01:21:10,380 --> 01:21:13,860
 But I just – I think the media kind of gets lost in this.

1274
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:14,180
 Yeah.

1275
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:16,680
 It just makes it more difficult.

1276
01:21:17,400 --> 01:21:17,620
 Yeah.

1277
01:21:17,780 --> 01:21:21,600
 Brett and I miss being able to come down and stay with you and your family for a week.

1278
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:23,760
 So, we miss that, Doug, terribly.

1279
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 I'm sure you don't, but we miss that.

1280
01:21:25,900 --> 01:21:26,460
 Your thoughts about –

1281
01:21:26,460 --> 01:21:28,400
 Hey, we've got bats out of the attic now.

1282
01:21:28,460 --> 01:21:29,200
 There you go.

1283
01:21:29,280 --> 01:21:32,680
 You're still trying to – you're still trying to clean up the mess, I'm sure.

1284
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 Doug, talk to us about the teams relative to us, Alabama and Auburn.

1285
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 Obviously, you're never going to mistake this guy named DeBoer for saving.

1286
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 Back in the day, Saban didn't talk about Alabama.

1287
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 He talked about college football.

1288
01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:48,340
 DeBoer, basically, a lot of folks say that's why they name him DeBoer.

1289
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:52,360
 But it doesn't – does it really matter this time of the year what you say?

1290
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 It's what you're saying late December, January.

1291
01:21:55,420 --> 01:22:00,400
 Your thoughts critiquing Alabama and Auburn coming out of SEC media days?

1292
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:06,000
 It's a weird situation because I think Alabama's flying under the radar

1293
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:07,620
 for the first time in a long time.

1294
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:09,780
 You know, if you look at where they're ranked,

1295
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 it's their lowest preseason ranking since 2008.

1296
01:22:13,060 --> 01:22:14,500
 Well, that's worked out pretty well.

1297
01:22:14,860 --> 01:22:15,240
 Yeah.

1298
01:22:16,380 --> 01:22:21,840
 At the same time, Auburn's almost forgotten yet the expectations

1299
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 among the fan base are rising.

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 And, again, they're kind of picked in the middle of the pack,

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 which is not a bad thing at all.

1302
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 So, it shows people are noticing.

1303
01:22:33,260 --> 01:22:38,980
 I just think when we look, there are just more unknowns going into this season

1304
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 than any season I can remember.

1305
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 And it's not just the rosters, which we don't know as well.

1306
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 Right.

1307
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:46,480
 But it's who's got the culture.

1308
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 You know, and we know Georgia has the culture.

1309
01:22:50,080 --> 01:22:50,260
 Yep.

1310
01:22:50,260 --> 01:22:53,360
 We have questions about Alabama's culture because of the bad losses.

1311
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 Right.

1312
01:22:54,220 --> 01:22:56,340
 We don't know what Auburn's culture will be.

1313
01:22:57,060 --> 01:22:59,080
 Listen, the culture improved dramatically.

1314
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:00,900
 I don't know if you phrase the results didn't.

1315
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 So, there's just so many things we don't know.

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 And, you know, the team, pick 14th, 15th, 16th, you know,

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01:23:10,140 --> 01:23:12,240
 nobody's given credit for it as a Vanderbilt team.

1318
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 It's been knocking on the door of the playoffs two straight years.

1319
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 That's right.

1320
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:16,840
 But, really, all they lost was the quarterback.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Yeah.

1323
01:23:18,660 --> 01:23:20,500
 Let me ask you about Alex Golich.

1324
01:23:20,540 --> 01:23:23,900
 I thought he did a good job for his first time at Media Days.

1325
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 This is not his first rodeo, so to speak, but it was for Media Days.

1326
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 And he said, look, I'm not going to make any predictions.

1327
01:23:32,220 --> 01:23:38,320
 We are here this first year to build a foundation and establish an identity.

1328
01:23:38,620 --> 01:23:40,260
 I thought that was a good statement.

1329
01:23:41,480 --> 01:23:42,380
 Yeah, I did, too.

1330
01:23:42,380 --> 01:23:45,080
 So, kind of just focus on the season ahead.

1331
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:49,520
 Don't oversell it, which, again, I think has gotten some Auburn coaches

1332
01:23:49,520 --> 01:23:50,580
 in trouble before.

1333
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:50,900
 Yep.

1334
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:53,820
 This is a guy who's been around the block.

1335
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:54,900
 He's been in the SEC.

1336
01:23:55,940 --> 01:23:58,300
 You know, it's going to all be proven on the field.

1337
01:23:58,400 --> 01:23:59,180
 Now, I will say this.

1338
01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:03,360
 I was vent with the Auburn team about a week ago.

1339
01:24:03,540 --> 01:24:06,220
 I've done Alabama the week before Auburn.

1340
01:24:06,340 --> 01:24:08,120
 There's a lot of confidence in that room.

1341
01:24:08,420 --> 01:24:15,020
 And there are a lot of guys from South Florida who have just kind of made the transition.

1342
01:24:15,180 --> 01:24:16,020
 They're part of the team.

1343
01:24:16,120 --> 01:24:17,680
 You're leaders from South Florida.

1344
01:24:18,060 --> 01:24:20,240
 So, I think there's a feeling.

1345
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:22,400
 There's a confident feeling.

1346
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,580
 But it's not what we've heard the last few years.

1347
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:26,080
 Oh, my God.

1348
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:27,040
 You won't believe this guy.

1349
01:24:27,100 --> 01:24:28,060
 You won't believe that guy.

1350
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:31,360
 It's just this confidence that they're going to get things done.

1351
01:24:31,980 --> 01:24:33,240
 Let's face it, Doug.

1352
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:37,060
 When you picked where they are, both Alabama and Auburn, the only direction you can go is up

1353
01:24:37,060 --> 01:24:38,360
 relative to those programs.

1354
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,440
 Texas, other schools like Georgia, only one direction you can go.

1355
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:42,160
 That's down.

1356
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:45,660
 But overall, top to bottom, 1-16.

1357
01:24:45,860 --> 01:24:51,700
 Doug, in your opinion, right now, coming out of SEC media days, who may be the most overrated

1358
01:24:51,700 --> 01:24:52,480
 team in the league?

1359
01:24:52,580 --> 01:24:55,400
 And who may be the most underrated team in the league?

1360
01:24:56,940 --> 01:24:58,960
 I think overrated might be LSU.

1361
01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,460
 Again, you know, they've kind of assembled this roster.

1362
01:25:01,700 --> 01:25:03,240
 There's so many expectations.

1363
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:07,180
 But the problem the last two years was culture.

1364
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:11,840
 And I'm not sure Lane Kiffin's the guy to fix your culture.

1365
01:25:13,460 --> 01:25:17,480
 So, again, I just think the expectations are so sky high.

1366
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:19,120
 The money is sky high.

1367
01:25:20,140 --> 01:25:25,120
 And, you know, you look at the start of their season, if things go wrong, they can explode

1368
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:25,960
 really fast.

1369
01:25:26,740 --> 01:25:28,840
 Underrated, I'm going to go with Vanderbilt again.

1370
01:25:29,100 --> 01:25:31,540
 You know, you talk about a culture.

1371
01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:33,560
 They play defense.

1372
01:25:34,560 --> 01:25:35,340
 That's the key.

1373
01:25:36,060 --> 01:25:36,300
 Yeah.

1374
01:25:36,740 --> 01:25:41,200
 And their offense, they control the ball and they keep the other offense off the field.

1375
01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:43,120
 They got playmakers.

1376
01:25:43,500 --> 01:25:48,100
 You know, it's just everybody dismisses Vanderbilt every year.

1377
01:25:48,340 --> 01:25:51,300
 And this is, you know, they got as much money as anybody now.

1378
01:25:51,860 --> 01:25:54,760
 Let me ask you about some of the new boys on the block.

1379
01:25:54,760 --> 01:26:02,100
 Summer Hall, besides dropping a couple of S-bombs and comparing Tulane and Ole Miss, really took

1380
01:26:02,100 --> 01:26:03,260
 command of the room.

1381
01:26:03,420 --> 01:26:07,420
 Florida fans were quite encouraged after his performance.

1382
01:26:08,260 --> 01:26:12,880
 Will Stein at Kentucky when asked, well, will Kentucky be better?

1383
01:26:12,980 --> 01:26:14,260
 Yes, because of me.

1384
01:26:14,260 --> 01:26:14,700
 Me.

1385
01:26:14,700 --> 01:26:16,200
 Because of me.

1386
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:24,680
 And then Pete Golding had a couple of jokes and talked about ex-wives and a couple of other

1387
01:26:24,680 --> 01:26:25,160
 things.

1388
01:26:25,340 --> 01:26:26,840
 And he and Kiffin are buddies.

1389
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,920
 I really like Ryan Silverfield.

1390
01:26:32,440 --> 01:26:38,200
 I know you've been working for a living and did not get a chance to listen to a lot of the talking heads.

1391
01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:40,440
 Silverfield was impressive to me.

1392
01:26:40,780 --> 01:26:43,120
 Of the new coaches, who impressed you?

1393
01:26:44,860 --> 01:26:48,880
 I think we saw a side of Pete Golding that we haven't seen before.

1394
01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:53,320
 And this was a guy in charge who, I mean, it's very saving to ask.

1395
01:26:53,460 --> 01:26:55,260
 I mean, you kind of saw some of the mannerisms.

1396
01:26:55,420 --> 01:26:56,940
 You heard some of the same things.

1397
01:26:57,740 --> 01:26:59,460
 A guy with a lot of confidence.

1398
01:26:59,900 --> 01:27:02,180
 And I'll go back to when he was at Alabama.

1399
01:27:02,620 --> 01:27:07,600
 You know, defense coordinator, the Alabama fans always wanted somebody different.

1400
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:10,060
 But the numbers weren't that bad.

1401
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:16,140
 But just from talking to people on that staff room, this is a guy, Nick Saban, really respects

1402
01:27:16,140 --> 01:27:16,580
 a lot.

1403
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:18,120
 Just his football knowledge.

1404
01:27:18,620 --> 01:27:20,460
 He's got the best quarterback in the league.

1405
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:22,300
 He's got the best running back in the league.

1406
01:27:22,300 --> 01:27:22,560
 That's right.

1407
01:27:23,060 --> 01:27:25,620
 You know, expectations are sky high.

1408
01:27:25,740 --> 01:27:28,040
 But I just thought he commanded the room.

1409
01:27:28,680 --> 01:27:32,460
 And he was kind of the runaway winner in terms of press conference.

1410
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:38,380
 I think some are all people just who've dealt with him just so impressed.

1411
01:27:41,020 --> 01:27:45,460
 Again, you know, I think Alex Gullish made a good impression.

1412
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:48,440
 But again, he's been around the block before.

1413
01:27:48,620 --> 01:27:51,280
 You know, Stein came off.

1414
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:53,360
 Here's the weird thing.

1415
01:27:53,460 --> 01:27:55,180
 It didn't really come off cocky.

1416
01:27:55,740 --> 01:27:57,020
 It just came off.

1417
01:27:57,100 --> 01:27:58,180
 He's sure of himself.

1418
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,240
 And he's been doing these things at Oregon.

1419
01:28:02,380 --> 01:28:04,100
 He's been doing it at the Big Ten.

1420
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:10,080
 And if I'm coming from the Big Ten, you know, to the SEC, and I think all things are equal,

1421
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:11,100
 I think I got this.

1422
01:28:11,480 --> 01:28:16,960
 I think what he's going to find out week two is it's not week in, week out.

1423
01:28:17,020 --> 01:28:17,800
 It's not the Big Ten.

1424
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:18,160
 Yeah.

1425
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:18,840
 Yeah.

1426
01:28:19,520 --> 01:28:21,880
 And I think that's the biggest misnomer.

1427
01:28:22,500 --> 01:28:22,900
 Yeah, I'm sorry.

1428
01:28:23,060 --> 01:28:23,900
 Quickly, Doug.

1429
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:27,760
 Obviously, Tennessee gets their running back, has something to do with a $2 million deal.

1430
01:28:28,480 --> 01:28:34,480
 Your thoughts, what would be the number on Hershel Walker, Bo Jackson, or a number of Alabama running backs at their height?

1431
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:36,700
 Repeat that.

1432
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:37,300
 I'm sorry, Harold.

1433
01:28:37,820 --> 01:28:39,160
 Tennessee just got a running back.

1434
01:28:39,260 --> 01:28:41,960
 They signed him basically to a $2 million deal.

1435
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:42,200
 Yeah.

1436
01:28:42,220 --> 01:28:42,500
 Okay.

1437
01:28:42,540 --> 01:28:44,220
 He's out of Baylor High up in Chattanooga.

1438
01:28:44,680 --> 01:28:51,540
 Just taking that paradigm, what would a Hershel Walker, Bo Jackson, or a host of Alabama running backs at their height,

1439
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:53,660
 what kind of market value would they draw now?

1440
01:28:54,460 --> 01:28:54,820
 10?

1441
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:55,760
 Yeah.

1442
01:28:56,360 --> 01:28:56,760
 Yeah.

1443
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:59,780
 Because you're talking about greatest of all times.

1444
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:05,580
 If a guy can impact the game like Bo, Hershel, Derek Henry, you pay him everything you've got.

1445
01:29:05,740 --> 01:29:06,140
 Mm-hmm.

1446
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:08,920
 You're exactly right about that.

1447
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:14,640
 Well, listen, with media days over with, we know it is just a matter of time.

1448
01:29:14,640 --> 01:29:21,760
 And I know you're getting it already thinking about snacks, making sure the TV reception is good,

1449
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:26,700
 your wardrobe is spiced up again for the season.

1450
01:29:27,380 --> 01:29:29,540
 You know we always enjoy talking with you.

1451
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:31,200
 Listen, have a great week.

1452
01:29:31,260 --> 01:29:32,580
 Let's do this again real soon.

1453
01:29:33,180 --> 01:29:36,580
 I look forward to, remember, the bats are out of the attic next time you're going to stay.

1454
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:40,300
 I'm writing it down even as we speak.

1455
01:29:40,340 --> 01:29:41,260
 I'm going to hold you to it.

1456
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:43,320
 The one, the only, Doug Siegert.

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1536
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:04,480
 Welcome back in.

1537
01:34:04,540 --> 01:34:07,120
 Time to bring in the traveling man, Justin Ferguson.

1538
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:11,520
 Follows the Auburn Tigers to the moon and back there at the Auburn Observer.

1539
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:12,620
 Justin, welcome in.

1540
01:34:12,680 --> 01:34:13,180
 How are you?

1541
01:34:14,580 --> 01:34:15,260
 I'm all right.

1542
01:34:15,300 --> 01:34:15,560
 How are you?

1543
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:15,880
 Hey, buddy.

1544
01:34:16,180 --> 01:34:16,960
 Good, good, good.

1545
01:34:17,060 --> 01:34:18,060
 How was Tampa to you?

1546
01:34:18,160 --> 01:34:22,760
 Did you like that SEC experience on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico?

1547
01:34:23,780 --> 01:34:25,260
 It was quite hot.

1548
01:34:25,940 --> 01:34:26,800
 Pretty warm.

1549
01:34:27,500 --> 01:34:36,420
 You know, after Auburn got done with their day on Tuesday, I went to dinner and I looked down at my phone and it was 8 o'clock and it was still 90 degrees outside.

1550
01:34:36,420 --> 01:34:40,660
 Other than that, though, I thought Tampa did a great job.

1551
01:34:41,180 --> 01:34:41,880
 You know, I was kind of.

1552
01:34:46,140 --> 01:34:47,300
 But they did a really good job.

1553
01:34:47,380 --> 01:34:48,100
 There was a really good turnout.

1554
01:34:48,240 --> 01:34:49,780
 So I think it was a pretty big hit.

1555
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:50,720
 Excuse me.

1556
01:34:50,760 --> 01:34:51,740
 I said Gulf of Mexico.

1557
01:34:51,940 --> 01:34:53,380
 Some would call it the Gulf of America.

1558
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:54,680
 We won't get into that debate.

1559
01:34:54,820 --> 01:34:56,380
 But no debate.

1560
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:59,820
 There's a lot of new kids on the block when it comes to NCC head coaches.

1561
01:35:00,540 --> 01:35:02,460
 Let's start with one that you know pretty well.

1562
01:35:02,520 --> 01:35:03,540
 And that's Alex Golesh.

1563
01:35:05,020 --> 01:35:10,680
 Yeah, I mean, it was a pretty good introduction, I think, for a lot of people to Alex Golesh.

1564
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:12,660
 As a head coach at Auburn.

1565
01:35:13,020 --> 01:35:18,800
 You know, he came out and kind of made his stance pretty clear about how he feels about this Auburn team.

1566
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:21,140
 The confidence they have in the pizza they've got.

1567
01:35:21,820 --> 01:35:25,300
 The progress they've made this summer maintains they've got a lot of work to do.

1568
01:35:25,300 --> 01:35:30,080
 And he didn't want to put a number on like a goal for like, you know, wind tolls or anything like that.

1569
01:35:30,340 --> 01:35:35,020
 But this is all about kind of setting the tone and getting people excited about Auburn football again.

1570
01:35:35,440 --> 01:35:37,260
 I thought he did a good job of conveying that message.

1571
01:35:37,500 --> 01:35:43,100
 And he won over some folks with what he was, you know, saying down in Tampa, you know, this week.

1572
01:35:43,860 --> 01:35:47,840
 I was stalking you on Twitter this morning and I saw one of them.

1573
01:35:48,380 --> 01:35:55,360
 Auburn coaches in the past have talked a lot about pace of offense and pace of offensive play.

1574
01:35:55,900 --> 01:35:58,260
 Gus Malzahn talked about it all the time.

1575
01:35:58,780 --> 01:36:02,720
 And he would do it for a game or two and then he'd go back once again.

1576
01:36:02,940 --> 01:36:07,660
 And then Hugh Freeze talked about it a little bit and did it every once in a while.

1577
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:12,740
 But as you pointed out, Alex Golich takes it to another level.

1578
01:36:13,220 --> 01:36:16,380
 His teams have been in the top two.

1579
01:36:16,900 --> 01:36:24,640
 Top two of FBS in seconds per play for each of the last five years.

1580
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:25,980
 That's fast.

1581
01:36:27,240 --> 01:36:28,500
 Yeah, it's really fast.

1582
01:36:28,620 --> 01:36:32,720
 I mean, it is an offense that's moving, you know.

1583
01:36:32,860 --> 01:36:37,400
 And, yeah, that's the thing about it is that, you know, it's done in a variety of ways.

1584
01:36:37,480 --> 01:36:38,520
 So that pace is big.

1585
01:36:38,620 --> 01:36:41,080
 He talked about today or he talked about this week.

1586
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:46,760
 He was saying, you know, hey, our main thing is we think offensive football is about, you know,

1587
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:48,020
 winning matchups in space.

1588
01:36:48,020 --> 01:36:49,880
 And then we do it as fast as we can.

1589
01:36:50,400 --> 01:36:56,120
 And so I think when you have a team that wants to go out there and wants to get as many plays

1590
01:36:56,120 --> 01:37:00,480
 out there as possible, wants to get it rolling, you know, I think it's just exactly what kind

1591
01:37:00,480 --> 01:37:02,280
 of Auburn needs at this point.

1592
01:37:02,660 --> 01:37:04,280
 You know you've got a pretty good defense.

1593
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:09,040
 You know you've been able to put out pretty good defense these last several years, but

1594
01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:12,960
 you've lost a lot of games and a lot of close games because you can't get much going on offense.

1595
01:37:13,260 --> 01:37:18,260
 So you've got an offensive mindset of, you know, let's put out there, go out and put on a

1596
01:37:18,260 --> 01:37:21,820
 show, try to do it as fast as we can and put as many points on the board.

1597
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:25,260
 And I think it's just going to be a really big change of pace for Auburn, quite literally,

1598
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:30,420
 that, you know, it just, it's been a long time coming and it is a commitment to playing

1599
01:37:30,420 --> 01:37:34,040
 tempo football, you know, better than maybe anybody else in the country.

1600
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:36,920
 They just really, really lean on it and they're going to bring that to Auburn.

1601
01:37:37,860 --> 01:37:39,800
 Justin Ferguson, the Auburn Observer.

1602
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:44,620
 Justin, as long as that works, it's a fan favorite because especially in social media where

1603
01:37:44,620 --> 01:37:47,620
 everything is right now, we want it, we want it yesterday.

1604
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:50,520
 So that's going to, as long as it works, that's great.

1605
01:37:50,900 --> 01:37:55,380
 If it doesn't work, your thoughts just about how fit this defense is because they've got

1606
01:37:55,380 --> 01:38:00,220
 to be on the field a whole lot and how deep it's when you look at a roster, everybody says,

1607
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:01,300
 well, this team is good.

1608
01:38:01,520 --> 01:38:07,180
 Do we sometimes overlook the fact of, yeah, that may be the first part of a tough SEC schedule

1609
01:38:07,180 --> 01:38:09,900
 and let's face it's going to be even tougher now, more physical, nine games.

1610
01:38:10,140 --> 01:38:13,700
 How deep is this roster for Auburn, especially in the second half of the season?

1611
01:38:14,180 --> 01:38:16,120
 I think this is a really deep team.

1612
01:38:16,220 --> 01:38:20,200
 I don't think it's got as much star power as we've seen the last few years up at top

1613
01:38:20,200 --> 01:38:23,040
 of them on their starters, but I do think it is a deeper team.

1614
01:38:23,180 --> 01:38:25,800
 I think one of the best examples of that comes at running back.

1615
01:38:26,260 --> 01:38:30,740
 You know, this is a team that wants to run the ball a ton and wants to do it quickly.

1616
01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:36,460
 Auburn's got four different guys at running back this year who were the top running backs

1617
01:38:36,460 --> 01:38:38,060
 on an FBS team last season.

1618
01:38:38,460 --> 01:38:42,000
 And they got two more guys in Omar Mabson and Alvin Henderson who are still on campus.

1619
01:38:42,220 --> 01:38:44,620
 So really deep from there, very deep tight end room.

1620
01:38:44,620 --> 01:38:48,220
 I think the offensive line is going to be the big question mark this year because you don't

1621
01:38:48,220 --> 01:38:52,440
 have a lot of, you know, returning experience and, you know, big name guys, but you got a lot

1622
01:38:52,440 --> 01:38:52,840
 of depth.

1623
01:38:52,960 --> 01:38:56,060
 I think it's a deeper offensive line than what we're used to seeing for Auburn.

1624
01:38:56,420 --> 01:39:02,340
 I think this is the potential to be probably the best and maybe deepest linebacker group

1625
01:39:02,340 --> 01:39:03,800
 Auburn's had in a while.

1626
01:39:04,240 --> 01:39:06,520
 Safety is exceptionally deep.

1627
01:39:07,700 --> 01:39:09,900
 Cornerbacks are really deep with the options.

1628
01:39:10,340 --> 01:39:13,440
 Defensive line, I mean, like pretty much across the board, you can see really good depth.

1629
01:39:13,620 --> 01:39:17,620
 So while I think Auburn doesn't have as much talent as it had maybe over the last couple

1630
01:39:17,620 --> 01:39:19,420
 of years, some big name guys now gone.

1631
01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:25,140
 I think it's a deep team and so it's about kind of executing your system and getting that

1632
01:39:25,140 --> 01:39:28,580
 kind of footing early on because I do like the amount of players.

1633
01:39:28,580 --> 01:39:35,180
 And I think when you play as fast as Auburn wants to do, as challenging, as taxing on the

1634
01:39:35,180 --> 01:39:38,620
 body as you want to do on offense, you're going to need that kind of depth.

1635
01:39:38,820 --> 01:39:42,860
 Even on the flip side, we know DJ Durkin loves to roll as many guys as possible on the

1636
01:39:42,860 --> 01:39:43,500
 defensive side.

1637
01:39:43,700 --> 01:39:45,980
 So really, really like the depth of this team.

1638
01:39:46,720 --> 01:39:48,340
 You know, I think that's going to be one of their strengths.

1639
01:39:48,420 --> 01:39:53,600
 It's just going to be a matter of identifying which guys can really take them there to start

1640
01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:56,260
 the season and, you know, how well they do early on.

1641
01:39:56,520 --> 01:39:58,080
 Let me check with you on something.

1642
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:05,300
 The injury report, Golesh was asked in one of the rooms about the health of the players

1643
01:40:05,300 --> 01:40:06,980
 going into summer camp.

1644
01:40:06,980 --> 01:40:12,020
 He mentioned Devin Williams had an ACL in the spring and he's going to miss the year,

1645
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:14,820
 which, unfortunately, that's normally what that amounts to.

1646
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:21,440
 But Stanton Ramel, the offensive lineman, said he was cleared at the end of spring.

1647
01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:27,020
 Is there a question about anybody else or did that pretty much summarize it?

1648
01:40:27,860 --> 01:40:28,500
 That's definitely, yeah.

1649
01:40:28,580 --> 01:40:31,860
 I mean, you know, they know Williams is going to be the only one who's going to be out.

1650
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:34,320
 Ramel is back and cleared.

1651
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:39,440
 There's a number of guys who, you know, didn't play fully in the spring, didn't participate

1652
01:40:39,440 --> 01:40:41,500
 fully, but they should be all cleared and good to go.

1653
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:46,080
 Champ Anthony, who was down there this week, the DB rep, is one of them.

1654
01:40:46,620 --> 01:40:48,320
 You know, a number of tight ends back.

1655
01:40:48,760 --> 01:40:53,540
 Demarcus Riddick recovered from his shoulder injuries that really kind of hurt him for most

1656
01:40:53,540 --> 01:40:54,260
 of the last season.

1657
01:40:54,780 --> 01:40:59,860
 So, you know, Golesh did mention there were a few guys, I think you said three, that had

1658
01:40:59,860 --> 01:41:01,940
 some kind of cleanup surgeries at the end of the spring.

1659
01:41:01,940 --> 01:41:05,740
 So, they might be a little careful with them at the beginning of fall camp.

1660
01:41:05,960 --> 01:41:13,880
 But for the most part, I would say you could say probably 95% or above this fall camp roster

1661
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:16,760
 is going to be good and ready to go, which is a really good sign.

1662
01:41:17,060 --> 01:41:22,000
 They had to kind of sit out some guys, had to kind of, you know, hold some guys back in

1663
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:26,600
 the spring, didn't get kind of the full glimpse of what this team could be out of precaution.

1664
01:41:26,860 --> 01:41:29,700
 And I think it's kind of paid off because these guys have been able to stay healthy in the

1665
01:41:29,700 --> 01:41:29,920
 summer.

1666
01:41:30,400 --> 01:41:34,720
 And I think it's going to, you know, I think it's going to be a situation where they're

1667
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:35,940
 going to be able to roll from day one.

1668
01:41:37,140 --> 01:41:43,760
 Justin, the Rhodes Scholar, aka ACC media members, have come out with a preseason poll again.

1669
01:41:44,140 --> 01:41:48,420
 They have Auburn number 12, too high, too low, or just about right.

1670
01:41:49,120 --> 01:41:50,340
 Yeah, I think it's just right.

1671
01:41:50,480 --> 01:41:54,320
 I mean, I think, you know, I was talking to somebody this week, I said, if you could put

1672
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:58,100
 Auburn anywhere between like 9 to 13, I think you'd be all right.

1673
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:03,100
 And, you know, as big as this conference is now, you know, the difference between 9 and

1674
01:42:03,100 --> 01:42:05,460
 13 might not even be a game.

1675
01:42:05,460 --> 01:42:08,240
 They could all just, they all could be tied at that point.

1676
01:42:08,340 --> 01:42:12,440
 So, you know, I think the big thing for Auburn is, look, you've had five straight losing

1677
01:42:12,440 --> 01:42:12,780
 seasons.

1678
01:42:13,780 --> 01:42:18,180
 You know, I think Auburn has the potential to outplay those expectations this year.

1679
01:42:18,260 --> 01:42:23,420
 I think Auburn has the potential to be a better team than, you know, 12th or 13th in the SEC

1680
01:42:23,420 --> 01:42:24,000
 this season.

1681
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:29,740
 However, you know, if I'm looking at Auburn and I'm somebody who covers this sport regionally

1682
01:42:29,740 --> 01:42:33,700
 or nationally, whatever, you know, what am I going to, what is going to make me think,

1683
01:42:33,780 --> 01:42:37,160
 you know what, I think Auburn's going to be better than several teams ahead of them.

1684
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:38,060
 Especially in July.

1685
01:42:39,120 --> 01:42:39,440
 Yeah.

1686
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:39,880
 Yeah.

1687
01:42:39,880 --> 01:42:43,500
 They'd be like, you know, you know, I was talking to Auburn fans about this week about it.

1688
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:47,020
 It's like, you may stay out there and think, hey, I think Auburn's going to be better than

1689
01:42:47,020 --> 01:42:48,420
 Missouri or South Carolina this year.

1690
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:49,020
 Okay.

1691
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:53,800
 Well, you might think that, but what's going to convince other people that I know that at

1692
01:42:53,800 --> 01:42:54,200
 this point.

1693
01:42:54,340 --> 01:42:56,380
 So I, you know, I'll just say it this way.

1694
01:42:56,580 --> 01:43:00,660
 Believe it when you see it, when it comes to Auburn, if they can prove people wrong, they'll

1695
01:43:00,660 --> 01:43:01,560
 start getting that respect.

1696
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:05,260
 But, you know, for now they're going to be okay flying under the radar.

1697
01:43:05,260 --> 01:43:08,020
 I thought Golich was smart.

1698
01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:15,060
 He was asked a couple of times in all the rooms, in the car wash, as they call it, what

1699
01:43:15,060 --> 01:43:16,440
 are your goals for this year?

1700
01:43:16,540 --> 01:43:19,640
 And he just simply said, look, I don't set goals.

1701
01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:21,040
 I set standards.

1702
01:43:21,740 --> 01:43:27,920
 And he said, you know, but what we want to do this year one is to establish a foundation

1703
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:28,940
 and an identity.

1704
01:43:29,440 --> 01:43:31,340
 That's really all he needed to say.

1705
01:43:31,800 --> 01:43:32,280
 Yeah.

1706
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:33,920
 No, absolutely.

1707
01:43:34,140 --> 01:43:39,120
 And I think that's the thing about this team is that, you know, I think you don't have the

1708
01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:42,900
 talent, the top level talent to be a contender right away.

1709
01:43:43,180 --> 01:43:47,680
 You don't have the, like, I look at offensive line and say, you know what, this is our offensive

1710
01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:48,040
 line.

1711
01:43:48,740 --> 01:43:52,720
 Just see what the best you can make of a kind of a patchwork group in year one.

1712
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:56,920
 You know, you're not fully where you want to be yet in terms of your talent, but you're

1713
01:43:56,920 --> 01:43:59,000
 recruiting well and you're in the right spot.

1714
01:43:59,140 --> 01:44:02,780
 But yes, this year is about, this is what Auburn football is going to look like moving

1715
01:44:02,780 --> 01:44:03,160
 forward.

1716
01:44:03,500 --> 01:44:04,700
 This is how we're going to play.

1717
01:44:05,080 --> 01:44:09,280
 And this is going to be something you can sell, you know, not only to future recruits,

1718
01:44:09,380 --> 01:44:13,000
 but to fans and other people to say, hey, you know, this is, this is what we're going

1719
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:13,460
 to do.

1720
01:44:13,840 --> 01:44:14,860
 And so that's the thing.

1721
01:44:14,860 --> 01:44:18,720
 It's like, I think Auburn, you know, if they can put it together and play to their

1722
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:24,620
 potential, this team could win seven or eight games and be improved and take that step forward

1723
01:44:24,620 --> 01:44:25,280
 that they need.

1724
01:44:25,540 --> 01:44:30,980
 But more importantly is you don't want to kind of make it all about, hey, all in on this

1725
01:44:30,980 --> 01:44:35,300
 year and doing, you know, doing everything you can just to kind of max out this year.

1726
01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:36,460
 And then what do you have moving forward?

1727
01:44:36,460 --> 01:44:40,800
 It's more about, hey, let's establish the way we want to play and how we want to do things.

1728
01:44:40,940 --> 01:44:45,600
 And so in year two, three, and four, and moving forward for Alex Kulish, hopefully they can

1729
01:44:45,600 --> 01:44:47,660
 get closer and closer to becoming a contender again.

1730
01:44:48,320 --> 01:44:51,460
 Justin Ferguson, the Auburn Observer is about to get serious.

1731
01:44:51,640 --> 01:44:55,480
 Justin, as far as camp opening up for the folks wondering the answer to that question.

1732
01:44:55,720 --> 01:45:02,140
 And is this July in December or even sooner, who's going to be the name in your opinion on

1733
01:45:02,140 --> 01:45:05,460
 this roster that nobody's talking about now, but will be then?

1734
01:45:06,560 --> 01:45:06,920
 Yeah.

1735
01:45:06,980 --> 01:45:08,760
 I mean, I'll start with that second question.

1736
01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:16,400
 You know, I think a guy that I'm really continually impressed with every time you hear about him

1737
01:45:16,400 --> 01:45:18,540
 is Deshaun Spencer from Fairland.

1738
01:45:18,820 --> 01:45:20,460
 He got a lot of buzz this week.

1739
01:45:20,980 --> 01:45:26,500
 You know, everybody's making rightful points about, hey, all these USF receivers, all these

1740
01:45:26,500 --> 01:45:27,420
 guys who know the system.

1741
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:30,820
 Auburn's going to need a little bit more than that receiver this year.

1742
01:45:31,220 --> 01:45:36,100
 Deshaun Spencer was the 8A MVP, had about 1,800 yards receiving at Fairland last year.

1743
01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:37,880
 Explosive, explosive player.

1744
01:45:38,300 --> 01:45:41,820
 He looked really good and really smooth on the ball in spring practices.

1745
01:45:42,240 --> 01:45:45,520
 I would not be surprised at all if he ends up being one of Auburn's best slot receivers this

1746
01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:45,740
 season.

1747
01:45:45,740 --> 01:45:49,880
 And the one thing I can tell you about watching this offense from the spring is they're going

1748
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:51,400
 to feed the ball to the slot receivers a lot.

1749
01:45:51,840 --> 01:45:53,320
 So I think Spencer's going to be in that mix.

1750
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:59,960
 You know, for the question about fall camp, fall camp's supposed to get underway in a couple

1751
01:45:59,960 --> 01:46:00,360
 of weeks.

1752
01:46:00,820 --> 01:46:06,160
 I think it's not this upcoming Tuesday, but the next Tuesday is when players will report

1753
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:08,480
 and then they will practice for the first time on Wednesday.

1754
01:46:08,740 --> 01:46:10,940
 So we're getting right up on it less than two weeks away.

1755
01:46:11,340 --> 01:46:14,060
 Well, listen, glad you had a great trip to Tampa.

1756
01:46:14,060 --> 01:46:15,580
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1757
01:46:16,580 --> 01:46:23,440
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1758
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1759
01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:27,640
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1760
01:46:27,720 --> 01:46:28,280
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1761
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1762
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:36,060
 So a lot of football this week from SEC Media Days, both on the newsletter side and our podcast

1763
01:46:36,060 --> 01:46:36,520
 side.

1764
01:46:36,900 --> 01:46:39,360
 Next week we'll have some more football, getting you ready for fall camp.

1765
01:46:39,620 --> 01:46:44,600
 A little basketball in as well as Auburn Hooch is about to head out on their overseas trip

1766
01:46:44,600 --> 01:46:45,500
 in a couple of weeks.

1767
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:47,460
 So AuburnObserver.com, sign up there.

1768
01:46:47,820 --> 01:46:49,060
 You get everything we've got going on.

1769
01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:52,160
 And in a couple of weeks, we'll have a ton of stuff from fall camp.

1770
01:46:52,220 --> 01:46:53,680
 So it's a great time to get on board.

1771
01:46:54,620 --> 01:46:56,740
 Busy, as you mentioned, about to get busier.

1772
01:46:56,940 --> 01:46:58,580
 In the meantime, Justin, have a great weekend.

1773
01:46:58,680 --> 01:47:00,040
 And thanks so much for your time today.

1774
01:47:00,840 --> 01:47:01,340
 Thank you all, too.

1775
01:47:01,380 --> 01:47:01,600
 Thank you.

1776
01:47:01,620 --> 01:47:02,040
 Thank you, buddy.

1777
01:47:02,340 --> 01:47:04,600
 Justin Ferguson, the Auburn Observer.

1778
01:47:04,860 --> 01:47:09,540
 Coming up, what better way to get ready for football season, those road trips, than checking

1779
01:47:09,540 --> 01:47:10,640
 in with Elmer Pierce.

1780
01:47:10,640 --> 01:47:12,640
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 The Score.

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 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

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 Look at me, B.

1856
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 Albert Pierce is busy as he be, is he not?

1857
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 Or is that what he needs to be doing on Friday?

1858
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 Albert Pierce out at Garner Pierce Autos.

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 Go on out and get a great deal this weekend.

1860
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 Get ready for all those road trips this coming football season.

1861
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 Only five slash six weeks from tomorrow.

1862
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 BB, in the meantime, a crazy week.

1863
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 And lost in all this shuffle, everybody's wondering about the Braves, how they're going to respond coming out of the All-Star break.

1864
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:30,980
 And I got to say, they're still not exactly where they want to be, but I think all things considered, they're now four and a half ahead of the surging fields right now.

1865
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 They're actually playing better.

1866
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 They had a five and two road trip, road trip, home trip.

1867
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 They're in Baltimore tonight.

1868
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 They're hitting the ball.

1869
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 They've had two or three games in the last week where they've had three or four home runs.

1870
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 Sale did his thing yesterday, striking out 11, which is just amazing at his streak of double-digit strikeouts.

1871
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 But Ozzie is hitting the ball better.

1872
01:52:01,740 --> 01:52:05,740
 Austin Riley has had some home runs.

1873
01:52:06,220 --> 01:52:10,720
 Again, they still need to, and we'll talk to our beloved Bill Shanks about this next Friday.

1874
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:18,960
 As far as the trade deadline is just about 10 days away from us, and they've still got to get a starting pitcher.

1875
01:52:19,180 --> 01:52:30,820
 But to go five and two on this road trip and win the series against the Rangers and the Padres, they've got off to a very good start in what I call the second half.

1876
01:52:31,020 --> 01:52:33,700
 And on paper, anyway, they can add to it starting tonight.

1877
01:52:33,840 --> 01:52:35,220
 They take on the O's.

1878
01:52:35,300 --> 01:52:37,180
 They're underwater at 50-53.

1879
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:44,300
 And the fields, meanwhile, they're taking on the other team in the AL East called the New York Yankees.

1880
01:52:44,440 --> 01:52:47,020
 So a great chance for the Braves to build on that.

1881
01:52:47,100 --> 01:52:53,020
 And speaking of the Yankees, another reason to pull for the Yankees tomorrow when they take on the fields, the pride of Loretta.

1882
01:52:53,160 --> 01:52:57,320
 Ryan Weathers on the mound for a Saturday start for the boys in pinstripes.

1883
01:52:57,320 --> 01:53:03,140
 So a lot of folks in our neck of the woods, all the more reason to pull for the Yankees against the fields this weekend.

1884
01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:04,980
 That's going to take care of business for now.

1885
01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:09,680
 On behalf of B.B., Greg, James Blair, the entire crew here, Peril Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1886
01:53:10,040 --> 01:53:14,560
 Let's do it again Monday, noon to two for the Bumble Buck Show, back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.

1887
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:29,940
 We'll be right back.