Boomo Bugg Show 080626
93.9 The Score WYTK - August 6, 2026
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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.
The Boomo Bugg Show.
Your exclusive inside track to the Tide, Tigers, Tennessee and the rest of the SEC.
Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.
You know, I always hated it when we got picked high.
And I think sometimes when we didn't, it was a motivating factor for the players.
Hopefully we can sneak up on some people this year and fly under the radar a little bit and surprise some people and not be the target for everyone like we have been in the past.
And that might be beneficial to the team having more success.
I'm certainly hopeful that that's what happened.
Yeah, well, this team isn't picked to finish as high as maybe what this program is used to.
I think the guys pay attention to that.
And then over the past day or so, have you felt a sense of motivation to prove people wrong?
Yeah, we are definitely aware.
I bet you do.
The voices of the goats and the man trying to fill those big shoes now.
Saban DeBoer a one-two punch.
Good afternoon.
Welcome into the Boomo Bugg Show.
Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.
So, BB, welcome in.
How are you?
Happy Thursday.
I think, by the tone of Cainland DeBoer's voice, he's a little tired of being asked that question.
And he'll have a chance to prove it beginning September the 5th.
We'll have reports from Alabama, Auburn, and Tennessee summer camps.
Daniel Garrett, head football coach at Rogers High School, will preview the 2026 season.
But BB is here right now to talk about summer camps opening and the Sporting News celebrating its 140th anniversary.
Harold and I were not around by picking all-American teams for the last seven decades.
In fact, we didn't come in until, what, two years after they were started.
Is that right?
That's correct.
Maybe Bill, he's got all the facts there with him.
So, it's one of those things that's time of the year.
You get your magazine, you get cozy, you crack it open, you either read it in physical form or online.
Either way, how does the Sporting News feel about the Tide Tigers, Tennessee?
You can either read about it, or we can go straight to the horse's mouth.
Bill Bender is the man at the Sporting News.
BB, welcome in.
How are you?
Hey, Harold.
Brett, how are you guys?
Hey, buddy.
Thanks for having me on.
Man, we just heard from the goat and DeBoer.
Let's start there, Bill.
You know our zip code.
We'll get to where you got him here in a second.
But to listen, are you one of those guys, not only what you say, but how you say it.
Nick Saban was always a genius, amongst other things, of getting his message out without really being painted to the wall.
He'd get it out in a cryptic way, but if you listened, you had two brain cells.
You could see what he's trying to say.
I don't know if you heard what he said.
Then, basically, I heard DeBoer say, we got it.
Where are you in reading the body language and tones of, one, Nick Saban and Kaelin DeBoer?
Well, I mean, you know, obviously, there's a lot to the position that Kaelin DeBoer is in.
It's hard to coach at Alabama following this.
No matter where, you cannot win enough, number one.
And you're always going to be compared to Nick Saban when, in some ways, it's not apples to apples because this is a new era.
You know, and I think every school is going to deal with that on some level.
Obviously, Kaelin's aware of where they're predicted to be.
I think you're going to see them anywhere from five to seven in the SEC predictions.
But, you know, those predictions are made to be wrong.
I mean, they're never made.
Nobody goes around and says, man, you nailed those.
Yeah.
They always want to prove you wrong.
So, I think that's the pressure that he feels this season.
Well, here's the deal, Bill.
It's not necessarily where you put Alabama.
If you are objective, take the fan hat off for a second.
Is Alabama better than Texas?
Are they better than Georgia?
Are they better than Ole Miss with that one-two combo at quarterback and running back in other teams?
To me, that's how you've got to start ranking teams.
It's not necessarily, oh, this is Alabama.
I've got to put them here.
You've got to be objective about it and ask yourself the question, who are they better than and who is better than Alabama right now?
Right.
Well, I mean, Ole Miss, how about that quarterback-running back combination?
Right.
Like, I mean, you look at our All-American team, our preseason All-American team came out today and played four Ole Miss guys on the first team.
So, that made me think, Harold, I mean, at that point, I started thinking, like, do I have Ole Miss too low?
Because you said it.
When you have a quarterback and a running back, now Ole Miss is rebuilding their receiving for a little bit.
And that does make a difference.
But, you know, the SEC is full of good quarterback-running back combos.
It is a very, very strong quarterback class in the SEC this year.
Yeah.
Every team in the country has weaknesses.
And you can certainly tell when teams are better on paper, but they don't play games on paper.
Most of the SEC teams started summer camp this week, Alabama and Auburn yesterday.
I think Missouri started on Monday.
Bill, are most of the Big Ten teams right now, have they started camp?
Yeah, Ohio State started today.
I know that.
So, they're getting underway as well.
And, you know, there's an excitement.
I mean, I think Ohio State's letting a little bit of a – this wasn't done in the past,
but you're seeing a little bit more of, like, NFL-style fans are there.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So, you've got the fans at the practices, and at least a portion of it's open.
And that's kind of another way to get money, you know, obviously.
Yeah, that's right.
And places like Ohio State and Alabama and Georgia, I would sure look into that so you can get that money.
So, yeah, it's an exciting time, Brett.
You know, you just – I always say, and I think I've said it on your show before,
you just don't want somebody to get hurt at this point.
No.
That's right.
Can influence a lot of stuff out there.
Talk to us about the X Factor, Bill.
We'll come back to the SEC here in a second.
Obviously, Ohio State's in the driver's seat.
Look at that roster.
Look at the money.
Why would they not?
But here's the thing about it.
We talked to some friends yesterday, Steve Hellwagon.
You may know Steve up there with Buck Nuts.
He talked about this thing called a schedule.
It's all relative.
Your thoughts about Ohio State's schedule and Indiana's schedule,
and can Indiana now get the job done now that they are the hunted as opposed
as the hunter?
Well, I mean, Steve's a good friend, so you're picking good people on the show.
He knows that this is – and Steve's been around Ohio State football for a long time.
So, he knows that this is the toughest schedule we've ever seen for Ohio State.
Texas early in the season, road games at Indiana, road games at Iowa.
That's not an easy place to play.
That would be – that would be kind of like going to Mississippi State in a tough spot on the schedule.
You know, like it can just – you can find a way to make that a tough game at USC.
And then they get Michigan and Oregon at home late in the season.
So, it is a very exciting year.
But they're one of those teams that if they were to go – I don't think they will.
But if they were to go 9-3, you would still have a playoff case like Sark was making last year
because they're stepping out and playing Texas and playing in that huge matchup.
So, the reward for winning that game is pretty high.
Listen, you did a fun exercise, and I alluded to it a little bit earlier.
Seven decades of all Americans.
Now, that had to have been a fun exercise to do, but I guarantee you it wasn't easy.
The 2010s when Alabama, they were so dominant.
Dominant, you had six, four on offense, two on defense.
Talk about this year's team, how many SEC players were on it, and how did you put it together?
Yeah, this year's preseason All-American team is loaded with Texas guys, right?
Yeah, I bet.
Like it's got Arch is the second teamer.
I mentioned Trinidad earlier for Ole Miss.
Yeah.
Texas definitely has a lot of presence on there.
I believe we have Bray Hubbard from Alabama on there.
It's still SEC heavy, right?
There's a lot of Big Ten guys, but it's very heavy on SEC players.
Fun to put together.
The preseason, I always look at the end of the year, so I'm going to guess that a handful
of these guys will go and be All-Americans at the end of the year.
It's not perfect, but it just gives us a read on some of the better players coming into the season.
And, you know, Texas, like I said, I believe they have four or five guys on the first team,
five, I think.
And, you know, Colin Simmons and Rasheem Biles on the defense, Goosby and Cam Coleman,
the Auburn transfer, who maybe that's a little bit of projection, but I think he's going to
have a monster year there.
Bill, Ben to the Sporting News.
Bill, let's stay on that theme.
Brett talked about it just a moment ago about how many were on there during the Goats'
heyday, refresh your memory in your minds, how many are from Alabama are on the first
team on both sides of the ball this year?
I don't think we have one, which is weird, obviously, because, you know, I've been doing
this All-American team since 2015 or 16, so it's strange, but it doesn't mean that Alabama
doesn't have a bunch of talent.
Zobby and Brown, Bray Hubbard were definitely looked at on the defensive side.
Coleman Williams on the offensive side.
I think he's going to have a better year this year.
There is a reminder.
There's a ton of talent there.
So, you know, I wouldn't take too much from that.
I mean, on the other side of that, I don't know if you saw our All-Decade teams, which
we did from the 60s through the present day.
Great project at Sporting News.
Con Alabama guys on there.
You know, a lot of fun doing individual All-Decade teams for seven different decades of college
football.
And you really see how the game changes when you do an exercise like that.
We talked about this earlier this week.
And I know how tough the Big Ten schedule is.
But Kurt Cignetti with his mic drop moment a little bit earlier last week.
We don't run a hype machine up here in the Midwest.
We don't cry a river and whine and complain.
And they talk about why we're the best.
We just go out on the field and prove it.
And again, they were the best team in the country last year.
He did the best job of coaching.
But Harold and I have talked about Indiana's future non-conference schedules for the next
five years.
Their toughest two teams are Austin Peay and Western Kentucky.
I mean, that's it.
North Texas, Howard, Kennesaw State, Indiana State.
And this is not a slap of those teams.
But through 2030, the two most powerful teams, whatever word you want to use, I'm serious.
They're Austin Peay and Western Kentucky.
Yeah.
And, Brett, I have no problem with anybody taking shots at that.
I mean, there's different ways to do it.
But the way that they schedule their non-con is weak.
There's no way around.
Now, if they're going to treat that like the preseason before you get into the nine Big Ten
games, that's the way they're going to handle it.
Stignetti, now, if you take that quote that he did last week, and that was Nick Saban saying
it after a national championship run, I think it would have the same effect up here that
it does, that his did down there.
Stignetti reminds me a little bit of Saban.
There's a little bit of it in there.
It's not exactly the same.
But his just, I'm going to tell you like it is, that's very similar.
And I think Indiana feeds off that.
And kind of the sentiment up here is, you know, Ohio State taking to beat him.
Michigan taking to beat him.
Because he's come in and kind of overthrew the order of a conference where, you know, two
or three schools have controlled the narrative for my entire adult life.
Let me ask you this, Bill, again, since Brent brought up the schedule, going forward, unbeaten
Indiana or once beaten Indiana with that schedule against the nine-team conference SEC team, for
the folks to come to the table, we've asked this before, but now that that's come out, it
adds another wrinkle to it.
You're on the committee.
Do you give Indiana the benefit of the doubt when all comes to push comes to shove as far as
who gets in, who gets out over a two-loss team from the SEC?
Well, we're going to find out.
And I think the committee's got to do that at some point anyway.
Like, I think Texas could have easily got that benefit of the doubt last year because they
played Ohio State.
Now they did lose to Florida.
Interesting point, though, Harold, about Indiana.
So if they were to go 10-2 and lose the big games, like Ohio State and Oregon, would they
be left out?
I mean, they do have to under, I think teams that schedule lightly have to be willing to
accept that, that, hey, we would get, me personally, let's say it's 10-2 Indiana, 9-3
Texas again, and Texas' losses are to, you know, Ohio State and Oklahoma and maybe a close
one somewhere else.
It'd be pretty close for me.
Yeah, absolutely.
Listen, again, the All-American teams, that was amazing to go back to 1960.
Roger Staubach, Dick Butkus in the 70s, Earl Campbell, Leroy Salmon.
I mean, you just go on and on.
It still boggles my mind, the sporting news, 140 years.
Wow.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah, we take it very seriously.
It was a fun project, and we got a couple more things coming next week as part of that
celebration.
I always take it very seriously because our All-American team is one that, you know, determines
the consensus.
And it's kind of like a badge that we wear, that you take it very, very seriously.
And a lot of, like I said, from Derek Thomas through, you know, Derek Henry, we had some
really cool Alabama names on those teams and some Auburn names as well.
So, hey, have your listeners check it out.
It was awesome.
Bill, it's always good to hook up with you, brother.
I know the season is about to get rocking and rolling.
You've got a game coming up tonight up the road there in Canton, Ohio, the NFL.
You realize this, Bill, starting tonight, we will have at least one football game on live
between now and February.
Are you ready?
Yeah, it's an exciting time, man.
Benson Stadium now, they renamed it.
It's going to be fun to watch a little bit of football tonight, the Hall of Fame, Fitzgerald,
and there's some good names.
So, it's here, guys.
We're going to enjoy it.
It'll get better each week.
Absolutely.
Hey, listen, man, good to catch up with you.
Thank you so much.
Have a great week, my friend.
No problem, guys.
Thank you, buddy.
Bill Bender, the Sporting News, I believe, is Bill Shanks listing a guy by the name of
Carson Beck.
We'll get some quarterback time tonight for the Cardinals.
I believe he spent some time at Georgia.
Coming up, he spends a lot of time covering high school football throughout North Alabama.
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I would have believed Caleb Suggs would agree with that.
He's got it all covered over at the Decatur Daily.
Caleb, welcome in.
How are you?
I'm doing good, guys.
How are you?
Hey, buddy.
Man, we're doing all right.
Obviously, it's a great time of the year.
To refresh our memories, because we've got a lot of jamborees coming up, kind of the warm-up, if you will.
And then we get down to the real deal.
What kind of calendar are we looking at here, Caleb, as far as notable jamboree games?
And the first, it's usually the first Thursday night.
It's about as busy as the first Friday night, am I not right?
You know, usually sometimes, I think, or at least our Thursday this year, it's kind of pretty clean.
There's not a lot going on.
As far as jamborees, I know Athens is playing Gardendale.
Again, though, I don't feel like there's a lot of jamborees.
I know, you know, they changed that rule where you could, you know, play week zero, get the bye week, and also play a jamboree.
So, some teams are taking advantage of that.
But, you know, the season starts a little early this year, August 21st.
Pretty early for the season to start.
So, I think teams, you know, because if you want to play a jamboree, that means you're playing next week.
It might be a little bit early for some teams.
You had a good article, 10 players to watch this upcoming season in the Decatur Daily coverage area.
Some of these guys amazed me.
Harold and I talk a lot about this stuff.
Some of these guys must play every day on.
For example, Jake Eubanks, priceful senior athlete.
He's an all-state defensive back.
He had 101 tackles.
Seven tackles for a lost six sacks on defense.
On offense, he threw for 200 yards, ran for 300 yards, caught 13 passes for 138 and 10 touchdowns.
And then came McClure at East Lawrence, a tremendous player for your dad.
And we'll get into them in a few minutes.
He, last season, rushed for 1,300 yards, 12 touchdowns.
Oh, by the way, he passed for 646 yards and five touchdowns.
And in his spare time on defense, he had 123 tackles and three interceptions.
You look at some of these stats and you think you're making it up.
But isn't it incredible at how some of these guys play three positions and do it so well?
Yeah, I mean, it's awesome.
It speaks to the kind of athletes some of these kids are.
But I also think it's just, you know, back in the day, I feel like you've got that.
You've got players that played both ways, you know, down.
And then it got to the point where it's like, well, hey, we need to, you know, try to limit players to one side, you know, create depth.
And teams still do that.
But now I think it's gotten back to the point where teams are like, we want to get our best 11 guys on the field all the time.
You know, we don't, you know.
So I think that's what you're seeing.
When you've got a guy like Eubanks and you've got a guy like McClure that can just play everywhere, that's what you want him to do.
And those two have done it, but you see a lot of other places.
And obviously when you get up into like the really big schools, you know, they try to keep their guys not playing both ways.
But, you know, if you've got a guy that's that talented, you know, I remember back even Asa Martin at Austin, you know, his senior year, went on to play at Auburn, Miami, or whatever.
He was playing running back and quarterback at times.
So, I mean, you know, get your best guys on the field.
You know, that's what's going to help you win ballgames.
The amount of conditioning and stuff these kids do these days, they're in the best shape that you can imagine.
So a lot of them can handle it pretty well.
Caleb Suggs, they're going to go with us, the Decatur Daily.
One thing we like to do here at Caleb is we call these college names all the time.
They're almost household words once you get into the season.
But these high school kids, I guarantee, as my old coach used to say, they're working just as hard.
So we'll try to give some spotlight to some of these kids throughout the area.
As far as maybe some players to watch this year, Caleb, where do you start?
I know Aiden Davis there at Austin, he's got a promising year ahead of him.
Jack Eubanks over at Priceful.
Just a couple of names.
As far as some of the names to kind of keep an eye on, where do you start?
Yeah, I think, you know, looking at, I'm trying to remember the ten names I put in that story.
Monday seems like football is so long.
Yeah, I'm sure it does.
I can hit you out in Campbell, Athens, K-McClear, East Lawrence.
You don't know all about East Lawrence there.
Yeah, you know, I also think about, you know, a guy like Jordan Taylor at West Morgan.
I know I talk about West Morgan a lot, but you kind of look at it.
You know, two years ago, they had to replace Jalen Fletcher, who's now at UNA.
He was an All-State running back, player of the year for us.
You know, a lot of people were like, how do you replace this guy?
Well, they got, you know, in comes Macari Johnson, who wasn't even the starter in the
first game of that season.
And so now Macari's gone.
He's the same way.
First-team All-State running back, you know, player of the year.
So it's like, who's going to be that next guy?
You know, Jordan Taylor seems like it's going to be that guy.
But, you know, two years ago, they thought it was Jabari Wiggins, who is still on the
team.
He's been playing at a run linebacker.
He got hurt early, so it became Macari.
So they've got multiple guys, I think, that can, you know, but who's going to be that
next star running back?
I think that's, you know, what people expect.
And you already mentioned it, Aiden Davis at Austin.
I'm really excited to see what he can do.
Because last year, I mean, you know, he hasn't played football since he was eighth grade.
So he was pretty much learning how to play football on the fly and still rushed over a
thousand yards.
I mean, the kid is built like a tank.
He looks like a linebacker there.
And I think just with a full season of experience, full off-season, he's actually learning how
to play running back.
I'm excited to see what he can do.
So there's a lot of good players.
A lot of new faces in our area this year, but a lot of kids that I think have a lot of
potential.
Absolutely.
Let me ask you about a team we didn't talk about the last couple weeks, but it's one
we talked with you about.
I know you played for them, and everybody knows them as Hartzell.
They're so good in baseball, of course, and basketball, and all the sports.
Burt Newton is replacing 28 seniors.
That's a lot.
From last year's 10-2 squad, they went to the lost Homewood 31-24 in the second round of
the playoffs.
They've been averaging 10 wins for the last five seasons.
They got a tough schedule.
They began with Bob Jones, who's Seth Parker, is now the coach.
Wasn't priceful.
Austin, Decatur, Florence, Jasper, and Russellville, they lose a lot of seniors, but I guarantee you
Burt Newton will have these guys ready to play.
Yeah, I think so.
I think when you have a program like a Hartzell or like an Austin or like a Muscle Shoals, actually,
I think Hartzell and Muscle Shoals are similar.
The floor is just so high.
But that being said, you're still losing almost 30 seniors.
Even for a big school, that is a substantial amount of players.
I mean, they pretty much have a whole new team, really any returning starters.
So I think they've got a lot of kids with a lot of potential.
It's really just going to come into it.
I mean, those first couple games, you mentioned Bob Jones.
I think that's going to be a tough game, but way to it, Coleman, I think.
Coleman, to me, is a team that's going to, I think, surprise a lot of people this year.
I think they're going to be significantly better than they've been in a while, and it's at
their place.
So you've got those two games before you get in a region play, you know.
So, you know, when you have a young team, it's that kind of schedule where, you know,
it can go haywire, you know, if things don't go there.
That's really going to be, you know, how up to speed can they be?
And, you know, you mentioned the 30 teams.
They also lost Will Lane, the offensive coordinator, who's now the head coach at Guntersville.
Yeah.
I think that's a huge loss.
Yeah.
I think he's one of the best young coaches around.
So, you know, they've promoted Grant Lake to replace him.
I think he's a great up-and-coming coach.
We'll see how he does.
One thing I think that they went and got Paxton Montgomery, former Austin quarterback, that
2017 team that was so good.
He was coaching at Auburn the last four years under Hugh Freeze.
Now he's back to coach at quarterbacks at Hartsell.
Lane did such a good job coaching their quarterbacks.
Three Decatur daily players of the year under him.
I think bringing him in is going to be a big help.
So, we'll see how it goes.
You know, Hartsell's, Hartsell, like he said.
But they do have a really tough schedule.
So, you know, I don't really know.
But I think they've got potential.
We're going to see.
Absolutely.
Give us an update on your dad.
I mentioned it earlier.
He is the new coach at East Lawrence.
And he has had challenges on and off the field, remodeling the locker rooms, draining the field.
You know, a lot of people, Harold and I talk about this a lot, the jobs that assist the coaches
and head coaches in high school.
A lot of, you know, some of the upper class have got the resources.
A lot of the schools don't.
And you've got coaches who are plumbers.
They line the field.
They mow the field.
And they're trying to get volunteer help.
And I know it's a challenge.
How's your dad doing so far at East Lawrence?
Stress is a good deal.
You know, first-year coach, I think he has a lot of that stuff that's not on the field stuff.
He's having to learn and having to deal with.
I did think it was funny, though, the other day.
You know, they started practice last week, actually, because they didn't have spring.
And I asked him how it was going.
He said, we're not where I want us to be.
And I said, well, you know, a lot of great coaches tell me that.
So I'll take that as a good sign.
But, you know, it's been stressful for him.
But I think once the season gets going, he'll start having some fun with it.
Absolutely.
We'll talk about this in more detail when we've got time.
You mentioned Brewer last week.
I kind of agree with you.
I think they're one of the more improved teams in Morgan County.
They won three of their last five games.
You've got a lot of things, though, coming.
I think a week from Wednesday is the preseason supplement in the Decatur Daily.
And we'll be talking with you, certainly getting down to the first week of the season.
You've got more previews coming out.
Where can we get online and get the supplement in a couple of weeks
and also get your, as far as forecasts, predictions, and also previews of every team?
Yeah, you can get online at DecaturDaily.com.
We'll have all that stuff on there.
As far as I know, I don't know what day that is.
It's a Wednesday.
Yeah, it is.
What will come out.
I think that's what is coming out.
I haven't actually been told that.
Like I said, I just write the stuff.
They post it whenever they want to post it.
But I just took them out that week.
And, yeah, just a couple weeks to go.
Actually, almost two weeks to go.
That's really hard to believe.
Caleb, we've got eyes on it regardless of what day it comes out.
Thanks so much.
And keep up the good work, okay?
Thanks, guys.
Thanks for having me.
Thank you, buddy.
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Ryan, welcome in.
How are you?
Hey, guys.
Doing well.
How are you?
Hey, buddy.
Well, we're done.
We got questions, Ryan.
Hopefully, you got some answers.
The NCAA suspends linebacker Arian Carter over a flight taken to an NFL draft facility.
And Josh Heupel does not like that, does he, Ryan?
Not one bit.
And, yeah, people were a little surprised that he called it BS earlier this week, except
he didn't.
Bachelor of Science?
Is that what that stands for?
Yeah.
And so, yeah, that was a little out of character for Josh Heupel, but clearly something that
I think his fan base appreciated the unvarnished truth there from the head coach, the guy
that doesn't usually make a lot of headlines with the things he says.
So I think they appreciate him going to bat for his player like that, and the team probably
did, too, have yet to speak with anyone, either in this area or outside, who really can make
sense of why that would be a two-game suspension in this era.
I think Josh Heupel, the key word that he pointed out is that that's an outdated rule, that in
this era with players making six and seven figures per year, in many cases, it doesn't make a lot
of sense.
And obviously, Arian Carter was initially in the NFL draft, was planning to go to the
draft, and then learned of an injury that required surgery, and decided to withdraw from the draft
and come back to college.
And so that's why he had accepted the money for the flight from his agent, and he repaid
the money as soon as he withdrew from the draft.
So the way Tennessee sees it, he did things the way he was supposed to do, and this is
a silly, outdated rule that doesn't really have any place in determining a player's eligibility
for the season in this day and age.
It's just hard to believe.
And we're seeing players come back from the G League to play in college basketball and things
like that, and other things where eligibility for college is much more of an open question
than it's ever been.
And then you have a player like this seemingly doing things by the book, and it results in initially
a three-game suspension that Tennessee was able to talk down to two by appealing.
So the fact that this is something that they're going to have to deal with now for their game
against Georgia Tech on the road in week two, far from ideal for Tennessee.
The only silver lining is if there's any position where they can absorb that kind of loss,
not having their best defensive player, it's probably a linebacker where they're pretty deep,
really as deep as any position, as Josh Heifel said, as he's had at any point in his time at Tennessee.
So they're very deep there.
That gives them a chance to absorb this, but still, the way they see it, a kind of pointless
suspension here for a player that they think did things by the book.
Next thing you know, they'll be suspending and doing things to people who put money at the bottom
of a McDonald's bag.
That's never happened here in Tennessee.
So let's talk about that as far as the team.
The show has to go on.
Usually the first game is a dress rehearsal, so it's almost a silver lining.
You can bring some guys off the bench and still get through that one.
But Georgia Tech, this is not your daddy and granddaddy's Georgia Tech team.
Talk to us about how they fill those shoes.
They're, again, pretty deep at linebackers, so they're well-equipped to do it.
The one thing we don't know is how they're going to use their linebackers this year and how many
they might have on the field.
In the past, Tennessee's run essentially a 4-2-5 defense under Tim Banks, the former defensive
coordinator.
Now he's gone, all signs have been that Tennessee will continue to run that type of
scheme.
But I think under Jim Knowles, the first-year defensive coordinator, they've got a little
more, they've got some additional ideas of things they could do to both take advantage of their
depth at linebacker and offset a deficiency that we've talked about, at least a shortcoming, where
they're not exactly loaded at the edge rusher position, what they call the Leo position, or the
Jack and a lot of defenses, they don't really have that reliable edge rusher, certainly not
a proven one, but they can count on there.
So will they rely on more linebackers and some different types of looks to offset that?
That's the one thing we don't know.
But yeah, you would think, and we'll see, that there's still a battle for that other starting
job alongside Arian Carter.
Jeremiah T. Lander, the fellow senior, I think is the favorite to start next to him.
But they've got Penn State transfer, Amari Campbell, it could be a factor there.
And then Edwin Spillman, their returning leading tackler from last season, a guy that we thought
would be maybe third in the rotation, now maybe slides into the starting lineup to go along with
T. Lander for those first two games.
So they've still got some pretty good options there without Carter, but obviously just not the type
of situation where you want to be without probably your top defensive player in those first
two games.
Most teams started this week.
I know Alabama and Auburn started yesterday.
Missouri, I believe, started Monday.
We could ask you about a lot of positions, a lot of players, but I wanted to see how much
access does Josh Heupel allow the media the first couple of weeks?
What have you seen?
What have you heard?
Who's caught your eye?
Yeah, it's generally pretty limited.
The first couple of days is usually when we get our most extended looks at practice.
You know, before anything really interesting is happening.
So they can at least point to these two days as, hey, we let you see something, even though
the pads weren't on.
So I got to see through essentially seven periods of day one.
And then today I got to see about five periods.
You know, got to see, you know, not a lot in the way of one-on-ones and things like that,
but haven't seen any 11-on-11 work.
And that's pretty typical during preseason camp.
We often get to see a little bit on the first day of spring practice, but pretty limited
access.
And this year, I think it's only seven practices where there's going to be an open viewing period
for media.
They kind of shut things down usually a couple weeks into camp.
This year, that's definitely the case again.
All scrimmages are closed.
So after these first couple of days, we probably won't get to see a whole lot.
And I believe we only get two periods of Saturday's practice when they'll put on shoulder pads
for the first time.
So yeah, pretty limited.
But what we've seen so far, it looks like a pretty impressive team physically that kind
of each year is incrementally looked more like a top tier SEC team.
And this year, you know, the biggest thing that I think is pretty noticeable is the gains
they've made under their new strength and conditioning coach, Derek Owings.
A lot of strong reviews of what he's done with the players so far, some pretty impressive
numbers they've posted in the weight room and in speed gains.
He mentioned 47 players have been clocked at 21 miles per hour or higher and running with
the catapult equipment they wear.
So pretty impressive numbers across the board.
And that's kind of reflected in just the way this team looks overall.
You know, there's some certain players here and there that maybe passed the eye test a
little bit more.
For guys like Braden Rouse, a freshman linebacker who is highly ranked, not a guy that's going
to start as a true freshman, but might force his way into the discussion for some playing
time.
He's added some pretty impressive weight up to 225 already after coming in around 210.
So a lot of stories like that on this team where you can see the gains.
Now we'll see what it adds up to on the field.
But it does look like a team that, you know, kind of passes the eye test even more than what
we've seen from Josh Heupel's team the past few years.
Ronnie, 21 miles an hour.
They'd get a tick in the school zone, wouldn't they?
So they better knock it down in Knox or two there.
So you mentioned players and you talk to us about the coaching staff.
Obviously, Jim Knowles, I would assume would be headliner as far as new faces on the staff.
You mentioned, I agree with you.
The strength and conditioning coach to me is the X factor on a lot of teams.
They don't get a lot of love unless things go wrong.
But overall, how do you assess this new staff under Heupel?
You know, they feel pretty good about what they brought in with Jim Knowles.
And I think that's the key.
They've had, by all accounts, a pretty smooth transition to his system.
And that's been really the big question about how they would adjust to Jim Knowles is that
when you look at the track record, a lot of times in year one, the results aren't quite
there that he's been touted for having the last three of the last five years now at both
at Oklahoma State and Ohio State, where three of the last five years, he's had defenses rank
in the top five nationally in total defense.
But that's not always how it works in year one.
So there seems to be sort of an adjustment period there for a lot of his defenses.
They think they've cut down on that by bringing in a few guys who have worked with him at
previous stops.
They brought in Andrew Jackson that worked with him at Penn State last year as the Leo's
coach at that edge rusher position.
They brought in Derek Jones after a departure of their initial hire, Michael Hunter Jr., who
had followed him or who had worked with him also previously.
But they brought in Derek Jones, who worked with him at Duke, to be the cornerbacks coach.
They were together for about eight years at Duke and then also brought Anthony Poindexter
with him from Penn State to be the secondary coach and co-defensive coordinator.
So they think having those guys around so that he's not having to coach his coaches, essentially,
on how to do things the way he wants to do has helped with that adjustment.
And then bringing in a few players, too, has helped out as well.
Amari Campbell, I mentioned, at linebacker.
Dajon Lane at safety.
Both those guys played with him at Penn State.
So having some veterans like that in the room that know how he does things also has helped
with that adjustment.
But whatever it is, they seem to have picked things up pretty well.
And in the spring, the defense was causing lots of problems for Tennessee's offense and the
young quarterbacks in particular.
He's kind of a master of disguise with his defenses, as they say.
And that made things really difficult for those young quarterbacks in particular.
So I think they feel good about that.
But, yeah, that staff is kind of a key to this year, how well that defense makes that transition.
Because they've got to get a lot better from what they were last year.
And they feel pretty good about their chances of doing that from what they've seen so far.
What position battles intrigue you the most?
It seems like I ask you every other week last year, with so-and-so at cornerback, when is he coming back?
Hopefully they will stay healthier there.
I know the offensive line returns four dudes.
Everybody wants to know about quarterback.
But what are one or two position battles that intrigue you the most?
Yeah, for me, it kind of starts with the offensive line.
Because they've got a few different guys that could maybe fill different roles there,
where they've still got to figure out who their starting five are going to be.
They've got some pretty good options.
Very possible that we could see a guy like Sham Umarov, who made 10 starts last year
because of injuries to some other players, be a backup for them.
And that's a pretty good situation.
So even without him in the lineup, they've got four returning starters,
with the lone guy they're replacing being Lance Hurd, who transferred to Kentucky.
And those are some big shoes to fill.
That was a guy they count on at tackle.
But even without him, they started Jesse Perry at right tackle for several games last year.
He could be the starting right tackle.
Ori Williams, the LSU transfer, might be the front runner at the right tackle position.
If things go, if sort of their plan A plays out the way they would like it to,
I think he might be the ideal scenario for them to play at right tackle.
But they're going to kind of see what those combinations look like throughout camp.
I think the left side of the line fairly locked in with David Sanders moving from right tackle to left tackle.
Wendell Moyes Jr. now back after sitting out this spring.
He'll be the left guard.
And then most likely Sam Pendleton at center.
So just some questions there on the right side.
And then, you know, really on defense, some questions to answer, mainly on the defensive line.
That's where Tennessee's got some options there.
But, again, without that proven edge rusher with Chaz Coleman, the Penn State transfer,
not being part of the program anymore, not really having that locked-in starter at the Leo position,
do they mix in some young guys at that spot?
A guy like Kedrick Golsan II, son of former NFL defensive lineman Kedrick Golsan.
Could he start as a true freshman or play a lot, at least, as a true freshman?
And who else will they use in what roles across the defensive line?
They've got some guys like David Hobbs who can play multiple positions.
The senior that's going to be in the lineup for the first time as a full-time starter.
So they've got a lot of bodies there they feel pretty good about,
but we don't know exactly what combination they'll use there.
So kind of the line of scrimmage is where the main focus is.
And then there is the one skilled position open, kind of the third wide receiver spot.
We think Radarius Jackson, the sophomore, is the favorite there.
But Tristan Keyes, the five-star freshman, pushing behind him,
still getting back to full speed after an off-season procedure,
but a guy that Tennessee fans will be watching pretty closely because of his five-star pedigree.
Ryan, I'm going to go on a limb here and say, and I hope you're sitting down,
Tennessee's kicking game is going to be better this year than last year.
They're certainly hoping so.
They went to the transfer portal in hopes of taking a step toward being better.
They replaced Max Gilbert, who transferred to Arkansas.
And, by the way, we'll get a chance to play against Tennessee in Fayetteville in October.
A lot of Tennessee fans are hoping that the Vols play better there so that they don't lose on a game-winning kick
against their former kicker that struggled in some of those situations last year.
But, yeah, had some untimely misses for them in some big spots,
and they replaced him with Cooper Ranvier, a Louisville transfer who was nearly perfect inside 50 yards last year,
only had one miss inside 50, was one for four from 50-plus, but has plenty of leg,
was really impressive in the spring game, just drilled some kicks from 45-plus yards,
and was perfect in that setting.
So they're feeling pretty good about their kicking game.
Got a veteran punter as well in Jackson Ross.
They've always liked his talent and potential, and one more year from him as a fifth-year senior.
So pretty good kicking game, pretty established guys on both of those fronts,
and then several good options in the return game as well.
So, yeah, they're certainly hoping they'll be better.
And as you guys know, the SEC getting more and more like the NFL, close games.
It's going to come down to the fourth quarter in a lot of these games.
So having a reliable kicker, especially in those mid-range type kicks that you've got to make,
that really makes a difference.
Let me finish with just a touch on recruiting.
Tennessee picked up Asa Barnes, an in-state running back, 5'11", 200,
which I believe was Tennessee's 19th commitment.
And I've heard several predictions for Caden Craft, four-star quarterback,
and, of course, a lot of other schools are trying to get him, too.
Your thoughts quickly on Barnes, and will Tennessee pick up the four-star craft?
Yeah, nice pickup there for Asa Barnes.
And the impressive thing there is that they got a second running back
and a pretty good one at that to go along with five-star David Gabriel George
to be able to pair someone with that.
It's tough to do in this age.
Not many guys want to come in and feel like they're the second guy in a class.
But he liked Tennessee from the start, and the Vols did a good job there.
Nice player, though, that was kind of a top-of-the-board option for Arkansas,
and that was Tennessee's main competition in the end.
Also considered Florida State and USC finalists, but they didn't get official visits.
As far as Caden Craft, he's not announced a decision date at this point,
but I do think he is maybe closing in on a decision,
could maybe do something within the next couple months.
If he does something soon, I think Tennessee does have some positive momentum there
coming out of the summer.
He's been to Tennessee three times since the fall,
really enjoyed his visits back in the spring,
and then came back for a camp and one of their events late in the spring,
and really seems to have connected with Tennessee's staff well.
He's from North Carolina, just about four hours away from Knoxville.
So it would seem to make a lot of sense for Tennessee.
I think Florida might be among their main competition right now,
but Tennessee's done a good job there.
If he does move toward a decision here in the next couple months,
I think you could see Tennessee potentially continue that impressive run
at the quarterback position they've had the past few years.
Absolutely.
Great stuff.
We sympathize with the limited access to practice when you first get started.
Where can we get online to get all the great stuff?
Have you got any specials with summer camp opening?
Where can we get online to get yours and the team's good stuff?
Yeah, we do have a sale that just started this week to coincide with preseason camp.
60% off an annual subscription, so perfect time to join Go Vols 24-7.
Certainly tons of coverage of preseason camp already on the site,
plenty more on the way.
We'll have observations every day that practice is open.
We'll continue to be, of course, gathering intel on what we hear
outside of the sessions we're able to see.
Obviously tracking that quarterback position, but plenty more as well.
So lots of great stuff at GoVols247.com.
Great time to be on the site and check out all that coverage and much more.
Sounds great, Ryan.
Keep up the good work and let's do it again soon, okay?
Sounds good.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you, Boone.
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Welcome in.
B.B., what do you say we check out the busiest, I would say the busiest pirate we know in this neck of the woods.
Would you agree?
Yes, he is.
I know.
Coach Daniel Garrett at Rogers High.
Coach, welcome in.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
How about y'all?
Hey, Coach.
Man, we're doing all right.
Obviously, it's here.
I guess, obviously, right off the top.
How are things going?
We had a neighbor back in the day.
It was always a joke.
We'd ask her how she was doing.
She says, well, I'm doing good so far.
So, Coach, how are things going so far at Rogers High?
Well, we had a good spring, had a good summer, started fall camp this week, teachers started
school back this week.
So, it's been a good week.
You know, so we're excited about, you know, the future and not only for this team, but the
school year and, you know, everything, you know, in Green Hill, so.
Talk about reclassification.
I know you're going to, I believe, remain in 3A, some familiar opponents.
I tell you what, it's a treat.
Your first game of the season, you've got to buy, I believe, on August 21st.
You opened the year at Joe Davis Stadium against St. John Paul II, and if Harold and I attended
enough games there over the years, the Huntsville Stars, if you think that's the new, the same
stadium, it's been remodeled.
They seat about 6,000 or more.
That's got to be a treat starting off at Joe Davis Stadium.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
You know, that was kind of part of the deal there, like, you know, being able to, I always
try to create, you know, great experiences for our players, you know, from places we go
in the summer.
We try to do some type of seven-on-seven or something at at least one or two colleges, you
know, you know, obviously for the competition, but also for the kids to have that experience.
You know, not everybody gets to play college football, but, you know, to be able to have
that experience is something they'll remember, you know, for the rest of their lives.
And, you know, you talked about reclass.
You know, we did stay 3A.
You know, it kind of changed up.
I tell people this is kind of the old 4A region.
Yeah.
And that, you know, it's us, Central, Wilson, Lauderdale County, you know, a lot of county
schools, you know, both Lauderdale and Limestone County schools are playing each other.
So, it's kind of very familiar.
I think it'll be a lot of great rivalries.
And, you know, there'll be a lot of packed stadiums this fall in this region.
Coach Daniel Garrett checking in from Rogers High.
Obviously, it's a combination.
Speaking of familiar, when you bring in a new team, you've got some familiar faces.
You hope a lot of them.
But you also have some brand new young guns on the roster.
Coach, talk to us about some of the names for us as fans to be watching out for this year at Rogers.
Well, I think, you know, the one guy that a lot of people is going to remember is our quarterback, C.J. Davis.
You know, he had a very productive year last year, his first year starting at quarterback.
And, you know, leading a very, very successful offense that broke a school scoring record.
You know, so he's definitely a name to remember.
I think we've got some, you know, we've got two really good tackles.
And they're going to play some D-line as well.
And that's Mason Tardo and Carson Springer.
You know, those guys are warriors.
You know, you're not going to hear their name or see their name in the paper.
But it's not because they're not a, you know, an impact player.
They both, you know, are very, very good players for us.
And we will, you know, count on them a lot.
Our center, Brooks Wilkinson, is kind of the same way.
He'll play.
He started last.
You know, all three of those linemen are returning starters on offense.
And all three will have to play defensive line this year as well.
And we feel like all three of those guys are as good as they come and are good, you know, good football players for us.
You know, so, you know, we got them.
Hunter Bacon, this will be his third year starting on defense.
You know, he's been, you know, kind of close to 100 tackles the last couple years.
He will now have to play some offense as well.
And then I'd say the last, I guess, name of note, not that, you know, that's the beauty about football is you've got 11 guys that have to play at any given time.
It takes all 11 and somebody goes down, somebody's got to step up.
So, you know, the next name of note would probably be Braden Reed, who is a returning starter on defense and will play some running back this year.
And he's kind of one of those hard-nosed fullback types, you know, that'll, you know, hit the hole and he'll take two people to bring him down.
He's a hoss.
So, you know, we're excited about our team.
We feel like we've had a really, really good summer.
And just got a good group of kids that want to work, and that's all you can ask for.
Yeah, Zach Pounders of the Shell Sports Report is a good friend of ours.
And he told us, and I was reading the preseason summary for you and the team, and he mentioned he had two very good tackles.
Let me ask you about two new coordinators.
Chas Dye comes in as an offensive coordinator.
Zeke Pig, I believe, is your new defensive coordinator.
Talk about your staff.
Just the best staff I've had at Rogers.
There's no doubt about it.
And, you know, both of those guys bring a lot of experience.
Not just, you know, experience is one thing, but good experience.
You know, Chas has been, he was the offensive coordinator at Russell the last few years.
You know, he's coached in college.
He's won state championships at St. Paul's.
So he brings a lot of experience with him.
And just being able to work with him, like, he's very, very intelligent.
Like, just to watch him work and go through some things with the kids, it's been a good fit.
And he's doing a really good job.
And then Zeke Pig, who I graduated with at Rogers, me and him, have been really, really, I was in his wedding.
And so we've always been very close.
He coached in South Alabama, or I don't guess it's really south, you know, around the Montgomery area for several years.
He's got out of coaching a few years ago.
He lives up here, and he's always just kind of set in the box for us.
And finally got him, you know, talked into coming back full time.
And he's coached college as well.
You know, he's been coordinator at Pike Road, at Montevallo, places like that.
And he's done a really good job.
And, you know, that was kind of our deal last year.
We had a lot of good success on offense.
And defensively, we were not good enough.
You know, and he's done a, sorry, this is the bell going off in the back now.
That's all right.
You know, so welcome back to school.
Exactly.
But Zeke has done a great job just kind of simplifying it.
And really improving our defense as far as, you know, being, you know,
we always try to, you know, do things right.
And I have a defensive background, but Zeke's just done a really, really good job,
I think, to sure things up.
And I think you'll see that's the biggest improvement I've seen, you know,
this spring and summer is our improvement on the defensive side.
And, you know, we've done a good job of developing some depth there as well.
And, you know, we've lost, you know, about half of the starters on that side.
So, you know, we've got more, I think, that can contribute.
You know, they may not start, but they're going to have to play.
And I think Zeke and some of our other coaches have done a good job developing them to where,
you know, it's always one of those things where if you have to sub this guy in,
if you hold your breath, hope they don't find him, right?
And we're not going to have to hold our breath, I think, as much this year on some of these guys
just because I think they've, you know, the coaches have done a good job
and the players have done a good job, you know, taking initiative.
So, it's been good.
Coach, correct me and correct us if we're wrong here, but you ever kid with Heath,
Heathwood over at Central and Ben, Ben Florida over at Cherokee.
I'm looking at it, and here's your chance to correct me if I'm wrong.
You are now the third longest tenured coach behind Heath and Ben.
Tell me it's not been six years.
Yeah, yeah, this will be year six.
You know, time flies when you're having fun, right?
So, you know, it's been a pleasure.
It's been a lot of fun.
You know, there's always adversity you have to face, you know,
in any type of role that you're in, and we have faced it here.
And I think we've got a good thing going.
I think we've developed a culture, and I think we're, you know,
stabilized and, you know, had some success.
We'd like to have more.
But it's been a lot of fun, and, you know,
they asked me at Media Days about that, and my answer was,
well, it kind of makes me feel a little older, maybe.
You know, I'm 35, so I don't feel like I'm that old.
But, you know, as far as that goes, I mean, that's just, you know,
time flies.
And, you know, I feel like it's, you know, now my job
to, you know, have more of a standing in the community
and in the surrounding coaching world to help people like I was helped.
And, you know, not that I know everything or have all the answers,
but, you know, that's kind of how I was taught coming up,
is the day you have all the answers is the day you need to retire.
And, you know, so, you know, I really take it, you know,
it's important to me to help people the best I can.
And I hope that our coaching community can keep growing to where I think
sometimes people get defensive and they want to keep secrets, right?
You know, and coming up in this business, I never felt that way.
I worked for Dale Pruitt, who I could call right now,
and he would help me as much as he could.
And his son, Luke, is another really good friend of mine
and just an awesome coach.
I've learned so much from him.
And he's the same way, you know.
And then, obviously, you know, Bob Gotsey is, you know, my uncle,
so I can call him as well and, you know, people that just share information, right?
Absolutely.
And they would not, not just for me, they would do it for anybody.
And, you know, I just hope that, you know, our generation that's coming up,
my generation, we have some good coaches in this generation.
I hope that we can continue to do that for the next group as well.
Absolutely.
Before we let you go, we've had several coaches.
I've allowed them to talk about in-kind gifts, sponsors.
Michael Parker at Sheffield, in fact, Saturday,
they're having cleanup day around the stadium.
Some of the other coaches said we're still looking for a few sponsors
for stadium signs and other things.
And I know you've got good community support there.
Is there anything, if someone's listening to our conversation,
even laundry detergent, Michael Parker said, look, as far as doing laundry,
we need some of that, Gatorade, water, et cetera,
et cetera.
Is there anything in particular, in-kind gifts or stadium sponsors or program
sponsors that you're looking at right now before the season begins?
Absolutely.
You know, it takes a lot of money to operate a football program.
And, you know, one thing that we can always use is laundry detergent.
Absolutely.
We can always use that.
We're having our meet-the-pirates little scrimmage on Saturday night.
Yeah.
And our admission fee for that is just a case of Gatorade, you know,
or Powerade, whatever.
Right.
And so, anytime someone could donate any of that, it's always very welcome.
And then, for us, any type of sponsor.
We've got a video board now.
Yeah.
So, you know, that's been a great, you know, addition.
If you go to our website, RogersPiratesFootball.com,
there's a link you can click to fill out information about becoming a sponsor
and advertising with us.
So, anyone that would be willing to support us, you know,
a promise that's going to the kids, it's not going to sit in a bank account,
we're going to spend it here.
Because we want to give these kids the best possible experience they can have
to where not only that, you know, they have a good experience,
but they can learn something and hopefully become better men
for having played this great game.
Absolutely.
Well, listen, we will let you go.
Thank you so much for taking 15 minutes to tell us a little bit about the team,
the upcoming schedule.
Wish you all the luck in the world.
Have a great season.
Hopefully, we can do this with you again real soon.
Tell us one more time, if you're listening and you would like to go online
and make an in-kind gift, donation, whatever, tell us again where they can go.
They can go to RogersPiratesFootball.com.
And you just click sponsors, and they'll have a little form you can fill out there.
And that sends an email straight to me to where I can, you know, get it going.
So, anyone that wants to do that, we very much appreciate it.
Is it also true that any money donated does not go to that bell behind you, right, Coach?
Yeah, it doesn't go to that bell.
It's a brand-new bell at Rogers.
Brand-new bell.
You can shout out Mr. Blake Prestidge.
He's the designer of these bells.
So, everyone go compliment Mr. Prestidge.
There you go.
Bells today, whistles tomorrow.
All the best, Coach, and thanks for your time today.
Absolutely.
Thank you, Coach.
Absolutely.
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He's polishing up the vocal cords with a call on the Florence High Falcons.
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Welcome back in.
We hope that you're all buckled up.
If it's time, would you agree, B.B., for a familiar voice to come on?
I saw him earlier this week, and we talked for a little while, and I can assure you, I don't
know if I'd use the word giddy yet, but he's looking forward to the season beginning, but he's
got a big event before then.
We'll just jump right in and find out more with K.J., Kevin Johnson, fine voice of the
Florence Eye Falcons.
Kevin, welcome in.
Welcome back.
Have you been?
Always good to talk to you guys, and when August turns around, I know that you're finally
going to call me back.
That's a good one.
Kevin, we're just grateful to be here for another August.
You got that right.
You got that right.
Obviously, we're here.
It's right on the cusp.
Talk to us.
Obviously, you're getting ready for the call, but I won't steal your thunder.
Let's talk about what you've got coming up before the opening kickoff of the Florence
Eye Falcon family.
Yeah, let's go for a little different from the YMCA of the show.
It's such a great part of my life and the things they've done for this area, and they've
got a big event coming up.
It's one of their biggest fundraisers.
It's on course for a cause.
It's the big annual golf tournament they have that all benefits go to the YMCA of the show.
It's going to be held at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at the show August 27th, and they've
got a lot of great things, featured prizes, including things like the longest drive, closest
to the pin, and many more.
So it's going to be a fun time.
It's always well attended, and we hope that many people will sign up for that.
Entry deadline is coming up pretty quick on August the 10th, so all you golfers, get your
teams together and mark the date down again.
That's Thursday, August the 27th.
It's going to be a great time at the Robert Trent Jones for the YMCA of the show.
You can sign up by contacting the YMCA of the show.
Easy to do, or you can go on their website, and it'll give you all the instructions you
need there.
But Lane Vines does a tremendous job there as the executive director, and I can't say enough
about him.
And so it is a great, great cause.
And so there are two big events that are coming up this one, August 27th, and it's not
too soon to mention that the tracks for Max on Thanksgiving Day, the 5K race, the largest
race in Northwest Alabama.
You can sign up for that for runners as well.
So whether you're a golfer or a runner, go ahead and sign up for these two events, be a
part of it, and help sponsor one of the great, great, I call it ministries, actually, in our
area, the YMCA of the show.
And I hope people will do that.
I think that's a great way to describe it.
Also, next week, young man, meet the Falcons.
We had Kenny Morrison on a little bit earlier, and he was talking about an event.
That's turned into a great event to really kick off the football season, get a chance to
meet a lot of the coaches, players, administrators.
And while I mentioned administration, in Webster's dictionary, for athletic director, Myra Miles
should have a picture there.
She may be the best athletic director in the state of Alabama.
Tim Bowens has come over from Brooks.
Florence also hired Hunter Morris as a baseball coach.
Lindsey Vanover to lead the softball team.
Ted, one of the things, some tremendous hires off the field for Florence.
I would say she's hit the ground running.
Would that be a nice way to say it?
Yes, it would be.
No doubt about it.
Amen.
She is a Hall of Famer for a reason, and the show's area is very familiar with her name and
with her work, and I've heard from many that she's always wanted this job here at Florence,
and it's obviously been evident, even before we put a team on the field, that her fingerprints
all over the place on this, and it's going to be exciting.
There's a buzz in the air in the city of Florence about Florence High School athletics.
I would say especially about the Florence football team, but a lot of that buzz goes back to the
athletic director, Myra Miles, and so it's a great thing to see her take it and run with it,
and it's going to be great to have this meet the Falcons at Brawley Stadium on Tuesday evening.
And we encourage not just the parents and grandparents and all those to come out to see these athletes
be introduced and met.
We encourage the city of Florence to come out.
Come out and be a part of that.
Come out and support it.
High school needs your support.
High school athletics needs your support.
This city has always been good to support high school athletics, but more than ever, we need
you to get involved in high school athletics, especially for Florence High School, so I encourage
you to do that.
It's going to be a great event Tuesday evening.
It'll be wonderful, and again, we are excited about, for me, for being a part of the program
all the time since 2004.
It's exciting to see this energy.
It's exciting to see the student-athletes excited, the coaches excited, and the community.
So it's going to be a fun year, no doubt about it, and yeah, I think you hit it right.
I am a little bit giddy about the Florence Falcons this year.
It's going to be a fun little ride.
Let's talk about why, if you don't mind, Kevin.
Obviously, it's going to be different.
There's this thing called reclassification.
Every team's asking, how's that going to affect us?
Same for the Falcons.
But talk to us about some of the highlights of what you're seeing about this team.
Harold, I would say that 2026 is definitely going to go down as the year of change.
If you look at it, it's been a big change for Florence High School.
It's a big change for the Alabama High School Athletic Association.
And the change sometimes can be good, and for the Florence Falcons, it is good.
You go from being the smallest school in 7A to being the largest school in 5A.
If they knock away the 7A, they only have two classes.
So you go from being the underdog to maybe having a little bit of a target on your back
just because of your size.
I think Florence is ready for that.
And more than that, it brings back some great local rivals.
You know, Athens and Florence getting to play.
Russellville and Florence getting to play.
Hartzell and Florence getting to play.
That's going to be really neat to see.
I know for me personally, I've traveled with Florence from one end of the state to the other
just to play a high school football game.
It's going to be nice that your region was within one hour drive.
That's something we haven't had in a while.
So it's going to be exciting, and it starts with a returning team that's got some athletes on it.
You have to mention the defensive tackle, Jaden White, who is now getting just accolades from different places,
including many SEC and ACC school offers.
He's about 6'3", 280 pounds, and he has got offers left and right and only a junior.
He's going to man that defensive line and be a bigger part of that.
And obviously, Jaden Irons will be the linebacker.
The senior is going to be outstanding.
He had a great year last year.
Expect big things from him, along with Bo Berski on that defensive side.
So that defensive side for Kenny Morris and his staff, they return some players.
There's no doubt about it.
And on the offensive side, they have got some running backs that is by committee going to be as good as they come.
And sophomore quarterback, Costin Mahan.
So it's going to be a fun team to watch.
They're still putting the pieces together.
But I will just say, in a long time, it's been a long time since I've heard a lot of people come up to me and say,
we're excited about what we see and hear from this Florence football team.
So you might put a little exclamation by this one.
This Florence team is going to be ready to roar in 5A, I think.
I'll tell you what, Kevin, it is a tremendous schedule.
Kenny Morris is smart enough to have a bye in the middle of the season.
But to begin, at Pinson Valley, August 21st, the Jasper Vikings, Brett Beaird's alma mater is coming to Florence on August 28th.
And then it's at most of the shows, at Russellville, John Ritter is bringing Decatur over.
And the third year at West Morgan and Russellville, they won 10 games.
What year is it now at Decatur?
It's the third year.
This is a tough, tough, but very attractive schedule.
I'm not sure who did the schedule, but it wasn't Kevin Johnson.
I guarantee you that.
That is a tough schedule to start off to be traveling to Pinson Valley.
We've been there before, and they are always one of the top teams in the day, talent-wise.
And that's a great measuring sticker off the bat.
And then you bring Jasper with one of the state's top athletes that's coming here.
So you're going to run off the bat, face off two of the great teams in the state.
Then you turn around and face the best team in Northwest Alabama in the past 10 years, and that's multiple shows.
No doubt about it.
They have done a tremendous job.
And so it's going to be fun.
It's going to be exciting.
But I think Kenny Marson and staff are excited about facing such a tough task.
And I think it's going to be one of those things that the fans of the area, especially for Florence High School, are going to be really excited about the competition and also the opportunity to play some of these teams.
And it is.
It's going to be one of the best schedules.
Just because you moved to 5A, you probably are facing a tougher region than you did in 7A.
Let's be honest about it.
But the playing ground is going to be more level across the state.
And that's the thing you're excited about.
Once you get into playoffs, you've got a chance to get to that blue map.
So the playing level is a lot different than it was in 7A when you're in this 5A group.
And I think that's why people are so excited about it.
I think it's a great move by the Alabama High School Athletic Association.
And I think it's going to be great for high school football.
Two weeks from tomorrow night, get started with Pennsylvania.
By the way, is there a jamboree in Florence's future next week?
I've heard a rumor about that.
Yeah, they will be going to, I believe it's at Milton Frank Stadium to take on the Huntsville Panthers.
That's a Thursday night.
I believe that's the 13th.
I don't have my calendar before me.
But I think it's next Thursday night, a week from tonight.
So that'll be fun.
And, you know, Florence and Huntsville have a history of great games anyway and great competition.
So it should be a tremendous time.
I'm looking forward to it.
Absolutely.
Listen, I always enjoy talking with you.
We'll be talking with you before the first game.
But, again, the giddiness scale will continue to rise as we get toward that first game.
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Polishing up the microphone for you even as we speak, Kevin.
Thank you so much.
Let's do it again soon, okay?
Thank you, my friends.
Thank you, Boone.
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Welcome back in.
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Maybe Ryan Fowler's got details on that and a whole lot more.
He drives you home every afternoon in T-Town as a host of the game on Tide 109 FM.
Ryan, welcome in.
How are you?
I'm doing good.
Doing good.
It's like a celebration.
Because, I mean, as you guys know, it's been a long off-season.
It's been a long off-season.
And it's good to get some football back, right?
I mean, it really is.
I mean, it's good to, I mean, it was like a celebration.
And yesterday, I cooked some steaks and I said, we have been through the longest off-season I have been in my career.
Because I feel like we've mentioned Indiana more times just over and over and over, and rightfully so.
Listen, it was a bad taste that was left in your mouth, and Alabama's trying to find a way to fix that.
Ryan, let's talk a little bit about it.
Can you remember a time coming into season in the last 20 years where the vibe, and that's all it is right now, only time's going to tell.
You just mentioned Indiana.
This time last year, who would have thought we'd be talking about India now compared to where they were this time last year.
So it's a vibe.
But let's face it, you saw Nick Saban's comments.
Everybody's trying to read between the lines and interpret it.
He's always the guy that wants to send that, what's a fancy word, that implicit message, the read between the lines type message.
And we saw Kevin DeBoer's, kind of his reaction, maybe not to Nick, but in all the naysayers out there.
Where are you with the vibe coming into this team this season?
And is this team truly, truly plugged in and used that as perhaps a motivating factor?
Yes.
I do think that they've used it as a motivating factor.
And I think that, you know, it's, when you look at this team, it's just the, I know in media we stretch the truth and we add this stuff and we, you know, we create content.
Right.
I think some of it is like when we were down at SEC media days, I'll never forget when Kevin DeBoer said that and you had all these people that twisted that around.
Oh, his goals is not to win a championship.
Do we realize how stupid that is as media?
If you're stupid, you don't.
If you're wise, you do, yeah.
Well, but, but I mean, to think about, I mean, he, if he would have, I mean, he could have stayed at UW and the goal of, is, is one of the reasons why you come to Tuscaloosa is to compete for a championship, to compete for a national title.
I mean, every one of these players that committed, do you think they said, well, hey, we're just going to go to Tuscaloosa when we make a playoff appearance?
No, no, no.
They want to go and obviously try to compete for a championship, but that has fueled, it's helped from a motivation standpoint to the offseason.
Now, it's not going to help you when you get to the season, but on those long 105 heat indexes, you know, when it's humid out there and you're having to go to the, what you think is the breaking point and you're trying to get your guys to go to, you know, as a street condition coach, it's beyond that.
Well, then, here's your chance, and to me, that's what they've been able to use that for because, you know, there's nothing they could do.
If it's been a long offseason for you and I, I can only imagine what those players offseason has been like because there's nothing they could do about it other than to try to fix what went wrong, and you try to do that with training, and it probably was a big distraction for them, you know, to get back in the weight and condition room, and I think you've seen that in some of the sizes, some of the speed, some of the,
the lean muscle mass that's been added, the eye test passes, that this is a good-looking football team, and they've got some vacancies, but I also think this is, Alabama's under a different microscope than everybody else is, but if we spent time, and I know you guys have too, different SEC cities, everybody has problems.
Everybody has concerns.
Yep, question marks.
But Alabama's held to a different standard, and they should be, and that's like, okay, hey, Alabama's got problems with this.
Well, we could spend time talking about Georgia's problems.
We could spend time talking about Florida's problems or Tennessee's problems or Ole Miss's problems.
Everybody has problems.
It's who can get those fixed.
It's who's going to be a team that will have a chance to compete for a national title.
Ryan, I know you've got a chance to see these guys, even though it's with Alabama viewing periods.
It's always brief.
The on-the-hoof report, in Ryan Fowler's eyes, who stood out to you today?
It's the size difference.
That's what you jump out to, is just being able to see the bulk, being able to see, listen, E.J. Crowell, you know, I've been told that he's, I think, I think Jameer Gibbs was as fast, but I think they've got to go all the way back to like Kenyon Drake is the last time they had a running back that was this type of just speed.
And you see it.
It's not just, I'm not talking about running a 40-yard dash.
I'm talking about those first two steps.
There, you watch him, and you watch that first couple of steps.
That's where I think he's going to be, going to give you something that's just running back room.
Really hasn't had, I mean, I'm trying to go back.
I mean, Jace McClellan at times gave it to you.
But I'm trying to, I mean, you probably have to go back deeper in the Saban run.
I mean, would you have to go back to Najee Harris the last time they had a back that was a threat to do something?
I mean, just every single play, it's like, okay, he can take it to the house.
Well, I think E.J. Crowell is going to be that guy.
And, you know, Daniel Hill and A.K. Deer and Kevin Riley have motivated themselves through the offseason because they see what's coming.
And you can see how much weight they've lost.
Daniel Hill is probably down, I'd probably say, 7, 8, 9, 10 pounds.
He looks different.
But that's been motivated simply because of the other guys that are coming in.
And Treshawn Brown's another guy that you're going to keep an eye on because he's got another speed element to the running back.
So they've got speed.
This may be the fastest team I have seen in Tuscaloosa.
It may be my time because that's the part that jumps out to speed is you go to the wide receiver.
You go here, the defensive back room.
These guys, and if you look back at Dr. Ray, if you guys remember Dr. Ray, he was with Nick Saban when Ballou and then come over from Indiana.
And their entire system is built on speed.
So even though it was Dr. Ray that was the PhD that kind of brought in, I think he's working with the Saints now, if I'm not mistaken.
But that's their entire system.
It's based on speed.
And you're starting to see that pay off from just going out and watching.
Even a guy like Keelan Russell has been able to add some quality weight.
Looks a little different.
Because at times he looked like he could be a guy that could put on a few pounds.
Well, he's done that.
He's done that.
And this lean muscle mass that they've been able to add.
But it's also that speed that these guys work on and put a point of emphasis at.
In the huddle with Ryan Fowler, all that's great, but it still comes down to one thing.
Who are going to be the big uglies up front who's going to protect them?
And then your thoughts, Ryan, on DeBoer's comments.
It went, as they say, viral when asked the obvious question about the offensive line.
As they put it, the heavily rebuilt offensive line.
His quote was, paraphrased shortly, a lot better and cleaner.
Coaches right now, you never hear a coach sell.
We stink at that position.
You're always going to take that tag.
But obviously everybody, most of all Alabama fans, are going to be sitting here focusing on that position group.
And his thoughts yesterday was, a lot better and cleaner.
Help us to interpret DeBoer's lines.
Well, I think from a fundamental standpoint, it's something that Adrian Clem, he pushes.
And today we're going to talk to Trevor Maddins.
And I think he's going to be able to help us a little bit more, you know, maybe understand what Adrian Clem is going to be able to provide.
But I just think from a fundamental standpoint, last year with the offensive line coach, Cap, and I just want to make sure I make this statement.
We wish him absolutely nothing but the best across the state at all.
But, I mean, yeah, but, but it didn't work in Tuscaloosa.
It did not work.
And I'm sure he's there to provide some insight into the Alabama programs and learning ways to attack it and, you know, different weaknesses that maybe they know that they have.
And I'm sure he can provide that to the Auburn coaching staff as being a part of it now.
But there was a disconnect.
All these coaches have strong relationships with their particular position groups.
Coach Cap didn't have that in Tuscaloosa with his offensive line.
And it was a weakness.
And I will, I will go to my grave saying that Ryan Grubb came out of the box to go down on the field because of the offensive line was just not where it needed to be.
If you guys remember that one, Ryan Grubb, Ryan Grubb's an in-box, he's an in-box coach.
He stays up in that box to get those charts and those grids.
But he came down on the sidelines.
Well, why did he come down on the sidelines?
I simply think that it was there to help that offensive line.
It was that bad.
And that was Coach Cap.
And Caleb on the board told us at the senior bowl, he said, we removed him for one reason.
It was based on production.
Production wasn't there.
And this is where Adrian's playing.
But what's going to make this offensive line better?
And I've said this a million times.
They're going to settle on the five best guys.
You say, well, that's every offensive group.
The offensive line must do it.
The deal that they've got, you've got competition at right tackle.
And I told you guys this a couple of weeks ago when everybody was kind of crowning Javon James.
And early on through the offseason, we were like, okay, Javon James is going to be your starting right tackle.
Well, Nick Brooks has come on and it's given them an option at that right tackle spot.
They've got three guys at left guard.
You've got versatility.
And if they don't feel good, they can always slide Michael Carroll to right tackle, slide Nick Brooks in because he can play the guard spot too.
Ethan Fields, another guy that transferred in from Ole Miss, he's battling William Sanders.
That is not automatic.
Everybody says, well, it's William Sanders' job.
It may be his job to lose, but he's going to have to fight for it because Ethan Fields, you know, when you transfer in, you've got to look at their mindset.
They're coming in here going, I don't want to be a backup.
I could have been a backup where I'm at.
They're coming in and trying to start.
So, that's something that I'm watching.
Now, do you have options at center?
Probably not.
Do you have options at left tackle?
No, I think it's Jackson Lewis.
And I think they're impressed enough with him that they're pretty comfortable there.
But the other three spots, it is an absolute free-for-all fight to try to get the best five.
I think that's what you're going to see.
But I think all these guys understand that the competition that was ahead of them, and they have fundamentally got better.
I think that's what DeBoer was talking about yesterday when he said cleaner, because they come in with a focus, understanding that this next two weeks is going to decide who's going to be those five.
And I think they'll settle with five, or they would like to settle with five, and stick with that five, and let that five gel.
Because they didn't do that.
All the way up until the last couple of games, they were rotating.
This guy, this guy, this guy.
Well, this guy's playing right guard.
This guy's playing right tackle.
Well, we flip him and go right to guard, right tackle.
It was just a circling, just a player's turnstile.
That was a mess, trying to figure out which five was the best five.
Ryan, besides quarterback, the age-old question for every team, when you've got two new ones in offensive line,
what position intrigues you the most as far as competition?
Well, I think that wide receiver room after Brooks and Ryan Coleman-Williams could be one.
I think that tight end room, Danny Lewis, according to what I've been told, Danny Lewis,
and I know they've said it publicly, so now we can talk about it.
They think he's, you know, the home run surgery that they tried, it worked.
And it was a Hail Mary, right?
I mean, it was a Hail Mary type surgery, and it, yeah, and it worked.
Because remember, he's been battling this thing for two years with that foot.
So Danny Lewis could give you something, but that tight end room is intriguing
because they've got speed, they've got size, they've got,
Josh Ford's going to give you the blocking element.
Really, they didn't have that last year in that tight end room.
That's intriguing.
The punter, which you guys know a little bit of something about the punter.
That's a big, that's three guys that are battling for that.
Alex, that's for an office, probably could be the favorite, but let's see if he can be consistent.
And then you've got Morgan Quinn and Connor Talti at the place kicker.
I mean, we just went through kicker, punter, tight end, the third wide receiver.
You know, Derek Beto's to be one of those options.
Could it be a Sedarian Morgan?
Could it be a, you know, Rico Scott has played some ball around here.
The tight end room, the right guard spot, the left guard spot, the right tackles.
Not the right guard spot, right tackle spot, left guard.
Because they've got Carroll.
They feel comfortable with him as long as they feel comfortable with the other spots with tackle.
And then, I mean, it is competition linebacker spot.
Defensive rotation, that defensive line.
To me, that's an impressive groove when you look at that defensive line front.
That, that room could be the deepest that we've seen in quite a while around here.
But that defensive back room, I'm glad I don't have to figure out which ones to play there.
Because, you know, I mean, look at the room.
Let's say you cut the first stringers out.
That second string, second group could play with a lot of teams.
Absolutely.
That's what I think.
I mean, that, that room is deep.
Like, I was just on, before I went on with you guys, I was on in Omaha, Nebraska.
And they started running through different players.
And I'm like, well, you forgot about Red Morgan and, uh, Draker Patrick.
So, that room is just, I mean, Draker Patrick Jr.
But, I mean, those were playmakers.
I mean, this room has got a chance to be super, super, super special in that defensive back room.
And you've got a lot of options.
And, you know, I also hear they really love a young man out of Mercer, Carmelo.
Yeah, O'Neal.
O'Neal.
Yeah, yeah, Carmelo O'Neal.
That is another name that has just been a big-time buzz throughout the offseason.
We'll see if it carries over to this training camp.
Absolutely.
And I hear Ivan Taylor about every other week.
Yeah, exactly.
Mincy, Jordan Edmonds, I think it's the most talented secondary in the country.
So is, speaking of talent, so is Ryan Fowler.
Who have you got on the show today?
And where can we get online to listen to it?
So, we've got Rodney Orp.
We've got Chris Hummer.
And we've got Trevor Maddox coming up, Trevor Maddox coming up in just a couple of minutes.
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And, guys, it's always an honor to be on with you.
But, man, it's a celebration.
Enjoy it.
We've made it through another offseason, and we celebrate that in Tuscaloosa.
We're going to take it to your word, Ryan, man.
Thanks so much, Ryan Fowler, 109 FM in Tuscaloosa.
BB, are you ready for the Braves to add to their eight-and-a-half-game lead tonight on the field?
They have won seven consecutive games.
Go for the sweep of the Marlins tonight.
Yep.
And we will see where that goes.
In fact, Austin Riley is hitting better.
Yep.
A lot of things are doing well right now, but it's August the 6th, and we'll see where that goes.
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