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 The Boomo Bugg Show.

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

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

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 Good afternoon and welcome here to the Boomo Bugg Show.

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 I'm Harold Bugg alongside Brett Beaird.

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 Thank you so much for giving us a speed ride around the Tennessee mountain.

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 Brett Beaird, welcome in where?

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 We get the latest on the SEC and LSU

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 and the very latest on some sky-high lines

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 and a brand new look when it comes to the Lions' Den.

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 Good afternoon, welcome in and how are you?

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 Happy Wednesday to you and the listeners.

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 Bill Bender, national football writer for the Sporting News,

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 we'll preview week two of college football a little bit later.

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 As will Coach Max Howell when he previews week two of the SEC.

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 But as you alluded to, UNA Coach Brent Dierman joins us now

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 to recap a very solid performance against those Arkansas Razorbacks.

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 Coach Brent Dierman back from hog heaven at Arkansas.

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 UNA head football coach.

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 Coach, welcome in and welcome back.

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 I had a really good trip back.

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 You know, it's about a six and a half, seven-hour drive to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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 Love the way our guys went up there and competed.

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 Labor Day helped out.

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 Coach, obviously, one-in-one, you've been on the road.

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 Why home cooking is really going to be special this time of year.

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 But let's talk about the one-in-one split, first to Huntsville, then out to Fayetteville.

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 Let's talk about taking on the big boys in the SEC.

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 You look at this game and you try to, first of all, you want to come out of it healthy to get in your schedule.

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 But where do you start in breaking down what you learned about your team against the SEC boys?

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 You know, any time you can go into an SEC environment, there was Pac-Tow, 76,000 people there when the game kicked off.

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 So to see our guys go into that environment and be able to operate and never quit.

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 You know, we were down 14-0.

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 And our defense made a heck of a stop right before halftime that would have probably put the game away if they go up 21-0.

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 We get that turnover, and then we come out in the second half, and the second half score was 17-14 against the SEC team.

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 I think everybody knew going into the summer that this defensive front seven could be special.

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 Pro Football Network had their top FCS edge guys.

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 Caden Adkins won.

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 Avery Howard, two.

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 That's the crazier thing to think about is to have guys at the FCS level get graded out at that high against a talent pool that's supposed to be a league above us.

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 We played at an unbelievable level.

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 But who doesn't get the credit is the nose guards on the inside that allowed them guys to get single blocks on them.

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 Coach Brent Dierman, UNA head football coach, let's talk about the X factor.

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 Tell you what, anytime you get awards and it's to your freshman, you've got to be happy.

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 Two games in and all Xavier Johnson has done is earn back-to-back freshman of the week honors.

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 Gus Malzahn is a good friend of yours and a mentor, and you coached with him for years.

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 So, it was an awesome feeling this past weekend to go back there and to see our guys play on the stage that they did at that level.

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 Coach, obviously, you've got to keep the bags packed three games in and a third straight road trip.

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 You're going to Louisiana, and thank goodness you're not going to Baton Rouge.

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 So, not only did you have a long road trip, it was the hottest road trip that has ever happened in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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 so they can be fresh and ready to go in that tough temperature and tough humidity we're going to walk into.

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 It was 99 degrees in Tuscaloosa Saturday, which tied a high as far as a game there.

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 Southeast Louisiana, they're 0-2, but I keep saying this every time we talk about the opponent.

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 Their quarterback, 12-20.

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 Low, their quarterback, 12-20 for 186.

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 Lonnie Sheen is a very good receiver.

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 Ken Berry and a couple of the other guys in nine tackles on defense.

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 And official visit, in-home visit, go through all of that.

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 And then he's moving on to campus, and I get offered the job to go down to FAU and leave before he ever played for me.

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 He's a great player.

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 He's a dual-threat guy.

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 I played shortstop on his high school baseball team.

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 They got beaten the first round of the playoffs by Illinois State, who went to the national championship.

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 They're very sound in what they do.

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 Their head coach has been there a while, and he's built a winning program down there.

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 Coach, obviously, this has to be asked as far as the MASH report.

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 Please, no injuries.

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 Who else in the performance against Arkansas, Coach, or I?

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 You mentioned the ones that made the stat line.

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 What has excited me, we've played two games.

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 That one turnover was a kind of weird fumble where Destin put the ball on the ground as he got off balance and ended up fumbling there.

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 So, to go through two games and not have any skilled positions, turn the ball over, to not have an interception in your first couple games, I think that's a testament to our coaching.

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 It's a testament to our guys, understanding that every possession counts, and we're not going to give one up.

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 I want to win.

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 I just want to win the game.

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 Or even 2-0.

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 Coach, obviously, you wind up the road trip.

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 I'm just guessing here that any coach wants to get back and play that first home game.

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 Can't wait to get our guys in there and experience this new, state-of-the-art, beautiful stadium.

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 It's going to be an amazing experience for our fans, for the city of Florence.

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 What we stress to our guys this week is you go on the road and you beat an FCS playoff team on the road.

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 You come back home with that momentum for the first home game in school history.

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 This place is going to be rocking.

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 This place is going to be on fire.

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 That's what I was going to say.

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 I know everybody's excited for the 19th, but you've got some business, a business trip to take care of first.

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 I always enjoy the conversation with you.

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 One word, Gatorade, down to Southeastern, any hot spot in Louisiana.

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 this will be a game where Darnold drops back at least 35 times.

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 at the Sporting News, Bill Bender.

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 Bill, welcome in.

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 How are you?

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 Hey, Harold.

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 How you doing, man?

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 Thanks for having me on.

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 What if I told you, Bill, that LSU is being talked about

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 being thrown out of the SEC, and Michigan fans are rushing the field

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 over a win over Western Michigan?

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 Would you believe me if I told you those things?

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 You know, it's the doling storyline of the week leading up to week two.

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 And I've kind of been balancing my time between the both.

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 So yesterday I had a chance to speak with the MEC commissioner.

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 We had a good conversation.

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 He's obviously disappointed with how that all went down.

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 And, you know, where I kind of landed on it was the Big Ten got the call right.

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 But it was very – it looked very bad how that was done.

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 And as Commissioner Steinbrecher said, they have to come to agreement

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 on how the clocks are used moving forward.

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 I think that's the lesson here.

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 Michigan – I'll put it to you in one sentence, Harold.

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 Michigan lost by winning in some ways.

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 It's weird.

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 Here's the deal, Bill.

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 But going back to the Florida State game and that power outage, they didn't have replay.

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 What would have happened in that game?

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 And how would college football perhaps – we don't know.

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 It's still early.

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 But at the end of the year, what if they had not had replay and Michigan lost that game?

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 That tells you the power of replay in some ways.

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 Yeah, and, you know, in some ways it's refreshing not to –

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 Right.

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 Bill was, like, excited to watch one without replay.

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 I just think there's too much at stake anymore.

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 The way these are covered – you know, I went back and watched – I asked the question

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 and I wrote about it, as I'm sure you guys saw.

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 I asked the question, you know, like, what if Alabama had made the field goal before the

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 kick six?

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 And I said, if you don't think there wouldn't have been a reaction similar to what happened

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 Saturday night, Alabama's going for three straight, it would have been Nick Saban gets his way,

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 and that second wasn't there.

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 I believe – but I think the key difference was before the kick six, it's pretty clear

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 that T.J. Yeldon's foot touches, and it's – in this one it was pretty clear to the viewer

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 So, you know, funny, Vern in that telecast before the pick six, he used the word, if

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 the clocks are synchronized, it's just a different time then.

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 There's too much at stake these days.

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 Yep.

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 Yeah, absolutely.

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 Before we get into this weekend's games, which there are some good ones, I noticed the college

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 football playoff committee kind of opened the 30-day window for ESPN as far as bidding

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 Also, Greg Sankey has said, here are my list of 10 demands for me to go to 24, which tells

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 me that's the direction they're going in.

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 We'll know a lot more probably by midseason.

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 Your thoughts on the latest update as far as staying at 12, going to 16, or going to 24?

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 I think we're going to 24, unfortunately.

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 Yeah.

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 And that's where it's pointed.

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 And, you know, we just had a pretty interesting argument in our editorial meeting today about,

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 you know, like, not an argument, just a debate about that.

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 You know, what is good about it, what's not.

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 Yeah.

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 And, you know, I think it's one of those things that we all have a lot of passion for it, but

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 I'm just not a fan of the 2014 setup.

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 I agree.

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 You know, we were actually, a little bit of the discussion today that I'm going to dig

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 into this week, probably this weekend, is, you know, what's the benefit of playing an

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 Ohio State-Texas game if you lose?

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Right, right.

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 And that's one of those games that they're going to, everybody will say, well, Sark,

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 don't lose to Florida.

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 Well, you know, if we're still just going by the wins and losses, I don't know.

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 I mean, I question how you, you know, what's the price you pay?

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 There's a heavier price for losing than there is a reward for winning, in my opinion.

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 That's right.

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 Absolutely.

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 Speaking of that, you mentioned it.

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 Talk to us about a pretty big ballgame involving a team down the road from you, the Ohio State

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 University, taking on, does Arch even have teammates?

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 Every time I turn around, it's Arch, Arch, and Arch.

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 I'm assuming he's got teammates.

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 If he does, your thoughts about that game this weekend?

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 Oh, he's got a couple good ones, you know, whether it's Colin Simmons or Kim Coleman.

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 We've got a piece coming tomorrow.

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 You know, tomorrow, that game is one of those games, and it's going to remind me, at least,

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 one of the reasons I love doing this job is there can be 25 guys on that field Saturday

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 that get drafted in just 27.

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 It reminds me of Alabama-LSU-19.

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 That's right.

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 That's still the standard game.

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 Yeah.

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 You know, and then 2011, too.

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 Yeah.

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 I like watching games like that because you know how much talent's on the field.

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 Texas has a lot of it around Arch, and this is a big game for them.

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 I think there's more pressure on Texas in this spot because, like, Ohio State, like, I don't

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 think Ryan Day has anything to prove Saturday.

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 They've won national titles.

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 They've won 10 and 11 games a year.

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 They've beat Texas the last two years.

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 So, I do think the pressure is on Texas here.

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 Yeah.

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 I was going to say all the pressure is on Sarkeesian.

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 Oklahoma's a five-and-a-half point favorite going to the big house.

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 I know Michigan would like to play a ball game probably tonight to get that taste out of their mouth.

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 You made a good point in your prediction.

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 In fact, you predict Oklahoma to win 24-20 but not covering the five-and-a-half.

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 Michigan was three of 14 on third down last year.

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 This Oklahoma defense may be better than the one they had last year, and I know the offense

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 is better.

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 I don't trust Bryce Underwood in this game.

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 I think Oklahoma wins.

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 I do, too, but I think Michigan defense is pretty good, too.

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 So, what it comes down to, both of these teams are pretty good at stopping the run, and I

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 think that's going to happen.

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 I think both teams are going to have a hard time finding running room, and so it comes down

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 to Matier and Underwood and who you trust more.

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 And right now, this is a defining moment in some ways for Bryce Underwood, where this

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 season goes, where his tenure at Michigan goes.

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 Of course, again, I like Oklahoma to win, but with all the stuff that's happened this week

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 around Michigan, that's easy money for a coach.

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 I'm just telling them all week, hey, nobody thinks you can win.

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 Nobody thinks you can win, but we do.

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 And I think that's what's going to make that an interesting game.

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 Right.

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 Before we let you go, Alabama-Kentucky to tie the 10-and-a-half point favorite.

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 Bill Bender has got Alabama winning 29-16 and covering that 10-and-a-half point spread.

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 Hey, you've got to be pretty excited about Keelan Russell down there.

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 Yep, they are.

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 And I like Alabama to get that running game going, go up there and win, and set up that

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 Florida State game a week later.

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 I'm really impressed with what Keelan opens up around the rest of the offense with the big

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 plays.

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 And I don't know that Alabama had that explosion factor last year in the running game.

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 They do now.

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 His escapability is off the charts, Brad.

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 I really like him.

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 Absolutely, buddy.

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 Listen, where can we get online to get all your good stuff?

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 At SportingNews.com.

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 You'll have an update on LSU later today.

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 We'll see how that goes.

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 And I appreciate having you guys, as always.

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 Thanks for having me on.

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 Thank you, buddy.

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 Hey, thank you, Double B.

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 The guy with Huntsville Roots, Ben Shelton, in the semifinals of the U.S. Open.

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 I got a feeling I know Rodney Orr's favorite team.

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 A little bit of a hint.

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 is in a little bit better mood after Game 1 this year

625
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 compared to last year, Rodney.

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 Or am I wrong?

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 No, I think there's, you know, certainly still some hesitancy there.

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 But, yes, without a doubt, it's a lot better than what happened last year.

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 Rodney, what did we learn from Game 1?

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 Not sure how much we learned or what we learned.

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 I think what we, if you want to say this, I think that what we saw was a team

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 that certainly has a lot of potential, a lot of young talent.

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 I think defensively they played really, really well.

637
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 They showed the potential to be an outstanding defense.

638
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 Again, just kind of what they did by shutting down a team.

639
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 Let's be honest, ECU had 19 new starters.

640
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 They only had one starter returning on offense, two on defense.

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 And so I'm not really sure what the gauge, how much of a gauge they were.

642
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 But defensively I do think, you know, they kind of lived up to the expectation.

643
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 I think offensively, however, it's a work in progress, which is what we thought,

644
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 what we said.

645
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 So before anyone jumps to any negative conclusions, it is what it is.

646
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 It's a work in progress.

647
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 And I will say this, Harold and Brett, I will say this, you know, again,

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 we had limited opportunities to see Keelan Russell.

649
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650
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 You know he's got great skills.

651
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 You know, we've heard a lot from inside the building about their expectations of him.

652
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 He needs a little more polish.

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 And what I mean by that is, you know, we've heard him compared to Bryce.

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656
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 But he doesn't have the polish those guys had at the same stage.

657
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 So I think as they continue to polish him, yeah, he certainly has all those tools.

658
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 But they've got to find some rhythm in the passing game.

659
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 And they've got to be able to run the football.

660
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 Rodney, I think they did show some improvement as far as running the ball.

661
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 A couple of things that I think a lot of people enjoyed.

662
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 Putting a fullback in front of the tailback in the red zone.

663
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664
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666
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 Quarterback under center a couple of times.

667
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668
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669
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 But I did see more physicality.

670
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 But a couple of extra little quirks in there that I think may help them down the road.

671
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 Well, I think that, yeah, that is a good observation there, Brett.

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675
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676
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677
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678
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679
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 I think that was, you know, like I told you guys, I think, certainly, that I think he was a little tweaked, to be honest with you, going into that game.

680
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681
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 But I do think you might see Sanders back in, I'm sorry, Walgert back in there in the starting lineup in this next game against Kentucky.

682
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 We'll see.

683
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 But, overall, yeah, I mean, I think the receivers, as I look at them, you know, Ryan had some drops.

684
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 He was productive.

685
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686
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 He's got to become more consistent.

687
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 But they're going to have to get the other guys more involved.

688
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 I mean, Brooks had two catches.

689
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 You know, Meadows had two really good plays.

690
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691
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 I think rhythm is the name of the game right now.

693
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 You don't want your fiddle player playing a tune that you're not.

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697
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 It was a no-doubter.

698
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 Against East Carolina.

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 And now, two things.

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 It's an SEC opponent and it's on the road.

701
00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:58,940
 And you've got a brand-new coach at Kentucky who makes no bones about it.

702
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:00,820
 He said, Kentucky's going to be better.

703
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:01,120
 Why?

704
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,760
 Because of me, that is, himself, at the SEC Media Days.

705
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:05,860
 He's cocky.

706
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,840
 So, therefore, you know he's going to be charged up full of hormones.

707
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,340
 I think he's in his 30s or something like that.

708
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:14,580
 He's going to come out and try to show a little bit of aggressiveness there.

709
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:17,180
 Your thoughts just about the matchup this weekend on the road.

710
00:41:19,020 --> 00:41:23,400
 I mean, listen, there's a reason to be leery, I think.

711
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:27,020
 I think Alabama, you know, just sheer talent.

712
00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:28,560
 It's a better team, I would think.

713
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:31,900
 You know, again, I did watch the Kentucky Tate, the Youngstown game.

714
00:41:32,220 --> 00:41:33,820
 They've added a lot of players, man.

715
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,640
 This is not Mark Stoops, three yards and a lot of dust.

716
00:41:37,380 --> 00:41:39,980
 This is an offense that's a little more versatile.

717
00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:43,440
 The quarterback, Minchie, is really – he looked pretty good.

718
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,240
 I mean, he threw for 300 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions.

719
00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:51,100
 And, again, we want to be clear, you know, that's Youngstown, Youngstown State.

720
00:41:51,460 --> 00:41:54,180
 So, you know, not that they're a bad team,

721
00:41:54,260 --> 00:41:56,560
 but they're going to take a major step up, Kentucky is.

722
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,200
 But, look, they're tight ends.

723
00:41:58,300 --> 00:41:59,820
 They've got two really good tight ends.

724
00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:02,760
 Alabama's going to have to be cognizant of both those guys.

725
00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:05,100
 Willie Rodriguez and Mikkel Skinner.

726
00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:10,720
 Those guys caught eight passes combined for over 100 yards and two touchdowns.

727
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:12,100
 So they were productive.

728
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:17,140
 They've got C.J. Baxter now at running back, a transfer from Texas.

729
00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:20,980
 Remember when he came out of high school, some people had him a five-star rated player.

730
00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:27,480
 But they've got another kid, Patterson, who looks really, really good.

731
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,480
 They've got Javante Barnes, who transferred from Oklahoma.

732
00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:31,520
 He didn't play in this game.

733
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:32,880
 He's had some injuries.

734
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:34,580
 I don't know if he'll be ready in this game.

735
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:38,940
 But they're three or four deep with a couple of very talented running backs.

736
00:42:39,260 --> 00:42:42,100
 So, Kentucky looks like they can throw it.

737
00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:43,820
 They look like they can run it.

738
00:42:44,220 --> 00:42:47,800
 And that offensive line has a bunch of transfers, as you guys know,

739
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:52,780
 from high-profile schools, Ohio State, Tennessee, and Alabama.

740
00:42:52,940 --> 00:42:55,740
 Ola Salinas started their right tackle for them, I think.

741
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,760
 So they've got an offensive line that has some credentials defensively.

742
00:43:00,820 --> 00:43:02,720
 Don't know that much about them, really.

743
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:08,860
 I know that they held Youngstown to 59 yards rushing, like 246 passing, something like that.

744
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,520
 So it's going to be real interesting.

745
00:43:11,660 --> 00:43:12,880
 You said road game, Harold.

746
00:43:12,980 --> 00:43:14,020
 I think that's the key.

747
00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:23,620
 Because the Boers teams have lost their first two road openers here, obviously in 24 to Vandy,

748
00:43:23,780 --> 00:43:26,340
 and then last year, the debacle at Florida State.

749
00:43:27,020 --> 00:43:28,280
 So this is a real key.

750
00:43:28,380 --> 00:43:29,280
 How are they going to respond?

751
00:43:29,620 --> 00:43:33,140
 How is Keelan Russell going to respond in this game?

752
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:37,620
 I think they're going to have to do a really good job with him this week.

753
00:43:38,260 --> 00:43:45,780
 Yeah, Lance Hurd was the offensive lineman you were talking about, the tackle from Tennessee.

754
00:43:46,540 --> 00:43:48,380
 Kicking was solid.

755
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,900
 Connor Talti with two kicks.

756
00:43:51,020 --> 00:43:52,640
 And again, I give him credit, Rodney.

757
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:58,880
 He could have quit after that Oklahoma game last year when he got booed for several reasons.

758
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:01,040
 Quinn, boom, the kickoffs.

759
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:02,720
 Boy, he has got a strong leg.

760
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,480
 You mentioned that after the spring game.

761
00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:10,900
 It looks like he could kick a 60-yard field goal without a lot of effort.

762
00:44:11,420 --> 00:44:14,540
 Two punts, average 52 yards.

763
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,480
 Coleman Williams had a 23-yard.

764
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:23,020
 Again, what we all know, he has explosiveness, big play capability.

765
00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:25,260
 I thought the kicking game was pretty good.

766
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,140
 Yeah, it was.

767
00:44:29,260 --> 00:44:32,660
 I thought, you know, like you said, the kickers did a nice job overall.

768
00:44:32,980 --> 00:44:36,700
 So, you know, that was one of the bright spots, the kickers, I would say.

769
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,380
 Sparrow did a really nice job.

770
00:44:40,380 --> 00:44:43,860
 You know, again, he was highly recruited coming out of high school, number one punter by some.

771
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,120
 And was injured with that knee.

772
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:47,480
 But I thought he did a nice job.

773
00:44:47,540 --> 00:44:52,140
 He dropped one inside the 20, averaged, what, 52 on two kicks, I think, is what it was.

774
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,860
 So, you know, I feel good about that aspect of it.

775
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:02,940
 And that was one aspect that I think, you know, talking to people, they were kind of hesitant about, you know, let's see.

776
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,640
 In other words, let's see how it goes.

777
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:06,820
 But I thought it went well.

778
00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:10,020
 You're on the order, by the way, insider.com.

779
00:45:10,020 --> 00:45:12,260
 It's always fun coming into the season.

780
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:13,880
 You talk about this guy and that guy.

781
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,640
 Let's wait until the real deal comes our way and then find out.

782
00:45:17,060 --> 00:45:21,060
 One guy that got a lot of love in a preseason camp was Luke Metz.

783
00:45:21,140 --> 00:45:23,940
 And then coming out of the game, he's still being talked about.

784
00:45:24,060 --> 00:45:30,220
 And to me, he had something that, in my humble opinion, has been missing on this team over the last couple of seasons under DeBoer.

785
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,280
 And that is a natural-born leader.

786
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,420
 This guy seems like he came out of the womb telling his mom to turn on this side, not that side.

787
00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:43,520
 Your thoughts about what he brings as far as an intangible of being a loud voice to kind of hold some of these guys accountable.

788
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,340
 Yeah, I mean, again, a young guy.

789
00:45:48,660 --> 00:45:51,860
 I think he and Woodson together, it's a good combination.

790
00:45:52,660 --> 00:45:55,260
 I think both those guys bring leadership, Caleb Woodson.

791
00:45:56,340 --> 00:46:01,740
 Now, I would tell you, I would watch out for number 11, Xavier Griffin, the young freshman.

792
00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:05,620
 I think he's got a chance to be really, really good.

793
00:46:06,820 --> 00:46:07,920
 So we'll see.

794
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,040
 And he can also be used as a pass rush guy.

795
00:46:11,140 --> 00:46:18,420
 But I just get the hint that, you know, he may eventually be more in the picture there than what people might think right now.

796
00:46:18,620 --> 00:46:20,800
 So keep an eye on the freshman, Xavier Griffin.

797
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:21,780
 He can be really good.

798
00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:24,420
 I thought Pierre did a nice job.

799
00:46:25,100 --> 00:46:27,020
 You know, it was a great play for him, the pick six.

800
00:46:27,460 --> 00:46:36,380
 I thought the defensive front, especially the guys that, you know, the portal guys, just how important they are because they made a big difference.

801
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:41,780
 I mean, those guys, Tompkins, Green, Kendrick Bingley-Jones.

802
00:46:41,940 --> 00:46:46,360
 I'm telling you, some of the players they've recruited out of high school, they looked a little better.

803
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,620
 The Edric Hill, I thought, played a little bit better.

804
00:46:49,580 --> 00:46:54,460
 You know, some of the other guys, Henry, Fatua Henry, of course, he was a JUCO transfer.

805
00:46:55,300 --> 00:46:56,160
 He got in there.

806
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,040
 Bumois got in there at some point.

807
00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:03,460
 So I just think that those guys behind them have to continue to develop.

808
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:07,860
 London Simmons, obviously, because you've got to have that rotation, you know.

809
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,500
 But I feel really good about that.

810
00:47:10,580 --> 00:47:19,400
 Now, the secondary, you know, I don't know if we mentioned this or not, but we certainly mentioned it in some of our TI stuff before the season.

811
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:27,380
 You know, some of the things we were being told behind the scenes about the secondary, allowing guys to get deep, you know, in coverage and open, running free.

812
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,600
 We saw that once in this game, only once.

813
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:32,280
 But still, it was a big play.

814
00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:36,620
 That's something to kind of keep an eye on for teams that can really challenge you down the field.

815
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,600
 Yeah, a lot of talent there, but they've got to communicate a little bit better.

816
00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:45,640
 And O'Neal, the transfer from Mercer, I think has tremendous potential.

817
00:47:46,820 --> 00:47:49,960
 Again, a lot of the corners need to turn around and look for the ball.

818
00:47:50,060 --> 00:47:54,400
 He did not do that, and they completed a 30-yard pass on him.

819
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:55,640
 Rodney, great stuff.

820
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:57,880
 Always the first weeks.

821
00:47:58,060 --> 00:47:58,540
 Interesting.

822
00:47:58,720 --> 00:47:59,900
 We'll learn a lot more.

823
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835
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836
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 Listen, man, thanks so much.

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 Stay cool down there, okay?

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 Hey, guys, appreciate it.

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843
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,060
 We saw what the local judge did in Louisiana.

844
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,700
 What's going to transpire after LSU says, oh, we're just kidding.

845
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,300
 We're not going to add those NFL guys.

846
00:49:11,380 --> 00:49:12,980
 We'll just come up with two more guys.

847
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 What's going to happen this afternoon?

848
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,900
 Well, we'll see.

849
00:49:16,020 --> 00:49:23,520
 I think the judge is not going to be nearly as positive as they were in Louisiana, for lack of a better word.

850
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:31,660
 And then the SEC coaches, not the coaches, but the athletic directors and presidents are going to vote tomorrow.

851
00:49:31,860 --> 00:49:36,320
 I still don't think the SEC is going to vote LSU out of the league.

852
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:43,740
 But, Harold, they did this to show LSU who runs the SEC, and I think they finally got the message.

853
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,640
 Did you get kind of suspicious when the judge in Louisiana came in the courtroom wearing a purple and gold robe?

854
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924
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925
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926
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927
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 A neurosurgeon from Mobile was in court this past Tuesday.

928
00:55:07,220 --> 00:55:12,700
 59-year-old Sean Clark entered a not-guilty plea to the charges of possession and production of child pornography.

929
00:55:13,020 --> 00:55:16,380
 Clark has been in the Mobile County Jail ever since his arrest last week.

930
00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:22,980
 His bond has been set at $450,000 by the judge, and Clark appears to be unable to post that bond at this point in time.

931
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:27,940
 He will be required to be on house arrest and wear an ankle monitor if he is able to meet bail.

932
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:31,380
 A preliminary hearing has been set for Clark for October 13th.

933
00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:32,340
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934
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945
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946
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947
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948
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949
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950
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951
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:54,840
 Rewind.

952
00:56:54,840 --> 00:57:06,800
 On the night of June 11th, 1997, basketball superstar Michael Jordan woke up sweating in a Salt Lake City hotel room with severe food poisoning.

953
00:57:07,400 --> 00:57:17,100
 With the NBA Finals deadlocked at two games apiece, the Chicago Bulls faced an intimidating Utah Jazz crowd in a pivotal Game 5.

954
00:57:17,420 --> 00:57:25,240
 Visibly weak and wrapped in cold towels during timeouts, Jordan dragged his exhausted body onto the hardwood.

955
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,580
 He scored 38 points and scored the tie-breaking three-pointer.

956
00:57:30,140 --> 00:57:34,500
 He collapsed into the arms of teammate Scottie Pippen at the final buzzer.

957
00:57:34,500 --> 00:57:43,180
 This became known as the legendary flu game that submitted Jordan's legacy of superhuman willpower,

958
00:57:43,860 --> 00:57:47,020
 defining competitive greatness in modern sports.

959
00:57:47,420 --> 00:57:52,200
 On that note, I'm James A. Brown, and as always, be well.

960
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961
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964
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965
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966
00:58:27,460 --> 00:58:35,580
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967
00:58:35,580 --> 00:58:38,040
 Jordan Love and the Pack have a golden receiver.

968
00:58:38,460 --> 00:58:42,340
 The Bikes will try to conquer the field thanks to the explosive Justin Jefferson.

969
00:58:42,500 --> 00:58:46,400
 Right side for Jefferson, caught, oh, and a catch.

970
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:52,580
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971
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:57,140
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972
00:59:01,140 --> 00:59:05,340
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973
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974
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975
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976
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977
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978
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979
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980
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,600
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981
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,880
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982
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:56,680
 Your exclusive inside track to the Tigers, Tennessee, and the rest of the SEC.

983
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:02,920
 Now, your host, Harold Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

984
01:00:03,660 --> 01:00:05,640
 Welcome back in, hour two of the Boomo Bugg Show.

985
01:00:05,740 --> 01:00:07,520
 I'm Harold Bugg, alongside Brett Beaird.

986
01:00:07,620 --> 01:00:10,600
 Thank you so much for giving us a free ride around the Tennessee Valley.

987
01:00:10,740 --> 01:00:14,060
 And to kick off the hour by going to the Max.

988
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:20,180
 Max Howell, he planted a seed for a thing called Sports Talk Radio in the entire Southeastern Conference.

989
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:25,560
 And also, former assistant there at Ole Miss and Florida State.

990
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:26,840
 Max Howell, welcome in.

991
01:00:26,900 --> 01:00:27,600
 How are you?

992
01:00:28,260 --> 01:00:28,780
 Doing great.

993
01:00:28,900 --> 01:00:32,160
 I don't hardly claim that Florida State assistant, though, anymore.

994
01:00:32,580 --> 01:00:33,600
 Why not, Max?

995
01:00:36,300 --> 01:00:42,460
 Not only do they don't have enough money to pay the coach off and fire him, they don't have enough to pay the license.

996
01:00:42,460 --> 01:00:42,880
 That's right.

997
01:00:44,300 --> 01:00:47,900
 Max, did you steal the switch in your left hand down there?

998
01:00:47,940 --> 01:00:48,840
 Was that all your fault?

999
01:00:49,500 --> 01:00:50,500
 It may have been.

1000
01:00:51,140 --> 01:00:52,860
 I got really some good news.

1001
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:59,700
 The guy that was sitting out there doing the pre-show broadcasting was Jimbo Fisher.

1002
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,220
 The word I got this morning, he was down there politicking for that job.

1003
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:09,080
 I'm surprised that Jimbo, he just strikes me as being an upright guy that would never stab anybody in the back.

1004
01:01:09,140 --> 01:01:10,420
 Is that your impression, Jimbo?

1005
01:01:11,300 --> 01:01:12,360
 No doubt about it.

1006
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:16,960
 He just comes across as genuine, you know?

1007
01:01:18,460 --> 01:01:19,360
 Well, you know what?

1008
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:20,720
 Think about it, though, guys.

1009
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,440
 You know, he didn't get one of those long-term payouts.

1010
01:01:23,500 --> 01:01:25,300
 They got the $75 million in cash.

1011
01:01:26,100 --> 01:01:26,920
 There you go.

1012
01:01:27,820 --> 01:01:30,200
 So he might take that job for, you know, just pennants.

1013
01:01:30,460 --> 01:01:32,780
 Just doing that they got, you know, financial problems.

1014
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:34,320
 But he wants to get back into coaching.

1015
01:01:34,780 --> 01:01:35,520
 Yeah, man.

1016
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:36,720
 Get the other boys.

1017
01:01:37,580 --> 01:01:39,000
 Yeah, are you surprised?

1018
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:41,880
 Are Ole Miss fans going to court with Lane and supporting this thing?

1019
01:01:41,980 --> 01:01:44,640
 Everybody's picking on Lane Kiffin.

1020
01:01:44,660 --> 01:01:46,760
 Are Ole Miss fans supporting Lane this afternoon?

1021
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,940
 Of all places in Birmingham, Alabama?

1022
01:01:51,020 --> 01:01:51,860
 I doubt it.

1023
01:01:53,420 --> 01:01:55,760
 Right now, he's standing alone.

1024
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:02,180
 I hope the governor and the president of the university is standing behind him.

1025
01:02:02,940 --> 01:02:04,160
 But, you know what, guys?

1026
01:02:04,300 --> 01:02:05,420
 I mean, think about it.

1027
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,420
 I know he's way off key and all that stuff.

1028
01:02:07,900 --> 01:02:16,360
 But if you listen to his interviews, I think he's genuine, sincere in whatever he's trying to do in building that program.

1029
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:17,900
 He's stretching the rules.

1030
01:02:18,500 --> 01:02:27,220
 Guys, any new movement that comes along, go back and think about when the railroad came along or the Industrial Revolution.

1031
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,880
 You don't think those guys at the top didn't stretch the rules.

1032
01:02:31,140 --> 01:02:36,040
 I wasn't there to see this, guys, but I read about it.

1033
01:02:36,380 --> 01:02:40,600
 There were shootings on the congressional floor in Washington over Lane and Bill.

1034
01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:46,360
 So I'm just saying, we've come a long way, you know, and how this thing ends up with him, who knows?

1035
01:02:46,540 --> 01:02:49,740
 I don't look for him to certainly, for LSU to pull out of the conference.

1036
01:02:50,140 --> 01:02:52,120
 And there may be some sanctions along the way.

1037
01:02:52,780 --> 01:03:02,160
 But I don't, another thing, I don't think people that really are critical of Lane Kiffin really recognize how he was raised and where he was raised.

1038
01:03:02,460 --> 01:03:05,020
 And he's doing nothing more than what the NFL does.

1039
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,580
 Because he was, remember, guys, his dad coached 33 years in the NFL.

1040
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:13,760
 I mean, they were fired two or three times, you know, the day of the game.

1041
01:03:14,140 --> 01:03:15,580
 I mean, they had to up and move.

1042
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,840
 So, I mean, he's aware of all those things that he's trying to push through right now.

1043
01:03:20,220 --> 01:03:29,260
 In my opinion, and I'll just give you my interpretation, I think he knows that the major college football, particularly with the SEC and Big Ten,

1044
01:03:29,700 --> 01:03:36,240
 graduated eventually, are going to move off and form their own deal, and they're going to be just a subdivision of the NFL.

1045
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:37,780
 They already started that.

1046
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:38,440
 Yeah.

1047
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,880
 Max, the SEC goes 16-0.

1048
01:03:42,020 --> 01:03:44,020
 I thought they had a chance to do that.

1049
01:03:44,140 --> 01:03:44,940
 Best start.

1050
01:03:45,860 --> 01:03:47,580
 Undefeated since 97.

1051
01:03:48,500 --> 01:03:51,480
 Most of the teams beat overmatched opponents.

1052
01:03:51,740 --> 01:03:54,900
 But Ole Miss had a very entertaining game with Louisville.

1053
01:03:55,320 --> 01:03:56,940
 Kicked the field goal to win it.

1054
01:03:57,020 --> 01:04:02,500
 And then Auburn literally stops Baylor at the goal line on the two-point conversion.

1055
01:04:03,020 --> 01:04:07,440
 Max, before we look at some of the games this week, your thoughts on last weekend.

1056
01:04:08,100 --> 01:04:14,460
 Well, you know, I pulled out of 10 teams that I think has got a really good chance to play well this year.

1057
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:15,680
 And now that's boring.

1058
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:16,820
 We don't know about injury.

1059
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:18,980
 There's no way you can pick projectile net.

1060
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:27,140
 But this is what I saw, LSU, Texas, Ohio State, Miami, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

1061
01:04:27,740 --> 01:04:30,920
 And I put, at my last one, an improved team is Florida.

1062
01:04:31,460 --> 01:04:38,020
 And I think some are all going to pull those out of the mire that they've been in for the last three years.

1063
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:42,560
 But that was just an overlook as I went through.

1064
01:04:42,740 --> 01:04:44,740
 And, of course, I couldn't watch all the games.

1065
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,360
 I will tell you this, though, guys.

1066
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:50,960
 I was in South Carolina with my daughter this way past weekend.

1067
01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:52,200
 And they have a friend.

1068
01:04:52,420 --> 01:04:53,700
 I went over to there.

1069
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:55,600
 And she said, come on over to see this house.

1070
01:04:56,020 --> 01:04:59,360
 They just built a Lake Murray over there.

1071
01:04:59,780 --> 01:05:06,400
 Guys, they had 800-inch TV screens in a row lined across in there dealing.

1072
01:05:07,180 --> 01:05:09,700
 You could watch as many as eight games in one time.

1073
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:17,600
 And you've got to understand, that house had just been built 14,000 square feet on the water.

1074
01:05:20,860 --> 01:05:22,460
 Tiny sum, about $20 million.

1075
01:05:22,660 --> 01:05:22,780
 Yeah.

1076
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:30,460
 My point is, in all that, is they had a recreational room where you could watch all the games.

1077
01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:36,320
 My head was on a swivel for about an hour, trying to keep up on the way the teams were going.

1078
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:40,360
 But, you know, again, I think this time of year, when you look at what teams are,

1079
01:05:40,360 --> 01:05:45,040
 and who ever thought Sam Leavitt would have had the game they did with LSU?

1080
01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:47,540
 This guy has played a snap in a year and a half.

1081
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:53,420
 You know, and he's been hurt on top of it, even to the point where he had a cast on his foot for a while.

1082
01:05:53,940 --> 01:05:58,240
 But I thought he did an outstanding ball game, had an outstanding ball game.

1083
01:05:58,580 --> 01:06:03,300
 And if that's the indication of how good LSU is going to be, they'll get better down the road.

1084
01:06:03,460 --> 01:06:05,100
 But I saw some good football.

1085
01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:09,980
 I really did for an opening day in a season like this.

1086
01:06:10,540 --> 01:06:17,580
 And, you know, old guys like me that went through the other system, the real system of college football,

1087
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:23,160
 how these coaches are able to bring all that, some of them bring it in 40 and 50 guys,

1088
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:28,740
 and manage those guys and get them together to get them on the same page for a first ball game.

1089
01:06:29,140 --> 01:06:34,500
 I think that's what, my opinion, you tell me your opinion, I think the gable, the field,

1090
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:38,240
 I don't agree with a lot of stuff outside, but the gable, the field is better,

1091
01:06:38,580 --> 01:06:40,780
 because there's better athletes than it is.

1092
01:06:41,780 --> 01:06:44,280
 It's a level playing field now with all these transfers.

1093
01:06:44,460 --> 01:06:47,580
 You can no longer, in September, pencil in a win automatically,

1094
01:06:47,980 --> 01:06:54,040
 because who knows what these rosters look like, including the other Tigers from Auburn.

1095
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:56,920
 What message can you send Auburn fans after game one, Max?

1096
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,660
 I just, I have to be honest, coming away from just what I saw,

1097
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,140
 they're going to have to struggle to get another, get a break-even season.

1098
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:07,100
 Maybe seven.

1099
01:07:07,340 --> 01:07:09,880
 Yeah, I think that's the ultimate right now.

1100
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:13,860
 And who ever thought they're in their eighth year,

1101
01:07:14,420 --> 01:07:14,840
 Eighth year.

1102
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,080
 Previous, seven previous years.

1103
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:18,500
 Millions of dollars later.

1104
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,900
 Not yet, not having a winning season.

1105
01:07:22,380 --> 01:07:25,960
 Let me just, I will just tell you, having worked at that level,

1106
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:30,060
 what I see right now, there's interference from some other group somewhere.

1107
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:35,180
 You can't tell me, the track record that Auburn's had for the last 50 years,

1108
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:36,380
 particularly to Coach Dye,

1109
01:07:37,380 --> 01:07:41,780
 but when he passed away and left the program, the whole program fell apart.

1110
01:07:42,540 --> 01:07:42,920
 That's it.

1111
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:47,980
 Somebody is giving some bad, or they're taking bad advice.

1112
01:07:47,980 --> 01:07:48,600
 That's a good point.

1113
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:50,100
 I have no idea of this.

1114
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:51,420
 Thanks.

1115
01:07:51,700 --> 01:07:53,600
 Well, Pat was the sheriff.

1116
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:54,580
 He held it all together.

1117
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:58,140
 That's where the buck stopped, and they knew it, and the minute he was gone,

1118
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,740
 they said, huh, power, money, I think I'm going to jump in there.

1119
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:03,800
 Let's go the other way with it, Max.

1120
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:09,060
 Obviously, Alabama taking on East Carolina, all things being what they are,

1121
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,600
 what's your takeaway from the Tide?

1122
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:14,240
 Two things I saw immediately.

1123
01:08:14,660 --> 01:08:16,020
 The offensive line is better,

1124
01:08:16,020 --> 01:08:21,100
 and I think they're going to have some resemblance of a running game.

1125
01:08:21,580 --> 01:08:23,920
 And I thought the defense played well as well.

1126
01:08:24,480 --> 01:08:27,240
 And by all means, I think the selection of the quarterback,

1127
01:08:27,620 --> 01:08:29,960
 it's more down to two.

1128
01:08:30,620 --> 01:08:35,720
 I think the one that they chose to run the offense, I think, is the right guy.

1129
01:08:36,140 --> 01:08:37,860
 He was cool, under pressure.

1130
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:41,100
 He got out of the pocket two or three times, but he made something happen,

1131
01:08:41,220 --> 01:08:41,760
 what he did.

1132
01:08:42,340 --> 01:08:43,580
 And that's pretty good.

1133
01:08:43,820 --> 01:08:45,740
 I think he's a redshirt freshman, I believe.

1134
01:08:46,220 --> 01:08:50,400
 But the fact is, I think Alabama's got a chance.

1135
01:08:51,400 --> 01:09:00,980
 But something bothers me about watching them play about their preparation to get to that level.

1136
01:09:01,460 --> 01:09:07,320
 They just don't seem to be as refined, I guess is the word I'm looking for.

1137
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:07,460
 Hungry.

1138
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:18,500
 As the Alabama teams of recent, the little things, certainly they've got all the talent in the world to do that.

1139
01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:26,000
 And so what I'm seeing, guys, is things that happen to them negatively can be corrected, mostly in practice.

1140
01:09:26,500 --> 01:09:31,600
 But how those practice sessions are put together, we'll never know.

1141
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:38,580
 But you look at where the technology comes from and the experience comes from at the head coaching job,

1142
01:09:38,840 --> 01:09:44,420
 and look at the systems he played in or played against, it's nowhere close to what the SEC is.

1143
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:49,640
 And I think that has something to do with the inconsistency that I've seen at Alabama before.

1144
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:54,760
 I think not to me what's happened this year, because I think they got off to a really good start.

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 But I'll be really, really interested to watch them week by week to see how much improvement is.

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 Because, guys, from week one to week three, that's where if you're going to get better, that's where you're going to get better.

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 So we'll get a chance to watch that.

1148
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 Max, let me ask you about Ohio State and Texas.

1149
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 You've got all the marquee quarterbacks, Manning and Singh, and then Jeremiah Smith, Kim Coleman.

1150
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 To me, the winner of this game is going to be who plays the best defense.

1151
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 There's a lot of pressure on Sarkeesian.

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 He's lost to Georgia two or three times, lost to Ohio State.

1153
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 Max, how much difference will Muschamp make for Texas?

1154
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 I think it strictly depends on how much leeway he's got in practice every day.

1155
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 How much leeway do they give him to run different drills?

1156
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 That's where it starts.

1157
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 Then how does the team react to those drills if they're completely different?

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 Guys, there's certain programs out there in the country that you look and you have to know.

1159
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 We just named one in Auburn right now.

1160
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 You know the last time Texas A&M won a national championship?

1161
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 The 34.

1162
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 That's what I'm talking about.

1163
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 It gets along with coach there.

1164
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 Coach Brown was there.

1165
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 Gene Starling was there.

1166
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 Jackie Sherry was there.

1167
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 They've had some named coaches go through, but they couldn't win a net.

1168
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 So that, again, that's another program that's got to be some kind of influence going on from the inside

1169
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 on the faculty or wherever or maybe a group of alums that has some control over what's being done.

1170
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 Until somebody steps up and wins one, evidently Texas, I mean, think about it.

1171
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 They've won one in 20 years, Texas, won one national championship.

1172
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 So how do you do that?

1173
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 Well, you know under this system that we have now, it's all about the money.

1174
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 It takes us two things they've got.

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 and in the state that's got the most high school recruits.

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 Now, I know the high school kids aren't there, but the talented kids,

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 even though if they go somewhere else and burn off that first year or two,

1179
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 when they jump in the portal, a lot of those kids came from the state of Texas

1180
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 and were actually trained in good high school football programs.

1181
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 So I look at all that stuff when it comes to trying to evaluate.

1182
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 When there's teams like that out there that just can't quite get over the hump,

1183
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 I just scratch my head and say, you know, there's other influences that's going on

1184
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 in those programs because those guys don't get those head jobs

1185
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 and keep them that long without, really, without being talented

1186
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 and having a way to get through some of the stuff that you've got to go through

1187
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 and working at the college level.

1188
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 But I say all that to tell you, I can't wait that the Ohio State-Texas game this weekend

1189
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 I think should be one of the better games you'll see all year long.

1190
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 Yeah, absolutely.

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 Great stuff, Max.

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 We always appreciate the time.

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 The holiday threw us a little bit off on the schedule.

1194
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 We'll try it again next Monday.

1195
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 Listen, buddy, have a great week.

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 We always enjoy the conversation.

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 Always do, guys.

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 My pleasure.

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 Thank you so much here.

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 Brett's on the call before with the pregame, halftime, and postgame.

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 from the Alpha to the Omega.

1314
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 Brett, welcome in.

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 How are you?

1316
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 Boy, there's a lot in between the Alpha and Omega, though, Harold.

1317
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 We always seem to find Epsilon and Omicron.

1318
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 And if you've been to Ole Miss, that's where you'll learn Greek

1319
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 because that is a frat sorority heaven.

1320
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 I guarantee you, Brett.

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 Talk to us about this team.

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 Everybody's been waiting for Game 1,

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 and we'll get to the obvious topic of one lane, give in a sec.

1324
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 But now that the game is in the books,

1325
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 what did you learn about Ole Miss, the first chapter on the new era?

1326
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 I think it was more confirmed.

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 and I think we know what we have in Deuce Alexander.

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 And we know we have a lot of talent.

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 And some of that talent at times didn't perform that great on Sunday night,

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 but at times it did.

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 It was really three games.

1334
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 Ole Miss ended up scoring 41 points,

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 and that was with a goose egg in the first quarter.

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 So over the next three quarters,

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 John David Baker and Coach Joe Judge really got the offense humming.

1338
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 And then the defense kind of let down a little bit

1339
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 after really getting after young Lincoln Keenholz early.

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 And he proved to be a real battler, scrapper, player,

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 a real gamesmanship that he displayed.

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 And he kept fighting.

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 If this was the end of the first Rocky,

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 it's when you say, ain't going to be no rematch.

1345
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 Let's get the heck out of here.

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 Brent, that was one of the things I was going to mention.

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 I've heard all the criticism about the Ole Miss defense,

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 and I guarantee you Pete wasn't happy about some things.

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 But the SEC went undefeated 16-0, first time since 97.

1350
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 But I think Ole Miss learned more about their team playing a good team.

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 And you're right, Keenholz was marvelous in the second half.

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 Brent, I would rather have played a game like Ole Miss did against Louisville

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 and get pushed, learn from your mistakes,

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 than beating somebody 50-0.

1355
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1357
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 It's the first thing Coach Pete Golding said to me post-game.

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 We did win.

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 He said, yes, we did.

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 And you learn a lot more than this.

1362
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 I see it.

1363
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 Against some of the other opponents that a lot of people played.

1364
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1365
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 but a lot of the directionals and the hyphens,

1366
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 we could have cruised the 58-0

1367
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 and maybe not have found out as much.

1368
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 Now, he also said this.

1369
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 Everybody else saw it, too.

1370
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 And all these other good teams that Ole Miss is going to play.

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 And it's a little bit like that second time through the batting order

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1373
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 But that's part of it.

1374
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 But, you know, we've come a million miles at Ole Miss

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 that we win on the last-second field goal, 41-38.

1376
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 And we're kind of sitting around droopsy about it after the game.

1377
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 Yes.

1378
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 And I agree with you.

1379
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 It's all relative to the competition.

1380
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:49,040
 Brett, obviously, your thoughts, you have a lot on your plate there.

1381
01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:53,160
 And I'm sure no one's asked you, what about that former coach at Ole Miss?

1382
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,240
 Now, basically, it's going to be, I guess, I'm looking at the clock here.

1383
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 Either he or his team is in a courtroom down the road from us in Birmingham.

1384
01:23:01,220 --> 01:23:02,560
 A little bit different judge.

1385
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 I don't think this judge is wearing a robe that's got purple and gold in it.

1386
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:08,600
 What is your takeaway?

1387
01:23:08,780 --> 01:23:09,440
 You know Lane.

1388
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:10,360
 You know the story.

1389
01:23:10,460 --> 01:23:11,260
 You know football.

1390
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 You know the SEC.

1391
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 Brett, where do you start trying to give your perspective on this crazy story?

1392
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 I really hate it for him.

1393
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 It's the wheelhouse of his life and of his career to kind of get balled up in this,

1394
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:27,540
 in this quicksand.

1395
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 There was just no way to kind of save face and hit that comfortable off-ramp.

1396
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 And I don't know why he pushed this.

1397
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 He's got a great team.

1398
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 Yes.

1399
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 He's going to win big for LSU over the next 10 years.

1400
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 And we all know it.

1401
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 You know, just one of the great jurists ever.

1402
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 This has been the most Hugo Black has been mentioned in years, isn't it?

1403
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 Yes.

1404
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 It's been a good week for Justice Black, hasn't it?

1405
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 What's the ticket going for the LSU Ole Miss game right now?

1406
01:23:59,160 --> 01:24:00,940
 More than I could pay without that credential.

1407
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 Yeah, without a gun and a mask, right?

1408
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 A lot more.

1409
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 But, you know, that's the marketplace.

1410
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 And that's why it so infuriated me several weeks ago when the senator from Louisiana,

1411
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 Senator John Kennedy, wanted to put in, into the Protect College Sports Act,

1412
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 the limiting of a cap on ticket sales, on ticket prices.

1413
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 Here's the cap on ticket prices.

1414
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 It's called the free market.

1415
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 Stuff's helped in business every day doing it.

1416
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 That's right.

1417
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 If you don't want to pay it, don't pay it.

1418
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:33,100
 That's right.

1419
01:24:33,880 --> 01:24:36,160
 Sit home and up with us, right?

1420
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:37,660
 That's it.

1421
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 And I'm just a market person.

1422
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 I know y'all are, too.

1423
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 And I believe in supply, and I believe in demand, and I believe if we'll let it work.

1424
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 But, you know, to be a supposed conservative and put in, you know,

1425
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 almost price supports from the early 70s, that's evocative of an era we know didn't work.

1426
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 Yeah, right.

1427
01:24:56,780 --> 01:24:57,580
 Yeah, yeah.

1428
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 Capitalist system, Brett, you know that.

1429
01:25:00,820 --> 01:25:01,900
 It didn't work every time.

1430
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 You got it.

1431
01:25:02,860 --> 01:25:10,040
 Let me ask you about three former Alabama players and how they did, what you've heard about them.

1432
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:17,940
 Jaheim Otis, Antonio Cite, Jordan Renard, those guys got caught up in a little bit of a numbers game.

1433
01:25:18,100 --> 01:25:19,560
 Otis had some injuries.

1434
01:25:20,700 --> 01:25:23,140
 I heard their names a couple of times.

1435
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:25,700
 Brett, how did they play against Louisville?

1436
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 Well, Antonio Cite was playing great, but got hurt early, and he's one of the two, I think,

1437
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:33,380
 our corners with Brackson and Cite are up there with the best.

1438
01:25:33,480 --> 01:25:35,800
 He got hurt early and didn't get to play a lot.

1439
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:41,780
 Jaheim Otis, what he did in just kind of stuffing the middle, he's more of a run-down guy.

1440
01:25:41,940 --> 01:25:45,240
 You're not really going to want him to get after the quarterback, and then Renard is.

1441
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 You want him to get after the quarterback.

1442
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:50,820
 Let me add another one to tie it in, Caleb Odom, who had a really, really nice game.

1443
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 And Caleb got dinged up, and I'm down on the sideline,

1444
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 and you can kind of tell when they can go back in and when they can.

1445
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 I said, Caleb, are you okay?

1446
01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:00,620
 And he gave me that look of, no, I'm not.

1447
01:26:00,860 --> 01:26:03,000
 Get a look up, he's back in, and he catches a touchdown.

1448
01:26:05,580 --> 01:26:11,520
 Kind of the second guy in the route tree, Trinidad couldn't go to the first guy that he wanted to,

1449
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:15,840
 so he wanted to go to Horatio Fields and then had to go to Caleb.

1450
01:26:16,180 --> 01:26:20,060
 And we had him on with his postgame, just delightful, and he is so athletic.

1451
01:26:20,060 --> 01:26:23,780
 Now, he's not the traditional in-line blocking guy.

1452
01:26:23,900 --> 01:26:28,960
 And he won't be confused with Ozzie Newsome out there, or Michael Williams,

1453
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:33,700
 or some of the other good tight ends that we've all known about, O.J. Howard even.

1454
01:26:34,280 --> 01:26:37,340
 But when you put him out in the slot, it's such a mismatch.

1455
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:42,520
 And then you can leave Luke Haz then as the in-line blocker type tight end.

1456
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:45,660
 But we had trouble getting the ball to the tight ends for a lot of the night.

1457
01:26:45,660 --> 01:26:49,980
 And only three or four catches, far, Caleb, 66 yards and a touchdown.

1458
01:26:50,220 --> 01:26:55,620
 But Trinidad bailed us out at the end, and I told Coach Golding, I said, we've seen this movie before.

1459
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,640
 Same a**, same yardage.

1460
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,640
 And with Sean McDonough on the TV call.

1461
01:27:02,220 --> 01:27:03,560
 Brett, I'll tell you this.

1462
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:06,300
 I hear about all of the great players.

1463
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:08,740
 Smith at Ohio State.

1464
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:10,440
 Arch at Texas.

1465
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:11,620
 Go on and on.

1466
01:27:11,780 --> 01:27:20,040
 But if Trinidad Chamblin stays healthy, he'll be in New York at the end of the season for the Heisman Trophy.

1467
01:27:20,220 --> 01:27:21,580
 He's an incredible player.

1468
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,660
 Always enjoy the conversation.

1469
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:26,960
 We've got to run to a tennis update, Brett.

1470
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:28,720
 Listen, have a great season.

1471
01:27:29,260 --> 01:27:30,140
 Have a great week.

1472
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:31,660
 Let's do this again real soon.

1473
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:32,620
 Real soon.

1474
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:33,160
 Count on it.

1475
01:27:33,700 --> 01:27:34,440
 Sounds great.

1476
01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:35,000
 There you have it.

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1483
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:03,440
 Irina Sabalenka has been ranked number one the past 99 weeks.

1484
01:28:03,540 --> 01:28:04,080
 No more.

1485
01:28:04,460 --> 01:28:08,880
 Even with Sabalenka's quarterfinal win yesterday, her 19th win in a row at the U.S. Open,

1486
01:28:09,300 --> 01:28:11,700
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1487
01:28:11,700 --> 01:28:14,780
 She won her quarterfinal match today with Quinn Wan-Jang.

1488
01:28:14,880 --> 01:28:16,680
 3-6-6-1-6-4.

1489
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:17,940
 The women's semis are tomorrow.

1490
01:28:18,440 --> 01:28:23,460
 Sabalenka versus Jess Pagula Rabacana against the winner of Coco Gauff and Mira Andreeva.

1491
01:28:23,540 --> 01:28:24,280
 Their match underway.

1492
01:28:24,440 --> 01:28:26,720
 It's already 3-love Andreeva.

1493
01:28:26,780 --> 01:28:31,680
 After this match, it's a men's quarterfinal between two players not expected to get this far.

1494
01:28:31,780 --> 01:28:35,520
 Unseated Corinne Ketchinov and a relative unknown, Alexander Blox.

1495
01:28:35,900 --> 01:28:40,280
 Then there's Botek van de Sonskulp, 30-year-old from the Netherlands, ranked 70th.

1496
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:41,620
 He's never won a tournament tonight.

1497
01:28:42,020 --> 01:28:47,680
 He'll try to upset top seed Alex Zverev, who in an oddity is playing his fifth straight evening match.

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1610
01:35:04,440 --> 01:35:06,240
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1611
01:35:06,580 --> 01:35:08,820
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1612
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:12,680
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1613
01:35:12,960 --> 01:35:14,880
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1614
01:35:15,220 --> 01:35:18,760
 With opinions thrown in from some of the most knowledgeable reporters in the business.

1615
01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:20,500
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1616
01:35:20,820 --> 01:35:21,360
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1617
01:35:22,060 --> 01:35:23,120
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1618
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:28,300
 Now, back with Boomo Bugg on 93.9 The Score.

1619
01:35:28,820 --> 01:35:29,500
 I'm going back in.

1620
01:35:29,560 --> 01:35:31,120
 Time for us to check out Drew Jarman.

1621
01:35:31,260 --> 01:35:34,320
 He's the host of Talking Ball and Huntsville's 97.7 FM The Zone.

1622
01:35:34,400 --> 01:35:35,440
 Double D, welcome in.

1623
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:36,100
 How are you?

1624
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:45,960
 Drew's probably still busy trying to figure out what happened in Game 1 of the college football season.

1625
01:35:46,040 --> 01:35:46,840
 A lot going on.

1626
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:50,800
 It seemed like it had been a month of Sundays since that happened with all the stuff off the field.

1627
01:35:50,940 --> 01:35:52,680
 Florida State, Lane, Kevin, etc.

1628
01:35:53,060 --> 01:35:56,440
 But let's see if Drew is still focused on what happened on the field.

1629
01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:57,720
 Drew, are you with us now?

1630
01:36:00,620 --> 01:36:02,060
 Guess we'll be waiting on Drew.

1631
01:36:02,300 --> 01:36:05,580
 Mimi, your thoughts while we wait on Drew to get connected with us.

1632
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:08,280
 Obviously, we talked there with Brent Norrisworthy.

1633
01:36:08,480 --> 01:36:09,800
 We talked with Max Howell.

1634
01:36:10,320 --> 01:36:14,780
 And these guys, basically, Brent covered Lane game in and game out.

1635
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,540
 He is a sideline reporter for the Rebs, so he knows him personally.

1636
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:19,080
 Max is in the state of Mississippi.

1637
01:36:19,580 --> 01:36:24,220
 After listening to those two guys, how does that change your perspective on what's going on with Lane?

1638
01:36:24,300 --> 01:36:29,180
 Which, by the way, if you're just joining us, that story is happening and developing even as we speak.

1639
01:36:29,420 --> 01:36:33,620
 Supposedly, it's had some type of delay that we haven't been told in the courtroom down in Birmingham.

1640
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:37,560
 Harold, I think everybody knows, and Drew's rejoined us.

1641
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:42,500
 I think everybody knows Lane is a scoundrel off the field.

1642
01:36:42,500 --> 01:36:47,060
 Now, on the field, he's a very good football coach.

1643
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:52,680
 Again, I asked Dabo Sweeney and Clemson about that coming from Saturday night.

1644
01:36:52,900 --> 01:36:55,300
 But, yeah, he had no business pushing this.

1645
01:36:55,680 --> 01:36:58,420
 But, again, you know, it's just Lane being Lane.

1646
01:36:59,060 --> 01:37:03,320
 Well, Lane loves social media like a lot of folks, and he loves having his name out there.

1647
01:37:03,380 --> 01:37:04,360
 So, we'll see where it lands.

1648
01:37:04,960 --> 01:37:08,440
 Drew DeArmond is host, Talking Ball and Hustle is 97.7 FM, The Zone.

1649
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:10,360
 Drew, are you with us on that third try?

1650
01:37:10,420 --> 01:37:10,920
 How are you?

1651
01:37:11,420 --> 01:37:12,400
 Yeah, I'm right here.

1652
01:37:12,500 --> 01:37:12,900
 There you go, buddy.

1653
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:16,020
 Not sure what happened there, but get ready to roll.

1654
01:37:16,580 --> 01:37:19,380
 I think what was in charge, they must have had the guy at Florida State.

1655
01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:20,180
 That's what it was.

1656
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:21,380
 It's that on-off switch.

1657
01:37:21,480 --> 01:37:23,280
 It kind of gets us confused sometimes, Drew.

1658
01:37:23,420 --> 01:37:26,240
 But game up, week one, by the way, is now in the books.

1659
01:37:26,380 --> 01:37:29,840
 What is your takeaway from week one across the college landscape?

1660
01:37:31,340 --> 01:37:34,560
 Well, I mean, I thought the SEC had a really good opening weekend.

1661
01:37:34,560 --> 01:37:40,580
 And, of course, I think in most cases they should have, but they were, you know, they're in some really favorable mashups.

1662
01:37:40,780 --> 01:37:44,460
 Certainly, the Louisville Ole Miss game, I think, was the best game of the weekend.

1663
01:37:44,740 --> 01:37:47,980
 I think Brom has got a really good team at Louisville.

1664
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,840
 I think they're probably going to be a top three or four team in the ACC.

1665
01:37:52,140 --> 01:37:54,480
 I don't think Florida State's very good.

1666
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:56,480
 I mean, I think that's pretty obvious.

1667
01:37:56,780 --> 01:38:05,540
 I mean, when SMU can play their C-minus game and turn the ball over four times and still find a way to win on the road

1668
01:38:05,540 --> 01:38:12,020
 with the lights not working because of a situation, from what I understand, that happened.

1669
01:38:12,140 --> 01:38:14,860
 Someone crashed into a transformer the day before.

1670
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,080
 Half the town was out of power.

1671
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:18,360
 They get it all back.

1672
01:38:18,900 --> 01:38:23,920
 And then they go to, you know, to flip the transformer at the stadium and it blows.

1673
01:38:24,620 --> 01:38:28,760
 Then, you know, that's just sort of Florida State in a nutshell right now.

1674
01:38:28,920 --> 01:38:30,760
 I mean, they're just kind of running in place.

1675
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:37,880
 They, you know, I think we understand, you know, that Mike Norvell's probably on his last legs there.

1676
01:38:38,380 --> 01:38:42,980
 He's lasted probably a couple more years than many wanted him to at FSU.

1677
01:38:42,980 --> 01:38:47,160
 And so it will be really interesting to see what they do going forward.

1678
01:38:47,600 --> 01:38:52,860
 But certainly, and then I think I really feel bad for Lance Taylor.

1679
01:38:53,340 --> 01:38:55,260
 And he's a former Bama guy.

1680
01:38:55,860 --> 01:38:56,940
 He's like Dabo.

1681
01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:58,420
 He's a walk-on wide receiver.

1682
01:38:58,980 --> 01:39:00,140
 His dad played at Alabama.

1683
01:39:00,380 --> 01:39:07,520
 He busted his tail to walk on and earn a scholarship and become a really good special teams player for the Tide.

1684
01:39:08,060 --> 01:39:09,420
 Then he worked for Nick Saban.

1685
01:39:09,540 --> 01:39:11,500
 He's worked his way up to coaching fraternity.

1686
01:39:11,500 --> 01:39:14,420
 And he beat the University of Michigan.

1687
01:39:15,100 --> 01:39:17,880
 I think there's no question in my mind that happened.

1688
01:39:18,300 --> 01:39:20,160
 I watched it all unfold live.

1689
01:39:20,320 --> 01:39:27,520
 I was, quite frankly, stunned when they came up with the BS that there was a second left on the clock.

1690
01:39:28,300 --> 01:39:29,460
 I'll be honest with you.

1691
01:39:29,500 --> 01:39:33,160
 It reminded me of the 1972 U.S. gold medal game.

1692
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:43,220
 I wasn't alive, but I've seen the replay of that where they let them run the last play three times until the Russians scored to beat the Americans.

1693
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:53,060
 And rightfully, Doug Collins and those American players never accepted the outcome and did not accept their silver medals, nor should they, because they were robbed.

1694
01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:57,920
 And it reminded me of Alabama being robbed in 2022 in Knoxville.

1695
01:39:58,140 --> 01:39:59,200
 It was highway robbery.

1696
01:39:59,580 --> 01:40:01,060
 I mean, that's just all there is to it.

1697
01:40:01,620 --> 01:40:03,340
 There's nothing that the Big Ten could do.

1698
01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:08,940
 Actually, it really makes Michigan and the Big Ten look really, really pathetic, in my opinion.

1699
01:40:09,120 --> 01:40:18,020
 I mean, because if the shoe were on the other foot and Michigan had been playing defense and Western Michigan throws that ball out of the end zone,

1700
01:40:18,440 --> 01:40:22,880
 I can guarantee you both there would not have been a second put Maddox on that clock.

1701
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:30,040
 Michigan would have been running out of the stadium, acting like they won the national championship, just like they did after that.

1702
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:36,820
 And what I hope happens on Saturday is Oklahoma comes to the Big House and burns it to the ground.

1703
01:40:37,240 --> 01:40:41,860
 I hope they destroy Michigan, make a statement, and I hope Texas does, too.

1704
01:40:42,240 --> 01:40:44,840
 I hope they take the two biggest programs.

1705
01:40:45,060 --> 01:40:47,380
 You know, Indiana right now is the champion, of course.

1706
01:40:47,820 --> 01:40:53,620
 But I hope the two programs with the most lineage take a tail-kicking this weekend.

1707
01:40:53,800 --> 01:40:56,420
 I think the SEC has got a chance to make a statement.

1708
01:40:56,420 --> 01:41:00,960
 And let's not forget, you know, Mississippi State's traveling to Minnesota as well.

1709
01:41:01,660 --> 01:41:01,720
 Yeah.

1710
01:41:02,340 --> 01:41:03,340
 Yeah, absolutely.

1711
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:05,180
 And Arkansas is going to Utah.

1712
01:41:05,440 --> 01:41:07,840
 Some very interesting games on the schedule.

1713
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:13,680
 D2, everybody wanted to know, would the offensive line for Alabama be improved?

1714
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:15,380
 I think they are.

1715
01:41:16,020 --> 01:41:18,020
 Will Sanders had an oblique injury.

1716
01:41:18,220 --> 01:41:20,500
 Walter came in and they alternated.

1717
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:23,080
 Would the running game improve?

1718
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:23,540
 Yes.

1719
01:41:23,540 --> 01:41:27,760
 I think you can look at the potential, certainly, of these running backs.

1720
01:41:28,540 --> 01:41:30,460
 What's Keelan Russell going to do?

1721
01:41:30,460 --> 01:41:35,600
 He made some mistakes, but you can see he's dripping with potential.

1722
01:41:36,320 --> 01:41:41,420
 What kind of got overlooked a little bit, I know it's ECU, was this defense.

1723
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:49,020
 Three sacks, five tackles for a loss, eight punts, 162 toe yards.

1724
01:41:49,140 --> 01:41:53,960
 One of those came on a 68-yard miscommunication with the safeties.

1725
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:56,880
 D2, I thought the defense played pretty well.

1726
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:04,620
 Well, I thought the defense probably was an A-, and the offense was a solid B.

1727
01:42:05,320 --> 01:42:07,920
 That's why, and the special teams was an A.

1728
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:08,320
 Yeah.

1729
01:42:08,480 --> 01:42:10,680
 I gave the overall team a B+.

1730
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:12,440
 I mean, I thought they played well.

1731
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:16,460
 Certainly, I think there's a lot to clean up on offense.

1732
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:21,280
 I mean, you know, Ryan Coleman-Williams has got to catch the football.

1733
01:42:21,700 --> 01:42:23,400
 He's got to stop body catching.

1734
01:42:24,120 --> 01:42:30,860
 They were very fortunate he didn't, you know, force a, or cause, excuse me, a red zone turnover

1735
01:42:30,860 --> 01:42:33,700
 with an interception off a drop ball.

1736
01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:38,920
 But luckily, it's a free play because Keelan knew that the guy was offside.

1737
01:42:39,060 --> 01:42:43,340
 So, he threw it to Ryan, and Ryan should have caught the football, but he didn't, and it

1738
01:42:43,340 --> 01:42:44,060
 was intercepted.

1739
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:46,760
 But they got another opportunity, and they cashed it in.

1740
01:42:47,340 --> 01:42:50,900
 Certainly, the other drop, I don't think Ryan even needed to jump.

1741
01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:55,840
 I think he could have let the ball come to him and then turned and made a play, which he

1742
01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:57,020
 did later in the game.

1743
01:42:57,400 --> 01:43:02,700
 So, hopefully, they can work through that because when he does catch the football, he

1744
01:43:02,700 --> 01:43:05,980
 is one of the best run-after-the-catch guys in college football.

1745
01:43:06,540 --> 01:43:07,780
 There's no doubt about it.

1746
01:43:07,860 --> 01:43:12,640
 And with a guy like Keelan Russell that can extend plays, you know, I think they've got

1747
01:43:12,640 --> 01:43:14,620
 a chance to do some really good things this year.

1748
01:43:15,280 --> 01:43:19,460
 Also, I mean, I think these guys are getting used to playing with Keelan in a game.

1749
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:21,500
 Caleb Edwards dropped a touchdown.

1750
01:43:21,900 --> 01:43:23,900
 Luckily, they still cashed that win as well.

1751
01:43:24,420 --> 01:43:29,300
 I mean, that was what I called the pistol, and what I mean by that is Keelan Russell,

1752
01:43:29,500 --> 01:43:33,120
 they thought he was going to run the ball in, and then he sort of no-looks through it

1753
01:43:33,120 --> 01:43:37,500
 like Pistol P would hit somebody in the face back in the day because they didn't realize,

1754
01:43:37,700 --> 01:43:39,420
 whoops, this guy can see everything.

1755
01:43:40,120 --> 01:43:43,380
 And so, you're having to get used to playing with a talent like Keelan.

1756
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:47,520
 He certainly helped the offensive line because the O-line was good.

1757
01:43:47,660 --> 01:43:48,800
 I don't think it was great.

1758
01:43:48,940 --> 01:43:53,960
 Certainly, they did have some breakdowns in pass protection, but he's a good enough athlete

1759
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:57,600
 where he can still make things happen, and he did throughout that game.

1760
01:43:57,800 --> 01:44:01,820
 And so, I think, you know, Javon James had some really nice moments.

1761
01:44:02,140 --> 01:44:03,360
 So did Jackson Lloyd.

1762
01:44:03,780 --> 01:44:05,440
 They're going to have to be a little more consistent.

1763
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:12,340
 And I think Racine Delgatti, personally, I thought the holding call was horrendous.

1764
01:44:12,420 --> 01:44:12,780
 Bogus.

1765
01:44:12,840 --> 01:44:18,840
 On that long run, Treshawn Brown, it should have been a 68-yard touchdown.

1766
01:44:19,180 --> 01:44:21,580
 And I think he's been taking kind of some undue heat.

1767
01:44:22,040 --> 01:44:25,460
 I mean, certainly, I think he played better than he's been giving credit for.

1768
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:30,920
 And, you know, guys like Cole Kubelik, guys I respect, you know, that have that acumen,

1769
01:44:31,060 --> 01:44:32,160
 I think agree with that.

1770
01:44:32,480 --> 01:44:33,920
 I think he's going to be a good player.

1771
01:44:34,440 --> 01:44:38,000
 And I just think, overall, the offense has got a lot of potential.

1772
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:40,780
 I think they need to get Noah Rogers back, certainly.

1773
01:44:41,300 --> 01:44:44,160
 He'll give them more depth in that wide receiver.

1774
01:44:44,420 --> 01:44:48,680
 But I thought Derek Meadows, he didn't get a ton of opportunities, but I thought he took

1775
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:53,320
 advantage of his, and hopefully, you know, he's going to continue to improve.

1776
01:44:53,900 --> 01:44:58,780
 And then, you know, obviously, when I look at the defense, I agree with you, Brett.

1777
01:44:58,840 --> 01:45:00,620
 I thought the run defense was outstanding.

1778
01:45:01,380 --> 01:45:06,400
 The mistakes in the secondary were the only concern, and I think those are correctable

1779
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:12,480
 just by continuing to rep and practice and make sure the communication is good.

1780
01:45:12,760 --> 01:45:16,840
 Because, look, they being Brown and Bray Hubbard are both really good to great football players.

1781
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:18,740
 I think they'll fix that stuff.

1782
01:45:19,100 --> 01:45:20,940
 But certainly, I thought they did a nice job.

1783
01:45:21,040 --> 01:45:26,660
 And then the one thing I thought going into camp, the biggest question mark was the linebackers.

1784
01:45:27,020 --> 01:45:28,420
 And I thought they looked outstanding.

1785
01:45:28,660 --> 01:45:31,560
 Caleb Woodson looked really good.

1786
01:45:31,560 --> 01:45:35,620
 I thought, you know, I thought they got a lot out of QB Reese.

1787
01:45:36,100 --> 01:45:39,120
 And then, of course, Yonce Pierre put on a freak show.

1788
01:45:39,580 --> 01:45:41,200
 Justin Hill was really good.

1789
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:42,820
 And then my guy, Luzmet.

1790
01:45:43,060 --> 01:45:46,160
 So I think the linebacker core looks more athletic and faster,

1791
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:48,080
 which is going to help Alabama.

1792
01:45:48,640 --> 01:45:51,560
 And, you know, we had Jeff Collins on the show this morning.

1793
01:45:51,720 --> 01:45:53,160
 You know, you guys know Coach Collins.

1794
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:54,920
 He worked for Coach Saban.

1795
01:45:55,060 --> 01:45:56,980
 He was the head coach at Georgia Tech in Temple.

1796
01:45:57,460 --> 01:46:00,200
 And he's been an SEC and ACC defensive coordinator.

1797
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:04,380
 He was really impressed with what Kane Womack did in the game.

1798
01:46:04,500 --> 01:46:06,560
 He thought they did a lot more pattern matching,

1799
01:46:06,980 --> 01:46:09,180
 a lot more man defense in the secondary.

1800
01:46:09,180 --> 01:46:16,160
 And, of course, that comes off of admitting that he spent a lot of time talking ball with Nick Saban in the offseason.

1801
01:46:17,420 --> 01:46:23,100
 Alabama, Kentucky, first road game for a young buck on the road at quarterback.

1802
01:46:23,660 --> 01:46:26,540
 What's the word on Bama and Kentucky this weekend?

1803
01:46:27,540 --> 01:46:31,200
 Well, I mean, I think Alabama matches up well there, certainly.

1804
01:46:31,940 --> 01:46:37,780
 One thing that I think they need more of that we didn't see a lot of against East Carolina is more, you know,

1805
01:46:38,340 --> 01:46:43,340
 pressures that are, you know, not just not, you know, certainly they didn't blitz a lot either.

1806
01:46:43,480 --> 01:46:45,940
 And they'll blitz some, I'm sure, against Kentucky.

1807
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:50,840
 But they just need to be able to pressure the QB organically.

1808
01:46:51,460 --> 01:46:53,540
 They need to win some one-on-one matchups.

1809
01:46:53,660 --> 01:46:56,920
 They need to move Menchie off his spot, make him uncomfortable.

1810
01:46:57,580 --> 01:47:00,620
 Certainly need to win the plus-minus on the road.

1811
01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:07,440
 And I think starting fast would be very, very beneficial because I do agree, you know, with Will Stein.

1812
01:47:07,440 --> 01:47:12,260
 I think it's going to be a crowd that's very boisterous and loud, and they're going to be excited.

1813
01:47:12,560 --> 01:47:19,000
 So I think Alabama needs to quiet them quickly, you know, come out, you know, set the tone physically,

1814
01:47:19,500 --> 01:47:22,540
 and then take care of the football and win this game.

1815
01:47:22,700 --> 01:47:25,000
 And certainly I'm super excited.

1816
01:47:25,140 --> 01:47:28,620
 One thing that I really enjoyed, we mentioned Treshawn Brown,

1817
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:32,760
 but one thing I did mention on your show that I felt like would happen, and it did,

1818
01:47:33,100 --> 01:47:35,060
 was that we would see EJ Crowell.

1819
01:47:35,060 --> 01:47:38,540
 And as a matter of fact, we saw more of him than I thought we would see.

1820
01:47:39,180 --> 01:47:42,140
 And what we saw is just the tip of the iceberg.

1821
01:47:42,460 --> 01:47:46,680
 I think he's going to be a big-time playmaker for Alabama,

1822
01:47:46,680 --> 01:47:49,660
 and hopefully that will start on Saturday.

1823
01:47:50,140 --> 01:47:51,340
 I think they're going to need that.

1824
01:47:51,420 --> 01:47:55,780
 I think they're going to need to rush the football for over 200 yards against those guys,

1825
01:47:56,100 --> 01:47:58,000
 which means they're controlling the line of scrimmage.

1826
01:47:58,060 --> 01:48:03,980
 And if they do that, I think Keelan Russell and these receivers and tight ends will be able to make some plays.

1827
01:48:03,980 --> 01:48:07,660
 And, you know, I certainly have watched the point spread.

1828
01:48:07,800 --> 01:48:10,100
 It was 10-1⁄2, pretty much stayed there.

1829
01:48:10,520 --> 01:48:12,560
 I've got Alabama covering in the game.

1830
01:48:12,940 --> 01:48:14,960
 I think they're going to win 34-14.

1831
01:48:15,220 --> 01:48:17,180
 And I think they're just the better team.

1832
01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:23,980
 And in this case, while I do think Kentucky has improved and it's a completely different style under Will Stein,

1833
01:48:24,360 --> 01:48:26,480
 I think Alabama is the better team.

1834
01:48:26,540 --> 01:48:29,240
 And I think if they go on the road and handle their business,

1835
01:48:29,380 --> 01:48:35,020
 and look, I think the schedule is beneficial from the standpoint they played a good East Carolina team

1836
01:48:35,020 --> 01:48:40,020
 and took care of business, but now that they've been told all summer that this was a trap game,

1837
01:48:40,160 --> 01:48:45,240
 that Kentucky was waiting on them, and certainly they've been reminded of Vanderbilt, Oklahoma,

1838
01:48:45,760 --> 01:48:48,080
 you know, even Florida State last year.

1839
01:48:48,420 --> 01:48:50,480
 But I think they're going to come in with the right mindset.

1840
01:48:51,020 --> 01:48:53,040
 And if they do, I think they're going to beat Kentucky.

1841
01:48:53,180 --> 01:48:56,220
 I think Will Stein is going to do a good job in the bluegrass,

1842
01:48:56,580 --> 01:48:59,020
 but I think right now Alabama's got the better roster,

1843
01:48:59,460 --> 01:49:01,720
 and they've got a staff that's in their third year,

1844
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:04,340
 and I think they're going to be ready to roll on Saturday in Lake Michigan.

1845
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:07,980
 Yeah, and it's Will Stein's second game as head coach.

1846
01:49:08,360 --> 01:49:10,860
 A lot of people hadn't mentioned that this week.

1847
01:49:11,440 --> 01:49:14,660
 D2, big weekend for high school football.

1848
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:18,980
 Got a couple of undefeateds playing in our area,

1849
01:49:19,100 --> 01:49:21,880
 and particularly that Florence at Russell game,

1850
01:49:21,940 --> 01:49:23,500
 and then Hamilton at Desler.

1851
01:49:24,160 --> 01:49:25,540
 Going to be some fun stuff.

1852
01:49:25,620 --> 01:49:27,360
 I know you've got some too.

1853
01:49:28,220 --> 01:49:32,440
 Where can we get online and listen to you and Scott in the morning?

1854
01:49:32,700 --> 01:49:37,540
 And I'm sure, once again, the station will be doing, what, five games on Friday night?

1855
01:49:38,580 --> 01:49:42,440
 Yeah, we'll have our streaming network up and rolling.

1856
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:45,240
 You know, Michael, Phil, and I have got a long road trip.

1857
01:49:45,520 --> 01:49:48,680
 We hope to be riding the team bus with Randolph.

1858
01:49:48,800 --> 01:49:51,280
 We'll be leaving, I'm sure, early in the afternoon.

1859
01:49:51,460 --> 01:49:53,620
 We've got one of the longer road trips of the season.

1860
01:49:53,940 --> 01:49:57,520
 Brent, we go to American Christian Academy in Tuscaloosa.

1861
01:49:58,060 --> 01:49:59,660
 They're 3-0 and undefeated.

1862
01:49:59,800 --> 01:50:00,560
 So are the Raiders.

1863
01:50:01,200 --> 01:50:03,600
 But ACA has already beaten Northridge.

1864
01:50:03,800 --> 01:50:05,980
 They finally beat John Carroll last week.

1865
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:08,440
 They've got a really good football team.

1866
01:50:08,520 --> 01:50:13,520
 So this is going to be one of the tougher games for Randolph region-wise.

1867
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:18,420
 And I think going into the season, the road trip to ACA and then, you know,

1868
01:50:18,500 --> 01:50:22,760
 and then going to Briarwood, I think we knew both of those were going to be tough.

1869
01:50:22,860 --> 01:50:25,180
 So this will be a huge test for Randolph.

1870
01:50:25,180 --> 01:50:30,600
 They did a great job pulling out the game against a gutty Lee Scott team from

1871
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:32,680
 Auburn last week in the fourth quarter.

1872
01:50:32,940 --> 01:50:35,240
 And certainly we've got some big games coming up.

1873
01:50:35,700 --> 01:50:39,080
 Certainly the Huntsville Panthers will be hosting Buckhorn.

1874
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:46,600
 And then, like you said, we've got Westminster and Madison Academy playing each other.

1875
01:50:47,140 --> 01:50:51,580
 The Spartan Senators coming off a huge win off the road at Gatsby.

1876
01:50:51,680 --> 01:50:53,480
 Last week they're going to take on Hazel Green.

1877
01:50:54,220 --> 01:50:57,160
 So it's going to be a full slate, no doubt about it.

1878
01:50:57,160 --> 01:51:02,200
 And you can connect with us on our streaming network, through our app.

1879
01:51:02,380 --> 01:51:06,000
 But also, if you want to catch Talking Ball Monday through Friday,

1880
01:51:06,420 --> 01:51:13,420
 you can certainly do that on WZZN-TV, on YouTube, or at 9770ESPN.com.

1881
01:51:13,700 --> 01:51:17,980
 If you do miss any of the content, you can replay it on our YouTube channel.

1882
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:22,860
 Or, of course, you can catch it on our SoundCloud face, 97.7 The Zone.

1883
01:51:22,860 --> 01:51:26,880
 But, yeah, it's going to be another good one this week, no doubt about it.

1884
01:51:26,920 --> 01:51:30,760
 And I know the Bob Jones Patriots there, they're looking to bounce back as well

1885
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:33,540
 against Grissom after losing the Madison Bowl.

1886
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:35,940
 And that's always an emotional game.

1887
01:51:36,060 --> 01:51:40,240
 So it's going to be another full, you know, Friday night on our network.

1888
01:51:40,500 --> 01:51:44,240
 We look forward to the Crimson Tide traveling to Lexington

1889
01:51:44,240 --> 01:51:49,140
 and hopefully getting their first SEC win of the season for Kaelin DeBoer.

1890
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:52,340
 Drew, listen, man, safe travels out there.

1891
01:51:52,420 --> 01:51:54,140
 And thanks so much for your time today.

1892
01:51:54,860 --> 01:51:55,560
 Thank you, guys.

1893
01:51:55,700 --> 01:51:56,200
 Thank you, buddy.

1894
01:51:56,600 --> 01:51:59,560
 Double D, Drew Yarmann, 97.7 FM, The Zone.

1895
01:51:59,660 --> 01:52:02,660
 BB, obviously the bad news, the Braves lost last night.

1896
01:52:02,780 --> 01:52:04,300
 The good news, the Pills did too.

1897
01:52:04,380 --> 01:52:08,660
 So they hold on to their four-game lead entering into tonight's contest.

1898
01:52:08,820 --> 01:52:14,640
 Yeah, I think their magic number, Harold's 12 or 13, one or the other.

1899
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:17,100
 They were flat last night.

1900
01:52:17,220 --> 01:52:19,720
 A very emotional series with the Phillies.

1901
01:52:19,720 --> 01:52:23,360
 Lopez pitching for the Braves.

1902
01:52:23,460 --> 01:52:25,980
 Griffin Jacks for the Rays.

1903
01:52:26,060 --> 01:52:27,420
 Braves need to win this series.

1904
01:52:27,420 --> 01:52:30,820
 And then beat the Phillies this weekend.

1905
01:52:31,420 --> 01:52:33,060
 Major League Baseball wrapping up.

1906
01:52:33,180 --> 01:52:34,140
 NFL kicking off.

1907
01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:37,400
 Coming up tonight, it is New England and Seattle.

1908
01:52:37,540 --> 01:52:39,280
 Game one of the NFL season.

1909
01:52:39,420 --> 01:52:41,140
 Nothing like it on a Wednesday night.

1910
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:42,440
 Must have something to do with TV.

1911
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:44,380
 That's going to take care of biz for now.

1912
01:52:44,500 --> 01:52:46,960
 On behalf of BB, Greg James Blair, the entire crew here.

1913
01:52:47,040 --> 01:52:49,080
 Peril Buck, thank you so much for your time today.

1914
01:52:49,160 --> 01:52:51,640
 Let's do it again next time, noon to two, for the Boomo Bugg Show.

1915
01:52:51,980 --> 01:52:54,060
 Back here on Sports Radio, 93.9 The Score.