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Speaker 1: And welcome to Lake Kick on the air.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, July fifteenth, year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Jam fact wall to wall.

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Speaker 2: We got media Day's coming up next week. We got

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Speaker 2: a big weekend on tap, though I don't know that

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Speaker 2: most people realize quite how big this weekend is going

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Speaker 2: to be, not just for Late Kick, but it's a

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Speaker 2: massive recruiting weekend. We're going to give you a preview

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Speaker 2: of like half a dozen kids, I mean big time kids,

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Speaker 2: and we got intel on each and every one.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna get to that. We have got.

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Speaker 2: Numbers through the roof around here, so as we often

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Speaker 2: tend to do around here, I just want to lead

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Speaker 2: it off with another thank you. Our social numbers are

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Speaker 2: through the roof at Late Kick Josh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: but also YouTube subscriptions are spiking in a time of

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Speaker 2: year where it should be down. Podcast listens are absolutely

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Speaker 1: So thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: So big recruiting weekend coming up. I'm going to dive

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Speaker 2: very deeply into that in just a second. Also, games

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Speaker 2: that I've got circled, not even the whole season, I

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Speaker 2: intended to make it through the season.

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Speaker 2: Through Week four and I was already like five or

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Speaker 2: a three part series the first quarter to third of

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Speaker 2: the season. Tonight, I got some circle games, and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna tell you why some of them are off the radar.

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Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily talking about what you would call the

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Speaker 1: Transfer Portal rankings.

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Speaker 2: They're finalized, and we have taken a couple of deep

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Speaker 2: dives on this. You guys have really really ingested that,

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to talk about the final rankings tonight.

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Speaker 2: And now that we're kind of setting rosters and we

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Speaker 2: our final rankings. Just to give you an idea of

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Speaker 2: how quickly teams can overturn with this thing. Now and

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Speaker 2: the state of Mississippi, I'm gonna put it to you

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Speaker 2: But thank you so much. Hey, I've given a couple

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Speaker 2: this week in particular, College staffs reach out everywhere, from

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Speaker 2: Normally it's in the Twitter dms, and for obvious reasons,

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Speaker 2: Well, you have the most logic based reasoning behind the opinion.

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Speaker 2: Now. He's an athlete, he could play a number of

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Speaker 2: you the eastern reaching effect of Oklahoma's recruiting tentacles now.

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Speaker 2: But they can also reach with the other tentacle on

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Speaker 1: They can go all the way out to the West

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Speaker 1: Think about how tense this game is. Look at my fist,

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Speaker 2: You get max effort from everyone in week one, So

435
00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,840
Speaker 2: that one, I think that's going to be a sight

436
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,880
Speaker 2: to see, purely for spectacle purposes alone. If you don't

437
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,600
Speaker 2: even know how to spell football, that's going to be

438
00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,439
Speaker 2: a sight to see. And the last one is in

439
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Speaker 2: week four. It's in Chicago. It's Notre Dame versus Wisconsin.

440
00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,840
Speaker 2: Plan on being at this game. The expectation, I can

441
00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,879
Speaker 2: tell you now is going to be the winner of

442
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,439
Speaker 2: this game gets slingshotted right into the playoff conversation. I

443
00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,040
Speaker 2: don't know that it's that simple, only because both of

444
00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,320
Speaker 2: them have losable games of the next week. Wisconsin, I think,

445
00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,960
Speaker 2: goes on to play Michigan, Notre Dame. They play Cincinnati

446
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,280
Speaker 2: the next week. Cincinnati's off a bye. In fact, Colin,

447
00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:46,800
Speaker 2: listen to the stat because it's going to sound like

448
00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:49,920
Speaker 2: I make it up. This begins a stretch for Notre

449
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 2: Dame where six out of their next seven opponents have

450
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,440
Speaker 2: a buye before they play the Irish. You heard me right,

451
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,960
Speaker 2: so ridiculous. I have to say it twice, six out

452
00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 2: of seven opponents. There's a stretch in Notre Dame schedule

453
00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 2: where six out of seven opponents in a row have

454
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:10,560
Speaker 2: buys before they play Notre Dame. It almost doesn't seem fair.

455
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,560
Speaker 2: It almost seems like college football may not be set

456
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 2: up for Notre Dame to just automatically succeed. My point

457
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,400
Speaker 2: is nothing is decided after this game, but it certainly

458
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 2: is pivotal, and we get the old Jack Cone formerly

459
00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,120
Speaker 2: known as Jack Don on this show against his old

460
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:27,959
Speaker 2: school storyline if you're into the storyline. So those are

461
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,719
Speaker 2: a lot of circle games that at least I have circled,

462
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Speaker 2: and if you don't have him circled, I'm going to

463
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Speaker 2: need a good explanation as to Whin.

464
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Speaker 1: Switching gears to the Transfer Portal.

465
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Speaker 2: The Transfer Portal rankings are now completed at twenty four

466
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Speaker 2: to seven sports. We underwent this entirely new feature over

467
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Speaker 2: the past several months. The Transfer Portal Rankings. I was

468
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:50,239
Speaker 2: in the meeting when the idea was born. I'm not

469
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Speaker 2: going to go as far as to claim the idea,

470
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Speaker 2: but I think it is a good idea, and I

471
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Speaker 2: also think the approach we took is probably the best approach.

472
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Speaker 2: Have several versions of these rankings, and I'll tell you

473
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Speaker 2: why it's important. There is no start and stop on

474
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Speaker 2: the transfer portal. Necessarily, there's not a date, you know,

475
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Speaker 2: like on signing day.

476
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Speaker 1: We know when that is.

477
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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know really when the wave's gonna come

478
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Speaker 2: for the transfer portal. We can guess, but my point

479
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,240
Speaker 2: is it starts before spring, and then you have spring,

480
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Speaker 2: then you have the second wave of transfers, and.

481
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Speaker 1: It's important to just keep getting feedback.

482
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Speaker 2: You know, you got a lot of guys that transfer,

483
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 2: and you got them ranked high, and then we hear

484
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Speaker 2: from their college staffs.

485
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Speaker 1: In some cases is what we expected to get.

486
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Speaker 2: Damaged goods here, injuries not healed from from the neck up.

487
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Speaker 1: He's a mess.

488
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Speaker 2: Whatever the feedback is, and then you adjust guys accordingly.

489
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Speaker 2: And you can't do that if you just put out

490
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Speaker 2: one set of rankings. So we updated these and feedback

491
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Speaker 2: was key on it. And I observed the process and

492
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Speaker 2: I believe in the rankings, so I'll endorse them. Let

493
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 2: me say that first takeaway, Georgia just saw some movement

494
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Speaker 2: here Georgia's defensive backfield. If you were to go into

495
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Speaker 2: the spring knowing what we only knew in the spring,

496
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Speaker 2: you would have said, oh boy, man, they're gonna try

497
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Speaker 2: and beat Clemson with a bunch of kids out there,

498
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Speaker 2: talented kids.

499
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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, well, then TYKEI.

500
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Speaker 2: Smith comes in to man that nickel spot by way

501
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Speaker 2: of West Virginia.

502
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Speaker 1: He was I think thirteenth. We bumped him up to ninth.

503
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Speaker 2: I say we I'm not on this committee, so if

504
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,719
Speaker 2: they bomb, don't blame me. I just want to credit

505
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 2: with none of the blame. Again, That's all I've ever

506
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,640
Speaker 2: asked for. But Tyke Smith goes from thirteen to nine.

507
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Speaker 2: And I'll also tell you another thing to keep an

508
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 2: eye on. Darien Kendrick, who was the former five star

509
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 2: kid defensive back at Clubs and transfers to Georgia.

510
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Speaker 1: He is ragned to where we got him. We got

511
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Speaker 1: him at sixth.

512
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Speaker 2: Now, remember he had some all field issues. Last time

513
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 2: we spoke, they were still in doubt. Well those have

514
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,119
Speaker 2: been taken care of now, so he looks good to

515
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 2: go this year, and so you got two big defensive

516
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,479
Speaker 2: back pieces figured out there. Also, Eric Gilbert sits at

517
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Speaker 2: number three. So it may very well be that you

518
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Speaker 2: call Georgia the winner.

519
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Speaker 1: Of this thing.

520
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Speaker 2: They got to contend with USC and Oklahoma for that title,

521
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 2: but they've been a big winner here. USC speaking of

522
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 2: the Trojans, they know exactly what they're doing.

523
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 1: USC said, well, well, we got a lot to replace.

524
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Speaker 2: I saw Chris Hummer actually did a feature with Spencer Harris,

525
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 2: who's the director of player personnel at Southern cal about

526
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: a month ago. He said, it's not like we rang

527
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Speaker 2: in the new year and said, all right, happy New Year.

528
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 2: What's our new year's resolution. Let's take everyone we can

529
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Speaker 2: from the Transfer a Portal. It just those were not

530
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Speaker 2: his words. I'm paraphrasing his thoughts, but it's just a

531
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Speaker 2: unique confluence of events. We try and use that word

532
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Speaker 2: at least once a week. And they had to take

533
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 2: a lot of guys, well they did. Southern col took

534
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Speaker 2: nine in counting guys from the Transfer A Portal.

535
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Speaker 1: Seven of them are ranked in our top one hundred.

536
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Speaker 2: You got a couple of running backs that should see

537
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Speaker 2: playing time this year, you got a couple of wide

538
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 2: receivers a tight end.

539
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Speaker 1: I mean they got a lot of guys.

540
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Speaker 2: On offense alone that you should watch them in week

541
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Speaker 2: one and find yourself saying, oh, look, all the transfer

542
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 2: portal guys are on the field. Southernkow did what they

543
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: needed to do. They understand the coaching staff's not stupid.

544
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 2: They know what time it is, and so all of

545
00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 2: those guys should be in some shape, form or fashion

546
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 2: and impact players this year. There's a name that I

547
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 2: don't think any of you know, or let me put

548
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: it in a finer point.

549
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,760
Speaker 1: If you do know this name, hats off to you.

550
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: You are as die hard as it gets.

551
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 2: Samori Torre is my guess on the pronunciation, but they

552
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 2: know how to pronounce his name at Montana because the

553
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 2: guy has amassed twenty five hundred receiving yards in the

554
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: past three years. So Samori Torre goes from Montana to Nebraska. Now,

555
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 2: all the transfer portal talk about Nebraska has obviously been

556
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 2: Wandel Robinson leaving Lincoln and going back home to Kentucky

557
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 2: to play for the Wildcats. Well, they quietly filled that void,

558
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: potentially with what could turn out to be the number

559
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 2: one receiving option on their team. But it's a kid

560
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 2: from Montana you've never heard of, so it may catch

561
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 2: you by surprise in week one, two, or three when

562
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: he starts doing big things.

563
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Speaker 1: He flew all the way up to number forty overall

564
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Speaker 1: in these rankings.

565
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:58,919
Speaker 2: He's our number eight overall transfer portal wide receiver. And

566
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, these are my words, not

567
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 2: the committee's words. I don't know that we really have

568
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: an accurate gauge of where to put him. I think

569
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 2: he's properly listed, but it could be that we get

570
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 2: to the early portion of November and we say, you

571
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 2: know that the Montana kid that came down here to

572
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 2: Nebraska boy man, they should have ranked him higher in retrospect.

573
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 2: Who knows that may be what we say in November.

574
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, to wrap this up, did something on their

575
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 2: offensive line that may pay huge dividends.

576
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't look like they did a whole lot,

577
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: but if.

578
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Speaker 2: You're an Irish fan, you understand how imperative it was

579
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: they do something there. Now, I don't think Notre Dame

580
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 2: is going to be a massive year in, year out

581
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 2: pursue the transfer portal at any cost. Type of program,

582
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 2: but they needed to and they were strategic about it.

583
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 2: So they went and got Caine Madden. He I think

584
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 2: has thirty one overall starts. He came from Marshall, which

585
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 2: was about as much as the rest of their guys

586
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 2: had combined.

587
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: Coming back.

588
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 2: They're replacing like three or four starters in the offensive line.

589
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 2: So they got Madden and when you combine him with

590
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: a cup the guys they got from the high school

591
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: ranks that should be able to play, let's hope. So

592
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 2: because they're gonna need to play right away, this is

593
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: a big focus for Notre Dame. We were talking about

594
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 2: that Notre Dame Wisconsin game a second ago. That's gonna

595
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: be one of the early gauges of how ready Notre

596
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 2: Dame's offensive line is because you're gonna be seeing one

597
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 2: on the other side of the field. It's gonna be

598
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 2: a line of scrimmage game. I mean, that's what football

599
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: is in general, but some games more than others. That's

600
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 2: where you'll see whether Notre Dame going into the transfer

601
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 2: portal and the high school ranks that recruiting player development,

602
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 2: does it pay off, because that's one area that all

603
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: Notre Dame fans have been focused on, and also I

604
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 2: wanted to hit a guy instead of just a team.

605
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 2: Ty Chandler I talked about him two months ago. Ty

606
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: Chandler is my early pick for a guy that just

607
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 2: nailed this thing, ended up in the perfect spot.

608
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: I think ty Chandler is just.

609
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 2: Like Eric Gray. Really, they both left Tennessee. One of

610
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 2: them went to Oklahoma and Eric Gray. The other goes

611
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 2: to North Carolina and ty Chandler. I think it's a

612
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 2: godsend for both of them. Ty Chandlers played a lot

613
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 2: of football, and he's dropped into a situation where they're

614
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 2: replacing a couple of thousand plus yard rushers. They've got

615
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 2: their entire offensive line back pretty much at North Carolina.

616
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 2: It's just a ready made situation. It's a much more

617
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: favorable offense for his skill set. So ty Chandler, I

618
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 2: was talking to Trey Scott the other day and it's

619
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 2: like finishing each other's sentences. I think he feels the

620
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 2: same way I do about it. Ty Chandler is a

621
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 2: guy that I would really watch because it's about fit

622
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 2: fit Fit fit, don't. I can't remember off the top

623
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: of my head whether d Kwan Newkirk is ranked in

624
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: our top one hundred. But Newkirk's a guy who went

625
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: to Florida, not rated all that highly. But yet that

626
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: coaching staff says, hey, he's a good fit.

627
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: It's about fit. Fit is the name of the game

628
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: and the transfer portal. All right.

629
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: I want to wrap the show up by talking about

630
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: a state that we have not talked about a whole lot,

631
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: but in totality, you need to pay attention to this.

632
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're a college football fan, now, I

633
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 2: want you to think about what I'm about to say,

634
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 2: the state of Mississippi. Your initial thoughts are a couple

635
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 2: of programs in that state at the SEC level that

636
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: usually don't contend it national level. So unless I'm a

637
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 2: fan of those teams, I don't pay a whole lot

638
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 2: of attention.

639
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: That may be what most of you think.

640
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 2: The state of Mississippi could be the most fascinating state

641
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 2: in all of college football this year. Think about the

642
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 2: two year transitional period we've had here. If I were

643
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: to have frozen you in the cryo chamber that we

644
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: use hypothetically sometimes on the show, the last thing that

645
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: you remember as I thaw you out right here in

646
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: the studio is you remember Matt Luke, and you remember

647
00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 2: Joe Moorehead, and you probably remember Yawning.

648
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: All due respect to those guys.

649
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: Great position coaches, just probably weren't ready for the head

650
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 2: coaching spotlight quite yet. Well, as you're heating up over

651
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 2: here from your cryo freeze the past two years, imagine

652
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 2: your look on your face when I tell you, Oh,

653
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Speaker 2: the Matt Luke, Joe Moorehead days, those are gone. We

654
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: went and got Link Kiffin and Mike Leech. How's that sound.

655
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 2: You're on the first thing smoke into the Magnolia State.

656
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 2: That's how it sounds. So think about what this year

657
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 2: could could include. Because I'm a believer that you don't

658
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 2: have to look at the SEC West and just say, oh,

659
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: it's Alabama, no one else matters. That's a myth. It's

660
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 2: a fact that Alabama's the best program in college football.

661
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 2: It's a fact they set the pace. It's a fact

662
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Speaker 2: they're doing what no other team in the history of

663
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Speaker 2: college football's done. But even having said that, over the

664
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Speaker 2: last eleven years, I think they've won the division six

665
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 2: times and not won it five times. It's in every

666
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Speaker 2: other year's situation on average, and That's why I'm not

667
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Speaker 2: predicting either one of these to make it to Atlanta.

668
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Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is this is not a sport.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't been, even in this remarkable run for Alabama

670
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 2: where you could just afford to automatically stamp them every year.

671
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Speaker 1: It seems that way.

672
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Speaker 2: I pick them to win the West every year because

673
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Speaker 2: I think they're the best team in the West every year.

674
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Speaker 2: They don't always win the division. The best team doesn't

675
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Speaker 2: always win the division. It's a crazy sport. Even when

676
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Speaker 2: you recruit like they do. It's a crazy sport. So

677
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Speaker 2: even if you seed the West, Okay, for argument's sake,

678
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Speaker 2: even if you seed the West to Alabama, the second

679
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Speaker 2: point is still valid.

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Speaker 1: And you know this if you watch Lake Kick.

681
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Speaker 2: We are not a shit that defines mattering as does

682
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Speaker 2: it pertain to the College Football Playoff?

683
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Speaker 1: If yes, it matters, if no, it doesn't. We don't

684
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Speaker 1: think like that.

685
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Speaker 2: There's a lot that's great about this sport that doesn't

686
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Speaker 2: necessarily have automatic playoff implications on it. So consider the

687
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Speaker 2: possibilities for both of these programs this year. At quarterback alone,

688
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: you got Matt Corrall, and we know that at Ole Miss.

689
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Speaker 2: And again that's a guy who at the very least

690
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Speaker 2: to start the season is in the conversation as being

691
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Speaker 2: the best in the SEC to start the season. Now,

692
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Speaker 2: once we see what Bryce Young is, once we see

693
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Speaker 2: what JT. Daniels brings. I saw somebody I thought ridiculously

694
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: put Emory Jones way up there the other day. Well listen,

695
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 2: maybe they're right and I'm wrong. But once we see

696
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Speaker 2: what these guys can do, then it could be a

697
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Speaker 2: different story.

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Speaker 1: But right now, I've seen Matt Corrall.

699
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Speaker 2: I hadn't seen a lot of these guys, so there's

700
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Speaker 2: there's still a lot to be decided. Ole Miss has

701
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Speaker 2: got a commodity that's proven at quarterback, It's what I'm saying,

702
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Speaker 2: And in Mississippi State, it's Will Rogers that's going to

703
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: be listed in all your pre magazines. But then you're

704
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: gonna learn the name Jack Abraham. I would imagine at

705
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Speaker 2: some point this year as the transfer from Southern miss who,

706
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Speaker 2: if we judge Michael Leach based on his history, is

707
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Speaker 2: gonna end up being the quarterback in the Michael Leach

708
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Speaker 2: system that just pops out of nowhere. And you say,

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Speaker 2: where did Michael Leach find him. Well, I'm telling you

710
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Speaker 2: now here in what is it? July fifteenth, Collins, The

711
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: answer is Southern Miss out of nowhere. If you watch

712
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Speaker 2: the spring game, which probably a dozen of you and

713
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Speaker 2: no more did.

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Speaker 1: But if you watch the spring game, you saw him.

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Speaker 1: He can play. That guy can play.

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Speaker 2: He didn't come in there to just be a backup either.

717
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 2: That guy can play. Competition is very healthy. So quarterback

718
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Speaker 2: alone is very intriguing here. And then you take into

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Speaker 2: account both head coaches have track records specifically tied to

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Speaker 2: developing that position. Lane Kiffin's done it before. He knows

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Speaker 2: how to do it. Mike Leach has certainly done it

722
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Speaker 2: at multiple stops. He knows how to do it. The

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Speaker 2: Old Miss defensive upgrade, I think significantly is another big.

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Speaker 1: Story to watch here.

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Speaker 2: It's again the difference in them going into games thinking

726
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Speaker 2: we need to score forty plus to win versus thinking

727
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Speaker 2: we need to score thirty.

728
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Speaker 1: Let's get thirty thirty one. We feel good there.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to be a great defense, but they

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Speaker 2: do need to improve themselves from thirty eight points per

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Speaker 2: game given up on average.

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Speaker 1: That's what they do need to improve on.

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Speaker 2: So it goes from that thirty eight or some odd

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Speaker 2: points per game.

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Speaker 1: Two.

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Speaker 2: Fill in the blank be a good poll question. I

737
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Speaker 2: guess it's filling the blank how high can they rise defensively?

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Speaker 2: Because I think they upgrade all three levels of their defense.

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Speaker 2: It's how much do they upgrade him collectively? What's the

740
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Speaker 2: product on the field? Now with Mississippi State, I think

741
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Speaker 2: it's an overall team thing. There's not like one position unit.

742
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Speaker 2: I circle and say, well, their entire season.

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Speaker 1: Rides on that.

744
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 2: You could play it that way, but I think in

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Speaker 2: totality terms for Mississippi State, what my mind goes back

746
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Speaker 2: to in a two win season last year, what my

747
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 2: mind goes back to is not that LSU game in

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Speaker 2: Week one.

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Speaker 1: It's the Georgia game. They lost barely. They lost. They

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Speaker 1: were huge underdogs.

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Speaker 2: I think it was over it between three and four

752
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: touchdown under dogs to Georgia and they go into Athens

753
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Speaker 2: with under fifty scholarship players and they battle Georgia right

754
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Speaker 2: to the end.

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Speaker 1: I think they lost by a touchdown.

756
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Speaker 2: And Will Rogers was the quarterback that day and Georgia

757
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 2: could not run it on him to say their life.

758
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Speaker 2: It was one of the craziest stat lines you'll ever see.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think we spent like ten minutes just

760
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Speaker 2: reading the rushing statistics on the.

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Speaker 1: Show after that game.

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Speaker 2: So they lost that one, they lost the next week,

763
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Speaker 2: they lost the week after that, but they were playing

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Speaker 2: their best football, and then they capped at the end

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Speaker 2: of the season with a big win points spread was

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Speaker 2: I think pick them and they houseboated Missouri, the first

767
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Speaker 2: time I ever used that phrase on the show.

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Speaker 1: The reason I make that point is cause sometimes what is.

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Speaker 2: Perceived as a weakening of the team, ie transfers, guys quitting,

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Speaker 2: is actually a strengthening of the team at its core.

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Speaker 2: With Mike Leach, make no mistake, he's gonna rub a

772
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Speaker 2: lot of people the wrong way when he comes in.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have a lot of defectors. He knew that

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Speaker 2: if he were if he would have had to have

775
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Speaker 2: put his own money on an over under transfer, he

776
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 2: would have just taken the over at any number.

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Speaker 1: He would have taken the over. He knew guys were

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Speaker 1: going to leave. He had to have it happen.

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Speaker 2: It's no coincidence that when their roster looked the weakest

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Speaker 2: at the end of the year, they played their best football.

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Speaker 2: Now do you want to continue to roll into games

782
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Speaker 2: in the Southeastern Conference with twenty or twenty five less

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Speaker 2: scholarship players than you were allowed to happen.

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Speaker 1: No, of course not. But it's a process that takes

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Speaker 1: a little bit of time.

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Speaker 2: But I say all that to say, whatever you expect

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Speaker 2: from Mississippi State, there could be there could be a

788
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: little hardening or gelling that's happening there internally from the

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Speaker 2: guys that actually bought in and actually wanted to be there.

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Speaker 1: That proves itself on the field this year, because when

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Speaker 1: you look.

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00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 2: At Ole Miss or Mississippi State, they're both going to

793
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Speaker 2: be favored to start the season three and oh. Mississippi

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: State will be favored to be three and oh when

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Speaker 2: they play LSU. Ole Miss will be favored to be

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Speaker 2: three and oh when they play Alabama. And if you

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Speaker 2: just hit pause before those two games and both of

798
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: them are three and zero, you already will have the

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Speaker 2: nation's attention.

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Speaker 1: If either one of them pulls what would be pretty.

801
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 2: Sizable upset or upsets that day, then you'll really grab.

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Speaker 1: The nation's attention.

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Speaker 2: But even if they both lose that day, there's a

804
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Speaker 2: big difference in playing competitive ball in the SEC West

805
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 2: versus sixty six to three and sixty two to seven.

806
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 2: I mean, those were the two scores for Alabama Old

807
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 2: miss after that two year stretch where Hugh Freeze and

808
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: company beat Bama. So my point is competitive football will

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00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: be played in the state of Mississippi this year. Upsets

810
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 2: will probably be pulled that you don't expect by a

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Speaker 2: team or multiple teams in the state of Mississippi this year,

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Speaker 2: but at the very least, it's going to be a

813
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: fun state to watch. Almost sounds like we're talking about

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