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Speaker 1: Middlecoff Three and Out Podcast Little Sunday Night addition, recording

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Speaker 1: this up before Sunday night. Happy Mother's Day to all

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Speaker 1: the mothers out there celebrating this great day, to the

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Speaker 1: you had a great, great Mother's Day. What I thought

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Speaker 1: I would do is I picked five teams going into

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Speaker 1: big picture stuff. Uh as we move into you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not real football because there's no shoulder pads.

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Speaker 1: year he was nowhere to be found in the off season. Now,

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Speaker 1: He's a Southern guy. Reben Meyer wasn't. And Reban Meyer

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I I think L s U. The

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Speaker 1: spring is over, But I don't see why they can't

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Speaker 1: it's just they're gonna get too much talent. He's too

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Speaker 1: good of a coach. Now. The division is really hard,

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Speaker 1: so you gotta compete against Jimbo. He's putting together an

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Speaker 1: NFL team. Saban already has an NFL team. Kirby has

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Speaker 1: got an NFL team. It's gonna be difficult, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be challenging, But I respect any person who is willing

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Speaker 1: but you're like, you know what, I've gone as far

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Speaker 1: me to take on this mountain. We can't go any farther.

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Speaker 1: Good luck, Marcus Freeman. It's gonna be very, very difficult,

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Speaker 1: but I don't necessarily know if it's gonna be this year,

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Speaker 1: but I'd be shocked if in a couple of years

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Speaker 1: you don't see l s U in the playoffs. And

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Speaker 1: if you get in the playoffs with that team that roster,

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Speaker 1: you got a chance to win it all. It's why

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Speaker 1: every time the SEC makes the playoffs, Alabama, Georgia, whoever

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Speaker 1: you know, Texas and m ever makes the playoffs, you

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Speaker 1: got a chance to win it all, and more than

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Speaker 1: likely you will. It's why the l s U they

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Speaker 1: win all the national championship for a reason. The other team,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State, when they get close, like they've had SEC rosters,

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Speaker 1: same with Clemson, they've had sec rosters. If you don't

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Speaker 1: have an SEC roster, you ain't winning ship. It's why

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Speaker 1: the Pact twelve can't get to the playoffs. They don't

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Speaker 1: have SEC rosters. We'll see if Dan Lanning Mario was

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Speaker 1: getting them there. We'll see if Dan Landing can keep that,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see if Lincoln can start that, because if

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Speaker 1: Michigan somehow upset Ohio State, but we saw them play Georgia.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have an SEC roster and they got boat raced.

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Speaker 1: So I'm fascinated by l s U and Brian Kelly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as a West Coast Pact twelve Homer, I

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Speaker 1: love the SEC. I think it's the NFL light. I

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Speaker 1: the storylines are just second to nine in college sports.

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Speaker 1: They really are. It's kind of like the Big East Basketball.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, that's SEC football. Now now,

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Speaker 1: I think if you live in the South, it's always

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Speaker 1: you because you're that interesting. You're that cool. You're that good.

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Speaker 1: You know. I can't make my living off the NFL

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Speaker 1: and not pay attention to you. I can't do it.

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Speaker 1: I have to focus on you. You're that important. And

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Speaker 1: an absolute winner, who's an outside tider, who's definitely an outsider.

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Speaker 1: But urban Meyer was an outsider until he wasn't. Now

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Speaker 1: the difference is urban Meyer had basically, you know, pushed

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Speaker 1: the envelope, had a lot of criminals on that team.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Brian Kelly's really gonna roll like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean er Meyer and murderer on his team,

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Speaker 1: has had some bad dudes, had some had some questionable characters.

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Speaker 1: So what I am pretty impressed with Nick Saban's program.

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Speaker 1: Ship doesn't really fly there, you know, And I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's gonna fly with Brian Kelly. Now, is he

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban? I don't think quite that, But I think

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Speaker 1: he's damn good. So I'm I'm excited to watch the

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Speaker 1: L s U Tigers in Baton Rouge. As Garth Brooks said,

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Speaker 1: singing Colin Baton Rouge Tiger Stadium ninety thou people, I

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Speaker 1: the earthquake monitor at like red Shirt as a small

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