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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Lake Is Live. It is Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: It is May tenth, the year of our lord, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty jam packed show. We have continued to have jam

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Speaker 1: packed shows even in the midst of quarantine season. College

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Speaker 1: football season eventually going to get here, or so I'm told.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you, just a flood of you, a

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Speaker 1: or channel or whatever you want to call that. A

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Speaker 1: lot of five star reviews. I think we went over

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Speaker 1: one hundred yesterday. I think we should be in the thousands,

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Speaker 1: and I think you guys can do that. So give

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Speaker 1: us those five star reviews on the podcast. And those

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Speaker 1: nice written reviews are a very friendly touch at the

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Speaker 1: end too. Tonight, I'm not going to lead the show

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Speaker 1: with it, but we are going to talk about yet

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Speaker 1: another couple of major commits for Tennessee. These are not

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Speaker 1: just these garden variety class fillers. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of you are suggesting otherwise, but no, they are not.

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Speaker 1: These are impact players. I'm going to lead the show

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Speaker 1: with Texas in just a second I think that maybe

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people through out the word blueprint, blueprint.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's following this blueprint right now. The blueprint everyone wants

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Speaker 1: to follow is the LSU blueprint, the LSU model. Well,

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Speaker 1: in a way, I think Texas could be on the

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Speaker 1: verge of taking the first steps to following the LSU

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Speaker 1: blueprint model. What have you. We'll talk about that in

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Speaker 1: just a second. I've also got a number of your

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Speaker 1: questions to get to and we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: something else in the SEC East other than Tennessee. Yet

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Speaker 1: it loosely revolves around what Tennessee's doing right now, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you'll notice on Twitter, etc. Whenever Tennessee lands a

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Speaker 1: new commitment, everyone talks about well, okay, how does it

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Speaker 1: compare to Georgia? How does Tennessee now compare to Georgia. Well,

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Speaker 1: no commit, no one recruit. I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams. Haven't heard any rumors there. But Caleb Williams

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Speaker 1: is the top quarterback in the country, one of depending

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Speaker 1: on any service you look at, only one in our world.

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Speaker 1: Of course, even if he were to commit to Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: that in and of itself doesn't close the gap between

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and Georgia. No one commits going to do that. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: no one class ever does that. But there is a

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Speaker 1: gap that we're going to talk about in the sec

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Speaker 1: East tonight. We're it's not going to go maybe the

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Speaker 1: way that you think we're going to go, but let's

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Speaker 1: start in the lone star state. Is Texas back is

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Speaker 1: a question I've never asked. Is Texas back is a

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Speaker 1: question that we're not going to ask on this show.

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Speaker 1: It is largely intellectually bankrupt. So here's what we do

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Speaker 1: ask on this show. Where is Texas in the grand

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Speaker 1: scheme of things? If you've got a one to one

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Speaker 1: thirty best programs to worst programs, where is Texas? And

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Speaker 1: if you believe like I do, that they do belong

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Speaker 1: at or near the top of the sport. If all

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Speaker 1: things are humming, if all cylinders are being clicked on,

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Speaker 1: then what does it take for them to get there? Well,

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Speaker 1: I want you to go back with me. It's not

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Speaker 1: too long ago. And I want to throw a name

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Speaker 1: at you, Scott Woodward. What do you think about Scott Woodward? Well,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent you probably don't know the name. Our

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Speaker 1: maybe some hardcore SEC fans do. The folks in College

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Speaker 1: at Louisiana State University. He is a homegrown product. He

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Speaker 1: essentially the antithesis of the athletic director that they had

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Speaker 1: in there before, who went by the name of Joe

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Speaker 1: Olivam so LSU. For a while, they looked good on

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Speaker 1: The problem was greatness was in the neighborhood just up

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Speaker 1: therefore they couldn't fulfill their ultimate goal of winning national championships.

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Speaker 1: And you always thought, oh, it's the head coach's fault,

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Speaker 1: Oh we don't have a good enough roster, and everyone

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Speaker 1: get Scott Woodward. And if you ask folks at LSU,

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Speaker 1: The problem at Texas now is they've kind of been

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Speaker 1: is Texas hasn't been bad, they've been terrible. They've been good,

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Speaker 1: but good enough is only enough until greatness enters the picture.

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Speaker 1: And Oklahoma has been a great program, and obviously nationally

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Speaker 1: you've had enough other great programs to where if you're

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Speaker 1: it didn't matter how good your resources are if you're

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Speaker 1: so a couple of weeks ago we had the interview

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Speaker 1: with Matthew McConaughey. He talked about Crystal Conte, that's the

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Speaker 1: current athletic director at Texas, and he spoke glowingly of

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Speaker 1: Crystal Conte. Wasn't the first time I'd heard someone say that,

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Speaker 1: Probably the most reputable, recognizable name that I had heard

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Speaker 1: talk up Crystal Conte. So, like you normally do when

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Speaker 1: the name Crystal Conte. I can't tell you that I

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Speaker 1: so I store it away. Then Taylor Reestu's from our

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Speaker 1: He says, Crystal Conte wants to do a live virtual

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Speaker 1: do because they got so much on their plate. Well,

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Speaker 1: that was not Crystal Conte. Crystal Conte was talking in

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Speaker 1: very very vivid detail about the separation between where Texas is,

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Speaker 1: he runs a trivia challenge every Saturday night in his backyard.

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Speaker 1: And so that struck me too, because the guy said

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Speaker 1: all the right things. Now I don't know, I've never

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Speaker 1: and so he was very in depth, he was very honest.

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Speaker 1: He talked about the roster. I'll tell you what really

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Speaker 1: struck me is he talked about what Tom Herman inherited,

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Speaker 1: where they want to be, and whereas not everyone, a

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Speaker 1: Georgia happened up to an including the starting quarterback of

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Speaker 1: Crys del Conte had a different take, and had I

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Speaker 1: thought better of it, I would have clipped it for

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Speaker 1: you tonight. But essentially what he said was he said,

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Speaker 1: big win over Georgia. Everyone thinks we're back. In reality,

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Speaker 1: match that in we quote unquote only have a nice

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Speaker 1: Bowl win. I think it was the Alamo Bowl over Utah.

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Speaker 1: But everyone thinks we take a step back, and he's

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Speaker 1: he's said no, it's not a step back, it's just

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Speaker 1: what we took this leap forward record wise, that wasn't

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Speaker 1: truly indicative of where we were as a program. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I hear all that, and then I'm doing some more

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Speaker 1: research on Crystal content and that's when I went to

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Speaker 1: our Horns twenty four to seven side today. They did

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Speaker 1: something really well. They did it really really well. It's

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Speaker 1: well put together, it's well thought out. If you ever

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Speaker 1: at any given time, find out what people think about

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Speaker 1: the media. I'm talking about people who are on the

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Speaker 1: the athletic department and the success of that program, either

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Speaker 1: in the cases of the people I'm about to read,

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Speaker 1: at Texas Bobby Burton, he has not rankled the wrong alumni.

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Speaker 1: He's raised funds at a record rate while starting construction

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Speaker 1: projects that have been needed for years. Is Chip Brown.

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Speaker 1: All the money Crystal Conte has raised for the most

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Speaker 1: that has been a big point of contention for people

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Speaker 1: at Texas. He also responds to endless questions on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: He holds town hall meetings every February to explain the

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Speaker 1: Jeff Howell, senior writer here really hits on something well.

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Speaker 1: He's been exactly what the athletic department needed in terms

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Speaker 1: of pay close attention. This is what they dealt with

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Speaker 1: the LSU, mending fences with a group of fans that

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Speaker 1: by large, for lack of a better term, felt disenfranchised

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Speaker 1: and disconnected from the university in the decade he didn't

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Speaker 1: One could argue the university's ability to connect with the

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Speaker 1: common fan has never been better. Here's the money quote.

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Speaker 1: he could possibly need in order to compete at a

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Speaker 1: championship level. Taylor Estes Crystal Conte has done more in

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Speaker 1: much cannot In some cases, it almost sounds like they

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Speaker 1: plagiarized quotes from people that I talked to at LSU

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Speaker 1: about Tennessee a little bit later on. That's not what

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Speaker 1: I'm suggesting. But what I am saying is everyone can

429
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Speaker 1: see something coming once it's there. There's no skill in that.

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Speaker 1: What we're trying to do here is look at Tennessee,

431
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Speaker 1: say they got something going up there. I think even

432
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Speaker 1: the most cynical among us can recognize, Hey, there's some

433
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Speaker 1: nice positive momentum up there. Some of you think it's

434
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Speaker 1: this sort of cute gimmicky sort of momentum that's gonna

435
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Speaker 1: die off. I don't tend to think that. But whatever

436
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Speaker 1: the case may be, I'm just telling you, I really

437
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Speaker 1: wish that Florida would be a whole lot more proactive

438
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Speaker 1: in getting serious about putting together a better recruiting staff.

439
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Speaker 1: That's all I'm telling you. It may be that Florida,

440
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Speaker 1: and I know they always like to wait, maybe until

441
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Speaker 1: little bit later in the year. They love to get

442
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Speaker 1: guys on campus during the season. It maybe they make

443
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Speaker 1: a move and finish top five in recruiting this year,

444
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Speaker 1: and all this is moot, And if it is, I'll

445
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Speaker 1: happy to I'll be happy to go back and say, yeah,

446
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Speaker 1: you know what I said back in May forget about

447
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Speaker 1: all that. But at this point, you know, we look

448
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Speaker 1: at Florida and kind of have been what they've been recruiting,

449
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Speaker 1: which is good but not great. Tennessee's ceiling, this recruiting

450
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Speaker 1: staff ceiling is not just good, guys, it's not just

451
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Speaker 1: very good. They've got an elite ceiling on their recruiting

452
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Speaker 1: potential here. Maybe not this class. This class is going

453
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Speaker 1: to be really good in its own right, but in

454
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Speaker 1: the future I think they can be great. So let's

455
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Speaker 1: just keep an eye on that. Our Brandon Marcelo, who

456
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Speaker 1: used to be with Auburn Undercover, has now gone national.

457
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Speaker 1: He's right here with us, and he has a social

458
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Speaker 1: distance feature coming out this week. Sat down with Greg Sanki.

459
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Speaker 1: I think he went colin what was it forty minutes.

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Speaker 1: I think he went like forty forty five minutes with

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Speaker 1: the Commissioner of the SEC. Now, as any good marketer does,

462
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Speaker 1: of course, we're going to leak some of it out early,

463
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Speaker 1: and so I particularly noticed when Brandon Marcelo wrote this

464
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Speaker 1: little piece in advance of the full release this week

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Speaker 1: about Greg Sanki and how many different contingency plans. Always

466
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Speaker 1: love the word contingency. Anytime we can work it into

467
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Speaker 1: a show, we find a way too. Contingency just means

468
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Speaker 1: how many different disaster scenarios do we have? Well, I

469
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Speaker 1: want to read some minor excerpts from this larger article

470
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Speaker 1: that Brandon Marcelo put out in this whole interview with

471
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Speaker 1: Greg sank I think will be up early this week.

472
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Speaker 1: I should know I'm the one to post it, but

473
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Speaker 1: I don't have the calendar in front of me. This

474
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Speaker 1: is Greg Sankie Commissioner of the SEC talking about contingency plans.

475
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Speaker 1: I'll boil it down to our discussions. If you just

476
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Speaker 1: ran down the whole list, we'd probably be in the

477
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Speaker 1: mid to upper teens. What he's talking about is different

478
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Speaker 1: potential scenarios just for the SEC. Ideas range from delayed seasons,

479
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Speaker 1: games without fans, limited crowd size, conferences going it alone

480
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Speaker 1: with their own schedules, and more. The one guiding light,

481
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Speaker 1: the Power five is aiming for an on schedule start

482
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Speaker 1: to the season. Still, they know that might not be possible.

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Speaker 1: I would argue at this point that is far more

484
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Speaker 1: unlikely than it is likely given what we've heard in

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Speaker 1: the last week from some officials out west. William King,

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Speaker 1: we continue now. William King, Associate Commissioner for Legal Affairs

487
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Speaker 1: and Compliance, was tasked with seeking feedback from the conferences

488
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Speaker 1: fourteen football head coaches in one hour sessions, and there

489
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Speaker 1: was one common thread from the first of those conversations

490
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Speaker 1: to the last. Tell the commissioner he needs to communicate

491
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Speaker 1: we're focused on playing football. Our young people need to

492
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Speaker 1: hear it. I think our fans need to hear that. Still,

493
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Speaker 1: the commissioner was not willing to share his personal opinion

494
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Speaker 1: on that situation. A couple of more quotes here, and

495
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Speaker 1: then we'll circle back around Greg Sank you talking now,

496
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Speaker 1: for us to have our football season, our universities have

497
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Speaker 1: to re engage in a normal operating pattern. I think

498
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Speaker 1: fundamentally we have to be back in operation. I assume

499
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Speaker 1: we'll have more distance learning or web based learning. So

500
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Speaker 1: essentially what we're talking about here is this is sort

501
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Speaker 1: of been the going theme lately. You're not going to

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Speaker 1: have football unless you have kids back on campus in

503
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Speaker 1: the fall. Maybe there's more distance learning, web based learning,

504
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Speaker 1: but you got to have at least some semblance of

505
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Speaker 1: normalcy for us to reasonably justify having kids on campus.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think that's radic at all. Now here's

507
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Speaker 1: what I ask. What I ask, and I'm asking it rhetorically.

508
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Speaker 1: We're not going to get an answer tonight. I'm afraid.

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Speaker 1: What I'm wondering, and I think we've been getting subtle

510
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Speaker 1: answers more and more, is what happens if Conference A

511
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Speaker 1: is ready to go and Conference B is not ready

512
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Speaker 1: to go, Because that's likely to me, that's far more

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Speaker 1: likely than not. At that point, I think if you

514
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Speaker 1: read between the lines with what some of these conference

515
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Speaker 1: commissioners are saying. I think a lot of folks are

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Speaker 1: ready to explore the possibility give it a couple more months,

517
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Speaker 1: but explore the possibility of well, all right, we'd like

518
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Speaker 1: you to be with us, but you know PAC twelve.

519
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Speaker 1: For example, if you guys aren't ready and we got

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Speaker 1: all fourteen of ours down here ready, we're leaving. If

521
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Speaker 1: we have to leave without you, we'll leave without you.

522
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Speaker 1: But we're leaving now. I'm probably going to wait a

523
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Speaker 1: couple more weeks on talking about this. I can tell

524
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Speaker 1: you from talking to someone this weekend there are teams

525
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Speaker 1: in conferences where there is confidence that there's going to

526
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Speaker 1: be a season who have already started to seek out

527
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Speaker 1: how should I put this alternative potential plans scheduling wise

528
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Speaker 1: for having people on their schedule that they think may

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Speaker 1: not be able to play a game when it's supposed

530
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Speaker 1: to be played. So nothing formal, nothing on the record,

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Speaker 1: but that is happening behind the scenes. So I ask this,

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Speaker 1: if you've got an SEC football season and you don't

533
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Speaker 1: have a PAC twelve, or you have a semblance of

534
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Speaker 1: a Big twelve, or however it shakes out like when

535
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Speaker 1: it comes to postseason. Do you have a national championship?

536
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Speaker 1: Do you have a bowl structure in place? I think

537
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Speaker 1: the answer is there, very depending on who you talk to,

538
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Speaker 1: which means you get to really crystallize the importance again

539
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Speaker 1: of your conference championship game, because guys, you may be

540
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Speaker 1: looking at a situation where your SEC championship game is

541
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Speaker 1: as big as it gets for this particular year. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I just really wonder if you've got the

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Speaker 1: SEC ready to go in September, and you got the

544
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Speaker 1: PAC twelve saying earliest wee can get off the ground

545
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Speaker 1: is December. I don't know that people are just willingly

546
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Speaker 1: sitting around and waiting for that, And in turn, I

547
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Speaker 1: don't know what that does with the overall national structure,

548
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: national championship structure, bold structure, don't know what it does

549
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: with any of that. Let's get to some Q and A,

550
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Speaker 1: because this is where I wanted to talk about Tennessee

551
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Speaker 1: for a second. We had a lot of questions about

552
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Speaker 1: Tennessee in the in the inbox, so I figured I

553
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: just choose one that best surmised everything that you were saying,

554
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: and let's go with it. Thomas on YouTube It's cute

555
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee has a million commits, but look at their average

556
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Speaker 1: star rating. They won't finish higher than Georgia. Thomas. I

557
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Speaker 1: don't know that I found anyone suggesting that they will

558
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Speaker 1: finish higher than Georgia. So I don't know where that

559
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: comes from. Again, I've told you this is what my

560
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: inbox is littered with. I had some guy call me

561
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Speaker 1: a Tennessee homer the other day. That's been a first.

562
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Speaker 1: I assume it won't be a last, but that's been

563
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Speaker 1: a first. But mainly it's just been littered with. Anytime

564
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Speaker 1: I dare speak glowingly or even positively about Tennessee recruiting,

565
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't right now people remind you, Oh,

566
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Speaker 1: you have to look at their star rating. Look at

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Speaker 1: the average star rating compared to fill in the Blane.

568
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Speaker 1: Well yet, but they're not going to finish number one.

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Speaker 1: I haven't said they are. Yeah, they're not going to

570
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Speaker 1: finish top three. I haven't said they are. They're not

571
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Speaker 1: gonna finish higher than Georgia. Haven't said they are. I

572
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: want to know this. Are they going to finish higher

573
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Speaker 1: than number ten that's where they finished last year? And

574
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Speaker 1: if they finished higher than number ten. You know what,

575
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Speaker 1: we call that improvement because that tenth finish was higher

576
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Speaker 1: than what was at thirteen or fourteen they finished the

577
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Speaker 1: year before, which we also called improvement. I would say

578
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Speaker 1: to Tennessee fans, ignore all of it right now. You

579
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Speaker 1: got energy, and you got excitement, you got genuine pride, enthusiasm,

580
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Speaker 1: a lot of emotions, to be honest with you, that

581
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: you haven't felt to a varying degree all that much

582
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Speaker 1: in the past few years of Tennessee football. Who cares

583
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Speaker 1: what anyone else says, man, enjoy it right now. And

584
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Speaker 1: as for the you won't finish higher than Georgia sort

585
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: of mantra that a lot of people have started bad drums,

586
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: been beat to death already, Like I said, are they

587
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Speaker 1: going to finish higher than tenth? So, as I told

588
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Speaker 1: you before, we were right here in this studio on

589
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Speaker 1: that signing day, and it was Steve Woolfolk sitting right

590
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Speaker 1: where I'm sitting right now, and it was me and

591
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: Burton Simmons over there. We had all the graphics made,

592
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Speaker 1: had everything ready, and then Tennessee sort of messed us

593
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Speaker 1: up and they snuck inside the top ten. We didn't

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Speaker 1: have a graphic ready for it. We had to make

595
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Speaker 1: one on the fly. And that's why it sticks out

596
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: to me. Tennessee top ten. It's drilled in my mind

597
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: because we didn't expect it that day. We thought they'd

598
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Speaker 1: finish inside the top fifteen, but not the top ten. Well,

599
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: now they finished I think thirteenth couple cycles ago, tenth,

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Speaker 1: this past cycle. What if they finished seventh this year?

601
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Speaker 1: I mean, are we really going to sit here and say,

602
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: stupid Tennessee only able to finish seventh? Okay, let me

603
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: ask you this. Have you thought about this for all

604
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Speaker 1: of those that assumed this class is etched in stone,

605
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Speaker 1: because kids have verbally committed, your only potential path is

606
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Speaker 1: their elite kids are going to decommit. When anyone wants

607
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that, hey, National signing Day is a long

608
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: way away, it seems all anyone ever wants to entertain

609
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Speaker 1: is the concept that Tennessee's best commits could decommit. Well,

610
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Speaker 1: that could happen. I don't have any intel that suggests

611
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Speaker 1: it will. They just got better today again, you had

612
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: the linebacker, four star linebacker, four star, dual threat quarterback

613
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Speaker 1: Caden Salter out of Texas commit. Who knows what this

614
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: week could hold. But let me ask you this. You

615
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: know what, we didn't have the spring that we normally have.

616
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Speaker 1: We normally had, we normally have spring evaluation period, you

617
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: got camps, you got all this stuff going on. Well,

618
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Speaker 1: it didn't happen this year. I was reading Bud Elliott

619
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Speaker 1: did a piece talking about what Tennessee's recruiting class ceiling

620
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Speaker 1: is for this year, and he was talking about what

621
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Speaker 1: reality is. Everything he said and there was right. I

622
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Speaker 1: don't disagree with anything he said. It was data. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there was nothing to disagree with. But what he was

624
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Speaker 1: talking about is, given the current state of this class,

625
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Speaker 1: they're not on a pace that could finish top five historically,

626
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Speaker 1: just based on what a top five class historically looks like.

627
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Speaker 1: And he talked about the amount of three star kids,

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Speaker 1: and he said, Okay, let's assume given that we didn't

629
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Speaker 1: have a lot of in the spring what we normally have,

630
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Speaker 1: and there weren't as many abilities to put eyeballs on

631
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Speaker 1: kids and bump their star rating. Maybe there is an

632
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: overwhelming amount of three stars bumped to four stars coming

633
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Speaker 1: this fall, and maybe Tennessee benefits from that. Still, there's

634
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: a long way to go between Tennessee's class where they

635
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,080
Speaker 1: are right now, average star rating, and what a top

636
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: five class would look like, YadA, YadA, YadA. But my

637
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: point is this, even with all that taking into consideration,

638
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: let me tell you what else is going to happen

639
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: at Tennessee and everywhere else. Yeah, you may have some decommitments,

640
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: but what you're also going to have is some good

641
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: old fashioned processing. And what that is is Tennessee's about

642
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: to fill their class up. What do you think they're

643
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,320
Speaker 1: going to do? Move on to the twenty twenty two class. Yes,

644
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: they are pause on that one bookmark that idea, we'll

645
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: circle back to that. But here's what else they're going

646
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: to do. They're going to keep evaluating the twenty twenty

647
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: one class, and they're going to keep evaluating their current commits,

648
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: and they're going to keep evaluating kids that aren't committed

649
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: to them. And if they got a high four star

650
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: offensive guard out of Sunshine, Florida that wants to commit,

651
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: and they're looking at the current commit list and the

652
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: kids that they have currently committed, they haven't evaluated with

653
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: as good a grade, you don't think that there'll be

654
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: some work potentially done there. I don't think that with

655
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: all this time left between now and even the early

656
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: signing period, you don't think that staff's above gently suggesting

657
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: to kids keep your options open. I mean, we'll take

658
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: your commitment, but keep your options open. You might want

659
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: to look elsewhere. That's gonna happen. For just being honest

660
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: with ourselves, that could happen. So there's gonna be a

661
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: lot of flux with this class. It could be positive,

662
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: it could be negative. It could be a net equalizer.

663
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: We don't know what's going to happen. But I'll tell

664
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: you what excites me the most. If I'm Tennessee, if

665
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: I go from being ranked in the ten to fifteen

666
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: range and in next cycle line number ten, and let's say,

667
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: just for argument sake, let's say number seven. Let's say

668
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: this class finishes number seven, number one, that's the best

669
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: class we've signed under Jeremy Pruitt, and number two. This staff,

670
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: by way of landing all these kids in May and

671
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: their main task being just holding on to the current commits,

672
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: they have probably gotten a massive head start on the

673
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two class and the twenty twenty two class.

674
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: Once you've gotten a bunch of talent already employed. That's

675
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: the one where you look and say, could they finish

676
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: top three the twenty twenty two class with Tennessee. That'll

677
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: be the one where you start talking about the volunteers

678
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: threatening for the top spot. They're not going to do

679
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: it this cycle. They'll have a really good classes cycle,

680
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: but what they're doing now pays the way for a

681
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: potential springboard into what they could do next cycle, which

682
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: is they just proved a lot of stuff the previous cycle.

683
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: They've got the talent on campus to where one more

684
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: layers worth of another class could compete for a championship.

685
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: That's where you really start seeing some people all of

686
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: a sudden get uncomfortable with Tennessee football not being what

687
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be anymore. And what they're supposed to be,

688
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: according to you, is just this big orange and white

689
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: pinata that comes into town. Or you go up there.

690
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where we play you because we'll be

691
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: favored by three touchdowns anyway. Once Tennessee's no longer that,

692
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: all they gotta do is make you uncomfortable. They're like

693
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: the gnat around your ear right now. It just aggravates

694
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: you enough to where you paying that attention to swat

695
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: them away, but then you never quite kill that gnat,

696
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: do you. The buzz comes back about ten seconds later.

697
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee's not going away. This is not going to be

698
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: a flash in the pan. This class is not going

699
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: to finish outside the top ten. They're not going to

700
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: have this mass wave of decommitments. They're not going to

701
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: start off the season this leaguer like in all likelihood

702
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 1: like they did last year. And so just quiet momentum,

703
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: all quiet depending on where you are, but just quiet momentum.

704
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: You don't have to fill the gap overnight. It didn't

705
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: get created overnight. So I'm excited. If no one else

706
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: is outside of big Orange country, I'm excited, Jamison. What's

707
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: up with Bama recruiting? Yeah, I was looking at this earlier. Today.

708
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: Bama's got four kids committed. I think it's four. They

709
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: just landed a big time receiver. They got two big

710
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: receivers committed already out of Florida. Where else? I don't

711
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: think they recruit receivers anywhere else but South Florida. If

712
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: you're north of Orlando, Florida and you're a receiver, you

713
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: probably just need to look elsewhere because Bama's got this

714
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: little circle basically where Howard Schnellenberger trademarked the Miami recruiting blueprint,

715
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: that's the Alabama recruiting blueprint. Receiver position. Now, what's up

716
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: with it, Jamison is I think you're already in the

717
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: process of seeing them start to make a move. They're

718
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: ranked in the forties right now. Few truths in an

719
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: uncertain world, kids, Alabama's not the finishing outside the top

720
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: twenty five in recruiting. I don't think they're finishing outside

721
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: the top five in recruiting, let alone where they are

722
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: right now. Here's what they like to do. They like

723
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: to be ultra picky. They like to be ultra selective.

724
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: And what happened? What just happened? What were we just

725
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: talking about? Well, what happened is the spring evaluation period

726
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: where a number one, coaches can be out on the road,

727
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: but number two, you can get kids in camps and

728
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: you can do your own in person evaluations. All that

729
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: was tossed out the window, and so Nick Saban doesn't

730
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,279
Speaker 1: get to do the kind of evaluation that he wants

731
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 1: to do. Now, it's not necessarily a disadvantage for Alabama

732
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: because no one else got to do theirs either, really,

733
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: so the playing fields still roughly leveled. It's just now

734
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: Alabama has changed up a little bit about what they do,

735
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,320
Speaker 1: and so you are now going to see them start

736
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: to take some kids, start to take some verbal commitments.

737
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: It's not that they have their class loaded up and

738
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: all the kids suck, that they don't have anyone in

739
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,479
Speaker 1: the class. And you talk to anyone around Alabama, there's

740
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: no concern about whether they're going to be able to

741
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: get elite kids. There's no concern. There never should be,

742
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: and there's not. Right now. They'll start taking some kids.

743
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 1: I know they got one the other day. I think

744
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: they probably have anywhere between two and six more, probably

745
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: ready to pull the trigger as soon as they get

746
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: the green light too, and then others who they're very

747
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: much in play with. My point is, come early to

748
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: mid December, you'll be talking about them and finishing inside

749
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: the top five like you always do. I know it

750
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: looks weird right now to see those class rankings, but

751
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: just as much as it looks weird to see Alabama

752
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: ranked outside the top forty, look who's currently ranked inside

753
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: the top ten. That's no knock on anyone there, but

754
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: I mean, if you really think that top ten is

755
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: going to hold through December, you're crazy. Landon asked right

756
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: before the show went on the air, what do you

757
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: make of the Georgia quarterback situation. Well, I think it's

758
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: Jamie Newman's job. Think it's his party there. I don't

759
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: necessarily know, and like I've talked about a number of times,

760
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of it, that's your question.

761
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: I don't know what to make of it on because

762
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: I don't know what style of football they're gonna want

763
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 1: to play there. I've gone over this quickly, just kind

764
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: of a cheater's guide to the overall take that we've

765
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: had on Georgia is you know, Georgia goes through what

766
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: they went through last year, and they were banged up

767
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: defensively by the time they played LSU. But regardless of

768
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: what the state of that program is, they got pasted

769
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: by LSU and they played good, that's what they know.

770
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: And they played good and still got flooded. They got

771
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: drowned by LSU's offense. To where you know, I think

772
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart finally looked around and said, I can have

773
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: the number one defense in the country. I got to

774
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: play teams like this, and if it's not LSU, I'm

775
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to play Alabama. Then if I get the playoff,

776
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: I got to play Clemson. I gotta play Oklahoma. Man,

777
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: we got to be able to trade points. The best

778
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: defenses he was ever a part of at Alabama. They

779
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: didn't go through any seasons aside from the twenty eleven

780
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: season where they just shut everyone down defensively, there was

781
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: a game or two in there every time where they

782
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: had to trade points with someone. They could have number

783
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: one defense in the country and have to win forty

784
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: eight to forty two at Ole Miss one year. So

785
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 1: you got to do that at Georgia two and so

786
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: you got to do a couple of things. Number One,

787
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: you got to have the horses in the bar, and

788
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: they didn't have that from a personnel standpoint last year.

789
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: Number Two, you got to have the right quarterback is

790
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: Jamie Newman that they hope he is number three. Even

791
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: if you got all that in place, you gotta have

792
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,399
Speaker 1: the right system in place. So they made a change

793
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: at the offensive coordinator position, but they lost Spring the

794
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: most integral time to install, especially new concepts, new systems,

795
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: new offense with a new guy under center at quarterback.

796
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: When you lose all that and you know you got

797
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 1: that elite defense coming back, you got to ask yourself,

798
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart very risk averse in nature. You know who

799
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: we learned under very risk averse? Is that the kind

800
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 1: of guy that's just going to say, also, what if

801
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 1: we didn't have spring Man? We had these Zoom meetings,

802
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: we installed everything over Zoom, and then we got in

803
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: fall camp, and those four weeks told me all I

804
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: needed to know a right, let's just turn it loose offensively.

805
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: Do you remember the game they lost last year South Carolina?

806
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: You remember what they lost that for? Remember that minus

807
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: four stat in the turnover category. Guys like him don't

808
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: forget that. Guys like him look around and say, only

809
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: way we're losing most of these games is if we

810
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 1: take too many risks. So is he all of a

811
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: sudden going to become a guy that says, I'll turn

812
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: it loose man caution to the win, let's turn it loose.

813
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think a lot of people expect

814
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: one radical or the other, and as usual, probably in between.

815
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: That's where we're going to land for Georgia this year.

816
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: Last question here Kevin asked, where does tuas little brother

817
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: end up. Talia Tonguabai Looa is his name, and he

818
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: is in the transfer portal at Alabama. Well, no longer

819
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Now he's in the transfer portal and he's

820
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: not coming back. Some of these guys enter like JT.

821
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: Daniels enters the transfer portal, he could return to USC.

822
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,439
Speaker 1: Maybe two is not returned into USC. This is worst

823
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: kept secret at Alabama. Man, everyone knew this was coming.

824
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: No one ever, No one ever thought he was going

825
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: to challenge for playing time there. I have it on

826
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: very good word that it did not take very many

827
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: practices for them to realize he's a good quarterback, He's

828
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: not a guy that's going to be able to play

829
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: a championship level in the SEC. And so very quickly

830
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: they realized that's not going to be a serious contender here.

831
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: And so it was a foregone conclusion that once Tool

832
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: was out of there, he was going to be out

833
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,320
Speaker 1: of there shortly thereafter. So I think this got a

834
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: lot of national headline the other day. Folks around Tuscaloosa.

835
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: It was kind of like when Scott Cochrane left. Nationally

836
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: is like a Adam Baum and then you get closer

837
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: to Alabama and they went, what are we going to have

838
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 1: for lunch? And so that was kind of collectively the

839
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: reaction to him leaving. Where is he going? For a

840
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: long time, I heard Maryland because I heard Locksley was

841
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: very close with him. And you know, Maryland obviously does

842
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: not have the roster Alabama has right now. But given

843
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: that his older brother is now at Miami and we

844
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: know where he is now, whereas we didn't when those

845
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: rumors were flying, I don't have any information on this.

846
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: I would assume he'll probably look for a place to

847
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: play down there. And this, by the way, as a kid,

848
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm not handing out career advice, but this is the

849
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: kind of kid where if he landed at a Central Florida,

850
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: South Florida, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, one of these G

851
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: fives that don't perennially have five star future top ten

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Speaker 1: back live with Late Kick Live this coming Thursday. It

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Speaker 1: until Last Dance seven and eight comes on ESPN free Plug.

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Speaker 1: There probably the first and last time until next time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for watching, guys, got a very good traffic tonight

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Speaker 1: Late Kick Extra podcast. Have a great week, Stay safe,

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