The Show 419 Hour 3: Tagging the SEC

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And some deadness We'll walk upon the water We're up above the mist With a little peace And some harmony We'll take the world togetherWe'll take them by the end Because I got him for you Oh I want to run with you Yesterday I saw youstanding there Your hair and down your eyes are red no come I don't you hear I'm scared you let me see you smile well tell you walk togetherand walk the road a while because I got a here I got a here for you I got a hand for you I got in for you I got in for youI'm with you would have to want me wrong with you on my handwant you hold my way I'm on my head I make thedo a place when you get me on my hair. I think you do a place when you're going to be. It's now time to take a drive around the SEC ORG. It's now time to take your drive around the SEC.

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Together, let's drive. Welcome in everybody.

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Mike, we're all going to hop in the Chevy tracks here for the love Chevy driver around the SEC ORG. Since there's only three of us today, I didn't figure we need the big, you know,

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2,500.

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And why don't you drive us around here? Oh, no, we lost you, Mike. Oh, man.

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No, perfect timing for that.

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Mike's microphone, man.

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This is a disaster. This is a disaster.

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Today is a disaster.

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I'm taking full responsibility for all this.

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I am sorry for the Bible WORK_OF_ART.

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I'm going to blame myself for these.

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And guests not showing and all that good stuff.

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This is old.

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This has been a ride today, man.

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It's been a ride today, man.

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We need J.B. PERSON back. It's like, what are we doing?

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Mike, you may want to pay.

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Stop.

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Are you there, dude?

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There he is.

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There he is.

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I'm here.

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All right.

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Let's take a deep breath and then start again.

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Time out.

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The luxury. Drive around the SECC ORG.

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Yeah. Let's just start all over.

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That's right.

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Here.

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We had a really smooth show yesterday.

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And I thought Monday was smooth.

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It did run smoothly.

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Today has just been one of those days.

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I don't know.

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Monday and Tuesday, you know, I felt like the Varsity Express ORG was here. And then this has been a little bit of JV ORG sneaking in. But we're going to get back to the lofty expectations of the ITG community on the Chiefsports Network ORG. And of course, this is the Love Chevy Drive ORG around the SEC home of the $1,000 guarantee. If you're looking for a Chevy ORG anywhere in thestate of South Carolina GPE, check our friends at Love Chevy ORG. We've had Connor O'Gera PERSON on J.C. and Morgan PERSON. You guys familiar? I know J.C. is. Phil, you're familiar with Conner PERSON's

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work on Saturday down south?

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Yes, sir. I think it does a good job. So there's an article on Nick Harbor there today. Gamecock ORG fans want to check it out. Just kind of an interesting read. But I'm going to go over, I'm going to start off for some heavy football here. I'm going to go over a different article that he wrote that I thought is interesting.

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Top five assistant coaches in the SEC ORG.

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Assistant coaches who he believes will get head coaching opportunities.

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Of course, this is not just his opinion. He talks to other people and kind of gets a consensus on who he thinks are some of the top talk. So number one on the list, he has Glenn Schumann, Georgia ORG defensive coordinator. He says it's fitting that Schumann is number one on the list. For my money, he's the best defensive coordinator in the SEC ORG. His play calling chops have been evident the past two years with a Georgia ORG defensethat has somehow didn't take a significant step back after it lost historically good Dan Lannning in his final season as the D.C. Some people might say, what about Will Mustchip PERSON? I mean, Mustchamp PERSON is there, but he's not the defensive coordinator. He's got a different role altogether. Kirby Moore, Missouri ORG OC. He says we took more number one overall as an OC,taking a look at what he's done in his first season, taking over Eli Drinkwitz PERSON in the play calling department. They improved the Tigers by nearly eight points a game. They went from 87th in the country and offense to number 21 in yards per play, one of the more significant numbers if you're kind of grading in offense to number 21 in yards per play, one of the more significant numbers if you're kind of grading in offense's productivity.That's for a team that broke through and earned its highest AP top 25 finish in a decade. Of course, they finished number eight. He's only 30-something years old, and yes, he is the brother of Kellynmore PERSON, who's done some great things at the NFL ORG level. Number three, Blake Baker, LSU ORG defensive coordinator. JC and I talked about this a lot.This was a coup to get him from the zoo. Baker did a remarkable job in Columbia for two years after taking over a dormant defense under Steve Wilkes. Baker had just five defensive players drafted from a wildly improved group, which was why Brian Kelly poached him and paid assistant in America GPE. Number four, Tim Banks, Tennessee GPE defensive coordinator. Connor says, I was dead wrong about banks. After several candidates turned down, Josh Heipel PERSON, I wasn't crazy about the idea of hiring banks as his D.C. Because I didn't like the lack of reps with total autonomy on defense at Illinois and at Penn State ORG.The knock on Heeple PERSON was that he wasn't concerned about playing complementary football and he put his defenses in tough spots. Banks PERSON proved he was up for the task. And most recently, with a Tennessee defense that ranked number one in the SEC ORG in yards per rush allowed. And my, that just froze up. Okay. No, you're good.Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. No, my actual. Frozen. Oh, oh, okay. I'm my, my, my, my, my actual page froze. Oh, oh, okay.

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I'm the guilty party there.

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It's guilty party there.

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Yeah.

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So we'll just, we'll, we'll keep everybody in suspense who number, no, now, now I've got it back.

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I don't know if it's my internet or number. So those are the top. Those are the top four. Number five on this list. Colin Klein, it's weird. I was, I was, I was, I was, the top four. Number five on this list. Colin Klein PERSON, it's weird. I was, it feels like I was calling Colin Klein PERSON gamesa quarterback at K State yesterday. He's now an established coach, and he's the Texas A&MOC ORG.

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After he led K State to a top 10 offense in the post-Deuce Vaughn world, Klein was one of the best assistant hires of the offseason. Mike Elko got Klein to leave his alma mater to run an A&M ORG offense that's loaded with potential, most notably at quarterback with a healthy Connor Wigman. And then he adds, Don't Sleep on Oklahoma OC, Seth Latrell,and Georgia defensive line coach, Trey Scott PERSON. J.C. ORG, any comments on that list? Kind of quiet over there.

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Probably would not have had the same list. That all?

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Probably would have had the same list.

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Well, tell me why. Baker PERSON would have made it. I mean, Baker PERSON had been up there, and more would have probably made it. The other three Man, Colin Klein PERSON was a great player at K-State ORG. You're going to show me.Chris Kleinlin PERSON, their coach, has his own system. They ran it at North Dakota State ORG. They run the same damn thing. Are they going to run that system at 8-M ORG?That's different. Yeah. I like Seth LaTrell PERSON, and I think LaTrell, yeah, because he, LaTrell was kind of an up-and-comer, and then he spent several years as the head coach at North Texas ORG.Now he's kind of back as a coordinator. Sometimes those guys come back and find their way, and they're really good. Sometimes they come back and the coordinator game has passed them by a bit.

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So we'll have to see.

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I'm not sold on Oklahoma ORG at all. I've noticed that.

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I just don't, you know, based on what I've been told from coaches that played against them last year

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versus the fact that, you know, they lost all five offensive linemen. And I'm not mad.

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I'm not an Oklahoma ORG hater. I'll actually,

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Brett Venable as being in Clemson ORG's the side, I think he's a hell of a coach. And I think he's recruiting well to where in a few years, they're going to look more like an SEC ORG team. Maybe soon. I mean, who knows?But, but, man, I mean, everybody's just assuming, you know, they both, they'll just, they're, if you looked at what their performances have been like where they played, like, good teams through the year? I mean, they played a bad Tennessee team in Norman a few years ago and squoaked by by three. I think, actually, I think champions of life beat them once.All right, so, so let's not, let's not crown Oklahoma ORG just yet, right?

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All right, is there anybody you would add to that list?

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To that list. Let me think.

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I'll get back to you on that. That's my assignment.

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My brain kind of work here for a minute.

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I got you fired up on some of those.

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Brian White, the de-coordinator from Kentucky, is one of the best assistants in the SEC ORG.

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Totally agree. In fact, I don't know how you don't consider him.

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I'm right there with you. He would not only be in my top five. I mean, I realize they had a setback last year for whatever reason.

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He didn't forget how the coach. He'd be in my top three. Totally agree with you on that one.

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What do you guys think of Joel Clatt of Fox Sports?

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He's kind of the Kirk Herb Street of the Fox Sports College Football brand.

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He loves the SEC ORG.

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I don't know enough about it because he's on Fox ORG.

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Yeah, I mean, here's the thing.

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I don't know Joel PERSON.

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I've met him once or twice.

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Always been nice to me personally, but I don't know, Joel PERSON. I've met him once or twice. Always been nice to me personally,

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but I don't pretend to know him. I also don't pretend to watch the Fox ORG pregame show.

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I'm just a creature of habit. I realize some people say, well, yeah, you get paid by ESPN ORG. Yeah,

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I do, but I also, there's plenty of things I watch on TV that are not ESPN ORG. And I'm sure college football, their pregame show has made improvements.

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And Joel PERSON, I guess technically is not on it live, right?

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He doesn't actually do what Kirby does and do it live and then pair it.

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Because he's got to be there for the big noon kickoff.

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That's their thing.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah, they don't have that turnaround like ESPN ORG does.

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Yeah, yeah. So as an analyst thing. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, they don't have that turnaround like ESPN ORG does. Yeah, yeah.

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So as an analyst, you know, he's fine. He, I'll admit, he ruffled my feathers and a lot of other people a few years ago. It felt like he was just kind of holding, holding water for the Big Ten and went, you know, eight shit, excuse my language, about the Alabama team making the college football playoff as a four seed.

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And it was an outrage and this and that. That Alabama team smoked two teams and wound up winning a national championship.

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I think Joel PERSON's credibility temporarily might have taken a hit. But so some people just assume, just like people assume ESPN is in the bag for the SEC ORG, that the gang at Fox is in the bag for the SEC ORG, that the gang at Fox is in the bag for the Big Ten. I get it. But I still respect his opinion.So he came out with his top 25 poll. He's got nine SEC teams in the top 25. He's got A&M 25. He has got Oklahoma 17. He's got Tennessee 16, LSU 14, Missouri 10. Is that a yawn or is that a dishe?

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Sorry, sorry. I didn't mean to put you to sleep, J.C. Alabama, he's got number six.

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Ole Miss, number, Alabama would be six, but he's got him at number seven. Ole Miss at number five. Texas at number three. Georgia at number two. That's his ninth SEC program in there, and number one, of course, is, according to Joel Klat PERSON. Say it with me. Big Ten ORG Pride.

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Ohio State. Ohio State. Okay. Not much from the gallery today.

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Ohio State is bad. I'm not buying that. I don't know. I mean, yeah. Maybe he is showing his true colors there, Mike.

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Well, I mean, look, Ohio State, they are loaded. They did, they did steal Chip Kelly PERSON.

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They bought white junkie. Oh, God.

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I mean, it was the Gordon Gecko offseason for Ohio State ORG football.

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They just completely rated anything that could be rated and got big-time portal grabs.

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And the fact that you could get a sitting head coach at a major school for UCLA ORG and get them to be the OC,

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kind of a big deal.

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And, of course, he didn't like his quarterback from last year.

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And now all of a sudden they believe they've got that position figured out.

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So that's the way Clatt PERSON sees it.

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I teased this earlier moving to baseball on the top 25

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actually not even on the top 25 i'm not going to get on the polls who cares right but

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this is baseball america's regional projections and d1 baseball is the number one but they're

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not far different from baseball americas i figured i'd read it uh they have k as the overall number one, A&M 2, Clemson 3, Tennessee 4, Arkansas 6. So they have four of the top 8 from the SEC ORG, which is not uncommon that's happened before. I don't think the NC GPEAA deep down in smoke-filled rooms that they don't want you to hear the conversation. They don't want the NC level A deep down in smoke-filled rooms that they don't want you to hear the conversation. They don't want the majority of the programs all from the SEC ORG. Like 50% of them is more than enough.But that's the way it stands right now, 50%. And then they have Carolina ORG hosting as a 12 and Georgia ORG hosting as a 14. Obviously that series this weekend can change a lot of those things, either flip-flopat one way or another, et cetera. So they have a total of six SEC ORG teams hosting and four top eight seats from the SEC. I think that's actually very realistic. The last four in, they have Florida GPE barely getting in. That's obviously on a game by game basis. They're the ultimate bubble team right now.First four out, they have LSU ORG.

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The defending national champions, they have completely out of the NCAA ORG tournament. To give you just how hard it is to stay good. We had a long conversation about that yesterday.

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You're watching the two programs that played in the national championship finals, both struggling to get just to the tournament. Forget about hosting. Forget about top eight seed. They're just trying to make it. And there is no NIT EVENT in college baseball, just for the record.And that is your love Chevy ORG. Yeah, I know. That is your Love Chevy drive around the SEC ORG.

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So look at that.

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Oh, go ahead, Mike. I was just going to say Jan PERSON asked,

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what was the date on that, Mike?

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That's today.

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That's why I chose that one.

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They literally released that today.

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That's interesting.

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Unless I'm reading.

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Yeah, on the cusp of being able to host or not, I don't know.

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I think like last year, this team ultimately is going to be kind of RPI ORG darlings to be able to get into that regional spot outside of the quad one victories and, you know, things that are propping them up, strength of schedule being what it was.

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I'm not really worried about hosting at founders.

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I mean, even, you know, go 500 over the next two series.

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Correct.

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Yeah.

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Go 500.

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I completely agree.

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With the RPI already standing or sitting where it is for Carolina, and with two highly ranked teams left on the schedule for three games series,

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even if you go three and three, heck, even if you go two and four, you're not going to take a major hit on your RPI. So I think Carolina ORG is in beyond excellent shape.

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And look, these guys aren't Lenardi PERSON.

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They're all the rest of the time.

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Well, yeah.

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Now, let me just say this is.

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They're not as accurate as basketball guys. Correct.

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There's nobody that's, there is no Joe Lenardi PERSON. But they're, but they're pretty good. I mean, Teddy Cahill PERSON, who wrote this, I know all of these guys have seen them at ballparks throughout the years. He does a good job. You know, so does Rogers PERSON.So does fit. So does Etheridge PERSON. It's like the Holy Alliance of Baseball, National Baseball ORG guys. It's the same four or five guys that it's been for years and years and years. They're on top of it. They don't, I know for years there was a, there was the vibe that, oh, baseball America is based in North Carolina and they've got an ACC by, that's not Teddy Cahill PERSON.That might have been, maybe you're thinking of like John Manuel PERSON or somebody, but no, these guys are not, they don't have agendas or anything like that. D1 baseball, if you look at theirs, it's not that different than one I just read. They're all around the same. So, take that for what it's worth.

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I think, you know, as far as D1 baseball goes, they moved Carolina up to 13th in their rankings. Right.

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Three spots after two or three of Missouri ORG. So I don't know why they would, or maybe they weren't

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projected to host. I don't know what the deal is. But I don't know why they would, or maybe they weren't projected to host.

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I don't know what the deal is.

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But I'll say this. You know, South Carolina GPE does have work to do. If they hang a one in five up the last six games,

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probably going on the road. I mean,

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it's just how tough it is this year.

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You know, as far as the super's go, I mean, you sit there, are they going to give five SEC ORG teams top eight seeds? I believe that's happened once or twice, but usually it's four is the absolutemax, and it's usually three or two with the top eight. So, you know, we'll see what happens. I think, like I said, there's ball to be played. You always want to be playing well at this time of year. South Carolina's won six of eight. Georgia ORG's scorching hot right now, but the law of averages tells us, like, how many runs they put up last week, Mike?

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35, something like that against me. Over 10 a game.

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Yeah, it was crazy. Over 30 runs. They hadn't done that all year. They've hit the ball well all year, but they haven't put up that many runs all year. You know, you got to, and they're coming to your place. They'll cool off.And, you know, the team that concerns me is Tennessee GPE because even last year when Tennessee got off to the sort of iffy start and then put it together at the end, they were a really, really good baseball team. I mean, and went in and played Clemson ORG, who was good to at Clemson, beat them, got back to where they needed to go. I think Tennessee made it in Omaha last year. So, you know, they're going to be a bear. I don't necessarily think those two programs like each other either, Tennessee and South Carolina GPE.

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Nobody likes Tennessee GPE.

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Yeah, they're not well loved.

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They've become the villain of the league with Tony Vitello PERSON.

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It was crazy.

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And he loves it, by the way. Tony PERSON loves it.

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He eats that up.

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If you look at the history of the SEC East LOC,

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Missouri ORG came in when

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2012, 2013, something like that,

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the more northern you got historically before Vanderbilt hired Corbyn PERSON,

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the worst they were.

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It was Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and then Vandy, Kentucky, Tennessee GPE. Tennessee GPE would go up and down. Delmonico ORG had a good team there, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, it's basically the more south you were, the better. And it's kind of strange to look at the top two teams in the division right now and see Kentucky and Tennessee by far are the top two teams in that division. That's interesting.It says a lot about those two coaches and sort of the investment they've made in both programs.

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No, no doubt. I mean, it's kind of ironic because Mingeone PERSON was technically on the hot seat a couple years ago, which I thought was ridiculous. But to me, that was a great hire. Kentucky GPE's a very challenging job. There's challenges there with the weather and the footprint that South Carolina GPE willnever have to worry about. And Tennessee was a more abundant program for 15 years. And Vitello PERSON, here's a story on Vitello. People talk about Missouri ORG and just how bad they are and facilities and this and that. Tony Vitello is a Missouri ORG alum. Tony Vitello wanted the Missouri ORG job.Max Scher, a prominent alum and a, I don't know, he's probably worth about a half a billion dollars as a major league pitcher, wanted Tony Vitello as the coach of Missouri and told Missouri, if you hire him, I will donate, I will open up my checkbook, and I will give you millions. I will open up my checkbook and I will give you millions. Missouri ORG's leadership at the time said, no, we're going to hire this other, this Beezer PERSON guy. Thanks anyway,but we got this. Vitello goes to Tennessee GPE, completely turns that program around. Missouri fires Beezer PERSON and now is on another coach and is still coming up the rear in the southeastern conference. Those kind of moves can cripple you real quick.And it's real hard to recover from that. And I'm not saying Vitello would have done at Missouri what he's doing at Tennessee GPE. There's a track record at Tennessee GPE. You mentioned J.C. Del Bonico ORG. Tennessee for a while there, I mean, in the 90s was a really good baseball program.

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They hired the guy from, um, Fullerton State or George Orton PERSON.

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You see Irvine ORG.

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They hired, they got a good West Coast LOC guy to come take that job for a while. And he just, he kind of flamed out.

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There's some names. That's some names that offered Chad Holbrook PERSON the job. They did.

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And I've talked to Chad PERSON about that. I mean, Chad PERSON, that really came close.

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But they offered it to him while he was literally in Omaha ORG. And Chad PERSON, I mean, Chad can tell the story next time we have him on. Chad PERSON's like, I just don't feel good about taking this job right now. And he didn't take it. You know, and at that time, Tennessee GPE was, people were starting to say, well, I don't know if anybody can win here anymore. But Vitello PERSON's turned it around.And they're pumping in NIL money at Tennessee GPE and baseball. It's all of a sudden now they care. All it takes is winning. Women's basketball is the best example of that. You could give a crap less about women's basketball. All of a sudden you start going to some final four.I love women's basketball.

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I've always loved it.

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For a lot of fan bases, baseball is the same way. You just, you ignore it until you get good at it. And all of a sudden you're like breaking down, I think our number three starters should be this guy. I'm not too happy about this lineup. I, you know, I think we need to sacrifice more, move the base runners over. We're too many strikeouts. Like all of a sudden, you know, become a seamhead. But anyway,

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uh, score in your living room. You keep it, yeah, right. You're keeping score.

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You're keeping score in your living room.

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So Dave Serrano PERSON was the guy they hired. That's right.

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Yeah. He took Irvine, the Anteaters ORG. To the World Series. And then he got the Fullerton ORG job,

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took them to the cut. It replaced George Horton PERSON. Because remember, Horton's the one that won it when they played Carolina that year. And Oregon ORG restarted their baseball program. And he went to Oregon until night plucked him pretty quickly. Yeah.And so then at Fullerton went to the College World Series EVENT, super regional, regional. And so when he got hired at Tennessee, this dude, this dude had like a seven-year track record of rocking and rolling. Tennessee, he never finished higher than fifth in the east. Yeah. this dude had like a seven-year track record of rocking and rolling.

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Tennessee never finished higher than fifth in the east.

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Yeah.

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Just never could get it done.

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Ends up going back to the West Coast to Cal State, Northridge GPE,

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hangs it up after however many years. It spent one year as the pitching coach at West Virginia ORG,

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where they had a mutual parting of ways in the middle of the season.

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And now he retired from coaching in 2022 after Northridge GPE was just average.

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Now he took the head coaching job in the Appalachian Athletic Conference at Johnson University ORG,

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where he finished seventh this year with a 24 and 21 record.

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So I don't know what happened from like 20, 2011 to now with this guy. But those

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seven years of Tennessee GPE, and you can see why Tennessee gave me that much

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time because he had, I mean, he was 175 and 73 in four years at Fullerton ORG. And it had been to what, six straight NCAA tournaments, four super regionals and two college world series at Irvine and Fullerton ORG combined.

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I'm here to tell you when that hire was made, it was a national love fest on what a great hire it was. And I dealt with Serrano PERSON many times, extremely likable guy, charismatic. He would point out that, yeah, I'm a West Coast LOC guy, but I know this area and I love this area. And it just didn't work. It just didn't like most of those Tennessee hires for 15 years did not work. But at the time, you know, that was a very celebrated hire at the time.There's a lot of celebrated hires in SEC ORG baseball that fell flat. Just absolutely did not work. So I know we've got to take a time out. Let's take it. 33 minutes past the hour here on a marvelous hump day installment of ITG ORG. Back with more on the other side.Hey, Gamecock ORG fans.

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Nanasporch.com ORG. It's mm-mm-hmm. Good. Coach O,ing need. So get online, natspoach.com. It's mm-mm-mm-good. Coach O, signing off. In the summer, go Tiger ORG. For chicken cock, we get a medium-to-medium plus toast, the char level. We use a number three-level char.If you char too deep, you start burning away some of those flavor components that you just created. If you just char a barrel and you don't toast it, you're going to create some of those flavors just on a thin layer just inside the char, but not the actual depth and full extent of flavors that you're going to get if you toast it properly. All those ailments, that's exactly what they do. They boil down to great flavor. Okay, picture this. It's Friday afternoon when a thought hits you.

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Ladies and gentlemen, here it is.

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What's up for the best fans in the country?

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This is Eli Jones, and you're tuned in to Inside the GameCocuses WORK_OF_ART show.

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Go Cubs. I'm going to be able to be. Welcome back, everybody inside the Gamecox final segment of the show for this hump day.

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We have pushed through that crazy wall to get through the back end of this week, which is good.

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It's been a ride today.

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Thanks for everybody hanging in there.

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But let us know.

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Let's hit some more Gamecock ORG graffiti.

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That means hop in the nanosports chat box. Ask a question of Mike, J.C. ORG, or myself even. Heck, I'll even answer them. And we will address all your concerns. Blast your name all over the front of this YouTube ORG screen so that you'll be immediately famous,just like everybody else.

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Turn in the Seamist celebrity here on Inside the Gamecocks WORK_OF_ART the show.

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Yeah.

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You won't find anybody better in the business throughout the entire state of South Carolina GPE, proud sponsor of this program and the proud purveyor of the business. It's been around for 15 years. I speak from experience the work that they do on time and outstanding. It's Ryan Brewer PERSON, Ryan Brewer, Fence. I'll get things started with actually a listener just chiming in through, not through chat row, but well, not just questions.You might have some comments. We'll read some of those too. That's true. Again, eventually we'll be able to actually take recorded messages on this, which I think will be pretty cool. Stephen, a big Gamecock ORG fan, a regular to the show,asks, did you call the five consecutive home runs in the Super Regional against Georgia ORG? Yes, absolutely, Stephen PERSON. That was 06. And it is, I took a look at it just a moment ago, 797,000 views.2.8,000 thumbs up. That's not bad. I don't see a penny of that, but appreciate all you folks

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out there watching it.

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Yeah, I remember.

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There's no royalties and broadcast and analysis, Mike.

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This was before you could monetize

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like YouTube, you know,

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and get some money based on the amount of people that watch or view a clip or your show.

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No, nothing.

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And I don't even know who actually is behind the guy's name who posted it.

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It was a guy named Cocky Talk PERSON. And you see that at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. The audio is a little what we call over-modulated. It's a guy named Cocky Talk PERSON. And you see that at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. The audio is a little what we call over-modulated. It's a little hot, but nevertheless, I'm glad he posted it because I can't tell you how many GameCuck ORG fans just tell me, every now and then I'm just at work.Maybe he will pick me up. I'm having a bad day, and I just play that. It's like an eight-minute clip. And, yeah, it's pretty awesome. And again, it's historical. You'll never see that again at a superregional. Five straight home runs against, you know, it's not like a regional where by the end of the regional, sometimes you'll get to feast against a team that has no pitching left. Georgia ORG had plenty of pitching.That's a World Series Georgia ORG team that Carolina ORG did that against. Five consecutive, pretty amazing. Going back to our talk about how all of a sudden, if you're good at a sport, everybody jumps on board.Quantrails, like he says, yeah, that's true as hell, Mike. I mean, it is. It just, you know, I hear this from Mike, softball fans. Come on, you didn't care about softball until your program started winning channel. All of a sudden, Oklahoma has become the murderers row, the 1950s and 60s Yankees of college softball. They win it every stinking year. It's right there in Oklahoma City GPE.So if you're a sooner fan, you're like breaking out. You know, I think she ought to hit the seven hole. Okay, okay, yeah, I know. You're a big, big softball aficionado. Now, Lynn PERSON says, hey, I kept stats for women's basketball back when I was in college in the 80s and I'm a longtime women's basketball fan. Hey, that's cool. That's cool, Lynn PERSON.I'm not saying they aren't out there. I'm just telling you that when you go from like 700 people a game to 18,000, that's winning. That's what that is. That's not all of a sudden a major appreciation for the sport. And for that matter, I mean, when I first came to Columbia ORG, you could go to Sarge Fry Field on a given SEC weekend,and you could have a row to yourself. It's not like they were packing the house, but then 2000, everything turned around. And people really not only loved, became lovers of College of Gamecock Baseball ORG, but so many fans that I talk to said, I really have grown to love the sport. And that's how it starts. You know, you find an allegiance,you're vested, and then you give it a shot. And all of a sudden, it's like, damn, this is a pretty good product. I'm in. All of a sudden, I care. I might even watch games that my team is not playing. That's when you know as a sport that you've arrived.

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College baseball is cool because I always like the double elimination formats in the regionals. Yeah. Like, you know, one of the saddest things about, I guess, it means, NCAA ORG is you lose and you're out. That's sad. There's no living to fight another day.

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No.

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I think pro baseball because the season is so long. And then now you do, you had single elimination for a while, which was bizarre. And now you got best of three, which is even, you know, kind of ridiculous. But I like those old six-gate, six-team regionals where chances are you're going to playa double-header at some point. And then chances are, if you get the losers bracket, you're going to be getting this guy that hadn't pitched in a long, long time to go out there and pitch. Heck, that happened to Carolina in the College World Series EVENT. Michael Roth PERSON, you know, became, that's a legendary start that he made. And I sort of like that, like, that whole coming from behind of her.You know, one, Mike, Carolina ORG in the regionals played, we played, oh, yeah, because they were the super since Stanford ORG. They played UCF ORG. UCF took the first game, or game two.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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And then Blake Taylor, I was actually at Sarge Fryfield FAC for this.

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One of my few personal appearances there.

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I did not listen to your call and I watched it live.

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Blake Taylor comes in, shuts him down the game one, and then throws like,

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it may have been a complete gate.

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This dude's 160 pounds soaking wet.

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Soaking wet.

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That dude was a warrior. A warrior.

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That was UCF ORG's best team ever. They had two future pros on the mound.

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I'll never forget that. They were loaded. And you lose the first game. And back then, you didn't have the extra day like you do now. Now it wraps around a Monday. So you have an extra day to breathe. Back then, you cr't have the extra day like you do now. Now it wraps around a Monday.

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So you have an extra day to breathe.

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Back then, you crammed it all into Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

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Also, I mean, you were just, you were dead tired.

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But Blake Taylor showed as much guts as any player in a Gamecock baseball uniform ever did during that weekend. I'm telling you right now. It's lost in the shuffle because that was not an Omaha ORG team, but Blake PERSON was a grinder. Blake was such a good pickup as a Juco out of Columbus GPE, and that was a banking tycoon in Columbia ORG.Blake Taylor PERSON is one of those, you know, the culture people talk about that Gamecock ORG baseball built up. It was guys like Blake Taylor PERSON, honestly. Blake Taylor PERSON didn't have a major league arm, but holy, there was nobody tougher. I'm sorry, go ahead.

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Well, no, I was just thinking during that time, I mean, had that not gone Carolina ORG's way and had the Miami super not gone Carolina's way, the trajectory of those early years of Tanner PERSON would have been a lot different. No, you're right. Baseball is not an undefeated sport, and you don't, you take what you can when you can. And it's either win or lose.

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I mean, I remember that feeling like, man, UCF ORG's going to take them out. This is on top of that Lafayette thing last year. Yeah, yep, yeah, yeah.

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You know, kept Bottnites PERSON on this team and they should be better. And then Blake Taylor PERSON does what he does. And then they got to Stanford ORG and really played Stanford's butt off after that. The opener was a debacle, but really played Stanford ORG off their feet. And the next year, the Miami thing happened and start going to Omaha ORG. The rest is history.

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The Miami miracle when, when Carolina was down four to one in the ninth, everything you're talking about, JC was amplified by a thousand. It was, woe is me. We can't get over the hump. Clearly, there's something wrong continually this team that just knocks the crap out of the ball all season long, but then you start losing three to two.In that case, it was the final was going to be four to one. That Miami miracle will go down as one of the most important wins, I think, in Gamecock Athletics ORG. Yeah.

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It just righted a whole lot of wrongs, and it turned the wheels for Gamecock ORG baseball to, it legitimized Gamecock baseball.

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And that was the first of three straight Omaha ORG's.

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Yeah.

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You know, and again, I could go on and on.

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The O2 team, if you would have had a best two out of three, you might have been sitting

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on another championship.

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The O-14 team was good enough to win a championship and we'll go down as talented as any

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team that's ever played at Carolina ORG.

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It took Fullerton ORG burning a kid's arm out to win that title.

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That poor kid never made it.

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Never made it, Jason Windsor PERSON.

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But they got everything they could out of his arm, and he was never the same. Just some more graffiti here from RLE, getting Harold PERSON. This is going back to the Joel Clat PERSON poll. Actually, let me back up. I don't know how we got on this, J.C. Quint PERSON, did we ever, oh, Clint was talking about something that Jared PERSON said.When was the last time Carolina ORG had a five-star linebacker? Never. Well, Hurley was five-star, wasn't he? Ricardo PERSON.

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Yeah, that was the.

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Now, look, had the juco rankings

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been giving out five stars at the time i think jasper brinkley would have a five-star juco linebacker

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absolutely the hell of a player tackling machine dude that guy's crazy played for the vikings

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but it's uh yeah i think uh i think as far as recruits go out of high school that that would have been that would have been one james i trust dc's at georgia GPE as far as recruits go out of high school, that would have been it.

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That would have been one. James, I trust D.C.'s at Georgia as much as I trust quarterbacks in the PAC 12, or now with the PAC 2 ORG. RLE, getting Harold Perkins PERSON backed outside linebacker blitz specialist as a smart move. Yeah, they should have never taken them out of it. One of the many things that LSU did wrong defensively last year. He also says, I'm sleeping hard on Oklahoma ORG's O.C., they have no chance.Well, you and J.C. ORG are definitely sympathetic on that.

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I was like you guys. I thought LSU ORG would just have a new coordinator and it would magically get fixed. But they haven't addressed their needs in the portal. They did not have a great portal run on defense. They don't have enough depth to detackle, which is stunning to me.

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Stunning, absolutely stunning.

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It should never happen there, right?

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Not there.

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No, no, you can throw a rocket at four.

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Yeah, that is weird.

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And they've got issues in safety and corner.

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And Brad Crawford puts out an article today where I guess he heard from inside people that LSU Baker is saying, hey, let's just give good effort and hustle this year. And that people inside at LSU ORG don't think it's fixed. They think they're a year or two away. So if LSU ORG is not good on defense, given all they lost on offense, I don't know that we may not see one of those weird six and six LSU ORG's not good on defense, given all they lost on offense, I don't know that we maynot see one of those weird six and six LSU ORG seasons coming up.

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Brian Kelly had a four and eight at Notre Dame one year.

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I mean, he'll throw a bad one up there.

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But that would, I don't, if you're a GameCat ORG fan, circle that game because they come to

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Columbia, week three, man.

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It's the SEC ORG home opener. Right after at Kentucky GPE, which, again.

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Jan, not looking promising for the Yardcocks being a sure regional host, Rogers Fit ORG, Etheridge, just finished projecting their most recent 16 host sites. We were 16th, Jesus PERSON. Well, don't blame Hizuzuz PERSON. He had nothing to do with that.

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I love you very much.

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I love Hizuz PERSON, but he don't help me hit curveball.

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Look, take two out of three against Georgia ORG, and that's 16th, when they do their podcast next week, will probably look more like 13th or 14th. That's my guess. Let's see. I'm not, Sonder PERSON.I'm not buying Ohio State ORG at number one with a big question mark at quarterback Fair enough

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I think the other side of that is

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there is no real

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proof of concept

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in the NIL

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albeit small sample size era for buying a team that's going to win a championship.

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There's not, but I don't know that I'd have to look and see how many guys they are actually. Obviously, starting quarterback is a portal guy because the kid from Kansas State, Walker Howard PERSON. Obviously, you got Quinn Shud Jenkins PERSON. How many did they have a bunch of defense? I'd have to look at that, Phil PERSON, because I'm with you, there's nothing that says, right? There's nothing that says that.

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No, but now, I mean, what they're doing up there could be the perfect storm, right? Because they've not only, you know, gone out and basically skimmed off every top player from the portal in this cycle, but have done the same thing on the coaching staff. I mean, Day and his desperation here, feeling a little bit of warmth and staring down the barrel of losing to Michigan ORG again,

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that's probably sending Harbaugh, you know, cards every day in the mail.

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Thanks for leaving, bud. You hit on the key word, Phil, desperation, because if he loses to Michigan ORG again, he's done. He is out.

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You can't lose this.

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No, there's no way.

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There's no way.

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And I'll steal J.C. ORG's term.

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They had a caged animal off season.

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They just said, no more.

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We're going to buy our way out of any possibility of losing.

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It's not like they had a bad year, but they didn't have a good enough year.

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So we'll see. I think it's going to be a fascinating case study on what they're able to do with all the money they spent.

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Watch James Franklin finally win the championship in the big ten.

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That's right.

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Aller PERSON will have to play better at quarterback for that to happen. He doesn't win the big game.

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No.

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He doesn't.

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He would beat Tennessee every now and then at Mandy.

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But when he. Yes. Like we keep going back to those. He would beat Tennessee every now and then at Vandy ORG.

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Yes.

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We keep going back to those.

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Yeah.

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We keep going back to those two Vandy years.

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Penn State ORG fans really don't care about that.

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They just look at a guy who's been given the keys to an elite program, and at some point you have to start winning some of the games, not all of them,

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some of the games against Ohio State Michigan ORG.

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Or you no longer keep that job.

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He really is kind of Mark Rick PERSON, but without the early success that Rick, he's middle of the years, Rick.

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Because Rick PERSON got him better.

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Rick was better than Ray Golf, and he was better than Donnan PERSON.

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And won two SEC ORG titles.

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He provided them with a lot of exciting moments early.

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And, you know, Frankl did win one Big Ten ORG.

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Went 11 and two doing it.

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But he did win one.

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But now it's just like, you know, they're good every year. Just not that good.

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I'm going to be interesting.

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As for Ohio State, I think, I think they'd be my number one.

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Their schedules, you know.

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I'll keep Georgia number one.

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I'll put my money on what Georgia's got going on with Carson Beck PERSON back.

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I know what Carson Beck PERSON's going to do.

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I don't know what Ohio State's ORG quarterback's going to do. You know, they poach ETN, one of the few weapons that Florida GPE had, and he'll fit right in there nicely. And they're going to defend as well as anybody. So I'll take Georgia ORG one. Bruin Nation ORG.I take a guy like Tony V in a heartbeat. Yeah, I mean, what he's done at Tennessee GPE. Now, he's got to have some success in Omaha ORG, too, to really make people happy over there to get over that hump. They had the disappointment a couple years ago on a team that just ran a rough shot over everybodyand then got bounced at home in a super at home. There's another example. I can give you several more against Notre Dame ORG, against the Notre Dame team. Mike, I don't know where this came from. Talk about a nervous flyer. Oh, with JC, I'm not flying anything, Boeing ORG anytime soon.The problem with that, Mike, it's like Boeing ORG is it's hard to book a flight where it's not a Boeing plane, right?

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That's right. Well, just make sure you don't have the max at the end of it. I think that's the key.

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We flew a Max back from Las Vegas and white knuckled the whole way. Yeah.

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It's kind of crocheting.

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So Craig, Craig had a question about Maryland, Mike, and I'll answer it if you won't be too.

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Yeah, go.

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I'm just going in order.

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Yeah, he just, yeah, it was way back earlier.

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He said, well, Maryland ORG has all this,

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the state of Maryland ORG has all this talent.

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Obviously, South Carolina out of DC and Maryland's getting two straight five-star recruits.

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There's always good players up there. What's their excuse for not being top four in the Big Ten? Well, it's because they've, they, like South Carolina GPE used to have a big problem with big time players from the state leaving, almost like basketballwas, or hopefully is changing now. But guys, in the 90s, that's a miracle. Brad Scott PERSON won anything because every, there was a level of player that would always

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leave and go to Tennessee, Florida State, Georgia State.

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You know, Notre Dame, Ohio State ORG, wherever.

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There was that level.

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And then there was Clemson and South Carolina's GPE level.

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It was almost like there was second class. That changed tremendously. I mean, Georgia ORG will come in and get one every now and then. Sometimes North Carolina GPE will get a good player that neither one wants. But other than that, I mean, you know, there's no Florida State ORG coming in here and getting guys.It's just the border's closed, man.

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The other difference is, Jay C, see, I've never worked a game at Maryland ORG.

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I don't know if you've ever covered a game there. Oh, terrible.

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They don't have like Williams Bryce PERSON. They don't have 80,000 fans and, you know, living, breathing, talking college football, 365. Like, that's just not Maryland ORG. It's just, they're not set up for that.

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It's across that dividing line where that's,

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it's professional sports territory up there.

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Without question.

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You remember, Mike, yeah, you live there.

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I've lived there. I mean, that's all the talk is the proteins.

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It's all about the commanders and the Ravens ORG.

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Like, I just did a Ravens game this year out there.

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So Maryland had a home game the day before.

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I mean, everywhere I went, there's Ravens ORG paraphernalia.

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I didn't see anything of Maryland ORG.

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It's like they don't even exist. No, that's, that's, I don't think Maryland ORG, regardless of who they hire, is ever going to be a power in college football. I mean, I go back the first time I ever knew what Maryland football was, boomer asycin PERSON, that was their big, that was their big deal at quarterback. They have blips here and there, but Maryland ORG's never been, there's talent that comes out of there, yes. But that's why it's always been to me a smart move for Carolina ORG to invade that part of the country.Because other than Penn State, there's not a whole lot of powers in the Northeast LOC. But there are talented players, as J.C. knows better than I, that come out of there every year. So if you can just kind of make that part of your territory, it's a great strategy.

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South Carolina GPE's got a ton of students from there,

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and it's the closest to SEC ORG school. Yeah, Maryland's same way of Redkers NORP is.

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As far as, like, Rutgers ORG, like most of the top kids from Jersey GPE, you either go to Penn State ORG or dot, dot, dot. Same thing with Maryland ORG. They'll get their share of like that middle part. And that's enough to keep them competitive, I think,but also with what they do in the portal.

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But it's not enough to put them into any kind of upper tier.

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Now that there's no divisions and they can't feast on Indiana and Rutgers ORG every year and three little sisters of the poor in non-conference, I just don't think Bradur Day Days are ahead for Mike Loxley PERSON. I'll just tell you that right now.

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Yeah, I'm with you there for certain. Jay Diz PERSON, so much disrespect. The Rothstein, talking about John Rothstein PERSON, 45 rankings, Gamecocks ORG were nowhere to be found. Joe Lannardi PERSON revealed his way too early mock tournament, and there were no Gamecocks of the projection. Folks, you can get used to this. Ranking's were nowhere to be found. Joe Lannardi PERSON revealed his way too early mock tournament,and there were no Gamecocks ORG of the projection. Folks, you can get used to this. They are going based on what the team was last year and who's returning. And the only player that they really know is Murray Boyles PERSON. They don't know. They're not doing a deep dive into Carolina ORG's portal class. They're not doing a deep dive into Carolina's portal class. They're not doing a deep dive on Tom PERSON. They don't know. So I wouldn't make too much of that.You can expect Carolina once again to not get high preseason rankings. And just like last year, it will matter very, very little.

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I don't think you'll be last at the SEC Media Days this year, but, you know. No, not last at all.

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I don't know if you'll be in the top half.

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Maybe.

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Yeah, that's going to take more brainpower than I can use here in the final.

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There's news.

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I have to pass along.

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Oh, news. Breaking news. I think it's along. Oh, new. Breaking news.

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I think it's a TV change for Thursday night.

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I think it was supposed to be on either SEC Network or ESPNU ORG.

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Now, I've moved to the deuce.

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I saw it was on the deuce.

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The deuce.

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So ESPN 2 ORG, first pitch 8 p.m.

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So a primetime deuce.

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Boom.

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Battle with the Bulldogs ORG.

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How's that for alliteration?

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That's fantastic.

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Jacob, that night we lost to Arizona in 2013,

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one of, if not the most emotional night for me as a Gamecock ORG fan.

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I'm guessing, Jacob, you might be a little younger.

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But, yeah, that was definitely painful because it stopped a three-peat, potentially. There have been a few more, depending on how far back you want to go. Harrison, lack of depth, the defensive tackle, and they come to Williams-Brice FAC with a healthy rocket and sellers running the rock. I like our chances. I guess he's talking about the LSU ORG game that we were referencing earlier.

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It's not in a good spot for LSU ORG, I don't think.

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No, no. And that place is going to be nuts if you're 2-0 heading into that one.

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You're going to have J.C. ORG big-time eyes on you.

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Lynette, what are the chances of Jontay Gilbert PERSON?

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I think Carolina ORG, if they push for him, we'll get him.

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I mean, the competition's changed a little bit.

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It was gone from Ohio State and Clemson to, like, Duke and Charlotte GPE maybe or somebody.

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And then there's another Power 5 ORG mixed in there somewhere that's a relatively big. It's kind of been weird. Actually, I'm going to check on him and make sure he's still a priority for the coaching staff. I'm assuming he is, but they've got a lot of DBs committed and others leaning their way, especially in the safety position. So we'll see kind of what.I'll have to check on that. All right.

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Good stuff from everybody out there in ITG land and on chat row for a little Gamecock ORG graffiti to close things out. Been fun. Jamie will be back in the cockpit seat tomorrow with you fellas. I've enjoyed the time here the last few days. If you didn't catch J.C. and Morgan, we didn't get our Texas GPE guest. But other than that, it was good.

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That was a basically got away. Back down.

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I explained for Jerry PERSON. No and Jerry. I explained for Jerry.

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I know exactly what happened.

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No, I hear you. We're kidding.

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We'll get him.

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We'll get him. We'll get him. We'll get him. It's still a good show. It's still a good show, damn it.

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Oh, yeah. All right.

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You want to say goodbye? You want me to say goodbye?

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Say goodbye, Mike. I'm out.

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All right. For another installment of ITG, the show on the Chief Sports Network ORG for J.C. For Phil, it's Mike saying so long. Same time, same show tomorrow at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. So long, everybody.