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On today's show, Dorian Barney is trying to crack one of the toughest position groups

on the roster.

J-Shoot is taking charge of the linebackers and three Rebels who could be the best in

the nation at their position.

All of that is coming up next.

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Ole Miss has three players that might be the best in the country at their position.

That's one of the reasons when you see these national media members talking about how

Ole Miss is going to struggle or Ole Miss could struggle and all of that.

I tend to not agree with that, and I don't agree with it for this reason.

Loot of that Chambers is the best quarterback in the country.

He won Lacey's the best running back in the country.

He was a dope walker finalist a year ago.

He's all American just like Trinidad Chambers this year.

Lucas Carnero, best kicker in the nation.

All three are at positions that affect winning regular.

So it's not a situation to where you're trying to replace super important positions.

In 2024, you had Jackson Dart, you had a very good kicker in Caden Davis, but you lost

your running back in Quinshaw and Jenkins.

I remember that it's not a value position running back anymore if you look at analytics

in the NFL.

But in college football, a running back is of the utmost importance because it affects

what you're doing for town, it affects what you're doing the red zone, it affects what

you're doing short yardage.

You can't just be past, past, past, past because if you are, it's problematic.

That's one of the reasons they struggle in that game against Miami is they were without

Q1 Lacey for the better part of two quarters and basically throwing the ball every single

play.

They had success doing it, but you didn't have Lacey as somebody that has a chance to

take one to the house like he already had in that ball game.

This football team is unbelievably loaded and talented.

It's one of the most talented rosters that Ole Miss has ever had.

It might be just as talented as the 2024 roster.

The reason that I say it might be, and I'm not guaranteeing that it is, is there are

still a couple positions that you're hoping will hit.

Now you think they will, but you need to see that it happened.

You need to see that Blake Purchase, who is a very highly thought of defensive end coming

out of Oregon, can do the same thing that Prince Liam O'Millan did whenever he got Ole Miss.

You need to see that William Eccles takes the step to become Walter Nolan on the defensive

line.

Cam Franklin can do this stuff that Jared Ivey does, that the linebackers, you're not going

to have the slowness that you had a year ago of finding the correct two.

And Jay Crawford is going to be that Trey Amos type corner.

That's how you lock down the defense.

Because if you go to the offensive side of the ball, just like in 2024, I think you have

two new tackles, you have to figure out what's going on there, but likely will.

You have the best quarterback in the country returning.

You had Jackson Dart in 2024 and you have Trinidad Chambus this year.

The difference in this year's team and 2024 is you are returning, you're running back.

You remember, you lost Quincheon Judkins in January to the transfer portal, going to

Ohio State and you suffered the entire season because of crazy rumors about Ulysses Bentley

the fourth and all of that.

But running back was a problem in 2024.

Now you're returning the best running back in the entire country and you can make some

hay off of that.

Now, looking at Trinidad Chambus a year ago, 294 for 445, 3,937 yards, 22 touchdowns, three

interceptions.

That was in 13 games.

Remember, he did not play much at all the first couple of games of the season.

When you look at Qon Lacey, this is what you need to realize, 306 carries.

That's probably a little bit too much and that's probably why he broke down a little bit

in the playoff game against the Miami Hurricanes on that long touchdown run.

1567 yards, 24 touchdowns for Lacey.

Absolutely the best running back in college football to be joined with the best quarterback

in college football.

The other best on the roster is Lucas Canaro and everybody's going to say really stay.

Listen, Lucas Canaro was 31 to 35 a year ago, setting school records like crazy.

He broke the SEC or the Sugarball record for longest field goal twice against the Georgia

Bulldogs and he is the proud record holder of the Fiesta ball as well.

He has a long of 58 a year ago and he was 5 of 7 from over 50 yards.

Three positions that directly influence winning.

Three positions that affect the way you call games.

Whenever you are set in those three positions, you can take solace in the fact that you're

going to be good.

You're looking for a tackle position and all of that.

Now Trinidad does well when the offensive line breaks down.

We saw that a year ago, but still.

Let's say that doesn't break down.

That doesn't hurt you like not having a running back.

That doesn't hurt you like not having a quarterback.

Defense event if Blake Purchase isn't quite princely among me Ellen.

That doesn't hurt you like not having a quarterback.

Jay Crawford can't fill the shoes that Trey Amos had.

See you get the impression, you have some stuff that you need to work out, but it isn't

the major major stuff to where if it goes wrong, you're going to end up going 5 and 7 or

6 and 6 or 7 and 5.

Now the difference we're talking about is this football team is talented enough to go

11 and 1 again, but if it doesn't work out, they're going to go 9 and 3.

It's going to come down to coaching in different positions.

It's going to come down to health if they can stay healthy over the course of the year.

It's going to come down to players providing depth to the roster.

Remember, we did not play much more than four or five wide receivers a year for the last

five years.

There's a chance we could have a little bit more.

You can see like players, high school players like Caleb Cuttingham kind of becoming the

dude, John T Cook kind of becoming the dude, Duce Alexander who has a chance to be really

good in his own right for Ole Miss.

Last year he had 44 catches, 684 yards and two touchdowns.

He had an 88 yarder in the egg bowl a year ago.

The point is this roster is loaded.

Last year's roster was very good.

It was.

And there was a couple of mismatch problems that Ole Miss has to kind of figure out what

Dishonned Stribbling and what Dayquan Wright brought to the team.

They have to figure out a way to replicate that with slightly different personnel.

But when you have Luke Kaws, the main question you have with him is health.

You know, Kenny say healthy for the year, but you have Michael Smith who has a lot of

the same tools as what Dayquan Wright has.

It is going to be interesting.

I've heard the best hands on the team might belong to John T Cook.

He is somebody that catches absolutely everything.

And is this the year with the spring and everything else, Caleb Odom from Carrollton,

Georgia, becomes a tight end weapon as well?

He is a human mismatch problem for teams he's going against.

He just has to figure out his inconsistency catching the football.

If he does that, he's going to be pretty good.

This has three of the best players at their position on their roster.

They also have a bunch of other good players.

You have some stuff that you need to work out to maximize where you're going to be, but

the four on this team is very high because of what they put together.

We talked to Walker Jones a couple of weeks back.

Walker thinks the talent on this team is better than the talent in 2025's team.

Not saying this team is going to go 13 and two and into the final four of the playoffs.

Not saying that.

This team has the opportunity to do the exact same thing.

You have road games at Texas.

You have road games at the swamp.

Winning in Florida can be difficult, especially in November, right after that weird LSU game.

You have Auburn in between Texas and Georgia.

All of that is coming to the table.

There are a couple of landmines on the schedule.

But if you can navigate those with the talent that you have, especially how good

that Trinidad Chambers has been at taking care of the football, this almost football team

is going to be pretty good and Ole Miss fans.

That's why.

That's why you get to be excited.

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Everyone's watching the players this spring and rightly so.

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Now, one of the interesting things about this spring practice that's going to start on

the 27th is the first day that helmets go on there, they're doing what they have to

do, prepracticing and all that, but the 27th is the beginning of when helmets go on, they're

going to do Friday, they're going to use Saturday, probably take a day off and then next

week they'll go with shoulder pads and hit spring practice all together.

I went, I believe Chris Lowe, whenever he said March 23rd and just quit looking because

Chris Lowe is normally a very trustworthy guy, but he was wrong in this case and I didn't

look it up.

So that's on me.

So omis at linebackers has an interesting situation that they have to fill.

That was on the Chris Kiffin situation last year for omis.

That was one of those positions that quietly got looked at.

Everybody's like, will Mike Stoops take that position?

Will any number of linebackers, linear goathy get into that position and it turns out the

voice that is getting the primary look in the linebacker room is J. Shoot.

He's a young guy.

He's a very talented linebacker coach.

He's been on the staff for about four years.

He's a graduate of the University of Tennessee, I think with the graduating of the University

of Tennessee.

And also the last name, shoot, I think his dad is probably Bob's shoot, but I don't have

that confirmed.

But he is kind of becoming the primary in that room now.

Linebackers, that's always going to be a peak golden joint.

It just is.

So this is one of those situations where if you are a defensive backs coach for Nick Sabin,

you're going to be scrutinized.

Same things happening in linebacker at Ole Miss.

But with Luke Forelli, with Keaton Thomas, with Taj Butler, with Jarkobi Hobson.

There are talented names that you can look forward to seeing.

Raymond Collins is this the year that he takes a step.

I think he has a podcast on Ole Miss 365 by the way.

So the linebackers have a fit in the room and you also have jacks with the hybrid positions

like Centering Parkins and I guess even like Blake Purchase could fall into that jack

position.

J-Shoot has a chance to put his stamp on what's going on.

And he's getting some pretty high praise at the moment.

A couple of my little birds at practice were talking about him having a pretty good day,

an excellent communicator, a really confident guy.

Somebody that people listen to, he has a very bright future in front of him.

Now if he graduated in 2021, which what his Ole Miss page said from Tennessee, what is

he, 26 years old, 27 years old, he's still a very young coach, is the point.

So it is going to be good that he is in that room, coaching linebackers on the peak

golden position that he cares about and also that he has guys like Mike Stoops and other

players like Lanier Goathe in his ear of what's going on.

So while J-Shoot is the high energy recruiting guy, all of that stuff, there are a lot of

voices in that linebacker room and J-Shoot is just the primary of them.

It's interesting, this defensive staff, you know, Randall Joyner at defensive line, J-Shoot

at linebackers.

When you look at Marcus Woodson and B Brown and neighbors, West neighbors over there and

Jake Schoonover and all of that kind of piling up, this is a very good defensive staff.

They know it's going on.

There's continuity, you can trust the standard and they don't have to install from scratch.

The offense does not have to install from scratch.

That's the problem of what's going on from time to time.

Whenever you hire a defensive coordinator and you immediately change everything that's

going to be problematic, peak golding is not doing that.

In fact, everything that Pete has done to this point has been on point.

So I give him all the credit for it.

So J-Shoot being the primary voice in that linebacker room, I'm interested to see that.

A 27-year-old guy, maybe he's just fast-tracking, he's going to be like his dad, and he's

footballs in his blood, all of that stuff.

But coaching linebackers, having that background, that has defensive coordinator in the future

all written all over it.

So it would be interesting to see exactly how it goes.

But J-Shoot is the primary going into this spring practice, and I'm pretty excited about

that.

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Dorian Barney has the talent to play early for Ole Miss.

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So it's talking to my guy and they're doing like prespring practices, no helmet or anything

like that.

They worked out.

They did it back whenever I was at Ole Miss as well, except we used to like tape up

towels and all that.

I don't know about the rules about a ball and all that.

But it's basically like mental rep walkthroughs that's happening and we're treating this

week as if spring practices happen even though the first day that helmets go on on the 27.

I kind of biff that, but we're going to continue to do what we do.

And one of the players that I was told just looks the part and looks like he's going to

compete for early playing time is Dorian Barney.

He cornered back out of Carrollton, Georgia.

He played with Caleb Odom.

He's a good player.

I mean, he's excellent, but he's the guy that flipped to Ole Miss last September from

Michigan.

He's over six foot tall.

He's 180 pounds.

He probably put on a little bit of weight as well.

Pretty much a composite four star for him.

He picked Ole Miss over Colorado, whereas quarterback is Penn State, Georgia Tech and

Texas A&M, some kind of heavy hitters.

And Georgia Tech being the Georgia school that's on the list.

That is something to pay attention to there.

Good player, tall guy and lots of length.

He has a chance to make an impact from the very early on at Ole Miss.

Here's the problem.

He's a good player.

And 15 years ago, he probably would get a lot of playing time for Ole Miss.

If it was 2008, you could probably count on him getting some snaps.

Now, Pete Golding likes to play freshman, Santaren Perkins, Cam Franklin.

Freshman got on the field all over the place with him as defensive coordinator.

He likes freshman.

Ladaire and Cardi, just a year ago in the playoffs, was playing quite a bit.

So I'm not saying it can't happen.

I'm saying that with J. Crawford, with Antonio Cuyd, with Sharif Denson, with those players

and the other players for safeties, the Edwin Josephs, the Janela Guero, the Modering

Cardi, the Keon Young, the Cortes Thomas, those position players to go with Mason Dunn

and those other guys.

It is going to be hard because if you remember, Dante Korr was the true freshman that was

the last year version of the corner that was going to play early.

And Dante Korr didn't get on the field very much.

That doesn't mean that Dante Korr isn't a great player.

That means that it's hard to get on the field in the southeastern conference when you're

a true freshman, especially on a roster that's as good as this one is.

When a player plays as a true freshman with the way the talent has been accrued at Ole Miss,

I tell you how good the freshman is, not how bad the rest of the team is.

So if you get on the field, you are special.

You are everything that they hoped you would be.

And Dorian Barney being able to compete for playing time, compete for what is going

on, that is a big deal.

That is something that at least gives you hope going through spring practice and going

through fall camp and all of that stuff.

But I just don't see any way for him to actually get real playing time with how good Jay Crawford

is supposed to be, with how good Antonio Kite is with him going from the number one corner

back to the number two corner back that upgrades the room at Ole Miss.

Should read Denson playing kind of a slot corner, I could see that.

I could see him dropping back and doing a John Saunders type thing.

Janela Guero, Edwin Joseph, all of those guys, Lydaring Cardi, the point is it's going

to be difficult for a player to break into this roster.

That is a true freshman.

And if he does, that should tell you immediately how special this player is.

Dorian Barney has turn heads in pre-spray.

And everybody wants to see what happens when the pads go on because that's the next step.

But the fluidity of movement, all of that stuff, he can do everything.

The question becomes, can he do it when the lights go on?

Can he do it when physical contact is part of the game?

If he can, maybe he does get on the field.

Maybe he is the slot corner this year.

We will see exactly how that goes.

But it is good news that a true freshman is being looked at in this way.

The young guy, the six foot 180 pound corner back from Carrollton, Georgia.

And we will see what happens.

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