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Just about everybody is into spring practice now.

Mizzou, kind of the weirdos.

They got everything started early,

and they've already finished spring ball.

They get it out of the way before spring break.

But we did have the last trailers.

We got A&M underway.

We got Ole Miss underway on Monday.

We got LSU underway on Friday.

Ole Miss is underway on Friday.

Whatever. Everybody's underway this week.

So nonetheless, on day Friday.

Listen, Ole Miss got its old quarterback coming back.

All right, so they don't need to practice.

Yeah, they're just going to have a spring ball.

Let's ask the question, guys.

What is the biggest question facing your team right now during spring ball?

Corey, let's start with you.

Okay, well, is there actually a quarterback competition?

I don't think there actually is, but they're towing the company line.

But the wide receiver room and offensive line rooms

and all seriousness are probably the biggest question marks

because they have a lot of talent,

but not a ton of experience,

and they got to try to figure out what those two positions look like.

Yeah, of course, Jared Curtis.

I mean, you know, it's all the high expectations on M

and can he come in and immediately be a freshman starting quarterback.

But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of other different spots at Vandy's.

Gotta make sure it's ready to go for SEC play.

Yeah, I just, I described him as like Diego Pavia was like little Mario.

Jared Curtis is Mario after he had the mushroom.

Yeah, fire flower thing, where he's been.

Fireball, you know, because a dude can, yeah.

Gotcha. Marlore, a little, by the way, Mario lost his accent.

I don't know where that happened.

Marlore, South Carolina, offensive line has been an issue.

Some of the new additions you guys have brought in,

but what's their biggest question right now?

Well, you were going to ask the question.

I was going to say it and then you had to give the answer during the question.

So super professional of you, Gordy, I appreciate that.

offensive line, biggest question mark for sure.

And I think health and the offensive line for sure today,

that we're recording this on, I don't remember what day it is.

But even today, Chambie mentioned their halfway through the 15 practices

and Dylan Stewart is going to be probably unlimited action for the rest of spring

ball. And he's not 100% they revealed that he also was 100% last year.

But I think between guys like him and then I was to Jakarta's peak being out

until the fall, desire Thompson being out and having to shuffle all these guys

enough to find that.

I think it's going to be the biggest question is can they say healthy enough

to be ready for the fall and then also figure out the offensive line?

The other thing too is just the some of the incoming like younger talent,

not even from the portal that they brought in at skill positions like the

wide receiver position, how much further along are they this year than they

were a year ago?

Yeah, I was going to say the the interesting part with with Dylan Stewart.

I mean, he was so good as a freshman.

It's happened so much so much with guys, they blow us away as a freshman.

And so we raise the expectation.

We go clearly they're going to outdo that again.

And he was good last year.

He just wasn't the huge dominant force.

Like you mentioned, they kind of came out and said, OK, maybe he wasn't 100%

and it didn't have the Kyle Konard opposite him as well.

That was a big saccharter.

Not only the SEC defensive player of the year on the other side,

I think it was a pretty big issue, but I think also you look at what he could

project to be this year and talent wise.

Now he can be that Kyle Konard and who's going to be in the opposite side of

him is a Julian Walker, the freshman or is the kid they got from Tennessee,

Caleb Herring, we'll see.

Now there's, there's some questions for South Carolina.

But if you take the defensive performance that they had a year ago, just that.

We're not asking for anything crazy.

Add to Kindle Browls and Lenore Cells together.

If that clicks, South Carolina is a problem for everybody in the SEC next year.

Talk about Steven.

There's a lot of potential there, Chris.

I that was one of my favorite moves that South Carolina made was higher in Kindle

Browls because I mean, it is perfect.

It's a perfect match there with him and Lenore sellers with what he wants to do

and how he wants to attack with Lenore sellers, the skill set.

I think it's, you know, thankful that Vanny doesn't have to play South Carolina

this year, maybe wait till Lenore sellers leaves and then get you back on the schedule.

That'd be good.

Yeah, for sure.

And if you heard what what Shane Bamer said this week, he said the offense is totally

different. He said everything's different.

That would be it's a whole new system.

Whole new offense.

Everybody's having to learn.

And so yeah, I mean, I think we're super optimistic about what we'll see in Colombia this

year.

Erickane, I think I know where you're going to go, but biggest question for the Tennessee

Vols.

Yeah, Marlor, we're recording this on Wednesday, not opening day in the bay.

And the Yankees put up five over the Giants in the second.

So biggest worry here in Knoxville is Tony Voxello going to Fayetteville here pretty soon.

But no, it's quarterback.

No doubt.

Again, Steven got his veteran quarterback back in Tennessee, didn't so it's Tennessee

going to start a true freshman like Vanderbilt and Jared Curtis, but with phase on Brandon

or it's Tennessee going to go to the red shirt.

Fresh from Iowa George McIntyre Ryan stop is here.

He started a game or two over the last couple of years of Colorado.

He's not really in this competition.

It's, you know, George or phase on so far.

I mean, we just get to see barely anything.

I mean, they look great in shorts and helmets and when they put the full pads on, we get

to see them throw routes on air.

And I mean, they look, they look like all Americans there.

I mean, everybody's saying the right things right now, but like we just don't

know.

And we're not going to know until they scrimmage, I guess it would be today, they scrimmage.

And, you know, we'll get to hear some, you know, how they performed after that and everything.

But quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, I mean, the offense overall for Tennessee returns

so much, you feel really good about the weapons and offensive lines surrounding said quarterback.

But quarterback is the most important position in all sports.

So you can't be really bad there.

So we'll see what happens.

I think I'm a little worried too, don't you mean, just staying healthy, right?

I mean, we saw Dave, Dave and Hobbs, the D line men, he's going to miss the rest of

the spring with an injury.

And I think I'm just jaded with Tennessee on the, the Jermod McCoy, you know, the, all

the DB injuries they had last year, it's like, man, I just, I just want to see him get

out of spring healthy.

Like Jermod got hurt training at his home in Texas in January, like first of January,

like just the crappiest thing in the average.

He gives and got hurt there in the opener and Tennessee was, Tennessee went out and got

Colton Hood as a, you know, just an insurance policy and turns out he's going to be a first

around.

I mean, that turned out pretty well.

And you know, Ty Redman, who was forced into action last year, corner is a true freshman.

The got picked on a lot earlier in the year.

I think he's going to be one of the best corners than the SEC that you're one of the top

perturbing corners in the SEC.

But yeah, like I've got, I mean, everybody's going to talk about the quarterbacks, no doubt.

I mean, I've got some question, big time questions about like the entire defense.

Don't give me wrong, right?

But the defensive line, you lost so much from a group that underperformed last year.

And how about David Hobbs?

I mean, Tennessee's having to count on him and play a ton of snaps and he is never healthy.

Nathan Robinson is never healthy.

And so yeah, again, like spring's great.

And all spring is not what it used to be.

We don't get to see anything.

We don't know what's really happening.

But you know, we'll see what Josh Hybel says and barely says in front of the microphone

tomorrow.

Yeah.

Or just to get a heads up about it on the quarterback position to either one of them,

how far they can they throw an orange and are either one at rocket ship builder.

And the truly unfortunate because the last one was really, really good.

Yeah.

Who cares about throwing the orange?

Because the quarterback that did that was not very good.

But hey, this is why again, like I just don't worry about Josh Hybel in quarterbacks.

I'm sorry.

Like, you got Aguilar off the waiver wire and he led the SEC in passing last year.

Joe Milton accounted for over 3,000, 3,000 yards to the air.

Like, and he threw an orange 90 yards.

Yeah, it's just I Joe Milton is the prototypical has all the tools, but just can't play.

And he like Josh Hybel got to play like I just, I understand their serious questions.

And I've gotten more than anybody.

I'm still not really worried about it.

Maybe that's on me though.

I don't know.

But traditionally speaking to a high full offense, just the way it's dramatically it breaks

down and the ex to those and how he splits.

He has the offense.

The biggest thing is the easier it is to spell the last name or pronounce it of his quarterback,

the more success they have tend to have.

So I end these and stay longer, too.

So I'm excited for George McIntyre, my favorite beetle and phase on Brandon.

So it should be great.

Yeah, he could use another hooker there.

By the way, Aguilar, Joe, he's going to believe that Alvaro Corey, sorry.

He led the SEC at 99 yard pick sixes, too.

So that's he did.

Yeah.

How about we just not put the football through the air on the goal line, playing Alabama?

Probably a good idea.

That's fair.

Steven Ole Miss, whatever the hell they get started with camp, what's their biggest

question?

Well, we assume the question.

No, everybody's going to talk about the offensive tackle position and we're going to go

over that.

I've not as him for the next couple of weeks.

But the one thing that I'm interested in, especially in the routes versus air portion

of spring practice, is John Tay Cook.

He has to find consistency.

He was one of the most electric players I've ever seen coming out of high school in

under armor.

It was amazing.

He went to Texas and kind of just fell flat, got kicked out of Washington, went to Syracuse,

and there was the electricity again.

Is he going to bring that to Oxford and Mississippi?

Because one of the most consistent players on the football team was Caden Lee.

He's no longer there.

You have to replace that.

It can't just be Duce Alexander and the other players that are going to go on.

John Tay Cook has a big role to play on this football team.

I like that.

I would say it's the wide receiver room that's a whole, I mean, we know Duce Alexander

was good, but, you know, Darryl Gil, racial fields, I mean, it's just a lot of new guys.

And we've become accustomed to this for Ole Miss because it feels like it's a whole

new wide receiver room every year.

Every single year.

Yeah.

But it's just all about who's going to emerge and who's going to be that guy, you know?

You know, the one weird question in this receiver room that Ole Miss over the last 15 years,

there's always been that big wide receiver.

They've always had that.

This year, they're going to be relying on a freshman.

Now, he was a five star freshman, but he's going to be a red shirt freshman on the outside,

potentially Caleb Cunningham starting at the X.

He's that big player as he, the Trey Harris, that is something I'm interested in.

But like I said, John Tay Cook and Caleb Cunningham and them on the side of the field, if they

are just really good, this offense with Kiwan Lacey and Trinidad Chambers going to be

very hard to stop.

Well, we know Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weiss will put him in great positions.

So joking.

Or the people, or the person that ran the offense from 21 to 23.

John David, from our might, Matt Lake, Matt Lake, or head coach, Ole Miss football.

Richard, when we return, fellas, we are going to hit on some of the teams we didn't talk

about.

So be thinking of one of the other teams in the SEC, what you think, the biggest question

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All right, gentlemen, listen to some of the other teams we hit on all of the teams that you

guys cover.

Marlar's in a unique spot.

He was actually at LSU practice the other day.

So Marlar, give us a thought on what you think the biggest question is for LSU going

into the season.

It's his team.

How much money for you?

What's that?

But where is LSU on the pecking order?

I'm just curious.

Shut up.

Okay.

Lane Kiffin.

My biggest question for LSU is how much Tanner can Lane Kiffin get before the season starts

because that man is based it and looks fantastic.

I think the biggest question for me is how quickly can he get into jail?

I saw the first five periods of that practice.

I think Sam Levin is obviously going to be your quarterback.

I think the big thing for me is who's going to be the backup because we see this time

and time again.

I'm looking through here.

I think outside of, outside of Corey, it feels like every quarterback, well, maybe

I'm wrong.

Maybe it's the only South Carolina that's had to have a backup quarterback play significant

like time over the past two years.

But for the most part, you see around the SEC, very good point to see them.

You see these backups that have to step in at some point during the season arch two years

ago with Quinn, and obviously the stuff with Alabama over the past couple of years.

There's every single place has had some issues with the health through the 12 game season.

I think it's only going to get worse with a nine game conference season.

Sam Levin is already coming off an injury.

Who's going to be the backup quarterback that's going to be putting that offense in good

hands?

And is it going to be the kid from Elon who I think has the best arm out of anybody on

the team or is it going to be who's saying Longstreet who I accidentally type out human

Longstreet on my first post from screen practice.

So I think that is like all the other side, the biggest question for them is they're going

to get a lot more valuable reps in in the spring because of the fact that Levin's going

to be out and in so limited what they're doing.

But who is going to be number two in that death chart and see it be good enough to do something

similar like we saw last year at Ole Miss?

I was going to say like love it and you said it right there.

I mean, my understanding was love it wasn't was going to do anything in spring.

And so what an opportunity there to see what you got behind it, right?

Because again, it could be your one play away.

I mean, here at Tennessee, man, knock on wood like Tennessee's not had, I mean, Nico was

out for a half one time.

I mean, Nico was questionable going into the Georgia game, but he missed two quarters.

I mean, Tennessee's quarterbacks, ending got hurt at the end of 22 with one game left.

But Tennessee's quarterbacks have in this whole lot of time, but I mean, you're just

one play away and it's all three quarterbacks are new, correct, new to LSU.

It's a new system, obviously.

There's a lot going on.

So you know Sam Levin's going to be the guy regardless, can Sam Levin step into any

offense and probably thrive.

So just kind of figuring out what you got behind him.

And remember, as somebody that's been through the Lane Kiffin experience before, Jackson

Dart got knocked out of the Georgia game in 2024.

Obviously, Trinidad Chambliss took over last year, Matt Corral missed a sugar ball.

The backup quarterback usually plays a game in the Lane Kiffin system.

I think that the other big thing too, I think is that offensive line, like we, listen,

every team that I cover professionally, apparently, it's just destined to have the worst

offensive line imaginable.

And South Carolina has been bad, obviously, I was usually bad last year.

Like, how are they going to be able to protect up front?

And I think the bigger thing for me is they brought in, like, they brought it in the

staff with a lot of really high quality staff members, play callers, like recruiters,

developers, all that kind of stuff.

Eric Wolford, in my opinion, the track record that he has had is the worst of the bunch.

And then maybe I'm completely wrong.

And maybe you got Jordan Seaton will make him look a lot better.

But remember, just a couple of years ago, when he was in Alabama, that was an offense that

gave up 49 sacks in one season, which was more than like, I think the four teams, the

four top ring teams in the country, Washington, Oregon, Georgia, and Michigan, the time

they gave up, like, less than that combined.

Georgia had given up, I think, 16 or 13 less sacks combined in the three years combined

in the Alabama to that one season.

I don't think he is going to be some incredible developer of talent on the offensive lines of

that.

That could still be a big issue for him, especially within his record of that.

And one thing that's interesting for Ella, she's sorry about that, Chris, but every stop

that Lane Kiffin has made before this one, there has been somebody on that art browse

tree.

Now there's things that you can say about art browse, but there's been somebody there to

put in the system.

This is the first time where he is putting in the system himself.

That's all right.

I don't know what that means.

What that means, but it might mean something.

I think it's going to jump around because you got nine other teams I do want to touch

on.

Cory, give you Georgia.

What do you think is the biggest question for Georgia this spring?

I think just kind of maintaining that consistency, you just kind of seeing how some of the new guys

and new faces fit within Mike Bobo's scheme.

I think when you look at the development of Gunner stocked in, how much more electric

is he going to be in year two as a starter or year two and some change as a starter?

And what does this team going to actually look like?

Can they get over the hump in the playoff, first of all, like they get it, they get in

the playoff when they're one and done, can they find a pass rush?

Can they find a pass rush?

I mean, they return a lot of experience on defense.

So like that's something that I think they're excited about.

But I think there's some questions with Glenn Schumann and just kind of how they organize

this defense.

And I don't know if last year some of their problems were inexperience and some of the gaps

that they had in their defensive coverage, especially the pass rush was just inexperience

or not the right calls or, but they've got some things to figure out from a pass rush

perspective, if they're going to three-peat as SEC champs.

That's the biggest one for me is pass rush for Georgia.

We were not used to seeing them have a lack of a pass rush.

They've just, they've been a football factory for elite delinement and it's like, where's

Jordan Davis?

Where's Jerome Walker?

I mean, they were missing that.

I just don't know where it was going to come from and I don't think that they had guys

that were big time playmakers or at least had that mentality last season.

Maybe they've developed that a little bit and maybe they'll develop that a little bit

in the spring.

But they've got to have somebody who you're just deathly afraid of coming after the

passer.

Steven, you want me to give you the other side of the egg bowl?

You want to do Mississippi State?

I can take it.

They have been dreadfully bad over the last two years and you have a quarterback that

struggles throwing the football, but he is absolutely electric running the football.

So Jeff Levy, what he has this year is basically what Oklahoma and Nebraska had in the 70s

and 80s.

If they get behind, it's done.

But if Mississippi State gets up on you to where he can run that quarterback, they're

going to be a real problem.

But if you jump on them, they're not going to be able to catch up.

Camario Taylor is, he's an interesting quarterback.

I like him talent-wise, it's just them trying to figure out just kind of how he operates

and what he does well and try to take advantage of that and you know, try to protect him from

what he doesn't do well as he tries to develop that part of his game.

That's just going to be that, they got to figure that out this year.

The problem is that they brought his name in, go ahead, Steven, my bad.

The problem is they put out a video of like the three best passes that he made during

a practice.

And it was an arrow screen and that's a problem.

That is.

Yeah.

Look, they were better last year, Mississippi State, it just, you lost a lot of what Brennan

Thompson was awesome.

He's gone.

He's off to the NFL.

So it's, there's a lot of pieces they have to replace from that team that was improved.

Eric, before we grab a break, you want to pick one of your old East teams?

I'll give you a choice of Florida, Kentucky, Mizzou.

Oh, I guess I can talk about the Gators.

No, no, Kentucky.

I mean, when will Stine's money?

New coaching staff, new quarterback.

I mean, Kentucky always gets a nice quarterback from the transfer portal.

You know, Kentucky to run the football as well as anybody in the SEC haven't done that

a couple of years.

I don't know anything about Kentucky.

I got CJ back to the former Texas running back.

Okay, yeah, yeah, he's there.

Yes, all of it.

I mean, it's like, how will Stine can handle being a head coach for the first

Yeah, I mean, that's the biggest question.

That's the biggest question for a lot of these guys.

I mean, I thought for some reason, I thought you were going to give me Arkansas.

And I know that's not an East team.

But, you know, I think Arkansas, I'm so intrigued about them just because I don't

think that they had it, they hired, I don't know why they hired him.

That's good.

He was not good at Memphis.

They just want, and like, when Arkansas fans didn't want that higher to be made, that's

an issue.

And unlike, gosh, unlike Mississippi State, where they just weren't very good, but man,

they were competitive.

And they won a couple of games like Arkansas just didn't give you anything to cheer

about.

And I mean, again, Kentucky unless you're playing Ole Miss, you know, you pretty much

don't do anything.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

I'm running around stalking an ex-girlfriend.

Yeah.

The game you're talking about.

Yeah.

I don't know much about Kentucky this this year.

I'm going to be honest with you.

Florida.

I think Florida's going to be okay.

Florida's always going to have amazing talent.

I think Florida's got a great coaching staff.

I believe in in some role.

If they can figure out the quarterback situation down there, which is kind of what Tennessee

is trying to figure out.

I think Florida can.

I mean, that first over under was like, what, four and a half, five and a half, and they

moved out.

I don't know where they are now, but they're seven and a half.

Oh, God.

Okay.

Yeah.

They didn't move that much.

I don't think.

Okay.

So that's more like it.

I think Florida, if you can figure out the quarterback, you're not going to be that bad

and you're one in my opinion.

And Cory, you like their OC, right?

Yeah.

I tend to like him.

I've spent a few family reunions with the little Buster Faulkner.

Maybe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's going to be interesting there with with that and him picking a quarterback.

He's not even though Philo transferred to follow him.

He's not partial to Aaron Philo.

I mean, he's not.

It's going to be a fair race, but you know, I think Philo's going to end up winning it because

I think he's a little bit more consistent and a little bit more accurate with the with

Patrick.

Trimell Jones is looking good, though.

Well, he was a four-star recruit.

Does this look like some sloppy that was just sitting there?

No, no, no, no.

I think this is going to be like the slimest of margins whoever wins this job and it's

probably going to it's probably going to go back and forth to Philo to Trimell Jones,

to Philo to Trimell Jones and how they, you know, how they report it and how you hear

about them.

So it's going to be, I mean, this one's going to might be down to like week one.

Yeah.

And they better be careful because they could fit film up there and see what Buster Faulkner

did to Haines King last year running the football just, and it's like everybody's going

to like South Park try to lose.

And by the way, Eric, you mentioned it, Will Steins walking into a great situation in

Kentucky when Mark Pope just set $20 million on fire, they're probably going to support

that program moving forward a little bit.

But will they?

Will they?

Yeah.

What did they put in?

That's the best shot you got.

True.

You know, they put into the football this year was still surprising.

They look at their, they're, uh, the numbers just, and Gordy correct me if I'm wrong,

but I think off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure they had 29 guys they brought in.

20 of those guys are from Power 4 teams and or another name.

And then I think 14 to nearly half of it also came from SEC teams.

So they, I mean, they put together a strong class.

Um, it just, it'll, like you said earlier, it depends on like one, the schedule is not

easy by any means.

And then also, it's Will sign in year one as a, as a head coach.

I get in trouble a lot of my own podcasts for South Carolina saying this.

So I don't mind saying it for someone else and juicing them maybe, but it feels like

it can't get worse.

So that has been a very wrong on my show several times.

But I will also say, I don't think you get worse for Kentucky with what they have with

Mark.

And like it's just so, Gordy, I know you got to go to break up.

I just want to get this.

But we don't have a shot in here.

Like how Mark stupes just fumbled so much these last five years.

I mean, he was respectable.

He had an MO man played great defense, really good in the trenches, ran the football well.

You know, and then they started going on get quarterbacks to the portal.

And you had so many weapons the last couple of years.

And then they, they just all leave you and like, again, you, you had some signature

wins, but then you'd fall back down the earth like it's, I'm not saying that they would

have contended for a college football playoff spot or anything.

But like Kentucky, Mark soups just, Mark soups had a lot of talent there to win.

Not win big, but to win more.

And he has two years ago offensively with Barry on Brown.

And yeah, Mike, my point is I didn't keep Barry on Brown Robinson.

I think that, that, that thing was incredible.

You know, they're left tackle though, Eric Lance heard.

Yeah, I mean, he's okay.

He's a four or five star.

Yeah, he was a four or five star, yeah.

Mark stupes and Dan Mullen combined to ruin my favorite joke ever.

And that was the Atlantic's going to beat can beat Florida before Kentucky will.

And that just got ruined.

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touch on.

And let's talk about them, because I think the quarterback spot is the biggest question.

Year three for Kalen DeBoer.

I think he can't mess this one up, Keel and Russell, the guy who was the five star freshman

from a year ago, or Austin Mac, the guy that was a recruit that they were put up the Washington

when he and Ryan grew up right there.

But to me, guys, that's the biggest question for Alabama.

In addition to where's that run game, we weren't used to seeing Alabama not be able to run

the football.

I mean, Alabama could not run the football at all last year.

I understand there was some injuries, but there was some inconsistency play on the offensive

line.

You got really good quarterback play from Ty Simpson for most of the year.

There were some stretches where I wasn't very good.

Again, defensively too, like it just, it just looked different.

When I understand Nick Sabin's not coaching over there, and I think Kalen DeBoer is a fine

coach, but like not being able to run the football and not being able to get out the

past here and play some solid defense.

I mean, it was a CFP team.

I understand that, but this is a massive year, and it all starts with quarterback.

You're right.

I think, you know, two guys that are pretty talented, but you can't pick the wrong one,

because if you go mediocre and kind of, you know, miss out on the CFP this year, they'll

run it out of town.

Marler?

I disagree with that.

I think that is a perception, because Bama fans have done enough stuff, like I don't

know, burning down trees at your rivals' campus to willingly and also very validly make

them seem like crazy idiots that would run out of town.

The decision makers, I don't think, are as pressed to get him out of there if he doesn't

make the play up.

It's very hard to make the play up.

It's also, I think the way everyone looks at this, it's kind of him being judged against

Sabin, which is kind of wild to me, because it's like, Sabin had 16 losses and however

many years, and he's S8, and it's like, right, but that's changed for the entire sport

of cultural.

I think the biggest thing for him, and you're going to have to put him, if you're being

objective about this as the decision maker, you have got to figure out a way to make sure

that you're looking at this from a two-year window.

If it goes horribly, and they get blown out by a lot of teams, they end up getting, you

know, thrashed by Auburn on top of bad season.

They go seven and five with losses to everybody, worth a crap, or six and six, then yes, absolutely

in a hot seat.

If he goes nine and three or eight and four and misses the playoff, with a roster that

only has seven seniors on it, and a lot of young talent that you would think will come

back, because he's the only coach that was able to go through last spring and not lose

a single player in that spring window.

I think that you have to look at this from a two-year standpoint.

Now, I don't expect them to make a play up.

I think they think it's set back.

Is he going to get the quarterback situation right?

I don't know the answer to that, because the Austin Mac is a very talented quarterback.

You guys don't forget, let him to three pretty big points in the Rose Bowl.

That was awesome.

Yeah.

And he's the guy that came with him from Washington, that's like, he obviously believes

in him.

Enough to where he was like, what's your name, Julian, Julian, say, say on, you're good.

You can leave.

You're good.

Go to Ohio State and see how you do there.

We'll keep Austin Mac.

But he'll in Russell.

I'll keep saying this.

He's the highest ranked recruit in program history.

Like, there's no, there's no world I look at and say, they're going to hold that king

off the field for the entire season, because you can't afford to, otherwise, he's leaving.

And then if you start getting off the field optics that start impacting his actual decision

to keep or keep him or let him go, then you're in trouble.

There's no denied.

I was going to say, you also need a certain water seaver to, you know, actually be good

again.

Yeah.

Because that hurt him bad last year.

Ryan Coleman, Williams, I think adding the name that'll, I think that brings the hands

with him.

Yeah.

You can't deny the rebranding your company's in bankruptcy.

Let's rebrand.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's a lot.

Yeah.

That's perfect.

No.

You can't deny the talent of Keel and Russell.

I mean, it's, he's somebody that just, I think it's going to be hard to keep him off the

field.

It's going to be difficult for Austin Mac to beat him out because like the things,

the things that he does that Austin Mac can't do as well.

I, I think that's going to be hard to bypass.

I mean, and I think you're going to be willing to accept a few mistakes because you only

have seven seniors on the roster that you're going to go with the more talent.

You're going to go with the higher ceiling.

I think, you know, with Vanderbilt, they're looking at something similar like it, you know,

Blaysboro, which is not as good as Austin Mac, but the situation of the two, the, the,

the talent discrepancy is like, okay, you got this veteran guy that knows the system.

And, you know, he came with Jerry Kille and, and, and Tim Beck, but you have this undeniable

talent sitting there with Jared Curtis, like you don't leave that on the bench.

That, that's kind of where I stand with Keel and Russell.

You just can't, just hard to leave that talent sitting on the bench there.

One and one in the last two meetings.

One and one.

That's true.

They're fine.

I mean, it's, think about that.

That's real.

That's a real thing.

I think the other thing too, as you've looked at it, the said Morton can't, I think

they're really good.

The freshman five started they brought in.

I would expect Williams, Colman Williams will go back to a more similar thing and, and,

and performance that he had in year one, I think he had a lot of off the field, just kind

of mental stuff that he was going through last year from, from what I was told.

I, I think the other thing too is you, you, people forget this because they have fans

already.

It's like playing and simple.

I, and I feel very confident saying that because I grew up in a family full of them.

They're idiots, but they're not the ones that are paying the buyout.

And they're not the ones hiring the next coach.

So the idea that Bama fans are going to grow restless with this really doesn't matter

as much.

I think to, to guys like Greg Byrd and whoever's making those decisions, as it does the

people on Twitter.

And I, I think he's going to be fine unless it is a cataclysmic failure.

If they run for negative three yards against George again, we're going to have to have some

different conversations.

Or causes him to jump ship.

You're eight, four, nine, three, he's like, man, I don't want to be here anymore.

Go somewhere else.

Jim Brando.

That's his, his blank, you know, Chris, there's an office, there's a senior office, a consultant

that's with the gofers that I think would be perfect for, for, let's, let's, let's

hurt the pace.

We got three team, four teams to jump on.

Mizzou, Stephen, help me out with them because Austin, we know I'm on hearty was, is

back.

One of the best running backs in the country.

But Austin Simmons going there to now be the, the, the guy, to me, that's the biggest,

like, what is Austin Simmons at Mizzou?

Yeah, all, all the talent in the world, he has one, one level talent, if he can put it

all together and him getting a security blanket, his boy, Kaden Lee to go up there with

him and a mod hearty is a really good back.

So you going into a situation to where you have a set, RB one, you have a set wide receiver

run, you have what you need.

If they can block form, I think you'll put up good numbers because Missouri, unlike

Ed Olmiss, is going to run a little bit more pro style stuff.

You just couldn't tell that because Bo Pribuid, they, they were running it with him.

But they do have that in their playbook from time to time.

And if I'm not mistaken, their analyst, the former offensive coordinator at Cumpson, on

that side of the ball as well, so pay attention to that.

Yeah, they've got, they've got Chip Lindsay as their offensive coordinator from, from

the zoo, and then they got Garrett Riley, who is considered a good offensive, and he

like Drake, which is himself considered a good offensive mindset.

I like that combination of a bunch of, a bunch of big names there, and they got what

chop, chop Harbin as well, right, Eric coming, for coming over from Tennessee.

So.

Yep.

Yeah, coach.

And a sublime recruiter, a very good recruiter.

All right.

We got Auburn and Ann M who wants to take who?

I'll take Auburn.

Oh boy.

Oh boy.

See, I can take over.

I can take over.

Yeah.

Eric, it looks like Golisch.

Me?

Eric.

Oh, yeah.

Eric, you go ahead.

You go ahead.

You've been to Russia before.

Excuse me.

This thing on Alex Golisch is a, he's a, he's a, he's a, he's a feisty little guy.

He is a, he's really, he's really smart.

And I mean, his players love playing for him, but he's like the bad guy on the room, man.

Like, when he was at Tennessee, and I'm sure he was like this, you know, his, when he

was a head coach before coming back to the SEC, man, he was like, he was like the hard

ass on staff, right?

Like Hypole wasn't L or B, like none of the other offensive coaches was the bad cop and

that was, that was Golisch, man.

And he will get after you and he came in there and obviously been a lot of turnover and

all that.

He brings his quarterback with him.

What's that transition like to the SEC?

I think it's going to be okay, right?

Auburn always has so much talent, still has so much talent.

But it's, you know, what, what Hypole had when he came to this league was, it's before

they put the clamps on tempo, right?

Year one, they went warp speed.

Yeah.

And they scored on Georgia on the first possession.

I understand, check the final score, but like Tennessee could jump on teams early that

first year in 2021, right?

And they went from having three and seven and one of the worst offenses in the country

to having to talk to an offense in year one.

I don't know what that transition is going to be that quick for Golisch because there

is some restrictions on, you know, going tempo and all that.

Plus, they've added some iPads and all that, you know, hoping out with the young quarterbacks,

the defense can happen as well.

But yeah, it's, it's an offense that is built on the tight end.

I don't know their tight end situation, but they got to have to first utility in the

tight ends.

They're going to run the crap out of it.

Again, this is, you know, Marlowe and I've talked about it before, but everybody just

thinks it's the, you know, it's the West Coast throw it all around everything.

But Tennessee runs the football as good as anybody in the SEC and Auburn's going to

try to do that as well.

So I don't know, personal wise, I don't know what their defense is and all that.

I just, I worry about Golisch in year one because again, Tennessee really got it after

it tempo wise and they're not going to be able to go as fast in year one like Tennessee

did.

Also the roster.

I don't know that he's built the roster the way he wants it completely.

So I think that factor also with him being his first year as a head coach in the SEC,

I don't think it's going to be a horrible year, but like, I think if you get him early,

it's even more advantageous because when they, when they figured out they'll be good

because Golisch is good.

But it's all USF guys when you say I don't know if they can absolutely challenge for

the American.

Either way, they're tied in.

They're tied in as Jonathan Eccles from USF.

So it's like, you know, and one time Tennessee commit who decommitted it was committed

to the sea for a year and a half, decommitted and went down there with Golisch because Golisch

is one of the guys.

So the Auburn goals, are they, are they, are they, are they, yes, they had, they had,

they brought in 13 players from USF now.

Let me give you a fun little fact.

Guess how many players Kertzick Denny brought in from JMU when he got to Indiana over 20,

right?

13 from JMU alone.

So what I'll tell you is that's a great number.

And that's something you can hang your hat on if you're Auburn and get really excited

about.

But the biggest difference is that Indiana team didn't have to play a ranked opponent

until week 11 or week 12.

That's not going to be the case for Auburn.

I think the most fascinating part about this is how important is the quarterback situation

for them because Byron Brown is a really good quarterback at times.

But he also, they would be two and O against Bama in his starts against it.

If he could just complete a deep ball, like just like one.

And so, but I think also the other part is that's a $30 million roster.

And in this day and age, that's not crazy, I guess, and there's several $30 million

roster on the power for teams and programs.

But you guys have seen the roster.

Maybe I'm totally off base because a lot of it is talent that came with him.

But is that $30 million roster that he brought?

I don't know.

I will say this, Auburn fans are going to get to see confident offense for the first time

of the year.

Yes.

Yeah.

Intensity, too.

Like, they're going to have a different attitude there.

And that's something they need after after the Hugh Freeze experience was cool.

And that was in the gospel music and practice.

That was one of the players who needed that.

It was like, watch Cody and DJ Durkin, oh my God.

Cody Sigler on that D line.

That's told.

There's been eating this spring.

So that's a name to keep it on the transfer.

Cody Burns, former Auburn water see recorder back.

And he was here at Tennessee with Gaulish.

He's the water seevers goes there, too.

There you go.

I made a mistake as I was looking at my old 14 team graphic will have tough Oklahoma

Texas.

So we've got a minute each for Texas, Texas A to have an Oklahoma.

I'll take Texas.

My defense is going to be great at Texas.

I just, you know, really great DB play, especially and, you know, Steve has been really

good at, you know, organizing practices and really given me runway to implement my system

there at for the long horse.

I think people are awesome.

They're going to be really excited with what we have coming on D for his really wide.

Give me like a crazy look.

Yeah.

There's a lot of them.

Do your job.

Do your job.

Do your job.

Do your.

I need a whiteboard behind me that I can break.

Arch is doing well.

He's.

Yeah.

It's going to be a strong, strong group for Texas, much to the superintendent of a lot

of people around the SSB.

Who wants A and M or Oklahoma?

I'll take Oklahoma.

You're two and John Matier healthy, John Matier with that defense because it's going

to be good.

If they spent any money at all and did any work and evaluation, Oklahoma is going to be

very good.

And also Owen Heinecke played 15 minutes of a lacrosse and the NCAA is trying to take

a year of eligibility away from him for that in football.

Chris Winky came back at like 30 years old and played quarterback.

Owen Heinecke, Mississippi judge, whoever whoever the Oklahoma judge is hearing this needs

to realize that because that's egregious that that's worse than what they did to try

to that.

That's the reason why that should have counted against his football eligibility.

I also cannot wait for the Red River rivalry game into a Parker Livingston does wearing

the Oklahoma uniform.

He's going to get shut down.

I've got to end up at last one A and M. To me, guys, the biggest concern is new coordinators.

New OC and new DC Marcel Reed, I think, is going to be fine.

By the way, I think I saw a million highlights of Isaiah Horton over there.

I mean, they are acting like he is the next coming.

What did Alabama let walk out the door until it's this guy going over to college station

because they're acting like he's going to be all SEC wide receiver.

But new, that could mean two things.

That could mean they don't have anything or that could mean he's being unbelievable.

Awesome.

You get $700,000 to be the third best receiver on that team a year ago and then go get a

million to go do it out there at A and M with all them bow is swaying back and forth.

Probably just worth it.

I guess.

They got Mario Craver back.

They lose Casey Concepcion, but Isaiah Horton will slide in and maybe be their workhorse

guys.

So we'll see.

But new OC and new DC always tough to lose both guys in an off season.

Generally, one of them takes a step back that next year.

But just as going to do it, we hit on all 16 teams with questions coming out of spring

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