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Just about everybody is into spring practice now of 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 a 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 in 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, all the high expectations on him and can

he come in immediately be a freshman starting quarterback.

But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of other different spots at Vandy's got to make sure

it's ready to go for SEC play.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just, I'm describing as like Diego Pavia was like little Mario, Jared Curtis is

Mario after he had the mushroom.

Yeah.

Marla.

Yeah, fire flower thing.

Where is the fire ball, you know, because a dude can, yeah.

Yeah.

Marla, a little, by the way, Mario lost his accent, I don't know where that happened.

Marla, 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, Gordia, 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, Shane Bieber 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 going to speak 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 questions.

Can they say healthy enough to be ready for the fall and then also figure out the offensive

line?

It's just the, some of the incoming like younger talent, not even from the court, 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, the huge dominant force, like you mentioned, they kind of came out

and said, okay, maybe he wasn't 100% and he didn't have the Cal Canard opposite him as

well.

That was a big sack.

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 Cal Canard, and who's going to be on the opposite side of him?

Is it Julian Walker, the freshman or is it the kid they got from Tennessee, Caleb

Haring?

We'll see.

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 Kendall Briles and Lenore Sells together, if that clicks, South Carolina is a problem

for everybody in the SEC next year.

Talk to him about Stephen.

There's a lot of potential there, Chris.

That was one of my favorite moves that South Carolina made was higher in Kendall Briles,

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 is 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 way.

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.

Marlar, 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 Vactel will go into Fayetteville here pretty

soon.

But no, it's quarterback.

No doubt.

Again, Stephen got his veteran quarterback back in Tennessee, didn't so is Tennessee

going to start a true freshman like Vanderbilt?

And Jared Curtis, but with Faeson Brandon or it's going to go to the red shirt, freshman

Robert 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 Faeson 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 him 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.

I mean, just staying healthy, right?

I mean, we saw Dave, Dave and Hobbes, 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 Jermad 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, like, Jermad 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 playing 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 round.

I mean, that turned out pretty well.

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

that got picked on a lot earlier in the year.

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

perturbing corners in the SEC.

But yeah, like, I've got, 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, we don't know what's really happening, but, you know, we'll, we'll see what Josh

Heible says and barely says in front of the microphone tomorrow.

You know, 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 is either one a rocket ship builder?

Neither one is a rocket ship builder and that's really unfortunate because the last one

was really, really good.

Yeah, who cares about throwing the orange because the quarterback that did that was, was not

very good.

But I, this is why again, like I, I just don't worry about Josh Heible and quarterback.

So 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, 3000 yards to the air, like any through 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 Heible 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.

Traditionally speaking too in a hypo offent, just the way schematically it breaks down in

the exos and how he, the splits he has the offense.

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

quarterback, the more success they intend 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.

He could use another hooker there.

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

He led the SEC at 99 yards.

Pick six is two.

So that's he did.

Yeah.

How about 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'm 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, he was one of the most electric players I've ever seen coming out of high

school and 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 Ducal, Exander 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 whole, it's the wide receiver room.

It's the whole.

I mean, we know Ducal, Exander was good, but you know, Darryl Gil ratio feels, 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, okay.

Or the person that ran the offense from 21 to 23.

John David, we're head coach Ole Miss football.

Richard, when we were told, 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

is for some of those other ones.

We'll discuss that when the squad returns coming up next.

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

guys cover.

Marlow is in a unique spot.

He was actually at LSU practice the other day.

So Marlow, 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.

Head up.

Okay.

Lane Kiff, my biggest question for LSU is how much Tanner can Lane Kiff and get before

the season starts?

Because that man is based, it 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 back up because we see this time

and time again.

I'm looking through here.

I think 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

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 back up 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 Hussein Longstreet who I accidentally type out human Longstreet

on my first post from spring practice.

So I think that is all just inside the biggest question for them is they're going to get

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

and getting so limited what they're doing.

But who is going to be number two in that depth chart and see if he's going to do something

similar?

We saw last year Ole Miss.

I was going to say like Levin and you said right there, I mean, my understanding was

Levin wasn't 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, Niko

was out for a half one time.

I mean, Niko 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 missed a whole lot of time, but 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.

And obviously, Trinidad Chamble has 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, is 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 the, 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 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 injury quarterback.

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

lane kiffin is 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.

I don't know what that means.

What that means, but it might mean something.

I think it's a good deal.

Let's 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 see in 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?

They return a lot of experience on defense.

So 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, 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, 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 how he operates and what

he does well and try to take advantage of that and 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.

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

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

and one of them was an arrow screen and that's a problem.

That is.

Yeah.

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

was awesome.

He's gone.

He's off to the NFL.

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

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

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

I guess I can talk about the Gators.

No, no, Kentucky.

Go.

I mean, when will Stine's money, new coaching staff, new quarterback, I mean, Kentucky

always gets a nice quarterback from the transfer portal, and you know, Kentucky

needs 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.

They got CJ backs to the former Texas running back.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

He's there.

Yeah, solid.

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're 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 what?

And like, when Arkansas fans didn't want that hired to be made, I mean, that's an issue.

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

men, 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.

Running around stalking an ex-girlfriend that the game you're talking about.

Yeah.

I don't know much about Kentucky 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 some are all.

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

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.

At court, you like their, you like their OC, right?

Yeah.

I tend to like them.

I've spent a few family reunions with, uh, with old Buster Faulkner, um, part view grad,

maybe, uh, part view grad for, for old Marlar there.

Um, yeah, it's, 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, a fair race, but, you know, I think Philo is going

to end up winning it because I think he's a little bit more consistent and a little bit

more accurate with, uh, with, uh, with, uh, I heard Tremel Jones is looking good though.

I think he was a four star occurred.

Does this like some slappy that was just, no, no, no, no, no, I, 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 Tremel Jones, to Philo to Tremel Jones

and, and, 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 put film up there and see what, um, Buster

Fartner did to, um, Haynes King last year running the football just, 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, um, they're probably going to support that

program moving forward a little bit.

But will they, will they though?

Yeah, man.

What did they put in the best shot you got?

True.

And I, I put it into the, in the football this year was, was still surprising.

You look at their, their, their, uh, the numbers and, 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, I, I get in trouble a lot of my own podcasts for South Carolina saying this.

So I don't mind saying it to 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 party shot in here.

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

I mean, he, he was respectable.

In a, 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 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's soup just, Mark's soups had a lot of talent there to win.

Not win big, but to win more.

15 years, two years ago, offensively with Barry on Brown and, yeah, Mike, my point is

I didn't gain key Barry on Brown Robinson, um, I think that, that, that team was incredible.

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

Yeah.

I mean, he's okay.

He's all right.

Four or five star.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He was a four or five star.

Yeah.

Mark Stoops and Dan Mullin combined to ruin my favorite joke ever.

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

Then just got ruined.

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touch on.

And let's start out, because I think the quarterback spot is the biggest question.

Year three for Kalen DeBoer.

I think he can't mess this one up.

Heal and Russell, the guy who was the five star freshman from a year ago, or Austin

Mack, the guy that was the recruit that they were to 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 incandesist to play on the offensive

line.

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

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

Again, defensively, too, it just looked different.

And I understand Nick Sabin is not coaching over there.

And I think Kalen DeBoer is a fine coach, but not being able to run the football, not

being able to get out the pass 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 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.

Marlar?

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 it 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 that 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 in

however many years, and he's S8, and it's like, right, but like 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

on 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 playoff.

I think they think it's a step 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.

Julian Russell, I'll keep saying this.

He's the highest strength 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 the, his, his

actual decision to keep her, 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 seeker to, you know, actually be good

again.

Yeah.

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

the hands with him.

Um, you can't, you can't deny the branding, your company's in bankruptcy.

Let's rebrand.

Yeah.

That's a lot.

Yeah.

That's perfect.

No.

Um, you can't deny the town of Keel and Russell.

I mean, it's, he's somebody that just, I, 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, it,

you know, Blaze Burlevich is not as good as Austin Mac, but you've got your parallel

programs.

The situation of the two, the, 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.

Well, one and one of the last two meetings, one and one.

That's sure they're fine.

I mean, it's thinking 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 kid, I think he's

going to be really, 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 think the other thing too is you, you, people forget this because they have fans are

idiots, 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 Bird 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 a four, nine and three.

He's like, man, I don't want to be any longer somewhere else.

Maybe he goes in Brando.

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

office of consultant.

That's what the go for is that I think would be perfect.

Okay.

For, for, let's, let's, let's turn the page.

We got three T more teams to jump on.

Mizzou Steven helped me out with them because Austin, we know I'm on

hearty was back.

One of the best running backs in the country.

But Austin Simmons going there to now be the, the, the guy to meet

that's the biggest like what is Austin Simmons at Mizzou?

Yeah, all the talent in the world.

It has one, one level talent if he can put it all together and him getting a

security blanket is boy, Kaden Lee to go up there with him in 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 at Ole Miss is going to run a little bit more pro style stuff.

You just couldn't tell that because Bo Pribuid, 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 analysts, 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 Mizzou and then they got Garrett Riley, who is good,

offensive minded, and Eli Drakewoods 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 chopped, chopped Harbin as well, right, Eric coming for coming

over from Tennessee, so.

Yep, yeah, Ed's 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.

Obviously, I can take over, I can take over.

Um, yeah, Eric, it looks like Golisch.

Oh, me, Eric.

Oh, yeah, Eric, you go ahead, you go ahead, you've been to Russia before.

Excuse me.

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

Um, he is, uh, 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 at, 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?

Um, 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 is

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 offences in the

country to having the top 10 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.

Um, plus they've added some iPads and all that, you know,

helping out with the young quarterbacks.

The defense can happen as well.

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

I don't know if they're tied in situation, but they got to have to, um, 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.

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.

Personnel wise, I don't know what their defences and all that.

I just, I worry about goalishing 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 your

one like Tennessee.

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, 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, they'll be good because because goal is just good.

But it's all USF guys.

Well, you said 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

goalish because goalish is one of the guys.

So the Auburn goals are they, are they, are they, are they

rebranded or made that they, yes, they had, they had, they brought in 13 players

from USF.

Now, let me give you a fun little fact.

Yes, how many players Kertzig daddy brought in from J.

M. U. when he got to Indiana over 20, right?

13 from J.

M. U 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 all going to 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, I think the most fascinating part about this is how, 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 oh against Bama and 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 like this, like there's, there's several $30 million roster on the power

four teams and programs.

But like you guys have seen the roster, maybe I'm totally off base because a lot

of it is, is talent that came with him.

But like, 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 in a couple of years.

Yeah.

By the way, watch 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

in the gospel music and practice.

That was one of the players who did that.

It was like, she's watching Cody.

Speaker of the horse in the Hillsong.

Cody Polish 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 former Auburn water receiver quarterback.

And he was here at Tennessee with Golisch.

He's the water severs goes there too.

There you go.

I made a mistake as I was looking at my old 14 team graphic.

Well, I've tough Oklahoma, Texas.

So we got a minute each for Texas.

Texas A and M and Oklahoma.

I'll take Texas.

My defense is going to be great at Texas.

Great DB play, especially.

And, you know, Steve has been really good at, you know, organizing practices

and really giving me runway to implement my system there at

for the long horse.

So I think people are awesome.

They're going to be really excited with what we have coming on.

Really wide.

Give me like a crazy look.

Yeah, there's also much to do your job.

Do your job.

Do your job.

Do you?

By the way, I need a white board behind me that I can break.

Arch is doing well.

He's a cover for our season surgery.

But he's came Coleman.

Came Coleman's going to be a stud.

And there it's going to be a strong, strong group for Texas.

Much to the sugar end of a lot of people around the S is

agreed or who wants A and M or Oklahoma?

I'll take Oklahoma.

Year two and John Mater healthy, John Mater 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 Heineke played 15 minutes of the cross.

And the NCAA is trying to take a year of eligibility away from him

for that in football.

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

Owen Heineke, Mississippi judge, Mississippi, 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.

There's no reason why that should have counted against his football eligibility.

I also cannot wait for the Red River rivalry game and see a Parker

Livingston does wearing the Oklahoma uniform down.

He's going to get shut down.

We got it. He's got that last one.

A and M to me, you 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 that.

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

What did Alabama let walk out the door till it's this guy go over to college

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

But that could mean two things.

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

So 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&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

more coarse 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 that's going to do it.

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