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We've got Steven Lewis from Lockdown Ole Miss Jimmy Stein from Lockdown,

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We're going to talk to football.

We've got plenty of stuff we're going to get into,

but I do want to start with basketball,

because we are winding down the final weekend of regular season games

happening this weekend, seeding on the line for the SEC tournament.

A lot to still be decided.

But, man, the Florida Gators, they have been absolutely red hot.

They won, what, the 10 in a row.

They're beating the hell out of everybody.

I think the numbers are, they've on this 10 game win streak.

They've beaten teams by a margin of 23 points per game.

Like, it's just absolutely ridiculous.

So, I take them off the table, fellas.

Give me another team from the SEC that you think has a chance

to make a final four run this postseason.

No.

I think Arkansas, if they get hot with Calipari and all that,

they have the talent to get there.

It would not surprise me in the least.

And then, what would be funny is to watch Kentucky fans tears

with Calipari taking a team to the final four.

I'll say Alabama, though.

Honestly, as Alabama got eight, eight saying that.

I just say it in the sense that Alabama's got a premiere outfit.

The offense is fantastic.

It's one of the best offices in the country.

Two years in a row, Alabama has gone farther and done more.

They've done more in the postseason than was expected of them

by virtually anyone two years in a row.

Even last year going into the NCAA tournament,

they were blown out by Florida and the SEC tournament,

still made it to the elite eight,

only losing to a really good Duke team.

I'll say Alabama, but I think it's only Florida,

really, from the SEC.

I don't think Alabama's good enough defensively to get past

frankly, the sweet 16.

But again, back to back elite eights.

And this offense is better than the last two.

Honestly, the only thing that slowed down the offense so far

is that clock management of the actual clock,

like the physical clock itself in segment policy

and last night, that was unbelievable.

No, I don't disagree with either of you.

I think both could get to the final four.

Bama's defense is terrible.

They do really, really poorly in terms of defending

offensive rebounds, like they do not protect the rim very well.

You saw last night in Georgia,

it's been a big issue for them in other games.

Physically, they are not good down low,

but they can shoot the lights out for sure.

I'm kind of with Steven.

If it's not going to be Florida,

I'm all in on Arkansas because Darius Acuff

is the kind of player that I will put my entire bracket

based on for that team getting to the final form,

being able to go and run.

And here's the thing.

They still have a lot of other talented players

on that team besides him.

He is just so head and shoulders above everyone else

that it's kind of crazy.

I think those three are probably the best ones.

I don't think anyone's Florida.

I mean, we're going all in on Florida.

We're just, we have to go all in on Florida.

I know Arizona is really good.

I know Michigan is really good.

I know Duke's really good.

I'm looking forward to just to watching them beat Florida.

Let's see if it can happen.

You know, it's crazy too.

It's Gordon brought the fact that during this run,

they're beaten teams by the average of 23 points per game.

Before this past game,

they had been winning those games by an average of 19.7 points

or outside this past weekend.

So in their gaming, it's Arkansas

and whoever they played, Tuesday night, I can't remember it.

Was it?

Who was it?

So almost?

No, no.

It's a mistake.

No, almost.

Who's missing?

It was 19.7 points per game.

The average margin of victory before those two games

and it jumped up four points, which is crazy.

Yeah, it's, and by the way, Arkansas,

Billy Richmond has stepped up.

I mean, they just, Calipari, he knows the run is,

like, he's not going to be long at Arkansas, right?

But he's maximizing his time there

and he's got the Tyson chicken money behind him.

And, you know, I think that's a team.

I'm going to throw it out there and don't laugh.

But Rick Barnes and Tennessee,

I know they've been to the final four,

is this the year, like we feel like we do this every year,

but Nate has been an awesome freshman

and then Jacobi Gillespie has been that killer for them,

who he can step up hit big threes when he needs them.

And obviously they play the trademark defense

that Rick Barnes always has some playing physical.

So again, and look, it's no shocker.

Those are the top four teams in the SEC that we hit on.

But it, you know, it does feel like this is a year

that one of them could get there.

And I saw somebody in my comments on Twitter said,

well, it doesn't matter, the SEC sucks this year.

And I'm like, I like Dylan already doesn't think so, bro.

He was still a few days ago arguing a live in SEC teams.

And so, I mean, you can say that,

but other people think highly of the SEC terrible,

terrible conference is going to have,

once again, have the most teams out of any other conference

in there.

So just, but yeah, just horrible, horrible stretch

this year for the SEC.

And I will say this, if they get the right draw,

Missouri could make a run.

They, they legitimately could make a run,

but they, they're, they're draw dependent.

They're, they're in that category,

that second tier of SEC team.

Steven, did you, did you see any of you?

I wanted to bring this up before we started.

And I couldn't pull it up in time.

So I'm not going to explain it well,

but there was a tweet yesterday about Missouri

and just how crazy their, their seating can be

and the SEC tournament.

And there's like a set, there's seven games

that can dictate where they would be.

And if they, if they win and like if Arkansas beats Texas tonight,

that's the start of it.

But if this, all this stuff happens on Saturday,

which all of it's very plausible,

it's like all the favorites would have to win.

They would be the three seed.

But if one of the, or I'm sorry, they would,

they would be a different sort of three seed

and a ten seed in the SEC tournament.

So there's still like, there's no team

that fluctuates more going into this the final week

in Missouri, which is crazy.

Our Arkansas beat Texas by 20.

So that's everybody's got one game left going

into this weekend.

But it's that long game of those ten and seven teams

from Mizzou to Vandy, to Texas A&M, to Kentucky.

I mean, any of those teams I could buy as their one and done,

they lose on the opening weekend.

Or I can buy Kentucky gets hot, goes on a run,

I take an OA and all these pieces they have.

So is there one of those, I call them a dark horse,

but like one of the lower tiered SEC teams,

you're buying that can make a run?

Yeah, I got me, honestly, I think the team

that's going to be cutting down the nets

at the end of the year is going to be Auburn in the NIT.

And I personally can't wait to watch it happen.

I honestly, it's crazy, it's crazy talk.

They're not going to win the NIT.

No, they're not.

But watching Bruegel hold, hold up Steven on that ladder

to cut out the nets of the NIT would be incredible.

All matter focus, here we go.

Well, how about him actually admitting to the nepotism?

I mean, he's, you know, it doesn't hurt to what just happened.

Come out and admit, hey, yeah, there was nepotism.

I gave my, I set it up for myself and look, we know that, right?

The timing of when he retired.

Like, of course, of course, you sent it up.

Yeah, I wouldn't have any other choice but top,

but to hire Steven Pearl, I do think,

I don't know if they considered an interim tag,

but instead they gave him a four year deal

and if they decide to make a change,

they'll have to write a, you know, a pretty decent check

to get out of it.

But Auburn played really well early in the season

and it is a tough league.

I know there's critics out there, but it is a tough league.

And this is why the teams that aren't making the tournament,

the teams that won't be in the NCAA tournament,

you go try to win a road game there.

I mean, go, go beat, go beat Oklahoma at Oklahoma right now.

I mean, there's, this is a deep league.

It's tough every week and that's why I think the SEC teams

will do well in the NCAA tournament

because the week to week game to game grind

to the SEC prepares you for the NCAA tournament.

What did you guys think of the Miami of Ohio case?

They're undefeated and yet there's talk of

if they lose in their conference tournament

that their strength of schedule is like 200 or something

that they're saying like they don't deserve to get in.

I'm opinion like you undefeated in any conference.

I don't care if it's a summit league or whatever it is,

you deserve to get in.

Yeah, somebody on Twitter posts is like no team

that has gone undefeated has ever missed the tournament.

And I was like, well, think that through.

Yeah, but if they lost in the conference tournament,

you went undefeated regular season.

Yes, I do not care if the Mac is a one-bid league.

You need to make an exception.

The other one would be the Bidstee or not Miami of Ohio.

There's 68 teams, you gotta put my, if there's 68,

you gotta put them in.

But I will say with the strength of schedule that low

and they lose in the Mac tournament,

I'm gonna doubt that they're very good to be honest.

I still think they deserve to be in at this point

no matter what.

I agree with you guys.

I think the thing for Auburn and making their case is like,

yeah, they played one of the toughest

non-conferred schedules in the country.

And but also you look at some of those games like,

what's their best win?

Well, their best wins are close losses.

They barely lost to Houston.

They got their doors blown off by Arizona,

which a lot of teams have.

I think Auburn is a, like every time I watch them,

I want to believe.

It is the opposite of watching them play football.

Every time I see them play basketball, I want to believe.

But it is getting in over a team,

it's what, 28 know at this point.

No, absolutely not.

Yeah, counterpart, Marler,

they lost on their home floor to Ole Miss.

Yeah, that was, that cost me some money.

Steven, you and I,

they beat Florida, right?

One of Florida's two losses.

Yeah.

They beat Florida at Florida for the first time in 30 years.

Yeah.

Think about that.

Such an enigma.

Yeah.

The other teams to keep an eye on,

and I think if Auburn loses at Neville Arena this week,

I think they're out, in my opinion.

I think Georgia's in, man, they've played.

Georgia, I can never get a good read on them.

It's like, one minute, they look good, one minute,

they don't, they look good in the win over Bama.

I think Georgia's in Texas, host Oklahoma,

who's won five of their last seven.

Again, I think Texas is in.

Sean Miller, I think, will get some respect,

but Texas has not been playing well as of late.

And then, and that's kind of it.

The Oklahoma thing's interesting, though,

because there's six and 11 in conference,

16 and 14 overall.

But what if they beat Texas this weekend,

they go into the conference tournament,

having one, what would that be?

Six of eight.

And if they win a couple games in the SEC conference tournament,

like, maybe Oklahoma gets one of those last spots in.

I don't know, we'll see.

It's mature, healthy.

Well, the crazy part is, three weeks ago,

I'm talking about Porter Moser, he's fired, he's out.

And now he's like, they can't fire him.

He's winning games.

So, but the real question is,

will the basketball court at the SEC tournament

be programmable by a computer?

Because that's apparently a big deal.

The tweet that somebody put out there,

Stephen, that was like, I don't,

and I'm not just saying it to Stephen,

you guys were probably sold on Twitter too.

I don't know, Stephen, you see this on Twitter,

but the guys said like, they're trying to make it

not like a basketball court,

so Darren Peterson plays.

Well, I saw one that said it was a screenshot

of the adult film being produced.

Yeah.

And, you know, hackers have a way.

It is impossible to do that.

That's cool.

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Guys, I do want to get to spring football,

but let me sidetrack a little bit here

because there's an important meeting going on in Washington, D.C. this week

where the president is formed a committee

where he'll be talking with a lot of big influential sports folks.

And the topic is the future of college sports.

And this is kind of coming on the heels of the SEC and the big 10 kind of saying,

hey, we have our TV deal, we have our rights deal.

We don't want to do this fair equal thing with the rest of college football.

But you have people like Cody Campbell and Texas Tech calling for,

hey, let's just put everybody on the same level playing field.

And let's, you know, we'll get ahead of things like the portal and then I

allen all this stuff.

But where do you guys come up?

Come down on some of this stuff.

Hey, I think it's stupid.

It's utterly ridiculous.

It's not the job of the flagship university of one of the poor states in

America to subsidize Boise state or Colorado state or anybody else that

just wants to play big time college football.

The SEC and the big 10 got to where they are because they are the best

conferences in college football.

And here's the problem that people need to pay attention in this deal.

There's a whole lot more people that want this to happen than SEC and big

10 fans that don't want it to happen, which should give you pause at least

going to Congress, at least that they will eliminate that sports broadcasting

act that will allow pooling of revenue.

And then the pressure will be on the big 10 and the SEC.

I think in the end of the day, it's time to start having the conversation

about breakaway.

It's time to start looking at what college sports are going to be for the SEC

and big 10.

And that's just not going to be what it is for Southern Miss and Colorado state.

And that needs to happen because they are putting a full court press on

Congress to make it sound like, hey, pooling of the revenue, we can make $7

billion a year.

Well, that comes out to $51 million for SEC teams.

That's a $20 million haircut if that happened.

And no SEC team, no SEC commissioner, no big 10 are going to agree to that.

Um, I think it's just time to start talking about breaking away.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the president leaving the situation room at

war time to go discuss my crazy.

My crazy for thinking I went into damn ball, Jimmy college football is my life.

I get it that it's that important, but maybe it really shouldn't be that

important this week.

That's just well, is it the same as Mississippi getting rid of state tax for

can I help kids?

I mean, you know, it's our Arkansas did that last year.

I mean, it's not something.

Yeah, but yeah, I appreciate it.

Now, Mississippi's getting rid of state tax and that we're talking about

not much money.

It's more of an optic things than anything else.

My camera is bad optics, bad optics, but I mean, but if one, if one state's

going to do it, then the rest of the Southern states have to do it because

you got to keep up recruiting wise, but overall, it's a really ridiculous

thing that that football players get tax breaks that the hard work in public

doesn't well, you have to look at it like this.

If you want your Amazon distribution center, there's going to be tax

breaks attached.

If you want to be able to go to Oxford, Mississippi and watch the next

Trinidad Chambles, this is the tax break to make that happen.

This is the lever that the government has to pull may not agree with it.

If you go to one to one, but that's the world we live in at the moment.

And like y'all said, it's going to go in Alabama and Georgia and all of

those places, it'll go around the SEC really hasty.

So I now that my camera's back in focus, which is nice.

I think this is the worst I've looked during the show, so hopefully it goes

blurry again.

But no, I think Stephen, like, I think the initial reaction to the tax

thing is people want to be mad.

And then if you just take a second, you think about it, what you said,

Arkansas did this crap last year, no one, no one batted an eye at it.

Florida, Texas and Tennessee already have no state income tax at all.

In their states are like, in general, the state of Mississippi is already on

in their, their way to becoming a tax free of state income tax free state by

2030. And they're declining the total amount of taxes each year.

I think this year it drops out, it's targeting if I'm wrong, Stephen.

3.3% from like 4.1 from last year.

It's about, it's about half a percent every single year until it's gone.

And so here's, here's where I get on.

I think it's, I think it's ridiculous.

I think it's very unfair to the rest of the SEC.

If some people have this versus some people don't, like, I, I think all

those things can be true.

Here's the other part.

I am never going to be pro taxes in general.

The fact that we have to have third, a third of our paychecks taken out by the

damn government every year to pay for $20 million toilets or the haircut that

you jokingly mentioned, I'm sure there's a $20 million haircut somewhere in

the government.

Also, at the end of the year, we get a damn math project to do that.

If we get wrong, we get to go to prison.

What are we talking about?

I'm never going to be pro taxes ever, ever, ever.

I go, Mississippi going to do this.

Mississippi being one of the schools that's going to do it or progress.

Wow, states are going to do it.

I think it looks bad for objects, sure, whatever.

I think they have gone so far past after like no offense with like,

they're already kind of past the optics part of this with chambles and the

stuff of the golden.

They're going to catch heat no matter what because they're winning.

Again, we didn't have any comment conversation about this with Arkansas.

And what's going to end up happening is like what's even said, it's going to end up

being a catalyst for the rest of the SEC.

So if I'm South Carolina, if I'm Georgia, if I'm Alabama, I don't

really care about Kentucky, but if I'm any of those, if any of those states,

I'm saying, why would we be behind on this?

Like, what moral high ground are you trying to, or hill are you trying to die on

to say that we're not going to do this when everyone else around you was already

doing it?

Well, I will, I will say this.

I've never seen so many people in Alabama and Georgia be so just

clutching their pearls over teachers in the state of Mississippi.

I yeah, I'm going to have a couple.

How about how do we track what the kids spend money on the NIL?

Like if you buy a house, you're, you're fine.

No tax.

But if you're like Carson Beck and you buy a Lamborghini, we're taxing you double

on that. Yeah.

That's.

Well, the dirty, dirty little, the dirty little secret on this is they're

getting away from income tax.

If the player buys a house, he still has to pay property tax every single year.

And it's going to be at a much higher rate than what he was paying in income

tax.

I would love to know what backup hunter in the SEC is investing in real estate

with his NIL money.

I'm sure one of them is.

I want to go with Marlar down to the harbor and double budget T in it.

Complain about taxes.

It makes me so irate, Jimmy, every in listen, I love turbo tax.

They have always gotten me the most money back.

They're a great partner that we have.

I love them to death.

But again, do not give me a math project.

First of all, I'm great at math, okay?

Not mental math, but I do.

Do you not give me a math project with like, Hey, is it pass or fail?

No, it's, it's free or prison.

If you get this wrong, like get, get out of here, dude.

I was going to say of all days for us not to have a turbo tax rate here.

That is my turbo tax rate, by the way.

That's why it's so well rehearsed.

It's just me raising nothing government.

Well, still more to come here, guys.

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All right, fellas, as we wrap up here here on the squad show, we did say goodbye to all the great

personalities, coaches, and of course, sports personality in Lou Holts, who passed away

this week.

We know he was in poor health a couple of weeks ago.

And he has since gone on and coach at Arkansas.

It was back when they were in the Southwest Conference, but obviously, of course,

a lot of SEC fans remember those days.

And then of course, coach at South Carolina in the late 90s into the 2000s.

And was actually, I want to say 2000, 2001 was named SEC coach of the year.

So anyway, and of course, we'll be remembered for those nights on ESPN with Mark May or

Reese Davis was wearing the judges outfit and having some fun arguments.

But it got me thinking, guys, I just wanted to pull question through it out there.

Who's your favorite sports personality out there?

I mean, like I said, I used to it was must watch for me watching Lou Holts and Mark May argue

with each other.

But if there's a go to personality out there, Steven, who do you like?

Well, this is going to show my age a little bit, but it'll never compare to keep Jackson

Ron Franklin in that generation.

Whenever they were the voice of college football, it was just different.

I remember Keith Jackson came to Oxford, Mississippi in 1993.

I think Ole Miss versus Alabama.

And it was such a big deal to get Keith Jackson in Oxford.

Ole Miss wasn't very good offensively.

And I think Ole Miss injured Bama's quarterback and David Palmer played quarterback

that game and just completely ripped Ole Miss to shreds.

And it just reminds me of that arrow, you know, losing Lou Holts.

Now, granite, Ryan Day can sleep easy now, but as it sits, like the late 90s, early 2000,

it was just the perfection for college football.

Jimmy, who you got?

Never met him.

The Vern Funquist guy on Twitter is following up in the first season.

I hope to meet him, I hope to meet him one day.

I mean, I hope.

I hope I get enough Twitter e-cred to meet Vern Funquist, whoever that is.

I haven't followed you.

You've followed me.

You know what?

Overrated, Jimmy.

You know what I mean?

For sure.

For sure.

There's so many in light, you know, I would even go back even Bino Cook in the whole

Bino which is great.

I mean, just in the sense of the personalities that made me the love college football as a kid

that's continued all the way up into this elderly state I'm in now.

But guys like that gave me my love for college football.

But there's so many good ones right now.

I like Josh Pate.

I watch a lot of him.

I like most of it.

A lot of the guys on ESPN.

Game day is iconic to me and you know, Reese and Kirk and Desmond.

And now now all football coach savings up there with Pat McAfee.

So really a lot of them.

But Bino Cook comes to mind for me, even though he passed away a long time ago.

But guys like Bino's who instilled this love for college football in me in the first place.

Yeah.

Prime course, though, by the way, was a lead.

Yeah.

That's where I was going to go.

I think.

Be growing up.

I mean, game day is my favorite.

Yeah.

Like the crew.

And I like it now.

I've come around on.

I mean, Sabin's been awesome.

I've come around on McAfee.

I didn't like him at first.

But I've come around on him.

Like Caputani's maybe 80 so it was the degree.

Davis does a good job.

But that original foul or core so herb street.

I mean.

And I guess maybe it's because it's all the glory day memories of my memories of being in the SEC.

And it meant a big huge monster matchup if those guys were on your campus.

To me, it doesn't get better than those three.

It was a 30 minute show.

You know, when they extend it to the hour, you're really like, oh my God.

We're getting an hour of game day.

Then it was two hours.

earlier, the Lou Holtz Mark May thing, I remember coming home just, what's the most PG way to put this in case David Locke is listening hammered from college on Saturday nights and hearing

Lou Holtz Mark May argue about God knows what and you're just sitting here like, man, this is these are the good old days like this is

Those are core members I have with with touch. Well, I'm so glad you brought up Ron Franklin Stephen. That was him and the guy with him who had the the horrible Northern accent

My Godfried

Yeah, my Godfried always I'm gonna try to pronounce Auburn's offensive. I'm in Geno James and it was like me. Geno James. What

Obviously

What he wow, how am I drawn a blank here?

The granddaddy of mall who was the Keith Jackson?

And so old school for forever and ever and in all the games he did

I will say to you that I really I don't love I never loved the broadcast

And you never loved it either if your team was on it

But the three days on Jefferson pilot. I was just about to say that. It was always some

August or September game that was a thousand degrees outside and those guys sweating through these stupid white cotton shirts

And it was like an Ole Miss Vandy game that was for some reason always 28 to 24 or 31 to 27. I don't know why

The game used to be on TBS. Remember when it was on TBS before it was even the Jefferson

That was that was Dave Neal. Yeah, was it gold? No, no, Bob Neal Bob Neal. Bob Neal

Golden Flake was a sponsor one point potato James

Hey, if anybody's watching this watch YouTube and find the TBS SEC

Intro from like 1990 it was elite

It was awesome. I the the ones I'll say from today that I do love to death

I love the guys that I see network with Doring and and PB and and and darn all them

My favorite. I think they just don't get enough love. I think I think Tom Hart and his

His that Saturday night crew. They usually don't have the best games

But Tom Hart is electric and I've never I will never forget him doing a game

It Ole Miss where Jerry and Ely broke off a 69 yard run and he you knew it was coming

And he scores and as soon as he crossed the goal and he's like 69 yard touchdown

Nice and it was that's that's a man a 13-year-old dude just trapped in a man's body cone football game

I'll add to I look I think I've gotten to be behind the scenes of SEC nation

They do an awesome job. Yeah my bomb T-bow and Jordan Rogers and all those guys

It's just this up against my favorite show in game day

So it's like I can't watch both at the same time. I will flip back and forth

But and then of course we can't go without mentioning the Vern Lundquist Gary Danielson 230 cbs game

I mean that was you know, it I liked the ESPN ABC stuff now. It's great

But those games with the

No big they did a great job making the game

Now it's now it's Purdue and Northwestern

And it was easy. It was a nauseating portion of it. It was crazy guys how Gary Danielson was simultaneously a Bama Homer and a Bama Hater at the same time

He got so much unnecessary hate forever. Honestly, Vern did too and like I he just I think those two were so great in that game

And I don't know why everyone chose to hate Gary Danielson, but in the SEC

It's very hard to ever get anyone to agree on anything

I you mentioned T-bow I it's hard for you to watch T-bow because you just let his body go so badly

You know what I mean like it's just watching him I take my fitness seriously and watching him just kind of

Slink into what do you call it retirements been tough for me to watch, you know

I'll spare time. He's in watch. He didn't try to get people arrested for doing

Unsatisfying things so it keeps going the way it's going. He might be back in college football

When on that that's good and in 20 years 20 years ago Jordan Rogers would have been the top broadcaster in college football

But now there it's like

Right now where you're trying to be cute and have a brand and doing all this extra stuff

The guy just knows ball and if you know ball, I give you credit

What was that thing that product he was selling like where was him in his bathroom rubbing stuff on his face

I don't know what that commercial one

I don't know what you're saying

Bachelor at days odd man body spray

Yeah, I might buy his face cream. It works pretty well

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