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Speaker 3: Rouge Day number three of SEC Media Days live here
from Atlanta, Georgia. And we are not going to waste
any time. We are going to be joined to open
the show by Blake Shape and Mississippi State quarterback and
now Flynn not one, but two three fourd evangel Eagles buddy.
Speaker 4: Out numbered by evangel people. What are we doing today?
That's all right, that's all right. So Flynn Blake, thanks
for coming on the show. Glad to have you back on.
Speaker 3: He played in Tyler, Texas and at Tyler Lee and
we used to play every team in their district, long
View and Marshall and Lufkin. They were the only team
scared to play the evangel.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, serious, Look.
Speaker 3: Let's not get into our beef in front of play.
Let's talk about what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: So just quick story. They were scared to play us
because we cut block. They didn't they didn't want to
come to Texas and faces because they knew.
Speaker 2: It would Yeah. I think I think Blake knows really
what happened. Really, we had a.
Speaker 5: Few of those teams that I played too.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, Hey, so man, I'm glad that you're back here.
And we were talking a little bit beforehand. You had
an injury last year, and I think you handled it perfectly,
Like there's a lot of ways you can handle an injury,
and it's it's your.
Speaker 2: Way from the game. It's like, okay, what do I do?
Speaker 3: You were integrated in the team and you never went
away from the team, and you helped Van Buren and
whatever he needed, you were there.
Speaker 2: And I heard, you know, all the coaches talk about that.
What was that process like? Though? For you, man, it
was tough.
Speaker 6: So obviously I had missed over eight games in my
career and so sitting out, not being kind of the
center of attention for the first time and not being
the quarterback of the team, it was definitely different. But
the only option I had was to help Mike out,
to be that resource for him. Obviously he was a
young freshman that needed some help. So for me just
to give him my knowledge, be able to be right
behind him.
Speaker 5: In every scenario.
Speaker 6: Obviously, played a lot of tough games, went to Tennessee,
went to Georgia, played some tough environments.
Speaker 5: So obviously he needed.
Speaker 6: Some help, and the only option I had was just
to be right behind him.
Speaker 3: So I want to kind of let's take a step
back in and just kind of.
Speaker 4: Talk about your career a little bit. So you went
to True Burger, you signed with Baylor, right, Yeah, So
I grew up real quickly. I grew up a huge
Baylor fan.
Speaker 3: My dad played there in the sixties, so like I was, like,
my heart is like with Baylor.
Speaker 2: When it's not with SEC people. So that's all.
Speaker 4: And I'm trying to read Am I reading this correctly?
That in the Pig twelve Championshippie through for five and
ninety six?
Speaker 2: Is that right? Or is no? Come on no no
check GPT?
Speaker 6: So actually the Big twelve Championship, I think I went
seventeen to seventeen or something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to start the game.
Speaker 3: The yards might not be there, but a former quarterback,
I think you appreciate the seventeen of seventeen.
Speaker 2: That's more impressive than that, dude.
Speaker 4: So you go over and then tell me about that
transition from the transferring going from Baylor to one type
of offense and to what I'm assuming is a kind
of a completely different like mindset reset of offensive philosophy.
But what was that transition like from when you went
from Baylor to Mississipi State.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a lot different.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was in a pro style offense at
Baylor under Jeff Grimes and we're under center probably fifty
percent of the time. To go into coach Levy's offense,
we're we're in a shotgun every time, going full speed,
fast tempo, getting the ball out quick, throwing the ball
down the field. So it was literally polar opposite offense.
But I learned a lot through being at Baylor under
that offense and then going in Missippi State, I learned
a lot under coach Levy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Coach Levey.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think that's a little bit
of a misconception about offense because like he wants to
go fast, but he wants to run the football as well,
Like it's still a physical offense, even though like I
think people allow the tempo to just assume, oh, it's
throwing the ball fifty times a game. I mean, it's
still a very balanced attack. And I would even maybe
say run first, like run heavy.
Speaker 5: For sure, no doubt.
Speaker 6: And for our offense to go, we got to be
able to run the football, just like in any offense.
But like going into this year, we want to be
able to run the football.
Speaker 2: That's the goal.
Speaker 6: And and I like you said, when you're in a
fast tempo offense, you're throwing the ball down the field.
Speaker 2: You're throwing the ball a lot.
Speaker 6: You look at the numbers after the game, it's a
lot of pass attempts. But we want to run the football.
That's the goal for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And when you go when the offense works with pace,
you certainly simplify and you take at least half the
playbook out of the defense's hands, right, So they can't
line up in a lot of exotics if you'll go
with fast pace. So is that kind of the goal
like get up, gets set, and then what is your
mechanics like when you get to the line of scrimmage?
Are you calling out protections or are you declaring Mike's
or do you have freedom to either kind of change plays,
change protections based on what you're seeing.
Speaker 6: We don't declare the mic, but if there is protection
issues or things like that, I fix them or I
can flip the protection. That's all my hands. Like the
line doesn't handle that, I handle that. But like you said,
with the defense not getting lined up, that's that's the
biggest thing for us. It's like we're playing fast so
that they can't disguise what they're they're doing. They're going
to show us what they they're giving us, and we
know exactly what we're getting every play. That's why we
move with so much tempo. Also, so their cleats aren't
in the ground either, so you can get the playoffs.
So but we don't idea the mic, but I flip
protections and things like that, and I handle all that.
Speaker 3: I think you really wanted to ask you, do you
go with the clap or do you have a cadence
that is that's been it's been this big thing.
Speaker 2: Look, you know we're old hands.
Speaker 3: We both turned forty this year, and so is it
only as a clop?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a clop.
Speaker 3: To have somebody at some point off air like break
it down to me the benefits.
Speaker 2: Of the clop. So no dou oh man.
Speaker 3: All right, So what are some of the goals for
the team this year? Like in the off season, what
is like the narrative, because every team's going to create
one of those, right, it's like, hey.
Speaker 2: We got to do this, we got to do a
B and C. When you're talking with your team, when
coach Levy's out in front of the team, what's the message,
you know?
Speaker 6: I think for us is like it's going one to oh,
Like you're we're focused on each week at a time.
Obviously in this conference, you're playing a tough schedule. We
got a really hard schedule. So the more you look forward,
the less focus you are on the game you're playing.
And so I feel like for us, just being one
to know each week not thinking too much down the road.
It's easy to do that, especially when we've got tough
teams that you're gonna face down the road, but just
focusing each week on each opponent.
Speaker 3: When you look back when when this season, when the
dust subtles of this season, you look back on it,
what's going to be like something like, man, we did
this in two thousand and five, and that made it
a successful season with twenty five you said two thousand
and five, I'm showing our age.
Speaker 2: But it's early.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Blake here. I know I'm thinking about
like the whirlwind that he's about to go through and
trying to like, you know, make this easy on him
a little bit, but like what I want to like
when you look back on, like the dust settles on
the season and you look back on it and be like,
what's the one thing that's gonna be Like that was
a successful season for us.
Speaker 6: I think for us overcoming at versity, like we're gonna
face at versity this year no matter what, and we
gotta we gotta know that and whenever it comes, we
got to be able to overcome it and be able
to bounce back each week whatever it may look like,
whether we're winning, put that in the past, move forward,
go win another game. If you lose, we got to
bounce back the next week. I feel like last year
we struggled at that, like we we took a loss
and we would gain another loss just because we couldn't
get our eyes off the last one, and so I
feel like moving forward, that's our goal is to be
able to overcome whatever whatever we face.
Speaker 2: Oh, where's the three one eight shoes?
Speaker 3: I just looked down ye playing last year he had
these incredible custom three one eight shoes.
Speaker 5: I would on it.
Speaker 2: They were three to one great approved. Did we retire those?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 2: Do we haven't framed?
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're in a frame actually yeah yeah they're customers yeah,
hell yeah, No. It was exotic for sure this year.
This year, I was like, I'm coming very clean. I'm
I'm not Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not a look. I liked them. I thought they were nice.
Speaker 5: Fun.
Speaker 4: It's your experience here though, So you're getting ready for this,
like I mean I would. I can imagine a first
time coming in here. It's like, man, there's these are
these are tight tables in here.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of like I got to answer the
same question over and over, no doubt ready.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this is my third media day.
Speaker 2: So oh wow, I think as you had gone to
two other you went last year.
Speaker 5: I went Big twelve and then SEC last year.
Speaker 2: What's the difference between Big twelve but SEC media Day?
Speaker 6: Man, a lot more interviews I feel like here, Yeah,
here for sure, compared.
Speaker 5: To the Big twelve.
Speaker 6: Big twelve is more like scattered out and you kind
of got time to sit in between interviews. This one
you're bouncing from interviewed interview.
Speaker 5: It's quick, all.
Speaker 3: Right, give me your favorite evangel Christian moment that do
you have?
Speaker 2: Like one game.
Speaker 6: Man probably winning the state championship, my Rushman year. Okay,
who was that Scotlandville in the dome? Yeah, it's pretty special.
They had a actually I don't know if you remember,
Levi Lewis was their quarterback, went to Yeah, yeah, they
had a bunch of studs, but that was probably my
favorite moment, went in the dom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Blake, we're gonna see if you can
save a little.
Speaker 3: I got faith, I got faith, and I got players,
the crop of this SEC players.
Speaker 2: That's at media Day.
Speaker 3: There are so many people that have disappointed us, and
we're hope you're not one of them.
Speaker 2: So real quick though, Like we we picked three people
from the entire list to be able to get this
question right, and you were on the list.
Speaker 5: It was some pressure on me.
Speaker 3: It was you, and it was nuss Meyer and it
was with Weeks also arch manding. We had like some
faith in him. But you were number three on the list.
All right, all right, there we go.
Speaker 2: Okay, do you know who Jonathan Moxon?
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, I do not.
Speaker 2: It plays for the West Canaan. I do not. Have
you seen Varsity Blues? Yes, but a long time Okay,
but you have seen that, but we've seen it. Yeah,
that's the quarterback. That's like the backup quarterback that comes
into the movie. He's the star. Okay, that is that
will take that answer, take one under take that Varsity Blues.
But I don't know that. Okay, he's the only ones
ever known Varsity Blues, like he put it up. So
we we no, no, no. The street for guy came through.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to tell him, like we asked Fire
the other day that question and he said, that's not
my generation.
Speaker 2: Oh hell, we're old. Hey, Blake, I know you got
to go. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Like I said, man, I love how you know, adversity
hit last year.
Speaker 2: You didn't allow to de find.
Speaker 3: You stayed around the team and you worked your butt
off and now you're back here like you're supposed to
and best of luck this stuff coming.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you. Appreciate anything.
Speaker 5: Thank you appreciure it.
Speaker 3: There he is Mississippi state quarterback Blake shape and good
enough to join us here on OTB. We'll be back
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one of four five ESPN Batndaruge now going to be
joined by Mississippi State head coach Jeff Levy. Coach. Always
a pleasure to see you. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 7: Yeah, doing good, appreciate it and excited about the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I look, I know. This is kind
of like for every coach it's like, Okay, once we
get through media days and we talk about our team
and celebrate our team, then it's on. That's right, Right.
Speaker 3: We can have maybe a couple of days here and there,
but like, you're getting so close, and I can tell
just talking to you're ready to get to fall camp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt. Man.
Speaker 7: We are fifteen days away from reporting and incredibly excited
about getting back on the grass with our guys, the
football team that we've been able to put together, the
roster that we flipped again, really really excited about where
we're at, but where we're going.
Speaker 3: So many things when you're coming in and year number one,
and there's so many things in college football now that
you have to worry about. But does it feel different
year number two? Just knowing everything the landscape and the
building and the team and the players, Like, does it
feel different this year at this point than it did
a year ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Programmatically it absolutely does. Because you've got your processes in place.
Everybody understands what camp's going to look like. There's some
day to day tweaks. You're always trying to find ways
to get better and maximize the day. But at the
end of the day, with the roster, and I think
the thing that's crazy is that, you know.
Speaker 2: We add sixty guys. We add five.
Speaker 7: Offensive linemen in the spring portal, we add tight ends
to d linemen, so we've added guys that have not
practiced this a snap with us. Yeah, and Sommat absolutely,
But man, the urgency you have to operate with to
get these guys ready for August thirtieth is incredibly real,
and that's the only way we get done. What we
want to get done is is treating every single day
like man. It's it's game day. You got to find
a way to get better and maximize it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, coach, I know, this is kind of like the
last hurdle of the summer. And then after this, after
media dates, it's like, man, let's focus on where we're
close to getting those pads on it. But let's talk
about like today, let's talk about the guys that you
decided to bring to represent your program, represent your school.
Let's talk We just had the privilege of talking to
Blake Shape and your quarterback, but talk about your guys.
Speaker 2: What are they bringing through this year? Man? Why did
you choose them to come represent? Yeah, all three of
these guys.
Speaker 7: There was great intent on bringing these three guys, and
so for us eighty percent of our rosters in year
one or year two of the program.
Speaker 2: You look at Blake Shape and he's.
Speaker 7: In year two, Brendan Thompson's in year one, and Isaac
was a high school signing he's in year three obviously
just two years with me.
Speaker 2: So all these.
Speaker 7: Guys come from these different backgrounds, and I think the
thing that I love is that they have created this
urgency inside the locker room of understanding what it needs
to look like every single day. There's been incredible accountability
with themselves first and then with their teammates.
Speaker 2: They're set up to go.
Speaker 7: Have great years, and these three guys we need to
go have great years, go do what we want to do.
But man, their leadership, who they are every single day,
and then their opportunity to go produce at a really,
really high level is why they're here.
Speaker 3: The way Blake handled last year and getting injured and
then being a mentor to Van Buren like on the field,
actually reached out to him.
Speaker 2: I was like, hey, you're doing that the right way.
Speaker 3: A lot of people, a lot of college age kids,
they're not doing that right.
Speaker 2: They're going away.
Speaker 3: Maybe you don't see him again, but like to see
him be interactive and to help out the team, even
though he couldn't help him on the field, I felt
like he was helping on the sideline there.
Speaker 2: That just kind of speaks I think to who he is. Yeah,
it absolutely does.
Speaker 7: And he's a guy that is a great teammate and
is what it's supposed to look like. And when things
didn't go his way, he found ways to get better,
he found ways to create value, and it's going to
help him today. You know, and it's going to help
him when we get in the middle of September. And
so those are the things again that I'm excited about
for him. It was really hard to go through obviously
for him, for me as we lost him for the year.
But man, year two for quarterback inside the system and
getting coach the way he's getting coached every single day,
he's going to make a great jump and fired up
about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, coach, what's the what's the message to your team
leading into this season, like the what is the picture
you're painting for him? The goal and the expectations that
you're setting for them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, we'll talk about our goals inside the program,
you know, behind those walls.
Speaker 2: But for us, as the leader I do.
Speaker 7: I think it's important that people understand, man, we're fighting
like heck to get back to the postseason and then
finding a way to get in a bowl game and
be able to finish the season the right way and
go win a bowl game. And so that will be
a big piece of it. Also while understanding we are
year two, it's eighty percent of the roster, like I've
already mentioned, but our guys there's man, there is there's
great belief. There's great hope, there's trust, and there's great
encouragement that that's happening inside the building to be able
to go do what we need to do, all right.
Speaker 3: I love the fact that we got a former offensive
line and like fullback I was basically like an extension
of the offensive line. So I'm always curious, like during practice,
like how you go about it, because I know you
work with the quarterbacks a time, but I know you've
got to go down there with the big nasties just
a little bit, like watch them an individual and coaching
them up.
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I'll take a peek down there. If I'm
not with the quarterbacks, you're gonna find me with the
old line.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And that's that's just kind of how it trends for
me and always has so again, man, as we're on
the grass and try to be incredibly present with as
many of the guys as I possibly can because I
am calling it every single snap and so finding ways
to touch those defensive guys.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, like you got to go
over there a.
Speaker 7: Little bit because you're the head coach absolutely and being
involved with with what goes on on that side of
the field. Yeah, I think is important, you know, so
they see me and feel me from uh, from from
the leadership standpoint, but uh, I'm I'm gonna find a
way to watch some old line.
Speaker 4: Yeah cause, like most offensive line head coaches I ever had,
wanted to line up with two tight ends and a
full back and run it, run and run it. And
I'm getting ganged up here, probably by some running game gurus.
Speaker 2: But hey, tell me how your philosophy. He's gonna run,
but he's.
Speaker 4: Gonna run because running game is like the best friend
of a quarterback obviously, But how did your offensive philosophy
kind of developed?
Speaker 3: I know you're at Oklahoma, but like, how did that
kind of get to where it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean it was the beginning of the college career
for me, being with coach Brawls and and you know,
as we started to spread the field the way we
did and for those years in Waco and then just
taking that and growing it into into what we are
you know today. But that's from a philosophical standpoint. Aggression mentality, personality,
that's that's where I get a ton of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't really ever know, and I talk about
all the time. I don't know like where that misconception
about like.
Speaker 3: Up tempo offenses came from. It's like they're a tip
of they throw it fifty five times a game. It's like, no,
like everything starts with this offense through the running game,
and you got to establish who you are through the
running game.
Speaker 2: Always has yeah, and and always will.
Speaker 7: But I love the fact that people think it's just
to throw it a round deal.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they'll continue to Yeah, just put an extra dB
in there when y'all play. Yeah, we're going to throw
a lot of promise, no doubt. Yeah it's gonna be okay,
no doubt. What are some of the coach where are
some like the off season messages?
Speaker 3: And look, all three of us are for more players.
We've been through off seasons. We know it's like hey,
and it changes every off season. I say, I want
to get this done this off season. So when you
get in front of the team, what's kind of been
the main point of focus?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think making sure our guys understand this is
a profession in the game of earning it and it's
it's literally every single day, right, you know, you want
to change the result in the fall, And what are
we doing on on that Tuesday in June to change
the result because that ultimately is gonna matter, and it's
gonna matter in a huge way. And so that's been
something we've stressed. We've talked about NonStop as we get
into the season, into fall camp man, the way we practice,
creating that sense of desperation every day, of finding a
way to maximize every practice, every rep and coaching them
that way to try to figure out exactly what we
had before we go to Hattie's births.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we've we've kind of talked a little bit
a lot about the offense. Now let's let's flip it
to the other side of the ball.
Speaker 2: I know you got Isaac Smith here.
Speaker 4: Safety gonna talk and represent his defense, But give us
your review of the defense. How the year two, your leadership,
your your playmakers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that the first thing that comes to
mind is what we've been able to do from a
staffing standpoint, you know, adding Paul Rhodes, Mike McIntyre, Vincent
Dancy to that room. All three former head coaches, two
of them at the Power four level. Obviously with Mac
and Paul, both those guys have been coordinators inside our
conference and had great success. So we had great additions
to that side of the ball from a staffing standpoint,
which I'm excited about, and we did. We signed ten
new defensive linemen, we signed ten new backers.
Speaker 2: So the look of that side of.
Speaker 7: The ball in the first two levels of the defense
will look completely different. So again, we're nowhere close to
where we need to be, but we're gonna have the
ability to have some depth and to create some negatives
and that's gonna be a huge part of who we
want to be. Isaac and there's not a better spokesperson
for our football team or our defense than Isaac Smith.
Speaker 2: And like he's.
Speaker 7: Everything the game's supposed to be about. That's who he is.
He's ate up with it. Toughness wins at the end
of the day. And this kid loves football. He loves
Mississippi State. I love coaching him and incredibly proud of him.
He's gonna go have a big year for us.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned Hattie's bird there you get a chance
to that's where you open it up against Southern miss
That opportunity. It's like some people would ask, Okay, well
why is Missippi State playing there? It's an opportunity to
go to a portion of Mississippi that feels like it's
you know, it's crucial for what you do in high
school recruiting, and then they get a chance to say, hey,
we got to see Mississippi State in our hometown or
at least in our area of Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 7: I think being able to open down there being an
end state opponent, I think it creates excitement and I
think it creates the ability for our guys to have
a great attention to who we're going to play. There's
a ton of familiarity with both rosters. I think that's
great for us. And again being an in state game.
From a recruiting standpoint, being in Hattiesburg, we recruit down
there a ton in south of there obviously, so that
that will that'll be a big one for us.
Speaker 3: All right, coach, Hey, we're gonna keep all moving along.
We know you got to move along. We appreciate your time. Hey,
he gave Mellon a shout out because look, you know
we might have some some situation alarn On here. Yeah,
so I can appreciate that as well as enjoy today.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, all right, We are going to step away
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Speaker 2: All Right, welcome backga in it is.
Speaker 3: O GB one, O four five ESPN Baton Rouge. I
know that we kind of got into the show full
throttle there head first.
Speaker 2: We had a couple of guests.
Speaker 3: We didn't really have any yesterday, so you know, well, no,
that's that's that part of was fine. It's just you know,
we opened up with three one greater, so we just
really full throttled this thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, y'all really blindsided me with that whole Report Evangels situation.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was fired up to see him.
Speaker 7: He.
Speaker 4: I thought he had a really cool mindset. Impressed with him.
I impressed that he I was kind of fired up
that he was a Baylor guy too. I know, I
don't even know why, Like I kind of I kind
of always forget right your Baylor connection, Like when we're
in the moment because of course, you know you've told
it on air. Your father played quarterback there, so it's
it's your second team. So I didn't and I didn't
realize like the old like Art Brills offensive connection with
Jeff Leby and his philosophy, and that's crazy, right, like
an offensive lineman head coach, because yeah, I got wouldn't
lie like Les Miles wanted to sit there and run
power nine toss.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah. My high school head.
Speaker 4: Coach was an off X offensive lineman at two lane
and he was like, I mean, I was lucky to
get seven eight passes offensive game in high school.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So you go and you see an X offensive lineman
who's a head coach, and his offensive philosophy is we're
gonna go fast, we're gonna spread it out, now, we're
gonna run it. I'm not taking that we're gonna we're
gonna run because it is helpful to the quarterback. But
I mean it's just kind of like one of those
those crazy coaching conundrums there that.
Speaker 2: It's like he's actually different.
Speaker 3: And I know, look, we always joke about Jeff Leby
because the first day you named the coaches, that was
the one you got there eventually, but.
Speaker 2: We're there, like I'll never forget it. No, well, no
you won't. He we're like buds, like he's got a
cool story. So and I say cool, Like it's unfortunate
how it's started, but it ended up being cool. Like
he went to Oklahoma as a player, like off in
the lineman, signed with Oklahoma and he had an injury
and he couldn't plain anymore. It's like, well, I want
to be around Oklahoma. I want to be around football.
What do I do? Like do you want a student coach?
Speaker 3: So yeah, Like so he like was a student coach
for multiple years at Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: It's like that's what he did. And then so that
started his coaching career and like you're like, he just
he kind of grinds and goes to different jobs and
then you know, finds his way back as the offensive
coordinator there at Oklahoma, and then he gets an opportunity
to be the head coach at Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: So it's a really cool story of not allowing that
injury to kind of change what he wanted to do.
It just it got started sooner, but it got to
the finish line where he wanted to finish, which is
an SEC head coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what, just talking to both of them,
what I was kind of impressed with was the self
awareness that they had for their program and the goals
and expectations they set, because like, it's easy to sit
there as the head coach or the court and like,
we ask a big picture goal, what's your goal for
the season? What does success look like in the season,
And it's easy for them to say, well, we want
to win a championship, we want to win the SEC championship,
we want to be the playoffs, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: That's easy to.
Speaker 4: Like fall back on and that would be kind of
like some false confidence. But what they what Blake told me,
what Blake Shape in the quarterback said was we want
to overcome adversity because last year we didn't. We let
adversity overcome us, and we let a bad play turn
a bad play, a bad drive turn into another one,
a bad quarter into it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So having that awareness, the you know, the the
maturity to say, look, it's probably not going to be perfect, but.
Speaker 2: We cannot let we want to overcome.
Speaker 3: We're going to I want to be proud of this team,
it's a successful season if we can over because things
aren't going to be perfect. And then of course, uh,
Jeff Lobby, the head coach, his mantra was, we want
to compete for the postseason.
Speaker 4: Didn't necessarily say a championship or playoffs right now. He
understand and he said it.
Speaker 3: He said, it's year two, this is year two four us,
so we want to win a bowl game.
Speaker 2: We want to.
Speaker 4: So like the self awareness that they have I think
is a really cool mindset because it's I mean, it
didn't look.
Speaker 3: Great last year, yeah, but they are building something. It
was year one last year. So I just thought that
self awareness was cool to hear from them from their
head coach and their starting quarterback. Yeah, like Rome wasn't
built in today kind of mentality, Like were like, do
we want to get there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we have a lot of new from a
year ago. And he said, we had a lot of
new coming back this year through the portal and I'm.
Speaker 4: Like ten defensive linemen or something like something crazy.
Speaker 2: They said like eighty percent of the roster is going
to be different. Yep.
Speaker 4: Like that that's expect for us to know their names
if you know they're just they're all brand new.
Speaker 2: Well, look, I just painted the question. It's like, tell
me about your defense.
Speaker 3: Hey, that was I know. And then you looked at
the you know, the person that was going to be
here Smith and they rolled off the tongue. I'm like,
that's a pro move, pro move. It might be a
rookie player, but it's a pro move.
Speaker 2: So Blake was here.
Speaker 4: I asked that question cause I I'm starting to not
trust chat Gpt because Chad Gpt literally said he came
in and three for five hundred and ninety six yards,
and I'm like, that's a lot, Like that's gonna be cuzy.
Speaker 2: I knew he had I knew he had a big game.
I knew something happened. I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I was like, five ninety six doesn't sound right, but
I know Baylor has thrown for like ridiculous yardage and
it's happened before. So I said that, So of course
he sees like my question, like, tell me about Blake
shaping all this stuff. You had the screen up still,
I had the screens. I was reading like the yardage
and I saw him. He was sitting here and he
was like started peeking at it. And I was like,
that's right, chat gptg.
Speaker 3: Bro although it failed you, but but he's still like
he had a great game, being seventeen seventycent decent, like
as a quarterback.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's harder to do than throw for five hund.
Speaker 4: So like artificial intelligence not that intelligent. I felt like
it just was a bold face lie. Yeah, where are
you pulling that info from?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know because it doesn't it say searching the web.
Whenever you hit enter what web? Did it search the
wrong one?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What's the guy that Jimbo the Jimbo Fisher went back
and forth like in a press conference slice bread or
something like there was like a blog like slice bread
or something bread do you know, I'm talking about Bible
pro Bible And it was like through bro Bible maybe
and it was like a user name of something bread
or something. And Jimbo, I don't know where he gets
all this from. No, no, y'all listen to their sliced
bread and a bro Bible. Don't know bro Bible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe that's what chat GPT is getting it as well.
I think it's you think the web. But then they
like finds stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Well, intelligence is dumb. Let's just taken. Let's just keep
you on Google, my guy. No, no, no cha, I'm
gonna trust it from here on now. It can only
be one right wrong once a day, I think figure
it out.
Speaker 2: So I'll just I'll definitely type.
Speaker 3: In like what to ask Greg Sankie and see what
kind of stats pulls up for that. Listen, So we're
gonna have Commissioner sank you on. In like an hour
and a half, Matt had him on and I'm sure
they talked the state of college football.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they talked about court cases. I'm sure they
talked about a lot of things like that, and I'm
sure it was great. I bet it was.
Speaker 3: When Commissioner Sankie sits down with us, it's not gonna
be that conversation, y'all know, a little different. OTV is
gonna let him breathe, They're gonna let him like kick back.
Speaker 2: Hey, maybe he'll maybe, maybe he'll loosen his tie a
little bit. All right.
Speaker 3: So I'm just letting y'all know, like we're gonna talk
about a lot of stuff that's not like the state
of college football.
Speaker 2: Uh I see, Golfer, I wonder what his golf handicap is.
I think he is.
Speaker 3: Okay, he's a big reader, big reader. Okay, I'm out,
not a lot in common then, Okay, I thought maybe.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe maybe you maybe had a chance with you.
Speaker 3: I listened to listen to some books on tape. I'm
on the sixth book of the Terminal List series. I
watched the show good Show, very good show. It's coming
out with another one, right is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? He has a prequel. Okay, there is slice Bread.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a new drops Bread.
Speaker 4: I don't even know where we were going, but I
just found out Terminalist the Terminalist here at me Today's
College Football Hall of Fame talking Terminal List prequels.
Speaker 2: So I got to got to radio Road today.
Speaker 3: And noticed something when I sat down that I got
a huge gash in my pants.
Speaker 2: When he says gash, like, I can see this man's hamstring.
Speaker 4: This is like upper like hamstring, hamstring, but it goes
to the upper inner groin as well. And I'm pretty
sure I'd have to confirm with my wife.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that this hole was here like.
Speaker 4: A couple of weeks ago that we noticed, and I
meant to throw these away, so it was fair and
I just packed them. But these are like a good
pair of jeans, Like I wore these yesterday too and
didn't really.
Speaker 2: Notice, so I don't think I saw the hole and
I was just walking and standing around a lot yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah you were, so now it's one of those things
I got noticed, so I can't stop thinking about it
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought you were going up to the room
to change. Well, I was, but I was.
Speaker 3: On the Atlanta radio show next to us for a
little while, and then I got done with them at
seven forty two Eastern time, Eastern Standard time, and I
started going back to the hotel and I was like, man,
I'm not gonna make it. That elevator takes forever, especially
in the morning with everybody coming down to get coffee.
Sometimes you're waiting, like for minutes for it. But hey,
so appreciate you. I'm sacrificing taking one for the team.
Speaker 4: I got my upper hamstring thigh stuck to these leather
seats right now. But we're here, We're gonna grind, We're
gonna overcome adversity.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? I mean, like you, you've
got the bladder of an eighty two year old man
named Larry. What are you? What are you gonna do
when you gotta get up use the restaurant? If it
mine's eighty two, what is yours? Ninety two year old?
Now mine's like seventy eight. I'm a little bit behind you. No, yeah,
I'm a little bit behind you. Brother. Did you know
did you see yourself in the airport the other day?
Like you?
Speaker 3: I think you knocked an old lady over trying to
get to the bathroom. She was in your way, a
little gritty.
Speaker 2: I n't. I didn't say mine was perfect.
Speaker 3: My whole point was just you got you got to
get up to go use the restaurroom. I know you,
and you're gonna have half your glute out I do.
Speaker 2: That'sbra ham shram.
Speaker 3: I gotta keep my I'm gonna be like a lady
wearing a skirt today. I gotta keep my knees tucked
a little bit. Yeah, because I got some growing action
happened right here.
Speaker 2: So I think Blake shape it.
Speaker 3: I think Blake shape and got the Varsity Blues is
as as well as it's going to get answered here
today or for the rest of the week.
Speaker 4: I've seen it, But it's been a long time. I
wonder how long because that's not like a child's movie.
He's only what twenty two, So how long ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean I probably I was fourteen when I saw it. Okay,
it came out in ninety nine, right, Yeah, I was
born eighty five. You were born in the theaters. I
didn't see it in theaters. I saw it, like I
think I did. All right, So I had an older
brother who was probably seventeen at the time.
Speaker 2: Okay, got who went with him? Yeah? With him? Oh yeah, mom,
Dad see football movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as far as he blues, it's about uh jazz blues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the varsity band.
Speaker 3: Then you know you can see miss Davis yeah, all
that good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I wonder how young he was though. And then follow
up question that should have been, so you didn't like it.
You hadn't seen it since, like you didn't watch it
every other day like we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't impact him like he did us didn't.
Speaker 3: It didn't have that impact, which is shocking because there's
not that many football.
Speaker 2: Movies that were released within these kids' lifetime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, think about like, which which ones did which what
football movies or quality football movies have been released in
these kids' lifetime.
Speaker 2: No, I mean the Replacements is close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably right there on the edge, depending on
what they're remember the Titans close by that stuff like
O two ish? Probably so I mean we're getting I mean,
I don't know what. Ask your friend chet GPT.
Speaker 2: Uh. Later on, I did hear rumors.
Speaker 4: We'll have to confirm this, not with cheat GPT because
it's a liar. I heard that there might be some
sort of a reboot of the program coming.
Speaker 3: Now, don't tempt me with a good time. Is this
something you actually heard? This is what I heard from
a very reliable source. A lot of people dropping rumors
this week about reliable from reliable sources.
Speaker 2: I heard quick trivia.
Speaker 3: What stadium was it filmed in the original program?
Speaker 2: What was there? Two? It was either South Carolina Mississippi State. Well,
I think South Carolina? South Carolina? Okay, good like a
top quilly you can see sec on it? Oh, shut out,
Willy b all right, WILLIAMS. Brice is the name of
the stadium. You knew that, ud go South?
Speaker 3: Two forty year old men talking about who has to
piss more often? It is fascinating sports radioed.
Speaker 2: You're competitive. What are sports? They're competitive.
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Speaker 2: You can't be the king of hydration and not have
to go use the restroom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta flush, you gotta flush at people, got to
flush the body. Uh yeah, all right. On that note,
we will take a break again. We've got Commissioner Sankey
coming later up. We'll have guests throughout the show. We'll
kind of break down what we saw, what we heard yesterday.
Obviously it was a heavy hitter day with Auburn, Georgia,
Tennessee and Texas. And hey, look, we'll truly get this
thing started when we come.
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Speaker 3: All right, So yesterday, and we'll get into more of
this as we recap what have been in day two.
Speaker 2: Of sec media days.
Speaker 3: But look, it was Texas, and Texas brought three stars.
They brought Anthony Hill Junior All American. They brought Michael
taff All American. They also brought Arch Maning. Some call
him arc, but they brought Arch Maning. He's not an
All American. A lot of people hoping that he is
an All American. A lot of people are assuming he
will be an All American.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you something about arch real quick? Yep.
So the lots happened in Atlanta this weekend.
Speaker 4: There's been wrestling events, all star weekends, Beyonce concerts, and
can I tell you from the hierarchy of star power
in the city, it seems like it was Arch Manning
here and Beyonce just like right under him as far
as like star power, because.
Speaker 2: That man brought the heat.
Speaker 3: The people were very, very pleased to see in person
in the flesh Arch Manning.
Speaker 2: He did have. It was wild. Yeah, he didn't have
like just a massive falling and.
Speaker 4: He makes me want to say like poor kid like
but then it's but it could be so good for him.
Speaker 2: He's a Manning. He handled it all perfectly.
Speaker 3: I had a chance to interview him down the series
XM room and he crushed it like you know what
I'm saying, like like shit, now I will say this though,
all the people that Texas brought, like Anthony Hill Junior star,
like yeah, yeah, He's gonna do whatever he wants when
he is done playing for Michael Taff Star.
Speaker 2: How cool was.
Speaker 3: That that he went out on his own and obviously
tragic events in Texas and all like the flood victims
were on his tie like he went, he got that.
He he wanted to, you know, show respect and represent
them and remember them, like he went and got a
tie and had like all their initials sown into the tie.
He blew me like I could have talked to him
for three hours yesterday, Like he was highly highly impressive.
And we talked about with Jeff Levy a little bit
like the path to get here. This man Michael Taff
from Austin Westlake, huge, massive high school. Right he had
chances to go play in the IVY League and get
IVY League like scholarships through sports and academics. And said,
now I'm going to go better myself because I'm playing
in Texas.
Speaker 2: And he said, was it easy? No, But That's what
I wanted to do. That's who I was, and he
went not only does he get it done, but now
he's coming back. He was All Conference last year. This
year he's a preseason All American. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I heard, you know on Radio row down at
the present on their I mean, there's a lot of
people that have been doing this a long time, doing
this job interview and listening to kids speak, and I
heard from multiple just kind of eavesdropping on different conversations
throughout the day and talking with people as well.
Speaker 2: They're saying Texas.
Speaker 4: And LSU have by far had the best representation of
their school in program. By the way the kids got
up there answered a question where at the same gene
we're confident. So Texas and LSU is kind of a
consensus like those were the two most impressive teams here
at media.
Speaker 3: And that's not just look, we're not just like pumping
on Shohn for LSU here.
Speaker 2: That is like, that is real thought. They did a
great job.
Speaker 3: Like I have had multiple people stop me and be like, hey,
well done, well done with who LSU brought here. They
bring up what weeks and they'd had like this huge
smile on their face and then they would get Togeared Nesboy,
they're like that that does a pro Yeah, like he has.
Speaker 2: Like got a pro mindset ready to go. So that
is like it has been good to kind of hear all.
Speaker 3: The different and Chris, I mean, Chris Oli, I don't
know what man he was.
Speaker 4: He was great, really was. All three of them did
a great job. Brian Kelly did his.
Speaker 3: Thing as he as he always does on the mic,
and uh but yeah, I mean I kind of pivoted
lash you for the Texas but wildly impressive. I mean
the just the the awareness you know, kids in college
have is so much greater than what me and.
Speaker 4: You had back in the day. I mean, the to
be able to like to go out and seek on
your own. The the the initials on the tie was
just such.
Speaker 2: A cool thing. All right. I remember two coming back
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