Conversations have been had about the SEC cutting ties with the NCAA and governing itself.
We broke down SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey’s comments on the future of college football, SEC scheduling and the Protect College Sports Act on Tiger Radio on Tuesday night.
Raymond Partsch of ESPN Radio 103.7 FM in Lafayette also gave his take from SEC Media Days.
Here is the complete transcript of the show from YouTube. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes:
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another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. This is Jeff Polmo, news and sports director of Louisiana Radio Network along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag
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magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor Glenn Gilbo. Happy SEC football media days. We are halfway through. Of course, Greg Sanki so far, the headliner. We are
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certainly going to get into that. We’ll talk a lot about that here over the next couple of hours. We’ll also hear from a couple of people that are in Tampa for
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the SEC media days, including Raymond Parch, who of course works over at ESPN Southwest Radio, where we are hurt. And
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uh we had some technical difficulties the last couple weeks for some of our affiliates. So, they were not able to catch us live. So, we are glad to be back on in Lafayette and Lake Charles.
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Hello everyone there. We really appreciate you sticking with us and hopefully you were able to catch it on podcast or YouTube or maybe even just
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streamed us at tiger.com. That’s another option as well. Uh so we’ll talk to Raymond coming up later on in this hour.
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Chris Gordy, host of the Lockdown SEC podcast, also works for Sports Talk 790 in Houston. We’ll get his thoughts. He’s
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in Tampa as well. And then um another story there there’s a lot of different stories here that have been uh breaking
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LSU football scheduling news. Tommy White, we’re going to get into all all that stuff as well, but uh former LSU
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Tiger Ryan Clark dismissed from ESPN. Uh Dan Zakesy from the Outkick who was uh
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set to report it as ESPN had to uh quickly dismiss him during the middle of a show. So, we’ll get to Dan’s thoughts
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on that. And uh Ryan Clark, now a free agent in the sports media world. Todd and Glenn, how you guys doing tonight?
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Well, Jeff, um Ryan is actually going to be replacing you um next week. Not sure if you heard about that yet, but we’re
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going to tell you what Ryan got left on air and [laughter] so are you.
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Well, actually, go ahead and sign off now.
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Yeah. Now, just real quick, Dan Zachesky, he’s a he’s a heck of a reporter. And Outkick, just so people know, a lot of people don’t realize, it’s really affiliated with Fox Sports.
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Well, really now Fox News.
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Yeah. Yeah. And when you click on Outkick story, Fox comes up. So, they they uh that was really a cool story he did along with another guy there, Bobby
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Barack. They were both reporting on that from different angles and it it’s really some interesting stuff, but didn’t mean to interrupt. Go ahead.
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I’m a short timer here, so go.
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[laughter] Yeah. Yeah. Well, you’re supposed to sign off. You’re supposed to sign off.
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I think we should talk about the American League batting champion first.
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Who’s the American League B? Tommy White. Tommy White. Tommy White. Yeah, we’ll get into that. We’ll get into that. Uh I also got a little interesting uh nugget. Hopefully I don’t forget when
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we do get into the baseball talk. You know, the uh obviously there is labor negotiations going on and there could be a significant change when it comes to
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college baseball. So, I’ll leave that as a tease. Congress going to get involved?
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No. No, I [laughter] don’t think so, dude. Cuz that works so well. [laughter] Well, I guess it’s so amazing that Sanki is and and
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Patito are upset at what Congress is doing because everybody told them that’s what’s going to happen.
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All right. So, I guess that is a good way to segue into what we want to talk about. I’ll let you guys start off here.
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Your impressions of what Greg Sanki had to say Monday to kick off SEC football media days. entirely predictable when it came to the Protect College Sports Act.
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I mean that the writing’s been on the wall for weeks now. Uh it’s all and I wrote a column today on tiger.com. It’s
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all about uh Congress is now doing the best they can to keep the SEC at the table. He validated Sanki did the fact
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that there’s serious consideration to walk away from the NCAA.
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And um I think that that that’s the biggest news. Uh the rest of the SEC media days bores me.
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Do you do you think Greg would would rather not walk away and and instead get what he wants and stay? Yeah.
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[clears throat] Okay. Well, I I agree.
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And I think I think he what he was saying yesterday was kind of like uh finessing Congress or Yeah.
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You know, kind of a poker game with Congress is what that is, I thought. Well, I I think it’s I think he’s smart.
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I think it’s negotiations, but I do think he is prepared. Yeah.
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And I think the Big 10 is prepared to to walk away. And I know that’s not a popular sentiment and I know it scares
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the hell out of a lot of people, but um and I don’t think it’s likely to happen right now, but I definitely believe that
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if they restrain them, as much as they’re still trying to do by keeping them from adding teams, uh limiting it
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the and and limiting the time frame that they can do that and that that hurts their media rights and and they’re not going to stand for that. They’re just
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simply not. Let let’s say they both split off. You got the Big 10 and you got the SEC. Well, then there’s going to be a natural championship game every
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year. The Big 10 champion plays the SEC champion for the national championship. Be like the AFC and the NFC. All right.
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All right. Let’s No, but but I’m serious. That might be the only way the SEC can make the freaking national championship game because they can’t make one the way it is now.
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This talk of breakaway just needs to stop.
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Well, it’s not going to because it will kill college athletics. Well, it’ll kill it the way that you’ve seen it for the
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LA in the way we’ve all been used to it, but it’s different now. This is not the same game it was three years ago.
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But will it be better or worse? I’m not saying it’ll be better or worse.
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I’m saying it’s different now. He talked about all this enforcement stuff, Mr.
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Transparent SEC Commissioner. How come he didn’t in his 43 minutes explain He’s talking about we want everybody to play by the same rules.
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They do. Well, but that’s not the reason why he first of all, he does not the SC when is the SEC ever going to
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investigate anything, enforce any rules on their own. They love the fact that they can sit there and tell the NC, oh,
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it’s the NCAA’s fault. It’s this and that.
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The reason the reason the SEC and the rest of the and the Big 10 and the rest of college football wanted Congress’s
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intervention is so they want the antitrust protection and they want conformed rules and that’s it. And that’s all the rest of But they also couldn’t figure things out. Media rights.
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What? The media rights are are outside of the bounds of that. That’s the restraint that they’re rebelling against the revenue cap. How come he didn’t talk about that?
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Because he doesn’t he’s that’s not the the negotiating point. The negotiating point right now is stay away from our expansion and stay away from our media rights which are one and the same thing.
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Why did he say that? He he listed these four reasons on why they oppose the college or what needs to change. He mentioned nothing about that.
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He was spinning. He He’s I understand, but it’s just it’s a bunch of bull. It is.
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It’s a bunch of bull. And this idea that’s splitting off and the grass is greener on the other side. It’s just horrible.
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And they now [laughter] it’s a pro game.
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I understand. But it’s a pro game.
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I understand it’s a pro game, but how do you have March Madness if you just have two conferences? Well, I don’t think that I don’t think that necessarily.
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You can’t just split football off and then how you do that that explain that to me in 45 seconds.
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I’m not saying it makes conventional sense.
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How does that happen? It doesn’t make sense. Nobody’s thinking that. Nobody’s looking.
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I’m not saying it makes conventional sense. I’m saying we’re because it’s not possible.
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Look, the next three or five years, the next 3 to 5 years.
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Yeah. I didn’t say it was going to be good. Okay.
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They are going to they are going to hurt themselves even more. Follow the money. Okay. You want to talk about the money?
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Yeah.
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The a a championship game between the Big 10 and the SEC will not be as well watched as this last year’s national
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championship because this is going to this is going to upset so many sports fans. If they do this, they’re done with
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it, Todd. They are done with it. I know here I don’t know about I know here in They are. They will be done with it.
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People said they were done with the NFL with all the national anthem stuff.
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Oh, that says something. This is something where you’re completely changing a sport, a tradition that you’ve had for hundreds of years.
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Let me explain something. Let me explain one fact to you.
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But if a Big 10 team plays an SEC team in a national championship game, regardless of how those two guys, people are going to watch it. people are going
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to not if they create some crazy little league and it’s just their own little rules and if it’s still a game. It’s still Big 10 vers.
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If the Big 10 has 25 26 teams and the SEC has 25 26 teams.
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Well, how are you going to get those teams? Where are they coming from?
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Well, number one is you tell Congress you can’t you can’t limit our expansion over the next five years.
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Well, it’s hard to just tell Congress what to do.
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Well, I know, but that’s what Well, they don’t have to agree to it. That’s where they could break away right away. I’m not saying what’s going to happen. I’m saying that we don’t know what’s going
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to happen. But I guarantee you what will happen is nobody’s going to be able to tell Greg Sanki and whatever Patito or whatever his name is,
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Tony Patiti, that that they can’t uh negotiate their own media rights. Well, Tony Patiti and
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Greg Sanki, I think their big problems is they’re they’re trying to solve and fix some of the issues that involve all
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of college football, but they have dual motivations cuz they’re trying to keep their conference. And that that’s not going to work
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cuz cuz in the NFL, like Verge told us a couple of times, the NFL is all together
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um Monday through Saturday, okay? And then they play the games. But but they’re all together and and they’ve got
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their media rights in in a good system, you know, and and and they have and they don’t have an owner that that makes
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those decisions. They got they have a commissioner and and uh and and Tony and Tony Patiti and Greg Sanki, particularly
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Sanki, they just I just don’t think they can think big enough. And but Patiti is much more qualified than than Sanki is.
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To me, Sanki is kind of a he’s too much like Roger Goodell, though. Roger Goodell finally figured it out. It’s a ship that doesn’t have a captain.
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That’s true. [clears throat] And it’s just sailing in the open seas and it could hit an iceberg. It could hit whatever, right? But but to say it’s not going to
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change is just I never said it was not going to change, but I think the change that they are thinking about or even throwing out
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there is going to hurt the sport even more. And they’re not going to If you look at the draft of the Protect College Sports Act now compared to what
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it was two weeks ago, it’s night and day already. So, well, well, that’s fine. That’s fine.
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You can, but to to throw this stuff, well, the breakaway and this and that.
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Uh, I I relistened to an interview that he did with Paul Finebomb uh a month ago, Greg Seni, and this was right when
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the bill was first drafted. So he he’s at that point he said there had been no discussions no discussions of he lied a super league.
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He lied.
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Well they’re doing a distrust to their fans.
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Well I think Charles Anig said it best a couple days ago. He said he said both Petiti and Sanki want to go to heaven
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but neither of them wants to die. In other words, they they can’t they need to learn how to give up something. Yeah. You know, and that’s what you do in DC.
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You give up this for this. That’s how New Orleans got the Saints. They you give up this and and you take that and and they’re not they’re not doing that, right?
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Well, according to Christianity, you can have heaven on earth. You don’t have to die. All right? That’s a whole another topic I don’t want to get into. But, uh
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heaven’s over for the SEC. [laughter] The Big 10 runs things. I am just I I I um it was a complete eye roll with what
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he had to say yesterday. I think it’s just some of it.
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All right. Well, uh we got uh my eyes are ready to roll. [laughter] All right. Uh go ahead, Case. Throw
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something out there as far as uh I know you got a couple things that uh he had to say yesterday. What? Let’s hit one of them here before we go while he’s talking.
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[laughter]
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And so understand that beneath the observation is frustration.
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But I also know the pride with which I spoke of 13 national championships. And there is meaning and value. And I do
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think a national expectation that we pres we participate in a national organization. But that national
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organization must function in a healthy manner.
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Otherwise, that simmering will continue.
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All right. Well, we’ll see if they’re able to get something done. I I don’t I I I I do sense that
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breaking away is really their last option. I I I get that. I just don’t even really think it’s it’s in my mind, it’s not feasible. It’s not feasible.
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It’s not going to result in what they’re anticipating.
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You’re gonna you’re going to get together with a conference that you can’t even agree with as far as how a postseason how postseason should be.
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Who’s going to who’s going to enforce the rules? You don’t even want to enforce the rules right now. The SEC could It is funny that the SEC is talking
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about enforcing rules because historically they’re the most cheating conference in history. Well, and I I do want to say something.
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The people that I have talked to that are quote unquote in the no are not talking about breaking away together.
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Although that’s our natural assumption.
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Well, that’s even worse in my mind. So, what are you I’m not saying they’re they’re they’re talking about it exclusive.
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I understand, but they don’t are So, you’re going to have the SEC baseball tournament. LSU beats Tennessee. That’s the championship. Hurrah, hurray. Uh,
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no. Omaha. How does that How does that really How does that make anyone happy?
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my my perception of it and I know this is going to cause you to go into convulsions but I don’t believe that the
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other sports are necessarily earmarked I don’t know how I’m not a freaking genius do it that way well they’ve already done it that way I
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mean in what way football championships are done differently than than baseball
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that’s fine but you still have 134 teams in multiple conferences battling it out just because we can’t write it out and plan it doesn’t mean it’s not possible.
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It I’m telling you it will you you’re hurting yourself even more.
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Yeah, you’re hurting yourself even more.
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I understand that that’s what you believe and I don’t disagree necessarily with you, but I’m telling you that just because you believe that doesn’t mean it can’t happen.
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Well, they’re going to lose a lot of fans. They’re going to lose a lot of casual fans. They’re going to lose I I don’t think they’re going to lose
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fans. I think I think if you just if you just have an SEC league, do you think
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the fan who from that’s a Miami Hurricane fan right now that watches all the championship games, do you think they’re going to watch the SEC Championship game?
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I’ll tell you what Greg Sanki would say to that. He would say that 80,000 people attend.
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Well, what what did Matt Hayes tell us when he was on the show? That SEC draws the most TV viewers.
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That That’s fine. That’s under this environment. SEC versus it would be a different it would you’re going to alienate a huge fan base
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outside of the SEC that will just they will be tuned on. Are you working for Ted Cruz?
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I’m not working for anybody. [laughter] I’m just telling you and the Big 10 does have a lot more televisions and bigger cities than the SEC. All right, let’s take our first break.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. So, the other u a lot of different talking points from Greg Seni on Monday. One of
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the others is the nineame conference schedule. As a fan, I love it. I I I wish they would play 10 conference
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games. I wish they would. But um when you look at the reason why they did it,
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one obviously money, right? Uh ESPN, their TV partner Disney wanted them to uh add another game. And that that’s a
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big part of it. But the other part was, you know, the Big 10 said, “Hey, if if you guys go to nine games like we do, uh
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we we’ll look at expanding to 16 teams.” And now, of course, the Big 10 has changed its tune on that. Now they want to do 24.
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Everybody lies. And then when Greg Sinki, who here’s where he was transparent, um I believe in that he
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said that when he was talking to those with the College Football Playoff Selection Committee, the strength of schedule is still not going to be a a a
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major factor in deciding who’s going to get into the college football playoffs. So, the SEC is putting themselves on the line playing
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nine conference schedule, nine conference games against tougher competition than what the Big 10 is facing, what the Big 12 is facing, what
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the ACC is facing, what Notre Dame is facing. And now you’re you’re putting yourself at risk of say someone like LSU
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going nine and three. And let’s just say I I’m going to throw it out there, Virginia Tech goes 10 and two somehow, right? Uh they they they have this great
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season. Virginia Tech could get in over LSU even though LSU schedule is probably and I haven’t looked at Virginia Tech schedule. I’m just throwing that one out
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of the air. Uh is much tougher than Virginia Tech.
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So why I think I think you’re I think it would be better to use Notre Dame because they have the best cream puff schedule in the
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history of America and they’re guaranteed a spot if they finish in the top 12. got to keep those helmets gold and they’re going to finish 11 and one at worst.
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I I Yeah. Well, that’s why I didn’t use Notre Dame in this example because if they lose two games then they are really sorry. It was that schedule. Yeah.
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So So why did Sanki Why did Sanki agree with nine games if if that’s true? I mean it’s like he got hoodwinning because he thought that they wouldn’t
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they would consider schedule strength more and they’re he also thought they’d go to 16, right?
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And then how is the College Football Playoff Selection Committee not take that into account? Why are they seriously sitting here saying that the
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the the Big 12, the competition in the Big 12 is on par with the SEC?
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Maybe it’s we’re uh SEC fatigue. They they were tired of seeing the SEC win so much. I don’t know.
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I How did How did this frustrated the heck out of me when I heard him talk about this yesterday?
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Yeah. And that’s what’s been frustrating Lane. Lane’s been the one saying all the time, you know, you got to get that strength and schedule in there, pal. He
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told the other coaches that. And then of course in the SEC they’re asking the schools to play another uh power four
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team where in the Big 10 it all playing G5 teams basically.
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It’s like it’s another reason for the [laughter] it’s another reason for the SEC to break away completely.
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Well, yeah. If they break away, they they they could only screw themselves, which is what they did here. [laughter] It’s just I’m ready for the games to
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start. I’m just tired of all this nonsense talk that’s that’s going on.
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Let’s just get the game started. Um because it it’ll take my mind off of this other stuff that’s happening that all this clutter that is out there.
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Was there strength to schedule at the World Cup? Was that did that have anything?
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Well, that it’s funny. My my friends who are way more into the World Cup than some of my college buddies, they were talking about after Argentina lost.
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Well, Argentina didn’t play anybody.
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[laughter]
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Well, Spain, why why did Spain play so many more games than everybody else?
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I’m like, “Oh my goodness.” Everybody has strength [laughter] to schedule problems.
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All right. Well, we’ll get to Raymond Parch, our first guest here, coming up after this on Tiger Egg Radio. Stay tuned. Much more coming up.
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We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Wow, that’s interesting. Welcome back here to Tiger Rag Radio. Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, Case Kishnik, our producer. And
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let’s bring in our first guest of the night. And we are heard on the radio station that he’s heard on as well every
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midday and that is ESPN Southwest Radio in Lafayette and Lake Charles. Raymond Parsh is there with his contingent in Tampa. Raymond, how you doing tonight?
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Thanks for uh joining us on the show.
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Thanks for allowing us to be on the airwaves on your stations. We appreciate it.
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Well, we greatly appreciate y’all partnering up with us. We love having Tiger Rag Radio and letting all our folks in Southwest Louisiana be able to
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hear what you guys do every week. And it’s a pleasure to be on with uh you guys as always, man.
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And we appreciate you saying that and we appreciate Jeff and [laughter] we appreciate Todd and we appreciate you and we appreciate we appreciate football. Hey, [laughter]
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so Ra so Raymond, uh, we we’ve been hearing about all the coaches and everything, but what I want to hear about is what is going on in Tampa at
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night? What what [laughter] did you do last night? What was the media party like like and what did you have to drink?
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Well, I I I will go back to Sunday, brother, because we were supposed to fly out. Okay. So, we were supposed to fly out on Sunday out of New Orleans and
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then our flight got delayed and then it got delayed again and then they just decided to say, “Well, you know what?
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We’re going to fly you, we can fly you to Miami around midnight, but you’ll have to spend the night in a hotel and then we’ll fly you into Tampa from Miami
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on Monday.” So, we decided to drive impromptu on Sunday. And uh let me tell you that stretch of road between
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Tallahassee, Florida, and Tampa, that’s long, man. I’ve made that.
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It’s long. It’s filled with uh deer and abandoned hotels from the 1950s. So,
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[laughter]
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um it’s it’s a beautiful part of the country. Um we nearly got in a wreck. A deer jumped in front of us right by the airport. It was we we got in like at
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2:00 in the morning on Sundays, uh Monday morning, rather. So, but no, it was uh it it was good. We had our little media suare last night. Uh a
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place called American Social right there on the bay. I had no idea Tampa was this nice. Oh, yeah. I’d never been before.
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So, I didn’t realize there was that much uh that that many people with boats and yachts everywhere. Um, but uh we had a we had a good time. I had a little crown
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and a Sprite. I had a couple of those at the bar. You know, you know, you know, Glenn, you’ve been to these things. You know, uh you have to take advantage of
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the free food and the free drinks, my friends. So, um and then tonight we had the little media thing where the Tampa
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Bay Lightning play. So, um so that that was nice. and they were giving out like little party prizes of like free cigars and stuff like that. So, it’s been nice.
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I’m actually sitting outside right now um outside of um uh Bayare Ballpark cuz I’m a big baseball guy. So, I got a
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chance to drive make the short drive over to Clear Water to see minor league baseball. So, um so you know. Well, well, Raymond, what what’s the one
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conversation that’s happening there that really matters that fans should really actually care about because there seems to be a lot of uh I don’t know, posturing going on.
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Well, I mean, look look uh at these events that’s that’s really what it’s about, right? It’s about, you know, not giving you anything and a lot of posturing, right? And and so you you
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kind of expect that. What I was surprised by and what’s been the big talking point is something I’ve been talking about on the radio and you guys
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have been probably talking about it on Tiger Rag Radio as well. This whole thing of it feels like the SEC, the Big
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10, and whoever they want to invite to their party are going to pull away from the NCAA for football only. Right.
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Right. And it’s you you feel it like we’ve been covering the sport long enough to know when we we can see how
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things are headed in a particular direction and it’s a billion-dollar industry. College football is there’s so much revenue from television that drives
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everything. All these decisions being made in football are driven by TV revenue. I mean that’s what it boils down to. So we’ve we’ve been seeing I’ve been talking about this for years. When
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I heard the commission, who’s very careful with his words, by the way, we know this, like Greg Fanky doesn’t say anything that he doesn’t want to be
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said, how he wants it to be said, and how he wants it to be delivered to the public. Okay? And when he goes up there in his opening address, he opens up
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media days and he mentions that, you know, there’s been real conversations had about them going out on their own
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and that, you know, he would prefer those conversations not be seen on the ticker the next day and everything else like that. Like that that stood out to
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me like that set the tone for this media days where Yeah, you’re right. Cuz often he would have like dispelled that rumor, but he he welcomed it. He welcomed it.
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Excellent.
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And he didn’t. And then so he puts that out there and you know I have him scheduled to come on the show on
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Thursday. So I’m going to ask him to follow up about that. Um um but then when you hear Kirby Smart this morning
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echo that sentiment and saying that this is something that he’s been talking about or wanting for a couple of years, that tells me that this is going to
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happen quicker than we thought it was going to happen. Like if if if the power brokers in the mighty SEC and the man
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who leads the most powerful conference in college athletics, if they’re having legitimate conversations about this and they’ve been doing it for years now and
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now they’re telling us about it, a room full of, you know, scoundrel, you know, scoundrels, you know, media folks. If they’re telling us all this, this tells
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me that I would I would go on a limb and say that there’s a framework already being put in place and I thought it was
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10 years away. I think by the time we get to the 2030s that SEC, Big 10, and whoever else they want to decide to
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bring to the party are going to have a football league that is not affiliated with the NCAA. And and the interesting thing about what you just said because we had a previous discussion in the
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first half hour of Tiger Rack Radio tonight and and Jeff had a coronary when I tried to explain to him that it’s possible it could be
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still could be leverage though. Might just be leverage.
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Yeah. Yeah. But it but it it could very possibly just like Raymond just said happening down the road. Yeah.
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Yeah. That’s what we’re talking about because that’s when the TV contracts expire. But whatever the point is is it could be football only. Could you
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explain that how it could be football only in your mind?
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Well, because football is the driving force for everything and the football you could, you know, I I bring this up all the time to folks. I go, do you ever
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notice when you look at the national championship trophy in football, whether it’s with the playoff or what was the BCS, you never noticed you don’t see the NCAA logo prominently placed anywhere, if at all?
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Yep. Yep.
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You know, that’s been going on for decades, right? It’s already separate, right? It’s already it already it already is separate. Now, they lean on
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the NCAA for a lot of things, right? Um but they believe that they have the amount of money to, you know, they use
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the lazy term, it’s been used out there in the last year or so. Well, NFL 2.0. I don’t think that’s what they want. Okay?
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They just want to run college football the way they want it run. You understand what I’m saying? So, they want to put in the rules that they want to put in for
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eligibility. They want to put in the rules that they want to put in for NIL.
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They want to put in the rules they want to for how many times a player can transfer, you know, uh, coaches salaries. They they uh, academic
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requirements, they want to they want to dictate and control all of that.
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But can they even agree on the rules, Raymond? They can’t. That’s why they went crawling to that’s why they went crawling to Congress to do that. And
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that’s correct. So there there is they I don’t think they are smart enough to pull it off without destroying
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they’re smart enough, Jeff. They’re smart enough. Their egos get in the way. And there’s a difference, right?
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Intelligence has nothing to do with your ego, right? Because everyone wants to believes that they’re right. What’s going to what has to happen to make this
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to expedite the process is that the SEC is going to have to get all their people on board and they’re going to have to have a unified approach to this and then
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they’re going to have to find a dance partner. And if they find a dance partner and we we assume it’s the Big 10 even though they they bicker about
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things already now, right? But but but let’s just say the SEC can they have talks with the Big 12 and the Big 12 says, you know, the exact way that
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you’re talking about doing things with NIL and transfer port on academic requirements and so forth and so forth and budgets and all this stuff, we’re on
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board. If the SEC can find a one league to be a dance parter, dance partner rather, then that kind of forces the
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others to kind of maybe compromise on what they want to do, right? Um that’s the messy part of this. That that is the one I agree with you. That’s the one
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hiccup on this. If the egos in the room from the Big 10, the Big 12, the SEC, and you would assume the ACC and Notre
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Dame. Um, if they all can put their egos aside to say this is what we really want to do because they really want to run
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college football because it’s the one that makes the most money. Look, you guys know this. Glenn reports on this. Tiger Rag reports on this, okay?
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Football, even when a football team is terrible, they make money. They make money handover fist. Okay. The other sports can’t say that. That’s true.
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So, so you know, you you know, people ask me on the street about this. They’re like, “Well, well, well, what about, you know, at LSU, what about women’s
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basketball?” And I go, “If they can make a ton of money and keep generating a ton of money, they’ll leave women’s basketball to just be governed by the
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like they don’t care about those other sports. Football is its own entity. It survives on its own. It just truly does.
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I mean, there’s a reason why every sports information department in this country primarily has one person
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dedicated for football. They’re not cross-pollinating the departments. Okay.
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Over at LSU, you get Kent Low. He helps out with football, helps out Bonnet, but he’s your primary men’s basketball, but Michael’s the one that runs the SID department for football.
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That’s true. That’s you understand what I’m saying?
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They’re already a separate entity as they as it is. And so they don’t care about that and they’ll let the rest of the sports be ran by the NCAA and that’s what they’ll do.
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So when it comes to the game itself, what was what’s the biggest news uh out there about the you know about the SEC right now?
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You know, there’s a lot of buzz surpris a couple things have surprised me about like I I keep hearing stuff about Josh Hypel being on the hot seat.
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Mhm.
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At Tennessee and I go, “Okay, y’all remember what Tennessee was before he got there, right?” Like you for for a
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good stretch, they weren’t very good. Do do you want Derek Douly back, right? Like is is that what you’re wanting?
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like you know you know what though the playoff two years ago but Raymond his winning percentage is worse than Brian Kelly’s but I I
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understand your point they they uh you know because of the bad coaches that
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that he came after he’s seen in some circles as pretty good okay like compared to Derek Doul and so forth
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but uh really there he’s been pretty average is how I see it and if he has another average type season like last
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year, he could be on the hot seat. May maybe not right now, but he could be.
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Not right now, but like a year out. And I I think I think that’s a fair point.
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You know, they have a big question mark at quarterback, too. How are they going to go with that?
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And he’s terrible at quarterbacks. He’s like a quarterback guru and he can’t get them. He can’t find them.
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He’s supposed to be. Yeah. He’s supposed to be the guru.
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But I was interesting like you know obviously Tennessee went day one but it was interesting that of course a lot of talk about Shane Beamer being on a hot
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seat but let me tell you the talk everyone every national person that’s walking through the hallways is making sure to even tell janitorial staff that
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they think Lane Kein should be winning a national championship or playing for one in year one. If not it’s a massive disappointment. And I just smile and I go really
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yeah. Hey Raymond thanks a lot man. We appreciate your time. Thanks for checking in from Tampa. We’ll have to get you on again soon.
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Anytime, brother. Y’all have a great show.
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All right, Raymond Parch from ESPN Southwest Radio. We’ll take a break.
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More of Tiger Rag Radio right after this. This is Tiger Rag Radio.
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They’re all the way back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo along with Todd Horn and Glenn Gilbo. We were just
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talking uh Tennessee about Tennessee uh with Raymond Par from ESPN Southwest Radio in Lafayette and Lake Charles. So
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far uh case uh there there’s there’s two good clips that are up for I guess best sound bites of the week. Let’s hear the
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one about Josh Hypel and when asked about how Lane Keifin may be treated when he returns to Knoxville this time around.
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Certainly hope our fan base hasn’t uh cooled off. So, uh, you know, whether it’s the grocery stores, uh, being fully
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stocked with, uh, with mustard or, um, you know, our sports stores making sure that they got reinforcements on, uh, on the golf balls. Hopefully, Knoxville’s ready for for his arrival.
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Dead pan. Josh Hypel.
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Yeah, he’s trying to sell mustard and golf balls. [laughter] Hopes that keeps the special interest
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brokers there in Knoxville. SEC ought to find them for [laughter] for uh starting a riot.
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The SEC doesn’t enforce rules. I I I went over that in the first five minutes. Yeah. [laughter] Not against themselves.
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No, that’s for sure. They just Anyway, I don’t want to go back down that path, but that that was an interesting comment. I didn’t see that one coming from I I think it’s interesting. I also think
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it’s probably going to be uh there any mustard or golf balls that are going to be thrown are going to have to be thrown in the first or second quarter because I think it’s pretty much going to be over by then.
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Wow. Wow.
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And if and and if somebody throws a golf ball real far, Josh might try to sign him, but probably lose him [laughter] to lane.
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November 21st is when LSU is at Tennessee. It’ll probably be cold there.
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Yeah, it could be. Could be. Last time LSU was at Tennessee, that was when that crazy rainstorm came and then Orzon was uh all he had was, you know, his typical
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polo shirt and it Did he take off his shirt?
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No, he did not. But he he was uh that was a that was a beating when was that in 2020 you’re talking about or 21?
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Was that an 18? Wasn’t it an 18? Oh, before the championship, I’m sorry.
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Yeah, I think it was an 18 was the last time they’ve been to Tennessee.
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Wow. Okay, that sounds about right. Yeah. Uh Will Stein, uh LSU facing Kentucky in October. Uh this uh this was an
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interesting soundbite from Will Stein on why he thinks the Wildcat football program can win and win at a high level. I think because of me to be honest.
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Because of [laughter] me. I think um I know what it takes. I have seen it at the highest levels. I know what it takes
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to recruit at this level. And you just got to believe, man. You just got to put the ball down and play.
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Wow. That’s interesting. That’s a different version of Clark Lee. Remember when [laughter] Clark Lee came out and said we’re going to contend for the national championship? And but but I tell you, he’s he’s sticking to it, man.
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He’s done a lot better than people thought he would. Clark Lee is Vanderbilt’s coach, by the way. Uh, well, everybody knows that.
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Well, no, not everybody. Brian Kelly’s does. Yeah, Brian Kelly definitely does.
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But, uh, I like the moxy. I like, uh, you got to come in. Well, I would say my response has this kind of ego about him.
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So, it worked for him. Let’s see if it works.
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It’s good. I I think he should have an ego. I think he should have confidence.
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And I think he should have hired a different offensive coordinator.
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[laughter]
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You did start. You did smirk right when you heard that, as did I. But I thought it was a pretty cool comment. I I tell you though, none better than this is
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going way back for you young boys can can remember, but in the 19 it was the 1985
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or 86 SEC media days in Birmingham, Emry Bard was the coach at Mississippi State and he came out and said, “We’re going
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to win the SEC.” [snorts] I mean, and everybody and I think he got fired that year.
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Um, Kucky’s quarterback, uh, he talked about Joe Sloan as his offensive coordinator, and Case has got a sound bite on that.
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He’s one of the main reasons that I’m that I’m at Kentucky. Kind of like Stein, he’s a great great guy, great person to be around, a lot of energy,
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and he loves football and obviously really smart. He’s coached some really some really good quarterbacks in the past, and he knows what he’s doing. That
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is Kenny Mincchy who is the Notre Dame transfer that’s now the starting quarterback at Kentucky. That sounded a lot like Garrett Nusmire. Those are things you would say about
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Well, here’s here’s some advice to Kenny. Don’t let him call [laughter] plays and and and Garrett’s on the phone to Kenny. Transfer [laughter] transfer the next window.
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Uh all right, let’s take a break. More uh we’ll wrap up hour number one. A lively hour number one. Chris Gordy will join us. Lockdown SEC podcast host
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coming up in the next hour. Also, Dan Zaksheski. I think I’m saying that right. Dan Zachesky.
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Dan Zack Schesky. He will join us. Talk about Ryan Clark being let go at ESPN along with several other prominent onair
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people over at ESPN, including Carl Ravage, who’s been calling SEC men’s basketball and of course calling games at the College World Series. He was let
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go today as well. So, we’ll take Yeah, he’s a good one, too.
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Tiger Rag Radio. All right, back here on Tiger Eag Radio, we uh spent the first hour talking a lot about the comments of
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uh Greg Seni and the legislation that they are seeking out of Congress. Uh there has been a development about that
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uh right actually probably uh broke when we were on the air. Uh, Senator Tommy Tuberville, of course, the former head
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football coach at Auburn and Old Miss, has sent a memo to Republican legislative directors today, and he is
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telling them to oppose the Protect College Sports Act and instead approve a bill that only regulates
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eligibility, basically the five for five. you got five years to play five years and the one-time exception for
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transfers where you can transfer once without having to sit out. And then he says the legislation would also restore
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enforcement. So nothing about pulling media rights, nothing about trying to limit conference expansion,
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just the bare bones. Basically, this is what SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki is looking for.
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Well, I’m sure he uh Tommy has some allegiances to the uh to the SEC. Spent most of his
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career there. So, um that’s probably a smart move by the SEC if Sanki orchestrated that. I’m sure he had something
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to do with it. Um why why and you think ju just trying to um maybe push the
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media pool argument to next year or to just keep them out of it or keep them out of it for right now. Right. Right.
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And uh he does say and I read a little bit of the letter there during the break. He says college athletics does not need a
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federal takeover. They don’t need all these kind of this is the the thing that but yet they’re the ones that went into it. That that’s what gets me. Sanki and
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Petiti went into it. Now they’re saying, “Oh, wow.” Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. All right. So, uh, we’ll keep our eye on that. Chris
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Gordy from Locked On SEC podcast, the host of that show that you can download every day, uh, Monday through Friday. He
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will join us when we come back. So, stay tuned for that as we got to take a break for the top of the hour break. This is Tiger Rag Radio. Thanks for listening.
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