Ole Miss beat reporter for the Clarion-Ledger Sam Hutchens breaks down Ole Miss’s breaking lawsuit against Princewill Umanmielen and Devin Harper for failing to pay their revenue-share contract after transferring to LSU. Hutchens gives his insight on the Rebels’ new staff ahead of their blockbuster matchup with LSU. USA Today’s Blake Toppmeyer gives a look around the SEC ahead of preseason camps.
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The rivalry between LSU and Old Miss uh is turned up another notch today as uh news breaks that in
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a state court, Lafayette County State Court in Mississippi. lawsuits have or civil complaints have been filed against
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LSU football defensive end Prince Will Umami Yellen and LSU offensive lineman Devin Harper because according to the
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University of Mississippi, these two players signed revenue sharing agreements with the school in early January, then went ahead and broke those
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contracts. And according to those contracts uh based on what the University of Mississippi is saying that
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there is a provision requiring them to compensate the university with a predetermined amount basically a buyout if they depart before fulfilling their
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commitment. And of course, both of those players did transfer to LSU after originally saying that they were going to stay at Miss after Lane Keifin left.
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And apparently they signed, according to the University of Mississippi, [snorts] signed revenue sharing agreements and then entered the transfer portal, signed
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with LSU, and Miss has been sending letters to them and to LSU requesting that buyout money. They have not been
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able to receive it. $550,000 from Umami Melon and Harper. They are
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seeking to get $400,000 from him. Here to talk about it, he’s got a great article on the Aquarian Ledger website.
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Sam Hutchkins is all over the story and our timing to have you on our show, Sam.
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Could not be any better. Uh, thank you for spending some time talking with us.
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I know there’s a lot going on, especially with this breaking story, but we appreciate your time tonight.
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Right. I’m impressed that you you summed it up. That’d be like [laughter] a whole chapter in a John Gisham book or something getting all that out. But yeah, great summary. That’s you know,
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it’s uh it’s not dying down until September the 19th, guys. There there’s always stuff popping up between these two schools.
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Well, as me and Glenn were talking about, there’s always two sides to a story, but at least the side that the University of Mississippi is presenting,
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it seems. Now, I if it is true that they actually did I I guess is that the question? Did they actually really sign revenue sharing agreements that require
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them to pay a buyout if they left and went to another school? Is that what is in doubt here?
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Yeah. So, Miss has has been doing that for a while now. And for for all players who who sign revenue sharing agreements
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or or certainly a wide bulk of them and and the top players like Prince Will you and Devin Harper are Old Miss has been
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been putting in uh buyout clauses is is the easiest word to put it. So yeah, and um you know that’s it it’s the type of
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thing that Old Miss is is saying, “Hey, this this is very concrete, black and white um because it’s a buyout in a
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revenue sharing contract.” Um and then you’re right, I I I haven’t seen any sort of official comment from from LSU yet, but maybe their side is a little
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different, but yeah, that’s uh that’s kind of what’s being litigated here uh in LeFay County.
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Hey Sam, Glenn Gilbo here. Thanks for joining us. Um, do you know or do or do you do you ha have any guess that maybe
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the players spent some of their revenue share money they got from Old Miss before they went to uh LSU or is that a question?
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Yeah, I I don’t know that. and and that could play into it because I I think that the thing that jumped out to me the
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most um from from Old Miss’s timeline that they provided me and some of the other beat reporters with is uh Old Miss
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said that um you know they contacted the two players who didn’t respond and and didn’t pay and then Old Miss said so it
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it reached out to LSU who who declined to play. But here’s the rub is um a lot
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of these contracts, right? Uh you know, and I I certainly think it it would make sense for Prince Will and Devon uh transferring to negotiate that into
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their LSU deal, right? You know, you know, if you’re going to have a buyout, you say you go to LSU and maybe you say, “Hey, can y’all pay this for me?” Yeah, they paid Lane Gibbons.
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I don’t know if LSU did that or not. And that’s kind of the rub is like who is even ultimately responsible here for and
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uh you know if it’s if it’s purely with the two players then do they even have the funds? It’s interesting
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and and let me ask you too I think in the story Keith Carter said that that this has happened with previous Old Miss players who transferred. Did he mean
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that that other players transferred and actually paid Miss their buyout and and do you know who those players are or did he say? Yeah, he he told me that I I
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actually asked him I said, “Have you kind of done the inverse of this um when I last talked to Keith and he told me
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that yes, Old Miss has paid buyouts from incoming transfers. Um but he didn’t give you the names on that, but yeah.”
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And and his point there was to say like, you know, it’s kind of a bad look, right, to to sue the individual kids who
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who are 20 years old. But Keith’s point was a lot of times you’re effectively suing the school and you know as long as
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the school has made an agreement to pay on behalf of the player. But I think that’s what’s got to whole get sorted out here.
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So did Miss pay the buyout of the Clemson player the the linebacker?
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[laughter] I actually so I asked about I asked about Felli and they Old Miss has been that’s the whole that’s the player
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that they’ve been quietest on throughout all of that. I wish I could tell you that. Yeah, I don’t know that.
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Let’s hear from Case Kishnik. He’s got a question here, our producer.
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Yeah. So, you mentioned you mentioned the uh the optics of it and how it might look bad suing, you know, some 20-year-old players. Do you see there’s
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any world where this doesn’t end in LSU taking that buyout? And if they do, does that then count against their revenue share cap for this season?
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Yes. So, so my understanding is it does count against the revenue share cap. So, here’s the unspoken thing that uh you
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know, I I truly understood why, you know, maybe LSU is definitely planning on paying this and they they have funds earmarked, but I I totally understood
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why LSU wasn’t just volunteering to to give up these funds. you know, don’t just hand it over to the enemy. I
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totally get it. Ultimately, I feel like if this goes to lawsuits and especially in Mississippi, uh because of of the
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black and white nature of revenue share contracts, I I have trouble imagining a
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scenario where aside wearing purple and gold doesn’t pay, whether that’s the players or the school is, I guess, kind
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of up to those two entities. Now LSU’s statement on all this is that they are not party to the contract that they were
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not involved. They did not sign this contract, the revenue sharing agreement.
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Devin Harper and Princeell Umami Ellen were the two that actually signed it.
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So, but I would imagine LSU’s in my mind they got to they have to step in and and help these kids. I think
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[laughter] they got the kids, they get the baggage. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. But you’re right that that is absolutely true that nowhere was LSU mentioned in the deal that was signed
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shortly after the Fiesta Bowl between an Old Miss player and Old Miss University. Right. LSU has not turned that anywhere.
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So yeah, that’s the rub in this whole thing.
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Well, let let me ask you too. So, so just to repeat you, uh, Keith Carter told you that in the past, Old Miss has
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gotten transfers from other schools who had buyouts to the other school and Old Miss paid those buyouts. Correct.
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Yes. Right.
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And I think his point there was that you the school usually paid, right? So Miss is saying, “We paid it.
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Why don’t you pay at LSU?” Yeah. And now he didn’t say, you know, Yuan Miellin and Harper are good players. He he didn’t tell me if that
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buyout was $20,000 from Ball State or you know what what the sums are because obviously this is no this is no amount
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of money to sneeze at. So that’s that’s the uh the note that I would draw there is you know it’s we could be it could be
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it’s a different conversation if it’s you know hey 10 grand from Kent State versus what we’re doing here.
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Exactly. Now, they provided you a the or the Old Miss administration provided you a timeline on what happened. Did they
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actually provide media members there with the actual revenue sharing agreement that Harper and Uma and signed?
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No, they did. They did not prevent provide the actual paperwork. So, um it’s just in the uh I when I had the
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story just checking on the, you know, the court archives and all that. Um you could see the formal complaint that they
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issued in court um which you have to include all the details, but they there was not the uh the official contract in there. It was just kind of a write up of what they said was contract.
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So, what happens next? Is there a hearing coming up soon? And I can’t imagine um Old Miss is going to lose in
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their own backyard on this kind of issue.
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Yeah. And that’s my question. Certainly, you know, this is of course, as you guys know, a civil lawsuit, right? You know, just like uh right, you know, the type of lawsuit you’d
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throw out if you had a fence line dispute with your neighbor or whatever, you know. So, there’s there’s no jury or anything. A lot of this is sides coming
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in and, you know, paperwork and all that and seeing. Um but yeah, no, that’s that’s my that’s my question too is where where does this go from here? And
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uh you know, I I I imagine that um my my ultimate guess is that LSU or or someone
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I I would imagine that this could just get paid and not have to go through all the court because really I don’t think either side wants the court and looking
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bad and frankly having to deal with all this right before the season. So, um, if I’m just taking bets, I my sort of guess
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is that this is kind of the catalyst for, uh, the the two sides working together and figuring something out.
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Is there any world where this could LSU or one of the players could file some sort of appeal to get that case moved to
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uh, a federal court or an interstate court to where it’s not in a Mississippi court?
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Yeah. Um, you’re testing my law degree, which [laughter] I don’t have.
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That’s a good question, though. I think the attorney that because my guess [snorts] is that because the
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the contract was was uh in, you know, um in Mississippi in Mississippi and through with the Mississippi school. I I imagine they
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would have trouble moving that because Old Miss is the uh the um plaintiff in this, but yeah, I I’m not sure about that. I do
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think this forces LSU’s hand to to provide more of a comment than just, hey, we’re not party to the contract.
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Exactly. Because that’s that’s the players they got. But it it is interesting because LSU and Old Miss both have very good law schools. Man,
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this this could be like a [laughter] the undercard. It could be the undercard on September 19th.
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Guys, I’m so excited for I’m more excited to watch that game than the college football playoff game. I don’t know what [laughter] that says about my soul, but you know, as a as a as a just
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a fan of college and frankly a fan of drama a little bit, that that will be such a fascinating game to watch.
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Well, well, Sam, I’m glad you brought that up because that’s originally why we asked you on the show.
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Let’s do Hey, Sam, could you because we did not anticipate this happening. Could we hold you on for another segment and actually talk ball with you or do you got to run?
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Sure thing. Sure thing. I’m having a good time with you guys. Yeah, let’s do it. Okay, so let’s go ahead and take our break and then we’ll actually talk about what might actually happen on the
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Tiger Rag Radio. [music] Continuing our conversation. It’s a good one with Sam Hutchkins from the Aquarian Ledger. And we talked all about the
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lawsuit that Old Miss has filed. Uh if you want to listen back to that, uh catch it on the podcast anywhere you get your podcast or the show also gets
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uploaded to YouTube as well. But let’s talk about the game itself. Obviously, both teams have games before then. And LSU’s got Clemson. Miss has got
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Louisville, but we’re all focusing or a lot of the focus already on the game September 19th. How Pete Golden
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obviously did very well in the postseason, but he had Charlie Weiss as his offensive play caller. What’s this Old Miss offense going to look like
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without Charlie Weiss and Lane Kitman directing it?
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Yeah. Uh they hope it’ll look pretty similar. Um they they brought in an offensive coordinator who had experience
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in the system, experience with Lane uh in John David Baker who had spent the past couple years at as the offensive
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coordinator of Eastern Carolina. So um the Pete Golding as a a defensive guy, he his focus on offense is kind of don’t
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fix what ain’t broke, right? Um and and especially bringing back Trinidad Chamblas at quarterback and Kiwan Lacy
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at running back. Um I’m still expecting them to be pretty uptempo, right? And uh you know, lean on lean on your stars,
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Trinidad and Kiwan. So the hope in in Oxford inside the building is that the offense looks and feels pretty similar.
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Um although it’ll be a completely new path to wide receivers pretty much. Sam, how much did you get to cover practice
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during preeason before the opener last year at Old Miss with Lane? [laughter] Well,
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certainly at I say that we we got to theoretically watch practice a few times, but a lot of it was stretching and and warming up.
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Okay.
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That’s that’s how it is here for the most part. But yeah. Yeah. You know, I I guess it kind of depends [clears throat] on on your definition of practice a little bit. Uh
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but yeah. Yeah, that that doesn’t and you know, frankly, Pete was kind of the the same here, right? He he kept that the same too in terms of um you know,
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you’re not coming in and certainly not watching him test out all the trick plays. So, you know, it’s it’s how college football’s going these days.
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Now, now Jeff and Case uh uh Sam covered uh Lane Keifin’s hot yoga, man. How did you how did you get clearance for that,
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dude? That’s some good reporting. And how’d that go?
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Well, I appreciate that. Yeah, that was that was kind of my uh you know, holy grail like uh story that that I’d always
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wanted to do. It it stuck in my mind because I’m I’m sure just like he he talked about it in Baton Rouge, it it is it has changed his life and you know,
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he’s he looks like a different person than than when he came to Oxford and and from his FAU days. And you know, it’s it’s impressive. So yeah, I I asked you
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know Lane one day, hey Lane, like is it you you mind if you mind if I tag along to to one of your classes and he said
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set your alarm. So I woke up [laughter] I don’t know it started at like six in the morning or something. Um but yeah
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that that was I think the most fun story I’ve ever done just in terms of outside of out of my element I felt like but um
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doing something unique and yeah that that was memorable. It I I got through it guys. Uh they they told me that if if you need to step out of the room um you
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know or or take a breather, you can. But I was looking around like, man, no one else is stepping out, [snorts] you know. So I I want to be the one to step out.
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So yeah, I got through it. That’s pretty cool.
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How is Pete Golden ready for this challenge that he faces to try to follow in Lane Keifin’s footsteps?
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Yeah. Um you you know I I I think it it’s made a little easier because Lane is is so disliked around here. You know,
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it’s it’s not like following uh you know, it’s not like you’re Kaylin Dbor where you have to follow the legend um who is beloved, right? you
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know, and and so I think people want people here in Oxford want Pete to succeed so much and and want him to uh
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you know, they they wish him the best just because they want him to, you know, stick it to the other guy, so to speak.
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So, I I think that is certainly different, but I mean, feelings don’t matter much when you get to week one and, you know, this is his first season
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at any level being a head coach. So everything that I’ve I’ve seen gives me confidence that he can carry out head
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coaching duties effectively and and be a good coach. But um you know the the thing that we’ve kind of joked is we’ve
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never seen a Pete Golding team after a loss. How do they respond? Right?
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Because their only loss last year ended the season. So uh yeah, I’m wondering the same thing as y’all.
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I think that’s the the million-dollar question because we’ve seen it all the time in football. guys could be great defensive or offensive coordinators, but
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when you when you put them in that head coaching seat, for whatever reason, it it doesn’t work out. They’re they’re
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only good at organizing and coming up with game plans for one side of the ball, but trying to lead the entire team, that’s just too much. And it’s
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interesting to see if Pete can can somehow pull that off. And I think Pete Pete talks about it in terms of when you
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become the head coach, you kind of lose the coach role a little bit. You’re not, you know, it’s less emphasis on being
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the defensive coordinator and breaking down the film with your group of guys.
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It it’s more administrative and go talk to those darn reporters and, you know, go meet with the donors more and stuff.
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and it’s so much um you know outside of the X’s and O’s of winning football
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games that comes with that title. So that’s that’s kind of what Golding has talked about this off seasonason is his uh his goal to to hire others and hire
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other people who can take care of that and for him to you know to allow him to do what he still loves best which you know is coach football and coach defense.
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Well, how good is this defense going to be?
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Uh they say to be they say to be pretty good, you know, it’s a lot of new players, right? You know, um I I think the thing if you’re old miss is when you
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lose guys like uh your your leading sack jitter in in principle Yami Ellen and and a guy like TJ Doy in in the middle
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of the defense like it hurts and it also clears up cap space quote unquote to to go get other guys. So we’ll see if if
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they hit on on their portal guys. Um, we we’ll see who who steps up. Um, but I think the defensive front will be really
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good. I think the linebackers will be really good. Um, there’s a guy Katon Thomas who’s coming in from Baylor who has some great tape. So, um, I think
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they’ll be I think they’ll be uh they’ll be good.
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Sam, thanks a lot for a fun and informative half hour. Good congratulations on the hot yoga story and congratulations on this story too
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today with the lawsuit. You never know what you’re going to cover. That’s for sure. [laughter] Thanks, guys. We can do it again sometime.
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Yeah, we’ll we’ll certainly talk again prior to September 19th. Sam Hutchkins from the Clarion Ledger. Check out the article that he has up there right now
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on the lawsuit that Old Miss has filed against Prince Will Umadi Melon and also Devin Harper. We’ll take a break. Uh
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when we come back, Blake Top Meer from the USA Today, he’ll join us. So stay tuned. A lot more to get to as we continue to roll on with Tiger Rag
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Good show here so far. We got another half hour to go and we got another guest for you and that’s Blake Topmire from USA Today.
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He’s the senior national college football columnist for USA Today. Blake, thanks a lot for joining us on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo, Glen Gilbo, and Case Kishnik. How you doing tonight?
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I’m doing well. You guys?
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I’m doing well. Hey, I was checking out when Gwen told me we were going to have you as a guest. was checking out one of your recent articles uh or columns about
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Davos Sweeney who of course will be in Tiger Stadium on September 5th for that highly anticipated season opener. LSU
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and Clemson. It certainly looks like the glory days of Clemson are in the past.
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Uh I know Davo has changed a little bit in the sense that he’s a little bit more willing to go out into the transfer
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portal and sign guys there. They’ve added guys out of the transfer portal, but you had an interesting column comparing Davo Sweeney to Hugh Fes and
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how Hugh Fes sounded in Auburn trying to look back at his glory days back at Old Miss. Um,
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are we seeing the the near end here in in Davos’s time at Clemson? I know the fans still love him there. They they’ll always love the fact that he won two
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national championships there, but everybody’s replaceable, I guess, eventually. Blake, but how how do you see Davo going into 2026 and whether
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he’s ready to get back uh towards being one of the contenders again for the College Football Championship?
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Well, he’s not ready to get back to being a contender for the the the National Championship. I mean, you just look at his team and uh I don’t think
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there’s much debating that the glory days of of Davo at Clemson are behind him and and yes, he he does sound like
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Hugh Fes in the in the latter years of of Hugh’s career because if you recall, you know, Hugh at Auburn spent three years telling everybody about how good
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he used to be. And it’s it’s true when when when when Hugh is at Old Miss, I mean, he gave Nick Sabin fits. Um, Nick Sabin admits that that’s one of the
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reasons why he hired Lane Keifin to evolve Alabama’s offense was uh they lost Alabama lost to to Miss in back-to-back years. And um and and Nick
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knew he needed to evolve. And now Davo sounds like Hube. Uh at ACC media days uh a couple weeks ago, Davo spent some
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time reminding everybody of how good he used to be. And undeniably, Davos Sweeney uh used to be a great coach. He
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used to be the best coach this side of Nick Saven, but uh the the key words there that matter are used to be. And
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he’s taken more transfers this past off season than he typically does, but he’s still not taking as many transfers than
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his industry peers. Uh he didn’t go out and get a transfer quarterback, as he put it, he’s going to be rad over the
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coals. um if his quarterback plan doesn’t work. And again, that draws some similarities to Hugh Fes. We remember uh
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ahead of the 2024 season, Hugh said he didn’t think it was worth it to go out and get a transfer quarterback. Well, those of us who saw Auburn play that
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year um I think came to the conclusion that it would have been worth it. So, I don’t see how you can look at Clemson and come away with any other takeaway
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than uh this is a program that is a far cry from what it was in its heyday. and it and it doesn’t look like um it’s it’s
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really imminent that it’s going to be back to its heyday anytime soon. I think Davo, frankly, might benefit from a reboot somewhere else. Whether he
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chooses to pursue that, I don’t know. I do think there would be some demand for him elsewhere, much like James Franklin landed at Virginia Tech. Davo could go
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get another job. Um I think that would benefit him. I just don’t know what his appetite is for that.
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Talking to Blake Topmire, USA Today columnist. Well, if you’re going to compare um the uh Davo Sweeney, I’m
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going to make another comparison for you. Uh to to me, Pete Golding is reminding me of Less Miles. Pete comes
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in and he’s the most popular guy in the world because everybody wants to like him more than the ex-husband, you know, who left. And it was the same thing with
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uh when Les came in and and replaced Nick. and they and they just kind of fantasize that one was as as good as the
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other. Do you think Pete Golding, he hasn’t done much, he hasn’t never been a head coach before except for a couple of games. How do you see him in his career at Old Miss?
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It was really interesting to me and Glenn when I saw the predicted order of finish at SEC uh media days with Miss 3
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and LSU five and I thought wait a second I thought LSU was the one that plundered the others coach the coach that
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everybody that everybody wanted right I I don’t know if there’s like I don’t I don’t know if the media members are just in mass tired of lane or um I you know
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throughout the industry I I I think Lane put a sour taste in a lot of people’s mouth with the way he left Miss and I don’t know, do you take it out on Lane
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by voting him down in the in the preseason poll or what? Because yeah, I was I was surprised to see LSU two spots
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behind Miss because I think um we have no idea how Pete Golding is going to do at Miss. He got a lot of fanfare for
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beating Kirby in in the quarterfinals as he should. That was a a marquee win. It earned him a lot of goodwill at Miss.
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But Trinidad Chamblas had as much to do with that win as as anybody did. And uh and the best thing Pete Golding’s done so far is making sure Trinidad Chamblas
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came back to Miss and uh making sure Kiwan Lacy is is running back came back to Miss. So I understand why everybody’s
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eating out of the hand of of out of Pete’s palm right now because he’s the 180 of Lane Keifin. I think if you’re an
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Old Miss fan who got uh left at the altar by Lane Keifin, you want the next person to be the 180 of the one who left you. And if and if you’re uh national
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media, you’re probably a little bit tired of Lane right now. But the bottom line is um Lane has built a program.
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He’s been a CEO. He’s taken a team to the playoff. And maybe Pete will do all
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of that. Uh, but other than Old Miss, no other SEC school would have hired Pete Golding to be its head coach last year.
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He got the job because he was the in-house option. They needed someone to keep the team um together, keep the locker room together after Lane left him
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high and dry. And so Pete was was the man and he did a great job with it. Can he do that over the course of a season?
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I’m much more I think in the wait andse camp than than I guess some of my peers are. wouldn’t have miss this high uh in
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my predicted order of finish because I’d like to see it happen over the course of a full season rather than just the one marquee victory which undeniably was a
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huge win for Pete Golding and got him a lot of goodwill.
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Talking with Blake Blake Top Meer from the USA Today. He’s a senior national college football columnist for the USA Today. You recently wrote about Josh
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Hypel, the Tennessee head football coach. you feel he’s one of the most underrated coaches in the conference.
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And now they’re not much is expected from them. They could be starting a a freshman quarterback this season, it’s a game that when you look at LSU schedule.
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Not a lot of people talk about maybe obviously because there’s the Old Miss game. There’s all Texas is coming to Tiger Stadium, but that’s going to be a very interesting matchup late in the season when LSU has to go to Knoxville.
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Do you think Tennessee can surprise some folks this season?
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I think they can. Uh Josh Hypel is a very high floor coach. He’s never had a losing season uh in five years at Tennessee or in his three years at UCF.
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He’s very rinse and repeat when it comes to his quarterbacks. I mean, this guy had a very good season with Joe Milton as his quarterback. Uh, of course, he
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had a great season with with Henden Hooker. Um, and then you look at last year, Joey Aguilar had an excellent
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season for Tennessee. Tennessee had one of the best offenses in the conference.
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‘s defense wasn’t very good and that’s why Jim Nolles uh has been hired as one of the highest paid defensive coordinators in the country to fix that Tennessee defense. Will that happen in
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year one? I don’t know. Normally, it takes until year two if you look at the course of Jim Nolles’s career when he really starts to have an impact. U that’s what happened at Oklahoma State.
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That’s what happened at Ohio State. And then, well, we didn’t get to see Jim Nolles in year two at Penn State because that staff fell fell apart. But I think
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he’s going to be a good hire for for Tennessee. I don’t know how much impact he’s going to have in year one, but I trust Hypel with that offense. Uh again, high floor coach. He doesn’t have losing
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seasons. We don’t know who the starting quarterback is going to be at Tennessee, as you mentioned. It could be the freshman, but regardless of who wins the
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job, I mean, I I just trust this guy with quarterbacks and and and I do feel like um you know, that could be a bit of a sleeper. I agree with that premise.
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And I think, as you mentioned, I think he’s one of the more underrated coaches in the conference. I mean, I look at some of these offseason rankings. Um,
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and and at USA Today, I had a ballot, but a lot of my colleagues didn’t see it like I did because Josh Hypel was ranked 24th in the nation um in a in our
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collection of votes at USA Today. I had him much higher than that. Uh, I think this guy’s much better than than 24th in the country. Um, again, when when when
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you’re having eight and five as your down seasons, which is what happened last year, that means you’re pretty good.
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The the thing about Josh with me is that he he hasn’t been able to go get that really great quarterback either from the
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portal, you know, he’s made good out of quarterbacks that didn’t come in, you know, with great expectations. Why do
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you think he hasn’t been able to nab some of the quarterbacks out there?
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Uh, it’s a good question. Uh, I don’t know the answer to it. I think he’s not been as um as hard after the transfer
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quarterbacks as some others in the industry have been. So, I think that’s that’s a piece of it. They thought they had their sign and develop guy in and
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Nicoyava and and I think if Nico would have stayed with Hel um his his career, you know, could have could have taken
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off last year and and this year. Uh but they thought they had their guy there.
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Of course, we know that story. He didn’t stay. He he he wanted more money than than Tennessee was willing to give. But um yeah, in terms of the transfers, it
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just seems like Hypoel’s appetite for transfer quarterbacks hasn’t been as as high as others. I mean, Joey Aguular
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last year, which Tennessee got him because UCLA decided they didn’t want him. And and and usually that’s not a ringing endorsement for a guy. When UCLA
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decides they don’t want you as their starting quarterback, I mean, uh it’s not necessarily a recipe for success.
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But then he comes into Tennessee and and has one of the best seasons of of any quarterback. You know, not as good as as Trinidad Shamblas or Diego Gopavia, but
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Joey Aguular was a top five quarterback in the conference. So, you’re right, Glenn, like he he he makes good with what he’s got. Why can’t he go out and get, you know, that marquee transfer?
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Some would say it’s because Hypel hasn’t had um a guy crush it in the NFL. I think that narrative maybe used to
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apply, but now it’s all about sold to the highest bidder. So, I don’t even think that narrative uh applies anymore.
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Um it is kind of hard to put your finger on why he’s not getting those those top level transfers, but he’s shown he hasn’t needed it at quarterback anyway.
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Well, he didn’t fly to Baton Rouge and go get Sam Levit like Lane Keifin went to Knoxville to go get Sam Levit. So,
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[laughter]
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that’s the that’s the thing. He’s got to get on a plane and go actually steal the guy back. Just kidding. But, uh hey, final question here for you, Blake. Uh
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where are we going with the college football playoff? Do you do you believe it’s going to be 24 teams here sooner than later?
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I think what’ll be interesting to see is how many teams does the SEC get in this year and how um how vitriolic is the
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blowback if they don’t get as many bids as what the coaches, the chancellors, the presidents want, right? I mean, we know the SEC is going to nine conference
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games this year. I actually don’t think that is going to have a big impact on the number of bids the league gets. past two years, the SEC’s averaged four bids.
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Three bids in year one of the 12 team playoff, five bids last year, average of four. I think they’re going to continue to average four bids uh as long as the
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12 team playoff remains in place. I don’t think that’s going to substantially change uh with the nineame conference schedule. But um you know if
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the if the blowback from the coaching ranks rises up to the chancellor and the president level of not getting enough
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bids then I I I think there’s there’s a higher possibility of the SEC acquiescing to what the Big 10 wants uh
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of 24 teams. But right now we hear from all the coaches that they want playoff expansion and I think some of the coaches are willing to go to 24 if they
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can’t get to if they can’t get 16. I’m not sure um that that appetite is as big uh in the president and chancellor
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ranks. Now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some exceptions to that. I think some chancellors and presidents would go for 24 if they couldn’t get 16, but I
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don’t think there’s uniformity. I don’t think there’s uniformity with much, quite frankly, between the SEC’s chancellors and presidents. And without
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uh I think more of a push from the chancellor and president ranks to go to 24, I don’t think you’re going to see uh Greg Sanki pivot because ESPN doesn’t
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want 24. And I think Greg Sanki is very cognizant of what his media partner wants. We know ESPN does not want more
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than a 16 team playoff. I think that’s part of the reason why Greg Sanki does not want more than a 16 team playoff.
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Frankly, I think that’s part of the reason why the SEC went to a nine-game conference schedule is that’s what ESPN probably wants, right? Um, if the
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presidents and chancellors ultimately tell Greg Sanki he’s got to change his opinion and go make a deal on 24, I think he’ll do it. I don’t think he’s
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gotten that call from the chancellors and presidents yet. Let’s wait and see what happens with the playoff this year.
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See how many bids the SEC gets. See if the SEC gets a team to the national championship game. Does does ESPN want fewer SEC teams in the playoffs? Because that’s what’s been happening.
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I don’t think they want fewer SEC teams in [laughter] the playoff, but I I think their biggest desire is they don’t want to go past 16.
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They they they want balance. They want competitive balance. That’s what Greg says is great now. And Nick Sabin, too. Yeah.
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Hey, great insight, Blake. We appreciate it, man. We got to run to a break, but we’ll get you back on sometime in September. Uh thanks a lot. We
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appreciate it. Good stuff over at USA Today and we’ll talk again here soon. Okay, good talking to you guys.
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All right, Blake Top Meer from the USA Today, senior national college football columnist. We’re late for a break. Let’s take it here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio.
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Still got to get one more break in before we’re out of here tonight. Glenn, I wanted to ask you quickly, uh, a little baseball talk here. We’ve only got about a minute or two to be on this
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topic. What do you make out of the Logan Schmidt situation? The young man who was drafted in the second round by the Cleveland Guardians did not sign with
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Cleveland. He is an LSU snee, but has yet to make a decision on whether he will sign at LSU. If he signs at LSU, he
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has to be at LSU for three seasons. If he goes the junior college route, he can reenter the draft next year and see if
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he can’t get the money that he’s looking for there.
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Yeah, boy. you know, he 1.6 or 1.7 wasn’t enough for him with the
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Guardians. And LSU is not going to pay him more than 1.7. [laughter] Now, they’ll probably give him a nice package and then so that’ll be good uh walking
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around money until he can try again, but that’s three years.
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So, you know, I don’t know if he if he wants to wait that long, especially if he thinks he could get the money next year after a year in junior
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college. But, I don’t know. I mean, sometimes the guys what they do like uh you know, William Schmidt did this and other players did this like if they
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don’t they they set a high number and if they don’t get it, well, I’ll go to college. So, if that’s what he’s thinking, you know, then LSU is going to have a great pitcher for three years.
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Yeah, they could. But he may just want to try to go to junior college level and see if he can’t become a first round pick next year and get the money that
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he’s looking for. Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of cuz he’s probably thinking I can, you know, I’ll just a year from now maybe a different team with more money will take me.
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By the way, as many people know, the collective bargaining agreement between the players association and Major League Baseball owners uh expires in December.
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One of the talking points that they are discussing in the negotiations is making all college baseball players eligible
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after their sophomore season. So that means you, you know, for LSU, you might have some of these great, all these great players like a Dylan Cruz would have only been at LSU for two years.
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Yeah. I mean, it it’s it’s not enough that you’re already uh you know, losing guys you want uh to the portal. So now
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you lose another [laughter] way to keep a keep a program strong for year after year or transition which which is nice about
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college baseball because you could see a guy like Jake Brown for three years or a Dylan Cruz for three years or Trey Morgan for you know and uh I I would
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just hate to see that get reduced even more. Let’s take another break. We’ll wrap up the show right after this here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back on the air.
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Yeah, we’re back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Palmo along with Glenn Gilbo and Case Kishnik to wrap up the show.
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LSU men’s basketball schedule came out yesterday. I think it’s a pretty good uh non-conference schedule. You got to make the trip up to Gonzaga. You have the
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trip over to Houston and play the Cougars who were a Sweet 16 team last year. That game will be played in the
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Toyota Center. I think some of the um home non-conference game, you know, even a team like High Point, they made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
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The Queens College, they were in the NCAA tournament last year. I’m intrigued by the Friday night Old Miss game in uh
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on Marty GR weekend. I think that could be a little fun. U especially when you consider the rivalry between the two schools and of course
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Will Wade’s the coach. So, it’s going to be a heck of a lot more interesting.
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Uh some of I’m excited about some of the uh in-state non-conference matchups that you got going on this year. Um something that feels like kind of been missing and
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honestly that you can’t really write off when you have all the question marks that are on this LSU roster. But you welcome UL Lafayette, Latte, ULM, LSU.
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Yeah. And nothing against uh nothing and they’ll have LSU UNO as a season opener, which is a good one. But it seemed like
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that’s fine. You have like one Southland team. It it’s when you got like four of them on your on your schedule, that’s when it gets a little bit and then you
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mix in a couple of swack schools in there, then you’re just not you’re not testing yourself at all. At least if you’re playing Louisiana Tech and UL
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Lafayette, those are two programs that are going to have they’re going to have moderate to maybe even good even better than moderate success in in the Sunb Belt.
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Well, and that was something Will Wade was kind of known for in his first is he really welcomed that mid- major competition in the non-conference. It helps out with the net rating and the
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kin pom and all that and it’s something he’s really encouraged and you saw in his schedules and you’re seeing it in his first year.
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Well, he didn’t welcome the cinjun in that NIT game. [laughter] Your alltime favorite game, Jeff.
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It’s one of my f one of my favorite post games.
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You know, you know what’s going to be cool is that LSU MC exhibition game that’s going to be that place is going to be sold out, man.
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Yes, that that’ll be in October. That’ll get people hopping.
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I think I’m going to drive down to Lake Charles for that.
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Yeah. and and then they make two trips to the West Coast. They, as I mentioned, they’re playing Gonzaga in middle middle of November and they’ll be a top 25
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team, of course. And then they’re going and playing in that tournament in Palm Springs and we’ll find out who the opponents will be next month on that.
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So, a lot to look forward to.
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As soon as they get that roster, as soon [laughter] as they get about four or five more players, they’ll be good.
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Yes. Yes. All right. for Case Kishnik, Glenn Gilbo, I’m Jeff Polmo. Thanks a lot to our guest, John Eid from WFB. Sam
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Hutchkins was great from the Clarion Ledger and Blake Top Meer. Man, good information from him as well at USA Today. That will do it for this show.
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Check out tiger.com. Plenty of player profiles. They’re getting you ready for preseason camp. Whole bunch of information over there. And until next Tuesday, have a great night, everyone.
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