McCready & Siskey, powered by Reign Total Body Fuel -- Episode 381

0:00The MPW Digital Podcast Network proudly presents McCrady and Siskie, powered by rain total body fuel. Join longtime SEC beatwriter Neil McCrady and former South Alabama assistant, Alabama staffer, and Ole Miss Recording Coordinator Tyler Siskie for an hour of football and fun. Listen and enjoy as they talk ball, the national landscape, and much, much more. Now, here's your host in the Clark Ford Studios, Neil McCrady. Welcome in to episode 381 of McCrady and Siskie, powered by rain total body fuel. I'm Neil McCrady, joined by Tyler Siskie here in the Clark Ford Studios on this Thursday afternoon, September the 3rd. Back in the COVID times, I used to feel like we had to timestamp everything. We used to be with Lane Kippen and the SEC and LSU, we're back into the age of needing to timestamp things because stuff is happening sort of rapid fire.

1:02So if you're listening to this later today or tomorrow, and you're like, well, how come you guys didn't talk about X? It's a fair question. B, the answer is that happened after we don't have the time to come here. So that's the deal as we hit the button here at two, oh, seven PM central daylight time on September the 3rd. Hope everybody is having a good end of your week as we get into a holiday week. It's like Christmas day, dude. We got football's flying. We got TRO's flying. We got federal court cases. We got lawsuits. And we're going to have football Thursday, Neil. We're going to have it Friday. We're going to have it Saturday. We're going to have it Sunday. We're going to have it Monday. We're going to take a little break on Tuesday. Take a deep breath. And we got it coming right back to us on Wednesday. That's right. The NFL season. How about that? But the other thing that we have going is rain total body fuel 300 milligrams of natural caffeine BCAA's electrolyte zero sugar.

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5:03Hey, it's Thursday. It's making rain. Neil. Yes. That was. Was that bad? That got me. That took me. Took your breath away. Yeah, I didn't like. I didn't have that on my bingo card today. You know, wow, it's B. That's. You want I? Here's I. The southeastern conference today. Okay, I thought you were starting something else. The southeastern conference today has filed a lawsuit against Louisiana State University. The board of supervisors of Louisiana State University. You know what the hang of before you keep going and I hate to interrupt you. You know what the best bar about this is the chat has no idea. What you're talking about? No, but I do. I thought you were going to start with a vanity fair article going with that, but you just. Okay, go ahead. Speaking of things that happened at Alabama, Wade Rousse in his official capacity as the president

6:05of Louisiana State University, Verge Alzbury in his official capacity as vice president and director of athletics at Louisiana State University. And Lane Kiffin in his official capacity as head football coach of Louisiana State University. Those are the defendants in this federal complaint filed by the southeastern conference seeking the declaratory and injunctive relief against the aforementioned defendants. Says for more than 90 years, the SEC has stood at the intersection of higher education and elite athletic competition. Today, the SEC's a 16 member association, the presidents and chancellors of the SEC's member institutions have governed together across generations, etc, etc. The SEC has endured and thrived, etc. Among the most fundamental of those rules are the longstanding provisions that prohibit individuals who have entered a professional draft, sign professional contracts, or been rostered on a professional

7:09athletics team from returning to compete in college athletics. These rules are built upon an essential principal college athletics is reserved for students who are actively pursuing an education while competing for their universities, etc., etc. The case arises from defendants violation of the SEC's first amendments right of expressive association, etc., etc. I'm going through this, like I literally got sent this a friend, an attorney friend sent this to me. You got this 29 pages, huh? Yeah, that's a lot. Anyway, here's about one. For those of you and I heard this for two weeks and I get it, I understand. I do not even make it fun. Greg Sanky has no stones. The SEC not going to do anything they can roll over blue buds, blue buds, blue buds. No. No.

8:09I mean, we know. You know, Cole did a clip today from when we talked about this a week ago. He literally was waiting on it to put it out. You were clear, voyant. I'm Monday. Neil, as you know, like I don't, I know that we have a podcast and I'm not, I'm not big on breaking news. That's kind of not my thing. I get told a lot of things that I can kind of say and cloak and dagger things and I wouldn't going to be an announcement. I wouldn't guess in last Thursday. I mean, there's some things I don't guess on. I wasn't guessing. Like I've said it is clipped very well. Shout out to Cole did a great job with that. I wasn't guessing. You're not tougher than the sun. This is not going in well. I thought that was kind of a rupture real quick or hang on before we get to. Before we get to the other part too that I got a thing about this, I didn't think this was a coincidence. I don't know if you even knew this or not. They this magically got leaked to the media at the exact time that Greg Sanky got on the stand and Louisiana courtroom.

9:16Is that right? Yeah. And by the way, there's no, the reason you're not seeing live tweets. They're not allowed. They're not allowed. This broke because one of the plaintiffs attorneys got wind of this. Filing while he was in the courtroom while he was in the courtroom. And it literally leaked while he took the stand and apparently a handful of media people realized something's going on. Had to bail to get to their devices so that they could. Yeah. And so I didn't think that was a coincidence either. I will be transparent on this. I was not aware that it would be today. I thought this was going to be tomorrow morning. Before the rosters were due. I thought this was going to be a Friday morning thing. I thought I thought they were going to let this Thursday thing work itself out. And then I thought this was going to be a Friday morning. Response to the today. I didn't know those going to be so whoever whoever's idea it was to drop that when Sanky hit the stand. That was a that's like putting that's like sending the horse head.

10:16The mob putting the horse head in the in the in the bed. That's that's a good one. They're pissed. Yes. I mean, look, the league's pissed. Yes. The league member institutions are pissed. I hate to break it to lane on this. People are fed up. Yes. They're tired of it. Even his. Here's the thing. And this is the part that I think some people in the league believe. And I think they're right. The rest of the country has SEC fatigue. And there's this committee that's going to meet and they're listen, they're humans. Humans have biases. Even when you try to put them completely away. Sometimes that's difficult to do. Yeah. Only 12 teams are getting in that tournament. Next year will be double that. But this year 12 teams are getting in that tournament. And SEC's about to beat each other up. I'm not going to give you the math lesson again. You can go back and find that it's real. It doesn't remember in late November early December when we're doing this math thing.

11:17You can go. Gosh, Neil told us about this in August. It's math. Math has the math. It's basic math. And this for you young pups. And we got a lot of young people, new people because I didn't let it. Sheshtay, listening. Appreciate you guys. This was before like the math that we use is not the common core math. It was the one where we actually had to like get the pen and paper out. So it's like the it's like the old school math, not that common core stuff. But let me look if you have 12 marbles. This is how it's all you learn it and in Monroe, Louisiana. In Monroe, Louisiana, they just looked at you and said, don't worry about it. Here's your degree. Hey, you're good, boss. Here's your degree. You're good, boss. They said, oh, bless your heart. Yeah, I can never, I'll never forget. I was at Hillcrest Elementary School in the fourth grade. Mrs. Boyd looked at me and she said, Neil, do you know what two plus three is?

12:18See what happened? And I looked at her and I said, Mrs. Boyd, you see? And she said, oh, don't worry about it. You're good. You're gonna fail. Don't worry about it. You good. Go play. And we went out to the swings. All right. So play kickball on this, on this Louisiana court case that's going to be. And we're gonna be in the court case that's going on right now as we speak. And by the way, Chad, if you can help us out, if something happens, because they're going to rush out and like, tweet something and all that stuff, if you see something during the show, let us know. I think it'd be more towards the end of the show if it happens, but we'll see. All right. So here's where my, here's where my, I just had to like, like I had a headache. I was just like, what are we doing? Like, did you see in Trey Wallace Post it? So I don't know of Trey. I don't know if Trey took the video or he was there, but I know Trey's, I do know for a fact, because I talked to Trey. I know Trey is at the, in the courtroom. So I, he, he took, I think it was him.

13:18So if Trey, if it wasn't you, I apologize to whoever's video was on Trey's feed. Did you see the video that he took of the Louisiana Attorney General showing up for court? I saw that video and then I also saw the video of Dayquan, right, and Zayn Kier showing up in sweats. Yep. That was awesome. Get dressed. Have some respect. You're walking into a federal courtroom. You're walking into a federal courtroom. Like that, that have some, have, have, have some decorum. Maybe if you hired like a real attorney instead of one of these ambulance chasers, he would have said, hey, dudes, maybe y'all need to not, not wear sweats when you show up to a court. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to go coat and tie. You should, but at least put on a, a button down shirt and a pair of, a pair of slacks. Just, just look presentable. Put on something that looks decent. That's, don't walk in looking like you're a bon. Whoever, whoever advised or didn't advise, that's, that's, that was terrible. That's not very good. If I were the judge, no joke, I'd have said, get out, get dressed, come back into my courtroom,

14:18showing respect. Now, he won't because the judge is go tigers. Well, they got, and he's got to get elected. They got plenty of money to go to store and get some if they don't have any in their wardrobe. So I don't hear about that. All right. So they interview the Louisiana Attorney General. I don't know if you saw this, not, but she literally starts the interview with go tigers. Yeah. Okay. So she starts the interview with go tigers and then goes on a minute long thing talking about fairness. I was like, whoa, whoa, time out. You say go tigers and then you're going to follow it up with a minute long speech about fairness. Like, what, like, am I the only, I think I swear to you. I think when Surn unplugged this machine, I'm left in an alternate, alternate timeline that nobody else is. Does anybody else not see a problem with that? The attorney general starts the interview with go tigers, followed by a minute long speech about fairness. I'll tell you what I, I tell you what I believe. I tell you what I believe is I think the people Louisiana must, I'm totally serious here.

15:19I'm, I'm today I've had to delete so many. I've started a tweet and I'm like, no, that's a colleague stop. Let it go. The people of Louisiana, you're doing this deal where you, you are, you are creating a mockery of this. You think that you're being cute. And then the process you're making fools of yourself. I just, and like, there was one and I don't want to name names. And that way when people go, are you specific, referring to someone specific, I'll be able to have plausible an ability. Okay. The what about is him is insane. Stop. Stop with the what about is him. The whole well, what about Trinidad? It's a completely different case. Apple's and Teslas and then stop with, stop with the Ole Miss. And I know about this one because I covered this. I'm very familiar with what I'm about to say. Okay. I'm sourced on this. Number one, Ole Miss has not officially added Mike, a hand-gloat and Corey Stevenson, their basketball players. They played in, they played in NBA, one's in Florida, one's from FIU.

16:23Okay. There are G league. They were not in G league. You got to start understanding something. If you're going to tweet about the NBA and its structure for the love of God, understand it a little bit. Neither player ever played in the G league. To play in the G league, you have to have a contract. Neither player ever signed an exhibit, Tin. They both played in NBA summer league. And it's gray area. It's one of the reasons that they haven't been formally added to the roster because they haven't been officially added, but they didn't play in the G league. They didn't, they played in the NBA summer league. I don't argue with you about this because I don't have a freaking clue in the game. They played NBA summer league and they, they, they played for essentially a per diem. The belief is they're going to be cleared, but they've not yet been cleared. Ole Miss has not rostored them.

17:25So when you tweet about these things with these what aboutisms, you look like a complete ethnic idiot. Stop. And it's this, I don't know where this comes from. It's why people go, why don't you be a watchdog? No, I mean, your job in the media is not advocacy. It's reporting. And some of you guys are my friends, but damn, y'all. Don't do it. It's not what we're doing. Don't do it. It's not worth it. It's not worth it, Neil. Lane's not going to do for you what you think he's going to do for you. It's not worth it, Neil. He's not. Don't do it. It's not worth it. It's not worth friendships. It's just football. It's, it's not worth friendships. It's just like, hey, come on, it's just football. It's not worth friendships. Go ahead, I'm sorry. You're good. Can you fall? I kind of have a lot. I got, I mean, I've, I've kind of kept my mouth closed on this because I've been watching to see what would happen. Honestly, kind of didn't think we'd get to today. Well, and I kind of, I'm kind of think the league waited till the last possible minute

18:28to do this because they were hoping that cooler heads would prevail and that this thing would go away and we'd start football and in two weeks, nobody would remember this. Well, here's, I guess what, here's one. I agree with you. I didn't think we would get here this far. And then, but then I say that and at the same time, I'm like, I'm not surprised. Look, as we talked about on the show, I don't know. And whatever, whatever day it was that we talked about in the last two weeks, you know, Lane doesn't like, he doesn't do well with no, okay? And I figured out what percentage of this do you think is Lane? A heavy percentage. Okay. A heavy percentage. He's being, by the way, in this lawsuit, this is what I was going to say when I was going to interrupt you in a while. In this lawsuit, the allegation is made that Lane Kiffin coordinated this. Lane Kiffin specifically, I was literally about to say that. That's, that's one thing that's lost in this federal lawsuit is that they specifically said it was a coordinated effort by LSU to get, and you make use of it, you got the lawsuit in front of you, but the coordinated effort by LSU to get these players from the NFL too, which is not doesn't g-haul with what's been told in public so far, which to put

19:33that in a federal lawsuit, they're not guessing either. They know and they got proof. So they're not guessing. I thought that was, that was the big takeaway from that. But look, Lane doesn't, Lane doesn't like, no, he is going to win at all costs. He loves to win. Okay. And I got, since it's mega rain, Thursday, I got the great, I thought like this great example of trying to describe Lane to people like Lane is, and if you've placed a wager, you're going to know where I'm going with this. Lane is the guy who places a $1 wager. Okay. Lane will place a $1 wager. He doesn't bet. This is an example. Lane is the type of guy that would place a $1 wager on like a 70 leg parlay to win $26 million. Okay. And Lane has hit every leg of the parlay. And the only thing he has left to win in the parlay is he needs ball state shout out to my guy, Smitty. He needs ball state to upset Ohio state.

20:35And if ball state beats Ohio state, he's going to win $26 million. But down at the bottom, there's this cash out or cash out option where he can hit that green button and cash out with $13 million. And he's just going to let that damn thing ride because he's not going to lose. He's going to hit every one of them. He will not cash out. And so am I surprised that he's riding this thing to the bitter end? No, I'm not. But like hit the cash out button. It's time to hit the cash out button. Let's do this not worth it. I've said it every episode. He's used to work to squeeze. It is not worth it. It's a little late now. You got a great, got a great. Well, I think if he and my honest opinion, I think I don't even know how this works. Once you sue somebody can they even have conversation all that stuff. I don't know. But I imagine if he will just, Hey, we're not going to like, let's let cooler heads prevail. Look, it's not a great look for the SEC to be suing their own damn league members either now. Like it's not that's where it's at. But it's not, that's not. But you know behind the scenes, they've said the law is on our side here.

21:38Stop. I mean, it's literally rinsing repeat by the way. The lawsuit's basically rinsing repeat of what the big 12 did with Sores being Texas tech. Yeah. Okay. The first amendment stuff and all that. Yeah. So it's, they're not going to win. It's not worth it. But the SEC doesn't want to do it either. But like, surely they say, Hey, Lane, look, if we'll just drop this shit, we'll drop the lawsuit and we'll go on by the way. You can go play Clemson and go on by your deal. But I just, it's just a ugly look, man, for everybody involved. There's nothing. It's a, in, in look, and I know there's all these people that didn't watch the actual interview of Davo and what he said about some of this stuff. But this shit is embarrassing. The state, the way he didn't, Davo wasn't wrong. Agreed. This shit's embarrassing. The entire, his entire answer in context was, was fine. Yeah. Yeah. And this, this whole thing, it's embarrassing like, and it's just embarrassing to the sport. It's embarrassing that we've gotten to this point and you can blame 800 million things.

22:38But it's just where we're at. And so in, in Davo's not wrong with that, it's shit's embarrassing. All right, Neil. Yeah. I don't know how we got, how this didn't lead off. Um, let me say this, okay. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, we want to big thanks, honestly. Yeah. You know, we joke about stuff like this, but big thanks to the people who have supported this show over the, over the months, including our friends at Outdoor Underwriters. How about that? Everyone loves the outdoors, but you want to make sure your hunt club or your timberland is covered outdoor underwriters provides the insurance you need and a price that makes sense outdoor underwriters provides liability protection for occurrences, arising out of activities and operations of your hunt club. It's members guest, invite these agents or employees takes comfort and blind and tree stand liability, mobile equipment liability, hunting dog liability and more. We've also got a standing timber insurance, timberland liability prescribed burn coverage. Guides, outfitters, consulting forsters and much more.

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25:45I'm not guessing. This is named Ryan with Ascot. Hey, hand raised guys in the room. Hand raised guys. Hey, I think hand raised guy gets listened to between now and tomorrow before roster is got through. That's going to be my now. That part is guessing. But I do know I'm not guessing with hand raised guys being vocal. I'm not I'm not guessing in Baton Rouge. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not guessing on that. Is that Billy? I'm not guessing on that. But no, I haven't talked Billy. I mean, this would be one thing if this were like Jamar chase and Justin Jefferson and you're like, hey, we're trying to add a couple receivers here. I just got to. I mean, did you see like the in hours today? I'm going to be honest with you. If you told me Jamar chase Justin Jefferson and Joe burrow and Leonard for that, we're walking into court today. I'd be like, yeah, I'm just going to be real with y'all. If I was on that staff, I'd be like, hey guys, we riding. Yeah, hey, suit your shit up. We'll figure out later. Yeah. Like, like, did you see, did you see, is it? Did you see, is it in here today?

26:46I saw these 50 pounds overweight. Yeah, I don't. I mean, I'm not making fun. He just said, I don't even like, I lost, I got lost in the sweats. Like literally before I even read anything about it, I was like, I know they just didn't wear that to court. Like, that's not. I don't know, man. Just today I was kind of, I got what almost understand it a little bit 10 years ago. Okay. Like, you got like agents in representation and like, you're walking next to the people who are like, this is all exploiting you for 15% of your NIL in order to represent you in court. Like, what are we doing? All right. That's a fair question. All right. We're genuinely fair question. Let's get into some fun stuff. I'm tired of talking about TROs and PIs and fucking federal lawsuits. Let's talk about some good shit. So Neil yesterday, yesterday, matter of fact, I had just started my life. And I got a text message from a vanity fair article.

27:53You know, I'm not, I don't know if you know this or not, I'm not a regular reader of Andy Farture, James. Yes. Not some of my regular deals and I usually have that while you're sipping your frappuccino, moccuccino, like a devil, it's also, I don't really, as I sit into my chair, drink my ice coffee that I paid $14 for. I don't sit there and scumball ice coffee as open up vanity fairs. I order my pineapple pizza. Yeah. It's not something I do. And so when I saw the tweet, you know, when I'm doing a lot of head to screens open or whatever and I have the text messages up and I see a tweet and says vanity fair and lane kiff and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I naturally thought somebody was taking the vanity fair article that was done. I don't know how long it goes a couple months ago. Yeah. I was like, Hey, no, you like, is this new? And I was like, yes, this is new. I was like, you need to check this out. There's no way. So I did. I read the excerpt. I read the tweet. I have not read. I guess there's people reading other things from my excerpt.

28:54I just saw the tweet. I didn't see anything else. And then I saw the CBS article about lane kiff and allegedly, adding on a dab of swinny about the tampering and all that stuff, right? So that's all I read. I didn't read other things. So I can't comment on the stuff I haven't read. But I'll tell you my takeaway from that was, I think there was a lot of half truce in there. Like some things didn't add up. Like I don't know who, oh, here's the other thing. I told Neil, I told Neil this. I got like 15 texts from people going, Hey, did you talk to John talk to hear about this arc about this book? I was like, no, I was like, if I was going to tell the stories, I'd tell them on my podcast. I would make money. I wouldn't be telling somebody else, shit. I'd be doing it on my own platform. And I mean, because I, hey, I could go viral. You could. I could go. I mean, people, people just don't know.

29:54Yeah, I could go viral. Um, I think it's why Lane hates you so much as he knows that you could probably just bury. We had a conversation. I was like, I'm the wrong one. I'm the wrong one. Um, but anyway, that's neither here nor there. Um, but here, but like it was there. It's no longer here. But like, there was a thing I said, like Sabin said per like coach doesn't talk like that. There's zero percent chance that coaches randomly talking to a coach and told him to do that. Like coach doesn't even, I don't that one didn't make any sense to me. The quote about coach saving saying something like he doesn't even talk like that. And then the other one was about the golf cart left it in his free. Like we didn't have like, so let me, let me, let me do the same. Um, this is about the days leading up Alabama had beaten Washington and the playoffs in a national semifinal essentially to get to a championship game against Clemson. Yeah. And the immediate aftermath of that lane Kiffin, uh, sorry, Nick Sabin, according to this

30:55report, was watching film and felt like lane Kiffin was calling unscripted plays. Apparently other Alabama players complained about as much. Says as Sabin spent, I'm reading from a John Tolti's excerpt that it's an excerpt from a book that he has coming out of think September 15. I haven't heard this. What you're talking about? Says as Sabin spent hours rewatching the game film, what he saw disturbed him. Kiffin called plays. The team hadn't practiced. It wasn't the first time he had done that. It was almost like a party trick for Kiffin to draw something up during a game. The Savon playmaker was off his game quote, some of the coaches were upset. He was throwing plays out there that weren't scripted running back there. Gore said this was just a lane thing. It wasn't limited to coaches either of a train offensive players went to Sabin and vocalized their concerns about Kiffin's focus that week. All that plus Kiffin's antics leading up to the game made Sabin realize it was time to move on. Quote, how do we score 24 points against Washington when they suck?

31:59Sabin told a confidant. He's obviously thinking about FAU and he's not thinking about us. Early the next morning, Sabin made the decision quote, I'm firing the cocksucker in quote. Still it was a delicate dance as Jimmy Sexton represented both sides of the equation. Sabin didn't want the situation spinning out of control. A Sabin worked with Alabama administrators and close confidants on the wording of what was to come. He was crystal clear that there'd be hell to pay if anyone tipped off Kiffin about what he was planning. Eventually, the involved party's framed it as a mutual decision to allow Kiffin to focus on his new FAU head coaching responsibilities. Everyone involved with the Alabama football program knew it was a firing quote, the guy who likes publicizing, he got his ass ripped more than anybody is lane. That was for good reason, says a former Alabama assistant. He's the only coordinator in the history of the game that's been fired on a Monday before the national championship game. I wasn't there when that part of it took place has lane been late, getting game plans

33:05ready as lane. Gone to practice handing out scripts as practice started with the after meetings. Yes. But the shit like look, he's not the only ununorganized coordinator or play call over the right either like there are. Hey, we got cold here. Yeah, I mean, there are and look at shit work. It worked. I've like, you would never know. No, you'd never know like I in about cost is the only time I've ever thought that that shit about cost is I and I'll tell this is the story. I was there. Say this is a shit. I'll tell because I wasn't in. I nobody asked me and I wouldn't I wouldn't do it interview anyway. But like we went and played this. The team is not to can we do it on McCradian, Cisco. Yeah, we'll do it on McCradian. We went to we're playing Arkansas. I think this was the week after. Somebody's going to fact check me out to go look. I think this is the week after we lost the Ole Miss. So 2014. Yeah. I think this was a week after we lost Ole Miss.

34:06We were going to Arkansas. I think it was the week after we lost. I'm pulling it up now. Okay. And so we're on the road and I will never forget. So I would go and you know it was a small locker room for the coaches. And so I mean what I mean they let the let the guys get dressed. Whatever I went out. I'd always go on the stadium. Yes. You guys at 14 13. You guys had had played in Oxford on October the 4th, 2014 and lost in Oxford 23 to 17. One week later on October the 11th, you went to Fayetteville. 14 13 and you won 14 to 13. Okay. So yes, that game. So we go and I would go you know get to the stadium. I go and it was really like dreary rainy kind of cool day in Northwest Arkansas. So I went out. I didn't really stay outside. I would usually stay outside on the field on the benches for a little bit and then go in and get dressed if it was a smaller locker room. So I didn't stay out as long as I'm coming back in. I see who's now shout out to my guy who's now the head football coach at UAB Alex Mortensen.

35:08I see him like on his laptop going like. I mean, just hammering away and then he's got a printer. He's got a printer with him. He's in the tunnel. Routes out the locker room and what it and what's it called? Ravers are back stadium. What's the name of the stadium? It was called Reynolds Razor back stadium, but it's been renamed. So we're inside two hours. I think I think this year it's still Reynolds Razor back stadium, but it's the renaming starts next year. Got you. I mean, it's probably about two hours. Whatever it is of the kickoff. I mean, it's probably an hour and a half hour 20 before kickoff. And I look over and say, what the hell are you doing? He just now had the call sheet for the game. We're an hour and a half before kickoff. I had never in my life seen that in my life. I was like, oh my gosh. I was like, what? He's like, yeah, I got. He had a bunch of changes and all kinds of shit. And I want to have for the game. And I'm like, oh my gosh, well, we end up. If it wasn't for landing Collins, we'd have lost that game.

36:09Landing picks a ball off on the sideline. Arkansas runs a tight end sneaker out of the back and landing makes a play and picks it off on the sideline. Or we lose the game. And we don't want to 14 13. That happens. I mean, that was always a thing and that would drive coach crazy. It's because as you, as you can imagine, look, coaches extremely organized. All right. I mean, like to a tilt. So that those two worlds didn't mesh right then, right? And I wasn't there for the one that they were talking about with the I had left. That was two years, I think, after I had left. But he or a year or two, I can't remember. You'd gone to South Alabama. I was at South Alabama time. Right. And then, but that happened. But Lane would go out and practice and like be handing scripts out late, you know, and that didn't go well. And you know, every once in a while, he would get, and he said this much every once in a while, he would, we'd been a drill. And look, the head coach, as a assistant coach, you have to understand who the head coach

37:09is. The head coach is running defense and you're an offensive guy. You're just going to take your licks from time to time. Just what it is. And he would go out and he would like think that things were set up not for the offense to win. And so he would, he would go out and call like reverse passes and shit and like, and like outside outside, a 909 drill and, you know, coach get pissed off. But yeah, he did that in that Arkansas game. I will never forget that. And Alex was out there for it can just, I mean, type in a way. And I was like, what the hell are we doing? Can you imagine? No, I couldn't. I was, I had never seen that. Now, Hugh, that closest thing I'd been to it was with Hugh. Okay. And Hugh would, we would, we practiced all week. And he's the head coach so he can do this, right? But we practiced all week. And I was going to Dallas. We're playing North Texas at home. And I flew like me and like, I mean, it was me Grant heard. It was Tom Allen, Chris Kiffin. And they made me and us four, but we flew to Dallas after practice on Thursday.

38:12And I was in Dallas. And everybody thought I was the freeze whisperer. And so I'm like in school, you know, you go to schools and stuff and we were going to catch. We're going to watch the first half of whatever game we were assigned to because that wasn't my area. And then we were going to fly back to Jonesboro after the game. And we had like an 11 a.m. kick. And I will never mean freeze was like this freeze. This happened five times that I was with him. Okay. This didn't happen once. This happened five times. But this was the first time. And I get a phone call like 930 from our offense line coach Darren Hiller. And he's like, Hey, man, have you talked to freeze? And I was like, no, I'm recruiting. He's like, man, you, you got to call him. You got to talk to him. I'm like, what are you talking about? He's like, he is thrown the entire game plan in the trash can. And he is starting over. And he was starting over like it wasn't night before the game the day before the game. Okay. And he wasn't just starting over with like, okay, inside zone, outside zone. He was putting in protections, routes, runs that we had never practiced.

39:15And I'm like, he's doing what? And so I'm calling him. He's not answering the phone. So finally, I mean, I called him like seven times where they have the walk through. Okay. And they have the walk through all that stuff. And so he finally answers the phone. I'm like, I'm like, coach, what's going on? The Hitler's time will be changing. He goes, yep, I'm putting in this. I'm calling it this. Like, I'm putting in this. We're going to run this the first play of the game. And it was like some kind of like half roll protection that the back was we're, we're cutting the in loose and he's going to cut the freaking, I mean, timing stuff, stuff you should practice. Hey, we're going to run, you know, we're going to do that and run smash. I'm like, coach, they're not, they're going to come out in the first, they're going to come out in the first snap. They're going to play cover two. And that corner is going to take the hitch away and that safety. We're rolling to cover two. That safety is going to be all over the corner. I said, if he doesn't put that ball way out in front, coach, that's going to be a pick the first play. Like that's got to be a perfectly executed play or we're going to throw a pick on the first play. I get on the board is one of those things that looks good on the board, but understanding

40:19how the X's and those don't stand still. They move when you roll and that safety is got half field. He's going to be on the, he's going to be behind this guy. And I'm like, coach, you know, he's like, he's getting pissed at me. Yeah. All right. So he's getting tired. He's getting pissed at me. He's like, well, and I was like, okay, on top of that, you just rattled off like 14 or 15 things. I was like, we're a, a no huddle tempo team. I'm the guy sitting in the plays in. What are the fucking signals? I didn't say fucking because he get pissed. I said, what are the signals? Yeah, because he was a man. Well, he didn't like you. Cussing. He just didn't. And so, I said, what are the signals? He literally said, we got breakfast and pregame meal at seven o'clock. Get with the quarterbacks and receivers after pregame meal and figured out, I said, coach, we're kicking them all off at 11 o'clock. And so dude, he just hung up the phone. We're done. So the next morning, we flew back in late. I don't know, got home, got up, went to the hotel. It's at seven in the morning. Sure enough, after that, I met with the quarterbacks and receivers. We came out with some, with some signals.

41:22First play of the game, we run the play that I said, we didn't even run. We took in safety falls down. We hit the fricking corner for like 36 yards. And he just, he literally paused instead of caught, because he always would stand away away from me. And so I'm, I'm waiting for the signal or call. I didn't get it. And I just looked down at him and he just stared at me and going, told you, told you, Neil, we were up 31 to nothing at halftime. You know why? Tell me about it. This episode, and this episode only brought to you by Body Indulgent Spa and Boutique. We're in Jonesboro more than 15 years. Did you say Jones Boogie? I said Jonesboro. That's, no, that's my man. We got Jonesboro in the house. I miss Jonesboro. Yeah. Body Indulgences Spa and Boutique. You can book your, uh, book your massage at 28 16 Creek Drive there in Jonesboro. Take great care of you. Body Indulgence Spa and Boutique.

42:22Hmm. How about that? What are the odds? But anyway, wrapping up the vanity fair thing and then we're going to get to the make it rain. Um, we need to get to it. There were some, a lot of half truce in what I saw. That's probably the best way to put it. There were some details that I didn't agree with of things that I do know. Yeah, I mean, like, there's no, like the, the, the, the, I've never written a book. And so I don't know like whether how much literary license is taken in some of that, um, look, it's, it's one of those deals. I'm glad it's somebody else doing it. People are always like, why don't you do stuff like that? It's like, well, because now though, I mean, it's been 10 years. Well, the book's coming out. Okay, a lot 10 years. Because I think Lane is pushing the point of no return a little bit.

43:23Look, Lane, let me, let me, let's be clear. Lane's burned some people in the media. Yeah. And sometimes that shit comes back. I mean, guys like Chris Lowe who, and I love Chris, let me just tell you, Chris Lowe, the human being, one of my very favorite people in media, a, a phenomenal person. Chris Lowe carried a lot of water for Lane Kiffin over the years. Oh, yeah. And he got, and he got burned on this deal in December. Why? Because Marty Smith was a cooler TV hit. I'm going to tell you, I know for a fact for a fact, Chris Lowe took a, he, he took some in 2022. I mean, he thought we're in the building when he showed up. I mean, there was a lot. And then he's not the only one. And so sometimes, sometimes people have had enough. And I, I kind of sense that's where we're headed a little bit with this.

44:24Look, Lane, Lane's making an ass of himself right now. He's a hell of a football coach. And I'll fight people to the end on that because people are trying to do some revisionist history. No, the guy's a hell of a coach. He's great. He's a, he's a phenomenal, the word, Savant is the right one. He's elite. He is an elite offensive mind. But he probably sees the game. I don't know who sees the game better. It's that the right way to sit like on, like, game day. I don't know, I don't know of another coach that sees the game better than he does in the 60 minutes that takes place on, on the, offensively. But you know, these last few months. And I don't know what this is all about. You wanted the job. Here's the thing. You wanted the LSU job and you got it. Okay. You wanted the job. They offered it to you. You took it. You had a contract. People, for a minute, forget the morality of it all. Just the legality of it. Okay. He didn't do anything illegal.

45:25He, he, he, he finished or he finished the regular season. He took another job. They paid the buyout. Okay. Reaching. We say, yeah, it's all good. You had, you, you had every legal right to leave Ole Miss on November the 30th and go to LSU. Every legal right in the world. And LSU paid the buyout. Everything is kosher. But he's still mad that they told him, no, I want to coach the playoffs. No, seems to be a thing here. I want to coach the playoffs. You can't coach the playoffs. Now, not only can you not coach the playoffs, we'll still give you, this is, it's one of my, this is the nuance of it where some of the Ole Miss stuff. It's like all of a sudden, everybody at Ole Miss is like, yeah, this guy was a really horrible person. He did this, this, this, this, this, this. Yeah, but you had a contract on the table where you would have paid him more for more of it.

46:27It's a big, wing is a hell of a drug. Winning is a hell of a drug. But regardless, he doesn't get his way. And then I believe this, I really believe this. I think Lane Kiffin believed in his heart of hearts. I do. I think he believed Ole Miss would lose to Georgia on January the first. The portal would open up at midnight that night or 11 or whatever the hell. It was going to open up that night and that Trinidad chamblis and Kiwan Lacey and some of those guys were just going to make the short trip. The next morning that I took when I owned my way to Norman Oklahoma, they were going to just head over to Baton Rouge, little over an hour. Take a visit, sign up, join the Tigers. Ole Miss was going to crater and LSU was going to roll. I think that's what he believed. I can't prove it. If you say, hey, prove it, I can't prove it. Okay. But I think that's what he thought. You know the rest. Ole Miss won the game. It's a classic game, a phenomenal game between Georgia and Ole Miss that night back and forth. And could could could have flipped a coin at any point, right?

47:29It was a great game. Great game. Ole Miss wins it. That did that messed up the plan because it gave Ole Miss an extra week with those players. Portal opens and instead of Trinidad and those guys being open to whatever, they're preparing for a national semifinal game. Ole Miss got the deals done. Kiwan stayed, Trinidad stayed, etc., etc. Lane had to start the quarterback scramble that ended in Sam Levin. We'll see how it works out. They're going to play on Saturday night. The game's going to start. It's going to be zero to zero. I promise you. In Louisiana, it might not be. But I think it will be. But you know, I think that's what happened. And I just don't think he's over it. I think I said this earlier. I always do these relationship analogies. He dumped the girl. He's the guy that did the dumping. And he hates that she's okay.

48:32That's probably... You know, most people... Most people when they decide that their relationship has run its course. You know, it happens. It does. You decide, hey, I've been dating this girl for a few years. I just don't think this is the right... She has cats. It's just not going to work. She has cats. Usually, when he moves on to what he views as something better, it's critical that you listen to the words, to something that he viewed as something better, as someone better. Usually, they generally kind of hope that the other person from a guilt standpoint is happy, finds happiness. I don't think Lane wants Ole Miss to find happiness. I'll tell you that. I think he hopes she is one miserable cat woman for the rest of her life. We got 16 days, boss. 16 days. Oh, listen. Listen. Listen. I...

49:32I've had people say, you're not going to write it by Kiffin for a week and a half. Are you? I'm like, yep. Yes, I am. I mean, I don't know why would you not? I mean, I'm just saying, if you're a Clemson person out there and you can find a way... Like... Oh, Clemson can upset. Clemson is lovable, can really upset the apple come here. If Clemson just for content purposes... If you can find him, says cats worked for me. I knew that. I knew if you were in the chat Austin, you'd like that one. Clemson, if you can find a way just for content purposes, I will... I will love you forever. Just, I'm just saying. But look, if LSU wins Saturday night and Ole Miss wins Sunday night, everybody's gonna wake up Monday and... It's on. I get it. I get it. I get it. But listen, let me... It's gonna get vicious. I'm not usually one to advocate for media and to, hey, listen. Oh, I'm gonna be like... Listen. I love you. Listen, there's too many damn clicks to be had in the next 12 days.

50:34Everybody's just gonna get them. But pair yourself. Go get them. If you're hoping for like some days of normalcy before... Sorry. It ain't happening. And it will start on Monday morning. Monday morning. Well, maybe Sunday night. I mean, I'm contemplating whether to write my first column Sunday night if Ole Miss wins. Hey, why not? I mean, that's where we're headed with this thing. Yeah. Like, I can't decide. I can't decide what would be better for content if they both lose with, they both win. Oh, they both win. It's not close. It's not close. I think you get the better long term content. For the 12 day build up. Oh, they both win. Oh, they both win. It's not even close. Yeah. That'd be good. Art Neal, you know what time it is? I do. It's all before you do that. Let me tell you that we're brought to you by Gather Systems. Gather Systems makes audio and video technology easy. They install video displays of every size from 4K displays and meeting rooms to massive LED video walls, college stadium scoreboards and more. This your stadium sound can hold an AM radio? Gather systems can fix it.

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52:36Neil, do you know what time it is? It's time. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. This is the moment we've all been waiting for. Week one week one of mega rain Thursday. It's real. The game start counting. It's your boy versus Neil for the first ever of 2026 of make it rain Thursday. Did you see how we did in week zero? I'm just curious. Do you remember? Never looked preseason. We don't count preseason. We don't have a lot of games to choose from, but your boy is locked in. Your boy is ready to go. I feel great. I feel an undefeated week coming for your boy this week. That's how that's how ready I am for this. We're going to go undefeated. We're going five and oh, hell, I think I'm going to hit my money line. We're going six and oh, this week and we're putting the hammer down for make it rain Thursday.

53:40Neil, I'll let you start off week one. What you got last game. I saw in person was Ole Miss versus Miami last year. Miami was a semi final winner over Ole Miss there in Glendale, Arizona. Great game. So I'm going to pick up pick up where they left off. I'm going to take the Miami Hurricanes in their ACC game. The Hurricanes playing at Stanford. I'm going to lay 24 and a half in Palo Alto with the Kings. Oh, Neil. Hello, Joker. It's been a minute. It has been a minute, Neil. It has been a minute. You know, it's been a busy off season for the Joker. Yeah. It's been a busy off season. Have you had a good summer? Well, you know, it all started in January and you know, I had some opportunities. Yeah. Eligibility was running away and running out and finished my four years up in Boulder. Oh, did you?

54:40Did you? I went pro, Neil. Barman Bailey's, they got me out of the draft and been really running the three ring circus here for about, for about the last eight months. You signed a professional contract? I made a sign of professional contract with Ram as Bailey. Wow. Congratulations. I left, I left, left Boulder and been a busy off season for your boy and you know, I got all kinds of, I got signed a contract. I got, got a little money from playing in all my preseason circus games and, you know, I was really, really trying to do that juggling thing. You didn't work out too well. Yeah. It happens. But everything else worked great. Those elephants are great. The elephants are great. So, so the, the circus did not work out. Well, not yet. Not yet. Well, what do you, what do you have? We'll talk, we'll talk about that later. What do you have playing? Well, I don't know. I can't, I can't, secrets. We haven't, we haven't really, we haven't really. I see. I don't know if we're ready to break news yet and we got a couple of things going, but Neil, Neil, I wanted to come back and just one more last time for everybody and wanted

55:42to make an appearance. I know it's been a while and Neil, I don't know if you know this, but Colorado is going to Atlanta. I heard. And they're playing tonight. So since Tyler had a phone call, I'm going to come in here and make his first pick for him. The Colorado Buffalo. I didn't even hear the phone ring. You didn't? No. We're trying to get one of their taking on the Georgia Tech yellow jackets. And Georgia Tech is favored by six and a half. Neil, Georgia Tech may win by 47 and a half. All right. Give me the yellow jackets of Georgia Tech to end the clown show in Atlanta, where it all started about 40 years ago. That's what it's going to be. The Georgia Tech yellow jackets minus six and a half. Okay. Wow. Oh, Neil. Yes. So we'll let you continue on. You have a call. I got a call from Darren Heitner. Right. Darren Heitner. The ambulance chaser. Yes. Now we're going to ambulance chaser returning his call to me.

56:43I got. I got that call. All right. I got to go. All right. That was the Joker. Always good to always good to see him. Hey, Tyler. What's your deal? He said he had a phone call from. Well, he was running by me like that. There's a phone call. Darren Heitner called. Oh, you know him. No. Yeah. Yeah, he said he had to. Yeah, I don't know. I got nothing for you. Did he make a pick? He did. He picked Georgia Tech to win and cover against Colorado. He's going to put that on my. My ledger. That's correct. Oh, I like the way you use ledger tied in with the Joker. That's well done. Smart guy. All right. Neil, what you got for week two game game two game two. Here's one of my teams that I think is going to play with a chip on its shoulder early in the season. Okay. That's hot. Depth might be an issue here, but give me Alabama.

57:45Give me the tide minus 28 and a half against East Carolina drinks at Innisfree afterwards. Don't drive your golf carts. Hey, listen and be careful in the back room. Supposedly there are cameras. Wow. That's come on. I heard that there were cameras in the back room. That's all I heard, man. Come on. Come on. Be careful with your golf carts. Just don't drive your golf cart. We get to just stop it right there. Just don't drive your golf cart. Look, I believe in helping people. Okay. Neil. Me and Vince Vaughn. Neil. What? What interest rates these days? Do you know? I mean, still pretty high. I think like seven percent. Neil, the second game I'm picking.

58:45You know, last week, I can't even focus right now. All right. Neil, my second game. Neil. Last week, my friends down in Calhoun County, Alabama took one on the chin. They went up to Fargo, North Dakota. And oh, North Dakota state. Put it on them. But Neil, I know what it looked like. In this week, Neil, the Jacksonville State Gamecocks are hosting Eastern Kentucky. Jacksonville State is favored by 20 and a half in Neil for the first time today. It's not enough. Give me the Jacksonville State Gamecocks to put it on the chin of Eastern Kentucky. Give me Jacksonville State minus 20 and a half at home versus Eastern Kentucky. I think, I think this is a massive blowout. Give me Jacksonville State at 20 and a half.

59:46You make a double it. They may win by 40. Oh, wow. I think Jacksonville State, like they're, I'm telling you, they're going. Okay. Like probably my favorite bed of the week. Love it. All right. What you got, Neil? Pick number three. Pick number three. You know, the one thing that all of this has accomplished in Baton Rouge this weekend, this week, is it has convinced a lot of soon to be drunk people in a hot human state. I think that's a very good idea. The idea is that everyone is out to get them. Yes. That place is going to be more of a zoo than usual. Hmm. And now, Lane and Debo, there's a little stuff going on. Listen, I don't know why they thought they needed dayquan, right? I think LSU, I think LSU roles over Clemson. I do. I know this is probably not the most popular pick in the world. It's one that if I get wrong, I will certainly find some laughter out of it.

1:00:50Give me LSU minus the 10 against Clemson. Hmm. Hmm. Good. All right. Neil, my third pick, my third pick. The Baylor Bears are traveling to Atlanta also on Saturday to take on the Auburn Tigers. Auburn is favored by seven points. Bouncing around seven, seven, six and a half. But Neil, Auburn, favored by six and a half, but that's not where I'm going, Neil. Give me the Baylor Auburn under under 58 and a half. Give me the Baylor Auburn under 58 and a half. I have a sneaky suspicion that this game is not going to even get close to that number guarantee. Go over now. But I'm taking the Baylor Auburn under 58 and a half. Love that bet. Right. How about that? All right. So pick number four for you. Pick number four, uh, UNLV lost late to Memphis the other day in Vegas.

1:01:54Hmm. But they did some good things on offense and they're going to go against the Hawaii defense that's nowhere close to as good as the Memphis defense. Give me UNLV minus three at Hawaii. Hmm. Like that. Like that. All right, Neil. My fourth pick. The Louisville Cardinals are traveling down to Nashville, Tennessee and they are going to meet the Ole Miss Rebels who are traveling east to Nashville, Tennessee about four-hour drive there in Nissan Stadium and the nice, cool environment that they're going to be playing in right next to the brand new stadium right there off Broadway. I'm sure there's going to be a couple of fans that decided to drink some diet millers before the game on Sunday. I feel safe in saying that that's probably going to happen. Neil or Dosekies. Neil and the Ole Miss Rebels, their favoritiveness game. I didn't know if you knew they're on. Six and a half points. I've heard. Six and a half points. I have written a little bit about this game. You've heard about it. I'm so asked to leave.

1:02:55And Neil, I'm sad to say. Oh, wow. I can't believe I'm doing this. I can't either. But Louisville's a good team, Neil. Yeah. Light really good. Running, running backs. Elite. Braum Elite. And then this is going to be a tough first game for Ole Miss. I think Ole Miss is kind of in a shock for what they're going to see on Saturday night. Six and a half. I think they're going to be in a shock. So Neil, regretfully, I'm taking the Ole Miss Rebels minus six and a half because it's not enough. I think Ole Miss wins this game. I think they make a statement here, Neil. I think Ole Miss makes a statement. I think they're tired of all the bullshit, too. I kind of do too. And where I'm at with this game, look, I think Louisville's great. I think they're going to be a good team. I think Ole Miss improving on defense. If you just look at the matchups, I think Ole Miss is going to be vastly improved on defense. And then you got a, and I think Louisville's great, but you got a first year quarterback

1:03:59that's going to have to, they're going to have to establish the run. And I think they will, I think they will be able to run the football. There's going to be plays. But I'm taking Trinidad Chambles over a first year starter and Ole Miss is defense over the Louisville defense. I think Ole Miss, I think this is a, I think this is a two to two plus possession game. I like Ole Miss kind of cover comfortably. I picked Ole Miss by 10. Kind of where I think it's going to be. Okay. But I don't know. You know, it's one of those deals. It's kind of weird. You know, you hadn't seen a lot. It's hard to know. Yeah. All right, you're pick five, Neil. I was going to go with Ole Miss, but I'll try to be, I'll try to be creative. I'll go to Monday night. SMU heads to Florida State. Look, Florida State did not look good in week zero against New Mexico State at all. It's putting it nicely. And I actually think SMU is going to be a good team. I'm not sure why this line is this low. I'm going to take, I'm going to take the Mustangs. SMU minus three in Tallahassee.

1:04:59Hello, Neil. Are you back, Joker? I'm back, Neil. Everything was everything okay with Mr. Heitner? Yeah, so here's the deal. Can we make breaking news here on McCrady and Siskie? Yeah, hold on. Breaking news. Breaking news. Looking for your horn. Looking for the information. This is I was not I was not prepared for this. We have breaking news. Wow. Breaking news here on McCrady and Siskie involving the Joker two Joker appearances at once. So I got a I got a phone call. I had to leave Paul Jost to the to the show. Paul Jost to the fans. Paul Jost to chat. I got a lot. I got a call from Darren Heitner. The attorney who represents all the TRO cases. And after much discussion. You are kidding me. Yeah, after much discussion. We can negotiate a deal there.

1:06:00He's going to take 15% of my N.I.L. package. Yeah. And ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to say go Tigers. Oh, no, really. The Joker has officially transferred. Wow. I have I have left. Barman Bailey Circus. And now I am officially an LSU bangle tiger. Wow, Joker. I never saw this coming. So with that being said, I'm just going to put in a wager here for Tyler, even though he's not here right now. He's not. Where did he go? I don't know. He went out there somewhere. So weird. It's weird. I don't know why he just keep. He doesn't want to hang out with me. He's never owned the other end of the microphone. Yeah. But Neil, the LSU bangle Tigers, the best bet in college football this weekend. This is the best bet. OK. Is the LSU team total is 30 and a half. And I have it on good authority because my attorney. So glad that's empty, Joker.

1:07:01That's been going on. My attorney told me that Lane Kiffin doesn't like the word no. It's true. Lane Kiffin will try to score points until they physically take the ball away from him. So give me the LSU over 30 and a half team total Saturday night against Clemson. Wow. He will literally try to score in the locker room after the game. Well, that's happened before. Wow. I didn't know we were doing that today. The Joker does not like that. So I got to go put my sweats on so I can go to court. I'll see you later. All right. That was the Joker. A big news. Big. Big news. The Joker. Here on the show, the Joker. I don't need to hear about this. The Joker. Why, where do you go? The Joker. I think the piss. Oh, the Joker came back. The Joker came back.

1:08:01He announced that he has entered the transfer portal. No. And is transferring to LSU. Come on. Going to court right now is putting my sweats. Oh, well, that would make sense why he was running down the stairs. I don't know. It's bizarre. It's bizarre. It's crazy, isn't it? What do we, what, what kind of world, what a world do we live in? What a world we live in. Neal is time for the money line. Yeah, I don't have a lot here. So I'm going to go super conservative week one on the money line. I mean, I thought about my friends at ULM. Thought about ULM. Quit. But look, that he, that he happened. I know what's happening at ULM right now is this is the first week of class, really. Oh, and it's intense. How they been on the water ski, yet? We ski every day. You get up and ski. You go to class. You count your skis. That's fair. One. One of the reasons that we were so good at slalom is there so many people that can't count the two. And so they just knew one ski.

1:09:02I'm going to go to the, what the hell is California in these days? They're in the cows in the ACC. You see a lane cow play in Berkeley. It's cow look. It's cow. It's cow versus the AC. It's cow hosting UCLA minutes from the Pacific. One's the ACC and the other one's in the big 10 UCLA is a one and a half point favorite. I'm going to jump on the cow money line here. Just nice and safe cow plus 102. All right. Neil, my money line pick this week. I can guarantee you I may be on the only one on this one. You know, I was looking for money lines and I was like, yeah, I actually think you know what actually when I was going through just then I looked at the one you're about to do and I was and then I remembered you were taking it and I was like, no, I'm not doing that. I low key like this one. Okay. I low key like this one. And you know what? We got a loyal just friend or our TikTok guy. He's actually been on TikTok lives.

1:10:03He is a country music singer. My man whiskey rich size. Moses my 15 month old is transfixed. That's great. Just raising them right. Raising them right. Neil the my guy whiskey rich is is a big, big fan of this team. He's up there. He's up north into quotas. Okay. And I never been to the coast. Never have I've always wanted to go. Always want to go. My guy my guy's country music singer does a really good job. Looking up on TikTok whiskey rich whiskey rich music. And they'll he's a big fan of this team. And by God, if I don't like him outright this week. Okay. Moneyline pick for this week. Sneaky pick. I will be putting my own pushing. Will be putting my own money on it. Give me. You have been talking to me. Kip in the South. Yeah. Lee. I'm glad you're going to get texted not me.

1:11:04I know. I need to block a number. Yeah. You may I won't be getting any text. I've been very fair today. So much so much for heading down to Baton Rouge to see if I can get a one on one. But right now. Yeah, probably probably won't happen at this point in time. Neil, give me the South Dakota state Jack rabbits to win outright against Northwestern. Okay. At plus 440. How about that? It plus 440 South Dakota state plus 440 at Northwestern. Yeah, you're on fire today. I mean, you're you're you're on a whole whole different level. And you know what, Neil? In case your car catches fire. You're so on fire. Let me tell you what's going to be some combustible. Yeah, you're so on fire today. I'm the top. I'm the top. Yeah. Yeah. Car five. Don's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There's too much. There's too much. We've taken it too far. But you're all.

1:12:05Did you put that in there for the Joker? I should. But Neil, in case you're combustible today and you go and crank up your. You're truck out there and all of a sudden it just. And you have a little little fire inside and you burn the paint on the outside. You know, you're going to pick up the phone and you're going to call our good friends at Thompson's painting body shop and you're asking who the hell is Thompson's painting body shop. Well, I'll tell you who they are. They're the official painting body shop of McCradian Siskie. And right now you're going to pick up the phone because you're going to be pissed this weekend. Somebody's going to be pissed and you're going to go outside and you're going to kick the shit out of your car and you're going to leave big ass dents in it and you're going to say it's okay, honey. It's no big deal because I'm going to call Don Don Jr. Matthew Thompson because they've been taking care of cars with quality and touch like my neighbor for over 35 years. You're going to get my call area code 251 675 084. That's 251 that's 675. That's 0884. And if you can't remember that, you're going to go to Thompson's body shop. Com hell, you can check them out on Facebook because when you pick up the phone, you're

1:13:06going to be like, hello Thompson's paint body shop and you're going to be like, who is this? Well, you don't even have to ask. It's going to be Don Don Jr. Matthew Thompson. That's going to be answering the call. And where are they located right there in the heart of Sarah Lynn Alabama? Right in the heart and soul. It doesn't matter. Exit 13, I 65. It doesn't matter. If you drive to Sarah Lynn and get a stethoscope out and listen for the heartbeat, it's going to take you right there. It's going to like right there right to the damn point. Absolutely. But they're not going to treat you like some big box corporate chain note. They're going to treat you like family. So if you need your car, needs a little TLC, a little tenderloven care, a little smooch, take them down to Thompson's paint body shop. How about that? How about that? Oh, we have been brought to you today as always by our good friends at Rain Total Body Fuel who are like, what are we doing? Why are we sponsoring this? Because they see the numbers. They do see numbers and they're like, that makes sense. 300 milligrams natural caffeine BCAA's electrolytes zero sugar.

1:14:10It's got what you need to push the limits of TV goals. Check them out Instagram at Rain Body Fuel to learn more. Don't forget Tyler's the late hit at 9 p.m. Saturday 9 p.m. Central time. So if you're on the East Coast, that's 10 p.m. Yep. 8 p.m. Mountain time seven o'clock on the West Coast. That's right. And we've got viewers in all those areas. Yes, we did. Got the analytics proof. But 9 o'clock central time. He'll be taking calls, get you through the games. Yeah, yeah, we'll be live at 9 o'clock central, the late hit, a credit system, the late hit. We'll be taking calls and we'll go until we'll go until so. And we just had that, you know, we talked about, we didn't get to talk about much, but the first episode was great. We had a ton of people in there. The calls were full the entire time. We ended up rolling through there, but it will try to, I'll try to, I'll try to, I'll try to be a little bit more efficient, but look, if we're having fun, we're just going to let it roll, you know what I mean? We're having a good time. Numbers are great. So look forward to somebody losing a game and letting people go nuclear.

1:15:11So you know, the reason I asked you about, we'll finish with this. The reason I asked you about how much, what percentage of this do you think is Lane Kiffin? Is because it's not 100% because whatever percentage is left is Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, who weighs in on X. Making them NFL players is at best disingenuous and at worst intentionally deceptive. He says they are not professional football players circling back after years in the NFL. They are college players who were told by the NCAA that they were done. So they took the only door that was open only to watch the NCAA change the lock behind of them. Is this what you insert the video of the Equal and Ride actually running around in the Cleveland Browns uniform? Yes. Okay. Imagine that. So what a day. What a day. What a day. It's not over. Those of you on MPW digital, I'm going to do a fairly short show, about 5 p.m. Central.

1:16:13I'll take some calls on the Campbell Clinic hotline. We'll keep it pretty tight though. Not going to go super long. So if you have a call, you probably should jump in pretty early. All right. For Tyler Siskie, I'm Neil McCready. Thanks to everybody in the stream for participating. I really appreciate all you guys have a great weekend. It's a holiday weekend. If you're traveling, please drive carefully. Be safe. If you're headed to a game or whatnot, make sure you hydrate with the dose keys. Not while you drive. While you get there, get the dose keys with the line. Yep. We'll be back on Monday. I think the plan is the original time. If that changes, we will update you via social media. If you're not following us, one of us or both of us or somebody on social media, please do that way you can, if we have a scheduling change on Labor Day, we will let you know. So for Tyler, I'm Neil Ticker.