SEC SQUAD - The SEC Basketball Season is ENDING | Can Vandy Make a Run?

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2:05There's more to a Mazda because there's more to you. Let's welcome in our panel this week. We've got Stephen Lewis from Lockdown Ole Miss Jimmy Stein from Lockdown, Alabama. Chris Filer from Lockdown Gamecocks and I'm Chris Gordy, locked on SEC and gentlemen. We're going to talk to football. We've got plenty of stuff we're going to get into, but I do want to start with basketball because we are winding down the final weekend of regular season games happening this weekend seeding on the line for the SEC tournament. A lot to still be decided, but man, the Florida Gators, they have been absolutely red-hot. They won, what, the 10 in a row, they're beating the hell out of everybody. I think the numbers are, they've on this 10-game win streak, they've beaten teams by a margin of 23 points per game, like it's just absolutely ridiculous. So I take them off the table, fellas. Give me another team from the SEC that you think has a chance to make a final four run this postseason. No. I think Arkansas, if they get hot with Calipari and all that, they have the talent to

3:06get there. It would not surprise me in the least. And then what would be funny is to watch Kentucky fans tears with Calipari taking a team to the final four. I'll say Alabama, though, honestly, as Alabama got hate, hate saying that. I just say it in the sense that Alabama's got a premier offense. The offense is fantastic. It's one of the best offices in the country. Two years in a row, Alabama has gone farther and done more. They've done more in the postseason than was expected of them by virtually anyone two years in a row. Even last year going into the NCAA tournament, they were blown out by Florida and the SEC tournament still made it to the elite eight, only losing to a really good Duke team. I'll say Alabama, but I think it's only Florida, really, from the SEC. I don't think Alabama's good enough defensively to get past, frankly, the sweet 16, but again, back to back elite eights. And this offense is better than the last two on the honestly, the only thing that slowed

4:08down the offense so far is that clock management of the actual clock, like the physical clock itself and segment policy, and last night, that was unbelievable. No, I don't disagree with either of you. I think both could get to the final four. Bama's defense is terrible. They do really, really poorly in terms of defending offensive rebounds, like they do not protect the rim very well. You saw last night in Georgia, it's been a big issue for them in other games. Physically, they are not good down low, but they can shoot the lights out for sure. I'm kind of with Steven. If it's not going to be Florida, I'm all in on Arkansas because Darius Acuff is the kind of player that I will put my entire bracket based on for him, for that team getting to the final form, being able to go and run. And here's the thing. They still have a lot of other talented players on that team besides him. He is just so head and shoulders above everyone else that it's kind of crazy. I think those, those three are probably the best ones. I don't think anyone's Florida, I mean, we're going all in on Florida. We're just, we have to go all in on Florida. I know Arizona is really good.

5:09I know Michigan is really good. I know Duke's really good. I'm looking forward to just to watching them beat Florida. Let's see, let's see if it can happen. You know, it's crazy too. It's Gordy brought the fact that during this run, they're, they're beaten teams by an average of 23 points for game. Before this past game, they had been winning those games by an average of 19.7 points. Or outside this past weekend. So in their gaming, it's Arkansas and whoever they played, Tuesday night, I can't remember. Was it? Who was it? It was 19.7 points for game average margin of victory before those two games and it jumped up four points, which is crazy. Yeah, it's, and by the way, Arkansas, Billy Richmond has stepped up. I mean, they just, Calipari, he knows the run is like, he's not going to be long at Arkansas, right? But he's maximizing his time there. And he's got the Tyson chicken money behind him. And, you know, I think that's the team. I'm going to throw it out there and don't laugh.

6:10But Rick Barnes and Tennessee, I know they've been to the final four. Is this the year? I feel like we do this every year, but Nate has been an awesome freshman and then Jacobi Gillespie has been that killer for them, who he can step up hit big threes when he needs them. And obviously they play the trademark defense that Rick Barnes always has some playing physical. So again, and look, it's no shocker. Those are the top four teams in the SEC that we hit on. But it, you know, it does feel like this is a year that one of them could get there. And I saw somebody in my comments on Twitter said, well, it doesn't matter, the SEC sucks this year. And I'm like, I like, I don't know, bro, he was still a few days ago arguing a live in SEC teams. And so, I mean, you can say that, but other people think highly of the SEC terrible, terrible conference. It's going to have once again have the most teams out of any other conference in there. So just, but yeah, just horrible, horrible stretch this year for the SEC. And I will say this, if they get the right draw, Missouri could make a run or plan.

7:13They legitimately could make a run, but they, they're, they're draw dependent. They're in that category, that second tier of SEC team. Stephen, did you, did you see any of you, I wanted to bring this up before we started. And I couldn't pull it up in time. So I'm not going to explain it well, but there was a tweet yesterday about Missouri and just how crazy their, their seating can be in the SEC tournament. And there's like a set, there's seven games that can dictate where they would be and if they, if they win and like if Arkansas beats Texas tonight, that's the start of it. But if this, all this stuff happens on Saturday, which all of it's very plausible, it's like all the favorites would have to win. They would be the three seed, but if one of the, or I'm sorry, they would, they would be the difference between a three seed and a ten seed in the SEC tournament. So there's still like, there's no team that fluctuates more going into this the final week than Mizzou, which is crazy. Arkansas beat Texas by 20. So that's everybody's got one game left going into this weekend. But it's that long game of those ten and seven teams from Mizzou to Vandy, to Texas A&M, to Kentucky.

8:14I mean, any of those teams I could buy as their one and done, they lose on the opening weekend. Or I can buy Kentucky gets hot, goes on a run, a take away and all these pieces they have. So is there one of those, I call them a dark horse, but like one of the lower tiered SEC teams you're buying that can make a run? Yeah. I mean, I honestly, I think the team that's going to be cutting down the nets at the end of the year is going to be Auburn in the NIT, and I personally can't wait to watch it happen. I honestly want crazy, it's crazy talk. They're not going to win the NIT. No, they're not. But watching Brutal hold, hold up Steven on that ladder to count the nets of the NIT would be incredible. I'm out of focus. Here we go. How about him actually admitting that to the nepotism? I mean, he's, you know, it doesn't hurt to come out and admit, hey, yeah, there was nepotism. I gave my, I set it up for myself and look, we know that, right? The timing of when he retired, like, of course, of course, you set it up.

9:14Yeah, I wouldn't have any other choice but top, but to hire Steven Pearl, I do think, I don't know if they considered an interim tag, but instead they gave him a four year deal and if they decide to make a change, they'll have to write a, you know, a pretty decent check to get out of it. But Auburn played really well early in the season and it is a tough lead. Yeah, I know there's critics out there, but it is a tough lead. And this is why the teams that aren't making the tournament, the teams that won't be in the NCAA tournament, you go try to win a road game there and go, go beat, go beat Oklahoma at Oklahoma right now. I mean, there's, this is a deep leak. It's tough every week and that's why I think the SEC teams will do well in the NCAA tournament because the week to week game to game grind to the SEC prepares you for the NCAA tournament. Yeah. Dude, what did you guys think of the Miami of Ohio case? They're undefeated and yet there's talk of if they lose in their conference tournament that they're, their strength of schedule is like 200 or something that they're saying

10:15like they don't deserve to get in. I, to my opinion, like you undefeated in any conference, I don't care if it's a summit league or whatever it is, you deserve to get in. Yeah. Somebody on Twitter posted this like no team that has gone undefeated has ever missed the tournament. And I was like, well, think that through. Yeah. Yeah. But if they lost in the conference tournament, you went undefeated regular season. Yes. I do not care if the Mac is a one bid league. You need to make an exception. The other one would be the bid steal or not Miami of Ohio. They're 68 teams. You got to put my, if they're 68, you, you got to put them in. But I will say with the, with the strength of schedule that low and they lose in the Mac tournament, I'm going to doubt that they're, that they're very good to be honest. I, I still think they deserve to, to be in at this point no matter what. I, I agree with you guys. I think the thing for Auburn in making their case is like, yeah, they played one of the toughest non-conferred schedules in the country. But also you look at some of those games like what's their best win?

11:17Well, their best wins are close losses. They, they, they barely lost to Houston. They got their doors blown off by, by Arizona, which a lot of teams have. I, I think Auburn is a, like every time I watch them, I want to believe it is the opposite of watching them play football. Every time I see them play basketball, I want to believe, but it is getting in over a team. It's what? 28. No, at this point, no. Absolutely not. Yeah. Counterport, Marler. They lost on their home four to Ole Miss. That cost me some money, Steven. In the United States. They, they, they beat Florida, right? One of Florida's two losses. Yeah. They've been Florida at Florida for the first time in 30 years. Think about that. Yeah. Such an enigma. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think George is in Texas, host Oklahoma, who's won five of their last seven. Again, I think Texas is in.

12:19Sean Miller, I think, will get some respect, but Texas is not playing well as of late. And then, and that's kind of the Oklahoma thing's interesting though, because there's six and 11 in conference, 16 and 14 overall. But what if they beat Texas this weekend, they go into the conference tournament having one, what would that be? Six of eight. And if they win a couple games in the SEC conference tournament, like, maybe Oklahoma gets one of those last spots in, I don't know, we'll see. Meteor healthy. Well, the crazy part is, three weeks ago, I'm talking about Porter Moser is, oh, he's fired. He's out. And now he's like, they can't fire him. Now he's winning games. So, but the real question is, will the basketball court at the SEC tournament be programmable by a computer? Because that's apparently a big deal. The tweet that somebody put out there, Stephen, that was like, I don't, and I'm not just saying it to Stephen, you guys were probably sold on Twitter too, I don't know, Stephen, you see this on Twitter. But the guys said, like, they're trying to make it not like a basketball court, so Darren Peterson plays. Well, I saw one that said it was a screenshot of the adult film being produced.

13:25Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, hackers have a way. It is possible. That's cool. Cool. When we return, gentlemen, let's talk a little football. I got a lot of different things we need to get into a spring ball is getting underway. A squad talking more ball coming your way next. Okay. But first, what I remind you guys about our friends over at, uh, Mazda, and we tell you guys all the time about Mazda and what they have going on. This is Mazda's moving the game forward for those who show those more to the score than what's on the screen. And this week, Jimmy started to do this. So I'm going to give some props to Georgia forwarder Ken and Ketchings, the BYU transfer who went off on Tuesday night in the win over Alabama scoring 32.6 rebounds of blocking two steals. He hits seven three pointers as Georgia got the 98 to 88 home win over top 20 Alabama. It's moments like these are a minus of what it really takes to raise the bar. It's an extra work off the court, dialing in every detail, giving it that extra fire, that grit that I'd ever quit.

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15:26slash every day or and get signed up five bucks a month. You'll get your favorite locked on show ad free. They take out all the ads and you get exclusive discord access where you get to talk with folks like Stephen and Jimmy and myself. Let's talk with some of the BAMO folks today and there. Check it out locked on podcast.com slash every day or guys. I do want to get to spring football, but let me sidetrack a little bit here because there's an important meeting going on in Washington DC this week where the president is formed a committee where he'll be talking with a lot of big influential sports folks and the topic is the future of college sports and this is kind of coming on the heels of the SEC and the big 10 kind of saying, hey, you know, we have our TV deal. We have our rights deal. We don't want to, you know, do this fair equal thing with the rest of college football, like you have people like Cody Campbell and Texas Tech calling for, hey, let's just put everybody on the same level playing field and let's, you know, we'll get ahead of things like the portal and then I L and all this stuff.

16:27But where do you guys come up come down on some of this stuff? Hey, I think it's stupid. It's utterly ridiculous. It's not the job of the flagship university of one of the poor states in America to subsidize Boise State or Colorado State or anybody else that just wants to play big time college football. SEC and the big 10 got to where they are because they are the best conferences in college football. And here's the problem that people need to pay attention in this deal. There's a whole lot more people that want this to happen than SEC and big 10 fans that don't want it to happen, which should give you pause at least going to Congress, at least that they will eliminate that sports broadcasting act that will allow pooling of revenue and then the pressure will be on the big 10 and the SEC. I think in the end of the day, it's time to start having the conversation about breakaway. It's time to start looking at what college sports are going to be for the SEC and big 10 and that's just not going to be what it is for Southern Miss and Colorado State.

17:31That needs to happen because they are putting a full court press on Congress to make it sound like, hey, pooling of the revenue, we can make $7 billion a year. That comes out to $51 million for SEC teams. That's a $20 million haircut if that happened. And no SEC team, no SEC commissioner, no big 10 are going to agree to that. I think it's just time to start talking about breaking away. I'm a little uncomfortable with the president leaving the situation room at wartime to go discuss college football. Is that crazy? Am I crazy for thinking about me? I went into damn ball, Jimmy. College football is my life. I get it that it's that important, but maybe it really shouldn't be that important this week. That's just, well, is it the same as Mississippi getting rid of state tax for can I owe kids? I mean, you know, Arkansas did that last year. I mean, it's not something.

18:33Yeah, but yeah, I appreciate it. Now Mississippi is getting rid of state tax and we're talking about not much money. It's more of an optic thing than anything else. My camera is bad optics, bad optics, but I mean, but if one if one state is going to do it, then the rest of the Southern states have to do it because he got to keep up recruiting wise, but overall, it's a really ridiculous thing that football players get tax breaks that the hard work in public doesn't. Well, you have to look at it like this. If you want your Amazon distribution center, there's going to be tax breaks attached. If you want to be able to go to Oxford, Mississippi and watch the next Trinidad Chambles, this the tax break to make that happen. This is the lever that the government has to pull. May not agree with it. If you go to one to one, but that's the world we live in at the moment. And like Y'all said, it's going to go in Alabama and Georgia and all of those places. It'll go around the SEC really hasty. So I now that my camera's back in focus, which is nice.

19:34I think this is the worst I've looked during the show. So hopefully it goes blurry again. But no, I think Steven, like, I think the initial reaction to the tax thing is people want to be mad. And then if you just take a second, you think about it. What you said, Arkansas did this crap last year. No one, no one batted an eye at it. Florida, Texas and Tennessee already have no state income tax at all. In their states are like, in general, the state of Mississippi is already on their way to becoming a tax-free, a state income tax-free state by 2030. And they're declining the total amount of taxes each year. I think this year it drops out. It's targeting if I'm wrong, Steven. 3.3 percent from like 4.1 from last year. It's about half a percent every single year until it's gone. And so here's where I get on. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's very unfair to the rest of the SEC. If some people have this versus some people don't, like I think all those things can be true. Here's the other part. I am never going to be pro-taxes in general. The fact that we have to have a third of our paychecks taken out by the damn government every year

20:36to pay for $20 million toilets or the haircut that you jokingly mentioned. I'm sure there's a $20 million haircut somewhere in the government. Also, at the end of the year, we get a damn math project to do. That if we get wrong, we get to go to prison. What are we talking about? I'm never going to be pro-taxes ever, ever, ever. I go. Mississippi going to do this. Mississippi being one of the tools that's going to do it. States are going to do it. I think it looks bad for objects. Sure, whatever. I think they have gone so far past after no offense. They're already past the optics part of this with chambles and the stuff with gold. They're going to catch heat no matter what, because they're winning. Again, we didn't have any conversation about this with Arkansas. And what's going to end up happening is what Stephen said. It's going to end up being a catalyst for the rest of the SEC. So if I'm South Carolina, if I'm Georgia, if I'm Alabama, I don't really care about Kentucky. But if I'm in any of those states, I'm saying, why would we be behind on this? Like, what moral high ground are you trying to, or Hillary, are you trying to die on to say that we're not going to do this

21:37when everyone else around you is already doing it? I will say this. I've never seen so many people in Alabama and Georgia be so just clutching their pearls over teachers in the state of Mississippi. I have been having a couple. How about we track what the kids spend money on a NIL? If you buy a house, you're fine, no tax. But if you're like Carson Beck and you buy a Lamborghini, we're taxing you double on that. Yeah, that's stupid. Well, the dirty little secret on this is they're getting away from income tax. If the player buys a house, he still has to pay property tax every single year. And it's going to be at a much higher rate than what he was paying in income tax. I would love to know what backup hunter in the SEC is investing in real estate with his NIL money. I'm sure one of them is. I want to go with Marlor down to the harbor and double budget T in it, complain about taxes. It makes me so irate, Jimmy, every, and listen, I love turbo tax. They have always gotten me the most money back. They're a great partner that we have. I love them to death. But again, do not give me a math project.

22:39First of all, I'm great at math, okay? Not mental math, but I do. Do you not give me a math project with like, hey, is it pass or fail? No, it's it's free or prison. If you get this wrong, like get get out of here, dude. I was going to say of all days for us not to have a turbo tax rate here. That would have. That is my turbo tax rate, by the way. That's why it's so well rehearsed. It's just me raising about the government. Well, still more to come here, guys. By the way, I went to Boston last summer and you do on the tour, you get to literally throw T in the Boston harbor. It's a fun part of the tour. What we're doing here, we lost a very big sports personality this week. We'll talk about that coming right next more locked on SEC. Part of the locked on podcast that we're covering your theme every day. Hey, first guys, the biggest stretch of college basketball season is almost here. The buzzer beaters, bracket busters, those unforgettable moments, everybody's talking about the next day. And if you want to be there for something like that, we're talking that is bucket list type stuff.

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24:41The flavors are ready. I'm going with my number one pick for the five hour energy flavor draft. I'm going to go with cotton candy. I just tried them this past week. I liked it a little bit of the area candy profile, hearted style taste. Stephen Willis, give me your go to five hour energy flavor. Hey, old standby. Give me Barry. That's the original flavor of five hour energy. Give it to me right now. That would be my top pick in the flavor draft. Still, even though they're making tons of flavors. Jimmy, where are you going? Going great. Going great. I'm a great guy. All right, Marlar. First off, I love you both. All three of you really, but I said on my show this week that if anybody says great or bury their cops and they are the worst two flavors to be. It's watermelon or tropical burst. I've had four today, fired up. Ask me more questions about taxes, Jimmy. Nobody drinks more five hour energy. You said about Chris Marlar. He was very upset when he found out they were sent out free samples. And he didn't get one. He's like, I already buy him every day.

25:42But anyway, five hour energy shots give you a boost with zero sugar. Of course, plenty of great limited time flavors. You can try find your new favorite flavor at five hour energy shots available online at fivehourenergy.com or on Amazon. All right, fellas, as we wrap up here here on the squad show, we did say goodbye to only great personalities, coaches, and of course sports personality in Lou Holtz, who passed away this week. We know he was in poor health a couple of weeks ago. And he has since gone on. And coach at Arkansas, it was back when they were in the southwest conference. But obviously, of course, a lot of SEC fans remember those days. And then of course, coach at South Carolina in the late 90s into the 2000s. Was actually, I want to say 2000, 2001 was named SEC coach of the year. So anyway, and of course, we'll be remembered for those nights on ESPN with Mark May or Reese Davis was wearing the judges outfit and having some fun arguments.

26:44But it got me thinking guys, I just wanted to pull question through it out there. Who's your favorite sports personality out there? I mean, like I said, it was must watch for me watching Lou Holtz and Mark May argue with each other. But if there's a go-to personality out there, Steven, who do you like? Well, this is going to show my age a little bit. But it'll never compare to Keith Jackson, Ron Franklin, and that generation. Whenever they were the voice of college football, it was just different. I remember Keith Jackson came to Oxford, Mississippi in 1993. I think Ole Miss versus Alabama. It was such a big deal to get Keith Jackson in Oxford. Ole Miss wasn't very good offensively. And I think Ole Miss injured Bama's quarterback in David Palmer, played quarterback that game and just completely ripped Ole Miss to shreds. And it just reminds me of that arrow, you know, losing Lou Holtz. Now, granite, Ryan Day can sleep easy now.

27:45But as it sits, like the late 90s, early 2000, it was just the perfection for college football. Jimmy, who you got? I've never met him. The Vern Funquist guy on Twitter is following up there in the first year. I hope to meet him. I hope to meet him one day. I mean, I hope. I hope I get enough Twitter e-cred to meet Vern Funquist. Whoever that is. You haven't followed me when you followed me. You know what, just overrated, Jimmy. You know what I mean? For sure, for sure. There's so many in light, you know. I would even go back even Bino Cook in the Gino, which is great. I mean, just in the sense of the personalities that made me to love college football as a kid that's continued all the way up into this elderly state I'm in now. But guys like that gave me my love for college football. But there's so many good ones right now. I like Josh Pate.

28:46I watch a lot of him. I like most of the, a lot of the guys on ESPN. Game day is iconic to me and, you know, Reese and Kirk and Desmond. And now, now, all football coach Sabons up there with Pat McVee. So really a lot of them. But Bino Cook comes to mind for me, even though he passed away a long time ago. But guys like Bino's who instilled this love for college football in me in the first place. Yeah, Prime Corso, by the way, was in lead. Oh, yeah, that's where I was going to go. I think he growing up. I mean, game day is my favorite, but like the crew. And I like it now. I've come around on, I mean, Sabons been awesome. I've come around on McVee. I didn't like him at first, but I've come around on him. And I think Reese Davis does a good job. But that original foul or Corso Herb Street. I mean, and I guess maybe it's because it's all the glory day memories of my memories of being in the SEC and it meant a big, huge monster matchup that those guys were on your campus. To me, it doesn't get better than those three. It was a 30 minute show. You know, when they extended it to the hour,

29:47you were like, oh, my God, we're getting an hour of game day. And then it was two hours. And then like the, the Lou Holtz, I said to some of my show earlier, the Lou Holtz, Mark May thing. I remember coming home just what's the most PG way to put this in case David Locke is listening, hammered from college on Saturday nights and hearing Lou Holtz, Mark May, argue about God knows what. And you're just sitting here like, man, these are the good old days. Like this is, those are core memories I have with with touch. Well, I'm so glad you brought up Ron Franklin, Steven. That was him and the guy with him who had the horrible Northern accent. Um, my, my Godfried, my Godfried, I've never been trying to pronounce Auburn's offensive. I'm in Geno James and it was like, I mean, Geno James. What, um, obviously, uh, what do you, wow, how am I drawing a blank here? Um, the granddaddy of them all, who was the Keith Jackson, just that, and so old school for, for ever and ever, um, and, and all the games he did. I will say to you that I, I really, I don't love, I never loved the broadcast. And you never loved it either if your team was on it.

30:50But the three days on Jefferson Pilot, I was just about to say that. It was always some August or September game that was a thousand degrees outside. And those guys sweating through these stupid white cotton shirts. And it was like an Ole Miss Vandy game that was for some reason always 28 to 24 or 31 to 27. I don't know why the game used to be a TBS. Remember when it was on TBS before it was even the Jefferson Pilot. That was, that was Dave Neal. Yeah. Was it gold, no, no, Bob Neal, Bob Neal, Bob Neal, Bob Neal, Bob Neal, Bob Neal. Golden Flake was a sponsor, one point potato James. Hey, if anybody's watching this, watch YouTube and find the TBS SEC, um, intro from like 1990, it was elite. The hard thing comes out, it was 14 mascots. It was awesome. I, the, the ones I'll say from today that I do love to death. I love the guys at SC Network with Doring and, and, and PB and, and, and darn all them. My favorite, I think they just don't get enough love. I think, I think Tom Hart and his, his, that Saturday night crew,

31:51they usually don't have the best games, um, but Tom Hart is electric. And I've never, I will never forget him doing a game at Ole Miss where Jerry and Ely broke off a 69 yard run. And he, you knew it was coming, um, and he scores. And as soon as he crossed the goal, and he's like 69 yard touchdown. Nice. And it was like that, that's a man. A 13 year old dude just trapped in a man's body cone for both games. I'll add to, I look, I think I've gotten to be behind the scenes of SCC nation. They do an awesome job. Yeah. My mom T-bow and Jordan Rogers and all those guys. It's just as up against my favorite show in game day. So it's like, I can't watch both at the same time. I will flip back and forth. But, and then of course, we can't go without mentioning, the Verne-Lunquist Gary Danielson 230 CBS game. I mean, that was, you know, I like the ESPN ABC stuff. Now it's great. But those games with the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, no big. They did a great job of making the game feel good. Now, now, now it's Purdue and Northwestern.

32:53That's it. Not me. And it was crazy. It was a Nazi kin portion of it. It was crazy guys how Gary Danielson was simultaneously a Bama Homer and a Bama Hater at the same time. He got so much unnecessary hate forever. Honestly, Verne did too. And, and like, I, he just, I, I think those two were so great in that game. And I don't know why everyone chose to hate Gary Danielson. But in the SEC, it's very hard to ever get anyone to agree on anything. I, you mentioned T-bow. It's hard for you to watch T-bow because you just let his body go so badly. You know what I mean? Like, it's just watching him. I take my fitness seriously and watching him just kind of. Slink into what do you call retirement? It's been tough for me to watch. You know. Hey, I'm just spare time. I mean, it's spare time. He's in Washington trying to get people arrested for doing unsatisfying things. It keeps going the way it's going. He might be back in college football. Yeah. We'll end on that. That's good. And in 20 years, 20 years ago, Jordan Rogers would have been the top broadcaster in college football.

33:55But now there's like right now where you're trying to be cute and have a brand and doing all this extra stuff. The guy just knows ball. And if you know ball, I give you credit. What was that, that product he was selling? Like, where was him and his bathroom rubbing stuff on his face? I don't know what that commercial was. Jordan Rogers. I have a high-favorite bachelor at this. Odd man body spray. Yeah. I might buy his face cream. It works pretty well. Fellas, that is going to do it for this edition of our squad show. Remember to follow and subscribe to your favorite SEC show. We'll be covering your favorite team every day throughout the off season. And don't forget, I'll have you covered with the entire conference every day with locked on SEC, part of Lockdown Podcast. Now we're covering your team every day. And hey, becoming every day locked on podcast.com. Slash every day or four Chris Marler, Steve Willis, and Jimmy Stein. This has been our SEC squad show. Freightrail does more than move goods. It drives America's economy every dollar invested.

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