The “When Expectations Crash” Edition

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At it's time.
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Lord, let's in Sports Talk with Lawton Swan. Tell me.
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What Wow?
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So you could continue to pick over the fence at
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the best radio showing the nature.
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I'm a Carolina fan. I would listening to your show,
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and I want to compliment you on your even handedness
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between Clemson and Carolina.
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What Wow.
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I listened to the sports pot radio all over the nations,
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but the what do you come across makes me sick.
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You're gonna find yourself not on the labio.
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Finally, Clemson Sports Talk has come back. Two drive time.
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Hell everybody, Lowton Swan back in the saddle once again.
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that's mets Plumbing online at mets plumbing dot com. All right, yesterday, yesterday,
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that show that was a while when, Hey, if you
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were with us, you'll know that. Yes, indeedy it was
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swanee a little bit all over the map, not because
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of the content, but you know, in this business, it's
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a it's a multifaceted deal, right, And there are tones,
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there are programming logs, blah blah. Well, everything was right
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on our end, but a tone didn't get sent. The
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thing didn't kick over. So a portion of the show
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you missed. But that's all right. What I'm gonna do
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is i'm i'm I know, I feel pretty confident. I
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feel pretty confident that the biggest part of the show
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that you missed was probably the opening segment. So I'm
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gonna give you some portions of that the rest of
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the way, not that that should not be taken as
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the rest of the show, but along the rest of
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the show, I'm gonna give you portions of the opening
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segment because if I had if I had to guess,
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that's where I think you probably missed most of the content.
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I think everything else kind of got straightened out by
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the back end of the program. Either way, it's you know,
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it's one of those things. And actually, this time of
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the year, which shouldn't be the downtime for Clemson University Athletics.
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I mean, we should be talking about Clemson baseball or
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even for that matter, Game Cocks. I'll lean in on you.
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We should be talking about South Carolina baseball, but alas
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we are not. We are not talking about either team
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in any region of the tournament. And we kind of
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went through those regions with you yesterday afternoon. We'll talk
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a little bit more about that here out of the
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gates momentarily. Okay, so give me a minute and we
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will get to that again. On Twitter at Clemson Sports,
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some of you have been wondering about the computer. I
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actually got a text message about, so what's the deal?
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What's going on? Swanne? Where are you? Because I gave
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you an update yesterday and I had hoped that today
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would be the day that we returned triumphantly with the
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new machine. A couple of issues, and so I'm still
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working through some of those. Number one is this and
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I don't know when windows well I do know when,
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probably the day they were founded, got greedy, but I
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guess I in fairness, I have to say at least
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Gates does give away. You know, he does a lot
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of philanthropy well over the years. I bought plenty of computers.
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I'm sure you have to. You've probably paid plenty of Windows.
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What do you call it not subscriptions, activation fees. I'm
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not interested in philanthropizing for him anymore, with whatever it
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costs for Windows. And so my old computer. When you
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get apparently a big hardware change, you are supposed to
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be able to go back and somehow get that operating
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system reactivated. I'm gonna have to make some phone calls.
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Thankfully I have some time, and then I should be
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able to get the operating system activated at some point.
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In addition to that. Once I got the new machine
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up and running yesterday, it sounded like a hairdryer going off.
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And I talked to a buddy who builds these things
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all the time. I don't He said, I think your
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box is too small. You could probably pull some of
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the fans out and that would quiet it down. And sure,
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but it's also like it was very compressed in there.
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It was like it's like stuffing luggage when I was
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putting all the pieces in and he was like, hey,
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won't you just get a bigger box and rebuild it.
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You already know how to do it. And I was like, ooh,
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I don't know. I did pull that trigger. I did
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order a new box today. It'll be coming in Friday,
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much bigger, more room. I think it's gonna be the
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I think that's gonna be the big difference maker. And
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shout out to Amazon for letting me return something after
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the window. I don't ever do that, but I reached
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out to him and they were like, mister Swan, you're
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a good customer, thank you. So yeah, we'll see if
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I get that same love from my Microsoft when it
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comes down to activating my Windows operating system eight zero
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three four to five OHO zero zero eighty six. So
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now you all are called up on everything when it
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comes down to the situation at the Palay Show one
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O eight studios, as we continue to grind during the
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college baseball playoffs as they will get underway this weekend.
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That's right, the road to Omaha begins now. Incredibly, Clemson
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and South Carolina both on the outside of this thing,
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which at the beginning of the year, with Clemson ripping
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off a fifteen to one start, I don't think many
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people believe that you'd be sitting here today watching baseball instead. Well,
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and you're not watching it today, but I hope you
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follow what I'm saying. I think every Clypson Tiger fan
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that had seen that Clemson team early in the season
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really felt like they were gonna have a chance to
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at least be in a regional, perhaps hosting a regional,
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maybe making it to a super regional. And I don't
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even really like to bring it up anymore because it
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just seems like like fool's goal to say even a
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trip to Omaha. But when you are fifteen in one
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and even though a couple of games later you played
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Georgia Tech, who turned out to be obviously one of
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the top two teams in the country, but you won
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one of the three games in the series, albeit still
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losing the series, I think there's a level of Okay, Well,
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if if Georgia Tech stacks up as a top three team,
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which is basically what they were all year, maybe we're
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top ten team, you know, maybe maybe we're top eighteen
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at that point. And then as the wheels just continued
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to fall apart. You know, the Tigers never could recover. Now,
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I said, I guess last week, at some point talking
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with William Qualkinbush, I thought there was the possibility, it's
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sort of an outside, outside possibility that if Jaron Purified
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does not get injured against Notre Dame, where this whole
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season just went sideways, maybe you're not as good as
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we thought, perhaps out of the gates, but you are
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postseason baseball good. And I think that is a legit question.
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When we talked about, you know how as things are
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sort of spiraling right, Even I like to think of
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myself as somewhat of an optimist. I don't go into
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situations with this grandiose level of negativity, but even I
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kind of got swooped into the Look when you compare
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this twenty twenty six season to every Clemson baseball season
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essentially since nineteen fifty seven, I mean, we're talking about
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just a couple of years after Marty McFly went back
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to the Enchantment under the Sea dance For crying out loud,
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When you talk about having arguably your worst season since then,
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when you're talking about having your worst season since before
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Bill Wilhelm arrived at Clemson, Like, when those are the
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when those are the stats that we're talking about and comparing,
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you know, this season versus those, it is fair to
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have moments like we had on this program where I said, look,
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if Graham Neth and the Clemson University administration wanted to
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make a move, they could. They absolutely could, and there's
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there's not much As I said then, I'd say it now,
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and I honestly I think Eric Backage would say it
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if they had done something to change the coaching at
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Clemson this offseason, the head coach, because there still could
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be staff changes, right, but if there had been something
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done with the head coach, I don't think Eric Becketch
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would have gotten in front of a microphone and said, well,
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I don't understand what happened. I don't understand why I'm
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out now. He might have said, well, we built some
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good things over the first few years I was here,
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and this season was undoubtedly a bad one, but it
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would have been understandable. The Tigers finished thirty one and
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twenty six ten and twenty, as you'll recall, in Atlantic
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Coast Conference play, and after their defeat another disappointing defeat
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to Notre Dame. I think this year you had four
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quite frankly disappointing losses against the Fighting Iris that probably
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cost you the chance to be in the NCAA tournament.
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I mean, if you turn those four games around, and
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I'm not saying you should have swept Notre Dame, but
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if you do turn those four games around, you're a
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lot better situation then you finished. And maybe if you
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don't get swept by Notre Dame, maybe there's a little
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more positive momentum there early on in the season that
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carries over a little bit. But either way, either way,
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this year was, in my life of nearly fifty years,
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the single most disappointing Clemson baseball season I've ever watched
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on Nothing really ever materialized. You know, Tiger Chuck does
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a tremendous job giving our preseason preview, and this team underperformed.
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Because here's what I don't think. I don't think Tiger
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Chuck over evaluated. I think he gives a great fair
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estimation about what he thinks these players are going to be,
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whether or not they were playing at a you know,
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Division I school, whether or not you know they they
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got pulled up a level whatever. I think Tiger Chuck
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knows the ends and the outs of baseball, which is
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exactly well, I don't think it. I know he does,
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but you know, when you go back and reread some
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of the stuff that even he thought you were going
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to get from this Clemson Tiger team, I mean, it
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was a major letdown from Aidon connock on to tie
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dally On. And this team has a fan base that
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loves baseball. This program has a fan base that loves
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college baseball. And to witness the year that you saw
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from this group after the way they started, was just sad,
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especially after opening the season fifteen and one. You won
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half your games in the first sixteen games of the year.
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Just let that sink in for a minute. You were
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fifteen and one and you finished thirty one and twenty six.
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So now onto the postseason, Clemson is not and the
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only saving grace. How ironic is it that you can
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be as disappointing as Clemson was, but yet you are
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not the worst of the two Power four teams in
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the state that South Carolina was not just a little
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bit more disappointing than Clemson this past year. I think
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most people would admit that they are infinitely more disappointing
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than the Tigers. Now, they do play in a tougher league,
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and that was validated. I don't think it's that much tougher,
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but I do believe it is tougher. But if you
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believe that the NCAA Tournament Committee is correct in you know,
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their evaluation and putting together the brackets, then the simple
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fact about how many teams from the Southeastern Conference versus
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the SEC, excuse me versus the ACC are hosting right
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like that in and of itself gives you the lay
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of the land of which conferences perceive to be the
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better league. Georgia, who won the Southeastern Conference championship for
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the first time, is the highest seed out of the
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Southeastern Conference in that Athens Regional with a three seed.
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Auburn checks in the four seed. Texas still pretty newly
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minted in the Southeastern Conference, but the Longhorns check in
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as the sixth overall seed in the tournament. Alabama is
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the seventh overall seed, Florida is the eighth overall seed.
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So five of the top eight teams hosting are from
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the Southeastern Conference. Then you add in the fact you've
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got Texas A and M as the twelfth overall seed
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and Mississippi State as the fourteenth. That seven of the
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sixteen regional sites being hosted by Southeast Southeastern Conference schools,
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nearly half in the Atlantic Coast Conference has three obviously,
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the two seed Georgia Tech, the five seed North Carolina,
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and the ten seed Florida State. So three of the
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top ten belonged to the ACC, and that five of
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the top eight expands to five out of the top
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ten if you wanted to carry it further, But it
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doesn't make sense because number ten is not a Southeastern
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Conference school. But that just shows you that the league
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there is more powerful. But South Carolina season much more
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disappointing than Clemsons firing a second year head coach, tells
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you how bad South Carolina thought, not only it was
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this year, but was going to continue to be under Paulmonary.
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Then the elimination of Mani Lee and the staff who
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tried to you know, you know, it's like Mani Lee
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got his hands on the Titanic just before it hit
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the iceberg. There's just nothing you could do. And Carolina
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season just continued to fall apart, and you know, like
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the state of their program much worse right now than Clemsons.
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I think that's undoubtedly true. But the good news is
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for both programs the transfer portal exists, and you can
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fix your program in a hurry. Speaking of fixing the
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program in a hurry, that's what we had to do yesterday.
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You'll hear the full opening segment over the next couple
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of segments. Right after this, the show the Chase of
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South hollann On a Wednesday, Clemson Sports talking, and we'll
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talk more about the college baseball season and the NCAA
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Tournament selections that were made. The teams that were left out,
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Mercer being one of those that everyone is continuing to
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talk about, but I think there's some stuff underlying in
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their resume that probably kept them out. All that being said,
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we'll jump into that in hour number two. As our
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good buddy Jamie Bradford, who knows the ends and the
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outs of college baseball, will be a part of the program,
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or expected, I should say, to be a part of
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the program. But yesterday, as I mentioned out of the
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gates here, there were some issues with the audio on
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the program, and so I want to make sure that
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you got the full opening segment. I don't know exactly
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what you missed. I just know that it at least
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came on ten twelve minutes late. So we'll jump into
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some of that and that'll wrap up our one, and
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then we'll be full throat along Wednesday content in our
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number two again. The ACC Tournament concludes this past weekend
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as the Georgia Tech Yellowjackets win the league, taking down
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North Carolina in the championship game. Let's face the facts.
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Georgia Tech has been the best team in the Atlantic
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Coast Conference in baseball all year, and North Carolina has
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been the second best team, and those two met up
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in the ACC championship game and Georgia Tech hammered them
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thirteen to six. You know, it's a number one seed
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versus the number two seed. Two of the top five
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teams in college baseball right now, both of which will
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be hosting the other hosts. The other hosts school from
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the Atlantic Coast Conference is Florida State. We'll talk more
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about the regionals momentarily, but Georgia Tech just continued their
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tourd pace this season, and I know anything can happen
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in baseball. We talk about this a lot because of
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the nature of the sport. One pitcher can have an
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absolutely dominant performance and shut down the best offenses in
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the country, and in a regional format, in a super
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regional format, losing two games is not some sort of
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absurd phenomenon. But this Georgia Tech team has to be
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considered a favorite to make it too Omaha, and perhaps
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the favorite to win it all. We'll see how it
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all shakes out here over the next few weeks as
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ESPN ramps up their coverage of college baseball. Speaking of
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ramping things up, Clemson on the recruiting front has ramp
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things up over the past week. As a matter of fact,
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over the past two days, a couple of carters in
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the boat Carter Blackwell tight end today out of Leek County, Georgia,
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and then yesterday Carter Jones offensive lineman out of the
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state of Virginia, join what has been a heck of
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a run by this Clemson staff. Right now, when you're
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sort of in the it's a it's kind of a
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weird time, kind of a strange time for recruiting. Clemson
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does have, you know, their big official visit weekend coming
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up June twelfth. I believe through the fourteenth, but then
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like they've got some unofficial visits, a big unofficial visit
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weekend coming up. I say all that to just talk
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about the fact that this little run that Clempson has
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been on now with five commits in basically a week,
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beginning with defensive back Darrell Chandler, running back Gary Walker,
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wide receiver Jamarian Simmons, and offensive lineman Carter Jones on
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Memorial Day, leading up to this morning's announcement from Carter
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Blackwell that he's committed. Just when you think Clemson's sliding
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a little bit, just when there becomes concerned about the program,
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you know, they go out and land three four stars
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and one three star. In a blink, twelve guys now
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in the fold in the twenty twenty seven class. And
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while this is a huge surge, there are a couple
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of things that I think you must talk about with
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all of this. More than any era ever, commitments have
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to be taken with a grain of salt. You can't
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trust that any Unfortunately, this is unfortunate for the kids
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because I'm sure many of these guys are probably trustworthy
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and in the majority of things that they do in
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their lives, they're probably trustworthy, and every single one of
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them might stay committed to Clemson and end up in Tigertown.
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But there is no oh commit that happens anymore, none
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where I get so overly excited about what that kid's
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gonna bring to the table for Clemson. You just can't
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do it. And I would say the same thing if
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today you got the commitment from a Trevor Lawrence or
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commitment from a Deshaun Watson, I would have said it
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just like I'm saying it to you right now. There
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is no guarantee that any player currently committed to any
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school anywhere goes there. And you might say, but that's
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always been the case, Swanee. Are you just finding that
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out about sports? Well, here's the thing. I'll say this
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without hesitational reservation. Even then, prior to what we see
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now with college sports, before the NIL era, players could flip,
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but the propensity in which they flipped was much less
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because people couldn't offer them dollars and cents to make
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the move. Now there'll be some sly devil out there.
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They'll say, Oh, but that's not true, Swannie. People are
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getting paid back in the day. Yeah, I understand that
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schools are breaking the rules, we'll come back. I'll talk
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more about that. Or we're breaking the rules, We'll talk
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more about that when we get back. Keep it a
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lot right here on Fox Sports Radio fourteen hundred Lawton, Swan,
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I was talking about, and portions of that were obviously
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yesterday's program, But I was talking about how even before
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this NIL era. I get it, some teams were breaking
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the rules, some teams were cheating, but I don't think
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there was ever anyone close to the degree in which
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we're talking about the money that people are currently being offered, right,
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Can we can we at least accept that as a principal.
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You know, when you think back, like in the history
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of the sport to players getting paid, the one that
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always stood out to me was the scandal that took
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place at Auburn back in twenty ten with Cam Newton
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and the alleged bag man that broke the deal and
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the NCAA ended up investigating his father, Cecil. You might
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recall that Cecil had solicited up to one hundred and
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eighty thousand dollars from Mississippi State during the recruiting process,
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and that money, right, like that type of money, one
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hundred and eighty grand became the number where we constantly
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were kind of like, wow, that's mind blowing, Like that's
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so much money. This wasn't a few thousand dollars. This
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wasn't a corvette as was often rumored about herschel Walker
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and Georgia, Like, this was a house basically that was
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bought and paid for, so to speak, with that money,
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and if that was what he solicited from Mississippi State,
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how much did Auburn pay for Cam newton services? So
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that that was like the first one in this business
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when I was covering it, remember I we started this show.
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The official you know, the plan for this show came
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together in O four. The first ever show debuted August first,
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two thousand and five, which were coming up on twenty
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one years of talking about Clemson, and with all that
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being said, like today, because the money is so different
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and it's legal, any guy that's committed to you some
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school can roll in or send them a message and say,
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hey man, look here's how much we can give you.
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And and kids are bound to fall for that across
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and I'll say fall fall for that charade because sometimes
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what you accept in the money does not get the
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same return on investment that you would if you're with
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a program that's about the right things. And one thing
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that it feels like when you read some of these commitments,
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and when you talk to some of these kids, you know,
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I've wondered for years whether or not Dabo Sweeney's kind
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of wholesome family values of the program would still hold
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water and resonate in this era, and at least with
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these commitments, it seems like it will. The problem that
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we have is the drop off that you've seen in
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performance on the field. And it's not as if you've
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missed out on every single recruit that you wanted in
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the past. I mean, Clemson has still landed recruits, but
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those recruits have not performed to the level in which
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is necessary for the Tigers to be elite on top
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of the world in college football and being there and
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living where Clemson did from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty,
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that rarefied air that you were breathing. That was the
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upper echelon of the sport. And although you are landing
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prospects and commits, you certainly don't seem to be landing
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the prospects and the commits of the same level that
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you once did back when money didn't rule the day.
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And that's probably the biggest issue that Clemson is going
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to continue to have when it comes down to the
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competition of it all. Now, you might benefit from the
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fact that you've got kids who are hungry. Right you
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look at a guy like Hunter Infro and his story.
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It's not like Hunter Infro came in as some five
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star decorated wide rest. It's a walk on earning his spot.
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And maybe some of these guys have that built within
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them a little bit because maybe they're not that top
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flight five star. But if you've got that hunger burning
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inside of you, and you truly have bought into Clemson
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because of the values that Daboswingyan his coaching staff impress
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upon you. Then the growth and the supporting cast that
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you have around you, the teammates, the drive, the hunger,
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all of that might burn just a little bit brighter
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for you. Then maybe the kid that got the two
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three million dollar deal. I mean, I think that is
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a whole another aspect of this era that we've never
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seen before, and that's one that sometimes comes to fruition
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when guys make it to the NFL or the NBA,
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where you get this huge payday and all of a sudden,
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trying to keep that fight, you know, that fight within
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your heart to push you to be the best, becomes
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much more difficult to sustain because now you've got money that,
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like the popular song says, now, hey ma I made
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it right, Like you're already paid, you're already wealthy beyond measure,
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you're already set up for the future, and so all
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of a sudden, making it to the NFL isn't nearly
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as monumental or gain life changing maybe as it once was,
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even for some of the lower tier guys. We'll talk
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a little bit more about that. We got about twenty
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seconds or so until the break. We'll come back. We'll
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put a bow on our number one plus an hour two.
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Jamie Bradford joins the program, so you want to make
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sure you stick around for that. As we talk a
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ton about the college baseball postseason. As the sixteen regionals
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have been set, stay with US Clemson Sports taw Finals
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segment our number one. On a Wednesday afternoon, we'll talk
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more about the NBA playoffs. Obviously, the Knicks are in
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the finals. They await the winner of San Antonio and
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Flop City. Excuse me, Oklahoma City. Uh good gracious, this
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team flops. Holy moly, it's hard to watch. Anyway, I
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want to jump back into what we were talking about,
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and it was that game changing money that now could
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be made at the collegiate level and how that changes
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things perhaps about making it to the NFL. And I
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think this is another reality of this era of college
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sports that we are now in. You don't really have
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to make it to the NFL to have made it.
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Here's what I'll say about that. Flash back to the
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nineteen nineties. Flash back to a really good player collegiately
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who makes it into the NFL and maybe they get
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one or two good contracts and they make three hundred,
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four hundred, maybe five hundred thousand dollars a season for
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four or five years, and they bring home a couple
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of million dollars, probably less obviously because the taxes, etc.
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Now kids in college are making more than that. You
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don't have to make it to the next level. You
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just simply have to make it from high school to
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college and be a great collegiate player, and you can
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make enough money to not have to worry about carrying
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on a professional career unless you want to. And so
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what happens when and I think that's why coaches are
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and rightfully so, we're trying to minimize the number of
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freshmen that make the elite level money, which is why
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I think a tiered system where you enhance the opportunity
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for people to graduate by allowing the seniors to get
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the most and having a structure in place, right that
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would because if we're gonna talk about education, make it
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so that you stick around, you can make more. And
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the seniors are making the most and the freshmen are
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making the least, regardless of how good they are. All
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that being said, you can make enough now where if
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you're a college kid, you don't have to desire to
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go play professionally. If you're smart with your money in college.
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I mean, think about that sentence. If you're smart with
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your money in college, like it used to be teaching
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college kids that if they were smart with their money
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when they got to the pros, they could live off
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of that money for the rest of their lives. Well,
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now we've come full circle to where hey, listen, college kid,
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I know you're making a ton of money. And guess what,
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you don't have to go to the NFL to have
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a nice life coming out of college with no debt
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and a couple of million in the bank. That's not
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the worst case scenario in the history of mankind for
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a human being, Am I right? And so that's kind
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of where we are. Anyway, we'll push back. That was
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some of the stuff that you may have missed yesterday.
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I feel pretty good about everything that was done an
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hour and Ember two of the program, so wanted to
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get all that to you today again. Jamie Bradford said,
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to join us here in just a little bit as
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we talk about the NCAA regionals for college baseball, and
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ultimately you know who Jamie thinks is the favorite. I
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feel like we probably all have a little bit of
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regional bias. In our hearts. And I think even though
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now UCLA plays in the Big Ten, well, I think
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if they were coming out of the Big Ten anyway,
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regardless of their location, we'd still all go Well. I
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think the best baseball's played in the Southeastern Conference and
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in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which we kind of touched
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on out of the gates. With the SEC having seven
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host sites the ACC having three, so ten of the
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sixteen host sites are from this region essentially. And I
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know the leagues have expanded all the way out to
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Texas and as far north as you know, Syracuse, and
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as far south as Miami, blah blah blah the end.
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But you know, I think one of the things that
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we certainly see or believe is that the best baseball's
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played here. So is UCLA, who's the number one overall seed?
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You know, are they going to end up not only
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in Omaha where they have been many many times and
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are have been national champions, right? Or is there another
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school from the ACC or the SEC that's ultimately going
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to bring home national title? I mean, that would be
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the likely scenario at this point. And who all ends
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up out in Omaha? And it's gonna be unique too,
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because you've got some schools that have traditionally been in,
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like Clemson, like South Carolina, like LSU that aren't there,
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and what is the impact on the fact that some
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of those more you know, significant programs. And again, Clemson,
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I feel hard almost jokingly throwing them into that mix
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a dispoint given the hiatus from Omaha that they've had,
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but more along the lines of, you know, top schools
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that have traditionally been there that aren't. And then we'll
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also talk with Jamie Bradford about what happened to Mercer.
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Mercer had I think a top thirty, a top thirty
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RPI boat was still left out, which is pretty rare.
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Part of it though, I think comes back to their schedule,
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which was like, if I remember correct, is this two
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eighteen or one eight I think it was two eighteen.
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I think it was two hundred and eighteen. Anyway, we'll
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get Jamie's thoughts on the NCAA tournament, what's going on
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in Columbia as far as the coaching staff, and since
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we last had Jamie on, you know, Moni Lee and
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that entire staff were ousted in Colombia. I like Moni Lee.
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I don't even like talking about him in that fashion
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right of being sent away. But that's that's the reality
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of it. And I'm sure MANI knew he had a
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heck of a hill to climb to try to turn
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that thing around, but he was unable to do so.
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So we'll talk with Jamie Bradford about that and much
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more coming up in our number two of the program. Again,
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Keep it a Lot right here for more Clemson sports
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Talk on Fox Sports Radio fourteen hundred the Lands, and
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of course, you can listen to the program anywhere in
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all right. When we get back, we expect Jamie Bradford
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to be here for our number two on a Wednesday afternoon.
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Keep it a Lot right here on Fox Sports Radio
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Wow.
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But you could continue to peek over the fans at
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the best radio showing the nature.
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I'm a Carolina fan. I would listen to your show,
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and I want to compliment you on your even hands
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between Clemson and Carolina.
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I lost me the sports fought radio all over, but
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the what do you come across makes me ship you're
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gonna pass your stuff, not on the radio.
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It is our number two. That's a drivetime writer on
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the show that Shakes the South Llania, Clemson Sports, Tall
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Lot and Swan hang out with you on a Wednesday afternoon.
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Jamie Bradford on Twitter at sports Media jab set to
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join the program momentarily. We'll talk with him about the
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NCAA Baseball Tournament, the sixteen host schools, who he thinks
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ultimately makes it to Omaha, and who he thinks wins
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it all, plus the news out of Columbia this past
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week the fact that they will not be returning anyone
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from Paulmonary's staff, that includes the former interim head coach
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Moni Lee, the former Clemson head coach as well. We'll
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talk with Jamie about that and he joins us here
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on the program on a Wednesday on Twitter at sports
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Media j b our Good, buddy, Jamie Bradford, Jamie, what's
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up man? How you been.
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Man? I'm good, I'm good. You know, we're winding down
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the school year and about to have to figure out
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what to do with a pair of seven year olds.
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For the next three months. So besides that, it's good. Yeah.
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Look, I mean, have you done the swimming lesson thing.
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I mean that's always a good win for the time
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of the year, right.
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Oh yeah, well ours ours are really good swimmers. We're
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trying to get him like on this to they want,
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you know, my wife wants them to be on swim team,
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but they're not really there yet. And we both are
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kind of we're the parents. We're the opposite of most
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of today's parents, Like we don't want to push them
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to do things. We want them to try things, and
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then if they choose not to do it after that,
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we're okay with it because they're seven and we I'd
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rather them miss it, you know what I mean, and
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say we want to do it again. Like my kids
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didn't want to play softball this spring, which was a
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little upsetting to me. I've coached for a couple of
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years and I'm a baseball guy, so I was like,
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but that's okay, you know, but you have to do something.
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So what are we going to do? And then one
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of my daughters comes back around and said, Dad, I
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want to play softball again. I was like, see, that's
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that's what I'm looking.
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For there you go, you know.
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So, yeah, it's good. We're good. They've got camps and stuff.
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We're going to travel in July a decent amount, so
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we'll be we'll be good. But still, yeah, you wake
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up in the morning and you don't put them on
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the bus anymore. You have to you got to figure
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out what to do with them.
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For a little bit again on Twitter at sports Media
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JB so, a lot of news obviously in the the
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world of baseball in the state of South Carolina, and
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you and I have touched on quite a bit about
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both clips in South Carolina the seasons that they had.
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But we did get the news that Monty Lee in
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that staff will not be back in Columbia kind of
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given all of the details after the paulmonary situation, what
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is the latest on that? Because I did hear an
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interview with Kevin schnall over at Coastal, and obviously he's
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still playing baseball, that's probably a part of the timeline
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for the game Cocks. But I heard him say how
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much he loved Coastal, the school he went to, the
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school he graduated from, and all of that. What's the
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latest news for all of our gamecock friends peeking over
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the fence.
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Yeah, look, you know everything I put out a report
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about this, probably a little less than a week ago,
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but everything continues to point towards coach Schnall as far
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as the South Carolina job is concerned. Now, you know,
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we've all been a part of coaching searches and things
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can change, but I would say, as it stands today,
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he's the most likely next leader of the program as
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it stands today, you know, Kevin obviously our friend Phil
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Cornblue certainly put him on the spot. And credit to
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Phil because he doesn't mind asking the questions, and you know,
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and he had to answer them. In credit to coach
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Schnall because coach Schnall answered the questions. You know, it
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goes without saying. He loves Coastal Carolina. He played there,
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he's coached there, he's you know, built that program into
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into what it is today, which is one of the
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better programs across the nation, especially for a place that
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would be considered a mend major. I don't consider them
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a mid major from a success standpoint. Maybe you do
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from a resources standpoint. You know, it comes to nil
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dollars and stuff. But you know, he's still at the
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end of the day, you know, I believe more than
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likely going to have a decision to make. And you know,
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if I had to, if I had to guess, if
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he said, hey, look, just guess what do you think
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he's going to do? I think he ends up in Columbia.
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But I also so could understand why, you know, some
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things could change and end up being or staying at
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Coastal Carolina and South Carolina ultimately choosing to go in
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another direction. So we'll see what happens. But but yeah,
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we're we're getting closer. We're getting closer. If a deal
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does happen Lawton with Kevin Schnall, I would anticipate it
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would happen rather quickly once the season.
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Is over, Okay, And so that was gonna be my
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next thing. Like in your mind, how significant is it
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whether or not coastal where to you know, survive the
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Tallahassee Regional and go to a super regional or maybe
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even as their fans would hope and expect to make it,
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you know, to out to Omaha. Like what does how
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does that play into it or does it factor into
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it at all? Like is this a decision that South
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Carolina would make regardless in your mind of Schnall's situation,
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or does it start with Snall and then you go
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from there.
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Yeah, I think that you know the game Cocks, you know,
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once they are crystal clear on on where they want
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to go with this thing, I think that it's going
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to be important to just stay in that lane, and
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I think that they will. I don't think that the
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length of the season will deviate them off track very
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much because it's really, at the end of the day,
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about getting the right coach for your program. And you know,
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I mean, quite honestly, if that was something that they
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were going to be pretty concerned about, then they probably
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missed the boat and letting you know, Coach Lee and
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some of those other guys go ahead and walk away
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before they actually knew where they were going. So, I
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you know, I know that some folks would disagree with
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me on that, but but but I wholeheartedly believe that
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that that's true. So yeah, I don't look if Coastal
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wraps up intil I have see this weekend, or if
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they move on to a Super Regional or even get
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back to Omaha for the second straight year. And and
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this is the this is their guy they decided that
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is our guy. Period the end, I think South Carolina
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probably stays in that lane and and goes ahead and
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just rides out the storm and there will be much
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more of a rebuild. But but you know, that'll be
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the price that you pay to get the guy that
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you want.
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Jamie Bradford with us here on the program, part of
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the On three team over at Gamecock Central and the
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Big Spur Jamie. As for Mani Lee, obviously he's a
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huge name in the states of South Carolina with college baseball.
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Any idea what his future plans are at this point?
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I mean, I'm sure he's made enough money. If he
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wants to take a year or two often chill out
718
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in the lake, he could probably do that. But what
719
00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:49.320
is you know, in your opinion, the next steps.
720
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For him, Well, you know, it's it's a little tricky,
721
00:50:54.440 --> 00:50:57.199
you know, Mani. You know, my understanding is that is
722
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:03.920
that Mani is open to to multiple opportunities that may
723
00:51:03.960 --> 00:51:08.519
have already or could be presenting themselves. Ultimately, you know,
724
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he wants to be the head coach. You know, he
725
00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:14.199
really wanted to be the head coach at South ND.
726
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.639
Obviously that's not going to happen. And you gotta you
727
00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:20.639
gotta look around too and understand that it's a it's
728
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:25.239
a pretty it's a pretty light, pretty light market this year.
729
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:27.800
There's just not a lot of movement. Now, let's say
730
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.800
Kevin Shall moves, I mean, obviously that creates an opening
731
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.840
at Coastal. Would he be in consideration there? I'm led
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to believe that he probably would be. I don't know
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that Coach Lee wants to take a year away from
734
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.920
coaching for a couple of reasons. Number one, you know,
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00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:50.480
he's dedicated his life to impacting the lives of young people.
736
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He loves being on the field and off the field,
737
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:57.280
impacting young people's lives, and you know, teaching them how
738
00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:00.760
to be great baseball players. But more importantly, and this
739
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is what all the guys that I know who've played
740
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for him for twenty five years would tell you, teaching
741
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you how to be a better man than that. And
742
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and you know, Money, Money doesn't want to be away
743
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from that. That's his drug is being out there with
744
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the kids. And so but what opportunities are ultimately going
745
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to be available is certainly the question, you know, And
746
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and and the other side of it, you know, the
747
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second point I'll make on that is, you know what
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chrysal Monas is going through right now. I mean, chrysal
749
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Monis won a national championship in Mississippi State. And people
750
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can slice that and dice that however they want to,
751
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whether they were his players or not his players, or
752
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:43.480
whatever you want to say, really irrelevant. I mean, he
753
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won a national championship. And you know, chrystal Monas I
754
00:52:48.119 --> 00:52:51.639
think gets forgotten about. He went to Indiana and went
755
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:56.239
to three regionals in four years at Indiana. That's hard
756
00:52:56.280 --> 00:52:58.679
to do, right, and he did it. You know, he
757
00:52:58.679 --> 00:53:01.960
helped Dan McDonald bil Louisville into what they built Louisville into.
758
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And I know that this year. You know, they ended
759
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:05.960
up slipping a little bit as the season went along,
760
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but them McDonald has had a pretty darn good run
761
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at Louisville. And go ask, go ask Mac you know
762
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:14.360
how'd you get this train on the tracks here? He'll
763
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he'll He'll give you one name, chrysala Monis. Well. Limo
764
00:53:18.400 --> 00:53:20.039
has been out of the game now for a year,
765
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and you know Limo wants to coach. Limo is a
766
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:25.960
valuable coach. He's an excellent recruiter, he's a great baseball guys,
767
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:28.480
and he's a better man, and he's an awesome dude,
768
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:31.320
you know, and it's it's hard when you get out
769
00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.239
to get back in. It's just hard. And you know,
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I don't think Coach Lee wants to see himself in
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that position. So you know, he's gonna he's probably gonna
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try to stay in the game or get on staff
773
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wherever he can. And you know that I would say
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this long and I think that there will probably probably
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be some opportunities that that you know, maybe you don't
776
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see coming. And we'll see if one of those things
777
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is kind of lands in his lap where or it's
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an opportunity that he wants to take. And I would
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imagine if that's the case, we'll probably know a little
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bit sooner than later.
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Jamie Bradford again with us here on the program. So
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the NCAA College Baseball field has been put together, and
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I'll start with sort of a consolidation of the Power
784
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five to the Power four and its impact maybe on
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the Big ten and Big ten baseball across the board.
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You just kind of mentioned Indiana for a second there,
787
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but UCLA is now in the Big Ten. They're the
788
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top seed in the tournament the other top eight, I believe,
789
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or either from the ACC or the SEC. But is
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there any benefit because in the time that I've grown up,
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the Big Ten hasn't been all that impactful in baseball.
792
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But do you believe when you have a league that
793
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comes together and you get a UCLA or a Southern
794
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cal or maybe even in Oregon some of these other
795
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:54.519
other schools that are a little bit better at baseball
796
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than most of those traditional Big Ten schools, can that
797
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elevate that conference to a degree to the point where
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we might actually see more teams from that league having
799
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an impact on say hosting regional play down the road.
800
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Yeah, I think it can. I think it can, certainly.
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I mean it also can go the other way, you know.
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I mean I think that you know the thing with baseball,
803
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you know, so UCLA, for instance, I mean, while they
804
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are a part of the Big Ten, you know, and
805
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you play, you play fifty six games a year, you know,
806
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you still basically are going to get you know, over
807
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half your games at home or in the area, right,
808
00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:39.079
actually way more than that. Yeah, But I mean, you know,
809
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there's also going to be guys who you know, I
810
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don't want to take five road trips a year across
811
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the road trips, flights across the country to go play
812
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at Rutgers and Penn State and things like that. Now,
813
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that hasn't really been in effect to this point, but
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could it be down the road. Could it be financially
815
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:00.880
you bet you. You know a lot of those teams
816
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that don't make any money, you know, and you would
817
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hate to see something devastating like that come along right
818
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where you end up having to cut a sport or
819
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something because you can't afford it, especially baseball. But the
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flip side of it is that, yeah, you know, when
821
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it comes all these TV packages and all this stuff,
822
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if you play your cards right and you move your
823
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money around the way that you probably should, it can
824
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elevate different leagues like the Big Ten. I mean, you know,
825
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the ACC the SEC are always going to be good.
826
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You know that certainly that the top half of the
827
00:56:34.719 --> 00:56:37.119
ACC or two thirds of it are always going to
828
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be good, and then the bottom half. You'll probably have
829
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a couple of teams that do something here and there,
830
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and that's just kind of how it's going to be.
831
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The SEC, for the most part, is always really good,
832
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:49.719
and unfortunately South Carolina has been one of two teams
833
00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:51.400
the last couple of years that have kind of drug
834
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:54.719
it down alongside Missouri. But you know, you look at
835
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:57.079
the Big Ten, I think it's certainly created more depth
836
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in that league than there used to be used to
837
00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:00.840
kind of have to get a surprise like I mentioned
838
00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:04.199
Indiana or what Backkitch did it at Michigan, right, you know,
839
00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:06.400
things like that would kind of kind of come out
840
00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:09.000
of nowhere. You might have Illinois pop in for a
841
00:57:09.079 --> 00:57:12.239
year and play really really well. But but the teams
842
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that they've acquired, UCLA, Southern Cow, Oregon and these are
843
00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:19.079
these are programs who traditionally are really good baseball schools,
844
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and I think overall raises the profile of.
845
00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:24.960
The league well. And I think the other thing too, right,
846
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:26.960
Like you see Michigan just being one of the schools
847
00:57:27.000 --> 00:57:30.679
that was left out, and that's obviously another program that
848
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:33.679
you know, they've got the financial resources and probably the
849
00:57:33.719 --> 00:57:36.679
wherewithal never gonna have the early season weather though to
850
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:41.320
probably piece together I would guess consistency, but we'll see.
851
00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:43.760
Speaking of teams that were left out, Mercer, I mean
852
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that was one that a lot of people have focused
853
00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:49.800
on just schedule strength. I mean, is that it because
854
00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:51.679
I think they were a top thirty RPI team.
855
00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:53.679
Yeah.
856
00:57:55.039 --> 00:58:01.920
Yeah, Look, there's there's just like the basketball tournament, there's
857
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:05.519
gonna be one or two every year, you know, maybe
858
00:58:05.519 --> 00:58:09.280
more than that. But you know, Mercer was this year's
859
00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:12.719
College of Charleston from twenty twenty four. I mean, Chad
860
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:16.679
Holbrook and the Cougars had every right to be in
861
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:20.039
the postseason in twenty twenty four, and they got shafted
862
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.960
in lieu of pick one either Coastal because it was
863
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:28.320
you know, the you know, the final year of Gary Gilmour,
864
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.440
their head coach, or Florida and now Florida ended up,
865
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:35.519
you know, going to Omaha. But at that point in time,
866
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:40.239
they were just a struggling SEC team, but they kind
867
00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:42.039
of got the benefit of the doubt over a team
868
00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:45.079
like the College of Charleston. And I kind of feel
869
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.800
like that's what happened to Mercer again this year. I mean, dude,
870
00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:52.880
Mercer's RPI via Warren Nolan ended up being at twenty eight.
871
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:53.639
Wow.
872
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:57.320
And you know, they really got dinged because twenty eight
873
00:58:58.119 --> 00:59:02.119
of the fifty nine games that they played were Quad
874
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:06.199
four and they were just one four against Quad one teams,
875
00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:08.920
and you know, you look at my buddy, my friend
876
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:11.960
Skylar Mead and Troy. You know, they did what they
877
00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:16.280
were told to do, schedule tough, and those guys ended
878
00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:19.119
up going seven and twelve in quad one opportunities. They've
879
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:22.840
played nineteen of them at so that's that's what fourteen
880
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:25.800
more than Mercer played. But also, you know, there, you
881
00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:28.079
got to bring another side of this into it, right,
882
00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:31.239
and that's the eyeball test, Like you got to bring
883
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:33.559
the eyeball test into it, Like you can't always just
884
00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:35.880
look at the numbers. And I'm not saying that Troy
885
00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:38.639
should should not have been in. I think Troy should
886
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:42.000
have been in. Like I was pulling for Skylar to
887
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:44.679
get in and he got in. But you know, you
888
00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:46.920
look at you look at Mercer. I watched him play
889
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:48.920
a bunch this year, and they had a couple of
890
00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:51.000
games here and there against like I know, they had
891
00:59:51.000 --> 00:59:53.320
a bad one against Florida State and things like that.
892
00:59:53.400 --> 00:59:57.039
But ultimately, from the eyeball test standpoint, especially at the
893
00:59:57.079 --> 01:00:00.519
end of the season, they were really, really good. And
894
01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:03.199
I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out how
895
01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:06.199
forty four wins in a top five or six league
896
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:10.360
with a top thirty RPI does not get you into
897
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:13.679
the NCAA tournament. So you know, but we say this
898
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:16.360
every year. I feel for them, and guess what, there's
899
01:00:16.400 --> 01:00:19.519
gonna be another mercer next year that ends up not
900
01:00:19.559 --> 01:00:20.880
getting in there. You know.
901
01:00:20.960 --> 01:00:23.079
The other thing, by the way, that's Jamie Bradford on
902
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:25.880
Twitter at Sports Media JB. Give him a follow today.
903
01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:33.679
The other thing that I think speaks to the wealth
904
01:00:33.719 --> 01:00:37.239
of talent across baseball that's spread out is that you
905
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:43.679
get regional matchups right with North Carolina and Tennessee, Florida
906
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:48.079
and Miami, Like these are just regionals, but some of
907
01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:51.800
the competition feels like what you would typically talk about
908
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:54.719
at the super regional level. And I really think that
909
01:00:55.159 --> 01:00:59.920
does speak to the popularity of college baseball, but more importantly,
910
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:03.400
just how good some of these teams are across the country.
911
01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:08.480
No doubt. Yeah, Look, I love the NCAA regional setup.
912
01:01:08.880 --> 01:01:11.639
I think it's the best setup in college athletics. I mean,
913
01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:14.199
you've got I mean, just like softball, and the same
914
01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:15.840
thing with softball, you know, it's just not on the
915
01:01:15.880 --> 01:01:18.960
grand stage like baseball has been. But I mean, you've
916
01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:22.599
got first of all, if you're in a regional, you're
917
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:24.840
either one of the best teams in the country or
918
01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:27.320
you're one of the hottest teams in the country. There's
919
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:30.519
no other way around it, because if you're a four seed,
920
01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:34.760
the four seeds are all mid major programs or or
921
01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:37.639
you know, programs from much smaller leagues who won their
922
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:38.639
conference tournament.
923
01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:40.960
Yeah, no doubt, and a lot of those teams are
924
01:01:41.039 --> 01:01:44.119
playing really good baseball right now. Tell you what, Jamie,
925
01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:46.360
let me catch off right here, Wait a quick rate,
926
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:50.599
we'll come back. We'll hear the rest of why Jamie
927
01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:54.159
thinks that, you know, this format is just so perfect
928
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.440
for college baseball and really for college sports and the
929
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.679
way it all plays itself down by the way, on
930
01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:05.360
Origin Sports today they had a Michael Jordan episode or whatever.
931
01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:10.840
It's Clemson versus North Carolina in Chapel Hill with Jordan playing.
932
01:02:11.719 --> 01:02:15.079
Really fun to watch this and on the sidelines Eddie Folgler,
933
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.400
Roy Williams. All these guys are young over there beside
934
01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:22.480
Dean Smith. Quick breat We'll come out with more with
935
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:25.760
Jamie Bradford right after this. The show that shakes the
936
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:29.719
south Land, Clemson Sports Talk on a Wednesday, Jamie Bradford
937
01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:32.320
on the guest Line hanging out with us and Jamie.
938
01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:37.039
You were talking about the format of the postseason in
939
01:02:37.079 --> 01:02:40.159
college baseball and the fact that you know, those four
940
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:43.880
seeds are teams that have typically won their conference tournament.
941
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:48.400
They're playing really good and are you know, very competitive.
942
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:50.719
Perhaps you might say, at this point in the year,
943
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:52.840
what else is it that you like about it?
944
01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:55.719
You know the ones in the twos, they're the best
945
01:02:55.760 --> 01:02:59.320
teams in the country. Well, in baseball, Look, man, if
946
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.519
you're on a heat and you've got a Friday night guy,
947
01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:03.800
you could do some damage. I'll bet I'll bet you
948
01:03:04.679 --> 01:03:08.079
somewhere when these suckers begin on Friday and Saturday this week,
949
01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:11.199
there's gonna be a team, you know, a Northeastern that
950
01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:14.320
beats the Kansas or you know, a lipscumb that beats
951
01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:16.800
Mississippi State or something like that. You're gonna look around
952
01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:18.280
and you're gonna go, well, how did that happen? Well,
953
01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:19.840
because they threw a guy who's probably gonna go in
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01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:22.320
the top five rounds of the draft. You just didn't
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01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.599
know he existed. And you know, Saint John's or something
956
01:03:25.679 --> 01:03:28.079
like that down in Tallahassee. I don't know who. I'm
957
01:03:28.079 --> 01:03:32.840
not predicting any of those same examples, but you know,
958
01:03:32.920 --> 01:03:34.639
and that's the thing, you know, where they run out
959
01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:38.519
of juice is is like if you're a if you're
960
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:42.440
a mid major, you generally, if you're gonna win a regional,
961
01:03:42.639 --> 01:03:44.440
you got to wrap it up quick. You got to
962
01:03:44.480 --> 01:03:46.440
try to get through it in three games, because those
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01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:49.840
teams don't have enough arms for four and five games.
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01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:54.239
They just don't. I mean, quite frankly, maybe half of
965
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:57.519
the of the power teams center in there truly have
966
01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:00.559
enough arms for four and five games. If you're really
967
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:02.079
going to run through it, I mean, you're not playing
968
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:04.199
four and five games. And you know, the span of
969
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:06.960
three or four days, that's a lot, man, it's a lot,
970
01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:08.800
and you have to really be able to manage it.
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01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:10.480
And you got to know who you're managing and how
972
01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:12.519
they're going to perform and whether they can or can't
973
01:04:12.519 --> 01:04:15.800
come back on X number of days or even hours
974
01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:18.000
worth of rest. Did they start on Friday and now
975
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:20.320
you're trying to bring them back to close out a
976
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:22.280
game on Monday? How are they going to respond to that?
977
01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:24.480
I Mean there's a lot that goes into it. So
978
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:28.400
if you're a if you are a you know, like
979
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:31.519
a Saint John's or an Alabama State or South Carolina upstate,
980
01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:35.199
or how about those Citadel Bulldogs that have run into
981
01:04:35.199 --> 01:04:37.760
this sucker as a as a three seed. Good for
982
01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:42.000
good for Trip and Coach Beckley and James Reeves and
983
01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:44.679
Dwayne Kitts and all those guys on staff over there. Man,
984
01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:47.239
I'm so happy for them. But if you're a team
985
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.760
like that, you know, the Sibnels got what three guys
986
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:53.119
I think that throw ninety five plus and they throw
987
01:04:53.159 --> 01:04:57.559
they throw it well, they throw strikes. Those are guys
988
01:04:57.559 --> 01:04:58.920
who have to give you a lot. You got to
989
01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:00.360
be able to get through it in three games or
990
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:02.159
else you just run out of juice. You don't have it.
991
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:05.679
So but if you have that, it can create some chaos.
992
01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:07.519
And that's why I think it just makes it such
993
01:05:07.559 --> 01:05:10.719
a great deal. And then you go to the Supers
994
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:12.760
where you have a true best of three series, and
995
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.000
then this thing kind of resets itself in Omaha, then
996
01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.400
you have another true best of three series. It really
997
01:05:18.880 --> 01:05:22.320
implements the best of college athletics and the best for
998
01:05:22.480 --> 01:05:25.039
the game of baseball into one tournament. That's why that's
999
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:27.079
why I think it's the best. I'm biased, Lawton, I'm
1000
01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:28.760
a baseball guy. I'm biased, so.
1001
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:29.199
I get it.
1002
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:33.159
But I still really appreciate the setup and how they
1003
01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:35.559
do it. I hope they never even consider changing it.
1004
01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:38.480
Like every other sport, basically out there is trying to.
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01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:41.239
Do again, that's Jamie Bradford hanging out with us here
1006
01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:46.039
on a Wednesday. All right, so seven Southeastern Conference schools
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01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:51.599
I believe in the NCAA Tournament. Jamie. From that standpoint,
1008
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:54.559
how many do you think will make it out of
1009
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:57.800
not only regional play, but super regional play and ultimately
1010
01:05:57.920 --> 01:06:00.719
into you know, out Omaha.
1011
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:04.119
Well, I always look at pitching. When yet, when that
1012
01:06:04.199 --> 01:06:06.880
question is asked, I always look at pitching, and I'll start.
1013
01:06:07.079 --> 01:06:11.360
Let's start with Georgia. Okay, a few weeks ago, I
1014
01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.719
didn't think Georgia was no Maha team, and you might go, wait, what,
1015
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.159
this guy's an idiot. Maybe I was an idiot. I
1016
01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:21.880
don't know. Offensively them in Georgia Tech, it's hard to
1017
01:06:21.880 --> 01:06:24.360
believe they're only about fifty five minutes apart, because they're
1018
01:06:24.400 --> 01:06:27.119
the two best offenses in the country. If you ask me,
1019
01:06:28.519 --> 01:06:29.840
and I probably.
1020
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:31.880
I probably should correct myself right, because I was I
1021
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:34.519
said seven of that's host schools. There's twelve total teams
1022
01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:38.199
for the for you know, the the listener out there,
1023
01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:39.320
I misspoke.
1024
01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:43.159
Yeah, no, I do what you were asking. I was gonna,
1025
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:47.559
don't you worry. I got your back. Yeah, I Georgia.
1026
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:50.639
Let's start with the host schools though, because they clearly
1027
01:06:50.639 --> 01:06:55.280
have the best chance. Right. So Georgia's arms have come
1028
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:58.519
around and their bats just continue to rise to the challenge,
1029
01:06:58.559 --> 01:07:00.960
Like even if they have a rough down, the it's like, oh, shoot,
1030
01:07:01.000 --> 01:07:03.039
we gave up seven, We're gonna need to score eight, okay,
1031
01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:05.800
And you know it's it's kind of the snap of
1032
01:07:05.800 --> 01:07:08.760
a finger. It's hard to not see Georgia in Omaha.
1033
01:07:09.559 --> 01:07:12.039
And I feel like they've got a regional that they
1034
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:15.119
can they can really really do it. You know, no
1035
01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:18.760
disrespect to Boston College and Todd ender Donado or Liberty
1036
01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:21.960
l I U those teams, but it's gonna be hard
1037
01:07:21.960 --> 01:07:23.480
to go there and beat Georgia. All right, So you
1038
01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:26.360
look at Georgia, I would I would I'd put them
1039
01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:28.840
in that group that I would expect to see there. Look,
1040
01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:31.639
I saw Mississippi State up close and personal for three
1041
01:07:31.639 --> 01:07:35.000
games in Columbia, and regardless of how good South Carolina
1042
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:39.079
was or how good South Carolina wasn't, I looked at
1043
01:07:39.079 --> 01:07:42.840
their team offensively and their staff, and they were as
1044
01:07:42.840 --> 01:07:45.440
complete of a team as I saw with my own eyes.
1045
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:50.119
They looked really good. And so it's going to be
1046
01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:54.159
I don't see Mississippi State not getting out of a
1047
01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:58.320
regional and I and I certainly believe that they would
1048
01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:03.119
have a chance. Here's the problem. They're a fourteen seed
1049
01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:09.639
that's tied in with the three seed. There's the Georgia Bulldogs.
1050
01:08:09.880 --> 01:08:13.360
So you know, if you had to choose there, I'm
1051
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:17.119
taking Georgia. You know, you've got a couple other teams,
1052
01:08:17.159 --> 01:08:19.680
you know, you think about just just host schools here.
1053
01:08:20.159 --> 01:08:22.159
You know you got Auburn as a four seed. Well,
1054
01:08:22.159 --> 01:08:25.840
they're they're matched up with the thirteen seeded Lincoln Regional.
1055
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:28.079
So if Nebraska wins their own regional, which I've got
1056
01:08:28.079 --> 01:08:31.560
serious doubts that they will, then they would have to
1057
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:34.760
go to Auburn. I like Auburn in that spot, but
1058
01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:37.840
I you know, Lincoln, they haven't hosted a regional since
1059
01:08:37.880 --> 01:08:43.359
two thousand and eight, and Lincoln, Nebraska and oh joy, hey, congratulations.
1060
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:45.880
You also get old misses. The two in Arizona State
1061
01:08:46.000 --> 01:08:49.359
is the three. Yeah, I mean really, I mean, come on, man.
1062
01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:53.760
So but I think Auburn's got a path to get there, certainly.
1063
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:56.079
You know, A and M kind of slipped to a
1064
01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:59.720
twelve seed. They're paired with the fifth seeded region regional,
1065
01:08:59.720 --> 01:09:02.399
which in Chapel Hill. I would tend to lean on
1066
01:09:02.439 --> 01:09:04.600
North Carolina there, but you know, Tennessee knows they are
1067
01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:07.720
a way around the postseason and and they're in that
1068
01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:11.319
Chapel Hill regional, so you know, we'll kind of have
1069
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:14.760
to see how that thing plays itself out. Tennessee would
1070
01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:17.079
have a difficult time going to Chapel Hill and then
1071
01:09:17.520 --> 01:09:19.680
having to go to College Station potentially and win a
1072
01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:22.960
super regional there. I don't know about Alabama, man, I
1073
01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:26.119
just don't know, Like there's they've got some pieces. I
1074
01:09:26.279 --> 01:09:29.760
just they're playing good baseball, but I don't know if
1075
01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:30.720
they're strong enough.
1076
01:09:31.159 --> 01:09:32.960
Well, And let's hit a break and come back to
1077
01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:34.279
that because I want to hear a little bit more
1078
01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:38.119
about it. Plus, you know, as those pairings between the
1079
01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:43.720
two regionals wind down, what could ultimately take place on
1080
01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:46.159
that front as well. So within a break, we'll come back,
1081
01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:48.880
We'll put a bow on our conversation with Jamie Bradford
1082
01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:51.720
right here on Fox Sports Radio fourteen hundred the Midlands
1083
01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:55.039
and of course around the world on the iHeartRadio application.
1084
01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:57.079
When we get back, keep it locked for more the
1085
01:09:57.119 --> 01:10:00.720
show that shakes the South Land Clubs in Sports swan
1086
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:03.159
Jamie Bradford on the guest line. Don't forget about our
1087
01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:05.239
friends in Alumni Hall right there on the corner of
1088
01:10:05.279 --> 01:10:08.439
campus on College Avenue in downtown Clympson for all your
1089
01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:12.800
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1090
01:10:12.840 --> 01:10:15.960
go check them out today or online at Alumni Hall
1091
01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:21.680
dot com. It's Alumni Hall where Tiger fans shop. All right, Jamie,
1092
01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:24.279
you were talking about the regionals, and boy, I know
1093
01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:26.399
we all wish Clympson the South Carolina Arena. But you
1094
01:10:26.479 --> 01:10:31.640
were talking about the pairing between the Tuscaloosa Regional and
1095
01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:33.880
the Tallahassee Regional and your thoughts on that.
1096
01:10:34.279 --> 01:10:38.840
The Tallahassee Tuscaloosa potential regional matchup is really up in
1097
01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:41.439
the air. Look, Coastal Coastal is gonna throw some arms
1098
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:44.000
out there this weekend. They could win the Florida State Regional.
1099
01:10:44.439 --> 01:10:48.600
Absolutely could Florida State could win the regional. You know, Alabama,
1100
01:10:49.319 --> 01:10:52.039
they could win their regional. But Oklahoma State's playing really well,
1101
01:10:52.119 --> 01:10:54.680
so that's probably the biggest toss up of those too.
1102
01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:56.880
I like Florida. I like where Florida is. I think
1103
01:10:56.920 --> 01:10:59.439
Florida would be a team that I would look at
1104
01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:02.920
and say, yeah, yeah, I would put money down that
1105
01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:05.159
they could get there. And the same thing with Texas,
1106
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:08.239
Like I really like the situation is that Texas is
1107
01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:11.319
in hosting as a sixth seed, potentially being matched up
1108
01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:14.600
with Oregon out of that Eugene Regional. And you look
1109
01:11:14.600 --> 01:11:17.319
at some of these other teams, the one I'll circles Arkansas.
1110
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:21.600
Look credit to Dan Fitzgerald and Kansas. That Lawrence Regional
1111
01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:24.159
is gonna be fun. They've just created a new little
1112
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:26.920
area behind the left field wall. They're calling it the backyard,
1113
01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:29.560
where they're gonna put another fifteen hundred fans in there.
1114
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:33.279
The place only yeah, they only seat like fifteen hundred
1115
01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:36.479
Lawton and apparently they had like six thousand or seven
1116
01:11:36.520 --> 01:11:39.159
thousand ticket requests, so they're gonna try to find a
1117
01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:42.359
way to squeeze about three thousand m could be a
1118
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:47.000
big time fun, really unique atmosphere in Lawrence, Kansas. But
1119
01:11:47.159 --> 01:11:51.000
Arkansas is a two seed. You know, I'm not a
1120
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:53.359
big fan of Kentucky going to the West Virginia Regional.
1121
01:11:53.399 --> 01:11:55.520
I don't think that they'll make it out of there.
1122
01:11:56.560 --> 01:11:58.279
And I'm trying to remember who else I might be
1123
01:11:58.319 --> 01:12:01.600
missing here, but I I think if you circle Florida,
1124
01:12:01.680 --> 01:12:04.720
you circle Texas, you circle Auburn and Georgia, those are
1125
01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:06.840
the teams at this point in time that I would
1126
01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:08.920
probably have the most confidence in so.
1127
01:12:09.119 --> 01:12:12.880
For potential, with more possible one other possibility, and you
1128
01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:14.399
just brought it up, and it's the final thing I'll
1129
01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:17.439
ask you. If Coastal does get out of that Tallahassee
1130
01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:23.760
Regional and USC Upstate were to perhaps somehow win in
1131
01:12:23.880 --> 01:12:27.960
Tuscaloosa in that region, assuming Coastal put in the host
1132
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:29.800
in the second round, which based off of their track
1133
01:12:29.800 --> 01:12:32.680
record I'm sure they did, we could have an all
1134
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:38.439
South Carolina between Coastal and USC Upstate in the super Regionals.
1135
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:40.560
That would be That would be a lot of fun.
1136
01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:42.119
Like I love the way they set up the bracket.
1137
01:12:42.199 --> 01:12:44.439
They try to protect things. That's one where when I
1138
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:46.479
picked it up I went, man, could you imagine what
1139
01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:47.079
that would be like?
1140
01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.840
Uh, that would be a blast. Yeah, that would really
1141
01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:54.319
be great for this state. There's a lot of good
1142
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.520
people involved in both of those programs. I think what
1143
01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:01.720
Caine has done up at Upstate is awesome. You know,
1144
01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:05.119
I think obviously you know Kevin and and Matt Williams
1145
01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:07.960
and that group over there at Coastal. Chance Miller, you know,
1146
01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:11.600
he's still be a d at at Coastal. That would
1147
01:13:11.720 --> 01:13:15.159
just be incredible. Yeah. I agree, man, I think it'd
1148
01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:18.600
be really unique. I think that you know, once again,
1149
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:20.720
it'd be a lot of fun. I think Conway. I
1150
01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:26.960
look Alabama. I saw Alabama, and no disrespect to my
1151
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:29.399
man Roger Hoover, who's the voice of the Crimson Tide
1152
01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:34.199
Love Roger does a fantastic job. Rob Vaughn. Coastal Carroll,
1153
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:36.279
you know, head coach Coastal Carolina. Tie in over there,
1154
01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:39.319
Mike Morrison, who was one of the star pitchers on
1155
01:13:39.359 --> 01:13:43.920
that twenty sixteen national championship program for Coastal. He's a
1156
01:13:43.960 --> 01:13:47.479
recruiting coordinator for Alabama. You know, they've done a really
1157
01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:49.760
good job of putting that team together. It's got a
1158
01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:52.840
lot of young guys are real good and there'll be
1159
01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:54.560
a lot of fun I think in the coming years
1160
01:13:54.600 --> 01:13:58.960
if coach Vaughan stays in Tuscaloosa, which I'm anticipating he
1161
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:04.079
probably is going to. But I don't, man, seeing them
1162
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:07.079
as a seventh seed was I don't know. I just
1163
01:14:07.159 --> 01:14:09.159
don't know. I think of the top eight seeds, they're
1164
01:14:09.239 --> 01:14:12.560
the weakest where they sit right now. They're they're beatable.
1165
01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:15.239
They find ways to beat you, but their lineup is
1166
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:17.479
not scary. They do a lot of things, you know,
1167
01:14:17.479 --> 01:14:19.720
a lot of little things that are right. And if
1168
01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:23.279
that continues, yeah, Alabama could be okay. But if those
1169
01:14:23.279 --> 01:14:26.039
things don't go their way, don't get a bunt down,
1170
01:14:26.159 --> 01:14:29.159
don't get a hit and run, you know, et cetera,
1171
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:33.119
et cetera, Alabama, Alabama's a team who certainly could lose
1172
01:14:33.159 --> 01:14:36.319
their home regional as a seventh seeds, So we'll just
1173
01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:37.680
kind of have to keep an eye on it. And
1174
01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:40.760
if Upstate ke'ps playing well, you never know.
1175
01:14:41.079 --> 01:14:44.359
You never know, Jamie Well, I always appreciate you, man,
1176
01:14:44.439 --> 01:14:45.880
I know this is the time of the year that
1177
01:14:46.279 --> 01:14:48.399
guys like you, who grew up playing the game and
1178
01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:51.319
played it in college love can't wait to talk to
1179
01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:53.199
you next week to see how things shake out and
1180
01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:56.439
what super regionals we do indeed have on the docket.
1181
01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:59.199
No doubt, I know this is such a great time
1182
01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:01.560
for all of you that be fringe baseball fans. I
1183
01:15:01.640 --> 01:15:06.119
understand it. I totally understand. Do yourselves a favor, though,
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you know, pull up Squeeze Play on ESPN two or
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pull up the ESPN app and watch as many games
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as you can. That Squeeze Play is awesome. They'll have
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four games at one time, and they go in and
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out of all what's going on in all the games
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it is. It's as unique of a setup as there
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is in college sports. And hopefully everybody enjoys the weekend.
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It does wonders for people with ADHD.
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Yeah, no doubt, I hear you.
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There he is Jamie Bradford again on Twitter at Sports
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Media JB. Jamie, take care of my man?
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All right, you too? Thank you?
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There go. That's our good buddy, Jamie Bradford, who does
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a unbelievable job talking college baseball with us and covering
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the situation in Columbia with their coaching vacancy. Right now,
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We'll see who ends up there and how long it
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takes for Kevin Schanall and Coastal to maybe be eliminated
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from postseason play so that the proceedings could potentially move forward.
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Nothing certainly in stone on that front, but I would
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imagine that South Carolina fans, based off of the job
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that Kevin Schanalls done, I would imagine that they would
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be interested in figuring out how to make it work
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in a hurry. Speaking of something that works in a hurry,
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have you heard of our friends over at Lake Murray
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dot Mosquitojoe dot com. It is a fantastic team that
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free estimate and take your first steps towards a buzz
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free property. Mosquito Joe of Lake Murray Ato three two
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Ato three two five three, sixteen fifty four. I've been
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saying it for years. Outside is fun again because Mosquito
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Joe has protected my property for nearly ten years. All Right,
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we got to hit a quick break. We will come
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back with more of the show, the Chase to salth
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and we will put a bow on things as Clemson
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announces that they have hired the sixteenth president in the
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university's history, and honestly, in this day and age, who
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your school president is. I know it might not seem
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all that significant for the success of your sports programs,
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but believe you me, when Clemson hired Jim Clements, it
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was a huge move and it resonated to the grid
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iron and beyond. And we'll see if this one works out.
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Just as well. Stay with us, what.
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Have you done for me lately? It's a fair question,
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just on little sight of the bigger picture. Don't forget history.
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Lucky for us at Clemson, the answer to the questions
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what have you done for me lately? And what have
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you done? Always are the same.
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We win.
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Final segment on a Wednesday afternoon Clemson Sports Talk eight
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O three four five oh zero zero eighty six. So
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you probably recall that Clyson University president Jim Clements retired
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recently and Clemson University was tasked with hiring the sixteenth
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president in the one hundred and thirty six years of
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the school, and for just the second time in twenty
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seven years. Because of two pretty long tenures with president
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Jim Barker and then obviously Jim Clements, who I just
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mentioned a few minutes ago. The there's a pretty big
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gap of nearly thirty years with those two tenures. So
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Clemson named Kevin Guskowitz the next president of the almost
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the United States of the university. He is a neuroscientist
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and higher education leader who previously served as the president
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at Michigan State University and was the chancellor at the
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At one point,
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details regarding a start date are still being finalized, Guskowitz
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saying in the press release quote, I've known for many
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years how special Clemson University is, and I'm honored by
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the opportunity to build on the extraordinary tradition of excellence
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and to help lead the university into the future. I
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look forward to engaging with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and
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many South Carolinians whose passion and support have shaped Clemson
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into one of the nation's leading global public research universities. Together,
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we will build on Clemson's strong foundation while advancing student success,
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academic excellence, and the university's land grant mission of serving
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the people of South Carolina and beyond. So Clemson has
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their new president.
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Again.
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We don't know the exact start day, but he's originally
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from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and he and his wife Amy have
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four children. I don't know anything about their ages. He
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given his experience, I'm assuming all of his kids are
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well into adulthood. But again, he comes to Clemson, according
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to board chair Kim Wilkerson, with extensive experience leading national universities,
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coupled with a vision to guide Clemson into its next chapter.
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The entire Board of Trustees is excited to welcome doctor
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Guskowitz and continue to build upon clemson one hundred and
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thirty six years of excellence and service to the citizens
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of this state. And I will say I think this
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is the biggest challenge that he will face, is the
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fact that we are in this era that we talk
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a lot about here on the program, this nil era.
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And you know, Jim Clements excelled when he came to
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Clemson as the university president. And while yesterday we spent
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a lot of time giving credit to Terry Don Phillips
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for the hiring of Dabo Sweeney and Brad Brown l
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and Mike Noonan and Eddie Rabwanski, one of the things
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that I will say is that Jim Clements as Clemson
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University president also played a big part in that. You know,
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these guys are not nearly the face of the university
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that the head football coach is, but I would say
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it Clemson kind of given his profile in the way
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he went about business, I would say that, yeah, Jim
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Clements did have a big role and was a face
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for the Tie for many years during his tenure there.
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And it wasn't just on the academic side. He was
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kind of cool. You know, I don't think you think
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of university presidents as cool. You kind of think of
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those guys as being a little bit stuffy. I think
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that might be the fair way to put it. And
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you know, I don't know all the presidents in the
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history of Clemson. I remember Max Lennon, Constantine, Curis was
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I think Dino Curis is what we called him, was
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there before James Barker. But Curis, to me, was a
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little bit stuffy. And what I didn't know looking back
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at all this stuff, you know, R. C. Edwards was
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probably the most famous former president when I was at Clemson.
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He was there from fifty eight to nineteen seventy nine.
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But was still attending sporting of it and things like
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that when I was in school in the nineties. After him,
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there was a guy named Bill Lee actually from seventy
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nine to nineteen eighty five, and then they had one, two, three,
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four presidents over the next ten years. Walter Thompson Cox
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from eighty five to eighty six, Max Lennon who I
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mentioned from eighty six to ninety four, then Philip Hunter
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Prince for a year, it looks like, and then Dino
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Curis from ninety five to ninety nine, and then you
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get into this twenty seven year period with just two
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guys running the show. But now to be Kevin Guskowitz
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who becomes clemson sixteenth president. All right, we'll talk more
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about everything going on in the world of sports tomorrow.
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Until then, as always, y'all take care now and go Tigers.