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"Class of O 9 now streaming only on Hulu. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. And we're back then, the squirrel. Which is not a cockroach. Is up next. I didn't know that word was taboo, you know what I mean? Jim, what he says, can I say the CR word? I'm thinking, let's see. I mean, I'm thinking myself, what's putting all these words together because I thought I knew them all. And when you say cockroach on point, man, I didn't know that was a fan word. I mean, we use that word fairly regular hope to show. Unfortunately, but no, I thought Logan's call, if I hadn't described it in one word, it would be wine, probably. It was whining from the beginning. First Logan, get that windy tone out of your voice. If you go and come on here and say something stupid, like she did last week. Don't sit and backtrack. I mean, this dude was backtracking. I mean, we'll call it crawfish and say on either because we moved that. But I just thought it was kind of sad. I thought Kim had an appropriate response to him. And who works on all rigs? That's the way he's an LSU fan from Baton Rouge. Well, yeah, I've been here in his car. I've been joining next time in college in a I hope he tells us what he does out there. 'cause there's a million jobs. Well, I tell you what he does, Carl, he makes loan money, whatever that means. Log money, log money. Log money. Apparently. Long money. Longer. Okay, it took me three times to get the right word. Okay. I worked there out there 8 years in my 20s and from 21 to 29. Is it good money? Yeah, you might do some money out there, but if you're smart, you can make more money on land and sleep in your own bed every night. I found out. I don't think I don't think he's figured that out yet. He's only 56 or give him a break. It's kind of a deciding life out there, it's like a city out in the ocean, a hundred miles from shore, possibly and you've got people that cook for you. You got people that make your beds and all that while you're out working. I like that. There's a million jobs out there and that's what some people have it easy. Some people have it hard and I just wondered. What did you do on the rig? I worked for a contractor. So we had to bust our ass. We had to go out there to work on rigs that had been on the bottom of the ocean. We didn't work on drilling. We're floating around. We worked on rigs that possibly had been there since the 60s. It's 50. And then we would replace pipe. Did whatever we had to do. And yeah, that's what we did. We were after two weeks at a time and come home for a week. Every night was Saturday night. So when you were home. So that was the only good thing about it, plus I wasn't married, but once I settled down, I had to get away from offshore as quick as I could. And I went to work for one of our suppliers. But thanks for letting us share our offshore history. Thank you very much. Handsome is up next, Joe. I get good right here all right. I'm not going to. Hey Joe. Are your windows open in the car? We're going down the highway, but now they're inside. I feel like you're about to break into take it easy, and you said that. Go ahead. Well, we'll make the best out of it. Well, I'm able to have this label went to fill a screen. And break from the land was shared with
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"A week. Make this make this phone call to you, Paul fine, bob. I mean, you get TV out there? Yeah, got on it. I didn't know what to do. I did your TV. Take my little break and stuff. Yeah. Is that lighting everything? Oh, okay. Yeah. You still making that loan money? Money, man. Still making that law my hand do nothing 5 days fall fine. They're making that loan money. I like that money. An aging talk show host. Randy, you want to go along? Yes. You make your money. You can pay you can't pay it right that way you at. Let's talk about that. If you're going on a Young Bucks, but we can do it honest day's work. You're right. Get to you. Welcome to the right demo. Hey Paul. I'm stuck as I did tomboy. I got Alex from bad news, Tom bout, the PAC 12 quarterback. Hey, come to nasty singing. Well, not about the game. We don't think about the game. You got that right. We had to take them out the game quick. We didn't get them out the game quick. If you got a hell of a quarterback, you know what I'm saying? When that championship, no one can mess with the SEC. Talking about nobody gonna be there. That man crazy. He's stupid. Somebody being able to handle nobody and we might have two or three in the finals. Nah, you never know. That's all I got. Okay, can you be well? We'll be back. Live on the rig out in the Gulf of Mexico right after this. The WNBA is back.
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"Players in the nation? Say hello to Billy Preston. You turn into a star down near. We want Billy, we want Billy. Until somebody had caught the NCAA anonymously. The federal probe has turned up widespread fraud and corruption in college basketball. Listen to the bag game from 30 for 30 podcasts. We all got mud on us, man. All of us. You were listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. And we're back, we start our calls with Logan in North Carolina. Hello, Logan. Hey, Paul. Happy Monday. I want to say I enjoyed your first two guests today in Alabama. Talk about Alabama. That was really cool. But I'm calling in, really, I want to address the comments I made on Thursday. I know that caused a little bit of a storm. First of all, I want to say that squirrel, he called me a cockroach. Hey man, you would know the breed. I mean, you're a grown man called squirrel. So enough said about that. That's all I got to say about that. But I wanted to clear something up, Paul. I do not believe in censorship at all. I know the lawyer had said that I was promoting censorship. That's not what I wanted to do at all. And I guess I didn't articulate my comments. It's clear enough. When I said Jim, not to pray, I don't care if people pray they can pray at home. They can prey on the air. What bothers me about Jim is he's a sanctimonious hypocrite. He calls in and he calls you the devil. He calls me all kinds of names. And then he's going to call anyone to pray for somebody. I mean, that's ridiculous. And that's the whole point I was trying to make. I wasn't trying to promote censorship on your show. I mean, your show is awesome. When we talk about anything we want to do and that's the cool thing about this. So I just want to apologize to anybody who thought that I was calling for censorship. I missed the show on Friday, and apparently there were still some people calling in. You were elicited a number of responses. Well, that didn't mean to do it. I mean, I still have a problem with Jim doing that, but you know, hey, I think it's all good. And I just wanted to clear that up, Paul. So I guess that's all I got to say. Well, Logan, I'm glad you called. I'm glad you said it. Thank you very much. Alex and Baton Rouge, you're on the air. Hey, Paul. I want to talk about my thoughts on that there will be no SEC teams in the college football playoffs. Basing that on what? I look, I said this last week, I said, Georgia's, I said it on Wednesday, so I don't think you were wrong with it. But Georgia, I feel like has like a big 12 kind of schedule. I mean, I mean, I have them losing to with me. I am losing the oldness in Tennessee back to back. Because I feel like all this is going to be really good this year. But there's also a possibility that almost could lose the pama. So I was thinking that you could have because I don't know if you've looked at the pack 12 quarterbacks, yes. Sam rising, you got, yeah, it's incredible. It's a way better than the SEC's by a mile. Like, I mean, I would honestly say that Jayden Daniels is the best quarterback in the SEC, right? According to our last guest, he is yes. Yeah. I mean, you got Caleb Williams. You got Sanders, you got ten. I mean, you got everybody up there. Yeah, but that's not the only definer definition of a league and they had the best quarterbacks last year and they didn't get to the playoffs. So I hear what you're saying. I think if what you're saying about it, LIC was about Georgia is true. You can't get to the playoffs losing twice in SEC play. That's too big of a hill to climb. So hey, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Thank you very, very much. Let's talk to Andre, who was up next in the ATL. Andre. Paul fine ball. What's wrong with this guy? We don't care what the pack club got hell. Next to this time, that might not even have a confidence this thing goes sideways. We don't care about that quarterback. You ask him after Trump coming in at the championship as they put on the wall. We're talking big boy balls. We coach. This is what separate the FCC from everybody else. We don't go to the pack club and run satellite camp. We don't go to the 15 and run sound like camp. But guess what they do, coach, they come to the southeast and run sound like Kemp. That tells you all you need to know. So what 'cause they do have some outstanding quarterback. I can give them that, but that won't win on the championship. You know, Mike Tyson said that later everybody gets hit in the mouth. So what was going on with you no coach bob? Well, no, I agree with you Andre. It doesn't matter. Cam rising quarterback Utah last year. And they lost to Florida, one of the worst teams in the SEC. So that is not the overriding factor. Thank you very much for the call. Good to hear from you. As always, Jim is up next. I don't know what you're going to do with this call, but I was told not to use a certain term, which I call censored. Do you agree with that? I mean, one of the strangers tell me that. Well, Jim, all I can say about that without knowing the word is we have certain standards. It's a very certain culture. They share a response to that word as CR. I think you can figure that out. I don't know if Danny Sheridan is the ultimate barometer of what we can use or not use here, but I don't know what. To me, a cockroach is something that I'm using it as a point of learning a cockroach is something that crawls in the middle of the night. And as soon as you turn the lights on, it scatters. You're getting a little bit funny here about this technicalities when people are using names against me all previous years and you can tell. He did refer to you as a CR. I agree. You're welcome. Jim, you're welcome to use that if you feel the necessity. Well, I don't say this. That psi low I positive power. Is that good enough for doctor? Low life is a perfectly acceptable phrase here, yes. If somebody said about somebody else one day on the show, he's the least the least of a man. He's not even a man. When I'm talking about that Logan, lowlife Logan, look at pal, you don't tell me what to say. I'm a godly man. I don't know if I'm a Christian or not, but I play in my answers. My parents are answered. And if I want to play like they said the other day, I'll play, especially with people that are hurting and I like that girl that I play for. And if you don't like it, Logan, get all the damn way. Get off the air. I don't have to explain myself to you and you burn me up. I'm on fire with a few hours for you. I almost hate you, but God won't let me do that. But I despise your kind. You're the lowest of lows. And I'll do and say what I believe is right to say and describe you how just decide. And that's nice. And I'm deferring to you for my answer here, because I don't know. I'm going to ask you a question. With someone like Logan though, wouldn't you be better off loving him as your brother and trying to well, I don't say back to you, Paul, because you've not been anywhere near perfect.
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"Look on, Paul, bob bob. Do I need to show out? You still out on the gulf? Yeah. I'm still on the platform. I stuck a week. Make this make this phone call to you, Paul, bob, bob. Are you I mean, do you get media? Do you get TV out there? Yeah, got on it. I didn't know what to do. I think you're on TV. You know, take my little break and stuff. We came in and started. Lighting everything. Oh, okay. Yeah. You still making that loan money? Money, man. Still making that law in my head do nothing Friday fall fine by still making that loan money. I like that money. An aging talk show host. Randy, do you want to go along? Yes. You make your money. You can pay you can't pay it right that way you at. Let's talk about that. You can't understand. You're doing all the Young Bucks, but we can do an honest day's work. You're right. Shit. Get to you. Welcome to stay. Hey
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"And we're back, we start our calls with Logan in North Carolina. Hello, Logan. Hey, Paul. Happy Monday. I want to say I enjoyed your first two guests today in Alabama. Talk about Alabama. That was really cool. But I'm calling in, really, I want to address the comments I made on Thursday on the cause a little bit of a storm. First of all, I want to say that squirrel, he called me a cockroach. Hey man, you would know the breed. I mean, you're a grown man called squirrel. So no said about that. That's all I got to say about that. But I wanted to clear something up, Paul. I do not believe in censorship at all. I know the lawyer had said that I was promoting censorship. That's not what I wanted to do at all. And I guess I didn't articulate my comments, clear enough. When I said Jim, not to pray, I don't care if people pray they can pray at home. They can prey on the air. What bothers me about Jim is he's a sanctimonious hypocrite. He calls in and he calls you the devil. He calls me all kinds of names. And then he's going to call anyone to pray for somebody. I mean, that's ridiculous. And that's the whole point I was trying to make. I wasn't trying to promote censorship on your show. I mean, your show is awesome. When we talk about anything we want to do and that's the cool thing about this year. So I just want to apologize to anybody who thought that I was calling for censorship. I missed the show on Friday, and apparently there were still some people calling in. You were listed a number of responses. Well, that didn't mean to do it. I mean, I still have a problem with Jim doing that, but you know, hey, I think it's all good. And I just wanted to clear that up, Paul. So I guess that's all I got to say. Well, Logan, I'm glad you called. I'm glad you said it. Thank you very much. Alex and Baton Rouge, you're on the air. Hey, Paul. I want to talk about my thoughts on that there will be no SEC teams in the college football playoffs. Basing that on what? Look, I said this last week, I said, Georgia's, I said it on Wednesday, so I don't think you were on the Wednesday. But Georgia, I feel like has like a big 12 kind of schedule. I mean, I mean, I have them losing to with me. I have them losing the old miss in Tennessee. Back to back. Because I feel like all this is going to be really good this year. But there's also a possibility that almost could lose the Pamela. So I was thinking that you could have because I don't know if you've looked at the PAC 12s quarterbacks, yes. Jam rising, you got yeah, it's incredible. It's a way better than the SEC's by a mile. Like, I mean, I would honestly say that Jaden Daniels is the best quarterback in the SEC, right? According to our last guest, he is yes. Yeah. I mean, you got Caleb Williams, you got Sanders, you got I mean, you got everybody up there. Yeah, but that's not the only definer definition of a league and they had the best quarterbacks last year and they didn't get to the playoffs. So I hear what you're saying. I think if what you say about it like she was about Georgia is true, they won't. You can't get to the playoffs losing twice in SEC play. That's too big of a hill to climb. So hey, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Thank you very, very much. Let's talk to Andre, who was up next in the ATL. Andre. Coach Paul fine ball. What's wrong with this guy? We don't care what the pack club got hell. Next year this time it might not even have a confidence this thing goes sideways. We don't care about that quarterback. You asked him after Trump coming in at the championship as they put on the wall. We talking big boy balls in line in the scrimmage league coach. This is what separate the FCC from everybody else. We don't go to the pack club and run satellite camp. We don't go to the 15 and run something like camp. But guess what they do, coach, they come to the southeast and run sound like Kemp. That tells you all you need to know. So what 'cause they do have some outstanding quarterback. I can give them that, but that won't win on the championship. You know, Mike Tyson said. Everybody gets hit in the mouth. So what was going on with you no coach Bond? Well, no, I agree with you Andre. Doesn't matter. Cam rising quarterback Utah last year. And they lost to Florida, one of the worst teams in the SEC. So that is not the overriding factor. Thank you very much for the call. Good to hear from you. As always, Jim is up next. I don't know what you're going to do with this call, but I was told not to use a certain term, which I call censored. Do you agree with that? I mean, one of the screen is telling me that. Well, Jim, all I can say about that without knowing the word is we have certain standards. Well, it's a very certain culture. Very sure to refer to that word as CR. I think you can figure that out. I don't know if Danny Sheridan is the ultimate barometer of what we can use or not use here. But I don't know what. To me, a cockroach is something that I'm using it as a point of learning a cockroach is something that crawls in the middle of the night. And as soon as you turn the lights on, it scatters. You're getting a little bit funny here about this technicalities when people are using names against me all previous years and you can tell. He did refer to you as a CR. I agree. You're welcome. Jim, you're welcome to use that if you feel the necessity. Well, I won't say this. Low light positive power. Is that good enough or do you have to low life is a perfectly acceptable phrase here? Yes. No, he's the lowest of the low rise. As somebody said about somebody else one day on the show, he's the least the least of a man. He's not even a man. When I'm talking about that Logan, lowlife Logan, look at pal, you don't tell me what to say. I'm a godly man. I don't know if I'm a Christian or not, but I play in my answers. My parents are answered. And if I want to play like they said every day, I'll play, especially with people that are hurting and I like that girl that I play for. And if you don't like it, Logan, get all of damn way. Get off air. I don't have to explain myself to you, and you burn me up. I'm on fire with a few hours for you. I almost hate you, but God won't let me do that. But I despise your kind. You're the lowest of lows. And I'll do and say what I believe is right to say and describe you how just decide and that's not and I'm deferring to you for my answer here because I don't know. I'm going to ask you a question. With someone like Logan though, wouldn't you be better off loving him as your brother and trying to well, I don't say back to you, Paul, because you've not been anywhere near perfect. Not where anyone near perfect. I'm not perfect. I'm emotional. This was emotional. And that's why I worked this because she was emotional. And she said what she never got called down for calling these people what she called him. And now you can call me that. I think hypocrisy is right. I'm up on the show now. I'm just suggesting that it may be better. I got to say, I don't want to be recommended by
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"But at the end of the day, it's still gonna be a Thai Simpson or a jala. Because I think there's things to like about each one and what they can bring. And to me, Jalen Miller, I kept hearing, was kind of that edge throughout the spring. So if I'm leaning one way, it may be as Jalen Miller, but I think it really, there's a lot to play out. I don't know that they know who's going to be the starter. So a lot of a quarterback battle has to play out these practices in the scrimmages they have in the fall. And it might not be that we see just one quarterback in that first game. Honestly, if there's a prediction I have to make, it almost would be that we see more than one quarterback in that first game in the season opener. And then by Texas, we maybe have that starter. Kelly was this from the Tuscaloosa news. Nick, I don't know if this is a fair question or not, because but I am curious about something. We were at the golf tournament the other day. The region's tradition, Greg burn came by and we had a nice conversation with him. But NATO's was not there. He's been to everyone that I can remember. Nick Saban was not there. He's been to everyone. I can remember that. Any inkling to where those two were from a very prominent event that the media is always going to be at and report on what they say. Yeah, my understanding is some scheduling conflicts and just trying to figure out who was going to be there and who wasn't there. So I don't know that there is some deeper meaning to them not being there. Frankly, Nate Oates has been an incredibly busy man. This off season with just, he didn't have a staff, so he's having everybody, but he had committed. I mean, this wasn't like they couldn't grab him for a commitment. He was his name was on the list. He had committed and then did not show. Saban, I do understand, according to some people, I spoke with, did not commit to it, and I'm not making, I'm not being critical. One person told me, and I'm curious if you know the answer to this, that said that he was heading out of the country. Byrne said he was at the staff meeting a week ago Tuesday, this was Wednesday. Have you seen or heard from Nick Saban? Because I can't get any confirmation on whether he's simply around or according to one person. He was scheduled to go out of the country. that it was a scheduling conflict for Nick Saban. That's all I was told. But I can't completely speculate as to where he was or wasn't. But that was my understanding. As far as native. Recently? Have I seen in person? I'm trying to think the last, I mean, the last time I have, I think the last public appearance might have made was in maybe the baseball game. I guess I haven't thought about that Paul. The reason I bring this up is I interviewed Q three as I've talked to other coaches and they also talked about how busy the month of May is now. It's not like it used to be. And I'm still trying to wrap my arms around and by the way, Nick Saban, maybe right down the street from here right now and we can clear this up, but the fact that somebody said he thought he was out of the country caught me by surprise. The idea that the head football coach at Alabama would be out of the country in May was completely stunning. Yeah, I hadn't heard that, but I mean, it's possible. I mean, again, I'm not going to say it's wrong information. Like I said, all I know is he had a scheduling conflict and that's the extent of what was your main to put you on the witness stand here, but I'm going to, since you're the only person that I'm talking to right now, who said it was a scheduling conflict. His communication staff, so folks at Alabama. Okay, well, maybe they're the people to ask about where he is right now. I am curious. Nick, thank you. It's always great to talk to you, Nick Kelly from the Tuscaloosa news. On the offensive explosion, apparently coming from the university of Alabama. We'll be back. With much more, including a couple of guests that you will want to hear. From and we'll have all of that for you right after
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"Somewhere during your commute or wherever you may be, but thank you and let's get right to some of the headlines making news in its tampering. It May of course, and this headline here for Bruce Feldman article has really created some controversy. It's inevitable and impossible to stop. In other words, cheat, but there really is very little risk. We'll talk to Bruce later in the program. The ACC meetings have arrived. In Florida and with it controversy, a lot of noise being made about uneven distribution, commissioner, please pick up your courtesy phone. We'd like to ask you a couple of questions. Over the weekend, Ian, Alabama, the Alabama sports Hall of Fame, where else would you expect this to be? Welcomed in a number of new members, Gerald Wallace, great basketball player there, Jackie Sheryl, legendary player and coach. And Roman Harper more on that a little bit later on. And also in the land of the tide. Who will the top offensive players be? That's a picture of a guy they're hoping is a big weapon at the wide receiver jacori Brooks. Kelly covers the team for the Tuscaloosa news, always great to say hello to Nick, it's been a while. Nick, thanks for the time. Great to have you with us. So give us what the perspective is right now on this incredibly important Alabama offense, one that most of the experts don't see right now heading to the playoffs coming just shy. Good afternoon. Ready to see you, Paul. Yeah, this album offense. There's a lot of question marks, but I genuinely think the weapons around whoever's going to be a quarterback is going to be better than what Bryce young had a year ago. I mean, that's the thing Bryce was that offense in a lot of ways. You had to hedge your Gibbs as well. But they're just weren't a lot of guys who want to consistent basis. We're really scaring defenses. I think there are a few candidates on this team and it's going to be how they kind of come together because they are question marks, but at the same time, some guys that I think a lot of people in the program around Tuscaloosa are excited about at receiver at running back who can help out whoever ends up being that signal caller. Let's talk about some of the receivers and the running backs. If you were pretty well known names, obviously mcclellan, we've heard of him. Haines is Holly regarded. Those are the two running backs of receivers. You alluded to. Let's start with the running back position. Certainly last year, we talked about a first rounder after transferring over from Georgia Tech. He's now gone, but what do you see, especially at running back? Yeah, you talked about justice Haynes. He's a guy who was probably the worst kept secret throughout the spring. And then the spring game he had three touchdowns. So he's a guy who should get a lot of playing time early and often a guy that I know people inside the program are excited about. I think anyone who is around this part of the country's interested to see, especially with him being a Georgia legacy guy, sort of interesting storyline there. But yeah, Jason mcclellan is another guy as well that don't forget about him. I mean, he had the 81 yard touchdown against Texas last year. So he's got some speed. I got some size as well, so some good options that are running back. And just really, they got jam Miller too, a guy who people have been excited about in the past year or so as well, even though he was only getting time in late in games when they were kind of doing that cleanup duty. So running back a lot of guys there, frankly, I don't know how they're going to split the reps, necessarily got rid of Williams as well. They bring in another guy Richard young as a freshman. So really just jam packed backfield they have, and that receiver, I mean, you've got guys like Malik Benson. I had one person to say he's going to be the next electric receiver for that team. A team that's produced a lot of great receivers in the NFL. In recent years, so watch Malik Benson, but Jakob Brooks. He was the iron bowl heroes of freshmen, had some good moments last year, but I think he's looking to take that next step to be a guy who defenses have to really guard against and have potential issues with and have defensive coordinators kept up at night. He's not quite at that level yet. But I think he would the size he has speedy has. There's a lot to like. And so there's a lot of they could be this. We'll see if they end up getting there. That's why I play the game. You got the killer bees, Benson, Bond, and Brooks receivers. It sounds like a law firm. You add Buckner to that. Let's move over to quarterback. You knew we were going there. So give us what that rather crowded for now, a quarterback room looks like and who's the likely starter. Yeah, you can't talk about this team right now without talking about the quarterbacks. So you didn't catch me by surprise, Paul, but yeah, I think to me it's interesting because I think there's a genuine competition right now because if there really wasn't, I think we would have seen Dale Miller or type Simpson leave. I mean, there's no indication I think to them that this is not a genuine competition. I think it is open. Yeah, you brought a guy like Buckner who has Nick Saban said in late April, they gave these guys a chance to win the job. They decided they wanted more competition. You bring in Buckner a guy who knows Tommy Reese.
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"Welcome back, Matt is up next in Tampa, hello Matt. Good afternoon, Paul. How are you doing today? Very well. Thank you. Good to see you. Let me preface this. I am an LSU law that I massive, but Tiger fans. So you'll see where I'm headed here in a second. A few, I guess about half an hour ago in the show, guys from Louisiana named Dan called and kind of said that something that I thought quite often, which is LSU seems to expose Alabama in a lot of ways and a lot of different sports. Especially even in football, they both have two of the last four between the two schools and one the second most national championships in football in the conference behind Alabama in the last two decades. Why did you kind of chew them off when he said that? I think it was more him than it was the subject, but yeah, I'm aware of that. I just don't think today now he was trying to argue and he gave he gave some very faulty arguments by also including basketball in his conversation, which LSU basketball was not really on the map this year while Alabama had the best team in the SEC. No, thank God for women's basketball. I will give he may have confused women's basketball for men's basketball. I got you. And then the second question that I've got, I know you don't have a lot of details. I'm just, I think all of us who are LSU baseball fans because you know how important that sport is to LSU fans. I think all of us are perplexed by this whole Bama gambling scandal, if you will, or the coach scandal over there, considering that bamboo was such a heavy dog. I know that's blasphemous to say on this show, but in baseball, it's a different game than football. I mean, I just don't understand. Help me with this, because I do not understand gambling on baseball. And other than winning the game and if you're better on LSU, you're probably taking a high, very long odds on winning much money, but there has to be if you're just speculating some connection. You don't fire a baseball coach this quickly and I mean this quickly, this has been going on probably for three or four days without a significant amount of information that would lead you to believe he did something nefarious. Yeah, I mean, I would have to completely agree. And I mean, I hate to admit it, but obviously Greg bird has had a lot of success and they would have to have heard something that would have come down the pike that would have done him in. And led to something some sort of question. Well, the first report of this was what, three or four days ago and I didn't pay much attention to it. We had a caller who did that when somebody in some sports book decided not to take any more action and then another one got in. So Alabama has been in the loop for a couple of days. And again, you're talking about a coach who is not in the news very often, but he was fairly highly regarded. In fact, I saw some comment from burn that one of the Alabama dot com reporters Michael Costa Grande dug up a few minutes ago from an interview with the Tuscaloosa news last year where he said I love coach bohannon. He is extremely smart, works his tail off recruits every chance. He has the has the opportunity. And here's the key line, the culture within the program is really good. Really? I guess the culture would be good. Yeah, they can certainly hit the baseball. I can tell you that LSU was certainly impressed by the way that they hit. Going back to the action or how you would set up, I mean, did they think he runs shaved? Well, Matt, why you have to chisel this down and think for action to be it's one thing to put the coach under suspension. Pending an investigation to make the decision that they made would lead me to believe that they had incontrovertible evidence that he's in the middle of something, okay? I'm not privy to what that was, but if you understand betting and you understand all the different tributaries, there can only be a handful of things that he could have been involved with here. Yeah, I mean, LSU is the number one number one 6 before the season started. It would be hard for me to think that he would have said something up and I understand it's speculation, but he would have said something up to try to limit Alabama's offense when you're already playing a team that's heavily favored to beat you. It's just. To me, there would have to be there would have to be proof of some connection between him or someone near him and some gambling entity. Yeah, that makes sense. You can't try to throw a game against the best team in the country. So you have to go the other way and who knows. I don't know. Until yesterday, I didn't even know you could bet on college baseball. So I am way, way behind the curve here. Trey is up next. Hey, Paul, did you happen to watch any of those gains between Alabama and LSU? No. I'll just Saturday and Sunday gang. And I watched all three games. Alabama was up three and four runs late in the innings in both games. And even on the game in Saturday Paul, he took out a picture that was playing pretty well and he brought in almost four pitchers. I think it was the 6 or 7th inning and those pitchers gave up two home runs ended up walking in four runs and hit two batters. That was all in one inning. So Paul my question is if the coach was trying to point Shay or win money on a game and I'm not accusing I'm just thinking here. So I don't want to start something, but by the way, accusing at this point, you're not making that big of a leap, okay?
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"Program today, just weeks before the college baseball season reached its conference tournament state, Alabama fires. It's baseball coach, Greg Burton making the announcement earlier that Brad bohannon is gone. And why burn in the statement saying he is terminated bohannon. For, among other things, violating the standards duties and responsibilities expected of university employees, bohannon has been relieved of all duties and Jason Jackson will serve as the interim coach. What's all this about? We don't completely know Greg sankey with a statement later talking about the integrity, this clearly involves some sort of gambling allegations. Remember earlier in this week, several sports books would not take bets on Bama baseball, but Alabama is without is without its baseball coach as a series begins in a couple of hours. Against Vanderbilt, Kyle Peterson, ESPN's top baseball college baseball analyst will join us later in the program. Let's get back to the call at 8 5 5 two four two 7 two 8 5 and Eric is up next in Birmingham. Go right ahead, Eric. I was telling you a screener there. I wanted you to clarify the last statement that you had made about the dedicate money for the upgrades to the facilities, which was around that. I think it was $97 million by remember. You said you were saying that that money was being used to fund NIL deals with the players. That's not exactly what I meant. And I may have inferred it. I'm talking generally where when you're raising money for all kinds of different facilities and upgrades, a lot of that has been put on hold. I said a lot of it, not all of it. Because I would just want to declare, I just want some clarification on that because I was like I told him I was under the oppression that the universities that didn't have anything to do with that that was more sponsorship, but that was my first question. And if you allow time, I have one more question. Sure. Yesterday. Yesterday, yes sir, I called in and some of the people they misunderstood what I was trying to say, or talk with you about just like I misunderstood what you were talking about. I wasn't saying that nobody has any right to question Nick Saban. That's not what I was trying to say. Or the Alabama program. As far as football is concerned, what I was trying to say is he has won so much over the last decade or more. Why are people complaining about what he's doing from now until 8 size delay or whatever? I don't understand that. That's what I was getting that. I can't understand why people were complaining about my Malaysia's two games. People that are at the end of the world. Man, I remember when I was younger watching them play, I was going to bed, it halftime because they were getting, they were getting smoked. And football games. It made me absolutely just tore me up. Eric, I hate to interrupt. We have an update now on the apologize for interrupting, but we appreciate your call. So we have been trying to figure out what is all this about. There's been, we tried to hit toward one thing in particular, and there's some new reporting on one of those things that we were talking about. According to David purdham of ESPN, it sports book surveillance video, sportsbook, surveillance video, has indicated that the person who placed the bets apparently on the LSU Bama baseball game was communicating with bohannon at the time several sources indicating that to ESPN. There has been some speculation wandering in making the rounds all day that somehow there was video of a phone in the book and this would confirm what that speculation has been that the coach's name apparently appeared on the phone. I have no earthly idea how video works in a sports betting casino. I'm assuming it's pretty good. It can zero in on anything and somehow they found this and this is what has caused all the shutdown of the betting on Alabama, but now according to David, the surveillance video at the sportsbook picked up something from the person who placed the bets and he apparently, according to the video, was in communication with Brad bohannon. You can digest that interpret it any way you want, but the idea. Assuming all this comes out, that's a baseball coach at the university of Alabama prior to a conference game was in communication with someone at a sports book making a bet on the game is simply unbelievable. If you had said, I heard a rumor about this yesterday, I would have laughed you off. It sounds so preposterous. And this is the same individual that Greg Byrne a year ago in an interview with the Tuscaloosa news said he loved the guy, everything about him, the culture was great. So again, we were waiting for Greg Byrne to do something more than just offer a statement, which is all he has done. But I think the ball is now in his court to say something about one of his hires at the university of Alabama who has gone down in flames today in the ugliest possible way. Let's get back to the calls here. And check in with dad in Ohio. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Paul. Do you think of something happens next year that NATO might be in trouble early in the hot seat or even save it? Nick Saban will never be on the hot seat at the university of Alabama. NATO is a completely different situation. He was just given a new contract extension by Greg Byrne. And since the season ended, almost nothing has gone right for Nate oats. That's true. It's been one defection after another from his coaching staff. To his team to other things that are going on in Tuscaloosa. So I can't answer the NATO's question right now. He is, I don't even know if he's begun, the new contract yet. And one more question, please. If you will. Sure. Do you think do you think bohan will have a chance at another managerial job? I think he's got far more serious issues right now. Than trying to get another job. And I will let the storied settle in terms of which way that is going, but I can not imagine if you're a university, I mean, first of all, I'll say all the things you really need to say and you have to say, because of the country that we live in, we're blessed to live in this country. There's always the process. With anything, these are just pure allies. All that's happened to him so far today is he has been fired as the baseball coach at the university of Alabama. When all this is said and done, that might be the least of his concerns. That he lost his job. We'll take a break. We're coming right
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"Dot com slash network all lower case. Go to Shopify dot com slash network to take your business to the next level today. Shopify dot com slash network. We will get back to the phone calls in just a moment, but this headline might take some getting used to the headline of the Tuscaloosa news by Chase good bread. Nick Saban's Alabama football team spring roster is the youngest. He's had and it's not close. Some might say, well, maybe that's good. A lot of great young players from the best recruiting class of the year, but others would say in the SEC, this could be very difficult. We'll ask the man who covers the team, chase goodbread, the sports columnist from Tuscaloosa, joining us. Chase, always great to have you on and explain to those of us who aren't around Alabama every day. What this could mean. Well, objectively, it's a good thing to have veteran experience. I'll say that, but at the same time, spring practice is the time for young players to get better, right? I mean, I can recall Bobby bowden at Florida state, the legendary coach, he used to give 5th year seniors the spring off. In part because they knew what they were doing after four or 5 years and also in part because it kind of cleared the path a little bit for the coaching staff to get a better look at some younger players, but yeah, back to Alabama. It's a young group, Nick Saban is made a few comments, this spring that kind of hint in that direction. You know, he said, they've got 26 midyear players 22 coming straight out of high school. Another four who are either coming in from the portal or from junior college. So that's 26 players that are at least new to Alabama. And saving at the beginning of the spring called it one third of the spring roster that he's got to work with. And so I just decided to take a look back at it, Paul, and count up career starts for Alabama spring roster for this year last year and a couple of other years. And it was, it was a pretty stark contrast. I mean, a hundred and I believe a 179 career starts on the books for players that are participating in spring practice right now. And the other years that I looked at, which I figured might be young seasons for young springs for Alabama were way above that. But like 50% above that, in some cases, like maybe 272 180 career starts. And so it's a young group for sure and it's got to be a challenge for the coaching staff. Chase, I realize, we're still a week or two away from the end of spring and sometimes with what you have said, it may not be easy to get a great evaluation with so little time to look at young players, but if anything, I know sometimes the coaches comments can be misleading, but what are you hearing around that place right now on what does program could look like this fall? There's definitely a lot of excitement for some of the young players, like you said, they've got the number one class in the country coming in. Most of them are already on campus. And that's a good thing for those guys, right? I mean, the ability to come in and contribute as a true freshman in the fall is enhanced a great deal when these guys decide to enroll early and participate in spring practice. So for them, it's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. But it is definitely got to be a challenge to the coach and staff to kind of bring these guys along. But, you know, I've definitely heard some good things about some of these young players, Kayla bounce, a freshman safety who's come in. I think there are a lot of high hopes for him, for sure. There are a lot of guys who have got a chance to step in and play saving himself at pro day said that, you know, they need a quick impact from the freshman class. He was, he was quite clear on that. So these guys are going to have an opportunity to step in and jump in the fire pretty quickly. What are you hearing on the quarterback race? This is zip. And I think that's the way Nick Saban wants it. I do think there's some excitement in the program around what Jalen Miller can do with his feed, especially with Tommy Reese's style as an offensive coordinator coming in from Notre-Dame. Tommy Reese likes to run a game and it's a lot easier to run the football when you've got a quarterback. You can run the football himself. So yeah, I definitely think that milrose got a great chance to be somebody who would assimilate well into Reese's offense. But saving a course is at least public anyway. It's been very tight lipped about that quarterback battle and will be for the balance of spring summer and probably fall camp to chase the transfer window is about to open and when you have a class like this, you probably don't think in terms of too many needs, but do you think Sabin will be out there shopping at all? I won't be surprised if Alabama picks up another transfer to they did that last year late with the kid from Louisville, the wide receiver Tyler Steen came in. I think last spring as well. So they may be looking to do that and they may lose some guys, right? Because if you're, you know, if you're the loser of the Jalen Miller tax Simpson quarterback battle, you may want to look to move on. That's just the way the world at that quarterback position now
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"Appreciate it very, very much. Let's check out Greg, who is in Alabama. Hello, Greg. Hi, Paul. How are you doing today? Greg, we are doing great. Well, I wanted to, I guess I'm going to digress a little bit. That's okay, sure. I was listening to you earlier talking about sports riders and I think the problem is there's not any good ones out there anymore that are doing it. You know, back in the 70s and 80s, I used to get the Birmingham news and the Montgomery advertiser just to read your article and to read Al brownings order. Oh, sure. And I mean, y'all did a great job covering that. Now I have to be honest. I always because Al was my cousin. And you know, Al was a unique individual, he was a sports editor of the Tuscaloosa news. And he left there to go to Knoxville and I'm not sure it was the best career movies ever made because the Tennessee people would never accept an Alabama guy as their as their local columnist and by the way, I understood that being a Tennessee guy in Alabama. I heard the same thing. I imagine you did. But yeah, I also talked about that a little bit. We discussed it, but you know, I knew how well and they thought they joked about trading me up to Knoxville to bring out back. To cover the tide and I'm glad that didn't happen because I had a blast covering Alabama all those years. But you know, we're talking about this interview we had with John wertheim earlier from Sports Illustrated about the dearth of sports anchors. But you could say that it started with the newspaper business and it's pretty much worked its way through all local media. Where do you live Greg and Alabama? I live in Andalusia. Okay. So about the Montgomery. Yeah, I mean, I mean, there are no newspapers anymore. So that era has ended, and it's really been over for a considerably long time. It has, but I still believe, you know, there's still some folks out there like me that would love to get a great article every now and then. You know, like I said, I used to get mobile prayers and the Birmingham paper just so I could read y'all's article. But Greg, I appreciate that very much, but when I first went to work for that newspaper, it literally went all the, we had an early edition that went to mobile and to the beach and then the other edition went to Montgomery and Andalusia and Dothan and enterprise and then in Huntsville. And then the other, but that started fading away a long time ago and it just became. Impossible to make that happen. Thank you very much. We mentioned the caller bracket and one of the big upsets of the day. Jeff has been knocked out of the collar bracket. Who beat him guys? I'm trying to remember, Susie upset Jeff in the caller bracket. So that's the biggest upset of the tournament so far. Susie advances, and we'll take on JK. Jeff is up next. What's going on, Paul? Jeff. Hey, are you doing all right, Paul? I'm a little nervous about you. I feel great. I mean, you were feeling good. Okay, 'cause you were sounding great on the radio today until Louis Rennick said he takes C day Stroud. It's like all the air went out of the phone line. You okay? Jeff, seriously, do you think I really care who the Carolina Panthers take a quarterback? Well, no, but it just kind of ruins your whole moxie today, Paul, because you know you got pro day down there. I think Bryce jumps a hell of a talent, but I mean, it was just amazing. I could hear through the radio, the air just went out of the studio, Paul, you just seemed like you deflated like instantly like a pin going into a balloon. You okay? Yeah, no, Jeff, I mean, I've got an appointment with a therapist right after the show to try to get me off the ledge. Okay. Hey, and I don't really, I'm being honest. I don't, it doesn't matter what he said about CJ Stroud, but I think Lewis Riddick is one of the top three or four analysts that ESPN and you know I don't give props to many people at ESPN. But there's something about that guy. I enjoy listening to him. You need to get him on more often. I'll tell you what he does. He cuts right to the chase. You know, I mean, he played pro football. He's got the experience. And unlike some of the other draft analysts who just go pontificating, Lewis gives you an informed opinion. Yeah, and he breaks it down. I mean, I was impressed how he broke it down with CJ Stroud, how he did his own workout and things like that so he gets it. It's not all about, you know, the mock draft. He's not out there trying to promote his mock draft and things like that. So I just, when he says something, I listen to it. But I tell you what, Paul, I gotta be on the same page with you. I've said for the last few years,
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"The business element of sports, which means he covers a lot of NIL. And Andy, I appreciate you being back with us. Again, so I'm reading your story and I'm learning that Yale is in the collective, although it looks like a collective. Good afternoon. Thanks for being here and tell us all about what's a pretty bold initiative by the university. That's right, Paul, so Ye Alabama brands itself as an NIL entity, not a collective, not a collaborative of a machine, not as a sport venture, but an entity. You know, they said that collective can almost be a four letter word, right? The way that it has this catch all definition, sometimes there might be bad actors that do engage in recruiting inducements or pay for play. Hard to tell who, right, they all act like they're buttoned up, but there's a connotation that Alabama wanted to avoid. So they are in NIL entity, not a collective. But it's still does the same things that collectives do or did I miss understand that. No, it does. Certainly certain groups of branded themselves as something different. I think a collective is a catch all. It's an umbrella term. You can argue amongst yourselves as far as what is or isn't simmered on profit simmer for profit LLCs. So certainly, I would call it a collective, I think most people like yourself, Paul would call it a collective, but they very intentionally branded itself as an entity. It's kind of potato potato for my words. I forget to collective. I'll go with you on that, by the way. After recent elements and developments coming out of Alabama. So essentially, and I I'm tired of asking this question and I know you're probably tired of answering it. But what do these collectors do for those who don't swim in these waters every day? Once again, the actions of a collective can vary, but essentially it's a group of boosters or fans that either they pool their money to create an I opportunities or they act as the marketing agency of record and they go out and they find third party businesses or nonprofits to pair with. So the actions can vary from collective collective, but essentially it's a group of boosters or fans, oftentimes it'd be a former director of development, a former director of operations that spearheads this effort. And they are kind of the front man or front woman that leads us third party organization because schools are limited based on state laws and institutional policies and NCAA policy as far as how close you align they can be. So they almost need this other group to kind of act on their behalf. Technically it's independent. You know, I say there may be affiliated or aligned, but technically it's a different organization that creates an IL deals for their athletes. Andy, I wasn't paying much attention to this until about three weeks ago and then I saw a name pop up. He's somebody that has been a regular guest on the show dating back to his years at the Tuscaloosa news and then later he got promoted to the athletic. I'm speaking of Aaron shuttles, I see that this collective whatever it's called. Hires Aaron's subtle a longtime sports writer in Tuscaloosa who's covered the team now to work for them. Again, confused and bewildered, straight me out. What's all this about? It's funny, Paul, because I think a lot of campaigns and deals and activations in this era are branded as, you know, the first of its kind or unprecedented. You know, I would argue that most of them probably aren't someone else has done it, but you're right. I think the hiring of Aaron suttles, a longtime beat your reporter, someone that you've had on your show, you know, to cover Alabama to hire him from the athletic, it stood out to me. And the reason behind that is that I believe is official title is director of content. And because fans need some reason to pay whatever it is per month, whether it's a one time donation or recurring donation to Yale, Alabama. They need some draw. Maybe for some it might be, you know what? It's a tax deduction for some it's the hope of, you know what? Let's keep our players out of the transfer portal. Let's make sure they know that they are welcome here at Alabama. But if this is almost a competitor of you know what, your Netflix or Hulu subscription or your Spotify subscription. There needs to be some other business elements, some other draw to a collective, and so if you have someone with Aaron's talent and experience, it knows that Alabama beats so well. The thinking here is that, you know what, he can tell their stories and ways of potentially no one else can. It might be the star athletes, you know, the Bryce youngs, the world who might be the very top of their sport, and he can provide that exclusive access of, hey, I sat down with Bryce young or the next version of Bryce young for 30 minutes or an hour. And here is this exclusive story, or you know what? He might know someone from an Olympic sport that might have a great story. A great personality that is not a national household name. And he can maybe help elevate that athlete and their story. But you need someone who's full-time job is probably as a content director of like Aaron, who can tell those stories because if you're only hope here, you know what, we're just going to fundraise the hope is wins on the field or on the court or maybe some donors want the tax deduction. I don't think that's a sustainable model. And so you need some draw, whether it's, you know, the everyday, you know, John Doe, Jane Doe, fan that's going to give the 20 bucks a month or 5 bucks a month. What's in it for them. If there's a business, what's in it for them, you need some other draw beyond. I think just, you know, the winds of the tax deduction. And I think they think that you don't want Erin can provide that exclusive content that no one else can provide Paul. We get accused often here being too close to the sun and our coverage of Alabama and any other sport, which is fine. We accept that. But this is really unique and not to turn this into a conversation about blurring the line, but if this organization goes out and brings in a top reporter, and that's what he was. I mean, this is not somebody who was invisible, writing for a national publication to give him exclusive content. It makes you wonder what all the other poor people are going to be doing who are working to beat independent and in theory not being paid by Alabama or it's subsidiary. You're right. It's very inside baseball stuff that I'm, you know, I could probably talk about for hours fall, but as far as you know what, those post name interviews, what's that like? You know, I've only been to Tuscaloosa once myself, but I don't know, you know what? Who gets that first question at press conference. And you know what we've seen there are schools they have their own kind of in-house beat reporter, someone that has those long standing relationships. And similar with the role that Aaron now has, it's almost kind of like the cousin of that where once again, it's not in-house, but the entity or collective or pick your catch phrase, they're acting in the best interest of the school, or at least they're trying to, right? And so how does that work if you know what you have maybe someone writing for the athletic department website, you have someone writing for yay Alabama's website, and then you have journalists that, you know, I heard the last segment and not to go down that lane too far, but when there is a very true important journalistic story where you need maybe a third party independent reporter, do they still have the opportunities to ask the questions that need to be asked?
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"PS5, bringing you the extraordinary. Rated RP two M. Let's continue with Justin in Alabama. You're on the air. Hello, Justin. Hello, how are you doing? We're doing good. Thank you very much. Yes, I just wanted to talk a little bit about the Brandon Miller story. The surprise? With his attorneys statement that was released today, it states in there that he never left the vehicle. It also states on Tuscaloosa news dot com that detect a culpepper says that Darius miles gave the gun to Davis in the back seat of the said car. And I think it's also important to highlight the fact that the text message doesn't just say I need my joint. It says, I need my joint a explicit really just got faking. So I think it really puts into question whether or not anyone knew the situation. I was wrong earlier the original you're right. The original text was to Miller to bring to bring the joint. Yes, yes. But the text message, the confusion was the text message about the gun being in the backseat and when being in the head, that's actually being reported as Darius miles two Davis, not Brandon Miller. Yeah, it says, this is according to the testimony when Miller got to the scene miles told Davis, the head is in the hat. That's according to detective culpepper. I do want to point out, and we're trying to look at this from all sides. But even though we are quoting verbatim, what the detective said. Remember the detective not saying very much. He's giving you a limited version of the story. In relation to Brandon Miller's attorney, of course he is going to paint the story as favorably to his side. And then you heard burn today. Adhere to that as well. You can find you can find discrepancies in anyone's story at any time. And I say this and I'll be quiet. There are two sides to this case. There are more than two sides. I mean, there's the prosecution. There's a defense. And then there's Miller, who is who is party to this, but not a primary party. I agree with that. And the other point was it says that Davis comes out from behind the Jeep, which would suggest to me that they actually got out of the vehicle. And I'm just trying to remember where this is on the street corner outside a bar. Guaranteed, there are reams of videos of all this. Now, whether those videos can support every argument, they probably do a pretty good job, though, and a lot better job than what we currently have in terms of the police know a lot more than anyone else right now. I agree. And I don't think that I'm not trying to paint Brandon Miller as someone who should be charged in this, but I think that his role was good enough that the university would stand better to put some discipline forward. Whether it be one game, there's no one's going to be satisfied with a number of games. When they first discovered this, what if NATO said, listen, there's a lot of unknown, by the way, we didn't even know at the time Brandon Miller was involved. And remember that by acknowledging the Brandon Miller was involved in the other in the other teammate, he was going to, he was going to bring a light on a story that was not being discussed outside of Tuscaloosa. And so I mean, I don't know what went into that conversation, but I would like to know what went into that conversation. Yes, me too. And I think NATO said the quote right, wrong place wrong time. I just don't think it was Brandon Miller. I think it was Jamaica Harris. Thanks for kick off. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I mean, we're all trying to be. Pseudo attorneys here about a case that we really don't have I'm not sure what percentage of the facts we have at this point in time. Thank you very much for the call. Joe is up next. Hello, Joe. Hey, Paul, how are you doing? We're okay. Thank you. Good. I just got a couple of things. I'll say if you don't mind, first off, is I moved down here from Michigan and I started listening to you about 20 some years ago. And I got to admit, you kind of got on my nerves a little bit, but I'm a Michigan guy Wolverine and some of it was warranted. Some I didn't think and I honestly could not stay in jail. But I will say after watching you through these years, I've learned to respect you. I think you're a great reporter. You allow people to say what they feel, right or wrong, when you need to step in to lay down the law you do. And I just want to say that I respect you, I respect what you do, I respect your program. I listen to you every day and I try to get that out my chest secondly. And I will say this about myself, which sounds silly, but the Michigan thing started as a gag and it just got out of hand. And I'm the first one to admit that. Well, it's more showbiz than it is reality, but it's okay. Oh, I understand. You know, hey, there was many, many times. I wish I could have just reached that radio and just slapped you, but I will say, I've learned you're a great reporter. Love the show. I respect you. You do a hell of a job. Now second. Thank you. I do want to ask one question. Okay, so and I'm getting bits and pieces of this of this whole story. So I'm assuming everyone was downtown somewhere. I'm not familiar with Tuscaloosa, but I'm assuming everyone was down near the clubs, correct? Yeah, like in any college town. There's a square. There's a strip where the nightclubs are. Okay. So now I heard this on one of the talks earlier in the day. I got a question for you, Paul, if you and I were buddies and I said, hey Paul, can you mind grab my fishing pole? What would you think that I would want that pole for? To go fishing. Right. Okay, if I say hey, Paul, why don't you bring my golf clubs? You're assuming we're going to go play golf. Now if I say hey Paul, why don't you bring back my gun?
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"Of college football lives here. This is the Paul fine bomb show best of podcast. Welcome back, second half of the show is on. A lot of conversation about Mike Bobo and some of them I'm sure just getting on board. Maybe getting in your car getting home and wondering, what does all this about? Let us explain why this is suddenly become a big deal. Blake top Meyer, one of the top columnists in the covers the SEC for USA Today, wrote a piece under the headline, this is a Tuscaloosa news headline. You would think they might like it. Nick Saban may get college football thrown back after Kirby smart hire. Obviously Tommy Reese went to Alabama, not universally accepted, but it just seems like the Bobo hire by Kirby smart to replace Todd munk and who went to the NFL has given some this hope that maybe Kirby smart has finally made a mistake. Why the criticism of Bobo, he had been there under he played a George, of course, family and the high school coaching ranks for a lifetime. He was there under Mark Rick, had success, not the kind of success Kirby smart is having. And then he went to Colorado state, failed as the head coach, went to South Carolina with Wilma's champ. They got fired. He went to auburn, got fired, and here we are. That is what we are. That is the undercurrent of all of this. Let's check out Jason, who is up next. Hey Jason, good afternoon to you. Hey, Paul, how are you doing today? Very well. Thank you. Yes. Second time caller. About the whole Bobo and Georgia. I've been a long time fan. I happen to live in Tuscaloosa now, which has been a great two years to live here. As a Georgia fan, but I know where it comes from. Run run first second down with under Bobo back in the day. It was run on first run on second, throw on third and the offense would sputter. So if you look back, we had no receivers. And we were really a run heavy run heavy offense at the time. So I think we all need to sit back as legend okay. I didn't catch yesterday's show after the event. I was out of town and I have not heard whether it did legend Cullen, guys. Don't think he did. All right. One more thing. With Oklahoma and Texas coming to the SEC. Alabama state wrestling championships going on. And I know Oklahoma, Texas, there's a big 12. They have a wrestling. As far as the conference, SEC looking at wrestling in the docket or I have not heard that. I know there was a time when wrestling was one of the sports, but I have not heard any movement on that. And speaking of Texas, I happened to be in Texas yesterday. And the enthusiasm by Texas fans is pretty amazing. I was with some University of Texas people some administrators yesterday, I was in Dallas. They happened to be there. And I was conversing with them. And there's a genuine excitement by folks in Austin about this move. We heard earlier this week that there's a little bit of reticence from Oklahoma. We had one of the states top columnists on. And we had Barry Switzer on. So it's fascinating, especially to hear it here, and then to be out in that state all day to hear the other side of it. Let's check out Jimmy, who is in Dallas. So hey, Jimmy. Hey Paul, good to talk to you. Thank you very much. You bet. My question is this. If indeed the SEC goes to the three 6 6, how would a champion be determined? By the two higher ranked teams. Two high strength teams. Okay. All right. We've got the big 12 this year. Most of the leagues have moved toward this. The SEC, I think the ACC moved that way this year or not. I can't remember. But most are getting away from east west because it really, it doesn't set you up well when it comes to the CFP. Right. Right. Maybe it's a little strange to me because being as you know, sooner or I was going to come down to where somebody has a play who they need to play. By the way, I'm just trying to think if the SEC had done it that way this year, would it have been Alabama and Georgia or Tennessee and George? I'm trying to remember Alabama was 5. So Alabama would have played for the SEC championship. And by the way, too bad they didn't. We would have done maybe some of these conversations would have gone away either Alabama would have beaten Georgia or had lost and then we wouldn't be hearing any more about it. Hey, thank you very much. Jimmy, I appreciate your call. Let's check in with Bill, who is in Kentucky. Hey Bill. Hey, thank you for taking my call. Thank you. Yes, sir. Paul, I think then on it, but someone was telling me that legend made a comment about Kentucky basketball. Can you fill me in on that? This was Wednesday night. He was really excited about the game in Knoxville, which and he said that I said he has said this a couple of times, but I think his main reference to Kentucky was that Alabama is the new Kentucky. Yeah, well, I got news for legend. And. If you want to go back in the history and let's take a look at the wins and losses. They don't compare to Kentucky. Every now and then, Alabama, auburn, tenth, they'll have a good team. They go from the history of it, bob. Kentucky has dominated. Win for Kentucky on Wednesday and I mean, the season was on the line. And they got to win against a good team. It's a quad one game and they needed it and they're still alive right now, which they say they wouldn't have been. They've got Tennessee Saturday at home. So that game could go either way. I don't know if Kentucky is going to get there in the tournament or not, but there'll be a hard out. But we'll see how it goes. Do you see any of the SEC teams getting to the final four? Yes. I think, I mean, obviously, Alabama is going to be a top seed. And after that, Tennessee is a hard who was here. Seth Greenberg a couple of weeks ago, said he thought Tennessee was definitely a final four team. And I still think they are. They're two losses were, I mean, the loss of Kentucky was shocking the other two losses recently were on three points. I mean, they just are inconsistent, but they're good enough to get there. I thought early on, Arkansas was, but it's hard to, right now, Arkansas is just trying to get into the tournament. And they also talk about I don't think they're on other final four team. Arkansas come to Kentucky and was very impressive. But they're just not consistent though. Well, now they're not. That's the problem. And that's what you got to be one of the term that comes in. You've got to get 6 games. So there you go. Thank you for taking my call. And right now, just for fun. And that's all it is. These brackets are out. Tomorrow, the NCAA will actually come out with who they think are the top. That was at 16 teams. How they would rank them at this moment. But one of the brachetto has a play in game in Dayton to 11 versus 11 and the 11 to 11s are Kentucky and North Carolina. That would be the all time playing game. Joe is an Arkansas Joe, you're on the air.
Six Degrees of WTF
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"If someone is known for impersonating a policeman. Why is he out. Isn't that a felony asia. Like why hasn't he been taken care of like could have been. That could have been old joe. He liked the uniform and drive around the less people to rate some women. And so that really man halloween. Every day for joe the reason that was theorized for this is because her license was missing so it makes sense that she would like pullover. Have license out. I mean they're just. I guess people are just trying to think of what it could be and also there's joe schmo though the police impersonator so they had local law enforcement take polygraph tests to try to expose anyone hiding within the system that might be involved. Nothing came out so now. We fast forward to august of nineteen ninety two and a man named richard weeks was transported to county from missouri where he was incarcerated and he was being questioned regarding the murder of shandra may weeks had spent time in the scott in bolivar county jails in nineteen eighty seven in one thousand nine hundred eight on forgery charges so investigators were hoping that weeks might be the break in the case but of course. No new evidence was offered an interrogation. Then we go to march nineteen ninety-three in a story in the tuscaloosa news in alabama tuscaloosa alabama. That's gonna loosen news in alabama discussed the potential ties of suspect kenneth maclean who had been charged in the february nineteen ninety-three murder of laurie hill. Who is a resident of ellettsville mississippi. And at the time of her mother murder. Not mom at the time of her murder she was eighteen years old and pregnant and mclean was said to have stopped lori while impersonating as a police officers related to joe probably i can only assume might be joe who we need to get on this case. Peggy badly she would disobey y'all get on peggy's she would. Everyone should hire peggy so laurie so this this guy impersonating police officer killed this girl..