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00:00SEC Media Days, day number two yesterday in Dallas, day three of four today in Dallas
00:10as well.
00:11Kalen DeBoer will make his debut at SEC Media Days, a new era in Tuscaloosa, of course,
00:17no longer the head man, Nick Saban, Texas, one of the newcomers will be there at the
00:21podium today.
00:22What will Steve Sarkeesian have to say for a Longhorns unit that is expected to contend
00:27for an SEC title, Oklahoma joining their most bitter rivals in Texas, in the SEC, of course,
00:35in the realigned and expanded conference in the last few years at Big 12 Media Days, officiating
00:42was often asked, what are you going to do with the horns down symbol, right?
00:45Mockery of the horns up for Texas used to celebrate on either side.
00:51When Oklahoma's head coach Brent Venables was asked about it yesterday, should it be
00:56a penalty, he said, quote, I don't really have an opinion.
01:00Football is a game of emotion.
01:01If they say it's a penalty, then don't do it.
01:04If it's a free for all, have at it.
01:06Whatever rules are in place, we'll do it.
01:09And quote, the head of SEC officiating also asked a similar question.
01:14And he pretty much says that context is important.
01:18If you do it in the face of a Texas player, that's taunting.
01:22You're going to get flagged 15 yards on sportsmanlike.
01:25And if you're doing it on the sideline to celebrate with your teammates after a huge
01:30momentum turning play, it's nothing they can do.
01:33They're just celebrating being the boys and having a good time.
01:36So it seems as though the horns down has made its way to the Southeastern Conference.
01:41That's good.
01:42That's the way it's supposed to be, though, right?
01:44There's taunting.
01:45There's spiking a football is when you score a touchdown, which we love.
01:48Then when you beat a guy deep and he falls down the end zone, you spike it right next
01:52to his head.
01:53That's a pattern.
01:54That's taunting.
01:55You want the grownups here.
01:56Yes.
01:57You want the rivalries in there.
01:58You want the edge on that.
01:59Same thing when you score a touchdown against Miami, they hold up the U and then they flip
02:02it down.
02:03Look, I'm a Miami fan.
02:04I think it's great.
02:05I'm like, you know what?
02:06Hey, man, you scored a touchdown.
02:07You got to get your digs in at this point.
02:08I are getting back to my days of the early, you know, mid to eight, mid 80s, I should
02:11say an early 1990s.
02:14Celebrations in college football were absolutely wild.
02:16Like Miami was dancing on every sack.
02:18You ever see Lamar Thomas back in the day, catch a touchdown or do you just catch a big
02:22play number 36 for the Hurricanes?
02:25He would take his helmet off in the middle of the field and you were allowed to do that.
02:28Then several years later, the minute you cross the goal line, it was like 16 referees jumped
02:32out of the stands to separate you from the ball.
02:34Make sure you got back to the sidelines.
02:36Like times have changed in college and we understand that.
02:38You never want to see taunting where it upsets the other player, which draws a reaction.
02:42But you're telling me a touchdown against Texas in a big game, you roll up to their
02:46fan base in the back of the end zone and throw that horns down.
02:48I love that.
02:49That's pageantry.
02:50We need that for sure.
02:51Can't have the taunting.
02:52That's fine.
02:53I love all that.
02:55You know how bad things were in year number one under Mario Cristobal in Miami?
03:00You remember when Dukes Brandon Johnson had a pick six against the Canes in Miami, took
03:06it back to the house and then put up the U and broke it over his leg?
03:11That was a tough time for Donnie's favorite college team for whatever reason.
03:16As we go around the SEC from yesterday, Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs booked as the
03:22favorites to win the Southeastern Conference title this year, plus 185.
03:28Kirby Smart was asked about NIL funding that his former defensive coordinator and Oregon
03:33head coach Dan Lanning is set to receive.
03:36Of course, Phil Knight, an alum of Oregon, puts all of his Nike money into the Ducks
03:42and Kirby had this to say, quote, I wish I could get some of that NIL money that he's
03:48sharing with Dan Lanning.
03:49But that's another note and quote, Kirby Smart is a master motivator.
03:55Kirby Smart knows how to take nothing and make it into something.
03:59The idea that Athens is cash strapped is a little bit hard to believe, Mr. Smart.
04:06It's just the SEC coaches going like this.
04:08This isn't right.
04:09Now we can pay legally.
04:11We used to be the conference that got away paying illegally, which means we could afford
04:14anybody we wanted.
04:15Now Phil Knight has an open checkbook at it can write a check.
04:18That's just not fair at this point.
04:19It's crazy how the tables have turned.
04:21And again, it's a new wave and it's just one of those competitive edges.
04:24All Kirby Smart is trying to do is make sure his fan base and his boosters are reading
04:29these articles.
04:30What you're giving me is not enough.
04:32If you want to compete in college football, because right now we can't compete despite
04:35being a great team every year and winning multiple national championships, you've got
04:38to spend more money.
04:39It's crazy how the people, how do they say it?
04:42It's like you have a Virginia ham under your arm and then you're asking for bread in the
04:45other hand.
04:46You know, something like that.
04:47And again, Kirby Smart is actually telling us right now about that.
04:49Yeah, it certainly is.
04:51Georgia, by the way, is the favorite not only to win the SEC, but a national title at three
04:57to one UGA to get to the college football playoff minus six hundred.
05:02Maybe you remember the the debate here on the show on that Monday following selection
05:07Sunday.
05:08I believe it was December 4th where I was yelling at the top of my lungs at both Donnie
05:13and Mark Zito for Florida State's exclusion from the college football playoff.
05:17We didn't spend a lot of time on Georgia.
05:19They should have been there as well, and they will be in twenty twenty four.
05:22Hour two starts next.