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SEC Media Days Highlights: DeBoer Debuts, Texas Joins
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7/17/2024
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SEC Media Days, day number two yesterday in Dallas, day three of four today in Dallas
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as well.
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Kalen DeBoer will make his debut at SEC Media Days, a new era in Tuscaloosa, of course,
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no longer the head man, Nick Saban, Texas, one of the newcomers will be there at the
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podium today.
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What will Steve Sarkeesian have to say for a Longhorns unit that is expected to contend
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for an SEC title, Oklahoma joining their most bitter rivals in Texas, in the SEC, of course,
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in the realigned and expanded conference in the last few years at Big 12 Media Days, officiating
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was often asked, what are you going to do with the horns down symbol, right?
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Mockery of the horns up for Texas used to celebrate on either side.
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When Oklahoma's head coach Brent Venables was asked about it yesterday, should it be
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a penalty, he said, quote, I don't really have an opinion.
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Football is a game of emotion.
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If they say it's a penalty, then don't do it.
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If it's a free for all, have at it.
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Whatever rules are in place, we'll do it.
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And quote, the head of SEC officiating also asked a similar question.
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And he pretty much says that context is important.
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If you do it in the face of a Texas player, that's taunting.
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You're going to get flagged 15 yards on sportsmanlike.
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And if you're doing it on the sideline to celebrate with your teammates after a huge
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momentum turning play, it's nothing they can do.
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They're just celebrating being the boys and having a good time.
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So it seems as though the horns down has made its way to the Southeastern Conference.
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That's good.
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That's the way it's supposed to be, though, right?
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There's taunting.
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There's spiking a football is when you score a touchdown, which we love.
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Then when you beat a guy deep and he falls down the end zone, you spike it right next
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to his head.
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That's a pattern.
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That's taunting.
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You want the grownups here.
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Yes.
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You want the rivalries in there.
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You want the edge on that.
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Same thing when you score a touchdown against Miami, they hold up the U and then they flip
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it down.
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Look, I'm a Miami fan.
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I think it's great.
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I'm like, you know what?
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Hey, man, you scored a touchdown.
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You got to get your digs in at this point.
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I are getting back to my days of the early, you know, mid to eight, mid 80s, I should
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say an early 1990s.
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Celebrations in college football were absolutely wild.
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Like Miami was dancing on every sack.
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You ever see Lamar Thomas back in the day, catch a touchdown or do you just catch a big
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play number 36 for the Hurricanes?
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He would take his helmet off in the middle of the field and you were allowed to do that.
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Then several years later, the minute you cross the goal line, it was like 16 referees jumped
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out of the stands to separate you from the ball.
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Make sure you got back to the sidelines.
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Like times have changed in college and we understand that.
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You never want to see taunting where it upsets the other player, which draws a reaction.
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But you're telling me a touchdown against Texas in a big game, you roll up to their
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fan base in the back of the end zone and throw that horns down.
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I love that.
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That's pageantry.
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We need that for sure.
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Can't have the taunting.
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That's fine.
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I love all that.
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You know how bad things were in year number one under Mario Cristobal in Miami?
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You remember when Dukes Brandon Johnson had a pick six against the Canes in Miami, took
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it back to the house and then put up the U and broke it over his leg?
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That was a tough time for Donnie's favorite college team for whatever reason.
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As we go around the SEC from yesterday, Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs booked as the
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favorites to win the Southeastern Conference title this year, plus 185.
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Kirby Smart was asked about NIL funding that his former defensive coordinator and Oregon
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head coach Dan Lanning is set to receive.
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Of course, Phil Knight, an alum of Oregon, puts all of his Nike money into the Ducks
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and Kirby had this to say, quote, I wish I could get some of that NIL money that he's
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sharing with Dan Lanning.
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But that's another note and quote, Kirby Smart is a master motivator.
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Kirby Smart knows how to take nothing and make it into something.
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The idea that Athens is cash strapped is a little bit hard to believe, Mr. Smart.
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It's just the SEC coaches going like this.
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This isn't right.
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Now we can pay legally.
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We used to be the conference that got away paying illegally, which means we could afford
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anybody we wanted.
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Now Phil Knight has an open checkbook at it can write a check.
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That's just not fair at this point.
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It's crazy how the tables have turned.
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And again, it's a new wave and it's just one of those competitive edges.
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All Kirby Smart is trying to do is make sure his fan base and his boosters are reading
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these articles.
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What you're giving me is not enough.
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If you want to compete in college football, because right now we can't compete despite
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being a great team every year and winning multiple national championships, you've got
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to spend more money.
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It's crazy how the people, how do they say it?
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It's like you have a Virginia ham under your arm and then you're asking for bread in the
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other hand.
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You know, something like that.
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And again, Kirby Smart is actually telling us right now about that.
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Yeah, it certainly is.
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Georgia, by the way, is the favorite not only to win the SEC, but a national title at three
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to one UGA to get to the college football playoff minus six hundred.
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Maybe you remember the the debate here on the show on that Monday following selection
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Sunday.
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I believe it was December 4th where I was yelling at the top of my lungs at both Donnie
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and Mark Zito for Florida State's exclusion from the college football playoff.
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We didn't spend a lot of time on Georgia.
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They should have been there as well, and they will be in twenty twenty four.
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Hour two starts next.
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