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Top Shelf Grumbling Episode 46 Is The Players the 5th Major?
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Welcome back to the Monday Night Weekend Recap! In this episode we break down everything that happened over the weekend in Ole Miss sports — the highs, the lows, and the moments that had Rebel fans talking. From game performances and standout players to what it means moving forward, we cover all the biggest storylines you need to know. We also look ahead to one of the biggest weeks in golf as we preview The Players Championship. Who’s playing well right now? Which golfers could make a run at TPC Sawgrass? And what storylines should fans keep an eye on as the tournament gets underway? We’ll give our thoughts on the field, potential contenders, and what makes this event one of the most exciting stops on the PGA Tour. If you're an Ole Miss fan, a golf fan, or just love keeping up with the biggest sports moments of the week, this episode has you covered. Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe so you don’t miss future recaps, previews, and sports discussions!
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SPEAKER_00Almost got washed away, folks. I mean, my gosh. That was enough water to uh not gonna be cart path only. I mean, not gonna be uh uh no course only.
SPEAKER_02No course only. Welcome to the Top Shelf Grumbling Podcast with Dan the Don Walls. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors, Lawn Hub for all your lawn care needs. Price cutter, best meat in town, Hell State. Russell Motors goes to Austin and got what you need. Put your block restaurant voted Best Biscuit and Best Breakfast 2025. Available wherever you get your podcast, coming to you from the Wilder Fitness Studio. Presenting aware you media production, this is Top Shelf Grumbling. Hi guys, we're back here at the Top Shelf Grumbling Monday night show, a little weekend recap. Uh we're gonna Rebel Report. Rebel Report. We're gonna go over a few things. We're gonna talk about some golf this week. We got the players coming up. Argue is this the fifth major or not? We don't know. No, it's not. We're not gonna talk about that. Uh we are gonna talk about some golfers that we like. Uh we're gonna do some uh some rebel sports as well, too. Uh talk about what happened this weekend. All sports. All sports, yeah, absolutely. Uh you can find all this at Oldmas365.com. Uh thanks to you, David Johnson, again. Uh, we really appreciate that. Uh, and we're here just hanging out with you guys tonight. Uh, if you're on Twitter, uh, give us a like, give us a share or something.
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SPEAKER_00Oh, got a few things on um um they announced I did Old Most 365 did or 365. Uh we're gonna launch a uh new site. Cougs 365. Cougs, Houston Cougars 365. Uh shout out to Leanne Harry. What a great job. Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER_02And uh gonna be sad to lose her here at OleMus 365, but man, she's gonna she's gonna do a great job in the car.
SPEAKER_00She could run, oh, she could she could run three different ones by herself, I believe.
SPEAKER_02Just an absolute uh you know maniac.
SPEAKER_00And um that work. That's gonna launch, I believe, May the 1st. And then we hadn't s we're not we hadn't said what uh it's gonna be a SC uh SEC school is gonna be added uh on the website to the website list too. Yeah. But uh gonna hold keep that a little uh secret rather than now. But I do know it's gonna launch. It's gonna launch uh June the first. That's gonna launch around June the 1st. So big thing is coming at uh Old Miller 365. Just the beginning, you know.
SPEAKER_02A lot of uh new sites dropping soon as well, too. New user interface is gonna be a lot smoother.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. A bunch of uh 365 camps coming up. There's one uh there's one last weekend Meridian, had a big turnout, and uh there's one I think the next one's in Cleveland. Yep. And then San Antonio after that, then Little Rock, and just you know, stay tuned for updates on those too as well.
SPEAKER_02Trying to get your name out there. You want to get a profile done, go to those camps. I think it's 50 bucks or something like that to sign up.
SPEAKER_00Some of them are 50, some of them are 100. It depends on which one you have. Because some of the high schools I think like don't charge them anything, but I think some do. And uh, but you know, anyway. Yeah, absolutely. And every like you said, every every uh kid that goes gets a uh player profile. A pro player profile. And I'm pretty sure I I think I saw where David said today that the uh the uh the the 365 Mississippi uh high school player rankings are gonna drop here, I think either tomorrow or someday this week. All right.
SPEAKER_02Um what else we got on to start off with?
SPEAKER_00Can I talk about some recruiting? Uh uh Pete Golda's recruiting his you know what off I mean, the staff he put together, I knew they were gonna be like this. I mean, every blue chip high school player just about you see has Ole Miss listed as uh as one of their uh in the in the hunt. And that's a testament to Pete. And look, Frank Wilson, I still can't believe we kept Q1 Lacey and got Frank Wilson. I mean, I feel like that's like a such such an underrated thing.
SPEAKER_02Nobody talks about that, you know. Uh that was uh a win of a win, especially after that little snippet came out uh of the of the phone call from you know that got somehow got released.
SPEAKER_00And they were tweeting stuff a couple a couple days before, like some cryptic tweets, Frank, we got some Anna Lane, both of our I'm gonna tell you right now, I was I was worried till the 11th hour on that deal that he was gonna jump on the portal, you know, at the last second orchestrated deal, you know. Yeah, I think we stayed up that night until midnight just to make sure it didn't happen. Ain't no thinking too. I know I did.
SPEAKER_02Um But yeah, great recruiting job by the new coaches.
SPEAKER_00The spring ball's just around the corner, and well, we're gonna be there. I think we're gonna try to do a podcast from the be from the practice field or not, but it'll be on the Ole Miss campus the day, the opening day of spring practice. Yeah. You want to check that out. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, like I said, about uh touching on Pete's recruiting and the staff recruiting. Like I'm Ole Miss isn't going anywhere. Test it with Walker Jones and you know Keith Carter. Yeah. Lane Kiffin was a big part of that. He wasn't like, I mean, he was a but I don't think we're gonna miss a beat at all.
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SPEAKER_00Uh what do you we got a lot to talk about? Let's talk about you talk about some little plot a little golf first.
SPEAKER_02Absolutely, absolutely. I watched, just to start off with that, um, you know, there's uh if you look at number 17, uh the the they call the island green uh at Ponta Vedra Beach. It's not really an island. I got my PGA tour on. Uh it's not really an island, it's a peninsula. I mean it's in the very definition of the colour.
SPEAKER_00It's not like it's not landlocked but it's um but you for it's not an island. It's not alone.
SPEAKER_02There is an island with a tree on it. Yeah, the flowers and the flower bed and uh the flowers and the flower bed. And I watched uh a nice little golf Dodge piece today about uh about them having to change all those flowers out from Saturday to Sunday when it was Mother's Day when they they played on Mother's Day, and they had to like sometimes stay overnight with six or seven people to change out all those flowers uh on Mother's Day. I remember watching the Flying. Yeah, that was there was a bunch of sand right there. It was a beautiful live oak tree. They didn't want to get rid of it. Uh so they decided to to make a you know a little peninsula out of it. And there was what they called the wedding cake, uh, where you had people watching and they had little steps that look like a cake up on up on the ground. They've since you know all done away with all that, and it's an it's an island now.
SPEAKER_00I remember watching the tournament as a little kid thinking, I want to see somebody hit the ball like on that on the flower bed. I mean, it didn't have to be a terrible shot, but I mean some one of us could do it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Got some new new guys coming in that are that are hot right now. Um Scotty took a little step back this past week to Arnold Palmer, but uh, you know, he's always later.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna do some matchup bets too. I'm gonna post them on Twitter and Facebook. They're not up yet, the matchup. I don't know why they're not, because they've already got the pairings out. I don't know what they the matchup should have already been up, but they as of Eric, as of this airing, they were not uh up. Um I don't think Rory, what I saw earlier, I don't think I'm gonna call it that he don't play this week.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, if he's gonna be a good thing.
SPEAKER_00He was like, he said, I'm staying at home until Wednesday to rest with the hope of getting there. Like but he don't he don't he don't need to like scout the course or anything. He knows his course like the back of his hand. Yeah. He just won here last year. He's a defending champion.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I just it's not a major, so I think he's gonna try to get ready for Augusta and not play in this. And yes, you got a lot of argument and a lot of going back and forth on should this be added to the major list, that fifth major. No, it should not be. It's a good tournament. It's a great tournament. A nice tournament.
SPEAKER_02I don't like where it is in the schedule now. I wish they would move it back to where it was.
SPEAKER_00You know, it was here first for years and they moved it up, and they now they moved it back. Yeah, I kind of liked it in the other slot, a little further down in the in the see I kinda see I kind of like it here. Yeah. I don't know why. I just argue I well, I think it's more it makes it stand out more, it being this week, this this time of the year. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I mean it's before, you know, before Augusta, which is gonna take the air out of a lot, you know, a lot of golf. There's a lot of folks that watch the Masters who don't even watch golf. You know, that's a Yeah, the Masters, yeah. It's a staple. But um Yeah, no, I'm I'm really pleased with uh how the Arnold Harmel uh Arnold Palmer uh turned out. Isk came back, Derek Berger just didn't have it in the tank, I guess.
SPEAKER_00I want a little money on that. I took uh Oskay on Sunday the mat that was the matchup, him and burger. But I thought I thought it was a loser the whole way, man.
SPEAKER_02He had he had something like 16 and a half strokes gained around the green. He actually was uh put on a clinic about chipping and wedging and putting the ball all day long. And we could talk about a little bit of controversy about that. Is is the new rule about anchoring your putter uh is that it can touch your shirt. Well, I don't know if y'all seen Ice Kate. Yeah, he's Ice Kate doesn't have much of a chest, so if you could argue that he's touching his shirt, and he probably isn't touching his, but there's a lot of speculation that he's been you know anchoring the putter.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, calling people are calling him cheaters and all that, this, that, and the other. Yeah. Which I mean he's not. I mean that's kind of a fine line there on that rule.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if this is a politically correct thing to say, but he's got a bird chest. That's what I was gonna say the same thing. He goes in, it doesn't go out. He's uh he's uh probably not in danger. Flatbelly. Yeah, he's probably not in danger of uh grounding that putter on his chest.
SPEAKER_00Um Scotty's getting the tiger treatment. Scotty's plus 370 to win the whole tournament. The next closest eyes to him is Rory, who's probably not even gonna play at 12 to 1. That is freaking crazy, man. I just wild. Um got Shoffley, he's plus 23 23 to 1. Uh Tommy and Ludvig, Edinburgh, and uh Morakower, they're all kind of in there with Xandon at 23, 25 to 1. But Tommy has never played that good here. His uh best finish, I think, was tied for 22nd. Uh Ludvik is tied for, I think, 10th one time and a missed cut one year.
SPEAKER_02As beautiful as his swing is, he just he baffles me sometimes about the balls that he hits and the decisions he makes. He he duffed one in the in the sand trap the other day that just looked very pedestrian.
SPEAKER_00Um I know just sometimes he just kind of like make you scratch your head.
SPEAKER_02He checks out or something. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00And Morakawa, he's his he's he's never had bit had that good of a record around this course. I think he's his uh he's got one top ten, and the rest have not been, you know, yeah, yeah, not very good.
SPEAKER_02But uh interesting to see if this course uh is it set up more for uh a draw or is it just kind of a straight hitter's course?
SPEAKER_00I mean, it's uh peak dye design, I'm pretty sure. It's just it is it's a it's a tough, it's a bear. Um I kinda like a long shot. I kinda like Jason Day. He's been kind of playing, you know, pretty good golf. This course sets up for him. But I like Ecavaria, man. I kind of think Xander Shaffy's gonna play good. But I'm look, I'm picking Scotty. I just got a feeling that Scotty just kind of runs away in highs on this thing this weekend. I don't know why I think that. I mean, I know why I think that he's the best player in the world, but he won it in 23. He won it 23 and 24. And he got uh he uh like well he's like four-wonder for the weekend last night last year. I think he was like top 20 or something. But I just hard not to bet.
SPEAKER_02I mean, hard not to take those odds, too. I mean, if they believe that much that he's gonna he's gonna win.
SPEAKER_00Also, they got a Pontak Country Club doing a players pool. Yeah. Uh I think it's $20. So get with uh Scotty Patterson of Pontap Country Club and get in the plot. I'm in, I know one team, I'm probably gonna do another one. That's how they do it. You pick six golfers, they they have like six different tiers. You pick five or six golfers and throw out the high score, and then you take the low four or five or whatever. It's pretty fun. It's fun. And it's like you said, it's like I said, it's 20 bucks. And the stay team for, like I said, some matchup bets uh in a couple days. So who do you who you I'm picking Scotty? Who are you picking? Oh man, I don't know. I mean, it's hard not to pick Scotty.
SPEAKER_02I mean it's hard not to pick Scotty. Uh Dark Horse.
SPEAKER_00I like that pick. I like uh I like betting on Brian Harmon too.
SPEAKER_02He uh He's gonna come out of nowhere.
SPEAKER_00I saw one of them uh today that I've won a bunch of money on Brian Harmon.
SPEAKER_02He was he was one of the ones that hit like over 160 balls uh at the range today.
SPEAKER_00Um got anything to add about the players?
SPEAKER_02I think that's good, man. I think we hit the high nights over this. Well, we're just it's early in the week, too. We'll talk about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna talk about it. Um we're gonna do another show this week, ain't we? I feel like we'll do what we'll we'll get dived in on that too and have some matchup bets.
SPEAKER_02We'll do a weekend show. We haven't done, we've always done it on a Thursday night, but we may do another evening show.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna start doing you back on two nights a week now since you know baseball and stuff's getting kicked up. So we took a small hiatus of just one show a week. One show a week, because I mean it's kind of we have to get away for a football is king, man. Like, you know, and then baseball is pretty good. There wasn't much to talk about the men's. But I want to talk about uh the rebel man and men's and women's golf as we can as we continue our wonderful wild world of golf segment. Um by the way, we're uh the beautiful Wilder Fitness Equipment Showroom studio.
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SPEAKER_00Um The Old Miss Men, number, I think number 13th this week in the rankings. This is our fifth or sixth top uh five finish of the year so far. We we uh tied for fourth and down the down in Cabo with an eight under weekend score. Beautiful place to play golf. Tom Fisher was uh top ten. He was uh, I think fifth or sixth uh in the individual. He was under par in all three rounds. Uh Colin Tollio and uh Cam Tankersley also played really, really well. And look, we got fourth in this tournament. This tournament had this tournament had number 11 Oklahoma State, number nine, Arkansas, number 13, Ole Miss, number 18 Tennessee, number 26, Arizona, number seven, Arizona State, number 20, Stanford, number 17, Georgia Tech, and number five, Vandy, who like Vandy played terrible in this tournament. They were probably the highest ranked team. They played bad. That's a freaking stacked field. And for us to get fourth in this tournament, that's why we we moved up the rankings two or three spots this week in the national rankings. I mean, and probably should have moved up higher than that. Played great competition and played well. And uh they're getting ready to go down to, or excuse me, go up, I don't know how Paw Pawmu Valley next with another stacked field. This is out in California somewhere, so I mean the places they get to go and travel to. They've been to Cabo, Puerto Rico.
SPEAKER_02To be uh to be on the golf team is uh is to be a nice travel agent. You could you could definitely get your uh your kicks for sure.
SPEAKER_00Um the women, I'm not gonna talk too much about the women, they did not have a good weekend. Um they got 13th at the Darius Rooker invitational. There was a stacked uh stacked field, and there was there was only a few uh couple shots separating, you know, but Mary Miller of the of our lady, she played very well. Um for us, that's about it. That's about all on the women's. They'll bounce back. They uh long season, long season. Absolutely long season. Um that's about all I got to and look, we're gonna start uh having more coverage too of the Ole Miss Golf team. Yeah. Uh hopefully done by me and uh us, you know, for Ole Miss 365. Look, we we we have a nationally the men the men's golf program has been very good here for the past couple years, just getting better and better. We look we we have we have a chance to win the whole thing this year.
SPEAKER_02Coach Malloy's done a great job for sure for the men's.
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. And so uh so that's the women's coach. I can't I can't even remember her name, but she came here from South Carolina and took over nothing. She's won a national championship. She's had like she's won like 20 tournaments in like five years since she's been here, which is a crap load. That's a lot. Um let's see. Let's talk a little baseball and softball.
SPEAKER_02I feel like we uh we outclassed Evansville this weekend. Just a hair.
SPEAKER_00Look, we're 15-2. You got the rooter kids hitting 425, Basetta who's just tearing the cover off the balls, hitting like 405, 406. And we're still coming together a little bit. You we had a little hiccup down in um down in Houston, but we we should have won that Baylor game. We should be sitting here 16-1 right now. But uh and look, we we were we were in the Coastal Carolina game. We just kind of let it get away from us there in the uh fifth inning.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we haven't been dominating.
SPEAKER_00Bianco left the pitcher in too long, believe it or not. Uh have you seen that story before? Imagine that. Um it may have been, I guess the the pitching coach may have left him in too long. Mangram. Now we got a new pitching coach. Thank goodness we finally got a look. That's what that's why I'm kind of bullish on this thing. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, Mike hiring this pitching coach is a big deal, and it's gonna really, really help us, I think. And look, I've heard Mike say in two or three interviews, he even admitted, like, I should have done this years ago. Um, you know, this is a close-knit team. I like this team. The rubber's finna meet the road this week because we got uh tomorrow night, we're playing at number six, Southern Myths, who has the best resume right now in the entire country. They should be number one, really. If they wasn't Southern Myths, they probably would be. We got them tomorrow night. I think I can't remember if this game is in Hattiesburg or uh Laurel. We played that little uh I think it's in Hattiesburg, though. At Southern Miss. We play them again in the year, too. We play them uh somewhere else. So I can't remember. One of them's at Hattiesburg, the other one's in Laurel. I think it's Laurel. Yeah. Um we play at number two, at number two, Texas this weekend for a weekend series. Those are our four games this week. At number six, Southern Mess, and at number, and then three, three uh on the road at uh Texas.
SPEAKER_02That's an open SEC play.
SPEAKER_00That'll get everybody's attention.
SPEAKER_02That'll get your attention real quickly. But hey, you know what? We'll figure out if uh all these hits and and all this pitching has been. I think the I feel I don't believe it has been, but I think the pitching is grade A number one legit.
SPEAKER_00I believe that. Now they're hitting it's kind of like the middle of our lineup, like our five to eight, seven hitters. We've been striking out a good bit, but not quite as bad as we were last year. But I think we've got it in us to hit to not do that. I really do.
SPEAKER_02We've had really good timely hitting though with the rest of the lineup, which sometimes you've got to carry that middle part or the backside, or you know, even sometimes you know the front of the lineup gets a little kind of slump. But we've been doing good for timely hitting, and and Urmark's gonna catch the run record in the next you know six games.
SPEAKER_00I know.
SPEAKER_02He's just hitting bombs, too.
SPEAKER_00I like I like I like this baseball team, I really do. But like I said, we're gonna we're gonna figure it out this weekend, this week. But also too stopped up all of a sudden. Also too. Fifteen and fifteen, five hundred and SEC play, I think gets you a host spot. Yeah. At least. You may not have to do that, but the road's a little easier for sure. See, we we we we went four and oh last week. We swept Evansville and beat North Alabama. Um 5-0 last week. Did we play uh Tuesday night too? We played Tuesday, Wednesday, and then yeah, we beat uh I can't remember who it was we beat Tuesday. We went to 5-0 last week. I know. Um But yeah, can't wait to watch that tomorrow. I think it's 6 o'clock tomorrow night against Southern Mess. That'll be uh Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02Y'all come over to Tiplawana Spirits, come hang out with us and watch it. I'll be at work. Um shout out to Barrett Brady, happy anniversary, brother.
SPEAKER_00Happy anniversary. And by the way, go to OMS365 and check it out. Uh the best articles, the best podcast lineup. Absolutely in his jaws. Um softball. Uh just the just the ugly weekends, all you can say. Got swept, uh got swept, uh, got beat five to three game one, got thirteen to two game uh two and Two to one and uh game three didn't didn't hit the ball at all. Only five, four, what, four or five total runs. And the question we thought was the pitching. Now the game two kind of got a got kind of got away from us 13 to 2, but yeah. The other two games, the pitching was fantastic.
SPEAKER_02Is Bama supposed to be good?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they they're they're national. I think they were like 15th or something. They're ranked, yeah, they're a good team, but just kind of this team, we we had a lot of team, a lot of players from the transfer report. We had, I think, uh, I know we added two or three to our lineup, and the the pit the transfer pitching is gonna be the key, but they were good this weekend. Our bats were just terrible. Now, Bama must have three ace pitchers. I don't know, but we've been tearing the cover off the ball, and then all of a sudden we don't do anything for the whole weekend.
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SPEAKER_00But long season, long season. We're gonna be all right.
SPEAKER_02Lots of ball left for sure. For sure. Um what else we got for this evening here? Monday night recapping.
SPEAKER_00Uh world uh check out the world baseball classic. Oh, fantastic watch. The fans are packed in, uh, and acting crazy.
SPEAKER_02Interesting that somebody from like, you know, a random team across the world is getting a throw against Otani. You know, like it you just you just this guy's, you know.
SPEAKER_00This guy's a Juco at best baseball player, and he's got no idea.
SPEAKER_02And all here, oh my gosh, here comes Shelly Otani.
SPEAKER_00And like this kind of like a World Cup vibe to it. Like I said, the fans are crazy and all into it. It's 32 different countries. Yeah. You got uh Team USA's good, uh, Japan's good, the uh the Dominicans are good. Imagine that. Uh and then Mexico and Puerto Rico, they're not supposed to be as good. I'm gonna tell you, watch out for them too. This is gonna be uh very interesting uh coming down the stretch here to see who wins that. I don't know if we had to handicap this thing. Uh I bet under last night in I think it was Mexico and Brazil, under 11 and a half. They had it by the third inning. But I'm serious. I was like, well, that's a loser. Never mind.
SPEAKER_02I mean, yeah, I think that's that's not a bad baseball. Not a bad baseball under.
SPEAKER_00They were playing in Houston at the Astro Stadium. I was like, you know this. Big big stadium. Yeah, not big enough. Not big enough at all. Um yeah, big weekend ahead of baseball. Coach Yo got back on Yo, Y O. Yo, Coach Yo.
SPEAKER_01Yo let.
SPEAKER_00They always think I'll say in Coach O, like, oh, we had old. But no, Coach O got kind of got back on track in Nashville. Had two good wins against nationally ranked Vandy, and they beat Auburn in the first game. Yeah. Kind of got handed to him by well didn't Texas win it. Yeah, Texas, Texas put a put up put Ole Miss out, and they ended up running away with it there at the end, but it was like a five, two, three, four, four, five-point game within the fourth quarter.
SPEAKER_02Like it was they couldn't miss. They were shooting threes at lights out, Texas was.
SPEAKER_00Um They got a good team. Uh gonna be seated high. Cody McMahon's like one of the final uh the wooden ward of the finalist. And what's the girl's name? I can't ever think of her name. She's the one that's been injured. Uh anyway, if we if we can get her back, and I think we're going to, hopefully. Yeah, he would have been popping off. Um I'm just ready to see where this team lands in the tournament. They were hoping to get a host spot. That's kind of the only thing. I don't think Yo's never hosted. She's been the two sweet sixteens, but we was really wanting to host. I'm not trying to make excuses, but Yo has some bad luck this year. The Lady Rebels have had some terrible luck, had to play like four games in how many, like a week during the ice storm. Then our second best player goes down right around that same time. It's just but I was glad that we got we got those two wins in uh Nashville to get some momentum back.
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SPEAKER_00I'm ready to see where I think selection Sunday is um this coming Sunday. So read to see where the um where the coach O lands on that. Go Lady Ribs. Go Lady Ribs.
SPEAKER_02All right, now the things we don't want to talk about.
SPEAKER_00That's not uh what speaking of a uh going to a team that's not gonna be it be um Yeah, you don't have to worry about the men's basketball team anymore this year because they're done playing basketball. Well, no, that's not quite true. I mean we've got one we got we play um, I think it's Texas in the SEC tournament Wednesday night. Yeah. We're not West Moore, don't wait, man. We're still week. There's no there's no more basketball. Um Merciful End. We play Texas. Um I think it's Wednesday night, six or seven o'clock in the in the SEC tournament. Look, I love one of my one of my favorite sporting events of the year is the the SEC basketball tournament. I just love watching it for some reason. I always have. And I'm gonna tune in for us. I'm gonna ride this out to the bitter end, I guess.
SPEAKER_02I'll be honest with you. I had I thought that it was this past weekend.
SPEAKER_00Well, you know, I think there for a year or two, not everybody got in the uh got in the tournament. Got in the tournament.
SPEAKER_02But um Well, the the regular season came to mercifully.
SPEAKER_00And look, if you if anybody ever asks you how the 2025, 2026 uh OMS basketball team season went, just show them that last clip of the South Carolina game Saturday. It's a tie ball game with five seconds left. They throw the ball in.
SPEAKER_02Comradine's 14 feet away from that.
SPEAKER_00He's probably this what, probably two or three steps away uh past half uh two or three steps past half court, and he pulls up. I mean, look the most nothing but net shot you have ever seen.
SPEAKER_02Smokes the the ground because it went through the net so fast.
SPEAKER_00And everybody just kind of set back and was like, well, that's uh that's kind of how you are.
SPEAKER_02But you know, uh Chris Beard did vow that he was gonna he's gonna have a better team next year.
SPEAKER_00And look, I'm glad Beard's coming back. Look, I know this is not he's never he's never had a year like this, a losing the season like this ever. I mean, we says a hundred times on here. He's won 16 NCAA tournament games, been to multiple final fours. He's a top five coach in the country.
SPEAKER_02Won more tournament games than Ole Miss has.
SPEAKER_00By a long shot. He's won 16. Ole Miss is not, I'm not exactly sure what our number is, but it's not 16. It's like 10. No, it's not even 10. It's gonna be like seven or something.
SPEAKER_02It's somewhere under 10.
SPEAKER_00Um, but he's gonna he's gonna fix this. I really believe that he will fix this. Um this is crazy. Oh, I was looking. Ole Miss also plays uh softball against Texas this weekend, too.
SPEAKER_02So Gauntlet.
SPEAKER_00They laid the hammer on us.
SPEAKER_02Basketball's rough, basketball's just rough anyway.
SPEAKER_00But um Beard says he's staying, and like you I really believe he's going to. He's not not like Kiff, and he didn't shy away from like, well, don't talk about this. Him hard around. He said he said vehemently twice that he stayed. And look, I kind of back when everybody was saying he was leaving, or was probably going. I didn't I never did bite because the before the two times that he said he was staying, he kind of went a week or two before that, like did all the shows, like all the O Miss podcasts, and was like, you know, like I'm not he didn't say I wasn't leaving. He was like, I think he was doing like I'm not leaving tour, like I'm not, I'm here.
SPEAKER_02Well, here's the thing, too.
SPEAKER_00We're paying him top four salary.
SPEAKER_02At the same time, I mean you had a losing season. It's not like people were I mean, people might be clamoring for you, but not really.
SPEAKER_00Not no no nobody that's serious or has an axe to grind not gonna be saying anything.
SPEAKER_02He's like, Oh, don't worry, I'm not leaving. They didn't say that, but you know, we shouldn't be like that either because you know, we had a losing season. We're looking for better for next year.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if we're still on live or not. Um anyway. Oh no, anyway. Um you got anything else? Well, I'm kind of talking a little bit more the basketball right quick. Like Beard's got a top three SEC coaching salary. It's kind of like the same thing with Kiffin. Like, people people are acting like we're painting peanuts, you know. He's just had the our best season in the school history last year. Yeah. I mean he knows what he's doing, he's gonna get this fixed. And look, we shouldn't have to this sounds crazy, I know, because we we had a bad season, but we should have to go too portal heavy this year because we signed two like top 100 guys that uh we like red shirted pretty much. Yeah. Uh we've only I think we only had three seniors on the team. So, I mean, I know there's gonna be some moving parts that we're not aware of, you know, but they'll just take more than you think out of this. They think we're we're we're we're got a good chance to get this five-star out of high school that's gonna be like a game changer. So I think we're gonna be fine. Just the heavy portal years. We just are bad. We we we wasn't that my point, we we wasn't that far off this year, really. Yeah. We were very competitive. Like we lost a bunch of close games. We just didn't have, we were just missing something. I don't know what it was.
SPEAKER_02We talked about this before, we were missing a dude. Yeah. We didn't have a dude, we had a bunch of guys.
SPEAKER_00And we paid Malik D a bunch of bunch of a bunch of money.
SPEAKER_02To not be a dude.
SPEAKER_00To not be a he's a sometimes, dude. Sometimes, dude, yeah. Part-time, dude. Less than part-time. Uh I don't really uh one thing too. The SEC's not very good this year. Some Lenarty has us getting 11 teams in. I don't understand why or how, but anyway. I don't believe it. I don't believe it either, but uh, we're gonna find out. I guess the selection of Sunday will be.
SPEAKER_02It's upon us.
SPEAKER_00It'll be next this coming Sunday.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, not this one, it's next.
SPEAKER_00No, it'll be this one.
SPEAKER_02This is right after, won't it?
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02I forget it ends on Saturday.
SPEAKER_00But um got all a lot, a lot of stuff coming up. Big things happening at OMS 365. Yeah, yeah, go check them out.
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