Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: We've got Troy Eklund here in studio. We've had some technical issues here at our show here today. Troy, SEC Network analyst, he's going to be on the call here in a little bit when Arkazole plays OU over at Paul Walker Stadium. It's going to be a 4 o' clock first pitch instead of a 6 o' clock first pitch tonight because of the weather. You know, you look at ou, Troy, and as people have asked me about Oklahoma this week, really the thing that just, I think when you play a team like Oklahoma, it really puts a lot of pressure on you being fundamentally sound at all times. And that's, that's not a knock against other teams. But when you got a team that, you know, they're pretty good fielding, they can pitch for the most part, they got a lot of power arms. I mean, this may be one of the. Florida had a lot of power arms, but, but Oklahoma, I think they're right there with Florida just in terms of the gas, so to speak, they can bring out of their bulk then. But it's the base running, it's the, you know, the pressure that they want to put on you when they get on the bases, that, that puts a lot of stress on you. And I feel like maybe that accumulates a little bit over nine innings on, on a given day or 27 innings on the weekend.
[00:01:03] Speaker B: Well, you know, speed creates a lot of problems and so it, it makes you as an infielder speed up on, on ground balls. And so you might, you know, rush a little bit or rush a throw and it might sail when you get guys on base. This a team, like you said, Matt, they, they've attempted 120 stolen bases this year.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: So he's successful at 100, 202.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: I think in league play, they're 40 or 51 a little bit. Maybe guys hold them on a little bit better, but they're going to push the envelope. And with the way that Bomb Walker normally plays with that wind blowing in from that right field, it kind of is conducive for that type of an offense. But yeah, I agree that they're going to put pressure on the defense and little things like you might see a few more fastballs, you the thrain and you know, because of a rider Helford, you know, I'm gonna try to throw this guy out. You might see some pitchers trying to maybe speed up their motion to the plate, slide or slide step or. And they're not, maybe not used to it or even they just don't lift that Knee at quite as high. And then maybe that pitch, instead of being a strike, now it sails. And so there's a lot of little things in the game, inside the game, so to speak, of what speed will do. But yeah, I think this is going to be interesting and Arkansas is going to have to be, be tight.
[00:02:20] Speaker A: Forget who Arkansas was playing earlier this year. There was a team that liked to run quite a bit. Maybe it was Mississippi State, but, but you saw a ton of pickoff moves. I mean they were, they were really conscious of, of trying to slow things down.
May make for some longer games too.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that's, that's right. You know, there's no rule in, in college baseball and in the SEC where you don't, you don't have a limited number of picks like you do in the big league. So you're right, that'll be called a lot more often. And it's. Sometimes I think it just gets in the head of the pitcher and you just, they just lose focus instead of really concentrating on that batter. So for Arkansas, they're going to have to, you know, kind of be dual focused with, with the runner and then batter to play.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: I was trying to find this graphic that Arkansas put out yesterday. Here it is on, on Ryder Helfrich, just talking about, you know, how good he's been defensive, run saved, framing rate.
We wrote this week that, you know, teams have run on Arkansas less this year than I think any other team in the sec. Now I think that comes with a little bit of an asterisk. They haven't played Oklahoma and they haven't played Kentucky and two highest steal rate teams in the, in the league and they played them here over the next couple of weeks.
But there's so much emphasis I feel like that's put on how does a catcher do like, like caught stealing? It feels like that's the catcher stat when really there's a lot that goes into, you know, the pitcher being responsible for that. All that's a long winded way to say. What have you seen from Hunter Dietz and his ability to hold runners this year?
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah, he's doing pretty, I would say he's maybe a little above average now. He doesn't have some of the pickoff moves that some of the Ole Miss pitchers had last weekend that were just phenomenal. But I think he's, he's solid and even at 6 foot 6, he delivers the baseball pretty quickly to the plate. I want to say I think he's around 13 and if you can be in that range, you're going to give your catcher a shot.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: Gabe Gackel's been a little bit slower to the plate this year and he was one again in that series. And I forget who they were playing, but. But you saw a ton of pickoff attempts from him on that Friday night.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: Well, the thing for Gakkal is he's super athletic and so. And he's got a very quick move, you know, so he, he's got quick feet, which means that you can spin to first and have a, have a quick remove over there. And you know, he's not afraid to throw the ball hard over there as well too. So Carter Rudenbar, you know, he, he got thrown into the fire pretty quickly. If Gackles on the mound throwing bbs over there at him.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: That's a good point you just made. You know, they don't have Reese Robinette, who's their best defensive first.
He's going to be out at least for this game today. We talked to David Horn about him earlier this week and I think the way he said it was that they're not going to completely or at that point in time, and this is before they had practice, they weren't going to completely rule him out for the weekend. Maybe he could come in and play defense or something. Although he is out on the availability report for tonight's game or for today's game. I got to get over calling it tonight. I have this with this weather delay. But yeah, you know, Rudenbart, I mean that's, that's a big key this weekend because he can be. He's going to be dealing with a lot of those pickoff throws over the first.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Yeah. And the thing that a lot of people don't realize is that Reshrap nets probably at least three, maybe even four inches taller than Card. And you know, then your wingspan's longer. So again, another factor to kind of put in the back of that pitcher's mind. It's like, hey, I need to pick more. I got to be quick to try to maybe cut down that lead. But then, oh yeah, also I've got a 511 guy instead of a 6 foot 3 guy that has really long arched.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: Just so many different things to go into. Like, like, you know, my wife never liked baseball until we met and then she, she kind of opened up her eyes. Like there's so much strategy here and you're, you know, what if this happens and what if that happens? And it's what makes the sport so much fun.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: It really does. And we always Call it the game, inside the game.
And people ask me, well, do you really enjoy broadcasting? And I said, yeah, I was doing it in the stands and I was driving, you know, anybody that was around me crazy because I, like, talk about everything that I talk about on the. On the air of the broadcast. So I've been doing that for a while.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: You know, Bubba comes in here twice a week, but Carpenter, and he says that I feel like I'm coaching the game on the radio. He's like, that's kind of how I feel. What color analyst is for me is I'm just coaching the game. I'm saying, here's what I would do here, here's what I would do there. And I guess it's probably a little bit of the same for you.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: It. Is it? Yeah. Bub has got. So we both played together. He's years younger than me, so we've. We've got. I've seen a lot of baseball between the two of us, so, yeah, I think it's fun. Kind of tried to predict, so to speak, a little bit of what's going to happen or even if you explain why a coach might do something in a certain situation.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Got Troy Eklund in here with us. Razorback All America. Former Razorback All American.
You and Bubba played together. I think maybe we've talked about this before, but I wonder what that's like, going to the ballpark, you know, 35, 40 times a year and seeing your old teammate there.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: Yeah, it's. It's pretty fun, you know, so he was a guy that was super talented, and they're trying to figure out where they're going to play him. And there was, you know, he was. Played some outfield, some first base that you could just see with his. Just the raw skill set that he had, that he was. He was going to take it to the next level. But, yeah, it's.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: It's good.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: We. We go back and have some good old Norm. Norm DeVry stories, for sure.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: There's so much fun. This year. Norm went into the College Baseball hall of Fame and getting to kind of go back and talk to. I probably talked to close to 20 people who played for him. And across all these different decades, like, I found somebody who played on his first team, I played somebody who played on his last team, and it's just kind of interesting to hear how the stories changed and how they were also kind of the same from people who saw Norm De Bryan when he was 30 and they saw him when he was 60.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: Well, I think you could almost say a little bit the same thing about Dizza and Horn. They both mellow out a little bit more.
The little things maybe don't bother him as much as I was actually talking to coach Brian last weekend a little bit and I told him one of the things that I really liked about him is if the team won the game, that he never brought up anything negative. And I said, how? Why did you do that? And he said, well, the game's hard enough as it is. I thought if we won that, I just didn't need to harp on anybody about that. So you could have some really bad things. And as players, you know, when you screw up and you know, like, okay, I can't make Leo make that same mistake, but I thought that was a pretty good trait from, from a coach of having, bringing up, you know, bad things just to have you leave a negative thought in your head. No, stay with the positive. Positive.
[00:08:51] Speaker A: I forget exactly how Dave said it, but he said something three or four years ago. He said the thing that has helped his mood the most during a game is replay review. He doesn't have to get worked up and go out there and argue with the umpires. You just put your hand over your ears and go from there.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: That's right. That's right. You know, the thing that I hope the SEC adopts next season is the strike zone in the dugout. You know, so like even on the broadcast we don't need to see it. And I talked to Matt Hobbs one time and he said, he goes, we had a game last year at Ole Miss and he said it was the first game that the game got moved up like today. He said for whatever reason they forgot to turn it off in the die down because you have it for non conference games.
And so he goes, it was the best game ever. He said neither side argued because you could see the balls of strikes. And people don't realize this, but I want to say it's like 96 or 97% accuracy of the umpires in the SEC. It's, it's phenomenal.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: They've been graded on trackman for a lot longer than umpires in other conferences.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Yeah, and they're just, they're phenomenal at what they do. And, and so it's. What they need to do is adopt. What they do in the big leagues is, is just if you argue, you get kicked out of the game. And so, but, but Hobbs said, he goes, yeah, there wasn't any arguing because everybody could see if that pitch was a ball. And so you Just would let it go.
[00:10:05] Speaker A: We've talked about this in this trackman deal where you can't see the strike zone during SEC games, which can during non conference like you just mentioned. And I have thought that it was because there was fear that there was going to be an immature coach who's going to run out of the dugout with his iPad and say, you see what you just did.
And I, I am of the opinion now maybe I'm giving people too much credit, I don't know, but that the coaches can be professional like, like you can treat them professional. I think at some point that's coming to where the SEC coaches are going to be able to have that information in the dugout. I think it helps them become better coaches during the game when they're able to say, hey look, look what you just did on that 12 pitch that you missed to your arm side or whatever the case might be.
[00:10:50] Speaker B: I think so they get all the other analytics.
So next year is a real change year for the sec. So it's every other year is a real change year. So I would not be surprised if that doesn't happen. But the neat thing about all the stats is I start, you know, Matt Hobbs is just great to talk to. And one of the things he talked about was he said not even you, sometimes you think about as a guy getting tired of velocity because we look at things like, you know, their release point or there is a release point shorter than what it normally is. And so he said even little indicators like that can help coaches be better coaches, like you said.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: And of course, you know, ABS maybe coming to the SEC regular season.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: I mean we all know where this is going. They're testing it at the tournament in a couple of weeks. And anytime anything ever gets tested at the tournament, you can bet your bottom dollar that it's going to be in, you know, in the regular season within a year or two.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so. You know, that's, that's the, the proving ground of it. See what the coaches like, the players like. But at the end of the day you want the call to be right. And so it's, it really balls, the strikes really turn the complexion of it that bad because you, as if somebody hasn't played baseball, it's a big deal to be two balls, one strike instead of one ball, two strikes. And it just completely changes the way that you approach that at bat or
[00:12:07] Speaker A: even 1 00, 100 I think about the umpire who was behind the plate for the third game of the Georgia series. When it's 40 to 26.
[00:12:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Or no, 26 to 14. It might have been 40 to 20.
[00:12:17] Speaker B: Scott.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: I can't. But 26 runs, 40 total for Georgia the. I thought the umpire that day really like he was an old major league baseball umpire. And I know the belief that if you're an umpire at the college level, you gotta call a college strike zone. And a college strike zone is different than a major league strike zone. And you gotta give these pitchers the corners in college. And he was not giving them the pitchers and I, or the outside pitches. And I told people time and again, I said, if you want to know whether 40 runs and 35 hits at 19 walks, a lot of it has to do with the fact that you've got an umpire behind the plate who's forcing these pitchers, game three pitchers, mind you, to throw it over the plate. Right. On a day when it's windy, balls flying all over the park.
You know, it just, I think the umpires do a pretty good job for the most part, but every now and then you can, you can get one that even if he's, even if by the letter of the law it's right. I don't know, I feel like for you, for college umpires, you got to, you have a little give there and I don't know how much ABS is going to give, you know, that flexibility that, that's going to be really interesting to see how that works out.
[00:13:21] Speaker B: Yeah. The term that the SEC Empires use is they want the, the guy who's over the whole league for the Empires. His name is Paul Gilead. He's, he's been in, was an umpire forever in the sec and now he's over all the umpires. And his term is, he calls it the buffer zone. And he said, we want the pitch in the buffer zone call. And I, I, I get it because, you know, these guys are not big league pitchers. You know, they're still struggling with command a little bit. So if you have a pitch that's in that buffer zone, the hitters know that know the zone. And so it's, it's, there are even balls that are hittable. It's not like, okay, you're calling pitches that they're, they're unhappy.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: As of right now, we don't know who ou's throwing today. No, I mean, I've been sitting here kind of refreshing all day, seeing if they're going to name it. They've got TBA today, Arkansas's got TBA tomorrow and Sunday.
I think I know why Both teams are doing this. I mean, oh, you, they've had a little bit of an issue with their Friday night, you know, LJ Mercurious, who was, who was their Friday night guy for a good bit of the season. They took him out of that role last week, put him in the bullpen, basically used an opener on Friday night against Florida.
So we'll see. I mean, I think we kind of have an idea of who the pitchers might be, but who the exact guy that goes out there for the start is not. And then for Arkansas, I think they want to have some flexibility with what they do with Gabe Gackel. Like if you need Gabe Gack, let's say Hunter Dietz is only able to give you five innings, but they're good innings and you've got the lead and you need Gabe Gackel to give you a two or three inning bridge to McElveen today. You go ahead and do that. If they have their druthers, I think they want to keep Gackel in a starter role this weekend. But I don't know in all the years I've been doing college baseball, but I've ever seen where there's a TBA every single day and both teams are contributing to the tba.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Yeah, that's, it's very unusual, but I think you hit the nail on the head. I think for, for David Horn, it's win that Friday game, you know, figure it out after that. They've got some good arms. You can, you can go with Gibler. You've got Fisher McGuire actually through pretty well last weekend, you know, and that's why the game got moved up as well, because you've got a guy like Hunter Dietz who's probably, you know, hands down the most dominant pitcher sec.
And you don't want that game to get, get called after he throws three innings. Body four if he can go six, then, then or even seven if he's really efficient.
We want to definitely get that game. But you got, you got to win game one and figure it out from there.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: What have you seen from Dietz this year? Because, you know, I keep waiting for him and it's just the law, which is pitchers are going to have an off day. But it's been like five weeks in a row for him where he's been going against the other team's number one guy and pitching at a really high level.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Well, the fastball is, is really good. I think that the scouts have his fastball range at like a 70, which is phenomenal on an 80 grade on an 80 grade. It's. It's phenomenal. And he can throw for a strike. Is not only is it, is it hard. He sits, you know, 96, 97, but you know, he's got good commando. He can move it around different sides of the play. I think the thing that's made Hunter Dietz so much better is the cutter. He had the cutter all year long. I remember watching him in the fall and every time he tried to throw a curveball and the big thing you can do is like, well, how do you tell? It's. If you watch the scoreboard, the velocity, it's about, you know, 80 miles an hour. And it was ending up at the left hand batter's head and they would fit. That's where it would finish. And now he's finishing it for a strike. And every once in a while you'll see that one really kind of sail on him. He doesn't get on top of it as well as he should. But I think that's the pitch that is making him so much better because the fastball is hard, the cutter's pretty hard. And as a former hitter, I always wanted, if a guy just threw everything hard, I can hit them so much better than you're going from 97 to 80 miles an hour to a breaking ball that's got a lot of depth. And so that's the pitch that makes him really good. He'll throw maybe one to three change ups a game. He doesn't need to with that breaking point.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Yeah, there was a stretch there this year for maybe like two or three weeks where the fastball just wasn't working for him on and, and he was really having to depend on those offspeed pitches. The cutter's been really good for him this year. Curveball's been really good for him. But man, it was like once he figured out fastball and I forget which week, it was probably like maybe the third or fourth week of the SEC season where you could really see, hey, this is starting to like, it's starting to click for him. Everything else seems to work so much better when he's got that going. And that's not rocket science.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: But for some, for, for some pitchers, like the best pitchers, that fastball being able to land that fastball just makes your off speed pitches so much better.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Here's a funny little inside information on that. We were talking to Ryder Heltrick last weekend and Nor said, hey, Ryder, does Hunter like shake you off or want to change up pitches? And he just looks at it. He goes, no, he goes, he call, he throws. Whatever I call, he sent. He goes. The only time he shakes is, you'll see, you know, Ryder purposely saying, hey, you shake. Because I'm shaking my fake shake. A fake shake. And. But it was pretty funny. He goes, no, he doesn't think out there. He just, he just throws whatever I call. So tremendous trust.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: And Ryder Helford, that's a great, that's a great story there. And I think that has got to be so, I don't know, maybe like just freeing for a pitcher to be able to, hey, you don't have to think you've got so much trust in your guy back there that you know he's going to have, you know, your best interest. He's going to have the best pitches for you.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: Right? I mean, between, you know, Matt Hobbs being in Riders here and then they've already gone over the game plan.
So, yeah, it just, that's just one less thing that the pitcher has to think about is it's, you know, because you're now, this weekend, you're talking about guys that can really run and things like that. So that's, again, if you could take another thing off your mind, you're going to be that much better.
[00:19:01] Speaker A: Arkansas was 5 and 7 in the SEC after they left Auburn, and they go into this series now they're 13 and 11. They're tied for six in the SEC.
There's some talk, we've had it on the show this week about can they get a regional post spot.
You know, if they beat OU this weekend, they're going to stay in that conversation. But really, you know, you look at, they got to play Missouri in, in the month of April, they got to play South Carolina in the month of March. So I feel like that kind of offsets each other a little bit.
They've just played a lot better, it feels like in the last four or five weeks. I wonder what you've seen different from them.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Well, you've got the number one person is Kagil Aloy. So he's such an asset offensively and if you could have him, because half the time he wasn't in the lineup because he was really struggling.
And I tell you, when you've ever played the game of baseball and you're pressing ball looks like a BB and you can't see spin and you'll see, why do you swing at that pitch? Because you literally hardly can see it. And then other times it looks like a beach ball. I always tell people. So that's why Every kid in from little league to the big leagues will say 3o count. You'll say, hey, I would have hit a home run if you would have let me swing, Coach. And you why? Because they weren't going to swing and they're relaxed. They could see that baseball and that's what he's doing. His, his at bats have been so much better and it started with him getting drawing walks and so you could tell that he was seeing the baseball better. Has put a tremendous work. We get there before the games and watch him in BP and coach Thompson has really worked with him. I think a guy like Zach Stewart, you've kind of seen flashes of Zach Stewart and what he can do at the plate.
I think that if you can get those two guys hot with the power they have, a lot of people don't realize it. That may not follow the razor, but actually it's extra guy that has over 200 hits and Legion career and 20 home. I mean 50 home runs. I mean those are big numbers. And so you get a guy like that that is going to start playing every day that can start showing some of that power.
I think those two are the two key guys, you know. And then, you know, Pompey's really kind of starting to come on and have better quality of bats as well.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: More consistency in the lineup than I feel like they've had for, for a good, good portion of the season.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: I think another point is I think with other guys starting to hit like a Stewart, like a Lloyd, then you look like guys like Ryder Helfrich. It's allowed him to continue to be patient to play. You know, Cam and Kozil was hitting sub 200 for a while in sec play. But I think he felt so much pressure. Like I've got to come up here and I've got to hit a double, triple or home run because the, the people behind me aren't picking, picking me up. And so I think that that pressure is coming off. I think you start seeing Kozo will even start hitting better. So it, it is contagious. And I think that, that those are the key players is Aloy. And Stewart didn't think Gackel pitched bad
[00:21:55] Speaker A: last week in a starting role against Ole Miss. And one of the things that he only threw four innings and people like why did he come out of the four innings? He got fought Friday and so, you know, he pitched the equivalent of, you know, maybe like an inning. When you think about the warmup that he got on Friday that had, you know, like an influence on potentially what happened on Sunday.
But the as I was thinking about that, I was thinking like for this. Like this, the way this team was constructed. It was constructed for Deans to be a starter. It was constructed for Gackel to be a starter. I mean, it was constructed for Kuhio Aloy to hit high in the lineup, probably as a cleanup guy.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: Right.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: Maybe we see that today. It wouldn't be surprising if we saw that today with the way he hit last week. Like it's just taken a long time maybe for those pieces to come together.
And who knows, maybe that was just one good weekend and it doesn't come back together. But that was kind of my big takeaway from last weekend against Ole Miss was like you're starting to kind of see the pieces of this puzzle fit together that they were supposed to when the season began. It just took a long time to get to that point.
[00:22:55] Speaker B: To me, I feel like that that success is going to continue. And that's just not me, you know, talking from my heart, but from my head. And I say that because I think when you start getting confidence on the mound, if you're tackle or confidence of plate at Alloy, you can just tell people's body mannerisms. Others, are they confident out there and they feel like that they're going to get the job done. You just carry yourself differently. And I think that this team, this team definitely has the potential to get really hot and make a deep ride.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: How do you think this series is going to go? I don't want to ask you to make a prediction, but how do you think this might play out this weekend? What are better put. What are the keys to this weekend for both teams?
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I think, you know, for, for Arkansas, they've got to keep. They've got to keep the baserunners to a minimum, specifically maybe some certain base runners and kind of make them earn it. You know, if they're going to get a hit, so be it, but throw a lot of strikes. And so you might see Ryder Helfrick with. With deets or maybe even more fastballs than he has. It's like they have got to pitch ahead. They've got to. They've got to fill up the strike zone and make.
Make Oklahoma earn it. You know, this is a team that's hitting around 230 in conference play. I kind of at this point in the season, I flush most of the stats that are the season stats. You know, it's like, okay, what are they doing in conference? So you're talking about team that's not scary offensive from an average standpoint. They've got some pop, but. And they also have some, some good arms. So you're going to, you're going to have to have maybe win some lower scoring games, especially if the wind's blowing in here. But I think that's, that's kind of the key for Arkansas. My prediction is I think they could easily win two or three.
I think if they can win two or three this weekend, even maybe going around and win two or three, win a game at Hoover, I think that kind of puts them. It puts them in the. Really to be in that hosting discussion. One thing I did look up is, is like I go, who's in front of Arkansas in D1 baseball as far as ranking? And I go, well, West Virginia is, is in front of them a couple spots, I think, and they go to Kansas this weekend. Yeah, that is no easy tact.
[00:25:11] Speaker A: They use the best team in the big.
[00:25:12] Speaker B: And then. And then Arizona State goes to Oklahoma State, you know, and Oklahoma State at home, you know, they can definitely beat anyone.
[00:25:18] Speaker A: Just swept ECU and Stillwater last night.
[00:25:20] Speaker B: That's right. So I think that it's boating. Well, Arkansas just has to take care of business themselves and I think they can definitely be looking at post.
[00:25:28] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to be. I think they can be in the thick of it. I'm very interested to see can they take the momentum of last week against Ole Miss and apply it to this week against Oklahoma. One thing that I've always said, I feel like this is one of the toughest weekends for a home team to play because you've got graduation, you're coming off of finals. We've seen more than one time where, whether it be Arkansas and Fayetteville or maybe when Arkansas has gone on the road and played a team, you know, that's been in a similar situation where there's just so much going on around that sometimes you just don't get that team, that that's as crisp. And I think that's something that's interesting to watch this weekend, too.
[00:26:05] Speaker B: Yeah, distractions can definitely, you know, come be a factor, but I think that's where the experience of this coaching staff, you know, you think about how long they've been together, going on maybe eight years together.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: Seven or eight, six years if you count Bobby in there, too.
[00:26:19] Speaker B: Right, right. And so I think that they just kind of. They'll talk through those things with these players and, you know, I think they're going to be ready to play Troy.
[00:26:27] Speaker A: Appreciate you coming in. Enjoy yourself on the broadcast this weekend. Troy's going to be on the broadcast with Brett Dolan all three games as of right now. The game times are four today, two o' clock tomorrow and then one o' clock on Sunday. I think there's a little bit of rain in the forecast Sunday.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: Sunday, May early.
[00:26:42] Speaker A: Something to watch a little bit. So. But Troy's going to be on SEC Network plus, appreciate you being in here. We'll be back on Monday. Bubba Carpenter will be in studio with us. We'll talk about this series against Oklahoma. Hope to see you then or at our website, bulldogsports. Com. Have a great weekend.
