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make you there priority. Carla Barone on the road today, he's traveling back from Athens and the

fallout of the Athens Super Regional. So just me today, although Brooks Bryan, we'll join

us a little later, get his thoughts on the season, get his grade for the season. We need to get all

three of us on the record for what we thought about the first year for Brian O'Connor.

But I wanted to talk specifically today about Ace Reese and his legacy at Mississippi State.

And what is it?

You know, he is the first great player to have multiple great seasons out of the transfer portal for Mississippi.

You think about like R.J. Yeager and Colton Ledbetter. These guys come over there. They had a

great year. But then they moved on. They only played the one year in Starved Long.

Unless I'm missing somebody, I can't remember anybody who had came in from the transfer portal and had multiple really good seasons. But that's what Ace Reese did. So I think, you know,

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