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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Abuse of Power 101, Michael Katz on Lane's 10-year arc, Ole Miss QB battle & Pete Golding

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

It's July, but we've got another college football scandal. Connor and Will discuss the alleged abuse of power with Northwestern and why that subject has become such a tricky space to navigate, including for Georgia. Michael Katz joined the show to discuss Lane Kiffin's 10-year return after getting left on the tarmac, the Ole Miss QB battle, Pete Golding and much more. The guys close with meeting celebrities in the wild in #FiguringItOut, Lad of the Week and a little housekeeping.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, so when you hear my voice at the top of the podcast, you know that means we got

0:05.6

cold-taked or we recorded an entire podcast right before Pat Fitzgerald was fired at Northwestern.

0:14.0

That was very much the topic of conversation during the first part of the pod.

0:19.7

So you'll hear a lot of stuff with us kind of talking about the punishment and all those

0:26.5

different things and obviously by the time that people are listening to this, the punishment

0:30.9

is no longer just a two-week suspension. It is Pat Fitzgerald out at Northwestern if you read

0:35.7

the letter from Northwestern president Michael Schill basically saying like this was never about

0:41.9

one player coming out and speaking out against a coach. There was 11 current or former student

0:47.9

athletes who acknowledged that Hazing has been going on with the football program and that of

0:53.1

course was the big revelation and ultimately probably why this decision was made but

0:57.9

just wanted to say that at the top because the rest of the podcast will be Will and I talking

1:05.1

under the impression that Pat Fitzgerald is still being investigated for his punishment but

1:10.5

obviously by the time that you are listening to this you will already know that he is out at Northwestern.

1:15.2

So here's the rest of the pod.

1:23.7

Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday Night South podcast. I am kind of Gura.

1:30.4

Will, how many posts on threads for you over under four and a half?

1:34.8

Zero for me. I signed up, claimed my username was like I know exactly what this is and got

1:39.9

it out of there. Oh, you're out already. Oh yeah. Why are you out on threads already?

1:47.2

Okay, so basically, and like you guys know I work in socials like this is actually just kind

1:51.3

of my official opinion. Threads only exists because Mark Zuckerberg is basically capitalizing

1:56.8

on the negative PR or Elon Musk, right? The problem with that is giving that power to Mark Zuckerberg

2:02.0

doesn't make anything better. It actually just makes it worse because if you look at Zuckerberg,

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