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It is Tuesday night.

March 15th.

I said Tuesday.

That's right.

The year of our Lord,

2020, jam-packed high-at-top and reprogrammed, high-at-top downtown Nashville. See what happened the other night? I'll explain it momentarily, but we got basically two shows to get you tonight. We've got a jam-packed edition of Late Kick Live. We have got not only the SEC, But now the SEC and the ACC, huge things to watch.

We call them areas of focus, call them questions if you want to. There are a lot of

things that are somewhat happening already in spring, but boy, these things, when they start to

evolve and they start to make themselves known, this will in many ways decide these conference

championship pictures, or at least the races. So we're going to talk about a lot of those because there's no sense in waiting until August to do that. We'll hit that tonight. It's Texas A&M Mood Tracker Night. We've had a solid not just 24 hours, but 72 hours to think about that. And one of you asked about this whole Kirk, Curb Street, Amazon NFL thing. Do we have any inclination to what's going on there? Well, of course, I have access to the Internet, so I know everything. I'll give you a couple of thoughts on that tonight. May not go the direction you think, I'll go on it. But they're watching us tonight. Jesse Collin, they're watching us. In Foley, Alabama, shout out to the late Kenny Stabler and the current Julio Jones. Montreal, Quebec, Canada is tuned in. Gray, Georgia, tuned in. Los Calinas, Texas, tuned in. The other night, as you are well aware by now, we were supposed to have late kick live on Sunday. And I don't know what to tell you. Satan got involved. Very real. And he was working in the building Sunday night. So we had to postpone. That's not what I want to talk about because we've rectified that situation. A lot of people behind the scenes did a lot of work to rectify that situation. Colin and Jesse yelled at the right people and we're back on air. But back in the day, now just short story before we get into the show tonight, back in the day when we first started doing late kick independently down in Columbus, Georgia, there was a time where we were thrilled if we hit

the 20 viewer threshold. 20 people watching the show at any given point was a really big deal. Not

kidding you. It was a really big deal. And then you fast forward to the other night, and we had several

100 of you watching nothing as the show had been delayed 45 minutes to an hour, and then I had hundreds more of you emailing or DMing asking, what happened? Where's the show? I just woke up on Monday morning. That's when I listen to it. Or it's later Sunday night. That's when I like to watch it. What I want to say is, I appreciate that because it's March. You know, research and data says that you're not supposed to be here, but yet you are because, as you know, we operate our show a little differently and our little community here. We operate differently. It did not go unnoticed. It doesn't bother me at all when you ask about the show. It's your job to produce it. You guys show up and when it's not there, you complain. I don't get bothered by that. I appreciate it because the alternative is what we used to have to do. And I much prefer it this way. So thank you guys for all that. Let's dive into the show tonight because we've got a whole lot to get to. Spring Focus. A lot of people will call these questions. In some ways, they're questions, but I just want to tell you where my mind's at with several teams. We got a number of them tonight in multiple conferences. In the SEC, let's start and let's look around this conference and let's talk about biggest areas of focus right now. How about wide receiver at A&M? The entire developmental process of wide receiver at Texas A&M, now this is not a one-year thing. This has been something that folks in and around college station they've looked at for quite a while with their program, and they've seen that we got some really good talent and we got depth along both lines of scrimmage. Our personnel, they look good when they get off the bus. We've even had varying degrees of good quarterback play here, but we have not really been able to stretch the field.

Famously, they have not been able to stretch the field.

Ninety-second in past plays of 20 plus yards in 2021.

Had issues at quarterback,

didn't have a full cupboard stocked with elite wide receiver talent.

So we've got a Naya Smith coming back,

and then we've got a blank. And in that blank, I just wrote the word opportunity. A lot of guys have opportunity. Jalen Weidermeyermeyer's gone. There are a lot of guys with opportunity here. Now, the guy that they are going to look at, first and foremost, from a national perspective, so I guess the guy that we're going to look at a lot is Evan Stewart. We made a big deal about his recruitment for good reason. He's one of the best

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