We had a great belief in our locker room. We didn't have to do anything special. Just be us. I was so proud of this team. We had so much fun and out of being legal.

Any idiot can say whatever they want and they usually do and they're negative. And all I see to me, I've gotten to a point now when I see things like that, I feel sorry that those people feel that way.

That their lives don't have the purpose, the passion and the excitement and the enjoyment that some of us do.

Our purpose is to win, make no mistake about it, but it's to win the right way. And our goal, our stated goal, is going to be to win the S.E.C. East.

Talk about the reception you received from the fan base. Do you think you'd be kissing the hugging babies at the tarmac when you got the point?

A lot better than another tarmac experience that I had. I didn't think of it as like an anniversary or something like that.

We're coming. We're coming. And we ain't back in town.

And as my, as the head football coach at South Carolina, my job is to do what I feel is best for the University of South Carolina football program today and going forward in the future.

That's what I did. We wish him well and have nothing but we wish him well.

Welcome in the latest episode that S.E.C. podcast. I'm your host Michael Breton. Go buy S.E.C. Mike on Twitter.

And I'm flying so low for this show, but don't worry. Got a great guest lined up so it's not going to be just me spilling here.

David Hale covers college football for ESPN and specifically covers the A.C.C.

And hey, before you get too worried, no, we're not going to feel on A.C.C. football on here.

We are talking several guys that have transferred from A.C.C.

schools to S.E.C. schools. And I figured no one better than David Hale reach out to to give us the insight because

when we don't know something we like, you know, we're not a podcast that likes to pretend like we know it.

And we certainly are no experts on the A.C.C.

So I think you guys are really going to appreciate the wealth of knowledge that David brought to the show

and we'll get to that in just a minute. But hey, before we do, we got some new over underlines to discuss.

And now these are courtesy of South Point casino there in Las Vegas. They annually put out over under win totals.

And they've got to step further this off season. They have produced win totals for every S.E.C. team only in conference play.

So we're taking out the non-conference games, taking out the bowl games, and even the S.E.C. championship game does not count just the eight regular season games for every S.E.C. team.

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