Hello and welcome to the Saturday Nonsal podcast. I am Kyle Kira. Will, I am in Hoover. I am at

SEC Media Days. The one of four is in the books. Hotel Wi-Fi. Not great. Listen, you're

the small town charm of Hoover, Alabama. Look at that. Oh, it's beautiful. Yes. There were a lot

of other takeaways today besides just the Wi-Fi. SEC Media Days, two years in the making, was a bit

all over the place. South Carolina, LSU in Florida. We're all in action today. And seeing a lot of

different people here was a bit surreal in itself. It was great. Like I talked about last week was

really looking forward to just getting to see so many of these people in person again, getting to

see, you know, Hester and Peter Burns who we have coming up later in the show and early apologies

on that because recording in a mall isn't always great. And sometimes you get a little background

noise. So heads up for that. But one of the things that I loved about not just being able to be

here was feel like we can actually have a relatively normal season. And then Greg Sankie came in

and proceeded to remind all of us, and maybe this is something that I should have been a little

bit more aware of, but I've kind of been putting it on the back burner. But a little bit of a

Debbie Downer with some of the COVID vaccination threshold numbers. And if you didn't see this,

six of 14 teams in the SEC have hit their COVID vaccination threshold. And Greg Sankie comes out

like guns blazing from the jump. And I was not really fully prepared to that. And I walked in like

10 minutes late, which was not great. Because I was doing, I was doing radio and stuff downstairs.

Like I said, SEC media days of blur. But Greg Sankie informed all of us that there's six of 14

teams that have reached their COVID thresholds. And that number needs to get better, which

echoes what Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bulls said last week. But it was a little bit of a smack in

the face. And I don't want to say that Greg Sankie was a buzzkill because he's been really good about

a lot of this COVID stuff dating back to last year. It's kind of the voice of reason for all this.

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