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That SEC Football Podcast

Does the SEC Have a Coaching Problem? Josh Pate In Studio

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

News, Sports News, Football, Games, Leisure, Sports

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Josh Pate of The Josh Pate College Football Show joins That SEC Podcast live from our downtown Nashville studio on Music Row during the 2026 SEC Basketball Tournament interviewing President Trump (1:15), start of Josh’s podcast (7:00), predicting what sports media looks like in 2036 (12:30), how Josh consumes college football during the season (18:00), SEC games Josh is eyeing in 2026 (22:10), coaches upset with Lane Kiffin? (24:30), breakout SEC team? (30:30), how married life has changed Josh (33:15), storm chasing updates (36:00), does the SEC have a coaching problem? (42:20), riskiest offseason moves in the SEC (45:30), what changes would Pate make if he was CFB Commissioner? (48:30), best game Josh has experienced? (52:30), Oklahoma & Texas move great for the SEC but bad for CFB? (55:45), playoff expansion coming? (57:30), SEC still better than the Big Ten (59:00) Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Interested in helping us grow the channel? Become an Official Cousin by signing up for a membership to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aQL-yFS2ZoSkUBeMfYesA/join We have t-shirts for sale! Check out our merchandise store featuring shirts, hoodies, stickers, coffee mugs, pillows, phone cases and more: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/thatsecpodcast?ref_id=19055 All show music comes via Nashville band Crimson Calamity; check out their work by clicking the link below: https://open.spotify.com/artist/29HGeJEcYHBJlyt4xIcLBw?si=GJoEOr0YSoeqWkrjhCc0Ug

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you read between the lines, he's saying in a couple years, Shane's going to be on ESPN.

0:04.4

Could be one week, could be two weeks.

0:07.2

Break out the widescreen.

0:11.2

I wondered this entire time why they were investing in those space-age-looking cameras they have up there.

0:18.9

Now I know.

0:20.2

Now you got it.

0:21.1

All right, man.

0:31.6

Hey, Josh Pate back in studio.

0:33.8

First time with Cousin-Chayne.

0:35.8

Yeah, this is a huge deal.

0:39.3

Whoa. I sat in the parking lot this morning. I sat in the parking lot before and I'm like,

0:41.3

am I ready for this?

0:43.3

So I had to ask you, bigger

0:46.3

guest, President Trump or Cousin Shane?

0:50.3

Yeah, I'm happy to be Shane's guest.

0:52.3

I'm happy to be someone's guest for a change. I'm taking a time out from having guests. This is just, but I will say this, many people have sat down with various presidents. How many people have sat down with Shane? Not that many. When we really think about it, how many people have done it and then be willing to be on camera. Right. So this is an honor for you, I think.

1:12.1

Yes. It's usually attorneys, probation officers. I do have to ask, and we're not going to spend a whole day on it, but how did, I mean, that one came out of left field. I mean, a president of the United States, sitting down with Josh Payton,

1:28.1

I'm sure you had, like, 10 years ago, if somebody would have told you, you'd say, you're

1:33.3

freaking nuts. There's no way that's happening. But how does that happen? Is it just pop up and

1:38.4

you're doing it, or was it planned a little bit? No, I wasn't planned. They reached out probably two or three weeks before we did it, probably about two weeks before we did it. And there's some guys in the White House Communications Office that I know. They watch the show. So we've always, you know, gone back and forth kind of joke, hey, what if, what if? But then all of a sudden, they were going to have an event down in Rome, Georgia, and president was looking

2:01.1

to do a college football show. So all of a sudden they said, hey, we were in a meeting yesterday.

2:05.2

This legitimately came up. Would you be open to it? I said, yeah, you know, certain parameters.

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