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 enough.

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 of that S.E.C. podcast. I'm your host, Michael Brennan. I go by S.E.C. Michael Twitter.

And I'm flying solo on this one, trying to get Cousin Shane on the line if you're not been keeping up with his Twitter feed there.

He's all vacations with the family. Tell me he was going to try to show up as much as he could on vacation.

That may, it can't show up during a work week. There's no way he's going to show up on vacation.

So hopefully he'll be on the next one. I know we've got mounting mailbag questions. I really want to tackle those with Cousin Shane because you all, I know you're asking.

He and I both the questions, not just me. So hopefully we'll get to that. He says he'll be on tomorrow.

We'll see you about that for now. It's just nice to know that I rank the bottom of Shane's family ranking list. Hell, I'm his family too.

I kid, I kid. But hey, I really, you know, I could have delayed another day for this show, but we've got some, some pretty big news here around the S.E.C.

Especially for the off season. So I really wanted to roll one out didn't want to go another day without getting you guys some S.E.C. content.

But before we get to the big news here, oh, Ben Cleveland.

Of course, the Georgia offensive lineman now with the Baltimore Raven selected in the third round of the latest NFL draft that Baltimore media has finally found out the legend of the big country.

Ben Cleveland eating them squirrels.

You know, it's one of those things. I don't know if it was a specific diet. It's more so one of those things where you know, you eat what you got in the freezer from the fall.

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