Hello, it is Monday, and you know what that means on the Andy Staples and Friends

podcast feed.

It's football and grits day.

Myself, David Ubin, I am your host.

Joined as always by my co-host, Andy Staples. Monday means we're talking to SEC.

Andy, welcome to another week. We are just days away from the season.

It is not long now. No SEC game, week Zero, but that's fine because you have to prepare properly.

You have to hydrate.

You have to buy all the supplies.

You may want to do the dry run while Nebraska and Illinois are playing in Week Zero.

I think that would be really only the prudent thing to do so that you were not shorthanded.

You don't find out that you have some sort of missing ingredient come real SEC football Saturday.

So I definitely think you got to make sure you do that now.

David, I understand

you have a little piece of news to share as well. Yeah. So my role on our team is changing.

I will be shifting into a national role. I'll be spending plenty of time around SEC country.

We will still have high level Tennessee coverage. So don't go anywhere of VALS fans. But I'll be spending plenty of time around SEC country. We will still have high-level Tennessee coverage, so don't go anywhere of VALS fans.

But I'll be shifting on to our national team joining, of course, Andy, Max Olson, Nicole

Auerbach, of course, the great Bruce Feldman and Stu Mandel, all of those folks.

Chris Finanini does fantastic work on our group of five team.

And it's going to be fun. I'm five team. And it's going to be fun.

I'm excited about it.

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