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

And I'm flying so low on this show, causing Shane working late, couldn't make it, but there's just so much going on around the S.E.C.

Didn't want to go another day without giving you guys a pod. And hey, before we get rolling here, there's quite a bit of news.

So I want to jump into it as soon as I can. Check out, if you haven't already, our tea public merchandise store.

That information can be found in your show notes. The reason I bring it up, all our shirts on sale through Friday.

So got a couple days to hit that up. If you haven't already, $13 shirts.

I personally like the extra soft ones. I think they cost two, maybe $3 more, but they're worth it.

Really good stuff from tea public. We've got all 14 S.E.C. teams covered and a couple. Hey, buddy's out there.

So, and hey, if you guys ever have an idea for a shirt, feel free to shoot it our way because we're designing these and putting them on tea public.

So, you guys could have some insight on the next T-shirt we make.

But hey, that's all I wanted. I just wanted to spiel about that before we get going here.

But like I said, we got a ton to get to. So let's go around the league.

Now let's go around the league.

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