Welcome to the show, Panger Sharpus, Zach Blackerby here with you, Zach. We'll just start off by saying,

we know you're all excited for basketball, and we are too, but we're going to focus on some other areas.

Anything else we need to add there? Yeah, I mean, we're recording this Thursday morning.

Obviously, we're excited and geared up for the game that's starting at 1230 local time on T&T.

But we want this podcast to be relevant after that game because a lot of folks listen on their way home and the following morning on their way in.

So we wanted to kind of have some life to it.

So obviously, if they win, we will touch on that on tomorrow's

edition of the show. But there's an article on AL.com. I kind of wanted to start things off with

Painter, if you're okay with it. Joseph Goodman wrote it. And it sounds like you had already read it

when I brought it up in our production meeting, if you will. But I just want to read the first

part of and kind of get your thoughts on it, Painter.

Joseph Goodman writes on AL.com,

Gus Malzon begins football practices as a sympathetic figure.

How that happened after mismanaging Auburn to a five-lost season

and a historic 52 to 21 beat down in the Iron Bowl

is a bizarre tale of Southern Gothic football booster stupidity.

Mao Zahn doesn't need anyone's sympathy, of course.

He's one of the state's highest paid employees, and he lost to Tennessee.

But the disinformation campaign launched against him by his school's own supporters before the early signing day last December,

kind of makes you feel bad for him.

The job is hard enough for Mao Zahn in this era of Nick Saban.

It was almost made impossible this winter when information was fed to the media,

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