The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our 3 Podcast.

This might be college football.

We're in Stark, Vegas, and we've had a phenomenal first half with Jeff Levy and so many other great coaches.

We'll talk to the president of this school in just about 30 minutes and some other people as well that you'll enjoy talking to.

Right now, we are back here with Ryan.

I'm going to make sure I get this name right. Ryan McGee, I haven't seen you in a while. Ryan, how are you? I'm good. I have really enjoyed the show up to this point. And I was just saying this to you during a break. It was so weird seeing O'Connor. Yeah. But I'm so excited about him being here because I think he's great. I think what he did, people don't, a lot of people know this, but they were going to shut

that Virginia program down.

And then he ended up winning the College World Series and taking him every year.

And now I think he's the guy that can get this program back to where they want to be.

He's such a good guy.

Well, I think he knows what he's getting into here.

This is not a place you just do okay at.

Yeah. Well, when you sell, what do you say, like 7,000 tickets for the, for the, for the fall game, you're doing something right. Well, speaking of games, and there's a game down the road in Tuscaloosa. Yeah. that I don't know if we've talked about yet.

It's crazy, right?

And it should be the biggest game in the country on a weekend where I'm not sure

there is a biggest game in the country.

But I'm curious to your thoughts on that game.

Well, I think it's, Alabama fascinates me because I thought last year would be about what last year was because the transition

and because the players they lost, but it's really interesting watching Alabama's

coaching staff in particular look comfortable now, right? Last year it was, it wasn't

there being tentative, but they're still kind of feeling out. It's not just the fact that you're

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