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This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our Ford Podcast.

This might be college football head.

Doctor, if we don't say hello to our friend, Larry Templeton, the former AD here,

and still somebody who plays a very critical role in the Southeastern Conference.

Larry, if we'll start going back in time, I do want to talk about something very important to you and many, many people across the SEC and around the country because it wasn't very long ago that you were one of the guest eulogist at Mark Womack's funeral and celebration. And you worked intricately with Mark on so many aspects of the SEC

and I would like you to share some thoughts with him since we haven't had a chance to talk to you since then.

Thank you, Paul. And we lost a great guy. We lost a guy that has been involved in the

Southeastern Conference for 48 years.

Mark worked for five different commissioners.

Started with McQuirder, Schiller, Slive, Sanky, and Kramer.

And all of those guys were very dependable upon Mark.

The most unbelievable thing that probably most people that follow this conference and follow

the success of the Southeastern Conference don't know that this guy put every football

schedule for 35 years together by hand.

And he spent days and weeks and months working on that schedule.

And he wore out a lot of number two pencils.

And he understood what it meant for the quality of this conference to play

competitive schedules and where you place those games in that schedule. And he was a guy that was

understood where people put their non-conference games and the reason they were putting those

non-conference games there and it made a big difference and as I used to tell people we give

a lot of people credit for winning national championships Mark Warmac certainly deserves that

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