How Ole Miss is navigating the portal with Grove Collective’s Walker Jones

Talk of Champions

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4.9 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Ole Miss Spirit’s Ben Garrett is joined on this Friday (December 20, 2024) edition of ‘Talk of Champions’ by Walker Jones, who leads Ole Miss’ NIL initiative, the Grove Collective.

The first of two portal windows closes on December 28. Jones has been in the heat of the recruiting battles in helping build out the nation’s top-ranked transfer class, according to On3.

Jones goes in-depth on the most expensive and competitive position this cycle, as well as whether he’s been surprised by any Ole Miss portal entrants and much, much more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Talk of Champions and Ole Miss Spirit podcast with Ben Garrett.
0:06.6	It's up.
0:07.6	Inside.
0:07.9	Inside.
0:08.7	Inside.
0:09.7	Inside.
0:10.7	Inside. Hello again, friends, and welcome inside, for me at least, the Riverland Roofing Studios,
0:26.9	a little house up top, Riverland Roofing, for all your roofing needs,
0:30.5	and the new edition of Talk of Champions with the man, Walker Jones.
0:34.5	He leaves Old Mrs. Grove Collective.
0:36.2	Walker, you're a busy man right now. Thank you for the time. How you doing? All doing good, Walker Jones. He leaves Ole Misses Grove Collective. Walker, you're a busy man right now.
0:38.0	Thank you for the time.
0:38.8	How you doing?
0:40.4	All doing good.
0:41.3	You know, we're knee-deep in it, but it's exciting.
0:44.0	And, you know, things are moving fast and furious.
0:48.4	And, you know, we're battling at the highest levels.
0:50.7	And I think it's showing.
0:52.0	And, you know, Coach Kiffin and his staff have done a
0:57.4	phenomenal job you know setting a great culture that's easy to I would say easy but
1:02.7	it's very popular to recruit to and you know winning at a high level developing
1:08.8	athletes having a system to integrate these transfers in a very quick way.
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