‘Ivey League’: SEC stardom didn’t come easy to Ole Miss’ John Saunders
Talk of Champions
OMSpirit
4.9 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Veteran Ole Miss safety John Saunders enters the ‘Ivey League’ this week to discuss his unique journey to SEC stardom. Saunders, a converted cornerback, started all 13 games for the Rebels last season after transferring in from Miami of Ohio.
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| 0:00.0 | Listen. |
| 0:01.0 | Ole Miss football's Jared Ivy welcomes you to the Ivy League, powered by Riverland |
| 0:09.1 | Roofing. |
| 0:09.9 | Get your daily Rebel sports fix at the Ole Miss Spirit, OMSpirit.com.com.com. |
| 0:19.0 | Dot com.com. Dot com. Hey, Reds, welcome back to Ivy League, powered by Riverland Roofing and the Oldman Spirit. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm here with Oldman Safety, John Saunders. |
| 0:30.6 | How are we doing, bro? |
| 0:31.6 | Good. |
| 0:32.6 | How you doing? |
| 0:33.6 | Doing pretty good. |
| 0:34.6 | I guess we'll just start at the beginning, just what was high school like, |
| 0:39.2 | and when did you start to, you know, take it serious and know you could take it to the next level? |
| 0:44.6 | Probably like junior year. Just seeing other people get recruited and stuff, it started to, |
| 0:51.8 | like, really open my eyes because so many people from where I'm from |
| 0:55.6 | go to, like, college for real. So, yeah, when I start seeing other people getting recruited, |
| 1:01.4 | start making me taking more serious. Does y'all winning games? |
| 1:05.6 | No, not at my first high school. We went, went, like, five and seven. It was tough. But then |
| 1:10.7 | I transferred and started winning some games. |
| 1:12.6 | It was good. |
| 1:13.6 | Y'all had a little squad. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, we had a decent team. |
| 1:16.6 | We had like four or five of us, like sign a day, you know? |
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