All right. Hey, one of our absolute favorites back on the show, Pat Smith from WJOX Radio, host of three-man front, and of course, co-creator of the Paul Paul Vine Bomb Show. Pat, thank you so much

for taking the time. Always

a pleasure. It's been a fun season so far

and a lot more to get into.

Yeah, bad.

I got to, you know, we got

to start with what everybody's talking about

and that is, of course, Lane

Kiffin. You've been covering this league, much longer than I have.

Have you ever recalled something, anything like this?

No, and the reason why is because there's three SEC schools involved.

You know, sometimes you have two.

You know, maybe somebody's flirting with

another coach that's sitting at another school. But man, to have kind of a bidding war going on

in the middle of the season, we're not talking about postseason. We're talking about in the season.

We don't even know who's going to be the representatives in Atlanta, Georgia yet. So, but no,

Michael, I haven't. And it's, it's fascinating.

And it seems to be changing on a dime every single moment.

Yeah.

And I mean, realistically, this, I think this would have been unfathomable, if that's even

a word, not that long ago, but could you see a world where Lane Kiffin, Ole

makes the playoff and he's and he doesn't coach the team?

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