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That SEC Football Podcast

Mike Uva of WACH in Columbia joins the show to discuss breaking the Will Muschamp news & the South Carolina coaching search

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

Games, Leisure, Sports News, Football, News, Sports

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Mike Uva sports reporter for WACH FOX in Columbia (found on Twitter @Mike_Uva) and the man that broke the news of South Carolina's decision to fire Will Muschamp joins the show. How much work goes into breaking a big story like this with so many people chasing it? Thoughts on South Carolina’s decision to move on from Will Muschamp? What’s Muschamp’s legacy at South Carolina? How much plane tracking experience do you have? Any chance Mike Bobo lands the job full-time? It’s early in the process but do you expect or have you heard that Hugh Freeze is a legitimate candidate for this job? — is Freeze the top candidate? — are you hearing anything about the SEC standing in the way of Freeze to South Carolina? Which direction do you expect South Carolina to go in if Hugh Freeze isn’t a target? How would South Carolina fans embrace a Clemson assistant landing the job, whether it’s OC Tony Elliott, DC Brent Venables or even Billy Napier? How attractive of a job do you think this is considering the annual games against Clemson, Georgia, Florida, Texas A&M, Tennessee, etc Regardless of who the next coach is at SC, what are the keys the next coach should focus on to making the program successful on the field and especially against Clemson? Donate to cousin Shane’s beer fund via CashApp: $thatSECpodcast Show music comes from Crimson Calamity: https://www.crimsoncalamitymusic.com/ Advertising inquiries: thatsecpodcast@gmail.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-sec-football-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's get to our interview here with Mike Yuva, a guy that broke the story, he had it before anyone else,

0:07.6

and you can follow him at Mike underscore UVA, and like I kind of joked with him here. Hey give this guy a follow he's

0:16.2

gonna be the one that breaks the news whoever South Carolina hires turn on them

0:20.3

notifications because man he's all over all the news so let's kick it over to our

0:24.8

interview with Mike Yuba. All right we're pleased now to be joined by Mike

0:28.5

Yuba he's a sports reporter for Wach, Fox out of Columbia, and you got to give them a follow if you're a

0:36.6

gamecock fan at Mike underscore UVA, the man who broke the news that Will Muschamp was out. Mike, thanks for taking the time. I really do appreciate you.

0:48.5

No, Mike, I've been a fan of fire following your material since I've got down here, so I appreciate you taking the time to have me on.

0:54.4

Well absolutely and you know I don't expect you to reveal any of our sources or anything not asking for that

0:59.9

information but can you give the listeners you know some insight and just to you know how

1:06.0

much work goes in behind the scenes to break a big story like this with so many people

1:11.2

chasing after it with with again you're the man that first reported that will must

1:16.4

champ was out at South Carolina well I mean it was one of those things that as I

1:20.4

woke up in the morning you start getting you know phone calls and texts and people are trying to keep you up to date on things in terms of some of the guys that you've been fortunate to build relationships in the past, whether it's stories with being able to break Marcus Latmore coming back to USC to work in the player

1:36.5

in the player development department or when we broke the story about Holinsky taking over for Jake Bentley last year.

1:43.6

I've just been very fortunate to meet some of the right people.

1:46.2

And something like this pops up.

1:49.2

You just continue to trust some of these guys that you've built relationships with and they know that they can trust you because I was confident around 4 o'clock yesterday that we had the story we're ready to go.

2:00.0

Will Muschamp was meeting with the administration at 6 p.m.

2:04.0

And that's when he was officially told that his services were no longer needed at the

2:08.4

University of South Carolina, but I was like 95% sure.

2:12.0

And for a story like this, I needed to make sure I was like 95% sure and for a story like this I needed to make sure I was 100% sure that's why I decided to do a little old school Boston journalism the Boston

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