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That SEC Football Podcast

Mississippi State & Ole Miss insider Jake Wimberly interview

That SEC Football Podcast

Michael Bratton/SEC Mike

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Jake Wimberly, Mississippi State & Ole Miss insider and host of The Afternoon Drive on ESPN 105.9 Jackson, Mississippi joins the show! Follow Jake on Twitter: @Jakewim Check out Jake's work: www.CFBHourglass.com Topics discussed with Jake: — did the end of last season derail any of the excitement surrounding the Mike Leach era? (Lost to Ole Miss in Starkville; lost to Texas Tech 34-7 in bowl game) — thoughts on Mike Leach not going to the MSU Pro Day?  — will this be the best offense yet for State under Mike Leach?  — can Zach Arnett keep piecing together quality defenses with what he has to work with on the roster?  — thoughts on Lane Kiffin taking an NFL free agency approach to rebuilding this roster?  — buzz on QB Jaxson Dart during first camp at Ole Miss?  — bigger loss for the Rebels, OC Jeff Lebby, DC DJ Durkin or SPT Coleman Hutzler — Egg Bowl in Oxford this year, which team do you anticipate winning given what we know of the teams at this point?

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0:00.0

We're pleased to once again be joined by my man Jake Wimberly. You got to give him a follow on the Twitter machine at Jake Wim and of course you know by now

0:09.3

He's the host of the outstanding afternoon drive on ESPN 105.9 at a Jackson, Mississippi

0:16.5

And he's also the owner of CFB our glass calm Jake. Thank you once again for joining the show

0:24.3

I really appreciate it Michael. I appreciate you. Thank you so much

0:27.1

I always appreciate you having me on. I love what you guys are doing what you do over there and hey

0:31.8

It's it college football never sleeps in the South and that's you know

0:35.2

We're blessed to be a part of all of that. Yeah, no doubt and you know joking around

0:40.1

You know, we're kind of waiting for this tournament to come to an end so that the you know everybody locks back in with football

0:46.1

But it's wild even with the NIL and all that

0:51.3

coming down, you know, we've got

0:53.5

Reports of an eight million dollar quarterback and all that. What are you hearing behind the scenes with state and Ole Miss when it comes to NIL and how locked in the boosters are in doing everything they can

1:05.5

I've just not seen a ton of impact for those two schools in particular

1:09.4

But maybe you could shed a little bit of insight on that. Yeah, you know the only thing that honestly the football side of things is pretty quiet

1:17.1

You know, you hear rumblings of baseball and NIL money more so than football which that would make sense that a place like Mississippi state

1:23.9

You know NIL money at Texas A&M and baseball

1:27.5

Yeah, I think I think Mississippi state and Ole Miss for that for that matter still trying to probably work through and I'm sure that you know

1:34.1

That this is the just things that they don't talk about publicly

1:36.8

Trying to you know initiate those collectives the collectives that are out there

1:40.9

And I'm sure you've talked about it. You know just the organizations that are tied to that basically the athletic department to try to go ahead and

1:46.5

In time guys opportunities out there, but you're right. It's it's extremely

1:51.0

You know kind of bearing right now in Oxford and startable and you know not not as many opportunities for say as you know

1:57.5

Out in the state of Texas or in state of Florida

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