Rippy writes with Brian Scott.

The transcript can be obtained by drinking a fifth of bourbon, ramming your head through some drywall, and then writing down every thought you have.

What's up?

Happy Wednesday. I'm Brian Scott Rippey. Thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Rippey Rites podcast.

Today, got a pack show. We're going to do so I'm going to do a little Lane Kiffin open at the top, and then we're going to talk to Gary Smith. Gary is the Tulane Beat Rider for the Baton Rouge, New Orleans advocate newspapers there in Louisiana, and also runs the Tulane rival site there. Got into a number of different topics. Tulane has a pair of coordinators, a pair of new coordinators, I should say,

including Chip Long, who if you remember that name, he was Notre Dame's offensive coordinator

in 2018 for that playoff team was fired the next year after being named a Burroughs Award

finalist in 18. That was more of a personality issue, if I remember that correctly, than anything

else. Offense regressed a little bit, but got into what is really an interesting two-lane offense.

A lot of pre-snap motions, get the tight end involved.

It kind of looks like it would be run heavy on the surface, but hasn't been through two games this year.

And that may change against an Ole Miss run defense that hasn't really been tested yet.

But got into a number of different topics against what could probably be described

is Ole Miss's best opponent yet.

Whatever you may think of Louisville, that's obviously the debate.

I don't think Louisville is very good.

I think you saw that on display on Labor Day night.

I think they could still win seven games in a pretty mediocre ACC.

But Tulane's good.

And they're certainly good enough to beat Ole Miss as they don't play well. I think Limes like somewhere around 14, 15 points. That seems about right. And Tulane's an interesting program.

It's a tough job. Willie Fritz has done a great job there, but they're looking to kind of take the next step.

They've been to three straight bowl games program record. But the next step is kind of, you know, maybe stealing a marquee game like this. And obviously the main next step would be kind of cracking that top four in the American Athletic Conference. Realignment aside, the top four I would be kind of getting at would be UCF, Cincinnati, SMU, and Memphis. So anyway, we got into a number of different things. He gave a great breakdown of the offense, what Tulane is replacing on defense and what their issues were last year that led to the defensive coordinator firing. I would encourage you to look up some of Tulane's third and fourth down numbers last year, make you feel better about what was an atrocious old Miss defense.

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