We had a great belief in our locker room. We didn't have to do anything special. Just be us. I was so proud of this team. We had so much fun and out of being legal.

Any idiot can say whatever they want and they usually do and they're negative. And all I see to me, I've gotten to a point now when I see things like that, I feel sorry that those people feel that way.

That their lives don't have the purpose, the passion and the excitement and the enjoyment that some of us do.

Our purpose is to win, make no mistake about it, but it's to win the right way. And our goal, our stated goal, is going to be to win the S.E.C. East.

Talk about the reception you receive from the fan base. Do you ever think you'd be kissing the hugging babies at the tarmac when you got the point?

A lot better than another tarmac experience that I had. I didn't think of it as like an anniversary or something like that.

We're coming, we're coming, and we ain't back in now.

And as my, as the head football coach at South Carolina, my job is to do what I feel is best for the University of South Carolina football program today and going forward in the future.

That's what I did. We wish him well and have nothing but we wish him well.

Welcome into the latest episode of that S.E.C. podcast. I'm your host Mike Brennan. I go by S.E.C. Mike on Twitter.

And I've joined his always but my cousin, she goes by big orange vows on Twitter.

What are you up to, your big Tennessee homer? Hey, baby, what's going on?

Yeah, I'm feeling good, brother. I mean, I got a lot going on over here, but you know, I just got to start the show with the little slight complaint. I hate to be a complainer.

Oh, it's not, it's not my nature, Shane, but I don't understand what the hell we're doing with this daylight savings.

And if it's just screwed me on Sunday, I was going to do a podcast yesterday, but man, I was wrecked.

I was laying down at 5 p.m. I just couldn't handle it. So I'm feeling 100% now. We got spring football all across the S.E.C.

Hell, we're going to have a spring game this weekend, brother, Missouri's kicking off spring game.

Their spring's almost done. Tennessee hadn't even started.

I love it, man. I love it. It's just like, you know, I'm getting so excited.

All this football in the air. And I said to you, it takes message asking if you if we could do a countdown.

It's like 170 days.

And I'm like, but, but Tennessee and Kentucky are 171 days or 171 miles apart. It'd be perfect.

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