Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host, Steve Robertson, here on the Hubday edition of the yard.

Hope things are well with you wherever you are today. I had planned to record a little bit earlier, but I had the opportunity to interview Alabama head coach Rob Vaughn about this weekend series.

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We encourage you to come be a part of that. Nobody covers Mississippi State like we do. It's true.

Matter of fact, last night had to, wasn't a lot of room in the press box,

and Neil Price and Ron Polk and I had to sit in the bleachers to the left of the press box.

Wasn't like that last time I went over there, but they've changed some people over there,

but there's not a lot of room. So the reality of it is you've got to do what you've got to do to get the job done, and we do. We got it done. Coach Polk survived. I think he asked if I could get him some hot chocolate maybe four or five times the last few innings. But yeah, a couple times I had to walk out there to the car to put some more clothes on

wasn't great wasn't ideal but we persevered as did the bulldogs and state wins the game

we're going to break that thing down we're going to look ahead a little bit a little bit to the

weekend and then of course we'll talk about kind of what's going on in basketball a lot of

portal talk you guys are well aware a lot of people are kind of panicking a little bit and i i get it i mean

you're emotionally invested it's like man do we have to rebuild the roster every single year so we'll go

over some of that stuff too and uh i don't really have any code of conduct about any of that stuff, right?

Some guys leave on their own and ladies and some players elect to enter the portal in hopes of getting a better NIL deal and I think that is a huge gamble, right?

Because somebody could probably get your production for maybe the same value

they were paying you. And then there are some that are encouraged to leave. And so there's a

variety of reasons why people go into the portal. And, you know, the world is a will to power.

We all know this. And in true true of itself, right?

So it's important to understand that aspect of it too, that, you know, everybody out here is looking out for number one.

Everybody. And that's the way the game is set up right now. You've got so many people out there that are, you know, in these kids' ear, and they're like, hey, I can get you this, I can get you that.

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