Welcome to the Bone Yard with Steve Robertson. As always, I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the magnificent Monday edition of the yard. A little bit later than I planned, but it's been one of those days working through the edit process. That's the thing about writing a book that I don't think a lot of people understand.

Is you write it and then you submit it and then it goes through a round of

editors and then you get it back and it's all marked up just like your junior English

composition teacher would do to your rough draft and then there's some things

some nuance or some things that have to be changed,

or sometimes you will say things one way, and it's got to be rephrased a little bit

because you used a repetitive phrase, a couple paragraphs later in your manuscript.

And so there's a lot that goes into that.

So I was up to about two in the morning working on 10 football chapters.

There are 21 chapters in this book, 10 of them football, six of them baseball, three of them

basketball, and two of them student stories. I think you'll find those of great interest.

Many people did with Starkville ones.

They loved the stories of Frank Carolla and Big Skeet, Skeeter Edwards,

1946 Bulldogs that flew over to Oxford and a crab duster.

Did a little redecorating at the Ole Miss Football Stadium

the day before the egg ball.

A lot of people share with me that was one of their favorite stories.

Then you got a couple of crazy wild college kids that stole the golden egg

to protect its pristine condition to ensure that the trophy was not defaced by the interlopers from Oxford who were intent on engraving forfeited on the trophy. That's all in Starkville.

But I'm, listen, I'm going to point now, this is the most difficult part of the

process for me. It's one of those things, like, it's easy to start a book. It's fun to write a book.

It's very, very difficult to finish a book, because you've got to be critical about your own

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