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Brian A-Ed,

joined by Coach Ben Hallen, Mississippi State basketball.

We're not too far out from one of the more highly

anticipated seasons of your career here at Mississippi State but before we get

into that Roy Williams he's retired coach K he's he's retiring at the end of this season.

Are you, are you, are you the biggest dog left in the game at this point?

Are you the, are the Dean of College?

Well, you know what? I'm not even close because those guys are I think

Coach Kaye is 75 Roy was I think in his 70s of not mistake I'm a young 64 year old so still feeling good okay.

Way behind.

I don't think any team in the country had a more successful recruiting class last year in terms of the transfer

portal than you did. You hit on not only you know key players that you need it from

positional standpoint but talented players, Good players, big time players.

Is this going to, does this signal some

shift, maybe not just for you,

but for all of college basketball,

that when it comes to recruiting,

is it going to be portal first high school

player second or do you have to keep that balance based on who you can get your

hands on? Yeah I think it'll still be a combination.

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