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So here we are joined by the man of the hour, Mississippi State Athletic Director.

Zach Selman, you've been a busy man these past couple weeks.

You know, you think being the athletic director, it's the all season, just put your feet up on the desk and let things happen.

But no, you'll start in Destin, not just the time on the beach down there.

This was a really crucial set of meetings down there as they sort of set the tone for what the SEC schedule is going to look like with the arrival of Oklahoma and Texas. Eight game schedule, I think that's the, I think that's best for Mississippi State. I think you agree with that. Is it best for the SEC right now? Yeah, I think it is. And one, it's good to be on with both of you. Yeah, we ate all your catfish. I apologize for that. That was all him. That's probably good. I've been eating my way through Starflems for the last couple months. Destin was great. It was a lot of meetings. You know, I think that's the misconception of we were hanging out at the beach, all of that. I think I saw the beach the very last day.

Our youngest... a lot of meetings. You know, I think that's the misconception of we were hanging out at the beach,

all of that. I think I saw the beach the very last day. Our young daughter decided she was going to go parasailing. So I had to go see that from a distance. But meetings were good. Started on a, let's see, Tuesday morning, talked a lot of things started off about this, what's the construct of the NCAA, what's the construct of college sports,

what do we want to do, what we want to be in the SEC. So that took a lot of time, a lot of

consideration. Clearly it's a challenging time in college athletics. We want to make sure that

the SEC remains the top conference in America and tired of getting changed from people outside

of our business. So as leaders in

on the nation or on the national scale, how can we develop some things and make sure that we

push things to the forefront? So I've spent a lot of times on that and didn't spend as much

time the first day on scheduling. Again, we wanted to make sure scheduling is an important part of it,

eight or nine games, but the most important part is, like, how do we forge the future of college

athletics? So, you know, clearly, that was my first time in the desk and meetings, but from my

counterpart to my peers, a lot of it was these were kind of the healthiest, mediest conversations

we've had.

And then by the time we evaluated the eight or nine game schedules, clearly you want to make sure that you have a pathway to the postseason.

You want to be, have an opportunity to, for me, I always look at it, how can we have

the opportunity to get to the college football playoff and decided, you know, yeah, in favor

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