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He's joined us many times before. Ben McKee, Govalls 24-7 covers the Tennessee volunteers and been doing so for a long time.

I know you guys talked to Jeff, I'm sorry, you guys talked to Josh Heipel earlier this week.

When we talked to Jeff Levy and asked him about his relationship with Heiple, I think the term was, I have more respect for him than anybody

else in this business. That's pretty high praise when you consider how coaches work and operate.

What did Heipel have to say about his relationship with the Mississippi State Head Coach?

Yeah, he had a lot of good things to say as well. And this is kind of the second time

this season that Josh Heifle has gone through something this unique. That's his favorite

word to use. He used it earlier this week and saying it will be very unique on Saturday because

he shared meeting rooms with not only Jeff Levy, but a lot of other staff

members on Mississippi State staff as well. And that was kind of his go-to word back in September

when Tennessee was playing Oklahoma and not just the familiarity of him going back to his alma mater,

but working with Coach Venables and then now coaching against him. So Josh Heppel is experienced.

He's still not a man of very many words.

He's not, he has an awesome personality.

He just does not like doing media, so he doesn't necessarily let it show in those settings.

But a lot of great things to say just a couple of moments ago in the SEC teleconference.

He talked about how Coach Levy is just very smart, high IQ, great football mind,

and really gave him kudos for how Mississippi State has gotten better over the course of this season,

maybe not necessarily in the win-loss column, but you can see them making strides

offensively, still playing hard despite the record, and he kind of chalked that up to just the

respect that Coach Levy commands and his football IQ and how people kind of gravitate towards

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