All right, this is always one of my favorite favorite episodes. We do the man himself, Mr. Tony

Basilio, I kid you not Tony. It don't matter who I have on here. If I got a coach, I got Paul Feinbaum

I got CEOs of multi-million dollar companies. My dad never gets more proud of me than when I have Tony

Basilio on the show. Thank you so much for making the time Tony

Well, there's a reason for that your man your father is the man of exquisite taste

And obviously a very very bright human thing. So I

My compliments to him today

So, Tony, let me get your thoughts you had me on your show about a week ago

We were you know breaking down this SEC scheduling and and you couldn't believe that the SEC after all this talk

We've been talking about this for two damn years

The SEC was gonna stay at eight here. We go a week or so later

It's it's been confirmed. They're gonna stay at eight. What's your immediate thoughts to all that?

The first thing I do is tip my hat to you because you were talking about something nobody else was Michael Bratton

And that does not go unnoticed by this living fan. That's number one. There weren't a lot of people in your space

Nobody in fact was saying hey when they convene here in a couple weeks. They're gonna go to an eight game model

And Alabama's blocking it

You were the first. So I'm giving you

Incredible credit for unearthing that secondly

This is a league and always has been a league dominated by Alabama

The fact that Oklahoma and Texas didn't get a vote in this deal probably swings

What could have or should have or would have happened?

That this league continues to

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