We had a great belief in our locker room. We didn't have to do anything special. Just be us. I was so proud of this team. We had so much fun and out of being legal.

Any idiot can say whatever they want and they usually do and they're negative. And all I see to me, I've gotten to a point now when I see things like that, I feel sorry that those people feel that way.

That their lives don't have the purpose, the passion and the excitement and the enjoyment that some of us do.

Our purpose is to win, make no mistake about it, but it's to win the right way. And our goal, our stated goal, is going to be to win the S.E.C. East.

Talk about the reception you received from the fan base. Do you think you'd be kissing the hugging babies at the tarmac we got?

A lot better than another tarmac experience that I had. I didn't think of it as like an anniversary or something like that.

We're coming, we're coming, and we ain't back in now.

And as my, as the head football coach at South Carolina, my job is to do what I feel is best for the University of South Carolina football program today and going forward in the future.

That's what I did. We wish him well and have nothing but we wish him well.

Welcome in the latest episode of that S.E.C. podcast. I'm your host Michael Brennan. I go by S.E.C. Michael Twitter.

And I'm flying solo for this show, but don't worry. Got a terrific guest lined up.

Gonna have Nate Edwards, who covers Missouri for a rockam nation of, of course, espnation fame and man, I cannot recommend this interview enough. He really delivered the goods here, went on a deep dive, everything Missouri Tigers.

I really think all S.E.C. fans are going to learn quite a bit from Nate's appearance here on the show.

He even got to talk a little bit about the rivalry, quote, unquote, with Arkansas. So that's really good stuff.

But before we get to that, like I said, on our last podcast, we got quite a bit of S.E.C. news to get to.

We didn't quite get to it with all the NFL draft coverage here. So let's just get going here and let's hop around the league.

Now let's go around the league.

My daughters said something about me wearing a visor and need to put on a hat because I'm getting bold.

So I'm gonna wear a hat from here on out.

I mean, if you look over the next six years, I think we played Miami 3 times Florida State 6 times South Florida 3 times Mississippi State 1.

So who's the S.E.C. teams? You know, I mean, I don't think I think it's an injustice for the kids.

They should mix those games up and you should, you know, play more teams from the West.

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