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September 2nd, the year of our Lord, 2021. And if you're

familiar with the college football calendar, that means we got, what, 16 games tonight? It's such a

big night. How big is it? It's such a big night, friends, that we are bumping the start time

of Lake Kick Live up an hour from the usual start point. Usually it's 8 Eastern, 7 central tonight,

7 Eastern, 6 central, and then we'll go watch Ohio State Minnesota. We'll watch some Boise,

UCF. I don't know that many people are aware of that game's happening tonight. That's a big game.

If it were 5 or 10 years ago, it'd be a massive game. Boise at Central Florida. Heads up, Gus Malzahn, year one. Remember what happened the last time? Malzan was in a year one. Got 13 seconds within a national championship. That's what happened. We got ECU App State tonight, bowling green, rolling into Tennessee. So some of you are going to listen to this on Friday, so I need to shut up about what happened in the past.

But what we do have is a loaded mailbag.

It overflowed the other day.

I got as good a reaction to our last late kick extra as I've had to any podcast we've ever done. I think it was because of the eclectic nature. We talked some college football, gave you a nice little storm chasing story, gave us soliloquy on fall weddings that I have gotten so much appreciation and a little bit of hate mail for. That's okay. We're not going to get

consensus on fall weddings. That's the point. If there was a consensus on fall weddings,

to be clear, Saturday fall weddings, if there was a consensus on it, we wouldn't have to discuss

it so much. You know, it's like regular bathing. If there was a consensus on taking baths every day, at least one, it's not asking too much, then we wouldn't have to fight about it. But you get in close quarters on the city bus or the subway or wherever you are and all of a sudden you realize, not everyone feels about this subject the way I feel. Am I in the minority? Are they in

the minority? Either way, it stinks. So two minutes ago, I think what I started to tell you was

we've got a lot of mailbag material that we didn't get to the other day. And I'm not one to just

skip over things, although I know I cannot get to all of you. I try and get to as many as possible. So let's roll right on Joe. Ask, what are your thoughts on Joe Milton, not related, starting at quarterback for Tennessee? Well, I'm fascinated by it. I didn't get to touch on this the other night. And we're not doing a Tennessee bowling green breakdown for obvious reasons. But Joe Milton, think about it. I know it's been touched on ad nauseum now, but think about it. This is the guy who wasn't on campus in the spring. This is the guy who was at Michigan still. Now, was he already privy to the Tennessee playbook? Yeah, turns out he was, but he wasn't on campus. He wasn't throwing to the receivers that he is going to throw to. He wasn't acclimating himself to the campus. You ever been to Ann Arbor? You ever been in Knoxville? Both wonderful places, just different places. Like Jupiter and Neptune, I'm sure both have their qualities about them that are lovely, different places. So what grabbed me the most is when he came in there, there were a lot of people around Tennessee that ended up being right, so credit where it's due, who said Joe Milton's going to be the starter here. And I just found it interesting. I didn't discount it, but I found it interesting that people close to the program, informed people could feel that way. When the guy, forget about completing a path to anyone on campus, I don't know that he had shaken hands with anyone on campus, but yet he walked in and he did it. Now, you could make that a testament to

Joe Milton. You could make it an indictment on what was the Tennessee quarterback room, especially

when you had Harrison Bailey with such promise this time last year, I bought in. And you had Hendon

Hooker transferring in. And there were some people. It was a minority of the entire population there, but there were some people who felt like he was going to be the starter. So Joe Milton locks it down. For those of you unfamiliar, I mean, the Tennessee fans know all this stuff. I'm not preaching anything new here. But the big question mark around him, which I think is fair, is not can you throw it 80 yards? Because he can. Without a crow hot people, that's one of the biggest arms in college football. But if I can throw it 80 yards, but I have no clue how to throw it eight yards with any touch and precision and accuracy, I'm no good to you. I'm good in those long throw competitions. I'd be excellent at the combine. I would be able to impress a lot of people. I'd win a lot of money, but I could not win you football games. Well, Joe Milton, now, according to Tennessee Insiders, it sounds like he's rectified a lot of those issues. And I tend to believe if that's happened, he has not been on campus long enough for a coaching staff, even the best in the world, to rectify those kinds of mechanical problems,

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