Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday Down South podcast. I am Connor O'Gera. No,

Will again. He is doing all things spelling bee for his day job. So one more episode without Will that means I am flying solo not for the entire episode. We have an interview that I want to do for a really long time,

really really long time. Tom Zipkowski, the former Notre Dame Buffalo Grove High School legend. He is going to join us to talk about really a one of one career that he had, what he's up to now. And then we're going to close with the news that Matt Hayes broke about USC not wanting to face

LSU and that season opener Sunday night in Vegas but first thought it'd be

pretty topical talk about what happened at the SEC meetings and what we can actually

take away from that.

If you didn't see this, well you probably just didn't spend any time on the internet, but

SEC coaches want to save the walk-on.

The House Settlement future of paying players

has made it a little bit tricky

to figure out what future rosters are going to look like when other sports are trying to be accounted for if we're going to have roster caps.

There's a fear that if all are getting some sort of contract on the revenue sharing model then maybe it has to be

scholarship players or there's just not room for those extra those extra people to be able to kind of fall under that umbrella which would be the walk-ons and coaches to the surprise of no one do not want rosters trimmed if there is something that SEC coaches can all agree on, it's that they don't want to get rid of the walk-on program and not just because it would make Rudy an outdated movie. They talked about how the importance of being able to practice and not necessarily

have starters get hurt. That's all kind of obvious. Take that for what it is. There's definitely

some truth in that. You don't necessarily want, you know, to be having

one-on-one, you know, one-by-one type stuff. That's not the right way to phrase that. First on first,

best on best, you get what I'm saying but there is a desire to be able to preserve walk-on programs for the other obvious reasons a lot of these guys have been in that spot before Clark Lee talked about on Fine Bomb how he was a walk on and those

guys are really important pieces of the program. It certainly has played it out

really well for a program like Georgia, which has the most depth of anyone in college football,

but in case you forgot, a certain Stets and Bennett the fourth may or may not have, but definitely did benefit from the fact

that there was a walk-on spot available for him.

A guy like Cody Schrader last year, but friend of the program, Grant Morgan, the last three winners of the Burlesworth Award, which goes to the best former walk-on in

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