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Speaker 1 (00:17):
This is the Uncle Henry Show here on news radio
seven to ten WNTM, and proud to welcome back to
the Uncle Henry Show. Probably been over a year since
this voice has been on the show. From the Jags.
Is it called the Jags Sports Network?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I've got Charlie Harrison's radio network.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Jaggs Radio Network, Charlie Young, Charlie Harrison is with us. Charlie,
thank you so much for coming back on the Uncle
Henry Show. I appreciate it very very much.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of course, Uncle Henry, I'll take any opportunity you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Talk a little football now, Charlie. You can hear Charlie
every weekend with the Jags football games. You can hear
him do the pregame. You can hear him do color
announcing all that kind of stuff with the Jags on
Sports Talk ninety nine to five FM or ninety six
to one the Rocket. You enjoyed it. Are you enjoying
this season so far? The Jags started out with a win, Charlie.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
We did. We started out with a win overr SCS
Morgan State, and it was a pretty good Morgan State team.
They had several all players up and down their roster.
Jags looked really good. Physicality was I think we did
keep a little bit of the play bug vanilla, so
I expect we will see a lot more from this
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team this weekend. But overall, for a start where you
wanted to hide a lot of what you want to
do offensively and it was about going out there and
asserting your will, that was a great first game for
South Alabama, very very good.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Congratulations to everybody involved with South and all the fans.
We're gonna talk more about the Jags before we're done
with this half hour with Charlie. But Charlie, a big
story for lots of folks all over the world, I
believe is the poor showing of the Alabama Crimson Tad
under the head coach de Bour as they were destroyed
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by Florida State. I know you've followed Alabama football with
great intensity. What are your thoughts on the performance of
the Alabama Crimson Tad against Florida State?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
You know, I think a lot of people have been
very very quick to really press the alarm bells right
now and say this is going to be an Alabama
team that's just going to be as bad as it
can be. Right And to be clear, I don't think
we will know that information until the Georgia game. I
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think one of the things that's really stood out to
me about Alabama under Debor, With the exception of that
game against Tennessee last season, all of Devor's losses have
come to very talented but unranked teams, and to me,
that says more about where they are preparation and mentally
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go into games, because I think they do seem like
they can take that week off right Like we've heard
all this this week about players were up until two
am and people were coming in and out of players
rooms in the hotel. We've seen the photos of Caden
Profter on the sideline warming up with his phone in
his hand. I don't think that this is a bad
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Alabama team. I think that this is an Alabama team
that went into this game against Florida State unfocused, unprepared,
and thinking they were going to win, and they weren't.
That Florida State team is too talented to do that
against It's kind of like the old Bear Bryan adage,
I can take mine and beat yours, or I can
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take yours and beat mine. The team that's more prepared,
the team that is ready to play is going to win. Right.
We saw that from Florida State. We didn't see that
from Alabama.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, then you naturally, as you've just laid it out,
then you naturally understand why Alabama fans want to press
the alarm bails because this seems like a very basic thing.
Just just being ready for the game mentally seems like
a very basic thing that wasn't covered.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It is a very basic thing. And look, this is
week one of the season, not week five or six.
We're talking about this right like. There is still time
to correct this. And that's part of the reason. I
don't think we're going to know about the ceiling or
the floor of this Alabama team until Georgia. They're not
gonna get up, has to get up to beat Ulm.
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I'm just gonna be honest with you. You could roll
the whole second string out and probably still beat ULM. Wisconsin.
It's not a good football team right now. They really
struggled on offense last season. They've already lost their starting
quarterback this season. There's a lot of reason to believe
Alabama should be able to cake walk to Wisconsin. And
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if they go in there and try it and play
poorly in these games. I think then we still don't
really learn anything about them. Right, But it's going to
be Georgia that game that they feel they have to
get up for that they have to be competitive for that.
I think we're going to see, Okay, can this team win?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So, Charlie, you follow it closer than most because it's
a part of your job just following college football. Are
you seeing this same type of issue with other teams
in this new era where the players are now making
all the money and we actually know they're making the money.
Are you seeing this in other programs.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I think we're seeing it in other programs, But I
want to be clear. I think this has always been
a problem with college football. I think the attitude that
I'm better than you, I can go in and take
walk you has always been president. You know, It's just
not something Alabama fans are used to, right. You know,
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Saban was very built on the process. Right, every game,
every snap, you played as hard as you could, and
it didn't matter if you were QB one play in
Georgia Southern, or you were the third string defensive back
off the bench getting kick returns snapped in the National
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Championship game. Nick Saban coached with the same intensity in
that spot as the other, and his players matched that intensity.
I mean, it took Nick Saban over one hundred and
sixty games against unranked opponents to have or losses. Kayleb
de Boor already has four unranked losses in his second year.
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So you know, I think there's something to be said
for we have been inundated from this as Alabama fans.
And if you go back and look every year Ohio State, Michigan,
Louis LSU, Tennessee, Georgia. Not so much because Kirby, but
for a lot of these schools. Everybody takes these weird
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losses every year where they go in underprepared and assume
they could win and they lose. That's just now a
reality that Alabama fans are gonna have to cope with.
That was not a thing under Nick Saban.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
All right, Hey, before we go to break here, you
and I are from very different generations. I'm just curious
do you have the same reaction I do when I
see that there's TikTok videos of Alabama players dancing and
stuff in the locker room. I don't like it. Charlie
now does it bother you? Does it bother you? And
the Alabama players are dancing on TikTok videos?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
You know, I think there's a time and a place
for it. I'm not gonna say kids shouldn't be having
fun and doing what other kids their age are doing.
But also there needs to be an understanding and respect
for you're getting paid now, You're here to do a job,
and it's unacceptable not to do it to the highest level.
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And that's what we've seen out of Alabama. They are
not prepared. They have not improved as a team from
last year to this year, and that is what makes
the TikTok dancing and the other stuff happening on the
periphery such a concern.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Thank you. Now see, there you go. Even though we
are general relations generationally different that I agree with that
completely and totally. All right, Look, we're going to take
a brief time out for traffic, weather, words from the
beautiful sponsors, and then when we come back, we're going
to talk a little bit more about Jag football and
other Jag sports and what Charlie has been up to
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and will be up to all about coming up as
we continue here on News Radio seven to ten. WNTMS.
Uncle Henry Show, Let's go ahead and take the break,
Uncle Henry Show, News Radio seven to ten WNTM. Continuing
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the conversation with Charlie Harrison. You can hear Charlie on
the Jags football games. He does the pregame, he does
the color commentary. You can hear him on the Jag
games on Sports Talk ninety nine to five FM and
ninety six to one The Rocket. Now, Charlie, are you
doing other Jag sports along with football?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I am actually now the all sports analysts for South.
So I do radio coverage for football, I do ESPN
Plus coverage for volleyball and soccer. I'll do radio coverage
for men's basketball and ESPN Plus and radio for baseball
and softball.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Wow, Mike, So this is what is this? Every day
of the week? Is this seven days a week of
sports for you?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's only about two to three games a week, depending
on the week, but it the prep is pretty much
every day. I'm constantly Okay, I've got thirty minutes here.
Let me sit down and go through this for this
team that's coming up this weekend. Let me watch a
little bit of film on this team over here. It's
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a lot of studying. Uncle Henry, I'm.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Going to guess that at the end of this season,
you're going to be an expert, a master of pronouncing
people's last names. Cool.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know I would love to be because that is
something to me personally. It's very important to get right. Yes,
players work awful hard and you want to make sure
you when you talk about them, that you're getting things correctly. Yes,
I've seen some of these names though, and wow, can
they be a doozy?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yes? Yes, I was trying to think about what would
aside from being good enough to understand all these sports, well,
have to broadcast about them. Then you have to memorize
all the names, and now they're supposed to be said.
So we mentioned Jag football. Jag football off to a
good start. You also mentioned soccer. Now, what's going on
with Jag soccer right now?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So the Jags actually have a big game coming up
this Saturday. We're hosting Mississippi State at two pm over
in the Cage. This is a Mississippi State team. They've
got a new head coach, but they were still the
defending SEC champions and they're coming to take on a
South Alabama team that has been very good this season
at home under second year head coach Chris Hennessy, Jags
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are four and one overall on the year, four and
zero at home, that long loss team on the road
at LSU. And in soccer, you play ninety minutes and
you count up from the bottom right. So if something
happens like a goal is giving up in the first
minute to play, you say that is a goal in
the first minute. South Alabama LOSTSU, but they didn't allow
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a goal until after eighty minutes of play, and that
was once the starting goalie had been shaken up and
going and went down and three of the nine starters
were off the pitch with an injury. So this is
a really good South Alabama soccer.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Squad, okay, And so that's going to be fun. Then
you got a football team that starts with a win,
and then you've got a great soccer team as well.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It will and you know what, as long as we
string wins together from football in soccer. This week, and
the big thing on my mind this week has been
tu Lane coming into town. It's going to be the
our city game. We're going to have a lot of
promotional activities to kind of give back to the city
of Mobile and thank everybody for their supportive Jags football.
And then you know what, I just really want to
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beat the greenways. I am tired of hearing about New Orleans.
I want to shut them up. I want to remind
everyone where is the home of Marty Garraw and send
them back back into their little impersonation of a city.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now, now tell me this while we've got time. How
good is Tulane? What do we know about Tulane at
this point in the season.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Well, we know they have a really good quarterback. They
brought in a transfer from DYU Jake Rehetzloss and Reetzloff
was a franchisman candidate towards the end of last season.
He had BYU on the edge of the playoff bubble
last year, and he's a guy you may be wondering,
why would you go from that situation to Tulane. He
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had a little bit of trouble in the off season.
Some accusations on sexual misconduct were made and after everything
had been adjudicated, everybody went okay, Well, seems like everything
was mutual. The problem was he went to BYU and
they have a very strict honor code, so he had
to transfer out, otherwise he was going to sit out
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for the year. He ends up with Tulane. He's got
a great arm, great legs. A coach in John Sumrall,
who is very very good. We're actually familiar with him
at South Alabama from his time at Troy. He went
twenty three and four and two seasons as the head
coach of the Trojans won back to that Corlference championships
in twenty two and twenty three. He plays a really
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good form of defense. His teams are always really tough.
They always run the ball really well. Two Ain's actually
coming into this week the group of five favorite to
make the college football playoffs this season. So it's a
really good team.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Very very good. So the game is Saturday night, six
o'clock Hancock Whitney Stadium on campus at the University of
South Alabama. Your pregame. When is the pregame?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Well, we start two hours before kick each week, so
this week we will be starting at four pm. If
you're listening. Next week when the Jags take on the
Auburn Tigers in Jordan Hare Stadium, we have games sorry
that I am really looking forward to. I bet you are.
I bet you are.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But this week at four o'clock in the afternoon Saturday,
you can hear Charlie Harrison start off that coverage for
the Jags game, and you can hear it on Sports
Talk ninety nine to five FM or ninety six' one The.
Rocket Charlie, harrison thank you so much for talking to
me and the listeners about.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Football of, Course Uncle, henry anytime you. Need and, hey Go, jags.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
All, right Go jags and roll. Tide there he. Goes thank,
You Charlie. Harrison we're out of time. Now thanks for
listening to The Uncle Henry. Show as they say in Sarah,
land have a good one and as they say In,
theodore take it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Easy all. Right later