Running Out The Clock

Week three of the SEC "season" in the books, and unless you're Mississippi State, you're scoring points at will.

ROTC is back in podcast format for the 2020 season! Or whatever we're calling it since it's not a real season. Keith and Chandler discuss the weird SEC Week 2 which saw Mississippi State fall back to earth and Florida run wild.

It's part 2 of our Best Case Scenario series, this time covering Florida, Auburn, and Tennessee.

Congrats! You get to listen to the first episode of this new season of ROTC! We begin our summertime preview episodes by introducing a brand new format of team previews. As well, we talk for quite a while about sitcom dads because, honestly, it's better than trying to talk college football in the summer. #ItJustMeansMore

The 2019 season has wrapped up for the SEC, and with LSU playing for a Nattie this evening, it is in our best interests to offer our views on some of the bigger moments in the 2019 season. Or just our favorite moments. Really nothing important, actually.

One way to inject excitement is to adopt insanity. MSU is doing that much for sure!

The title of this "year in review" episode sounds dramatic, but the episode is mostly funny so we can laugh through the pain.

Hey so here's our Bowl preview show that for some reason showed up on YouTube but not on other place it was supposed to.

Boy howdy, this is a weird episode. New coaches! Interesting bowls! English city names! Our Christmas lists this year! It's all here, baby.

The regular season is done! The weekend had two super weird finishes in heated rivalries! Two coaches are already canned! We somehow accidentally reference so many dudes named Gary!

Football is dead. Long live Basketball.

It's Thanksgiving Rivalry Week! We present to you many things we are thankful for, many longings for the year to end, and a surprisingly large amount of opinions about in-season rivalry trophies.

Let's pay respect to the Tad Pad picture one last time, because it will retire after this episode. Chandler and Sam are BACK, this time in The Podvillion, to discuss Ole Miss basketball! The Rebels are off to a great start, but with Memphis and then a potential difficult stretch in the next few weeks, what do we really know about them so far?

What does the early 2000's internet have to do with SEC football? Nothing. Nothing at all.

Chad Morris is in a better place now. Though any place is a better place than Arkansas right now.

Hey don't look now, but it's the ROTC Basketball Preview!

The notable games seem to be coming less and less each week, with only LSU vs Auburn being one worth discussing in detail. Which gives us time to do more important things like play games!

Thanks for tuning into the 10 o'clock news, stay tuned for the season premiere of Young Sheldon.

We got talk of NCAA appeals, angry MSU fans, and the chances of Muschamp hanging around. Time for ROTC!

Well, the Auburn game was so bad that the team needed an extra week to recover. So did we! But thankfully, we have a very winnable matchup against Tennessee coming this week. Bad news? Tennessee is probably also looking at this as a very winnable matchup.

It wouldn't be the SEC if it wasn't almost entirely backup QBs playing, apparently! It Just Means More.

As the state of Mississippi lies in ruin this weekend, the ROTC boys take a look at what has quite honestly been a very boring football season through five weeks. Does the league kinda suck besides the obvious top teams? Is Auburn actually good, or lucky? Why does Joseph get so worked up about Cam Newton? And why in the world did we all try to imitate Roe?

We look at both Kansas State and Kentucky to see what is working with this team and what isn't. Spoiler: we have no idea if the whole conference is any different from last season.

Ole Miss was the recipient of this week's worst officiating in the conference. Time may have run out for Matt Luke. The gang also discusses whether Bo Nix is good so far, amongst other topics from Week 4 of the SEC slate.

Week Three was a super strange week for all sports. To add to the weirdness, we subbed out Roe in favor of Gray. Now, listen to us talk about....sports.

The Weekly Pessimist survived the heat of Starkville in Week Two, but Week Three is up in the air. Questions surround the team, especially the defense, but nobody is sure how important any of it actually is.

Tennessee is in trouble. LSU is looking sharp! Week 3 is looking pretty boring. Here's a podcast!

The Weekly Pessimist has returned! Our Mississippi State centric series looks at the sloppy Louisiana game and determines that it was....fine.

Week One is thankfully done. What a sloppy, sloppy weekend. Surely it can only get worse from here right?

Our first attempt at releasing this podcast went about as well as Florida's late game secondary play.

Okay so we were in some pretty weird moods, which seems to fit this team.

We would like to apologize to everyone in advance for this episode.

The Kentucky Wildcats were the breakthrough stars of the SEC last season, notching 9 regular season wins and a bowl victory in route to possibly the best season they've ever had. But losing their all-time leading rusher along with the national player of the year will make it hard to keep the momentum going. Keith and Joseph discuss whether or not they have that chance in this episode.

Joseph is joined by guest Ben Zajdel to discuss the Aggies of A&M and their chances of repeating as the 2nd place team in the West. A&M returns QB Kellen Mond, a slew of receivers, and what looks like a decent offense. Will that be enough to overcome a questionable defense? Have they answered their defensive questions through recruiting? Only time will tell, but we're sure going to talk about it anyway.

The Florida Gators were a surprise hit last season, where Dan Mullen's rebuild took nearly every right step they needed. Improved QB play, solid defense, and some wins that most might have expected to be losses. With the pressure now FULLY on the Gators to live up to their billing as potential East contenders, can they live up to the demands? Keith and Roe discuss.

South Carolina scraped to a 7 win season in 2018, but so many games were within one possession that they could've been a 5 or 9 win team in a heartbeat. They return a massive amount of skill players on offense and some tall, rangy corners on defense, but will it be enough to avoid disaster in a difficult schedule?

The Mississippi State Bulldogs are in a weird spot. They have been to a bowl game for the past decade, consistently pump out NFL talent, are an attractive destination for recruits and for coaches, and are one of the more respected programs in college football. But they've never had an SEC title, haven't come close to the title game in the past decade, and have seem to have a reputation around the conference and even their own fanbase that they're an afterthought of a team. What do you do with a team who considers an 8 win season to be a failure but would consider a 9 win season to be a great success? Is it enough to be in a spot where the floor is high but the ceiling is low? That's Mississippi State these days, and they're weird to talk about.

Missouri has some issues going on. They are fighting to regain respectability amongst their SEC peers and even their own fanbase at times. Yet in the middle of all of this, they get caught up in a horrible scandal that puts them on a post-season ban that they've now appealed. In light of all of this, and possibly the worst part, is that the Missouri football team actually looks pretty good this year. So what does it mean for them if this is what they have to work with this season? Joseph and Keith discuss.

Joseph is joined by friend of the program Jim Stickland to discuss the Auburn Tigers 2019 season. There are unknowns on offense, but a lot of returning talent on defense. Will that be enough to carry the Tigers past the 8-5 record they had last season?

After a few technical issues that delay the release of this episode AND ended the careers of our show's producers, we are BACK with some more Ole Miss Football! Chandler and Sam Mooney are back to focus on the Ole Miss Rebels, but this time they break from their traditional basketball talk in order to talk about the football Rebels. Is the defense improved enough to bring the team bowling this year? Is the offense going to be able to replace the NWO? Will Matt Corral live through the season or get himself murdered? Is this a repeat of 2012? Plenty of questions, and nobody better to discuss it than ROTC's Ole Miss contingent.

We were supposed to upload our Ole Miss preview episode today, but due to a technical mishap, we're putting Vandy up today and firing our producers. Vanderbilt football has long been the doormat of the SEC, which makes it easy to forget that they've been to two bowls in the past three seasons AND beaten archrival Tennessee 3 years in a row. With the Commodores returning the best skill position players they've had in years, will that streak continue? Or will a brutal schedule prove to be their downfall? Listen to this episode to hear our thoughts. Go Commies!

We continue our 2019 Football Previews with a look at the Tennessee Volunteers, and who better to talk about Tennessee than a Florida fan and the most outspoken Vol hater we have on the show? As a side note, we apologize for not thinking the personnel selection through.

Believe it or not, it's time once again to talk SEC Football! The Arkansas Razorbacks finished last in the SEC West last year, which means they are our first team in focus. Chad Morris' first season in charge had a few highs but mostly more confusion and frustrations. Now that a full recruiting (and transfer season) has processed, how are things looking for the Razorbacks heading into 2019?

Ladies and gentlemen, football season is upon us! Oh well okay it's actually not, but this is the south and we talk about college football year round. The boys of ROTC are gearing up for their season previews, so take a listen as we react to some of the bigger storylines of the off-season!

In the midst of a sad ending, Chandler and Sam take the time to avoid overreacting and instead appreciate a strong, strong Ole Miss basketball season. Hitting on some highlights and stand out moments, here's the Welcome To The Tad Pod year in review wrap up of Ole Miss.

It's time for possibly the greatest sporting event in history: the opening weekend of March Madness! Seven different SEC teams are represented in this year's tournament, and while the big story is about how good the conference looked this year, we're more concerned about trivial matters like comparing each team's chances against each other! Basketball legend Keith Harkins leads the debate, and we're joined by ROTC champion Gray Barnes. It's a pretty bad episode! HEY! Wanna play in a bracket group with us? Send us a tweet at @ROTCsports and let us know!

Mississippi State basketball had a pretty good month of February. Sure, there were two losses, but they were close losses against good opponents. 5 wins in a row followed that. So we're looking at what amounts to be a pretty much locked into the NCAA Tourney type of team. Nice! But hey, we're not done. There's good baseball going on right now! And football had a good recruiting class. So let's try to talk TOO MUCH about all of that.

In a week that was just okay for Ole Miss hoops, Chandler and Sam break down why two weird games played out probably the way they should have or needed to and ultimately, Ole Miss is in good shape looking ahead to the SEC and likely NCAA Tournament.

Chandler and Sam have TWO victories to talk about, and in a tough SEC this year, two victories in one week gives a lot to discuss.

It's time for one big fat stupid discussion about THE ALLIANCE! Also the NBA All-Star game is going on in the background as we record so we're all distracted but it's good. It's all very good.

CHICK-FIL-A. CHICK-FIL-A. CHICK-FIL-A.