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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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on Magnolia and Ogle Tree. And our next guest likes Hamilton's.
He is the current Senator from from the state of
Alabama about to run for governor of the state of Alabama. Friends,
Senator Coach Tommy Teverville, Good morning, coach.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good morning, What a beautiful day in Auburn. That a
little bit of clouds, but it's gonna be a great day.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It is. It is good to see you yesterday, Coach.
Thank you for being on the march with us this morning. Man,
big announcement.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yesterday, Yeah, yeah, it was good. You know, we're off
this week from the Senate, and so I had an
opportunity to do it the right way and go to
Barns and open it up and have a lot of
good friends and family at the announcement. Fox News was
their Lives and it went well. Then one did a
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big fundraiser last night at Montgomery. I think we're going
to sell kind of records and raising money. People are
I think excited about this change. You know, I'm a
big picture guy. I grew up in of course coaching,
and you have to oversee it at all and you
have to look not only to past, but the president,
and you got to look at the future. And that's
what we're going to do in this governor's race. And
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there's a lot of improvement. Our country is on a
breaking point right now, along with our state, and there's
a lot of things we've got to get done nationally
and in the next year and a half that I'll
be with President Trump in Washington, d c. And then
hopefully be in Montgomery after that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, yeah, you kind of got a double duty here.
You got to run, you got to be senators. So
how do you kind of manage that center coach?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, uh, you know, I'm I'm My number one job
is the United States Senate with the President. I mean,
if we don't survive up there, if we don't get
things done in the next year and a half, it's
a trickle down effect. It's really going to affect all
the states. We have got to cut spending, We've got
to grow our country. President Trump is on the right track.
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Our country is thriving. We're looking at a four percent
growth rate, which is unbelievable just after a four or
five month period of President Trump. But he understands how
to get done the tariffs, all the regulations, seed dropping.
The Democrats spent so much money. I tell you what,
it's criminal what they did to us and just the
four years that Joe Biden went in office. But we can,
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we can get it back. It's just going to take
a lot of hard, hard work by President Trump and
all the people in Washington, d C. That are behind him,
and then the American tact payers got to understand what's
getting ready to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, that's a good point. Coach. Let's go to Nil
a little bit. We were on sports show here. I
heard Kirby Smart talking about that yesterday SEC meetings going on.
You know about that. You were part of that for
many years. Nil, Where are we, coach? What are you thinking?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, our country is in bad shape. College athletics is worse.
I means you can't work at destroying something at such
a quicker pace in what's happened in college sports, and
the problem is it goes back to just there's there's
the animals running a zoo. I mean basically At the
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end of the day, we cannot allow, you know, the
NCAA not to get involved. We've got to have rules
and regulations. It can't be a free for all like
it is in Io. Look at Texas. Forty me in Texas,
Texas and forty million this year. People across the country
are spending five to twenty million dollars on all the
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things that are going. It's just it's an absolute disaster,
and we've got to have some kind of regulations put
to it. I don't mind players making money, but it
can't be a free for awl like it is and
the transfer portal. What's going to happen is you're going
to kill the goose that laid the golden egg and
who is that in college sports? The fans, and we
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cannot allow that to happen.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You are right, you're right now this this task force
or committee with coach Saban, do you know much about
that center to coach Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Know a lot about it. Try to get it done.
The problem is, I don't think it's going to It'll
do a whole lot. You've got too many opinions. And
I told the President that he's I think at the
end of the day. He would love to get something
done by the stroke of a pen, but there are
just too many moving parts, as I told him, and again,
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I think we have to start with the transfer portal.
Get it back to reasonable, to where hey, you got
to pay a penalty if you transfer. I don't care
how much money you get paid. You do that, then
you can start other places like contracts and do things
that bring it back to common sense. Right now, there's
no common sense. The greed is taken over. Again. I
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don't care how many much these kids make, but you
cannot allow other athletes and women and Olympic sports to
be left out. You cannot do it. That's not what
this is all about. And it's about education and it's
about young people learning the right way way. Uh, everything
turns into money and what does that do? It just
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ruins everything. And again it's just a tough situation that
the universities were able to gain more and more momentum
through contracts and TV and make more money. The problem
is the NCAA didn't step in and say, Okay, there's
gonna be revenue sharing with all this money that we're
getting there, and it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Kind of did it backwards. I agree with a center
tyner Bee Toubleville with this coach Taville on the marrow
this morning on a Hamilseon hotline live now seeing you
running for governor yesterday we're talking n I L and
other things. Coach, the transfer report of Curby s Marts.
So they don't even know when it's open. It's like
it's open all the time. There's so much with it.
And I remember you saying you're almost signed something. But
the Democrats wanted everybody to be be on the be
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a guvernment employee, right, union.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The unionized and you know, of course what else is
new with Democrats? Uh, you know they want their piece
of pie. But at the end of the day, it's
not gonna happen. We don't need employees. It might happen
just because that's the only way to save it at
the end of the day, but we got to dodge
that at all cost. There's no common sense reality to this.
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It's really not so Again, it's what a great thing
that we've had for what going on one hundred and
fifty years or so in college sports. But it's like
everything else, just like our country, we have people that
get involved, and greed gets involved both the university standpoint
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and the athletic standpoint the athletes, and you know it
just it puts it in tail spin. And that's what's happened.
We can get it done, I don't think it'll happen
from the national level. President Trump would get it done
tomorrow if he could by the stroke of a pen.
But you have so many people that just got your
hand out. And again it's the people that are going
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to suffer from our Olympic and women's sports, and we'd
better wake up and smell the roses.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You've been a big advocate of women's sports, competing against
women and men against men. That's President has too. I'm
glad to see that. Coach. I think anybody would common
sense like that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, well, I mean it's just it's insane what the
Democrats want to do and take our country to a
level that it's never men in the We're gonna keep
fighting in tooth and nail. And I saw yesterday we're
a track athlete in California just dominated all the sold
sports because he's a man and he couldn't compete against
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other men. And again, I don't know, I don't know
what these people on the left, I think they're accomplishing
by this other than they're trying to prove a point
that they control it. But at the end of the day,
you know, women and young girls coming up are just
going to absolutely be left out.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, that's not good. I have two daughters. You understand
that you have you and you have a granddaughter. You
know what's going on. Coach, I agree with that. You
ever get tired, Coach, I'm serious, dear, we get tired.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I'm a time, I'm I'm a lot like President Trump.
I just keep going. I've been. I went all last
night and this morning. You know, I love our country
and I'm fortunate I got pretty good health. And again,
I uh, you know, I contemplated this governor, run over
the US Center, run the US Senate. It's a supposition.
(08:23):
It's it's hard, but it's very well filling. You know,
you can get something done. But you know, it was
just time to come home and run for governor and
put my expertise back in the state because I think
President Trump's gonna get everything in line in the federal
government and he's going to send all the power back
to not all but a lot of the power back
to the states and the money back to the states,
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and we want to make sure we got it all
under control and do it the right way. There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I'm glad you said that because I've had a lot
of people say one of the ways run for governor,
not stay in the Senate. Well you said you were
going to run one turn, I believe, right, Senator Coach.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, yeah, uh, you know, I was going to run
for governor to begin with. And then k Ivy went in.
I said, well, I need to find a way to
help our country in her state. And I said, well,
I just run percent. Well they said you can't win that.
I said, well, yeah right, And I ran away with
that one. And uh again, people want just they want
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people to be honest with them and and be you know,
talk about the things that count, education and infrastructure. And
you know, I'm conservative. I believe again we sin we
spent seven threeion dollars my first four years that we
should have never even thought about spending through the Democrats
on all this COVID nonsense that they pushed on us,
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and and bout you were finding out now how much
of a crime that was. But it's just our countryes
and a tail spend. Thank god President Trump Center, because
anybody else, we would we'd be looking at inflation that
we could probably couldn't get under control, interest rates twenty
thirty percent. And it's going to happen if we don't,
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if he's not successful in doing what he's doing. But
but I tell you what, guy works night and day
and and smart as a whip. And he was all
for me doing this. He'd loved him in his stage.
But as I told him, how I'm gonna be with
you another year and a half, you can't get it done.
But then we're all from.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I agree, I agree. Well, let me tell you something.
I appreciate you being on. I know you got to go.
Your staf's going to hold me to it. And I
appreciate you being on the show so much, coach, and
I look forward to having you more, and I look
forward to your run for the governor. What fall?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
All right?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What next year? Right? Twenty twenty six?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Oh? Yeah, yeah, Weather. The primary is one year from
last week, and again it'll be it'll be a slow grind,
but again, my my number one priority is stand up
in d c IS and getting this bill done and
the tax cuts approved, and try to cut back on
this nonsense so spending that we're doing right now. We've
got to get out of the out of harms way.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
All right, good deal, Coach, thank you so much. Have
a great day. Thank you, Yes, sir, bless God, bless you.
Senator Coach Tommy Turberville on the Marrow this morning live
after him makes his announce yesterday he's running for governor
of the state of Alabama.