Major Applewhite

I mean, he was there from 07 to 23, so that's 17 seasons.

Major Applewhite.

Major Applewhite.

Yeah,

that's pretty amazing.

He was all of those things.

He had Major Applewhite who was there ahead of him and was like this whole quarterback thing that was there.

There's a lot of parallels between Chris and Arch.

Chris's Texas career and Arch's.

All right.

Maybe even last week, uh, Major Applewhite going for it on his own, uh, on his own 34 yard line.

But due to those circumstances at the end of the game, he thought, "I gotta go for this, 'cause this is the only way I'm gonna win it." He does a fake field goal on fourth and nine.

Which, by the way, I thought, I think Rocky Boyman, who did a great job tonight, I disagreed with him.

And yet, and yet, South Alabama was right in this football game.

Um, kind of an odd turn of events from kicking the tying extra point.

Um, I thought maybe he would go for it, but then I thought, is Zion gonna go down the whole f- I literally thought, well, Major Applewhite probably doesn't think Zion Turner's gonna be able to drive him down the whole field.

Although you don't have to drive him down the whole field, you just need a field goal.

That is a coach's dream.

Now, Major Applewhite did go for it on a short fourth down run, It was fourth and one at their own 34-yard line.

I thought they were closer to the 45, but they were inside their own 40.

Now, it's not a field goal game, right? They still need a touchdown, but with more than four and a half minutes left to go, Major Applewhite didn't think South Alabama was going to be able to stop Arkansas State.

And in the back of your mind, if you're...

Major Applewhite, if Butch Jones scores a touchdown, there's no reason to not go for two.

Doesn't mean he would, but he may go for two and we may not be able to stop him.

We're going to come out of here with a loss despite scoring 56 points.

Well, we know that's bullshit because we remember Quinn Ewers

and we remember Sam Ellinger and we remember Major Applewhite and we even remember Chris Sims.

And Sims might not be a name in football royalty the way Manning is, but Sims is still a name in football royalty.

So Sark can say that Arch gets unfairly criticized and he can evoke the name Manning.

They're losing all their great players, and those guys have to replace them, and they have to do a great job coaching with lesser.

South Alabama, Major Applewhite played for me at Texas, coached for me at Texas.

He beats App State last year and beats them good.

I texted him after the game and said, God, that quarterback two years ago, that quarterback and running back looked great.