But, uh, yeah, how did you find the game? How did you get into, into Moonstone as a tabletop skirmish?

Yeah.

So, uh, I got into tabletop gaming in general back in the early 2000s with, uh, third edition 40K.

Um, it was back in high school, and then college happened, and money and time kinda became a scarce resource, so I kinda fell out of the hobby.

Um, but then 2022, I was going through some of my old stuff, uh, back at my mom's house, and I found the only Warhammer lore book I had ever, uh, bought when I was in high school, and I was like, "Oh, I remember.

This book was pretty fun." So I picked it up, I started reading it, and then that kinda got me into like, oh, I kinda, I kinda miss, miss painting.

So I decided it'd be a fun hobby to get back into, so I went and picked up some, I think it was some Eldar and some paints and started, uh, started painting those, but zero desire to play 40K.

... about how it went this year.

Okay.

And yes, eight wins is hammering your over, your, your, your, your, your expectation is six and a half.

Now, that o-line will be the difference between a ceiling at eight, Zach, or Auburn literally having an impact in shaping how the SEC plays out.

Not winning the SEC, but shaping how that SEC race plays out.

That...

Now, what does that mean? Well, you've seen October.

You got Georgia, you got, uh, a, a, a, a Tennessee, you got Ole Miss on the road, and then you got LSU's, uh, b- led by Lane Kiffin, you know, a- as your only home game.Now, I do wanna point out, um, uh, LSU just hi- rehired Will Wade, so it seems like they're in a race to see how many jerks they can hire a head coach there.

Get it right so many times that, that you can't get it wrong." I, I, I think his approach is certainly there and, and Bryce Kane certainly seems to be a name that keeps popping up throughout spring.

[chuckles] That was so good.

And he said, "Look, man, uh, this is a really good front that they're going up aga- against, and DJ Durkin makes it really tough on you." That's what they need, Zach.

Look, they're not gonna take it easy on you in SEC play, so don't take it easy in practice.

Make it tough on these guys.

Identify the weak links in the chain, your weaknesses, and strengthen them this spring.

This is what spring is about.

I had a former Auburn, uh, operations, uh, director of operations tell me, he said, "Mike, it's 1,000 hours from January to July for 40 hours of football in the fall." They've gotta make the most of these thousand hours in, in Alex Golesh's first year.

We know Simmons can, you know, potentially move to right tackle." But that will be something worth watching moving forward.

You can't chart that as returning production for Auburn, but you got to use some common sense and context when you look at some of these things.

I agree.

Look, Alex Golish is very bullish on his system.

I have gotten whispers of conversations that he's had with people asking him about his plan on offense, and he's been almost like, look, this is what we do.

This is what we do.

Trust the process.

This is what we do.

I mean, hopefully the eye test between the two quarterbacks is it's very clear which one of them is better than the other one.