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Hour One | Scott Woodward Fired, LSU’s Future & Halloween Talk · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: We'll come into Off the Bench presented by All Star Toyota.
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  Speaker 2: You're scary. We're bringing the spool just sports talking So
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  Speaker 2: with Jacob Hester and Terrifying Terrible Live from the Haunted Studio.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Jacob Hester.
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  Speaker 3: Yo and welcome Inn to otb.
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  Speaker 1: Live from rouses Here on Burbank and Lee, Jacob Flynn
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  Speaker 1: and also Moose here at Rousi's Alanda and Taty back
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  Speaker 1: in studio.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween. Yeah, I forgot about that until
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  Speaker 2: I saw.
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  Speaker 1: The skeleton hoodie that Flynn's were. Don't really know where
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  Speaker 1: one would buy a skeleton hoodie like that.
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  Speaker 4: Put this on and said, all the way up it
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  Speaker 4: becomes a skeleton face. Oh okay, I got got on
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  Speaker 4: Instagram ads last year.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think you were getting? No, no, this
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  Speaker 2: is what I thought. But it was like the pop
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  Speaker 2: up ads that oh my god. Oh I like that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: like hoodies and skeletons are pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that so once a year, I'm gonna wear this.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely actually wore this in the spring one time. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of weird, but I did it.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you wear that? And did they ask you
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  Speaker 2: to leave? Well?
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  Speaker 4: No, it wasn't like out and probably I just put
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  Speaker 4: it on around the house. Okay, yeah that's not weird.
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  Speaker 2: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: Well your family already probably thinks you're a little weird.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, they love me. I love you. Yep.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, if you're not a little bit
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  Speaker 4: weird and you're just kind of boring at that point,
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  Speaker 4: that's fair, right, that's fairy.
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  Speaker 2: Spice it up a little bit. I agree.
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  Speaker 4: Family didn't want me to give them stock responses, canned answers,
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  Speaker 4: robot responses. Oh dude, I'm a little a little sad today.
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  Speaker 4: That's this is the last day we're.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna hear us. Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: And the guy that goes, oh you're scared, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of do, like, remember what movie that's Yeah, te Laandra,
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  Speaker 1: if y'all know what movie that's from, just let me
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  Speaker 1: know you're scary.
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  Speaker 2: I like it as well. It's gonna go where.
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  Speaker 4: I am said, it's been a it's been a hell
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  Speaker 4: of a ride a Landra just tipping the cap to
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  Speaker 4: you on making that in about you know, twelve seconds
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  Speaker 4: that one.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. Yeah, I felt like it.
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  Speaker 1: Anything going on around ben Rouge here.
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  Speaker 2: Lately, or I don't think so we're.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna talk Thursday night football between the Ravens and Dolphins.
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  Speaker 2: That was a dynamic.
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  Speaker 4: I think about two and a half hours of the
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  Speaker 4: show should be dedicated to the Ravens and how just
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  Speaker 4: amazing they are.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah it was. It wasn't a great game, but it
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  Speaker 4: actually talking about I mean, I mean we could just like.
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  Speaker 2: Just could go over it.
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  Speaker 4: I guess the Ravens destroyed the Dolphins. Dolphins or shambles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was more just a joke because there's all the
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  Speaker 1: things going on in Bee.
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  Speaker 4: It did win last week though, Yeah, all right, you're
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  Speaker 4: still talking about it. Still, I'm still going you know,
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  Speaker 4: it is a sports show, Bud, that's fair. Last yesterday
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  Speaker 4: try to be kind of like a political show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for about four minutes. Yeah, we had to cut
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  Speaker 2: that off. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Well, probably be a little bit more of that today.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're listening to this show, chances are by
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  Speaker 1: now you know that Scott Woodard is no longer the
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  Speaker 1: athletic director at LSU. That is certainly not something that
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would say at any point during any
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  Speaker 1: of this athletic calendar, Because you had national championships in
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  Speaker 1: multiple sports and from coaches that Scott brought in. Now,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you're going to be tied to your football head
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  Speaker 1: coach as much as any just because that's the way
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  Speaker 1: that it goes, dollars and cents of it.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't expect to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Scott's somebody that obviously, when he was at
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M, everyone wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Back at LSU.
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  Speaker 1: He comes to LSU and look, somebody else hired coach O.
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  Speaker 1: But you win a national championship, and your first year here,
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  Speaker 1: everything's going great. You win baseball national championships, women's basketball
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  Speaker 1: national championships when you have been so close before but
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  Speaker 1: you never could get over that hump, and you bring
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  Speaker 1: in Kim Mulki and you finally you get there. Gymnastics
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  Speaker 1: national championships, Soccer programs certainly on much better footing than
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  Speaker 1: it was before.
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  Speaker 2: Like we could go on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: But it just shows you, you know, how much football
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  Speaker 1: drives the bus for everything.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it kind of shows you, like everything's important, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not real important if football is not hitting
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  Speaker 4: on all cylinders. And that it goes to show you
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  Speaker 4: the importance that you know, this isn't like it isn't
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  Speaker 4: like this at every school, but certainly at LSU.
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  Speaker 2: If football is not healthy.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what the rest of the sports are
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  Speaker 4: really doing. Clearly were just coming off. We are four
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  Speaker 4: months removed from a national championship in baseball on a
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  Speaker 4: coach that Scot Woodward hired. Yeah, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: we're three losses into you know, three losses before Halloween
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  Speaker 4: and football, and the athletic director who made that hier
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  Speaker 4: that just won a national championship, he has been relieved
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  Speaker 4: of his duties. And I thought that, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: can speak for probably myself and maybe Jacob here, like
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  Speaker 4: we have a lot of respect for Scott Woodward and
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  Speaker 4: what he's done, and like Jake said, when he came
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  Speaker 4: over here, everybody was dying for him to come back
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  Speaker 4: home and come back here, and because he is known
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  Speaker 4: to be a really good athletic director. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of things that we don't
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  Speaker 4: know about this decision on why it happened and why
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  Speaker 4: it came about. I find it wild that it happened
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  Speaker 4: right now, just because.
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  Speaker 2: There's no president, no head coach, no head coach. Mitt
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  Speaker 2: the full time and.
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  Speaker 4: I and you know, I get that if he's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be making the you know, if you knew
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  Speaker 4: Scott wasn't gonna make the hire for the coach, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I get you got to get a guy put in
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  Speaker 4: place to start that process. I understand all that, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was a little shocking to see.
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  Speaker 2: Just how faust everything happened.
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  Speaker 4: Well, because you got you got to you got the
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  Speaker 4: head coach getting fired and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: all this crazy noise from the governor talking about it
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  Speaker 4: and you know, doing all the shows and having the
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  Speaker 4: press commerce and all of a sudden, right on the heels.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there was no other option after all that, Right,
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  Speaker 4: it's to happen, But just to see it happened kind
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  Speaker 4: of surreal. We're living in a surreal moment and Louisiana
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  Speaker 4: all eyes have, boy have they.
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  Speaker 1: It's not been the best light shined on Louisiana over
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  Speaker 1: the last week.
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  Speaker 2: Can tell you that. Yep, all because you lost a
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  Speaker 2: couple of football games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it just continues to what feels like a
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  Speaker 1: downward spiral right now. One piece of the Ross Dellinger
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  Speaker 1: article that I did find very interesting. He was talking
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  Speaker 1: about how the relationship between Governor Landry and Scott Wildward.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously it goes back, and it goes back
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  Speaker 1: to when the governor wanted to rehire Will Wade last
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  Speaker 1: year and Scott refused.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I saw, And there's probably some you know,
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  Speaker 4: deeper political things seated before all this, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: did read that. So reportedly the governor wanted Scott to
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  Speaker 4: hire Will Wade back. Of course, Scott was here for
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  Speaker 4: you know, five years at a I guess what, three
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  Speaker 4: three NCAA tournaments, one hundred and five and fifty one record,
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  Speaker 4: and went to McNeese down the road to kind of
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  Speaker 4: rehab his career after you know, getting fired here for
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  Speaker 4: doing something that's perfectly legal a year later. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I can yeah, sure, yeah, And but still to that point,
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  Speaker 4: it's like it's played that yeah, the political someone in
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  Speaker 4: the political office is trying to yeah yeah, basketball head coach.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty wild yeah, wild times it is.
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  Speaker 1: And just a lot of a lot of misinformation out
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  Speaker 1: there about who's whose agent is whose agent, and and
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  Speaker 1: that not being factual, and who actually signed you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jimbo's buy out that was you know, Ross York signed
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  Speaker 1: that extension. Actually I talked to Jimbo yesterday on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, no, I you know we did that deal
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  Speaker 1: or all signed it. And because he called me, he's
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  Speaker 1: like what's going on? Like how long you got coach?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's like, oh, I'm ready to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Jim is always ready to talk.
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  Speaker 4: Got what I did find that so this was I
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  Speaker 4: read this on the article from the Athletic. It's talking
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  Speaker 4: about Scott Woodward's contract and how you know a lot
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  Speaker 4: of this, a lot of the fuss is being made
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  Speaker 4: from the Governor's office because of the taxpayer dollars in
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  Speaker 4: the well. On Scott's contract, I think he has a
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  Speaker 4: north of six million dollar buyout and that's reportably supposed
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  Speaker 4: to be paid through the year twenty twenty nine. Now
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  Speaker 4: what I did kind of find interesting is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I know that I know that these contracts come with
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  Speaker 4: offset language, just like Brian Kelly's contract comes with offset language,
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  Speaker 4: which means like, if you get another job or a
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  Speaker 4: similar position, the money you make there offsets the buyout.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, if you get another head coaching job and
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  Speaker 4: it makes you know, ten million dollars a year whatever
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  Speaker 4: it is, five million dollars a year, that offsets that's
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  Speaker 4: something that LSU or whoever, whoever it is, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know who's being reported.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever it is doesn't have to pay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I also thought it was interesting that said they're,
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  Speaker 4: per contract, required to attempt to find another like Scott's
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  Speaker 4: required to attempt to find another athletic director job or
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  Speaker 4: a similar position to offset to initiate that offset pay
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  Speaker 4: out language, which is a fascinating sentence for me when
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  Speaker 4: I'm reading a contract, because right, what does requirements mean?
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  Speaker 4: Is there are the requirements laid out? Like is it
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  Speaker 4: something that you just have to like go through the
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  Speaker 4: motions and make.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of calls like when you have you know,
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  Speaker 1: your your son and your daughter whatever whatever, and you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you need to find a job if you're living in
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  Speaker 1: my house, and they like, dude, I like filled out
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  Speaker 1: seven indeed dot com applications.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean? It's like, Oh, did you really?
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  Speaker 2: Is it like that effort effort tuxedo to my job interview? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: now the tuxedos kind of seem kind of yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Is it that type of situation? Like what's
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  Speaker 4: what can you manipulate that sentence? If it's an interesting
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  Speaker 4: sentence to me just saying they're required, and it says
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  Speaker 4: it's similar language to Brian Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: He is, Look, I'm reading this. I don't like.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't fact check this. I don't have a copy
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  Speaker 4: of the contract was reported. It's the same type of language.
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  Speaker 4: It's in Brian Kelly's requirements to go find another job
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  Speaker 4: or attempt to find a similar job. Now if he
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  Speaker 4: you know, it becomes you know, because Starbucks becomes a barista, like,
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  Speaker 4: it's probably not the same type of offsets up a
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  Speaker 4: similar type of yeah, similar type of the baristas out there.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out hard working. I did it earlier than everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, it's true. Uh yeah. So there there's the
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  Speaker 2: numbers that we that we know.
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  Speaker 1: The over fifty million, the over six million, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot that you hear about what those numbers
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  Speaker 1: could actually be. And that look, that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: for LSU's sake, that's going to be very very important.
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  Speaker 1: And because you still got to hire a head coach,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to hire a new athletic director. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: you'll have a president here. Uh you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks week whatever time. That three pretty big positions
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  Speaker 1: of phil Yeah, like can we talk about alignment, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty misaligned right now. Yeah, with no person full
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  Speaker 1: time in any of the three positions. And that's why,
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: like when you talk about well, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Georgia that we used yesterday, Like President ad Head coach
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  Speaker 1: all have degrees from Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: And again you don't have to. I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you have to have LSU R
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  Speaker 1: Louisian ties. I'm just saying like their alignment like is
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  Speaker 1: through that they all three have some sort of a
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  Speaker 1: Georgia degree. Even Josh Brooks who has an undergrad from LSU,
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  Speaker 1: like he's got a Georgia degree as well. And they together, right,
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  Speaker 1: they work through every situation together, and they work together
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  Speaker 1: and they're friendly together. Like you have to have that.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be on the same page. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care where you're from. I don't care you know
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  Speaker 1: if you've got Louisiana ties. But that's that has to happen.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have that alignment. I mean, remember Brian
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  Speaker 1: Kelly talked about that alignment seventy three times in his
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  Speaker 1: opening press conference. That's when that became a buzzword. Well
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  Speaker 1: right now, you don't have it at all.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got an idea obviously, I who your
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  Speaker 1: president's going to be, and it's going to be announced
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  Speaker 1: here coming up. You got no idea on head coach.
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  Speaker 1: And with the athletic director. I think you have some idea,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to respect that job too, and you've
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  Speaker 1: got to open up all possibilities to who your athletic
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  Speaker 1: director is going to be. There is people with you
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  Speaker 1: know LSU ties, Like we mentioned that if you want
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  Speaker 1: to try to bring somebody who's in a really good spot, well,
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  Speaker 1: you typically pull on the heartstrings a little bit like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you want to come back home?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: So is that what they're going to do? Are you know,
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  Speaker 1: are they tired of the big game hunting that a
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: lot of people feel like, got LSU in trouble with
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  Speaker 1: the Brian Kelly contract. Do they want somebody that's under
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  Speaker 1: the radar, somebody that's maybe you know, a grinder behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes and does all the things that you have
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  Speaker 1: to do, and it's well respected.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe you don't know his name. It's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I like that one.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you do that though, And I and I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you, but you know how this works. You do that,
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  Speaker 1: you fire somebody that everybody knew in the ad world
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  Speaker 1: for somebody that not a lot know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can get fired either way, no questions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's going to be three months of
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  Speaker 1: we hire this guy, and not for me, but from
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  Speaker 1: the masses.
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  Speaker 4: I hear you, I'm with you, and I gave this
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  Speaker 4: morning yesterday. I mean, you're looking for a head Coach's
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  Speaker 4: pretty pretty darn simple. For me, it's like, what to
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  Speaker 4: not hire is the guy that's a really polished speaker.
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  Speaker 4: And to me, it's if you're a polish speaker, if
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  Speaker 4: you talk like a politician, if you can go work
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  Speaker 4: a room and a crowd, and you know, name me
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  Speaker 4: a head coach that was a Polish speaker. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if you can. Now, don't confuse the word polished
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  Speaker 4: with good. Yeah, being a good speaker.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Saban's not a Polish speaker. Nope, he's a very
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: good speaker. And when he talks you listen. But Jimba
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  Speaker 1: Fisher is not a polished speaker. But because they'll find
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: something that either makes them happy or mad, most times
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: mad when they're talking and they'll kind of go they'll
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: veer off a little bit, and they'll go off on
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  Speaker 1: that and then they'll come back right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So the people that people want right now,
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  Speaker 4: Elaine Kiffin, is he Polish speaker? No, No, you're got
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  Speaker 4: in Arizona State break key, nope. Bill Belichick, nope. The
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  Speaker 4: greatest of all times, those coaches. Nobody's a Polish speaker
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  Speaker 4: that leads to that that gives people an uneasy I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it's always given me an uneasy feeling. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that was a lot of the big question
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  Speaker 4: marks with Brian Kelly. He was such a Polish speaker,
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  Speaker 4: like everything. If you had a transcri transcript of every
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: press conference all the things that he says, you're like,
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  Speaker 4: that's a those are that's a really good statement.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those are if you read it and didn't listen
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  Speaker 1: to those are good words.
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  Speaker 4: But it's like it's like most politicians, it's like, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if I trust you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, right, just don't know about it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's fair. I mean, even just never know what's coming
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  Speaker 2: from the heart and what it's actually inside, right.
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  Speaker 1: Even when you and I like when somebody asked us
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  Speaker 1: to come speak to somebody, and you kind of know
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  Speaker 1: that you're when to do it, and you know for
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  Speaker 1: a week you're gonna go do it. It's like you
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  Speaker 1: got all these notes and you're trying to be perfect
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  Speaker 1: and you're basically trying to read it, you know, word
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  Speaker 1: for word. I don't ever feel like those are any good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel like those are any good. But like
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  Speaker 1: when he's like Yesterday's like hey, hey, come up, hees
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  Speaker 1: talk to the team, I typically feel like those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that hit home a little bit more because
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  Speaker 1: they're coming from your heart and they're coming from a
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  Speaker 1: place of what your habits are or whatever that might be.
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  Speaker 1: And so I mean, I hear, I understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: It's like almost somebody that you know galvanizes his team
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  Speaker 1: and does all those things, but it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: he's reading football one oh one to you coach speak right.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like he's got some passion behind his voice.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like he's got some pain in his voice
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit rights, trials and tribulations like whatever it
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  Speaker 1: might be, because like it means that much to him.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody that is a little bit annoyed that a
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  Speaker 4: camera's at his face because because he could be watching
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: some some good film at that point, right, yes, it
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: could be on he could be chewing.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Someone out at that point. Yeah. No, he's got to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: be here doing an interview.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Oh so I love to get to a ton to get.
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  Speaker 2: To uh F.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: One's going to try to get back to that Thursday
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: night football game again.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: We won't let him. Don't worry.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: We'll have us on Dolphins toa We ain't talking Dolphin
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• 17:22
  Speaker 2: We play Bama. Yeah, the connection, you see it, I
• 17:24
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• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, but my god, that was a bad football
• 17:28
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• 17:41
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• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Tigers turn Talkers. This is off the bench, all.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Right, welcome back in. It is OTB here. We are
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: live from rouse Is on Burbank and Lee. The store
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is starting to pick up already and it's only seven
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: twenty three. Multiple, multiple times I've seen and right now,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: if you're watching some on camera, somebody's hitting the breakfast bar.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Right now, these people can see the guy hitting the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: breakfast bar. Watch out, move skeleton. Thank you. We are
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: here on this football Friday, and it's been a week
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: in which we haven't talked a lot of actual football
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: games because of all the news surrounding LSU football, LSU athletics. Now,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: so at some point today we'll certainly get back into
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the actual football portion of the football.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Heke in on a football Did you just say, Yeah.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: We hadn't talked a lot of football this week. We're
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: still not going to do it right now.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I was just letting them know, like if they're like, hey,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: they got games this weekend, even though LSU doesn't break
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: up against typically we would have already done that and
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: broken down like all the SEC matchups. But with everything
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: going on around LSU Louisiana, just all the stuff, all
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the things, and it's going to be Look, it's going
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to be as intriguing as anything that we've seen, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: think in recent memory, because it's all happening at the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: same time with the president, with the athletic director, with
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the head coach. And you know, look, when you move
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: on from somebody like Scott Woodard, who's you know, got
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the trophies and the trophy case in multiple sports, and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: then you move on from Brian Kelly, who's got all
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the wins now didn't have the trophies, but had the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: wins and had a name. Certainly it's it's going to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: be under a microscope. I think we all know that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you got the governor of Louisiana involved, but when you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: move on from that, it doesn't mean you have to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: replicate what you just had as well. Like you, I
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: was just talking about maybe getting in under the radar,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: ad and I think you were intrigued maybe by that.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: I'm intrigued by that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: At the head coaching position, I look, I think the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: list of candidates is good. I think there's people on
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that list that can come in here and can be successful.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But also I'm like, hey, just because maybe you don't
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: know the resume of this head coach, Allah Kenney Dillingham
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: at Arizona State, that does not mean that they're not
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: fit for a job like this. It doesn't mean that
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: they couldn't come in and do a hell of a job.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: If you don't know who Brent Key is at Georgia Tech. Again,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: it's not Lane Kiffin, it's not Dan Lanning. But it
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he's got the number sevent team in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the country right now, Like, it doesn't mean that they
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: can't do a great job. LSU need somebody to come in.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That is, and I've said it all week, I'll continue
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to say it, that is going to desire this job
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: more than anything in his life. Right it's family one
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: A and then this, this job would have to be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: one B. Not like let's get the good lords and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: props he's up there? Is that not including family? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I mean kind of understand. I mean, shout out to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the good Lord. But you know what I mean, It's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: like he's so honored to be here and finds it
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: is such a privilege to be here and worked his
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: ass off his entire life to get this job. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: know it's seven twenty six Memphis. I'm sorry, but that's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: what he did, you know what I mean, And not
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: like oh well, you're lucky to have me, or have
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you seen my resume? Have you've seen what I've done?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: That's not what they need. They need somebody that it
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: could be. There's so many names that that person could be.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And I just think we we have to hear all
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: of the things out and not just say boom this guy,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: but link if it or bus. It's like no, no, no,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: no no. I'm not saying Lane wouldn't do a good job.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I like Lane. I think Lane's one of the best
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: football minds we have. I think he calls an offensive
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: game better than anybody we have.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: But I think right now, where you're at the time
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that you have when you made that, you really need
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to open your mind to maybe it's ten guys, and
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you need to find out what's in those ten guys' hearts.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: You need to find out where they're at.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: You need to find out their work ethic and why.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: They want this LSU job, like all those things, because
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I think you're coming off a complete opposite situation from
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: what you had.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: It needs to be a over the top, in depth
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: search for a head coach.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: That is.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: That you're looking at more than just career records. You're
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: looking at more than just the flash, the sizzle, whatever
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: it is. Any And I think the uncertainty from from
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: fans comes from all right, now, like you got to
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: fill so many positions. Who's who's going to make that decision?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Is this guy going to be qualified to do that?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Is this guy going to be like? All right, well,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm in a new position as the president
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: at LSU, and you know I'm gonna go with the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: guy that everybody would pick because that's safe, right, that's safe. Well,
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: anybody can come. I could be the president and I
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: could come and you know, call call Lane Kiffin's agent
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: and asked if he wants to be the coach. Like
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: anybody can do that, anybody. It takes a guy to
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: do it in depth. Like now, okay, if you do
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: an in debt search and you're looking at all those guys,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you're looking at big schools, medium schools, small schools, you're
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: looking at the guys that are, just like you said,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: have that passion, would do, would die.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: To come here and be the coach.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, young, old, whatever it is, it doesn't matter. If
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: you do that, and then you're like, yeah, all right,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Lane is it's actually that dude, that's it.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Like I've done it, and he meets all the requirements.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: He impressed me overall everybody else then that that's one thing.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: But anybody can just come in in day one say hey,
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Dan Lane and you want a big LSU coach, you.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Want to do that? Yeah?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Anybody, name your number exactly. Anybody can do that. Yeah,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: And that doesn't help LSU football. It's not to say
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that Dan Lenning's not awesome. He's incredible. I love him
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: because great pregame halftime speeches, always has his team ready
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: But that's easy. This should not be easy.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: This should be we turned over every stone to make
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: sure we had the right person. You've got time, it is,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like you because today's Halloween. I looked at
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: my watch up today it is October thirty. First, you've
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: got some time. Put that time to use. Get a president,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: figure out who the athletic director going to be. Hell,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: figure out who's going to hire this coach. Is it
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: going to be the board of supervisors? Is how much
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: is the governor going to be involved? Is a board
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of supervisors going to put together a committee? Figure that
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: out as well, which I'm sure they are right now.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Flynn and Hester put us on
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the committee and move forward together. Figure it out together,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: get a plan together, and do your job, do some work,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: figure out who they is.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: It's a great point that you make.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's easy to call Dan Lanning hey man, fourteen million
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: a years sound great?
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: All right, cool, I'm a new president law. If he
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: didn't work out, you can't blame me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Everybody. Everybody would have taken him. Yeah, that was the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: right pick. Right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Look, you're at a crossroads right now, and I think
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: there's a list of ten guys, and hell, we could
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: do it today. I can give you ten guys that
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you should talk to and you should have a conversation with.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And it can be in person conversation, a little more
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in debt if they seriously are the final three or
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: whatever it might be. But have those conversations. You've got time,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: get aligned and figure it out.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And yeah, when when we come back from break, I
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: want to ask you about your opinions on somebody that's
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: really popular right now. I see it all over my
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Twitter feed. A guy that we played with, yep, a
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: guy that is calling some x's and o's, a little
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: defense up there in the NFL YEP in the Great North.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I want to ask your opinion on that, all right.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I actually got a endorsement for that person at five
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: o'clock this morning. Yeah, we'll talk about it and we'll
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: continue to talk candidates for the LSU job.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Again, no game for LSU this weekend.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Probably more in our number three when we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: Locked in ULSU football twenty four to seven, you're listening
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to Off the Bench.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Mike Check. Hello, Hey, we're back.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Sorry, we're just doing talking ball during the break here, okay, lay.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Off talking of ball. Hey Halloween that it is, dear
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: happy Halloween. Y'all got some big plans.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, you're dang right, I do.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You're dang right. I've got a.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: District showdown between Madison Prep and the University Lab School
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Cubs seven o'clock over at Jeff Bossfield, a cup complex.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: That's what I've got tonight. Ma Prep, Madison Prep versus
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you High Let's go, Cubs, Let's go, Let's go.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: It's pink out game. What is okay?
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: What movie does Madison Prep remind you of from the nineties?
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Madison Prep? Yep, movie from the nineties. I don't know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Major Pain. Do you remember that movie pre okay? And
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: they had the Army Games where the My dad loved
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: that movie. Yeah, the R O. T. C. Like they
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: have they had those games. Yeah, what a good movie.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Great movie. A little kid's name was Tiger. Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: The way your brain works is fascinating.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You should be studied. Thank you.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I should be studied. You should be studied. God, what
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: a great movie. I've seen that a long time.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: That Tayler says Virginia Military Game, so he's obviously a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: fan as well.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Great movie, Madison Prep.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now this one's in in Baton Rouge. Yeah, all right,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Dune Street.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: So you're not playing the Virginia Nope, military not this week?
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, not this week? All right? So how do you
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: so it's a big, big game, like how do you
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: trick or treat? Uh?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So, So Katie's taking Memphis, Hudson and Knox uh to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: trick or treat earlier. All right, I'm going to set
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: up because like I need to see pregame warm ups,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like I need I need
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to have like a second ten second conversation with Jackson
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: right before the game, reminding him to set his jaw
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and get.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Ready to play. Yep. So like I like to see that.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So I think they're all gonna just go tricker treat early,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and then high tail it to Complex to watch the game,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: because you know, you get you know, Harlowe obviously Halloween
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: probably the first time that she's going to you know,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: be able to walk around and to hold deal by
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: yourself and so.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Gotta do it. So you got some good costumes. What's
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: I don't care about everybody else. What's what's Harlowe doing?
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: What's she dressed up as?
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Uh? I would you get a princess?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean we've been to do that before,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: you know, So that's what it's gonna be.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, it's like kids costumes, just just
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: like hey, what are you? And then like Hudson's going
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to be like a penguin. He's got this penguin costume.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And you ask Memphis Hey, what are you going to be?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: He's just like six things kind of put together that
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: he found in the costume drawer. Sure, going to go
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: like of your kiddos.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I bet hugs got a good one. Yeah. This year,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: it's he's doing.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: He's getting a little bit more aggressive. He just turned ten,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: so he's starting to get a little bit more aggressive.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: He's going to be the Grim Reaper. Okay.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: And he's got like a mask that I think has
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: like some like led lights on it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so it's a little bit.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: They've never really done anything scary or try, like, you know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: attempt to be kind of scary. So yeah, he's got
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: that going on. And I can't remember. You know, it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: gonna be some good ones. But that just showed you
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: the break. But should we do, you'll want to see
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: my costume right now?
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Sure, bud? Okay, this is okay. This is from Instagram
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: ads last year. Check this out.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, why do I not hear myself either?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Oh there we go.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: You hit buttons? See when you look like an idiot?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: You hit the button to turn my microphone off as well? Uh,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: like Muso said, don't go into a bank today with
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that up. Not be good not be a good situation
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: for you. And I also can't believe that that Instagram
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: ad got you on that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it got me. But it's also pretty high quality. Okay,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: obviously clearly y'all see that. Just it's the hood tipped
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be exciting, a little outdoor situation. Okay, everyone
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  Speaker 2: you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You know you don't want to come watch some great
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: high school football. This guy's not a real ball guy.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I forgot. We had some plans yesterday,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: but I'm not. I can't get into the Thursday night
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: high school football. Always forget about it, like last night. Yeah,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: you're asking us about played Episcopal. Yeah, and we we
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  Speaker 4: love to go to the games, but they've played so
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: many Thursday night games this year, Like I always forget
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: it's on Thursday. Who's ready for a high schoo football
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  Speaker 4: game on Thursday? I think it called Thursday Night Lights.
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  Speaker 4: It's fair about the name of the show or the movie.
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  Speaker 2: It's fair. Stop playing them on Thursdays. I do enjoy
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Thursday night games.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: For you high you can keep playing those because that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: means when I traveled to call LSU games, I don't
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: miss my son's game or have to drive myself to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: any of these locations, and so you can continue to
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: play Thursday games with some Fridays sprinkled in. No, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: didn't play Thursday games in high school now Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Hell, No, are you kidding?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It's so good of a product you can't do it
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: on Thursday nights.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: No, that's for j that's freshman jab Monday nights here.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: So I know in shrefor growing up, they did Thursday
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: night games because of stadium access. So there was a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: couple of stadiums that multiple schools use. Not everybody had
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: their own stadium like we had ours at evangel but
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: uh like Southwood and and Bird and Captain Shreeve and
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: fair Park and Huntington like they all shared multiple stadiums,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: so that was why they're.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Multiple teams, Like more than two teams share a stadium
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: in different places.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and just got to like try to find a
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: way to get everybody a game time.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Dunham and Episcopal they have their own stadium.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: That's I tried. I tried. You're right, You're right, I
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: get it on those occasions.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Great, we shared a stadium and in Tyler, Texas with
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: our crosstown rivals, but you get what.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: You and John Tyler's share stadium.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah still yeah, yeah, Rose Stadium, Yeah, Tyler, the Rose
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: Capital of the world, Tyler Rose, Rose Stadium, Campbell.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: We get it.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: But you know what, like before the season, you know
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  Speaker 4: that both of the people that ran the schedules.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Were like, Hey, I got an idea.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Y'all play at home, and when y'all play at home,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: we'll play away and then the next week we'll just switch.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well just figure that out. I got you, so
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: you can keep it on Fridays. I got you, I
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: got you.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Survived six two three says Evangel played at LCA last
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: night in Lafayette. So Angel did play on Thursday night.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Good, great, keep coming let's play you Wednesday. Fair Park
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: had its own stadium. Fairgrounds was our home stadium.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: It was for a little bit, but because fair Parks
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: right across the street from Independent Stadium. But they also
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: shared that with like Southwood and Huntington and all those
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: other schools, and then Bird and Captain Shreeve shared lee
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: hedges and so it's a lot of sharing going on.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: I go south there.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: The chat says Louisiana moved to a ton of games
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: on Thursday and Saturday due to major shortage of referees.
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  Speaker 1: This Saturday Saturday games that that doesn't feel I didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel right. I just ain't right.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: So people go get your go, get your Sieber stripes on,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and let's get some more refs out there. Yeah, people
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: don't want to be playing on Thursday nights except for Jacob.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just selfishly though, just so I can watch my
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: son play.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: God, what a bad guy am.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: We got to hire a president, an ad, a coach,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: and more high school refs.
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  Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven, you're
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• 40:53
  Speaker 1: It is OTV here live from Rouses on Burbank and Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, Matthew Clayton Flynn.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: You tease something, and before you see another squirrel, I'm
• 41:03
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  Speaker 4: There's a good there's a good question. Way to keep
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  Speaker 4: me on track because I was actually just about to
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  Speaker 4: talk about the movie Saul. Okay, So we talked about
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: we're talking about head coaching jobs. A lot of speculation,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: but a lot of name that I keep seeing popping
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: across my Twitter feed, the socials every time, and I
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: see anybody they always wanted to talk about and ask about.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Kelvin Shepard, of course, the defensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions,
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: played linebacker here. Lsu was a great Tiger, a really
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: good professional linebacker play with both of us.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Love Shep.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: He's amazing dad, a war an absolute war daddy. And
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: of course kind of popped on the scene as a coach.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: And was it hard knocks where he popped on the
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: scene because they had the like the not a hidden
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: camera because they know it's there, but the.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Camera in the linebacker meeting room.
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  Speaker 4: And him just the way he was communicating with his players,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: just tough, nasty and formative, knew how to talk to
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: his players. All the things you want from a coach
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: right there. And the energy that he's shown, like I
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  Speaker 4: think he had a really good Who were they playing
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: primetime game Chicago two week Yeah, Chicago. I think it
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: was a Thursday night game. Yeah, it was a prime
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: It was Thursday, Sunday or Monday night. I can't remember
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: which one it was, but the way they played defense
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: and shut him down, absolutely shut him down. And of
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: course Kevin Shepard was getting a lot of the credit
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: as he should be on the sidelines, so that kind
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: of just threw him again into the spotlight. And of
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: course that spotlight happened right before this Brian Kelly stuff.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: So I want to ask you, Kelvin Shepard, is he
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: going to be a realistic target for them to interview.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: I definitely think you talked to him, yeah, without question.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And I know he's, you know, only been a defense
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: coordinator for one year, and I know there's some pushback
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: on that. Look Shep, and he said it yesterday in
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: a press conference, like he he loves lsh as much
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: as anything.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: He's like you, if you cut me open, I'm.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: A liger, half lion, half tiger, right, And yeah, you
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: have that conversation. I think so, because look, what you
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: just did didn't work, and if you're looking to think
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: outside the box, go a different direction. I think Shep
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: is somebody obviously that you have to have that conversation with.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: And I got this message at five oh four this morning.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Somebody that's in the building in Detroit. I think you
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: would do a really good job as a head coach
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: if he called the defense and had you know, some
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: coordinators around him on offense. He's done a really nice
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: job of growing and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the players. He is best in front of a room,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: great command, and he has the ability to get into
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: players you know what, and not have them.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Pout or fold.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you saw that on hard knocks as well.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: So he's saying, like you know, when he's saying coordinators
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and explorer, like there's only one. I think that person
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: is saying, you go get a bad as offensive coordinator
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: and get analysts on his staff that have also been
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinators. Let shep call the defense, which is not crazy.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I mean Clark Lee did to Vanderbilt last year.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: And another like when you went with the new head
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: coach like that as well, like something that hadn't done
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: it and that also wants to kind of call plays.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: You also have a coordinator that it doesn't even really
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: get the title. But we've talked about it early in
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: the season with Nick Underhill talking about killing Moore, like
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: is there somebody there that's like the game management coordinator?
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Because it's not always like up to coaches on you know,
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: it's ultimately it's up to them, but it's not always
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: the head coach that's the side and when to call
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: a time out, when to throw a challenge flag, when
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: to like the time the clock management. Sometimes it is
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: sometimes a coach wants all that on him, but other
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: teams it's there's a guy that all his job is
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: to do is work out every single clock scenario you
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: can think of throughout the week and come up with
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: every single situation what we're gonna do.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Of course gets you approval from the head.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Coach and all that stuff, but it's like, all right, coach,
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: you got to call time out, you got a clock,
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: you gotta do this, or got to do that. So
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: I think in a situation like that, if if what
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: he's saying, a Kevine became a head coach and wanted
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: to call plays first time being a head coach, like
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: all those things matter, your good support staff around you
• 45:01
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• 45:05
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