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Jay Johnson Recaps LSU’s 2025 Season, Jersey Ad Patches Coming? · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
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  Speaker 3: Walk back in, Oh tb Alburt number two. I got
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  Speaker 3: a feeling. I know how this conversation is going to go.
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  Speaker 4: But it was in the news yesterday that apparently LSU
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  Speaker 4: and LU Football are toying with the idea of adding
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  Speaker 4: a logo to their jersey, and it would be a
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  Speaker 4: company logo like you see in the NBA, like you
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  Speaker 4: see in professional soccer.
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  Speaker 3: Now soccer obviously is different.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they've pay millions upon millions to have basically
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  Speaker 4: their logo is the team logo on the jersey. You
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  Speaker 4: got a small badge. This would be I'm sure a
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  Speaker 4: jersey patch. It'd be somewhere on the shoulder. It would
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  Speaker 4: be small, probably be the same size as the Nike
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  Speaker 4: check on the jersey. And the report said it would
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  Speaker 4: be to help LSU raise money to pay their athletes.
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  Speaker 4: Because we all know what the settlement, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a little bit over twenty million dollars per year
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  Speaker 4: for the athletic department. How do we feel about the
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  Speaker 4: potential of LSU football throwing a company's logo on their
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  Speaker 4: historic jerseys.
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  Speaker 2: You better watch out because old man take incoming. So
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  Speaker 2: I know, I feel like I'm driving really slow. It
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  Speaker 2: is coming. Let me start with this. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we're all for staying ahead of the curve when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to nil, making sure that we secure good players. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: in every other sport, not every other sport, but a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other sports do it? Jacob skewed because he
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  Speaker 2: watches European sports a lot, they certainly do it.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Nascar cars have logos and sponsors all over that. Golf, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's golf. Yes, but they have to wear a
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  Speaker 2: shirt and a hat.
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  Speaker 3: It's a spot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a it's different. It's not like a
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  Speaker 2: I believe it's different.
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  Speaker 3: The bag's got seventy two logos on it.
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  Speaker 2: The bag, Okay, the bag? Maybe? Yeah? All right?
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  Speaker 4: Every sport so except football Baseball big advertisements now Major
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  Speaker 4: League Baseball on their sleeves.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't realize that I don't watch Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 4: But isn't the aschos on of it is anymore a
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  Speaker 4: landre like oxy clean, Like wasn't it for a while?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mattress bag now is it really? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Probably yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Basically football is different to me because like the NFL's
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  Speaker 4: practice jerseys even that's what I was gonna say, was
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  Speaker 4: our practice jerseys in in Green Bay, and that gets
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  Speaker 4: as much viewership eyeballs on it, especially like training camp times,
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  Speaker 4: Like every picture you get is what it's like.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be all for that Bellen Healthcare, which is like
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  Speaker 2: the big healthcare.
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  Speaker 3: Provider up in We were Buick for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: Just classic Classic should have been Toyota.
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  Speaker 3: Baiting that he had a Buick deal.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, coach, we're gonna go ahead and put these Buick
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  Speaker 2: logos on all of our jerseys. They're giving me a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good deal in a car. Okay, So, uh, I
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  Speaker 2: guess first opinion is I hate it. I hate the
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  Speaker 2: thought of it. Uh. Our classic jersey, we're just looking
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  Speaker 2: at nuts here, just being a baller. Our classic jersey
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  Speaker 2: has the LSU, which is nice, small not it's classy.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't wouldn't have that LSU when we play so.
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  Speaker 2: The logo whatever it is, whatever it ends up being,
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  Speaker 2: is going to be bigger than the LSU on the jersey.
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  Speaker 2: The font's going to be bigger. So you're going to
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  Speaker 2: read that, you know, more than you're going to read
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  Speaker 2: the lsue. I just hate that it has got to
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  Speaker 2: this point now. I'm sure after a couple of years
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  Speaker 2: of doing it, if it passes a couple years doing
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  Speaker 2: we wanted the.
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  Speaker 3: N Cuba, that is a caveat to the n Cuba
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  Speaker 3: has to approve this first.
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  Speaker 2: They have power in something.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of Wow, it's first time I've heard them.
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  Speaker 2: But like if they deny it, could we do it anyway? Then,
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  Speaker 2: just sue at the stay low probably yeah, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: we can do it. So yeah, I think it's Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't like it at all. Uh one
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  Speaker 2: of those things if it happened a couple of years later,
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't really notice it, but like this is it's
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  Speaker 2: I think college football fans are getting so much changed
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  Speaker 2: so fast, Like it changed from amateur to professional. Know
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  Speaker 2: now it's like we got revenue sharing like it was
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  Speaker 2: the wild Wild West. It's still kind of is, but
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  Speaker 2: at least there's like some sort of rules coming into
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  Speaker 2: play now with the REV share and like in a
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  Speaker 2: maximum amount of expenditures that you can use. And I
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  Speaker 2: know people are you know, tightening their belts on budgets
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  Speaker 2: on different aspects of athletics so they can afford to
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  Speaker 2: go out and pay players and attract good But there's
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  Speaker 2: other ways to do it. You know, they do have
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  Speaker 2: to go spend more on players and to allow you know,
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  Speaker 2: the people, the higher ups to still make their same
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  Speaker 2: amount of money, I guess. But yeah, I think the
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  Speaker 2: practice jersey would have been, let's just dip our toe
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  Speaker 2: in it a little bit instead of putting it on
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  Speaker 2: our classic uniforms, our classic college football. So like college
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  Speaker 2: fans were dealing with so much change, let's not slap
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  Speaker 2: us in the face this.
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  Speaker 3: Fast A Landra Tata, how do we feel about this?
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  Speaker 2: I hate it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, on football Saturdays, I'm not watching a NASCAR race,
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  Speaker 6: I'm watching a football team. So nope, I'm out all right.
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  Speaker 6: And I know what you're saying, Well, that gives more
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  Speaker 6: money to LSU. I don't get any money out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care, Laudre.
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  Speaker 7: I'm somewhere in the middle. I don't like it from
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  Speaker 7: like a just general standpoint. It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 7: with like football, Like, I'm just kind of sick of
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  Speaker 7: ads being in my face twenty four to seven, Like
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  Speaker 7: someone is always trying to sell you something. Your phone
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  Speaker 7: listens to what you're saying because it's trying to push
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  Speaker 7: stuff to get you to buy it. Like I'm just
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  Speaker 7: sick of that kind of stuff. But I do get
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  Speaker 7: raising money for a better program or whatever, but like
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  Speaker 7: I'm just so sick of all the consumerism stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's ways to raise money.
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  Speaker 6: I mean games are already four hours because of all
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  Speaker 6: the commercials. To her point, like ads are thrown in
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  Speaker 6: our face constantly.
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  Speaker 2: Good have like drink drink my High.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, drink my High.
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  Speaker 2: I put that okay, I was about saying you're good
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  Speaker 2: with my High. Like, let's replace the numbers with just
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  Speaker 2: the behigh logo. What about the just the LSU logo?
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  Speaker 2: Take that off on the helmet, take the right side
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  Speaker 2: off smart.
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  Speaker 4: So our boy Devin Snow aka hold the Mayo put
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  Speaker 4: out some odds to who the company would be to
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  Speaker 4: be on LSU's jersey.
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  Speaker 7: Gordon has the best ones.
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  Speaker 4: Second best, oh really second pains canes. So he goes
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  Speaker 4: raising Canes minus two fifty Gordon McKernon minus one point
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  Speaker 4: fifteen walk Ons plus one hundred, Labar's plus two hundred,
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  Speaker 4: Fred's plus two fifty Community Coffee plus four hundred, Mike
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  Speaker 4: Anderson's plus five hundred, Benny's car Wash plus six hundred
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  Speaker 4: Zippies plus eight hundred and the long shot Hungry Howie's
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  Speaker 4: plus twelve hundred Benny's.
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  Speaker 2: Is your best odds there? For sure. They got they
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  Speaker 2: got some.
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  Speaker 4: Think if you're like, if you're a bet and you
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  Speaker 4: want to get some actual juice, I think Community Coffee
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  Speaker 4: plus four hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Creut Coffee got that money.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Like that's what I was thinking. That is like
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  Speaker 7: some of those places don't really advertise, like Fred's doesn't advertise.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really see them exactly. Yeah, that's what Freds
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  Speaker 2: would be like the coolest one that I think. There's
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  Speaker 2: probably another company that's probably like minus.
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  Speaker 7: Like some industrial steel company or something.
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  Speaker 2: And familiar. I'm very familiar with their you know, their
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  Speaker 2: with their game, their their game, but their company, their
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  Speaker 2: relationship with you know, l SU. It's it would be power.
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  Speaker 3: That's yeah, we can't stand for that.
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  Speaker 2: We can't say no, we got to get my high.
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  Speaker 3: We can't stand for that. That can't happen.
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  Speaker 4: Howard, AD's better than Gatorade because gators in the title
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  Speaker 4: of Gatorade.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah yeah, but you know, because you're better than
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't really meant you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know. Whyt
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  Speaker 3: you just do my high on New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I'm sure that I would pass compliance.
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  Speaker 2: I like buying the helmet, Yeah, just take the whole helmet.
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  Speaker 4: If fate they start putting decals on helmets, well I
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  Speaker 4: my stand is I'm okay with it for practice. If
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  Speaker 4: you want to do it during practice again, you go back.
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  Speaker 4: And we've been doing this in the NFL for thirteen
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  Speaker 4: seasons now, so this has been a thing. NFL jerseys
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  Speaker 4: don't have logos. The NBA does, MLB does MLS does,
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  Speaker 4: every NHL does not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe so.
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  Speaker 4: Like, but you've got a lot of the major sports
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  Speaker 4: that that have done this, and so unfortunately, I think
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  Speaker 4: it is inevitable that at some point it is going
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  Speaker 4: to happen. Now NFL maybe it doesn't because NFL is
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  Speaker 4: the biggest sport that we have.
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  Speaker 2: They protect the shield too pretty hard, right, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be the first either. No, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: be the first that does this.
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  Speaker 6: One about practice, Like out of Colorado did it last
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  Speaker 6: year a couple of teams that it was like three
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  Speaker 6: or four they did like the players social media to
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  Speaker 6: like pump them up in practice, but like you're wearing
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  Speaker 6: that during a game.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's why I started started this off by saying,
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  Speaker 2: like we always know that we want to be on
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  Speaker 2: the front line the cutting edge of like staying ahead
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  Speaker 2: in this in ever changing in il world and paying
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  Speaker 2: players world like this one is so such a sensitive
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  Speaker 2: topic because you're dealing with something that's so traditional and
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  Speaker 2: like we like we don't do a lot of crazy
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  Speaker 2: uniforms because the traditionalism that is the LSU standard uniform.
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  Speaker 2: We love it. It's beloved. So my hope is just
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  Speaker 2: like you, I'm absolutely practice jerseys all day. Do it.
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  Speaker 2: You want to put shirts on, you want to put
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  Speaker 2: patches on everything. The players where in a press conference
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  Speaker 2: after the a you know what, put them on. The
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  Speaker 2: coaches put it on Brian Kelly. Yah. They already saw
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  Speaker 2: that he gets shown as much as you know a
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  Speaker 2: player does on the sideline where you can actually zoom
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  Speaker 2: in and see a patch, right, So Brian Kelly gets
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  Speaker 2: shown like and it benefits the coach to have more
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  Speaker 2: money to pay for players. If that's what it's really for,
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  Speaker 2: put it on them, but don't bastardize the college traditional uniform.
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  Speaker 4: Someone was asking, what if you put a small sticker
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  Speaker 4: on the back of your helmet.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is with LSU.
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  Speaker 4: One of the iconic things about the LSU helmet is
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  Speaker 4: you have the State of Louisiana flag and the American flag.
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  Speaker 3: On the back too.
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  Speaker 4: So even if you put it on the back of
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  Speaker 4: the helmet, then you're taking away from, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 4: the state flag and the American flag, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's always real estate back there too, like
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  Speaker 2: if something happens in your program that there's always space
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  Speaker 2: for a sticker for like a remembrance or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: To me, the back of the helmet's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: special special real estate there. Anyway, it's the world we
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  Speaker 2: live in.
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  Speaker 4: I wish they would just put the American flag patch
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  Speaker 4: like they had against was it on? Yeah, Well it's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit better than that one from Burlington.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that one looks like it's been through a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Old Glory went through a lot of meth. Francis Scott
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  Speaker 2: Key was sitting there in his prison cell, looking at
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  Speaker 2: his prison window, the bombs bursting in the air. It's
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  Speaker 2: old glory flying, tattered, beating up. Never even thought the
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  Speaker 2: college football teams two hundred and fifty years later would
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  Speaker 2: be thinking about putting Dillard's logo on their jersey.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like dealers just caught a stray.
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  Speaker 2: Love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 6: Just don't be the Lakers, like the Lakers are, like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, what make our jersey look better?
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  Speaker 2: Wish dot com.
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  Speaker 3: I just wish dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a It's kind of like Tu.
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  Speaker 7: Right, It's like it's like the t is like tu
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  Speaker 7: wish dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Like is the original te.
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  Speaker 4: Where you can get stuff for dirt cheap and it's
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  Speaker 4: dirt cheap made when you get it.
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  Speaker 2: I've never I have, and I just.
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  Speaker 2: I just never cared enough to go. Well. China.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, American really really cheap, and it's pretty American to
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  Speaker 7: get cheap stuff from China.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, I'm in to her point.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Flinn looking like Sea Bass from Dumb and Dumber. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: you guys have Sea Bass.
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  Speaker 3: Not bad good see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you because I look big, tough, strong, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm gonna whip your ass.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll step away when we I'm back.
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  Speaker 3: It's a nice pull. Well, I mean, speaking of kid.
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  Speaker 2: Rock, Well, hold on where you get to that? You
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  Speaker 2: know every day every year?
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  Speaker 2: years ago. Our table was right next to kid Rock. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're sitting there, we're kind of hanging out
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  Speaker 2: with him a little bit throughout the day and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, comes the Cole Pops. He comes over and
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  Speaker 2: he comes out to me. It's like, hey, look over there,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, where he said these nuts? I don't
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  Speaker 7: So good story, kid Rock best concert I've ever been
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  Speaker 7: to kid Rock.
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  Speaker 2: So I I don't know if it's the best I've
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  Speaker 2: ever been to. But he played. He played at our
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  Speaker 2: victory super Bowl victory party at the Marriotte Hotel in Dallas, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just like the packer, like our player
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  Speaker 2: I mean you're probably talking three hundred people. The dude
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  Speaker 2: rocked his face off. Yeah, worked his ass off.
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  Speaker 7: top five concerts.
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  Speaker 2: it was? So good?
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  Speaker 7: It was electric.
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  Speaker 4: so Virginity Mario and I had to play it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: Tell you it was on a random three million views
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  Speaker 7: right now, dude, I'm in that video for a total
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  Speaker 7: of two seconds.
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  Speaker 6: Just when we panned to I'm in a wedding a
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: year and a half ago and we're lining up doing
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: a little sendof thing at the end of the wedding. Well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: like you line up on either side. Some girls sent
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: a cross from me go, hey, I know you. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: was like me, she was, yeah, the guy in that
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Sovereignty video. I was like, I don't even think I
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: said anything in that video.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Wait, what is I don't know the video?
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, get that ready.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: But first, but first, speaking of kid Rock, he starred
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in one of the greatest films of our lifetime, They
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: the World Joe Dirt and here is because tomorrow is
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: the fourth of July, a scene that everybody needs to see.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: As my head cleared, I realized I needed a different approach.
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: Then I got a brainstorm, hired Indian tracker to help me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: Man that's a great idea. They can find anything. It's
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: like in the movies. So I headed for a reservation.
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: You want me to put my ear to the ground,
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: Listen for hoof beats, check for footprints.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Look for broken twist.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: But this is the modern age.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: That stuff doesn't work anymore, which is why I have
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: to open this fireworks.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Then I wasn't getting buy them when tracking wagers come on,
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: you're supposed to be good at tracking stuff. Man, I
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: gotta find my parents and I've got to figure out
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: a way to sell more fireworks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I'm going broke with this spencer.
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: Also, well, I see you got them snakes and sparklers.
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: But there's good stuff, man.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Good stuff.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: This is the good stuff.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Snakes and sparklers.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: Are you nuts, dude? You need stuff to explode?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Go boom?
• 19:34
  Speaker 9: Why is that good?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Mostreet good? A lot of sunset good?
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Why Boom's good?
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Man?
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: Firecrackers you stick them in mailboxes, you drop me toilets,
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: you shove them up bullfrogs.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Ass, I would never do.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: That because I'm gonna be a veterinarian.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Well there you go. Someone shoves THEMTI up of bullfrogs,
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: but blows him to piece. He comes back to you
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: to fix it. You win twice.
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: Brother, it's good bitz.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: black cats, no roman candles or screaming mimis. No, Oh,
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: come on, man, you don't got no lady fingers, buzz butterles,
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: dies or craft flappers.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen splitters,
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: whisker biscuits, honkey riders, hooskerdoos hoosker, don'ts cherry bombs, nipsy
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: dazers with it without the scooter stick or one single
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: whistling kiddy chaser.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones. I like.
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: What that might be wrong, it's not what you like.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: It's the consumer spleen splitters.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: But he's doing that scene, like is he just like randomly?
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Like whatever's there's no way you can remember all of that.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: There's no way that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Took a couple of takes. He was too too good.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's way too good and.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Chaser.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: God, my gosh, that was good.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I guess said. We used to watch that in high school.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: My junior year, we would watch it. I mean, the
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: lineman would get together. We'd go to Ryan's Steakhouse. Oh heck, yeah,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: because Thursday was all you can eat steak, so we
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: go there, fill up.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Great cut of meat.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that was absolutely the finest end of the cirlin.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And then we would go to somebody's house and we'd
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: watch Joe Dirt. That was our tradition every Thursday, every
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Thursday for the Tyler Lee Red Raiders. Every Thursday, every Thursday.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: All right, how else do you think we made an
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: incredible run to the second round of the playoffs?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Y'all only made it to the I can't round of
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: the playoffs junior year, that's it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, who'd y'all lose to mesquite Le'skeete Skeeters.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Wait, you lost to a team with the mascot the Mosquitoes.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Uh no, the Skeeters of Skeeters. Yeah, that's short for
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Mosquito mosquit Skeeters. They had a I think one of
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the top defensive tackles in the whole country went to
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: ut I can't remember his.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Name, I must have been dynamic if you can't remember, they.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Put him that running back too. I don't remember anybody's name.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So at that time, my high school had never been
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: past the second round.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: This is my junior year, and you you think that
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: that school could come over to Shreveport evangel and get
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: a victory.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Uh, my senior year, we could have how far y'all go?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Then we gotta be in the semifinals.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's better.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: We should have won obviously. Would you lose to then Midland?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: What's your Midland?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Midland High? They hadn't been playoff since nineteen fifty eight.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Maybeat us? Not Midland, Lee, not the second not.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Cedric Benson went to Midland.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Cedric Benson went to Midlandyuh.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: You lost to a school that had been to the
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: playoffs since Elvis dropped his first album.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they got beaten by Converse Judson in
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: the state championship Taylor. Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Did you at least get to go play like in
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Cowboys Stadium in the semis?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we played there after the first round. We
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: every year you play your first round at something like
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: the better team's home field, or maybe it was a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: coin flip. But second round on, you were always playing
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: at Texas Stadium. Oh okay, all right, that's at least
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that's cool. Nineteen fifty eight stats is probably something you
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: should forget. Don't tell people that again. I don't know
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: if anybody knows this, but that year LS won its
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: first national title? Did they? Oh?
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I thought I was so confused.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I thought you were talking about I got it wrong.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Your face.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about two thousand and three,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: your senior. I'm like, no, they didn't like you were
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you were there. I was so confused. All right, somebody
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: that's never confused. He's always got a plan.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: The head baseball coach for the national champion LSU Tigers,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Jay Johnson, joins us when we come back here on
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: OTB off the bench, Hey, Matt, tell the people about
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: their sekies. Why I remind Jay that he's coming on
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: the show.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, you gotta send it a little reminder. All right.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Fourth of July America's birthday. We better way to celebrate
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: it than with a Mexican longer. Go stock up today.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: You're gonna everybody's gonna go to their Fourth of July. Well,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: you're gonna get together with family you're gonna get together
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: with friends. There's no nothing better to do than to
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: go for days. Go to your wherever it is, your
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: grocery store, your liquor store, the convenience store, they everywhere,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: we know it. They got it, cool it down, get
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: yourself some ice cold lines, cut them up into slices.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: There's nothing nothing better. Golden Mexican logger. And then they got
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the amber. Whatever your choice is, go for dose. I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: gonna delete some beers tomorrow, and I hope you delete
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: some beers.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: I've already got him in the fridge. They will already
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: be accounted for. You should already stock up as well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: be prepared for a party tomorrow, and go for dose.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Time ago. I can still remember how that music used
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to make me smile.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in OTB one oh four to
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: five ESPN, Betton Rouge and very excited for our next conversation.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Someone we caught up with every single week during the
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: baseball season, and now we get to talk to him
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: as a two time I'M national champion. It is the
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: head baseball coach for the LSU Fighting Tigers. Jay Johnson, coach,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Thanks for hopping on with us. I
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: know it has been a whirlwin for you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Been a little busy, but the best kind of busy.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: So how you guys doing.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: We are doing great.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: And you had look you have been because you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: we were talking about it. After a national championship. You
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: see a lot of people Okay, let me go ahead,
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: take a rest, take a load off, let me you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: reflect on what just happened. But that is not the
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: approach of Jay Johnson.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: It never has been.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, you have been working towards next year's team already.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: It feels like coach since the moment that the final
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: out was recorded.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely took a Sunday night to celebrate and
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: be with be with this team. It's just a crazy
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: dynamic that it's not avoidable. It's not anybody's fault. It's
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: just the way things all kind of matriculated and transpired,
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: particularly for baseball and the baseball schedule. It is what
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: it is, and you know that going in, you know
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: it was actually, when we beat Arkansas to not have
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: to play again on Thursday, I felt like that almost
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: saved us a little bit. It just gave us an
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: extra day not just to get ready for Coastal, which
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: was huge to have that extra day to prepare, but
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: to try to just hold serve in recruiting while we
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: were playing. And so that was good and set the
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: table for some things we're able to do when we won.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: And yeah, the celebration was awesome. Definitely taking pockets at time,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: like when I'm on a plane or something to watch
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: highlights of the series. But other than that, you gotta go.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: We got some catching up to do. So it's been
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: pretty busy.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and really, like you said, there's nothing you can
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: really do. It's not that you don't want to enjoy
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: and celebrate with the team, it's because of the calendar.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: And with the calendar, as we talked about the last
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: time we had you on, like the portal was open
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: and there was players that were making decisions. There was
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: you know, players that had already been in the portal,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: out of the portal and gotten to their new school
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: and you're still playing baseball, and so like during that
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: entire process, coach, how do you make sure that you
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: your staff, everybody you're focused on the main thing, which
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: is to go win a national championship, but also knowing
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: that you probably have to start some of these conversations
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: just to make sure that when it does end, you
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: actually have an opportunity to get whichever players that you're
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: trying to get to LSU.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tough balance. I think we did a
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: good job prior to Omaha. We picked up a couple
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: veteran hitters that kind of have a dynamic that we
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: need for next year's team, so that that was helpful.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Then the Omaha thing, you'd really try to sell, like
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: turn on the TV man like this is like this
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: is this is what this is about, and you know
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: you want to be a part of that and just
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: hang tight for another week or so. And some guys
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: did and some guys didn't. Then that's okay, And yeah,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: I mean I wouldn't trade Omaha for the world, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: I'm proud of our team. I think one of the
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: positives maybe this time around is we have a few
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: more guys that contributed to that that we'll be returning
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: than the last time, and so it's not quite as
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: much of an overhaul, if you will, Like I think
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: in twenty three, if I'm not mistaken, like maybe two
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: of the nine starters were coming back, and and this
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: year it might be might be four, might be five,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: but it might only be three. But the young pitching
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: we have in the program with Case Evans, William Schmidt, Maverick,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Rizzy Cooper Williams, potentially a couple of guys coming back,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: you know, hopefully Zach Kallen Jaden new like, there's there's
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: a really good foundation of a really good pitching staff there.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: And just as our team proved this year, the game
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: is about pitching. So we'll find the right guys and
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: keep keep moving to the finish line hero the next
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Coach, I just want to start by telling you thank
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: you for a couple of things. One, you've made my
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: entire family like huge baseball fans. We all own proud
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Runners of LSU baseball jerseys. Now we watched and had
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: such a good time throughout the entire run as a family.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: But then at the celebration, somehow my little boy snuck
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: onto the field and was getting autographs after the celebration,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and you were very kind to him. You spent time
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: and said hi to him, and you signed his ball
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: and he's got a little glass case. I want to
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: start by saying thank you for that, thank you for
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: being kind to him. And I wanted to say, in
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: ten years from now, when somebody asks you reflect back
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: on the twenty twenty five LSU baseball team, how are
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: you going to how would you describe this team in
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the season as a whole.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think two things come to mind. First off,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: our motto for the season was tough and together, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: that was from day one of August. And I kind
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: of came up with that of you know where, I
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: felt like we needed to elevate the program and the
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: team from last year, and that's what they were I
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: mean through this entire deal. But the hallmark of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: team was consistency. And there was just so many points
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: along the way where you pointed to it and go like, man,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: this is pretty good. Like I don't know if we're
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: the most talented team, even though we had exceptional talent,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: especially on the mound, but we're doing this the right way.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: These guys are doing this the right way. They're responded
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: to success. Well, they responded a failure. Well, they're motivated.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: There was very few lapses in anything concentration, intent, and
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: that's why I'm just I'm really proud. There's a quote
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: from John Wooden that great teams play near their capability often,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: and I really believe that's what this team did. And
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: you know, we're not just the national champions. I feel
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: like we played the best of anybody in the country
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty five.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Because you know, with LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: here on OTB coach, one of the things you and
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I often talk about is, Okay, you have this high
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: school recruiting class and you've put in so many hours,
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: so many days, weeks and months and really years into
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: trying to get this player on campus. Outside of actually
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: winning a national championship, is it the best feeling when
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: you get them through the MLB Draft or when they
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: call you and say, hey, coach, I know you probably
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: thought I was going to enter the draft. I'm actually
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: taking my name out all that hard work that you
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: and the staff did, I'm going to come play baseball
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a pretty good one, because the first thing
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: you mentioned doesn't happen without decisions. Like that, Like we're
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: not the national champions without Case and Evans, Derek Curiel,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: William Schmidt, those guys that just did it last year
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: or Jared Jones returning, you know from last year's draft.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: And you know, we just had one with with Omar
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: cerna freshman catcher who's a great player. Which man, you
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: put cater Embadie and him together. Not only are they
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: both great catchers, but they both have power and play
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: first base, DH maybe place third. That that's a really
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: big lift because there's a lot of questions right now
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: with how things are gonna shake out, Like we're gonna
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: wear it on the chin a little bit with our
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: high school recruiting class. There's just there's too much money
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: in this draft. Like I don't know if MLB got
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: tired of players choosing to go to college R L,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: s U or what, But yeah, getting Omar through, you know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: to pair with Cad was a big deal and feel
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: great about that. And it's like, you know, thinking back
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: on it, like when you know Cason told me he's coming,
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: like that, that's how these championships and those things happen.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: And same with same with a lot of these guys.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: So yeah, It is a good feeling because you can't
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: get to that championship unless decisions like that are made.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: And and hopefully we'll be fortunate, you know, with with
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: a few of them, and we're trying to prepare for
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: all scenarios. But yeah, I don't know what maybe League
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Baseball did, but they're pumping a lot of money into
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: this this amateur draft this year.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and to kind of piggyback on that too, I mean,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: laying in a big recruit or getting someone to stay.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: It's all validation, right, It's all validation of hard work
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: that jump put into it, the scouting reports, and then
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: what you put on the field, just like you said,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: And another validation is when a recruit like that signs
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: with you, comes and has a lot of success. And
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: to that point, Derek Curie I named National Freshman of
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: the Year. What did this freshman class and specifically Derek
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: really mean to this team all year?
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really happy for him. He's had an outstanding
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: year and playing at LSU, you get a lot of attention,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: and so he's gotten a lot of attention, but he's
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: deserved it. And then you know, kind of maybe narrowly
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: missed out on some of these awards, but that's the
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: one that counts because those the guys that know the
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: best and are most in tune with college baseball. So
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: to be the d one baseball dot com National Freshman
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: of the Year, that's the one that counts in my opinion,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: and very proud of him for that. Just love how
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: he goes about baseball, like he builds his life around baseball,
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: and I thought that was well to serve. Now. I
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: liked your question too about this group. I think on
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: the twenty seven man roster in Omaha we had seven freshmen,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: which was by far the most and very thankful for
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: that group because you know, we're going to really lean
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: into them and lean on to them next year and
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: then the year after that and expect some of those
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: guys to get better. And they a lot of them
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: contributed to a national championship team. I mean, like I said,
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: I mean Evan's freshman All American now pitched fifty plus
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: high leverage innings. William Schmidt was seven and zero. Maverick
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Rizzy led our team in appearances. John Pearson kind of
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: became the right handed hitter we went to off the bench.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Derek obviously Kate Aaron Beattie. You know, we won several
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: SEC games with him behind the plate, and I feel
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  Speaker 5: like he's poised and ready to take that deal over.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: So really, uh, really excited, just really excited about that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: And you know we'll get another good class of probably
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: less of them to be honest with you, you know,
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: just the way that it is, but that's okay, And
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: try to blend it in with the you know, return
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: a few guys that maybe are on the cusp of
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the draft or returning from our team, and then a
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: few guys in the portal and strap it on and
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: do it again and excited for that challenge.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: So coach, you mentioned William Schmidt there and has me wondering,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: like you look at what Kate Anderson went from his
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: first year to his second year on campus, right, I
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: mean first year obviously he did some good things, but
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: the second year he explodes one of the best you know.
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  Speaker 3: Pitchers out there.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Like so for William Schmidt with like when you see
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: the town you mentioned, he's seven to zero, right, but
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: he's gonna have a bigger role on this team. Do
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: you go about it in the same way as far
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: as developing the player, like Hey, here's what we did
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: with Cade, We're gonna do a lot of the similar
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: things with you. Or is like every player a little
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: bit different and you've kind of got your own plan
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: for William Schmidt.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question, and I feel like we
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: have a few pictures in that boat, so like, I
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: think there's a lot of learning that can be done
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: for you know, William Schmid or a Cooper Williams, who
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: was awesome for us down the stretch. I mean, the
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: appearance in the Super Regional was huge, and I think
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: with both those guys you can take some similarities because
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: there are actually similar body types and good athletes, kind
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: of like Kate was. I've told everybody like if I
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: let Kate hit, I bet he would be a starting
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: outfielder for us. You know, he's a terrific athlete, and
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: if he wants to come back next year, I'll let
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: him hit two. So on the record, that's kidding, that's
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: the Nationals. Your ear up. You know, Kochesky is excellent,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: and we have some really good plans you know for
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: for like I said, Cooper Williams, William Schmidt, Maverick, Rizzy
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Maverick's going to throw up in the Cape Cod League
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: about four times over three weeks and get get on
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: the mound. We're going to send Cooper out to Arizona
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: to do some training stuff and then we have a
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: very specific plan for William that we're working through and
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: I'm really excited about that, Like I want to you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: the portal is part of this thing, but I've always
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: been a program developer, program builder, and those guys are
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: at the heart of that. So really excited to dig
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: into that with them.
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  Speaker 2: So Coach Jacob and I we were both fortunate to
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: be a part of national championships and our respective sport.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And I was here in two thousand and three when
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: we won a national championship, and I remember the off
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: season for the two thousand and four season, so right
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: off that Coach Saban made it a point that we
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: all felt to let that new team understand that we're
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: not the old team. And it was the hardest physically
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: and mentally off season we had ever been through because
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: they wanted to reset everything, and he wanted to make
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: a point that like, we're not going to be complacent,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: we are not gonna We're not gonna read our press
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: clippings We're going to work your tails off. And this
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: is a whole new team. So your strategy, you've already
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: done it once, but your strategy going into a brand
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: new team, a new offseason, and what kind of message
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: do you need to send it? And is that a
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: challenge coming off of a national championship?
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, and I think we John Gordon, the
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: speaker writer ye become a friend of mine and I
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: actually had him help me with this last time, and
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: he talked about really clearly delineating this is not repeating
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: defending anything. This is attacking a new opportunity. And we'll
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: bring in a group of players that have not won
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: a national championship. So like, wouldn't be fair to them
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: for the staff the returning players to not give everything
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: they can so that those guys can be a part
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: of that. Also, I think, I know how hard this
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: is to do, and don't take it for granted. And
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I said this somewhere like this just didn't happen overnight.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: So you have to, you know, recommit, reinvest to what
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: we call our process of winning, and that starts the
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: first day of school. Like we start lifting the first
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: day of school, we start skill instruction the first week
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: of school to max out the days and opportunities to develop,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: you know, because Date Anderson developing strength, developing a slider
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: like that just didn't show up in you know, April,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: like he was in on that as soon as the
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: season was over. You know, the improvements that you know,
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Jared Jones made with you know, contact with pitches in
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: the zone, like that was a lot of work over time.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: And he's a talented player and because of that work,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: being really deliberate, you get to those things. And I
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: understand that probably probably go overboard on it. I don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: think you can manufacture it artificially. I think the players
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: see right through it. So kind of what I do is,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: you know, we'll have a ring ceremony for this team
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: that won the championship, and I think you have to
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: let those guys enjoy that or and be a part
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: of that and some of it otherwise like kind of
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: like what the hell are we doing it for in
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: the first place, So you have to like respect that
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: and at the same time, like when it's October twentieth
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: and we're in the fourth inner squad, like I'm not
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: thinking about last year's national championship, so it's just maturity
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: and actually feel like we have guys that were a
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: part of this thing that we're a part of. Maybe
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: the season before, which was still a successful season. We
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: won forty four games, and they know the difference and
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: we'll work accordingly. And there are so many positive things
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: that we can take from this team that are actually
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: transferable and translatable. But we won't take that for granted
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: because culture doesn't transfer from team to team. I believe
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: that's a big myth. You know, you have to reset
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: and re establish that every year.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: All right, there, he is head baseball coach for the
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  Speaker 4: LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson. Good enough to join us all
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: season long? Coach, We can't thank enough for your time.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: We appreciate it every single Thursday. When you join us,
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: I would say, like, enjoy the all season, but we
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: know the grind never stop, so we appreciate even today
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: giving us a couple of minutes.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: No problem. It's from the football experts. How many football
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: games are we going to win this year? What do
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: we got?
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: Hey, we're going We're going double digit, coach, We're going
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: double Hey, we just got to get that opener.
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  Speaker 3: We got to get that opener. You got to start
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: out on the right foot.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: That's right, Absolutely Clemson, right, that's right, all right, let's
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: There is coach Jay Johnson every single Thursday here during
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: baseball season, was good enough to join us.
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  Speaker 3: Good? Let Jay Johnson go give give the boys a
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  Speaker 3: little speech over there in ponder Rosa. I bet he
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  Speaker 3: could fire a football team up.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt I may can fire anybody up.
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  Speaker 4: Because if you're a champion, I don't care what sport
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  Speaker 4: it is, you got something to you.
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  Speaker 2: I just write this down quote, I love it. Culture
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  Speaker 2: does not transfer from team to team.
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  Speaker 2: Culture does not transfer from team to team. It does
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  Speaker 4: A coach can create the culture and you can mimic
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  Speaker 3: They're going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Like two thousand and six, LSU had a different culture
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  Speaker 3: Like nothing fazed us.
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  Speaker 4: Now we were talented in two thousand and six, but
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  Speaker 2: Th Almost every championship team you can go back and
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  Speaker 2: say it was just a little bit different for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 2: and it's hard to even put your finger on, like
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