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Hour Two | Verge Ausberry Press Conference & Woodward’s Legacy · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench live from the Raising Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in.
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  Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Raus's and you heard
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  Speaker 4: Tata there. As soon as they go live on the
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  Speaker 4: press conference, we will send you directly over there. So
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  Speaker 4: when we see somebody at the podium, we are going
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  Speaker 4: to throw it to the press conference kind of a
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  Speaker 4: state of where LSU football, LSU athletics is after they've
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of things going on, a lot of movement.
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  Speaker 4: You've had head coach fired, You've had the athletic director fired.
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  Speaker 4: And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we are ready
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  Speaker 4: to go. So we are going to send you here
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  Speaker 4: in a little bit to the We're trying to get
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  Speaker 4: pulled up right now. We're gonna send you to the
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  Speaker 4: press conference for LSU and it's gonna be kind of
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  Speaker 4: a just a hey, state of the union, because Matt,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things going on. I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people will want to understand where LSU's at
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  Speaker 4: right now, and there's going to be some questions that
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  Speaker 4: certainly hope at least get asked about the stability of
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  Speaker 4: where you're at just from everything from everything, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: what's the structure going to be when we're going to
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  Speaker 4: have a president, when we're gonna have an ad, when
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna have a coach, because right now you are
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  Speaker 4: just floating in the air just with nowhere to land.
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  Speaker 2: You're in purgatory right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean what I expect to hear is
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  Speaker 5: kind of, you know, some feel good statements. Hey, we
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  Speaker 5: got this under control. We'll give you more information as
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  Speaker 5: it goes, but you know, hopefully we don't. Hopefully we
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  Speaker 5: get some sort of detail into the thought process of
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  Speaker 5: the decisions that have been made in the thought process
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  Speaker 5: and timeline of what they expect. Hopefully it's not just
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of word salads up there. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: So who's speaking in this press conference there?
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  Speaker 4: Thinking like, hm, who would actually be the person behind
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  Speaker 4: the microphone right now? That's a good question, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean, could typically be the president. If it
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  Speaker 4: was the president, would be the athletic director.
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  Speaker 2: Yep I guess merge.
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  Speaker 5: The head of the board is Scott Ballard of could
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  Speaker 5: be him, but I mean I guess yeah, the interim
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  Speaker 5: athletic director. I would assume yeah, I would assume it
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  Speaker 5: would be virgin.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna throw it back to studio A.
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  Speaker 4: Landra does have the audio ready to go of the
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  Speaker 4: l s U press conference and staff.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it again, this is l s U.
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  Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor an excitement to introduce
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  Speaker 6: the ex interim Athletic Director of LSUGE.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to give thanks
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  Speaker 7: to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush,
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  Speaker 7: Chairman Athletic part of the board, to the university administration
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  Speaker 7: and the fellow board members for giving me this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: This is a grappat tune.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Iberia, Louisiana who had
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  Speaker 7: the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started
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  Speaker 7: the bottom, started last on a depth chart, worked my
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  Speaker 7: way through the ranks. I was able to start here
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  Speaker 7: two years, lead the team in tackles, two years, played
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  Speaker 7: on some very successful teams to SEC championship teams That's
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  Speaker 7: why I started from the hard work Paul aiding that
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  Speaker 7: into my career here started the bottom again as a
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  Speaker 7: graduate assistant, working in compliance, working in academics, working with
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  Speaker 7: how Athletic Foundation. From there socialth letic director with skip Bergmann,
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  Speaker 7: work my way through the ranks. So I know what
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  Speaker 7: hard work is. I know what it is to be
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  Speaker 7: a part of LSH. I walked these halls, I walked
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  Speaker 7: those squads. I walked Allen Hall, Coats Hall, all the
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  Speaker 7: great halls at LSU. I want to know how fan
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  Speaker 7: based on one thing, LSU is not broken. LSH Athletic
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  Speaker 7: Department is not broken. I think we have the best
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  Speaker 7: athletic department in the country. I think we have the
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  Speaker 7: best staff in the country. The executive team is second
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  Speaker 7: to none. I put them up against anyone. They're the
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  Speaker 7: best and they would get the job of the.
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  Speaker 8: Border supervisors and the person who've made chair of the
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  Speaker 8: LSU Athletic Committee, who will give you more information about
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  Speaker 8: your next steps about our next step.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Chairman Valid. What an exciting day here today at LSU.
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  Speaker 6: As Chair of Athletics Committee, it is my responsibility with
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  Speaker 6: my fellow board members to ensure that LSU athletics is
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  Speaker 6: positioned as a national leader in college sport.
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  Speaker 9: It is important to me and many others the.
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  Speaker 6: LSU and our state restore balance so we can reclaim
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  Speaker 6: the future we built in athletics as an institution and
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  Speaker 6: as a state. As we transition into the next chapter,
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  Speaker 6: I'm proud to introduce Verge Ausbury as an interim director
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  Speaker 6: of Athletics, and I have to tell you we are
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  Speaker 6: very excited. Verge is the ideal person to lead this
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  Speaker 6: department through this change, and I want to be very
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  Speaker 6: clear he has full authority to do so. That includes
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  Speaker 6: leading the search for our next head coach and hiring
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  Speaker 6: our next head coach.
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  Speaker 9: Verge is a native son of Louisiana and LSU.
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  Speaker 6: He is a multi multi time alumnus of this institution,
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  Speaker 6: a former championship winning linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: For the football team.
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  Speaker 9: In a long time senior university administrator.
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  Speaker 2: Simply put, he.
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  Speaker 6: Spent all of his adult life working to make this
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  Speaker 6: athletic department and this state better. Not only has Verge
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  Speaker 6: worked in almost every area of that athletic department since
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  Speaker 6: he started as an employee in nineteen ninety one, but
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  Speaker 6: he's also been a tremendous asset to the university leadership
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  Speaker 6: with his campus role in government, governmental and community relations.
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  Speaker 9: From the time he arrived on campus.
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  Speaker 6: As a football student athlete, ViRGE has been associated with
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  Speaker 6: excellence and championship. That's the standard he will uphold as
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  Speaker 6: interim Athletic Director.
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  Speaker 9: Let's all ways, remember this is LSU.
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  Speaker 6: This is the greatest athletics program in the country, and
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  Speaker 6: we will continue to be an elite destination for student athletes, coaches,
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  Speaker 6: and staff.
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  Speaker 9: I'll say it again, this is LSU.
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  Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor and excitement to introduce
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  Speaker 6: the next interim Athletic Director of LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Merge Asburg.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to get thanks
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  Speaker 7: to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush,
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  Speaker 7: Chairman Athletic part of the Board, to the university administration
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  Speaker 7: and the fellow board.
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  Speaker 2: Members for giving me this opportunity. This is a grapper tune.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Ibera, Louisiana who had
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  Speaker 7: the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started
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  Speaker 7: at the bottom, started last on the depth chart, worked
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  Speaker 7: my way through the ranks. I was able to start
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  Speaker 7: here two years lead the team in tackles, two years
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  Speaker 7: played on some very successful teams, two SEC championship teams.
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  Speaker 7: That's why I start from the hard work Paul aid,
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  Speaker 7: and then to my career here started to bottom again.
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  Speaker 7: It's a graduate assistant working in compliance, working in academics,
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  Speaker 7: working from their Tiger Athletic foundation, from their social letter
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  Speaker 7: director with skip Bergmann, work my way through the ranks,
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  Speaker 7: so I know what hard work is. I know what
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  Speaker 7: it is to be a part of LSH. I walked
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  Speaker 7: these halls, I walked those squads, I walked Allen Hall,
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  Speaker 7: coachs Hall, all the great halls at LSU. I want
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  Speaker 7: to know our fan based on one thing. LSU is
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  Speaker 7: not broken. Lschathlete apartment is not broken. I think we
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  Speaker 7: have the best athletic department in the country. I think
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  Speaker 7: we have the best staff in the country. The executive
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  Speaker 7: team is second or none. I put them up against anyone.
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  Speaker 7: They're the best and they would get the job done.
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  Speaker 7: Our coaches a second or none. We have the best.
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  Speaker 7: We have championship coaches here. I've been blessed to work
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  Speaker 7: with championship coaches Kill Malki, Jay Clark, Jay Johnson, Dennis Schaeffer,
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  Speaker 7: who's not here with track team, Garrett Runyon, who won
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  Speaker 7: a national championship in golf as an assistant coach here at LSH.
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  Speaker 7: They're great coaches and many other great coaches who win championships.
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  Speaker 7: That's what we expect here we LSU. This place is
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  Speaker 7: not Brooklyn, that's later Department's not Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: We win. I mean part of eighteen national.
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  Speaker 7: Championships at LSU as an administrator, six recently, been part of
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  Speaker 7: four national championship games, won three national championships, been part
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  Speaker 7: of seven SEC championships two as a player. I know
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  Speaker 7: what it takes to win. We know what it takes
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  Speaker 7: to win, and that's our jobs and that's our mission.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, fortunate enough to work with three of the
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  Speaker 7: best coaches in the world, Kill Malki, Nick Saban, and
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  Speaker 7: Skip Bertman. So my heritage go back with those people
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  Speaker 7: and the ability that they gave me and what they
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  Speaker 7: taught me to be the best. We're going to be
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  Speaker 7: the best at a the third quarter, the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 7: put the third and fourth quarter. Last week, I walked
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  Speaker 7: on the field during that football game, and I just
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  Speaker 7: wanted to see what was going on when you're a
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  Speaker 7: good administrator. You just don't watch what's going on on
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  Speaker 7: the field. You watch the sidelines, you watch the stands,
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  Speaker 7: you watch everything around you. That's important to be a
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  Speaker 7: good administrator. I went down there on that field, I
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  Speaker 7: saw something. I saw empty seats. It's empty suites. I
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  Speaker 7: saw our stadium, Tiger Stadium, halfway empty. It's not a
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  Speaker 7: good thing. Witty Hay has always said a worst word
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  Speaker 7: in addictionary's apathy. This program cannot have apathy in no way.
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  Speaker 2: A means.
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  Speaker 7: We have to win. We have to be successful. We
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  Speaker 7: are just say this all the time. We're the movie makers.
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  Speaker 7: We're the financers, the administrators, the coaches, you're the producers.
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  Speaker 7: The athletes, which is for the most important, they're the actors.
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  Speaker 7: That's who are important here to us. We have to
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  Speaker 7: do everything to make sure that the student athletes get
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  Speaker 7: what they need, the coaches get what they need. Our
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  Speaker 7: job is support. Next chapter is that to high football coach.
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  Speaker 7: I'm hire the best football coach there is. That's our jobs.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to go out there. We are not going
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  Speaker 7: to let this program fail. LSU has to be in
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  Speaker 7: the playoffs every year. In football, there's twelve teams that
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  Speaker 7: make it. It's going to expand here. We have to
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  Speaker 7: be one of those at LSU. No substitute. We have
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  Speaker 7: to be talked about on ESPA and every channel were
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  Speaker 7: talking about LSU football. That is the way this big
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  Speaker 7: building here has to be successful. If we're going to
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  Speaker 7: be successful as athletic department, it's the measuring state that.
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  Speaker 2: We have here.
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  Speaker 7: I have formed a committee or that committee would be
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  Speaker 7: Scott Ballot, Chairman of the Board, John Carmusch Chairman of Athletics,
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  Speaker 7: Ben Bordelon. As you know, Ben Bolin is a former
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  Speaker 7: football player here Bolinger Shipping CEO, e J Kuiper, e
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  Speaker 7: J Kiper ceo of Oshner. I'm not sorry, I'm so
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  Speaker 7: so sorry, Later.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Lake.
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  Speaker 7: He would be on the committee, and there'll be another
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  Speaker 7: myself and there will be another member of the committee,
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  Speaker 7: uh that we are talking to right now this time.
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  Speaker 7: Those are the people that can be responsible for helping
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  Speaker 7: us find the next great football coach at r SU.
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  Speaker 2: Open up for any questions. This is ah to start with.
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  Speaker 10: Scott Ballard Wilson was entered the advocate in the front,
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  Speaker 10: sir right here. How exactly was it decided that Scott
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  Speaker 10: would would and lsc.
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  Speaker 2: Would part ways?
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  Speaker 10: Did his board and him have autonomy to make that
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  Speaker 10: decision or was the governor involved in that final say?
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  Speaker 9: John, the governor was not involved.
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  Speaker 2: The governor.
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  Speaker 6: Is worried about the state of Louisiana. His concern had
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  Speaker 6: to do with the state contract. L SU Board of
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  Speaker 6: Supervisor and mister Woodward decided jointly to point part ways.
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  Speaker 11: Michael Cobble w b Z TV invetors, John, you can
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  Speaker 11: take this if you want, or Scott, but representing the board,
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  Speaker 11: why did you all deem it necessary to part ways?
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  Speaker 11: Version just talked about six championships, were four months removed
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  Speaker 11: from a baseball national championship. Those things sound like success
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  Speaker 11: to the common person. So why was there this mutual
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  Speaker 11: agreement to part it was?
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  Speaker 6: It was a It was a joint decision where we
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  Speaker 6: the board and and mister Wooward had discussions and it
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  Speaker 6: was a joint decision.
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  Speaker 9: Thought it was the best for both parties.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess to see either for Scott or for
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  Speaker 12: John will will l s U buy out the remainder
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  Speaker 12: of Scott Woodard's contract.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what can you repeat that?
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  Speaker 12: I didn't know an I'm sorry, Matt Moscona from ESPN diverge,
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  Speaker 12: will l s U or the board buy out the
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  Speaker 12: remainder of Scott Woodward's contract.
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  Speaker 6: It's my understanding they're working on that right now, and
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure when it's done it it'll be public.
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  Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Brevmont Tell the Associated Press, I had a similar question.
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  Speaker 13: I was wondering, Yeah, it looks like based on its
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  Speaker 13: contract he's owed at least five million or so on
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  Speaker 13: based salary, nevermind incentives. And I was also wondering what
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  Speaker 13: revenue stream would be.
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  Speaker 2: Are you are you eyeing to pay that to pay
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  Speaker 2: that buyer.
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  Speaker 8: Revenue stream, as I've said before, will be it is
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  Speaker 8: generated from the athletic department. Uh, it's self generated funds
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  Speaker 8: and or private donations.
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  Speaker 9: That's where it comes from.
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  Speaker 8: Does not come from state dollars that that that are
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  Speaker 8: allocated towards other things like education, So it'll come from
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  Speaker 8: self generated athletic funds and or private donations.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Kyra Nevou with w BO in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: My question, Miss Osbury for you.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously you're at the enter right now, but are you
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  Speaker 4: seeking to fulfill this position full time.
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  Speaker 7: At this time? That's not a concern right now, I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 7: It's trying to get the best football coach we have
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  Speaker 7: here and make sure this department is stable.
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  Speaker 2: That's my job. I'm not looking to do anything.
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  Speaker 7: Future from that, but right now it's just stabilize and department,
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  Speaker 7: making sure the coaches and the executive team is okay
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  Speaker 7: when everything they do and they're getting out of support
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  Speaker 7: and hiring a football coach.
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  Speaker 10: Question about the contracts, Jeff Landrys made it very clear
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  Speaker 10: that he would like to see more of an incentive
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  Speaker 10: based contract to avoid that large biot that Brian Kelly
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  Speaker 10: has been owed. How do you plan to do that
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  Speaker 10: within this search and do you worry that that will
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  Speaker 10: deter any candidates.
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  Speaker 7: I've spoken to the board members on side of me
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  Speaker 7: right here and other board members, and our job I
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  Speaker 7: was total to get the best football coach there is.
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  Speaker 2: You don't worry about that at all.
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  Speaker 7: So my thing is we're gonna go there together as
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  Speaker 7: a team and we get the best contract, get the
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  Speaker 7: best coach we have, and whatever it takes to get
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  Speaker 7: that person here, we will.
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  Speaker 11: Do verge familiar just again timeline for that and the
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  Speaker 11: committee that you said you assembled five people, do you
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  Speaker 11: feel like that's the right size. Should there be more
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  Speaker 11: people involved?
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  Speaker 7: Do you think we're looking at it one more person?
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  Speaker 7: The process has started, processes started since we made the
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  Speaker 7: decision on Sunday, and there's no really timeline. We've been
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  Speaker 7: looking at a lot of people, five exact lists, but
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  Speaker 7: we know what we want here, we know what we
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  Speaker 7: expect here, and we don't have the best coach here
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  Speaker 7: in Tiger sad.
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  Speaker 2: For Scott or John?
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  Speaker 12: Is there a timeline for naming a full time athletic director?
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  Speaker 12: And Verge, if you want to follow up, you've been
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  Speaker 12: a candidate in the past.
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  Speaker 2: What would change the time if you weren't a candidate?
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  Speaker 9: Discussion, I'll speak to every one.
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  Speaker 8: There is not a timeline set for that. The first thing,
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  Speaker 8: like Verge said, the full count tration is to find
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  Speaker 8: a coach, find the best coach period. That process has
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  Speaker 8: already started, as Verge said, with the team the athletic department,
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  Speaker 8: so truly is not something we're even going to address
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  Speaker 8: until we get that done.
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  Speaker 11: Scott, let's stay with you if you don't mind, just
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  Speaker 11: does the coaching candidate, athletic director or whatever. Do these
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  Speaker 11: jobs have to have Louisiana ties to them, And if so,
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  Speaker 11: why do you feel that way.
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  Speaker 8: Verg's license is to go find the best coach. I
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  Speaker 8: think people in Louisiana love to have Louisiana people, and
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  Speaker 8: I'm no different. I was born here, and God will
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  Speaker 8: and I'll die here. But that is not a litmus
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  Speaker 8: per se. But if Verge can go find one that
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  Speaker 8: has Louisiana ties, then awesome, But that is not a
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  Speaker 8: litmus for them.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, there, Brett Mark Tellegan with AP, I just I
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  Speaker 13: want to give you the opportunity because I think a
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  Speaker 13: lot of the LSU fan base, and you know, people
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  Speaker 13: following this are somewhat confused as about the extent to
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  Speaker 13: which performance based considerations led to Scott's departure. Is there
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  Speaker 13: anything specific that you'd want to address in that regard.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure I understand the question. But but if
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  Speaker 8: the performance of Scott and I mean like like, like
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  Speaker 8: John said, it was a mutual agreement after conversations and
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  Speaker 8: and with all the things that come into that energy
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  Speaker 8: and and and and family and what you're doing, and
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  Speaker 8: you know, nothing's off the table of why Scott and
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  Speaker 8: and and l s U had a mutual agreement that
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  Speaker 8: after those conversations that that they mutually agreed that that
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  Speaker 8: it was a good idea. Scott is a great human being,
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  Speaker 8: Scott is a good baton Rouge, Lsu Tiger. It had
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  Speaker 8: nothing to do with any of that. It had everything
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: to do with the path of both conversations, and they
• 19:13
  Speaker 8: mutually agreed that it was time. It wasn't an Lsu thing,
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: It wasn't a Scott thing.
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  Speaker 14: So the word will be hiring a new president on Tuesday,
• 19:24
  Speaker 14: can you speak to the extent he will be involved
• 19:27
  Speaker 14: in the search for either the head coach or the
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: permanent athletic director.
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  Speaker 9: Was that to me?
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: What'd you say, morning, Scott? Yes, any of y'all can
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: answer that, y'all will be hiring a new president on Tuesday.
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: To what extent will he be involved in the search
• 19:44
  Speaker 14: for the head coach or the permanent athletic director.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: The new president will be announced on Tuesday, and he
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: or she or he we have the three candidates, Well,
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: we'll be We're not going down for that. Verge is
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: going to move forward and knows what he needs to do.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: But depending on how that works out and when the
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: new president starts, but the new president will absolutely have
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: input and and hopefully hit the hit the ground running.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: But depending on you know, what the choice is. We've
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: got to also respect that they've got to unwind some
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: stuff as well.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: For a few more questions for RGE.
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: If you have questions for Herd, you got we have morenutes. Okay,
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: I'm sorry, this one's for John.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: John.
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: Just given the governor's speaking points about the contract and
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: the legal ease of the of the contract for Brian
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: going forward, is it a point of emphasis to remove
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: L s U as the libel party for these contracts?
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: It would be a departure from the way they've been
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: written in the past. Is that something that kind of
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: you guys have marching orders to make sure isn't acted
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: in these next deals.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: Well, let me make it clear the governor had a
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: right to be concerned, and we're working towards UH solutions.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Any everything's on the table. But let me make it
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: clear the state has never and the taxpayers have never
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: paid for a coach and never will so.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: U mappen easy at w B.
• 21:21
  Speaker 15: Just given the timing of Scott's departure, with the firing
• 21:25
  Speaker 15: of Brian Kelly, for new candidates being considered for the
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: coaching position. Could the lapse and not having a president
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: name just yet now verge being in the spot you're
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: in now, could that deter candidates away? And is that
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: why the timing of all this has happened to keep
• 21:41
  Speaker 15: candidates considering l s U as a as a destination.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Could you ask the question through me? Yeah, uh, well,
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: let's shoe Uh my phone is still ringing. Before you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: this has happened a lot of a lot of people
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: kind of still I want to come to l SG.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It's one of the best jobs in the country.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: It is the best job in the country at this time,
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: and we're gonna find the right person and I don't
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: see any problems getting the right person to being ahead
• 22:11
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• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Thank you guys.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: All right, right, congratulations.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Less welcome back in to OTB. That was the LSU
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: press conference. There, board of supervisors, very Jobsbury now the
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: interim athletic director. And there'll a lot to get to
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: so unpackt there a lot of impact writing down some
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: notes and taking a look at uh you know what
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: that was and some of the questions that were asked.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: And so we'll take a break. We'll try to play
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: catch up. Obviously, it's a twenty three minute opening segment
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: because the Tatane Laundry did a great job of recognizing
• 22:53
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• 22:55
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• 22:58
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• 24:40
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• 25:19
  Speaker 5: I'm out of breath. I don't know about y'all. A
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: lot to unpack from that. From that press conference, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: think the major news that everybody was needing to know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: wanting to know that, we got the answer at there.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the associate athletic.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: The interim athletic director, now Verge Osberry is going to
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: have complete control of the job search and have the
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: authority to make a new higher.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's an answer right there. We've been talking.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Does that pretty much say that Verge is the leading
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: candidate to be the athletic director, Like it does to
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: me because so many times the athletic director is tied
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: to the head coach, the head coach of the ad. Right,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: it's all you know when when you get a new
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: AD in the same coach, it's always like, yeah, it
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: was never really his guy, and it's like you got
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: to have your guy. It's like, well that Verge is
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: making the hire. That tells me right now. And just
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: by listening to that press conference in the way they
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: talked about Verge, he's, without questioning, the leader in the
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: clubhouse to be the athletic director.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of those cool questions because, uh, there's
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: a quote here there's no timeline for hiring a new
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: full time athletic director, So there's no timeline for that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: So there's certainly they have nothing in their aspirations that's
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: going to say we need to hire an ad full
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: time ad first for him to pick his own head coach.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: So if it ends up being somebody outside of Verge,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: the coach is already going to be there.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He won't be tied to that new head coach.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: And how appealing is that going to be to a
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: head coach that is wanting to become the new head coach?
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Lsu If you're going to say all right, yeah, we're
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: gonna hire you, but in a month there's going to
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: be a new AD, so you're not going to be
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: his guy. I don't think that's a great situation. So
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: if they better be getting the language out there saying
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Verge is going to be the dude if he's hiring you,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: if he's making.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: A movie, he's hiring you. You need that coach needs
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: to know.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: The coach is going to need want to know that
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: in Stone. Yeah, whether you put it out there, coach
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the level of experience they have, the
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: resume that they have.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: They are one. They are going to want to.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Know who is my bass, who is my direct contact,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Who is the leader of the athletic programs?
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean for the comparison, the NFL comparison. It's
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: like a head coach knows he's got a short leash
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: if they bring in a new GM and he's the
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: head coach, right because that's not.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Not his guy.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: So that was the big news right from the jump,
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: that verge. He's got control of the job search. They
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: have tasked them. Doesn't matter if the guys from Louise,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: and it doesn't matter what the ties are. He is
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: tasked with finding the best coach in football and that's
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: it ask and he has a full authority in power
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: to make that decision.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Look, that's what we heard.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Oh hey Richard Dixon enjoying breakfast. Hey little breakfast bar
• 28:11
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• 28:14
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• 28:18
  Speaker 5: The next big news that I saw is there is
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: going to be a committee that's going to have input.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I'm assuming based on the words that they just said.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Verge is going to have the final stamp of approval
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: right of course as the athletic director. But the committee,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: and this committee is formulated of John Carmush, who's I
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: think the Board of Supervisors Athletic Committee's chair, who is
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: the senior partner of a law firm, Ben Borderline, former
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: player of course, Bolinger Shipyards done a lot of great things,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Scott Ballard who we just saw, who is the head
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: of the.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: E. J.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Kuiper, who is the CEO of OLOL, and Verge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they said one more person.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Man, my phone had he said, he said, we're already
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: in talks with that person. My phone hasn't ring yet.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: So I was trying hard to get on that committee.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: I'm show I was. I was really wanting to be.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I wanted I wanted somebody that's currently tied into college
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: football nationally, and I'm very fortunate that I get that
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: opportunity on my other show.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: And I have every every coach.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: That is listed, I've had in person interviews, conversations with them,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: and I don't know, I just I want somebody that's
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: kind of tied into maybe some some different areas of
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the country as well.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't want to like, so I was
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: real when I said I don't want to. I don't.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: I don't want to put foot and mouth here, okay,
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: because we do that every day.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Are people that are in charge of this committee?
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Of the names on this list, who on here makes
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: you feel good that they know football coaching? I'm very
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: successful obviously. CEO of a hospital, great? Does he know
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: football coaches?
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: No idea, Scott Ballad, You're you're the board of supervisor?
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Are great?
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I know you got your finger on the pulse of
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Louisiana and politics and all that stuff. Do you know
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: football nationally?
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: At a at an intimate level, do you know how
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: to look at a man's eye for the football aspect
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: of things?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: What do you? Yeah?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: When when he comes in and hey, here's my coordinators,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: here's my scheme, here's my plan, here's how I plan
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: to recruit.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like this John Carmush, guy, I sure he
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: does great things.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: He's a senior partner in law firm.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Same question now, virgin Ben Borderline, Yeah, okay, I got it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know me. Who's this?
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Who's this last person? I don't know they inviting Saban
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: to be on the board. I have no idea. Is
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: that going to be the football pert? I have no idea.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I feel good that Verge is there. Yeah, but I
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: don't know what kind of say all these other folks
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: are going to have in a It's a very valid
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: question coaching football coaching job search. You want football people
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: that know football coaches and coaching to make those decisions.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we talked about it. Right after we
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: took a break, I said, wait a minute, hold up,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: hold on, we're a football guy. And again I'm not
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: saying that that's the only voice, but you want a
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: football voice on there. You want somebody that you know
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: understands coaching and been around coaching and understands the dynamics
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: of a team and understands the dynamics of all the
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: things that have to come together to make a great
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: football team. And when he's talking scheme, be it an
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: offense or a defensive coach, Hey we're going to run
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: you know this offense, or hey we're you know, this
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: is our defensive philosophy. Here's where we like to live.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Here's what I'm thinking about hiring from my assistant coach
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: is here's what this guy can do in recruiting for.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Us, And don't get a twisted like I know these
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: guys are way smarter.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Way more better, smarter and smarter and a lot of things,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: but not smarter in football. Yeah, so it's like you
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: have to get an amalgamation of all these things. Like
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: that's that's why you have a committee because there's something.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: There's a pillar in every single thing, and that's how
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: you stabilize it because if you don't have one pillar
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: for this, then the building.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Is going to fall.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: But if you have it for everything, and Verge is
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: going to be a large portion of that. Verge does
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: no football at a national level. I have many conversations
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: with me.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: A lot of comfortability for sure, the rest of the
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: committee and maybe not what Ben.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Not talking about. Ben just from the ive been played football,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: been knows football right, but around got it. We're talking
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: about like having.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: An idea of the current landscape of college football and
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: again like knowing these coaches and understanding these coaches and
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: knowing when they're talking, knowing if it's real for its
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: bull stuff.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I'm sweating now, I know. But let's just say this
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: before we do go.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: We are extremely happy for Verde that he has this
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: opportunity to make a name for himself because he's been
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: he loves l He's just like Frank Wilson being the
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: inner coaching.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Birds was over there yesterday and Birds wasn't over there.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: First thing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Bird said, I am not here as an administrator right now.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I am here as.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: A former LSU Tiger to talk to the current LSU Tigers.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: That's right, because that's how much he loves this place
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: and cares for this place.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Happy for him, no question about it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Like Verge being there, I am incredibly he has paid
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: his dues. We're just talking about like the totality of
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: all the people that are coming together to make this decision.
• 33:34
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  Speaker 2: got a lot going on and they want us to
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  Speaker 2: have happy bellies. Not to mention we got our wings
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: and egg rolls right behind us. That we do, Derek,
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  Speaker 2: that we do. My name is Matt. Yeah, but that
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  Speaker 2: Sure right you are, Dale's gotta Yeah, So why wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: you just go with it? You know the line football?
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Huh god? So what else you got there in those notes?
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: But I got a lot of stuff in the notes
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out what to kind of go to next.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: It did sound like from some of the questioning that
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: there was real no plan at least that they were
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: prepared to let the public know about what.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: The plan was for the buyout. Oh yeah, it's very vague.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: It was very vague. Yeah. So a lot of this like,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: you know, you're not going to hire it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to announce a full time ad if
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: were hiring a coach, you don't really have a plan
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: for the buyout. A lot of this kind of feels
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: like it's, uh, fire ready aim type situation.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: But maybe not, we'll see.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: I just found that kind of interesting that, you know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: it's the lot they knew if they knew what the
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: bio is, because.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: It's going to come out, right, Deli's going to get it.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: It's going to come out. So that tells me there
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: is no plan. That's just but I eat him. Maybe
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: they're not.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Stressed about it because they know it's going to get
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: figured out. Maybe it's one of those.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Types that you can again clock because twenty five minute
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: press conference. But I'll say this before we step away
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: and try to play catch up. Whatever the list of
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: coaching candidates is, I just hope that whoever's on the
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: committee realizes that it's different than it's ever been before.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: The needs of your head coach are different, the understanding
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: of your head coach is different.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: The way that it was always done before does not
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: work anymore, at least to the level that you want
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: it to.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: Even coach Saban at the very end, right, it was
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: a little bit different for him. That's why he got out.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: He didn't like it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: He wasn't going to be as successful Dabo Sweeney. He
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: might have won the ACC last year, but it wasn't
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: because they were the best team. Like they found a way,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they got hot and they won the last game and
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: it was I was trying not to say that, but yea,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: it was the ACC. Look at where they're at this
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: year because Dabo's stuck in his ways and doesn't want
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: to change with college football. Look at Brian Kelly at
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: Lshue look at James Franklin at Penn State, all right,
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: not saying you can't win games, but you can't win trophies.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Now you go to who's dominating right now and you
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: kind of look at it and you're.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Like, oh, well, it's either a coach that did it
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: the old way and said I'll do whatever it takes to.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Catch up with the.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Times and change my ways. Still have my identity, but
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I'll change my ways enough. Kurt Signetti is a guy
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: that's doing it in the way that you need to.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Ryan Day kind of changed some things.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: He was doing. He's now in that. Mike Elko does that,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Dan Lanning does that. Kirby change some of the things
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: he was doing.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: Lane certainly has found a way to be successful in
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: this current time. Brent Key, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame,
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: and we can continue to go down the list, Josh
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Hipel at Tennessee. The game's different right now, and whoever's
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: on the board committee, whatever, whatever.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I hope they realize that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I hope they realized that it's no longer the coach
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: that ten years ago would have been the home run.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Five years ago that would have been the home run. Okay,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: there's multiple ways to be successful, but it starts with
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: the head coach and a head coach that understands where
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: we're currently at. And when I say where, I mean
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: college football, the way it's moving forward.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: And it's a different time.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: I mean it's Verge look sees Marcus Freeman all the time.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Birge has a son that plays for Notre Dame, so
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Verge sees the way Marcus Freeman goes about his business
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: on a weekly basis.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Verge has been around a long time and he gets it.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: He understands it, and hopefully he understands kind of what
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: needs to be next and just kind of like kind
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: of what you said, And I think what you're saying
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: right now is what a lot of people are feeling.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: And I'm hoping that's what this committee let's put together
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: is also feeling now.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Feelings aside.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: Got to be able to go find that person and
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: decipher that person from a long list of people you're
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: gonna get thrown a lot of different names out.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Can you go through there?
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: Can you do your own recruiting on our analysis of
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: a coach and figure that out? Because I think we're
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: all feeling and saying and doing the same thing. We
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: all feel the same way about what needs to be done.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: Now you just got to go in and find that
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: person and have the right people to negotiate that contract.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll play catch up. We'll take a break.
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  Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Rous's on Burbank and Lee.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: One of the things we haven't talked about yet. So
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: last night LSU women's basketball had an exhibition game and
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: coach Kim Milky was not at the press conference, and
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: They didn't really try to hide it. Said she's not
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: here because.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: She's heartbroken that Scott Woobard was let go as the
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: athletic director.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's a big statement. Yeah.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: To not show up, yeah, yeah, to not show up
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: for sure, And obviously, you know Kim Moulkee National Championship
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: winning head coach and somebody Scott brought in here, and
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: you can say what you want, like she didn't go
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: to LSU. Everybody's like, oh, that was an easy choice.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: She didn't go to LSU, to Louisian Tech. She's not
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: from Baton Rouge. She's from Louisiana for sure. Yeah, and
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: she had a pretty successful thing.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: She was an institution there.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Like trying to pull her away took some doing, and
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: it took some skill, and it took a relationship there
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: that I'm sure they obviously they had a wonderful relationship.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: If she's not doing a press conference after an exhibition
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: because because of saying she was heartbroken.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's a lot, man, It's it's a lot.
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: So when you start talking about this, it's easy to
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: talk about this from a performance pay stampoint, it's easy
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: to talk about this from a fan standpoint of just
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: saying we don't have the best, want the best, want
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: the best, which is great, and we should have the best.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: They will always have to keep.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: In mind that these are actual human beings that we're
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: talking about. These are human beings, families, their lives, they
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: uproot there, and of course everybody's compensated well for it.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: So we're not asking anyone to feel sorry for anybody, certainly,
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: but just keep in mind that there's a human element
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: to all of these decisions. And like I said yesterday,
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: we went over there, Jake and I did yesterday at
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: their LSU's working at the football facility.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: There is a group of great people over there, for sure.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: As crazy as all this other stuff sounds, that is
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: probably more stable than it has been in a long time.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: That that building over there, that's that's actually incredibly fair
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: because I've been in there. What we talk about.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Ye yeah, they got to finish out this season and
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: that thing is more stable than it has been and
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: it's awesome and they are galvanizing that energy we felt
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: yesterday was great, but it was a building full of
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: people that have uncertain futures. There's a building full of people,
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: like I said yesterday, that don't know where their kids
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: are going to be going to school in January. Maybe
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: it's here, maybe it's not. But that's that's what that's
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Everybody signs up for it. Again, I don't want to
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: feel sorry for anybody, but that's just what it is
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: there's a human element to all of this, and I
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: think we all just it's just wise for us all
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: to kind of step back, take a deep breath, and
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: just realize that, just remember that there is there's human
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: beings involved here.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and i'd like to tell you that it doesn't
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: look messy right now. I think i'd be lying to you.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: I think it does the lot.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: There's a lot going on at the same time, and
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: everything's in fast forward right now, and there's just not
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: been a situation that I can.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Remember that's ever played out like this.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: And I know it's unique circumstances with having new leadership
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: right now, but it does feel like a spiral right now.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: And you've got to find a way to shore some
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: of these things up and create a structure and create
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: some foundation because right now, like you feel like you're about,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: you know, on the verge of you know, collapsing here
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: if you.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Don't kind of get some stabilization to it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, and change brings about it does uncertainty and
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: a little bit that craziness, But I can tell you
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: the waters are stable over there in the Football Ops building.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: All right. Hour three.
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