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LSU's Season: A Rollercoaster of Emotions · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another episode of the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and with me shortly is going to be by
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Guess Wheel. I'm sorry bro, how you doing?
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There he is. Perfect time on me.
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Perfect time. Yeah.
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So Thanksgiving was good. We asked brother, good food,
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good family man and good time away from work.
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Got to get some rest in. And I had to like, I mean, I was
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off like a couple days in a row. So it was perfect.
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We were able to cook every day the day before, you know, So it
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was always perfect, yeah. We went to my little.
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Cousin's house, OK. Nice time.
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Very nice. It was his first time hosting
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something like Thanksgiving. He had hosted a birthday party a
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while back in October. OK, But it was really good.
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It was really nice. Everybody had a nice time, got
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along. I don't know how it is with you,
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but my family doesn't ask all those questions that all the
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families ask. You know when you go bring a
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girl around, when you go get married, All of that.
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You know all of that that you see posted online all the time.
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Yeah, they like, you know, like the older, like older.
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So when I was younger, most of my life, you know, we would, you
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know, we would just make the rounds, you know, like mom would
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take us to all the grandparents house.
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You know, sometimes they'll ask us like, oh, like, you know what
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house, you know, ask how school, you know, just like when you get
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in your degree and stuff like need to go back to school.
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But yeah, Alaska be we've been we've just been in the house
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chilling. But yeah.
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Taking it nice. Yeah.
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We normally go to my other aunt's house.
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They've been having it for the last couple of years.
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But my cousin called her and asked her if we could do it in
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his house, and she was more than happy to say yes.
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Then as she was leaving, he said, so your house again next
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year. I don't want to do this again.
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He was stressed. All right.
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So, for lack of a better word, I see him as a dumpster fire.
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I mean, our offense, our offense couldn't go against a high
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school offense, a high school defense in produce.
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That's how bad we are this year. You know, you know, what's funny
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is this, you know, I've started watching my Tigers played
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football in like the early 2000s.
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So it's you know, we've, you know, you and I, we've seen
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many, many Tiger games and whether it's in person or just,
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you know, pressure on on TV, you know, as much as like a lot of
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those underwhelming and less miles offenses were, you know,
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this is it's this season was up there.
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I mean, you talk about, you know, I've said multiple times,
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you know, this season was the 23 season in inverse order because
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they just were just so inept offensively because it's one
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thing is they could you can't pinpoint them doing anything.
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Well, just like in the 23 defense, you couldn't pinpoint
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anything they did well outside of putting on the jersey.
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So it's and The thing is what makes it worse is that you have
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you had a high end defense for most of this season.
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So all you can do is be competent and you couldn't do
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that. The only thing our offense did
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good was get sacked. It's sacked, yes.
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You lead it then. And run the ball up the middle
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and throw a wide receiver strains 10 yards behind all in
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the scrimmage and wonder why it didn't work.
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And turn the ball over in the in the red zone.
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Yeah, and I don't know what I will say this.
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OK, Yes, Joe Sloan needed to be fired.
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I don't know why people thought LSU's offense from Joe Sloan to
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who's in charge now, whoever's in charge now was going to make
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this big jump because it's not like they were going to change
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the playbook in a two week span and changed completely the way
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we do offense. We still have the same players.
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I will say this in defensive Nussmeyer, I think he's an elite
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quarterback in a certain scheme and I don't think this scheme
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was the best for him. I don't think we had an
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offensive line we couldn't run the ball.
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For him to have the success he had last year and go to this
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year, it's because Brian Kelly coming back to blame Brian Kelly
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because he's the king of playing his players when they don't need
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to be playing due to injury. And just based off of that, I
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don't see how LSU could find means to fire that man with
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cause that's. That's all well, we got I mean
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this this season, this this year was this it it was so much this
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year this not just with the scene, but this this calendar
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year, you know, you know bites Underwood, you know, losing out
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on him. You know, the the fortunate
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death of Kyra Lacey, this it was just like a lot of this went on
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this year and considering when you look at the season specific
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to consider how it started and to the Laffer stocking became
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off the field, it was a lot to take in.
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You know, it's just like I told you what after the A&M game, you
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know, family I was out about, you know, we just after I kept
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seeing like those third quarter updates for me and him, I said,
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yeah, I'm done with this season. I told.
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I told the schedule up. I left that game in the second,
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the third quarter, second-half so fast because it went, I
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remember I went, I said I'm going to the bathroom and get me
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something to eat. Because LSU for some reason that
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very an idea of all those shootings they had on that
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campus during tailgate was we're going to close the tailgates
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down at we're not tailgates. We're going to close traffic
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down at 2:30 and funnel everybody in the one.
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So you had to get there, out there extremely early.
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I was sitting in the rain at the tailgate, by the way.
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The tailgate was a blast. Yeah.
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Yeah. Of course, You know, it wasn't
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the tailgate was a blast. You know, even in the rain, it
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was a good time. We were feeling pretty good.
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I knew we were going to lose that game, though, because when
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I went to the March down Victory Hill and then I went sitting
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there at the, you know, in the stadium for the baseball
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celebration, the only time Tiger fans cheered was when the
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baseball team came down. Yes, you told me.
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I remember. Yeah.
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When that energy is not there, it doesn't help.
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That energy wasn't there. Thought he was going to.
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It's like Brian Kelly was actively trying to be fired.
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He hated it down here and nobody can convince me otherwise.
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That man had you cannot pack. I know it's a coaching thing and
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it's a fast turnover when a coach gets fired and stuff, but
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if you're getting fired, you don't have to be out the state
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in .2 seconds. And the fact that that man had
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his stuff packed up and had people that moving crews picked
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up, it was like he this season, he was actively trying to be
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fired. I'm not going to sit here and
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say I'm going to miss him because I really I was at the
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point after we lost to vanity and got out physical when I was
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to the point where I'd go pack his house up myself for free.
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Oh man, but it's but yeah, it it's it goes to show like, you
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know, this season, this was you know, this is what I was saying
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it like I've been watching for over 20 years, just over 20
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years of football for LSU. This the only season I would say
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is more disappointing than this one I would say is still is 2008
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because of coming off an Addy and then like you still have
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veteran people coming back. I know they lost Ryan apparently
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with off the field stuff, but the way that year started and
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just it just taint from there only only that season I would
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say is more disappointing this season because the momentum you
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had built up, you know, the strides you had made on defense,
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all you had to do was just maintain offensively and he just
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could not do anything wrong. Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, you know, going, getting out of this though the
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depressing stuff of this season. Let's just look to the future.
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And the future is bright. Future is bright, you know,
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offense is going to be great. Just the we'll go.
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We'll hit this for this because I have it pulled up.
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Yeah, go ahead. End of season SEC bowl
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projections. Whoa.
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OK. LSU projected to be in the Texas
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Bowl against TCU, Tennessee TaxSlayer Bowl against Georgia
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Tech, Missouri, the Music City Bowl against Illinois, bandy,
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the Reli Quest Bowl against Iowa in Texas.
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Let's make it clear, you lost the Florida, Texas.
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You don't deserve to be in the playoffs this year.
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Although I would give you that for what you did to my elk.
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I love that. Did you see that?
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Did you see that down the clip they put on the Jumbotron of
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Mike Elko saying we are the state's flagship school.
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And then it was Psych, then Mike Elko pitching a fit because
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Texas was celebrating win over their rival.
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That I did see. I was like, well, can we have
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professional? I'm like, brother, this is a you
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are a visitor. But see, you're a visitor.
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And how many? How many how many roller games
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have you won? Like it wasn't the issue and the
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other Rd. games you want huh? You, you, you won.
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You won on the road against LSU and y'all took over the stadium.
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I'm on that, so that wasn't the issue there.
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What an issue in Texas. Why is it an issue with Texas
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has taken over their own stadium and having a good time.
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They beat you off anyway. Texas is Citrus Bowl against
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Michigan. Me too.
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Projectives. They got Georgia winning the SEC
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championship. I don't.
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I got Bama winning beaten Georgia for the second time this
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season. Rippy smarts, Kryptonite is
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Bama. Every time they've played family
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in the SEC Championship, they've lost #6 Texas A&M, the Colt Old
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fitness is #7 Oklahoma #8 which Oklahoma is funny to me.
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I don't think they deserve it. LSU almost need them, and we're
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not a good football team. If you don't get your stuff
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together to play on offense. I mean, defense.
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They say defense wins championships, but you got to
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score some points. And of course.
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You beat a team that gave it away to you on Saturday, they
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gave it away to you. They had the ball.
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They threw a picking the insult I mean.
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Elizabeth yeah, I'm not going to turn on again.
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Yeah, then Alabama score, Alabama's coming in at #10 which
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I mean, you can say the same thing about Bammo, because the
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way they played against Auburn. Yeah.
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Let you know. Now let's get into the real
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stuff. I said there's no we, we got to
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be back. We got to get back in that
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bracket next year, man, because I'm just tired of together, we
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got so much going. We got so much going for us as
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resource wise, legacy wise, to not be routinely in that
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conversation. I could.
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Yeah, we can dig. Every team has their flaws.
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But I would rather be at the flawed team in the in the
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conversation than the flawed team outside the house.
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You know, I like trying. You trying to get it.
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It's like screaming, like you screaming at getting somebody
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screaming from outside, like throwing rocks at the top window
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that you can't even get in the house.
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Yeah, I mean, it's you need to be able to get it.
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I think we're heading in the right direction.
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Only thing Lane Kiffin is doing. By the way, Lane Kiffin's the
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new head coach at LSU, it was announced.
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Poor Marty Smith. Poor Marty Smith, but you got
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Alex Golosh, who apparently is terrible at golf.
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Yep, Sonic clip. At Auburn.
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At Auburn. Life is better, you said.
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Over field at Arkansas. Or kiss.
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Who Arkansas students wanted the AD and the new coach fired.
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Yeah, that's right. John Summerall at 2.
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I mean might as well as stayed at 2 lane at Florida.
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So when it is right. Who?
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No offense to Florida, no offense to John Summerall.
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I personally, if we couldn't get Lane Kiffin, I thought he would
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have been a good match for LSU. Florida just up there.
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Florida just wants to be Louisiana at this point.
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I mean, they, they, they with Don Kiffin, I was like the main
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guy they take. Billy Napier, Yeah, they take
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Billy Napier. When they hired a coach, when
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the last one got fired, then they were going after Lane
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Kiffin and Lane said, Nah, that ain't gonna fly.
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We can't win here. Then that goes John Summerall.
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I mean, I think he's a good enough fit.
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He seems passionate about going over there and playing and
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coaching, not playing, you know? Yeah, I mean, like when you have
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like these these legendary brands, but like, you know, they
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they're starving for that excitement again, you need
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somebody that's going to give you some juice.
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And I know that's convenient to say in the introduction intro
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press conferences and, you know, just anybody looks better than
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what you had, but you need somebody to I I even look at
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like, you know, Alex Golish, you know, I saw some of that press
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conference. They do was fiery, you know,
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intense, you know, just. You got to have, you got to
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bring that kind of energy in the SEC.
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Yeah. So like, you know, it always
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looks good at the start, but I know with Pete Golden, like Sam
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staying put, Ole Miss got promoted, you know this.
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I like that just from a standpoint, just, you know, with
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the continuity. Yeah, so from what I understand
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is from different people, Ole Miss knew that Pete Golding was
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going to be bumped up because Lane Kiffin had made this
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decision apparently two weeks ago when they flew his family
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down to LSU to in Baton Rouge to view the area.
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Yeah. From what I understand he was
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taking this job and he told them he was taking this job.
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Ole Miss played this off to be because they knew Lane Kiffin is
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all about the drama. They played it off to be like
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this thing where Lane it was all Lane Kiffin.
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When in reality, from what I understand is Lane Kiffin made
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this decision a week prior to the egg ball, told them.
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And then they were like, we'll let you coach playoff team.
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And they let it stand there until because they knew they
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weren't going to find another coach.
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They were just going to hire Pete Goldie.
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Which I'm not saying anything about him because I don't know
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anything about him. But, you know, Ole Miss played
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this out because they knew that was the only choice and it would
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look bad if they went. You know, Lane quit and then
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they hired him. You know, they knew they had
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time to go find a coach if they really wanted to.
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I don't know if they were trying to entice him to stay with, hey,
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look, we're playoff caliber team.
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Yeah, but I don't know. I really couldn't tell you.
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All I know is from the time Lane Kiffin got to be the coach he
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flipped 3 recruits over. That's what I Yeah.
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JC Anderson, We got rhyme. Yeah, wrote it down.
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Yeah, you got it. You got it.
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Yeah, I see you got written here.
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You know, underneath all of that, the CFB calendar needs to
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change. It does.
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And and like, because for a cover like, you know, you see
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all these conflicting reports about, you know, basically he
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said, she said about what, you know, yeah, what was going on?
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Like, you know, it's it's done at this point.
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The biggest, you know, the last few days, you know, the biggest
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thing that's controversial and polarizing, you know, it's like
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you said the calendar, you know, stuff like this should be done
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after the season. And you know, I was listening to
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like, you know, literally NFLCBS the other day, you know, like,
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you know, coach Bill Coward, you know, Super Bowl winning coach,
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you know, he was just like ripped, you know, ripped the
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decision by Lane Kiffy. You know, stuff about, you know,
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just like you should handle in a certain way.
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You know, people can. And This is why I say it for so
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many years is this, there are so many people that criticize the
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athlete for leaving or not being committed, but coaches do this
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all the time. But entirely, I can't blame them
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because the the system's not perfect.
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The NCA has has not been, has not put their foot down.
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All these inconsistencies with with structure I mean.
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If you look at it, yeah. If you look at it too, OK, if
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Lane Kiffin was going to maybe Penn State or one of them, I
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could see them being like, Oh, yeah, you can coach your
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playoffs then, You know, like Florida's letting someone all
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coach the rest of the season out at Tulane.
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The thing is, Tiffin's coming to your rival.
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That's it, yeah. Which, by the way, I am probably
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going to Oxford next year for that game because I think it's
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going to be a fun time. Oh man, tell me about it.
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But you know, I think where's you put the you put the list of
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who he brought with him, huh? You said the list.
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Say that again. The list of coaches he brought
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with him. Yes, well, I have you know, the
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Charlie Wise junior, you know he and I'm glad you brought that up
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because Charlie Wise junior, they let him stay on to coach
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Ole Miss, do the playoffs before joining LSU, which is doesn't
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make sense to me because Wise, even Wise can still convince
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guys to come and even still players going to leave anyway.
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Whether you're not being talked to or not.
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It's the transfer port era. I'm like, what are you talking?
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About OC, the only one in this is, yeah, the only one that I'm
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really, because I don't watch all Miss football because
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they're been irrelevant is what is it Nick Savager, his strength
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coach that he's bringing with him.
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I really think if you went, you said told Tommy Moffett.
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Yes. We'll give you what you want.
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You want a handwritten apology from Brian Kelly?
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We'll put that in the morons contract before he gets to buy
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for you to come. Speaking of which, if I was
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Frank Wilson, I would kick Brian Kelly's son off the team after
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what he pulled. Oh, yeah.
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Washington, KY. Yes, I know what you're talking
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about. Yeah, I get it from a
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standpoint, but it's yeah. And then yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then after you go on Twitter and you're like, he wanted to
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come and she told him no would no, no, I'm shit he wasn't
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coming because we are in a current legal battle with him.
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He is suing the school. Why would we let him come back?
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You know right? Like use your brain kid.
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It doesn't make sense. Anyway, enough about Brian
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Kelly. This is the last podcast we'll
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ever mention that clowns name. You know, like as far as you
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know, just the staff, I know they Blake Baker's will be
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retained and which is I think it's, it's huge from that
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standpoint because obviously, you know, like go ahead, go
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ahead. I was getting into that because
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he got reports of him interviewing for the two lane
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job. Exactly.
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Which I don't want to see his career stagnate, but what's
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going well for us is every head coach that Two Lanes hired has
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had head coach experience. Baker has not.
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He needs to stay in Baton Rouge and we'll pay him more than Two
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Lane to pay him. I agree, but I agree.
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That is huge for us to have that here.
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Because you already have the built in momentum from year to
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year. 2004 wasn't great but like they were far and away better
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unit than 23 that wasted Dayton Daniels iconic season.
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They improved in 2024 and they took a huge step again this
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year, so they have that continuity in place was massive.
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Yeah, I'm looking up what the LSU's defensive rating.
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LSU is 13th right now according to the Google.
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AILSU is 13th in scoring defense, 7th and run defense,
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nice. And defensive stop rate.
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What that puts them overall, I don't know, but I remember it
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was bad last year. I think we were ranked 80
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something out of. Or 120 something.
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Like defensively, yeah, defensively, our scoring defense
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now in the nation, we were #15 in the country and scoring
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defense this year after the regular season.
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So only only four, only three FCC teams were better than us.
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Oklahoma was 7, Bamboo was 11 and Georgia was 12 as far as the
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SEC teams are concerned. So like relative to having like
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132 team, that's incredible. Now offensively however, we
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ranked 108 which it's a miracle than that high personally.
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Yeah, how bad do you have to be to be that behind LSU?
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Only like only in terms of the the SEC alone, we were the only
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Florida was worse than us offensively and scoring offense
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this season. For some reason that doesn't
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surprise me because they threw 5 picks in that game against us.
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Yeah. 5 picks and we only won by what, 10?
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That's a huge issue because I had, like I said before, like a
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few weeks ago, just I had a red flag after the tech game.
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And then when you build it in the Florida game, you get 5
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tech, you get 5 extra possessions gifts and only come
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away with like a 10 point. But that's that's not good.
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And and then and they were consistent with that negative
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trend all year. So 108, I didn't think it was
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that high, but. You know, you know, let's not
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dwell too much on the past anymore.
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Let's just focus on the future because it good news is it can
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only go up from here. It can't go.
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Down it should and. It certainly cannot go down with
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an offensive genius like Lane Kiffin, that hot yoga loving
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man. That's so.
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That's so pretty. That Mark Smith waiting had Mark
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Smith sitting in the thing waiting for hours because he had
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to go to hot yoga. And God bless, people have been
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shining up. They couldn't let them.
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Man, look, you know, they couldn't let them.
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Man, go home. I saw something like, you know,
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just, you know, and I see all the time like they were talking
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about Marty Smith, you know that, you know, Free Marty.
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Free, Marty. Yeah.
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Bad. But yeah, it's but like when I
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was listening to the press conference the other day for
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Lane, you know, he was talking about obviously his father, rest
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in peace. He was talking about obviously
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that Monique came with legendary defensive mind in the NFL.
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So he would he would talk he talked to Moni all his life as
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far as defenses he had coached under, you know, Pete Carroll
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coached under, you know, Nick Saban, of course.
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So like, you know, what was interesting thing about that
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press conference when he was talking was this, you know, he
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learned from three unbelievable defensive minds and you know, he
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learned, he asked questions to those guys about what gave them
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the most trouble and stuff like that.
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So like, because you know, you see his playing style, you know,
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the up tempo, the spread you out.
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You know, I know it's typical in in the in the the sport of
23:07
football today, but it's just like the unique concepts when
23:10
you try to when you timely implement those things.
23:14
So when you get an insight from LED 3 Hall of Fame defensive
23:19
guys, if they're telling you this, you know you know you
23:23
taking notes, you know it's and it's been working.
23:29
And he's had, he's had years of experience with this.
23:35
He knows what he's doing. If you could put together A-Team
23:39
like that at Ole Miss, just solely off the transfer port on
23:42
whatever meager little recruits you can get, you know at LSU you
23:45
can throw a rock out of the coach's office and hit a five
23:50
star somewhere. That's the biggest.
23:51
Like no, it's the flagship university in the state, there's
23:55
no other. You know you could throw a rock
23:57
and get a 5 star. And that's why it's one of the
23:59
at least the premier jobs is one of the premier jobs.
24:02
Now we'll say this is our third coach in the last decade since
24:06
Les Miles dismissal nine years ago.
24:09
But you know, I know Ed got a title.
24:13
I know Brian Kelly LED us to a conference title, but you know,
24:18
I'm really, and I know Wayne doesn't know.
24:19
I will say, you know, Lane doesn't have have the reputation
24:23
of staying in one place for a long extended period of time.
24:26
But if I can get a championship out of it for it out of four or
24:30
five years, I'm happy because that's the bottom.
24:33
But he can build this. He can build this program back
24:38
up, put us back on the national scale, you know, if he gets the
24:43
right players. In my mind I think our floor is
24:46
9 and three next year. Yeah, which would be.
24:48
Good for a first year at a team you previous coach dismantled
24:54
and destroyed because he was all about me.
24:56
Me, me, me, me, me. You know the difference between
24:59
him and Brian Kelly and Ed Ozeron though?
25:01
Ed Ozeron came out and said I didn't have a plan for the next
25:05
year. I focus solely on the year
25:08
before and the success we had. I didn't focus on what was
25:11
coming next. And then what came next was not
25:16
only he wasn't prepared for the team, but also what hurt Edo.
25:21
And I still think Edo might still might have still been the
25:23
coach who never hired Brian Kelly, who fired Edo to get to
25:26
Lane Kiffin. Yes, COVID never happened
25:31
because the COVID season it was OK, Well, you can start spring
25:34
practice, OK. No, you can't have spring
25:36
practice. We're going to have a season.
25:38
No, we're not going to have a season.
25:40
We're going to have a shortened season or we're not going to
25:42
have a season at all type of deal.
25:43
We're playing. We're not playing.
25:44
We're playing, we're not playing.
25:45
How do you prepare a team who just came off a national
25:48
championship that lost so many key pieces and then rained those
25:52
players that were already there back in?
25:55
When you can meet, you can't meet.
25:56
You can meet. You can't meet.
25:59
Yeah. Stuff like that.
26:01
Then you add in all those other problems like he might have
26:04
started drinking again. Yeah, that's the thing.
26:06
He. Did start drinking again.
26:08
Yeah, like, you know, I've always said, like, you know,
26:10
those factors you mentioned are definitely accurate because it
26:14
was a very it wasn't like in the time we've seen in society, I
26:18
know he didn't do himself any favors.
26:20
So. And that's when you when you
26:23
already don't have. Like keep his mouth shut.
26:26
Coming into your time at LSU, you already had a a middling
26:30
record record at Ole Miss and the coach obviously you know,
26:34
he's coaching, coaching UFC 2 as as an assistant, but but just I
26:38
found that when you are when you already have a middling record,
26:41
you got to help yourself out at any cost.
26:43
So it's and unfortunately didn't do that out outside of the
26:46
tempship of course. You know if he gets, he comes
26:49
back to LSU and you've got Ed Ozeron, Frank Wilson and Lane
26:53
Kiffin. Yes.
26:54
On the recruiting pass. Which I said, which I mentioned
26:58
Frank Wilson, they he has to stay on staff.
27:00
Got to stay on staff, man. Yeah, just for those
27:03
relationships, yeah. And he will.
27:05
I truly believe he will. You know, one of my favorite
27:08
things, my sister sent me a TikTok this week.
27:13
It was a Blaine Kiffin. And they asked him if he's likes
27:16
being a troll. And he said, yeah, I love it.
27:17
They asked him, you know, they asked him if he was, you know,
27:21
if he tweets his own stuff or somebody else tweets it.
27:24
And he said, yeah, I'm just like anybody else on Twitter.
27:27
I tweet my own stuff. OK, maybe not the boring
27:29
football stuff, but I tweet everything else myself.
27:36
Yeah, somebody said when we hired and somebody said we went
27:40
from a coach who posted a picture of a tiger, tiger emoji
27:44
every time we got to recruit to a coach that runs his a dog's
27:48
tick tock a dog's Twitter account to say what he wants to
27:52
say. Even you need cut, but it like
27:55
but like, but but that's what we was talking about really just
27:58
you know, I never was like, you know, a lot of people talk like
28:00
the juice high. I'm like in in certain
28:02
situations like this, they need somebody with with with some gas
28:07
just to him as far as like the personality just to revitalize.
28:11
Not to say we are fan base just always, you know, dormant
28:14
because we have the polar opposite reputation.
28:17
But just with what went on this season especially, yeah, you
28:22
know, it's good to see some excitement, but.
28:25
Yeah, I mean, it's good to. I think he'll bring the
28:26
excitement. That first game against Clemson,
28:30
Yeah, you know, it's going to be amazing.
28:32
I think I texted you this week about the Thanksgiving gang next
28:37
year. There's only one logical game
28:40
that we can have on Thanksgiving, and it's the
28:42
Battle of the Boot between Arkansas and.
28:44
What's it used to be on the Friday because you.
28:47
Play all your FCC games you play, you get Bama and Auburn.
28:51
They're not moving to Iron Bowl. That's not going to happen.
28:54
That's a permanent game. That's not happening.
28:56
Mississippi State, no piss for the Egg Bowl, that's a permanent
28:59
game. That's not getting moved.
29:00
That's just not feasible. Texas versus the Colt, you know
29:04
they're not moving that game. Texas and Texas A&M were
29:07
permanent rivals. Then you've got Kentucky and
29:09
their annual blood whooping by Louisville, That's not getting
29:13
moved. And in Tennessee and Vandy is
29:15
not getting moved. So out of the rest that we have,
29:18
the only logical thing is Arkansas.
29:20
So I. Like it they should have.
29:21
Never moved that game. You know, they should have never
29:24
moved that game. That should have been our game
29:25
every year at that time. And then I really don't like how
29:28
they changed the schedule. I remember the Iron Bowl in LSU,
29:33
Kentucky used to. I mean, LSU, Arkansas always
29:36
used to be the Friday after Thanksgiving.
29:39
Yeah, but that was a. Unique wrinkle, but like I said,
29:42
you know, just, I know like early this before the season,
29:45
you know, that was a big deal with like their schedule
29:47
realignment. You know, I just at the end of
29:49
the day, you're in the best conference in the in the
29:51
country. So it's like you're going to get
29:53
heat any week and regardless. And I know I understand like,
29:56
you know, it's especially in college sports, you know, the
29:58
rivalries are very precious for from our you know, as a as a LSU
30:02
fan, we don't have that one ironclad rival anyway that
30:05
everybody knows, even though we do and even though Arkansas is
30:10
tentatively rival, go ahead. I would argue these.
30:13
Yeah, I would argue it would be Florida.
30:16
Like, I'm a little upset that the permanent rivals are who
30:19
Texas A&M, Arkansas missing. Arkansas.
30:23
Yeah, in. Light of recent events.
30:26
I do like the Ole Miss being our primary rival.
30:29
I mean, cook the thing about us. You know, it depends on the IT
30:31
depends on the generation of fan is back in like the like 50s,
30:36
that was a big deal, a major deal.
30:39
But yeah, but to take off the. Alabama game off the LSU
30:44
schedule to put a yearly match up with Texas A&M.
30:50
Who? Just had one.
30:51
Relevant season. They haven't been relevant in
30:53
years. This is the only time they're
30:55
relevant, which I'll give credit where credit's due it it ain't
31:00
Texas A&M, it ain't Mike Elko, it's totally Tommy Moffatt who
31:03
went in there and did everything.
31:04
You can tell by the way the players play in the way that
31:07
condition. It's Tommy Moffett, it's not
31:09
Mike Elko. It's definitely not that cold
31:11
over there at Texas. And you know it's.
31:14
The Moffett effect they lose. Tommy Moffett, When he retires,
31:19
it's done. That's the only.
31:21
Other wrinkle they. Added into the team, yeah.
31:25
That's the only other wrinkle they added into that team over
31:28
the last two years, and it's shown it hasn't been any of you
31:32
coaches. Mike Elko loses Tommy Moffat, he
31:34
loses his mind. He's not going to have a team.
31:36
He'll be beating the table, complaining about the
31:38
professionalism at a rival school.
31:40
Celebrate that. They just beat y'all.
31:43
But you know, I think Alabama should still be on our schedule
31:46
every year. You know, I think Florida should
31:49
be Houston take. Texas AM and replace it.
31:51
With Florida, Alabama, the hate that LSU fans have for Florida
31:55
is real, and the hate that Florida fans have for LSU fans
31:59
is real. I mean you don't walk around
32:02
with a cat skeleton and you rivals thing you.
32:07
Don't walk around with a. Cat skeleton period after a team
32:11
is in life, you know. Let alone go into you.
32:15
If you not rivals, I mean, you shouldn't do it regardless if
32:20
you're not rivals. The only reason they make Texas
32:23
A&M and LSU to be out to be rivals is because Jimbo Fisher
32:27
when they won that seven time overtime game Commission rings
32:33
with that score in a giant picture in his office.
32:36
And that is the only reason why. And I will say, I will say this,
32:41
I'm so glad Scott Woodard got fired because every single time
32:44
he has been trying to make a coaching change for football,
32:46
Jimbo Fisher has been the prime target.
32:49
And Jimbo Fisher is a horrible football coach.
32:51
The moment the moment that Scott Woodard got fired, the moment
32:55
that that man got fired is the moment that Jimbo Fisher's odds
32:59
to become the next head coach at LSU.
33:01
When Scott Woodard was the AD before they fired him, it was
33:05
Nick Saban. As to all Alex's own favorite
33:07
Lane Gifford, Jimbo Fisher. The moment they fired Scott
33:10
Jimbo Fisher's name wasn't even on the list.
33:14
Oh man, like. You had to sneak that in there
33:17
hold. On look, look, look, look at,
33:21
look at that dude. I just there you go.
33:23
I don't like Texas a breeze. You know it is what it is.
33:29
I like Dwayne Kiffin higher, I think he's bringing on his own
33:32
offensive staff. You know, we keep Baker and the
33:35
defence will keep rolling. Frank Wilson's Racing.
33:38
Edos, because I don't think Edos.
33:39
Getting 2 lane job like he thinks he needs.
33:41
Yeah, you keep all of that, we're golden.
33:44
We're moving on. You know, we might be a playoff
33:46
team next year if we have a semblance of an offence, if we
33:49
still have the same defence. The way they're playing, you
33:52
know, it's baseball season now. What can I say?
33:57
Hey brother, listen, you know. This well, we're going to
34:00
definitely talk about that you know because I'm excited man
34:03
just to see two and three years you know I'm really excited like
34:06
so nothing like being in the box as well you know just but we're
34:11
going to forget it today as I'm coming we will end it here and
34:14
I'll. Let you go.
34:15
I know you were telling me you had some stuff to get into
34:17
today. Yeah.
34:19
But yeah, so I it was. Always a pleasure man.
34:21
But before we close it, I did check.
34:22
Spotify, you know, today they came out with their wrap up for
34:27
the 11 people or so that listen religiously.
34:31
Thank you. Thanks a lot.
34:33
Appreciate it. And the top three countries were
34:35
the top three countries were in the United States, Belgium and
34:39
Austria. That's one welcome.
34:41
Well, don't tell me you have. Impact, brother appreciate
34:44
Belgium and. Austria, Belgium.
34:48
A little. Confused but.
34:51
Appreciate you. We'll try to add some stuff in
34:54
for. Y'all build them in all to keep
34:56
that like. Right down the list on the
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Google Doc, you know it was a. 2025 Ben show, a marathon show
35:03
and an instant hit show. That's what I'm talking about.
35:07
And I think. That's all I got.
35:08
Yeah, that's all that came up. But appreciate y'all and get
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down the black camis. T.
35:15
Get down, get them on the black camas.
35:16
Team appreciate you for always coming on.
35:19
Appreciate you always having me brother.
35:21
Plan. As always, make sure.
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And have a. Great day, a great night,
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whatever you have, just make it a good one.
35:32
A good one. Love y'all and see.
35:35
Y'all later we'll try to do another show some point
35:38
December, December. But have a Merry Christmas.
35:41
And everything else if we don't do your brother peace.
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Peace.