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LSU Basketball · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mama. Dear mama, do you think LSU's
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  women's basketball team is about to win another championship? Well, let's ask our
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  American mama. Mama, Mama, and joining us now our American mama,
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  Terry Nedderville. There's a story out that shows LSU has got a new player
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  coming in Hailey van Lith. She's a star at from Louisville and she's transferring
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  from Louisville to LSU. Yeah, this is hot off the press, and
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  because of the new rules in the NCAA, she's going to get a chance
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  to start this next year. So absolutely start. She has been the face
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  of Louisville for the last three years and put herself in the transfer portal.
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  And as you know, in the transfer portal, there's no consequences. You
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  can go to another school. You don't have to sit out like in former
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  days used to be right, So you know, I'm just when I first
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  read this, I thought, okay, So, so Mulki gets to go
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  and just steal players from other teams. She didn't really steal them, because
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  the girl put herself in the transfer portal, but the idea of going out
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  and being able and if you think that they have not been talking to these
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  players are crazy. Sure, so you just build your own championship team every
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  year. So what does this do to the competition? What does this do
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  to the face of women's basketball moving forward? What does this do to the
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  face of baseball moving forward? We've had issues you know, in the baseball
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  world as well, and this is not going to be popular with some people.
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  I understand that, but I have sincere worries about the transfer portal and
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  the rules that come with that, the new you know, the transfer portal
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  along with the nil deals that can only truly help the big schools. Who
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  can afford that, who can bring them in? And league it does?
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  It kind of takes the like we're a story. This is what some of
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  the like, I am a baseball mom, and a lot of these old
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  guys that got their seventies and eighties years old, they come talk to me.
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  I know baseball, they're friends, they were friends with my dad.
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  So they talk to me, and one it's so interesting because they'll ask me,
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  what do you think, And I'll say, well, I love every
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  kid that we got from the transfer portal. Sure, our season is not
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  going like we had hoped, of course, But when I think about it,
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  and I tell this, where are the stories gone that the kid came
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  in from a high school, grew developed, grinded, they wanted that school.
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  Are those stories going to be washed away? Are they going to get
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  to their junior year and then a kid from somewhere else, a big SEC
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  school, puts themselves in the transfer portal and then they are just knocked down
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  a peg and this kid gets to start over them. It's what the guys
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  have said to me is if this happens in any sport, it's really hard
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  to invest in these kids when you know they're only here for a year or
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  two, or they're going to be out the next year, or they can
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  transfer. These kids, you know, come here and they can transfer out
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  and go to a bigger school. It's kind of um, there's a lack
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  of loyalty and there's a lack of and one of the things that'll do is
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  actually it'll it'll tear a team apart, yes, and that you lose,
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  You lose the locker rooms sometimes because it then stops being about building a team
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  that works together and now it becomes about, hey, do we get enough
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  Lebron's right, right, And you know you have a culture. Each school
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  has a culture that they build upon, so you have to make sure that
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  you get if you're going to the transfer portal. These are kids that did
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  not choose your school first, right, They just didn't make it where they
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  went LSU didn't work out. They thought, yea, so they are The
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  story in LOUIV was a little different. She was the starter, she was
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  face of it. But doesn't she Isn't this transfer just about her wanting a
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  national championship and she didn't think Louisville will be without a doubt. I mean,
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  you know that if you're going to be with Kim Mulk, chances are
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  that you will. The thing about this championship team and I love that they
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  won, and I think that's amazing. The problem that I have, or
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  the part of the story that is missing, is I wish Kim had come
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  in with the team that she had in place, and then for the next
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  two years grinded them, developed them so that they became the stars and the
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  championships. These are girls she pulled from all these other schools because she's got
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  an eye for that. Yes, and and that part of the story is
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  lacking. I remember when Coastal Carolina won the entire you know championship, the
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  you know they went to Omaha won and all national champions This was a few
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  years back. Yeah. The reason that America got so invested into their story
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  is because they stayed together, Yeah, all those years, and they they
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  defied the odds. They were a small mid major school that beat all these
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  big SEC schools. It's like my you know, the team that that my
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  son still was on at Louisiana Tech. He and Taylor and all those guys.
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  They had the tornado, they rebuilt the stadium, they had to go
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  to the high school for two years, COVID yes, and all those guys
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  state not one kid left, and the town got behind them. The town
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  was invested in them as people, and they ended up winning the conference championship
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  and it was a beautiful thing. And now my other son, Slade is
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  in this team with los an Attech that I love with all my heart and
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  it's the transfer portal years. So it's a whole different dynamic. Luckily,
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  I will say, if you have a coach of Burroughs who only wants those
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  who are willing to buy into the culture, like I asked slave in the
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  beginning, when I was a little bit worried, I said, how do
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  you feel? And he said, no, they're bought in. We love
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  each other. It's going to be great. And I think that's great if
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  you can get that. But I am really torn because I understand the fear
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  that a lot of people have. Are they just going to have like twenty
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  great teams that go every year and then all the men major schools don't have
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  a shot anymore? Like, what's going to happen if this becomes the future
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