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Hour Two | Targeting Rule Talk, Augusta Dreams & LSU Gymnastics · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
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  Speaker 3: The plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bitch.
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  Speaker 3: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
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  Speaker 3: Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here Off the Bench Friday morning,
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  Speaker 4: Live from the Raising Kine Studio, Hour number two and
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  Speaker 4: Landra Tata coming at you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: First hour flew by. Caine is back.
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  Speaker 5: She's back from eternity leave.
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  Speaker 2: She's back from Attorney Leig.
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  Speaker 5: I don't give you much.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't give you much. Man, you gotta you, always
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  Speaker 4: gotta show up. She got an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Two little pups, where are they? She afferent?
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  Speaker 4: She abandoned them, two different daddies.
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  Speaker 2: Caine gotta watch you, and she's back though. Good for her.
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  Speaker 4: She's ready for the weekend. I'm ready for the weekend,
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  Speaker 4: excited about it. It's one of those weekends that, uh,
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  Speaker 4: we have nothing planned, which the older I get those
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  Speaker 4: are like the best types of weekends when you don't
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  Speaker 4: have anything going on. You can just kind of make
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  Speaker 4: up your own weekend. You want to stand When I
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  Speaker 4: had the kids stay in their pj's all day, So
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  Speaker 4: what do it.
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  Speaker 2: Play outside?
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  Speaker 4: Good weather, too good playing outside weather, Taylor, you gonna
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  Speaker 4: be outside.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm actually gonna be outside a lot Tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 6: gotta do a flag football event.
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  Speaker 2: What where is that sent them?
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  Speaker 4: All?
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  Speaker 2: High school? Okay, high school flag football, So.
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  Speaker 6: You'll love this, ages four all the way up to
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  Speaker 6: high school.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool. So it's a tournament.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, last week there was forty team. I did it
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  Speaker 6: last Saturday and tomorrow last week there was forty teams
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  Speaker 6: or Brett in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, shut out. That's where I'm at.
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  Speaker 7: Brother.
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  Speaker 4: Flight football is becoming very popular and very fast too.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously it's going to be an Olympic sport in a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years. And the now the youth teams are forming,
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  Speaker 4: the travel teams just kind of liking baseball for both
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  Speaker 4: boys and girls. And I am totally here for it.
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  Speaker 4: Of course I've been a flag foot well coach last
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  Speaker 4: couple of years. Jake certainly is. So it is maybe
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  Speaker 4: Razor one day. It is fantastic, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's there's certainly a skill to it. It's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit different obviously a way different game than regular football.
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  Speaker 4: But like just from a game planning I tend to
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  Speaker 4: as a coach, I probably follow in the trap of
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  Speaker 4: trying to treat it like seven on seven too much,
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  Speaker 4: where you're trying to run like traditional plays and and
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  Speaker 4: it's and you can't do that, can't run just like
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  Speaker 4: the normal plays. But that'll be fun. And there if
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  Speaker 4: a flag football, so it's really fun to watch too.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like super excited about how it's going to play
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  Speaker 4: out in the Olympics. It's gonna be awesome. And last
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  Speaker 4: time they tried to do break dancing that was a fail.
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  Speaker 4: Chick from Australia up and like a kangaroo. But this
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  Speaker 4: is like an actual, real, real sport. Not to demean
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  Speaker 4: the breakdancers out there. I know we got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of breakdancer listeners all over the world. Good good for
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  Speaker 4: y'all time and probably not the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Flag football. I can get behind this. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 6: Like so the the high school age kids last week
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  Speaker 6: were really good, but.
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  Speaker 2: Those six year olds were electric. Oh yeah, that's where
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  Speaker 2: I was out.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling the six year old group six and eight,
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  Speaker 6: they were, they were awesome. We had to give a
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  Speaker 6: player of the week, so I had to call him
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  Speaker 6: on the field. Give a player of the week for
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  Speaker 6: each age group. Uh The eight year old kid threw
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  Speaker 6: his hand up in the area and shouted when I
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  Speaker 6: gave him Player of the Week.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome. So you're calling like what do you?
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  Speaker 2: What do you? What's your role?
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  Speaker 6: It's not play by play, but think like, okay, this
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  Speaker 6: team on this field, boom boom boom, this team?
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  Speaker 2: Where are you? Who are you talking to? At this point?
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  Speaker 2: The parents in the stands? Parents? Is okay? So you're
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  Speaker 2: like MC in this thing?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. It's not played by play.
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  Speaker 6: It's more like just kind of gotcha posting the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Take ta, pa, but I'm on the field instead in
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  Speaker 6: the in the box, yeah, Pa, not mc.
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  Speaker 2: MC would work too. I think.
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  Speaker 4: For sports it's probably the Yeah, it's okay, how are
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  Speaker 4: you gonna get there?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna drive there. What are you you're gonna drive? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Watch your car didn't work? It works? All right? How
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  Speaker 2: well it works? Is it gonna be the same car
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  Speaker 2: I drive it? Yeah? Yeah, that'll be. That'll be a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday matter in the market. Yep. I know it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be exciting.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, with everything else going on, why
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  Speaker 6: not just throw this on top of it too?
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  Speaker 2: Matt, Yeah, and it's funny.
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  Speaker 6: I Uh, I was telling you think about downsizing a
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  Speaker 6: little bit, but I was like, wait a minute, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going full dad mood. I'm going to bring a car
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  Speaker 6: seat with me that we already have. Put it in
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  Speaker 6: the back seat, make sure if fit's properly, make sure
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  Speaker 6: I can hook it up. That's gonna be like biggest tests.
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  Speaker 6: So a little bit of changes. If this would have
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  Speaker 6: been two years ago to have been like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that one looks cool. Uh Carolina squat. No, not immediately.
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  Speaker 2: They don't off a lot like that.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor usually wants his car is so low he can't
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  Speaker 4: get over speed bumps. Oh yeah, it's me excited about that. Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's exciting though. New cars always fun.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm fired up about it. I mean the truck
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  Speaker 6: I have now, you know, paid off, so I go
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  Speaker 6: a truck note not the funnest thing in the world,
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  Speaker 6: but yeah, it'll be it'll be nice.
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  Speaker 2: It's time.
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  Speaker 6: It's one of those things where you're like, I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to do it, but I know it needs to.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's part of.
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  Speaker 4: It, part of the deal. I elandra anymore. As the
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  Speaker 4: Orange Cat come back.
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  Speaker 5: I've not seen that. I wasn't really home yesterday because
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  Speaker 5: I was at Marucci with Matt, so I didn't see
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  Speaker 5: the cat yesterday, so unsure where he's at. I didn't
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  Speaker 5: see him this morning.
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  Speaker 2: She was working on our swinging away on three zero
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  Speaker 2: counts A. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was hopefully the cat didn't starve to death because
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  Speaker 4: you didn't feed it.
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  Speaker 5: He looked pretty well fed.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's got to feed him, and it wasn't you.
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure the other neighbors that had him well
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  Speaker 5: fed were probing him. Feel it made me feel bad
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  Speaker 5: about this.
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  Speaker 4: The chat reygun Reygun was the name of the breakdancer.
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  Speaker 4: Couldn't think of it. I saw that actually hit my
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  Speaker 4: feed the other day. Strangely enough, I don't know how,
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  Speaker 4: but it did. Her hopping away on the Olympic stage.
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  Speaker 4: The I was reading this morning, kind of looking at
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  Speaker 4: kind of all all the to dos and trying to
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  Speaker 4: keep up to date with all the sports all over
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  Speaker 4: the place. There was an interesting article that I read about.
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  Speaker 4: And I know we've gotten a little bit political this
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  Speaker 4: week here on this ship talking about the men's hockey team,
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  Speaker 4: but there was a article that came out, I think
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  Speaker 4: this was on on three about President Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 4: calling a roundtable discussion to discuss the state of college football.
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  Speaker 4: Is there a fix? Is there a way forward? Is
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  Speaker 4: there a way to clean it up? And it's got
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  Speaker 4: a pretty star studded invit list it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: joining this roundtable. They have invited Nick Saban, Tim Tebow
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  Speaker 4: for some reason, Cody Campbell, which is a Texas Tech
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  Speaker 4: big booster. I think Cody Campbell has been interviewed, like
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  Speaker 4: on Pat McAfee, like he's been very outspoken about his
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  Speaker 4: his role in the boost, the booster role and just
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  Speaker 4: how that's affected Texas Tech and everything. Big ten commissioner
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  Speaker 4: Tom Tony Pettiti, Greg Sank, Brett Yormark with a Big
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  Speaker 4: twelve Commissioner Jim Phillips ACC Commissioner, like some randoms too,
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  Speaker 4: like Tiger Woods, Bryson d Sam, Adam Silver, Condoleeza, Rice
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  Speaker 4: urban Meyer, and Donald Trump is going to serve as
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  Speaker 4: chair of this meeting Ron DeSantis and New York Yankees
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  Speaker 4: President Randy Randy Levine is going to serve as vice chair.
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  Speaker 4: So like this is yeah, Adam's uncle, so this is
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  Speaker 4: like actually a real deal White House meeting. I think
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  Speaker 4: Trump has kind of always been outspoken about or vocal
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  Speaker 4: at least in his willingness to play a role or
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  Speaker 4: like the federal government or the White House playing a
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  Speaker 4: role in college athletics and like this world of nil
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  Speaker 4: and transfer portal. And I read this and just like
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  Speaker 4: reading the reading the headlines, I'm like, great, yeah, awesome, Like,
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  Speaker 4: because there's no way that anybody's ever going to fix
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  Speaker 4: this unless it comes from the highest level. Yeah, We've
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  Speaker 4: always talked about like it's got to be some sort
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  Speaker 4: of bill that's passed, or congressional involvement, or it's got
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  Speaker 4: to be some sort of federal involvement if there's ever
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  Speaker 4: going to be any chance of getting the toothpaste back in.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm sure the government's going to clean this up
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  Speaker 5: and make it way more efficient.
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  Speaker 4: For sure, you gonna doze it. But look, I applaud
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  Speaker 4: the trying. It doesn't hurt to have a conversation. Certainly,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of people Nick Saban's probably the first
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  Speaker 4: person that's listed in this article like.
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  Speaker 2: Being invited to this thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like, if there's ever going to be a chance of
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  Speaker 4: anything happening, they have to do it at that type
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  Speaker 4: of level. And look, it doesn't hurt to have discussions.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure there's gonna be discussions like here's like what
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  Speaker 4: we like legally, what can be done, what cannot be done?
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  Speaker 4: And this isn't going to be the show that can
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  Speaker 4: tell you those things. It's just looking at this from
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  Speaker 4: a thousand foot view for them for trying. And it
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  Speaker 4: certainly has a like a list of people going to
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  Speaker 4: the meeting for this roundtable discussion at the White House
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  Speaker 4: that can potentially talk about it because we know, like
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  Speaker 4: we've talked about it a ton like college football when
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  Speaker 4: college athletics in general is absolutely one drunk, and it
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  Speaker 4: starts with college football. The bell count, everything that schedules
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  Speaker 4: messed up more than any other sport. The schedules messed up,
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  Speaker 4: the calendar, everything is just strange about it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: The product on the field is beautiful and it's great
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  Speaker 4: and it's amazing, but it's everything that surrounds it that
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  Speaker 4: affects people's overall view of college football. I believe it
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  Speaker 4: certainly affects mine my personally. I hate some things about it.
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  Speaker 4: I love the product, I love watching the games, but
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  Speaker 4: I hate a lot of things about it. And I
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  Speaker 4: think we all think that it needs to be more
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  Speaker 4: common sense. There needs to be more guardrails, there needs
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  Speaker 4: to be more bumpers, but it's never gonna really happen
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  Speaker 4: unless there is a higher involvement. And maybe this discussion
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  Speaker 4: is just an jury of an entry point, an on
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  Speaker 4: ramp to how do we even do that? Like how
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  Speaker 4: would that even be done? What needs to be fixed?
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  Speaker 4: Because there's a lot, but like where do we start?
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  Speaker 4: I can't do everything at once, But if there's a
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  Speaker 4: chance to do something, maybe it's something small, Like we've
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  Speaker 4: all we've seen people, media people and college football people
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  Speaker 4: all over the place give their opinions on what needs
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  Speaker 4: to be done. Well, let's get a little roundtable discussion
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  Speaker 4: on what can truly be done, Like what could actually
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  Speaker 4: legally be done in some sort of timely manner, maybe
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  Speaker 4: develop some sort of plan of how do we work.
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  Speaker 4: We know NIL is not going anywhere. We're not, they're not.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's trying to change that. College athletes are getting paid,
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  Speaker 4: that's never going backwards. But the little things like the schedule,
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  Speaker 4: the transfer portal windows, the timing of games, the timings
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  Speaker 4: of national signing days, like all these things that when
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  Speaker 4: people that are just sports fans, that aren't just college football,
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  Speaker 4: Like in Louisiana we were a little bit spoiled because
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  Speaker 4: of our college foot like because of LSU. Everybody's good
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  Speaker 4: like we are, so folks hyper focused on college athletics.
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  Speaker 4: Not everybody else in the country is. But when people
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  Speaker 4: that are just sports fans that are focused on everything,
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  Speaker 4: when they look at like the Lane Kiffin situation, like
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  Speaker 4: that stunk because of the calendar. Nothing else, like coaches
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  Speaker 4: leave all the time, they go take other jobs all
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  Speaker 4: the time. It was the timing of everything. So it's
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  Speaker 4: the things like that that can be fixed, I feel like,
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  Speaker 4: but it does have to come from a highland. So
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  Speaker 4: kudos to them. Anybody any on the other side of
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  Speaker 4: the glass, and any thoughts on the administration calling a
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  Speaker 4: meeting at the White.
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  Speaker 5: House, I kind of think they have other stuff to
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  Speaker 5: worry about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like when the government, like we've talked about
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  Speaker 6: this before. I don't like when judges, federal judges get
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  Speaker 6: involved in college football at local judges, No worry about
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  Speaker 6: your own stuff, Like it's college football. It's it's like
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  Speaker 6: not even the real world. It's college sports, guys, let's
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  Speaker 6: focus on that. But I mean, you brought up a
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  Speaker 6: point of I appreciate the effort. I appreciate them trying,
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  Speaker 6: Like Russell Dellen should put this out yesterday that the
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  Speaker 6: NCAA sent members a memo announcing they were planning to
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  Speaker 6: aggressively pursue tampering violators with significant penalties. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: they put out a few of what it would be
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  Speaker 6: like some of the guardrails that they want to put
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  Speaker 6: up prevent me.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Dabo Dabo called them out.
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  Speaker 6: Ole Miss fans got the tizzy when blank Kiffin went
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  Speaker 6: after like one Ole Miss player. They said that the
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  Speaker 6: head coach would be prohibited from all football and administrative
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  Speaker 6: duties through the sixth game of the season, so essentially
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  Speaker 6: a six game suspension if they were called. The school
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  Speaker 6: would be fined twenty percent of its football budget. I
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  Speaker 6: mean LSU makes multimillion dollars a year off of football.
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  Speaker 6: That's a pretty big chunk of cash. Like you could say, oh,
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  Speaker 6: twenty percent, that's big. And another one would be the
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  Speaker 6: school would be required to reduce the number of roster
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  Speaker 6: spot it's by five for the next season, regardless of
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  Speaker 6: if the coach is still at that school. So if
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  Speaker 6: a coach is called Tambourine. You move on from him
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  Speaker 6: and fire him, it doesn't really matter. So these are
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  Speaker 6: just some things that they have proposed. So there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of talk, I mean, Donald Trump, know Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: across the NCAA of we got to do something to
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  Speaker 6: maybe kind of rain this thing in a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Something used to be done. But I don't know why
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  Speaker 5: we can't just have that committee without the diplomats or
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  Speaker 5: like the government, you know what I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean, because like and I guess at the heart of it,
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  Speaker 4: if they could have the committee, but they're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: have any say. So I'm not saying that the White
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  Speaker 4: House will, but I guess if there's anybody that could, it.
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  Speaker 2: Would be the White House.
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  Speaker 4: Like Taylor, you say you don't like the judges being
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  Speaker 4: involved in it, Well, the NCAAA is not enforcing anything.
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  Speaker 4: They can't Well, because schools found the loophole.
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  Speaker 2: They just get their local like no point.
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  Speaker 4: Like nothing highlights that point better than our own coach
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  Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin. You know, he's fantastic on social media, very active.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see him at Dez Bryant yesterday? It does
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  Speaker 4: Bryant just tweet something that he does. Brant just said,
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  Speaker 4: good morning, yeah, and randomly Blane Kiffin said, good morning,
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  Speaker 4: does want to get an injunction today? Like it's a
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  Speaker 4: joke and it's funny, but it's also kind kind of true. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's real. And look, the NCAA. You can criticize
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  Speaker 4: them over plenty of things over the years. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying you can't.
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  Speaker 6: But all the people that are against the changes and
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  Speaker 6: everything happening in college football, I hear time and time again, well,
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  Speaker 6: why doesn't the NCAA a step in and do something
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  Speaker 6: they can't? The NCAA will oppose a rule and a
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  Speaker 6: player in a school just be like, oh we're suing,
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  Speaker 6: We'll take them to court, put a rule in our favor.
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  Speaker 6: Don't care like their hands are completely tied here. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know what people expect them to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not like defend the NCAA in any of
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  Speaker 4: this because they they opened up the floodgates. You started it, right,
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  Speaker 4: you started it, and you got your surprised that a
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  Speaker 4: country full of businessmen in competitive states found loopholes in
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  Speaker 4: ways to say you got absolutely no power. And that's
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  Speaker 4: what they've done. Now, how do you get it back?
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  Speaker 4: They certainly can't get it back. Somebody is going to
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  Speaker 4: have to get something back to some power to somebody
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  Speaker 4: and not leave it up to as when Kiffen pointed
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  Speaker 4: out injunctions and local judges who probably graduated from that
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  Speaker 4: Alma water.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, what's happening?
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  Speaker 4: So I, from my seat applaud the effort, and I
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  Speaker 4: hope that there's something that can be done, at least
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  Speaker 4: little things like just something like somebody show a little backbone,
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  Speaker 4: somebody shows something that we can change a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I don't have a lot of faith in it because
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  Speaker 4: I think, like I said, the best business people in
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  Speaker 4: the country and competitive states are always going to try
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  Speaker 4: to find a way. But certainly sanctions would help. Certainly
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  Speaker 4: penalties would help, but who's gonna enforce them? I got
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  Speaker 4: no idea. And will we see Desbrian in LSU uniform
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  Speaker 4: next year? Was really the main point of this whole segment, hope,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: So get those get those injunctions filed. All right, we're
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: gonna kinda break You got anything to say, Kane, No,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: all right, we're gonna go break stick with us, off
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  Speaker 4: the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Off the bench.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you tired of talking about college football, college athletics,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: how messed up it is.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you need a nice cold beer and that's
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  Speaker 2: So if you it's the weekend, it's Friday. Look.
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  Speaker 4: We like to South Louisiana. We love to kick back,
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  Speaker 4: relax with our family, our friends. We love to have
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  Speaker 4: a good time. We love to laugh, we love to
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: tell stories. And guess what a little drink in the hand,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: make sure it's a dose. Seconds you go to your
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  Speaker 4: local watering hole, you go to your local grocery store,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: wherever it is, wherever you find your stuff, make sure
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  Speaker 4: you're grabbing that green bottle, a big green can, whatever
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  Speaker 4: friends do responsibly, But when you do drink, do sequis.
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  Speaker 1: I can't go any further than these.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: It's my biggest wish, from the locker room to the airwaves.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And all those things. We used to, used to, used to,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: used to do.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here number two from the Raised
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Canes Studio. I think we pretty much solved everything college
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: football was college athletics.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I was last segment.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Tiger Woods alone. Probably absolutely Condeza Rice.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: I was writing her name down in my little notes here.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I've never spelled her name before.
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  Speaker 2: It's spelled ridiculous easy Ez.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Doubles, absolutely ridiculous. Thank you for you know, service work
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: for the country. Actually a member of Augusta National as well.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: One can only dream that is one of my bucket
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: list goals in life, as well as like tens of
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: thousands of other people play Augusta National. I'm just throwing
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: that out there, so if anybody's listening, No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 2: I've been. I've entered the lottery the last two years
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and didn't hit.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Dang, you don't know anybody. I mean, how can you
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: get in the Kentucky Derby but you can't get to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Augusta True.
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  Speaker 2: I know somebody.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: I mean it's a little bit more scott rabble egos
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: every year. Nice to the masters.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I can get I can get a credential. Yeah, that's
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: that's what he does.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: The advocate gets him a credential every year and he
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: goes to the masters.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Off the bench coming from you from amen corner'd be awesome.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: You can just set up the table right right right there,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: right there on the green. Yeah, I play the balls.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: It lies, Bud.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: You could be an extra obstacle. They're like, you're gonna
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: have to hit the ball over the radio host he's
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: about two twenty out.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: No, I will not be quiet. I'm on radio.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: I'm live. Give the people what they want, these hot takes.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Roy mcroy's lined up to putt and he hears me go, babe, God,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: it's Friday.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Guys, did you see you? Do you do one show?
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: Guarantee send you for like the week you call them
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: me Like, guys, I got kicked out day one.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Want to come back. We took my credential. Let's do
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: it from the parking lot. Parking lot of Augusta at
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: least that would have been there.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: So, just like tens of thousands of other people, that's
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: one of my bucket lists, of course, play Augusta National.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I'm starting to get a little bit wary, and no,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I'm not as confident as I once was that it's
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: gonna happen.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: No, it's gonna happen. Okay, Okay, I don't know how
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: it's gonna happen, but you're gonna be at Augusta.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate that attitude. There's not that many members. Yeah, you.
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Have to know at least one person that is in
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Augusta or like has connections to it. You have to.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know a couple of people that have played,
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: but I don't know who they played with.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: But also I'm going to just speak it into existence
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: that you're going to get the lottery.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: So, like I believe even like members, they are regulated
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: on how many rounds they can play a year. Now
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: they can play a lot, of course, but so they
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: are very choosy of course on people they bring. Of course,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: the if you're a member of Augusta, you have to
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: be invited. You can't apply, like it's a secret club.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Got to be invited, not cheap. It doesn't really matter
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: who you are. Everybody's treated the same.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: But look for you, the person you're you know, the
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: best that's the best shot is obviously Aaron Rodgers. But
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: how close are you to anyone affiliated with the Patriots
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: or Raiders because I promise you tom Brady could get
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: you in.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Tom Brady can play a ghost if he wants to look.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I mean tom Brady could find somebody.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: If he's not a member, he can find somebody that
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: is a member. But he's not Peyton. He's not calling
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Augusta and saying let me play around. That ain't happening.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: I don't care who you are. He could get in, though,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: he could find somebody to take him. I'm sure anybody
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: who getting off at the best to take him. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: believe Peyton Manning is a member. I believe Jake knows
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Peyton Manning.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: That's the rumors. Why'd you point it, Kane? Is Jake's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: normally sitting there? Kine has no I don't think dogs
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: are allows. A dog poop on the green.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Someone that's listening to has to have something. So if
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: you if you love Matt Flinn, Matt Flynn won y'all
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: in national championship, get this man to.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Augusta, take me to Augusta. Please.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: There's someone else, is it Todd Polites that always goes to.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a Todd thing.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: I might have that wrong, but somebody over there like
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: in the sports properties always goes Man when you and
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Natty you can't get him to Augusta.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Come on, Kane, what about your well your owner?
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Todd.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: That he's gone.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I think the odds are probably like minus probably
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: thirty five hundred that I probably won't play.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Your olds are better.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: You've like you've some odds for some of the stuff
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: that you've done in your life is probably pretty high.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: To JP, LeBlanc in the chest said, I couldn't even
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: get into play Angola.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Angla does have a little golf course in a rodeo.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: It's a great rodeo.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: No, but I hear it's great.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Taylor, have you.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Been where they once? When I was really really young,
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Like I don't remember. I have like a picture of
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: me like they had like a stealthed bull, but I don't.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I don't remember it. Uh, we went.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: The only time I've ever been was when we were
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: living in Saint Francisville and Huck was actually like newborn newborn.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: This was like that.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I think it was the Fall the Fall rodeo and
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: he was born in early September.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: It took him. It was really it was fantastic.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: A lot of crafts people loading up on rocking chairs
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: and cutting boards and all sorts of stuff made there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear the arts actually pretty good.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah that's actually yeah, it was, it was. It was
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: actually really fun, really enjoyable. I'm sure a lot of
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: people listen and have been maybe multiple times. Yeah, people
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: do they like bring trailers and load up on Yeah,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: you know, handmade furniture and all sorts of cool stuff.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Very fun. I'd about to go.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Should we call it J Clark?
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, we're gonna go to break and when we come back,
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back right here off the Bench Friday
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  Speaker 4: morning five from the Raizy Kines Studio. We are honored
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  Speaker 4: to have coach Jay Clark your head coach of LSU
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Gymnastics name joining the show this morning. We are thankful
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: each and every week that he joins. Coach, how you doing.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Doing good this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Guys, Hell, y'all doing fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: We appreciate the time and apologize for being a couple
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: of minutes late. There is absolutely no reason for it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: We just absolutely just went off. We saw a squirrel
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: last segment and we just kind of kind of lost
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  Speaker 4: track of time. So we apologize for the delay here, coach,
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: But glad that you're joining us. Well, let's talk about
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: let's talk about this past week. Let's talk about your
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: team and headed into a head and end the night
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: as well. So last week, last week, last Friday, you
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: lose a great match to a fantastic Oklahoma team, of course,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: but you put up a season high road score, kaylen
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Chio with a pair of tens on the night.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: How do you think.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Let's let's get a little recap of that meat and
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: how how your team did well?
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: I mean, you know, in our sport and people hear
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: me say this and they they kind of get confused.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: It's the wins and losses don't determine an awful lot
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: for us. It's you know, our our scoring average is
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: what determines how we're seated in the postseason. So even
• 29:55
  Speaker 7: in a loss, we ended up improving our position nationally
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: and putting some distance between us and and uh some
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: other people that are that are below us. But at
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: the same time, we do want to win them all
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: and and uh it does matter to us. But when
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: you go into an environment like that Oklahoma had their
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: first sell out and program history of an incredible environment very
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: similar to what we experienced here at feedback on a
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: regular basis, and and uh it was a great environment.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: And when you can stay within two tenths of a
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: team that's at or above where you're scoring averages, you
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: you kind of come away feeling like, in many ways
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: that's a win. It's uh, you our environment is probably
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: worth two tents to us and and uh and so
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: when you can stay with them and and and do
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: what you've done is the competence booster, even in defeat,
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: which is kind of anesthetical to the way most people think.
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: But at the same time, we felt good about what
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: we did. I felt like we raised our floor. Which
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: has sort of been a theme of ours this year
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: is that every week we want to raise our floor.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: We don't know where our ceiling is. We think our
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: ceiling is very very high. But but every week, week
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: over week, we want to raise our floor. And we
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: felt like we did that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're you're your leader, Kaylin. She has a
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: pair of tins on the night. Yet, just for the
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: the lay man out there, talk tell us what goes
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: into a perfect How incredibly difficult is that to achieve
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: in gymnastics because obviously it's a perfect score, there's no
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: flaws in any but like from they has to be
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the best of the best doing the best routine on
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: a special night. But your team continues to make it
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: look a little bit routine. How just how difficult is
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: that to do well?
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: She in particular makes it look routine and and honestly
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: on the ball, and I thought she had done some
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: better balls that had not gotten that And and there
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: is a subjectivity to all of it, you know, it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: what's seen by that judge in that moment, and and
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: uh so it was a it was one hell of
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: a ball for sure that she that she did, But
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: we felt like there were some others that probably could
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: have done the same thing. So much of it is
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: you know, the level of consistency that you show, and
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: you know, it's like anything else. Michael Jordan could get
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: away with a lot of stuff on the court because
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: because of the reputation that he built for himself as
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: being the best player ever and and so similar similar
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: to that. Over time, you know, you you you build
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: a reputation for doing things at the highest level and
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: the most consistent level. And and sometimes there's an expectation
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: that gets built into the human element of judging what
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: is inherently a subjective sport. You know, all sports have
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: subjectivity in him, ours is the most obvious because everything
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: is judged. But uh, you're not going to tell me
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: that colling balls and strikes is not subjected. And you're
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: not going to tell me that that past interference is
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: not subjected. So there's there's a lot of things that
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: are that are similar. Ours is just most obvious. And
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: I think she's just more than anything. She does an
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: amazing job being consistent week over week, and I think
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: that helps her achieve those individual accolades. Although you're not
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: gonna hear me talking awful lot about the individual stuff.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: It's very short lived with us and and it's not
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: something that we really emphasize it all. I'm just glad
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: she's on our team and puts those kind of numbers
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: up for us.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because you bring up that's such a great point
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: because anywhere in life, and especially in sports, that subjectivity
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: comes into play in so many things. And the person
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: that is consistent, usually whether a ref for a judge
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: means to or not, will give you the benefit of
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: the doubt. And certainly she wins at SEC Gymnast of
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: the week for I think the fourth time this year,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: which is gonna give you a lot of benefit of
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: the doubt. Yeah, but you come back home. You're coming
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: back home tonight. Look to continue your dominance at home.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: I believe it's an eighteen meet win streak in the
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: PMAC and looking to extend that to nineteen take on Aliban,
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: number three, Alabama and the PMACK. How are you feeling?
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: I believe we're getting pretty close to the postseason here,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: So how are you feeling coming back home? Yeah?
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: I mean we feel really good. The thing you got
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: to worry about is you come out of a big
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: emotional build up and high of going on the road
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: one versus two, and how does that affect you? But
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: I've been I've been pretty pleased with what I've seen
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: in preparation this week. I think we're in a good place.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: We we know that Alabama is a vastly improved team
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: over over what they were last year, and and fully
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: expect them to push us and give us a test
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: in there tonight. And and that's where our environment comes
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: into play, because you know, uh, the battery can get
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: drained when you get late in the season like this,
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: and it can, it can. It can be tough to
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: get up week over week over week and stay at
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: that at that fever page. So we need our fans
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: to get in there early and loud and and prime
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: prime the pump, if you will, a little bit, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: and and get in there and create an environment for us.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: But we're excited about it. I think we're relatively healthy
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: for the most part. We helped some kids out last
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: week against Oklahoma, and still we're able to do what
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: we did and and uh, I think over the last
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: the last three weeks of the season, our goal is
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: to continue to improve but also get get a little
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: bit healthier and be all guns of blazing when by
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: the time we get into March and.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: April because I'm curious as to like you talk. I
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: know that the PMAC and your team, they have the
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: advantage of having some of the best fan bases and
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: the best home crowds in the entire country. What does
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: that mean to your girls when they're performing? And I know,
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: like when you go on the road, it's not necessarily
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: like some of the other sports where it's like super
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: hostile environment when you're performing on the road, but you'd
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: be surprised, I can imagine for sure, But I'm assuming
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: that it gives them. I think you talked about it
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: earlier in an answer about maybe a two tenths advantage
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: or something close to that. But like, what is that
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: feel like for the girl? What is that advantage they
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: get from the home crub.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: Well, it's just the energy that comes down you walk
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: into a room of thirteen thousand people that don't necessarily
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: know everything about your sport because it you know, they
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: understand some basics, but they don't understand everything, but they're
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: at a fevered pitch because of the fact that you're
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: wearing purple and gold. That energy just it just it
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: just feeds our kids. And the challenge for us on
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: the road has always been. Are we dependent on that?
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: You know that we don't want to be dependent on it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: We want to we want to use it to our
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: advantage when we're at home, and certainly we do and
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: but but we can't become dependent on that. It means
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: an awful lot. I'll tell every recruit that comes on
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: our campus the first thing I show them when we
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: walk into PMAC is when they come out of that tunnel.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: And I promise you, if you come to LSU the
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: first time you come out of that tunnel and it's
• 36:19
  Speaker 7: dark and all you can see is the flashlights on
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: people's phones, but you hear the thunder coming down, raining
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: down on you, It'll it'll make the hair on the
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: back of your neck stand up, and it'll be one
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: of the most memorable things you have in your lifetime.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: And so it's unique to to LSU. Uh. There's not
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: another environment like it in our sport. There's one other
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: that can get close to the numbers that that get
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: into their arena, but there's not an environment like ours.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: Ours is loud, Ours is raucous. Ours is fast paced
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: and entertaining, and it's it's just something special and unique
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: to our to our our place here at l s U.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let coach.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: I couldn't like even imagine doing what they do in
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: an environment like that. Like I played football, like I
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: was able to like crowd noise, Great, you just run
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: and hit somebody, right, You didn't have to stand on
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: a tiny beam. You didn't have to execute a like
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: all the crazy uh crazy things that they are able
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: to do in such an environment. And that kind of
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: like brings me to my next question, Like you have
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of veterans on the squad,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of classmen, and does it
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: help and you navigate such a hard schedule throughout the year,
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Like does it help having them who's like really taking
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: on those leadership roles from just like a psychology standpoint,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: getting getting the team ready each and every week.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, going into this year, I was concerned
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: because you lose a Hayley Bryant and Leah Finnigan and
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: kJ John. We lost a lot of production and a
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: lot of boys in kids last year, and and I
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: was concerned who's gonna who's gonna fill those those those
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: voids and those gaps, and really kept waiting to see
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: is it gonna be one or two kids that kind
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: of step to the forefront. I mean, obviously Chio has
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: done it leading by example, but she's also matured an
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: awful lot into saying a lot more and bring a
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: lot more to the table. But it's been sort of
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: by committee. It's interesting. We've got a freshman that Nina
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: Blue that really she's so frigging passionate about LSU. She's
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: been coming to our camp since she was seven years old,
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: and every day she reminds everybody that it is such
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: an incredible blessing. It's like the dream of a lifetime
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: to be here doing what she's doing, and she inspires
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: an awful lot. We got transfers that have come in
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: that are seniors from other places that are grateful for
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: the resource and and the team that they have around
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: them now that they didn't have at other places, and
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: they provide us with a lot of context and perspective
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: on how blessed we are to have everything that we
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: that we have. So it's been by committee. And I
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: kept wondering early on where we're gonna what was the
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: identity of this team gonna be, And really it's an
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: identity of kind of a collective support for one another, there.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: I mean, these kids love each other and it's evident.
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: And you guys know what you've been in locker rooms
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: when you know you have that and when you don't.
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: And and for the most part, our kids are very
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: much together. And I think that makes a huge difference,
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: even in an individual sport where they go one at
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: a time. It changes the way the pressure feels when
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: you know that you're doing it for each other. And
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: I think that's kind of where we're at.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that kind of chemistry does show through on all sports,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: and it has certainly shown through with your team coach.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: You got, of course, the meet tonight and then Sunday
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: the podium challenge. How does that and it's a it's
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: a four team, four team meet, So how does that
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: kind of change your preparation? Does it really change like
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: having more teams in a meat Does that change the
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: way you go about or structure the roster.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: No, but it gives us. It gives us sort of
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: a dress rehearsal for what's coming in about three weeks
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: at the SEC Championships, we get on a podium, there's
• 39:40
  Speaker 7: four teams. It changes the format a little bit just
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: in terms of the pace of the meat, and it's
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: I think it's important to experience that. When we're on
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: a podium on a raised surface, the equipment feels different.
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: It's got a little more bounced to it than when
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: you're laying it down on a basketball floor. And so
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: we just make those adjustments and and get it get
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: in a different, uh sort of space spatially, because so
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: much of what our kids do, you know, they're ten twelve,
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: some cases thirteen feet are better in the air and
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: flipping and twisting. They're very visual. They spot things like
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: like camera splashes going off, and being on an elevated
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: surface like that can change that spatial awareness a little bit.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: So it's just a good experience for us as we
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: get ready for the postseason. Really doesn't matter how many
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: teams or who's on the floor. We don't have defense
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: and things that really affect us in terms of who's
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: out there with us. But it's it's very valuable for us,
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: and we hope, I mean, the hard part is is
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: that we're two miles down the road and our fans
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: are going to see us on Friday night, and will
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: they still come out on Sunday and will the environment,
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: you know, feel good in there, and that's something that
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: we want to encourage our fans to get down there
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: on Sunday afternoon too. I said the other day, you
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: get to church, get some lunch, get your kids out,
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: go to a meet, get them fed, and get them
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: in bed. That's the way your Sunday needs to look.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: And so we're hopeful that everybody will come see us
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: on Monday afternoon down there too.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you came up with that, but
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: that is fantastic. Coach.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Everybody listening, go out support support your tigers as they
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: take on Alabama. And then they got the podium challenge
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: on Sunday, and he is, mister j Clark. We appreciate
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: your time. We will be watching, we will be cheering,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: we will be chanting tens all weekend long.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: So we appreciate it.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: I appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me on.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Of course, thank you so much. We appreciate it.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: All right there, he gets head coach, have your gymnastics team,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: LSU Gymnastics, Jay Clark. Fantastic insight, fantastic look into the team,
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: the mindset, the girls, the meats, everything so awesome and
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: absolutely the best gymnastics fan base in the entire country,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: and I can promise you that because there's like I
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: have two little girls who love gymnastics, and there's like
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: ten like fantastic gymnastics schools here at that region. I
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: got to say that all of those has to be
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: in correlation and in response to the popularity of the
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: LSU gymnastics team.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So good luck to them.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: Hope they continue their rain number two in the country,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: taking on number three to night in the PMAC l
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: s U versus Alabama.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: All right, stick with us, we will be right back
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  Speaker 3: Off the bench, locked in on LSU football twenty four
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  Speaker 3: to seven.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, did y'all see the video coming out from the
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  Speaker 4: NFL Combine Aaron Glenn, head coach.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: All in asleep. It's not a good look.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: He's gonna be fired next year, dude. I heard people
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  Speaker 2: Don't go.
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  Speaker 6: It's a better look to not go to the combine
• 44:23
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• 44:24
  Speaker 2: And I did it. It's boring.
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  Speaker 4: It's born like I think Bill Belichick fell asleep one year, right,
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  Speaker 5: Sets almost got him. I'm happy with Kellen.
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