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Hour Two | Lane Kiffin Takes the Stage · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
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  Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied to.
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  Speaker 3: Come off the bench.
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  Speaker 1: Hour two of Off.
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  Speaker 4: The Bench Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
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  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in O TV.
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  Speaker 6: Hour number two here live from Tampa, Florida. SEC Media Days,
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  Speaker 6: l s U Day, Mississippi State, Texas and Arkansas here
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  Speaker 6: as well. Don't I don't know, man, I got, I got.
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  Speaker 6: I got a little beef with some of the Austin
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  Speaker 6: stations that just showed up today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is one down here that they literally and
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  Speaker 2: repeat I've ever seen them all life. Yeah, they made
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  Speaker 2: a mistake. And what with the ten foot wide. I've
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  Speaker 2: done it because a lot of conferences you do ten
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  Speaker 2: by tens is the booth you get. So you get
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  Speaker 2: a ten foot wide you want to come out, but
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  Speaker 2: most of the times you're in like little hotels like
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  Speaker 2: this and it's actually eight by ten.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you've you've messed this up.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching them do it. I was like, rookies,
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  Speaker 2: big dumb dumbs.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, just show up for Texas Days over Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Day, Like that's that's Texas fans man. So true, that's
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  Speaker 2: Texas fans.
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  Speaker 6: I grew up with him. You know what. Yeah, what
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  Speaker 6: is the breakdown there in Tyler? A little mixed bag. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: it's a mixed ban.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's probably most places in Texas. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: mixed bad, except it's like the actual town.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Texas fans, there's there was a lot. There
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  Speaker 2: was probably fewer Baylor fans growing up, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: there's more now.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit sexier now you say Baylor fans. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: like sickle. Yeah, that was just Gigham. I thought I
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  Speaker 6: was just or hook him and they're offspring. Yeah, yeah, there's
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  Speaker 6: more did not a lot too. Yeah, Yeah, you're the trader.
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  Speaker 5: I was the trader. You traded man, not a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate that they were all happy. Probably not. Actually, actually
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  Speaker 5: Baylor was not really I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think my senior year in two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and two thousand and two, it was.
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  Speaker 5: A guy Morris' first year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Baylor came coming from Kentucky, Kentucky, Yeah, and he
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  Speaker 2: was not real nice to my dad and one like
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  Speaker 2: during the recruiting stuff. Yeah, he was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if it was me, I wouldn't send my son to
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  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge Louisiana, and my dad was like, excuse me, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you don't think that I've done my research on this
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  Speaker 2: thing because my dad played He played quarterback there in
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  Speaker 2: the sixties, so a lot of people thought he was
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  Speaker 2: a shoeing and my dad kind of lost lost some
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  Speaker 2: you know, really for a little bit, had some friends
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  Speaker 2: over my guys, you'll think you are horrible.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Chipping Joanna don't even live in Waco yet, what
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  Speaker 6: are you selling here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? My god, guy Morris people it relaxed.
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  Speaker 6: It was always whenever you had to call the coach
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  Speaker 6: to turn them down. It wasn't very fun, as as
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  Speaker 6: you know. Well, seventeen for you, twenty three for me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, it wasn't very fun to have to do that.
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  Speaker 2: No, wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't having to call Mac Brown and a hate coach.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate everything you did, and I appreciate you offering.
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  Speaker 5: Me I did.
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  Speaker 6: We've talked about if lsu ever offered me what, it
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  Speaker 6: was probably going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Lu lu He was.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, Mac was awesome. There were some coaches.
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  Speaker 6: I don't even remember who the Miami coach was. He
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  Speaker 6: was a bum about it, but Mac was awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: he's always been.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that's what he was known for growing up, Like
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  Speaker 2: he was always known for being a very high level recruiter,
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  Speaker 2: one of those guys that could get along with anybody,
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  Speaker 2: could tell stories, could just draw you in as a
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  Speaker 2: human being, and that was one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 2: he was so successful. Now, I think it's his football
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  Speaker 2: coaching probably went downhill a little bit, but not his
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  Speaker 2: relationship build. And I think he's back in Austin. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's back in Austin and.
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  Speaker 5: Doing that bold makes sense and.
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  Speaker 2: Probably I don't know what an official capacity, but certainly
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  Speaker 2: helping around, helping around the the program.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, absolutely should be no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: Or I see, I think River's going over there to
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  Speaker 2: check the podium right now, Lane Kiffin should be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully any minute now. We can't sit here and promise
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  Speaker 2: you exactly what time, but any minute now be taking
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  Speaker 2: the podium and we will be.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, we'll be bringing you that.
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  Speaker 6: I got a Ladra and Cassie back in studio doing
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  Speaker 6: a great job listening out for it as well.
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  Speaker 5: They're going to be able to throw it up carry
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  Speaker 5: it for you.
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  Speaker 6: So look forward to that and again, I hope we
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  Speaker 6: do it and he's gonna have an opening statement. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know how long it's going to be, but I
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  Speaker 6: hope we do get some actual football stuff in there.
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  Speaker 2: If you had to ask him one question, See.
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  Speaker 6: Don't ask me that because you're not gonna like to answer.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna ask about football. Let me ask about Texas nose.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would not like it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know what I mean. It's like a general
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  Speaker 6: like people aren't gonna like it. I wouldn't be like
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  Speaker 6: anything old. I would ask him. LSU was one hundred
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  Speaker 6: and twenty six in rushing last year. You are a
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  Speaker 6: guy that has a point of emphasis to run the football.
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  Speaker 6: You do it as well as anybody in the country.
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  Speaker 6: You had a back Keewan Lacy that was one of
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  Speaker 6: the best one over fifteen hundred yards last year, had
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  Speaker 6: three hundred plus carries.
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  Speaker 5: What are you going to do.
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  Speaker 6: To fix the LSU running attack that's been really bad
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  Speaker 6: outside of Jayden Daniels for a long time. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 6: would be my question. I had thought about it.
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  Speaker 2: Go get your hand up.
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  Speaker 5: He could see these dab he right right right here.
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  Speaker 2: You think anybody's gonna have their hand up for a
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  Speaker 2: question with four Lane, any of the media.
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  Speaker 5: Members probably they don't really care.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you know, so this is your second year
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  Speaker 6: to do this typically on Thursday. There's zero juice in
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  Speaker 6: this nothing, there's nothing here and it is what it is,
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  Speaker 6: Eli drink, which you should like make fun of himself
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  Speaker 6: talking about it all the time. That's not gonna be
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  Speaker 6: the case today. There's gona be plenty of people in there.
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  Speaker 2: I would kind of ask him the question that I
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  Speaker 2: asked with I was like, for you know, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things, there's a lot of things that you're
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  Speaker 2: carrying going into the season. It's your first year. What
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  Speaker 2: is your determining factor? What is the bar you've set
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  Speaker 2: for a successful season.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, we're.
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  Speaker 6: Gonna find out the questions that are being asked. We
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  Speaker 6: are going to throw it back to studio. Alandra Cassi
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  Speaker 6: going to have Lane Kiffin live from the podium.
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  Speaker 5: Here for you on OTB CAL.
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  Speaker 7: The last paragraph I have I call the someone give.
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  Speaker 5: Knocks a hug for me paragraph.
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  Speaker 7: Last year, I introduced Lane by talking about his prolific
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  Speaker 7: social media activity. As of this morning, Lane has been
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  Speaker 7: off of social media since May eleventh, I'm told he
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  Speaker 7: gave it up because of a challenge from his son Knox.
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  Speaker 7: Thus my suggestion that someone give Knocks a hug for
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  Speaker 7: me who told his dad? Who told his dad, you
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  Speaker 7: spend too much time on social media. Welcome to the podium.
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  Speaker 7: LSU had football coach Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you, Commissioner. You know, I met the commissioner
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  Speaker 8: seventeen years ago I was head coach at Tennessee, and
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  Speaker 8: I just think about, you know, you can never predict
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  Speaker 8: the future of your life and the directions that it goes.
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  Speaker 8: Seventeen years later, third SEC job. He was the associate
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  Speaker 8: commission at the time and for commissioners slave and I
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  Speaker 8: just have great respect for Greg and what he's done.
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  Speaker 8: And then I think about the seventeen years and I
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  Speaker 8: think about how far the SEC has come since then
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  Speaker 8: when I first got into the conference, and through his leadership.
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  Speaker 8: You know, leadership, especially in the public eye, is not easy,
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  Speaker 8: and he has a really difficult job.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Greg does.
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  Speaker 8: An amazing job, amazing job of communicating with us as
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  Speaker 8: head coaches, and we don't always agree on his decisions,
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  Speaker 8: but I also understand now being around longer, and he
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  Speaker 8: has sixteen schools to please in fan bases and athletic directors,
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  Speaker 8: head coaches and presidents to answer to so many times
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  Speaker 8: his decisions that he has to come up and I
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  Speaker 8: appreciate him for the strength that he shows.
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  Speaker 3: Is really he's just making a.
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  Speaker 8: Decision based off what he's told to do by the
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  Speaker 8: by the ads and specifically by the President.
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  Speaker 3: So I appreciate Greg. I appreciate our.
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  Speaker 8: Friendship and you know, kind of growing through a lot
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  Speaker 8: of things together throughout the different stops of coming back
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  Speaker 8: to the SEC. Tampa is a really special place. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's kind of things just happen sometimes and flying
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  Speaker 8: down here just kind of putting thoughts together.
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  Speaker 3: You know that as a head coach of LSU, this
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  Speaker 3: being the.
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  Speaker 8: First time on the podium at SEC Media Day and
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  Speaker 8: being in Tampa for the first time. As Greg alluded to,
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  Speaker 8: this is a really special place, not just for my dad,
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  Speaker 8: but for my family, my kids all for grandparents lived
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  Speaker 8: here in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: This was a place that we came to.
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  Speaker 8: Every summer in great memories, and the glaciers of the
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  Speaker 8: Bucks have been phenomenal to our family throughout everything, and
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  Speaker 8: over the last two summers of losing both parents, both
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  Speaker 8: having services down here in Tampa, so really great place
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  Speaker 8: and really a lot of great memories here and a
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  Speaker 8: lot of appreciation for people here over our time in Tampa.
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  Speaker 8: So these seven months at LSU have been awesome. It's
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  Speaker 8: been amazing, you know, to come into Baton Rouge in
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  Speaker 8: the state of Louisiana and the acceptance and how great
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  Speaker 8: they've been to my family, and the commissioner talked about,
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  Speaker 8: you know, to have a son, Knox playing on campus
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  Speaker 8: and every morning they practice and then he just can
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  Speaker 8: walk over from practice onto campus is really special in
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  Speaker 8: how the community's been to us as family and the state,
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  Speaker 8: you know, over seven months, just seeing that Louisiana has
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  Speaker 8: built up hard working people that are really passionate in
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  Speaker 8: love football and I think that really fits in well
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  Speaker 8: with our staff and the values and principles that we
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  Speaker 8: bring into our organization, into our football program. So that's
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  Speaker 8: been great. There's so many things to do in Baton
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  Speaker 8: Rouge and the New Orleans right up the road. It's
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  Speaker 8: been great for our staff and for their families and
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  Speaker 8: been very appreciative that, you know. One of the things
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  Speaker 8: that has really stuck out to me has been the
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  Speaker 8: alignment at LSU from the top down, you know, from
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  Speaker 8: President Russ to burge osbur Athletic Director to our board
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  Speaker 8: of supervisors. You know, that alignment has been great from
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  Speaker 8: the first time I met with them and then a
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  Speaker 8: lot of times people you know, schools recruit just like
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  Speaker 8: coaches do, and then is it that way when you
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  Speaker 8: get there, And it's been amazing. That alignment and commitment
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  Speaker 8: to building a championship program has been great.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 8: One of the things at LSU in taking it was
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  Speaker 8: talking about, you know, the opportunities for the football players
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  Speaker 8: and the ability to recruit great players around the country.
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  Speaker 3: And one of those things that is branding.
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  Speaker 8: That you one of the reasons you we talk about
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  Speaker 8: it being just different.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this week I was meeting with our Nike rep.
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  Speaker 8: You know, think about how different it is for kids
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  Speaker 8: and in IL opportunities to come to LSU. You know,
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  Speaker 8: we have twelve football players that have in IL deals
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  Speaker 8: with Nike. No school in America has more than eight.
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  Speaker 8: So think about the difference of that as branding. About
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  Speaker 8: coming to LSU as a football player. Jordan's Seaton, our
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  Speaker 8: left tackle, has an ideal with Nike. There has never
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  Speaker 8: been an offensive Lineman ever to have one in college
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  Speaker 8: with Nike. So you know, that's just one of the
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  Speaker 8: many things when we talk about LSU being different and
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  Speaker 8: why it is a different place to come and when
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  Speaker 8: you come in, the association with LSU and the branding
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  Speaker 8: that goes with that nationally has has really been amazing
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  Speaker 8: to see and that really goes into the blueprint of
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  Speaker 8: what we're building and what I said seven months ago
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  Speaker 8: and I took the job, We're coming to LSU to
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  Speaker 8: sign the best players in the country out of high
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  Speaker 8: school and then mix that with the best portal players
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  Speaker 8: in the country and put them together. And that's led
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  Speaker 8: us into this roster that we have now, which is
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  Speaker 8: a really good mixture of that. You have some elite
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  Speaker 8: high school players we just signed some of the best
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  Speaker 8: the alignment in America. You know that'll be true freshmen,
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  Speaker 8: and then some elite portal first round portal players coming
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  Speaker 8: into that combination.
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  Speaker 3: That roster is exciting to work with.
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  Speaker 8: I can't wait to get to the field, get back
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  Speaker 8: to fall camp to do that. But it also excites
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  Speaker 8: me about the future of LSU two.
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  Speaker 3: Not just this year.
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  Speaker 8: We put together a roster that can win now, but
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  Speaker 8: as I look at when you build the program, where
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  Speaker 8: it really will go to another level is how you
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  Speaker 8: build your depth, and that you can't necessarily build the
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  Speaker 8: first year, but then you can once you sign the
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  Speaker 8: high school players in back to back classes and portal players. Remember, guys,
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  Speaker 8: I think the portal is thought so much about like
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  Speaker 8: every portal player is a senior or a one year player.
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  Speaker 8: That's not the case. A lot of times you sign
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  Speaker 8: a portal player, they may have two three years of
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  Speaker 8: eligibility left, so then you have them in your program.
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  Speaker 8: Now you go into year two, you've coached them already.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe they didn't even all the portal players aren't top players,
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  Speaker 8: you know, you build your depth through that, so they
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  Speaker 8: may be backups in year one and then year two
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  Speaker 8: they're year starters. So that's really exciting to me that
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  Speaker 8: we were able to build a roster that we can
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  Speaker 8: win now and to see the success of the high
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  Speaker 8: school elite players coming last year, committeing this year into
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  Speaker 8: this class, and then the portal players that we're able
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  Speaker 8: to sign in such a short period of time last
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  Speaker 8: year and now to have a whole year leading up
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  Speaker 8: to that. The future is really bright and really amazing.
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  Speaker 8: At LSU of what's to come, you know, when.
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  Speaker 3: You take over a program, it's really exciting. You know.
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  Speaker 8: I'm really fortunate Commission. I were talking back there and
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  Speaker 8: Fine Bomb, our historian of SEC, you know, gave me
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  Speaker 8: the stat there's never been a head coach to have
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  Speaker 8: three SEC jobs and that we're in the conference and
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  Speaker 8: that's really amazing to have those opportunities and be part
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  Speaker 8: of that. And it's so exciting for me when you
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  Speaker 8: take over a new job. And I've just kind of
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  Speaker 8: if you follow my life, I've built my life about
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  Speaker 8: pushing out of comfort and that may not be for everybody,
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  Speaker 8: and that's fine, that's just how I am. And so
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  Speaker 8: this job has really pushed me out of comfort to
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  Speaker 8: take a new job to.
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  Speaker 3: Be at LSU.
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  Speaker 8: Like everyone talks about the pressure of LSU and what
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  Speaker 8: comes with that, and there's more things to be done
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  Speaker 8: as the head coach of LSU the newhere I've been
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  Speaker 8: that are asked of me, and I've really enjoyed that
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  Speaker 8: and it's been exciting to do that and to rebuild
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  Speaker 8: with in a program, a roster, and to come in
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  Speaker 8: and a team come off of a seven and six
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  Speaker 8: season and then the expectations that everybody in the media
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  Speaker 8: has that we're supposed to be this great team right away.
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  Speaker 8: That's an awesome challenge. You want to talk about getting uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 8: that that does it. You know, expectations make you uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 8: They make you not be able to just go through
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  Speaker 8: motions in any aspect of your program. So that's been
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  Speaker 8: awesome and I really just can't wait to get on
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  Speaker 8: the field with them. You know, this has been seven months.
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  Speaker 8: There's been a lot of stuff, and you have the
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  Speaker 8: high school, then you have the portal, and you have
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  Speaker 8: spring ball, and you have all the things. And to
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  Speaker 8: just go coach with them on the field and to
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  Speaker 8: put these players together and start moving the pieces around
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  Speaker 8: and get them develop. That's always been something I think
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  Speaker 8: we've done really well. And all also has always been
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  Speaker 8: really exciting to me when you take the pieces of
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  Speaker 8: a new team's new years and if you look at
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  Speaker 8: our teams over the course of time, especially offensively, they
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  Speaker 8: look different every year because they're based off of the pieces.
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  Speaker 8: They don't just run the same plays and run the
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  Speaker 8: same systems, and that that's exciting to me.
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  Speaker 3: To come in and get these.
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  Speaker 8: Pieces from everywhere and to put them together, but you've
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  Speaker 8: got to get on the grass to do it. And
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  Speaker 8: the excitement of the schedule and to coaching Tiger Stadium
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  Speaker 8: and have the big opener against Clemson. Just really every
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  Speaker 8: day pushes us to be the best and really is
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  Speaker 8: exciting as to say to get back there. So the
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  Speaker 8: three players today that we brought, that wasn't an easy choice.
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  Speaker 8: We had a lot of really really good players. And
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  Speaker 8: you know, we brought three players. We left Sam our
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  Speaker 8: quarterback at this is an interesting time where this fell.
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  Speaker 8: We actually this morning had player led practices and so
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  Speaker 8: Sam was able to stay for that.
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  Speaker 3: And Sam's doing an amazing job.
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  Speaker 8: You know, these three players that we brought, I think
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  Speaker 8: are an interesting combination because you get a little bit
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: of everything to me of what college football is now.
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  Speaker 8: You know, TJ coming through the portal coming from Ole
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Miss to LSU, haven't been here a year before with
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: another school. You'd never thought that happened years ago. And
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: so to have a portal player that left a team
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: to come to us, and then you have that had
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: a chance to go to the NFL Draft and a
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: lot of people would have in his situation with a
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: coaching change and haven't played really well, and Witt decided
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: to stay. He wanted to see LSU return to dominance,
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: to return to the style of play that he grew
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: up watching, which was the reason why he came here,
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: and he wanted to come back to make sure he
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: was part of that.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have Trey Dez.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Of someone that in high school stayed in Louisiana, went
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: to LSU and now playing great and also had a
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: chance to go into the portal like all kids, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: decided to stay with the new staff. So I think
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: it's you'll really enjoy these three. And again that was
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: a tough decision because there's a lot of household name
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: players we could have brought today. You know the question
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: the commissioner mentioned there about social media and knocks, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: so I think, as I look back over my life,
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: one of the things that has been great is subtracting
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: things as you get older. And I think that's a
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: big part of growth if you really want to keep growing.
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: A lot of people add things as they go versus
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: subtracting things that are issues, whether that's diet, whether that's
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: in my situation, alcohol, whether that's things that are subtracted
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: along the way toxic relationships, things that as you grow,
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: you decide, Okay, I'm going to continue to grow in
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: Knox one days like Dad, there's no way you could
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: get off social media and if you know me.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Like that's the best thing to do.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: My kids have learned that too, if they really want
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: something to say, I can't do it, and I'm going
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: to do it, and so I'm like, well, I bet
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: I can. And it really wasn't a plan, and so
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: I got off of all of it and then it
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: was still on there and then I said, okay, I'm
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: going to go to another level. I just deleted the
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: apps and wasn't a long term plan. And it was
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: really interesting to see as I went through it because
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: it Knox pushing me to do that. Challenging me allowed
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: me to help other players, friends, coaches to say, man,
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: you should try this sometime, because once you remove something
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: from your life, you start to realize how many other
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: people are addicted to it or need it. And it
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: is interesting. Now I've did the five am workout at
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Camp Tampa and I watched as soon as the workout's
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: over this morning, what does ever do They rush to
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: get their phones because they got to get on there
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: and to be free of that has been interesting because
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: you don't compare Kevin Elko, who actually here in Tampa
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: did my dad's funeral. And Kevin used to say to
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: us years ago at Alabama and say, comparisons are the
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: thief of joy. And what I realized and what I
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: talk to people about now, is like, if you're not
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: on anything, you don't see anything all day, you don't compare,
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: because now social media does what You sit there all
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: day long and you start to compare your job, you
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: start to compare the city you live, and you start
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: to compare your vacation, your kids, your clothes, your car,
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: your significant other. And when you don't see that all day,
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: you're free of that comparison. So it's been an interesting study.
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: I've always, you know, made our kids, our players, you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: not have their phones in certain times, you know, like
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: team meetings and stuff, just to get them off.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Of them so they can learn to communicate.
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: But it's just been it's been interesting in a way
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: of being more present. So I appreciate knocks challenging me
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: on that, and it's been great.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The other question I get is the.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Nine game schedule, and like I said, I don't don't
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: always agree with the commissionerybody has hard decisions to make,
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: and we understand that. My concern was about the nine
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: games is that you're going to lose non conference games.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Teams will eventually get out of the bigger non conference
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: games because the selection process is not fixed and tel
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: that is fixed to really truly reward.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Strength of schedule.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: I was against it because I think what you're going
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: to have is more conference losses and you don't prove anything.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: If I'd keep playing we're all in the same counts,
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: we keep playing each other, we don't really prove that
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: we're better than anyone else, and we're taking away out
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: of conference games. So I just think that it's going
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: to cause issues that we've already seen until we can
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: get into a world where people can actually look at
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: teams and say that team that is nine and three
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: with their schedule as a better team than that eleven
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: and one in a different conference, which now I think
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: we aren't even close to doing that.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I think it caused the problem because we.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Don't have enough non conference in our sport, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: I look at other sports like baseball, Oklahoma just wins
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: the national championship in baseball, well, I think they're fourteen
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: and sixteen and SEC play Think about that in football,
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: would be nowhere near the playoffs, you know, on eleventh
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: in regular season and they win the national championship. But
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: they also have non conference games to show how good
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: they are. And so I just think that the system
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: wasn't ready for that change yet until they changed the
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: selection part.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Last part, I just want to say thank you to
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the media. You know, everybody talks.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: These coaches get up here and I see the things
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: you know on TV watch the day they talk about
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: their summer and everything they did and all those things.
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: And you guys giving up your time here in your
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: summer to be here to cover.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Us, and specifically to the SEC media. It's part of
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: what makes.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: The SEC so special because the intensity of the media
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: and the coverage and the passion that everyone talks about.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: The fans have, well the media has it too. So
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you guys. And with that, open to question.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: All right, if you have a question, we have Lauren
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Payton and Lane who have microphones. Come up here and
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: we'll start right here in front of me. Coach second
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: row Kirk right in the middle.
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: Kurt Bowls from the Houston Chronicle. Lane asked you a
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: few years ago what you're in al budget was at
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: Old Miss and you didn't say, but you just said, God,
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: I'd like to tell you. I was going to give
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: you a second chance today, ask you what you're in
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: al budget at lsu IS And do you think we're
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: ever going to see the day where every team's payroll
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: and every player's salary is published.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know that we're going to see that day.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: I think that again, this is a really hard thing
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: to get to. But if to do it right, just
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: like the scheduling would need to be fixed and would
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: be to have a real salary cap. And I know
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: what looked like it was going to be implemented, you know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: coming with the revenue sharing that that's not I think
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: I've always been the coach up here to just tell
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: you how it is that that's that's not being followed because.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It's not a real cap. It's not a hard cap.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: So that'd be like in the NFL, like hey we
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: have this cap, but it's not a hard cap and
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: you can go above it. So it's just really a
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: poor system. And like you said, things aren't public. You know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: the contracts are our public so different than the NFL.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: You know, where the NFL everybody has the contracts of
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: all the players and the other teams and everything, and
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: then you have long term contracts.
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: I think one of the things too, is you you
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: know I talk about this system of I believe you
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: build a system based off of where you are. We
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: talked about you build your offensive system off your players.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: You build your system of how many portal players high
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: school players. In my opinion, it's not hey, here's the
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: cookie cutter formula. Wherever you are, you go to LSU.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: You do it different, and you did it all mess
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: and so as you build it though, you know, you
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: can't say, in my opinion, some people will say, okay,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: the traditional.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Power should just build through high school.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: Well you study the NFL and they say, okay, well, yes,
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: the best teams overtime, you will sustain the longest by
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: building through the draft and supplement through free agency, because
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: that's where the long term contracts are at the lower
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: prices than the free agency. But our system doesn't have that. Now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: if you could fix it, where the high school kids,
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: my opinion, they should be lower just like I was
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: in the NFL when we drafted JaMarcus Russell before they
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: moved down the rookie salary cap and then they made
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: the slots for the draft because the veterans the rookies
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: were getting paid more than ten year events. Well, they
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: got that fixed, and that in our systems a little
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: bit screwed up.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: In my opinion.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: The kids that haven't played at all coming out of
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: high school should be making less than that. There should
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: be a freshman like a rookie cap of how they are,
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: and then the max slots per position that they make,
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: and then they they're signed to multi year contracts. So
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: now you really do get into Okay, you build through
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: high school because that guy can stay longer. I think
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: if you built through high school, now that's all you did,
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: and I think a couple of schools have done that
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: and it's not working out well because you don't have
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: they can leave after year one when they don't play
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: as much as they like, or they want more money,
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: or they do play and then they want more money.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: So that's why we built so much through the portal
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: and will continue to build a lot through the portal
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: because of the way the system is even though we
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: can sign great elite, top one hundred high school players
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: like we just did, like what's committing to us. But
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: we're still going to build a lot through the portal
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: until they balance out the system and they balance out
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: how contracts work.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: Coach, we'll go over here to our left hand side,
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: third row.
• 27:50
  Speaker 12: Hey, Coach Michael Bradden from that SEC podcast. When you
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: were at Ole Miss, you led them to the third
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: most wins in the conference since twenty two. You had
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: ten players drafted or signed his free agents in the
• 28:02
  Speaker 12: twenty five draft, eight players drafted or signed his free
• 28:05
  Speaker 12: agents in the twenty six class. You had a top
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: four portal class each of the last three portal cycles
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: you were there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dorritt first round pick.
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: Yet in a Vanity Fair article you said Oxford diversity
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: hurt you in talent acquisition. So what is it your
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: belief that if there was a little bit more diversity
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: all those numbers I cited could have been even better.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I had a feeling that was going somewhere.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: You were doing like really positive stuff the whole way through.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, this guy's good.
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: It sounds like you should work for Jimmy Sexton man,
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: You're like going a good direction there. You know, I
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: made a challenging decision and change, and I think as
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: I look back to that, I thought I could find
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: a way for everybody to understand. And now as I
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: look back later on, that was never going to happen.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: And I made a decision that I change jobs. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: as I get older and I go through things and
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: losing both parents, I was actually talking to Ross Dellinger
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: and I kind of said something that might sound kind
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: of funny to you, but you know, I watched the
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: Hulk Hogan Special and I realized and I was like,
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: we're all going to die, and so some of the
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: things that we put importance do we worry about and
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: what this person says.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: And that like really aren't going to matter.
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: And when I lost my dad, I started thinking that,
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: and I really started thinking when I grew up, there
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: were two people that I thought just wouldn't die, my
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: dad and Hulk Hogan. And then I watched that special
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: and really, like.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Hulk Hogan died too.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: There's no way Hulk Hogan was ever going to not
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: wrestle and die, and he did, and so it just
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: made me reflect really on, like I can't be so
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: concerned about little things and what people say in this
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: and you got to make decisions. You got to go
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: with them, and you do things, and you make really
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: good decisions, and you make poor decisions.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: And that was a poor usage of a term that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: I believe, just like many coaches that have been therefore,
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: was factual, but over the course of a longer interview,
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: was bad timing.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: And bad usage of the words. So it is what
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: I apologize when I said it, and moving on.
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: Got time for two more We'll start here in the center.
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: Aisle Hey coach Darryl Dappers locked on Albard after a
• 30:26
  Speaker 11: two year hiatus. Alvard and LSU play again this year.
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: Talk about what that game means to you. There seems
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: to be a nice little rivalry with Albard and some
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: of the things in the past. And how is Malik
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: blocked and progressing for you?
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Malik's doing great, really working hard, made a lot
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: of plays in springball.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I think Auburn's a great program.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: I think they got new energy with the coaching staff
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: and a really good offensive system coming in and keeping
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Dj Dirkin on defense. I think that you know they're
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: going to be a really improved program, and that's a
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: really hard place to play always and really gives people
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: a lot of problems. Kind of a magical stadium that
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: magical things happening. So that's one of one of many
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: extremely competitive games we have, including really for the first
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: time that you have five road conference games.
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: Which we'll go one final question over here on our
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: right hand sign over to the writings.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Hey coach this way the other way. Yep.
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: I'm Eddie Pel's from AP. I think at some point
• 31:34
  Speaker 13: after your social media cleanse, Congress introduced a bill that
• 31:39
  Speaker 13: has a thing in it called the Laane Kiffen Rule.
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: It's about coach movement. I think with that and with
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: a lot of the things that have been said about
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: your move I'm just wondering, do you think you get
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: a bad rap about you know that they look at
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: you sometimes say that's the problem with everything. Do you
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: think you get a bad rap?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: The good thing is I don't know if I do,
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: because I don't read anything. So it really is a
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: different way of not seeing. Like you just said that,
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: and I didn't know that until you said it. You know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: I guess in that I hope that some way for
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: future coaches they're not put in that situation. You know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: the NFL, you're never put in that situation because of
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: the calendar and because of the rules of movement within seasons.
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: So I do hope for future people that's that's fixed
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: so that you're not in that same predicament for players.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: For coaches, which really was a player issue too, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: then we fix that with moving the portal date back.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: That was more of an issue earlier in the postseason too,
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: as you saw players having to leave teams to get
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: into the portal during the season. So hopefully some way
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: they fix it for coaches too.
• 32:53
  Speaker 9: All right, Coach Givin, thank you for your time this morning.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: All right, guys, thank you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: All right, that was LSU head coach Lane Kiffin at
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: the podium. There a lot to get to and also
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: a lot of breaks to get to to try to
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: play a little catch up there. We'll start that process
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  Speaker 6: That was a thirty minute press conference, and we got
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  Speaker 5: But uh, Lane Kiffen only got to ask four questions.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: It was an a pro move to talk give them
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: monologue for over twenty minutes, so there wasn't a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time for questions. Yeah. I don't think that was planned.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know it should Hey I would have done it, yeah,
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: for sure, same way.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, but you made a great point.
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  Speaker 6: He got asked four questions and one guy asked him
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  Speaker 6: about Auburn.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, four questions and one guy asked him about Auburn.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly the fireworks we were hoping for.
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  Speaker 5: Right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yep that was we didn't learn a lot from the questions. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 5: We certainly heard him mention that.
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  Speaker 6: So yeah, I was I mean, I was hopeful that
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  Speaker 6: somebody he would ask him a football question about the
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  Speaker 6: team he's coaching.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Now we didn't. We didn't get that, which is fine.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's not something that I really expected to happen.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to have him a little bit later on
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• 36:14
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly, with four questions, you're not going to get
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  Speaker 2: to that. There was a couple of the first two
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: questions were very pointed, one being about like, what's the
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  Speaker 2: you know with U you think there will over be
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  Speaker 2: like some.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Sort of stable salary cap.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Do you think player salaries will be public knowledge ever published?
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: And things like that. So then the second question, very
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: well thought out. A guy was definitely trying to get
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: him to say something he'd asked him.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: You know, you had all this talent. It was a
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  Speaker 5: good setup too.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: It was like, yeah, this many draft picks, you had
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a first round quarterback, you had this, this and this
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: these years. Well do you think if there was more
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  Speaker 2: So I thought I thought he handled the question. I
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  Speaker 6: You know what it apologized the ultimate troll I need
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  Speaker 5: Drafted over the last right right a few times and
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  Speaker 6: And so yeah, not a lot of football questions in there.
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  Speaker 6: four questions, and again one was about Auburn and one
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  Speaker 5: Lane Kevin just took the podium.
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  Speaker 6: You heard it here, and if you didn't, you can
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  Speaker 6: go back in and certainly you can rewind on the.
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  Speaker 5: Show and check that out a little.
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  Speaker 6: I guess a little surprised by some of the questions
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  Speaker 6: that Lane got. Like I was expecting either more you know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: just old miss and like got your type questions and
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: the one got tried, but or like maybe some football
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: questions and how are you gonna win games?
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know that. It wasn't really what I was expecting.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: It was only four questions.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Lane did a good job of having that opening statement
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: ready to go.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that was that was probably the plan. I
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: would assume let's talk long, so we don't get a
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: lot of questions. But I mean, there's nothing that you
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: can point out and be like, he didn't do this,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: He didn't do that. I mean, he got four questions
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: and one of them was about Auburn football, which they
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: probably should have screamed that one. That was a waste
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: of time.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Hey, who you like when you get up there and
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: croby for I'm wrong And look.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: I'm not a big Jay journalist.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Maybe in moscona hoo's right here, maybe you can answer
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: this question. But like, hey, we're from Locked On cos. Sorry,
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: that's not shot of Marl. I'm just give me an example, obviously, yep, Marlar,
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: would you know be good to ask a question?
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: It works for us. You're you're not going Yeah, you're
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: not going. You're not going to the LSU coach.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: All Louisiana and Mississippi reporters, y'all, y'all have.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, locked on Auburn. Like, sorry, Bud, you
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: don't you don't need to ask a question.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, I don't get to think about what Lane
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: thinks of the coach and change at Auburn.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but look the answer you got on the second question,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: the one that the guy tried to set him up
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: with the diversity question of the Vanity Fair article. Like
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: he was he was ready for that, and he would
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: have probably given that the same answer with multiple different
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: types of set up questions like that, he was ready
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: for it. You could tell he wanted to make sure
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: that people knew that he apologized for that. He was wrong.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: He didn't handle that time right. He misread the room
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: a little bit. And look, pat the chest. We always
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: say you can make mistakes, just pat the chest.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and he did. Don't do a Brendan Soresby. Yeah,
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: don't be like bren don't put the arms out, put
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: the arms on your chest. So a little bit later on,
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: when I get like, i'm a I'm asking football questions and.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: We'll send those things.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and we'll have them here for you on the station,
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: we'll probably play some of those.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Oh god, we've got to work tomorrow. Yeah, like in
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: the studios.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, today's not Friday.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: Today, it's not Friday.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: So we'll have it for you tomorrow then. But that way,
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: because I think our listeners do. Because our listeners aren't on,
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: they don't care, like, they don't care about all of that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: They care about winning, and they care about LSU football
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: and what it looks like moving forward. I'm not saying
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: that those other people shouldn't care about that. I'm telling
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: you what the people that we talked to every day
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: care about, and so I want to get some actual Hey,
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: here's where LSU was bad last year, here's where you
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: were really good. How do you make LSU good at
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: what you were good at that they were bad at?
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, how you know you're known for being an
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: offensive guru. Your offenses have always been really good last year.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Look at what you did at ole Miss obviously, how
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: fast can you implement that?
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Like?
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Does it not take does it not take a little
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: bit to cook?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: You don't have to bake that a little like that
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: offensive strategy don't have to bake for a year? Like
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: can you expect the same type of production you are
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  Speaker 2: known for in a short period of time with all
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: new people?
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah? All right, again, we do apologize.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: We were going you know, we carried the entire press conference,
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: but we're gonna have to play a little catch up
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: here with some of the breaks.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: So this will be the last one that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: We have to catch up on and then we kind
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: of get back onto our normal clock. So one more
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: break here, then we're back to a normal clock. More
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  Speaker 3: That fiction.
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  Speaker 2: We were both like, oh, man, this tall because we're
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  Speaker 2: I guess, you know, most people don't think about him
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  Speaker 2: being tall, but he you know, he's formidable height and
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  Speaker 2: saying it next to trade As looks like a shorty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody does.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine, everybody does.
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  Speaker 6: We don't have the time here in this because again
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  Speaker 6: play a little catch out from the Lane Kiffing press conference.
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  Speaker 6: But in the next hour I do want you to
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  Speaker 6: kind of tell the people what you can do with
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: a tight end in your offense.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: That's a cheat code like that.
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because you've played with some really good ones in
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: your career, a lot of different skill sets. I would
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: say as well, but guys that were very effective and
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: as a quarterback, I think there's things that when you
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  Speaker 6: have a tight end that is oftentimes the best player
• 45:41
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• 45:44
  Speaker 6: you can utilize it in so many different ways. And
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: that's that's our hope for trade as Green. Yeah, I
• 45:49
  Speaker 6: mean it is.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: It's a weapon that is I got like that. It's
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: a it's a unicord, right. It's not many people ever
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: in their coaching career getting opportunity to coach a guy
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: like that that has that many weapons. Athletic, tall, lanky. Now,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: of course there's more and more teams using more and
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: more tight ends, but a guy like that that you
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• 46:13
  Speaker 2: the box like he creates so many disadvantages for the
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: other team and so many advantages for you. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be the challenge. I mean it certainly it's
• 46:21
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• 46:24
  Speaker 2: to utilize them but not force the.
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  Speaker 5: Ball to them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I do want to talk about that also,
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