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THE RETURN · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to a special special edition of the Just in
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Time podcast. Yes, Sir.
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I'll be sick of seeing us today. I will get well soon, brother,
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that'll be all right. But, you know, I felt like we
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had to give the baseball team their respect.
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But, you know, when was that? May 20th, you know, the last
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game of their season. The best news to come out of the
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LSU. It happened for LSU was go
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Tigers. Hello Geron.
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Coach O is back with the LSU Tigers.
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You know, love to see it. Love to see it.
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He hasn't coached. I saw a tweet this weekend.
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Edo Geron hasn't coached a college football team since it
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was legal to pay players. He is going to be a mess in the
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state of Louisiana. Is on lock for the LSU Tigers
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and Lane Kiffin. Yeah, like, this is a very
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unique time in this, in this school's history when it comes
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to athletics. You know, I told you the other
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day, you might as well just call LSU, rehire you.
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Yeah, it's it's it's rehire you. I'm.
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Going to put on these glasses so I can break down some numbers
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for y'all, OK? Johnny Jones fired so they can
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hire Will Wade, hired back in 2026.
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Will Wade gets into trouble and is fired by LSU.
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Hired in 2026 Coach Ed Ozieron, Mr. What door you want me to go
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out of? Ozieron fired in what, 2021?
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Yes, Sir. Fired in 2021, back in 2026.
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You know, there you go. All I'm waiting for is them to
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announce for baseball at Pulmonary is coming back as
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expenses baseball analysis. You had joked about that.
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Yeah. Special like that.
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Listen, come on. And then every team, every team
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that had a that contributed men's team that contributed to
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this bad stretch of, you know, and they don't even have to be
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pulmonary. They can bring best local dial
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for a special offense. And I'm good.
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Yeah, but you know, it's wild, you know?
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You know, like I said, just, you know, real quick before we dive
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into, you know, you brought up Will Wade.
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If you look at it from like a surface level standpoint, like
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objectively when it comes to college basketball, men's
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basketball, NC State is a far and away better job.
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Like LSU is a terrible job. Like just he cut this off.
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Just we looked at the history historically is a terrible job
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comparison. It's not even close.
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NC stays on a whole another level, but because this
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situation is so unique, that's, I know, like they're they're
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upset about. Yeah, it's a unique situation.
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I think like I said, like it's a terrible job.
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People need to be clear. It's a terrible job.
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It's a great story right now. It's a terrible job.
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The only coach who had any kind of men's basketball success was
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Dale Brown. Yeah, so so Dale, you know, he
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had led him to cut multiple Final Fours, 81 and 86 and they
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87 they were a game shy. They lost in the elite 8 if I
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remember. But like since this since 86 LSU
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men's program, they've only been to the Final four once in the
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last 40 years. Like in my in our lifetime has
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only happened once. We were in we were in middle
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school. So is this.
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And, you know, but I think a lot of Will Wade coming back has to
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do with the unfinished business he felt.
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Yeah, I agree. Because I think that his last
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year in 19, he was a game away from making it to the 8.
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If I'm not right, I think they were making it to the Elite 8.
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They were a game away. Yeah, in 2000, 2018-2019, lost
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regional semifinals to that side.
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That's the Sweet 16, Yeah. Yeah, so he was on a cusp.
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And I think if they we, and let's let me make it clear at
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that point we were in trouble for football stuff in Will Way
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was used as a scapegoat. He had to go to save the
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football team and. Which is the right to save?
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We made them the sacrificial lamb to save the football team
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because the football team is what brings you in.
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You know, baseball is arguably our most successful sport.
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Yeah, at least in the high profile sports.
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Yeah, for sure. But football is your numbers
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guy. We don't have the championships
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to match the baseball, but we've got the the money and stuff, you
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know? It's what pays for stuff.
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So it's it's just like looking at objectively, it's what pays
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for stuff because baseball has doubled the championships as
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football. So it's like they're not in the
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same level as like his success wise football, not the same
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level of year, but but it's more it's the most popular sport, you
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know, brings the dollars and they they have historic success
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in their own right, but it's just more popular and it brings
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the IT brings the money. So.
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And that's the one you should save.
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All right. You know, then Speaking of
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football, you know, just going into it with that ocean, you
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know, I never noticed this, mainly because I was at the
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games or I was just watching for the podcast, you know, But my
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uncle said he noticed that Edo Jerome was at a lot more
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baseball games this year than he's ever been to in the past
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couple years. So he could see it coming.
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But I also didn't know that Edo was working with our defensive
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lineman. Yeah, that's what you told me,
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Elite. Sports Center at the elite
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Sports Center, you know, for a couple of months now.
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So I think he was waiting for that last human Lane Kiffin.
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We're waiting for that last check to clear.
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And then LSU got a had to put out ozone on back on payroll.
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You know, and Speaking of Lane Kiffin and his own team the NCAA
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open Ole Miss tampering probe after Clemson complaint the
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brother. But we talked about this you
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remember. Yeah, yeah, just we talked about
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this on this podcast a while back in January because he
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reported because Davos Sweeney came out and said accused of Ole
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Miss of improperly communicating with linebacker Luke.
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What I have you say his name, including Pete Golding sending
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them a sending that kid a text message with a picture of
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$1,000,000 contract saying something like, you know, saying
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something along the lines of we can give you this and they
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can't. And then I think he had Jackson
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Dart call him, you know, and try to get him over.
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You know, it's just wild. All the things that they accused
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Lane Kiffin of doing, Keith Golding was doing and getting
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caught. And that's the thing about, you
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know, you sweep around your own front door and.
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Then you know, I don't want to get into what Elaine Kiffin said
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in that Vanity Fair article. Yeah, we have talked about that
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briefly as well, but there's. Because we already hit on it.
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But I saw something that to get, you know, I, and this is how I
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take it, Ole Miss gets in trouble because they waited like
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four or five weeks to do this after that Vanity Fair thing.
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Yeah. They get caught, they open a
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tampering thing, now they're whining, and they went to SEC to
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punish Lane Kiffin for words that he says in an article, you
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know? Yeah.
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And you know, looks like we said, should Lane Kiffin has
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said what he said? Probably not.
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But you going and whining to the to the SEC about what he said
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shows me two things. It's absolutely true because you
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wouldn't be whining and complaining about what he said.
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You'd be in actively trying to disprove it if it wasn't true.
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Yeah. And two, you know you're coach
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did something wrong and you know if the NCAA looks at it is
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farther. So it it's because you use it as
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as a as a diversion. Yeah.
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So, so it's like, and my thing is like you are sitting just
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like, is she, is she like, you know, Kiffin can't he?
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He presented the information about the recruits unprovoked.
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It's like, so it's just like like you said, to your point,
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like I probably wouldn't say that because like you could just
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that's the South. Like you could say that about
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every school in the South have that history.
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So like you shouldn't necessarily isolate Oxford and
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Mississippi as a whole. But my thing is, like you said
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to your second point, the version, you know, just trying
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to, you're trying to get out, get the heat off you a little
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bit. You already have a situation.
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You already have B for the coach to begin with.
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Yeah. And then in in this particular
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situation for Ole Miss, what it means is their head coach can
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get suspended for his first year as their head coach.
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That's the guy they would for now, for they say they better
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hope now. And I don't know why they wanted
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him. He was up and pretty sure Pete
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Golden was a head coach in the NFL for a little while and
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couldn't win to Pete Golden and that's why he got fired.
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So his coach, well, he he'd been like like assistant pretty much
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this whole time, you know, But yeah, so this is going to be his
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first coaching gear according to like Wikipedia.
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But just because last couple last three years he had been the
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the defence coordinator for Ole Miss and the inside line or the
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inside linebackers, Alabama for several years before that DC
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inside line. But yeah, coaches Southeastern
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for two years. But just like, yeah, this is
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first gig age 42 from the state. But but I get what you're saying
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is just listen, you know, this is not the ideal way for you to
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start off your tenure as a coach.
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Absolutely not. When you're doing this and it
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looks bad on you, this isn't true, you know, but you just
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can't go out and do that. And while complaining that your
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old head coach who it's not technically tampering is he
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recruited those kids and he's telling, look, I'm going to LSU,
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you know, and let's not play around, let's not beat around
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the Bush, OK? Because certain people who are
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big Ole Miss fans, I have heard different times that the way
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that athletic director at Ole Miss in athletic administration
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there handled the Lane Kiffin thing, Lane Kiffin wanted to
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stay with them. Kids.
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Coached them all through their playoff, they said.
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They said we're not doing that. And they let him go through
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those negotiations and then did all of that to make him look bad
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so they can have a narrative that he is a big evil guy and
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he's a hoe and turn LSU into the villains, Which let me be
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totally clear, OK? Do you really think a university
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who yells out on national TV sucked that tiger Dick bitch
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Dave? He's worried.
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He's worried about you calling them a villain.
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But see, and the the the fan base embraces that.
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So it's just like. Every time Nick Saban would come
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into that stadium you would hear a whole thing of FU Saban.
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Do you really think the university that does STDDB and
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yells that then might I add, their student section last year
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blew up a condom? It was bouncing around like a
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balloon. Do you really think they're
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worried about you calling him a villain?
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But they, but they don't want the attention.
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Yeah, they, they, they feel like that.
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But yeah, it's like going back to like, you know, like it
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brings you back to like the Will Wade stuff too, again, real
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quick. I know we talked about it, but
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just like. No, it's.
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Yeah, but it's like with the NC State people, like they're not
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happy. They just like a lot of people
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are just, yeah, they're just not happy.
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Just the back and forth and stuff.
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I said, listen, mind you will Wade got in trouble before he
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was hired by you guys. So like you guys still made the
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decision to hire him, yet you still you call him the state.
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I said listen he this is the same quote UN quote snake you
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hired. Yeah, and my favorite part was
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he said, you know, for somebody that said it was a mediocre
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coach, they sure complain he left and hate knowing him to
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leave him. Come on now, brother,
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championship stat, come on now. But but it just goes like I
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like, I understand being upset, but it's my thing is brother,
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listen, like I said again, like on and I said before, on a
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normal circumstance, like it doesn't make sense to make this
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movie because it's you say it's a far and away better basketball
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job than the men's side, but just in a unique circumstance.
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That's that's what it boils down to.
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Yeah. And then all of this about him
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going, get those players, those European league players.
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Man like brother like. As if that's no other program to
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do that. Yeah, and it's only a big deal
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because it's wheel weight and LSU doing it, you know?
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It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a selective outrage is like I like
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to call it. Yeah.
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So this that's, that's what it is bro.
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Just the state of Louisiana is on lockdown for college
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football. You know Erdogan is going to go
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out there. He's hired to do what he's good
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at. Yes, Let's look up what Edo's
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Edo Geron Official job title at LSU, Special assistant to
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recruiting and defense. Yes.
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Is what his official job title is at LSU perfect for him?
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He's probably the best recruiter LSU ever had, you know?
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Definitely up there. And he's a fantastic defensive
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mind. Yeah, you know, you throw him
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with Blake Baker in his game over defensively.
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So like you said, like he's, you know, he's famous for his
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defensive line coaching. That's what he he produces
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really solid players on the on the line of scrimmage.
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And of course, his recruiting relationships.
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That's what you need. I mean, because that's what you
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need. Yeah.
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And like he he's has this proven track record going back to his
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time as a coach at Wholeness. You know, this Tommy Elders
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shoe, of course, you know, on the on the coach staff of both
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UFC and LSU, just like you've seen it time and time again.
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And I think, like I said, you know, it's he's just he's just
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the latest to joy rehire you, you know, Yeah, wait.
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Well, sure. Fine.
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Like you said, you ain't known pulmonary.
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I said even though you can be smoked like you said, I said
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listen. Yeah, it's about time, OK that
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this happens. Shadow can be the new Pete
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Jenkins. It's about time we give poor old
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Pete Jenkins a break that come in to save the LSU defensive
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line and the LSU defense when they need it.
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Arrows your eyes Pete Jenkins 2.0.
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You know 484 year old Pete Jenkins.
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They had to put him on a golf cart this last couple seasons at
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LSU because he couldn't. It was taking him too long to
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walk on and off the field, you know?
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But we've got Edo now. The future is bright for
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realistically, the speech is bright for all of LSU sports.
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You know, after a rough year, the rough year they had this
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year, the the excitement was much needed.
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Just a change of scenery. You can tell in the fan base,
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you know, fan base cannot wait till football season.
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You see it like I look at you know, I was scoring the morning
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scone. Just you see it in the comments
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every day like you know, football season can't get fast
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enough. They are granted, look, granted,
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they already do that every year, but just like.
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But this year, with how the sports have gone and the three
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major sports, well, it was a rough GOAT.
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We've been spoiled as of late. It's been 15 years since LSU
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didn't make it to that last regional.
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We've been spoiled, OK. We've always had baseball going
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on till mid June, so realistically we had two months
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to wait for another sport to come in for football season.
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Now we've got to wait a full 3. No, Yeah, three months, Yep, a
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four, three months before we get another LSU sporting event.
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You know, it's kind of a dead time.
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Yeah, you know, just listen. Now listen and I'm glad you
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bring it up because listen, all you guys are watching and listen
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to us right now. This is your opportunity to give
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us some ideas to talk about throughout this summer.
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So this is your chance. Now we want to hear from you
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guys this decide. Though we will be covering the
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draft because it's going to be the MLB draft, because it's
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going to be interesting for LSU. You know, we'll cover transfer
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portal stuff. We'll try to cover as much
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football information as they leak out that's actual prevalent
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to football and not Lane Kiffin going run his mouth somewhere
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like I'm excited. Look, we've got Clemson coming
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up. The home schedule for us is just
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amazing. You know, we've got Clemson.
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You know, then we take a break with Tech, but then we've got
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Texas A&M at home, Magni, another break, might as well
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just throw by. And then that weekend from Mini
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State, you know, then we have Mississippi State at home,
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Alabama at home, Texas at home. You know, then we finish the
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season up on A2 Game Rd. stretch.
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But it's meaningful football throughout the whole season for
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us. Clemson, Ole Miss, Texas A&M,
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Kentucky, Mississippi State, Auburn, Texas, Alabama,
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Tennessee in good faith. Can't say Arkansas or Kentucky
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to be honest. Kentucky thinks they're going to
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have this big offensive production, but they have Joe
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Swan as their offensive coordinator.
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So unless they have 7 foot £600 guys at running back, I don't
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think you're going to have much offensive production because his
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famous players we go running up the gut.
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Yeah, I was to your point about, you know, to the football
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season, the schedule, you know, Skoner was saying just if you
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could get through the month of September unscathed, you should
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have a a, a easy should. You should have an easier time
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to October. And then you got the Garland in
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November, of course. But I'll just Texas for the
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first time, you know, that's that's here, you know, just
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since they've been in the conference at least not our
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first time playing them obviously, but just so.
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No, this is the first time I can remember them coming here.
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Yeah, yeah, to the, especially to the conference.
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So since they've been in conference for sure, let me see
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if I can look up. Because I think we were supposed
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to in 2019. We had a home and home schedule
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with them that they cancelled in 2020 and was supposed to come in
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2021, but they didn't want to. Yeah, so the all time series
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things like they say it's a nine, nine and one.
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Yeah. So I had to go that close, but
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just like so the full games list page, yeah, obviously the last
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time we played them was in 2019 in Austin for the Championship
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series. That before that it was it.
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We didn't play them since 2002, which we lost by 15 in the
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Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day. When did they come?
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Have they come to bat Rouge ever?
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They have come to Baton Rouge. The last time they came to Baton
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Rouge was in September 19th, 1953.
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And this is according to our Windsor Pedia.
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So we won a game 20 to 20 to 7. So now the left before that they
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had, they had came here again the previous year, but they'd be
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the 3514. Yeah.
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But that according to Winnipedia now that's like 1953 was the
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last trip here. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, Speaking of the great state of Texas, we dodged a
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major bullet with Source B because I think it just came out
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a few hours ago. The NCAA has marked him
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ineligible. Yeah.
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I hope he's got it in that oil royalties contract that he had
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with Texas Tech that he still gets paid even if he doesn't
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play. Help me.
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Yeah, but you got to think about these ahead of time.
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This I want it in writing. This facing Got to have it
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writing got to have it recorded. Look, do you want everything in
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writing? Everybody out there, you know?
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But I'm feeling pretty good about Sam Lovett now.
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Yeah, he was even even running like just, you know, it looks
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like he's a full goal for like the the upcoming workouts.
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You know, that's what I heard this morning.
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So just yeah, it's encouraging. Like when I, when I, when I look
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at football seasons, my main goal is to, I want everybody
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healthy as they can be like this.
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Like that's the big like you talk about this, this unit
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working, doing nice, this unit struggling.
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You know, I'm not saying that they don't have merit with those
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discussions, but my thing is like, are the are y'all healthy?
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Because we've already lost two guys for the year couple months
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ago. So I'm like my biggest thing,
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get through the offseason unscathed as much as you can.
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That's my biggest focus. Yeah.
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And here's another one for me, OK?
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Because it you wouldn't think this would be a problem with a
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new coach coming in. But with that last clown, we had
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conditioning, you know, the condition of our players
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physically, the endurance level, you know, yeah, that's what we
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need to be able to come up. And you know what I'm saying?
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Like the very first game against Florida State that we played at
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the Superdome. Yeah, we got yeah.
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You had our top players huffing and puffing and throwing up on
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the sideline and on the field. And we're getting pushed around
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now, granted, Will Campbell like there was that was his first
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game as I thought of this freshman year.
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But like, but you play against Jared Verse and Bray.
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I'm like, brother, like you, you got to be in better.
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Like you got to have those guys in better position.
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Yeah, you got to have those guys condition to play, you know
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that. My point being is it was the
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first game and you practice all summer long in 100 and something
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degree weather. What was Brian Kelly doing at
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these practices? Because, you know, they were all
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closed off to the media. There was no media presence
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really at practice during Brian Kelly's tenure here.
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What were we doing? You know, were they just
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sitting, sitting on that bus the whole practice, taking the knee
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and gossiping the whole practice?
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Because they sure weren't doing anything physical.
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They never looked ready to play, you know?
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Man, the offensive line struggled again last year.
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Not necessarily. Condition wasn't like the
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biggest thing, but it was just like a just.
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A. But now I'm just saying like.
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Yeah, I'm. Yeah, Yeah, I'm.
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Just saying from the like, first game of the season, his first
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career game at C, coach at LSU, his team was unconditioned.
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You know, that's my point. That's just my point.
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But they never looked fully prepared to play a football
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game, you know? Yeah, just, I mean, and it was
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and it showed, Yeah, unfortunately.
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And like I was a big listen, man, like, you know, I was a big
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supporter for him. But like you just can't have
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like the lead downs and keep your job.
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It's just like 23 and I wouldn't really broke the record with
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this 23 elite offense, no show on defense, 25 elite defense, no
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showing off it like you just you just can't have you can't have
23:54
you can't waste elite units. Yeah.
23:58
And then here's one for me. You know, Brian Kelly getting on
24:02
that CBS show before draft weekend.
24:06
Yeah. And Sam knows is going to be
24:09
good, but you know, he's played the quarterback position.
24:14
He's going to learn how to take a hit in this and that when
24:19
throughout your whole LSU career, you almost ended Jaden
24:22
Daniels his career in his first year, remember, he had that
24:25
Daniels had that knee injury. Yeah.
24:28
And he started him against Texas A&M, you know, And then in
24:32
Georgia, he was limping in pregame and he still played him
24:35
against Georgia and let him get beat up.
24:38
And they had to pull him to put in Nuss.
24:41
Yeah. You know, so that's another kid
24:44
that you hurt. It just came back.
24:46
He won the Heisman the next year.
24:48
But. Then you're going to say that
24:49
about us, who was hurt from fall camp, really had no business
24:54
playing probably. And you hurt his production.
24:57
You the reason he went so far down in the draft to almost
25:00
being undrafted and you're going to come out and say that he
25:03
needs to be, he needs to toughen up.
25:05
Yeah. And like you said, I was a big
25:09
support of his at first just because his success that he had
25:14
at Notre Dame. But to bring it all the way
25:17
forward. Did you hear what Edo said about
25:19
him? What he said.
25:22
They asked him, he was on a podcast and they asked him what
25:24
he thought of Brian Kelly at the basketball game.
25:27
Then she does introduced him and he said it was over.
25:31
Yes, God, like I was saying, yeah.
25:34
He's never going to win there. It's over, man.
25:36
But here's the deal, here's the deal with that a lot of
25:40
successful coaches at LSU have figured out.
25:42
Will Wade figured it out. Kim Mulkey always knew it.
25:47
Jay Johnson figured it out and knew it.
25:49
Ed Osheron was from here so he automatically knew it.
25:52
And Lane Kiffin is loving it too and is embracing it.
25:56
When you embrace Louisiana, we love you, we're going to take
26:01
care of you and you succeed here.
26:03
Brian Kelly Never, never embrace Louisiana.
26:07
Yeah, and that's what you hear. Like my thing is like bottom
26:11
line, do you win at a high enough level consistently?
26:15
I think if you would have won, it would have helped them out
26:18
deeply because you wouldn't have to worry about a coaching search
26:21
throughout the season. You wouldn't be on the hot seat.
26:24
But like you said, to your point, there's, there's
26:26
intangible values that do carry weight, especially like in this
26:31
in this part of the country. And you see it would fight the
26:34
coaches. Yes, those coaches had great,
26:36
you know, Camogie won a title year, Jays won two.
26:38
So yes, it's easy to say that with the with the wins, they,
26:42
they produce at a high level to their credit.
26:45
But he, like you said, those, those, those intangible things
26:47
do have value. Yeah, they have valued all about
26:50
intangibles and Brian Kelly just didn't have enough of them.
26:53
But we are finally finished talking about Brian Kelly
26:55
forever. Now we're moving on to a happy
26:58
new era under Lane Kiffin and I will just say this, this last
27:03
point and then we'll finish it up.
27:04
If they don't let Ed Ozura come off that field and get that
27:08
camera, Go Tigers, they're missing a huge opportunity.
27:13
I don't care what you say, Ed Ozura, that needs to be in his
27:16
job description at least one game, one time per game.
27:20
He needs to have that Go Tigers moment.
27:23
And the sound bite for every episode.
27:25
But you know, got another shout out Gays jump got called up this
27:35
week. Rizzy hit the transfer portal or
27:41
or he's draft eligible sophomore so he could either make the
27:44
decision to go in the draft or hit the transfer portal.
27:47
Yeah, that remains to be seen. No, not terribly shocked by
27:50
that. We had talked about that.
27:51
You and I had talked about that last night.
27:52
Just not terribly shocked, just unbelievable, you know,
27:54
physically gifted, unbelievably. But like you said, one thing I
27:57
always come back to at the end of the day is just about
28:00
throwing the ball over the plate and then regardless of what your
28:04
stuff is or potential is. And like I said, he couldn't
28:06
just for his, I would just hope for him like wherever he goes
28:09
next, I hope he dominates because like, I don't wish the
28:12
deal will on the young man at all or here these guys.
28:14
I mean, just I want you to be the best version of you.
28:17
And just unfortunately for him, it didn't work out during his
28:19
time in Baton Rouge. But like I said, if you like you
28:25
talk about Cooper Moore, his stuff, he doesn't have the most
28:27
elite stuff, but he was productive.
28:30
I would just rather sacrifice the stuff they were like the the
28:33
physique and stuff like that. They give me the bottom line
28:36
results. And here, look, I would Rizzi,
28:41
if somebody could take him and look, I know how this sounds,
28:46
but get his control. Under control, he'd be an elite
28:49
pitcher. He's got a fat 97 mile an hour
28:51
fastball, 98 mile an hour fastball, Yeah.
28:53
Oh yeah, he. His problem came from that was
28:57
the only thing he can control. What's his fastball, his break
29:01
and stuff he didn't have good control over.
29:03
But brings me to my next point. You know, I love Paul Skins to
29:06
death, but I think his I'm the top pitcher.
29:10
He's going to have a little competition coming from his his
29:14
fellow LSU alumni coming up and Gage job.
29:18
Then Anthony ISON and Kate Anderson are not going to be in
29:21
the minor leagues for too much longer.
29:23
Like they've been, I know, Anthony, they've been, they've
29:25
been dominating. They've been, they've been
29:27
rolling in minor leagues. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
29:31
I think it's going to be a three-way competition, you know,
29:37
and as far as career longevity goes, I'll give him the edge to
29:40
Paul Schemes. I think Paul Schemes would be
29:42
doing great things for a longer period of time.
29:45
Yeah. Just because those guys were
29:49
PO's probably their whole career, all schemes wasn't APO
29:54
until a week before the season of his junior year at LSU, you
29:59
know? Yeah.
30:00
And just to think about LSU pitching in the majors, Grant
30:03
Taylor, you remember him? Yeah.
30:07
He missed his whole last season at LSU in 23 before.
30:11
So if he would have been healthy, we'd have had Paul
30:13
schemes. Grant Taylor, Can you imagine Ty
30:17
Floyd? And we would have won all those
30:20
SEC series that we lost, you know?
30:22
Yes, that's. It's wild.
30:29
It would be. Grant Taylor's another one of
30:30
those guys who's already pitching for the White Sox.
30:33
I think I'm I'll just pull up like 236 ERA, you know, just
30:37
like he's he's been doing it so far man just get these guys off
30:43
1.2 yeah, just yeah and just and listen, he's only 24.
30:48
You know, just like he's still got a one and on the season 236
30:53
ER. Yeah, but the only reason I said
30:56
that about Paul Steen's, too, is the longevity of his career is
31:01
because to my knowledge, I don't think he's had a UCL or Tommy
31:05
John type of deal. And I'm not mistaken.
31:10
I used to missed a chunk of that year before he came to LSU
31:12
because of that. Kate Anderson missed his high
31:16
school his senior year in high school because of that, and
31:19
Grant Taylor missed his last year at LSU because of that.
31:23
You know, it's just wild to me. But you think it was coming up
31:28
and how much of it? This is for all you people who
31:30
doubt Nate Yetzky. Come on.
31:32
Man, just that's why I wanted to say in the last up, so I'm glad
31:35
you brought that up. Yeah, I was trying to get it,
31:38
but we we're getting through that powerhouse pole.
31:41
Yeah. But Nate Yetzky, for those of
31:45
you who don't like him, you loved him last year.
31:50
Come on brother, talk, talk. And you you tolerated him the
31:54
year before that, but that was his first year, so that don't
31:56
count. But if you look at the
31:59
production that these pitches have had in the jumps they make
32:03
from year to year, like Kate Anderson last year, OK, it was
32:09
the beginning midpoint of the season.
32:11
I said, I don't know if he's a Friday night guy in the SEC and
32:15
he went #2 in the draft tearing up the minor leagues right now.
32:18
But you know, you for another example, you've got gays job.
32:21
That was Nate Yeski's first year.
32:23
He spent a year in the minors and stuff.
32:26
And then he's got called up this year.
32:29
Kate Anderson and Anthony ISON are both not going to be in the
32:32
minor leagues for too much longer.
32:35
They'll be up, you know, And next year when Casein Evans is a
32:39
junior, William Schmidt's a junior, Cooper Moore is a
32:43
junior, you know, all three of those guys are going to probably
32:48
take him in the draft next year. And that'll be William Schmidt's
32:50
third year, William and Kayson Evans's third year with Yatsky
32:56
and Cooper Moore second year, and he'll make leaps and bounds.
32:59
You know, be patient, Give the guy a chance.
33:02
He's had one down year is if you're going to give Jay Johnson
33:06
the same. I love Jay Johnson and
33:08
everything, but if you're going to dog Nate Yatsky, then for the
33:13
same reason you got a dog Jay Johnson, because it's Jay
33:16
Johnson had this down year. He put together this team.
33:20
You know, because The thing is and, and this and like, I'm glad
33:23
you bought this whole thing because my thing is listen, like
33:26
first of all, for anybody just saying they got to get rid of
33:29
yes, he is absolutely outrageous.
33:31
Like it's, it's nonsensical to me.
33:34
Yes, they had a bat. It was objectively a down year,
33:36
but I'm not going to let this judge what he's done so far.
33:42
Like you said, the the year to year jump from multiple guys,
33:45
not just one guy because we always want to talk about one
33:48
person. You'll vote.
33:49
It's multiple guys across the board jump.
33:52
You have Kate, like Kate struggled in conference his
33:54
first year even though he's good in non conference.
33:57
And last year Anthony Iasser struggled, had struggled in the
34:00
start, but really took over dominated the rest of the way.
34:04
Chase Shores had his had his stresses and bring out the
34:07
bullpen down. The stress when you look at it
34:09
year over year, like those guys have really made leaps and
34:12
bounds. A lot of those guys came from
34:14
lesser programs. Anthony Isaac came from out West
34:18
come up here well down. But just like I'm just listen,
34:22
I'm not listen. I'm not on that bingo wagon from
34:25
any of any one of those guys. And like you said, to your
34:27
point, if you really want a dog on this, yes, he that bad dog on
34:31
Jay Johnson. He hired them on staff.
34:33
If if it's that problematic, but you don't want to talk about the
34:36
coach because he only won two champions.
34:37
Listen, he hired the coach that you complained about.
34:42
So I mean, let's be clear, OK, from 2023, we had two pitches
34:48
taken in the first round. Our two starting pitches were
34:51
taken in the first round, yes. I don't remember.
34:53
I don't think we had anybody in the first round of 24.
34:55
In the first round this year, we had one taken from last year's
35:00
team and I think ISON went, Chase Shores went in the second
35:04
round. So that's two pitches in one and
35:06
two the first two rounds. And then we had a pitcher taken
35:11
in every round. Last year, Anthony ISON was
35:13
taken in the third round, Chase Shores was taken in the second
35:17
round and Kate Anderson was taken in the first round.
35:21
You know, that's huge production right there alone that you're
35:24
losing. Yes.
35:27
You know the year before that in 20, No, the two years before
35:31
that in 23, you lost Dylan Cruz, Paul schemes, Chase Shores in
35:37
the first round, not Chase Shores, Ty Floyd in the first
35:41
round. That's a lot.
35:43
Ty Floyd and Schemes where you top 2 pitchers.
35:47
You know, it happens. You know, in 24 was a down year.
35:50
It wasn't as down the year as this year, but it was a down
35:54
year, you know? Yeah, but it's like, but yeah,
35:57
this to your point, my thing is like, brother, you all have to
35:59
understand this. You have too many examples in
36:02
the last, since he's been in the last 2-3 years that he's going
36:06
to get it turned around. Now if you get to a point where
36:09
the next, let's say the following two years they have
36:13
down year still, then that's to me that makes more sense to try
36:17
to go in a different direction. But listen, I trusted, I trust
36:20
Jane Johnson. I trust how he builds his staff.
36:23
I would trust how he's going to build his roster.
36:25
Listen, he has two national championships.
36:27
I'm like just I'm not going to get off this bandwagon and say
36:32
like, oh, well, he's lost his edge.
36:35
I mean, you could build a roster how you want to with what you've
36:38
done so far, But this the ultimate has to come down.
36:42
It has to just show itself. Play yourself out on the field.
36:46
But like this, like I just I just one thing that's annoyed me
36:48
about the seasons, just just the outrage of from yes, skis from
36:52
the anti yeah crowd. I'm just, I'm just not there and
36:55
you shouldn't be there. No, he's been too good for too
36:59
long, you know, too good for too long to say, you know anything
37:05
about like that. And you know, you can say the
37:07
same about Jay, like, you know. But look, they said that about
37:13
that man right there. Yeah.
37:15
You know they said, did the Game Pass get by?
37:19
You know what Skip did? Won two more national
37:23
championships, you know. And they and, and my now mind
37:26
you, they were tailoring away from like, because when they won
37:30
in 90s and like they were that, that was the gorilla ball era.
37:33
They were just wreaking havoc. We read the book last summer and
37:37
like they, they, they went away from that style just to, to make
37:41
it. And they still getting up
37:42
winning the win. I'm like come on y'all.
37:45
Yeah, you know, I said I saw something and I haven't been
37:48
able to find it, you know, and I still can't find.
37:51
I've been looking for it for the last little bit.
37:54
But I saw an article earlier this year that said something
37:56
about all levels of baseball going to wood bats because the
38:03
exit below. Yeah.
38:05
But here's my deal. You watch the I've been watching
38:07
YouTube videos and stuff from like the bat Bros and stuff on
38:12
YouTube. Yeah, I see them from time to
38:14
time, Yeah. Why?
38:15
You don't have to change the bats.
38:18
They're still getting the same exit V low off of these wood
38:23
bats because there's so much new technology with wood bats then
38:28
there used to be. They're still getting 99 to 102
38:32
off the of a wood bat as an exit V law.
38:35
Yeah, there's, there's, it's incredible.
38:38
It's insane how how much power these.
38:41
Yeah, and here's my point with this.
38:44
You don't want exit D level to be over, to be in the triple
38:47
digits. Then you're looking at your next
38:49
two MLB stars. Put us out there because that's
38:51
the only way this ball isn't going to get 100 plus off the
38:55
bat because you'd have to tell all the elite athletes out there
39:01
to stop training because we can't have a ball start being
39:05
gone out again. Bro, like I said listen bro,
39:07
please clip that this segment put that as a short.
39:10
I said listen, if you if if that butts of a hassle bro, I will
39:13
sign my contract today because you already too.
39:16
Listen, I would listen I'm a quick and put be on the Yankees
39:22
or I don't care. It don't even matter what team
39:24
it really don't matter. Yeah, I play for.
39:26
You want the and also OK. You want the exit be loads to go
39:32
down. Make all the players just
39:34
average Joe number one. Then #2 get people like Paul
39:38
Skins off the mound throwing 100 miles an hour, 102 miles an hour
39:42
off the mound, and then that will solve your problem.
39:44
Just tell all the elite athletes in this country, we're only
39:47
going to save you for the Olympics or something like that.
39:50
And then put the average Joe out there.
39:52
And then you won't get 100 and 203 off the bat.
39:58
You know, as sports fitness goes up, that kind of stuff is going
40:01
to go up as well, you know, But that's all I have to say on
40:04
that. Like you put the professional
40:07
athletics is the elite of the elite, you know, And with all
40:10
the sports and the money they put into these guys, they should
40:14
be peak athletic form. They're going to hit 100 off the
40:18
bat. I'm sorry.
40:19
It doesn't matter Unless you stick them out there with a
40:22
rugged tree, they're going to hit 100 off the bat.
40:25
Yeah. Is it is it it's too it's too
40:27
much that works in their favour with the technology and the
40:30
advancement of the body and just take care of the health and just
40:33
too much. It's too much that works in the
40:35
favour now for that not to happen.
40:37
So if you in a in mind you, a defensive centered sport, no,
40:43
and I'm not saying like you, I'm not saying you got to make it
40:45
arcade like, but just like in a defensive that's uniquely
40:48
structured on the defensive side of the ball.
40:50
You don't want any type of exit, Nilo.
40:54
Yeah, that's what you're trying to tell me.
40:55
Like you don't want any any, any type of high moon, moon bottles,
41:00
moon shots, what everyone call it.
41:02
Yeah, OK. Yeah, OK.
41:05
But you know, all that being said, I think this is a great
41:09
stopping point. Yeah.
41:11
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41:19
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41:23
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41:25
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