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Hour Two | Recruiting, Dr. Etheredge, & Coach Mulkey · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 3: quarterback question to Shay and it was actually, hey, look
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  Speaker 3: at you, big jay journalism.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a big deal, guys, because I was about
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  Speaker 2: to ask him the same question and you stole my question.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't happen very often. You were gonna ask a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback question. I was because you're a quarterback literally.
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  Speaker 2: Right here in theory. So that's a good point.
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  Speaker 3: So I was looking at the class, and we've talked
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  Speaker 3: about it before, like this class for LSU doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback, and then like your quarterback situation obviously looks
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  Speaker 3: pretty bare yep here at the moment, and Old Miss
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  Speaker 3: did have one committed to them, So I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: how much you know, Langiffin wanted that quarterback, if that
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  Speaker 3: quarterback is going to flip from Ole Miss to LSU,
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to try to get another one, So
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  Speaker 3: you know, Shae Dixon didn't mention there's a South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: commitment that they would be interested in adding, and so
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  Speaker 3: I know you're I do not, Dworth. I do not
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  Speaker 3: think your quarter Yes, I do not think that your
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  Speaker 3: quarterback next year is on this roster right now.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 3: I think we could look at the track record of
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  Speaker 3: of Elade Kiffin and he will better hope.
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  Speaker 2: That it's not on the roster. I agree, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: With you, and he uh, look, he'll bring in multiple
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the portal. He has certainly done that before.
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  Speaker 3: But what are your thoughts on needing to get a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in this class.
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  Speaker 4: I always think you need to get a quarterback. Now
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's as necessary as it once was.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly with the transfer portal, Lane Kiffin has proven to
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  Speaker 4: be a master.
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  Speaker 3: What did what did Jay say? He found this turn
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  Speaker 3: it out on Twitter? Yeah, well, I don't know the story.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: One of the coaches saw his highlights like on Twitter
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  Speaker 3: and they were like, he was going to go somewhere
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  Speaker 3: else at the FBS level. Gosh, I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 3: the story exactly how I went down. But then Ole
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  Speaker 3: Miss saw him. They're like, no, no, he's coming Old
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  Speaker 3: Miss actually right. Yeah, so he found them on Twitter.
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  Speaker 3: So the quarterback for that Lane found and bratol Miss,
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  Speaker 3: who's leading them into the playoffs, was the quarterback for
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  Speaker 3: Farris State University of the year before. And I remember
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  Speaker 3: when we played them looking up the stats and it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't necessarily like the most impressive outlandish stats either.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it just kind of goes to show you what
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  Speaker 4: this Lane Kiven offense has the potential to do. And
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  Speaker 4: like Shaye mentioned, he's like, well do you think I
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  Speaker 4: could I hit pretty good on him?
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  Speaker 2: And multiple other people in the transfer portal before.
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  Speaker 4: You don't think I can do it at LSU with
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  Speaker 4: the resources and that logo and that those three letters
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  Speaker 4: across the chest.
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  Speaker 2: So we should all be excited.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's a really obvious statement that the
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  Speaker 4: quarterback for next year is not on this. But as
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  Speaker 4: far as picking or signing high school guys like you
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  Speaker 4: always want, I think you always have to have a
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  Speaker 4: comfortability with your quarterback room.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have talent there.
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  Speaker 4: You have to have young guys, you want all ages,
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  Speaker 4: you want older guys, you want younger guys, you want
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  Speaker 4: guys learning, you want guys teaching. That's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: a healthy quarterback room is now in this world of
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  Speaker 4: the nil Like, you don't always get that deep quarterback room,
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  Speaker 4: especially at bigger schools, right because most guys that go
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  Speaker 4: there are very highly touted, highly ranked, and if they're
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  Speaker 4: not playing, they're gonna go seek other opportunities, which I
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  Speaker 4: think everybody can understand that. Yeah, so you don't like
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times, a lot of these big time
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  Speaker 4: schools and blue blood schools are so dependent on their
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  Speaker 4: starting quarterback being healthy because everything kind of revolves around that.
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  Speaker 4: Because there's a bigger drop off at the quarterback position
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  Speaker 4: than there is anywhere else on the football field. Right,
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  Speaker 4: So it's important, at least from a talent perspective to
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  Speaker 4: have young guys there, even if they're ready or not
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  Speaker 4: ready to play. You can have them and taylor a
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  Speaker 4: game plan around them if you need them in an emergency.
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  Speaker 4: And then, of course, I mean in a perfect situation,
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  Speaker 4: you groom a kid for a couple of years and
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  Speaker 4: let him be the starter for a couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: and then while he starts, he grooms another guy. Like
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  Speaker 4: that's that's the ideal situation. And the more quarterbacks, especially
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  Speaker 4: highly ranked quarterbacks, young quarterbacks, you get in there in
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  Speaker 4: the room, the better chance you have on hitting. You're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna hit on every single person, right, And a
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  Speaker 4: guy might be better at a different college or a
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  Speaker 4: different system than he is at our system.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you just never really know how that's going to
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  Speaker 2: play out. You're guessing a lot.
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  Speaker 4: You're watching these kids play against other high school kids
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  Speaker 4: that will never put pads on again.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's one of these things that's so hard. It's
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  Speaker 4: so hard to nationally rank, you know, recruits and all
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  Speaker 4: this and that. So yeah, I think it's important to
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  Speaker 4: have people. But with the tight turnaround, with this the
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  Speaker 4: whole length thing, I'm not worried about the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to say if we don't sign somebody,
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  Speaker 4: I'm worried. I'm with you because it's just not because
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  Speaker 4: of the transfer portal enough. This was five years ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're probably thinking a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 3: But because of the portal, and because of who it
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  Speaker 3: is in the portal and shout out to who I
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  Speaker 3: knew it was a small school. I wanted to say,
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  Speaker 3: Temple is so bad, and Hunt confirmed it it is Temple.
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  Speaker 2: That it was Temple where Champus was going to.
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  Speaker 3: Oh okay, so that that that Actually, that's another point
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  Speaker 3: in the favor. I think of the evaluation because nobody
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  Speaker 3: else saw it.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to Temple yep, and they're like, hold up, no,
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  Speaker 2: I think, actually we need him in Oxford, and you
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  Speaker 2: go and.
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  Speaker 3: You get that guy, so shout out. I appreciate that, Hunt,
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  Speaker 3: But but I think because it's another faith though, like
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be able to find their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think because of the lane element, I don't think it.
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  Speaker 4: I think it releaves a lot of stress from that
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  Speaker 4: that room. Now, are you gonna be able to go
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  Speaker 4: find two or two quarterbacks? I don't think so. I
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  Speaker 4: doubt it. Like I don't know why too coveted quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: would come at the same time. But I mean, what,
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  Speaker 4: what was it a couple of years ago where he
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  Speaker 4: got like three transferred quarterbacks to come to Old Miss.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kid, that was that l Shua Howard. Yeah, Like
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  Speaker 2: there was three guys. You got Sanders who was the
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma State starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: That was the wildest situation, Like I just thought of
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  Speaker 4: I thought about it again, like right the second, like
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  Speaker 4: while we're talking, like they got three guys, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: what is this guy's doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yep?
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  Speaker 4: Why would they go there right now? Don't they see
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  Speaker 4: everybody else going there as well? Yeah, it's a yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's not certainly not a big pressure point for me
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  Speaker 4: if we don't sign, but I would like to sign somebody.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I know next year is a big class.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, certainly a big quarterback crop, especially here in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 7: So quarterback just signed, but he signed as a corner.
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  Speaker 7: Does Ellis is a quarterback but a lot of schools
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  Speaker 7: were recruiting him as a quarterback, But.
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  Speaker 2: Raymond.
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  Speaker 7: He is the one that recruited him as a cornerback
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  Speaker 7: to LSU. He threw for twighty nine yards last season
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  Speaker 7: right thirty one touchdowns, seven interceptions.
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  Speaker 4: If I give you a dollar, he's a corner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can keep most of the change, Can you finish it?
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  Speaker 4: All I really want is a quarter back.
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  Speaker 7: No nothing, I'm not I'm not entertaining that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what was that? Y'all never heard this?
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  Speaker 4: If I give you a dollar, you can keep most
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  Speaker 4: of the change, because all I really want is a
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  Speaker 4: quarter back. It's a cheerleader champ guy going on there
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  Speaker 4: in Tyler bro I don't know. I'm pretty sure most
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  Speaker 4: people have heard that. I like, I was like waiting
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  Speaker 4: for y'all to like either cut me off and say no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: or finish the sentence.
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  Speaker 2: But you didn't do.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, we were talking at at the break a little
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  Speaker 4: bit trying to figure out like when to discuss this.
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  Speaker 4: I figured right now it's a good time, since we're
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  Speaker 4: talking about the crop of quarterbacks, and I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 4: something that's probably like really ignorant and now uneducated from
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  Speaker 4: the fact of like I don't know the system, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna look at this from like a thousand foot
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  Speaker 4: view and look at it from a real common sense standpoint. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: losing in high school football, I have to get something
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  Speaker 4: figured out with scheduling. Now, I don't watch a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the I don't go to a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: high school games, but my children go to Dunham, and
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  Speaker 4: so I go to the Dunham games. And like, we're
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  Speaker 4: in a Louisiana's in a unique spot where for three
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  Speaker 4: years you've known you'd have you've had a number one
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  Speaker 4: recruit in the whole country in one particular class. That's
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven class, got Elijah Haven over a Dunham.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: You would think that despite what the rules are, and
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  Speaker 4: I know, like you just can't change rules. I get it,
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just looking at this from a common sense perspective.
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  Speaker 4: You got if you're known for three years, you got
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  Speaker 4: the number one kid in the country playing the premier
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  Speaker 4: position in football, playing quarterback. You would think you would
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  Speaker 4: want to highlight that almost every week in the form
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  Speaker 4: of big matchups playing good teams. But what I see
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  Speaker 4: going out there is I went out to a game
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  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, and you got the number
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  Speaker 4: one recruit and all of twenty twenty seven class in
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  Speaker 4: the whole country.
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  Speaker 2: Number one guy, top of the list, right.
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  Speaker 4: And he's playing a team that shows up thirty minutes
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  Speaker 4: late to the game. Yeah, they have nineteen kids dressed out.
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  Speaker 4: They have about six people in the stands for their side,
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  Speaker 4: And like I felt bad for the Like I felt
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  Speaker 4: bad for the team just the resources and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but like.
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  Speaker 4: And I think a lot of the games, the majority
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  Speaker 4: of the games that they're playing, it's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: same thing. It's the same story and like where I
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  Speaker 4: feel bad for the team that they're playing, Right, it's
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  Speaker 4: a running clock after like you know, halfway through the
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  Speaker 4: second quarter, it's like he threw you know, eighty yard
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  Speaker 4: bubble screen touchdown was untouched. It was like like you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's these things that you're doing like a disservice.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the Louisana football because like you want
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  Speaker 4: premier matchups, right, you want them to be highlighted. You
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  Speaker 4: want those to be like, hey, look at Louisiana football,
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  Speaker 4: Like we're awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and now we're kind of like and we are,
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  Speaker 3: like like there's a lot of good I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Louisiana football is awesome. Why but why do you be
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  Speaker 3: Carol told to come right his high school football, but
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  Speaker 3: like we were getting clown like the arch Manning when
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  Speaker 3: he was struggling. Is like, look who arch Maning is
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  Speaker 3: playing against? And it would show like the weak teams
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  Speaker 3: that Newman played against. And I'll back you up in
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  Speaker 3: this point, like there was games this year where I
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  Speaker 3: would go drive to watch my son play and it
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  Speaker 3: would take me longer to get to the destination of
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  Speaker 3: the game than he would actually be in the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's forty three to nothing in the second quarter with
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  Speaker 3: a running clock, right, and it's not I don't think
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  Speaker 3: it's fair to either team. Yeah, right, and that they
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  Speaker 3: and I know there's not like a one fix off
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  Speaker 3: for this. Again, please just trust me what I say.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like, I don't fall out. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: the system enough to know if there is even possible.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, a common sense standpoint, it's not fair to
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  Speaker 3: that team that has nineteen kids dressed out. It could
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  Speaker 3: be down forty something nothing with eight minutes left in
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  Speaker 3: the second quarter. Right, it is not fair to the
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  Speaker 3: team that's blown them out, because that's not prepping you
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  Speaker 3: for then you think that's helping Elijah get ready for
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  Speaker 3: his first year at college football.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 4: Like so you're taking your your best recruits and you're
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  Speaker 4: not because of matchups discrepancies, like they're not prepping for
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  Speaker 4: the next level as well as they should be or
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  Speaker 4: could be either, right, I don't know. It was just
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  Speaker 4: a frustrate It's a frustrating thing for me the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of years watching because I'm watching this guy that
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  Speaker 4: I like.
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  Speaker 2: You should highlight this guy, right, you should.
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  Speaker 4: He should be playing you high he should be playing
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  Speaker 4: like they should be doing different things. And they play,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they'll they'll have like one challenging matchup and
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm just I'm preaching.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just old man on the lawn here. I get
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  Speaker 4: that I don't know what the fix is, Like I
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  Speaker 4: don't even know how to follow all the systems and
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  Speaker 4: classes and divisions and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't follow that.
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  Speaker 3: You really can, I mean to your point, and like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what the fix is either. But again,
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  Speaker 3: like so I'll only know you high because I'm more
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  Speaker 3: like you, Like I don't I don't follow a ton
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  Speaker 3: but you know, they play Romo Catholic in Saint Paul's
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  Speaker 3: in Woodlawn in the in the non.
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  Speaker 2: District, and then you get the district. It's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit different.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would love to see you High and
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  Speaker 3: park View and Dunham and Episcopal and Saint michael Is
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  Speaker 3: like all in the same district.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe, like that feels like that would be competitive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And and I know that there's classifications and there's
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  Speaker 4: there's enrollment, and there's all things, and like the combination
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  Speaker 4: of private and public and all that stuff. But man,
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  Speaker 4: when I'm watching a game and it's running clock in
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  Speaker 4: the second quarter, like, who who is.
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  Speaker 2: That fair towards? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Benefiting too? Who is that benefit it's benefiting? No, but
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  Speaker 4: like either team, Like I felt bad for the other
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  Speaker 4: team because because of the situation, and I felt, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I felt bad for you know, just not getting the prep.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, it's a it's a this is
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  Speaker 4: a nonsensical frustration, I guess, or complaint because you know,
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  Speaker 4: I doubt you can fix it. But from a common
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  Speaker 4: sense standpoint, you know, for three years you got the
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  Speaker 4: number one kid in a recruiting class in the country.
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  Speaker 4: How often has that come around, Yeah, not very often. Like,
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  Speaker 4: especially at the quarterback position, you would think you would
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  Speaker 4: play some games that you know could get aired.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole station at least. Yeah, the whole deal's
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  Speaker 2: screwed up. Yeah, I mean it just it is right.
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  Speaker 2: And again I don't know what the fix is. But like,
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  Speaker 2: because I think evangel play like they play five a right,
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  Speaker 2: they're one a size, right, so you play up and
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  Speaker 2: it's like it's a little bit here, a little bit there.
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  Speaker 2: But some of these district matchups are rough, certainly in
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  Speaker 2: the lower classifications. Some of them. It's like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've been to a good game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was very thankful for the Madison Prep game.
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  Speaker 2: For you. I'm like, oh my god, a good team. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a great game, two great games. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you have a Madison Prep. But yeah, I'm with you there.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that doesn't really benefit anybody, all right, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get.
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  Speaker 4: Risk down beat Louisiana or Lafayette Christian this week, let's
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  Speaker 4: go beat a little easy in the whole state, the
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  Speaker 4: whole state.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair enough, all right, we will step
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  Speaker 2: How we doing, how we live in house? Thanksgiving?
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  Speaker 6: Good Thanksgiving? How about y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? It was good and it was good. I mean
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  Speaker 4: We actually didn't even talk about Thanksgiving this week because
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• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I got a question.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: When there's a new regime coming in, all right, every
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: coach likes to handle injuries a little bit different.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, right, wrong or in different in that aspect.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: But when there's a new coaching staff, is that something
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: where y'all will kind of, hey, you know, here's the
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: team doctors, here's a you know, training staff, and here's
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: like how we've done things, and do they kind of
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: give you feedback and here's how I've always handled things.
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Usually, you know, we'll we'll schedule some type of a meeting.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: We'll get together and kind of at least have the
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: foundation said. And then from there, obviously you're gonna you're
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: gonna kind of have to feel it out. You know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: you're gonna kind of see, Okay, maybe we don't do
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: it this way for this person. Obviously the medicine doesn't change,
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: but but how we handle it, how we address it,
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: how do do we does the coach want it from
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: the head trainer? Does he want it for somebody else
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: to do it? There's a lot of different variabilities to that. So,
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: I mean, obviously, with the timing of this, there's a
• 18:18
  Speaker 9: lot of bigger priorities in the next several weeks. But
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: I'm sure at some point, once the dust is kind
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: of settled, we'll sit down and go.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Through all that. Have you been introduced yet, I'm not,
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I mean I would assume that most people haven't because
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: it's been such a i mean, coming in two days
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: before signing day, trying to like talk to the current staff.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: It's like, I'm sure most people in that building haven't
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: been able to have that type of media that you're
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: talking about, like, how do you want to you know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: how do you want your information? How do you want
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: how do you work? Can versus how do we work?
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: And let's let's figure this out together.
• 18:48
  Speaker 9: So yeah, I think I think obviously there's gonna be
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: a lot of that to come. But the timing of this,
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: there's so much that's happening right now, and I know
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: it's been a big topic just this morning, signing day,
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: everything else going on. It's it's not the main or
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: at the moment, but these things will happen, and I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: sure there's a lot of people that will have those
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: moments down the road.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: So it is National Signing Day, I guess it's national,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: not early Sunaday anymore.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: It's miss National Signing Day.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: So a lot of news coming in, a lot of rumors,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: but I wanted to know, Like, so when we go
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: to like in from college to the NFL, like of course,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: and then NFL trades things like that, of course, there
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: has to be like doctor approval for these players. They
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: have to pass physicals, like they know this a history
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: background of certain players, and I know it can't be
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: as detailed when you're talking about high school. You don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: probably have the laundry list of injuries for these kids
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: because they just haven't played and experienced as much football.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: But is there any physical like pre signing day physical
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: or any doctor approvals or opinions that you give for
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: recruits that are being recruited.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: So it's definitely less than what you're gonna see obviously
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: in the NFL, like you said, there's a very rigid,
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: a legitimate process there. But these kids are coming from
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: all over the country, differ high schools, different settings. Some
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: of maybe had injuries when they were younger that we
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: might not even be aware of during during this phase
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: of the game. So in the high school environment, it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: it's mostly if there is something happens. If you know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: if you're recruiting a kid and we know about a
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: significant injury, sometimes the coaching staff will come to us
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: and say, hey, what do you think about this injury?
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: You know that there might even be an opportunity to
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: go through medical records and stuff if it's highly concerning,
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: which is something we occasionally will do. But for the
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: most part, you know, you kind of got to take
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: it as a leap of faith.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: Really, the first time we get to see the kids
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: is when they're doing their physical coming in, you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: and there might be the rare occasion where something's more
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: serious than what we thought. So it does happen, but
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: it's it's definitely very different from the coming to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: high school.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: Even even the difference now with transfers is we're you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: kind of defining and redefining that process where it's only
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: more of more of an NFL process where we kind
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: of know coming in it is a little bit more
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: involved in those kids where we have to they'll have
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: the sign off on them or not or say maybe's.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: And right, But we have more information usually there.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: And I guess for like Louisiana there's probably a lot
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: more information. I'm sure if like, if there's been an
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: injury for a Louisiana kid, that's probably a high likelihood
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: that you or somebody else from Brock it's probably like
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: worked on them. But like, yeah, if you got a
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: guy from California or somewhere, it's a that's a blind
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: leap of faith.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: And even with the Louisiana kids, you know, if I
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: see them, you know there there's some some cross over
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: there with hip and stuff. So unless the kid tells
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: me I can talk to coach about his injury, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: technically can't because there's stop they're not part of our
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: team yet. So even there, there's a little bit of
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: a it's not always, you know, super easy, but but
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: usually we would know a little bit more just because
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: the network here and more were connected. But even then,
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: it's it's a little hard.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Sometimes when in the NFL and you're getting traded or something,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: you have to pass a physical life. So you just
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: talked about the hipp of rules, you can't really discuss
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: with the coach and injury. But is it a different
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: rule when the team doctor, if someone performs like a
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: physical is that is.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: That it is? What's that rule? So you once you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: Come in, you know, then some of these medical things
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: kind of just like with the NFL, the team is
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: a part of your team essentially at that point. So
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: there are still some areas we don't cross lines, you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: for example, mental health if it's something we don't discuss
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: the pages unless there's truly a danger to the player.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: There are some areas, but when you come in, that's
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: part of what some of the paperwork y'all sign when
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: you first get here, is you're going to be signing
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: paper that says, hey, this is part of the process, right,
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: they're going to be allowed to understanding the medical So
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: so in that scenario it does change. But until then, yeah,
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: we're you know, the athletes are protected completely privacy.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Rots, all right, So we want to get to one
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: of the injuries that was talked about over the last
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks and well, no pun intended there. It
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: is went weeks in in you know, we've had conversations
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: with him and so we're good to have this conversation.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I know it was reported that he had a bone
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: bruise and then it came out it was more severe
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: than that, But in actuality, the bone bruise is closer
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to what actually it was. It just sounds like you
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: hear brus you're like, oh, it just got a you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: black and blue spot on my ankle, when in fact,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: like there's a lot that kind of goes into it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, So sometimes the difference between a bone bruise and
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: a fracture is really not that large. I think to
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: your point, if you hear bone bruise, I think all
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: of us would assume with bone bruis that that, oh,
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: that's not that big.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Of a deal, right. It's just you hear a bruise, like, oh,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I hit my hip on the corner of this desk.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: That's why there's a little rubber thing there. Now it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: like I got a bruise from it.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Yeah, But exactly, that's a lot of times you say it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: It doesn't sound like a big deal, But if you
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: think about it, the impact and force required to damage
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: bone in which a bone bruise is damage to bone,
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: it's got to be fairly significant, and it's not that
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: different than what the impact or or force required to
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: break a bone is sometimes and sometimes the line between
• 23:43
  Speaker 9: one and the other can be very very thin, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: that can be very blurred. If you get a different
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: radiologist reading an MRI on ten readings of the same patient,
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: half of them might say as a bone contusion, to the
• 23:55
  Speaker 9: other half might say it's what's called an impact fracture
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: or some different variation of that. And that's kind of
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: where this injury was, you know, And it's something that,
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: like you said, we talked to it and he's already
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: talked about the injury and giving clearance to talk about
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: all this, so normally we can't. But but that's what
• 24:09
  Speaker 9: happened with his injuries. He had an injury that his
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: ankle got rolled up on, it got kind of massed back,
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: and in that scenario, the bone and the talis, which
• 24:17
  Speaker 9: is the part of the ankle that's in the foot,
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: it got literally compressed upon itself. And in an X
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: ray you don't see a bone contusion or sometimes these
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: impact fractures. Then you get an MRI and you say, well, look,
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: there's definitely a regularity there and and it's a fine
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: line between the two, but they're both significant injuries.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: That was tough for me because it kept being called
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: a bone bruise and like, and I didn't know until
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: you explain that to me, Like I didn't know, and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, I hope you don't like if you
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: know wed weeks, you know, like a bruise like air
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: quote bruise is not keeping him out, like and I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: knew what it was, but obviously, like out of respect
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: to win, and because what you can't say, he can't say.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: It's like I'm not going to put that out there.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: But it's like now that people realize, like what it was,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: like you just said that, and I kind of like, ugh,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: like it was a serious injury. And that's why you
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: saw he was in a boot if he wasn't, if
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: he wasn't in the shower. Basically, I think I saw
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: it like he's got a boot on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: Oh, everywhere he was going, he's wearing that thing. And and
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: look he's a you know we know it, A tough kid.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tough kid.
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: Get plays with this hard. He would he would probably
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: play with it with half a leg if you let him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: But but those injuries, they are tough, and especially when
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: it's in your ankle, it's in your foot, it's you're
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: pushing off of it, you're planning on it uh to do,
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: so you know it's it's it's a. Typically these are
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: gonna be structurally sound injuries, but they are injuries that
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: sometimes just you literally can't move your foot or ankle
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: in that scenario. So so it's something that you know
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: it's it's it's a.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: It's a real injury.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: And and sometimes people hear that bone bruised, bone contusion
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: and kind of like the turf toe talks we've had,
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: doesn't sound that tough, it doesn't sound that bad. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: I'll be honest, sometimes the bone contusions hurt more than
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: if you just snap the bone because they're just the.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Whole bone isn't played in that area.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: It's kind of like, you know, if you walk with
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: a bruise in the bottom of your foot, every step hurts.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: It's kind of the same idea.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: So this is gonna be really, like from a medical standpoint,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: like a really dumb question probably and like anybody that's
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: a doctor out there is probably just gonna be shaking
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: their head of me. But you talk about a bone bruise, okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: So I'm just thinking about like a standard bruise on
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: your body it becomes discolored purple whatever that looks like.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: And a lot of that color is from like blood
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: flow coming to it, right, like grrect me if I'm wrong,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Like a bone doesn't have like blood flow through the belt.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Like what is it if you were to look at
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: a bone with a bruise on it, Like, what does
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: it look like?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Is it like a soft spot on the bone?
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Like is it a red and a flat Like what
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: would it look like from if you just looked at
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: the bone on a bone bruise?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Well, so one bone actually does.
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: There is a lot of small micro vessels that go
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: through the cap, so sure that's how it gets nutrients.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: That's so the bones.
• 26:33
  Speaker 9: So when you when you get a bone bruise, it
• 26:35
  Speaker 9: is kind of like a bruise anywhere else where there
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: is gonna usually be a little bit of bleeding inflammation
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: within the bone. You know, if you if you were
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: to look at the bone, you might not be able
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: to see it. That's why on an X ray and
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: XT ray looks great usually on a bone contusion a
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: bone bruise, But then you get the MRI right, and
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: the MRI is really where you'll see the difference. You
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: know what we described as bony edema. It's when there
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: is inflammation or fluid within the bone and that area
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: can sometimes become weakened. In fact, if you ever hear
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: about a stress fracture, that's kind of what a stress
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: fracture is. It's an area bone that through repetitive stress,
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: got weakened and inflamed and then eventually cracked. So that
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: area does get weak, but but on on a evaluation,
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: the bone itself might look fairly normal. Again if you
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: get the X ray, it's not going to be deformed
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: or shifted or moved or cracked until it does it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, O, man, that's it's a lot of words that
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I don't understand, but I'm glad we got doc here.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Guess what blood vessels in her bones that till today.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: That's a great and that's a great job explaining the
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: whitweek's injury because like even I like when I heard
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: it initial, I'm like, I know that guy, but it's like, no,
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: it's actually closer uh to what it actually is.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: It's just you hear bruise and you think something different there.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: So it's good to see him out there last week.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: For sure. He gives a little bit different juice to.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: The defense percent.
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: I'll tell you, you know, one of the things from our side,
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: you know, any of us that work in the medical
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: side of sports, that absolutely drives me crazy is when
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: people talk about somebody and you know the truth and
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: I want to yell it from the top of the mountain.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Do you understand why the same way? Yeah. I remember
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: my first year.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: On staff and we had one of our tackles who
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: had to play with the calf strain, had a pretty
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: bad calf injury, right, and he was our only option
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: though it was one of these weeks yea, and the
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: guy had to go when we were go go to Auburn.
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: I don't remember who their defensive been was then, but
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: he was one of these guys, first round prospect, And
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: of course the tackle is getting murdered the next next week,
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: and I was like, he played a heck of a
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: game and a guy playing on one leg, And but
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: I couldn't.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Say, listen.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: I was listening to the Raiders and I would to
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: call in so bad and be like, listen, y'all, this
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: is this kid, and that happens every week.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: You know that, you know there's more to it, right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: you know?
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: And it's it's it's something that we wish we could
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: talk about, but most times we can't. We respect the privacy,
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: but sometimes it is frustrated.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Doctors man great explanation of what was going on.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: There a lot of words that Flynn and I will
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: still never be able to say out loud because we
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  Speaker 3: Kim Mulkey joins us here on OTB top the bench.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTV here live from the
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  Speaker 3: interview of the week. LSU had basketball coach Kim Mulkey
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: joins us. Now, Coach, we appreciate the time as always.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Hopefully you had a good Thanksgiving and some good time
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: down there, some good sun rays down you know, Saint
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Thomas there now back home.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Glad to have you on as always, Coach.
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: You can't buy this morning. I cannot be the best
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: interview of the week. If y'all haven't gotten Lane Kiffing,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: then y'all need to come to my house and we
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: need to go find himose.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: No, coach, Coach, we've been telling you this for years,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: like you are a favorite interview of the week, and
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: we're just glad that we get a chance to talk
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: to you every week. So you know we'll get Lane eventually,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: but we know we get the best every single Wednesday.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Well, what you get with old Maulkie, what you see
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: is what you get. And we have fun and talk
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: a little football every now and then, talk a little
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: family over now and then, and oh yeah, that's coach
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: basketball ever now and then we talk about it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Coach. I mean, it has been a crazy kind of
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: circus around the athletic department because anytime you know this coach,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: you're looking for a football coach, and you know this rumor,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: that rumor, and everybody thinks that you've got the source
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: and they've got the story.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And then when it finally happens, like everything just kind
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: of explodes and it's like the big, big news story.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Then you had the big press conference and you know
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: this coach. You've been through a lot of these.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: It's always something that's a little crazy when you're hiring
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: a football coach.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Well, it is crazy, but it's even crazier at LSU.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: So here's my.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Question to y'all. Okay, I wake up and I read stuff.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: They didn't want Lane Kiffin to coach them through the playoffs,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: but they'll take the offensive coordinator who's coming to LSU,
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: And oh yeah, you better come back over here because
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: we don't really know what we're doing offensively because we
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: hired a defensive coordinator. So I guess my question is,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: what's the difference. Don't you think whatever you thought Lane
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: was gonna do to take players and the portal wife
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: can do the same thing.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, coach, when I saw you, I was supposed to
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: ask those questions. I know, I know when I saw that,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing. I'm like, did you
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: all maybe like get together?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: And you're like, uh and and Matt said this this morning,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: like maybe the tight end coach doesn't need to call
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: plays in the playoff. Maybe we need to see if
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: we can get somebody from the uh you know, the
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: staff that left to go to l s U. So, yeah,
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: that was because they were completely against Lane coaching the team.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: It was kind of a complete reversal of what we,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: you know, heard that to do.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: It's what's the difference because he's the head coach and
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: versus the offensive coordinator. I don't understand it. I'm like, so,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: is LSU gonna pay White?
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Miss gonna pay his bonus?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm such a great question.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: I think it was nice of Lane to let him go.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: Back there do that. I read where he was trying
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: to make sure they didn't penalize them and give them
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: a lower seed. But that just cracked me up. I'm like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: what is the difference.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I know his treason was a little bit less egregious.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: I guess, I guess, I guess, And I mean there's
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: been so much talk about the calendar, and I don't
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: know if you saw this, but it was actually a
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Rick Patino put out something on social media. He's like, man,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: football's got to kind of get this fixed, because this
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: is like if we were in the same calendar in basketball,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: it would be like our team getting the one seed
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: in March and then right before March madness because of
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: the calendar, you have to leave to go take another job,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: if that job is you know, for you a better situation,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: and you do it right before the NCAA tournament. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: like when I saw it, coach laid out like that,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, that's even more egregious than I thought.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: You know, I did see Patino's quote, and I will
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: say it's broken. I think it's broken in college football
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: on a lot of things. The NCAA could change the transfers,
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: windows and all that, but the calendar made it tough.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: Old Miss made it tough. Ole Miss is the one
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: that put the you know, line in the sand and said,
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: give us an answer. Think about this. If Lane had
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: gone through the whole college football playoffs and then took
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: the job, or then we fired Brian Kelly at the
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: last minute, we wouldn't be talking about this. But because
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: of rumor, because of you know, coaches being able to
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: be talked to and fly their families different places, people
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: get real anxious and that's what happened. And it's sad
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: for the players. But you know, I think he had
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: to make a decision that he didn't want to make
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: at that time.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think that was pretty clear too,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: especially with his remarks at the press conference. You could
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: see that there was there was true you know, there's
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: true feelings and yeah, a little bit of sadness and
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: excitement from both directions from I thought it was very genuine.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: But uh, you've been through this, you have you have
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: made a move, You've been one of the most talked
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: about coaches and made a move to LSU. So what
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: piece of advice would you give Lane? Coming in as
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: a highly touted coach, of course, the all the headlines,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: but coming into this school, specifically.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: At LSU, you better win. They love you today and
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: they'll fire you tomorrow. I think expectations at LSU are
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: what they are, and sometimes I don't think that they're
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: fair because I think it's such a big enterprise and
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: you better win. And if you don't, I'm telling you
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: all those welcoming hugs, handshake, they will forget about you.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: But he knows that. Think of his history. I mean,
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: he was fired on the tarmac of an airport. You know.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Lane has withstood a lot of criticism from what I've read.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know Lane. I've never met Lane. I can
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: tell you one thing I do like about his family.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: His brother Chris, might be the smartest one in the family.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: He married a former women's basketball player and coach, so
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: his wife was a great player. I think her last
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: name was Timmins, and she played it Creton back in
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: the day for Connie Yory. And then they went to
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Nebraska and she was on Connie Yory's staff in Nebraska,
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: and I bet that's where she met Chris because he
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: was a coach there at the time. So I want
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: to meet that family, because heck, she might can bring
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: something to the table for.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: My program, no doubt about it.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: And Coach, I was thinking about you whenever Laine decided
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: to take the job, because there's a lot of people
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: and like, you know, you're in a good situation.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: At at ole Miss.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: But then you go to LSU and they were asking
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: the why, and I'm like, why, I'm bias.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: I think I know the why.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I can tell you my why and why because I
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: think l She's the greatest place on earth. And Coach,
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: you were in a similar situation, like y'all won national
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: championships at Baylor, so y'all have done more than Ole Miss, certainly,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: and you decided to come to a place that had
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: never won a national championship, and so you were taking
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: a leap of faith. And I know you know you're
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: from Louisiana, so it makes it a little bit different.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: But this was a place that you saw and you
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: wanted to accept the challenge of going to LSU.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I think our wives are different but yet similar. You
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: just mentioned this is home to me, right, this state.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: I didn't come back just to come to LSU. I
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: came back for this entire state to start appreciating and
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: loving women's basketball in high school and all the universities
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: in the state. And that's why I came back. More
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: so than I thought, Oh, I can win at LSU
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: like I did at Baylor. I thought the resources would
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: be much greater at LSU because of being in the SEC,
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: because of being a larger flagship university versus a private school.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: And I thought, if we can do that at Baylor,
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: which we did. We built the dynasty, guys. And I
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: didn't know just how hard it was until I got
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: to LSU and realized, oh man, I just got that
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: amount of money from a donor. It took me twenty
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: dollars at Baylor, right, But that's all I knew, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: that was okay with it. I was great. I love Baylor.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: My daughter still there, but my grand babies are there.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: I still go back to Waco. But his is probably different.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: He's never won a national championship, has he no? All right?
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: So in his mind. I'm not going to speak for him,
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: but I bet all his mentors were saying to him,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: where is it easier to recruit to and which place
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: will give you the best chance to contend for a
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: title Every year? I don't know that because hey, oh
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: miss is contending for a title this year. But I
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: don't know if it was more difficult to recruit there.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm just I'm talking out of turn,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: really thinking what went through his mind and his mentor's
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: mind on things that may have made him come here.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Coach, Yeah, I kind of want to just circle back.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about talk about your team right now.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: And I know there's a lot of things that you
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: look for, especially in this non conference play, getting and
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: getting ready. I know you've got a big, big game
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: tomorrow night against against Duke, But for what y'all have
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: done so far, I know you don't look at the
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: final scoreboard, but my god, like I think the LSU
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: fans certainly are. And you got eight games of scoring
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: over one hundred points. Now, I don't care who you're playing.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: I don't care if you're playing on air. That's that's
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: hard to do. So, like, just tell me about the
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: offensive performance that your team has been able to put
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: up so far.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Well, we have scored a lot of points. But I
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: didn't know going into to the season with eight new
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: players that we would be able to score this many points.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: I knew the non conference was going to be weak.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: I always play a week non conference. I spend November
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: and December basically as preseason training. I'm trying to figure
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: it all out. Some people do it different, bring their
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: kids in in the summer and man, you're all here.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I don't do it that way. I need my summers off.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: They need to do their things. Some play USA Basketball.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Now we get criticized a lot because the funniest thing
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: to me is we were number one in the net
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: this week. Well that just created an uproar. So my
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: point to everybody there is it's a flawed system. It's
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: a flawed system. And when it comes time for the playoffs,
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: whoever those twelve committee members are guys, they're going to
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: do what they want to do. They're going to emphasize
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: what's most important. I've seen programs leaning in, you know,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: tight games like the number one versus the number two,
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: and then when it came time for the playoffs, the
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: loser didn't get a one seed. Right, So don't don't
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: read much into people's non conference. It doesn't matter. At
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: the end of the day, you want to be a
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: top four seed so you can host on your campus.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: The first and second rounds, and then't go try to
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: win a Natty. And I've won Natties being the one seed.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: I've won Natties being the three seed.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, coach, it's great stuff.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: As always, we appreciate the insight into well everything, not
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: just women's basketball. Certainly looking forward to the matchup with
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Duke coming up, looking forward to the matchup you got
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: in uh gosh, I guess it's coming up in less
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: than two weeks against Louisiana tagged down in New Orleans.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Looking forward to being in the number there as well,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of exciting matchups coming up. And we always
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: and hey, it's not just lip service, coach. Our favorite
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: interview of the week, you guys behavior.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: Said, and if you need help getting Lane on air,
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: call me and I'll have to go meet him and
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: introduce myself and say, MANE need to come with me.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: You got a couple old football players that think they're
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: still in shape and some place for you. But back
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: in their heyday, back in their heyday, buddy, they.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Could go, that's right, that's right.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: I used to be somebody, for sure, no doubt about now.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I pulled my hamstring thinking about running full speed. So coach,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: we appreciate it so much.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: God be good you as well. LSU head coach Kim Moulke,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I mean incredible insight, not just basketball. I mean obviously
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: our teams also, and they're scoring one hundred points per game.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: They won last time out one twelve to thirty five.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: So you know, we appreciate the basketball inside, the best
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: basketball mine around, but just into life, into the coaching world,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: into all things LSU.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: That was fantastic. All right, we'll take a break.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: I know we're long for more OTB when we come
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: back live from the Raisin King studio, Off.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: The bench, from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in OTB.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Real quick here in this segment, before we get to
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: our number three, Billy Lucci is reporting, and of course
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Billy Luci textags has everything Texas A and M covered.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: He is confirming a report out of Manhattan, Kansas that
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Texas A and M offensive coordinator Colin Klein is to
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: take over for retiring Kansas State head coach Chris Kleman.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Kleine obviously played at Kansas State and this is the
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: only place I'm seeing it. But if Luci has it,
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: unless he got hacked, Lochi knows everything Texas A and M.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: So let's say reports info way guy do is Holland.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Kline two K State Chris Kleiman is not somebody that
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I thought was retiring. But as the Aggies get ready
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: for a playoff run, it feels like big news.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does feel like big news. But if.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: If Weiss can do it, he can certainly do it.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: He can probably still coach coordinate for that team if
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: they get in.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll get to the wise part of him
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: going back to Oxford here Coach Molke talking about it.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: We'll get into.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: It when it jumps back here our number three of
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  Speaker 2: Go check it all out. Support Maruci, Murucci sports, i co.