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Historically Competitive…. · JustIN Time

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  OK, welcome back to another edition of Justin Time podcast.
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  I'm your host. Justin.
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  This is going to be a solo episode.
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  I'm going to do a quick rundown on latex.
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  It's kind of strange to me that we end up with latex in Week 2
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  after a cleansing game again. But you know, Tech has that big
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  move to the Sunbelt Conference taking effect on July 1st.
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  That'll be a huge transition to them.
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  They have two tough Rd. games back-to-back at LSU and going to
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  Waco and playing at Baylor. But the Baylor game for them is
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  one of I think 3 on their schedule that is not in the
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  state of Louisiana. So that's pretty huge for them.
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  Let's see. Oh, they go to Georgia to play
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  it at Georgia Southern at the last game.
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  But you know, SO1234 games out of 12 are out of state and
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  really not that out of state because they go to Mobile and
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  Troy for the two of those. And I don't think Texas, I don't
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  think Waco is that far out of Louisiana.
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  So really they only have three real games outside of the state
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  of Louisiana, which should help them.
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  You know, I don't know how far their fans travel.
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  I really don't know much about them, but Sonny Cumbie has is
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  their head coach. He's entering his fifth season
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  and you know, he's brought stability to the program, which
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  is good. Transferring to a new conference
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  based on all new set of teams is difficult in and of itself, but
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  when you got an experienced guy at the helm who's brought
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  stability to him, that can help a lot.
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  You know, don't really have much.
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  Let's see, let's look at players.
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  Look, if it looks like I am looking down at the screen, it
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  is because I am. I don't really know much about
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  Louisiana Tech to say much about them.
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  You know, let's look up starters, starting lineup.
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  Here we go. This should help their return.
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  They are returning a mix of returning upperclassmen and key
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  transfers. You know, so we have their
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  offense. We have quarterback Jackson
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  Bradley and Ethan Bullock, running back Sergio Snyder and
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  Jaden Miller, wide receiver Devin Gandy, Dane Bennett,
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  Bendix, Jalen Mickens and tight end Eli Finley.
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  You know, sounds like they've got a bunch of guys that are
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  good coming in. They had online projection
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  Andrew Richards, Ashanti Koh Auric, Aubach Adcock and Austin
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  Ellis to round out their offense.
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  Projected starting run lineup, defense.
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  They have Caleb Sims, Zion Nason and Jacob Bradford.
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  Emmanuel Ogens, Judge. Again, I'm apologizing.
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  My Butcher's last name is Rio. Linebacker Javon Mayfield, Kobe
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  Fields and Cipoletto. Cornerbacks Johnson, safety
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  Michael Richard and Jacob Fields.
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  You know, so we got a lot, it seems like they got a lot of
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  good returners. You know, they'll give LSU small
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  fits because it's I didn't look, this is solely speculated
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  because I don't know how Lane Kiffin, Elaine Kiffin coach team
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  stacks up. I'm used to a Brian Kelly coach
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  team. Most of the time when we have
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  Brian Kelly coach team, they don't.
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  We have a lot of, we struggle a lot with Interstate schools
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  because those kids are coming to LSU playing the big college, the
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  big state school in the state of Louisiana.
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  They're more hyped up, pumped up then LSU typically is playing
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  these lesser opponents, you know, but like I said, that was
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  Brian Kelly, this is Lane Kiffin coming in to do this.
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  We're looking at 2 totally different coaching styles, 2
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  totally different coaches, you know, so it'll be a wild ride,
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  but you know, going into the Sunbelt conference that's
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  totally different set up, you know, lucky.
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  Luckily for them, like I said though, they their schedule is
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  like the Gemini posted, like Gemini put in it.
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  The breakdown is very geographically compact.
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  They don't have to go too far, do a lot of traveling to play in
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  the Sunbelt. They mainly are focused in the
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  state of Louisiana, with a couple of teams in Alabama and
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  one in Georgia Southern going to Georgia.
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  I think the addition of playing LSU and Baylor at the top of
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  their schedule, I think that'll set them up good.
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  You know, and from what I remember of Louisiana Tech,
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  they've always been a competitive team.
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  I mean, if you look at last year's numbers against us, sure,
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  we won 23 to 7, but halftime was 10 to nothing.
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  You know, the game could have gotten gone in their favor
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  numerous times. You know, and I think if you
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  look at the play by play, LSU didn't score a touchdown from
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  they scored a touchdown in the first part of the first quarter.
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  They didn't score another touchdown to the third quarter,
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  and then they didn't score another touchdown the whole rest
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  of the game. You know, they played defense,
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  solid defense against us. And if that they do that, we
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  only got 365 yards against them. Luckily for us, our defense was
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  stacked and we only gave up 154 yards.
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  But they averaged us to 4 yard, about 5 yards per play, which is
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  pretty good. You know, we only scored two
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  touchdowns. So we got 14 points up
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  touchdowns. The other nine came off with
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  field goals. That says a lot.
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  Will it be this not going to be the same this year?
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  Because it's like I said, it's two different teams, a way
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  better coaching staff coming back.
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  We'll have our stack defense at LSU like we did and we'll have a
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  totally different offense with a better offense scheme.
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  It'll be two different totally different games.
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  But just looking at years past and if we do shoot attack ball
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  series, football history, here we go.
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  You know LSU has a 20 and one record of all time series.
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  You know the last couple meetings in 2018 was before
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  20/25/2018 was our last 138 to 21.
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  Then the year before that it I mean that nine years before
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  that. So you can see there's a trend
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  about 9-10 years in between these games.
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  Another hard part win for LSU where it was 24 to 16.
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  Then we had a massive 1 in 7 where we .58 to 10.
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  But you know, for the most part these games have been close, you
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  know, 38 to 2124 to 10. There's not many double digit
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  wins in this thing for LSU. We just get went.
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  We just get, we do enough to win.
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  You know, it's always like that with text seems like.
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  And it's to me that's good. At least you have one
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  competitive in state rivalry with football.
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  You don't really see that that much, you know, but they have a
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  new offensive coordinator who was at, let's see what he was at
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  last year. He was at Tech.
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  He was the offensive line coach at Tech.
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  And now he's bumping up to athletic direct.
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  I mean, athletic director. That would be a huge promotion.
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  But he's the offensive coordinator now, you know, So
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  he's been with the team just now he's moving into a better
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  position, you know, then defensive coordinator Luke
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  Olson, he's returning for his second year.
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  You know, he build upon the defensive foundation he late
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  last year. That's good for them, you know.
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  But like I said, they have a tough road ahead of them.
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  Jumping into a new conference is totally different, but at least
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  they're at home the majority of it.
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  And like I said, looking at the series history with LSU, it
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  should be a competitive game. Not saying it'll be a good game,
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  but it'll be a competitive game. The last times, last couple of
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  times we've played them, it's been a good competitive game.
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  Should be a fun one regardless of who you're pulling for.
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  But that'll do it for me. Look forward to seeing y'all
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  come back next week and do it all again.
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  Remember, have a great day, a great night, whatever you have,
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  just make it a great one and that'll do it for me.