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Hour One | LSU Baseball Frustration, Saints Schedule Release & Rece Davis Joins · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. Let's go.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning. Driven'sday.
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  Speaker 2: Hester and Hester.
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  Speaker 3: Got a pat a PA, you're.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Locked in to off the bench. There's Brad Control live
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: Jazz God. When he's not here, he can't howl, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Actually is not good at howling.
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  Speaker 5: Hell, we miss him, we love him. I wish he
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  Speaker 5: was here. When he's not here, a man can't how
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  Speaker 5: It's okay, he's new to the wolf Pack. We'll give
• 1:16
  Speaker 5: him that. He's the newest member.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't think we can call him new anymore.
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  Speaker 7: Also, wasn't howling his idea could be wrong.
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, Okay, No, I don't want to be that person.
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  Speaker 6: But I think I started doing it because we were
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  Speaker 6: talking about the coyotes and then we were doing the yoh's,
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  Speaker 6: and I randomly just was like.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it was his idea.
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  Speaker 6: And then we made and then we made him howl
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  Speaker 6: that one time because like he was talking about the
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  Speaker 6: coyotes and I was like, let me get a howl,
• 1:44
  Speaker 6: and he hit us with the Auga.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh God bless him. He's an idiot, but he's
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  Speaker 5: our idiot. Yeah, you know, he's on his way to
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  Speaker 5: Idaho to go fishing. Well not quite yet.
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  Speaker 6: But when he was sitting here on Monday and Chris
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  Speaker 6: was my was making fun of him for pulling up
• 2:02
  Speaker 6: Mozilla Firefox, Yeah, don't ever change. Yeah, I'm like, don't
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  Speaker 6: ever stop using Firefox if that's your preference, right, if
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  Speaker 6: you want to go on to Firefox and Google. He does,
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  Speaker 6: fire Like on Firefox, type in Google in the search bar,
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  Speaker 6: then do that. Don't ever let Chris dole You're shine.
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  Speaker 6: Don't let anybody do You're shine.
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  Speaker 7: Matt be you, he responded, like everybody using them as
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  Speaker 7: alid Firefox. He was like, wait, what do you guys
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  Speaker 7: using step.
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  Speaker 3: Like normal like Google Chrome?
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  Speaker 7: Why just go to Firefox and Google. What's what's the difference?
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  Speaker 5: Like, you're right, Yeah, he's one of one. I think
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  Speaker 5: we all know that he is. Thank God with peace
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  Speaker 5: and love. Thank God.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, we do have a lot to get to obviously.
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  Speaker 5: Today, as Taylor laid out, we're gonna have Rhys Davis
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  Speaker 5: join us in about thirty minutes from now. LSU's got
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  Speaker 5: the first college game day against Clemson going to be
• 3:02
  Speaker 5: on campus, so wanted to have Reso on to kind
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  Speaker 5: of break that down, talk about it, talk about some
• 3:06
  Speaker 5: off season storylines, and then Ben and Dick Arnold. I mean, hold,
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  Speaker 5: the Mayo is joining us. We'll tell you why he's
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  Speaker 5: Benedict Arnold a.
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  Speaker 4: Little bit later on.
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  Speaker 5: And then LSU linebacker Went Weeks is going to join
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  Speaker 5: us in the third hour. Certainly looking forward to that
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  Speaker 5: conversation as well. But before we get to all that jazz,
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  Speaker 5: as we always do, get a little vibe, check around
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  Speaker 5: the room. Landra at the box last night, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: So it's actually it was Entigre State. That's where the
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  Speaker 6: studios entire, like where the brand is.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean I was across.
• 3:41
  Speaker 4: The street, but you were there in spirit?
• 3:43
  Speaker 3: Was there in spirit? I wish I wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: The game went on three and a half hours plus
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  Speaker 6: well I guess it was, yeah, like three and a
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  Speaker 6: half hours or maybe I don't know, but anyway, sucked, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: because I think it ended out like ten ten fifteen
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  Speaker 6: is like three and a half hours.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: And then the postgame show.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't get out of there until almost eleven, So
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  Speaker 6: that part of it I hate, and then we lose.
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  Speaker 3: I hate that too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's not like I was expecting too
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  Speaker 6: much different, But I think, like every series, I just
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  Speaker 6: kind of hold on to a little bit of hope
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  Speaker 6: because they've put some good They've like strung together some
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  Speaker 6: good at bats and some good innings before. But when
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  Speaker 6: you give up back to back singles to lead off
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  Speaker 6: the game and then load the bases and then give
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  Speaker 6: up a grand Slam in the first inning, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of hard to come back from that.
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  Speaker 4: It is, so I mean it. Look, I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Find the national anthem and play it for y'all. I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing that right now.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I wish that would have been tonight. What happens first?
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  Speaker 4: The national anthem are the first.
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  Speaker 3: Base national anthem?
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  Speaker 6: Wait, I don't well, I don't remember how it went
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  Speaker 6: yes last night, but I think it's national anthem first,
• 5:02
  Speaker 6: and then first pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's what you gotta hope for, Jake.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just I'm asking whoever singing it tonight, do
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  Speaker 5: me a solid and just butcher it.
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  Speaker 4: Carl Lewis bad, Fergi bad No.
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  Speaker 6: And then they panned to the crowd and this dude
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  Speaker 6: started laughing.
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  Speaker 4: That's rough. I know that that has to be. That
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  Speaker 4: has to be probably, like we were talking about the
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  Speaker 4: first pitch and YadA, YadA whatever.
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  Speaker 5: If I go up there and I bounce it, sure
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  Speaker 5: my boys are gonna give me a hard time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the nine new team's gonna eat me a
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  Speaker 4: hard time. Whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, if you butcher a national anthem, that's like
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  Speaker 5: that's a song we all know when we all can
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  Speaker 5: sing along to. But yeah, it's like, all right, go
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  Speaker 5: and you're singing it. That has to be the most
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  Speaker 5: nerve wracking thing in all like, oh, absolutely all of
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  Speaker 5: tasks that you were asked to do.
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  Speaker 6: Parker McCollum will not see the national anthem when they
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  Speaker 6: ask him to do it because he's he doesn't want
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  Speaker 6: to like risk butchering it and people remembering that forever, because.
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  Speaker 7: First you're you're up there ten seconds and you know,
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  Speaker 7: even if you have a bad one, they're gonna be you.
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  Speaker 7: But you're gonna laugh and they're gonna laugh if you
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  Speaker 7: have the national anthem in silence for two minutes, but
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  Speaker 7: people just staring at you.
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  Speaker 4: Gotta finish, you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, you're bombing they you know, you're bombing. That's awful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, m.
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  Speaker 3: I found it. Okay, we can't play that, No, but
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  Speaker 3: I want to show you this.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna watch, but we can't for the
• 6:42
  Speaker 5: sake of whoever.
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  Speaker 3: Did whoever it was, went through enough. I'm sorry they have.
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: They have gone through the ringer already and then the
• 6:51
  Speaker 5: team went through the ringer.
• 6:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but but we already knew what this season was. Yeah, Okay,
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: So if.
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  Speaker 5: We're trying to pump some sunshine into not the baseball
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: right now because of where it's at, but just to
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: our feelings, yeah, not totally in our feels. Mason Brown
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  Speaker 5: had two more hits. Serna had two more hits. Aaron
• 7:16
  Speaker 5: Beadie had two more hits.
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  Speaker 4: So so the young players that are getting an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: right now, like that's the only thing that we've got
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  Speaker 4: to take from what's going on right now.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not a good place to be. LSU baseball
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  Speaker 5: is not typically there. They are, you know, historically bad
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  Speaker 5: and wild pitches and walks and all the things and
• 7:36
  Speaker 5: all the metrics that we talk about. But right now
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  Speaker 5: you at least have some young baseball players that are
• 7:43
  Speaker 5: going to be back next year.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: You assume they're gonna be back next year.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like there's some that you can retain.
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  Speaker 6: Cerna feels like he's gonna come back, but Hunt and
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  Speaker 6: I were talking about this the other day.
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  Speaker 3: You need to retain those players.
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  Speaker 6: But also, like the Steven Mylam things a little interesting,
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  Speaker 6: and I feel like you can make a good argument
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  Speaker 6: for him coming back.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, people are gonna do whatever they want to do.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't think that Mylam is going to be
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  Speaker 6: somebody that is immediately called up into.
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  Speaker 3: The show or like even maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Like not to be ugly, but I maybe not even
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  Speaker 6: get there, you know what I mean. Like he'll make
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  Speaker 6: it to the MLB, but I don't know if he'll
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  Speaker 6: ever get to.
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  Speaker 3: That level, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think you can make the argument like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: do one more year here, stack up your nil money
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  Speaker 6: and then but I don't know, Like people are going
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  Speaker 6: to do whatever they want, but I would love That's
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  Speaker 6: a really big ask, but I would love if you
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  Speaker 6: could retain that we seen.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we've seen players that we didn't think a chance
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  Speaker 4: coming back, and.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think Calm would come back.
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  Speaker 5: Jones, Yep, I think he'd come back when he did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so it's happened before. Mylem feels to me like somebody
• 9:01
  Speaker 5: that he'll he'll get drafted, no doubt about it. And
• 9:05
  Speaker 5: he's so good defensively, he's a switch hitter, like he'll
• 9:07
  Speaker 5: be the twenty third guy on a roster and he's
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  Speaker 5: always going to have a spot and he'll be a
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  Speaker 5: defensive replacement. He'll be a pinch hitter because you know,
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  Speaker 5: is a switch hitter. So true, I think he will
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  Speaker 5: have a career at the highest level. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: to your.
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  Speaker 3: Point, I don't know if it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: Is it high enough to not come back and make
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  Speaker 5: a lot of money in no space? So there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean there's really an opportunity. But like now, you
• 9:33
  Speaker 5: don't have to worry about just that. You gotta worry
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: about that, and you gotta worry about transfer portal, right,
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  Speaker 5: Like all of these players like Serna and bron and
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: Aaron Beattie are all going to have every single team
• 9:46
  Speaker 5: tampering in their ear, like.
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  Speaker 7: Honestly, especially but because like as good as he's been,
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  Speaker 7: he's still primarily the DH. If Aaron Beadi comes back,
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  Speaker 7: does cerna want to be a full time catcher, Like
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  Speaker 7: that's that's something he's gonna have to consider the he
• 10:00
  Speaker 7: comes back. But there's there's always the chance he doesn't, right,
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  Speaker 7: I think there's.
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  Speaker 3: A pretty good chance that him and Braun do.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look, but you.
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: Never know what I'm gonna bet bet I'm gonna bet
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  Speaker 5: on Jay Johnson to be able to retain.
• 10:18
  Speaker 6: Whoever, especially young freshman talent like that, Like they came
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  Speaker 6: to l s U for a reason.
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he got certed to come here and not go
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: to the draft.
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if you can do that, you can certainly show
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: him the you know, all the things that make LSU great,
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: which he knows that's why he came here. And so
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: it's gonna that part of it will certainly be interesting.
• 10:35
  Speaker 5: Something will certainly continue to talk about breakdown. But again,
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: there's not going to be a whole lot weaken give
• 10:41
  Speaker 5: you from this game. It's gonna be positive. Your starting
• 10:44
  Speaker 5: pitcher didn't last an inning and gave up six earned runs. Okay,
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: that part of it. It is like Ricking actually came
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: in Rickon, Yeah, he.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: Had five strikeouts and settled.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's set some moments this year. Man not must
• 10:57
  Speaker 7: have been midweek, but like he's he's said some moment.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: Like it wildly enough, outside of the six innings you
• 11:03
  Speaker 5: gave up in two thirds of an inning.
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: Uh, you only give up two more.
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  Speaker 5: Earned runs, and then you blank three straight until you
• 11:12
  Speaker 5: get to Maverick Rizzy, who gave up one earned run.
• 11:15
  Speaker 5: Because being's earned runs are runs. Sorry, we're not earned
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: So take the over, as you said a Landro, Yeah,
• 11:26
  Speaker 5: baseball's play and take the over.
• 11:28
  Speaker 6: I mean they're gonna score, They're just not gonna win
• 11:30
  Speaker 6: any how about the other team's gonna score more.
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm injured. Franke Haz brought it up.
• 11:34
  Speaker 7: It's still going six of your last seven SEC losses,
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  Speaker 7: you've scored at least eight runs.
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, which was like the complete opposite earlier instant.
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: Look that and again, and j would tell you this too.
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of what That's what bad teams do. Bad
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: teams don't put it all together right and to the
• 11:52
  Speaker 5: standard of what Jay is and what he's felt, just
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  Speaker 5: this bad team, Like we know that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be an interesting offseason.
• 12:02
  Speaker 5: It's going to be a very interesting offer because every
• 12:04
  Speaker 5: move that's made is gonna be under a microscope. It's
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: going to be talked about. Ye Oh, that's just going
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: to be the next York or that's gonna you know,
• 12:12
  Speaker 5: they're going to go through that. They're going to know that,
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  Speaker 5: like there's not anything. That's the thing when you have
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  Speaker 5: a bad year. That's the thing that you have to
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  Speaker 5: know as a player or as a coach, whatever, You're
• 12:21
  Speaker 5: not going to do anything that is really celebrated until
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: you have a first pitch because they're always going to
• 12:28
  Speaker 5: go back to all we heard the same thing last year, right,
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: wrong or indifferent? Yep, that's just the way it is.
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: And oh, man, I don't know. This guy's coming over
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  Speaker 5: from the HICCO conference. Is he really gonna be able
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: to handle the SEC And that's going to be the conversation. Yeah,
• 12:44
  Speaker 5: Like you had, you know, players for your national championship
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: team coming over from Utah Valley that could handle it.
• 12:50
  Speaker 5: One came over from Grand Canyon this year and couldn't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: so you've had both ways. Nobody's going to go back
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  Speaker 5: multiple years. They're just gonna remember last.
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: Year and what that was, which is crazy because like
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  Speaker 6: that just feels a little unfair to me, you know,
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  Speaker 6: like you yeah, and I know, I get it. I
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: understand and I get that, but like it's just you're
• 13:11
  Speaker 6: kind of it's like a recency bias kind of thing
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  Speaker 6: where you know, Jay came in his first season here
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  Speaker 6: was not anything to write home about, but it wasn't terrible.
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  Speaker 6: And then you go and you win the National Championship,
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: and then you get somebody like Dylan Cruise, you get
• 13:27
  Speaker 6: Tommy White, you get all these people like you are
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: a good recruiter, you are good in the portal. You
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: missed one season and you didn't get what you thought
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: you were going to get out of these guys and
• 13:38
  Speaker 6: that sucks. But you know, I'm not going to sit
• 13:41
  Speaker 6: here and act like Jay Johnson doesn't know what he's
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: doing right, And I don't think that will I look
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: at some of the stuff that some of the people
• 13:50
  Speaker 6: that were am I gonna look into their stuff? Yeah,
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna look into it, But I don't I'm not
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: going to sit here and be like Jay's going to
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  Speaker 6: miss in the portal again, or he does know how
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  Speaker 6: to recruit or he doesn't know how to like I'm
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: not gonna do that and I'm not gonna start questioning
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  Speaker 6: him was this season terrible historically, yes, one thousand percent.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm not gonna sit here and act like Jay
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  Speaker 6: Johnson doesn't know what he's doing.
• 14:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's something like a sane fan, which normally
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: don't exist. Back to Jake's point, like it just it's
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  Speaker 7: I think a lot of it has to do with
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: like this year, even with the slow start, a lot
• 14:27
  Speaker 7: of people were like, oh, to Jay Johnson, will figure
• 14:29
  Speaker 7: it out, don't worry, we'll figure it out. Oh yeah, right,
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: and the fact that it never came around this year,
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: there are going to be fans that are like, you
• 14:36
  Speaker 7: didn't do it last year, which, like to a Launderst point,
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: not fair, but that's how a lot of fans are.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: They also which you have the ability to do now,
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: which you never really had before.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: You would get one or two.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: You got to try to hold on to as many
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: as these high score crews as you possibly can.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: You got crushed last year.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: There's been years where you've been really good and it's
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: always a little bit of a coin flip, but now
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: you have more chances of the coin landing in your
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: direction that you want because of nil. Yeah, and we've
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: talked about it and verge Osbury. The athletic directors talked
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: about it like baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Is going to get theirs.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: They are going to get the funds that they need
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: to be competitive, and so you got to have some
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: of those guys that right now have gone to the
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: draft to come to campus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: See if they can get that done again, it's going
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: to be a very interesting off season for LSU baseball.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Look at us talking sports in the first segment. Who
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: are we? I don't even recognize us right now.
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: We'll take a break more OTB when we come back
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday, A Landro was the first to go expensive candles.
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  Speaker 6: Well, okay, my other one was just like way too
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  Speaker 6: Well, because it's like, I don't know, I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I explained it to him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he got it again, like it's gonna be kind
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  Speaker 3: It's so hyper specific.
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  Speaker 5: as Tata said a little bit earlier, we do now
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  Speaker 5: know the full schedule for the New Orleans Saints. Now
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  Speaker 5: a couple of different things to point out, and we'll
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  Speaker 5: actually probably I would assume kind of bounce in, bounce out,
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  Speaker 5: back and forth with what's going on with this schedule. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: one primetime game. Now it's gonna be a big one.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be October. The fifth's gonna be Week four,
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  Speaker 5: Uh twenty, I believe a twenty year you know history obviously,
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: since you played the Falcons with Hurricane Katrina. I believe
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: that was week three when that happened. What's gonna happen
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  Speaker 5: week four? It's gonna be your only Monday night game.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be a big one. I mean, Superdome is
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  Speaker 5: gonna be electric that night. Looking forward to seeing those scenes.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: But we actually have some evening games this oh well,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: I guess just one. Last season we didn't have it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Any night games.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think Saints love a noon game.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Well good because they got most of them. Yeah, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: mean your first two.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't get what remember last season they didn't get
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  Speaker 6: one primetime spot.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't deserve it.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, so you get one. You get one here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: That's it. One single game.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: But look, it is what it is and the things
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: that stand out to me, just kind of giving this
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: the quick glance last night whenever it got released. And Taylor,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you said it on air, if
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: you were talking to me just during the Brave, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: you're right at Detroit at Baltimore to open up your season.
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  Speaker 4: You better be ready because you know what.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: Those two teams are physical, they're mean, they're nasty, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: they're tough. Those aren't easy places to play. I can
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: promise you that I've played in both those places. They
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: are not easy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: No, I think the Lions are actually gonna be really
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: good this year. They lost both coordinators and their starting
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: center right before the season. Last year, they were going
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: to take a step back. The SAME's run defense was
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: terrible a year ago. Now you hope they've gotten better,
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: But don't forget like they got Isaya Pacheco to spell
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Jamiir Gibbs, Like that's a solid number two. That is
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: a bad matchup, at least going into the season, because again,
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: like you mentioned, you don't know who's going to be
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: good and who's not. But that one, that's a tough
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: one out the gate. I think that one's tougher than
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: the Ravens, just because I mean jesse mentor first time
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: head coach, you scheme for Lamar, what's that gonna look like?
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: But Detroit Baltimore weeks one or two, it is off.
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  Speaker 5: It is It is going to be a big challenge.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: We're gonna know how much the Saints have improved right
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  Speaker 5: from the get go. We're gonna see if they've taken
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: those steps. You get three home games after that, Vegas, Atlanta, Minnesota.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be a tough stretch right there in those
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: first five games.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know what Vegas is going to be.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Atlanta's arrival, who knows, it's gonna be a primetime game again,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: the Dome's gonna be turned off for that one, looking
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: forward to the atmosphere for that one. Minnesota is a
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: team that we expected more out of last year. You
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: didn't get it. What are they going to be at quarterback?
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: But first five games are gonna be tough. But you
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: do have three straight home games. That never happens in
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: the National Football League. So that is a good thing,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: even though you do start on the road for the
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  Speaker 5: first two weeks. And so look, as I said, we're
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: gonna keep kind of going back and forth with the schedule.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Kind of gets some thoughts from everybody around the room.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, if you don't think Detroit's not
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  Speaker 5: fired up for the first game of the year. The
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  Speaker 4: September the thirteenth.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: So those fans are looking forward to this season, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: we'll break down all the tough points of the schedule,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: the easier parts of the schedule, at least on paper.
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  Speaker 5: As I was telling Tatane Launder before, you never know
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: in the National Football League because a team that you
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: thought was gonna be really good can be really bad,
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  Speaker 5: and vice versa. But we'll break it all down throughout
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  Speaker 4: Ree always a pleasure. Hope you're doing well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. How are you always happy to get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to talk with you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, doing fantastic. Very excited to have you on. And
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  Speaker 5: we now know the location already. I mean here we
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  Speaker 5: of the first College Game Day. It's going to be
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: here in Death Valley LSU versus Clemson. So one to
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  Speaker 5: have you on to talk about that game and maybe
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: what it's going to look like in your opinion for
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: the twenty twenty six season.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: So we'll start there.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: LSU a place that you know very well, place you've
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: been too many times, and you know the last couple
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: of times it hasn't been you know, the best outcome
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: for the LSU Tigers, and I know they're trying to
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: change that because, as you know, there's a lot of
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: new around Baton Rouge.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Reese there's a ton there and I think the number
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: one reason though that we chose to come to Baton
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Rouge for the season opener there is because of the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: usually mild temperatures that we get in September in Baton Rouge.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: So certainly looking forward to Actually, you know, the funny
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: thing is, I'd rather have that if it's you know,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: ninety four in sweltering, I'll take that over four and windy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'll take that every time I can deal
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: with a little sweat, I'll be fine. No, we're really
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: excited about it. I mean, the dawn of a new
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: era at LSU. So much of the fanfare and attention,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: you know, everything that Lane Kiffen says is picked up,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: and he understands that and uses it well. I think
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: it's a real challenge for Clemson off a tremendously disappointing
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: season last year. So it's a you know, it's a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: great it's a great way to open up. It's a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: marquee game, and it's on campus, which is you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: much better than any of the past neutral site type
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: games that we've had at times, so we've opened on
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: campus the last few years. It's everything you want it's
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: a great place to come with. It's one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite stops anywhere in college football at rees.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: So two teams that were certainly disappointing last year. And look,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: when the first game of the year happened last year,
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: we thought maybe we'd be, you know, seeing a preview
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: of a potential playoff matchup.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: It didn't go that way for either team.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: And so both these teams come in with you know,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: different kind of expectations, but they still are going to
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: be asked to win football games. And so LSU's got
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: all the new as we mentioned, They've got Lane kiffrom
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: the new staff, a lot of new players. And then
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: for Clemson and Dabo Sweeney right, it's a lot of
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: the same. It's a lot of the same players. Now
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: they've done some things in the transfer portal, which is
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: new for Dabo. But both these teams still have a
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: lot of pressure, a lot of expectations. Even though it
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: might be a different situation, both these teams still have
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: to win this year.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree more. Now there will be the fresh
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: set of downs feel a little bit for our last
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: year because I mean, Lane's proven that he can turn
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: things around quickly and he will, and you know, LSU
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: was not devoid of talent, and they still aren't, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: prior to Lane's rival and now certainly after he arrived,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: they've acquired more talent, so you know, it's not as
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: if they're going to be lacking players. Clemson, on the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: other hand, lost a lot of draft picks. They've got
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of unproven guys. But I think they're talented too,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: and maybe, you know, maybe Clemson just needed some type
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: of you know, freshening. Now a lot of people have
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: questioned the choice of offensive coordinator, you know, sort of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: going back to the future with Chad Morris. They'll have
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: a new quarterback. I thought as disappointing as last season
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: was for LSU, I thought it was more so for Clemson,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: and not just because I picked Clemson to win the
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: National Championship and all that. I thought they were going
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: to have a great year last year and they just didn't.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: So I think there's going to be a lot of
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: pressure there. I think more for LSU is just going
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: to be excitement and celebration. Clemson will have the you know,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: the proverbial nothing to lose coming into it, because I
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: think everyone will expect LSU to win the game and
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: to win at home. But you know, I do think
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: that there is I think you're right, there is some
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: heat on Clemson to take a step back up to
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: avoid the field that you have right now that it's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: gotten stale. And you know, I hate to say that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Saw Dabbo, you know, last weekend and yeah, chat with
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: him for a little bit. I think they're excited. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: think they're confident, but you know, we'll see how it
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: goes once the season starts.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, You're not alone, by the way in that Clemson pick.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, everybody, including this show. We had the top
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: two team in the country. They had so much coming back,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: and you're right about the draft. I'm sitting there in
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: Pittsburgh and recovering the draft and I'm like, there goes
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: another Clemson guy.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: There it goes another Clemson guy.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Like they had the talent, they had the Jimmies and
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Joe's to be able to go out there and compete
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: like that, I think that's why it was so shocking,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: because Dabo have been there so long and you had all.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: These really really good football players.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: They are going to play at the next level, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: so many times he's been able to put it together before.
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: They just could not ever stream together, really reached two
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: games in a row.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, look, I don't want to put
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: this all on because you know, Kate Clutton that got drafted,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: and I hope he has a great career, and he
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: seems like a great young man out and I know
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: they think highly of him at Clemson, but it just
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: he never seemed comfortable last year. He you know, never
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: seemed to be able to get the offense moving. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: you would be in far better position than I with
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: your expertise. I don't know if it was structural, schematic,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: you know, or exactly what the issue was, but they
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: just never seemed right offensively. And you know, by the
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: same token, they have a terrific defensive coordinator, Tom Allen,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: but it was his first year, and it never seemed
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that those defensive linemen, you know, Woods and Parker and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you know even Sammy Brown, who I love it linebacker
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: really ever just wrecked games. Not that they were bad,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: but they just never really wrecked games the way you anticipated.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: And it makes you, you know, it does make you
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: question exactly what it was. Is it just something that
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: needed shaken up? As if. You know, sometimes sometimes different voice,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: different people doing it, you know, different people getting opportunities.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe you know, maybe people felt stuck behind those stars
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: and therefore no one got pushed, you know, so all
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: of the little things that are hard to quantify that
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: can sort of make a season go sideways. I felt
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: like that happened to them, and then this game against
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: LSU will be an opportunity to turn that around. While LSU,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I think LSU fans are going to be a lot
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: more like they think they know what the Christmas present
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: is going to be like, but it's still going to
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: be a lot of jubilation, you know, ripping that ribbon
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: off and tearing it open and seeing what.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: It really is, that's a great way to put it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Catching up with Reese Davis OsO of ESPN's College Game Day,
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  Speaker 5: hear on ot B and look, Reese, I don't want
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: to look too much into the future. We're excited about
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: game number one, but there's a chance you could have
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: LSU pretty early in the season after.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Game number one and week number three.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Now, look, I can't tell you what to wear, but
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: I know I might be wearing a helmet trying to
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: call that game in Oxford, Mississippi, as I had my
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: you know, myself up to the broadcast booth to call
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: the game. So we'll see how it goes. But there's
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: a good chance of both teams. And then both teams
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: have tough open openers, uh Ole, miss has Louisville and Nashville,
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: and I think the world of Jeff Brahm and that staff,
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: and so that's not just a role the helmet's out
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  Speaker 5: there game for them either. But can you imagine if
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: both of those teams are undefeated a world where y'all
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  Speaker 5: are not there for that game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we haven't announced that yet, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I would say, you know, we probably have some
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be the marquee game even you know what,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: even if they both lose Jacob, if they I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we'd still go there, as certainly
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: other weeks maybe we would, maybe we wouldn't, but we
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  Speaker 2: sort of pride ourselves on following the storyline of the
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  Speaker 2: week and not necessarily just you know, teams that have
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  Speaker 2: perfect records or whatever. Although certainly those two things dovetail
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: often that the teams are the best records and all
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: of that. Look, is there a world where they both
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: look bad? And you know, maybe, but I think it seems,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: you know that that would be the leader in the clubhouse.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I think right now, just with all that, all that
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: has gone on and the verbal sparring back and forth,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: and the way it ended last year, and you know,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Lane's departure and then to have him return to Oxford
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: and in some ways, as strange as this might sound,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: and I know Lane sort of embraces things like that,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: and if there's one guy who probably won't be too
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: bothered by it, it's it's him. But at least you
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: get it over with, you know, when and you know
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: there's been I still even think like Nick's return to
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge was way different because he didn't leave directly
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: for Alabama, you know, I mean he went to the
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: NFL and the Alabama job was open, and he told
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: you know, it was way different. I understand it was
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: still emotional and you know, vitriolic and all of that,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: but two years had passed and you built up to
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: it during the season. Right now, this LSU old miss
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: game with Lane returning there and the way it ended.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: He didn't leave you know, an eight and fourteen he
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: left a playoff team that you know wasn't far from
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: playing for the national championship, and you know he he
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: left that team to go to Arrival, and now he's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: coming back. At least, at least you're doing it early.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: You know, at least you do it week three and
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: you get it over with and then every you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: all the stories have been written and the interviews have
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: been done, and the people with boot and the red
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: stilettos have been thrown I'm sure as they are wont
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: to do at Oxford, all of that stuff happened, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: then everybody goes on with their lives and their season.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: So I think there, you know, there's some you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and also, at least it's not week one, so you're
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: not just building up to it, so it almost I
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: don't know if it was planned. I don't know if
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: someone had the idea or whatever when the SEC schedule
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: came out, but at least, you know, at least it
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: seems to fall on the right spot of the calendar
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: where you get all of the drama, all of the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: things that We're going to crave all of the storylines
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: that are going to be so juicy, but at the
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: same time, you know, you allow them. They have something
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: else to get to open the season. Then it gets
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: over with and everybody goes on with their lives.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Catching up with ESPN College Game Days. Rhese Davis here
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: on O TB.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Height Reese last one, and we certainly appreciate your time.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: I'm sitting here and I'm thinking, and you and I
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: have had conversations about LSU coaches in the past, and
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: you know, Brian Kelly was here and it didn't work out.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: There's just something about when LSU has let's call it
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: an interesting coach, right, I mean Coach Miles my guy. Look,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: I named his son after Coach Miles. It means the
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: world to me. Eating grass and coach O God love him.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: He is one of our favorites. And he's coach oh.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: And you got Lane Kiffin now, who certainly, as you know,
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: is always you know, interesting and always going to have,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: you know, something to put out there for whatever reason. Reese,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: it just feels like that is what LSU needs when
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: they are the most successful looking coach say and built
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: this and he built the foundation of it, and coach
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Miles and coach oh and hopefully link Kifn kind of
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: take that and run with it. But when LSU has
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: a coach, it's got a little something extra to him.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: We call that land yap here in South Louisiana, Right,
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: it just feels like it's right, and it feels like
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: that's when they have their most success.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: There's a thing in people talk about fits with programs,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: and I'm of the opinion that there are very very
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: few guys, at least in our lifetimes who transcends fit,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: meaning that they would win anywhere because of the power
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: of their coaching ability and the dynamic force of their personality.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: The only two I can think of off the top
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: of my head are Nick Saban, who is the king
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: of that, and I would say Urban Meyer is probably
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: in that category. Grew gonna win anywhere. Maybe there's someone
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I'm forgetting off the top of my head. To be
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: honest with you, Jacob, I w whether Brian Kelly might
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: be able to do that. Turns out he couldn't. So
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I think that what you're talking about with that is
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: because of the colorful surroundings, because of the vibrancy of
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: LSU football. It just fits when you have a coach
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: who has who has a little edge to him or
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: a little quirkiness or some personality. You know, oo was
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: out of central casting, you know, less with the tortured syntax,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: which I love. You know, there is a want for this,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: you know, I love that. Still one of my favorite
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: lessisons of all time. There is a want for victory,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you know, things like that, and you just kind of
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: kind of eat it up. It fits. It feels like
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: LSU football, and I agree with you one hundred percent.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a great match
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: and I'm really can't wait to see it get started,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: opening up against Clemson.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: All Right, there he is, Reese Davis good enough to
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: join us here on OTB Reese. It is always a pleasure.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: I certainly appreciate the time. Look forward to our next conversation.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: You bet my friends see you later.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: All right, Reesce Davis good enough to join us here.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: A lot of great stuff as always, And I mean
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: he didn't say it because I don't think.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: He has to.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I think we can take it to the bank.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: I think we even brought that up the other day.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: We were like Oh, that's gonna be l s u's
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: second college game day of three weeks. And yeah, I
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: mean that's that's happening.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look and uh, you know Reese has always been Yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: he's always been great. And when he said, you know,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: maybe even if they lose, they don't even maybe have
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: to win.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: That it kind of tells me that they are unless
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: something crazy. Yes, they're going. They are going to be
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: in Oxford, Mississippi.
• 39:41
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  Speaker 1: Off the bench, from the locker room to the airwaves.
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  Speaker 4: Dowd never was around, but grew.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate Rhys Davis for hopping on with us.
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  Speaker 5: And you know it's it's gonna be an exciting start
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: And again, like I am not one of those people
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  Speaker 5: that's just gonna say, oh man, you got Clemson. Clemson's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be down. I don't think Clempson's gonna be what
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  Speaker 5: Clemson's been for a decade. I don't last year they
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  Speaker 5: had really, really good players. It was evident by the
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  Speaker 5: NFL Draft how many went there, and Peter Woods and
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  Speaker 5: Parker and club Nick and we go on and on
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  Speaker 4: But it's still Clemson, right, It's still the emotions of
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  Speaker 4: an opening game.
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  Speaker 5: You've got a lot of new But I think el
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: su is going to handle business when you look at
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: the two rosters, when you look at the coaching staffs, whatever.
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  Speaker 5: But you're gonna have that college game day experience on
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  Speaker 5: your campus, and then you're gonna have probably Rhys Davis
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  Speaker 5: kind of said, like just handle your business and good
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  Speaker 5: chances we'll be there. Then you're gonna have the opportunity
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: in Oxford. It's gonna be two completely different feels. As
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: your bus roll said, but like you are going to
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: be on the prime time stage two times in the
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: first three weeks. Like we already know that as far
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: as the game time, but I'm talking about you could
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: be on college game day right twice in the first
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: month of the season.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: You were going to have the ability to go out.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: There and bring that real juice back to your program,
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: the one that we all know was there for a
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: very very long time time, and over the last couple
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: of years it's just gone away because you haven't done
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: what you were supposed to do. You haven't won games
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: the clip that LSU football wins them. You got a chance, right,
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: you want to make LSU cool again. Go out there
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: on college game day, beat Clemson. Go on there on
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: college game day and beat Ole Miss and you'll be
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: right back there. So it's a lot of pressure, right,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: But anything worth anything has it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: If it was easy, it wouldn't be worth it. Here's
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: your chance, here's your opportunity. What are you going to
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: do with it.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: I don't think Lane's doing himself any favors in terms
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: of like the pressure that's on him because you're out
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: here doing vanity fair articles, you're trolling Ole Miss, which
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: I personally love the trolling. You're trolling Ole Miss at
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: every second that you can possibly troll them. Like another
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: quote came out yesterday and it's just he's like, maybe
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: if I was there, they would have went further, Like like,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: that was obviously not my choice to in the way
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: that it ended.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: That was Keith's choice.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: And maybe if I was there and I was coaching
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: in the playoffs, they would have went further. That's not verbatim,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: but it was basically what he said. So Lane not
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: doing himself any favors in terms of like the pressure
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: that's on him.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: But that's part of what the experience.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like this is just who he is.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: But I do I know Matt feels this way where
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: it's like, Okay, maybe win a game first and then
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: we can start with the trolling and.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: The Yeah, Matt, Matt has definitely a more of a
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: slow down approach.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think him and I are on the same
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: page with that.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: But that's just Look, that's that's part of what you're getting.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: That is the experience. And and they ain't gonna stop.
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: It is only going to continue, just like we're gonna
• 44:46
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• 44:46
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