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July 23, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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Speaker 9: In July.
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Speaker 4: SEC Media Days just wrapped up today and one of
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Speaker 4: the more anticipated press conferences was from the new head
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Speaker 4: coach of the LSU Tigers, Lane Kiffin. And I mentioned
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Speaker 4: it earlier, the new record for most words by a
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Speaker 4: coach in their opening statement twenty eight hundred and seven,
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Speaker 4: according to Brett McMurphy. So we're gonna hear what Lane
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Speaker 4: had to say, and then the questions that the few
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Speaker 4: questions that they had time for. Here's Lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 1: We begin our day with the LSU head football coach
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Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 9: Well, thank you, Commissioner. You know, I met the commissioner
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Speaker 9: seventeen years ago I was head coach at Tennessee. I
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Speaker 9: just think about, you know, you can never predict the
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Speaker 9: future of your life and the directions that it goes.
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Speaker 9: Seventeen years later, third SEC job. He was the associate
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Speaker 9: commissioner at the time and for Commissioner Slive, and I
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Speaker 9: just have great respect for Greg and what he's done.
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Speaker 9: And then I think about the seventeen years and I
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Speaker 9: think about how far the SEC has come since that,
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Speaker 9: since then when I first got into the conference, and
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Speaker 9: through his leadership. You know, leadership, especially in the public eye,
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Speaker 9: is not easy, and he has a really difficult job.
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Speaker 9: And I think Greg does an amazing job, amazing job
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Speaker 9: of communicating with us as head coaches, and we don't
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Speaker 9: always agree on his decisions, but I also understand now
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Speaker 9: being around longer, and he has sixteen schools to please
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Speaker 9: in fan bases and athletic directors, head coaches and presidents
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Speaker 9: to answer to. So many times his decisions that he
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Speaker 9: has to come up and I appreciate him for the
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Speaker 9: strength that he shows. Is really he's just making a
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Speaker 9: decision based off what he's told to do by the
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Speaker 9: ADS and specifically by the President. So I appreciate Greg,
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Speaker 9: I appreciate our friendship and you know, kind of growing
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Speaker 9: through a lot of things together throughout the different stops
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Speaker 9: of coming back to the SEC. Tampa is a really
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Speaker 9: special place. I think it's kind of things just happen
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Speaker 9: sometimes and flying down here just kind of putting thoughts together.
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Speaker 9: You know that as the head coach of LSU, this
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Speaker 9: being the first time on the podium at SEC media
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Speaker 9: Day and being in Tampa for the first time. As
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Speaker 9: Greg alluded to, this is a really special place, not
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Speaker 9: just for my dad, but for my family, my kids,
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Speaker 9: all for grandparents lived here in Tampa. This was a
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Speaker 9: place that we came to every summer, and great memories
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Speaker 9: and the glaciers of the Bucks have been phenomenal to
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Speaker 9: our family throughout everything, and over the last two summers
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Speaker 9: of losing both parents and both having services down here
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Speaker 9: in Tampa. So really great place and really a lot
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Speaker 9: of great memories here and a lot of appreciation for
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Speaker 9: people here over our time in Tampa. So these seven
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Speaker 9: months at LSU have been awesome. It's been amazing, you know,
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Speaker 9: to come into Baton Rouge in the state of Louisiana
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Speaker 9: and the acceptance and how great they've been to my family,
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Speaker 9: and the commissioner talked about, you know, to have a son,
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Speaker 9: Knox playing on campus and every morning they practice and
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Speaker 9: then he just can walk over from practice on to
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Speaker 9: campus is really special in how the community has been
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Speaker 9: to us as family and the state, you know, over
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Speaker 9: seven months, just seeing that Louisiana has built off hard
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Speaker 9: working people that are really passionate and love football, and
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Speaker 9: I think that really fits in well with our staff
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Speaker 9: and the values and principles that we bring into our organization,
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Speaker 9: into our football program. So that's been great, and there's
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Speaker 9: so many things to do in Baton Rouge and the
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Speaker 9: New Orleans right up the road. It's been great for
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Speaker 9: our staff and for their families and been very appreciative
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Speaker 9: of that. You know. One of the things that has
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Speaker 9: really stuck out to me has been the alignment at
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Speaker 9: LSU from the top down, you know, from President Russ
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Speaker 9: to burge osbur athletic director to our board of supervisors.
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Speaker 9: You know, that alignment has been great. From the first
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Speaker 9: time I met with them, and then a lot of
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Speaker 9: times people, you know, schools recruit just like coaches do,
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Speaker 9: and then is it that way when you get there,
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Speaker 9: And it's been amazing that alignment and commitment to building
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Speaker 9: a championship program has been great. You know. One of
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Speaker 9: the things at LSU in taking it was talking about,
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Speaker 9: you know, the opportunities for the football players and the
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Speaker 9: ability to recruit great players around the country, and one
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Speaker 9: of those things that is branding that you one of
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Speaker 9: the reasons you come to LSU. We talked about it
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Speaker 9: being just different. You know, this week I was meeting
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Speaker 9: with our Nike rep. You know, think about how different
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Speaker 9: it is for kids in in IL opportunities to come LSU.
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Speaker 9: You know, we have twelve football players that have in
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Speaker 9: IL deals with Nike. No school in America has more
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Speaker 9: than eight. So think about the difference of that as
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Speaker 9: branding about coming to LSU as a football player. Jordan's Seaton,
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Speaker 9: our left tackle, has an IO deal with Nike. There
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Speaker 9: has never been an offensive alignment ever to have one
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Speaker 9: in college with Nike. So you know that that's just
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Speaker 9: one of the many things when we talk about LSU
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Speaker 9: being different and why it is a different place to
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Speaker 9: come and when you come in the association with LSU
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Speaker 9: and the branding that goes with that nationally has really
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Speaker 9: been amazing to see. And that really goes into the
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Speaker 9: blueprint of what we're building and what I said seven
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Speaker 9: months ago and I took the job, We're coming to
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Speaker 9: LSU to sign the best players in the country out
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Speaker 9: of high school and then mix that with the best
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Speaker 9: portal players in the country and put them together. And
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Speaker 9: that's led us into this roster that we have now,
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Speaker 9: which is a really good mixture of that. You have
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Speaker 9: some elite high school players, we just signed some of
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Speaker 9: the best the alignment in America. You know that'll be
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Speaker 9: true freshmen, and then some elite portal first round portal
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Speaker 9: players coming into that combination. That roster is exciting to
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Speaker 9: work with. I can't wait to get to the field,
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Speaker 9: to get back to fall camp to do that. But
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Speaker 9: it also excites me about the future of LSU two.
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Speaker 9: Not just this year. We put together a roster that
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Speaker 9: can win now, but as I look at when you
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Speaker 9: build the program, where it really will go to another
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Speaker 9: level is how you build your depth, and that you
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Speaker 9: can't necessarily build the first year, but then you can
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Speaker 9: once you sign the high school players in back to
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Speaker 9: back classes and portal players. Remember, guys, I think the
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Speaker 9: portal is thought so much about like every portal player
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Speaker 9: is a senior or a one year player. That's not
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Speaker 9: the case. A lot of times you sign a portal player,
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Speaker 9: they may have two three years of eligibility left. So
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Speaker 9: then you have them in your program. Now you go
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Speaker 9: into year two, you've coached them already. Maybe they didn't
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Speaker 9: even all the portal players aren't top players, you know,
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Speaker 9: you build your depth through that, so they may be
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Speaker 9: backups in year one and then year two they're your starters.
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Speaker 9: So that's really exciting to me that we were able
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Speaker 9: to build a roster that we can win now. And
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Speaker 9: to see the success of the high school EAT players
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Speaker 9: coming last year, committeing this year into this class, and
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Speaker 9: then the portal players that were able to sign in
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Speaker 9: such a short period of time last year and now
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Speaker 9: to have a whole year leading up to that. The
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Speaker 9: future is really bright and really amazing at LSU of
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Speaker 9: what's to come. You know, when you take over a program,
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Speaker 9: it's really exciting. You know, I'm really fortunate commission I
11:25
Speaker 9: were talking back there and bum Bomb, our historian of
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Speaker 9: SEC you know, gave me the stat there's never been
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Speaker 9: a head coach to have three sec jobs and that
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Speaker 9: we're in the conference and that that's really amazing to
11:39
Speaker 9: have those opportunities and be part of that. And it's
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Speaker 9: so exciting for me when you take over a new job.
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Speaker 9: And I've just kind of if you follow my life,
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Speaker 9: I've built my life about pushing out of comfort and
11:53
Speaker 9: that may not be for everybody, and that's fine, that's
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Speaker 9: just how I am. And so this job has really
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Speaker 9: pushed me out of comfort to to take a new
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Speaker 9: job to be at LSU. Like everyone talks about the
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Speaker 9: pressure of LSU and what comes with that, and there's
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Speaker 9: more things to be done as the head coach of
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Speaker 9: LSU the newhere I've been that are asked of me,
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Speaker 9: and I've really enjoyed that and it's been exciting to
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Speaker 9: do that and to rebuild within a program, a roster,
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Speaker 9: and to come in and a team come off of
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Speaker 9: a seven and six season and then the expectations that
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Speaker 9: everybody in the media has that we're supposed to be
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Speaker 9: this great team right away. That's an awesome challenge. You
12:33
Speaker 9: want to talk about getting uncomfortable that that does it,
12:37
Speaker 9: you know, expectations make you uncomfortable. They make you not
12:40
Speaker 9: be able to just go through motions in any aspect
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Speaker 9: of your program. So that's been awesome and I really
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Speaker 9: just can't wait to get on the field with them.
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Speaker 9: You know, this has been seven months. There's been a
12:53
Speaker 9: lot of stuff, and you have the high school, then
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Speaker 9: you have the portal, and you have spring ball, and
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Speaker 9: you have all the things. And to just go coach
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Speaker 9: with them on the field and to put these players
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Speaker 9: together and start moving the pieces around and get them
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Speaker 9: to develop. That's always been something I think we've done
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Speaker 9: really well. And all also has always been really exciting
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Speaker 9: to me when you take the pieces of a new
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Speaker 9: team's new years and if you look at our teams
13:18
Speaker 9: over the course of time, especially offensively, they look different
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Speaker 9: every year because they're based off of the pieces. They
13:24
Speaker 9: don't just run the same plays and run the same systems.
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Speaker 9: And that's exciting to me to come in and get
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Speaker 9: these pieces from everywhere and to put them together. But
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Speaker 9: you've got to get on the grass to do it.
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Speaker 9: And the excitement of the schedule and to coach in
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Speaker 9: Tiger Stadium and have the big opener against Clemson. Just
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Speaker 9: really every day pushes us to be the best and
13:47
Speaker 9: really is exciting as a city to get back there.
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Speaker 9: So the three players today that we brought that wasn't
13:52
Speaker 9: an easy choice. We had a lot of really, really
13:54
Speaker 9: good players. And you know, we brought three players. We
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Speaker 9: left Sam our quarterback at this is an interesting time
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Speaker 9: where this fell. We actually this morning had player led
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Speaker 9: practices and so Sam was able to stay for that
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Speaker 9: and Sam's doing an amazing job. You know, these three
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Speaker 9: players that we brought today, I think are an interesting
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Speaker 9: combination because you get a little bit of everything to
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Speaker 9: me of what college football is now. You know, TJ
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Speaker 9: coming through the portal, coming from Ole Miss to LSU.
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Speaker 9: Haven't been here a year before with another school. You
14:32
Speaker 9: never thought that happened years ago. And so to have
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Speaker 9: a portal player that left the team to come to us,
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Speaker 9: and then you have Wit that had a chance to
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Speaker 9: go to the NFL Draft, and a lot of people
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Speaker 9: would have in his situation with a coaching change and
14:47
Speaker 9: haven't played really well, and Witt decided to stay. He
14:51
Speaker 9: wanted to see LSU return to dominance, to return to
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Speaker 9: the style of play that he grew up watching, which
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Speaker 9: was the reason why he came here he wanted to
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Speaker 9: come back to make sure he was part of that.
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Speaker 9: And then you have Trey Dez of someone that in
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Speaker 9: high school, stayed in Louisiana, went t LSU and now
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Speaker 9: playing great and also had a chance to go into
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Speaker 9: the portal like all kids, and decided to stay with
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Speaker 9: the new staff. So I think it's you'll really enjoy
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Speaker 9: these three. And again that was a tough decision because
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Speaker 9: there's a lot of household name players we could have
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Speaker 9: brought today. You know the question the commissioner mentioned there
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Speaker 9: about social media and Knox, and so I think as
15:35
Speaker 9: I look back over my life, one of the things
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Speaker 9: that has been great is subtracting things as you get older,
15:40
Speaker 9: and I think that's a big part of growth if
15:43
Speaker 9: you really want to keep growing. A lot of people
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Speaker 9: add things as they go versus subtracting things that are issues,
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Speaker 9: whether that's diet, whether that's in my situation, alcohol, whether
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Speaker 9: that's things that are subtracted along the way, toxic relationships,
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Speaker 9: things that as you grow you decide, Okay, I'm going
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Speaker 9: to continue to grow. And Knox one days, like dad,
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Speaker 9: there's no way you could get off social media. And
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Speaker 9: if you know me, like that's the best thing to do.
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Speaker 9: My kids have learned that too. If they really want
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Speaker 9: something to say I can, I can't do it, and
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Speaker 9: I'm going to do it, and so I'm like, well,
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Speaker 9: I bet I can. And it really wasn't a plan,
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Speaker 9: and so I got off of all of it and
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Speaker 9: then it was still on there and then I said, okay,
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Speaker 9: I'm going to go to another level. I just deleted
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Speaker 9: the apps. And it wasn't a long term plan. And
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Speaker 9: it was really interesting to see as I went through
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Speaker 9: it because it knocks pushing me to do that, challenging
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Speaker 9: me allowed me to help other players, friends, coaches to say, man,
16:42
Speaker 9: you should try this sometime, because once you remove something
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Speaker 9: from your life, you start to realize how many other
16:48
Speaker 9: people are addicted to it or need it. And it
16:52
Speaker 9: is interesting. Now. I did the five am workout a
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Speaker 9: camp Tampa, and I watched as soon as the workout's
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Speaker 9: over this morning, what does ever do They rush to
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Speaker 9: get their phones because they got to get on there
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Speaker 9: and to be free of that has been interesting because
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Speaker 9: you don't compare Kevin Elko, who actually here in Tampa
17:09
Speaker 9: did my dad's funeral, and Kevin used to say to
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Speaker 9: us years ago at Alabama and say, comparisons are the
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Speaker 9: thief of joy. And what I realized and what I
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Speaker 9: talk to people about now, is like, if you're not
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Speaker 9: on anything, you don't see anything all day, you don't compare,
17:23
Speaker 9: because now social media does what. You sit there all
17:26
Speaker 9: day long and you start to compare your job, You
17:28
Speaker 9: start to compare the city you live, and you start
17:30
Speaker 9: to compare your vacation, your kids, your clothes, your car,
17:34
Speaker 9: your significant other. And when you don't see that all day,
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Speaker 9: you're free of that comparison. So it's been an interesting study.
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Speaker 9: I've always you know, made our kids, our players, you know,
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Speaker 9: not have their phones in certain times, you know, like
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Speaker 9: team meetings and stuff, just to get them off of
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Speaker 9: them so they can learn to communicate. But it's just
17:54
Speaker 9: been been interesting in a way of being more present.
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Speaker 9: Soppreciate knocks challenging on that and it's been great. You know.
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Speaker 9: The other question I get is the nine game schedule.
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Speaker 9: And like I said, I don't don't always agree with
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Speaker 9: the commissioner, Butody has hard decisions to make and we
18:11
Speaker 9: understand that. My concern was about the nine games is
18:16
Speaker 9: that you're going to lose non conference games teams will
18:20
Speaker 9: eventually get out of the bigger non conference games because
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Speaker 9: the selection process is not fixed and tell that is
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Speaker 9: fixed to really truly reward strength of schedule. I was
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Speaker 9: against it because I think what you're going to have
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Speaker 9: is more conference losses and you don't prove anything. If
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Speaker 9: I'd keep playing for all in the same counts, we
18:44
Speaker 9: keep playing each other, we don't really prove that we're
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Speaker 9: better than anyone else, and we're taking away out of
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Speaker 9: conference games. So I just think that it's going to
18:53
Speaker 9: cause issues that I've already seen until we can get
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Speaker 9: into a world where people can actually look at teams
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Speaker 9: and say that team that is nine and three with
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Speaker 9: their schedule as a better team than that eleven and
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Speaker 9: one in at a different conference, which now I think
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Speaker 9: we aren't even close to doing that. I think it
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Speaker 9: causes a problem because we don't have enough non conference
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Speaker 9: in our sport. You know, I look at other sports
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Speaker 9: like baseball. Oklahoma just wins a national championship in baseball, well,
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Speaker 9: I think they're fourteen and sixteen and SEC play. Think
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Speaker 9: about that. In football, we nowhere near the playoffs. You know,
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Speaker 9: an eleventh in regular season and they win the national championship,
19:36
Speaker 9: but they also have non conference games to show how
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Speaker 9: good they are. And so I just think that the
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Speaker 9: system wasn't ready for that change yet until they changed
19:46
Speaker 9: the selection part. Last part, I just want to say
19:49
Speaker 9: thank you to the media. You know, everybody talks. These
19:51
Speaker 9: coaches get up here and I see the things you
19:54
Speaker 9: know on TV watch the day they talk about their
19:56
Speaker 9: summer and everything they did and all those things. And
19:59
Speaker 9: you guys giving up your time here in your summer
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Speaker 9: to be here to cover us, and specifically to the
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Speaker 9: SEC media. It's part of what makes the SEC so
20:07
Speaker 9: special because the intensity of the media and the coverage
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Speaker 9: and the passion everyone talks about the fans have, well,
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Speaker 9: the media has it too. So I appreciate you guys.
20:15
Speaker 9: And with that open to questions.
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Speaker 4: So before we get to the Q and a portion
20:20
Speaker 4: of Lane Kiffin's talking, just wanted to point out real
20:25
Speaker 4: quick these SEC Media Day the main podium part of
20:31
Speaker 4: the program. Each coach goes up there, they give an
20:34
Speaker 4: opening statement, and then they usually have a few questions
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Speaker 4: asked of them. So most of these are close to
20:43
Speaker 4: thirty minutes long, and the opening statements usually ten minutes
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Speaker 4: at most. Most of them are a little under that,
20:51
Speaker 4: I would say. So Lane Kiffin comes out here. Y're
20:56
Speaker 4: one as the LSU had coach. Obviously, things did not
21:03
Speaker 4: end very cordially at Ole Miss. Especially hear what Pete
21:08
Speaker 4: Golding had to say about that, if you want to
21:10
Speaker 4: look that up, that was pretty interesting. So he comes
21:15
Speaker 4: out here and just talks for as long as he
21:18
Speaker 4: can so that he doesn't have to answer as many questions.
21:21
Speaker 4: So now there's only eight and a half minutes left
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Speaker 4: of this that's actually him answering questions.
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Speaker 13: Kurt Bowls from the Houston Chronicle. Lane asked you a
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Speaker 13: few years ago what your in al budget was at
21:31
Speaker 13: Old Miss, and you didn't say, but he just said, God,
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Speaker 13: I'd like to tell you. I was going to give
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Speaker 13: you a second chance today. Ask you what you're in
21:40
Speaker 13: al budget at LSU is. And do you think we're
21:43
Speaker 13: ever going to see the day where every team's payroll
21:46
Speaker 13: and every player's salary is published.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know that we're going to see that day.
21:53
Speaker 9: I think that again, this is a really hard thing
21:57
Speaker 9: to get to. But if to do it right, just
22:01
Speaker 9: like the scheduling would need to be fixed and would
22:05
Speaker 9: be to have a real salary cap, and I know
22:08
Speaker 9: what looked like it was going to be implemented, you know,
22:11
Speaker 9: coming with the revenue sharing. That that's not I think
22:14
Speaker 9: I've always been the coach I've here to just tell
22:16
Speaker 9: you how it is that that's that's not being followed
22:18
Speaker 9: because it's not a real cap. It's not a hard cap.
22:20
Speaker 9: So that'd be like in the NFL, like, hey, we
22:22
Speaker 9: have this cap, but it's not a hard cap and
22:24
Speaker 9: you can go above it. So it's just really a
22:28
Speaker 9: poor system. And like you said, things aren't public. You know,
22:35
Speaker 9: the contracts are our public, so different than the NFL.
22:38
Speaker 9: You know, where the NFL everybody has the contracts of
22:40
Speaker 9: all the players and the other teams and everything, and
22:43
Speaker 9: then you have long term contracts. I think one of
22:47
Speaker 9: the things too is you you know I talk about
22:49
Speaker 9: this system of I believe you build a system based
22:52
Speaker 9: off of where you are. We talked about you build
22:55
Speaker 9: your offensive system off your players. You build your system
22:58
Speaker 9: of how many portal players is high school players? In
23:01
Speaker 9: my opinion, it's not, hey, here's the cookie cutter formula.
23:03
Speaker 9: Wherever you are, you go to LSU. You do it different,
23:07
Speaker 9: and you did it will mess and so as you
23:10
Speaker 9: build it though you know you can't say. In my opinion,
23:14
Speaker 9: some people will say, okay, the traditional power should just
23:17
Speaker 9: build through high school. Well you study the NFL and
23:21
Speaker 9: they say, okay, well, yes, the best teams overtime, you
23:24
Speaker 9: will sustain the longest by building through the draft and
23:27
Speaker 9: supplement through free agency because that's where the long term
23:30
Speaker 9: contracts are at, the lower prices in the free agency.
23:33
Speaker 9: But our system doesn't have that. Now, if you could
23:36
Speaker 9: fix it, where the high school kids, my opinion, they
23:40
Speaker 9: should be lower, just like I was in the NFL
23:44
Speaker 9: when you drafted JaMarcus Russell before they moved down the
23:47
Speaker 9: rookie salary cap and then they made the slots for
23:50
Speaker 9: the draft because the veterans the rookies were getting paid
23:53
Speaker 9: more than ten year events. Well they got that fixed,
23:56
Speaker 9: and that in our systems a little bit screwed up.
23:58
Speaker 9: In my opinion. The kids haven't played at all coming
24:01
Speaker 9: out of high school. Should be making less than that.
24:04
Speaker 9: There should be a freshman like a rookie cap of
24:07
Speaker 9: how they are, and then the max slots per position
24:10
Speaker 9: that they make, and then they they're signed to multi
24:14
Speaker 9: year contracts. So now you really do get into okay,
24:17
Speaker 9: you build through high school because that guy can stay longer.
24:20
Speaker 9: I think if you built through high school, now that's
24:22
Speaker 9: all you did, and I think a couple of schools
24:24
Speaker 9: have done that and it's not working out well because
24:26
Speaker 9: you don't have they can leave after year one when
24:29
Speaker 9: they don't play as much as they like, or they
24:31
Speaker 9: want more money, or they do play and then they
24:33
Speaker 9: want more money. So that's why we built so much
24:39
Speaker 9: through the portal and will continue to build a lot
24:41
Speaker 9: through the portal because of the way the system is.
24:44
Speaker 9: Even though we can sign great elite, top on hundred
24:47
Speaker 9: high school players like we just did, like what's committing
24:50
Speaker 9: to us. But we're still going to build a lot
24:52
Speaker 9: through the portal until they balance out the system and
24:55
Speaker 9: they balance out how contracts work. Coach will go over
24:59
Speaker 9: here to our left hand side third row.
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Speaker 14: Hey, Coach Michael Bradden from that SEC podcast. When you
25:07
Speaker 14: were at Ole Miss, you led them to the third
25:09
Speaker 14: most wins in the conference. Since twenty two. You had
25:12
Speaker 14: ten players drafted or signed his free agents in the
25:15
Speaker 14: twenty five draft, eight players drafted or signed his free
25:18
Speaker 14: agents in the twenty six class. You had a top
25:21
Speaker 14: four portal class each of the last three portal cycles.
25:24
Speaker 14: You were there Jackson Dart first round pick. Yet in
25:28
Speaker 14: a Vanity Fair article you said Oxford diversity hurt you
25:33
Speaker 14: in talent acquisition. So what is it your belief that
25:37
Speaker 14: if there was a little bit more diversity all those
25:39
Speaker 14: numbers I cited could have been even better.
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Speaker 9: I had a feelm that was going somewhere. You were
25:45
Speaker 9: doing like really positive stuff the whole way through. I'm like, man,
25:48
Speaker 9: this guy's good. It sounds like you should work for
25:51
Speaker 9: Jimmy Sexton. Man, you're like going a good direction there.
25:56
Speaker 9: You know, I made a challenging decision and change, and
26:01
Speaker 9: I think as I look back to that, I thought
26:04
Speaker 9: I could find a way for everybody to understand. And
26:07
Speaker 9: now as I look back later on, that was never
26:09
Speaker 9: going to happen. And I made a decision that I
26:13
Speaker 9: changed jobs. And as I get older and I go
26:15
Speaker 9: through things and losing both parents, I was actually talking
26:20
Speaker 9: to Ross Dellinger and I kind of said something that
26:22
Speaker 9: might sound kind of funny to you, but you know,
26:25
Speaker 9: I watched the Hulk Hogan special and I realized that
26:29
Speaker 9: I was like, we're all going to die, and so
26:33
Speaker 9: some of the things that we put importance on we
26:36
Speaker 9: worry about and what this person says in that like
26:39
Speaker 9: really aren't going to matter. And when I lost my dad,
26:41
Speaker 9: I started thinking that, and I really started thinking when
26:43
Speaker 9: I grew up there were two people that I thought
26:45
Speaker 9: just wouldn't die, my Dad and Hulk Hogan. And then
26:50
Speaker 9: I watched that special and really like, Hulk Hogan died too.
26:53
Speaker 9: There's no way Hulk Hogan was ever going to not
26:55
Speaker 9: wrestle and die, and he did. And so it just
26:58
Speaker 9: made me reflect really on, like I can't be so
27:02
Speaker 9: concerned about little things and what people say in this
27:04
Speaker 9: and you've got to make decisions. You got to go
27:06
Speaker 9: with them and you do things, and you make really
27:09
Speaker 9: good decisions and you make core decisions. And that was
27:12
Speaker 9: a poor usage of a term that I believe, just
27:15
Speaker 9: like many coaches that have been therefore, was factual, but
27:20
Speaker 9: over the course of a longer interview, was bad timing
27:22
Speaker 9: and bad usage of the words. So it is what
27:26
Speaker 9: it is. I apologize when I said it, and moving on.
27:32
Speaker 9: Got time for two more. We'll start here in the center.
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Speaker 7: Aisle head coach Darryl Dapprich locked on Albard after a
27:39
Speaker 7: two year hiatus.
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Speaker 11: Alvard and lsu play again this year.
27:43
Speaker 8: Talk about what that game means to you.
27:45
Speaker 9: There seems to be a.
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Speaker 12: Nice little rivalry with Albard and some of the things
27:49
Speaker 12: in the past.
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Speaker 8: And how is Malik blocked and progressing for you?
27:53
Speaker 9: Yeah, Malik's doing great, really working hard, made a lot
27:57
Speaker 9: of plays in springball. I think Auburn's a great program.
28:03
Speaker 9: I think they got new energy with the coaching staff
28:05
Speaker 9: and a really good offensive system coming in and keeping
28:08
Speaker 9: Dj Dirkin on defense. I think that you know they're
28:12
Speaker 9: going to be a really improved program. And that's a
28:15
Speaker 9: really hard place to play always and really gives people
28:18
Speaker 9: a lot of problems. Kind of a magical stadium that
28:21
Speaker 9: magical things happening. So that's one of one of many
28:26
Speaker 9: extremely competitive games we have, including really for the first
28:30
Speaker 9: time that you have five road conference games.
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Speaker 15: Hey, coach this way the other way, yep. I'm Eddie
28:38
Speaker 15: Pell's from AP. I think at some point after your
28:42
Speaker 15: social media cleanse, Congress introduced a bill that has a
28:46
Speaker 15: thing in it called the Lane Kiffen Rule. It's about
28:50
Speaker 15: coach movement. I think with that and with a lot
28:55
Speaker 15: of the things that have been said about your move
28:58
Speaker 15: I'm just wondering, d do you think you get a
29:01
Speaker 15: bad rap about you know that they look at you
29:06
Speaker 15: sometimes and say, that's the problem with everything. Do you
29:09
Speaker 15: think you get a bad rap?
29:12
Speaker 9: Well, the good thing is I don't know if I do,
29:15
Speaker 9: because I don't read anything. So it really is a
29:17
Speaker 9: different way of not seeing. Like you just said that,
29:19
Speaker 9: and I didn't know that until you said it, And
29:24
Speaker 9: you know, I guess in that. I hope that some
29:27
Speaker 9: way for future coaches they're not put in that situation.
29:30
Speaker 9: You know, the NFL, you're never put in that situation
29:32
Speaker 9: because of the calendar and because of the rules of
29:34
Speaker 9: movement within seasons. So I do hope for future people
29:37
Speaker 9: that's that's fixed so that you're not in that same
29:40
Speaker 9: predicament for players for coaches, which really was a player
29:45
Speaker 9: issue too, and then we fix that with moving the
29:47
Speaker 9: portal date back. That was more of an issue earlier
29:51
Speaker 9: in the postseason too, as you saw players having to
29:53
Speaker 9: leave teams to get into the portal during the season.
29:56
Speaker 9: So hopefully some way they fix it for coaches too.
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Speaker 4: All Right, That was Kiffin at SEC Media Days this morning,
30:03
Speaker 4: and he had a lot to say, not a lot
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Speaker 4: to say he's under I would say a lot of
30:13
Speaker 4: pressure going into the twenty twenty six season, Expectations are
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Speaker 4: very high for the Tigers, even though this is his
30:20
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30:35
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30:38
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30:46
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Speaker 4: And what is the pretty much the only sport going
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Speaker 4: one and fifty one, so a five hundred team currently
37:59
Speaker 4: leads the AL West and then in second place, half
38:01
Speaker 4: a game behind the Rangers are the Seattle Mariners at
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Speaker 4: fifty one to fifty two. The Athletics have pretty much
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Speaker 4: completely fallen out of the race. Up until the end
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Speaker 4: of June, pretty much they had been hanging around and
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Speaker 4: for a lot of the first half of the season.
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Speaker 4: But since about June twenty fourth, they have taken a
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Speaker 4: pretty sharp downturn. So it looks like a three team
38:30
Speaker 4: race now between the Rangers, Mariners, and Astros. So you know,
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Speaker 4: the trade deadline this year is going to be very
38:40
Speaker 4: interesting because you know, on you when you think about
38:44
Speaker 4: how many teams are going to be trying to buy,
38:46
Speaker 4: you'd be like, WHOA, there's going to be some big moves,
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Speaker 4: a lot of people trying to trade for some big names.
38:50
Speaker 4: But the other side of that is, because there's so
38:52
Speaker 4: many teams still in contention, I don't know how many
38:54
Speaker 4: big names are even going to be available. A guy
38:57
Speaker 4: like Trek Scobel has been talked about as one of
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Speaker 4: the I mean, that would be the biggest name on
39:03
Speaker 4: the market if he is available. But the Tigers still
39:05
Speaker 4: aren't really out of it. Yeah, they're three games below
39:08
Speaker 4: five hundred, but again, the American League overall this season
39:12
Speaker 4: has been pretty mediocre, so they're not out of it either.
39:17
Speaker 4: And if Trek Scoople isn't available at the deadline, I
39:20
Speaker 4: really don't know what big name is even going to
39:24
Speaker 4: go other than I think probably Luis Ariaz is definitely
39:28
Speaker 4: going to be He's going to be on the market
39:29
Speaker 4: for sure free agent at the end of the year
39:33
Speaker 4: on the Giants, a team that has not had any
39:36
Speaker 4: success this season, so there will be at least one
39:39
Speaker 4: or two big names. I think a guy like Hunter
39:41
Speaker 4: Goodman on the Rockies is likely to be traded and
39:43
Speaker 4: that would make waves as he is hit. I think
39:46
Speaker 4: thirty one homers this year from the catchup position, so
39:49
Speaker 4: that's huge. It'll be very interesting to see how this
39:52
Speaker 4: trade deadline goes, and we'll talk about that more next
39:54
Speaker 4: week leading up to the trade deadline, which is August third,
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Speaker 4: a Monday, so I'm sure Rusty Berson will have a
40:03
Speaker 4: lot to say about that. The best thing about this
40:08
Speaker 4: Astros team this year, without a doubt, has been jord
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Speaker 4: On Alvarez's Triple Crown chase. So as of right now,
40:18
Speaker 4: here's where Jordon stands in the Triple Crown statistics, which
40:22
Speaker 4: are batting average, home runs, and runs batted in, And
40:27
Speaker 4: this is just American League triple Crown right now, not
40:32
Speaker 4: MLB batting average. Gordon Alvarez three to twenty eight batting
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Speaker 4: average Yondi Diez is in second at three to eight,
40:41
Speaker 4: and then those are the only two players in the
40:44
Speaker 4: American League with the batting average over three hundred. Ernie
40:46
Speaker 4: Clement is in third place two ninety seven, so twenty
40:50
Speaker 4: point lead, which batting average can can change pretty rapidly.
40:54
Speaker 4: You go, you know, on a three game slump, and
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Speaker 4: you could lose that lead, but right now it's a
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Speaker 4: pretty sizable one. The The MLB leader in batting average
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Speaker 4: is Otto Lopez at three thirty two, so just barely
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Speaker 4: ahead of Jordan right now. That could change tonight. For
41:08
Speaker 4: all we know home run leaders. Jordan Alvarez actually leads
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Speaker 4: all of Major League baseball right now with thirty four
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Speaker 4: home runs. Kyle Schwarbers in second place with thirty three,
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Speaker 4: but that's in the National League. Second place in the
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Speaker 4: American League has been Rice with thirty and then Junior
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Speaker 4: Camonero with twenty nine RBIs. Jordan is the major league
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Speaker 4: leader in that statistic. As well with seventy seven. Second
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Speaker 4: place is a tie between CJ. Abrams and Jordan Walker
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Speaker 4: with seventy six, but again those are both National League
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Speaker 4: players in the AL. Second place is Ben Rice again
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Speaker 4: with the Yankees, and then third is Pete Alonzo with
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Speaker 4: the Orioles with sixty six, so a six RBI lead
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Speaker 4: in the AL, a one one RBI lead in the
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Speaker 4: all of Major League Baseball. So right now, the only
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Speaker 4: Triple Crown statistic he isn't leading in in MLB is
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Speaker 4: batting average, and he's only four points behind Otto Lopez.
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Speaker 4: He leads in all three if you're just talking American
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Speaker 4: League triple crown. The last time that there was a
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Speaker 4: Triple Crown winner in just one of the leagues and
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Speaker 4: not the full Major League Baseball was twenty twelve Miguel
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Speaker 4: Cabrera with the Tigers, and he won the MVP that year.
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Speaker 4: The last time there was a MLB wide triple Crown
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Speaker 4: winner was in nineteen fifty six, seventy years ago, Mickey
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Speaker 4: Mantle with the Yankees. Jordan is the first player in
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Speaker 4: any league to league his to lead his league in
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Speaker 4: all three Triple Crown categories this late in the season,
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Speaker 4: since Aaron Judge September twenty eighth, twenty twenty two. Judge
42:56
Speaker 4: finished that season first in homers, tied for first and RBI,
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Speaker 4: but Luisa Rayahs grabbed the al batting title that year
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Speaker 4: by just five points. So Aaron Judge looking to do
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Speaker 4: something that hasn't been done in a single league in
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Speaker 4: fourteen years and hasn't been done in all of Major
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Speaker 4: League Baseball for seventy years. Can he get it done?
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Speaker 4: It will be very very interesting. He's been on a really,
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Speaker 4: really solid streak as of late, and I know that's
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Speaker 4: crazy to say because he's been great all year, but
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Speaker 4: he's been even better I think, just in July. So
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Speaker 4: you know, with big stats like this, when a player's
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Speaker 4: on pace for you know, a crazy number of home runs,
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Speaker 4: they usually fall off August September something like that. So
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Speaker 4: it'll be very fun to watch and see if Jordan
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Speaker 4: can keep this up. And I really hope that the
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Speaker 4: Astros add some help around him to protect him in
43:53
Speaker 4: that lineup because right now he's really the biggest contributor
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Speaker 4: by a lot. Jeremy Payne has been great as of late,
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Speaker 4: but the Astros outfield offensively has been the worst in
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Speaker 4: Baseball with a six sixty three ops. So they really
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Speaker 4: in the outfield if they are serious about competing this season.
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Speaker 4: So a guy like Jack McCarthy that I talked about,
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Speaker 4: I think that was Tuesday. That's somebody that I think
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Speaker 4: they really need to be taking a hard look at
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Speaker 4: A and M had eight players taken in this year's
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Speaker 4: MLB draft. Seven of those eight signed, and I just
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Speaker 4: want to give you an update on the status of
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Speaker 4: each of those players. Round one, pick eleven was Chris Icopian,
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Speaker 4: played mostly second base and DH for US this year.
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Speaker 4: Drafted by the Washington Nationals, he signed about four hundred
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Speaker 4: thousand under slot value five point seven million dollars for Chrisicopian.
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Speaker 4: Caden Surrell round two, pick sixty two to the Chicago
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Speaker 4: Round thirty, pick eighty one was Gavin Grohovac to the
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Speaker 4: two hundred thousand dollars one million, two hundred and forty
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Speaker 4: seven thousand, five hundred dollars for Gavin Grohovac. Round four,
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Speaker 4: pick one twenty was Shane Sedeo, left handed pitcher to
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Speaker 4: the New York Mets, and he was just barely under
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Speaker 4: slot by about twenty five hundred bucks six hundred and
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Speaker 4: forty two, six hundred dollars for Shane Sedeo. Bear Harrison
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Speaker 4: got slot value four hundred and thirty seven two hundred dollars.
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Speaker 4: He was pick one sixty in the fifth round to
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Speaker 4: the Yankees. Weston Moss in the eleventh round also to
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Speaker 4: the Washington Nationals, joining Chris Hycopian one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 4: two thousand, five hundred dollars for Weston Moss after round ten.
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Speaker 4: Teams don't have assigned slot value to their picks for
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Speaker 4: any picks after round ten, so Moss being taken in
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Speaker 4: the eleventh round. Basically, if they sign players after the
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Speaker 4: eleventh round for under one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
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Speaker 4: it doesn't count towards their draft bonus pool, which is
49:44
Speaker 4: there's a lot of rules associated with that. I don't
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Speaker 4: think y'all want me to explain that right now, to
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Speaker 4: be honest. So, but Moss was over that one hundred
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Speaker 4: and fifty k mark, so the Nationals were pretty serious
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Speaker 4: about signing him. In the eighteenth round with the five,
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Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty sixth overall pick, Jake Door went
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Speaker 4: to the Arizona Diamondbacks and he signed for a twenty
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Speaker 4: thousand dollars signing bonus. We'll be very interested to see
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Speaker 4: how each of these players professional careers go. In the
50:12
Speaker 4: nineteenth round was Clayton Freshcorn to the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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Speaker 4: He announced not long after the draft that he will
50:19
Speaker 4: be returning to Texas A and M, which is a
50:23
Speaker 4: very big win for Michael Early and Barry Enright to
50:27
Speaker 4: retain him. I think he's going to be the anchor
50:30
Speaker 4: of the staff in twenty twenty seven, likely the Friday starter.
50:34
Speaker 4: If not Friday then I think almost definitely Saturday. It'll
50:38
Speaker 4: be between him and Aiden Simms for who is the
50:42
Speaker 4: ace of the staff. And I really think Johnny nawanya
50:46
Speaker 4: Is is going to be right in that mix as well.
50:48
Speaker 4: But the starting rotation and the pitching staff as a
50:51
Speaker 4: whole will greatly benefit from fresh Corn coming back, very
50:54
Speaker 4: excited about that. Also excited for Chris Acopian and Gavin
50:58
Speaker 4: Grohovac getting to play for their home town teams. Kacopianto
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Speaker 4: the Nationals grew up in that area, Gavin Grohovac is
51:05
Speaker 4: from I think I think Orange, California is just twenty
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Speaker 4: ish miles for Anaheim. So both of those players, if
51:13
Speaker 4: they make it up to the big leagues, will get
51:15
Speaker 4: to play in front of a hometown crowd, and that's
51:17
Speaker 4: always really fun and happy for them. Since all of
51:23
Speaker 4: this MLB draft stuff is on our mind right now,
51:26
Speaker 4: I wanted to take a look back at who was
51:29
Speaker 4: taken from Texas A and M in last year's MLB
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Speaker 4: Draft and how they're doing with their professional careers so far.
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Speaker 4: The man taken in the first round, I'm sure everybody
51:41
Speaker 4: still remembers very fondly, Jason Lovilette went Round one, pick
51:46
Speaker 4: twenty seven to the Cleveland Guardians a year ago. He
51:50
Speaker 4: is currently in High A, which is three steps from
51:55
Speaker 4: the major leagues. It goes Triple A is at the top,
51:58
Speaker 4: Double A, High A, Single A, and then rookie ball,
52:03
Speaker 4: So Jase kind of in the middle. As far as
52:07
Speaker 4: the minor league career, ladder goes and he's having some
52:11
Speaker 4: decent success. Seventy two games this season, he's hit fifteen homers,
52:15
Speaker 4: so on pace for right around thirty homers over a
52:17
Speaker 4: full season, which is the power numbers that you would
52:19
Speaker 4: expect from him. His main issue has been strikeouts over
52:24
Speaker 4: one hundred strikeouts in those seventy two games, which is
52:27
Speaker 4: not what you want to see. But first full, first
52:30
Speaker 4: full professional season for Jase, and he's been one of
52:33
Speaker 4: the better hitters on the Lake County Captain, So happy
52:36
Speaker 4: for him. I think he will continue to progress and
52:39
Speaker 4: the powers there just got to make more consistent contact
52:43
Speaker 4: and I think he'll do just fine. Justin Lampkin was
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Speaker 4: the next AGI off the board last year. He went
52:49
Speaker 4: to the Royals and he has looked very good in
52:53
Speaker 4: the games that he's pitched in this year. He made
52:56
Speaker 4: eight starts, about forty innings, three strikeouts, and a two
53:01
Speaker 4: point zero four ERA through across two different levels High
53:05
Speaker 4: A and then actually got called up to Double A.
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Speaker 3: Late in the month of May.
53:12
Speaker 4: He then was placed on the seven day IL after
53:14
Speaker 4: just two starts in Double A, and he was moved
53:17
Speaker 4: to the sixty day IL not long after that, still
53:22
Speaker 4: on the injured list, and I think that's mostly precautionary.
53:25
Speaker 4: I was reading some articles about Lampkin and some people
53:30
Speaker 4: think that he will be in a position to challenge
53:32
Speaker 4: for a major league rotation spot next year. But he's
53:35
Speaker 4: had great success in the Royals organization so far. Thirty
53:39
Speaker 4: five percent strikeout rate for Lampkin. I think he's going
53:42
Speaker 4: to be in a great position to have a shot
53:45
Speaker 4: to make his big league debut next year. Hope that
53:48
Speaker 4: he recovers from this injury quickly and gets back out
53:52
Speaker 4: on the field. I think there's a long career in
53:56
Speaker 4: front of Lampkin if he can stay healthy. Cayden Kent
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Speaker 4: was taken in the third round by the Yankees. He's
54:02
Speaker 4: also in high a same level as Jase, and he's
54:05
Speaker 4: leading the Hudson Valley Renegades in batting average with a
54:09
Speaker 4: three to two mark. There six homers for Cayden in
54:12
Speaker 4: seventy six games, and of course he's also on the
54:16
Speaker 4: injured list. He was placed on the seven day IL
54:19
Speaker 4: early in July. Still on the injured list right now,
54:23
Speaker 4: but leading his team in batting average. That's pretty impressive
54:26
Speaker 4: for his first professional season. Miles Patton was the next
54:28
Speaker 4: agg off the board back in twenty twenty five in
54:31
Speaker 4: the seventh round to the Red Sox. He was splitting
54:35
Speaker 4: his time between the bullpen and the rotation. So far
54:38
Speaker 4: this season about twenty two innings, four to seven to six,
54:40
Speaker 4: Era suffered a season ending injury unfortunately, and the same
54:46
Speaker 4: thing happened to Cayden Wilson, who was taken in the
54:48
Speaker 4: ninth round by the Marlins. He was announced as out
54:51
Speaker 4: for the season early, I think it was back in April.
54:56
Speaker 4: He was in rookie ball. There were three aggies taken
54:59
Speaker 4: in the ninth round. Wilson was the first, follow by
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Speaker 4: Wyatt Heinsler, who played a few games in the national
55:03
Speaker 4: system back last September, and then this March announced his
55:08
Speaker 4: retirement from the game of baseball, which was very surprising.
55:12
Speaker 4: Heinsler was on the call a lot as a color
55:15
Speaker 4: commentator for Aggie Baseball this year alongside Andrew Monico. So
55:19
Speaker 4: interested to see what his path will be, but it
55:22
Speaker 4: will not be professional baseball. And the final aggie taken
55:25
Speaker 4: in the ninth round was Ryan Prager to the Guardians.
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Speaker 2: He has looked pretty good this year.
55:31
Speaker 4: Split time between rookie ball and single A started the
55:34
Speaker 4: year in the bullpen, has been moved through the rotation.
55:36
Speaker 4: He's got a two nine to five ERA, thirty six innings,
55:39
Speaker 4: fifty four strikeouts. He was named Carolina League Pitcher of
55:43
Speaker 4: the Week back in early June after he struck out
55:45
Speaker 4: fourteen batters in just five innings. So Prager has found
55:49
Speaker 4: his stride. After a little bit of a rough senior
55:51
Speaker 4: season with Texas A and M, He's looked pretty good
55:54
Speaker 4: in professional baseball and the final Aggie taken was Luke
55:57
Speaker 4: Jackson in the eleventh round to the He's only pitched
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Speaker 4: twelve innings this year single A and rookie ball, a
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Speaker 4: couple of rehab appearances in rookie ball, but he hasn't
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Speaker 4: pitched since July eighth. He's not on the injured list.
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Speaker 4: Not exactly sure what's going on there, but a lot
56:12
Speaker 4: of these Aggies have had some pretty solid success in
56:15
Speaker 4: the lower levels of the minor leagues. Looking forward to
56:19
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