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Kim Mulkey, Brian Kelly at SEC Spring Meetings - Off the Bench, May 29, 2025 · Off The Bench

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Speaker 1: Let's go.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 3: I'll start to you want to present off the bench.
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Speaker 1: This is what we have been waiting for.
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Speaker 4: The hype is over.
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Speaker 3: Off the bench.
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Speaker 5: I got to come off the fitch.
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Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hesser.
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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in SEC spring meetings. Here in Destin, Florida.
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We have got LSU women's head basketball coach Kim Mulkey
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here with is coach.
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Speaker 4: It is always a pleasure. We appreciate the time.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to be here.
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Speaker 7: I wish I didn't have these high heels on and
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I was in flip flops and on that beach out there.
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But I'll come back with my family later in the summer.
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Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, coach. What spring meeting is this for you
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and your coaching?
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Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you I'm much rather be in Destined
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because that's my vacation of choice. But when I was
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in the Big twelve all those years we would go
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to the Broad Morn Colorado springs and places. Well, I'm
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not a golfer, right, so anything with a beach and
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uh and water.
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Speaker 2: I'm more I'm more in to.
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Speaker 6: And how much have the the you know things on
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the agenda, the bullet points changed. I guess over the
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years because it feels like we've been really about four years.
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It's been so much about NIL and transfer portal, where
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I'm sure you know you had a lot of the
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same when you were at Baylor and other places, but
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now it's it's kind of been just heavy in IL
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and transfer portal.
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Speaker 7: It is, and you know, every year you talk about
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the same stuff and that kind of becomes boring. You
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talk about referees, you talk about game schedules, you talk
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about non conference skal, you know, all the same stuff.
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But what is really transpired now is that we have
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these meetings and we're really waiting in the unknown. We're
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waiting for a judge to have a ruling. It's it's
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kind of like you're building the ship as you're on
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the water.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 7: It's it's crazy because it's like things could change and
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level out next year. But then it's we're talking about
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things that we think are going to happen, and then
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what if they don't.
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of interesting.
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Speaker 6: Does it give you any peace of mind that it
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is the SEC? You do have Commissioner Greg Sanky, So
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no matter what it looks like that the SEC will
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probably get the best of it.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's our saying?
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Speaker 7: It just means more right, And having been in the
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Big Twelve that I didn't think much of that.
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Speaker 2: You're focused on your league.
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Speaker 7: But now being in this league with the addition of
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OU in Texas, it really does. It's like, Sankie, You're
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sitting there and he's got to make tough decisions. He's
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got to address things with each institution to try to
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have a collective hole that we all follow the same rules.
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And I think, gosh, she's got to be one smart dude,
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or he's got a lot of smart people around him
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because he has to fix a lot of things and
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he has to make tough decisions. And I just I've
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enjoyed being in this league. Enjoyed the listening ears, I've
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enjoyed the competition. I've enjoyed the great coaches. I've enjoyed
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meeting coaches in football and men's basketball that I've watched
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from AFAR and now I can say I know them
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because of SEC.
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Speaker 2: Meetings every year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question about it.
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Speaker 6: What would you say, coach, is maybe the one thing
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this year that maybe you had the most discussions about
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in those rooms, Like was there one major topic that
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y'all continued to come back to.
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Speaker 1: I thought a.
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Speaker 7: Very a very heartfelt conversation was revenue share. And I
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think the message and we just shared it with the
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athletic directors is.
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Speaker 2: We keep here in.
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Speaker 7: Seventy five for football, fifteen for men's basketball, five for
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women's basketball. And then you realized after meeting these last
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couple of days, not everybody's getting five percent shared in
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women's basketball. And so while we're competitors and we only
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think about ourselves, and let me get what I can
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get from LSU, and LSU does take tremendous care of
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my program. I do have a heart for those who
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how are you going to compete with the LSUS in
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the South Carolinas and the Texas who have been to
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final fours and one national championships and probably are getting more.
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Speaker 2: You do want.
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Speaker 7: The conference to do good, And I then sympathize with
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the athletic directors. They're looking at the bottom line, you know,
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the final results of money, and you can't do that
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in women's sports. You cannot do that. I've said it
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many times. So you guys on you and T Bob
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on the radio, No women's sport makes money none and
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so you have to see value in them. You have
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to see those sold out arenas, you have to see
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those television appearances, those championships, because you can't put a dollar.
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Speaker 2: Value on that.
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Speaker 4: It is something coach.
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Speaker 6: It's a great point that we don't talk about, like you know,
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the pmacs going to have thousands of fans when your
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team plays.
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Speaker 4: That's not just the case everywhere. And so when you're
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talking about.
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Speaker 6: Percentages, well, LSU's gonna do whatever they can to keep
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that going right. They're going to make sure that you're
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taken care of. But it's something we don't talk about.
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It's not going to be the case everywhere, and those
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those teams and those programs are going to have steep challenges.
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Speaker 7: And as I said, we all are competing against each other.
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But at the end of the day, there's sixteen good
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institutions in this conference and we want to always be
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able to say to the other conferences it does mean
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more in the SEC. And if we don't have everybody
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getting to the NCAA tournament and doing good because they
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can't get their players that require a little bit more
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money's it hurts all of us in the League. And
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I mean, look at men's basketball. Didn't we have everybody
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but two teams this year. I can remember when I
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got in the league, we weren't that good in men's basketball.
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So what did we do to help men's basketball get better?
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Speaker 8: Right?
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Speaker 7: Well, don't allow women's basketball to lose what they have gone.
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To me right now, in the history of my coaching
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and playing, women's basketball is as high rated as.
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Speaker 2: It can ever be.
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Speaker 7: So let's don't lose that and we slip and then
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we look up two or three years down the road
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and we've lost that.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great point to me right now, your
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viewership in the arenas, and I've told you this on
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the radio. I mean, I've got five kids, but I've
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got four boys, and there's nothing more they enjoy than
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going to the PMC and watching your team play.
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Speaker 7: Well, you know, I have one of each too. And
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my son is like your boys. He grew up watching
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some of the greatest women's basketball and he can't sit
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there and go, well, they're just girls. No, he grew
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up playing against those just girls. And he has a
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great respect. Having played baseball at LSU, he just has
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great respect for the highest level of women's basketball, and
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you just kind of wanted.
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Speaker 2: To stay there.
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Speaker 7: And as I said, I'm spoiled at LSU, But I
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hope spoiled is not the word. I hope the product
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we have given them in a short period of time
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is a return on their investments.
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Speaker 6: Right, new players probably coming in probably literally like right now.
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Speaker 2: Well they did this past weekend.
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Speaker 7: So my coaching staff, we moved in freshmen and transfers.
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And I don't require the whole team to be there
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for workouts in the summer because some are doing USA
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Basketball stuff and it's such.
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Speaker 2: A long season.
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Speaker 7: So what I do, as I tell them, you can
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pick the session in summer you want to come, or
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you can come in the fall. You're here, it's a
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slower pace in the summer, take a class or two,
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do individual workouts, and get in that weight room with
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our strength and conditioning coach. So several of them chose
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to come on the first session, and then some will
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be here the second session, and then they'll all be
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here in the fall.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you're looking forward to that pretty good
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group you've got coming in. Coach through freshmen in high
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school recruiting, which I know is very important to you.
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We've talked about that many times. But some pretty high
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profile transfers as well.
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Speaker 7: Listen, they all look good on paper, right, but the
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transfers have proven themselves at other institutions, So we know
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what the transfers are capable of doing. What you don't
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know is those high school players and their rankings. But
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we sure are excited about those high school players, but
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don't put too much pressure on them. Let them find
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themselves and their role within our program and get them here.
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And we are excited. When you think about the perimeter
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play that we have. We think we'll have outstanding perimeter
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play this year. What we don't know is we have
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had to replace a lot of post play and so
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it'll be interesting to see when we're all on the
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same page how good we can be.
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Speaker 6: Last one coach, because you know, I got to get
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a baseball question and with you, LSU Regional, Will you
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be in the box? Will you be supporting the Tigers
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because you know baseball as well as anybody that I know.
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Speaker 2: I plan to be there.
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Speaker 7: I'm waiting for my grandchildren to come in Saturday for
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my camp which starts Monday, and I'm babysitting them all
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week as well, so I.
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Speaker 2: Do want to take them there.
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Speaker 7: I'm familiar with Dallas Baptists, having been in Waco, Texas
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for twenty four years. Even have some friends who have
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children that play for Dallas Baptists. Not anybody else in
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the regional that I know of right now, But I
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do love baseball. I love the playoffs in any sport
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because I think it's just taking up a whole notch
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offensively and defensively, like the NBA.
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Speaker 1: I'll watch it.
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Speaker 2: Right now, but I wouldn't probably.
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Speaker 7: Watch it during the season because they play so many games. Yeah,
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people just tend to take it up a notch when
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it's playoffs, and I.
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Speaker 2: Know the box will be full.
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Speaker 7: I know it'll be exciting, and we gotta do it
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so that we can get a super regional in Baton
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Rouge and you know Omaha and Jays.
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Speaker 2: Jay's just really had a good year.
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Speaker 4: Coach, you're the best. Truly appreciate time.
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Speaker 6: I know you've got a lot going on back home,
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trying to get back home, so I appreciate the sit down.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome, big guy.
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Speaker 6: All right, there she is LSU coach Kim Mulkey will
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step way more coming back to your wait.
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Speaker 8: Welcome back in off the bench? Is that right?
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Speaker 9: There was Jacob Hesser with LSU women's basketball coach Kim Maulkey.
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I got to say the SEC just continues to beat
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the Big Twelve because the beginning of that interview, Coach
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Maulkey about you know what's it like being in Destined
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for the SEC spring meetings and coach said, well, you know,
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when we were in the Big Twelve, we would usually
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go somewhere like Colorado Springs. I'm sure Colorado Springs is lovely.
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My sister in law used to live right outside of
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Colorado Springs life says it's a great place. But this
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is spring meetings and there's nothing better than being at
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Destin on the beach for SEC spring meetings. And that's
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why the SEC is the best conference in all of
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collegiate sports. Stay winning SEC. Excellent location for those spring meetings.
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I was watching Brian Kelly a little bit on his
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video interview with Paul Finebaum yesterday and Jay got him
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as an interview as well. We'll play that a little
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bit later in the show. But like they got the
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beach in the background, it just looks great. A plus
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job there on the location for SEC spring meetings. All right,
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we're going to take a quick time out when we
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get back. Ross Jackson over at Louisiana Sports dot Net
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put up an article kind of mentioning, you know, his
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notes from OTA's his biggest takeaway so far during the
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media portion availability if you will of practice. Media actually
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expected to be present again today at OTAs as the
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Saints are in their second week of offseason workouts. But
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Ross kind of put out heading into today, put this
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up yesterday of things he wants. What's to keep an
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eye one out there at Saints camp. We'll break it
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all down next here on Off the bench.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to off the Bench. I didn't mean it
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when I said I didn't love it, so I should
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have hell, I said I never should have let you go.
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Speaker 2: Didn't nothing.
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Speaker 3: I was stupid, I was foolish. I was learned to myself.
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Speaker 2: I could no father that I would ever be with it.
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Speaker 4: You know, never imagine.
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Speaker 3: That, said Hubsrsel. Because I didn't know you, because I
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didn't know me, would gonna know everything.
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Speaker 6: I never.
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Speaker 4: I'm a feeling now that I don't hear you because
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I don't have a child.
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Speaker 2: Back in.
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Speaker 9: Number two Thursday edition of off the bench. So we're
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just vibing there, just vibing there into the ball music.
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Nice nice vibes here on a Thursday. Okay, guys, I
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want your honest opinions. Don't have to worry about that
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with the laundry, Jordan, you might be a little bit
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too nice.
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Speaker 8: What do we think?
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Speaker 2: Shirt?
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Speaker 8: Is the shirt of yay or what do we what
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do we think?
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Speaker 4: I can't really like see, like I need to get
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up close.
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Speaker 9: Because I can't what somebody was asking about the designs
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are so yes, are not comprehending what that is? It
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almost like so any any like white you see it
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looks like a sketch drawing of people, whether it's like
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men women like dressed up you have, Yeah, I don't
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really And it's got like New Orleans stuff. So on
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their website it's called men's second line shirt. On the
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back it says French quarter second line. But it's it's
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pretty much this pattern all over. It's got like the
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sparkle here and.
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Speaker 2: You need to get glasses. I literally could not make.
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Speaker 8: Out what it's.
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Speaker 9: It's it's hard especially here like it you know what
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it looks like right here on this camera.
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Speaker 8: This one's a little bit brighter than the other one.
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Speaker 9: It looks like one of those seventies like Saved by
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the Belt type vibes when you just see like all
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the bright colors.
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Speaker 8: That's kind of what it looks like here.
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Speaker 2: But I don't hate it.
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Speaker 10: It looks like a comic book. Like it's very like
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I told you when you came out of the bathroom,
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was like very tea boy desk.
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Speaker 1: Like hate it, but you never wear stuff like that,
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So it.
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Speaker 10: Looks a little I don't a little outward worldly, but
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like it's not bad. Honestly. You just got to get
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the chest hair. You get some chest hair with it,
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it'll make it.
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Speaker 8: The buttons you can turn that camera bright.
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Speaker 4: We don't have.
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Speaker 1: We don't.
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Speaker 8: We don't have the t BAF. But we got a
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little bit on a little bit. Yeah yeah you got blonde.
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Speaker 10: Yeah how did your face get tam but your chest
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in it?
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Speaker 9: Because here here's what happened first day and a half.
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I mean we were swim trunks and nothing else right,
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typical beat you tied. Well, I felt myself getting a
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little red, and I was like, I don't want to burn,
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so I wore the sleeveless shirt so it got basically
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here down, which is why the arms look a lot
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more tan, and.
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Speaker 8: Then left the face.
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Speaker 9: So I basically alternated every other day after like the
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first day and a half. So it's a little bit
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look whatever, okay, wondering when when the shirts on the
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tai looks even Hey, that that's all I care about.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but also it's day one of the shirts.
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It's gonna take time, its time they won it looked.
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Speaker 8: It looked better in the dark brown shirt for sure.
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For sure, no.
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Speaker 10: Dark brown was ups vibes. Now you're like, now, I
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ain't gonna lie. It's like it's very t Bob. It's
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just his T Bob shirt. So it's like so t Bob,
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Like when I look at that, that's I can see
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T Bob having a rotation of just shirts just like that. Literally,
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he literally has a rotation of shirts just like that.
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Speaker 9: I mean, this was purchased four like he just gave
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it to me because it didn't fit it like this,
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this is t Bo.
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Speaker 1: That's crazy because he lost all out.
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Speaker 8: Of weight because when he when he told me, ye,
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T Bob's.
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Speaker 9: Still like like yeah, like I imagine Bob's still in
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an XL.
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Speaker 8: This is a medium.
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Speaker 3: Put a small T shirt on and it was like.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, so during break deering break, I'm just sitting here
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like this, you know, like just hand on the chin
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and I could feel it like right in here, like
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the shirt is shirt getting a little tight, like right
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in here. There's no way this would fit. Absolutely not.
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But when he texted me two weeks ago, he's like, hey,
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I have a Queen of Sparkle shirt.
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Speaker 8: Do you want it?
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Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, sure, did not know what it
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looked like, like.
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Speaker 10: With some give you a shirt, you got to know
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some type of it ain't just some regular T shirt
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you finna get.
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Speaker 9: So the jeans though, like I got the no he
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didn't give me. She was saying, like, make it work
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with jeans. I wasn't planning on wearing this today. I
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would do it with a darker jean since the shirts
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so bright. I got the lighter jean on today.
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Speaker 8: But I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Go to Miami, you gotta get a live.
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Speaker 8: I look like I'm at SEC Spring Meetings. Is where
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it looks like, yeah, this is an SEC. This is
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an SEC Spring meeting shirt.
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Speaker 1: Good professional move right there?
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Speaker 7: For sure, you look like you're about to go enjoy
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a night at splash.
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Speaker 10: Well, look and get get nice and lubricated, or like
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you're going to a drag brunch?
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Speaker 1: What what? Family? You hate family? You hate it, you can't.
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Speaker 10: You despise everybody sitting at the table with But you
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got to keep a nice straight face.
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Speaker 1: Like, hey guys, what's going on? Love you guys.
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Speaker 9: But it's a really good impression of me, really good.
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That is probably the best you try to do the
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Sometimes you try to do the Taylor impression. Uh when
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you're when you're doing the intro at hour, that one
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there just.
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Speaker 8: You know, just chef's kid. That was perfect.
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Speaker 1: Shout out with Chef Michael Johnson.
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Speaker 9: Speaking of Chef Michael Johnson coming on our number three
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we'll have we'll have chef coming on for our normal
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munchie segment at nine to fifteen. We will have a
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big deal, a new big deal at nine am. Right now,
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the a few minutes before we get to the Brian
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Kelly interview, which we will do after this upcoming break.
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Ross Jackson at louisianasports dot Net put out his biggest
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takeaways for the Saints at OTAs. Whether it's you know
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the quarterback competition, what the rotation is going to look
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like on the lines of scrimmage or receivers, everything like that.
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Want to dive into that a little bit. He has
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a good write up of it where he goes way
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into detail up on Louisiana Sports dot Net.
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Speaker 8: You can see it there.
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Speaker 9: And he mentioned that when he was out there during
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the media viewing portion, it was the first media practice,
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it was easy to call Spencer Ratler the front runner
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of this quarterback competition. You know, there's no surprise Rattler's
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been in the NFL for a year. Ratler actually completed
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all eight of his seven on seven passes. Now, that
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doesn't mean that Tyler Schuck was bad. He said it
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was six or seven of the eight passes that Tyler
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Schuck threw he completed as well. So you like to
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see that. It's not like, oh, they were both bad,
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Spencer Ratler just sucked a little bit less. No, they
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actually both did a really nice job. But look, when
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it comes to the Saints quarterback situation, we talked about
20:05
Jay Cayner earlier this week with that oblique injury, and
20:08
we kind of thought he was the third guy in
20:11
line for that job. Anyways, Well, with that oblique injury.
20:15
I mean, watch out for one hundred Deckers. He's the
20:17
undrafted free agent. He was actually a tryout player. He
20:20
wasn't even an undrafted free agent that came to camp.
20:23
They kept him on after that first week with those
20:26
tryout players. He's from Iowa Western, but he's not a
20:30
normal Iowa Western quarterback. So he was at Iowa State
20:34
for three seasons twenty twenty, twenty one, and twenty two.
20:38
Was one of the highest rated quarterback recruits ever in
20:41
the history of Iowa State football.
20:44
Speaker 8: Played sparingly his first two years.
20:45
Speaker 9: In twenty twenty two, he takes over as the full
20:47
time starter, and he wasn't bad sixty six percent completion
20:51
over three thousand yards now, nineteen touchdowns, fourteen interceptions.
20:54
Speaker 8: But it was his first year as a starter.
20:56
Speaker 9: If you remember the sports betting scandal that came out
21:01
with Iowa players and i with State players, it was
21:03
kind of that whole state Hunter Deckers was one of
21:05
those guys involved when he was a quarterback at Iowa State.
21:09
So you know, he leaves the team, he goes to
21:12
Iowa Western, and if Iowa Western in last season, sixty
21:18
four percent of his passes three eight hundred yards, thirty
21:21
two touchdowns, just ten interceptions, and uh, he can run
21:25
a little bit as well.
21:25
Speaker 8: He's a big guy. He's about sixty.
21:27
Speaker 9: Three, He's around two hundred and twenty two hundred and
21:30
twenty five pounds.
21:31
Speaker 8: He's a talented guy.
21:32
Speaker 9: I'm not saying hundred Decker is going to come in
21:34
and challenge Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shack for a starting position.
21:38
Speaker 8: That's not going to happen.
21:39
Speaker 9: They've invested too much into Tyler Shock and Spencer Rattler
21:42
has been here for a year already. What I am
21:44
saying is that if that oblique injury turns out to
21:47
be more than just a few weeks setback for Jay Cayner,
21:49
one hundred Deckers could make this team. There's a lot
21:51
of buzz around him right now coming out of training camp.
21:55
The next position that Nick wanted to or that ross
21:58
excuse me wanted to highlight was the starting offensive line.
22:02
So we've talked a lot about Trevor Pinning during the
22:05
first couple of days of OTA's moving from right tackle,
22:07
where he played last year, to that left guard spot. Well,
22:12
it's been Kelvin Banks at left tackle. Most kind of
22:15
expected that Pinning at left guard, McCoy and Ruiz at
22:18
center and right guard. Everyone expected that, telling us a Fuaga,
22:22
who was your starting left tackle a year ago moving
22:24
to right tackle, which was his dominant position that he
22:27
played in college. He played a lot more right tackle
22:29
than left tackle. If you remember when they drafted Fuaga.
22:32
A big reason why me and a lot of other
22:34
people wanted that to be the draft pick was because
22:37
of his versatility. He could play on the left side,
22:39
he could play on the right side, he could play
22:41
guard and tackle. They've moved him back over to right
22:44
where he's apparently more comfortable, even though I thought he
22:46
was good at left. But Kelvin Bank's that more pure
22:49
left tackle. So that's kind of your starting OH line.
22:52
But the Saints have a chance to actually have some
22:57
decent depth on the offensive line. You brought in Dylan
23:01
Radunes from the Tennessee Titans, who a lot of people
23:03
thought was going to be that starter at left of guard.
23:06
But moving Pinning over there, maybe Raduones is a good
23:09
rotational piece, a good swing guard. Will Clap is currently
23:12
on the roster. He could play center guard. Nick Saldeveri
23:15
can play guard. He's currently still on this roster. Landon
23:18
Young has played a lot of football for this team,
23:20
left tackle, right tackle. He's kind of been your plug
23:23
and play guy. Anytime one of your starting tackles go down.
23:25
He's still on that team. That's four guys that can
23:28
make decent backups for you. Now they're not going to carry.
23:31
I don't expect all nine of those guys to make
23:33
the team. But you have options on the offensive line
23:36
because Pinning can play tackle, will clap center guard, Landon
23:40
Young as a tackle, Dylan Raduones can play either guard spot.
23:44
All of a sudden, you have quality depth on the
23:47
offensive line. If you're starting five that you have put
23:49
together right now works out.
23:51
Speaker 8: I actually like.
23:52
Speaker 9: The pieces there a little bit more than I did,
23:53
especially this time last year.
23:56
Speaker 7: Now.
23:56
Speaker 9: He goes on to mention Brandon Staley's defense is as
23:59
one of the things to look at, stand up edge rushers,
24:02
changes in front coverages. We're gonna get more into that
24:05
as the season gets closer. But sticking with the offense here,
24:09
he mentioned Chris Olave and Rashid Shahid is two guys
24:12
to keep an eye on, and it makes a lot
24:14
of sense right both of them coming back from injuries
24:16
of that injury plagued receiving corps that you saw in
24:19
twenty twenty four. A lot of people have asked, oh,
24:23
did this Where the Saints going to draft a receiver
24:25
high in the draft.
24:26
Speaker 8: They did not. Where are they going to sign a
24:28
big name free agent? They did not.
24:30
Speaker 9: I don't consider Brandon Cooks a big name free agent,
24:32
but they did bring in Brandon Cooks. So is a
24:35
Lave or Rashid a wide receiver one, No, but maybe
24:40
they don't have to be. They're both quality receivers when
24:44
they are fully healthy. You also added Brandon Cooks. He
24:47
is passed thirty. He has a little bit past his prime,
24:50
but he could still make a little bit happen. Now,
24:53
his production did drop every year he was in Dallas,
24:55
but he dealt with some injuries as well. If he
24:57
can stay healthy, do you have a great receiving cord. No,
25:01
I'm not trying to say, oh, Tyler Shuke's gonna come
25:03
in here play in front of a really good.
25:04
Speaker 8: Starting five on the offensive line. He's got studs on
25:07
the outside.
25:07
Speaker 9: No, that offensive line still has question marks because you
25:10
got a lot of new pieces and your receivers. Let's
25:13
call it like it is, are below average. You don't
25:15
have that bona fide wide receiver one, but maybe you
25:18
can have a decent group with a lave Rashid Shihed
25:21
and Brandon Cooks. Maybe that's enough to just help out
25:25
Tyler Schuck a tad. You're not gonna go out there
25:28
and again give him the best weapons. I think this
25:30
is actually one of the weaker wide receiver corps in
25:33
the NFL.
25:34
Speaker 8: You have Dante Pettis.
25:36
Speaker 9: He is apparently working pretty high in the receiver rotation
25:38
at OTAs you signed him in the middle of the
25:40
year last year. You have Bubb Means, who you drafted
25:42
a year ago. So you have pieces there, but they
25:48
all have to stay healthy. Again, you don't have that
25:50
one dominant guy, so you got to make sure that
25:52
room's as healthy as possible so each receiver can complement
25:55
the other. The last thing he gets into is the
25:59
cornerback spot. You have mckinstree, you have a Lante Taylor.
26:02
They are both back. You traded Marshaun Lottimore to the
26:05
Washington Redskins halfway through the year. We know that, and
26:08
you lost Pulsing a d Boat to the Giants in
26:09
the offseason. Mckintree, I think can lock down one of
26:13
those spots. It's uncertain whether or not a Lante Taylor
26:16
can play that outside corner position just because he's played
26:19
a lot more nickel in the NFL.
26:21
Speaker 8: As he has as that boundary.
26:23
Speaker 9: Corner mckinrey can lock down one side, who could be
26:26
on the other because my preference would be playing nickel
26:28
package pretty much all the time. That's kind of a
26:30
base defense for a lot of people. Anyways, Keep Alonte
26:33
Taylor right there as a slot corner half kool Aid
26:36
mcentree on one side. Hopefully one of these younger guys
26:39
can stop up Vetteran Isaac Eaedam has taking the majority
26:42
of the first team reps. But Quincy Riley's out there.
26:45
Quincy Riley's going to battle Isaac Headam for that starting spot.
26:48
When you look at Quincy Riley, he was a fourth
26:50
round pick, so the Saints, you know, spent pretty significant
26:53
draft capital on him.
26:55
Speaker 8: Three years at Louisville.
26:56
Speaker 9: Eight interceptions, one of them returned for a touchdown down
27:01
seventy four total tackles, Like he's got a little bit
27:04
forced to fumble there as well. His numbers don't jump
27:07
off the page. But he's a solid receiver corner. He's
27:12
decent size for a rookie like that's a guy to
27:14
keep an eye on it. I think the battle between
27:16
Iatom and Quincy Riley's going to tell you a lot.
27:18
If one of those guys can step up, you no
27:20
longer need Alonte Taylor to play out wide. I think
27:22
if Alante Taylor is an outside corner, it's out of necessity,
27:25
not because that's what's best for your defense. Because I
27:27
think what's best for your defense is having a guy
27:29
like Alonte Taylor roaming in that nickel position because he's
27:32
been so good there at his time in New Orleans.
27:35
All Right, that's just a few things to kind of
27:38
highlight take a look at again. Media is supposed to
27:40
have availability at OTAs today. I'm sure Ross will have
27:43
another updated ride up, but he put that out yesterday
27:46
on Louisiana Sports dot Net. Want to kind of to
27:48
break it down a little bit, all right, we're going
27:51
to take a time out when we get back. We
27:53
got another interview from our guy j Kester out there
27:55
at SEC spring meetings. He said he had to sit
27:58
down with Brian Kelly about a six seven minute interview.
28:01
We'll play that here on the other side, on off
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the bench.
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Speaker 11: Johnny goes right now in SEC Spring meetings a head
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coach the l s U Fighting Tigers coach Brian Kelly,
29:36
alongside Chris dor and Jacob Pastor, I and Peter Burns
29:39
and BK. You got to be upset because all the guys,
29:41
all the sponsors here at spring meetings. You're ever ready
29:43
go play golf right now and you gotta go do
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fine bomb?
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Speaker 5: Is that a golf Yeah? I mean that's much more
29:47
important than golf, right, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean, yes, I didn't.
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Speaker 5: I didn't get a laugh from I didn't get a
29:52
laugh from anybody.
29:53
Speaker 11: You see interview with him yesterday, Plane just absolutely ripped
29:56
him and so it was so awkward and.
30:01
Speaker 5: Laying is he can do funny things. Let's put it
30:05
that way.
30:05
Speaker 11: What what the hell did you learn this week?
30:08
Speaker 4: Anything?
30:10
Speaker 1: You know?
30:10
Speaker 4: I did learn a lot.
30:11
Speaker 5: One is that we think as football coaches that we
30:16
we live in a vacuum. In other words, whatever we
30:19
decide in our room is gospel. Then we get into
30:23
the AD's room and it don't mean nothing because you
30:27
really have to look at it from two perspectives. Right,
30:30
the coaches, we're thinking about progress, right, we're thinking about
30:34
transfer a portal and getting it into the right window.
30:37
We're thinking about nil and how we can get some
30:40
clarity and some teeth to that, and then we're thinking
30:44
about revenue sharing and how we can get eighty five
30:48
or one hundred and five on our roster. Then we
30:50
walk in there and they go, hey, look, we need revenue.
30:54
We're giving you guys twenty million dollars. We need revenue.
30:57
You need to play more games, you need to do
30:59
these things. And so it's a perspective, right that you
31:03
gain that when you're sitting in that room. Those ads
31:07
have to think about the revenue piece as well. And
31:10
it's not to try to put you in harm's way,
31:13
but the reality of it is, we're the third most
31:16
watched sports in the country. It's number one is the NFL,
31:21
number two is the NBA, and number three is SEC football.
31:25
I mean that's major. People want to watch teams from
31:29
the SEC play and particular play each other. Right, So
31:33
it starts to put in perspective eight versus nine games, right,
31:36
it starts to put in perspective, hey, do you play
31:39
playing games? People want to watch the SEC play. And
31:42
so then we go back into our room and we go,
31:45
how about we control what we can control I know
31:48
that's a long answer to your question, coach, would it
31:50
help if y'all had more meetings maybe together with the
31:53
high football coaches and the ads, you just get more done.
31:55
Speaker 4: It's a great point.
31:56
Speaker 5: We felt as a group that the New Orleans meetings
32:00
where it was the ads and the coaches meeting together,
32:03
it was our most productive time that we've had. And
32:06
when you're split like this, like there's some important things
32:10
that are coming up on the window, the transfer portal
32:13
window that we haven't even got a chance to address
32:15
with them, and how important it is, it will change everything.
32:19
If we don't get that portal window in January, it
32:21
changes everything.
32:22
Speaker 4: You want one portal window, We.
32:23
Speaker 5: Would like one. We will live with what we have
32:25
right now with a second because there's no sec transferring
32:29
in that second window.
32:31
Speaker 4: We would live with that.
32:32
Speaker 5: We would prefer one, and it needs to be in
32:35
January or the calendar just changes.
32:38
Speaker 6: So Coach, then you don't know who your team is
32:40
if you have no idea, We'll think of it this way.
32:42
Speaker 5: Fiscally, you got guys that want to leave in May
32:44
to a May portal, you got them on payroll for
32:47
three months. You might as well just throw it out
32:49
the window. You're burning through Monday. And so if we
32:51
want to be fiscally responsible, you know, if we want
32:54
to think about player safety and listen, any kid that
32:57
wants to go, he wants to go in January.
32:59
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to wait around kid.
33:02
Speaker 8: Exactly.
33:03
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, well then that's the other side of it,
33:06
right then you're going to be losing money and you're
33:08
irresponsible fiscally. So I just again, I think being together
33:13
with the ads where we can really just say here's
33:16
our issue, this is what we need, that's what we've learned.
33:20
I think we're making progress over perfection right now.
33:24
Speaker 4: But it's real and it's a good thing.
33:26
Speaker 12: I think the thing that I love the most about
33:28
being here is seeing the camaraderie between all of you coaches.
33:31
Everybody watches game days and going at each other, but
33:34
you guys really do a lot of things together. And
33:38
do you find it more open now about how different
33:42
coaches are doing things because of the challenges that you
33:45
face and because of the uncertainty that you're willing and
33:48
maybe because there's twelve playoff spots now too, you're not
33:51
fighting for just one. That your information sharing about things
33:54
that you probably wouldn't have before.
33:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think all that's right.
33:57
Speaker 5: I think first of all, there's a respect that we
34:01
all have tough jobs, and we're all listen, we love
34:05
our jobs, were paid way.
34:06
Speaker 4: Too much money. All those things are true.
34:09
Speaker 5: But I think there's a true respect for each other
34:11
in the way they do their job and the job
34:13
that they have.
34:14
Speaker 4: And then it's a it's a really good group.
34:16
Speaker 5: There's nobody in there that that hasn't earned their opportunity
34:20
to be there.
34:21
Speaker 11: Five eleven those are two numbers that are starting to
34:24
pop up. Five automatic qualifiers eleven spots or four automatic
34:28
qualifiers from a certain league.
34:30
Speaker 4: Where do you feel the coaches stand five to eleven? Five?
34:34
Speaker 5: Well, I mean pretty obvious, right, I mean more automatics,
34:40
you know, and the opportunity to maybe even steal another one.
34:43
So I think that that's that's probably you know where
34:47
all of our coaches are.
34:47
Speaker 12: Are you afraid that the committee would limit that? Be
34:50
like say, all right, you're getting the five, we're not
34:53
going to go above that.
34:55
Speaker 5: No. Our concerns with the committee is in terms of
34:59
waiting your schedule. They look at just the right hand column,
35:02
and what that looks like a loss is a lot.
35:05
Not all losses the same, and I know nobody wants
35:07
to talk about losses, but the truth of the matter
35:10
is losses are different, and I think we would rather
35:13
see a cleaner understanding of the process. Look, when I
35:19
went was that Notre Dame we played for the national
35:21
championship against Alabama in twenty twelve. That was the computer.
35:25
It was all computer. Now we've moved very subjective. We're
35:29
over here. We need to move it back into the
35:31
add some ratings. Bill Connley's got one the Massy Report.
35:35
I mean, I know we can't do an RPI, but
35:38
if we can do something that brings the selection process
35:41
into a finer line.
35:42
Speaker 4: We'd be in good shape.
35:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kaush, there has to be something because in basketball
35:45
we talk about quad one victories.
35:46
Speaker 13: In baseball we do talk about RPI. Softball RPI, that's
35:50
a metric that we use and we have that. There
35:52
has to be something that you can say, hey, I
35:54
know this team lost, but they lost on the road
35:56
to this number ten team. They lost on the road
35:58
to number four, and then at number you know, at
36:00
home at number three is a tough loss.
36:02
Speaker 5: Just look at the Indiana and the excuse me, the
36:05
Indiana and Alabama. Analogy right, Alabama had eight wins against
36:10
six plus win teams. Indiana had four and they lost
36:14
to one that didn't you know what I mean of.
36:16
Speaker 4: Less than six. So you got to balance it.
36:19
Speaker 5: You got to look at all losses are not the
36:21
same and so there's got to be some kind of
36:23
index in there. I know, what's hard to do, an
36:25
RPI because you know, our our number of games is
36:28
not big enough for you to get that index.
36:31
Speaker 4: But we can do something. Yeah, it's fascinating.
36:33
Speaker 11: Continues a role in these conversations are being had and
36:36
hopefully you guys and the athletic directors and the head
36:38
coaches hang out a little bit more to kind of
36:40
solve that stuff. I know you got to run.
36:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks guys, I appreciate it. You thanks for having coach.
36:44
Speaker 11: Brian Kelly, coach LSU Tigers joining us SEC spring meetings.
36:49
Speaker 9: There was Jacob Ester right there at SEC Spring meetings
36:52
with LSU had football coach Brian Kelly. They talked a
36:56
lot about, you know, the college Football Playoff Committee, the
36:59
move to say sixteen team playoff. That has just been
37:02
a topic that everyone has discussed. We'll kind of gonna
37:06
give you my my thoughts on that BK press conference
37:09
coming back on the other side of the break, But
37:10
the SEC coaches kind of seem to all be in
37:12
locksed up.
37:13
Speaker 8: You know.
37:13
Speaker 9: I kind of broke down Sinky's comments yesterday about oh,
37:17
our three teams got left out and two of them
37:20
beat Georgia and you gotta have quality losses.
37:22
Speaker 5: You kind of.
37:23
Speaker 9: Echoed that, Cinnamon, and look, I mean, I can get
37:26
behind it. You have to do it's best for your conference,
37:27
but I still just don't quite know where they're getting this.
37:31
We'll kind of break that down next coming up here
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bubb was leaving, like T bups chess there and T
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Bub's knee like they got to follow him to barstool.
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That's that's the only that's the only logical answer. But
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I'm gonna miss T bumps chess there in the chest.
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Speaker 10: No man, shout out T Bob Chess there. Shout out
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T Bob legg and I think it was like an elbow. Yeah,
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shout out T Bob's knee. If they're still around, they rebranded.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I I don't know where they're at.
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Speaker 9: Okay, you just heard Jacob Pesser's interview with Brian Kelly
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there at u SEC spring meetings. Now, obviously it's centered
40:31
around the college football playoff, you know, moving to the
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sixteen team playoff, the selection committee all that's kind of
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been the big topic of conversation over there at SEC
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Media Days Now. Yesterday I played an audio clip from
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SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki of him talking about, you know,
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it's almost more important to not lose now than to win.
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Speaker 8: Two of the three.
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Speaker 9: Teams they got left out of the College Football Playoff
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in the SEC beat the University of Georgia and they
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got penalized for playing a tough schedule.
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Speaker 8: Cally's kind of echoed that sentiment, and.
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Speaker 9: Really a lot of coaches like, it's not just Kelly,
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it's not just sank Like they're all kind of in
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lockstep about the College Football Playoffs selection committee and BK
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when when asked about the selection committee, he brought up
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Alabama and he said, look, the University of Alabama had
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eight wins against teams with six wins or more. Indiana
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only had four wins over teams with six wins or
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more and lost one of them. He went on to say,
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not all losses are the same, some are worse than others.
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I get that, and I get Sankie and Kelly and
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whichever other coach you want to bring up. They they
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kind of all have the same opinion on this, wanting
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to boost your conference, wanting to do what you think
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is best for the SEC. But I don't really know
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why they're only looking at this one way. I mean,
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I do know why they're looking at this one way,
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but I don't know how you can do that. Okay,
41:48
let's go back to Alabama's losses. Kelly says not all
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losses are created equal. I agree with that. Alabama, two
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of their three losses are to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Combined,
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Oklahoma and Vanderbilt had five SEC wins this year. Vanderbilt
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finished seven and six, Oklahoma finished six and seven, so
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that's a thirteen and thirteen combined record. Overall, Alabama lost
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to two teams with a combined record of five hundred,
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both of them losing records by multiple games in SEC play,
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those are bad losses. The same thing with Ole Miss
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Ole Miss is two of their SEC losses were Florida
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in Kentucky. Kentucky went one in seven in the SEC.
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Their only SEC win was against the Ole Miss Rebels,
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and Florida went four and four, So that's five combined
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SEC wins between Florida and Kentucky.
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Speaker 8: I get it.
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Speaker 9: Indiana's schedule was not tough they lost a bad game.
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But we can't sit here and pretend that Alabama and
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Ole Miss did not lose bad games.
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Speaker 8: They did.
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Speaker 9: Ole Miss had a good loss to LSU on the
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road in overtime. That's not a bad loss. You lose
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to Kentucky, Granted it was early in the season, but
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Kentucky's only SEC win. You lose to Florida. Now, Florida
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was kind of hot when you played them. I get that,
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But you can't lose games like that and make it
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to the College Football Playoff.
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Speaker 8: You cannot give up.
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Speaker 9: If you're Alabama, you cannot give up forty points to
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a Vanderbilt and expect to get into the postseason. You
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cannot get beat twenty four to three to Oklahoma. I mean,
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at least when they allowed Vanderbilt to put up forty
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on him. It was forty to thirty five. The game
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somewhat came down to the wire. You got steamrolled by
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a bad Oklahoma football team that finished with a losing record.
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Now it was on the road, but twenty four to
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three didn't even score an offensive touchdown. Everyone tried to
43:38
hype up Jayala Millroe for two years. I never bought
43:40
him too. The hype, but people tried to hype up
43:42
Jayala Molrow for two years. You had Ryan Williams, who
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was one of the best receivers in the country last year,
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and you couldn't score an offensive touchdown. You cannot make
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the College Football Playoff with losses like that. I get
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what Kelly's trying to do, I get what Greg Sankee's
43:55
trying to do. I just can't get on board with
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it because you can mention the bad loss for Indiana,
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you can mention you kind of snuck in. They lost
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the conference championship the Clemson. They didn't deserve it either.
44:05
Did Alabama and Olt Miss really deserve to get into
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that College Roble playoff? Sure they both beat Georgia. Congratulations
44:12
Georgia didn't make it to the national championship. Everyone talked
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all season long and continuing into the offseason about how
44:21
bad Georgia's offensive weapons were, and then when they got
44:26
in the College Bable Playoff, you had Gunner Stockton Carson
44:28
Beck turned the ball over a lot last year. Like
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Georgia in twenty twenty four, was not the Georgia we
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had seen in the past five years. Like, no doubt
44:35
about it. On paper, that's a good win. But is
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that win alone enough to get you in the College
44:39
Fotball Playoff? I don't think so. Alabama beats LSU. LSU
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goes nine to four, but that was during LSU's three
44:46
game skit. I mean they were as cold as anybody
44:48
in the country during that game. No, I'm not saying
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if they would have played at a different point in
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the season, would the result have been any different. No,
44:54
maybe it wouldn't have been quite as lopsided. But I mean,
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you gotta win over Georgia. You gotta win over LSU.
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Speaker 8: He beat.
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Speaker 9: What what else does Alabama have? There's not a ton
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of top fight wins there as well. Same with Little Miss.
45:12
You beat Georgia. Okay, cool a South Carolina. South Carolina
45:17
didn't have a bad loss. Your losses were to LSU
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at home by two points in a game or three
45:24
points in a game that you should have won. I
45:25
thought South Carolina should have won that game. They let
45:27
that one slip away.
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Speaker 8: Ols.
45:29
Speaker 9: You got lucky to come out of Columbia with a
45:32
win that day and you lose. So you could say, okay,
45:35
well they should have got in and they didn't have
45:36
a bad loss, but you lost to Alabama and Ole Miss,
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the other two teams that were in consideration. While South
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Carolina may have not had the bad losses, why I
45:45
actually thought, out of those three teams, at the end
45:47
of the year, South Carolina was playing the best out
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of the three. How could you justify putting in South
45:51
Carolina overall Miss in Alabama that both have a head
45:54
to head over South Carolina. There is a lot wrong
45:58
with the College Football Playoff Comittee. We could sit here
45:59
and hairs and talk about all the different reasons why
46:02
people don't like it. Why you know, everybody hated the
46:05
BCS and you went to the four team playoff, Well,
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four teams not enough. You got to go to twelve.
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Now people hate the twelve team playoffs. I get there's
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always going to be holes you can poke in things
46:13
and complaints that you can bring up about a selection
46:16
committee because at the end of the day, there are
46:17
people in their bias and if the SEC wants to mention, hey,
46:21
we think we should have got more teams in, that's great,
46:23
But don't mention oh, well, you know, our teams beat Georgia.
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Our teams didn't suffer bad losses. Yeah they did. Alabama
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had two bad losses. Oh Miss had two even worse losses.
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I'm not saying that the College FOOTBA Playoff comittee is perfect.
46:37
They're not a lot of people complaining when Florida State
46:39
didn't get in two years ago. But not putting in
46:42
a ole Miss, Alabama or South Carolina, in my opinion,
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is not one of the missteps by the College FOOTBA
46:46
Playoff committee.
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Speaker 8: All right, that'll do it for hour number two.
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