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Team USA and we're going all the way.
Speaker 4: Get it done.
Speaker 3: Two to one over the Dominican Republic in an incredible,
incredible drama field tense moments from like the third inning
on Paul Skins goes out there, does exactly what you
need him to do. And look, it wasn't worth striking
people out.
Speaker 4: It was just getting out.
Speaker 3: He has one mistake and look they made them pay.
But still like every jam he gets in, he gets out.
Then you bring in the old submarine pitcher knuckles are
scraping the ground to get the double play ground ball,
I mean basically comes in. Was it like it was
two or three pitches, maybe three three pitches and there
was a runner? Was it a runner on second and third?
I believe no, he induced the double play?
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: First maybe the first second I was. I was in
the kitchen like kind of cleaning up, put some dishes
away because we just got back and Hut screams at
me from the other room.
Speaker 4: Say this what is this pitcher doing? Why is he
bending over like that? He had never seen it.
Speaker 6: He never seen that.
Speaker 3: No the time, no members had never seen it either,
because the same situation's like, Dad, what's this guy's deal.
I was like, well, he's a submarine pitcher. He's like,
what's that mean? And I was like, well, because he's like,
you know, because like his delivery, it's like, that's what
they call it. And then we started talking about torpedoes.
He's like, wait, I thought torpedo was a bat. I
was like, good memory, that was all the rage last year,
torpedo bats. I was like, well, torpedoes like an underwater missile.
And they got a whole conversation. But yeah, same thing.
He's like, what's this guy doing? You know, got into
war talk sort of like the show very much.
Speaker 4: So also USA. Yeah, so it was fun. I explained
to him, like the you know, it's a change up.
Speaker 5: You just saw like the best picture in the world
come out throwing traditionally just throwing gas and movement, and
all of a sudden you got to get an out.
You need one guy. You're throwing this crazy pitching fella
and it works and do some double play. I mean
the whole game though, I mean we talked about it
in the first segment. It was a movie script of
a baseball game, the World Baseball Championship or Classic whatever.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: It felt like a Game seven here in March, and
you have the best of the best. You you roll
out and had all the storylines leading up to the game,
of course, with the best picture in the world, playing
the hottest lineup and full of all stars and just
absolutely destroying people all the way up to that point.
And Paul Skins didn't have his best outing in the world,
I think pitched foreign four and a third, but he
did what he had to do. Limited that limited that
line up to just one run. Made that one mistake
to Junior Camenaro.
Speaker 4: He hung it. He cranked it too, so a mistake
that you don't normally see Paul Skins made. But it's funny.
Speaker 3: As good as he released it, you could, like they
show the back angle of it. He could see as
soon as he released it he said something we can't
see here.
Speaker 5: He knew it, yep, But you got you know this guy,
Paul Skans that God just it's like the most likable
dude in the world.
Speaker 4: If you're from America because he's patriotic. He's really damn good.
He's young and god.
Speaker 3: He just I don't know, he just the the emotions
coming from him, like this whole that's the most emotion
you'll see from Paul Skans and it's.
Speaker 4: Not a lot.
Speaker 6: I don't even think I saw this much. When like
they won the College World Series.
Speaker 4: No, and and somebody.
Speaker 3: One of our other baseball coaches for ministers team made
a great point. He's like, and before the broadcast made
the point because they made it afterwards, he was like,
this is by far the biggest moment Paul Skeins has
pitched it since the College World Series. Yeah, he's like,
not even close. He's like, I was like, Dade, I
don't even think about that. Like there hasn't been like,
you know, certainly not a postseason game, but there's not
been a game like for the Pirates that mattered at
all for him to pay so like it's been three
years since he's probably had those kind of not nerves
because I'm he's like a robot in the best way possible.
I'm not sure he gets nervous, but juice is flowing.
He han'd had that in three years and to be
able to stay composed right. And he didn't have a walk.
I think he hit a batter, but he didn't have
a walk. That's very impressive to not overthrow. And Smoltz
was talking about on the broadcast. He goes there, one
of the best parts about this guy is he doesn't overthrow.
He goes ninety nine, and those guys typically overthrow get
in trouble. He's like, no, he stays in the moment
the entire Smoltz, the guy calling the game, John Smoltz,
was one of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, so I'm pretty much watching the game yesterday
and everything, you know, good, great vibes, skins, and then
all of nowhere, Smoltz comes on and saying basically said,
I hope he.
Speaker 4: Never gets Tommy seans. Did you hear that? Yeah, He's like,
I hope he never gets injured. Defies the odds. And
I'm like, why did you even say that? Yeah he did.
Speaker 3: He's like, I hope he defides out. He's a guys
like him with how hard he throws. And but I
will say this, he doesn't look like he's like I
just about to say small boys. I know, I know,
smallt He doesn't call a lot of Pirates games because
he's like he calls national games.
Speaker 4: And I'm not trying to try to say Pirates game.
Speaker 3: Pirates are no national you know, they're not a national
televised team ever. But the things that make Paul Skeins
who he is is he doesn't overthrow, and his mechanics
are incredibly said, it's not herky jerky, it's not gimmicky
like everything. And then also the press work that he does,
like you ask Jay and we can ask Jay on
Thursday when he joins us, Like the things he does
is like to get ready for one start, like you
don't see anybody do and you certainly don't see one
of the best pitchers on the planet do it.
Speaker 7: Well, it's what we talk about all the time when
it's like, oh, pitchcown, pitchcown, pitch cownt. It all leads
to this injury and that injury that sees it all
the time in football, though, like not every quarterback has
the same throwing motion, not every pitcher does. Like when
you watch Paul, he's got a thick lower body, like
he uses his whole body to throw, so it's not
that much stress on his arm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't. I mean, he certainly whipped.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say he's not, like he's pretty whippy,
but like he just has the most beautiful mechanics I've
ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4: You have to be whippy to throw it that hard. Yeah,
Like that's that's the only way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's there's different versions of that too.
Speaker 4: He's all armed, That's what I'm saying, Like he uses
legs and the other the other benefit he has he
didn't pitch until how many years in his first year
in college, right full time, full time.
Speaker 5: He pitched full time until he got to Let shoot,
what I'm saying like, so he doesn't have I mean,
I wouldn't think that. I don't know the whole backstory,
but I don't think he has the wear and tear.
I know you're saying travel ball pitching forever.
Speaker 3: So Skens goes four and a third, gives up six hits,
one run, two strikeouts. But then Rogers comes in we
talked about it, gets a double play, and then Jacks
comes in. He has a clean inning, and then Bednar, Whitlock,
and Miller each have two strikeouts in their innings and
gave up two hits but he shut him down and
he he like he became a bulldog there at the end.
Mason Miller's just Miller's awesome, Like like he kept throwing
a slider and I get it because he's got it.
I was like, dude, you're one hundred and I was like,
I promise you even if they're sitting on it. I
was like, you can tell at this point in the
game they're not catching out to that dude, that last batter,
he's just like one o two one, and then to
a slider is a little low, but you got the call.
Speaker 4: Who cares? Go Team America. That's the thing that I
wonder about, Like the whole system they have, what's the
what's the system they don't have in the World Baseball
class I know, but what is it? A A zone
you talking about?
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, so they have to of course, got the
square the right tangle there it calls so that pitch
drops so hard, so fast, and got y'all get it.
I'm a novice baseball guy. When it crossed the plate,
it was in the zone. Yeah, But of course when
it lands and it marks on the thing, it's it
looks I'll say I'll say this about that. Now, Will Smith,
the American catcher, got called on a bad pitch too.
They call it was full count and they struck him
out as inches off the plate.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that happens.
Speaker 3: I'll say this in that scenario, and of course like
you may, yeah, of course you're rooting for USA full
count that situation, the tying run ninety feet away. You
can't take that pitch, yeah you can. You can't leave
it up to the I can't. Like that's every level
of baseball, like nine and you baseball, like you'll teach
in that moment that pitch, that club got to fight
it off or something.
Speaker 4: You can't take it. You can't leave it up to
the umpire.
Speaker 3: So they don't have the on the world base they
don't have the challenge. I didn't think so the first
the first name for Venezuela, this helmet.
Speaker 6: They're like, no, no, we don't, we're not doing that actually,
but no, like Mason Miller is elite, Like with the Athletics,
he might have been like the best player on the
Athletics period.
Speaker 4: But that's why they shift him out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the pirates. You know this, But like when a
player gets good, really good, we typically.
Speaker 6: Move him right, So Padre has got themselves a good one.
Speaker 3: Though he was he was outstanding, like one or two
is fun to watch. But I think I think a
lot of people, a lot of baseball fans know.
Speaker 4: Who he is.
Speaker 3: Garrett Whitlock probably introduced himself to a lot of baseball
fans last night.
Speaker 4: He's a reliever from the Red Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was filthy in the eighth inning, like it's
not one o two but it's ninety four, with some
crazy movement and he had like a whole arsenal ready
to go. Like I knew who he was a little
bit because I'm attle hand up here, and you know,
I watch a lot of baseball. I was like, yeah,
good good picture for the Red Sox. I was not
familiar with his game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 3: When Smulty said when he came in before he threw
a pitch, Smoltsk goes, oh, this guy's nasty, And I'm like,
all right, if he's saying that, I'm gonna lock it
on this guy, because like Smalt Sudden just like give
away those compliments like that.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, was he right?
Speaker 7: He's seen a smolt Slow's a thing or two about
good picture too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a little incredible starter end closer in his
MLB career.
Speaker 5: I mean, you had this lineup for the Dominican Republic
that was absolutely load. It's just like Americans but.
Speaker 3: He I mean, but like there's just like ours is
really really really good, but there's just there's is like generational.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a generation.
Speaker 6: And they were tas like what.
Speaker 4: What are we talking about? And they were also on fire.
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: My dad sent me the lineup before and he's like,
that's a nasty lineup and I was like, and he's
going to strike out each and every single one of.
Speaker 7: Them, like has thirty home runs last year, I think
faced the Monstars by itself and just dominated them.
Speaker 3: And then Machado Just think about just.
Speaker 5: Think about all the arms and the different angles, speeds
and movement that that lineup had as good as they are. Yeah,
like America pitched their absolute face off and to hold
that lineup as hot as they were as big of
a like, you had multiple guys on the Dominican Republic
team saying I'd rather win this than win a World Series. Yeah,
Like so it meant it means a lot to every
single one that you can tell like to see big
leaguers the best in the world and running like sprinting
out of the batter's box, Like this just something you're
not going to get in March, April, May, June of
Major League Baseball like consistently, right, you get it from
the best players in the world. But everybody, like at
Game seven atmosphere, just absolutely awesome, especially for stitch ads
like me.
Speaker 6: Right now, the World Baseball Classic is so fun and
it's just like this is why it needs to be
back in the Olympics. People take it to another level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the World Baseball Classic is like a qualifier for
the Olympics. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, it reminds me a lot of the Four Nation's
face off last year that we watch with the hockey teams.
It's like you don't expect like the best in the world,
you know, to like get get this fired up about it.
But like we talked about it, think about all the
fights between US and Canada. Think about this game schemes
versus this lineup, Like we need more of this in
every sport.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I say it all the time.
Speaker 3: It sucks because God Mighty Ducks maybe want to play
for Team USA in some way, some capacity. And we
played the one sport you go professional in that you
got no chance to play for your country unless it's flag.
Speaker 5: But it's a different sport. I thought about fullbacks don't
really thrive in flag either. I thought about trying to
get get qualified for the US Olympic team. After our
coaches game this past fall, I got faith and did
you send in the tape?
Speaker 4: Me too? You gotta take the lens cap off. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I thought about, Like you know, I was riding that
high right after the game, but then I got that
soreness set in the next day.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what y'all know me. I don't give
Matt many compliments because he doesn't deserve him. But he
was spinning it out there. I didn't know he still
had it. I didn't know he still had it left
in him. He's spinning it. We're spinning it.
Speaker 4: We spent it. There's a pitch count. He threw me.
Speaker 3: He threw me a touchdown the back of the end
ZONE'M like, hey, Bud, chill out.
Speaker 7: You can do you can do the flag football, Matt.
You see you see how like they do it competitively.
See most of them are sure.
Speaker 4: Who's that basketball player this doing it h Rondo, Yeah yeah,
and again like can do.
Speaker 7: It because they do a lot of the short passes
and he did that in basketball.
Speaker 4: He's kind of just flicking it. Should we get you
ready for the Olympics? We should? I know, Like isn't
like funny?
Speaker 3: Like every year at the Super Bowl the flag football
director like goes in like the you know, the car wash,
And I've interviewed him every year. I mean, hey, I
got a guy, got a guy. He'll be forty one
in June, but.
Speaker 4: He still got it.
Speaker 3: He's got a solid mustache in a solid arm, and
he's ready to work.
Speaker 4: And he loves America.
Speaker 7: Like who's gonna Who's gonna Who's gonna fight Morner than Matt.
Matt's always locked into any sport where America's competing, no.
Speaker 4: Doubt, they don't absolutely locked in who's.
Speaker 7: Gonna throw their body across the line, Like you know one.
Speaker 4: I'll take some Higherlinic acid for the team throw back
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they're going to be hosting here in Baton Rouge, and
what their path to a final four looks like. And
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talk about it. The LSU women's basketball team in March Madness,
they are going to be hosting basketball here in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 4: Yet again, they get a two seed.
Speaker 3: So, just like coach Mulkey told us last week, the
best starting position that they've had since she's been at LSU,
and they've had some very deep runs, including a national championship.
Already here at LSU. Now they are going to be
in a very difficult bracket. The Regional two. Sacramento the
one seed is ucla very good basketball team. Ole mess
is a five seed, certainly a very good basketball team.
Minnesota as a four is a good basketball team. You
got Duke as the three, LSU as the two. Now
for LSU in Baton Rouge, it's going to be LSU Jacksonville,
who's the number fifteen seed. That's who LSU is going
to be facing off in the first game coming up
on the twentieth. LSU's a fifty one and a half
point favorite, but I gave a fifty one and a
half point favorite in that game. Then Texas Real, that's real,
Texas Texas seventh seed. Villanova is the ten seed, so
they'll also be in Baton Rouge. And so if you
get past Jacksonville, which we assume you are going to
being a fifty one and a half point favorite, you
will face the winner of Texas Tech and Villanova. But look,
it's not an easy road. I'm not going to sugarcoat
it for you. A lot of people say this is
by far the toughest regional. All right, so Regional two Sacramento.
They do it different. They don't do East Southwest like
the men's they do different regionals. You've got Regional one
in Fort Worth, You've got Regional three in Fort Worth,
and then two and four in Sacramento. So you would
pair up with in the final four if you do
make it that far with Regional three Fort Worth, which
Texas is the one seed there, Michigan is the two seed,
Louisville is the three seed, and then.
Speaker 4: West Virginia is the four seed.
Speaker 3: So look, not saying that it's easy by any means,
but it's never going to be when you're talking about
women's basketball, because we talked about it last week, there's
like fifteen teams that you know are going to be
incredibly solid. There's not going to be a lot of upsets.
It's not like the men's bracket, like the good team's
ninety nine point nine percent of the time when in
women's basketball. So if you do, in fact get to
a Sweet sixteen, I fully expect that you'll be facing
off against the Duke Blue Devils. Now, a great storyline
would be if the sixth seed Taylor Bears found a
way to get into the Sweet sixteen against LSU for
the obvious reasons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be there'd be some eyeballs on that
for sure. But of course the women's bracket it's so
top heavy for a reason. Just like you said, there's
not as many upsets, so you would fully expect them to.
The Baylor storyline would be awesome, and there's obviously would
be a chance there, but probably going to be Duke
and then the winner of that game taken on UCLA.
Speaker 4: So look, they're very good. They have the talent to
do it, they just haven't been able to put it
together against well of course, like South Carolina of course,
but you beat another number one seed, you beat Texas
this year, so the talent's there. They can do it.
They just got to make a run. They got to
figure they got to figure out how to win.
Speaker 5: And like, look, they just played and got some experience
played in elimination games and that's a good thing to
go through and to do and do.
Speaker 4: And they lost. So it's if anybody can kind of
guide you through those learning curves and and take the
positives out of losses like that, it would be kim Olki.
So you know, I trust that.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be absolutely fantastic watching watching LSU
and maybe they can make a run of this thing.
Speaker 4: Of course, it's a tough bracket. Got to go through
Duke intentionally Baylor, and then you got to go to
the UCLA. Yeah, it looks completely different than Regional four
in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 3: South Carolina the one seed. You've got Iowa as the
two seed. You got TCU as the three seed in Oklahoma,
who LSU beat by four touchdowns as the four seed.
Speaker 4: So fifty one and a half point favorite.
Speaker 7: Having South Carolina on the opposite side of the bracket,
that's what you want, right because look, LSU has been
great under Kim Mookie. That's the one hurdle you have
not yet been able to get over. Even when you
win the Natty, people talk about, Okay, well you played
Caitlin Clark and Iowa. They upset South Carolina, But would
that game have looked like without them? So having them
on the other side with a chance to potentially face
that team in the National Championship, keep your eyes out
for that potential matchup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you can get out of your your bracket
and you play and play a Texas potentially played Texas team,
that you split with and then you know what.
Speaker 4: O the uniforms out there see what happens.
Speaker 3: Of course, Yukon being the other one seed in the tournament,
so Texas, South Carolina, Yukon, U C, l A all
the number one seeds. For the two seeds, it's Vanderbilt,
it's LSU, it's Iowa, and it is Michigan. So I
would be surprised with South Carolina and that drawl if
they don't they don't make a run to the final four.
I could make an argument for they got the easiest
two seed, one of the easiest three seeds. And then
Oklahoma is one of those teams, like I don't want
to diminish, like when they're really good, they can beat anybody.
But we saw LSU beat them like the way they
did in the SEC tournament.
Speaker 4: So it's brackets rigged. You're just thinking it.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break and when we come back,
we're gonna have Connor O Gera to join us to
talk a little SEC spring football gilt a preview. Not
only are the Tigers but across the league. And we'll
do that right here when we jump back on OTVP
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Helmer's in here in studio as he is every single
Monday with us. All right, Well, I'm gonna start by
asking the same question that I asked the rest of.
Speaker 4: The roomn't here for that.
Speaker 3: Do you feel better, worse or the same about LSU
baseball after their trip to Nashville this weekend?
Speaker 4: I feel better? Okay, first I should you said worse
the same thing I said. I feel the same about them. Yeah,
I feel better about it.
Speaker 9: I mean, okay, you look at it from a you
gotta look at it from a positive lens. You know
they're blown save away from being a win in an
unaway series in the SEC in their first one, and
you know, obviously it didn't happen, and you give you
go back to back double digit walks Friday Saturday, which
hasn't happened since twenty seventeen in LSU baseball.
Speaker 4: But hey, twenty seventeen was a good team.
Speaker 9: Look at it like that at the same time, but
you look, you gotta look at it positively.
Speaker 4: They come back on that Sunday and just you know,
they they ball out. You know, that's they just do
their thing.
Speaker 9: And they didn't pitch great on Sunday, but the bats,
you know, tour it up and on the Friday thing.
You can't give up that many runs in the SEC.
You can't give up twenty four runs and two games
in the SEC and expect to be okay. And the
pitching is obviously what people are kind of worried about
right now. Look, the bats came alive and the Saturday game,
look their starter, Tip your cap and to him, he
was just awesome, you know, And sometimes you have to
do that in baseball, and that's why baseball so unique.
Sometimes you just have to be like, hey man, this
dude just got the best of us today. We couldn't
do anything about it. We just got to go out
there and get tougher tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I feel like they had a high on Friday, a
lot of energy, and then that's you know, when you
that happens, you get walked off after you come back
a lot of energy using kind of a little dead
on Saturday. But credit to them for finding that juice
again on Sunday.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, finding the juice.
Speaker 9: And look, when things get tough like that, you just
got to get tougher, you know, as a team and
as an individual player. It's just part of the game.
Like that's why baseball is so cool. Like, look, a
couple of pitches away from being two and one in
the SEC and everybody's like, man sell a shoot team.
And then all of a sudden, now it's like man
sell a shoot team. Right, you know, it's two different
you know, scenarios. But you know, I think that I'm
a little more positive about it than them losing you know,
midweek game and the dropping a series to Sacramento State.
Speaker 4: Like this is a building block for them, for sure.
I know I'm gonna be careful.
Speaker 5: I asked this question because I was talking about caseon
Evans earlier in the show and my thoughts on what
I've seen so far. But let me ask you like
an indirect question, because I know you know you want
to you want to speak positive absolutely in your experience,
what you've seen, what you've been around. Is there ever
an expiration date on an experiment when it comes to
thinking a guy is going to work out as a starter?
Speaker 9: Great question? Yes, you how rare from Monday? A great question,
but uh yeah, absolutely, And I think you know there's
some people that probably saw that coming from what he
did and look at it's a bad performance. You know,
we we all know that, and I can tell you
he knows that too, and he feels that just as
much as the rest of it.
Speaker 4: Exactly. He's just he's a competitor, that's what he is.
Speaker 9: And I think you know, this is just a total
opinion thought, like, as you see this LUE season go,
you may see Cooper Moore Friday, Schmid Saturday, and nobody Sunday, right,
And you've seen that a ton from LSU Baseball is
not having that Sunday guy. And maybe you find a
thing where Cason Evans is that that Griffin Herring who
comes in and throws four out of the pen like
he did all last year.
Speaker 4: That's where he's comfortable. We know he's got the stuff.
Speaker 9: We know he's got the competitive nature to go out
there and be a pretty awesome bullpen guy. I don't
think Cason's a starter just from you know, and I've
thought that for a while. He could be a great starter,
But I think he's better serf coming out of the
pen with He's got a bulldog mentality.
Speaker 4: He's high energy.
Speaker 9: When he comes out of the pen in a big situation,
and that's just going to be better serve to his
his pitching, the way he goes about his business. So
I think that you might see that. You know, they
may give him another chance this weekend. If it doesn't
pan out, then they move move, start moving guys around.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, is there more nerves starting
a Friday night than starting a Saturday or Sunday Because
it's a few it's like an unknown, it's an no minder.
At least Saturday Sunday you've had a chance to watch.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's totally different. I never started a Friday game.
I only started, you know, Saturday Sunday. But starting a
Friday night game is like, you're the guy. Everybody knows
you're the guy, and if you don't perform all it's
all on you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, for him to go out there
and you know you walk you know six, and it's
just not the performance you want sucks.
Speaker 9: But you know he's he's gonna get back on the
horse and who knows, maybe he comes out, you know,
next weekend and it's totally different. And like you said,
like not being able to see that lineup, you know
as a Saturday started on a Sunday starter Sunday started
seeing the lineup three times. If he's paying attention, he
knows how to get guys out Saturday.
Speaker 4: Same thing.
Speaker 9: You've seen that lineup and so to not see that
lineup and it be fresh in your face coming at
you is a different story for a Friday game.
Speaker 3: Look, if he's your guy that comes in when you
have a lead and shuts the door like here again,
I know he's great in that, right, We've seen him.
Speaker 4: Do it on a National Champion. Times.
Speaker 3: You get a lead on a Friday night or Saturday
and that guy comes in and the it can be
the fifth inning he shuts the door. That's a great
role to have on an SEC team as exactly.
Speaker 9: And that's and for him, like I think he's best suited.
That's where he's gonna get drafted. That's where his statistics
are going to line up the best with how he pitches.
Speaker 3: Uh, the top of the lineup too, Like they came back,
So Milon Brown carry out like that was really good,
Yes for him?
Speaker 4: And Jay Brown is just like in fuego right now,
I mean all weekend long for him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And even the top of that lineup always on base.
But that middle, you know, and and bottom is like
we got to get some guys.
Speaker 4: They're going to find somebody. Somebody has to step up
in that middle of the bottom of the lineup. Yeah,
they're going to find somebody in there.
Speaker 3: Like Aaron Beady had a good day yesterday, but you know.
Speaker 4: It's hasn't been all season long. Yeah, you're looking at
it all right.
Speaker 3: So you've got a series coming up with with Oklahoma
this weekend, so we look forward to that.
Speaker 4: What we got going on in Louisiana loaded for that job, man,
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Speaker 9: I actually went to Houston last week to go see
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Our next guests are got Connor. O Garrett, host of
The OG Kickoff, joins us now and talk a little
sec spring football.
Speaker 4: Connor, what's going on, brother?
Speaker 10: How we doing, gentlemen hanging in there?
Speaker 4: How you guys doing doing fantastic?
Speaker 3: Have you come down from the high of your Indian
Hoosiers winning the national championship.
Speaker 10: A little bit? That's that's for personal reasons.
Speaker 4: We want to go there.
Speaker 10: But yeah, look it's it's still surreal.
Speaker 11: And as I'm sitting here, we're less than twenty four
hours removed from Indiana being left out of the tournament field.
Speaker 10: So it's a weird time.
Speaker 11: Like I'm texting with my Georgia buddies this morning, and
one of the things that they were talking about was
Georgia getting into the NCAA Tournament and Georgia can't win
a playoff game, and yet I you as this team
that for whatever reason can't get into the NCAA Tournament
is winning a national championship in football.
Speaker 10: None of this makes sense in the year of Our
Lord twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3: That's fair, that is completely fair. But they cannot take
that title away from Indiana and it will certainly be
there forever. All right, Connor, I want to have you
on today talk a little sec spring football. The team
that you're most intrigued by going into the spring, for
whatever reason, it could be good, bad, and different whatever,
the team that you are looking forward to seeing or
hearing practice reports, seeing some clips, whatever.
Speaker 4: It might be.
Speaker 10: LSU where am I saying that?
Speaker 11: Of course, I do think there's a lot of intrigue
with everything that Lank Kiffin is trying to do year one,
and I think that there is an expectation that is
unlike any other year one coach in the se. See,
there are six new coaches in this conference, and it's
very unique talking about the roster because when you turn
over half of the roster like that, you are now
talking about a team that can have a new identity
year one, What does it look like with this ground
attack that was able to retain those running backs, but
you still have questions about what it's going to look
like schematically, do they have the offensive line to be
able to kind of pave the way? And I'm looking
at LSU now going well, they should be preseason top
ten every single.
Speaker 10: Year with Lane Kiffen. That's the way that this works.
Speaker 11: What's it going to look like with Sam Levitt knowing
that you're not going to get him in spring ball
and there are gonna be a lot of questions about
this team, But yeah, Lane is going to only probably
shine a spotlight.
Speaker 10: Even bigger on his program.
Speaker 11: I couldn't keep up with what he was doing over
the weekend playing hoops with the Cavender Twins, talking about
Carson Beck.
Speaker 10: Like Lane just always is going to bring a spotlight
to baton Rouge.
Speaker 4: Connor, what's up, brother, Hey, I got a question for you.
Speaker 5: Have you ever seen a player in the history of
college athletics so or college football certainly that wants to
go to the NFL less than Trinidad Chambliss.
Speaker 10: No, look, no, yeah, and he for whatever reason, he's like, no,
I want to stay here. I want to stay here
as long as I possibly can.
Speaker 11: There is certainly a conversation that's been had about Trinidad
Chambliss with NFL people. I don't think that he is
just looking at his situation going, well, you know what,
I just came from Division two. I am only good
enough to be at this level. I think that he's
had those conversations behind the scenes, but I do think
this is all about interntal belief and Matt, you know this,
if you have a sliver of doubt that you can
be that guy in the NFL, you're not ready. And
he would be drafted as a round one guy or
an early round two guy, wherein that clock is going
to be limited.
Speaker 3: He's not going to have some.
Speaker 11: Three year runway at where he could be drafted and
you could say, yes, the quarterback class is way deeper
next year than it is this year. Maybe financially speaking,
it wasn't the best decision, but he clearly feels like
he has work to do as someone that obviously came
from the Division two level, was at Division two at
this time last year and probably thought that's what's going
to be his path, and I'm looking forward to seeing him.
Speaker 10: I think he's the best returning quarterback in college football.
Speaker 11: I think he is that dude, and I'm looking forward
to seeing what he can do after doing whatever he
could possibly do to stay in college football extra year.
Speaker 3: Connor, which team in the SEC do you think actually
has the most work to do of the teams that
were at the top or near the top just last year.
Speaker 11: Let's talk about Texas here, because Texas is the team
that is going to get a lot of preseason buzz
and the Cam Coleman addition certainly splashy. They get Leak
Brown coming over from Arizona State. That's one thousand yard
rusher at the power conference level.
Speaker 10: That's not nothing. But Texas is going to get a
lot of love because of arch Manning. What else is new?
Speaker 11: I have questions about this defense. Will mus Champ was
a bold move from Steve Sarkisian. He moved on from
one of the best defensive coordinators in the country in
Pete kwiat Kowski, and he essentially said, I need a
head coach of the defense now.
Speaker 10: They have a lot of turnover.
Speaker 11: You're going to see these names that are coming off
the board on the Texas side for the NFL Draft.
They are going to make you go dang. They were
so talented. I thought they were going to be the
best defense in college football last year. That didn't prove
to be the case. But Texas is going to be
the team that I'm looking at going wait a minute,
are they going to have to win all these games
with shootouts? Are they really going to have a good
year one defense with Will mus Champ, who, by the way,
has not had total autonomy on the defensive side of
the ball since he was at South Carolina in twenty twenty.
And I do wonder if there is going to be
an element of man like they really need to win
all these games with shootouts to make them, you know,
perhaps not as viable of an elite contender as maybe
they're made out to be. But I think Texas is
one of those teams that is just loaded with intrigue.
Speaker 4: At the top.
Speaker 5: Connor Alabama has to replace, of course, probably going to
be the second quarterback taking and Tye Simpson this week
and I pulled a really nice Kilon Russell sports card.
Speaker 4: Is this a hold or a self?
Speaker 10: It's a hole?
Speaker 11: Look, we did a draft of the top ten. Well, okay,
so let me phrase this the right way. We did
a draft on bog Kickoff of quarterbacks that we would
want for twenty twenty six, and that draft is essentially
who do you think is going to be considered one
of the best players in the country by season's end.
So surroundings are really big with that. I almost drafted.
Speaker 10: Kielan Russell, and I think that he is in a spot.
Speaker 11: Where people will question him because he's not necessarily the
most experienced guy in that system. Austin Mack is entering
year four in that offense, even though Austin Mack won't
even turn twenty years old until June, which is just baffling.
I don't know how that's possible. But Kilan Russell comes
in as the decorated guy who was on the cover
of Men's Health, and he is the one that I
think this coaching staff believes is Michael Pennix. Now he's
doing so in a different way as a right hand
and thrower, but I think he's the guy that's going
to get the keys to this offense, and I do
think that there is a sense that he can be
the difference maker. All these questions we have about Alabama
after their worst running game ever that they've ever had
in this offensive line that's got all these new pieces.
If you get a dude with Keilan Russell, it changes everything.
Speaker 10: I think he's going to be that dude.
Speaker 3: All right, Connor, we've got about a minute left, and
I lest some time here for you to answer this
question the player for LSU in spring, since Sam Levitt's
not going to be able to be a full participant
in practice, that you're most looking forward.
Speaker 11: To seeing land and Clark coming over from the FCS.
All right, Okay, look, I'm not saying he's going to
be turning that Chambliss. I am saying do not sleep
on his potential emergence because I know you get the
fives to form or five start coming over from USC,
and everybody's talking about what Sam Levitt's going to do
in this offense. It would be just kind of peak
Lane Kiffen if all of a sudden, Landing Clark emerged. Okay,
sub six footer, I'm here for the I have. You're
talking about like buying stock.
Speaker 4: Like player sal mah, like that.
Speaker 10: I got to buy stocking.
Speaker 3: All right, well, the moon we're always buying stocking. I
got Connor ogere. We appreciate sir. We'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 10: Gentlemen, Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: Connor Ogar always good enough to join us here on
ot B and remember you can check out the og
Kickoff as well. He is the host of that show.
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