Speaker 1: I'll start to it you to present off the bench.
Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for. The hype
is over.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: I got to come off the bench.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in our number two of OTB
one O four five ESPN, Baton Rouge ninety four seven
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now and get to a little OTB mailbag.
Speaker 1: I help this special delivery for off the bench.
Speaker 2: And look it is marked most urgent. We'll be writing
to you the internet.
Speaker 1: What the is the Internet?
Speaker 2: Did you hear that big game as well? Landra? Is
somebody coming in here to take a dump? Are they
bringing it inside?
Speaker 5: I think the internet might finally beginning fixed.
Speaker 4: Yeah me, Chris, it's eight oh one because nobody wanted
to wake up early.
Speaker 2: That pet peeve as y'all can tell of of mine,
like if we're here, you're here right.
Speaker 4: This doesn't have an OTB Mailbag hashtag on it, but
I want to mention it eleven point seven predictions.
Speaker 2: That's a great Twitter account for college baseball.
Speaker 4: Has or Roberts Southeastern and Southern Miss in baton rouge
for the regional. I don't think that's I don't think
that's where Southern Miss is going to because I think
so the Miss is going to be in Hattiesburg. I
think going to be hosting their own regional. If they
did that to l s U, that would be dirty.
Speaker 6: That would it would And Southern Miss has knocked us
out of our own before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was it Hattiesburg.
Speaker 2: That was That was Jay's first year. And I thought
it was jays first year.
Speaker 4: Because then Gavin do guys if I remember right, he
tied it up and I'm like, oh, el she's winning
this and then it to Southern Mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was that was Jay's first year.
Speaker 6: No, I'm talking about like way back and I think
it was like twenty y.
Speaker 2: We definitely have a history with other Miss baseball for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was talking about a different time.
Speaker 2: Let's see hashtag O two B melbag.
Speaker 4: When L Shoe makes it to the College World Series,
will we break our own jell O shot record?
Speaker 7: I mean probably right like you gotta you gotta go
by everything. Maybe someone how long your team is there though,
That's what people don't realize. Last year, last time, you
made it all the way to the championship, you're there
for a week.
Speaker 2: I mean if you go and you're two and.
Speaker 4: Done well and yeah, and you gotta make it because
when you make it, then well Gordon McKernan goes and
then Todd Grace goes because they want to see you
win a championship and they want a lot of shots.
Speaker 2: Right, was it was it eight thousand eight or eighty
eight eight? Yeah, there you go, and so yeah, depends
on how long do you make it?
Speaker 4: In omall, I agree there say uh hashtag go to
b mailbag.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite thing to do at the start
of summer vacation?
Speaker 7: So at the start of every summer, like when I
was in high school college, we would all take a
family trip to Universal. We would go like late in May,
like last week of May, because my mom's a teacher,
so she would get done like mid May, last meet
week of May. We did that, not really growing up,
but like I guess for the past like six or
seven years, that's what we did. We're kind of doing
this like when I'm leaving tomorrow instead of that.
Speaker 8: But that's always something I enjoyed.
Speaker 6: Elandra, we usually just my grandparents had a pool, so
we would just go to the pool. We had like
an end a year party every year, like me and
my brother would because we were only a year apart,
so we had friends that were closed, so we would
have like a huge party at my grandparents' house at
the pool.
Speaker 5: That was always fun.
Speaker 6: I don't know, we didn't like I know, I get
a lot of jokes about how I go out of
town a lot or whatever, but that used to not
be my life.
Speaker 5: Like we used to go to Corpus maybe every two years.
Speaker 3: Is that?
Speaker 5: So I was in really a big vacationer back in
the day.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you got the days, take the days. Yeah,
and I've got a lot of days stacked up. Take
you're ready. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 5: Please don't do that.
Speaker 2: Kidding, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 4: I don't really have like one thing because I was
always football player, and we basically had like four or
five days and it was like, hey, you're getting back
into the grind of summer workouts. So it was like
we don't really want to do a whole lot. Yeah,
just let me.
Speaker 2: Sit out here and chill.
Speaker 4: I do remember one time so dorky me and my
best friend Big Wayne shot out Big Wayne Wayne, he's
a K nine cop down in Homa.
Speaker 2: I tried listening down Wayne. Yeah, I love him, that's
my guy.
Speaker 4: I remember playing like Alice Cooper schools out for the summer.
One time we had like he had his whole like
truck field with like a bunch of us and like
just throwing like textbooks and paper like out the window,
like as we're driving off campus. We were probably sophomores,
he probably or maybe freshman. He's old as hell. He
just got his license as a freshman. We went to
Evangel y'all know the deal.
Speaker 2: Uh, definitely like one of the moments I remember I
was like thinking it was so cool in the moment
and probably like just not as cool as I thought
it was.
Speaker 4: But in that moment we had it cranked up to eleven. Yeah,
and we were speeding off Evangel campus.
Speaker 5: So one of the I think that was probably like
super cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: It was hashtag O to b mailbag who messed up
the stream wrong answers only well wrong answers would be
the person who's supposed to be here to fix it.
Speaker 8: So who messed up the stream?
Speaker 6: Really, what we have is like a hamster downstairs and
it's on a wheel, and he got a little tired.
Speaker 5: We had to give him a little bump, like have.
Speaker 2: To back up, like a little bump, a little pat,
little pat.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this dude, I had that conversation with the other day.
Speaker 2: I did you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I told him, I'm like, dude, like these energy drinks
are cut and like I might have to start doing cocaine.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I told him I was like the problem morning.
The person that would be your dealer lives in Chicago.
Speaker 8: I'd go up to Chicago. We're good, let's just buy
a ball.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to go to Chicago. It
won't be it.
Speaker 7: Won't be a it won't be like a morning because
again I'm tired out by the afternoon' be like a
good like eleven thirty noon ball, a noon ball.
Speaker 5: Lunchtime Taylor needs anymore at.
Speaker 2: Lunchtime drug dealer. He wouldn't have to.
Speaker 5: Move true very true.
Speaker 2: Hash tag Yo TB mail bag.
Speaker 4: I have to like I say it, and I'm like
let me read this to make sure I'm not saying something.
Would this year be considered a failure for Jay Johnson
if they don't make it out of a home super.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, your goal is over number one in the
country for a while.
Speaker 4: For sure, You've had this expectation. You've got a really
good team, a really good roster. I think Jay, when
he joins us this week, would say yeah.
Speaker 6: Says all the time, even whenever last season we made
it to a regional, not our own regional, but we
got into the postseason. I think even that a lot
of people considered last season a little disappointing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think even I think even if you win that
regional she's talking about, I think people are disappoint because
you didn't host one. I mean LSU every year, your
goal is to make it to om Hall. If you don't,
that's a disappointment to the fans.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's a good question. I mean that
that's your expectation, just like we talk about LSU football
like not like hey, bud twelve team playoff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta go out there, you gotta make it.
It's gonna be the expectation. Is it tough? Absolutely? It is,
but that's still what it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hashtag go to b mailbag.
Speaker 4: How many times an hour does Jake p considering he
has two to three drinks in studio.
Speaker 2: I haven't left this cherry yet.
Speaker 8: Tinks good about that.
Speaker 2: I haven't left this cherry.
Speaker 8: You're normally pretty good about it.
Speaker 2: So h I've got Okay.
Speaker 4: So this is you know, coffee that's in the to
go cup, the yetti's full of coffee and then shout
out no free shout outs the the ag one green
drink here.
Speaker 2: So that's uh, that's usually what I have up here.
Oh but no, hadn't gone. It seems that make you too.
Just well now like they are talking about it.
Speaker 8: That's impressive.
Speaker 2: One of those things. You talk about it then it happens.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: If LSU loses the first game, do you stick around
and watch other SEC games?
Speaker 2: I guess that in the tournament, Yeah, i'd watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Like if I told myself I'm gonna stay in Hoover
the entire weekend, yeah, I'm I'm gonna.
Speaker 7: It's always the most difficult part for me, like whether
it's tu of her omaha, Like you got to book
those hotels early, right, Yeah, you got a book it
for the week. So like even if fellow shoes out early,
you got the room, yeah you might not Yeah, you
might as well stay like.
Speaker 4: Stay tailgate, like you're watching them without stress. You know
your team's going to be hosting, so there's no yeah,
then stay hang out, watch hashtag, go to b mailbag.
Who gets a regular segment first, Landra or Flynn?
Speaker 2: Elandra.
Speaker 8: Flynn's not gonna be here.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think there's any doubt that Elandra will
get a segment before it. Like, if Elandra wants a segment,
all should you gotta do is ask, Yeah, it's gonna
like I want to make that abundantly clear here, like
not not that, not that, t like ever said no
or anything like at all. Whenever this all went down,
I reached out to a Laandra and Taylor. This is
our show, including Flynn, right, So it is us four
that is going to be the vibe moving forward. They're
gonna talk, they're gonna have segments, they're gonna have input,
and it is going to be a total team effort.
So if they want a segment, they get a segment,
and if it sucks, it sucks. Like we all have
segments that sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is what it is.
Speaker 6: I really want to do the one that I said yesterday.
Speaker 5: That'd be good, right, I think so too.
Speaker 6: I think it's a good like off season thing because
you know, the off season's a little slow.
Speaker 2: Yep, it'd be fun. Well, we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4: LSU baseball always uh, the off season is completely different
when they're on one of those deeper and then when else,
when else you football is supposed to be like elite
good like they are this year. That certainly helps, like
kend of the juice is flowing a little bit earlier,
which guarantee employee is going to have to clean.
Speaker 2: Up the poop.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, it was landing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah at all?
Speaker 8: Oh man, I know.
Speaker 6: He was like, I guess I'll clean it up when
I get back. And I was like, wait, you have
to clean it And he was like, I'm not gonna
leave it out on the parking lot and I was like,
I know, but I didn't know that you were the
one that was going to have to clean it.
Speaker 8: I just spray it with a hoose.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: This comes from Trial by Fire, when the chat is
more interesting than the actual show.
Speaker 2: See here's the thing. Trial by fire.
Speaker 5: You don't like the.
Speaker 4: Bit we're not sensitive up here, Bud, that's not gonna
get us.
Speaker 2: In fact, when Flynn comes on and we have something
stupid that we're talking about and you're gonna say something,
we're gonna laugh at it.
Speaker 4: Like one of my favorite shows that I've ever done
is we pulled up Tiger Droppings first time I've ever
been on there and shout out to Tiger Dropping. I
always have great parties, by the way, like at events,
those guys are great, don't. I don't get on it. It's
just not you know. I don't, but I totally get it.
I understand why it's so popular. We read all the
negative comments that when we started doing the radio show,
and some of them like we're deep, like deep cuts
like knife Twist.
Speaker 2: We don't care. We're gonna do our show. We're gonna
have fun. And if you think it's more interesting to
be in the chat jokes on you, we get a
percentage of that chat too.
Speaker 4: So you're paying us to hate on us. Don't care,
that's fine, love it, Thank you hester loving lives. Since
t Bob got fired, and he did not get fired,
he left on his own, but I will one of
the things that and if you you know, didn't listen
to hang with Hester five years ago, like you're like,
wait a minute, why is like he's hosting, he didn't
talk a whole lot before. Well, I mean that was
one of the things Like t Bob, whenever I went
to otb he said, Hey, the only thing that I
want to do is lead this show.
Speaker 2: And I said, absolutely, this is your show.
Speaker 4: You've been on this show with Jordi, you got it,
take it away and it there was a process for
both those. I had never been in a second chair
on a show, and so I had to learn how
to be a co host and we found our groove
and it worked for us. Every other show that I've
ever been on, I've actually been a lead, and I
lead off campus on Serious XM every day. And so
it is gonna be a different vibe maybe for me,
and that's intentional, Like the vibe for the old show
is not gonna be the vibe for the new show.
So I'll make Flynn come back from breaks sometimes because
I want to see how sweaty his palms get, and
I say, hey, you got to bring it back from break,
and then he's gonna be bad at it, and then
I'm gonna laugh at him.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do a lot of different things here
on the show. All right, let's see if we got
at least one more before we take a break.
Speaker 4: I actually like this when we're talking about it. Who's
going to be the eight am Wednesday guests going to be?
Moving forward?
Speaker 2: Like, who's going to be that you know, flustering used
to be Wednesday eight am? Hmm. We need to come
up with somebody. I've said one I don't remember. So
you want to stay it on area, We can't.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know if you hear or not,
but I just I was the only person I thought
it was Richard Dixon.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Look Dick Dixon has an open invite. Yeah,
you can come in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Yeah,
you want to talk about old school hanging with yesterdays
with us, three would get together.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Dick Dixon doesn't even have to ask. You
can just walk up in here. We are talking about
different people.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have more people in studio that are gonna
come join us. That's kind of the way we've always
done it.
Speaker 4: Probably in the nine o'clock hour because nobody wants to
get here at seven am.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we definitely have talked about that. Gonna have
that moving forward.
Speaker 4: One programming note, since we're already here about tomorrow's show
at this time, LSU defensive coordinator Blake Baker is going
to join us.
Speaker 2: Maybe we can get him in studio. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know he's got some daddy duties as they got
some downtime, but Blake Baker will be here with us
tomorrow at this time at eight am, So go ahead
and mark your calendars be tuned in for that. We
will step away continue talking some LSU SEC baseball.
Speaker 2: Chris Phillips joins us to do so we'll have that
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the bench. Have you got cool?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Welcome backgain It is OTB one of four five ESPN
Baton Rouge talking.
Speaker 2: A little SEC baseball and to do so.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be joined now by Chris Phillips, you knowing
from SEC On Filtered Chris.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure man. Hope you're doing well.
Speaker 3: That's what's going on, man, Appreciate you having me It's
always a pleasure to chat with you. And yeah, excited
to be here in Hoover, and we'll be out here
there Hoover met soon and get the week underway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I actually just saw this is your first time,
their first time in Hoover, So like, did you get
any any advice? Did anybody like throw you any Hey,
here's how you handle Hoover.
Speaker 3: Here and there not a ton of advice, So I
might be going into it a little bit blind. My guy,
Harrison fanp who is our co host on The wind
Up in all of our college baseball content, he was
actually here last year, so he actually hung out with
some LSU folks and some others and kind of got
the four on one on what to do and what
not to do. But I've heard the RV lot is
the spot to be, so I will certainly be venturing
over there. You'll love to hear this, you know. I've
seen all the LSU flags already. You think they played today,
you know, So it's it's gonna be an all week
tailgate leading us into the weekend. But yeah, I'm excited
to go out there and explore. And everything looks awesome
right now. We were able to get out and watch
some practice yesterday, so I'll be learning as I go.
For sure.
Speaker 4: I'm not telling you like who to root for, and
you might have like five different shirts that you can
put on different SEC schools. But I will tell you this, Chris,
before we get into the actual baseball. If you want
to be well fed and you want to have a
cold pop in your hand, you throw on an LSU
shirt and I can promise you you'll be taken care of.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you know, opposite the box a few weeks ago,
so I think I kind of know the drill at
this point. So whoever's got the crawfish, I'm down to
wear whatever I gotta do and say whatever to get
some crawfish again.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, Chris, new format there for the SEC Baseball tournament.
Speaker 2: We've talked about it all morning long. It's no longer
double elimination. Now every team is going to be there
in Hoover one through sixteen. How do you feel about
the new format?
Speaker 3: I like it from a standpoint of everybody is in
the tournament, you know, I think selfishly for us it'd
be really cool to interact with all the different fan
bases and you know, everybody getting an opportunity. I am
curious what it does to the attendance, just from the
standpoint of you know, it's hard to ask a lot
of these fan bases, I think, to make trip that
they're only potentially going to be out for one game, right,
especially if you're not a top four seed, if you're
not getting the double by, if you're a fan of
one of these teams playing today or tomorrow, it's just
you know, it's kind of a risk if you will. Yeah,
I know they'll show up and show out obviously, but
I do like the formant and listen, I think there's
there's positives to it. I think there's negatives to it.
I think there were positives and negatives of the previous format.
So it's the one we got, and you know, I
am curious, like I said, how it affects the tendons,
how it affects maybe some pitching strategy and a strategy
in general from some of these teams that play, like
I was said, mentioned definitely today and tomorrow. And I
think it's a huge advantage Jacob to the top four seeds.
I mean, ye, you look at a team like inn LSU,
obviously it's like you're playing a normal SDC weekend versus
A Florida today at Kentucky, A and M. Alabama go
down the list, they're kind of having to dig back
into like their midweek pitchers and some of the guys
that don't normally see the bump in an SEC game.
Speaker 9: So it'll be interesting for sure, who's the team that
you think needs to improve their resume the most, Because
there's some teams like Missouri's got to go, like they
got to go win the whole thing, Like now South
Carolina would have to go win the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Texas A and M maybe falls into some of that conversation.
Maybe they can still go out there even if they
don't win it all if they had, you know, some
quality wins got to a championship. But who do you
think Chris realistically has the opportunity to do so but
needs to add to their resume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a good question, Jacob, because I
think that's the most intriguing storyline of the week is
you know a lot of these teams like an LSU
in Arkansas at Texas, we know what they're going to be.
They're they're set top eight national seeds. Nothing to worry about.
And you mentioned some of the obvious, right, Like, I'm
not gonna include Missouri and South Carolina in this because
I just think of unrealistic deaths going to make the
kind of run they need to make the postseason, which
is they'd have to win it all. Texas A and
MS fascinating from the standpoint of you know, they probably
have to make it to the championship game, I think
at minimum Saturday, and maybe, just maybe they'd be able
to squeak in. I was really surprised to see them
in one of the LA posts and projections. Is actually
like a team to consider, Like, I can't believe we're
still considering Texas A and MS. I'm being totally honest,
but they were there. I look at some of the teams,
the ones I'm focused on Jacob for Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee
and an old miss because all of these are fighting
Antho Alabama in there as well, all fighting for potentially
a hosting bid. It depends on what happens across the
country obviously, but all are kind of on the cusp
of being that fifteen or sixteen seed and having postseason
baseball played at their yards. So like, I think a
team like Tennessee this could benefit massively. They haven't been
playing great baseball on the stretch. Lost six in the
last seven series. You know, we saw them win it
last year. But if you can get Hot and Hoover
string together a couple wins, maybe the committee is looking
at Tony Vitello's club favorably and again is putting posts
in baseball back at Lindsay Elson. And obviously we know
that the shot in the arm that is for you
if you're hosting. So yeah, I think those teams that
are kind of right on that fringe line of the
sixteen seed or being a two seed somewhere else, that's
who I'm most paying attention to catch up with.
Speaker 2: Chris Phillips sec unfiltered here on OTB. Chris, I did
see you put out your tournament predictions and you kind
of got it going chalky here.
Speaker 3: I mean, dude, I just think with the way the
format is, man, I think it's gonna be those top
four seeds kind of battling it out. You know, I
I it was chalky when you look at it. I mean,
I've got the top four seeds cancing into the weekend.
I'm sure, you know, I think maybe that you know,
I look at maybe like a Florida Gator boys stay hot,
you know, I think they could make a run. I
look and I think an old miss is really undervalue
because we thought the gambling side last night. I think
Auburn's really undervalued at what you can get them at.
You know, Tennessee is always dangerous obviously, but I just
it's just gonna be really tough in my opinion, as
to go in there and beat one of these teams
that is resting and not playing on Thursday Friday when
you're you know, LSU's gonna turn to Kate Anderson, Anthony
Jason granted, is Jay gonna let him go one hundred
and twenty pitches? I don't know about that. But yeah, again,
it's a normal weekend for them versus let's say a
Florida does make it, like what arm are they on?
At that point? I will say the kicker though for
these teams today and tomorrow when it might sound obvious
for some of these teams, with some of the rotations
they have, if they can get to Thursday and they
haven't spent their top arms, well now things could get
really interesting, like if Florida's still got Liam Peterson and
Aiden King and Jay Clemente ready to go, at Mississippi
State's got pek Ocon and you know the rest of
their rotation ready to go. You know in Poklahoma, that's
Kyson Witherspoon like that, That to me is what could
make this interesting. But you're right, I am really talking
with it, which means my picks are probably gonna blow
up my face. So I'm more than prepared for that.
Speaker 4: No, I mean you, you're probably on something because those
teams are gonna have all their pitching with a new
format and probably wanted to make sure that they solidify
themselves and get the best seed possible. So I could
certainly see it going that way. But I am a
sucker for like just crazy odds. And I saw y'all
put out yesterday according to fandle like all the different
odds to win the SEC Tournament, and I see Mississippi
State at plus thirty one hundred, and my eyes just
get so big because I'm like, look, they've won five
games in a row, they've you know, gotten the five
hundred in conference play. They're a postseason team. And I
think it was I think it was D one. Baseball's
projections had them as a three seed. I'm like, if
they're a three seed in my regional, I am pissed.
I am mad at the world. If the Bulldogs are
a three seed in my regional, so like a long
shot play, I think I'd go Mississippi State. But again,
you're probably onto something when you look at the top
four seeds saving their arms and still going out there
and trying to be victorious at least with common sense
and not throw one hundred and twenty pitches. But you know,
if Kate Anderson, for example, those sixty five seventy pitches,
that still gives LSU a pretty good chance.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean again, from the gambling perspective, I think
you're right. You're obviously gonna take one of the long
shots and hope that cash is I think you mentioned
State it's a great pick. Florida plus twenty two hundred
is a great pick. I think Auburn and Old Miss
Auburn and plus fourteen hundred and Old Miss plus nineteen hundred,
I think those are Again the value for as good
as those teams are is real good, especially in Auburn.
Who I think you know is going to be a
top eight national seed, and I think it's easy for
whatever reason for us to forget how good they are.
They're just kind of flying under the radar coming in
obviously lost that series sole miss to close the season.
But yeah, I just like you said, man, I just
go back to and you know, I've got LSU Arkansas
as a semi final to go to the championship, and
it just seems like all roads are going to lead
to to that rematch. And I think those are two
of the best teams in the country. You know, at
the end of the day, I do think the cream
rises to the top. So I'm sure again somebody is
gonna make a deep run that maybe I'm not giving
enough credit to or thinking about. But I don't know.
The top four in this league are out as stout
as as any year we've seen. So I it feels
like LSU or Arkansas is meant to go to the
championship from that lower bracket, which I think that lower
bracket is crazy loaded. And in the top side, I mean,
who knows. You know, Texas is a one seed, but
how good do we feel about Texas for the injuries?
Bandy's a team that you know, I think not enough
people talk about as good as they are, went eighteen
and eleven in the conference, didn't play Miszoo, didn't play
South Carolina. Tennessee is always dangerous. I think Bama kind
of being the home team and then maybe they got
a little something extra. So yeah, it's gonna be a
fun lead, all right.
Speaker 4: Last one, Chris, do you see a team like we've
seen it in the SEC? Mississippi State, you know, made
a title run, and Ole mess makes a title run.
You know, even though those teams, you know, had questions
about getting into the postseason Florida last year, they gotta
win on the last day of the season or they're
not even eligible for the postseason.
Speaker 2: Then they get to Omaha.
Speaker 4: Do you have a team that you would say, right now,
if it happened, you wouldn't be shocked at all.
Speaker 3: It's a good question. I'm gonna stick with Mississippi State
because they were a preseason Omaha pick for me. Okay,
I'd love to look I'd love to look smart on
that pick. But I mean, you know, you mentioned I
think the fire they've caught with Justin Barker and the
arms that they have, and I mean I've talked to
coaches throughout the season have said, you know, when they
were losing, that said, it just didn't make sense, like
that team was really good. Granted they've got some holes
in their lineup, but you know, guys like Ace Reese,
Noah Sullivan, Hunter Hines, these guys have really been coming alive.
And I mean, if they're able to swing it a
little bit, they've got plenty of pitching to give people
some real headaches. I mean, they they took LSU to
the wire if I remember correctly, down there at the
box and made them earn every pit. So I mean
that's a team obviously, Like you said, I mean, you're
not gonna be excited to get Mississippi State as a
three seat in your regional. And I think, you know,
Florida's kind of the other under the radar that I'm
just with Florida. I'm curious, are we gonna hit a point?
Are they going to hit a point where they run
out of gas? That's the only thing, because you know,
when you only got nine or ten position players, it's
just really really difficult to number one stay healthy, but
number two, everybody stay hot. You know, we were out
there at there practice yesterday and talking to Ty Evans
and he says, you know, we're not healthy, but we
are hot. So I mean they kind of know where
they're at and what's going on. So those are the
two under the radar. You know. There's just so many though,
and I do think we're going to have at least
one teammate. Omaha, that's not one of the LSU Arkansas
one of those favorites that we think about, whether it's
a Vandy, whether it's a Kentucky, Oklahoma makes a run.
Who knows? It's those two I mentioned Florida and State
I think are the most obvious sleepers. But I mean, really,
just take your pick in this league.
Speaker 2: All right. There he is Chris Phillips. You see his
work on SEC Unfiltered. Give SEC Unfiltered a follow on
social media. Also, Chris at c Philly nineteen is the
handle there. They got to cover football, baseball, basketball, anything SEC.
They are all over, Chris.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the time, man, look forward to our next conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hester want to stick ngratch to you as well.
Congrats to your guys, T Bob on the barstool promotion
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you'll do a great job. So I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: No, we really appreciate the kind words. Man. Enjoy Hoover
and find an LSU fan.
Speaker 3: I got you. I probi all right, there.
Speaker 4: Is Chris Phillips again. SEC Unfiltered does a really nice
job there. You can check them out on social media.
And I'm trying to pull up those odds right now.
It was, and not every book is offering these, but
I know Fandel and I know DraftKings, and this is
the FanDuel liance to win the SEC Baseball Tournament Arkansas
plus two fifty LSU plus four to ten Vandy plus
six hundred Texas plus six fifty Tennessee plus six fifty
UGA plus eight hundred Auburn AT plus fourteen hundred Ole
miss AT plus nineteen hundred Florida plus twenty two hundred
Mississippi State, Alabama and A and M all plus thirty
one hundred Kentucky Oklahoma some actually some good value plus
six thousand for both those teams, and then Missouri and
South Carolina plus ten thousand that you might as well
just light money on.
Speaker 2: Fire or throw it in the toilet if you bet that.
Speaker 4: But Kentucky and Oklahoma, really, I mean plus six thousand,
might as well throw like ten bucks on it.
Speaker 5: I don't hate it on the Oklahoma one.
Speaker 2: What was Auburn plus fourteen hundred? I might hate tell
you there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I kind of like that. But he had a
really good point about Vandy.
Speaker 6: Vandy has quietly been a top dog in the SEC,
and great point also made about how they didn't face
Missouri or South Carolina, which are the bottom two teams
in the SEC. So the Vandy one and the Auburn
one are intriguing to me.
Speaker 2: I think there's incredible I mean, I think it's incredible value,
like with a lot of those teams. I mean, look,
ten bucks on Oklahoma or Kentucky can win you six hundred.
Speaker 8: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't mind it on called Kentucky's I don't know.
Speaker 4: I know, I know for sure for sure, but they
look they made the run last year. They played the
small ball. It's a little bit different than anybody else.
I mean, honestly, like if I was truly going to
put some money and not like crazy, but like if
I was gonna put some money. On a long shot,
it would be Mississippi State plus thirty one hundred.
Speaker 2: They've won five games in a row. They did play
a much better n Hines is hot right now. I
mean he is.
Speaker 4: Every time he swings it feels like it's leaving the ballpark.
So I'm going to play some money on Mississippi State
plus thirty one hundred, and if they don't win and
the Tigers.
Speaker 2: Win, we all wine.
Speaker 4: There you go, I mean even LU plus four to ten. Yeah,
that feels like great value. It's one of those years
in the SEC and the new format. I think we
do need to pay attention to that because Chris made
some good points. I know he went chalky, but those
teams are just saving their arms and saving their arms.
Speaker 2: And everybody else. They got a fight like hell to
get to that point.
Speaker 4: And they're probably gonna use like Mississippi State's in the
postseason right now, but as a three, Yeah, they don't
want to be a three.
Speaker 2: They want to be a two.
Speaker 4: So they're gonna throw their best arms probably to get
to that point as well. And we could go like
team by team and Florida and like how much they
have left and so it is going to be highly
intriguing there in Hoover, even more so, I think than normal.
Speaker 6: Years, because it's like we said earlier, Jay's gonna treat
this like every week endeavor where he's gonna throw his
ace out on Friday.
Speaker 5: So whoever makes it, whether it be Auburn.
Speaker 6: Mississippi State, or Texas A and M, because those are
the three that could be playing LSU on Friday, they're
probably not gonna have what we have.
Speaker 5: With Kate Anderson.
Speaker 6: So it'll be interesting to see unless Auburn State's Sam Dutton's.
Speaker 4: Wild And again, I this is like it feels like
I am just hate hate hate, not but just knowing
who Cream Dutton was in his LSU career, right, he
was the guy coming out of the bullpen for the
Phillies and we all played, we played the video, and
now he's like a Friday night guy.
Speaker 2: Credit him.
Speaker 7: He was your Sunday starter as his freshman year, but
I mean not really. He was your setup guy for
Grant Taylor. Like it was the game where he literally
threw to one batter and j pulled him out of
the game and put in Grant Taylor. So like he
was that early started kind of an opener, not only
a starter like he would go like two or three innings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean then he was buried in the bullpen.
Speaker 8: But like unless you couldn't hit him, lu no hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna bind, and I'm gonna bind
all night long.
Speaker 4: All right, we will step away, and when we come back,
Taitay is gonna give you a little LSU football. We've
also got ESPN dot com who ranked their top ten
college football coaches for twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Why not if Brian Kelly made that list right here on.
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Speaker 4: To five ESPN ban rouge, and now we are going
to talk a little LSU football before we get to
this coaching top ten from ESPN dot Com.
Speaker 2: Tata with some recruiting news for the Tigers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Bob Bentley over the weekend on Sunday said that
Elissa made his final two. So it's between LSU and
the Oklahoma Sooners. Bill Bentley's a name we talked about
a couple of months ago because there was about three
quarterbacks that were uncommitted at the time for twenty twenty six. Look,
you got Michael van Buren in this class as that
transfer twenty twenty seven classes loaded. I mean you have
Elijah Haven, you have Peyton Houston, you have Colton Nussmeyer.
I believe you're guy Philip Rivers's kid gunner. He's in
twenty twenty seven. You don't really have a name or
is he twenty eight?
Speaker 2: No, he's twenty seven.
Speaker 4: I mean you've got like, was it five that we
came up with that had like some louisianl tie.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you don't have a guy for twenty twenty six.
This is a name that we had highlighted because at
the time he was uncommitted. He's now the highest ranked
uncommitted quarterback in twenty twenty six. He's from Selina, Texas.
He led his team to the state championship. How about
these numbers thirty four hundred yards fifty two passing touchdowns,
but nine hundred and ninety yards rushing and sixteen Russian touchdowns.
Speaker 8: He's a true dual threat. He's six to two, he's
two hundred pounds.
Speaker 7: It was his first year starting in varsity last year
and he put up over sixty total touchdowns. I mean
he's a start. Keep in mind, this is high level
Texas football. It is not for Mexico.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I mean first year is a starter.
Speaker 4: And really I wonder, like what his recruiting profile look
like before because I'm assuming like you went to some
camps and stuff in the recruiting process.
Speaker 2: Like it's always wild to me.
Speaker 4: So like he was almost a guy, well Flynn was
like that man Flynn, Like he was a guy that
didn't really start until later in his high school career.
Now they ran the option. I can't imagine that slew
footed son of a gun running the option, but he did.
But he went to camps and that's how he got recruited.
Speaker 7: That's all well at col Tra asks. So I don't
know if you know the call Tresse story did not
start in high school. He was de Eric King's backup.
Speaker 2: Didn't know that he ran the option. He never he
would come in and he was a passing quarterback.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he would come in throw the ball and went
to camps. But no, Bo Bentley, this guy's a stunt.
Like you go watch his tape. Everything about him. Okay,
so the video. I said Flynn yesterday in our group
chat and I said, tell me what you think of
this guy that was Jared Curtis, because Jared Curtis is
the number one quarterback in the country. He's a five
star committed to Georgia recently, which is why Bo Bentley
eliminated Georgia from consideration. Yeah, I think Bo Bentley's better
than Jared Curtis just.
Speaker 2: Just watching him.
Speaker 7: I mean again, I haven't seen these guys every single
play of them, but I've seen them a little bit.
I think both Bentley's better, and I get it, Jared
Curtis's sixty five, two hundred and thirty pounds, but Bo
Bentley can play. I mean, LSU, they could get a
heck of a guy right here, a true dree.
Speaker 4: It feels like they've been, you know, not only his
one of his favorites, but Lshu's also, you know, been
highly intrigued with him, with you know, how they've pursued him.
Speaker 2: Compared to some other quarterbacks in his upcoming class.
Speaker 7: I think he's the fifth ranked quarterback overall. I mean depending,
you know, because like seven has one.
Speaker 2: Your top ten position, any position.
Speaker 7: Well, you look at who's offered him he's got. He's
got over two dozen offers, all of them powerful programs.
I mean, everybody in the country wants this guy. I
always care about that more than like you five star
we're start. Look at you offered him. I mean that's
what I look at. This guy can play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're gonna need a quarterback for that upcoming class.
And again, you're going to get one in twenty seven,
like you were going to get a high level, top
five quarterback in twenty twenty seven. And if you don't,
that is an egregious mistake, like you screwed something up
if you don't, because it's a great class, like it's
one that people have talked about for like three years already.
Speaker 2: And with so many.
Speaker 4: LSU slash Louisiana ties, like nuss Meyer. He's in Texas,
but he's got obviously his brother being an LSU quarterback.
You got Gunner Rivers in Alabama, but his uncle, his coach,
Stephen Rivers, was a quarterback at LSU. Like, you got
a lot of different ties, and there's three guys in
Louisiana that are top tier quarterbacks. So you're going to
get one in twenty seven. Does not mean that you
can go a cycle without getting a quarterback. You have
to get one every single year, certainly with the portal,
and look, you having a starting quarterback from the SEC
still be a young quarterback in your room.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. But you can't miss a cycle anymore, No,
you can't, especially with the portal.
Speaker 7: But also Jake, like when No Smart leaves next year,
you have Michael Van Buren, Colin Hurley, question Mark. Yeah,
and that's assuming both of those guys stick around. They
were both highly recruited guys. I imagine the guy that
loses that quarterback battle next year is gonna look for
somewhere else to go.
Speaker 2: Yu.
Speaker 7: I mean, I know Hurley came in a year early,
but it'll be his third year in the program and
he still hasn't made an impact if he's not the
one that starts. Same thing with Van Buren, Like he
had options in the portal. Yeah, he chose to come
here and sit for a year. He's gonna want that
spot too. You gotta get a guy in twenty twenty sex.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would be shocked if he's not your starting
quarterback next year. But I mean it will be certainly
an open competition. All Right, we will step away, and
when we come back, we'll give you that list that
we were talking about. Top ten coaches in college football
according to ESPN dot com and find out if Brian
Kelly made the list here on OTB.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the bench. I'm going back to
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Speaker 4: Going through the ESPN dot com Top ten Coaches in
College Football in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: Did Brian Kelly make the list? Number one?
Speaker 4: Kirby smart Uga, which that spot right there is used
to have like just a firm like just stranglehold on
it for I mean, there's no other way to really
say it. Uh, you know, he got eleven of the
twelve first place votes. But it's an interesting year for Kirby.
They still made the College Football Playoff, won the SEC,
but they were so dominant and we always talk about it.
Can they still stay up with that dominance? We'll see
one oh five and nineteen as the head coach of
the Georgia Bulldogs.
Speaker 2: That is just remarkable with.
Speaker 4: How good the SEC has been to have that kind
of record. At number two, Ryan Day Ohio State, no
surprise there, just won a national championship. Number three Dabo Sweeney, Clemson.
Number four Marcus Freeman, of course, Notre Dame. Number five
Steve Sarkesian Texas Longhorns, and number six Dan Lanning the
Oregon Ducks thirty five and six they're at Oregon. Been
impressive for Dan Lanning. I actually thought he would be
higher on this list. At number seven, Kaylin Devoor out
of Alabama. At number eight James Franklin out of Penn State.
I got questions about that one. Number nine Kyle Whittingham
at Utah love Whittingham also questions about that one. And
at number ten Matt Campbell out of Iowa State. So
no Brian Kelly for top ten coaches according to ESPN
dot com heading into the twenty twenty five season. Now,
Brian Kelly's not the only surprise that was not on
this list for me. And this was a voting system
and they had a panel and everybody got different points
depending on how many votes they got. And look, James Franklin,
I still like I need to see more from James Franklin.
Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham loved him, Love the grit, loved the sleeveless shirt,
riding the motorcycle into game day. All of that is
like too gritty to be pretty. I love it.
Speaker 4: But they had a down year last year. No cam rising,
he retires from football. We'll see what they do. And
then Matt Campbell. I appreciate what Matt Campbell's been, I mean,
sixty four and fifty two at Iowa State, Iwa State.
Speaker 2: It's not an easy job.
Speaker 4: He was always the next guy to get the next
big job, he stated at Iowa State.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that there's.
Speaker 4: Been some ups and downs there in ames Iowa, so
that one's a little bit surprising. And here is also
receiving votes. Well, Brian Kelly would be eleven on this list,
so he was the next name. It was followed by
Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2: How about that though, I mean Bill Belich hadn't don
anything in colage football, but six times Super Bowl winning
coach is on others receiving votes, and we got Matt
Campbell and James Franklin in the top ten.
Speaker 7: I'm good with Belichick not being in the top ten.
I think James Franklin. Look, I get it, Brian Kelly
is underachieved here at LSUE. I mean he has a
lot of people are going to say that, you know,
you've got to make the college football playoff, and maybe
it's reasons he biased with.
Speaker 6: Pitts State expr Yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: With State making the playoff last year, but you beat
Boise State and SMU, a lot of people thought they
may have had the.
Speaker 2: Easiest path to the playoff.
Speaker 7: James Franklin against top ten teams since he has been
a head coach, it's four in nineteen against top ten teams.
He's three in ten when his team is also in
the top ten. So say what you want about Brian
Kelly not getting into the playoff. I get that Brian
Kelly's won some big games. James Franklin struggles in big
games a lot of the time. Yeah, and he made
the playoff, but I can't put him in eight overall.
Speaker 2: No, I'm right there with you. Others receiving verts votes
Kurt Signetti Indiana Landslipe Poll of Kansas, Jeff Monkin and Army,
Jeff Bram at Louisville, Kenny Dillingham and Arizona State. Kenny
Dillingham probably gonna be on this list next year.
Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin at Ole, Miss, Deon Sanders at Colorado, Josh
hyplat Tennessee, RTT Lashley at SMU, Chris clemb In Kansas State,
any other surprises outside of maybe Brian Kelly again, who
would be eleven on this list and kind of tells
you what the nation thinks about BK and the expectation
and what he has to do this year in Baton
rouge any other name.
Speaker 7: I put Dillingham higher. I mean, I get it, it's
only been one year. But what he did. That team
was picked to finish dead last in the Big Twelve,
and he won the damn thing and.
Speaker 2: Raw Texas the overtime Texas.
Speaker 7: And yeah, in the playoff, and that was that team
made it to the semi finals.
Speaker 2: They were a mistargeting call away from Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think I think Kitty Dillon him should
be higher. I get that he's young, but what he's done,
I mean I like it better than I'm Matt Campbell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt Campbell in this list.
Speaker 4: Matt Campbell's that one guy that every single year every
job comes open, he's like the first name that people
talk about, and he's stabilized that program. But they've never
for me, they've never taken that step that we all
thought that they would continue to take. Now they got
hammered by Arizona State in the Big Twelve. Championship game
and if look, if they win that game, they're in
the college Football Playoff and it's a different conversation.
Speaker 2: But like Arizona State by far was the best team
in the Big twelve and so like they weren't really
that close there. So, but it is interesting to see
Brian Kelly not on this list. Normally, when you see
a top ten list, he's always going to be included.
It just kind of tells you again, and we'll go
back to it. Everyone needs Slash wants to see Brian
Kelly take LSU to an expanded twelve team playoff, and
this year that expectation is going to be a high
as it's ever been in his tenure here in bad
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