Speaker 1: The Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt.
Speaker 2: Flynn Asday Hester and Hester got it a pot.
Speaker 1: From carrying each other to and Natty to carrying each other.
Speaker 2: On the air, there's prop Control.
Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: It's off the Bench, Say We're yeah No TV Hour
number three Live from the Raids of Cane Studio.
Speaker 4: Jake Olandra Tate here with you. No answer yet from
the Hybrid rock Star. I believe we were shooting for nine.
I don't have an answer yet.
Speaker 5: You mean to tell me? Uh, Matt's a big boy
in us.
Speaker 6: He's probably still sleeping.
Speaker 4: That man loves to sleep, and since he didn't have
to get up early today obviously coming to the show.
I don't believe the kids are with him. I believe
it's just him and the missus. So sorry, Per's still sleeping.
Speaker 5: She's gonna have to do everything. He's gonna sleep on
the way there, on the way home.
Speaker 6: Uh, he's gonna be miserable on the way home.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine doing something like that like Elandri, you
just had a big race not that long ago. Can
you imagine going through that race and then getting in
a car for four hours?
Speaker 5: No, I couldn't, dude. I didn't like driving home from
track meets in high school and it was like an
hour less go into Houston.
Speaker 7: No, no, like every step I was taking was hurting me.
But I can't imagine like sitting in a car and
then getting all stiff and not being able and then
like getting out of the car after even sitting in it.
Speaker 6: There's gonna have to be a Bucky stop along the way, yeah.
Speaker 2: Bab.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but this is what I do. I stop in
Baytown at the BUCkies and then I stop in Lafayette
at Billie's. And that's like that's enough for it to
be long enough that you're driving but also not at
the same time.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good gap too, like Lafayette is a
good gap.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's my favorite BUCkies. The Baytown BUCkies is my favorite.
Absolutely despise the BUCkies and golf doors. Love the Baytown Buckets.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, sir, with passion like that, I think we
have to explore why you hate the one.
Speaker 5: The BUCkies Golf Shore, right there on Beach Boulevard has
a bigger tailgating crowd than ninety percent of FCS colleges.
I mean, people sit in their tailgates chowing down on
the brisket sandwich. I understand they're good, but like my guy,
your camper and your truck has taken up three parking spots.
We got to get you in and out, like just
just go in there, buy your sandwiches, eat them in
the car like everybody else can get out. Yeah, it's
it's awful.
Speaker 6: The one that we stopped at in Mississippi, the new.
Speaker 7: Like that, Yeah, because it was smaller. It's a little
bit smaller and there weren't a whole bunch of people
in there.
Speaker 5: That's the one that's it's right outside of Basint louis
real close to it.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I don't know. Buckets an adventure.
Speaker 7: I love BUCkies too, it's great. I went to BUCkies
twice in one week that time we went because I
just got back from Houston, like I did. Bear Bryant
and I went to the BUCkies in Baytown on the
way back.
Speaker 6: You went three times then, because yeah there the way back.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have BUCkies three times in one week and
don't even live near one.
Speaker 4: God, I would pull pork sandwich right now and not
sign sign me up. I wonder how uh how old
Flynn's doing mentally, this decision he's made to go out
there and do that, do this he did to himself.
Speaker 6: We're with you, though, if you need us, if you
need us, we are here for a call.
Speaker 5: I think he's fun.
Speaker 6: We're here for a call.
Speaker 4: Uh didn't do great in the old basketball picks last
night that Marlar and I put out. I'm pretty sure
I went over four pre sure went over at Arkansas covering.
I had Purdue covering. I think I had Houston covering,
and I had the under in Iowa Nebraska. To that point,
I had a winning record in the tournament. There gonna
be a lot of work.
Speaker 5: To do now, all right, during break we were respect
Is this.
Speaker 6: What Flynn feels like?
Speaker 4: Because like normally I I would I'd be locked in,
I'd be dialed in, i would know these teams incredibly well.
But since I've transitioned away from college sports radio, just
not dialed in and I'm just kind of winging it
here a little bit based off like what the analytics
of the game are telling us.
Speaker 6: So is this how Matt feels all the time any sport?
Speaker 5: Yeah, outside of the NFL. Yeah, looking at your picture
today though, Like.
Speaker 4: Saying that since I'm not as dialed into Oh yeah, yeah,
that's how Matten.
Speaker 6: This is how Matt always feels.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got your picks pulled up for today though.
I mean I was State, I was stated it's just
such a good basketball program. They're a team that just
seems like every year people forget they exist, and then
they just always wind up in the Elite eight. I
don't see why that can't happen again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got Iowa State minus three and a half.
That number feels so small for how good they are. Yeah,
so I when I I would stay minus three and
a half. I got Duke covering against Saint John's, Michigan
covering against Alabama.
Speaker 6: That's more of a hope play.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: Then we've got Yukon and Michigan State and a rock
Fight and gonna be under one thirty four and a half.
None of these teams are moving me either.
Speaker 5: No, I mean there's just you were talking about the
lack of excitement coming into the tournament. There's probably even
less now.
Speaker 6: I think it has been so called a major team
in the Sweet sixteen.
Speaker 5: No, I mean you're Cinderella. I guess if you just
want to go seeding. Why, I says, I wad because
they were a nine seed. But I mean even that's
a big program.
Speaker 4: The first time they've made the Elite eight. In gosh,
you could fact check me on this. I think since
nineteen eighty seven. I believe so that program. But still
it's a big ten program.
Speaker 6: You know. It's not George Mason maybe.
Speaker 5: Right, and then they'd been good. I mean they had
Luca Garza a couple of years ago, who was right
there with the Wooden Award. I mean they've had big
time players for sure.
Speaker 4: I was watching Iowa Nebraska and I was like, I
think I've ever watched the these two teams play each
other where there wasn't a pulling guard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Iowa Nebraska. I think about when's the.
Speaker 4: Last wasn't on the football field.
Speaker 5: Nebraska won their first NCAA Tournament game in history this year.
That's wild to think about, I know, because I mean
I get it they're a football school, but like, well,
she's won plenty, yeah, I mean Nebraska their first one.
Speaker 4: I saw as Connor Garret that stat that I said,
like they Nebraska wins their first n c Double Tournament game.
Indiana wins a national championship in football. They talked about
how long it been since Indiana been to the NCAA
tournament and Nebraska football hasn't been, has not beaten an
AP Top twenty five team in two decades like that.
Speaker 6: Hou's like, what how is that even possible?
Speaker 5: Here we are, this is the year the Big ten
gets it done, because I think it is once since
Michigan State.
Speaker 6: What was that two team cleaves?
Speaker 4: Baby Landro, I know you were happy last night that
Texas went down in heartbreaking fashion.
Speaker 7: No, I actually wasn't because because I had them in
the final four. Okay, yeah, I had.
Speaker 6: Them in the You have them in the final four,
So you were about to look real smart.
Speaker 7: I told you I picked all the Texas teams. Yeah,
I put like, if there's a Texas team, I was
picking them except for A and M.
Speaker 4: Right, but typically typically you'll do that. But even with
the Longhorns, you draw the line somewhere.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, they weren't going up against LSU or anything.
Speaker 5: I mean, none of us are great.
Speaker 7: I mean I was Houston winning all of it.
Speaker 5: She has one team left, Matt has one, You and
I have two, So I mean none of us are
like we're all, we're.
Speaker 7: All, it's out there's this Cinderella story.
Speaker 5: So I just don't Yeah, like literally I was the
syndre and like.
Speaker 4: You talk about like with men's and women's basketball, like
women's basketball, it's typically the.
Speaker 6: Elite, Like the elite move on. There's no mid majors.
Speaker 4: But that's okay because that's what we've become accustomed to,
Like we're used to that. Yeah, but now because a
lot of these teams, their best players are playing for
the power programs in a year or two, we don't
have the mid majors anymore that are going to go
out there and have a run.
Speaker 6: Like high Point was fun.
Speaker 4: High Point, you know, one to be Wisconsin. They had
a good second round game. But like even high Point,
I don't know if you have seen their campus. They've
got like this incredible arena, Like their their campus is very.
Speaker 7: I mean it's North Carolina, right, so like Virginia's is
some I mean, North Carolina is a nice place.
Speaker 4: So like even that though it's an investment, they put
money into the program. Yeah, it's kind of sad like
where we're at right now and there's like no mid
majors things.
Speaker 7: His sister Gene to like cheer four and that was
the exciting part of March madness.
Speaker 6: To me, I'm with you.
Speaker 7: I'm just really not into.
Speaker 5: Your Oh wow, yeah, this thing looks like a really
nice mall food.
Speaker 6: There's no doubt that's exactly. That's the statues.
Speaker 5: It's elite.
Speaker 6: You get that money from.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Is it a private Yes, it is?
Speaker 6: What is high Point?
Speaker 7: Let's do some high Point?
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 7: But okay, so it's Methodists affiliated, So I don't know,
maybe because s m us Methodists and they're super rich.
I don't know.
Speaker 5: If it's like a which which which billionaire is is
a Methodist and has donating money. That's what we need
to figure out.
Speaker 6: I mean, same thing with liberty. Liberty is Baptist though
right I think so.
Speaker 5: But I mean the same thing.
Speaker 6: A ton of money shout out to high Point.
Speaker 5: I mean you're talking about there being no Cinderella kind
of the men's being top heavy Illinois. Their coach is
probably gonna get poached.
Speaker 4: Who's illinois've been there a long time.
Speaker 6: He's been there a very long time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so somebody breaking down the path and the like,
he would have know.
Speaker 6: I know, look when you and Sea's open. Obviously there's
gonna be like you.
Speaker 7: Say, A and M wait, who does Illinois Illinois?
Speaker 6: Yeah, who has been there for a long time.
Speaker 4: But when you and Sea's open, athletic directors get nervous
because nobody says it's like when LSU football is open.
Speaker 6: You're not going to like that.
Speaker 5: You know, you're not gonna say no to.
Speaker 6: Them programs like that. No, it's North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Well, I saw somebody breaking it down yesterday about his
connection to Kansas. He's from the state of Kansas. Now,
he went to Kansas State, but he went Oklahoma State
to Illinois basket. Yeah, he went Oklahoma State coaching to Illinois,
And if he goes to Kansas, that's exactly what Bill
self did. Bill self went Oklahoma State to Illinois to Kansas.
So I mean there's obviously that connection there. So a
lot of people are trying to connect him. If self,
you know, don't step down because now he's saying you
may not be and it's a bad info.
Speaker 6: So he's been like that. I feel like Bill Sale
has been like that for like five.
Speaker 5: Years really since he won that Natty.
Speaker 4: Like gonna retire, gonna step away, and then in the
eleventh hour, He's like, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: I'll be back.
Speaker 7: The president for high Point is the fourth highest paid
college president in the United States. He gets paid two
point nine million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: In two Yeah.
Speaker 7: In twenty twelve, Business Week reported that about seven hundred
million dollars in new building in campus upgrades was financed
by heavy borrowing and Moody's Investors Service. So it's just
borrowing money out here.
Speaker 6: This does not feel legit.
Speaker 5: Is this a face school? He's uf front for something.
Speaker 7: That the school spends large amounts of on marketing with
a public relations firm that is headed by the president's daughter.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I feel like I'm uncovering something about high Point right now.
Speaker 6: Do we need to do an investigation?
Speaker 7: So the president is the third highest donor of the
university too. He committed ten million dollars to high Point.
Speaker 5: He's making four million.
Speaker 6: Back to him.
Speaker 5: It's not a way to make money.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something about.
Speaker 7: How so Ashley Furniture Industries chairman Ron Wennick donated ten
million dollars to high Point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we got okay, we got to do some digging
into this.
Speaker 7: I'm digging right now.
Speaker 6: Something feels off about it, going down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 5: Mid segment looks like they're biggest donor last year was
Doug Witchter.
Speaker 6: Oh, Doug.
Speaker 5: He donated twenty million dollars. Last year Blue Ridge Companies,
which is like apartment buildings like all across North Carolina.
The husband and wife donated three million. I'm not seeing
anybody like insane though.
Speaker 7: All right, this seems like the you know how, like
the government's just all trying to make deals with each
other to make their own money back. Yep, this is
what high Point feels like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got hey, We're on to you, high Point.
We got you, We see you, we see that arena,
we know how you got there.
Speaker 7: This feels like, hey, you put your daughter in charge
of this. It's gonna be super highly paid and we're
gonna pay you a bunch of money too, and y'all
just like do what y'all want with that money. This
is weird. All right, I'm onto you high Point.
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: Live a Simple Life in quite Down.
Speaker 4: All right, Welcome back again, ot B here live from
the Raisin Caine Studio. Jake landra Tte here with you.
Speaker 6: Obviously the news.
Speaker 4: Well, I say, like multiple news pieces, certainly baundteries, but
uh probably the biggest one obviously being the Will Wade situation.
Him Now coming back to LSU. You've got baseball this
weekend against Kentucky. You've got Kim Moulky and squad getting
ready for a Sweet sixteen matchup.
Speaker 6: Against the Duke Blue Devils.
Speaker 4: J Clark and gymnastics continuing to try to bring another
national championship on that run right now. And so look
the athletic department with Kim Malki, Jay Johnson, Lane Kiffin,
J Clark, Will Wade. I got, like, what market size.
We're in the seventies, if I'm not mistaken, I.
Speaker 5: Think it's seventy eight, seventy nine.
Speaker 4: Good luck finding a market anywhere in our range that
has as much going on as the Baton Rouge sports market.
Speaker 7: I really, I don't even think in large markets there's
as much going on as there is in Baton Rouge
right now, Like you went from Brian Kelly getting absolutely
embarrassed showing his ass versus Texas A and M. It
all happens so fast, so he got fired. Jeff Landry
opens his big mouth and then is like Scott Wolver's
not making the higher and like I think even like
Jeff would say, like, oh, I kind of like messed
that one up because I feel like he's kind of
reined it in. He's definitely working behind the scenes, but
like publicly, I feel like he's kind of reined it in.
I mean he did say he tweeted quote tweeted Will's
tweet yesterday and he said where there's a Will, there's
a weed. And I'm like, bro, I mean regardless, I
think he's like definitely self aware and like kind of
pulled it in, But so he gets fired, Scott Woodward
gets fired. You higher way, Ruth Verge becomes the A
D and like everything just kind of started like dominoing
after that. And then I think it started with like
Texas A and M though that Texas A and M
game set it all.
Speaker 4: Off, and then you don't allow that to happen in
that stadium and then live to.
Speaker 7: Tell about it, and Jeff's like, no, we're gonna get
that was like one of his biggest things with Scott Woodward.
I don't think that's a secret either, Like he wanted
will Wade here, Lee Mallett wanted will Wade here, so
they made it happen.
Speaker 4: Just think about the timeline you think of you're trying
to explain to somebody, the timeline of how everything went down,
what it's been like since that Texas A and M game.
Speaker 5: It's been pretty pooring if you ask.
Speaker 4: And making a move, and then hiring a president and
elevating an athletic director and then just all the things
that have gone on and going to find a head coach,
going to find a staff and transfer portal and all
the things, just all the things going on with als
your athletics over the last couple of months.
Speaker 5: By the way, Matt Ruge is the ninety fifth market.
Speaker 6: Nine, we were like seventy eighty two.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, so it's even more impressive then, Like, is
anybody in like okay, USC anybody know? I mean their
coaches aren't any more high profile, not even close.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And what.
Speaker 5: That's two.
Speaker 6: Probably, but there's also two.
Speaker 5: Colleges there's USC and UCLA, but still.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that Sean Foster did let us know there's also
UCLA were the other school in Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: You know, I saw a lot of people yesterday being like, oh,
you know, when's the last time a coach has been
fired and rehired by the same program, And I wanted
to do some digging. Chris Alt was fired three times
as Nevada head football coach. He had three different stints.
Speaker 6: I was going to go Billy Martin and the Yankees.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Billy Martin and they lobby.
Speaker 6: From Srino at Arkansas.
Speaker 4: Although he wasn't like hired to be the head coach,
he was hired to be the coordinator, then got elevated
to interim coach, right.
Speaker 5: And then he left the Louisville and came back.
Speaker 6: But he wasn't fired.
Speaker 5: But but he would have fired that time, right because
he went Louisville Falcons back to Oh. I mean, it's
up a lot in the NFL. Art Chill with the
Raiders helped John Gruden with the Raiders. Raiders he got traded, right,
I mean, that's that's kind of half fired.
Speaker 2: But no.
Speaker 5: Chris Alt was from seventy six to ninety two at Nevada, fired,
went back for two years ninety four to ninety five,
fired in two thousand and four to twenty twelve. And
then the only other time I found a guy named
Don Fambroau in the mid seventies of Kansas as the
head football coach. That's the only time I could find collegiately.
It was a lot professional. Yeah, I mean what Steinbrenner
fired Billy Martin five times?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the one that everybody kind of goes
to the thing that makes like, you know, Will Wade
getting let go at LSU.
Speaker 6: Was nobody wanted it to happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even with the circumstances surrounding it, nobody wanted it
to happen, right, I mean fans were calling for him
to be back, like since the day that he was
let go.
Speaker 6: Soon does it happen?
Speaker 4: Nobody was happy and the administration it panicked and it
made a move. They thought football was gonna get touched,
and so they just went ahead.
Speaker 6: They did that. That's the difference here.
Speaker 4: It's not like there's not a situation where you know,
fans are like, man, we got to move on, and
then the guy does something else somewhere else and it's like, okay,
well he's good enough to come back. Now it's like no,
Like the entire time, people are like, no, we won't.
We'll wait, Like that's the guy that needs to lead
this program. And look, I get it because of what
he did on the court, right, I mean, you got
eighteen wins, twenty five wins, twenty one wins, nineteen wins,
twenty two wins, and you just haven't been close to
that since. But it was also like we talk about
often and maybe if you're not from here, maybe if
you've never been around, like you don't understand it. But
it takes a certain personality to be successful here. Yeah,
it just does. Like it's hard to explain, but you've
got to have it or you won't win games here.
Like now that's not saying that it's, you know, only
one singular personality, because some of these personalities would never
be confused for the same one.
Speaker 6: But they've all got something.
Speaker 4: That can make them be successful at LSU, like you
have to in nice Guys finished last year sometimes too,
just the way it kind of is, and like when
you look like we don't have to explain this, but
when you look at Kim Monkey, we know what her
personality is all about. When you look at j Clark
even like and we talked with him and hearing kind
of the way his process is. And he's not afraid
to talk crap about Florida here on air, right, you
know when he joins us, Yeah, we know Will's personality.
Speaker 6: You know Lane Kiffn's personality.
Speaker 4: And for the people that don't know, like Jay Johnson
has got so much coach Saban and that's just like
that's the guy that he looks at. You always hear
Jay Johnson talking about football and mentality, like he studied
Nick Saban.
Speaker 6: In his mentality.
Speaker 4: He talks about him a lot often. Yeah, Like Jay
is a killer behind the scenes. So again, some places
look for the nice guy. Some places look for the
buttoned up guy. Like that's what you thought you were
getting in football. You thought, okay getting in Look even me, like,
I'm like, man, okay, well maybe this is the direction
you go because it's been a little bit different, you
know with coach Miles and coach Oh. Doesn't work here
just does not does not where it is not highly
successful here. There's a certain personality, there's a certain person
it takes to be able to come in here be successful,
and the ones that don't have it, they get exposed
pretty quick.
Speaker 7: We got to have that dog in you last time.
Just different.
Speaker 5: Look at the basketball coaches that have been successful here.
Dale Brown was fiery. I mean you see clips of
Dale Brown with John Brady.
Speaker 7: He's super calm. Be he actually got calmer in his
old age, and oh he's the best.
Speaker 5: Trent Johnson, very laid back, very buttoned up guy, had
a little bit of success early on, fell off. Johnny
Jones not fiery at all, never really had success here.
Matt McMahon not fiery at all. Everybody liked him, but
he wasn't winning enough games. Not fiery, I mean to
your point, like, yeah, there's there's a there's a type
that works here and a type that doesn't. And I mean,
Wade's it.
Speaker 7: I know, hindsight's twenty twenty, but it kind of feels
it kind of feels like it was always gonna happen,
you know, like.
Speaker 4: It is wild that it never felt like the door
was truly closed.
Speaker 7: No, I never thought it was.
Speaker 6: Like it probably should have felt like it was, yeah,
but it never did.
Speaker 7: I mean, you went down the street after you left
here and had options. Yeah, you went down the street
and then I don't know it again, hindsight is twenty twenty.
I'm like, nobody can say, like, oh, we knew this
was always but it feels like it was always inevitable.
Speaker 5: It's weird. It's even weirder to think about. Like you
were talking about, Okay, you know, Scott wood Word fired
this guy. That's you know, one of the reasons he's
no longer the athletic director. Think about it even further
back than that, though. I understand man he had multiple
missteps as athletic director, but a big knuckle Joel Leba
was how he handled the suspension of a Will Wade.
You move on from him, bringing a new guy. That
guy ultimately fires the same coach you were trying to protect.
Then you move on from him, hoping it works this time,
like the wad Lsu romance, goes back a lot further
than just Scott Woodward. I mean, you've you've stuck your
neck out for this guy time and time again, and
it's it's paid all for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah and again the entire time the fans have been
behind Will Wade. YEP, I think that's what makes a
situation unique compared to some of the others. He had
the full support of the fan base, like even when
times like that were going on. So it's pretty fascinating
how it all played out.
Speaker 7: I cannot wait for the thirty for thirty. I will
make the thirty.
Speaker 6: There ne to be a thirty for thirty just for
like the last couple of months.
Speaker 7: No exactly, that's what I'm saying, Like, not the will wait.
I'm talking about like an LSU thirty for thirty for.
Speaker 4: This year, and make no mistake about it, Like with
each move this been made, you've been closer and closer
to being like the ultimate villain.
Speaker 7: I feels, which like literally just collecting gems or ses
or Infinity stones. I know, my give me Patty Gasso.
Speaker 5: I know my God, Flannel disagree me, Patty. I love
being the villain. I think it's great if.
Speaker 6: You're I don't know why Matt doesn't buy into that.
Speaker 5: Well, because about like we haven't won anything yet. I
understand that. But if you're making like they're irrelevant to
everyone else, no one cares.
Speaker 6: But Kim and Jay have one, I mean, won national champions.
Speaker 5: Even if you want to take them out and just
look at Kiffin and will Wade. If people didn't feel
threatened and didn't think, oh, there's a chance that works
and works a big time, they're not gonna care. They're
not gonna dislike you because you're not a threat. If
you're a threat, you could be the villain, and like, great,
I want other people to hate my program because I
win so much. That's that's the perfect place to be.
Speaker 6: It's the best place to be.
Speaker 4: Like, why does anybody care if any other fan base
likes your school?
Speaker 6: I don't think they should.
Speaker 7: No, yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 6: Now that's not saying like you play dirty? Are you
doing these?
Speaker 4: But no, you just don't like us because we're good
and you don't like us because if there's something that
verge Osbury's wonted in the last couple of months, he's
gone and got if that's the reason you don't like me, right,
oh good, I am perfectly okay with that. I just
do not care what other fan bases think about LSG,
Like why why would you?
Speaker 6: Why should you?
Speaker 7: I think Matt's argument was that like he wants to
be respected and for like recruiting purposes, but also like
if you're a recruit or like somebody, like a prospect
or whatever, and you're like, now I don't want to
go to LSU. They're slimmy over there. Then good, we
don't want like that's soft to get out of here.
I'm okay with not having recruits that don't want to
be here. Yeah, so I think that's what Matt had
mentioned before.
Speaker 4: But I for me that it's got somebody that's about
to come up on the recruiting age. Yeah, I'm intrigued
by a school it's willing to do whatever.
Speaker 6: It takes to win to win football, right, if.
Speaker 7: You're to be right, do you like losers say that
if you're.
Speaker 5: Recruit, you want two things in college. You want exposure.
You want to win. Unless she was getting a hell
of a lot of exposure right now. If Kiffin and
Wade continue to win, that's there too. I don't think
recruits are gonna care about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, and they shouldn't.
Speaker 4: You're gonna give them the platform to be highly successful,
and you're gonna give them every resource possible to win games.
So individually and collectively, you're giving them what you're looking for,
at least what you should be looking for. M h.
Speaker 7: Anyways, Patty hit me up. That would be like, that's
the last stone we need. That's the last stone, how
do you guts?
Speaker 6: So that's good, all right, we will step away.
Speaker 4: You can go ahead and start getting some of those
ask the bench questions inside to buy you for chat
and I don't think it's called that anymore, but shout
out to buy you for buy you automotive were to
get them all the love they can because you know what,
they made me cool again with my kids, so I
don't really care.
Speaker 6: Hopefully we can catch up with Flynn.
Speaker 4: Probably not got a lot of sleep in his eyes
if I was sug guessed, But we'll try, and we'll
also get to your questions. We'll ask the bench inside
the chat. There more OTB when we come back here
live from the Raisin King Studio.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 4: Trash Rangers they come out to the house today. Actually
they just called and I was like, hold up, man,
y'all know them on radio.
Speaker 6: They're trying to deliver the roll off dumpster right now.
Speaker 4: They're actually just called and so I'm getting that fifteen
yard roll off dumpster, and we got some things that
we can't just put to the street.
Speaker 6: We can't just.
Speaker 4: Throw away in a normal trash can obviously, So they're
going to deliver the dumpster, We're gonna fill the dumpster up,
and then they're going to come pick up the dumpster.
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Speaker 2: Move in to the country.
Speaker 1: Locked in LSU football twenty four to seven. You're listening
to Off the Bench Country.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna eat me a lot of peaches. Move in
to the country. I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches.
Move in to the country. I'm gonna eat a lot
of peaches.
Speaker 2: Peaches, come camm.
Speaker 4: It is a way.
Speaker 8: Separate day, all.
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Speaker 6: You did confirm Matt slept in. Just will cope it's
this man here, hashtag.
Speaker 4: Asked the bench, did Jake remember to switch to all
message messages today? Yep, I did. I'll see your message.
Not think of me staying on top of it. Not
that big of a deal. Ask the bench, where would
you rank the state of Louisiana out of all states?
Speaker 5: I mean higher than most.
Speaker 4: Pretty pretty prideful about my home state. So probably higher
than most would.
Speaker 6: I don't know, we all know Texas top five for sure.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's my home. It's the same way y'll
feel about Louisiana. I Louisiana.
Speaker 4: I like Texas out of tea Bob hated it. I
actually liked Texas. I think there's some great spots in Texas.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've made this my home. I love it here.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 7: I mean the thing I love most, Like I voluntarily
live here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you know, if you've left and come back,
I mean same for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it truly is like the people, the culture,
the diversity, the uniqueness of the state that I think
I love the most, and how prideful people are to
be from Louisiana. Yeah, but not in like a way
that there's some states too. They're like like, okay, like
we get it, we get where you're from. I don't know,
Like I know, there's a lot of things that we
can improve on, to say the least.
Speaker 6: But very prideful of where we live.
Speaker 4: Hashtag asked the bench which National media guy had the
worst take yesterday.
Speaker 6: Says it was Seth Davis for him. I didn't see
that one nook.
Speaker 7: I don't care.
Speaker 5: I can imagine when it was.
Speaker 4: I've kind of turned myself off to all that because
I just tell said anything.
Speaker 6: Probably I just don't care.
Speaker 5: Way, speaking of that, he was on the car in
the in the tournament game within C State. He was
sitting there glowing about Will Wade, how great of a
coach he is or whatever. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
because he's not at LSU. Now all of a sudden,
you like him, get the hell out of here, dick.
Speaker 10: A.
Speaker 5: Pete Damil, though, is the answer to everything.
Speaker 6: Pete Damil No you think are you thinking of the
same person. Pete's kind of like breaking news.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Pete put out about the whole thing being messy
and all that. I'm like, he wasn't messy. The whole
process was, Oh you like pizza stuff.
Speaker 4: I've seen that one. Cody says, dumpster being delivered. Jake's
going to barstool because that's Bob. When we knew he
was moving, nobody else did, and he was getting in
delivered to his house.
Speaker 6: I am not going anywhere.
Speaker 4: I have a job that I love here. I have
a job that I love over on NFL Radio that
I do for my home. I ain't going anywhere. I'm
certainly not going to Chicago. Don't you worry, not going anywhere.
Flynn would kill me if I left after getting him involved.
Hashtag asa beinch. Why hasn't t called or had or
or y'all had him on this show, the Morning Show
at the same time.
Speaker 5: There you go, golf Seale Saudi wasn't messy? Higher family
called it a clumsy hire. There it is.
Speaker 7: I think two people on the outside that like, don't
follow l s U. It could seem messy because of
the whole Matt McMahon factor. Like I think everybody thinks
that Matt McMahon found out that he was let go
by the will Wade Hier Like, I'm sure there were
conversations had behind the scenes that Pete Thamil doesn't know
about with Matt McMahon.
Speaker 6: Yep. Hashtag a SA bench. Why isn't Kane co hosting
the show today?
Speaker 7: She's having another baby?
Speaker 6: Yeah's man will come in so the chair.
Speaker 5: Open looks she's kind of leaning to she's tart.
Speaker 4: Sorry, it's been a long day. Hashtag aus A bench.
What pro team do you hate the most, regardless of
sport or league?
Speaker 6: The Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 4: For me, it goes back to the early nineties. I've
said this often, but all those guys can go fly kite.
John Cruck, Lenny Dykstra, Mitch Williams, Mike Mordecai rest in peace,
Darren Dalton. But you still can go fly the kite.
That's the team for me. I hate the Phillies. I
hate everything about the Phillies. All the guys there now
can go fly kite. The Raiders probably close second, but yeah,
for me to the philadelphiage.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Over the years, I've never liked the Steelers. It's kind
of always been the just because growing up, my dad
told me to hate the Steelers because, like you know,
when the Cowboys dynasty was going on, the Steelers also was,
so that was kind of a even though they were
NFC and AFCU. Basketball has changed for me the Warriors
obviously somebody jumped on that damn bandwagon, but it's gott
to change for me. I guess the Steelers have been
the constant.
Speaker 6: Uh Lanta professional team you hate the most.
Speaker 7: I just I don't know if I have enough hate
of me to like really have a burning hate for somebody.
I don't know the Chiefs. I really don't like the Chiefs,
and I really don't like Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 6: That's one that a lot of people would probably back
you up on.
Speaker 5: See, that's what I'm saying about the Warriors too. Like
depending on which dynasty people jump on mine, mine kind
of changes a little bit.
Speaker 4: Let's see, get to a couple more and then we'll
get to some more on the other side. Where can
I get the gold yellow hoodie?
Speaker 6: Like Jake? This is Pancho shocked, right, it's Pancho. Where's
logos are great here, Pancho.
Speaker 4: They have more than just pearl snaps like.
Speaker 6: This other incredible.
Speaker 4: Hashtag as a bench did did little Hester get his
parking pass?
Speaker 6: Yet? He did? He's not very little, though bigger than
I am.
Speaker 5: He's just a parketed faculty. He gets his what not
faculty parking.
Speaker 7: Guys, I know Gordy.
Speaker 4: It's fine, yeah right, yeah, just throw that around and guys,
I know Gordy. All right, we'll take a break. We'll
get to more of your questions when we come back.
It is OTB here live from the Raisin Knes studio.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, all.
Speaker 6: Right, this weekend.
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Remember you got women's basketball taking on Duke in Sacramento.
It's going to be a nine pm tip. You got
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Speaker 6: I can't hate on him. He's shoot guys as events.
Who's your favorite?
Speaker 4: Matt Flynn Moscona Musso, Damon, Mitchell Flynn.
Speaker 7: I feel like I have to say Flynn. But I'm
gonna go Joey off of Friends Law all right, Damon,
but I have to say.
Speaker 4: Wow, I'm the only one I said Flynn. That's a
surprise of the day that I said Flynn.
Speaker 7: That's an obligatory Flynn.
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Speaker 11: I don't think I'm intimidating, so no, I don't know,
uh hashsec ask the bench.
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Speaker 5: Rouge or they're non.
Speaker 4: I think all the restaurants here do a really nice
job of having like a situation for the family in
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Baton Rouge, and I think they all do a really
nice job of being accommodating for family.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think of something different from Superior.
Speaker 2: Me.
Speaker 5: Padres is good. Do you like me? Padres a little
bit different than Superior.
Speaker 7: I really like lo Coretta. I know that I like
people are like what, but I really.
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trade tracks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the best one.
Speaker 6: Good vibe there too. That's when you know you're like baseball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of super casual and only outdoor seating. But
I like Barracuda.
Speaker 5: I still still haven't been.
Speaker 4: Somehow Brandon Lander's got the new spot out in saying Gabriel,
I can't wait to try that.
Speaker 2: I heard it.
Speaker 6: It's like right by my house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got a little cover patio area too. Hash
Tag assa bench. How quickly does will Wade get us
back in the n c DOAA Tournament two?
Speaker 7: Uh if I'm going off of the first three?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I have so many questions.
Speaker 7: Tell me there because we never do it, so they're
trying to get their questions.
Speaker 6: I know. Hashtag as a bench.
Speaker 4: Who has a better season next year LSU football or
baseball based off SEC standards?
Speaker 6: That's tough, guys. Jay's won two national championships.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he's already here, like he's already established Lane's
first year. So I'm gonna just say baseball is just
based off of.
Speaker 5: That, right, Like you almost have to grade football on
a curve. Yeah, so it's it's not like a one.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's a fair comparison. Like now, if
you ask me Will Wade or Lane Kiffin, that's a
better comparison. I think or.
Speaker 5: Jay and Mulky.
Speaker 4: But something like that, Uh, Elandra, do you hang out
at Radio Bar occasionally?
Speaker 6: She dabbles, I dabble.
Speaker 7: I mean it's probably like my favorite place to go,
but I don't really go out anyway, but y'all hang there.
Speaker 5: I like the rock bot like Vicheo music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure it could be your one for Will, no doubt,
depending on who gets in the transfer portal which opens
up in let's the eleven days.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: Jay does really do well in odd years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know it's like one year or not.
Speaker 5: Yeah, football does too, has to the bench.
Speaker 6: What's the worst color for a T shirt? I think
it's great, Like I would say great.
Speaker 5: I mean, gray is a good I like.
Speaker 6: A gray shirt, White's tuck.
Speaker 7: I don't know, pink, I'm not wearing a pink shirt.
Speaker 5: White because always spill crapple my shirt.
Speaker 4: That's that color balance doesn't look great on TV. Nobody's
very flattering and white blacks more swimming.
Speaker 6: I love you, We'll see you Monday. Bench By we,
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