Speaker 1: All start to what you want to present some off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What's up y'all. Welcome back to oh T b Our
number two Tens time with Coach Kim Mulkey. Here in
a bit eight thirty, as we do every single Tuesday.
Shout out, Coach, I'm mad I missed rbn R day yesterday.
He said it was very funny depth trip to the aquarium.
I gotta check that out. I love the aquarium.
Speaker 3: Well, they put so much money into it now, I
mean it's a completely different place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's true. I don't know if it's been
since all the uh refurbishments and upgrades and whatnot. It
was still. One of the funniest things ever done in
this job was when my girl Shiba Turk was here.
Shout out, Sheba, looks like you're thriving in l A
who Sheiba the old anchor. Beautiful. But one of the
funniest thing I've ever done in this job was me
her and my dad went uh, swimming in the New
Orleans Aquarium, and I was very fat at the time
and in a wet suit with my crazy beard and hair,
and it was just, uh, it was. It was very
It's a good time all around. Good times were had
by all. I've gone swimming in two aquariums. I also
went snorkeling in the Georgia Aquarium with whale sharks one
time me Kalin did as a president.
Speaker 3: It's like a oh, I thought you were going to
talk about that time you went in the Bass Pro
shop and you had to be pulled out of me.
Speaker 2: It was not me.
Speaker 3: I thought that was what you were talking about.
Speaker 2: To my robic son Tea Bot. That was I never
dove died much.
Speaker 4: What made you do that?
Speaker 2: I have never dive ined into.
Speaker 3: But you know what it did do. It confirmed that
the Texas Day Brazil story was not true because there
was nothing slinging about that situation.
Speaker 2: Okay, that wasn't me. It was me. Texas a Brazil
is also way warmer, Okay, so I'd have a better
chance of swinging there if it had actually happened. But
it did not, Okay, did not happen. Neither of those
are true.
Speaker 5: True CONFU, which one are you banned from?
Speaker 2: Bast Pro Texas Neither neither.
Speaker 3: He can't walk into Texas Day.
Speaker 6: You're like, well, teep, bobble, hold up the thing. He'll
be like, no, I just I choose not to go.
I'm not actually no.
Speaker 3: They're like, we're the only person slinging meat here in
this restaurant.
Speaker 2: That's a good call, though, Like I used to love
those Brazilian steakhouses growing up, Like it was always like
a huge night out when you got to go to
a folk go to chow Texas days. I haven't been
a year.
Speaker 4: I've only been like twice in my life.
Speaker 3: I've never been ever. The Hesters went to Shoney's growing up,
you never went.
Speaker 2: I think it was like I think, I want to say,
around like senior year of high school. Maybe junior year
is when it was the first time I went in.
Speaker 3: But I don't think we had one of those in Shreeport.
And I'm being yeah, being serious, probably.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I feel like it started to
come around at that time. Uh man, I go for
a little house special wrapped in bacon right now. Bo.
Speaker 4: I think we went twice for like New Year's.
Speaker 2: Guys, are we on for dinner tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: Tomorrow night? Okay, let I need I think we need
to make reservations, so I need like.
Speaker 2: We'll talk off fair. I've got I've got, I've got
I've got some I've got some plans in the works.
Uh that I'll update you all long, okay. Uh, I
just just wanted.
Speaker 4: To make sure we're.
Speaker 2: All planning on it. Potential plans, yes, potential plans for sure.
March madness. Baby, you know what I mean. We didn't
talk about yesterday as much the whole bunet Bubba Cunningham drama.
You n c a d being the head of the
selection committee.
Speaker 3: Urt Ad, Yes, I know. Do you here to have
the conversation? Well, I know you know all about this.
Whether your West Virginia tize.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that was very funny yesterday. So West Virginia
is absolutely the team that got screwed the most. It's
the team that's nineteen and twelve.
Speaker 3: Six squad one wins. North Carolina had one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, North Carolina was one in twelve in quad games,
they were I think six and ten maybe, but they
beat Arizona, the Beacon Zaga. They they finished what ten
and ten in a good conference.
Speaker 6: Well, they had some good injuries this year too, Like
they actually could have been better.
Speaker 2: And they got left out for you and c who
has a city? Who's ad is the head of the
selection comp like.
Speaker 3: Be smarter in Cuba?
Speaker 2: What do you mean he left the room when they
would talk about you and Seed go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Unless it's literally what they say. He had the bathroom
watch ups like you have where you're in there for
a minute. I don't think it really mattered. Okay, he yeah,
it's like, yeah, oh wait, we're Bubba.
Speaker 2: Who's Bubba? He leaves the room? Was like, oh Bubba,
who's that?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Obviously not so I get.
Speaker 3: Like a basketball mine get like coach K, Hey, coach K,
you're gonna do it this year? And I know he
has duke ties, but still like he's not currently tied
in with the school.
Speaker 2: Well okay, so this does raise a larger conversation about
like is it right for these dadies because the thing
is is unique to basketball, it's in football as well.
Ward Manual, the Michigan ad IS was head of the
committee this last year that chose between who gets the
home game with Ohio State and Tennessee. And it's like
that classic coaches son bias where it's like, well, do
I make it harder for my son to get on
the field, to show that I'm not playing favoritism. But
one if he's the best player and I play him,
then people just think I'm playing Like like, bias works
both ways. It's not just like you're always gonna stump
for your guy. It affects all decision making. I remember
I was shocked this last football season, flabbergasted when I
read that they make them the college football Playoff Committee.
They have these generic white hats and they have to
hang their hat on a peg at the door. Generic
white hats, yeah, they call them. They have to the
old miss hats. They have to hang their hats on
a peg to show that they're hanging their hats at
the door and they're walking in without bias. Somehow managed
to achieve the thing that no human ever has and
reworked their brain chemistry immediately when they take that hat off.
Speaker 5: Well, it's it's not just him.
Speaker 6: The whole committee gave him a gift because we're talking
about him being the head of this committee. This is
the last year on it. Oh, really, yes, so like
they literally just gave him a gift on the way
out the door.
Speaker 2: And then how about have you seen how much money
he got for it? Because he's you and cz Ad
when they make the tournament, he got one hundred grand bonus,
just a really spice things up and make the optics
look even more terrible, one hundred grand bonus for his
team that absolutely did not deserve to get in getting in,
and it led Western to Governor Patrick Morrissey to hold
a press conference. You don't have to play this with
sound Taylor, but bring up the links there because his
sign is hilarious. In just an excellent show of local
politicking nonsense that will amount to nothing. Morrisey calls a
press conference in the placard on his podium reads National
Corrupt Athletic Association, ah oh man just and he was
even spitting out resumes. Oh yeah, like he was going
through all the all the touchstones, all the pieces. Of course,
remember DeSantis did the same thing with fsu It amount
of nothing. It's gonna amount to nothing, but it's deeply funny. Uh,
it's kind of it's it's to me though, Jake, as
someone who doesn't really care that much about men's college basketball.
I look at this story and I'm like, well, yeah,
of course Texas and you and see got in. Like
this is a process where you can kind of massage
the numbers to say what you want me.
Speaker 3: Indiana got left out, and that's a blue blood in
my opinion. I know some people say they're not that anymore.
Speaker 2: But their brand is not where Texas or UNC is
right now. The state's kind of interesting because you could say, well,
why didn't they get it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, not the overall brand of Texas maybe the basketball
specific maybe, but you and C. Yeah, no question about it.
And it's like if you're looking at you and C
and you're looking at West Virginia and they're close, which
I didn't think it was really that close. Again, I
thought West Virginia was in. It's like, hmm, do we
go with George or do we go with Huggy Bear?
You know, like, where where do you get? I know
Jerry West went to West Virginia. Yeah, chill out. But
you know what I'm saying, Like they're they're looking at
and they just chose brand. Yeah, I think that's I
think that's what it came down to. They're like Okay,
well it's close. Imagine North Carolina.
Speaker 2: In a for profit tournament, they chose the teams that
would increase set overall profit. Can't believe it?
Speaker 6: Well to your point, you were like, okay, we'll Ohio State.
I flip at the football. If it's between Ohio State
and North Carolina. High State's getting in every single time.
Speaker 2: Why would why would? Why would you put your thumb
on the scale for U n C. So it's it's
a deeply funny story to me, and in a lot
of different ways. And again, the wild this part is
him getting that big bonus because of it. Uh. At
the end of the day, though, I don't know, so Jake,
do you think like and maybe it's just my apathy
taking over. I don't mind the I'm kind of like
whatever put the ads on there, and just except that
you're gonna deal with blowback and bad press like this.
I think they're trying their best to not be buyased.
But but honestly, I would would you get rid of him?
Speaker 3: I would. I would come up with the committee made
up of you know, be a football, be a basketball,
baseball like whatever it is, of people that have truly
like impacted the game the most. So college baseball, Like
if there was a panel and Skip Bourtman was on it, okay,
makes sense. Yeah, uh college football, like now Nick Saban
being on that panel, Yeah that makes sense. Like college basketball.
I mentioned Huggy Barry. I know he's not coaching West
Virginia anymore. He was like people like that, Yeah, that
did it for a long time. I mentioned coach k earlier.
Maybe Jay Wright now that he's not at Villanova anymore.
Like legends of the game that respect the game, that
know the game, and sure they're gonna like everybody's gonna
be attached to a school no matter who you are.
You could be somebody that wasn't involved in athletics. You
went somewhere, right, so you're gonna have but you're not
actively employed. But exactly, Yes, I truly think that they would,
say ninety nine point nine percent time, they would take
the respect of the game and not have their biases
in their choices.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so it's like it's you know, it's really
just down to whether or not these committees want to
deal with the stories. Do you want to deal with
the bad stories? Do you want to deal with the blowback?
The crap talking because if you're fine with it, then yeah,
then just continue. If it's too much, if Patrick Morrisey
in West Virginia sues you or something, which again not
going to happen, then then change. But I don't think
they will. I don't think they will. I don't think
people in the committee are ever going to vote themselves,
you know, out the committee. So you no, we shouldn't
be doing this anymore. I did like this from Joe
Lonardi though, to kind of hype up the tournament a
little bit. He wrote, quote, the top eight teams Auburn, Duke, Houston, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama,
Michigan State, and Saint John's are as strong as any
group of one in two seeds that I can remember. Collectively,
this top eight has won one one hundred and forty
eight Quad one and Quad two games. All eight teams
could have been standalone one seeds in other seasons. So
it does seem like a wide open, very powerful, very
hype tournament that we got starting on Thursday.
Speaker 3: I love it because there's no clear two three team
front runners. Sure you're going to have favorites because there's
betting on it, so you've got to set some lines
and some odds. But if Florida won, if Duke won,
if Houston won, if like one of the three seeds
like an Iowa State made a run like it is
going to be one in which is not going to
be predictable in my opinion. I know the ones and
twos are great, but there's some great threes, fours, five.
It's like Louisville just playing the ACC championship game and
they're an eight seed and they've got big wins on
their resume. So I think there's going to be some
wild games. I don't know that we'll have t Bob
like the Cinderellas from out of anywhere. Yeah, you know
this team came out of the Big West, or this
team came out of the Big Sky. I don't think
we'll have that. Sorry you see San Diego, Montana. But
you're going to have some six, seven, eight seeds that
if they were in the Elite eight.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked. The Cinderella thing maybe harder and
harder to come by going forward now in the new
money age of college athletics.
Speaker 3: I think so, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I'll be proven wrong because basketball
is a sport where you know it's it's it's it's sporting.
There's a reason why in the NBA you decide these
things with series. It's because a one game sample anything
can go awry. But I do think the it's gonna
be a heavier and heavier lift for Cinderella to fight
through these teams that have millions upon millions of more
dollars poured into their program. Seems like everybody's d riding
the Gators right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they what they did in the SEC
tournament was pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna ask a question here that may be
a bit reckless because I don't know what the eventual
story was, but like, what's the Todd Colden?
Speaker 5: It felt just seems like it's gone.
Speaker 2: He just did a little stalking, but he was winning,
and everybody's like, oh, it's so good. It's looking like
was it proud? Was it a legend? Was he was?
He was he vindicated? Was he absolved?
Speaker 6: I don't think anything ever came on, But I think
it was just one of those stories that never came
to fruition.
Speaker 2: Which is hilarious because if he was losing, it absolutely
would still buy out. Yeah, yeah. Uh, but no, now
that he's winning, they yeah, you're good.
Speaker 3: Uh, we'll have to get our correspondent down in Gainesville
and Christopher Paul Dorring on the horn to see what
he has to say about it.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Dorran is probably running right beside him. I'm
just kidding, Doran. Doran maybe a a a a bit
of a lithario, a bit of a womanizer, but it's
an honest yeah are you yeah, you know, yes, not
a not a creepy one. He I'm todd.
Speaker 3: So if your friends with dooring and he face times you,
you have to answer. It's like one of those things
if you still want to be in the inner circle,
it's kind of a requirement. Like if he face times you,
which he does somewhat often, he wants to be able
to know that you're going to answer. So he got me.
I think it was like two nights ago. It's like
nine to forty five at night. I got Hordle on him.
I try to put her down and I see it.
I'm like, you gotta do it, you gotta do it, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta do it.
Speaker 3: You gotta pick up, you gotta pick up other as
you're out, And he was with some LSU fans at
the SEC basketball tournament, and you know, he just wanted
to see if I would pick.
Speaker 2: Up It's a little bit hell yeah, you want to
FaceTime Jake Kester, uh Grant Ravellie will Wade Villain for
paying players, Todd Golden Stalker Coach of the year. Just
win baby, maybe the most true statement that's ever been
uttered in sports. Shout out Al Davis. Just win baby,
and that's all that matters. Uh, I mean, Rick Patino.
I'm excited though, because again I'm having to lock in
more on this tournament because I'm having to talk about
it more than I'm so excited. So I'm I'm I'm
a little I'm a little excited to go on this
journey over over the next few days. And uh and
see who I'm gonna have to start. I mean, I've
been doing a lot of sports gambling all lately. I'm
gonna have to get back in so I have some
you know a little bit of care in these games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess I have to do pick and roll still,
I'm assuming, so I guess I gotta do some tournament
plays here.
Speaker 2: What what do you think the sweet spot? Like?
Speaker 3: How many plays per day in the NCAA tournament. Whatever
you be doing, I kind of been going in between
between like five and seven six pack.
Speaker 2: Let's sell this the pick and roll six pack and
brought to you by Little Seki or whoever once a sponsor. Yeah,
I like a little six pack, Like probably the most
genius marketing of my childhood. Where the old sports center
cores like cold hard facts. Being a little kid waking
up early. It used to actually get cold in Georgia,
so the fireplace should be on, be eating a pop tut,
warming up, listening to the cold hard facts. Hell yeah,
say a pop tart? M hmm, what kind brown sugar, cinnamon?
You're a man of culture not But I never took
it to the next level. I never even thought of
like heating up with butter.
Speaker 3: I believe I had never heard of that until I
got around the Tilly family.
Speaker 4: I hear about that until just now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently it's like a thing that a lot of
people do.
Speaker 3: Or just butter on the pop tarts.
Speaker 2: They've got zero. Yeah, if you put butter on that
would probably be pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's adding a topic, so it's not technically unfrosted.
It's frosted with butter. You're just raw dog and a
pop tart.
Speaker 6: Yeah, strawberry jelly and crust. Yeah, that's like a crappy
pie at that point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. Used to also like the
strawberry flavor, the flavor of the pop tart that got sacrificed. Yeah,
two years ago, that's a flavor as well. Not enough
people are talking about the president that the pop Tart
Bowl has established here. They raised but they raised strawberry
pop tart from the dead, and they had him act
very excited about being risen. They had his friends act
very excited about him being risen. Once again calls into
question their original premise that the pop tart wants to
die in the first place. Yeah, that's the whole reason
why we're supposed to accept the ritual sacrifice. This is
the pop tart wants to be burned and wants to
be eaten. Well, how can I believe that?
Speaker 4: Because he knew he was gonna be revived, so he
was super happy because he he was like, I'm gonna
jump in and I'm gonna sacrifice myself. I know I'm
gonna come back.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: He's a freakish mess, though, yeah, but I jesus the
pop tart die was.
Speaker 2: He wont to football team?
Speaker 5: Yes, worthy sacrifice. That's his purpose, right.
Speaker 6: The reason he's excited is because the pop Tart Bowl
is so fun and he gets to hang out with
his friends one more time.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, maybe I'm just overthinking it.
Speaker 5: That there's there's That's probably not the case.
Speaker 4: I think made more sense.
Speaker 3: I want to know in in our lives that we
kind of somebody that we all know or at least
know of, who is most likely to raw dog an
unfrosted pop tart that has not been put in the toaster.
I mean, I got two. If I didn't know, I
got to.
Speaker 2: If I do there that you had a sweet tooth,
I would say you, but I know you have a
sweet tooth. I'm not saying that. But that is kind
of a little bit. Even though somebody's saying that the
plane has more calories, which is funny. I don't know how.
I don't know the icing believe galleries. Maybe it's like
more fillings.
Speaker 3: I believe that I said it. I feel somebody else
maybe not, but I believe. Wait to hear you too,
uh Mario Harass, Yeah, yeah, hump Palmer an argument of
why he prefers the Yeah, yeah, those two Like if
those two people told me that they did that, I'd
say that that makes sense.
Speaker 2: It makes sense. God, you still love a toaster, strude.
Speaker 4: I was trying to think of somebody that has like
really bad food takes, but I can't.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit more work than I was
ready to give.
Speaker 2: Toasts are so good, though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you got to put it on the You
gotta put the icing on yourself.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, you gotta heat it up. You gotta
kind of like do it in your in your hand
to warm it up a little bit. You gotta cut it,
you gotta spread it.
Speaker 2: They don't call me tea glazer for nothing. I can.
I can glaze that strudle all day, all day, every day.
Speaker 4: I don't like, I'm not a fan of r.
Speaker 3: Said Jake wouldn't believe me because I'm a big dummy.
I called him a big dummy last week. Yeah you are,
but I still love you.
Speaker 2: Spencer heard your question, he said, sprints to the chat.
Yeah I don't, I don't. I can't see.
Speaker 3: I feel like Matt would say that that was childish
that we eat pop tarts that would be his.
Speaker 5: Star for kids.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, no jerseys, not allowed to work.
Speaker 3: No jersey's jerseys was a.
Speaker 4: Wild take, not a pop tarts scene in his house
at all.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, there's a the no jersey.
He's representative of a larger camp. There is a large
portion of the adult males that think that you shouldn't
wear another man's uh name on your back. I think
you're just over looking it.
Speaker 3: I think your way. I mean, this is gonna sound weird,
but I've had people wear my jersey and I still
do it. Yeah, yeah, all the time. Soccer kids.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let's go to break and when we
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Speaker 2: We'll be writing to you the internet. What the is
the internet? Oh? Ohlorry uh hashag otb mailbag on a
criad scale of one one hundred, how bad or dorm
hall tiktoks? I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that is either. I don't have TikTok. Yeah,
the only way I see tiktoks if.
Speaker 2: Twitter has a hefty amount of TikTok on.
Speaker 3: It, not as much as I say, if another social
media site has it in front of me, and it's
not like, oh my good, we get TikTok.
Speaker 2: I just I don't.
Speaker 3: I barely have time to keep up.
Speaker 2: With the two. There is a very funny trend on
Twitter right now, like the funniest tiktoks are the ones
that they don't let you save. And it's it's just really,
I don't know, there's a lot of stupid TikTok. Funny
has to go to emailback. Would you rather get stuck
in space or stuck in the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 5: Space definitely, at least I got crap to look at.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give me space, I mean, and if I die,
it's going to be probably like I could just take
the helmet off and I'm done. Yeah, Like drowning sounds awful.
Speaker 2: Like fair bottom of the ocean. When you die, you're
going tight in submersiful stuff. You're gonna be instant dead
as well.
Speaker 3: True, but I want to feel no gravity, right, Yeah,
there's more things that can get me in the ocean
before I can figure it out than in space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's I mean, we're gonna die either way. I
might as well float around and feel what it feels
like to you do a couple of bat Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, Like I've.
Speaker 4: Been in the water, I've never been to space, So yeah, has.
Speaker 2: To go to a mail bag. You can only keep
one actor. The rest are deleted from history with all
their work. Yeah, only one, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Matt
d Yeah, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio,
Brad Pitt.
Speaker 3: I'm keeping Tom going, Tom Cruise, I got the range,
I got the action, I've got the drama.
Speaker 2: He can be funny.
Speaker 3: We saw in Tropic Thunder.
Speaker 5: Hanks is in so many classic movies, But.
Speaker 3: I like, I can make a case for all of them.
Gangs in New York Departed, I love growing up. I've
pretty good.
Speaker 4: He won for a Revenue shoot was amazing. He should
have won for the Aviator, like he should have been
like one of his first Oscar.
Speaker 2: I feel like I don't hear that a lot.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 3: That's very film too.
Speaker 4: I think I would go Leo like someone Shutter Island
is so.
Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite What's One Time in Hollywood
was great?
Speaker 4: Not my favorite Tarantino film, but yeah, Leo is mine.
He's one of my favorite actors of all time. And
isn't a lot of great.
Speaker 3: He's a great wrest question, But I very you know,
I can make a case for every one of them.
Speaker 2: I saw a you know, the Jango scene where he
goes crazy and slams the table to yell, yeah, apparently
he sliced his hand over and that's real blood, which
then I'm like, wait, no, you know what you're about
to say. No, they cut, Okay, they cut, and then
they okay, that's he didn't actually his real blood on
her face. That seems like a help violation. All right,
let's go to break. When we get back, Coach Kim
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Speaker 2: It's going on, y'all, welcome back to TV. It is
Tuesday at eight thirty and we are always blessed at
this time every week to be joined by the living
legend your LSU have basketball coach, Coach Ken Moulk, Coach Molkey.
What's going on? Congratulations? It is official, another selection Sunday
in the books and another host for the Baton Rouge.
LSU Tigers coach. How are we feeling today?
Speaker 7: It's the best time of the year in my professional
Hell yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 2: So it is interesting though it's a late game Saturday night,
so this is kind of an extended calm before the
storm right now? Right? What is the process during this
week to make sure that your team is ready to
go when those lights come on?
Speaker 7: Well, I've taken the approach that they chose us to
play the last game, the late game, because they know
in Baton Rouge we don't sleep on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, we got it.
Speaker 7: We gotta get we gotta get the students out there.
You know, that's just about the time they start hitting
the ball game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be the pregame they go to the bar.
Speaker 7: We got it. We gotta get them out there because
some of our senior fans, now they might bail out
on you and go home and watch it on TV.
But I'm trying to take the approach that are you
guys kidding me? Nine fifteen at night? But your question
was I kind of forgot your question.
Speaker 2: So the question was start well, well, and I did
want to ask you about that specifically too, but it
was more about like, Okay, there's kind of a large
gap right between not just last time you played, but
between the selection. Now you know when the game is
going to be, but it's always that thing of trying
not to get too amped. So like, how do you
manage a full week week of runway so that your
team's peaking by nine to fifteen Saturday night?
Speaker 7: Right? Well, we had the selection show Saturn Sunday night,
and we did not practice Sunday. Yesterday, we're back on
the floor with Flaja and Marrow, So that was all great.
To see, but you don't. You don't play tomorrow, you
don't play until Saturday, and if you win, you play Monday.
So you kind of space things out and you make
sure you do a scouting report on each of the
three that are here because you don't know who you're
going to play since you win, So you do one
scouting report one day, one the next day, one the
next day. Don't go into a long scouting report, but
do the work on the floor preparing for what each
one of those teams may present to you. So yesterday, however,
was all about us. We got tomorrow back out there,
we had flag Day back out there and just take
care of us and do some things that we haven't
been able to do with a full squad.
Speaker 3: Late coach, you've been through this so many times, and
you mentioned kind of preparing for the teams that are
going to kind of be in the baton rouge pod there.
But you know on your schedule in the non con
you schedule it, you know who you're playing, so you
already kind of got a book on those teams. Certainly
in conference play, even in a conference tournament, you know
those teams. So no matter who you play, you've already
got a kind of a game plan on that team.
Whenever you're in the NCAA tournament and you're at selection
Sunday and you see your name and then you see
your opponent, then you kind of see who else is
going to be in town. Kind of walk us through
what maybe those steps are to make sure that you
get ready, Like do you immediately is it all about
San Diego State for you know, half of your assistance
and then the other half kind of take the other
teams of Florida State, whoever might be in your pod.
How do you make sure that you get ready and
kind of what's that process?
Speaker 7: Like, Well, first of all, you don't overlook your first opponent.
I have been so blessed to have a mindset that
I learned from the best in the business when I
was a player. Is you better take care of what's
in front of you. San Diego State's excited to be
coming to Baton Rouge. Their head coach was here as
an assistant for two years. I learned more about her
after the announcement was made. She has family here. She
might have even said her children were born here. I
can't remember, but nonetheless, she's very familiar with LSU watches
US play a lot, So we're going to do our
due diligence and be prepared for San Diego State. And
in the meantime, after you've presented them, you also have
to present the other two teams George Mason in Florida State.
And yet you've got enough time to do it, but
you don't want to get ahead of yourself. You make
them prioritize and understand it's San Diego State first, but
can't wait to the Sunday in between the Saturday Monday
game should you win, to just present whoever wins that
first game. You have to do some of that work
ahead of time.
Speaker 2: And it's so fascinating. Coach, you've been through You've been
through a lot of these now at this point, these
NCAA tournaments, you've won quite a few of them as well.
How similar or different does it feel like? Is it
like entering the arena with a new child every time? Like?
What does it feel like after you have an entire
regular season up to this point and you prepare to
go try to make that run with a new team.
Speaker 7: It's exciting for the players first and especially the players
that have never experienced this. And believe it or not,
we have transfers. The previous teams are not even in
the playoffs. They've never experienced what this feels like. So
as a coach, I never take for granted these playoffs experiences,
just because I've done it million not millions, but done
it lots of time. I want it to be as
important for me today as it was the very first
time I did it as a coach, and you look
for different things that will grab your team's attention and
motivate you. I thought of this last night. Everybody's talking
about who should win it, who their picks are to
win it, and it makes me smile to think back
two years ago. They never talked about us winning it,
and we did. And those little things motivate me as
a coach. But it's also things you can throw at
your team and go. We were a three seed two
years ago. We've been a three seed all four years
I've been here. We finished in the Elite eight last
year five and we wanted the year before we got
to host the first and second rounds. You know, with
a team that I inherited a one what seven or
nine games before I got here. Man, all those things
are so exciting and important, and you just try to
throw all that out at your team, and you've got
three in that locker room that have national championship rings
and you want them to share what that feels like
with the new ones, and it's just it's exciting time
of the year for our sport.
Speaker 2: Coach, you sound fantastic this week. I mean, I know
you were dealing with some illness last week as well
as some off court things. Did you feeling better? You
feeling good? You sound like you're peaking here at the
right time.
Speaker 7: You know, guys, we always have to deal with death,
and I don't know that you're ever ready for it,
but there are situations in our life where you're prepared,
whether it's an elderly grandparent or parent, or as I
tell people, I prepared myself for the death of a grandchild.
I knew it was coming and I had many, many
months to prepare, and it's anything you're ready for, but
with death, it's the unexpected that really crushes your soul.
And it was an unexpected death and it just took
me by surprise, and I had to regroup and I
didn't need to be around my team. But I always
tell them, and I believe this. You better keep your
life in order and prioritize what's important. And no one
loves to win more than me. No one loves this
game more than I do. No one loves to compete
and hates to lose more.
Speaker 2: Than I do.
Speaker 7: But never, if you know me, never has basketball jumped
in front of my family and what I believe, and
I just believe that I was where I needed to be.
And Coach Bob Starkey did a tremendous job in preparing
the team, and I sat on the end of the
bench with the players as an assistant coach, and I
have to tell you I loved every minute of it.
And so I've regrouped. Time has helped. And sickness, oh,
I deal with that all the time. You stay sick
during the season. That's the part of your job.
Speaker 2: So Saturday night, I do want to explore that a
little bit further because that is a late tip. But again,
I mean what you've created here in terms of the crowd,
it's going to be loud, it's going to be crazy.
Get out there, students, especially anybody listening who knows any students,
make sure they get loud. They make it hard on
Taniego State come Saturday night. What does a game day
look like when you're tipping it off that late.
Speaker 7: Well, let me say this about our students. I'm buying
tickets for our students. This is not a gimme. You
have to pay for these tickets. The NCAA takes over
the arena, some season ticket holders and maybe even the
students aren't going to be able to sit where they
normally do during the regular season. But if you can
get a free ticket, students, do what you gotta do.
Shut your ticket and come on. And as I told
someone yesterday, I said it, if the allotment goes past
what we want to pay for, I'll keep paying. Just
get out there.
Speaker 2: How can you take advantage of the tickets that you're buying?
How does this work?
Speaker 7: I knew you were going to ask me that, but
they'll know they're sending out a y'are asking me way
too much information that I'm not in charge of.
Speaker 2: You don't worry about that. I'll figure it out and
I'll let everybody know.
Speaker 7: They're supposed to announce that either today or tomorrow. High
students take the tickets, and they need to do it
quickly because it's the allotment's going to go fast. And
if it goes fast and we continue to have a
high demand, so be it. I'll take my check book
and pay for those. Because guys, here's what you cannot
do as LSU fans, and we don't don't take these
first and second round games for granted. This is this
has been a long time coming and four years in
a row we've been able.
Speaker 2: To do this.
Speaker 7: And isn't this what you hired us to do as
a staff was to bring this program to respectability and
get out there and uh, you can sleep on Sunday,
you can miss math, miss church, Uh, but get out there,
get out there, and uh, we have an unbelievable reputation
of being loud in the PMAC, and uh, let's let's
don't let the game time start.
Speaker 3: Affect us and coach, it sounds like that you're going
to have a full strength squad on Saturday night with
you talking about you know, everybody kind of coming back
and being in practice. So you anticipate everybody kind of
being back healthy, ready to go Saturday night.
Speaker 7: Absolutely Flase smiling from ear to Earmorrow's out there and
really they're there. They were not what I would call injured.
There's a difference between being hurt and being injured.
Speaker 3: Insured.
Speaker 7: Yeah, injured is you just physically are unable to form.
They were hurting out and they were fighting through it. Tomorrow.
Wanted to go back in the Texas game after she
sprained that foot again, and the doctors wouldn't let her,
and I certainly wouldn't have would not have let her either.
But they're ready to go. They've been doing what they
need to do to not have any more aches and pains,
and uh, it's gonna be so much fun to watch
them get back in the flow and let's go. Let's
see what happened.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I remember a little league football getting dinged
up the sideline. Are you hurt? Are you injured? Get
your ass back out there.
Speaker 8: You know what.
Speaker 7: You did it the Sundays I said, if we would
coach and we would raise our kids the way we
were raised, we're not scarred for life because of that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hell yeah. Coach again. I know you you
have a million different things pulling at you all times
a year, but especially this time of year. So we
can't thank you enough for giving us some time here
on this Tuesday. Best of luck. I'll get the news
out there on how to take advantage of the tickets.
Kick ass Saturday night in the PMAC pack it out, guys,
Thank you so much. Coach.
Speaker 4: You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Coach Keim Mulk legend of the game. You already know
you love her. It's our favorite time every single week
getting to hang out with uh with coach there. Really fantastic. Man,
Can I wait for Saturday Night? More OTB Closing hour
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Speaker 2: I've been told that if you're a student here and
you are you are listening, you'll get an email about
the the the tickets tomorrow and that it'll be to
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on the lookout for that. Of course, the last segment
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