1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester 2 00:00:04,679 --> 00:00:05,440 and Matt Flynn. 3 00:00:05,679 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,800 Speaker 1: Players get broken down and science gets denied. 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 2: This I got to come off the bitch. 6 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 3: Hour two of. 7 00:00:12,199 --> 00:00:20,519 Speaker 1: Off the Bench live from the Raising Kine Studio. 8 00:00:22,719 --> 00:00:23,839 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in. 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,079 Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Raus's and you heard 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,480 Tata there. As soon as they go live on the 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,399 press conference, we will send you directly over there. So 12 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:38,359 when we see somebody at the podium, we are going 13 00:00:38,399 --> 00:00:40,880 to throw it to the press conference kind of a 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,600 state of where LSU football, LSU athletics is after they've 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,920 had a lot of things going on, a lot of movement. 16 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,600 You've had head coach fired, You've had the athletic director fired. 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,920 And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we are ready 18 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,840 to go. So we are going to send you here 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,359 in a little bit to the We're trying to get 20 00:01:02,399 --> 00:01:04,319 pulled up right now. We're gonna send you to the 21 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,319 press conference for LSU and it's gonna be kind of 22 00:01:07,359 --> 00:01:10,000 a just a hey, state of the union, because Matt, 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,920 there's a lot of things going on. I think a 24 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,400 lot of people will want to understand where LSU's at 25 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,079 right now, and there's going to be some questions that 26 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,040 certainly hope at least get asked about the stability of 27 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:26,879 where you're at just from everything from everything, like, Okay, 28 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:28,760 what's the structure going to be when we're going to 29 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:30,319 have a president, when we're gonna have an ad, when 30 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,560 we're gonna have a coach, because right now you are 31 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:36,680 just floating in the air just with nowhere to land. 32 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:38,239 Speaker 2: You're in purgatory right now. 33 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean what I expect to hear is 34 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:44,200 kind of, you know, some feel good statements. Hey, we 35 00:01:44,239 --> 00:01:46,519 got this under control. We'll give you more information as 36 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:48,560 it goes, but you know, hopefully we don't. Hopefully we 37 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,879 get some sort of detail into the thought process of 38 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,560 the decisions that have been made in the thought process 39 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:56,760 and timeline of what they expect. Hopefully it's not just 40 00:01:56,799 --> 00:02:01,640 a bunch of word salads up there. So we'll see. 41 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:09,759 Speaker 2: So who's speaking in this press conference there? 42 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:14,759 Speaker 4: Thinking like, hm, who would actually be the person behind 43 00:02:14,759 --> 00:02:18,599 the microphone right now? That's a good question, you know 44 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:20,879 what I mean, could typically be the president. If it 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:22,560 was the president, would be the athletic director. 46 00:02:22,879 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 2: Yep I guess merge. 47 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:33,159 Speaker 5: The head of the board is Scott Ballard of could 48 00:02:33,159 --> 00:02:36,000 be him, but I mean I guess yeah, the interim 49 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,240 athletic director. I would assume yeah, I would assume it 50 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:39,879 would be virgin. 51 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,759 Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna throw it back to studio A. 52 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,439 Speaker 4: Landra does have the audio ready to go of the 53 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,319 l s U press conference and staff. 54 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:53,199 Speaker 2: I'll say it again, this is l s U. 55 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,199 Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor an excitement to introduce 56 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:03,360 the ex interim Athletic Director of LSUGE. 57 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,039 Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to give thanks 58 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:17,159 to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush, 59 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:21,479 Chairman Athletic part of the board, to the university administration 60 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,080 and the fellow board members for giving me this opportunity. 61 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 2: This is a grappat tune. 62 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Iberia, Louisiana who had 63 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:33,039 the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started 64 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,400 the bottom, started last on a depth chart, worked my 65 00:03:37,479 --> 00:03:40,520 way through the ranks. I was able to start here 66 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,319 two years, lead the team in tackles, two years, played 67 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,960 on some very successful teams to SEC championship teams That's 68 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,800 why I started from the hard work Paul aiding that 69 00:03:50,879 --> 00:03:53,680 into my career here started the bottom again as a 70 00:03:53,719 --> 00:03:59,639 graduate assistant, working in compliance, working in academics, working with 71 00:04:00,039 --> 00:04:03,919 how Athletic Foundation. From there socialth letic director with skip Bergmann, 72 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,039 work my way through the ranks. So I know what 73 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,360 hard work is. I know what it is to be 74 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,199 a part of LSH. I walked these halls, I walked 75 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:13,960 those squads. I walked Allen Hall, Coats Hall, all the 76 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,040 great halls at LSU. I want to know how fan 77 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:20,759 based on one thing, LSU is not broken. LSH Athletic 78 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,160 Department is not broken. I think we have the best 79 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:26,040 athletic department in the country. I think we have the 80 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,680 best staff in the country. The executive team is second 81 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,879 to none. I put them up against anyone. They're the 82 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:33,240 best and they would get the job of the. 83 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,639 Speaker 8: Border supervisors and the person who've made chair of the 84 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:41,120 LSU Athletic Committee, who will give you more information about 85 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,959 your next steps about our next step. 86 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 6: Thanks Chairman Valid. What an exciting day here today at LSU. 87 00:04:49,319 --> 00:04:52,199 As Chair of Athletics Committee, it is my responsibility with 88 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:56,040 my fellow board members to ensure that LSU athletics is 89 00:04:56,079 --> 00:04:59,920 positioned as a national leader in college sport. 90 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,959 Speaker 9: It is important to me and many others the. 91 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 6: LSU and our state restore balance so we can reclaim 92 00:05:08,759 --> 00:05:12,959 the future we built in athletics as an institution and 93 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,160 as a state. As we transition into the next chapter, 94 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,160 I'm proud to introduce Verge Ausbury as an interim director 95 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,079 of Athletics, and I have to tell you we are 96 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,519 very excited. Verge is the ideal person to lead this 97 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,600 department through this change, and I want to be very 98 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,519 clear he has full authority to do so. That includes 99 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:43,600 leading the search for our next head coach and hiring 100 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:45,199 our next head coach. 101 00:05:46,399 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 9: Verge is a native son of Louisiana and LSU. 102 00:05:49,879 --> 00:05:53,959 Speaker 6: He is a multi multi time alumnus of this institution, 103 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,720 a former championship winning linebacker. 104 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 2: For the football team. 105 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:03,519 Speaker 9: In a long time senior university administrator. 106 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,399 Speaker 2: Simply put, he. 107 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 6: Spent all of his adult life working to make this 108 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:15,040 athletic department and this state better. Not only has Verge 109 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,519 worked in almost every area of that athletic department since 110 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,879 he started as an employee in nineteen ninety one, but 111 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:26,279 he's also been a tremendous asset to the university leadership 112 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,600 with his campus role in government, governmental and community relations. 113 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 9: From the time he arrived on campus. 114 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 6: As a football student athlete, ViRGE has been associated with 115 00:06:38,959 --> 00:06:45,319 excellence and championship. That's the standard he will uphold as 116 00:06:45,399 --> 00:06:46,920 interim Athletic Director. 117 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 9: Let's all ways, remember this is LSU. 118 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 6: This is the greatest athletics program in the country, and 119 00:06:59,079 --> 00:07:05,920 we will continue to be an elite destination for student athletes, coaches, 120 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:07,079 and staff. 121 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 9: I'll say it again, this is LSU. 122 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor and excitement to introduce 123 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,920 the next interim Athletic Director of LSU. 124 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:21,639 Speaker 2: Merge Asburg. 125 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,879 Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to get thanks 126 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,959 to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush, 127 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:39,319 Chairman Athletic part of the Board, to the university administration 128 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,360 and the fellow board. 129 00:07:41,079 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 2: Members for giving me this opportunity. This is a grapper tune. 130 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:47,519 Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Ibera, Louisiana who had 131 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,839 the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started 132 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:55,160 at the bottom, started last on the depth chart, worked 133 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,079 my way through the ranks. I was able to start 134 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:01,519 here two years lead the team in tackles, two years 135 00:08:01,879 --> 00:08:04,720 played on some very successful teams, two SEC championship teams. 136 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,439 That's why I start from the hard work Paul aid, 137 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,839 and then to my career here started to bottom again. 138 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,319 It's a graduate assistant working in compliance, working in academics, 139 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,639 working from their Tiger Athletic foundation, from their social letter 140 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,040 director with skip Bergmann, work my way through the ranks, 141 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:25,720 so I know what hard work is. I know what 142 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:28,040 it is to be a part of LSH. I walked 143 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,759 these halls, I walked those squads, I walked Allen Hall, 144 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:34,240 coachs Hall, all the great halls at LSU. I want 145 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,960 to know our fan based on one thing. LSU is 146 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,440 not broken. Lschathlete apartment is not broken. I think we 147 00:08:40,519 --> 00:08:43,519 have the best athletic department in the country. I think 148 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:45,879 we have the best staff in the country. The executive 149 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:48,759 team is second or none. I put them up against anyone. 150 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:51,440 They're the best and they would get the job done. 151 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,759 Our coaches a second or none. We have the best. 152 00:08:55,919 --> 00:08:59,240 We have championship coaches here. I've been blessed to work 153 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:06,000 with championship coaches Kill Malki, Jay Clark, Jay Johnson, Dennis Schaeffer, 154 00:09:06,039 --> 00:09:10,240 who's not here with track team, Garrett Runyon, who won 155 00:09:10,279 --> 00:09:13,240 a national championship in golf as an assistant coach here at LSH. 156 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,320 They're great coaches and many other great coaches who win championships. 157 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:21,320 That's what we expect here we LSU. This place is 158 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,000 not Brooklyn, that's later Department's not Brooklyn. 159 00:09:23,159 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 2: We win. I mean part of eighteen national. 160 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 7: Championships at LSU as an administrator, six recently, been part of 161 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,399 four national championship games, won three national championships, been part 162 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,480 of seven SEC championships two as a player. I know 163 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,960 what it takes to win. We know what it takes 164 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,399 to win, and that's our jobs and that's our mission. 165 00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:46,720 I mean, fortunate enough to work with three of the 166 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,720 best coaches in the world, Kill Malki, Nick Saban, and 167 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:54,360 Skip Bertman. So my heritage go back with those people 168 00:09:54,919 --> 00:09:56,679 and the ability that they gave me and what they 169 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:59,480 taught me to be the best. We're going to be 170 00:09:59,519 --> 00:10:03,279 the best at a the third quarter, the fourth quarter, 171 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,519 put the third and fourth quarter. Last week, I walked 172 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,879 on the field during that football game, and I just 173 00:10:09,879 --> 00:10:11,279 wanted to see what was going on when you're a 174 00:10:11,279 --> 00:10:14,320 good administrator. You just don't watch what's going on on 175 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,279 the field. You watch the sidelines, you watch the stands, 176 00:10:17,279 --> 00:10:19,679 you watch everything around you. That's important to be a 177 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,840 good administrator. I went down there on that field, I 178 00:10:22,879 --> 00:10:27,279 saw something. I saw empty seats. It's empty suites. I 179 00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:31,159 saw our stadium, Tiger Stadium, halfway empty. It's not a 180 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:33,879 good thing. Witty Hay has always said a worst word 181 00:10:34,039 --> 00:10:39,120 in addictionary's apathy. This program cannot have apathy in no way. 182 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 2: A means. 183 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 7: We have to win. We have to be successful. We 184 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,879 are just say this all the time. We're the movie makers. 185 00:10:48,039 --> 00:10:53,360 We're the financers, the administrators, the coaches, you're the producers. 186 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,559 The athletes, which is for the most important, they're the actors. 187 00:10:58,159 --> 00:11:00,320 That's who are important here to us. We have to 188 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:02,879 do everything to make sure that the student athletes get 189 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:06,240 what they need, the coaches get what they need. Our 190 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:11,120 job is support. Next chapter is that to high football coach. 191 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,200 I'm hire the best football coach there is. That's our jobs. 192 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:17,159 We're going to go out there. We are not going 193 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,639 to let this program fail. LSU has to be in 194 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,879 the playoffs every year. In football, there's twelve teams that 195 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,360 make it. It's going to expand here. We have to 196 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,679 be one of those at LSU. No substitute. We have 197 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:34,200 to be talked about on ESPA and every channel were 198 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,960 talking about LSU football. That is the way this big 199 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,240 building here has to be successful. If we're going to 200 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:44,360 be successful as athletic department, it's the measuring state that. 201 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:44,919 Speaker 2: We have here. 202 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,759 Speaker 7: I have formed a committee or that committee would be 203 00:11:47,759 --> 00:11:51,879 Scott Ballot, Chairman of the Board, John Carmusch Chairman of Athletics, 204 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,879 Ben Bordelon. As you know, Ben Bolin is a former 205 00:11:54,919 --> 00:12:01,320 football player here Bolinger Shipping CEO, e J Kuiper, e 206 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,399 J Kiper ceo of Oshner. I'm not sorry, I'm so 207 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:05,279 so sorry, Later. 208 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:05,519 Speaker 2: Of the Lake. 209 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,399 Speaker 7: He would be on the committee, and there'll be another 210 00:12:08,639 --> 00:12:11,080 myself and there will be another member of the committee, 211 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,679 uh that we are talking to right now this time. 212 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:16,360 Those are the people that can be responsible for helping 213 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:19,279 us find the next great football coach at r SU. 214 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,919 Speaker 2: Open up for any questions. This is ah to start with. 215 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,080 Speaker 10: Scott Ballard Wilson was entered the advocate in the front, 216 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,679 sir right here. How exactly was it decided that Scott 217 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,399 would would and lsc. 218 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:37,039 Speaker 2: Would part ways? 219 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 10: Did his board and him have autonomy to make that 220 00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:43,639 decision or was the governor involved in that final say? 221 00:12:44,159 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 9: John, the governor was not involved. 222 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 2: The governor. 223 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 6: Is worried about the state of Louisiana. His concern had 224 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,399 to do with the state contract. L SU Board of 225 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:06,240 Supervisor and mister Woodward decided jointly to point part ways. 226 00:13:10,399 --> 00:13:13,279 Speaker 11: Michael Cobble w b Z TV invetors, John, you can 227 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:15,919 take this if you want, or Scott, but representing the board, 228 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,799 why did you all deem it necessary to part ways? 229 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:21,440 Version just talked about six championships, were four months removed 230 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,679 from a baseball national championship. Those things sound like success 231 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,519 to the common person. So why was there this mutual 232 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,799 agreement to part it was? 233 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 6: It was a It was a joint decision where we 234 00:13:34,759 --> 00:13:38,039 the board and and mister Wooward had discussions and it 235 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,000 was a joint decision. 236 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,679 Speaker 9: Thought it was the best for both parties. 237 00:13:44,159 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess to see either for Scott or for 238 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,440 John will will l s U buy out the remainder 239 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:50,600 of Scott Woodard's contract. 240 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what can you repeat that? 241 00:13:54,399 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 12: I didn't know an I'm sorry, Matt Moscona from ESPN diverge, 242 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,039 will l s U or the board buy out the 243 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,679 remainder of Scott Woodward's contract. 244 00:14:02,039 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 6: It's my understanding they're working on that right now, and 245 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,279 I'm sure when it's done it it'll be public. 246 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 2: Right Yeah. 247 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 13: Brevmont Tell the Associated Press, I had a similar question. 248 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,279 I was wondering, Yeah, it looks like based on its 249 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,639 contract he's owed at least five million or so on 250 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,080 based salary, nevermind incentives. And I was also wondering what 251 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:23,840 revenue stream would be. 252 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 2: Are you are you eyeing to pay that to pay 253 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:27,720 that buyer. 254 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 8: Revenue stream, as I've said before, will be it is 255 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:40,600 generated from the athletic department. Uh, it's self generated funds 256 00:14:40,879 --> 00:14:42,200 and or private donations. 257 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:43,919 Speaker 9: That's where it comes from. 258 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 8: Does not come from state dollars that that that are 259 00:14:48,039 --> 00:14:51,480 allocated towards other things like education, So it'll come from 260 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:56,159 self generated athletic funds and or private donations. 261 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,879 Speaker 2: Good morning, Kyra Nevou with w BO in New Orleans. 262 00:15:03,279 --> 00:15:05,759 My question, Miss Osbury for you. 263 00:15:05,879 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 4: Obviously you're at the enter right now, but are you 264 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:10,320 seeking to fulfill this position full time. 265 00:15:10,879 --> 00:15:13,039 Speaker 7: At this time? That's not a concern right now, I'm concerned. 266 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,720 It's trying to get the best football coach we have 267 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:16,879 here and make sure this department is stable. 268 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 2: That's my job. I'm not looking to do anything. 269 00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 7: Future from that, but right now it's just stabilize and department, 270 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,279 making sure the coaches and the executive team is okay 271 00:15:27,399 --> 00:15:29,519 when everything they do and they're getting out of support 272 00:15:29,799 --> 00:15:31,320 and hiring a football coach. 273 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 10: Question about the contracts, Jeff Landrys made it very clear 274 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,039 that he would like to see more of an incentive 275 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:42,279 based contract to avoid that large biot that Brian Kelly 276 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,720 has been owed. How do you plan to do that 277 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,600 within this search and do you worry that that will 278 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,519 deter any candidates. 279 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 7: I've spoken to the board members on side of me 280 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:54,759 right here and other board members, and our job I 281 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,679 was total to get the best football coach there is. 282 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 2: You don't worry about that at all. 283 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:00,759 Speaker 7: So my thing is we're gonna go there together as 284 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:03,000 a team and we get the best contract, get the 285 00:16:03,039 --> 00:16:05,159 best coach we have, and whatever it takes to get 286 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:06,200 that person here, we will. 287 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 11: Do verge familiar just again timeline for that and the 288 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,480 committee that you said you assembled five people, do you 289 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:17,039 feel like that's the right size. Should there be more 290 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:17,720 people involved? 291 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 7: Do you think we're looking at it one more person? 292 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:22,879 The process has started, processes started since we made the 293 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:25,960 decision on Sunday, and there's no really timeline. We've been 294 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,879 looking at a lot of people, five exact lists, but 295 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,679 we know what we want here, we know what we 296 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:33,399 expect here, and we don't have the best coach here 297 00:16:33,399 --> 00:16:34,279 in Tiger sad. 298 00:16:36,159 --> 00:16:37,279 Speaker 2: For Scott or John? 299 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,039 Speaker 12: Is there a timeline for naming a full time athletic director? 300 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,840 And Verge, if you want to follow up, you've been 301 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:46,039 a candidate in the past. 302 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,919 Speaker 2: What would change the time if you weren't a candidate? 303 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 9: Discussion, I'll speak to every one. 304 00:16:53,919 --> 00:16:57,799 Speaker 8: There is not a timeline set for that. The first thing, 305 00:16:57,879 --> 00:17:03,559 like Verge said, the full count tration is to find 306 00:17:03,559 --> 00:17:06,559 a coach, find the best coach period. That process has 307 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:10,920 already started, as Verge said, with the team the athletic department, 308 00:17:11,799 --> 00:17:15,559 so truly is not something we're even going to address 309 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:19,240 until we get that done. 310 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,039 Speaker 11: Scott, let's stay with you if you don't mind, just 311 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:25,559 does the coaching candidate, athletic director or whatever. Do these 312 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,119 jobs have to have Louisiana ties to them, And if so, 313 00:17:28,519 --> 00:17:31,759 why do you feel that way. 314 00:17:32,279 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 8: Verg's license is to go find the best coach. I 315 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,559 think people in Louisiana love to have Louisiana people, and 316 00:17:40,599 --> 00:17:43,720 I'm no different. I was born here, and God will 317 00:17:43,759 --> 00:17:48,640 and I'll die here. But that is not a litmus 318 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,119 per se. But if Verge can go find one that 319 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,880 has Louisiana ties, then awesome, But that is not a 320 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,880 litmus for them. 321 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 13: Hey, there, Brett Mark Tellegan with AP, I just I 322 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:02,759 want to give you the opportunity because I think a 323 00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:06,119 lot of the LSU fan base, and you know, people 324 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,960 following this are somewhat confused as about the extent to 325 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:16,319 which performance based considerations led to Scott's departure. Is there 326 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:19,400 anything specific that you'd want to address in that regard. 327 00:18:25,799 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 8: I'm not sure I understand the question. But but if 328 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,240 the performance of Scott and I mean like like, like 329 00:18:33,359 --> 00:18:37,839 John said, it was a mutual agreement after conversations and 330 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:40,519 and with all the things that come into that energy 331 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:44,160 and and and and family and what you're doing, and 332 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:48,279 you know, nothing's off the table of why Scott and 333 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:51,640 and and l s U had a mutual agreement that 334 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:57,440 after those conversations that that they mutually agreed that that 335 00:18:57,759 --> 00:19:00,599 it was a good idea. Scott is a great human being, 336 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:05,480 Scott is a good baton Rouge, Lsu Tiger. It had 337 00:19:05,519 --> 00:19:09,160 nothing to do with any of that. It had everything 338 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:13,039 to do with the path of both conversations, and they 339 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,599 mutually agreed that it was time. It wasn't an Lsu thing, 340 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:17,599 It wasn't a Scott thing. 341 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 14: So the word will be hiring a new president on Tuesday, 342 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:27,480 can you speak to the extent he will be involved 343 00:19:27,519 --> 00:19:29,480 in the search for either the head coach or the 344 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:30,880 permanent athletic director. 345 00:19:33,559 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 9: Was that to me? 346 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 14: What'd you say, morning, Scott? Yes, any of y'all can 347 00:19:38,319 --> 00:19:42,359 answer that, y'all will be hiring a new president on Tuesday. 348 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,640 To what extent will he be involved in the search 349 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,319 for the head coach or the permanent athletic director. 350 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,839 Speaker 8: The new president will be announced on Tuesday, and he 351 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,640 or she or he we have the three candidates, Well, 352 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,960 we'll be We're not going down for that. Verge is 353 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,039 going to move forward and knows what he needs to do. 354 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,920 But depending on how that works out and when the 355 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,680 new president starts, but the new president will absolutely have 356 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,000 input and and hopefully hit the hit the ground running. 357 00:20:15,519 --> 00:20:19,079 But depending on you know, what the choice is. We've 358 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,359 got to also respect that they've got to unwind some 359 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:22,039 stuff as well. 360 00:20:23,559 --> 00:20:25,039 Speaker 2: For a few more questions for RGE. 361 00:20:25,079 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 11: If you have questions for Herd, you got we have morenutes. Okay, 362 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:30,319 I'm sorry, this one's for John. 363 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 2: John. 364 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:35,759 Speaker 11: Just given the governor's speaking points about the contract and 365 00:20:35,839 --> 00:20:39,119 the legal ease of the of the contract for Brian 366 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:43,079 going forward, is it a point of emphasis to remove 367 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,759 L s U as the libel party for these contracts? 368 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:47,880 It would be a departure from the way they've been 369 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,880 written in the past. Is that something that kind of 370 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,440 you guys have marching orders to make sure isn't acted 371 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:53,279 in these next deals. 372 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,759 Speaker 6: Well, let me make it clear the governor had a 373 00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:05,160 right to be concerned, and we're working towards UH solutions. 374 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,519 Any everything's on the table. But let me make it 375 00:21:08,559 --> 00:21:11,720 clear the state has never and the taxpayers have never 376 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:21,119 paid for a coach and never will so. 377 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 2: U mappen easy at w B. 378 00:21:21,759 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 15: Just given the timing of Scott's departure, with the firing 379 00:21:25,279 --> 00:21:29,079 of Brian Kelly, for new candidates being considered for the 380 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:33,039 coaching position. Could the lapse and not having a president 381 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,079 name just yet now verge being in the spot you're 382 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,839 in now, could that deter candidates away? And is that 383 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 why the timing of all this has happened to keep 384 00:21:41,039 --> 00:21:43,319 candidates considering l s U as a as a destination. 385 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 7: Could you ask the question through me? Yeah, uh, well, 386 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:55,200 let's shoe Uh my phone is still ringing. Before you know, 387 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,319 this has happened a lot of a lot of people 388 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:01,880 kind of still I want to come to l SG. 389 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:03,640 Speaker 2: It's one of the best jobs in the country. 390 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,319 Speaker 7: It is the best job in the country at this time, 391 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:09,759 and we're gonna find the right person and I don't 392 00:22:09,799 --> 00:22:11,559 see any problems getting the right person to being ahead 393 00:22:11,559 --> 00:22:12,400 coache lsh. 394 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 8: Thank you guys. 395 00:22:14,079 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 2: All right, right, congratulations. 396 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 4: Less welcome back in to OTB. That was the LSU 397 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:34,480 press conference. There, board of supervisors, very Jobsbury now the 398 00:22:34,519 --> 00:22:37,480 interim athletic director. And there'll a lot to get to 399 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,559 so unpackt there a lot of impact writing down some 400 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,640 notes and taking a look at uh you know what 401 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:45,880 that was and some of the questions that were asked. 402 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,640 And so we'll take a break. We'll try to play 403 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,079 catch up. Obviously, it's a twenty three minute opening segment 404 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,599 because the Tatane Laundry did a great job of recognizing 405 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:55,720 that getting that on the air. So we appreciate y'all 406 00:22:55,759 --> 00:22:58,119 having that for us. So we'll break it all down 407 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,960 when we come back here. It is OTB live from Rouses, 408 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:08,559 off the bench, all right, it is always a great 409 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:15,880 time beer. First, come hang out with us. Right here 410 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,559 behind us, you can pick up some ice cold do 411 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,200 seqies from Rouses, kick your feet up, enjoy the great weather, 412 00:23:22,519 --> 00:23:26,079 go outside, throw the ball around. This weekend, no tigers 413 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,079 are playing, but doesn't mean you can't enjoy a ice. 414 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:31,039 Speaker 2: Cold do sekis. 415 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 4: It's always a great time, the perfect time, the best 416 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,119 time to go for dose. 417 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 2: That's all right, go for dose. It's as trigger treating night. 418 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,079 Speaker 5: So if you're got some kiddo's, got some rugg rats 419 00:23:40,079 --> 00:23:42,079 you're pushing around the neighborhood, maybe get a little stroller. 420 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,799 Well right underneath that stroller is a perfect place to 421 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:46,960 put a little ice chest full of dough sekis beer. 422 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,319 Have a couple, do it responsibly. If you're gonna do it, 423 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,319 if you're gonna delete some beers, Happy Halloween, make sure 424 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,160 you go to a store and get your do saqis 425 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,599 that delicious cold Mexican longer go for dose. 426 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven, you're 427 00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:25,640 listening to Off the Bench Caesar. 428 00:24:27,759 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 4: All right and welcome back in with TV here live 429 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,279 from rals Is. 430 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 2: I'm not sweating your sweating. 431 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, we apologize a little bit because we're gonna have to 432 00:24:36,599 --> 00:24:39,759 play some catch up here on the clock obviously with 433 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:42,799 you know, twenty five minute first segment, because look had 434 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,759 carried that obviously, that was very very important and the 435 00:24:45,759 --> 00:24:48,400 information that we got before we dive into it. 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I don't know about y'all. A 447 00:25:21,759 --> 00:25:24,920 lot to unpack from that. From that press conference, I 448 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,079 think the major news that everybody was needing to know, 449 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,599 wanting to know that, we got the answer at there. 450 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, the associate athletic. 451 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 5: The interim athletic director, now Verge Osberry is going to 452 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:41,000 have complete control of the job search and have the 453 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:42,839 authority to make a new higher. 454 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,839 Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's an answer right there. We've been talking. 455 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 4: Does that pretty much say that Verge is the leading 456 00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,920 candidate to be the athletic director, Like it does to 457 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:57,480 me because so many times the athletic director is tied 458 00:25:57,519 --> 00:25:59,599 to the head coach, the head coach of the ad. Right, 459 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,720 it's all you know when when you get a new 460 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,000 AD in the same coach, it's always like, yeah, it 461 00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:07,640 was never really his guy, and it's like you got 462 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,559 to have your guy. It's like, well that Verge is 463 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,200 making the hire. That tells me right now. And just 464 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,559 by listening to that press conference in the way they 465 00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:20,240 talked about Verge, he's, without questioning, the leader in the 466 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,880 clubhouse to be the athletic director. 467 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,079 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of those cool questions because, uh, there's 468 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,079 a quote here there's no timeline for hiring a new 469 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,880 full time athletic director, So there's no timeline for that. 470 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,880 So there's certainly they have nothing in their aspirations that's 471 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,039 going to say we need to hire an ad full 472 00:26:40,039 --> 00:26:44,319 time ad first for him to pick his own head coach. 473 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,920 So if it ends up being somebody outside of Verge, 474 00:26:48,039 --> 00:26:49,319 the coach is already going to be there. 475 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:51,920 Speaker 2: He won't be tied to that new head coach. 476 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 5: And how appealing is that going to be to a 477 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,559 head coach that is wanting to become the new head coach? 478 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,319 Lsu If you're going to say all right, yeah, we're 479 00:27:00,319 --> 00:27:02,720 gonna hire you, but in a month there's going to 480 00:27:02,759 --> 00:27:04,160 be a new AD, so you're not going to be 481 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,960 his guy. I don't think that's a great situation. So 482 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,960 if they better be getting the language out there saying 483 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,559 Verge is going to be the dude if he's hiring you, 484 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:15,480 if he's making. 485 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,640 Speaker 2: A movie, he's hiring you. You need that coach needs 486 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:17,960 to know. 487 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 5: The coach is going to need want to know that 488 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,160 in Stone. Yeah, whether you put it out there, coach 489 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:23,759 It doesn't matter. 490 00:27:24,279 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the level of experience they have, the 491 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,880 resume that they have. 492 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:29,839 Speaker 2: They are one. They are going to want to. 493 00:27:29,759 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 4: Know who is my bass, who is my direct contact, 494 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,440 Who is the leader of the athletic programs? 495 00:27:35,519 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean for the comparison, the NFL comparison. It's 496 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,079 like a head coach knows he's got a short leash 497 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,680 if they bring in a new GM and he's the 498 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,160 head coach, right because that's not. 499 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 2: Not his guy. 500 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,839 Speaker 5: So that was the big news right from the jump, 501 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,599 that verge. He's got control of the job search. They 502 00:27:51,599 --> 00:27:53,400 have tasked them. Doesn't matter if the guys from Louise, 503 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,640 and it doesn't matter what the ties are. He is 504 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,799 tasked with finding the best coach in football and that's 505 00:27:59,839 --> 00:28:02,119 it ask and he has a full authority in power 506 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,160 to make that decision. 507 00:28:04,279 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 2: Look, that's what we heard. 508 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:10,839 Speaker 4: Oh hey Richard Dixon enjoying breakfast. Hey little breakfast bar 509 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,519 dig Dixon. Don't think we won't put you to work here, bud, 510 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,799 So enjoy that breakfast before we put you to work. 511 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,359 Speaker 5: The next big news that I saw is there is 512 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,839 going to be a committee that's going to have input. 513 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:28,200 I'm assuming based on the words that they just said. 514 00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:30,480 Verge is going to have the final stamp of approval 515 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:33,119 right of course as the athletic director. But the committee, 516 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:38,119 and this committee is formulated of John Carmush, who's I 517 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,160 think the Board of Supervisors Athletic Committee's chair, who is 518 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,759 the senior partner of a law firm, Ben Borderline, former 519 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:47,480 player of course, Bolinger Shipyards done a lot of great things, 520 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:51,160 Scott Ballard who we just saw, who is the head 521 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:51,519 of the. 522 00:28:53,119 --> 00:28:53,359 Speaker 9: E. J. 523 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 5: Kuiper, who is the CEO of OLOL, and Verge. 524 00:29:00,039 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they said one more person. 525 00:29:02,319 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 4: Man, my phone had he said, he said, we're already 526 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,480 in talks with that person. My phone hasn't ring yet. 527 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,279 So I was trying hard to get on that committee. 528 00:29:09,279 --> 00:29:12,279 I'm show I was. I was really wanting to be. 529 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:19,400 I wanted I wanted somebody that's currently tied into college 530 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,079 football nationally, and I'm very fortunate that I get that 531 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:23,759 opportunity on my other show. 532 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 2: And I have every every coach. 533 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 4: That is listed, I've had in person interviews, conversations with them, 534 00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:34,680 and I don't know, I just I want somebody that's 535 00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:39,160 kind of tied into maybe some some different areas of 536 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,000 the country as well. 537 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't want to like, so I was 538 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,240 real when I said I don't want to. I don't. 539 00:29:45,319 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 5: I don't want to put foot and mouth here, okay, 540 00:29:47,759 --> 00:29:49,480 because we do that every day. 541 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,799 Speaker 2: Are people that are in charge of this committee? 542 00:29:58,559 --> 00:30:05,839 Speaker 5: Of the names on this list, who on here makes 543 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,359 you feel good that they know football coaching? I'm very 544 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,319 successful obviously. CEO of a hospital, great? Does he know 545 00:30:14,359 --> 00:30:15,039 football coaches? 546 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:15,319 Speaker 6: Right? 547 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 2: No idea, Scott Ballad, You're you're the board of supervisor? 548 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:17,920 Are great? 549 00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:19,279 Speaker 5: I know you got your finger on the pulse of 550 00:30:19,319 --> 00:30:22,720 Louisiana and politics and all that stuff. Do you know 551 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:23,640 football nationally? 552 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:24,319 Speaker 2: Right? 553 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:27,319 Speaker 5: At a at an intimate level, do you know how 554 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:29,200 to look at a man's eye for the football aspect 555 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:29,480 of things? 556 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:30,039 Speaker 2: What do you? Yeah? 557 00:30:30,039 --> 00:30:32,519 Speaker 4: When when he comes in and hey, here's my coordinators, 558 00:30:32,519 --> 00:30:35,400 here's my scheme, here's my plan, here's how I plan 559 00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:36,079 to recruit. 560 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, I like this John Carmush, guy, I sure he 561 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:40,680 does great things. 562 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 2: He's a senior partner in law firm. 563 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:47,079 Speaker 5: Same question now, virgin Ben Borderline, Yeah, okay, I got it. 564 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,119 Speaker 2: I don't know me. Who's this? 565 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 5: Who's this last person? I don't know they inviting Saban 566 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,400 to be on the board. I have no idea. Is 567 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,480 that going to be the football pert? I have no idea. 568 00:30:56,079 --> 00:30:59,519 I feel good that Verge is there. Yeah, but I 569 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:02,440 don't know what kind of say all these other folks 570 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,680 are going to have in a It's a very valid 571 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:09,400 question coaching football coaching job search. You want football people 572 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,279 that know football coaches and coaching to make those decisions. 573 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,119 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we talked about it. Right after we 574 00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:15,880 took a break, I said, wait a minute, hold up, 575 00:31:16,039 --> 00:31:19,720 hold on, we're a football guy. And again I'm not 576 00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:22,160 saying that that's the only voice, but you want a 577 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,319 football voice on there. You want somebody that you know 578 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,799 understands coaching and been around coaching and understands the dynamics 579 00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,000 of a team and understands the dynamics of all the 580 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:34,119 things that have to come together to make a great 581 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,519 football team. And when he's talking scheme, be it an 582 00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:39,680 offense or a defensive coach, Hey we're going to run 583 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,400 you know this offense, or hey we're you know, this 584 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,079 is our defensive philosophy. Here's where we like to live. 585 00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:47,319 Here's what I'm thinking about hiring from my assistant coach 586 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,240 is here's what this guy can do in recruiting for. 587 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 5: Us, And don't get a twisted like I know these 588 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:53,599 guys are way smarter. 589 00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:57,799 Speaker 4: Way more better, smarter and smarter and a lot of things, 590 00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:02,119 but not smarter in football. Yeah, so it's like you 591 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,880 have to get an amalgamation of all these things. Like 592 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,599 that's that's why you have a committee because there's something. 593 00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:11,519 There's a pillar in every single thing, and that's how 594 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:14,279 you stabilize it because if you don't have one pillar 595 00:32:14,359 --> 00:32:15,920 for this, then the building. 596 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:16,240 Speaker 2: Is going to fall. 597 00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 4: But if you have it for everything, and Verge is 598 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,240 going to be a large portion of that. Verge does 599 00:32:20,319 --> 00:32:23,000 no football at a national level. I have many conversations 600 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:23,359 with me. 601 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,119 Speaker 5: A lot of comfortability for sure, the rest of the 602 00:32:26,119 --> 00:32:27,839 committee and maybe not what Ben. 603 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 2: Not talking about. Ben just from the ive been played football, 604 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:37,000 been knows football right, but around got it. We're talking 605 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000 about like having. 606 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 4: An idea of the current landscape of college football and 607 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,480 again like knowing these coaches and understanding these coaches and 608 00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:49,880 knowing when they're talking, knowing if it's real for its 609 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:51,880 bull stuff. 610 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:57,519 Speaker 2: I'm sweating now, I know. But let's just say this 611 00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:58,319 before we do go. 612 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 5: We are extremely happy for Verde that he has this 613 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,240 opportunity to make a name for himself because he's been 614 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,359 he loves l He's just like Frank Wilson being the 615 00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:06,920 inner coaching. 616 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 4: Birds was over there yesterday and Birds wasn't over there. 617 00:33:11,559 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 2: First thing. 618 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,839 Speaker 4: Bird said, I am not here as an administrator right now. 619 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 2: I am here as. 620 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,279 Speaker 4: A former LSU Tiger to talk to the current LSU Tigers. 621 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,720 That's right, because that's how much he loves this place 622 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:22,640 and cares for this place. 623 00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 2: Happy for him, no question about it. 624 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 4: Like Verge being there, I am incredibly he has paid 625 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,519 his dues. We're just talking about like the totality of 626 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,680 all the people that are coming together to make this decision. 627 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:36,359 Speaker 2: All right, I know we are long for a break. 628 00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:36,960 We'll take it now. 629 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 4: More O TV off the bench, all right. Go to 630 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:46,599 pelicanroof dot com. Pelican roof dot com the website for Pelican. Yeah, 631 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,799 Pelican roof and make sure I got that one right. 632 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,720 Order there we go, Pelican Pelican. 633 00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: Oh, I like that. Thank you. 634 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,519 Speaker 4: When you go to the website top right corner of 635 00:33:56,559 --> 00:34:01,119 the website, click on community. Remember they got the roof giveaway. 636 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,240 So if you want to nominate a veteran. 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All right, yeah, Dick Dixon's. 664 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,000 Speaker 2: Going to join us nine am. 665 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, he came and he enjoyed the breakfast far and 666 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,119 he was just gonna come say what's up? 667 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,199 Speaker 2: Or like, no, you are every buddy. 668 00:35:33,519 --> 00:35:35,199 Speaker 4: You got to get on air, And I don't care 669 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:36,599 that you got to get on air with Handy in 670 00:35:36,679 --> 00:35:39,039 a little bit, because you're our boy, you're our teammates. 671 00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 9: So sorry. 672 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 2: Dig Dixon joined us at nine. 673 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,320 Speaker 5: Oh guess what they got semin roles, French toast and 674 00:35:45,559 --> 00:35:46,840 waffles over there, they got. 675 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:48,800 Speaker 2: The sweet Are they spicing it up for us today? 676 00:35:49,199 --> 00:35:50,719 Up a little bit? I think they know that we 677 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,440 got a lot going on and they want us to 678 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,840 have happy bellies. Not to mention we got our wings 679 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:56,760 and egg rolls right behind us. That we do, Derek, 680 00:35:57,039 --> 00:35:59,840 that we do. My name is Matt. Yeah, but that 681 00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:04,280 doesn't The movie line's not mad, it's Derek step brothers. 682 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:10,800 Sure right you are, Dale's gotta Yeah, So why wouldn't 683 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,719 you just go with it? You know the line football? 684 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:19,960 Huh god? So what else you got there in those notes? 685 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,199 Speaker 5: But I got a lot of stuff in the notes 686 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,079 trying to figure out what to kind of go to next. 687 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,480 It did sound like from some of the questioning that 688 00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:28,960 there was real no plan at least that they were 689 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,119 prepared to let the public know about what. 690 00:36:32,199 --> 00:36:37,320 Speaker 2: The plan was for the buyout. Oh yeah, it's very vague. 691 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,719 It was very vague. Yeah. So a lot of this like, 692 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,239 you know, you're not going to hire it. 693 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,159 Speaker 5: I'm not going to announce a full time ad if 694 00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:45,159 were hiring a coach, you don't really have a plan 695 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,440 for the buyout. A lot of this kind of feels 696 00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:51,840 like it's, uh, fire ready aim type situation. 697 00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:55,679 Speaker 2: But maybe not, we'll see. 698 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,679 Speaker 5: I just found that kind of interesting that, you know, 699 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,920 it's the lot they knew if they knew what the 700 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,320 bio is, because. 701 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 2: It's going to come out, right, Deli's going to get it. 702 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,760 It's going to come out. So that tells me there 703 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,039 is no plan. That's just but I eat him. Maybe 704 00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:14,360 they're not. 705 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 5: Stressed about it because they know it's going to get 706 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:16,880 figured out. Maybe it's one of those. 707 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,119 Speaker 4: Types that you can again clock because twenty five minute 708 00:37:19,119 --> 00:37:21,920 press conference. But I'll say this before we step away 709 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,880 and try to play catch up. Whatever the list of 710 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,960 coaching candidates is, I just hope that whoever's on the 711 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,239 committee realizes that it's different than it's ever been before. 712 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:38,360 Speaker 2: The needs of your head coach are different, the understanding 713 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,039 of your head coach is different. 714 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,599 Speaker 4: The way that it was always done before does not 715 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,079 work anymore, at least to the level that you want 716 00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:48,280 it to. 717 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:49,440 Speaker 2: Right. 718 00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:52,159 Speaker 4: Even coach Saban at the very end, right, it was 719 00:37:52,159 --> 00:37:54,199 a little bit different for him. That's why he got out. 720 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:54,840 Speaker 2: He didn't like it. 721 00:37:55,559 --> 00:37:59,599 Speaker 4: He wasn't going to be as successful Dabo Sweeney. He 722 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,880 might have won the ACC last year, but it wasn't 723 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,119 because they were the best team. Like they found a way, 724 00:38:05,159 --> 00:38:09,280 they got hot and they won the last game and 725 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,599 it was I was trying not to say that, but yea, 726 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,679 it was the ACC. Look at where they're at this 727 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,119 year because Dabo's stuck in his ways and doesn't want 728 00:38:17,159 --> 00:38:19,599 to change with college football. Look at Brian Kelly at 729 00:38:19,679 --> 00:38:22,280 Lshue look at James Franklin at Penn State, all right, 730 00:38:23,519 --> 00:38:25,840 not saying you can't win games, but you can't win trophies. 731 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,960 Speaker 2: Now you go to who's dominating right now and you 732 00:38:31,079 --> 00:38:32,360 kind of look at it and you're. 733 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 4: Like, oh, well, it's either a coach that did it 734 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,360 the old way and said I'll do whatever it takes to. 735 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:39,559 Speaker 2: Catch up with the. 736 00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:42,679 Speaker 4: Times and change my ways. Still have my identity, but 737 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,519 I'll change my ways enough. Kurt Signetti is a guy 738 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,760 that's doing it in the way that you need to. 739 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,920 Ryan Day kind of changed some things. 740 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,199 Speaker 2: He was doing. He's now in that. Mike Elko does that, 741 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,480 Dan Lanning does that. Kirby change some of the things 742 00:38:56,519 --> 00:38:57,119 he was doing. 743 00:38:57,679 --> 00:39:01,000 Speaker 4: Lane certainly has found a way to be successful in 744 00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:05,679 this current time. Brent Key, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame, 745 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,159 and we can continue to go down the list, Josh 746 00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:13,039 Hipel at Tennessee. The game's different right now, and whoever's 747 00:39:13,079 --> 00:39:14,760 on the board committee, whatever, whatever. 748 00:39:15,119 --> 00:39:16,239 Speaker 2: I hope they realize that. 749 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 4: I hope they realized that it's no longer the coach 750 00:39:19,559 --> 00:39:21,480 that ten years ago would have been the home run. 751 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,719 Five years ago that would have been the home run. Okay, 752 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:30,960 there's multiple ways to be successful, but it starts with 753 00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,280 the head coach and a head coach that understands where 754 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,199 we're currently at. And when I say where, I mean 755 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,679 college football, the way it's moving forward. 756 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,079 Speaker 2: And it's a different time. 757 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,800 Speaker 4: I mean it's Verge look sees Marcus Freeman all the time. 758 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,239 Birge has a son that plays for Notre Dame, so 759 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,039 Verge sees the way Marcus Freeman goes about his business 760 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,239 on a weekly basis. 761 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,840 Speaker 5: Verge has been around a long time and he gets it. 762 00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:04,159 He understands it, and hopefully he understands kind of what 763 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:05,960 needs to be next and just kind of like kind 764 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:07,519 of what you said, And I think what you're saying 765 00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:08,960 right now is what a lot of people are feeling. 766 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,159 And I'm hoping that's what this committee let's put together 767 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:14,400 is also feeling now. 768 00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:16,119 Speaker 2: Feelings aside. 769 00:40:16,559 --> 00:40:18,320 Speaker 5: Got to be able to go find that person and 770 00:40:18,679 --> 00:40:21,360 decipher that person from a long list of people you're 771 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,360 gonna get thrown a lot of different names out. 772 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,679 Speaker 2: Can you go through there? 773 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 5: Can you do your own recruiting on our analysis of 774 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,360 a coach and figure that out? Because I think we're 775 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:34,039 all feeling and saying and doing the same thing. We 776 00:40:34,119 --> 00:40:36,400 all feel the same way about what needs to be done. 777 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,760 Now you just got to go in and find that 778 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,320 person and have the right people to negotiate that contract. 779 00:40:42,559 --> 00:40:44,519 Speaker 4: All right, we'll play catch up. We'll take a break. 780 00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:47,679 More OTB women come back live from Rouse's. 781 00:40:48,119 --> 00:40:48,920 Speaker 3: Off the bench. 782 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,760 Speaker 2: All right, Go to get Gordon dot com Gordon mccrinan 783 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,559 injury attorneys. 784 00:40:55,639 --> 00:40:58,159 Speaker 4: Go to the website today, have a chat right there 785 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,400 live front page of the website. 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Sometimes 803 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,400 they use a lot of humor in those billboards, but 804 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,960 what they do is serious on a day to day basis. 805 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,679 So if you've been hurt, give them a call. Let 806 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,039 them fight for you. Get Gordon dot Com. It's this 807 00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,280 irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead. 808 00:42:11,199 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves. 809 00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:16,199 Speaker 1: Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. 810 00:42:19,639 --> 00:42:20,400 Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in. 811 00:42:20,559 --> 00:42:24,559 Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Rous's on Burbank and Lee. 812 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,159 One of the things we haven't talked about yet. So 813 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,760 last night LSU women's basketball had an exhibition game and 814 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,119 coach Kim Milky was not at the press conference, and 815 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:35,599 you know. 816 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,280 Speaker 2: They didn't really try to hide it. Said she's not 817 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:37,920 here because. 818 00:42:37,679 --> 00:42:40,800 Speaker 4: She's heartbroken that Scott Woobard was let go as the 819 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:41,679 athletic director. 820 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 2: Yeah that's a big statement. Yeah. 821 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,840 Speaker 4: To not show up, yeah, yeah, to not show up 822 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,280 for sure, And obviously, you know Kim Moulkee National Championship 823 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,159 winning head coach and somebody Scott brought in here, and 824 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,159 you can say what you want, like she didn't go 825 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,280 to LSU. Everybody's like, oh, that was an easy choice. 826 00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:01,400 She didn't go to LSU, to Louisian Tech. She's not 827 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,159 from Baton Rouge. She's from Louisiana for sure. Yeah, and 828 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,119 she had a pretty successful thing. 829 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,159 Speaker 2: She was an institution there. 830 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,840 Speaker 5: Like trying to pull her away took some doing, and 831 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,760 it took some skill, and it took a relationship there 832 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,239 that I'm sure they obviously they had a wonderful relationship. 833 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,639 If she's not doing a press conference after an exhibition 834 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,960 because because of saying she was heartbroken. 835 00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:30,559 Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's a lot, man, It's it's a lot. 836 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,679 Speaker 5: So when you start talking about this, it's easy to 837 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,039 talk about this from a performance pay stampoint, it's easy 838 00:43:35,079 --> 00:43:37,679 to talk about this from a fan standpoint of just 839 00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,039 saying we don't have the best, want the best, want 840 00:43:39,079 --> 00:43:40,960 the best, which is great, and we should have the best. 841 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,559 Speaker 2: They will always have to keep. 842 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,159 Speaker 5: In mind that these are actual human beings that we're 843 00:43:45,159 --> 00:43:48,000 talking about. These are human beings, families, their lives, they 844 00:43:48,079 --> 00:43:51,320 uproot there, and of course everybody's compensated well for it. 845 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,599 So we're not asking anyone to feel sorry for anybody, certainly, 846 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,559 but just keep in mind that there's a human element 847 00:43:56,679 --> 00:43:59,719 to all of these decisions. And like I said yesterday, 848 00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:02,599 we went over there, Jake and I did yesterday at 849 00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:04,440 their LSU's working at the football facility. 850 00:44:04,679 --> 00:44:07,119 Speaker 2: There is a group of great people over there, for sure. 851 00:44:07,159 --> 00:44:10,000 Speaker 5: As crazy as all this other stuff sounds, that is 852 00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:12,360 probably more stable than it has been in a long time. 853 00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:16,159 Speaker 2: That that building over there, that's that's actually incredibly fair 854 00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,599 because I've been in there. What we talk about. 855 00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,679 Speaker 5: Ye yeah, they got to finish out this season and 856 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,960 that thing is more stable than it has been and 857 00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:26,480 it's awesome and they are galvanizing that energy we felt 858 00:44:26,599 --> 00:44:30,880 yesterday was great, but it was a building full of 859 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,519 people that have uncertain futures. There's a building full of people, 860 00:44:34,599 --> 00:44:36,920 like I said yesterday, that don't know where their kids 861 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:39,960 are going to be going to school in January. Maybe 862 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,199 it's here, maybe it's not. But that's that's what that's 863 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,639 Everybody signs up for it. Again, I don't want to 864 00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:47,960 feel sorry for anybody, but that's just what it is 865 00:44:48,119 --> 00:44:49,679 there's a human element to all of this, and I 866 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,480 think we all just it's just wise for us all 867 00:44:51,559 --> 00:44:53,840 to kind of step back, take a deep breath, and 868 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,320 just realize that, just remember that there is there's human 869 00:44:58,360 --> 00:44:59,079 beings involved here. 870 00:44:59,679 --> 00:45:04,599 Speaker 4: Yeah, and i'd like to tell you that it doesn't 871 00:45:04,639 --> 00:45:07,239 look messy right now. I think i'd be lying to you. 872 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,320 Speaker 2: I think it does the lot. 873 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,239 Speaker 4: There's a lot going on at the same time, and 874 00:45:12,519 --> 00:45:16,679 everything's in fast forward right now, and there's just not 875 00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,119 been a situation that I can. 876 00:45:18,119 --> 00:45:19,519 Speaker 2: Remember that's ever played out like this. 877 00:45:20,079 --> 00:45:23,000 Speaker 4: And I know it's unique circumstances with having new leadership 878 00:45:23,119 --> 00:45:27,360 right now, but it does feel like a spiral right now. 879 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,360 And you've got to find a way to shore some 880 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,679 of these things up and create a structure and create 881 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,280 some foundation because right now, like you feel like you're about, 882 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,159 you know, on the verge of you know, collapsing here 883 00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:42,400 if you. 884 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,599 Speaker 2: Don't kind of get some stabilization to it. 885 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,719 Speaker 5: So, yeah, and change brings about it does uncertainty and 886 00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,519 a little bit that craziness, But I can tell you 887 00:45:51,599 --> 00:45:54,119 the waters are stable over there in the Football Ops building. 888 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:54,840 Speaker 2: All right. 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