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Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Raus's and you heard
Tata there. As soon as they go live on the
press conference, we will send you directly over there. So
when we see somebody at the podium, we are going
to throw it to the press conference kind of a
state of where LSU football, LSU athletics is after they've
had a lot of things going on, a lot of movement.
You've had head coach fired, You've had the athletic director fired.
And I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we are ready
to go. So we are going to send you here
in a little bit to the We're trying to get
pulled up right now. We're gonna send you to the
press conference for LSU and it's gonna be kind of
a just a hey, state of the union, because Matt,
there's a lot of things going on. I think a
lot of people will want to understand where LSU's at
right now, and there's going to be some questions that
certainly hope at least get asked about the stability of
where you're at just from everything from everything, like, Okay,
what's the structure going to be when we're going to
have a president, when we're gonna have an ad, when
we're gonna have a coach, because right now you are
just floating in the air just with nowhere to land.
Speaker 2: You're in purgatory right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I mean what I expect to hear is
kind of, you know, some feel good statements. Hey, we
got this under control. We'll give you more information as
it goes, but you know, hopefully we don't. Hopefully we
get some sort of detail into the thought process of
the decisions that have been made in the thought process
and timeline of what they expect. Hopefully it's not just
a bunch of word salads up there. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: So who's speaking in this press conference there?
Speaker 4: Thinking like, hm, who would actually be the person behind
the microphone right now? That's a good question, you know
what I mean, could typically be the president. If it
was the president, would be the athletic director.
Speaker 2: Yep I guess merge.
Speaker 5: The head of the board is Scott Ballard of could
be him, but I mean I guess yeah, the interim
athletic director. I would assume yeah, I would assume it
would be virgin.
Speaker 2: All right, So we're gonna throw it back to studio A.
Speaker 4: Landra does have the audio ready to go of the
l s U press conference and staff.
Speaker 2: I'll say it again, this is l s U.
Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor an excitement to introduce
the ex interim Athletic Director of LSUGE.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to give thanks
to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush,
Chairman Athletic part of the board, to the university administration
and the fellow board members for giving me this opportunity.
Speaker 2: This is a grappat tune.
Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Iberia, Louisiana who had
the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started
the bottom, started last on a depth chart, worked my
way through the ranks. I was able to start here
two years, lead the team in tackles, two years, played
on some very successful teams to SEC championship teams That's
why I started from the hard work Paul aiding that
into my career here started the bottom again as a
graduate assistant, working in compliance, working in academics, working with
how Athletic Foundation. From there socialth letic director with skip Bergmann,
work my way through the ranks. So I know what
hard work is. I know what it is to be
a part of LSH. I walked these halls, I walked
those squads. I walked Allen Hall, Coats Hall, all the
great halls at LSU. I want to know how fan
based on one thing, LSU is not broken. LSH Athletic
Department is not broken. I think we have the best
athletic department in the country. I think we have the
best staff in the country. The executive team is second
to none. I put them up against anyone. They're the
best and they would get the job of the.
Speaker 8: Border supervisors and the person who've made chair of the
LSU Athletic Committee, who will give you more information about
your next steps about our next step.
Speaker 6: Thanks Chairman Valid. What an exciting day here today at LSU.
As Chair of Athletics Committee, it is my responsibility with
my fellow board members to ensure that LSU athletics is
positioned as a national leader in college sport.
Speaker 9: It is important to me and many others the.
Speaker 6: LSU and our state restore balance so we can reclaim
the future we built in athletics as an institution and
as a state. As we transition into the next chapter,
I'm proud to introduce Verge Ausbury as an interim director
of Athletics, and I have to tell you we are
very excited. Verge is the ideal person to lead this
department through this change, and I want to be very
clear he has full authority to do so. That includes
leading the search for our next head coach and hiring
our next head coach.
Speaker 9: Verge is a native son of Louisiana and LSU.
Speaker 6: He is a multi multi time alumnus of this institution,
a former championship winning linebacker.
Speaker 2: For the football team.
Speaker 9: In a long time senior university administrator.
Speaker 2: Simply put, he.
Speaker 6: Spent all of his adult life working to make this
athletic department and this state better. Not only has Verge
worked in almost every area of that athletic department since
he started as an employee in nineteen ninety one, but
he's also been a tremendous asset to the university leadership
with his campus role in government, governmental and community relations.
Speaker 9: From the time he arrived on campus.
Speaker 6: As a football student athlete, ViRGE has been associated with
excellence and championship. That's the standard he will uphold as
interim Athletic Director.
Speaker 9: Let's all ways, remember this is LSU.
Speaker 6: This is the greatest athletics program in the country, and
we will continue to be an elite destination for student athletes, coaches,
and staff.
Speaker 9: I'll say it again, this is LSU.
Speaker 6: With that, it is my honor and excitement to introduce
the next interim Athletic Director of LSU.
Speaker 2: Merge Asburg.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Chairman Carlmush. I would like to get thanks
to Scott Ballard, Chairman of the Boy Supervisors, John Carmush,
Chairman Athletic part of the Board, to the university administration
and the fellow board.
Speaker 2: Members for giving me this opportunity. This is a grapper tune.
Speaker 7: I'm a little boy from New Ibera, Louisiana who had
the opportunity to come here in nineteen eighty five. Started
at the bottom, started last on the depth chart, worked
my way through the ranks. I was able to start
here two years lead the team in tackles, two years
played on some very successful teams, two SEC championship teams.
That's why I start from the hard work Paul aid,
and then to my career here started to bottom again.
It's a graduate assistant working in compliance, working in academics,
working from their Tiger Athletic foundation, from their social letter
director with skip Bergmann, work my way through the ranks,
so I know what hard work is. I know what
it is to be a part of LSH. I walked
these halls, I walked those squads, I walked Allen Hall,
coachs Hall, all the great halls at LSU. I want
to know our fan based on one thing. LSU is
not broken. Lschathlete apartment is not broken. I think we
have the best athletic department in the country. I think
we have the best staff in the country. The executive
team is second or none. I put them up against anyone.
They're the best and they would get the job done.
Our coaches a second or none. We have the best.
We have championship coaches here. I've been blessed to work
with championship coaches Kill Malki, Jay Clark, Jay Johnson, Dennis Schaeffer,
who's not here with track team, Garrett Runyon, who won
a national championship in golf as an assistant coach here at LSH.
They're great coaches and many other great coaches who win championships.
That's what we expect here we LSU. This place is
not Brooklyn, that's later Department's not Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: We win. I mean part of eighteen national.
Speaker 7: Championships at LSU as an administrator, six recently, been part of
four national championship games, won three national championships, been part
of seven SEC championships two as a player. I know
what it takes to win. We know what it takes
to win, and that's our jobs and that's our mission.
I mean, fortunate enough to work with three of the
best coaches in the world, Kill Malki, Nick Saban, and
Skip Bertman. So my heritage go back with those people
and the ability that they gave me and what they
taught me to be the best. We're going to be
the best at a the third quarter, the fourth quarter,
put the third and fourth quarter. Last week, I walked
on the field during that football game, and I just
wanted to see what was going on when you're a
good administrator. You just don't watch what's going on on
the field. You watch the sidelines, you watch the stands,
you watch everything around you. That's important to be a
good administrator. I went down there on that field, I
saw something. I saw empty seats. It's empty suites. I
saw our stadium, Tiger Stadium, halfway empty. It's not a
good thing. Witty Hay has always said a worst word
in addictionary's apathy. This program cannot have apathy in no way.
Speaker 2: A means.
Speaker 7: We have to win. We have to be successful. We
are just say this all the time. We're the movie makers.
We're the financers, the administrators, the coaches, you're the producers.
The athletes, which is for the most important, they're the actors.
That's who are important here to us. We have to
do everything to make sure that the student athletes get
what they need, the coaches get what they need. Our
job is support. Next chapter is that to high football coach.
I'm hire the best football coach there is. That's our jobs.
We're going to go out there. We are not going
to let this program fail. LSU has to be in
the playoffs every year. In football, there's twelve teams that
make it. It's going to expand here. We have to
be one of those at LSU. No substitute. We have
to be talked about on ESPA and every channel were
talking about LSU football. That is the way this big
building here has to be successful. If we're going to
be successful as athletic department, it's the measuring state that.
Speaker 2: We have here.
Speaker 7: I have formed a committee or that committee would be
Scott Ballot, Chairman of the Board, John Carmusch Chairman of Athletics,
Ben Bordelon. As you know, Ben Bolin is a former
football player here Bolinger Shipping CEO, e J Kuiper, e
J Kiper ceo of Oshner. I'm not sorry, I'm so
so sorry, Later.
Speaker 2: Of the Lake.
Speaker 7: He would be on the committee, and there'll be another
myself and there will be another member of the committee,
uh that we are talking to right now this time.
Those are the people that can be responsible for helping
us find the next great football coach at r SU.
Speaker 2: Open up for any questions. This is ah to start with.
Speaker 10: Scott Ballard Wilson was entered the advocate in the front,
sir right here. How exactly was it decided that Scott
would would and lsc.
Speaker 2: Would part ways?
Speaker 10: Did his board and him have autonomy to make that
decision or was the governor involved in that final say?
Speaker 9: John, the governor was not involved.
Speaker 2: The governor.
Speaker 6: Is worried about the state of Louisiana. His concern had
to do with the state contract. L SU Board of
Supervisor and mister Woodward decided jointly to point part ways.
Speaker 11: Michael Cobble w b Z TV invetors, John, you can
take this if you want, or Scott, but representing the board,
why did you all deem it necessary to part ways?
Version just talked about six championships, were four months removed
from a baseball national championship. Those things sound like success
to the common person. So why was there this mutual
agreement to part it was?
Speaker 6: It was a It was a joint decision where we
the board and and mister Wooward had discussions and it
was a joint decision.
Speaker 9: Thought it was the best for both parties.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess to see either for Scott or for
John will will l s U buy out the remainder
of Scott Woodard's contract.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what can you repeat that?
Speaker 12: I didn't know an I'm sorry, Matt Moscona from ESPN diverge,
will l s U or the board buy out the
remainder of Scott Woodward's contract.
Speaker 6: It's my understanding they're working on that right now, and
I'm sure when it's done it it'll be public.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah.
Speaker 13: Brevmont Tell the Associated Press, I had a similar question.
I was wondering, Yeah, it looks like based on its
contract he's owed at least five million or so on
based salary, nevermind incentives. And I was also wondering what
revenue stream would be.
Speaker 2: Are you are you eyeing to pay that to pay
that buyer.
Speaker 8: Revenue stream, as I've said before, will be it is
generated from the athletic department. Uh, it's self generated funds
and or private donations.
Speaker 9: That's where it comes from.
Speaker 8: Does not come from state dollars that that that are
allocated towards other things like education, So it'll come from
self generated athletic funds and or private donations.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Kyra Nevou with w BO in New Orleans.
My question, Miss Osbury for you.
Speaker 4: Obviously you're at the enter right now, but are you
seeking to fulfill this position full time.
Speaker 7: At this time? That's not a concern right now, I'm concerned.
It's trying to get the best football coach we have
here and make sure this department is stable.
Speaker 2: That's my job. I'm not looking to do anything.
Speaker 7: Future from that, but right now it's just stabilize and department,
making sure the coaches and the executive team is okay
when everything they do and they're getting out of support
and hiring a football coach.
Speaker 10: Question about the contracts, Jeff Landrys made it very clear
that he would like to see more of an incentive
based contract to avoid that large biot that Brian Kelly
has been owed. How do you plan to do that
within this search and do you worry that that will
deter any candidates.
Speaker 7: I've spoken to the board members on side of me
right here and other board members, and our job I
was total to get the best football coach there is.
Speaker 2: You don't worry about that at all.
Speaker 7: So my thing is we're gonna go there together as
a team and we get the best contract, get the
best coach we have, and whatever it takes to get
that person here, we will.
Speaker 11: Do verge familiar just again timeline for that and the
committee that you said you assembled five people, do you
feel like that's the right size. Should there be more
people involved?
Speaker 7: Do you think we're looking at it one more person?
The process has started, processes started since we made the
decision on Sunday, and there's no really timeline. We've been
looking at a lot of people, five exact lists, but
we know what we want here, we know what we
expect here, and we don't have the best coach here
in Tiger sad.
Speaker 2: For Scott or John?
Speaker 12: Is there a timeline for naming a full time athletic director?
And Verge, if you want to follow up, you've been
a candidate in the past.
Speaker 2: What would change the time if you weren't a candidate?
Speaker 9: Discussion, I'll speak to every one.
Speaker 8: There is not a timeline set for that. The first thing,
like Verge said, the full count tration is to find
a coach, find the best coach period. That process has
already started, as Verge said, with the team the athletic department,
so truly is not something we're even going to address
until we get that done.
Speaker 11: Scott, let's stay with you if you don't mind, just
does the coaching candidate, athletic director or whatever. Do these
jobs have to have Louisiana ties to them, And if so,
why do you feel that way.
Speaker 8: Verg's license is to go find the best coach. I
think people in Louisiana love to have Louisiana people, and
I'm no different. I was born here, and God will
and I'll die here. But that is not a litmus
per se. But if Verge can go find one that
has Louisiana ties, then awesome, But that is not a
litmus for them.
Speaker 13: Hey, there, Brett Mark Tellegan with AP, I just I
want to give you the opportunity because I think a
lot of the LSU fan base, and you know, people
following this are somewhat confused as about the extent to
which performance based considerations led to Scott's departure. Is there
anything specific that you'd want to address in that regard.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure I understand the question. But but if
the performance of Scott and I mean like like, like
John said, it was a mutual agreement after conversations and
and with all the things that come into that energy
and and and and family and what you're doing, and
you know, nothing's off the table of why Scott and
and and l s U had a mutual agreement that
after those conversations that that they mutually agreed that that
it was a good idea. Scott is a great human being,
Scott is a good baton Rouge, Lsu Tiger. It had
nothing to do with any of that. It had everything
to do with the path of both conversations, and they
mutually agreed that it was time. It wasn't an Lsu thing,
It wasn't a Scott thing.
Speaker 14: So the word will be hiring a new president on Tuesday,
can you speak to the extent he will be involved
in the search for either the head coach or the
permanent athletic director.
Speaker 9: Was that to me?
Speaker 14: What'd you say, morning, Scott? Yes, any of y'all can
answer that, y'all will be hiring a new president on Tuesday.
To what extent will he be involved in the search
for the head coach or the permanent athletic director.
Speaker 8: The new president will be announced on Tuesday, and he
or she or he we have the three candidates, Well,
we'll be We're not going down for that. Verge is
going to move forward and knows what he needs to do.
But depending on how that works out and when the
new president starts, but the new president will absolutely have
input and and hopefully hit the hit the ground running.
But depending on you know, what the choice is. We've
got to also respect that they've got to unwind some
stuff as well.
Speaker 2: For a few more questions for RGE.
Speaker 11: If you have questions for Herd, you got we have morenutes. Okay,
I'm sorry, this one's for John.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 11: Just given the governor's speaking points about the contract and
the legal ease of the of the contract for Brian
going forward, is it a point of emphasis to remove
L s U as the libel party for these contracts?
It would be a departure from the way they've been
written in the past. Is that something that kind of
you guys have marching orders to make sure isn't acted
in these next deals.
Speaker 6: Well, let me make it clear the governor had a
right to be concerned, and we're working towards UH solutions.
Any everything's on the table. But let me make it
clear the state has never and the taxpayers have never
paid for a coach and never will so.
Speaker 2: U mappen easy at w B.
Speaker 15: Just given the timing of Scott's departure, with the firing
of Brian Kelly, for new candidates being considered for the
coaching position. Could the lapse and not having a president
name just yet now verge being in the spot you're
in now, could that deter candidates away? And is that
why the timing of all this has happened to keep
candidates considering l s U as a as a destination.
Speaker 7: Could you ask the question through me? Yeah, uh, well,
let's shoe Uh my phone is still ringing. Before you know,
this has happened a lot of a lot of people
kind of still I want to come to l SG.
Speaker 2: It's one of the best jobs in the country.
Speaker 7: It is the best job in the country at this time,
and we're gonna find the right person and I don't
see any problems getting the right person to being ahead
coache lsh.
Speaker 8: Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: All right, right, congratulations.
Speaker 4: Less welcome back in to OTB. That was the LSU
press conference. There, board of supervisors, very Jobsbury now the
interim athletic director. And there'll a lot to get to
so unpackt there a lot of impact writing down some
notes and taking a look at uh you know what
that was and some of the questions that were asked.
And so we'll take a break. We'll try to play
catch up. Obviously, it's a twenty three minute opening segment
because the Tatane Laundry did a great job of recognizing
that getting that on the air. So we appreciate y'all
having that for us. So we'll break it all down
when we come back here. It is OTB live from Rouses,
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Speaker 5: I'm out of breath. I don't know about y'all. A
lot to unpack from that. From that press conference, I
think the major news that everybody was needing to know,
wanting to know that, we got the answer at there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the associate athletic.
Speaker 5: The interim athletic director, now Verge Osberry is going to
have complete control of the job search and have the
authority to make a new higher.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So there's an answer right there. We've been talking.
Speaker 4: Does that pretty much say that Verge is the leading
candidate to be the athletic director, Like it does to
me because so many times the athletic director is tied
to the head coach, the head coach of the ad. Right,
it's all you know when when you get a new
AD in the same coach, it's always like, yeah, it
was never really his guy, and it's like you got
to have your guy. It's like, well that Verge is
making the hire. That tells me right now. And just
by listening to that press conference in the way they
talked about Verge, he's, without questioning, the leader in the
clubhouse to be the athletic director.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of those cool questions because, uh, there's
a quote here there's no timeline for hiring a new
full time athletic director, So there's no timeline for that.
So there's certainly they have nothing in their aspirations that's
going to say we need to hire an ad full
time ad first for him to pick his own head coach.
So if it ends up being somebody outside of Verge,
the coach is already going to be there.
Speaker 2: He won't be tied to that new head coach.
Speaker 5: And how appealing is that going to be to a
head coach that is wanting to become the new head coach?
Lsu If you're going to say all right, yeah, we're
gonna hire you, but in a month there's going to
be a new AD, so you're not going to be
his guy. I don't think that's a great situation. So
if they better be getting the language out there saying
Verge is going to be the dude if he's hiring you,
if he's making.
Speaker 2: A movie, he's hiring you. You need that coach needs
to know.
Speaker 5: The coach is going to need want to know that
in Stone. Yeah, whether you put it out there, coach
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter the level of experience they have, the
resume that they have.
Speaker 2: They are one. They are going to want to.
Speaker 4: Know who is my bass, who is my direct contact,
Who is the leader of the athletic programs?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean for the comparison, the NFL comparison. It's
like a head coach knows he's got a short leash
if they bring in a new GM and he's the
head coach, right because that's not.
Speaker 2: Not his guy.
Speaker 5: So that was the big news right from the jump,
that verge. He's got control of the job search. They
have tasked them. Doesn't matter if the guys from Louise,
and it doesn't matter what the ties are. He is
tasked with finding the best coach in football and that's
it ask and he has a full authority in power
to make that decision.
Speaker 2: Look, that's what we heard.
Speaker 4: Oh hey Richard Dixon enjoying breakfast. Hey little breakfast bar
dig Dixon. Don't think we won't put you to work here, bud,
So enjoy that breakfast before we put you to work.
Speaker 5: The next big news that I saw is there is
going to be a committee that's going to have input.
I'm assuming based on the words that they just said.
Verge is going to have the final stamp of approval
right of course as the athletic director. But the committee,
and this committee is formulated of John Carmush, who's I
think the Board of Supervisors Athletic Committee's chair, who is
the senior partner of a law firm, Ben Borderline, former
player of course, Bolinger Shipyards done a lot of great things,
Scott Ballard who we just saw, who is the head
of the.
Speaker 9: E. J.
Speaker 5: Kuiper, who is the CEO of OLOL, and Verge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they said one more person.
Speaker 4: Man, my phone had he said, he said, we're already
in talks with that person. My phone hasn't ring yet.
So I was trying hard to get on that committee.
I'm show I was. I was really wanting to be.
I wanted I wanted somebody that's currently tied into college
football nationally, and I'm very fortunate that I get that
opportunity on my other show.
Speaker 2: And I have every every coach.
Speaker 4: That is listed, I've had in person interviews, conversations with them,
and I don't know, I just I want somebody that's
kind of tied into maybe some some different areas of
the country as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't want to like, so I was
real when I said I don't want to. I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't want to put foot and mouth here, okay,
because we do that every day.
Speaker 2: Are people that are in charge of this committee?
Speaker 5: Of the names on this list, who on here makes
you feel good that they know football coaching? I'm very
successful obviously. CEO of a hospital, great? Does he know
football coaches?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: No idea, Scott Ballad, You're you're the board of supervisor?
Are great?
Speaker 5: I know you got your finger on the pulse of
Louisiana and politics and all that stuff. Do you know
football nationally?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 5: At a at an intimate level, do you know how
to look at a man's eye for the football aspect
of things?
Speaker 2: What do you? Yeah?
Speaker 4: When when he comes in and hey, here's my coordinators,
here's my scheme, here's my plan, here's how I plan
to recruit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like this John Carmush, guy, I sure he
does great things.
Speaker 2: He's a senior partner in law firm.
Speaker 5: Same question now, virgin Ben Borderline, Yeah, okay, I got it.
Speaker 2: I don't know me. Who's this?
Speaker 5: Who's this last person? I don't know they inviting Saban
to be on the board. I have no idea. Is
that going to be the football pert? I have no idea.
I feel good that Verge is there. Yeah, but I
don't know what kind of say all these other folks
are going to have in a It's a very valid
question coaching football coaching job search. You want football people
that know football coaches and coaching to make those decisions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what we talked about it. Right after we
took a break, I said, wait a minute, hold up,
hold on, we're a football guy. And again I'm not
saying that that's the only voice, but you want a
football voice on there. You want somebody that you know
understands coaching and been around coaching and understands the dynamics
of a team and understands the dynamics of all the
things that have to come together to make a great
football team. And when he's talking scheme, be it an
offense or a defensive coach, Hey we're going to run
you know this offense, or hey we're you know, this
is our defensive philosophy. Here's where we like to live.
Here's what I'm thinking about hiring from my assistant coach
is here's what this guy can do in recruiting for.
Speaker 5: Us, And don't get a twisted like I know these
guys are way smarter.
Speaker 4: Way more better, smarter and smarter and a lot of things,
but not smarter in football. Yeah, so it's like you
have to get an amalgamation of all these things. Like
that's that's why you have a committee because there's something.
There's a pillar in every single thing, and that's how
you stabilize it because if you don't have one pillar
for this, then the building.
Speaker 2: Is going to fall.
Speaker 4: But if you have it for everything, and Verge is
going to be a large portion of that. Verge does
no football at a national level. I have many conversations
with me.
Speaker 5: A lot of comfortability for sure, the rest of the
committee and maybe not what Ben.
Speaker 2: Not talking about. Ben just from the ive been played football,
been knows football right, but around got it. We're talking
about like having.
Speaker 4: An idea of the current landscape of college football and
again like knowing these coaches and understanding these coaches and
knowing when they're talking, knowing if it's real for its
bull stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm sweating now, I know. But let's just say this
before we do go.
Speaker 5: We are extremely happy for Verde that he has this
opportunity to make a name for himself because he's been
he loves l He's just like Frank Wilson being the
inner coaching.
Speaker 4: Birds was over there yesterday and Birds wasn't over there.
Speaker 2: First thing.
Speaker 4: Bird said, I am not here as an administrator right now.
Speaker 2: I am here as.
Speaker 4: A former LSU Tiger to talk to the current LSU Tigers.
That's right, because that's how much he loves this place
and cares for this place.
Speaker 2: Happy for him, no question about it.
Speaker 4: Like Verge being there, I am incredibly he has paid
his dues. We're just talking about like the totality of
all the people that are coming together to make this decision.
Speaker 2: All right, I know we are long for a break.
We'll take it now.
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bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 5: Oh guess what they got semin roles, French toast and
waffles over there, they got.
Speaker 2: The sweet Are they spicing it up for us today?
Up a little bit? I think they know that we
got a lot going on and they want us to
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Sure right you are, Dale's gotta Yeah, So why wouldn't
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Huh god? So what else you got there in those notes?
Speaker 5: But I got a lot of stuff in the notes
trying to figure out what to kind of go to next.
It did sound like from some of the questioning that
there was real no plan at least that they were
prepared to let the public know about what.
Speaker 2: The plan was for the buyout. Oh yeah, it's very vague.
It was very vague. Yeah. So a lot of this like,
you know, you're not going to hire it.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to announce a full time ad if
were hiring a coach, you don't really have a plan
for the buyout. A lot of this kind of feels
like it's, uh, fire ready aim type situation.
Speaker 2: But maybe not, we'll see.
Speaker 5: I just found that kind of interesting that, you know,
it's the lot they knew if they knew what the
bio is, because.
Speaker 2: It's going to come out, right, Deli's going to get it.
It's going to come out. So that tells me there
is no plan. That's just but I eat him. Maybe
they're not.
Speaker 5: Stressed about it because they know it's going to get
figured out. Maybe it's one of those.
Speaker 4: Types that you can again clock because twenty five minute
press conference. But I'll say this before we step away
and try to play catch up. Whatever the list of
coaching candidates is, I just hope that whoever's on the
committee realizes that it's different than it's ever been before.
Speaker 2: The needs of your head coach are different, the understanding
of your head coach is different.
Speaker 4: The way that it was always done before does not
work anymore, at least to the level that you want
it to.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: Even coach Saban at the very end, right, it was
a little bit different for him. That's why he got out.
Speaker 2: He didn't like it.
Speaker 4: He wasn't going to be as successful Dabo Sweeney. He
might have won the ACC last year, but it wasn't
because they were the best team. Like they found a way,
they got hot and they won the last game and
it was I was trying not to say that, but yea,
it was the ACC. Look at where they're at this
year because Dabo's stuck in his ways and doesn't want
to change with college football. Look at Brian Kelly at
Lshue look at James Franklin at Penn State, all right,
not saying you can't win games, but you can't win trophies.
Speaker 2: Now you go to who's dominating right now and you
kind of look at it and you're.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, well, it's either a coach that did it
the old way and said I'll do whatever it takes to.
Speaker 2: Catch up with the.
Speaker 4: Times and change my ways. Still have my identity, but
I'll change my ways enough. Kurt Signetti is a guy
that's doing it in the way that you need to.
Ryan Day kind of changed some things.
Speaker 2: He was doing. He's now in that. Mike Elko does that,
Dan Lanning does that. Kirby change some of the things
he was doing.
Speaker 4: Lane certainly has found a way to be successful in
this current time. Brent Key, Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame,
and we can continue to go down the list, Josh
Hipel at Tennessee. The game's different right now, and whoever's
on the board committee, whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2: I hope they realize that.
Speaker 4: I hope they realized that it's no longer the coach
that ten years ago would have been the home run.
Five years ago that would have been the home run. Okay,
there's multiple ways to be successful, but it starts with
the head coach and a head coach that understands where
we're currently at. And when I say where, I mean
college football, the way it's moving forward.
Speaker 2: And it's a different time.
Speaker 4: I mean it's Verge look sees Marcus Freeman all the time.
Birge has a son that plays for Notre Dame, so
Verge sees the way Marcus Freeman goes about his business
on a weekly basis.
Speaker 5: Verge has been around a long time and he gets it.
He understands it, and hopefully he understands kind of what
needs to be next and just kind of like kind
of what you said, And I think what you're saying
right now is what a lot of people are feeling.
And I'm hoping that's what this committee let's put together
is also feeling now.
Speaker 2: Feelings aside.
Speaker 5: Got to be able to go find that person and
decipher that person from a long list of people you're
gonna get thrown a lot of different names out.
Speaker 2: Can you go through there?
Speaker 5: Can you do your own recruiting on our analysis of
a coach and figure that out? Because I think we're
all feeling and saying and doing the same thing. We
all feel the same way about what needs to be done.
Now you just got to go in and find that
person and have the right people to negotiate that contract.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll play catch up. We'll take a break.
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Speaker 3: From the locker room to the airwaves.
Speaker 1: Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: All Right, welcome back in.
Speaker 4: It is OTB here live from Rous's on Burbank and Lee.
One of the things we haven't talked about yet. So
last night LSU women's basketball had an exhibition game and
coach Kim Milky was not at the press conference, and
you know.
Speaker 2: They didn't really try to hide it. Said she's not
here because.
Speaker 4: She's heartbroken that Scott Woobard was let go as the
athletic director.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a big statement. Yeah.
Speaker 4: To not show up, yeah, yeah, to not show up
for sure, And obviously, you know Kim Moulkee National Championship
winning head coach and somebody Scott brought in here, and
you can say what you want, like she didn't go
to LSU. Everybody's like, oh, that was an easy choice.
She didn't go to LSU, to Louisian Tech. She's not
from Baton Rouge. She's from Louisiana for sure. Yeah, and
she had a pretty successful thing.
Speaker 2: She was an institution there.
Speaker 5: Like trying to pull her away took some doing, and
it took some skill, and it took a relationship there
that I'm sure they obviously they had a wonderful relationship.
If she's not doing a press conference after an exhibition
because because of saying she was heartbroken.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, there's a lot, man, It's it's a lot.
Speaker 5: So when you start talking about this, it's easy to
talk about this from a performance pay stampoint, it's easy
to talk about this from a fan standpoint of just
saying we don't have the best, want the best, want
the best, which is great, and we should have the best.
Speaker 2: They will always have to keep.
Speaker 5: In mind that these are actual human beings that we're
talking about. These are human beings, families, their lives, they
uproot there, and of course everybody's compensated well for it.
So we're not asking anyone to feel sorry for anybody, certainly,
but just keep in mind that there's a human element
to all of these decisions. And like I said yesterday,
we went over there, Jake and I did yesterday at
their LSU's working at the football facility.
Speaker 2: There is a group of great people over there, for sure.
Speaker 5: As crazy as all this other stuff sounds, that is
probably more stable than it has been in a long time.
Speaker 2: That that building over there, that's that's actually incredibly fair
because I've been in there. What we talk about.
Speaker 5: Ye yeah, they got to finish out this season and
that thing is more stable than it has been and
it's awesome and they are galvanizing that energy we felt
yesterday was great, but it was a building full of
people that have uncertain futures. There's a building full of people,
like I said yesterday, that don't know where their kids
are going to be going to school in January. Maybe
it's here, maybe it's not. But that's that's what that's
Everybody signs up for it. Again, I don't want to
feel sorry for anybody, but that's just what it is
there's a human element to all of this, and I
think we all just it's just wise for us all
to kind of step back, take a deep breath, and
just realize that, just remember that there is there's human
beings involved here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and i'd like to tell you that it doesn't
look messy right now. I think i'd be lying to you.
Speaker 2: I think it does the lot.
Speaker 4: There's a lot going on at the same time, and
everything's in fast forward right now, and there's just not
been a situation that I can.
Speaker 2: Remember that's ever played out like this.
Speaker 4: And I know it's unique circumstances with having new leadership
right now, but it does feel like a spiral right now.
And you've got to find a way to shore some
of these things up and create a structure and create
some foundation because right now, like you feel like you're about,
you know, on the verge of you know, collapsing here
if you.
Speaker 2: Don't kind of get some stabilization to it.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, and change brings about it does uncertainty and
a little bit that craziness, But I can tell you
the waters are stable over there in the Football Ops building.
Speaker 2: All right. Hour three.
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