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Our two of Off the Bench live from the Raising
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Off the Bench.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I didn't know you were waiting on them.
Speaker 6: You got our number two. Kick it off our number
two on a Monday morning. Again, we got the tripod
rolling today. Jacobesser out out today and tomorrow he is
at NFL owners meetings doing his serious radio job for
NFL Network. Of course, Jacob taking over the NFL spot
these days instead of doing college sports, so congrats to him.
So he's out there chopping it up with all the
NFL owners. Who knows what he's doing, hopefully slingings in
my hut.
Speaker 5: You weren't even doing that.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 4: It slings itself. Okay, speaks for itself. People.
Speaker 3: I needed you to be in like a my high singlet.
Speaker 6: I should do that, whole body, I should do it.
I'm okay. Look hand in the air. Miss an opportunity.
Speaker 3: Because not only does it give you free advertising from
mine eye, but also like people there aren't going to
necessarily know.
Speaker 2: That you own it.
Speaker 3: So they're like, damn, this dude's sponsored, Like this dude
must be legit, So now you're psyching out your opponents
at the same time.
Speaker 4: But that's a two for one, bud, That's true.
Speaker 6: We did get started in the race and you kind
of start in at heats. They're like, really their heats
are going off like every ten minutes into the course,
so they kind of they kind of pair you with
When you sign up, you got to put your age
group down, you got to put like your gold time,
so they kind of pair you with people in that
similar age group in gold Time, so like people that
you can be competitive with. There was a couple of
teams out there that we're kind of neck and neck
with us the whole time.
Speaker 4: One of them had an uh did.
Speaker 5: The listener beat you?
Speaker 6: Oh no, they were in they were kind of like
in a different little bit division.
Speaker 4: But I did. I did see him.
Speaker 6: I did see him a lot, so I spoke to
him before the race and after the race they got
they went I think their meat heat went off like
ten or twenty minutes right after us. But I did
see him, so shut out. But yeah, we did. We
had like three people that we were that we could
recognize from our heat that were like kind of neck
and neck with us.
Speaker 4: Beat them all. Not a big deal. They pulled a
head in the middle.
Speaker 2: We don't win, y'all.
Speaker 4: Seat.
Speaker 6: I actually don't know how it worked out in the heat.
I didn't check it out. I'd never never really got
like logged in there. Probably no, probably not. I mean
I doubt it now. I don't like we we what
was your type respect hour fifteen?
Speaker 5: But you wanted to finish.
Speaker 4: Hour and twenty was the goal?
Speaker 5: Okay, hell yeah yeah, so like, but.
Speaker 6: We really didn't know what was going to happen because
even in training and we never did the actual workout
of training. I probably ran twice as much during the
actual Hierarchs event than I did like in training. I
think we ran maybe four or five kilometers one time
and piometers no big deal, I found sound fancy when Yeah, not.
Speaker 4: A big deal. We did that.
Speaker 6: Uh, but we never did eight eight of them plus
everything else, So the.
Speaker 4: Bass a big deal.
Speaker 5: I have a kind of good question that a listener
sent in earlier.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good question, but okay.
Speaker 8: He basically was asking or he I can just play it,
but he was basically asking like what the significance of
hiring Heath Schroyer was, and like the Will Wade saga
that was going on, and he's just wondering, like why
was he the important piece there and why wouldn't Will
just directly report to the athletic director verge Osberry as
opposed to Heath coming in and kind of focusing on
basketball and helping Will. And I think that what it
is is that they had a really good relationship at
McNeice and from what I understand, Heath Stroyer was like
really really good at fundraising and making connections and basically
getting money to McNeese. So I think what he's being
tasked with is that for basketball specifically and to get
Will the resources that he needs. And I think that
Will and him really really got along when he was
at mcneie, So I don't think one was coming without
the other. Yeah, well, in the fundraising aspect of it
is pretty important too, but which is a.
Speaker 6: Big part of like college sport, which is what you
have to have none and and of course at a school,
especially at l s U, you are not going to
get anywhere near the line's share of the dedicated money
from the REV share you're gonna get a small percentage
of it, and they're not going.
Speaker 3: To guarantee you, Oh you're gonna have this budget. You're
gonna have that.
Speaker 2: It's up to guys like you Thrower to fundraise.
Speaker 4: It's up to.
Speaker 6: It's not like situation where he made them guarantee him
a certain amount of money everything. You can't do that
because you don't really know. And you got you got
Kim ok, you got Jay Johnson. They all are going
to be very upfront with their needs as well, so
you have to You got a fundraise.
Speaker 8: And I also think from what I'm also understanding is
that Wade Ruth is also really good at it too.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I want to but okay, before we get into a
little bit more deeper into Will Wade knows basketball, I
want to Yeah, I want to talk about l SU
women's basketball, their season coming to an end and pretty dramatic,
extraordinary fashion, just classic March Madness bracket ending. We saw
a lot, We've seen a lot of crazy endings, a
lot of like those classic March Madness innings, buzzer beater shots,
and of course, unfortunately LSU women's basketball falls to Duke
eighty seven to eighty five on a last second incredible
shot from Duke there at the end.
Speaker 4: But LSU falls.
Speaker 6: Their season comes to an end in the Sweet sixteen,
the fourth fourth Sweet Sixteen in a row for Kim
Moulke enter team, and a game which certainly wasn't just
lost in the last play. It was, you know, probably
a couple times throughout the game. You you probably probably
had moments where Duke went on a run. LSU was
down eighty three to seventy three, five minutes and eleven
seconds left in the game, so they fought back to
get into that position. They get up by one with
I don't remember how much time is on the clock
before the inbound play. The Duke runs a pretty actually
a pretty ballsy play, right They're down by one, and
they set up a they set up a play inbound
for a three pointer, and I thought, I.
Speaker 3: Actually built They panicked a little bit like they we're
only down one in that situation, they had the ball
down by the goal. The girl panics kind of kicks
it back out for kind of an ill advised shot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Ashlyn Jackson, I believe for Duke low probability shot.
She sits Therehflage's playing good defensive. Flage actually almost gets
her hand on the ball on the inbound pass, Pump
fakes a three pointer, steps to the right, makes it.
It circles around the rim probably fifteen times, it feels like,
and then it drops. Heartbreak for LSU, heartbreak for Lasue fans,
heartbreak for Fage and all the seniors and all the
players on that team, kim Olki obviously, and just a
really sad way to end the season in a really
great game, really hard fought game. I mean, credit to
them for coming back here. It is we're showing you
at there, I mean almost pops out scenes if you're
a Duke fan. That's an incredible, incredible ending. Of course,
heartbreak for LSU. But you know, we want to do
a hat tip to LSU women's basketball for a season
well fought a lot of breakout players Malaysia full while
they played incredible all season. She had a season high
actually in this dude game of twenty eight points. Mikayla
Williams had twenty two points. So LSU finishes their season
with a twenty nine and six record. As it comes
to close, and LSU was, like I said, fourth straight
sixteen sweet sixteen appearance. So that made a lot of news,
of course, but it didn't make us. A lot of
news came afterwards as well. Let me tell you there's
some there's some people out there who're just idiots, right.
A lot of people take it, try to take advantage
of people. A lot of people try to take advantage
of news out there. There's a lot of idiots out
there making fake posts and fake accounts on Twitter, which
is it's a resource that people get a lot of them.
I would say a lot of people get most of
their information from is from social media, and people are
pretty reckless out there with what they try to do
and just because they get their jolly's from it of
stirring the pot a little bit, and people out there
posting about kim Oke's fake retirement. She had to answer
this after her team gets ousted in the Sweet sixtent.
They have to answer. She's got to answer from credible
reporters who are reading this. They're like, well, we got
to like figure it out, like we don't, we don't
really know, but this is going around Twitter. She's got
to answer retirement questions after her team suffers a heartbreaking loss,
which is absolutely ridiculous, irresponsible people out there, So screw
you guys out there, whoever you are pretty dumb.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I can I can give you the name.
It's it's Tyler Dagel and it's not a real person.
Like that's I've read that too.
Speaker 4: It's like a it's like an AI generated. There's three.
Speaker 3: It's Tyler Daige, Old Joseph A Bear is another name,
and like they're just you know, it's one of those
photos that like kind of looks real, but the more
you click on it, you're like, Okay.
Speaker 2: This is not and uh they no media literacy kind
of popped up.
Speaker 5: Not the family photo.
Speaker 8: No, it was literally just like a picture of himself
and now.
Speaker 5: His whole family.
Speaker 3: So there's like you look at it close up, you
can tell that it's it's fake. But uh he uh
kind of popped up the whole L s U coach
and search like football, it just changed.
Speaker 5: He's like, you're gonna call me fake family.
Speaker 8: I mean the header literally says B S L s
U and people are falling.
Speaker 3: For this, covering L s U and baseball co host
of the B S L s U podcast, and it's where.
Speaker 2: Is the pop?
Speaker 5: Nobody can find it.
Speaker 2: So he's one of them.
Speaker 3: Joseph Abar is another which I remembered from a from
football season. He looks like he could be T BOP's cousin,
right right, and that's probably why they made it look like.
Speaker 8: That's this is what T bob and chat GBT and
they were like, this not look like him.
Speaker 4: This is Joseph.
Speaker 2: The rest of them, like the heading and everything is
the exact same.
Speaker 3: So these guys popped up during the and there were
some information that was correct, but all they were really
doing was like, oh we heard this and this, let's
put it out there see if it sticks.
Speaker 2: And some of it did, so people were like, are
they real? Are they fake? These are very much fake?
Speaker 3: People like somebody runs the account, but like there is
no Joseph Abert Tyler Dagel.
Speaker 2: There's actually a third.
Speaker 3: One in the guy's name I cannot remember, but there's
three accounts and they popped up during football season, and
uh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6: Now you're allowed to have satire accounts, which you have
to put it. I think the rules of Twitch you
have to put parody on there.
Speaker 2: Imagine B S L s U in the header probably counts.
Speaker 6: I don't know, because you don't really know what BS
stands for or could stand for. So pretty sure you're
in your bio or your info about you you have
to put If you're a parody account, you have to
put parody or satire or something, or you can get
kicked off. And I know a lot of people reported
these jackalobes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but there's a real person running the account.
In all likelihood, these were not real people.
Speaker 5: I found the other guy.
Speaker 3: Here's the other one, James Robshow James, you're just giving.
Speaker 8: Themselves like Louisyana and they're like, we got this Joseph
a Bear and yeah, that's the third one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're all they're all kind of part of
the same.
Speaker 4: Can't believe he changes picture to the family picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was. I think it was just the thick
of him.
Speaker 5: It was just a hedshot.
Speaker 8: People are calling me fake.
Speaker 5: Let me put a fake family on here.
Speaker 4: That family's way too pretty for that.
Speaker 2: He's like, you think I'm fake, You think my whole
family's fake.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, but uh no, I mean it was
all a little bit fun Friday night.
Speaker 2: I'm sure Malki hated it.
Speaker 4: That's stupid that you have to answer that.
Speaker 3: Like it was funny in the post game, somebody goes,
I have to ask this random report popped up, and
Kim goes, well, that's why my phone was blowing up.
Speaker 2: I had like a thousand text messages after the game.
Speaker 4: Who asked a question.
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 5: The sword, Kim.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry I have to ask this. I don't want to,
but I have to. You're retiring, They're saying.
Speaker 8: Daniel Basham in the chat said BS means blessed souls.
Speaker 6: True. Hm, anyway, she said she wouldn't. Yeah, she's not
fake accounts.
Speaker 3: I mean you were talking about the team falling short
in the Sweet sixteen, Like, yeah, I told you before
the show.
Speaker 2: I thought this team reached their peak this year. I
thought they were elitated best.
Speaker 3: They didn't have a ton of like pure post players
like Coobal stepped up a little bit and my Adjoiner
stepped up, but I thought they lacked their molkey. Would
be crazy to retire. You're losing to my Adjoiner and
Flage Johnson. Everybody else is coming back. If you'll talk
about Grace Knox, I mean she's popped up her about
freshman Bella Hines, freshman, Caleb Williams back Malaysia. Full Wiley
has the ability to be back now with portal. We
don't know what any of these players are going to do.
They could literally all enter the transfer portal if they
wanted to. But you have the ability to get all
of these players back and have a really good basketball
team next year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we'll be excited. Of course.
Speaker 6: I kim Oke back roaming the sidelines next year, and.
Speaker 4: I did find it very uh.
Speaker 6: I found her responses to all the questions and everything
before her game about the Will Wade situation awesome.
Speaker 8: It was really funny with again Cobble. She was like, oh,
look it's Will Wade's favorite reporters.
Speaker 4: That was so good. It was amazing. I loved it.
Speaker 6: And then she gets asked a question at her press
conference since she said, I'm focusing on my teams like
she handled every thing, I thought the right way.
Speaker 4: I love the energy, I love the attitude. That's why
she's great.
Speaker 6: That's why she commands respect from all of her players
and all of her assistants and and the fan base.
Of course, it's because that's the fire that we love, right,
that's the fire that makes her great, made her one
of the greatest of all time. So a lot of
respect to her in the way she handled that situation
focusing on her team and she doesn't need to be
focused on any other team. She didn't be focused on
the men's team who were terrible this year and just
hired a new coach. You don't even focus We got
sweet sixteen game? Yeah, why answer it? Why answer anything
except about your ladies. So good for her, and that's
the energy that we like to see. Good for you anyway. Uh,
hat tip to the Lady Tigers on their season heartbreaking loss.
We wish you could have kept on going. But a
lot of respect for how you handed yourself, how you
carried yourself. And good luck to Flage of course as
she ends her career with LSU. All right, let's go
to break. We will keep talking. We'll talk a little
bit more about will Wave and big injury news on
the LSU football front. We'll let you know who that is,
what that is, and what that means for LSU. Right
when we come back, right here and off the.
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a little bit of blow on this past Wednesday, this
past Thursday, practice Taylor, you can kind of give us
a little bit more insight info on this. But Gabriel
Weatherford Rutherford got injured confirmed towards a cl So for
the second year in a row, he'll have a season
ending energy what will likely be put him out for
all of the season next year.
Speaker 4: Of course, last year he comes.
Speaker 6: In highly recruited edge rusher and he comes out hurts
us gets hurt is his shoulder.
Speaker 3: This past year, Yeah, shoulder surgery five weeks in, maybe
six weeks in somewhere somewhere around the halfway point.
Speaker 6: So certainly from a personal standpoint, you feel terrible for
the kid. I'm sure he worked his tail off to
get back and get healthy and then practice number two
in spring ball in March, you tell your ACL, you
get news that you're going to miss the next season.
So heartbreaking, certainly for the kid, you feel for him,
heart goes out them.
Speaker 4: Wish him a speedy recovery.
Speaker 6: But from a team perspective, what we all have to
focus on as well is what is Lane Kiffing and
staff going to do? And Lane Kiffin was asked about
it and he said, look, that's why we go out
and we sign a billion people in the transfer portal
because there is no longer is there the spring portal.
Speaker 4: Because so what you have is what you got to
go what you got to go into season with.
Speaker 6: So that's why you bring so many people in and
certainly they did that. So, yeah, Taylor, were you at
Were you at practice when this happened?
Speaker 3: How did you get They found out it broke Saturday?
From what I understand, it did not happen Saturday. It
happened beforehand. Believe this actually happened on the Thursday practice.
It just the news broke on Saturday. So no, it
was out there when it actually happened. But look, you
know we had talked about it coming into last year
about Hey, Gabrie Rollafrids, you're only returner. You saw some
flashes from him as a freshman. He was kind of
that that one constant last year when he went down,
it really hurt you because you had Jack Piburn, Patrick Payton,
Jamari Butler. None of them lived up the expectation that
you thought they were going to. But even with those
guys as a three man rotation, Dylan Carpenter got kind
of thrown into the fire as a former walk on,
and Carpenter did some nice things for you, like he's
he's actually had a pretty good spring so far by
all accounts. But you were talking about Lane Kiff and saying, hey,
this is why we attacked the portal so hard because
you don't have that spring window. You brought in Jordan
Rowss from Tennessee, a guy who hadn't played a ton,
a lot of hype around him, former five star, former
five star. Same thing with Jaylen Brown coming over from
South Carolina, Prince Will lu Mon, Miellen, the really good
pass rusher from Ole, miss who came over with him.
You have him, You still have Dylan Carpenter. Last year,
this would have been a lot bigger blow than this year. Like,
don't get me wrong, it's going to hurt you. Like
gaber Relevant, I think is a good player. He was
going to make an impact for this team. But you're
early enough in spring to where you can figure this out.
You can find hey, I can have this guy. He
can give me this many minutes. This guy can give
me this many plays. We can use this guy in
this situation. You're going to be fine. I mean, I
don't think this is like, oh, gaber Relevant towards ACL
You're no longer a national championship contender. It's going to
hurt your depth. I think you had a lot of
depth there. But I think you did a good enough
job in the portal that you should be able to
overcome this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Releford and Dylan Carpenter had been reported to be working
with the second team during at least the first practice
of spring, which is the first priory to the spring.
Speaker 4: There's no like, there's no set depth chart.
Speaker 6: But it's not like we're losing one of He wasn't
going to be that starter edge rusher, but certainly the
depth at a position that this past year was not productive.
Our defense was so good, we just didn't have that
edge Russia that could change a game or at least
change a possession with his play and be that threat.
And a lot of guys that we thought were going
to come and make an impact, just at the end
of the year, it didn't have that statistical impact that
you wanted to. So look, we wish him a speedy recovery,
and it socks man like. Injuries are of course part
of sports, They're part of the game. You I hate
to see it happening in spring practice. It stinks and
to have your season taken away in March is a
pretty crappy thing. So again, we wish him a speedy recovery.
Our heart goes out to him. But like Taylor just
laid out, that's why you go out and you bring
in Prince will whom and me Ellen, you bring in
a former five star Jordan Ross. So hopefully we get
that production from them, and certainly we didn't want to
lose that depth.
Speaker 4: But Taylor, so you practice sadder day? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 6: How how did he go? How long is the media
getting to stay out of everything?
Speaker 3: Thirty minutes on Saturday, which a lot shorter than you
would think. I mean, remember last year in fall camp
like during the week was the same. Kelly would give
those fall practices during fall camp and you'd be out
there hour a half two hours on a Saturday. Sometimes
it's about thirty minutes. Nothing really that you didn't see
Tuesday or Thursday. Anyone was wondering because you know Sam
levit's not going to do eleven on eleven, He's going
to do everything else. But that if you were wondering,
is who saw on Long Street? And land and Clark
going to alternate days with eleven on eleven?
Speaker 2: Not right now?
Speaker 3: Land of Clark again was out there as the number
one quarterback when they went eleven on eleven. He is
QB one right now. With Sam Levin being out to me,
that's not unexpected. I really like Landon Clark and he
looks good out there, and who's on Long Street? That
kind of a tough day when for five eleven on
eleven with the TUESDA there appears to be a clear one,
two three wide receiver because they're rotating a ton of guys.
I mean they brought in what fifty five wide receivers
are the portal We talked about it all the time,
but the top three have pretty much consistently been Jason Brown, Jackson, Harris, Winston, Watkins.
Speaker 2: I mean, those have kind of been the three now.
They've rotated in.
Speaker 3: And out, but as far as your first three, if
you will go out there, it's it's kind of been
those guys every time. I did think it was interesting
Harlan Berry took all the first team reps have running
back with the ones that had not been the case.
It had kind of been fifty to fifty between him
and Durham. Not a huge deal. They're both going to
play a ton. I mean it's you have two starters.
I mean it's it's one.
Speaker 6: It's like the one position that it's no news, right,
no news is good news from that running back grow
they might one day be like, all right, Harlan, we're
doing third down pass protet like it's third down pressures
from six to ten like that you struggle with this
last year.
Speaker 4: You're gonna get all the reps this year.
Speaker 9: Whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh line.
Speaker 3: It's kind of been the same rotation for two days now.
Left right, it's been Jordan Seeden, Devin Harper, the guard
transfer from Ole Miss Braylan Moore obviously at center, Aliu
Bo who's one of my favorite players. He started what
twenty three consecutive games at Maryland at right guard. He's
gonna slider it in there, and Weston Davis at right tackle,
but I think that job's kind of open. He brought
over Sean Tompkins from Baylor, who played a little bit
of left and right. But with Seaton at left, you
you're pat to play at times a lot better on
the right side. And I Brice did Martinez. I mean,
he's kind of running second team left tackle right now,
but he looks good. And he played a lot of
right tackle in high school as well as tight end.
I mean, we we saw the we played the highlight
clip of him. The guy played tackle, tight end, receiver, quarterback.
I mean, he's a he's an athletic freak. He's about
six seven, six eight. That's a guy that's gonna be
tough to keep off the field. Like whether it's in
a starting role or a rotational piece on that O line,
Martinez is gonna be hard to keep off the field.
Speaker 4: How's a five star plus down?
Speaker 2: Which one?
Speaker 4: We have more than one five star?
Speaker 3: Because Mr Brown's not out there. Mar Brown's ill get
here to the fault. Now you're too, you're too big
time freshman defensive tackle Richard Anderson induced Geralds. They're repping
with ones like Deucee Gerald's was out there with the
ones again on Saturday. Anderson and Tomina McKinley have kind
of rotated at the second defensive tackle spot. But I
mean both of those guys. I mean, if things hold up,
I get it spring and a lot of change. But
this guy's repping with ones right now.
Speaker 4: Well, I see this who's on Long Street. How has he?
Speaker 6: I know you want to know for five and team,
but just like from a watching him throw, whether it's
some warm ups, whether it's routes on air, whatever it is,
like how does he how does the ball look come
out of his hand? Because I could tell you I
saw a couple of clips of them thrown. I didn't
love his throw.
Speaker 2: He's weird throwing most He mostly.
Speaker 4: Got a lot going back. It's almost like that.
Speaker 3: Pitcher you see that's like three quarter arm, you know
that has a weird delivery. Kind of looks like that,
but I mean it looks solid. He's getting the ball
out to where he needs to in like team period
seven to seven and that I mean, but he's.
Speaker 6: Got a lot happen on his takeaway or just takeaways,
like taking the ball away from like when you're when
you're seated and you got both hands on you're taking
away and it's going back. He's got a lot going
on back there. Usually the more you have going on
at your takeaway, there's a lot more room for air.
Speaker 4: Where it does.
Speaker 6: It might not pop out might like something might not
pop up seven times out of ten, but three times
something just a little wrong. Your risk gets a little
over rotated or under rotated. It just there's all the
less that can in your takeaway that can happen. The
tighter it is, the more like you are to be
consistently accurate. I just didn't there was a couple of
clips I didn't like it. I do like Lanta Clark's motion.
I felt like the clips that I've seen from him
is the boss coming out of his hand pretty nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's running a little bit too. I mean he's
an athletic guy, which we kind of do coming in,
and so is so is long Street. Like I actually
like Lane brought in all three guys that are all
kind of similar in terms of skill set.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean they all look good.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 3: So national champion, either national champion or one win. We're
somewhere in between there. I can't have it decide somewhere
in there and the ceiling very right here.
Speaker 4: March thirtieth, we gotta go way. I hate to tell you.
Speaker 3: We're either we're either gonna win one game or go undefeated,
maybe fall somewhere in between there as well.
Speaker 6: Love it all right, Well, there you go, there's your answer. Hi,
good for you, Wayne kill I actually heard Linklan Kiven's retiring.
Speaker 4: Way. There's a Twitter account.
Speaker 5: Tyler Davill has it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it's.
Speaker 2: Hey, God, you make fun of him. He has a family.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a let's let's not a completely real family.
Speaker 4: Let's not do that.
Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna go to break, We're gonna come
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Speaker 5: Huh yeah.
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Speaker 4: What's the hey?
Speaker 2: Do we did it?
Speaker 4: Hey? Finally we won.
Speaker 9: We can have a good one. We can have a
good Monday.
Speaker 4: Let's go round with a pause Baseball, Let's go.
Speaker 9: Big time on their shride a little bit.
Speaker 6: They did find their stride in a a weekend full
of excitement.
Speaker 4: Yes, it starts out, starts out a little slow.
Speaker 6: You know, we talked about a couple of weeks ago,
we were about Cason Evans he I think we talked
about out of the Vanderbilt. Well it was straight out
and but then last last week comes out looking like
a dog.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Then this weekend gets a little wild up front.
Speaker 6: So it starts out, we start, but he does show
that he's still got the stuff. He's got a little
wild early, but he kind of so he kind of
calmed the storm a little bit.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: How do you feel about Cason Evans so far this
season as the Friday Night guy?
Speaker 4: I like it.
Speaker 7: I Mean it goes back and forth and opinions changed
week to week, but I think, look, I know Cason
very well, got to know him. That's a tough kid,
you know, and he's a grinder, he's a dog, he's
mentally he's there.
Speaker 9: I think he's going to be and he's doing great.
Speaker 7: You know, through six, gave up four you know, walked
the first two guys right out to shoot this Friday
and kind of like just got off to a bad start,
but you know, ended up being all right. And that
was a game that look for LSU against the guy
that they went against on Friday from Kentucky, that kid
just you know, sometimes you got to tip your cap,
goes eight innings, you know, gives up two runs and
it's one of those kind of yes, you know, and
that's just how it is Friday Night and the sec
sometimes it gets the best of you. And then you
know they come back Saturday Sunday and they get the
best of them.
Speaker 9: And so that's you know, that's what's awesome about it?
Speaker 7: And it was a little uh, it was fiery, you know,
which I love, which we needed, but you need, Yeah,
that might be what this team is like. You never
know they could have you know, that stupid you know
the bat flip which was awesome you know and and
emotional and awesome and.
Speaker 9: Not David was stupid.
Speaker 7: Jay gets fired up and starts, you know, throwing f
bombs at people, and like, maybe that's what this team needs.
And you know, that might be something that that was
their thing that was who knows.
Speaker 9: I think it was them.
Speaker 7: They found that, the offense found each other, you know,
that's how they do it.
Speaker 9: Maybe, who knows.
Speaker 6: Let's go let me ask you this, like to stick
on the Jay Johnson thing getting fired up like you
you've been around him. What is it like when you
got a coach that is seemingly usually calm, cool, collective,
silent confidence a lot of times, what happens when your
coach does something like that, especially in defense of one
of his players.
Speaker 9: What's the best?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you don't to have a coach like
that who's gonna have your back, you know, support you,
back you up in a time where he probably doesn't
really want to or have to, right, you know, that's
a that's a moment where he's like, you know, my
player probably shouldn't have done that realistically, but you know,
I'm gonna have his back and have this teams back
in to do it in that kind of fashion that
just goes a long way in a player's mind. And
even like, you know, I look back at the second
inning where they're down seven to nothing, and you know,
Jay's just going, I'd never seen it before.
Speaker 9: He's in the.
Speaker 7: Dugouts, throwing water bottles around the clipboards.
Speaker 9: Is kind of like a different style of coaching, yep.
Speaker 7: And that's what makes him a great coach is he knows,
I think, how to get to players and maybe he
figured out maybe maybe this is what this team needs.
They need a little kicking the ass or some fire.
Speaker 6: And he said it after the after the game in
the press Converse series like sometimes like when you get
your manhood challenged, you got to step up. Do you
think that was Baseball in general challenging Kentucky challenging or
maybe him challenging his players.
Speaker 9: I think it's a mix of both.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: I think that's his job is to challenge these guys
and get the best out of them. And he's good
at it. He's very good at getting putting people in
the right situations and getting the best out of his players.
And I think that was just another way of him
doing it. And look, he's been thrown out, you know,
I don't know four or five times at LSU all
when I was there. I don't think he got thrown
out two years ago. A good chance that I pissed
somebody off or trying to fight somebody. But you know,
I totally forgot where I was going with that. But
he just when when he does it, he doesn't do
it a lot. It's the right moment, and usually on
the back end of it, the team goes out there
fired up, like ready to get somebody, you know, And
it's just I was surprised they didn't throw him out.
Speaker 9: Or throw somebody out yesterday.
Speaker 7: But you know, it goes to show you Jay's got
this team's back, and he's not you know, giving in
or folding or like, you know, he's just that good of.
Speaker 6: A Yeah, that's a good catcher too. Like if something's happening,
it's it's gone a little too long. You want them
to figure it out themselves, and you're still learning your team.
Speaker 4: But at some point you gotta you gotta step up
a little bit. And Jay's the Jay's That's why he's
the go. He needs to go.
Speaker 6: He knows exactly when to push and pull and how
to push the buttons. And it certainly worked. Let's so
let's stick with the pitching. Yeah, we taught Case and
Evans and being on the Friday night well ls, she
wins with the football score yesterday seventeen to ten. They
roll through eight pitchers, and that we're able to write
the ship a little bit from from early on. A
lot of a lot of walks, giving up too many basses,
free bases. But one thing that let them allowed them
to do that was a Saturday performance. You go through
two pitches, well Schmid and Zach Collen like they pitched
so well. What is that like because of the injury? Now,
what does that mean? Is there some like one of
these starters either Friday or Saturday. Do we have to
have a game like that every SEC series that you're
only going to go through two pitchers or have your
starter roll through a lot of innings.
Speaker 7: It's that kind of like the need that to really
do well, you need that once a week because it's
gonna be hard. That Sunday now is gonna be like
it's a typical Sunday in the SEC. You see it
all over you know, Tennessee Vanderbilt sixteen to fifteen, LSU
seventeen to ten. It's these high scoring games because you're
going through a lot of guys that probably don't get
as many innings as you know, they they need to
be great and so you're scoring a lot of runs,
you're walking guys. It's just one of those things on
a Sunday game in the SEC, and so that Friday
and Saturday you really need one of those that Saturday
game where you use two guys that go through nine
innings or you need that starter to go seven or
you know, and that's something that Elise you can do,
you know, and we've seen it, like Cason goes almost
eight innings last week and then this this week you
have a you know, William Smith, Zach Cowen, and to
have Cowen kind of step up a little bit mature
and get through his little hump at the beginning of
the season. That's huge for Isshoe because he's one of
those guys that can give you those four innings, that
can give you those five innings in a relief appearance,
or maybe even if they don't have to use him
on a Friday Saturday, start that Sunday game. You know,
he's one of those versatile guys that can get the
job done.
Speaker 9: In a lot of different different ways.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about beta moves from other teams as a picture.
Have you ever been stared down after walking a guy
by the head coach, by your head coach, not the
other team.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean a pretty week.
Speaker 6: Okay, people talking about the bat flip, Well, he might
have just slipped the right at their dugout after That's how.
Speaker 7: They play, like, that's how they do their Kentucky team.
They've always always come on I always like that, And
that's just beta energy.
Speaker 9: That's how he rolls, like he tried. They do antics.
Speaker 7: They're doing cheers and chance in the dugout like it's softball,
you know, like it's it's just a lot, you know,
it's it's just too much.
Speaker 9: Not a fan of.
Speaker 6: The my son's they do chance. That's awesome, Yeah, good
for them. I don't even remember the chance that we
used to do.
Speaker 4: I mean they probably not.
Speaker 6: It probably shouldn't be in Division one ten years. Great,
So let's talk about the bat flip. What do you
what are what are your thoughts on the battle? I
mean it was incredible execution, incredible technique.
Speaker 7: The execution of the bat flip was incredible. Yeah, and
he didn't hurt anybody, not going in the dugout, not
throwing it on the fields, perfect placement.
Speaker 9: You know, I think what is is a picture when
someone bat flips just take me out the game. Just
take me out the game. Well, if you're going to
bat flip like that, yeah, you know I might sometimes
I just gotta fight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean sometimes there's one going into the next
guy's rip.
Speaker 9: You know, it's just is.
Speaker 4: That an old school move?
Speaker 6: Do you think that's what's gonna I mean, I know
it's harder in college to do that. Are some people
are gonna sell police the batflip situation because everybody's.
Speaker 4: Doing it now.
Speaker 7: Everybody does it, and that's the only that's one of
the only things you see now is when people get
into this kind of little thing where they have the
umpires have to stop and it's the bat flips, right,
Just like I understand the bat flip like it's an
emotional thing, like you're just especially in a big situation.
You know, it may have been a little too high, sure,
you know, but it's emotional man, Like I understand it,
Like I get Seth's point of view, Like.
Speaker 4: I'm let's go, oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm just saying going forward, like it's gonna
everybody likes the one up. The barg is gonna keep
getting higher and higher. I don't know how you get
higher than that from like a flip flips and those
triple digits in the feet. I don't know, like the
bar keeps getting Like I just want to know, from
a pitcher standpoint, do you start to self regulate, self
police these things.
Speaker 7: It's hard to because they're gonna put it. They're gonna
put an end to it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 7: You know, If I if I if somebody bat flips
me and I go drill somebody in the ribs the
next pitch, I'm getting thrown out the game.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it'd be awesome, electric a legend.
Speaker 6: But if you gave up, if you gave up a
three round homer, you're probably coming out anyway, good chance,
So you might as well take someone out with you.
Speaker 4: I'm in so I start saying it.
Speaker 7: I think it's more of a thing in Major League baseball. Unfortunately,
the college thing is so regulated from this standpoint that
it'll never like get crazy like that.
Speaker 9: I wish it.
Speaker 6: And plus, batters are now putting on so many belcrow paths. Body,
you gotta really hit them in a good spot.
Speaker 9: Ebo Shield.
Speaker 7: It's done a great job protecting players. Congratulations, But let
me drill somebody.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 6: All right, we got it. We got just a couple
more seconds here. What you got going on with Louisianna loaded.
Speaker 9: Let's see.
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New LSU Basketball with louisian Podcast. Yeah, he's right around.
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Speaker 4: Go love it.
Speaker 9: We'll be out there.
Speaker 6: He'll be christ all all right, Well, homers, I appreciate it.
We look forward to seeing him echent every week this
baseball and so hey, good luck, enjoy yourself and enjoy yourself.
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