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Speaker 4: I saw Nick yesterday. He's like right across from our
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Very blessed to be here as well. We got a
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Speaker 4: Uh, but we don't want you to turn it off
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Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. All right, So a
few things to get here? Uh, okay, real quick. I
don't have much of a much to say here beyond
it's kind of, like, Jake, one of those situations you know,
you know they say, you know, guys could just sit.
Speaker 2: Around and.
Speaker 3: Pluck random sports names. Yeah, be random receivers. Yeah, and
that like Mark Chumar right tight in. I just did
this basically well, LSU has hired Tim Ritay as an
offensive analyst.
Speaker 4: Tim Rata tat te tim Reta thirteen in your program,
number one in your heart.
Speaker 2: I did see this late.
Speaker 4: And let me tell you a young Jacob Hester growing
up in Shreveport, rustin being right down the road him
Detroy Edwards. When they played against Nebraska, he threw for
like five hundred and something yards. Now they lost the game,
but that's when Nebraska was Nebraska. I was a massive
Tim Retay fan, and so like this really like brought
some great memories from childhood when I saw this news.
Speaker 3: So okay, so the Nebraska that's your favorite Timbertay memory.
I don't even have Timbertay memories except that I just
know the name.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have a great conversational follow up here except
s the timbertaate has been hired as office analysis, as
Jake said, alluded to former Louisiana Tech quarterback coached at
Louisiana Tech with Joe Sloan, so it makes sense in
why he was brought in.
Speaker 2: He has been at Oklahoma State as.
Speaker 3: The quarterback chach the last five years, so basically he's
just been working with Alan Bowman. I got to be
pretty excited to get with us here. And he's done
time in the NFL and whatnot. Were used to coach
for the Niners, so I think, look here, maybe the
takeaways here, this is a good quarterback offensive football mine
who's spent a lifetime in the game.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: And he has Louisiana ties, which continues the theme of
this entire coach estaff which I believe now and I
think Moscona made a segment on this, but I believe
now Jake, almost every single coach, top to bottom has
some sort of Louisiana ties. So it took Brian Kelly
and maybe a bit longer to get here after everybody
who's first hired were saying like, you have to have this,
you have to have this, But now yeah they have. Again,
everybody has some sort of ties to the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Which I think is very important.
Speaker 4: It's a unique state and it is somewhere where you
have to have that. You got to be able to
walk in any high school. You got to be able
to know the lay of the land. North Louisiana is
different than South Louisiana. South Louisiana's different than Southwest Louisiana.
Speaker 2: I mean there's different pockets.
Speaker 4: Northeast Louisiana is kind of its own place, and so
there's different pockets, kind of different personalities as well. You
got but you have to know all of them because
you got to hit corner to corner. You got to
hit Shreveport, you gotta hit Monroe, You've got to hit
Lake Charles Lafayette, New Orleans, Baton rouge Homa like you
have Alexandria. You've got to hit the entire state. You
can't just focus on one part of the state. We've
had coaches in the past that I think did too
much of focusing only on South Louisiana.
Speaker 2: But you have to understand the entire state.
Speaker 4: So now you add somebody that understands the north portion
of the state. Termitates spent a lot of time in
rust and Louisiana, and so I think this is another
great hire.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I got to get this off.
Speaker 4: He was forty six of sixty eight for five hundred
and ninety yards against Nebraska in nineteen ninety eight. God
sixty eight passes in ninety eight Troy Edwards shout out
Shreveport threw one great twenty one catches for four hundred
and five yards.
Speaker 2: Damn. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So he was Louisiana Tech wide receivers coach, then quarterbacks coach,
then he was the Commander's quarterback coach, and then after that,
for the past five years he's been the Oklahoma State
quarterback coach.
Speaker 2: Of course he's uh.
Speaker 3: He played in the NFL for the Niners for five years,
Tampa for a couple and it looks like that it
he finished up for two years of the Las Vegas Locomotives.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's the whole where he started his coaching career
as well. The league. Wow, what was the name of
that league?
Speaker 3: Let's see here, I'm in a Wikipedia click the blue
link hole.
Speaker 2: The United Football League. Oh so it was the UFL.
Speaker 3: The UFL's back. He's in the Louisiana Tech Hall of Fame.
He offered several NCAA records, But what are the records?
My blue link is not working.
Speaker 4: So he was like, this was somebody that was I
think Gary Crowton would have been the head coach.
Speaker 3: How about this Reta's one of only three seventh round
or undrafted quarterbacks since ninety five to pass for more
than four hundred yards in a game. So he had
like a couple, he had at least one really badass
NFL game. Can you name the other two seven round
or undrasded quarterbacks to throw for more than four hundred
in a game?
Speaker 2: Is Billy Bullock one of them? It's actually not? No, Surprisingly, so.
Speaker 4: I know Billy Billy might have been drafted then because yep,
who replaced Tom Brady when he got hurt?
Speaker 3: Matt Castle Rettay broke the Niners team record for most
completions in two thousand and four. He completed thirty eight passes,
breaking Joe Montana's record of thirty seven. I kind of
doubt anybody's broken that record, right, I mean, who after
Jeff Garcia?
Speaker 2: I don't think would have.
Speaker 3: Is there a chance that Tim Retey holds the forty
nine Ers record for most completions of the game over?
I mean, Steve Young obviously doesn't. He's already done. He
broke Montana's Smith. Maybe Tim Rita is the only quarterback
in the NFL history to throw three consecutive passes that
all went for touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He did for the Cardinals and No. Seven.
Speaker 3: And he was responsible for the biggest comeback in Buck's history, Wow,
when he led the team back from coming down from
a twenty one point third quarter deficit against the eventual
NFC champion Chicago Bears in O. Six, went for three
tonnies Let's go Timmy in the fourth quarter and then
one to O. T.
Speaker 2: I think this is a look. I love this good higher.
Speaker 4: I think it's a good you know, addition to the
staff again, the Louisiana tize and all of that. And
I'm sure he's got a relationship with Joe Sloan because
Joe was at Louisiana Tech. And I'm sure that they've
crossed pass before. I'm sure him and Blake Baker know
each other as well. So you add somebody like that
to the staff to work with quarterbacks like that just
feels like an added bonus to what you already have.
And I think it's a great move. I think it
makes all the sense in the world. This is somebody
that has done it on multiple levels. He's been very
successful I think in his coaching career. Certainly as the
players were laying out all the accolades that he had there,
so an analyst like, yeah, absolutely, Sonia for all of
Tim Ritay being an LSU Tiger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so uh.
Speaker 3: Look, I mean, you know, I'm we're having fun, like
going down look at some of the random accomplishments of
tim Ertay.
Speaker 2: But again, that is a long time NFL quarterback who's
got straighted coaching when he's done.
Speaker 3: That's a really good offensive mind to add to the
mix to to help out Joe Sloane because right now,
if we're being completely honest, Joe Sloane feels like the
weakest link of the coaching staff. Now you could say
that that's really a credit to the staff, and I
would agree with that because it does. Like I think
LSU that is maybe the single greatest strength on the
team that it has is at top to bottom, from
the position coaches and coordinators to everybody. I think they're
super strong everywhere. Sloan's kind of the only one that's
maybe called into question. But now you add Alex Atkins,
who brings a ton of line experience, a ton of
offensive experience. I mean, just two years ago coordinating one
of the best offens to the entire country. You're bringing
a Tim Retay like you're you're adding a lot of
excellent offensive minds to help in this collaborative effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So when you look at total offense, they were forty
seventh in the country, and I think that's I think
where they were in the passing game. You feel great
about it, but it has to go up in the
run game, and Atkins could help you there. I feel
like I think so as well. So we talked about
it during the season tea. You had co offensive coordinators, won,
a quarterback coach, won, a receivers coach, and so I'm
not saying that they were only working on passing game.
Obviously they're working on the run game as well. But
it is something where hey, get get somebody in there
that is going to be run game specialists, you know,
like a run game coordinator, an offensive line coach, a
tight end coach is usually somebody in there. And so
I think that is important because forty seventh right now
in total offense, but I think when you look at
the passing stats, they would be probably around the top
fifteen in total offense because they did, you know, did
really well throwing the football round. So I think it
is the run game. Being able to integrate all those
different runs that we talked about, not just running inside zone,
getting the offensive line to do their part as well.
Having a fully healthy Caden Durham I think is going
to be important. So that number from forty seven, it
should very easily, in my.
Speaker 2: Opinion, be in the top twenty five. I agree it
has to be. It has to be if you want
to get to where you want to get to.
Speaker 3: Which is the tsall that way, Lynn says, what is
this false stat I'm pretty sure I was a seventh
round pick. I mean true, right, Yeah, and then I
think it's seventh round or undrafted quarterback since nineteen ninety five,
and they're only giving mad Castle, Tony Romo, and Tim
Retake credit.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Matt, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know, Bro, because Matt had one game where he had
a bazillion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt, Matt.
Speaker 3: Matt's got a little bit of Tim Rita and him
in that like he owned those Packers records. Right, You've
had Bart Star, Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, and yet Matt
is the single game I think leader, maybe single game
yardage leader.
Speaker 2: It's very close. I know my guy Billy Bullick threw four.
He definitely threw for over four.
Speaker 4: He threw for four ninety two in a game with
the Titans versus the Raiders on a December the nineteenth,
two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: He was undrafted. I just checked.
Speaker 3: See, kids, this is why your teachers tell you that
you cannot trust Wikipedia as a citable source for your
turn papers. Good see, look look at look at our
guy Flynn. Great job man, just just making sure that
the truth comes to life.
Speaker 4: The best part about it when Flynn says, I'm pretty
sure I was a seventh round. Bite like, he might
not really, he might not know where he was selected.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: It might be the only if it was anybody else,
I'd be like, yeah, come on, he might not know.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: When we get back, let's go ahead and talk about
the report that the Guardian had on the New Orleans
Saints and their involvement in covering up some of the
Catholic churches crimes.
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Speaker 3: Right now, we have to talk about a story that
has been making the rounds recently. So my guy Ramone Vargas,
who I used to I used to back when I
was first starting here in New Orleans. He was writing
for I believe, The Times Picky Hume, and he's a
very good journalist. He would go on to be an
investigative reporter for The Guardian, and he's been working on
this story for a while, looking at the Saints involvement
of and covering up, softening the blow of part of
the Catholic Churches, the local chapter of the Catholic Church's
sex scandals in which we all know at this point,
I mean the movie Spotlight one Best Picture for a reason,
because the Catholic Church had a lot of sexual abuse
of minors going on and was covering it up and
was shuttling guys around to different spots, trying to kind
of make their past be hid and allowing them to
continue to work. Now, the allegations against the New Orleans Saints,
and of course, look, if you know the Saint's history,
Gail Benson is a very devout Catholic, as are many
in the city, and she has a very close relationship
with the Archdiocese here in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: And when.
Speaker 3: The Archdiocese and everybody else was getting in trouble here,
it seems okay. I think I think as the story
pertains to the Saints, I think it is twofold Jake First.
When everything was going down, the New Orleans Saints and
Greg Benzel, their their head of communications, got very involved
in crisis communications like coordination, right, like letting, like helping
out the art ices in the church and everything. How
do you respond to these stories applying pressure on media
to paint them in a positive light, things like that.
Maybe the most damning allegation in this story is that
the Saints went so far as to remove names because
when the church gets caught call it the as He says,
this is awful, and Greg Bentel tells him, look, I
think the best strategy here is to be open and
honest and like be like, you know, put out a
list all this other stuff, like a list of people
who more than likely engaged in this behavior. Well, the
Saints are now it's being alleged that they got the
list ahead of time and that they specifically asked for
some names to be removed from the list. We have
actual records of that communication taking place, but everybody involved
as saying I don't remember that happening, right, that did
not happen.
Speaker 2: Here's my read on all of this. It is.
Speaker 3: Disgusting but unsurprising. It is the movie. It is the
movie Spotlight, right. You see a ton of powerful people
who all have vested interest in the church and want
to paint the church in the best light despite these
all full and horrific crimes. And I think it's gross
that these Saints were so forward in trying to paint
this in the best light and help out the church
with crisis communications and and apply a lot of public
pressure to UH newspapers and news outlets to to to
have the people involved like, you know, you better write
a positive story.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of like you better write a.
Speaker 3: Positive but at the same time, like Christ communications so
that is the job, and that's what Benzel does.
Speaker 2: It's a bit like a defense attorney.
Speaker 3: That defense attorney is a job, and you're going to
defend awful people and and and and you're going to
defend awful crimes, but it is your job. In that
same way, that's kind of what being a crisis communications
guy is. And so now I think some criticisms definitely
warranted because Benzel went out of his way to get
involved here. He wasn't paid for it, but it's I
think that's really bad. And then obviously your movie name
is awful, but it just all seems too dnse and
the allegation is maybe not bombshell enough I think for
any like major ramifications to come from this.
Speaker 4: I hadn't followed this story as close, and I'm kind
of catching up and I know as a story before
and now it's kind of coming back right now and
I don't know it as much and trying to play
catch up, like I said, But the question I would
have is why in the world, Like why the Saints
even getting involved in something because of the boss?
Speaker 2: I know, but it's just because miss Benson.
Speaker 4: But I just I can't fathom, like what, like any
scenario of the play out to think this was going
to be something positive. Like, it's just like, why are
you getting involved in this? This is I know, yeah,
that you are a religious person. I know Catholicism is
your religion of choice, and I know it means a
lot to you. But this is not something that you
need to be involved in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Like like like, like like you said, I mean, when
you're a member of the church and it is such
a core piece of who you are, And to be fair,
you probably really believe in your local father, right, Like
if he's not on that list, you believe he did
not do any wrong. Maybe you even believe that he
had no hand in covering everything up. If you really
believe that, you're going to want to help him navigate
this situation. And I believe Miss Benson probably believed that
when it came to the archdiocese and wanted to help
him make it through this paint the.
Speaker 2: Church in a more positive light.
Speaker 3: That's the Again, I just keep going back to the
spot like because it's the exact same thing.
Speaker 2: Where the most interesting part about all.
Speaker 3: Of this is everybody who is supposed to be enforcing
punishment here or going after them are also for the
most part, members of the churches who have invested interest
in wanting the church to kind of keep their nose
as clean as possible and make it look like a
few bad actors and not as widespread of a problem.
I mean, the district attorneys who are supposed to be
prosecuting the case are are members of the Catholic Church.
So again it's it's here's my deal. In the end
of the day, it's gross, it's awful, but nothing to
go in to come of it because it's a bit
too dense, the allegations are not bombshell enough, and there's
just way too many varied powerful interests at play. There's
people at every single step along the way again who
have vested interests in in in keeping, you know, and
looking out for the church that they are a part of.
And I'm not saying like they're all.
Speaker 2: Does the NFL step in.
Speaker 3: No, The NFL said that they Roger Girl's aspect of
the press conference yesterday, and he said that he believes
that the Saints are not involved in anything more than
just like an advisory role.
Speaker 2: So no, I don't, I don't, I don't believe. So
that's wild I mean, the NFL.
Speaker 4: Will turn over a seventy three stones to make sure
you didn't have a face mask in a game that
didn't get called a penalty in the game. But they're
gonna find you for that, and then it just feels
like like they're gonna handle it.
Speaker 3: But you know the difference there, well, one is one
is a player and one is one of the owner,
you know, like the owners. Whatever the owners say goes
the owners of the bosses. Roger Ndelle is nothing but
a mouthpiece for the owners, a lightning rod for the owners,
and the owners are literally the most powerful people on
the entire planet. So of course, again, of course, like no,
they're they're not going to try to cannibalize one of
their own. Is there behind the scenes pressure saying what
the hell are y'all doing?
Speaker 2: Why did y'all do this? Is there behind the scenes
pressure to sell.
Speaker 3: I don't know any of that, like surely, but I
don't think you'll ever get anything public to crime unless
you had again, and you need something more digestibly damning,
because you got to read to really understand this. You
got to read, you know, for like a like a
thirty minute article essentially, and really dive into a lot
of different names being thrown out. You a lot of
different allegations, a lot of different kind of dry email reading.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm with you, Jake.
Speaker 3: The Saints just never should have involved themselves with this
in the first place. The Catholic Church made their bed,
they needed to lie in it, and if you were
going to help them with crisis communications and you were
going to get involved, you had to understand that these repercussions,
which there may not be many at the end of day,
they probably just ignore it and it goes away. But
but you had to know that this is going to
come to light and that you were going to at
least suffer a reputational hit if if nothing else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I'm just surprised by Goodell's answer and
maybe not, you know, making sure they do their due diligence,
But you're right. Unfortunately, the thirty two owners, anytime Drick
Goodell would come speak to us as a team, we
would have questions, we would have concerns. He basically was like,
I'm not going to answer that because he one of
the thirty two owners, doesn't agree with you. Like during
the lockout, it was just it was awful, Like, why'd
you waste your time and our time to come here
because you're only going to give into the owners. You
don't care about the players, and not that this is
a player.
Speaker 2: Ish.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, like he is going to look out
for thirty two owners and that's all he cares about.
Speaker 3: Dan baschis, why would you invite something as discussing as this,
And then Leonardo says, team up any effort to minimize
this and protect the image of rapist and evil, Shame
on you. I I guys, I don't disagree. I had
no hand in uh minimizing the Catholic Church. If anything,
I've gotten heat for making Catholic Church jokes about it
because people get very offended. If you're asking why, the
why is not hard to understand. The church means everything
to Miss Vince and Miss Finton has billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: She's very close to her tight.
Speaker 3: She wants to make sure that their reputation of the
church and the individual as a whole is as protected
as possible. Like that's not again, I I don't think
those are hard dots to connect. Joel Boss's why does
the priests go to a football team? This is also
a thing that goes back throughout history, right, go look
at when Rome pulls out of Britain back in the day,
and so that civilization kind of falls. You have barbarians
suddenly in charge. Well, who steps in and allies himself
with those powerful interests the church? And that's that they
become the educators that that that's one of the reasons
why they kind of rose to power in the way
that they did, Like the church aligning themselves with powerful
interest is something that is a tale as old as time.
So yeah, it's it's it's really it's really gross. It's
really gross. You're you're sitting here applying pressure to journalists
and newspapers to paint things in a positive light when
you're talking about covering up decades of sexual abuse, uh,
and knowing that there are abusers and moving them around,
hiding their backgrounds, obfuscating, staying out of legal trouble, paying
hush money.
Speaker 2: It's all gross. It's all gross.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's just my pr read on it that there's not
going to be any major that there's just not gonna
be anything major that comes a bit. I mean, hell,
the train the thing I read, I realized is Jesuit
High School was out there, Uh, pain settlements silently for
years and years. It's it's it's just, it's just yeah,
it's just it's it's it's disgusting, disgusting. But that's the story,
and that's how the Saints are involved. I don't know,
you know, I don't, I don't, I don't know, Like, uh,
I don't know what else to say on it except
I don't support it, I think obviously.
Speaker 4: Just and nothing seems like it's going to come no
of it, no either, which is kind of wild.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Uh, what you know is the Saints ownership as a
whole is in a is in a weird spot right now,
a very odd spot.
Speaker 2: Long term. What happens? Uh?
Speaker 3: Of course Tennis lash is the executor of the Benson estate.
There are plans to give everything away. What happens to
the franchises, who knows? Who knows? All Right, when we
get back, we're gonna send Jake have a great show man,
Thank you, I have a great show. Jake's heading over
to Super Bowl Radio. We'll be back with coach Kim
Mulkey next here on O TV.
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Speaker 2: What's going on? How are we doing this morning?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm working while you guys are New Orleans playing,
y'all like there's some big something going on this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the grind never stops for you. For us though,
we get to come out here to the Convention Center
see all the madness as the football world descends upon
the five oh four. I mean, I know you're no
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to countless final fours and national championships. This is my
first radio row. I think it's pretty awesome. Coach, Do
you have any Super Bowl memories? Like growing up maybe
going to Did you have any super memories that stand
out in your mind?
Speaker 5: Well? I don't have just one. I'm never I'm trying
to think. I'm never in person gone to a Super Bowl.
I tried to, you know, tell the SEC don't have
our game with Tennessee leading into the Super Bowl, because
I knew they would for ratings. I knew they would,
and so even if I wanted to come over there,
there's no way I could make it because our game
is at three o'clock that day. I do watch the
Super Bowl. I mean, I just you know, I go
back to the Montana days with the forty nine ers,
and yep, you know love that. And you know, if
I tell you all the ones I like the most,
and I'm really gonna date myself.
Speaker 3: What what are the so the old school Niners teams?
Is there anybody else that that breaks through? What about
what about a young coach Molkey? Growing up little girl?
Like when did your sports consciousness come online?
Speaker 5: My sports consciousness started sitting in the front of those
old RCA TV. You know that you turn the channel.
But I was watching Nadia Koma Niche in the Olympics
when I was like twelve years old, and I thought,
God late, and it just, you know, I always watch sports.
You know. He can't help but talk about Terry Bradshaw
and Frank o'harris and the you know the reception, yeah
what they call it, theatculate reception.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, one of the best all time plays.
Speaker 5: And of course, uh you know, I'll watch Otilly all
the time, not necessarily in the Super Bowl, Roger Carr,
all those Louisiana tech guys, and uh it just I
love sports, and I'll rush home, hopefully after a win,
because I won't enjoy it if we lose to Tennessee,
which we can because they're very good. H but I'll
rush home and I'll watch it, and y'all just enjoy it. Man,
he's some good po boys. While you're in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, I mean, honestly, coach, I think I'm
going to for the game itself. I think it's my birthday.
I think I just want to watch it at home
with the family, you know, because.
Speaker 5: Then you can get real, and you can get fun,
and you can and holler. And if you don't really
have an invested interest like a son playing or a
brother or dad, you probably will enjoy it. It's when
you've got connections where you're just your stomachs and not well.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I want to ask you about that then,
and and I'm sure like when you're watching someone, When
you're watching someone, it can be that you have a
vested it can almost feel a bit more helpless. But
what about when you're coaching or playing in one of
these championship games?
Speaker 2: What is your.
Speaker 3: Process like to kind of not make it? You know,
how do you handle the pressure?
Speaker 5: You know, we live in pressure. You know, I crack
up at these doctors when you go when I had
my heart issue or when I've got something going on
to go, oh, that's stress. And I'm like, I will
never buy anything in my body or O. My body
is related to stress. My body knows nothing any different.
And so it's not a thing that's any different than
how you live your life every day being in sports
or or some of these jobs that are so stressful.
That's just that's what you choose to do. So you know,
those guys that are in the Super Bowl, and they
do that every day. It's not any bigger in their world,
even though it's more magnified by television and media. That's
what they do every day.
Speaker 3: Coach, what's what's more stressl for you coaching in a
National championship game or watching Kramer in a big game?
Speaker 5: Well, what it is, it's a It's a love that's different.
It's you want and it's not just your own kids,
it's anybody that you love. You want them to know
what that euphoric feeling is that you got to experience
in your life as a player and a coach. That's
I cannot tell y'all when we wanted it at LAO
and we wanted it Baylor. My enjoyment is watching people
celebrate for the first time. It's you can't describe it.
And that's when my kids are playing, and I hope
my grandkids, but whatever they do, you just want them
to have that one moment in their life where they
go there's nothing like it.
Speaker 3: That's kind of an amazing answer, Coach. I got goosebumps.
I've never really considered that. It's almost like, you know,
you think about Christmas and when you give a gift
that somebody really loves and how great that feels. That's
like the ultimate realization of that.
Speaker 5: Uh, it is, Bob, it really is. And people that
know me, I'm a giver. I don't want people to
know I give. I don't want people to know when
I donate money. That's not it. But I take great
pleasure in just surprising family members or sending something and
won't even sign my name. That is so enjoyable for me.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: And I'm better at doing that than receiving. Like people
want to compliment you and say all these wonderful things,
and I struggle with that. But I sure like giving.
I like just giving you something that you didn't expect
was gonna happen. And some people are just different.
Speaker 3: Coach, So to the to the basketball now, it was
a pretty wild week since we last talked. It was
a couple of days before Oklahoma wide out top fifteen matchup.
Knew it was going to be an incredible environment. Starts
a little chippy, I gotta say, Coach, I think I think.
Speaker 2: The referees were soft here.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a push. The girl was a bit
off balance, and then for the other girl to be
ejective for the pushback.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess you know you want to keep it under control.
I say, let him play. But whatever, the game gets crazy.
There's there's that drama, people getting kicked out, you get
teed up for looking at the scoreboard. There's a crazy
comeback at the end. Were you exhausted by the end
of Thursday night?
Speaker 5: I'm exhausted every game. But let me clarify the fighting rule.
And if you'll remember back in the SEC tournament with
Cordoza for South Carolina push flage and I even said
at the time, that's not a fight. That is a
shoving match, but it is identified at least it is
in women's basketball that that will be considered a fight.
So when they got ejected, I was not surprised. However,
I think coach Jenny for Oklahoma being new in the league,
she was like, that's not a fight, and I said,
they considered that a fight. So we saw that. You
saw two ejections. You saw each coach get technical as
you saw a flagrant upgraded, you saw another technical because
there were two flops. You get two flops in a
game and they will give you a technical. You saw
just about everything in a basketball game, and one hundred
and seven to one hundred points, I'm I'm like, where's
our defense, guys? But I'm not gonna go in the
locker room and really rehash that game. I did not
show film of that game. We had to move on.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, And.
Speaker 5: That's unusual for me. But I felt like there was
would have been too many possibly negatives that would have
been corrected in said and I didn't want the atmosphere
in the lot in the film room to be that way.
I wanted to prepare for the next one, and we
did well.
Speaker 3: And to be fair coach, when you look at how
your team responded the next game defensively, especially Flage shutting down.
Oh I'm blaking our name, but you had just dropped
forty the game before Missippi State's leading scorre to Flage
holds her to nine. You come back, you bet, Missippi
State a comfortable eighty one sixty seven. What does your
team show you in their defensive response after giving up
the late Oklahoma urge and the one hundred points?
Speaker 5: Well, you go, what do you have? We had a
and m Oklahoma Mississippi State in three games at home
and the first party is to take care of your
home court, and we did that. Now you're talking about Jordan.
Jordan from Missippi State is actually a New Orleans player,
so we're very familiar with her. And I don't do
social media. So when we went to the press conference,
they were talking to Clage about her defense and how
good she played. Well, she just opened up and talked
about how personal it was for her because I guess
here we go again on social media. Some things were
said about her being little for instead of Big four
after a loss, and so I just was laughing under
my breast, like, you know what, I might need to
use this every game. I might just get somebody to
do a face post, is that what you call it,
and just getting Flage's head so that she'll play.
Speaker 2: Defense like that coach.
Speaker 3: Do you find and this is interesting to hear you
talk about this because when you think about Flage, she's
so famous, and of course everybody wants to snipe at
the queen, right, the top dog. That's just like human
that's just kind of natural human instinct. Do you find
that with your profile and how much you've dealt that
in your life? Like, do you find yourself as a
great resource for these young women when it comes to
handling all of that.
Speaker 5: You know, this is just the truth. Guys. I don't
have social media, and I think those kids, my players,
see more crap about me than I even those out there.
And I don't even know how. I don't address it
because I don't know about it, and yet they just
they stay on social media. And so when I get something,
rather it's from Kramer or my daughter Mackenzie or my coaches,
I just like, well, there's another lie, Well there's another hater. Yeah,
I just like, I don't care. But I do think
sometimes laying in bed, my poor little players they read
all that. But because we're with each other every day,
because they know Kim Malky, I have to know that
they've learned what's hate, what's fake news, what's whatever. So
I just I don't even I don't even think about it.
Speaker 3: Coach did Uh, I gotta say one of the funniest
moments in the Oklahoma game was you getting fired up
slapping the clipboard down Simone with the perfect comedic timing
not moving. Uh.
Speaker 2: Did y'all discuss the clipboard incident after the game?
Speaker 5: Oh, it wasn't after the game, but certainly I love
that child like she was my own. And I didn't
realize I did that. I've done that to Johnny Derek
through the years. But what you make sure of the
Moone is a legend. Simone is loved by everybody around
the country and in Baton Rouge and I made sure
we had a conversation. You bet we did.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I.
Speaker 3: Thought I thought everybody played it perfectly. I could see
coach you were just fired up. But what what what
had you? What had you so far up at the time.
Speaker 5: That's where I got my technical. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
got my technical I think from across the court and
Coach Bob jumped up and I was going with him,
and uh, the clipboard was there. I had no clue
Simon anybody else. It just was in my way and
I just popped it little hard and I I shouldn't
have done that. It didn't look good, and looking back
on it, you know, I just wanted to make sure
Simon was okay because it wasn't directed at Moan at all.
Johnny Dereck and I had a conversation, you know, he's
my coach that retired, and he said, Kim, you did
that twice to me, you squeezed my legs before you know.
It just happened just to be right there, and it
looked bad, and I certainly, certainly I wanted to make
sure and Simone and I, you know, had a conversation.
I love that child.
Speaker 2: Well there you got a child.
Speaker 5: Now she's forty years old.
Speaker 3: But nonetheless legend statue. Well you are as well, coach.
I mean, that's the craziest part. You're talking about two
Hall of famers on the bench every night for this
Tiger basketball team.
Speaker 2: Just what a setup.
Speaker 3: And congratulations another very successful week. After you talk to
you again. The massive winninggains Oklahoma Thursday, come back, hold
and serve against Mississippi State on Sunday. Now you got
Missou hitting the road this Thursday and then this Sunday
back out the PMAC three pm.
Speaker 2: It's very unique Tennessee team that.
Speaker 3: Runs these crazy styles of these almost hockey esque shifts.
Speaker 2: Gonna be in town. Best of luck this week, coach.
Speaker 5: Y'all behave. Don't get in any trouble in New Orleans.
As my mama would say, don't do anything I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Do if my father said that, I don't know how
much that would mean. But your mother.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that's a much higher moral standard.
Speaker 5: You have a great day, coach, y'all take care bye bye.
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