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Speaker 3: And they were old. Then they were old, then they
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, they were used all right.
Speaker 4: Well as of last night, women's final four set kind
of a stinker too.
Speaker 3: It's boring. It's all number ones.
Speaker 5: Typical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happens a lot with the women's Let we
talked about it. They're very top heavy. Yeah, they did.
And none of the games were like particularly close.
Speaker 4: Se there Texas Beach. Texas beat Michigan seventy seven to
forty one. Let's see Duke but No eight U C
Lab Dukes seventy to fifty eight. Yukon beats Notre Dame
seventy to fifty two. South Carolina bet TCU seventy eight
fifty two they weren't really close, but then we got
a set. So it's Yukon, Ucla, Texas, South Carolina Yukon
minus two hundred and two thirty five to win the
national championship.
Speaker 3: Ucla and Texas both tied at plus five point fifty
South Carolina plus seven fifty to win the championship. So
based on that, I guess Yukon is a big favorite here.
Speaker 7: I would like to see them win, like they'd be
be number twelve for Gina and think about how hard
that is, Like that would put him over John Wooden.
That's probably what they said about eleven ro think about
how hard that is. But I mean he tied Wooden
with eleven. This would give him this is give him
twelve national championships. I mean that's a that's a hell
of a run. So if you want, if you want
to find something to pull for, plus, I think Gino
does it the right way. Gino has always been a
pretty good coach. I got I've always been a Geno
arim a fan.
Speaker 4: He's been pretty good for sure, and he always says
the right things too. Like I like listening to him,
especially this time of year in press conferences because he
fights for the sport certainly and like to get its
fair share of opportunity in the spotlight, and he fights
for his team, certainly so. But it like to be
in the final four with all number one seeds and
to be minus two thirty five to win.
Speaker 3: It's pretty tells you something right there.
Speaker 4: And you look over at the men's side, number one seed, Michigan,
number one seed, Arizona, number three seed, Illinois, number two seed, Yukon,
much more evenly distributed. Actually, Michigan has the best odds
per the betting, per the per vegas. I guess to
win it all, Michigan's at plus one seventy to win
it all, Arizona plus one eighty to win it all,
Illinois plus four hundred, Yukon plus five fifty. So those
matchups will begin here in the next few days, Michigan
versus Arizona, so you got the two number ones going
at it, then Illinois versus Yukon.
Speaker 7: Out of you broke down our OTV brackets, which we
don't need. We don't need to mention what place we're
in or anything. But uh, I think Michigan's my loan.
Speaker 5: I don't even know if I have anybody in the
final four.
Speaker 4: Look, we we created are off the bench little group
and Mark. So it's called OTB, Wolfpack, foxhol T, Martin
and I think twelve people joined it, like and I'm
sure more people would have joined it as well if
I didn't make the name so long and confusing. I
get it, but it made me laugh at the time.
That's why I did it, So I don't apologize. Well,
the tripod we're in the last three places.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't have anybody in the final four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not good, guys, it is not good.
Speaker 6: Duke was like my last shot at having somebody in
the final four.
Speaker 3: There a miracle away too, So yeah. So I had Michigan.
Do you have them winning it all? I got them
winning at all?
Speaker 7: Well, because I do too, And I was like, I
don't know if that gives you points if you get that,
probably not like point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's see I had let's see, I had Michigan, Arkansas,
Michigan State, and Vandy. I really thought Vandy was heating
up the right time. Did oh, yeah, Delta, it's a
big on them.
Speaker 6: I had Duke, Houston, Texas Tech in Texas.
Speaker 4: It's not great. So let me ask you this. Have
y'all been Have y'all been locked into the tournament? I mean,
Taylor you're locked into.
Speaker 3: I mean not not as.
Speaker 7: Elected as I have been in years past, just because
it's it's kind of been so chalk.
Speaker 3: But I mean, I've watched the I've watched the big schools.
Speaker 4: Are we are we bandwagon? Like if our brackets kind
of busted, you kind of tune out of it?
Speaker 3: Or is it?
Speaker 4: Has this been a different year for y'all? Because I
probably I think it's just like my time of life
right now. We're so slammed with kids stuff all the time,
you can't like lock in as much as you want to.
But I also didn't know it is because like Bandy
lost early, so I wouldn't as interested.
Speaker 7: I never thought I'd pull from Michigan in anything, but
kind of like to see them win. The Big Ten
hadn't won a national championship in the NCAA tournament? Was
it one O two? Michigan State? And that's the last time?
So street coming to an end? That's that's a little
bit interesting. That's wild, right, I know, because they up
basketball schools? Is it last time since matteen Cleaves? Was Yes,
that's the entire ten. The last time a Big Ten
team has won the national championship Men's basketball, Matteaen Cleaves
like the one of the few people that I remember
watching as a kid. Like I can tell you because
I'm you know, Mike come as a shock to y'all.
I'm not a guy that recalls a lot.
Speaker 3: Of names and sports, but matteen Cleaves is one of them.
The lefty I believe that was a fun team to watch.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's the last time and like freshman up
the they don't how any Wisconsin teams Michigan, I mean
you know that. You've seen the The Fab five documentary,
Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and all them. They never won
the national championship. Like, there's just so many teams that
were very very close. Wisconsin with Frank Kaminski a few
years ago, it was really really good.
Speaker 3: They got to the finals.
Speaker 7: They lost to do Like, there's so many teams out
there that got closed or just han't got it done
for whatever reason.
Speaker 4: You got to think that with the emergence of the
pay for play period of college football, this time we're
in that you got to think that the Big Ten,
we will have better teams probably not to say that
they haven't had. I mean, it's hard even if you're
a great team, it's hard to get through the tournament.
Speaker 3: Everybody understands that. But you got to think.
Speaker 4: That some of the bigger schools will invest the money,
just like teams of the SEC are doing, teams in
different different parts of the country are doing in different conferences.
But you got to think there's some teams out there
in the Big Ten that say, you bring up like
a Wisconsin. I know they have funds to do it.
I know that's a proud sport for them. You got
to think teams like that will invest those inn aisle
dollars and be able to fundraise necessary funds for those
different programs that you know outside of football. We know
that for a lot of SEC and Big Ten, football
is going to get the line line's share of like
the revshare portion, But those teams that have that history
of being really good just haven't been able to break through,
I think are going to benefit from that fundraising. So
that's an interesting one you bring up there with the
old badges. But we'll see if Michigan get it done.
I'm not don't want to cheer for them, But for
the sake of my bracket, right, Like, that's I need
to go from like third to last place to at
least fifth or sixth to the last place.
Speaker 3: Can I get the middle of there? That's a big
deal for me. Talking about some bragging rights there not
somebody just put this in the chat.
Speaker 7: You were talking earlier about the Saints having marketing rights
in Italy. The Cleveland Browns are just posted we are
excited to announce that we've fig granted marketing rights in Italy.
Speaker 3: So it's not exclusive, not exclusive.
Speaker 5: I don't know how any Maybe they're gonna play each other.
Speaker 3: Italy's just handing out those rights. Like It's true, you
do gotta have two teams. So that's a fair point.
Speaker 5: Now the Browns are a choice for sure.
Speaker 3: Got to play someone. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I even asked, like I even asked chat GPT, what
does NFL Global Market Program mean?
Speaker 3: Didn't really have a great answer for me. Really. Basically,
it says the NFL is franchising its teams globally without
moving them by letting them quote unquote own fan growth
in specific countries.
Speaker 5: I mean that makes sense, what does it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you want to spread the game, globally like
NFL wants to do. Then, Yeah, it would make sense
that you would have to market in other countries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like doing.
Speaker 4: About team, that makes it a little weird, right, and
especially given in the Browns, I.
Speaker 5: Guess yeah, the Browns are choice for sure.
Speaker 7: Are you selling Saints gear and Brown's gear exclusively in it?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: So that the National Football leagu Global Market Experiment allows
individual NFL teams to market themselves in specific countries outside
the US, almost like giving them territories overseas. I don't
know what that means though. Were they not allowed to
sell a Saints jersey in Italy beforehand?
Speaker 3: I don't get. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 4: I read like the big statement from this that the
Saints posted as well, it still told me a whole
bunch of nothing.
Speaker 6: It's looking so I'm on like the NFL's website right now,
and it does look like every team has its own
little territory.
Speaker 5: So Italy is Saints and Browns.
Speaker 6: Germany has the Falcons, the Panthers, the Lions, the Packers,
the Colts, the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why Germany gets so many I don't know.
Speaker 6: Greece only has the Chargers. South Korea only has the Rams,
Japan only has the Rams, Nigeria has the Browns, Argentina
only has the Dolphins.
Speaker 5: France only has the Saints.
Speaker 3: Which France makes sense because the flair flitidly.
Speaker 5: I think that, Like it's the proximity from France to Italy.
Speaker 3: What does it mean they can sell jerseys there?
Speaker 6: I mean this feels pretty self explanatory to me.
Speaker 3: Why because they're just trying to.
Speaker 6: Market in other countries, Like I don't know why that's
hard to understand.
Speaker 3: What do you mean about market in other countries?
Speaker 5: Like they're just trying to like promote themselves.
Speaker 3: This country. This is your team now, I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 6: It's kind of how the Jaguars weren't the Jaguars like
in uh, England?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Or who's in Ireland.
Speaker 6: The Steelers, Like isn't it one of the.
Speaker 3: One of them? Is? So like Italy is like I
declare that all citizens of this great country can only
be fans of the Browns or the Saints because they
are marketing here.
Speaker 6: And I'm sure any other team could be like, hey,
I want to market in Italy too.
Speaker 4: A couple hundred bucks, maybe we're gonna ask Nick Underhill,
we had to get to the bottom of this situation.
And I agree, like the words they're saying are self explanatory,
but I don't agree that what it actually means means
anything except to confuse me on a Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6: I think it's just a global initiative to get people
more into the NFL.
Speaker 7: Good do you because like I'm okay with a couple
of games, but like the NFL opens on a Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this year, which I hate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're gonna do it, Like give everybody
one country in one team.
Speaker 3: Jeremy, what you got eight of them? It's not fair.
Ram's got a couple of countries, just pick one. Who
do you think the Cowboys have? North Korea?
Speaker 7: No, let me think somewhere somewhere, Yeah, some third world.
Speaker 5: I actually don't see the Cowboys on here.
Speaker 3: Nobody wants them. Jerry said, it's all about America.
Speaker 6: Probably all right, they got the Great State of Texas,
all right.
Speaker 3: Probably exactly what he said. All right, well we.
Speaker 5: Are back in Mexico makes sense too, That also makes sense.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Fifteen minutes we got Ja Clark joining the show where
you will talk about you gymnastics as they go into regionals.
They're gonna host the regionals starting to April first through fourth,
I believe right here at the Pemis. So we'll have
him joining the show. We got Nick Underhill coming in
at nine am to discuss these global marketing rights. What
what the hell that really means? So we'll find out,
but stick with us right here, off the.
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Speaker 4: I'll all right, welcome back here off the bench Tuesday morning.
I've got some complaints by my Mike levels the chat.
I'm just gonna speak up, speaking a little low this morning.
I'm not going to complain like Hester and say I'm
tired this morning.
Speaker 3: I would never do that.
Speaker 4: I saw a great comment in the chat earlier that
said Hester now identifies as a running back, not a
fullback since he's gone to NFL.
Speaker 3: That's a tough look for him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: He one of the big things that has kind of
been coming across my timeline this past week and this weekend. Certainly,
I want to get y'all's thoughts on it is the
new ABS system in Major League Baseball. I know there's
a lot of good to it, but I want to
know how y'all feel that it has gone through the
first you know, first handful of games out now that
of course, the ABS system is the automatic ball strike situation,
which is allows players to challenge balls and tricks obviously
well tap of the head most of times getting a
real quick tap of the head as well. But the
umpires are getting exposed real fast out here now, Like like,
I'm not gonna say this is an easy situation because
most of these things that I'm seeing at least that
are getting challenged are like fractions of an inch that
they're either hitting the square or not hitting it. How
do y'all think it's gone? Is this Is this good
for the game or is this bad for the game?
Speaker 5: I think it can be both, But I'm also a
lot things can be true. I think both things can
be true.
Speaker 6: I know that's kind of like a riding the fence
kind of answer, but I personally this is and this
is a hot People don't agree with me at all,
but me personally, I'm like a traditionalist, right so I
don't like to see all the new stuff that's happening
in baseball, well just because like I just like the
old school way of doing things, and like baseball is
America's pastime, you know, so I just feel like that's
one of those things that you shouldn't really mess with.
Like I don't like the pitch clock. I know that
people hate that take and everybody loves the pitchclock, but
I just don't like it. But I think that when
there's umpires that are clearly really bad at their.
Speaker 1: Job and.
Speaker 6: Sometimes inconsistent with calling balls and strikes, I think that's good.
Speaker 3: Who was the who?
Speaker 6: I think objectively it could be a good thing. Subjectively,
I'm not like I don't care either.
Speaker 4: Way, right, Like I'm all about all sports. Yeah, and
I'm not even gonna say exposing.
Speaker 3: Refs or ups expose them.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 4: I guess exposing the ones that aren't as good like
they are going to be having people watch you have
an accountability, especially immediate accountability, like this makes you be
better at anything that you do. Are your good coach
hos hold his players accountable, A good parent holds his
kids accountable, Like that's the way we get better and
I'm sure that these umps have a grade and they're
accountable to somebody, but now they're accountable to everybody in
real time. Immediately. How embarrassing had to it have been
for it was? It was it cb C B. Buckner
the umpire, I can't even remember what a game was
like he got six, like immediately he got six wrong?
Now again, like, look, we're talking to like a quarter
of an inch off wrong? I get, like, it's it's
hard and the ball's moving a lot. These catchers are
elite or absolutely elite at framing the strike zone. Like,
I get it. It's not an easy situation. But but
my god, and I'm sure and I can imagine that
every umpire in Major League Baseball is gonna have games
like that where they get exposed on multiple So everybody's
gonna have a little egg on their face at some point.
Speaker 3: But I think most of the ones.
Speaker 4: That I saw called wrong, we're not wrong by a lot, right,
Like if it was if they called it a ball
and the catcher thought it was a strike, Like it's
clipping the outer edge of the perimeter of that rectangle. Yeah,
like so it's not like crazy. So I was watching
it and I was like, man, these refs or these
umps are getting like poo pooed on by everybody, and
I'm like, it's it doesn't look that easy. And these
were really close calls, So like I'm all about you know,
we're not going to ever give like the ref the
benefit of the doubt here on these shows. But I'm
watching it and I'm like, I don't like seeing as
a guy that had like tuned into a lot of
baseball in his adulthood, yeah, starting to try to tune
in a lot more now, especially my son playing baseball.
He wants to watch some more new just baseball on
the TV at least, right, and I like to have
it like at least on the background so.
Speaker 3: He's at least like soaking things in subconsciously. Right.
Speaker 4: It was just baseball knowledge terminology or whatever it is.
I'm watching it and I don't like it just seems
like they're and I know there are rules and you
can't like there's I'm sure there's a certain amount that
you can do. It seems like there's just people tapping
the head all over the place. I guess my question
like how many do you get?
Speaker 7: Because like that's a good point that Lauder brought up
about the pitch clock, like you either love it or
hate it, but they installed the pitchclock to speed up
the game.
Speaker 3: I feel like this kind of slows down the game.
Speaker 4: And I think they only have like fifteen seconds to
make the decision like once it is.
Speaker 7: Which is fine, but it's like, I do feel like
this slows down the game. The pitchclock was to speed
up the game, So it's I mean, kind of like,
what are we doing?
Speaker 4: It's goind of counterintuitive, right, so do the first forty
seven games there was one hundred and seventy five challenges,
which is the average of like three point seven per game.
So I guess, like, if you're doing the math, it's
around a minute. I guess probably wasted or not wasted.
So it's it's actually it's not slowing it down too much,
A guess. But that was my thoughts. It's kind of
messing up the flow of the game, right, like to
watch it. But but but there's this other side of
me that's like, but it's actually really good because you're
holding them accountable. They're gonna eventually be better because of
the scrutiny that they're getting.
Speaker 3: Uh So I think I.
Speaker 7: Don't think there's less reviews there than there is in
like football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just don't need to see like a review.
Speaker 4: A ball missing like a quarter of an inch outside
of the strike center getting called a strike. I don't
need to see that in the top of the third inning. No,
well it's like no outs, nobody on base, Like I
don't need to see that. Maybe there's a situation to
where like you want the you want that in big situations,
like meaningful situations. So maybe there's parameters on when they
can be called, yeah, or like tighten it down to
how many you can call it, then they're not wasting
them as much like trying to tell a catcher you
can only do it twice again, Like that right, that
guy's like tapping his head every time he's framing one up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And also like don't leave it up to the ump.
Speaker 6: We say it all the time, like if the call
is close, don't leave it up to the ump.
Speaker 5: Aoulew that thing off.
Speaker 6: Okay if it's like a quarter point Yeah, if it's
a quarter of an inch off the little rectangle or whatever,
like you could have filed that one off.
Speaker 4: Leave some of those some of those pictures have so
much movement they probably don't even it's sick.
Speaker 3: It is pretty sick. It's fun to watch.
Speaker 4: But anyway, hey, look, if you're listening, you're looking at
listening at home, or if you're just at the office.
Whatever is jumping YouTube jumping the chat with us over
on YouTube at the live stream.
Speaker 3: Tell us your thoughts, let us know.
Speaker 4: But look, we're gonna go to break here and when
we come back, we got the head coach if you'r
LSU gymnastics team, mister J Clark joining the show.
Speaker 3: So stick with us right here and.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to Off the Bench, Hey thirty
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and happy to welcome in the coach of your LSU
gymnastics team. Mister j Clark, how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 8: Jay doing good fellas, how are you all this morning?
Speaker 3: We are doing fantastic.
Speaker 4: Excited for Excited for your team right now hosting a
regional right here in the PMAC.
Speaker 3: What does that?
Speaker 4: What does that mean for you to have that seed
at the end of the year, to be able to
host these regionals?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, we haven't. We haven't hosted one of
these things since twenty nineteen. And you know, I don't
understand the whole bit process deal that we've got. We
we try to get it every year. We think we're
one of the more attractive locations for this for obvious reasons.
But nonetheless we've got it. This year. We've positioned ourselves
in a great position as the number one seed for
this regional, number two overall nationally, and we feel good
about it. Hopefully we can take advantage of the of
the familiar confines of the p back and being on
our own equipment and and get through this thing.
Speaker 3: It's going to be.
Speaker 8: It's a tough field that we've got coming in here,
and you know, when you get to this stage of
the game, it's never easy but I feel good about
where our team is mentally and physically at this.
Speaker 4: Point because you got these regionals. You have number you know,
of course, number two LSU, you had number fifteen Clemson,
you got Auburn Air Force, Nebraska, the number seven stand
for number ten Michigan, you NC Utah State. So certainly
a lot of good teams out there, but y'all certainly
are not. Y'all are experience with playing of course, being
in the SEC, playing the best of the best in
every single week.
Speaker 3: So just how are your girls feeling?
Speaker 4: I know they've had a fantastic season, a lot of
great meets, a lot of great scores. They've been posted
coming off the SEC Championships a week and a half ago.
So how would the girls feeling right now, just going
into the postseason.
Speaker 8: Well, you're, first of all, you're right, you know, anytime
you can run the gauntlet of the Southeastern Conference during
the year, you should be prepared for just about anything.
But I think our kids are in a good position,
you know, right now, as far as how we train,
less is more Because you get to this stage of
the game and you're fifteen weeks in, the bodies begin
to begin to show a little wear and tear, but
I think more than anything, you know, we've just got
to continue to be the team that we have been
from a mental approach standpoint, and not not trying to
be overly perfect right now. We just need to get
out there and compete hard, which is what we've done
all year. We've shown the ability to fight and let
things snowball on us when when we do have a mistake.
So I feel good about it. I think our kids
feel good about it. Their confident bunch and uh, and
we should be we should be able to position ourselves
pretty well.
Speaker 4: Because so your your team takes it takes the floor
on Thursday, Thursday evening at seven pm. And then if
you're interested, there's a lot of gymnastics this week. So
April first through fourth there will be gymnastics tomorrow Air Forest, Nebraska.
Then at one pm on Thursday, Stanford, Michigan, North Carolina,
Utah State. But LSU takes the court on it takes
the floor on Thursday night. So it's a you're going
to go into this is gonna be a four team
meet Thursday night. So how do you how do you
go into those types of meat? There's so much happening around.
Usually it's it's two teams there. Do you tell you
do you tell your girls to focus on what they're doing?
Do you all score watch around what other people are
doing as well?
Speaker 8: Well, I hope they don't score watch. I know some
of them probably do. But really, you know, as if
you've heard me stay before, there is no defense. So
the best thing we can do is just stay present
with what it is we're doing, uh, and focus on
on on what we're doing. Look when when things when
things go wrong, it's it's impossible to not wonder, you
know where you stand, and so we you know, we
just have to control those emotions and and stay stay
very very present. As I mentioned, I've likened it before
to you know, being uh, being in the final round
of a of a of a major golf tournament. You
can hear what's going on around you. You can hear
the galleryes going crazy if somebody somebody birdies at sixteen
or whatever. But you've got it. You've got to stay
focused on what you're doing. And the only way to
do that is just to not scoreboard watch, but pour
all your energy into what we're doing. Stay in that bubble.
The best you possibly can, and and uh and hope
for a great outcome and and really for us, you know,
we we're hopeful that our fans will get in there
on Thursday night and again on Saturday. And I realize
it's Easter weekend, you know, and that that poses a
little bit of an obstacle. But you know, we've grown
so accustomed to being in there and having our our
art and support from our fan base and being able
to uh depend on that is something that that that
we need to be able to take advantage of certainly.
Speaker 4: And uh, we we hope and we expect LSU fans
to pack the p MAC as well for every time
LSU gymnastics because it is as much watch TV right there.
And I want to follow up a little bit on
the Okay, so and look, this question is coming from
old football player meat had here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you're watching, so the coaches y'all have to kind
of probably keep track. You want your players to focus
certainly on what's happening. Yeah, but when you get into
the postseason, I mean, it's it's it's winner go home
at this point.
Speaker 3: It's just best scoring.
Speaker 4: So if there's a situation you kind of mentioned golf
like a golfer doesn't want to watch the score, but
if he's down, he might know that he has to
pull something.
Speaker 3: He he has to.
Speaker 4: Make a shot that he would normally try. Maybe at
the end, is there a situation that, okay, we need
to score a certain amount? Is there is there something
that you would ever change in a routine, add something
to a routine because you know you need it, or
is it just no, you got to execute the routine
we practice every single time.
Speaker 8: It would be highly unusual for me to do something
like that. I can I can only think of maybe
one time where that's been the case in thirty five years.
Speaker 3: Of doing this.
Speaker 8: The reality is they get into a rhythm and and
a routine, and everything in their mind at that point
is very choreographed, and they you know, they they've got
certain things they say to what themselves, They've got verbal
cues that they put themselves through, and for me to
disrupt that, you know, midstream most of the time, is
going to be a lot more detrimental than it is
going to be beneficial. So it's not something that that
you'll see us do very often. And in fact, you
know I tell them all the time, just let me
get pissed off at the judges. You don't worry about things.
You keep doing what you do and don't get distracted
by anything that I say or do you know that
in the course of a competition, we just have to
their their best approach is just going to be to
stay in there. Bell. There's certain kids that that can handle, uh,
you know, shifts in the environment, and then there's those
that really you just have to leave alone and let
them go into. You know, a couple of our kids
almost go into a kind of a catatonic, transical looking
uh state of mind before they go where they block
out everything and they don't hear what's going on around them.
It does you no good to talk to them because
they are they're dialed in and it's uh, it's it's
one of the one of the challenges of of my
job is to meet them where they are, because they're
all a little bit different that way. Some of them
want more inputs, some of them want zero inputs, and uh,
and you just got to be able to be able
to kind of read the moment with each one of
them and try to help them get where they.
Speaker 3: Need to get.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well said, I mean, everybody's a little bit different.
That's the mark of a good coach is to be
able to understand the mentality the psychology of your players.
And and you're and the girls on your team, and
certainly you got some you got some studs.
Speaker 3: Your team is.
Speaker 4: Full of a bunch of exeasonal language with a bunch
of badass women. Uh and All Americans came out recently
Lincoln All American, Unvault and Flora Connor McClain and even
bars Beam, Amari Drayden, Fault, kayle Chi basically everything.
Speaker 3: What does it mean?
Speaker 4: What does it mean to have studs like that on
your team that are just going out there every week?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 8: It's uh, it's it's definitely a comfort to know that
you've got you've got and there's more than just them,
I mean, it's it's Our team is full of great competitors,
kids that are proven over time and time again that
uh that they have a level of consistency that can
be counted on over and over again. They rely on
each other, and those kids that are that that made
regular season All American would be the first to tell
you they don't do it without without their teammates setting
them up. So We've got a great group of kids.
I've got a credit Gar Griffiths spearheads are recruiting efforts.
He identifies the talent, but not only that, the personalities
that will fit here with the culture that we try
to create year over year here at LSU. And so
I'm just you know, I'm a I'm a blessed man
to have done this as long as I have.
Speaker 2: But to be.
Speaker 8: Surrounded by this caliber of young women day in and
day out that want to do things the right way
and represent this university the way they do is uh
is really a privilege and an honor for me coach.
Speaker 4: What's been the best part about this team? Coaching this team?
Every team's got their own identity, their own personality, their
own DNA and you've had some good ones, of course,
But what's been the best part about being with these
ladies this year?
Speaker 8: Well, I think they from the from the first meet,
they've they've demonstrated that they're fighters and that they they're
they're very proud of what they represent and a lot
of that goes back to what I just said, they
represent each other there. One of the things they've repeated
and that we repeat a lot, is that we honor
each other with our actions and not our words. And UH.
And they've they've spent a lot of time investing in
one another, uh, really growing their relationships outside of the gym, which,
as you guys know, UH, particularly in the more classic
team sports, is super important. That locker room, in the
chemistry that you can provide that you get is super
important to the success of a team. And it's and
believe it or not, it is in our sport too,
which which is seemingly an individual sport that that you
wouldn't think that matters a whole lot. It does. And
I've been part of teams that had no business thinking
they could win a championship and they did because of that.
And I've been part of teams that should have run
off and left everybody and didn't because they didn't have that.
And I'm just proud of this team for investing in
one another, spending the time with one another, getting to
know what makes each other tick, what are the possible
what are the things that could divide them so that
they don't and and that they've they really put on
a great effort into those relationships and prioritize one another
over outside things that that could get in the way,
so that that's one of the biggest things I'm proud of.
Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you, for LSU fans, what y'all
do certainly does matter in this community.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 4: I can tell you got two little girls that did gymnastics,
and there's about there are so many gymnastic places for
little girls to go in Baton Rouge, and I only
I can only contribute that to the success and the
popularity that your team has within this community. So it
certainly does matter. Coach, I wanted to ask you. I
asked this to Jay Johnson last week. Well, of course
there's a new coaching hire with the men's basketball team
gonna be playing in the same building where your team.
Speaker 8: Some say it's a new hire, some.
Speaker 3: Old I guess, yeah, yeah. But coach, what's it like
to coach a successful program at a school that cares
so much about the product that puts out on the
field or the court or the floor, and it does
all the resources and everything that it goes into it
will support you, guys and every single way. What does
it mean to be a coach here at LSU.
Speaker 8: I can't think of I can't think of about it
I've done it, and I've only done it in two places,
and both of them in the conference Once. Once was
my album of honor. But I'm going to tell you
something right now, and I kind of echo what Will said.
You know, Louisiana and LSU is home for me now
and and it's different, you know, And I know that
Laye has coined that, and everybody's just talking about it's
just different. It that's maybe that's a catchphrase. Whatever, It's real,
and it's contagious. And the culture here drives that, and
the personalities of our coaches drive that. We're We're not
we're not always the easiest people. We're not the people
that you know our coaching. Our coaches here at LSU
don't take no for an answer very well, and we
attract that kind of personality. We're all fighters, we're all competitive,
we all all want to win, and we all take
a great deal of pride in what we do and
this university and this state and what it represents. And
it's just something that I think it's it's cyclical. If
it all feeds. I'm I'm I'm part of a sport
that you know, in most places doesn't get a whole
lot of attention, but it does here and uh, and
that's that's just an amazing testament to not only the
support that we have at l s U, but to
Louisiana and particularly South Louisiana as a whole.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: They're just supportive and they want, they want to they
want to be part of a winner, and and it's
it's it's an incredible situation to be a part of.
This is my last stop. I'm gonna retire here and uh,
and I'm excited about what this team is capable of
doing this weekend. But we need the fans to get
their butts in the seat. I can't say that too often.
Speaker 3: That's right, Go get the butts in those seats. Good
to take us. Uh.
Speaker 4: Thursday night, seven pm, l s U takes the floor
and then they advance. It will be Saturday at five pm.
So go get him in. Coach, I know exactly what
you're saying. I'm just a boy born and raised in
Texas and Louisiana's home now, so I completely get it.
Speaker 3: And we appreciate the time. And good luck to your
ladies and.
Speaker 8: Go kick some butt, all right, guys, I appreciate you
all having us all take care.
Speaker 4: All right, thanks coach. All right, there he is Jay Clark.
You're head coach of the LSU gymnastics team. So you
heard him. I know it's Easter weekend. Y'all go pack
the p MAC. This is they. We are lucky enough
to be hosting a regional for gymnastics. Some of the
best teams in the country coming down. So if you're
looking for events to do, take your family out.
Speaker 3: Get loud.
Speaker 4: Cheer those lady Tigers on to victory as they chase
down a national championship.
Speaker 3: So let's go.
Speaker 4: We appreciate this time. Appreciate you Coach Clark for joining
this show. All right, let's go to break. We'll come back.
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appreciate you joining us so far. We've got a great
hour three coming up. On the other side of this breay.
We thank Jay Clark for joining the show. Last segment,
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