Speaker 1: He welcome in guys to a brand new ot BE
Good morning Louisiana, trying to a Vietnam VI. But like,
who knows how many people were listening the other day
we got into that. Yeah, it doesn't matter. The point
is it's Friday. See last day of February, twenty.
Speaker 2: Eight days weird month, February.
Speaker 1: Last day of February. We are hurtling into March. Carnival
season is here, Marty Gras on the way and but
a few hours away from joining the migration that is
people from the Boot heading down to the House of Mouse.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to.
Speaker 1: See everyone that I know down there, sweating, dodging traffic
with the with the strollers, and is generally having a
overwhelming but great time.
Speaker 3: I would assume with it being Louisiana Week, because we're
like the only people off of school that you probably
get recognized pretty often.
Speaker 2: We get a lot of OTB love.
Speaker 1: We get a lot of OTB love every time we've
gone to Marty Grass and it's very validating and it
feeds my ego and it makes me happy. If I'm
just being completely honest, it's again, this is a job
where sometimes it can feel now things of the chat
and stuff. This definitely lesson it used to be on
like traditional radio, but you know, we can feel like
you're just kind of speaking out there into the ether.
And so when people tell you how much they love it,
especially with everything that you can be listening to or watching, yeah,
freaking makes my day. Still does. It's like one of
the things that I love most about this job. So
hell yeah, if if you see me down there and
you like the show, come holler.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we're at Epcot and we can have a beer.
Speaker 3: But you know, maybe if you want to watch Quad
Bob while he Bob knocks a show out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna be doing a lot, see
how that goes. Yeah, we'd go with Rome yesterday, Dude,
I was very nervous but ended up being ended up
being quite fun.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't know if it was nerves,
I don't know what it was, but I was watching
him intro you and I'm like getting excited for you,
kind of getting nervous for you as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, bro, I'm I'm part of the clone,
you know, I'm part of the Clones.
Speaker 2: Now I'm learning a new culture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they wore stuff, which apparently, which means they support something.
When they wore something, they're standing it basically. But it
all goes back to some like old Auburn War Eagle
show like twenty years ago or something. There's there's all
kinds of wonderful little cultural idiosyncrasies in the Roma verse,
and I'm excited to continue to learn them. But Jake, so,
I mean, I'm gonna be doing that thing. So Meik
tells me, you might be. You're vacating next week, you
might be relaxing a little more.
Speaker 2: Huh oh, for sure.
Speaker 3: This is gonna be like the first vacation that I
don't work or at least do like pop in here
or do off campus remotely.
Speaker 1: So well, and I mean even like, I mean even
just even like the vacation itself, Yes, no work, but
also cruise ship Yeah, feet propped up, Dakar in hand, like,
what are we gonna be?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Hell yeah, dude, yeah.
Speaker 3: So we're going to do two different stops. We're going
to Key Wes first and then two different stops in
the Bahamas. The boys have been, but the three older
boys they don't remember. It was gosh, it was seven
eight years ago. So Memphis has never been Harlow's obviously
never been. I'm excited just to see like their reaction
to being on the open water and you know these
stops that they've never seen anything like it. We're going
to Atlantis for a full day. Oh nice. I can't
think of the last time I took a vacation where
I didn't work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I can't eat. I know you're you're always
on that. That's incredible, and it's a cruise where everything
should be kind of taken care of for you.
Speaker 2: Are you going?
Speaker 1: So you've worked, you eat very well, You've got great
abs because of it, and those are gonna look.
Speaker 2: Excellent top deck. But are you are you eat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So are you're going to eat bad on this trip?
Are we going full VAK mode? Are you going to
put fried things into your belly? Not go completely crazy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we don't want to do too much damage
to the app.
Speaker 3: But yeah, definitely going to eat different than I normally eat.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, looking forward to it. Let's go.
Speaker 3: But somebody get this man a fried trimp po boy.
I was thinking, like, pizza, pizza, okay, because you so
you so?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, of course I should have realized they didn't,
So you deny yourself pizza most of the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah, Oh that's gonna be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But Jackson, my oldest son, he does have they of course,
because this is how strength coaches work. They have I
believe they're maxing out the week they get back. So
he's panicking a little bit as far as, hey, we
need to work out on the ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably good, but but that that's great for everybody. Yeah,
I mean working out on vacation, you're never mad that
you force yourself to do it.
Speaker 3: I get when I'm on the road covering a game,
I actually get my best workouts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That makes sense because like you're on your own schedule,
you're by yourself. There's it's some random hotel gym that
nobody's in, so you kind of have it to yourself.
Speaker 1: You and Jackson go get a blood pump before we
go top deck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, let's.
Speaker 1: Go, dude, finish that thing off with some curls for
the girls.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be like for the guys, I gotta be
like my Goshan Merriman, who he used to get the
Thera band before we'd go out for pre game again,
a quick pump in just to make sure the muscles
were popping.
Speaker 1: It's a little blood pump, baby. Well that sounds awesome.
Allowed you to tail it? Too bad for you?
Speaker 3: You you all are gonna be I mean, hold up, Elandro,
he's been he's been on a couple of vacations.
Speaker 2: Okay, poor Taylor.
Speaker 1: He spends thirteen hours a day in this building, and
now we're forcing him to host our morning show all
week next week. How we feel, Taita? You do great though.
I'm very proud of you every time you're on air.
Speaker 4: It's already done. It's already done, man, The show is
prepped and ready to go.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, yeah, you've already He's
been lining up guests already on everything else.
Speaker 2: It's done. Wow, look at that.
Speaker 4: You You always leave a couple of rooms for any
breaking news or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, I mean, we're ready to go.
Oh man, see you guys. That's that's that's a really.
Speaker 4: Hard basketball game till eleven o'clock last night.
Speaker 1: To do prior preparation prevents poor performance, and that's why
is gonna kill it next week. Alandre, you had all
intimidated by being locked in the room here with Taylor
alone and basically the show being at his whims. Are
you going to try to rest any modicum of control
next week?
Speaker 5: M No, I'm not intimidated, and no, I'll probably just vibe.
Speaker 2: Who's going to do audio?
Speaker 6: Do you know?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Rotating cast a. Oh no, sorry, I mean video.
Speaker 4: It's going to be Cassie Spizzally Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Jordan
Kitchen's Tuesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I'm going to tune in. I can't
wait to hear it.
Speaker 4: You have, you have, you have way better things to
do on vacation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I also end up walking the park a
lot of times. Like let's say, like portions of the
family are going on a ride, but like one of
the babies has to sleep, throw headphones in and his cruise.
You know, it's a great feeling.
Speaker 4: Also, it took me twenty minutes to realize the laundro
was here because she has this awesome Camo shirt on, this.
Speaker 2: Morning shirt, and I thought it was an empty chair.
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, Camo, Yeah, I can't see it,
But not because of the reason Taylor's saying.
Speaker 2: But let's just all do it. Then I thought she
was a floating, disembodied head. But I see it now. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 6: All right.
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I mean, there's a lot going on on campus this week,
just a lot of sports.
Speaker 2: It's it's that time of year, right.
Speaker 1: So LSU women's basketball falls in a heartbreaker to Alabama
last night on the road. Ot functionally, how impactful is this?
And I guess I mean from his seating perspective, because
you still you already wrapped up the double buying the
SEC tournament, which in many ways you're not gonna win.
Speaker 2: The SE's kind of.
Speaker 1: The ultimate goal, right, Uh, how much, Jake, you know
more bracketologies than I do. They've been at a two seed.
Does this push them down to a three? And now
the tournament you try to get up back to it two?
Speaker 3: So it I mean, it potentially could do exactly what
you're saying, because they were right there, they were on
the two line, but for whatever reason, and I guess
it's their non conference Like even when they were a
top five basketball team, they were still firmly a two seeds.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh, So when you've looked, you know, at the bracketology
all season long, they've kind of whatever their ranking was,
like an ap, it hasn't really mattered.
Speaker 2: They've been a little bit behind that.
Speaker 3: So you lose this game and t let's say that
you don't win a game in the SEC tournament, than
you are without question a three seed. Okay, Like if
you have like any kind of faulter here down the stretch,
you'll be a receive.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So we'll put them on the three line for now
with the opportunity to rise. But they do have the
double bye in the SEC tournament, which means a lot,
and first they finish up in the p MAC with
an old Miss team that spent much of the year
at ranks. So again going to have another battle. As
far as the game itself goes, and you get to watch,
I was playing Dungeons and Dragons last night, Taylor. You
worked the game now. Of course, I've read about it,
and it seems like another game in which l Shoot
got down, big, fought chances, clawed their way back, had
some game winning opportunities, but not It seems like not
a terribly efficient night shooting wise from the Tigers.
Speaker 4: No, they were actually and and honestly, the final stat
sheet's going to look better than it was. They were
really good in the second half. They were awful in
the first half. And honestly, guys, it's pretty similar to
the Kentucky game. They did the same thing because in
this game they were down eleven and a half. They
were down twelve a half in Kentucky and stormed back.
Like I would say, they stole that Kentucky game. I look,
Kentucky deserved to win it. Like credit to LSU. They
actually took a late lead in this game, but they
gotta stop starting so slowly.
Speaker 2: They have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it does seem like a bit of
a common theme, even though you know, going on the
road is always tough in.
Speaker 2: These uh in these environments.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned this earlier in the week, but now
the crowd wasn't sold out or anything like that. But
I mean, he's pretty good. It's pretty loud, had some
electricity to it. And so my older brother, he's a
high school athletic director, and he was taking his students
on like different stops throughout the Southeast and they went
to an Alabama women's basketball game and he sent me
a picture like right before tip and there was seven
eight people in there. Oh when Lu wasn't when now
she wasn't there playing A and M I believe. And
even though even though it's a ranked good right to
Alabama team. Yeah, and so like just seeing the scenes
from last night compared to the picture that he sent me, yeah,
I'm like, yeah, I mean what what T Bob talked about.
Speaker 2: They're the biggest stars in town.
Speaker 3: They bring obviously, you know, Yeah, they bring a different
type of vibe to the gym and other teams. There's
fifteen other teams that don't like them at all. Yeah,
And you had, Like I don't know, Taylor if you
had that same feeling watching the game, but there was
people in that building that it was the only thing
they're going to care about for the next three weeks
is beating LSU in that game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean I've already seen it all over Twitter
and everything.
Speaker 3: So people Alabama fans that ain't mentioned women's basketball all.
Speaker 2: Year, I know it's in the group chat.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit ever, but you know, but I mean, again,
don't panic now. This team is flawed, right, so this
does not feel like a team when I think when
you look up and you look at South Carolina, Yukon,
some of the teams, like it feels like a heavy
lift for this team to get past them. But the
tournament's the tournament, and coach Moulk's an expert when it
comes to maximizing tournament and performance. So we'll just have
to wait and see. Not gonna get overly panicky over
this loss. And plus, you know, they won so many close,
like one score games early on, like the map is
gonna even out a little bit, So this is you know,
this is just kind of to be expected in some ways.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: In baseball, you got LSU Kansas State today. Does anybody
know anything about Kansas State baseball?
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I mean, I don't know. I'm just
going around the room. Are they good?
Speaker 1: If I was Jake, you normally have like one nugget
of any college topic that I can ask.
Speaker 2: You Aboutically I do.
Speaker 3: I don't have a lot for Youah, Kansas State baseball
certainly not in this early portion of the year here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't either.
Speaker 5: To be fair, already face three ranked teams.
Speaker 2: Okay, there we go LANDA and they won all three.
Speaker 7: Of its matchups in Arlington last weekend. Okay, Kansas State
is four and four, So.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, El, you should no El, shoot l
who's on the mountain tonight? Are we back to our Friday,
Friday Day Sunday rotation?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So Kate Anderson tonight tomorrow? Sure, Sunday more answers? Maybe,
I mean, I guess if you're talking about a goal, right,
this is a classic, Like, it's not really about the opponent,
It's about what do I want to see out of
l s U.
Speaker 5: What I've been seeing the past couple of weekends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean right, it's like it's tough like recency
bias makes you want to say, uh, better word the
runners in scoring position just because against DBU you dominated them,
but the final score wasn't as bad as it should
have been. Yeah, but again that that that feels like
a bit of a luxury problem given a lot of
that's gonna come just from how often they get on base. Yeah,
I mean I get I guess I would say that
maybe a timely hitting in this tonight's game.
Speaker 2: Anybody, what are you all watching? I've kind of sent
it over the last couple of days and weeks.
Speaker 3: I'm just curious to see and maybe it doesn't maybe
maybe it never happens.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But they're playing a lot of people.
They're playing a ton of people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're good players, are platooning with other good players.
So that doesn't mean that it has to go away.
But it's something I've paid attention to just because I mean,
you're throwing a lot of guys out there, and look,
you want to find out and Jay's all about matchups
and different decisions and who has the ability to come
in into this spot and so you know, maybe it
never goes down and has a you know, eleven person rotation,
maybe it stays like it currently is. I don't know,
but I'm always paying attention to. Okay, once you get
better competition, how does the coach handle the lineup, bullpen
to different things? But I mean a guess, Dallas Baptist,
we kind of stole more of the same, and so
that just might be what this team is. They've got lefties,
they've got right e's they feel better about in certain matchups,
and it doesn't matter how good you are.
Speaker 2: Everybody on this roster is good and you're going to platoon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean competitive depth, right, But like Baker talking
about that LSU defense, I don't know that. I mean, again,
in my time covering Logue Baseball, at least here in
the preseason portion, this feels like the most competitive depth
that I've ever seen. Now, conference play will have a
way and the rest of the next few weeks will
have a way of kind of yes, like you're talking
about weeding guys out cream rising at the top. But
still it's pretty wild at this point how solid they
are across the board.
Speaker 7: Well, I kind of like the idea of having that
much depth and being able even once you get into.
Speaker 5: SEC play, Like who's just you don't usually see in baseball.
But who's to say that you have to have like
a set roster, set lineup.
Speaker 2: If everyone look, that's on the players.
Speaker 1: Everyone keeps playing well in their opportunities, Yes, you don't
have to force them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, Yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's some
guys that are going to want more at bats, They're
going to want more consistency, They're going to want more
opportunities because baseball is such a game of failure. If
I'm kind of going through it a little bit, hey
let me get out of it on my own. But
I don't know that this team is that team. I
think if you're struggling a little bit, you have so
much depth in coach Jay Johnson has shown like he's
gonna roll somebody out in there. So that's why I'm
curious to see how it kind of pairs down. Like
right now, everybody's kind of playing well, there's no real struggles.
I know braswell a little bit at the plate. But
if they continue on like Alonjas saying, there's nothing that
says you can only play nine guys or ten guys
or even eleven guys. If you have fourteen, that can play,
you find a way to get fourteen at bats well.
Speaker 4: In this like the perfect weekend to do that because
like Jay always tinkers with his lineups early in the
season anyways, but like you have a weekend series, you're
also playing three different teams, so it's not a normal series,
like Jake was talking about, is it going to be
matchup base and then performance base? Who does he put in?
Would he normally put in Ethan Fry? But oh I
don't like him against this pitcher. Let me put in
this guy based on you know, performance and matchups that
you're playing three different teams. I think this is the
perfect weekend to really see what you got depth to us.
Speaker 1: I think Nooki's right too. Maybe power in the lineup
is something that else you still could Potentially, we're not
We're not sure where they're gonna land in that.
Speaker 2: Regard, So that's something to watch.
Speaker 1: Cody chauven says, is there a report on x about
Choresby moved to Saturday Starter after this week? And potentially so?
I just did a little search on Twitter. I did
not see that. What I did see is a tweet
from ten days ago after last weekend. This comes from
inside Elsie Baseball says there were seventeen pitchers in the
country observed throwing ninety seven or higher by D one Baseball.
LSU had four of the seventeen Cason Evans, Jay Shores,
Maverick Rizzy and Billy Schmidt, three freshmen on that list.
That's the competitive death that we're talking about.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: That is four of the seventeen in the country that
are throwing ninety seven or higher.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that everybody's most excited about.
Speaker 2: If you want to, you.
Speaker 3: Know, learn a little bit more about who else Hu's
opponents are this weekend. Hunt does have a great right
up Onisports A little serious snapshot kind of gives you
an idea of Sam Houston, case.
Speaker 2: State and Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Uh and guys, if look louising a sports on net
Ross is killing the Saints game.
Speaker 2: Hunt's killing LSU.
Speaker 1: Jake wrote an article first time ever Matt, So yeah,
go go check it out.
Speaker 2: For sure.
Speaker 3: I felt like a little bit of a cave man
when it hits in. But well, you literally do chicken
pet do. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. There's some big
it's more like a dinosaur pecking. That's like a yeah,
that's like more that's less chicken and more kind of
raptor pecking. But you know what I said, great, right, great,
thank you. I was like, oh man, it's just gonna
look completely different. But I used it on the Room
Show yesterday pretty much the same thing when we were
talking about the combine and trying to lay out what
we got into yesterday, like there's so much more than
what you see on the field.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got very long guy. I still want
to talk about some of the stuff coming up this weekend.
A big night for softball last night the Pelicans.
Speaker 2: Got I know, I know, like half court alley oops,
new tattoo? Who did? More? TV coming up next.
Speaker 8: Off the Bench, Welcome back to the best morning sports
show around sort of. It's Off the Bench with Hester
and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Now this.
Speaker 1: Takes you back to Reggie's. Is Reggie's even still open? No,
that's crazy.
Speaker 3: This is two thousand and seven. Ye, this is this
is seven. This is Hurricane Chris from the Port City.
It is Hurricane Chris.
Speaker 4: I did remember the song halle Berry, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Because my wife's name is Kaitlin Barry. So we used
to Kaylen Berk, Kaylen Barr and Rick Ralston is walked
up in there. She'll have Quinn looks like, yeah, I
think Fred Chicket.
Speaker 5: Yeah I'm not. I'm run in tune with what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see you're trying to act that you don't know.
Red Jesus closed, I see it did.
Speaker 5: All of them should be closed.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to Huntington Raider shout out, he's a
what Huntington Raider?
Speaker 2: Yeah for a city.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to j Clark next. Is there the
podium challenge this weekend?
Speaker 2: But I want to talk.
Speaker 1: About the Pelicans for a second here, just for a
couple of minutes. Guys, chill, not about the actual games.
So they have one three in a row, Zion got
a triple double and he's got a.
Speaker 2: New stomach tattoo. But I want to talk about CP three.
Speaker 1: Rod Walker had a really good piece up this morning,
you know, Matt Road in Louisiana Sports on that as
well before the game, about how New Orleans should honor
CP three, should should children spect And there weren't. There
was definitely not the thunderous booze that he has run
into in the past when he played the two games
here this week, the Spurs lost both of lundra h.
Even though you're probably happy about that now with and
being everybody out, you're in full tank mode.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say I'm in tank mode.
Speaker 7: I would say that, like, I just don't like what's
happening in the organization right now, so I'm not.
Speaker 5: It doesn't I don't care.
Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt as much as it would if you
if you were you know, if Winby went out for
the year and you still hope.
Speaker 5: Right, or if we had a coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean pop as well, yeah right,
so okay, So but again, he wasn't met with like
the thunderous foods. But he also didn't get the love.
He didn't get the applause that he should have. And
I thought Rod did a really good point. I mean,
Anthony Davis never even said thank you. And look, he's
so good spooded, right, But this is a man who's
still to this day has not said thank you to
the any Chris Paul when he left, originally on Instagram,
said quote, thank you New Orleans for six of the
best years of my life to the organization. My teammates, coaches,
and the fans. You will always be my family and
have a special place in my heart with not one,
not two, but three exclamation marks. And then after playing
there this week, in which he was still booed more
than he should have been, what he put on Instagram
quote after twenty years, the love for this city has
never changed. The journey started here and I'll always have
gratitude for the city.
Speaker 2: Of New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Why can't we just love this man? He's the best
player in the franchise's history. Like you should, I think,
And this is really what this is all in pursuit
of should the Pelicans hant Chris Paul's jersey?
Speaker 2: I say yes.
Speaker 1: And it's definitely a bit of you know, in a
dark room, even a candle shines bright because it was
six years. It is not very long, but like we're
a garbage ass franchise, garbage. He is the only consistency
that the Pelicans have ever achieved. And eventually maybe this
for franchise gets to be successful, but here in the
first twenty years, whatever it is, he's the guy.
Speaker 2: He's the guy. I think you should hang it thethay
you already said.
Speaker 4: No, I mean I guess, I guess if you you
have to hang on like you don't have to, I wouldn't.
I mean to your point, like, see the best player
in the franchise history. Yeah, probably, but you see six
years not his fault.
Speaker 2: But they didn't really win anything with him.
Speaker 1: I mean again, though they won more than they ever
have since they were consistently better than they ever were.
He was an MVP finalist multiple times. Nobody's come close
to what he's done. And again I get it's kind
of sad. It's like, really, you're gonna do that? I mean,
like outside looking at him, people might laugh and point.
But here's the man who's the best player in franchise history,
brought more success than any other player in franchise history,
and loves the city the very thing that we all
hate Anthony Davis over. He is the the antithesis of it.
They can complete in verse time to show CP three
love is time to hang the jersey dude, they said,
Baron Davis over CP three. I mean, those are heady times,
those are fun times.
Speaker 2: Actually, I don't hate that. David West was awesome as well.
He actually he might be the answer for like his
loyalty and aren't.
Speaker 1: They kind of the same in that regard though, Like
was David West here?
Speaker 2: How many long was here? Cree two years? I think
he was here? A yeah, I'll check, like I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I love David West as well, like
them too. Those are the guys the reason why we
were good.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Paiga eight years. Okay, so he ended up.
It's a long time and when you weren't. He wasn't
drafted by the Hornets Pelicans anyway.
Speaker 1: I just I just wanted to highlight the love that
CP three is showing the city and just reinforce this
idea that it's time to reciprocate, even if you don't
want to hang the jersey. Take nothing else away from
this segment. Take this away. Zion's got a new tattoo
of a son on his belly button. He does, and
CP three needs.
Speaker 2: A little love.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in true detective look at Sion's
belly button trying to figure out who the yellow King
of Carcosa is.
Speaker 2: All right, when we get back, Coach j Clark, keep
it locked.
Speaker 8: Off the bench.
Speaker 1: Go to Pinnacle Exterior Construction guys PEC built dot Com,
PEC built dot com and look, he says that we're
really looking at picks of the eggs because she said, uh,
we're still kind of cute. Yeah, okay, yeah, So what
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off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 1: Was outing y'all, welcome back to OTB T Bob, Jacolandra
Taylor hanging out with you today and right now is
time to talk to the man himself. Coach j Clark
LSU Gymnastics getting ready for the podium challenge tonight in
the Raising Canes River Center. They're gonna be taken on
George Washington. Tiger's a hot right now. Down to Oklahoma
two weeks ago, broke that street, go on the road
into Lexington last week, dominate first win in Lexington since
twenty seventeen. Coach, How we feel in Uh, the team
looks like they're in excellent form right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the kids we got, the kids we still have
moving right now are doing a great job. We went
down there and got on the podium yesterday and and
uh and uh, you know, we look ready. So we're
excited to get downtown and get a get a big
road score away from home. Yeah, so to speak, and
uh and uh and and it should be a good night.
Speaker 1: So is that because I was I've always wondered what's
the idea behind going to the Raising Kines River Center?
Speaker 2: How how does road score work with in Q.
Speaker 6: In QS, so our national qualifying scores based on our
top six scores, a minimum of three three have to
be away and and UH, and then you drop the
high and average the other five. Well, one time of year,
we're allowed to count an away score within a thirty
mile radius of our campus, so we can go downtown
once a year. And we've got an LSU alum, Scott Kusomano,
that hosts a big club meet. He's got about fifteen
hundred kids. But a couple of years ago he told
me he'd be willing to host a college invitational, and
so he puts a podium in there for us, and
we get the experience of being on the podium, which
we'll be in at S, be on top of at SEC's,
and then again at the national championship. Hopefully we make
it that far, and then we get a road score,
and those roadscores are very important, especially late in the
year in terms of determining your seeding for the postseason.
Speaker 1: Coach, again, how could I not sit here and ask
you about klen Chio. I agree with you, it's time
to just rename the Freshman of the Week award. At
this point, she takes it home for a fourth consecutive week.
We're straight all around title. Uh, it's it's it's just
it's unreal. Now tied with Hailey Bryant for the most
SEC awards during their freshman season with six recognitions already.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, if she's not Freshman of the Year,
I don't I don't know who is. She's She's done
an amazing job. And and you know, we had our
our little Porche for Scores thing last night, and I
had Hailey Bryant there, you know, talking to the to
the group, and and it reminded me of her freshman year,
you know. And I'm sitting there going and I told
everybody last night how thankful I am that we have
Hailey Bryant and Kayln Chio at Bookends, because Hailey has
been such a great influence on her. You know, success
comes quickly, and sometimes that could be a curse. And
and uh, and Hailey's done a good job of of
helping Kaylen understand, you know, how she needs to conduct
herself and where she needs to keep her mind and
and what better example could she have other than Haley,
you know, just in terms of how to do things
and stay humble and and treat everybody the way that
you should. And and Kaylin's doing a great job. You know,
you'd never know where that's going to go when they
have that kind of success that early, and and uh
and she's doing a great job of of sort of
keeping things between the lines, and and and and treating
treating her teammates and everybody around her, uh with with
great humility and great respect.
Speaker 3: Coach, you mentioned injuries there and obviously you know it's
a part of it, but you've gone through, you know,
significant amount, it seems like. But when you look at
them right now with three weeks ago to the SEC
you know, tournament, and you've got still three meets to go, like,
what are those conversations like okay, like we want you back,
but we got to be smart here.
Speaker 2: We've got bigger things down the road.
Speaker 3: Like what are those conversations like when somebody wants to
maybe compete and you're like, hey, we have to be smarter.
Speaker 2: It's the bigger picture. We have to try to go
do bigger things.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's that's that's the majority of our conversation
yesterday and then our staff meeting Monday is is you know,
management physical management of their bodies at this point and
making sure that we protect them against them their own
ambition sometimes and and uh so you know, we we
have it. It's a difficult thing to do, especially when
we are a little thin in terms of reserves that
can get in, get out there and get the job done.
But you know, we may make a few changes here tonight,
but it's not gonna be anything, you know, wildly out
of the ordinary, because you know, we still we still
got to compete, still got to get out there and
put together a great score. But but it is, it
is a challenge. And uh you know, there's several of
them that are that are that are hurting. There's we've
lost a few. There's kids that you know, mentally need
a little rest. Uh A, Leah Finnigan is gonna probably
come out of floor tonight just because she needs to
hit the reset and she's been going strong for a
long time. And so we're trying to make little changes
here and there that hopefully make a difference. You know,
it would be the equivalent of moving somebody up or
down in the in the batting order a little bit.
You know, when things when they when they kind of
need her a little bit of a reset. So those
are the kinds of things that we're dealing with right now.
I think probably that's going on all over the country. Uh,
you know this time of year, everybody's hurting a little bit.
If you're if you're not hurting, you hadn't done anything.
So so it's it's uh, it's part of the process.
But at the same time, it presents a lot of challenges.
Speaker 1: And coach, this is a team uh so so much
upperclassmen leadership, as you kind of talked about, headlined by
Haley Bryant and guys, if you're thinking about getting out there,
uh to the to the River Center tonight or the
PMAC next week, it's kind of sad to think about,
but this is these are your last opportunities to see
one of the greatest college gymnasts of all time live
in in Haley and and everybody else obviously, but I mean,
you know you you want to watch Joe Burrow play
football again, right like you have two more here a
local opportunities in which you can do. So, first, coach,
how's her How how is Haley feeling BodyWise perifically going
into this final push?
Speaker 2: And then you know, just what what is what is like?
What does she mean to you?
Speaker 6: Well, she's feeling better and better. You know, she had
to kind of knock the rust off here and and
and and get moving again. And so she's one you know,
we talk about the injuries, but she's one that's obviously
moving in the right direction and that that's certainly bows
well for us. The better the better she is, the
better we are. And you know she's she's doing a
great job, uh, you know, managing herself, communicating with us.
She'll do the all around again tonight and and then
again next week, uh, Senior night against Georgia. But you're right,
you know there is no NFL. Nobody's gonna watch Haley
Briant on TV after this. And so this is this
is it. You know, if you if you come down
and see her tonight at the Center, comes through our
team at the River Center or uh next week, the
PMAC is probably going to be more of a challenging
ticket to get hold of. So this might be the
best opportunity. Uh if you, if you get a chance
to come out tonight, please do. But but uh, you know,
what does she mean to me?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 6: And and our program? Uh, it's hard to It's hard
to put that into words. You know, culture is such
a huge part of what we do. And you know,
coaches say that and as coach speak, and you hear
it all the time, but it's it's genuinely something that
we work at weekly and we spend time on it
every Monday, and and without people that are bought into
that idea and the importance of it, it can be
a frustrating venture to try and create that. And and
Hayley Bryant more than her scores and more than more
than any accolades that she's ever achieved from a gymnastics perspective,
she is an even better person and teammate, just salt
of the earth, the highest degree of integrity, the highest
degree of character, treats everybody with the same level of respect,
takes time for everyone. I've never seen her growing patient
with anything. I've never seen her angry, I've never seen
her have a bad day. She is she is, She's
been everything, and you know, with more than you know,
there's certainly every there's a lot of people that are
involved in these things, but no one has played a
greater role in getting us to the place we are
now than Hailey Bryant, coach.
Speaker 3: I do want to ask you mentioned, you know, coming
out and seeing your team and everybody should and there's
two more opportunities here locally, one downtown, one on campus.
What does it mean to you to hear other coaches
at some of the biggest programs across the country talk
about the environment and when you go to LSU, it's
different than everybody else. There's no other place really like
it in college gymnastics. As far as the advantage in
the crowd that y'all have that shows up every single meet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that is one of the It's hard to believe,
but I'm almost as proud of that as I am
anything else we've accomplished, you know, because that was a
that was a sort of a a main primary objective
for me when I got here in the summer of
twenty twelve was to kind of outline how we were
going to get there from an attendance standpoint. And you know,
normally you win a championship before the attendance comes, but
for us, the attendance got there before we ever won one.
And and that's a testament to our fan base, but
it's also a testament to you know, being able to
create a vision within our department of what could happen
here and and that first sellout in twenty fifteen against
Florida was you know, it was it was really cool
to see and and and you know, to go from
twenty eight hundred fans on average in the in the
twenty twelve season to where we are now a little
better than than a decade later is it's. Uh, it's
pretty deep and and it's very validating, not only to me,
but to our entire staff and people that work in
our marketing department and our event management people, and and
it took some time to get everybody on board with
what could happen, and but once we did, it was
it was. It's been pretty cool to watch, and the
sustainability of it has been fantastic. And of course now
we've won a championship and and that certainly helps sustain it.
And but I look in there when I go in
that building, and I never get tired of standing in
there for the national anthem and watching those seats still. Yeah,
and it's it's something that for the rest of my
life I'll carry with me as a point of pride
of what we were able to accomplish here together.
Speaker 2: With our fan base, and it's electric. Guys. Have you
never been creating the fam NonStop action? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know what's cool too, Coach. And this is a
question because we got to let you go, but I
did want to tell you this. I had so I
got three little kids right now, seven, four and two,
So you know, I'm at the beginning of this thing.
So every time I experienced something new, it's my first
time experiencing it. And last Friday, sitting down and watching
the Kentucky Meet with my daughters and having them because
I watched sports all the time, but they don't care
about the majority, but having them locked in and my
seven year olds like commenting because she goes like gymnastics
on Wednesday and she's telling me why the scores are
what they are.
Speaker 2: Do you don't know what she's talking about, but she
was like so she was.
Speaker 1: It was interactive and she was so locked in and
reminded me of like watching football my dad back. It
was just it was like an all time good memory
to just know that what y'all do goes way beyond
just the scores and whatnot.
Speaker 6: Well, I love hearing that. And you know, our fan
base in general is very family oriented, and we depend
largely on people like you with young children. And that's
why we've worked hard to try to keep it affordable,
keep it fast paced, keep it entertaining for everybody. You
can get them in and out and and uh and
and enjoy the whole thing. And uh, I love hearing
stories like that, buddy, because it it uh it's it's
really part of who we are. It's part of the
fabric of who we are. And our kids understand and
appreciate that part of our fan base. And and and
we try to take time with them, with them as
much as we possibly can. But hey, for tonight, it's
not pack the p MAC. It's packed the Chicken Finger.
And I want to check out. I need a buck
of people down there tonight, getting getting after it so
that we can we can have a great night tonight.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Man, to get out to the Razy Caves
Rivers Center again. Last opportunity or one of the two
last final opportunities and probably your best opportunity to see
some of the most legendary athletes ever to come through
out you Coach j Clark, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Man for him.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, all right, when we get back, we've got
a very quick wrap up to the hour of an
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so we got a short segment here.
Speaker 2: You know that's on me. Bad clock management Classic.
Speaker 1: LSU softball last night, though I don't want to get
out the first hour that I mentioned them. We can't
have coaching on because they're playing the West Coast, playing early.
Speaker 2: But else you saw pall yesterday.
Speaker 1: Split but they beat ucla top five team in the
entire country. Now cal State Fullerton almost getting ends up
getting them LSU a late inning rally they had the
tying run actually on base for the chances to get
at home.
Speaker 2: But but a big win.
Speaker 1: I think the win is bigger than the loss yesterday
for me for LSU baseball, and the cal State Fuldon
lost their first loss of the season.
Speaker 2: So this LSU softball.
Speaker 1: Team continuing it out there in the Garman Classic. But
uh yeah, a top five win yesterday for coach Dreena
and and and the team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is funny, you know, to have, you know,
disappointing loss all the cal State Bulleton's I think like
twelve and five. They're not a badsoftball team by any means,
but you do have like a top five win in
the morning, then you lose that game against cal State
full at night. How are we supposed to feel right now?
Because typically that just that wouldn't happen in any other sport.
Speaker 2: But they get a.
Speaker 3: Chance here coming up in like an hour. Yeah, to
get back on it.
Speaker 1: Shout out Sydney person who was the one who shut
down U C L A F T dub all right,
our one of the bucks. Hour two of OTB
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