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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's going on everybody? I hope you're having a
great day to day. Uh Star Wars Day yesterday. It's
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It's kind of like it's a bit like step brothers.
Just your stupid face. I just I just want to
punch it. Okay anyway, but Beck, it is good to
have you. How you doing, Man doing all right? Yeah?
Speaker 5: We have core have the indomitable Uh Taylor Sharp?
Speaker 4: That was that was kind. It just sounds pretty nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, indomitable in that.
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Speaker 4: Well, you can't get him to shut up, just just
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Speaker 2: Hey, doing doing good.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you explained to back like it's not him,
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take the personal text every mone.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, guys, let's start using that.
Speaker 5: Jake will be around shortly.
Speaker 4: Uh he's on dad duty today doing some dad stuff
this morning, so he'll be around here a bit later
in this hour. And hope everybody's having a great day
to day. And I hope you had a great uh
you know, a great weekend as well. M m mm hmm. Unfortunately,
this baseball series. It's it's such a I mean, an
incredible series pretty much top to bottom. Right, say, for
maybe Game one spiraling a bit, but for the majority
of Game one, a top tier pitching battle Anthony ianson,
I mean with the it bums me out that Isa's
performance comes in a weekend and not like a Thursday
night like the Kate Anderson one did, because it's not
going to get because of what happened in Game three,
It's not going to get the love, the respect, or
the accolades that it deserves. Remember we sat here basically
lauded Kate Anderson for an entire hour. I want to
do that same thing with Anthony Janson this hour. I
just don't know. I don't know that it's going to
be the reality with how the rest of the series
end up playing ends up playing out. But Anthony IDs
in second half of double header on Saturday, gotta have
it back against the wall, series on the line, and
he turns in an absolute gem. Are you kidding me?
Nine innings, fourteen k's one walk, three hits, only one run,
giving up and it's close the entire time. It's not
even like he had the comfort of run support or
anything like that. No, I mean just clinging on the
entire time, mowing him down, complete games saving pitching for
the rubber match, complete game win save in the series,
and then unfortunately you honored his performance for twenty three outs.
Is that right? Do you my math correct there? Yes? Yes,
for twenty three outs on Sunday it looked like you
maybe had it and then oh, we'll get to that
bottom of the eighth inning on Sunday where everything ended
up going wrong. But if you want to lead with
a positive, Anthony Jainton, who has all he's done this
season is a sin from where he started to where
he is now. I think you could argue that he
may be the most improved player on the entire team. Again,
nine innings, fourteen k's one walk, three hits against a
lineup that is playing pretty damn well right now, and
you saw the damage at the top of that lineup
can do. Remember we had Jay Johnson on Thursday called
Sorel one of the best hitters in the entire country,
and unfortunately that ended up coming all too true. No,
even Itten ends up giving a hit up to Sorel
and that ninth ending with the one out. But what's
he do, He comes back, he strikes out the last two.
So Isantin's performance amazing, But LSU ends up losing the series.
They lose Game one three to one, they lose Game
or two, They win Game two two to one, and
lose Game three six to four, where you had a
four to two lead in the eighth with two outs
and just couldn't quite get across the finish line. Those
stupid frickin' bubbles. That is the most frustrating part about
losing in College Station is that as if the depths
of A and M weirdness you every time you think
there's a limit, they go weirder in somewhere.
Speaker 5: I guess I appreciate in some sick, twisted ironic way,
but you lost to human adults blowing bubbles.
Speaker 4: That's that's always a bad, bitter, sad feeling. So Okay,
we'll get we'll get into all this. I know I'm
a bit all over the place. It's just that the
the series itself felt a bit all over place. I mean,
I guess thing that you have to mention off the
top here is unfortunately, this is kind of a weekend
defined by Zach Cowan, and it sucks because he's had
He's defined multiple games for you this season in which
the definition was win, and you won because of Zach Cowen.
And he intersts me with the sub two era maybe
the best clothes, you know, one of the best arms
out of the bullpen in the entire sec But for
whatever reason, Texas, A and M just had Zach Cowen's number.
And then some last a third of an inning in
Game one and that pictures tool ends up giving up
the two runs that are the difference, and then comes
in on Sunday in the rubber match, needing to get
you four outs, can't do it, ends up giving up
a hit to get A and M within one, and
then wait, no, it was no a hit to get
two to one, and then Surrell launches a home run.
Aggie's up six to four, freaking bubbles floating through the air,
and you lose this series.
Speaker 5: And the thing is it's not Look, it's not on
the NLBL. You got one to three on the road
a hunt.
Speaker 4: Palmer laid it all out his excellent piece on Louisiana
Sports dot Net that we broke down on Friday, his
resume builder, and as he laid it out, what you
needed to do over these next two weeks will basically
take three of six, So going one of three on
the road keeps you kind of right on track with
that butt to be so close for this series, and honestly,
this series is a series to be applauded, like if
you can remove the emotion of losing out of.
Speaker 5: It, which is impossible, do I get it?
Speaker 4: But what a well played series between two very good
baseball teams. I mean high tension, high pressure moments every
single pitch, and guys were bringing it for three games
in two days, and unfort you end up on the
wrong side of it. And it always sucks, especially bad
to lose to the Eggies. Just blame back. I'm done,
just vomiting my stream of consciousness. As anybody were y'all's
thoughts on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you and I were talking about a little bit
before the show. It was like it had kind of
worried me all season long. Not Zach Cowen. Cown's have
been excellent, but it was like anytime you were in
that spot, Hey, no big deal, we'll just go to
Zach Cowen. He'll come through for us until he does
it right. And then it was just it was twice
this weekend, the first game on Saturday and then Sunday
as well. And then your bats are ice cold right now,
and they kind of have been since the Oklahoma series.
I mean, they've been a little hit and miss. I mean,
you've come up with big time hits. I'm just talking
top to bottom in the lineup. You your consistency in
the lineup, it really hasn't been there. I mean against
Tennessee last weekend, you got the timely hits, but again
you had to rely on your pitching a little bit more.
Speaker 2: This weekend it was kind of more of the same.
Speaker 4: So and and maybe A and M is going to
be tougher to say that they fall into this category.
But I mean, having you been facing some of the
top tier pitching about I guess, I guess. I don't
know what Auburn's whole staff is like outside of Dutton,
but it is a bit of a timing stuff, right
They're also running into some of the best pitchers in
the entire country, and they're finding some success from the margins.
I guess the only explosion game you would have had
would have been Game three of Tennessee last week, which
you felt like was hopefully going to wake you up
for this weekend. But we told the other day that Prager, Look,
Prager's had a bad years at Mike Crosin, but we
told you that he has the potential. That we know
what Prager can do, just like we know what this
A and M team can do. And the setting was
flipped from last year you were the desperate team. Uh,
they they had to have exa, you had to have it,
you were at home. This year everything was flipped and
they did the exact same thing that you did to
them last season.
Speaker 5: But yes, I guess the Bats have cooled off.
Speaker 4: I but they're still finding and really like the team
as a whole, it's still finding ways of winning very
close games or being in very close games. Like it's
I don't know, I don't I guess why I'm kind
of stumbling over over what I'm saying is because you
are right into the offensive production is not been as high.
But I guess maybe I feel like that's just going
to be a bit of a reality with the arms
that you're going to see for I mean everything outside
of maybe like the South Carolina series, but I mean
once you get to the SC Tournament, then you're gonna
be into the college tournament like there's gonna it's it's
gonna be tough. So it's gonna be tough, and you're
gonna be going in the best pitchion in the country.
But maybe I'm yeah, maybe I'm being too generous here.
Maybe I am wrong. They are ice cold and they
have to get out of this sub Yeah.
Speaker 6: One thing I was not I didn't disagree with the decision,
but also didn't seem like it really worked having Jared
Jones lead on off He was oh for four or
one for four on Saturday in the second game, and
he was oh for four on Sunday. So I kind
of wonder if that was just like a we gotta
try something because it's not really working, and that sometimes
that isn't the answer, but necessarily just because you know,
you haven't been hitting very well, it's like we got
to try something different. But maybe it's just that the
guys have gone cold and it happens in baseball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, unfortunately, I don't know, Well, you know, I just
we just have to ask Jay. Yeah with a thought process,
was I don't have the baseball actumen to break down?
Maybe I mean, well, you move curiy Ou to four
switch like.
Speaker 2: Which we talked about his forty three.
Speaker 4: Games and then yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Talked about his forty three game on Bay Streak Ending.
Speaker 1: But after that t Bob Blake, he goes four for
four against Tennessee and they gotta have it game three.
He was excellent in the midweek as well, Like Curio's
right where you want him to be, and then you
move him down in the line.
Speaker 2: So I didn't like that at all.
Speaker 4: The only thing that I can think is that because
he's hitting so well and so high for average, that
he just thought maybe more run production comes up and
put him in.
Speaker 2: Him get him up to bat with more people. Maybe
I don't know.
Speaker 4: That would be my simplest layman kind of interpretation. But
I also I also see what y'all are saying, where
it's like, okay, but he's been so great in this spot.
Speaker 5: He's a freshman, why kind of rock.
Speaker 4: The boat with with the routine and everything else that
he's fallen into. And also Bears always looked very comfortable there,
Betton too, So it's I mean, but again, Jay Johnson,
nothing is done unintentionally, Nothing is done willy nilly, nothing
is done without a lot of time and valid reasoning
put in, so I look forward to hearing from Jay
about exactly what the thought process. There was one thing
that I did so like. One of the positives about
Sunday that's going to be lost is a bit of
the Johnny holstaff of It actually works very well for
the majority of the game, a lot of guys stepping
up Case and Evans starting the game not having his
his best stuff but but still good giving you three
and a third. Then you then then you you kept
doing this lefty on lefty with lava Lett and it
continue to work until a tennant, but you, being in
you bring in Primo to get lava Lett, he gets him.
Then it's newt for a two thirds and Cooper Williams
Primos or excuse me, lava lettee thing. Then Chase Shores
comes on and has some big moments, but then lava
Lete's back up to bet two outs eighth inning connor Ware.
You go left to on lefty again, a strategy that
has proven beneficial thus far, and you know what sucks.
This is one of those deals where you can make
the right decision as a coach and the results cannot
go your way. Like you beat, you beat lava Lette.
There he got that little almost swinging bunt cheapie and
then he's fast. I don't know how he's so fast
or how big he is, but he gets that swinging
bunt cheapie and he ends up playing the run and
continue in the inning. But like you, you really, I
mean again the matchup work, you induced something very weak
out of him, but just a little what lucky week
and then you had another cheapye kind of fell in
and then well Sorell made you pay and the bubbles
were blown.
Speaker 5: So not a disastrous weekend.
Speaker 4: Again, a lot of guys to celebrate when you look
at stuff like Kate Anderson, Anthony Jinsen, a lot of
the guys who stepped up on Sunday for inans and
outs here or there. But unfortunately you do drop the
series to the Aggies, and you just continue to kind
of walk a tight rope when it comes to getting
that top eight national seed. Had you won this series,
you would have been firmly in the cat bird seed.
And you're still in a good spot. Your margin of
error is still very thin. Any of the thoughts on
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Speaker 2: Off the Bench and with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 4: What's happening y'all? Welcome back to O T B. Hey,
there's a lot of comments to get here. Mark Lake says,
seven runs the entire weekend is why you lost series.
Ye sure, I guess he's saying like more so than
Cowen and that and that and that makes sense right,
but within the context of how the weekend was going.
Unfortunately Cowen, this is a This is gonna be a
tough mental weekend for him to get over. Champ says
Ethan Pride is a top three hitter in this seam.
He should be in the line up for every single
game and not be a guy you pinch it for.
What do you think? How would you how would Fry
enter the everyday.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You can put him anywhere.
Speaker 1: You can put him right field, you can d H him,
I mean either either one of those spots, depending on
what you like with peer center Brown like you could
you could d h and more right field.
Speaker 4: Mark Lake says, bear carry out tickets and Monster Brasy
Stanfield that win it combined twelve of sixty four one
eighty eight this weekend. Yeah, black Caneck says, just Glad
eines To pitched a game of his life so we
didn't get swept, which Champ says, Heinson just did his thing.
Speaker 5: It wasn't the game of his life. I mean, you know,
I don't I think I think you're maybe being a little,
uh a.
Speaker 4: Little nitpicky there. I would say nine innings on the road,
giving up one run in three hits in the sec
complete game, especially nowadays. I'm not saying he can't do
it again, like it's something singular that he'll never touch again.
Speaker 1: But that's pretty incredible. I and since have been great.
But like te but what do we talk about all
the time. His ability to get out of early jams
right like he had no trouble whatsoever. He had four
base runners the entire week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark Lay, we're still number eight in the RPI.
I have to take care of home field this week,
then beat an A off the team South Calina will
lock up touch Yeah no exactly again, Like I mean,
I'm I'm gonna lean on Hunt because he knows way
more than I do. And as he said, three of
six or the next two series. Now you have Arkansas
at home? Who what did they end up doing to Texas?
They end up sweeping them?
Speaker 5: Or did they they came three?
Speaker 4: You got Arkansas at home, which is obviously going to
be incredibly tough, but it isn't home. And if you
could take two or three there, then you're good to go.
Like I said, you're just kind of walking a bit
more of a tightrope since you end up dropping this
series this weekend. Black Next is a mazed t upstick.
Kansas sweat Texas.
Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't particularly close either, nine to nothing, six, one thirteen, eight,
So I mean it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was not close.
Speaker 4: It's weird thing. Do I like that or do I
not like that? I mean I love it on one
hand because I like seeing text git that come up
in but you got you got an Arkansas team that's
confident off just I mean they were reeling. They were reeling,
and they lost four series in a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they lost Florida.
Speaker 5: Or it is either three or four or four in
a row.
Speaker 1: It was it was three. It was three in a row.
They had swept Missouri. Then they lost two out of
three to Georgia, two out of three to a and
m two out of three to Florida, three series in a.
Speaker 4: Row, and then he goes sweep Texas. Yep. I mean
baseball is a fickle, fickle and beautifully harsh game. So again, uh,
even within those results, it's it's fickle and and and
and confusing because yes, on one hand, ha ha, Texas,
welcome to the SEC. You finally played your first good
team on the road, and look what happened to you.
But now this Arkansas team comes in here red hot
and you have to take two of three off of them.
Good good. This is the baseball that we live for.
This is the baseball what your heart's in your throat,
and you know it's even like even the pain. So
I was in the car yesterday listening to those last
innings and it it yeah, I don't know about y'all,
but like those losses, when it happened, you know, you know,
you just get that immediate, just angry kind of bile
in your stomach, just pissed off feeling where it just
kind of starts to ruin your day a little bit,
and eventually you know, you're an adult and you process
it and you try to tell yourself, like, why do
I allow, you know, eighteen to twenty two year olds
to decide my mental outlook on the day. And sometimes,
you know, win that battle. Sometimes you never get back
in a good mood and you just got to call
it and only waking up for the next day. Well
help Luckily yesterday I think I managed to mentally shift
a little bit.
Speaker 5: But even in that pain, I kind of like it.
Speaker 4: Because it shows you the stakes that you were just
living in, the excitement, like what's on the line? Right,
and then you always have the inverse you have tennessee
right where you're down three nothing, you have no chance,
and you do what happened to you. So it is baseball.
What goes around comes around. But I love that we
are now into the part of the season where, yes,
if things go wrong, your day is firmly ruined. Just
lose it. You know you're alive. Guzzler, the guzzler. I
didn't guzzle enough. This loss is my fault. Blame me.
They outguzzled me. It's true. It's true, Guzzler. There's this
distinct lack of guzzling up outs, specifically from Zach Kahn,
and I blame you. Black Aks. Of some surprise, Ta
Bop still has that shirt. I know, I've had this
shirt for quite a few years. It's probably I mean,
I don't know. It's got to be probably my top
favre favorite shirts of all time. It's my Star Wars
original Trilogy Roosevelt shirt. Going a little extra cleavagey with
it today, but I figured it was appropriate as yesterday
was May the fourth.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, it's spent a lot of time traveling yesterday, so
he got almost no Star Wars in my life whatsoever
until I tried to get home and watch the episode
six of and Or, which is awesome, but I'm old
and tired. You got to hit it today, right, I
fell asleep Star Wars. Yeah, yeah, I'm just gonna combine
the sink. I like that, which a lot of people do.
Star Wars Star Wars.
Speaker 2: It's not bad.
Speaker 4: That's actually a great idea take. I hadn't laid it
out that firmly in my head. But instead of going
out to eat and get marks, I will get marks
to go bring it back to the house. Finish episode
six of and Or. But then what else do I watch?
Speaker 1: Just your favorite Star Wars movie again? I mean, whichever
won They're one a classic?
Speaker 4: I know, No, I know, I know, but.
Speaker 6: I mean if you're watching and Or, you could watch
Rague one.
Speaker 5: I know, but I'm trying to wait for them the end,
and then.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go. Right after last episode of and Or,
I want to one, and then I want to go
into New Hope. So I don't want to watch New
Hope or anything. I just go Empire again. Actually I
missed the re release of Revenge. Oh yeah, yeah, I
was theater, which is a huge rummer because I took
my daughter's uh to the couple of years ago. One
re release we dressed up Jedi. That just was Raive
is incredible. What a day.
Speaker 5: So maybe maybe Revenge of the Sith.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, we'll be on order. I'm not sure, or
they just dropped. I think they just dropped a new
cartoon about cad Bane. I didn't that sounds good, though
it could be good, could be good little filony cartoon.
Maybe might be the play we'll see. I don't know. Sorry, guys,
I don't mean to hit you with my random Star
Wars asides or I do, but normally not this early.
I try to keep it a bit more sports sugy
at this point. I mean, if we want our three,
we could go back into the last Jedi debate. I'm
always down for that in the Skywalker saga. So don't
try me there, Daniel Bundz's man. All I've say is
y'all better be happy you have LSU baseball. We're to
watch a Saints team with three different qbs that no one,
and I mean that no one wants. Again it is
Tales of the Underworld. Mac lindsay, thank you. That's a
good new cartoon. It is, even though I am by
the day like a big, dumb, optimistic idiot convincing myself
more and more that I love Tyler Shuck when I
was some of the most tepid on Tyler Shuck pre draft.
So obviously, how can you trust any of my analysis?
Because it's just based off of emotion and uh, just
framing things as positively as possible. But it is objectively
funny if you take a step back and you think
about how much money, time, effort, and resources went into
creating a quarterback room of Derek Carr, j Kyner, Spencer
Rattler and Tyler Shuck. Unbelievable. It's not unlike Cleveland right now,
you know, like, how are you an NFL team worth
billions of dollars? You spend millions and yet through a
series of events you wind up with hurt, Sean Watson,
Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel, Schadur Sanders, or you're
the Giants. Russell Jamis actually know what, I'm gonna take
the Giants out. That's not bad. Russell was fine last year.
Jamis ultimate vibes guy. And you went and got a
guy in the first round. Maybe didn't deserve, but he did.
So I'll take the Giants out of there. But the
Saints and Browns right now have to have the most
objectively funny quarterback rooms in the entire NFL. So like
the Titans are no longer a joke now that they
got cam Ward. You know, number one overall pick. That's
not joking, that's no joking matter. Raiders are no longer
a joke. Get Gino Smith extint him Seahawks potential joke.
But Sam Darnold was so good last year.
Speaker 1: Seahawks was the one that came to mind because you
have Darnald what Drew locks back in the building.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, I want to get Chuck too, Scott Dice,
I get it.
Speaker 4: I agree. Leonard da Vinci says Shuck has three season
any injuries, only healthy in twenty games in three years. Idiocy,
What have.
Speaker 5: You done for me lately?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 5: He was good last year, unhealthy last year.
Speaker 4: So there you go, Daniel asking me the only thing
that can make this money worse is Derek Carr's shoulders
actually in perfect condition in Luma's game and extension. Well,
I would say, what's actually worse is that you gave
him the extension and his shoulder may not be okay.
I don't care. I don't care what his shoulder is.
I don't think you should play for the Saints again.
I don't think you should step on the field again.
But that's just me, still insane about the extension. I'm
so annoy bacious. I'm so annoyed at JJ tries to
out think the game. Baseball pinchate for your hottest hitter
is mind blowing them. So that is another one that
obviously you got to. I do wonder about what the
reason he was taking out Hernandez in that spot where
he's been your best hitter, and I couldn't find in
normal I mean, these would all be questions to ask
in the postgame, But I don't know why baseball is
the only sport where the postgame press conferences are not
put up like immediately on YouTube. Have y'all have y'all
found them anywhere or heard them like.
Speaker 2: I have not?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. All right, when we get back,
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Speaker 7: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench.
Speaker 4: What's head and y'all welcome back to OTV. MATC Lindsey
says team is good, just not great. I mean that
I don't agree with dude. I think our perspective is
a bit work. This has been an objectively great LSU
team this entire season. They're on the road for a
national seat unless you're unless you're saying like, greatness is
not achieved by by being a national seat, if you
have to be like if you're saying, like your bar
for great and this is like no, just like you
know you're the the best team all year long and
everybody knows, okay, well then yes they are not that,
but they are great.
Speaker 5: They are great, and think about this, and this is
a good thing.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 5: This is gonna pay well over time.
Speaker 4: What were we saying early, Well, your bats are also
you don't have the pen, you don't have the pitching. Okay,
well now your pitching's been really damn good across the
board for a few weeks now, and you have the
bad struggle a little bit. But you know, like A
and M like prager, like what we said, you know
the potential of both and so you peak at the
right time, like you have seen that both sides of
the ball can't compete at a very high level in
the toughest conference in the entire country. Let's not I
know it hurts. I know this week and hurt. Let's
not lose the faith yet. We got to reset and
get ready for them damn dirty pigs this weekend. All
right in the LSU football front, a couple of spring
transfers coming in, and I'll go ahead and get to
the one that I missed when we are out of
town for spring break. But LSU lands South Florida d
lineman Bernard Gooden. He was interestingly enough, so Pete Nakos
of On three, who recently reported the Iamaliava story. I
Amaliava's dad takes to Twitter and it's calling him a
B word. Then, I guess gets a raise from Shannon
Terry immediately afterwards because everything he was saying was true. So,
I that's just a funny story. But that's who Pete's
so peda an article on the biggest on the spring
tranchers that will have the biggest impacts this season, and yes,
Iamliava was won on that list. But Bernard Gooden was
fourth out of all of the spring transfers. Spring transfer specifically,
Bernard good to LSU was ranked fourth. He's an All
AAC Honorable Mention player. He had ten tiffles last year,
thirty five tackles, ten tiffles one and a half sacks,
and look, he's somebody who's earned his way up. He
read shoed at Wake Forest in twenty one. Then he
plays all twelve games wak Force in twenty three. And
how about this, maybe he didn't have a good enough
lawyer because he actually set out twenty three because he transferred.
He transferred and had to sit out because the transfer
rules to South Florida. Then he played very well last
year for South Florida again ten tiffles, and I want
to get to that path. But first let's talk with
the other player, the bigger name, the more recent name,
Tigers Land Houston transfer safety AJ Halsey. And this is
a big time gift. I mean this guy, First team
All Big Twelve last season, Honorable mention All American, seventy
four tackles, five picks, thirteen passes defended. Again, First team
All Big twelve safety position of me, Honorable mention All American.
And he too has had an interesting path. He played
twelve games, he started nine as a freshman in New Mexico,
and then he transfers over to Houston, where he had
a very good junior and excuse me, sophomore in junior
year and now he's at LSU. And before I let
you talk about Halsee Taylor, so I know you want to,
I how about that man? That is one of the
good parts about the transfer portals that I feel like
gets painted as bad a lot. And I know that
it hurts if you're a fan of Houston or you're
a fan of South Florida. Definitely, But and I don't
mean this to be dismissive just because I'm a fan
of one of the big dogs. I'm approaching this from
the standpoint of this all of us in life. If
we do our job well, we want the chance for
upward mobility. Right. If we do our job well, we
want the chance out of promotion, we want the chance
at a better salary. That's every single facet of life.
You do well and you want the opportunity to get upgraded,
and that never existed in college football. And yet now
you have a guy like Gooden who starts his career
wake Forest goes to South Florida now at LSU because
he has earned it, not just because he was big
in high school and people thought he was going to
be good. The services did. No, he earned it on
the field, I'll see maybe even a bigger, bigger example,
starts his career at New Mexico, immediately plays as a freshman,
plays the twelve game, starts to nine. Then he goes
to Houston, balls out. Now he's gonna be playing in
death Valley, both death valleys this season. Weekend one, he'll
be on the field on a game that twenty million
people will be watching, probably only ten, but still ten
million people will be watching. Not because he was thought
to be good coming out of high school, but because
he earned it. And that's one of the cool parts
about modern Carlo college football is you you have that
upward mobility and you can see, Okay, what can I
do when I continue to challenge myself against the best?
And I think that's great.
Speaker 5: Now, Taylor, what about Helsey seems like the perfect edition.
Speaker 1: I think it was the biggest portal edition you've got
in this spring window. I mean, look, I love Bernard Gooden,
but you needed safety help bad because we had talked about,
you know, how good they had done in that early
portal window. My only complaint was I thought you needed
two safeties. You only took one into Marcus Cooley. But
now when you look at their safety room. She I
always thought you had good young talent like Deshaun Spears,
JV and Toviana's Joel Rogers.
Speaker 2: Like all those guys.
Speaker 1: We were high recruits, so they're talented players, they just
haven't done much at LSU.
Speaker 2: You have CJ.
Speaker 1: Jim Coyley and Jacob Bradford coming in in the fall
again both four star players, but also haven't done anything yet.
You had one proven guy in to Marcus Cooley. Now
you have multiple proven vets to go along with the
young talent. I love it because, let's say, for whatever reason,
Harold Perkins is not fully healthy coming off of his injury,
or just doesn't work out, it's star. When Tamarcus Cooley
came in, everyone said, oh he can play safety, but
he's also.
Speaker 2: Really good at nickel as well.
Speaker 1: Let's say Spears or Toviano does really well in fall camp. Well,
now it just gives you more versatility. You can move
Cooley to Star if you need to. You compare AJ
Halsey with the Spears, with a Toviano with one of
the younger guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not just one edition.
Speaker 1: Adding this one guy does every single thing for your
secondary I mean this is.
Speaker 2: A huge piece.
Speaker 4: It's I mean, it could be as you wrote here,
it could be the final piece.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll look, this is a guy two hundred
and fifty nine tackles in three years at safety spot.
This guy can play seven interceptions. I mean, he can cover,
he can come up and make the tackle. He's big enough.
I mean he's about six to one, two hundred pounds. Like,
there's a lot to like about aj Halsey.
Speaker 4: Mad Jeff five before says college sports wasn't meant to
be like that. It's an amateur sport, not a job.
So I agree with you with the original intention of
what college sports was meant to be. But we live
in a capitalist society, uh, a free market of both
economics and ideas, and the market has shown that people
will pay a ton of money to our people will
pay well, you're kind of paying money by watching it.
The market has shown that the sport generates a ton
of money because the huge amount of people that love
to watch it, and that when it comes to trying
to win, people will pay a ton of money to
get the players that best give them the chance to win.
Speaker 5: So you say it's an amateur sport, not a job.
Speaker 4: The and that's factually untrue now, I mean, and it
is weird to me too, Don't get me wrong. I
look at that parking lot and you can see that. Okay, yeah,
these are pros now, you know, Like that's the thing
that stands out of my mind the most. Or how
they talk. They talk about it like a job, like
the Jack pieburn quote. Everybody's picking up other stuff from
when he talked a few months back, but one thing
that I was like, Okay, yeah, he's like, you know,
who wouldn't love to show up to work every day
and bah blah do this. And I'm like, okay, yeah,
that's right. It's a job.
Speaker 5: So whatever it was meant to be, it's not what
it is.
Speaker 4: And that's fine, and that's fine. And all I mean
is I don't know how you could be upset for
a player when you earn opportunity again, you're not giving it.
It's a meritocracy. They played well enough to get better opportunity.
That's America, baby, And that's a hell of a pickup
with HOUSEA to cap off a hell of a transfer
portal class. Now, hey, just go win game one, you know,
go when game one.
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Speaker 4: Go tov Bob, Jacob Taite and now Jay Kester back
from drop off. Uh. He's been with the boys all weekend.
Had a boy's weekend. How's it been? Man? Uh, it
was great.
Speaker 8: It was great. We went and saw movie Thunderbolts on
I think it was Friday.
Speaker 4: I think it was all opening day. I hadn't seen
the movie on opening day. Hell yeah, full theater. Jesus
was a boy. Yeah, when I went to Sinners as
a full theater and that was the first full theater
experience I've.
Speaker 5: Had in a long me too, me too, very cool.
Speaker 4: Forget how much.
Speaker 5: Fun it is watching with a bunch of strangers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no good.
Speaker 8: And then Saturday all the games, baseball, soccer, you name it.
We had it same thing on Sunday, but you know,
still had a great time.
Speaker 4: With the boys.
Speaker 8: I got the older boys Chinese food and we just
sat there and just grubbed on some Chinese food together.
Speaker 4: That was a great experience.
Speaker 5: I go.
Speaker 4: I know this will change maybe as my kids get
older and I and I and I really want them
to succeed. But right now, there's probably nothing in the
world more that I wish it could have, like a
robot clone of me walking around doing then going to
Little League sports. Like my god, when you just described
your weekend that sounds like hell on Earth. But again,
when my kids are older and they're more into it
and like they have a clear path, like I'm sure
I will feel differently.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it it ought to ends too. It all depends
on you know, do you have a good group of kids? Obviously,
but do you have a good group of parents? Are
the parents like a fun group? Do you like to
hang out with the parent group? Are they good?
Speaker 4: Yeah? If they're bad and you're out there, it's like,
oh my God, get me out of here. Yeah, So
it all.
Speaker 5: Depends, Jeff, She says to you have your selfish agatting.
Speaker 4: I mean, like, call me what you want. But I
don't got pincers, you know that shellfish. Yeah, you can't
call me shelfish.
Speaker 8: Yeah you'll you know, you'll either love it or hate it.
Speaker 4: Either love it or hate it. You know. I knew
what I was getting into when I had five and
four voice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and God knows, Harlow is gonna play something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, they can end, they can Name of
the Boys.
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