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Speaker 4: Jake Flynn Alandra tay Tay back from vay vacation. Hey, hey,
how are we doing? You didn't miss anything?
Speaker 2: But well, that's what I was gonna ask.
Speaker 5: You know, I've been kind of off the grid for
a few days.
Speaker 2: Did anything happen? Do we have a coach up? No?
No update there, so we don't have anything. Nope. Had
the signing Classico. Do we beat Penn State?
Speaker 4: Yeah, right ahead of Colegate and Penn State.
Speaker 2: I know Penn State's normally the standards.
Speaker 5: I was like, let's let's compare ourselves to them, see
how they did yesterday.
Speaker 2: How was the trip, sir? That was great. We had
a great time.
Speaker 5: I was telling Matt, you know, believe it or not, guys,
not hard to score Tennessee Titans tickets at this time
of year. We woke up Sunday morning. Victoria was like, hey,
I've never been to an NFL game.
Speaker 2: Once Sea Geek.
Speaker 5: They're like twenty bucks for like ten rose from the field.
I was like, all right, we'll go out there because
it was like a noon game. Okay, now, big deal.
We go out there. It is like twenty five degrees.
Speaker 2: Wendy.
Speaker 5: We stayed for the first half. Woke up Monday morning.
My throat is like one fire. So I was like,
you know, you get sick on vacation. Perfect, that's what
always happens. But uh, happy to be back. The rain
saved itself for when I came back. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun driving in this morning. Uh no, I'm
happy to be here, guys.
Speaker 5: I was, uh, yesterday morning, I was kind of like,
you know, you get the junkie itch every now and then, Yeah,
I had it yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: Sign a little bit. Oh, I'm excited. That's like your
favorite day of the year. Basically I was high school
kids signing a college. I was I was pretty locked
in yesterday.
Speaker 4: And you're probably locked in the whole vacation. I was.
Speaker 2: Story is probably like, hey, I wasn't in the office
there Bud.
Speaker 5: Yesterday, Like you know, I got home like midday, so
in the afternoon I was like really locked in.
Speaker 2: I really wasn't doing anything. That's the worst, like being
on vacation or on a little trip, not in your
comfort zone, staying in a hotel, and then you're sick
a little bit. So I'm sorry, Bud. Oh, it's fine,
it's all good. We've all been there. Yeah, but you know,
you chose to go see the Titans, and I don't
care if it's twenty dollars, that's nion dollars. But was
it the best decision I've ever made?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: We saw a Winard Old race at halftime. That's probably
the highlight of the game.
Speaker 2: It's not bad they play.
Speaker 5: The Jaguars, the Juguar know what you're thinking, Oh, Titans Jags.
At least this was a competitive divisional game. No, I
think the Jaguars won like twenty eight three or something
like that.
Speaker 2: It wasn't great, good team, good team. This year, he
did go.
Speaker 5: To a Predators game that was electric. First NHL game. Well,
there you go, like NHL in person is like great,
it is went, it was awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had a really really good time.
Speaker 4: Uh, Matthew, how you doing. Uh do pretty good? Little
sleepy today? I got a little manufactured energy. Uh, sleepy, Bud,
you still have too late watching TV? No, I don't
know why, you know it's uh. I felt like I
had a good night's rest.
Speaker 2: I think what happens is I love sleeping when it's
raining outside, and so like when I woke up to
you living and that rain was hitting the window, I
just did not want to get out of bed, but
I did it. It's dedicated.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you wanted to stay in and watch reruns of
Dawson's Creek and Prices right pretty much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and get it, But no, glad you made it.
I'm dedicated. I'm committed to telling the good folks listening
about it high scores.
Speaker 7: I bet you did a deep dive, the deepest of deep,
deepest Elandra, How are we doing good?
Speaker 8: Not a fan of this weather, y'all know that.
Speaker 7: So No, not a fan, like as in, you don't
like driving in it, or I don't like.
Speaker 9: Any parts of it because, like matt said, I just
wanted to stay sleepy.
Speaker 2: That's the best part about it, though, But you.
Speaker 9: Can't stay sleep so that's not the best part of
it true it was jobless. Maybe if I was unemployed.
Speaker 4: It was like a random Sunday where you didn't have
to do anything.
Speaker 8: Yeah, y'all Sundays you don't have to do anything?
Speaker 2: Mmm, I mean not. I like if you recently got,
like going through a breakup, this is like the perfect
day for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: With Paula Cole playing in the back, absolutely.
Speaker 8: Like some goo goo dolls this music breakup day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do we typically play on Thursdays?
Speaker 2: Do we typically play on third.
Speaker 8: You don't have like as breakup songs.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 4: Maybe because broke up with old Miss.
Speaker 7: Yes, and we're excited, but we're gonna let them feel
the pain because they can say what they want to say,
they can act like they want to act.
Speaker 9: No, we are crashing out like they're in the crash
out stage of the breakup, which we.
Speaker 8: All get it. Who hasn't crashed out before?
Speaker 2: Everybody's fault, but they're own.
Speaker 5: That was probably my favorite thing on vacation, Like, Okay,
I'm not trying to be rude here or anything, but
know your damn place in the world, please, Like, Okay,
there's people like why would you ever leave old Miss?
This is like a dream job. It's a stepping zone.
Somebody in the SEC has to be a bottom feeder.
For I don't know, ninety five percent of my life
it has been old missed. They'll probably go back to that,
like no, no, your playing there's a hierarchy in college
football and you're not at the top.
Speaker 4: Well, there might be a little strong well when we
were playing, they were bottom feeders.
Speaker 9: They haven't really been not bottom feeders right like outside
they were when we were playing.
Speaker 2: They were a couple of years. I feel like you
got to reserve the bottom feeders for like the back
Kentucky like Kentucky, Missippi State, Arkansas like like Ole miss
was kind of like a catfish, like they'll dabble at
the bottom, but they'll also come up for a worm.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: I guess man, it's just like I don't understand like
you like I get like, okay, if you're Georgia, if
you're Tennessee, if you're Texas and lang Kiffin leaves for
l issue, Yeah, I feel some type of way it'd
be like what what makes you better?
Speaker 2: Like it's all a shoe and old miss guys, it's like.
Speaker 5: Leaving a high school job for a Division two college job,
Like it's kind of a no brain what are we
doing here? I just I don't know. I just feel
like people they let people get in their head.
Speaker 4: Though, they let people get in their head and a
different like fine bombing in their head, like to make
them sound like like Old Missus a bitter driver in
the heads Verissily, who who's my colleague?
Speaker 2: There's my guy?
Speaker 7: Like, but he was like the difference between LSU and
Ole miss is so small. I'm like, Bud, it's a
it's not it's a it's a gap. And it's okay.
Old Missus is winning football games, but to say that
it's on the same.
Speaker 2: Level, it's just not.
Speaker 7: Because you keep telling me about these seasons that Old
miss is having and.
Speaker 4: They're great, but what is it gotten them? They still
haven't gotten to Atlanta.
Speaker 7: They still haven't you know, won a championship at the
SEC level or the national championship level.
Speaker 8: I haven't even touched the playoffs.
Speaker 5: So if you have a sign in your stadium it
says SEC West champions even when you weren't, your program
is a loser.
Speaker 2: It is what it is. I mean, you know, Brian Kelly,
who else?
Speaker 7: You just fired made it to Atlanta, and your program
still never has. So Lane Kiffin sees that and he's like, look,
I have maxed out what this place can be, at
least in his thoughts. He's been there, he knows it,
and I'm gonna go to a place that expects to
be there right every single year.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to like call people like liars.
I'm going to it's fine. Like the kid that came
out and AD like when they said nope, we did
not as a team asked Lane to hope that Lane
would coach in the playoffs. Get out of here with that,
like you're a head coach that's there, like most of
the guys on the team came there to earn money
as well and play football like it's professional football. You're
gonna say, like after the fact, you're telling me nobody
on that team said yeah, we definitely want you to
coach us, like we got a chance at this thing, like,
come coach us because we're doing pretty good. And the
ad to say, well, none of that was true, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 4: You just let the oc back that I really don't.
Speaker 2: Right, you talked about like some hypocritical stuff happening right now.
Speaker 9: Well, he did the exact same thing, so why is
it okay for Charlie Weiss to go back? And then
everyone like this is kind of funny to me because
everyone's like, oh, Lane Kiffin's allowing Charlie Weiss to go
coach the playoff, and like that might be true, right,
Like he has to also give him permission or let
him go.
Speaker 8: But like Keith Carter who.
Speaker 9: Refused to let Lane Kiffin do it, yeah, probably off
of principle, and like pettiness is just gonna let Charlie Weiss,
the same guy that got on the same plane when
he got the same ultimatum as everybody else.
Speaker 8: He's gonna let him come back.
Speaker 4: They went to that first install meeting for the playoff
and said well.
Speaker 5: And they were like, wait a minute. Our entire offensive
staffs gone to Charlie want to come back a couple
of games? Yeah, Ad wouldn't be doing hot yoga if
it wouldn't for Lane. You wouldn't be doing it. You
don't think the ad set that up? Everyone more than
at six? Nah, Yeah, that's Lane. He'd be out of shape.
Speaker 2: We didn't get that healthy sweat on every morning if
it wasn't for Lane's and it's so hypocritical.
Speaker 7: Though he Look, Morris is catching coaching North Texas summer's
coaching to Lane. Brian Hartline, the OC for Ohio State,
who's a South Florida head coach, is coaching them. Con Kline,
who's now the Kansas State head coach, is going to
coach A and M in the playoff.
Speaker 2: He's there OC. Yeah, Lane's the only.
Speaker 4: One that And look, there's two sides to everything.
Speaker 2: I get it, And like, do I actually believe everything
happened exactly as like Lane and like he'd like everything
was done perfectly from his side? Probably not. It's a
messy situation. We all get it, but like to sit
there and lie and be like the players, not we
did not one person in that room so that we
wanted him to keep coaching? Yeah, right, yeah, get you
want to win?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to What gives you the best chance
to win would have been with Lane head coach.
Speaker 2: So I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like if he goes he's never been a head
coach in two thousand and seven, if Miles would have
like said he was going to take that job, right
but been like yeah, coach, but can we just finish.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, let's just finish. Like we don't like it.
We're mad at you a little bit, but like let's
let's do it. Let's go finish.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got I guess it was before the SEC
championship game. We got two games. Yeah, let's go finish it.
But we had like two games, but we had like
a month. Yeah right right. Anyway, liars, you catfish, I
know that's that might be that might stick.
Speaker 2: That might be your best work so far. Thank you.
Ball parking it in my head a little bit.
Speaker 8: That in the leg out the blanket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I've heard it like you heard that the
first time. I've heard that for about eight years.
Speaker 2: Man. Yep.
Speaker 4: You notice he had more investments. We started calling him
out though.
Speaker 2: I took it off because it was hot in near It's.
Speaker 9: I think I might be thank you.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're not, if you if you're against best,
you're just like you're a sheep. If you're not, if
you are totally against best, you're a sheep because like
they are practical, they are comfy, they keep the core warm,
and you're just doing it out of principle and out
of spite. Because there's a lot of nerds. There's a
lot of nerds that wear them, and they make it
their uniform and that's fine. Yeah, but like it still
doesn't minimize the greatness of the vest. For sure.
Speaker 9: I have like a little fur one that I wear sometimes.
But I think I'm gonna get a bubble vest.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think y'all convince me.
Speaker 2: You got a puffer vest, yeah, puffy. Yeah. Just because
I'm sure the car Brothers are vest wears doesn't mean
I can't.
Speaker 8: Actually can't. You just got me back off board.
Speaker 5: It almost easy. We had a vest ready to go
this morning. If it wouldn't have been raining, we'd be
rocket out.
Speaker 2: We know you're in the gang. We know.
Speaker 7: Uh, before we take this first break. During all the madness,
all the craziness, which one, which storyline, which whatever it was,
made you wish you were in studio, the most had
a name.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably probably yesterday. I mean, you know, we had
talked about the Lane Kiffin thing at nauseam for three weeks,
you know, I mean everybody was like, this is their
top guy. I actually think they did well yesterday for
the most part. I know, we'll probably recap day one,
but look, you hired a coach forty eight hours before
signing day, and I think you did about as well
as you could. You flipped four people from Old Miss,
so all the Old Miss recruits that apparently hated Lane
Kiff and they didn't hate him too much because they're
on board as well. And you didn't really lose anybody.
I mean, there's a couple guys that have delayed their decisions.
Somebody's flipped on you. So I mean, look, you heard
a coach forty eight hours before signing day, and I
think you did a really good job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you crushed Uh well, did well, for sure?
Did well? For sure.
Speaker 7: There's some names that when we were doing the show
yesterday we weren't sure if they were going to.
Speaker 2: Sign, and there was rumors.
Speaker 7: Hey, if they signed, that's a very good side because
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Speaker 6: That saw him, may say, Jemmy Gune.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 7: OTB playing breakup songs all day long. Not for USh
betting get broken up with, but for those that I lost,
somebody that was near and dear to them.
Speaker 2: This was for you. This days for you, And I'm
just gonna let you know.
Speaker 7: I got a feeling the line is gonna cook today,
so it might be pretty sad for you.
Speaker 8: I got an arsenal breakup songs.
Speaker 2: Yep, because we said earlier that this was the perfect
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Speaker 8: So you've been thinking about breaking up with your girlfriend, do.
Speaker 2: It today because this is the time they want to
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Speaker 4: All right, So the big store here outside of all
the coaching news is signing Day, and we followed it yesterday, Tata,
you certainly more than any of us. You follow this,
I would say, day in and day out for the
most part, not like we all once used to. But
certainly you call high school football games as well, so
you are locked in. What did you think of the
Tiger's Day yesterday?
Speaker 5: I thought it was as good as it could be, honestly,
and maybe even a little bit better because there were
some surprises that you flipped four Ole Miss recruits. Now,
you know, on the surface, you could say, Okay, well
that's not that big of a deal. You got their coach, obviously,
but you got some big time guys. Corey Barber, the
four star wide receiver. You go, turn on this kid's
tape like he could flat out play. Everything he does
sticks out to you.
Speaker 1: J C.
Speaker 5: Anderson the tight end. He was an Old Miss commit.
Ryan Murray, he was an offensive lineman that was committed
to Ole Miss.
Speaker 2: He signs with.
Speaker 5: You yesterday, So I mean you got guys in positions
of need. Everyone was worried about Richard Anderson yesterday. Is
he going to sign?
Speaker 2: Is he not?
Speaker 5: Richard Anderson does sign, which I thought was huge, and
you didn't lose anybody yet. I mean, Dujiah Gerald's was
always going to sign on Friday. That was something he
said from the beginning because like a lot of people forget.
People think early signing periods one day. It's from yesterday
to Friday, Like you could sign anywhere in that three
day window. Lamar Brown's wanted to keep an eye on.
There is a little bit of update on him. Bryce
and Cooley might be the only one to like really
worry about right now. By Steve will falling yesterday. Actually
Crystal bought him to Alabama. Now, initially I would worry
about that, but if you lose Bryce Cooley because you
move on from Brad Davis, that's kind of still a
net positive for me. Like like if you get a
new O line coach and you upgrade from Brad Davis
and bryceon Cooley doesn't went on board, you lose a
couple kids for that because you need to improve their
big time. I mean we've talked about it. Yeah, a
number of times on this show. But I mean outside
of that, I think they did a really nice job.
There were some prizes, Aiden Hall, the safety, I mean,
he hopped in late I like the class overall.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then you got the corner from California we
were talking about yesterday that his father was like, he
ain't signing there if Corey Raymond is not a part
of it, and so he signs.
Speaker 2: So we don't have.
Speaker 4: Official news, no, but that's a really good situations happening.
Speaker 7: That's a really good sign that there is a plan
in place for Corey Raymond, which I just think is
as important as almost anything in the next couple of days,
and it has been it should be.
Speaker 4: So that's good pointing in that direction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like that's a positive. Right. So when
when did his father say that? That was a while back, right, Yeah,
just an recruiting process. Yeah, I mean, I guess, you know,
there's no guarantees. Maybe there's a big fan of Lane Kiffin,
you know, and and he's new to the program, so
you never really know. But based on those comments alone,
you got to think that there is at least a
good chance that Lane's going to retain Corey Raymond, and
we all hope that he does. We think from our
seats and everybody else's seats and what we've seen Corey
be able to do the architect of course of DBU,
what he did this year with with all the corners
that played so well, how good months work it did
coming back? Did you pick it coming in? Like, yeah,
we could. We could go on and on about bout
naming the job that he's done, so that to us,
it's a priority. Now, we just hope that it's a
priority for Lane and if it's not, then better have
a pretty good backup plan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And gosh, I know this sounds crazy, and I
know it's speaking in absolutes. I just don't know that
there's a backup plan that would be better. Well, no,
there's anywhere, you know what I'm saying, anywhere from coast
to coast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's it's the same thing that that's kind
of the like I'm y'all know me, you know, I
don't hide it, like I don't really like it's important
the signing day and getting good kids out of high
school and having that talent pool of young guys to
grow and but like I'm more kind of focused on
like the Blake Baker watch right now right, because there's
no way you're gonna find someone to come in and
be better than him, Like you can only hope to
find an equal to him if he decides to go
and take a head coaching job. But no one would
blame him. But that is what is That's the storyline
that I'm more concerned about rather than because you know,
I think Lane said it best and then was it yesterday,
two days ago? Whatever it was. He's like, I'm ultimately confident,
like if we don't get the numbers, we wonder whatever
during signing day, Like I am not stressing because I
know we're going to crush in the portal, But can't
go find a Blake Baker every day in the portal?
Speaker 7: No, And there was the report I think Garland had
it yesterday that Blake Baker not only interviewed for two
Lane on Monday, but he also interviewed for the Memphis
head coaching job.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're gonna interview for one, you have to
interview for two for negotiating, so.
Speaker 7: And both those are really good jobs, certainly for your
first opportunity to be a head coach. If two Lane
wins the American they're in the playoff. Memphis was a
team that for a long portion of the year was
that team. They beat Arkansas. Arkansas this year.
Speaker 2: You know, and look, you could go back.
Speaker 7: I mean, Memphis has done this for a long time,
number of years put together. So he's interviewed for a
couple of jobs, but if he doesn't take a head
coaching job, he's.
Speaker 4: Coming back to Baton Rouge, right, I mean I think
we know.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't you agree with that though, if you're
going to go and whether you like if it's two
lane or bust at me at the moment for Blake, like,
if you're gonna interview for one job, you got to
go interview for at least two because you got Yeah,
you have to because your agent's gonna push you to
do that because he wants some power negotiations. Yeah. Right,
so it's that you go interview for two because you
need a know. I know Tulane is thinking like, all right,
well he's either coming here, we got to out thet
LSU for the coordinator job at oh now we got
to outbid Memphis as well or make maybe make l
SU out at him. I don't know. Apparently we got
no problem funding money.
Speaker 4: I was about say, I'm sure l s U would
do what they have to do financially as well.
Speaker 2: Give them five You said whatever, I don't care.
Speaker 4: You said something about an update, the latest, What is
the latest with Lamar Brown?
Speaker 2: There? Well, he did.
Speaker 5: Say that, you know, he wanted to see the staff certainty,
like there was uncertainty around the staff. Also though, look
I did this for you guys. Okay, I was like,
we gotta have a little bit of a deep dive.
I guy us social media handles no longer say LSU
in it. His profile pictures gone, Like his profile pictures
just black, like a black black circle on Instagram, Like no,
no LSU affiliation whatsoever on that page. Now, look, you're
a seventeen year old kid. A lot of them doing
for fun. I get it, But.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's something his future head coaches a troll. So
you might as well start telling people yourself. I met
that in a good way. Way. You'll know where I'm
staying on. This doesn't matter who the player is.
Speaker 7: If you have an opportunity and you're from Louisiana to
go to LSU, I'm always going to tell.
Speaker 2: You to do it. I have been taken care of
in my life.
Speaker 7: I'm forty years old because I'm from Louisiana and went
to LSU.
Speaker 4: It's just the way that it is. Any speech that
I give to any junior Day or you know, rising
senior day, like all these days they have where you
and I will go and we'll talk to whoever it is.
I tell them that all the time. It's factual, it's actual.
I have had teammates that have won Rose Bowls at
the quarterback position and moved out of Louisiana because they
just couldn't find what they were looking for. As far
as a profession, I could give you ten to fifteen examples, right,
wrong or indifferent.
Speaker 7: That's just the way it is. So I'm always going
to tell anybody from Louisiana. If you have an opportunity
to go to LSU and you think it's the best
for you, you got to take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an opportunity that can open up doors for
the rest of your life. Especially yes, like you're successful. Now,
if you're not successful, then you know, stores are like
cracked open. Maybe, but like if you're successful, it's a
good thing. And you were talking about it yesterday. You
gave so many different examples of guys that were from
Louisiana that didn't go You talked about your teammate right,
like when they come.
Speaker 4: Back to Louisiana. It's like, nobody cares if you want
a heisman, nobody.
Speaker 2: Cares if you whatever.
Speaker 4: Ten years in the NFL. Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh at school, Oh yeah, I'm for you. That's
about it.
Speaker 4: And again, like if you don't want to move back
here and if you want to stay where, like that's
a different situation.
Speaker 7: If you want to move back here, you want to
be a part of the community. That's just the way
that it is. I know, like almost everything I've gotten
in my life has been because of l s U.
Speaker 2: Just facts.
Speaker 7: I mean, you from some You're you're not from Louisiana,
but still, I mean, because you made this your home,
you get taken care.
Speaker 2: Of as well. Just is what it is. And it's yeah,
so we're talking to you high school kids trying I mean,
we've done this before. Yeah, we've been there, We've you.
Speaker 7: Know, having these conversations with I think it was Andrew Whitworth,
like that was his recruiting pitch to me because I
was committed to Texas and then you know, I get
the offer from LS like we talked about yesterday, and
I'm like, all right, well it's time to decide. And
I'm remember that was one of of the people that
I talked to.
Speaker 2: He was right, here is what it is, so come here,
be successful. Don't be scared.
Speaker 9: I think the Instagram things just like I think it's
just him just wanting to Yeah, you know when Beyonce
deletes everything before she releases an album, I think I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that at all. I respect it, n
I like it. A couple of interesting comments in the
in the chat here. One was Blake Baker, He's not
being interviewed by Tulane or Memphis, He's interviewing them. Respect
that Also a question said Jake and Matt as former players,
how would you feel if your coach walked out on
you after eleven wins and going to playing for potentially
playing for a Natty.
Speaker 4: Well, we almost had that sage we talked about that
last segment. Almost had that situation if Les Miles would
have gone to Michigan as was rumored for Kirk kurb
Street at the time before sec championship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we wouldn't have been happy about it, certainly, but
we would have been like, let's go fini this. Yeah, like,
can you just at least stay here for the next
month while we yeah, finished the job.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't not every situation is going to
be the same. I don't remember, like, you know, being
like angry at coach Saban for leaving us to go
and we weren't playing. I mean, we're in nine to
two football team who weren't playing for a playoff because
there wasn't an expanded playoff we would have been a playoff.
Speaker 2: So we were in the Capitol One Bowl playing Iowa.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to go to Disney. It was awesome,
fast past. But I don't remember being like I understood, well.
Speaker 2: I mean it's NFL. Yeah, it was a different situation.
Speaker 4: But I'm saying I don't remember this anger. It's like,
oh man, that sucks.
Speaker 2: He would have gone straight to Alabama.
Speaker 4: Well there was anger when he went to Alabama by
a lot of people, for sure, And at the time
Alabama was not a rival.
Speaker 2: That's the true freak rus. Yeah, at the time, it
was like, I mean, like I said, I don't know,
we never lost to him while I was in school,
Like they were not a rival, like kind of a man.
Speaker 4: M hm uh tata percent chances that Lamar Brown signs
with L s U.
Speaker 5: I think he still signs and mean, nothing's really changed.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, well A and M in Miami were
the two schools that were A. M is the big one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know why you'd want to go to Miami.
They don't have actual fans.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I'm sure. I'm sure, but I know
A and M was probably number two.
Speaker 5: I mean i'd say seventy. Okay, you never know what
high school kid's gonna do, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we're show him videos of the yell leaders. Yeah,
I think that will change his mind.
Speaker 5: If that's not a turnoff, that's concerning, then you're perfect.
Speaker 9: You know how we said that we were going to
blame Matt if Elijah Haven didn't sign with you.
Speaker 8: I think this one's on you.
Speaker 2: That's a great that's a great Jackson Jackson.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Jackson needs to get Jackson.
Speaker 4: If you're listening, Pale, you're supposed to be recruiting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you play like right next to the guy j Bones.
Speaker 7: No, I'm just letting you know, if Jackson heard that,
he's judging you for good whatever j Bones was.
Speaker 2: Judge me all you want. Uh, only one man can judge.
I'll take it. I'll take it.
Speaker 7: That's fine, that's fine. You commit to the school because
that's what's going to be the most important thing for
the rest of your life. So all right, you got
another one.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, we'll take a break more ot B
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Speaker 2: Mm hm, you were my son.
Speaker 3: You didn't know all the ways I love you.
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Speaker 4: Pretty good breakup song here, Bud really.
Speaker 8: Might be like my favor for it, just song of
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Speaker 2: It's pretty late, pretty good. I can't judge that, But
I said I can't judge that. Yeah, yeah, great song, Yeah,
great breakup song.
Speaker 7: When you look at what LSU did yesterday, they didn't
have the biggest class. We were talking about that, you know,
quality over quantity. There was some schools across the country
that signed forty and forty plus players. That's possible. It
is now, Yeah, you have a scholarship limit. It's no
longer the hard twenty five West Virginia rich Rod. We
had him on off campus yesterday. I was like, coach,
how many players you expect to sign to day? It's like,
I think forty one. I was like, what forty one?
It's almost an NFL roster. Belichick's nine over forty at
North Carolina hu USC who had the number one class.
You know, they have some really good players, so don't
get me wrong, but in large part because they signed
thirty five players.
Speaker 4: Man, there is no rules to anything. There's no uniformity
to anything anymore. It's like, hey, LSU, you get you
signed sixteen players. This school for here signed forty and
then like LSU and the portal is probably gonna have
a massive, massive portal class, right. It's like, man, there
is used to is like you signed twenty five. That's
what it is. You get twenty five guys and coaches
try to be creative and that's when the old grey
shirting and everything came into play there. But yeah, you
got school signing over forty players yesterday.
Speaker 2: My gosh, so a school signed forty players before these
high school kids even get off for Christmas break. It's
pretty wild to me, wild times in recruiting. So how
long has that rule been. It's a couple of years,
a couple of years. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So they're just having mass exodus on their team West Virginia,
North Carolina, just people.
Speaker 2: And that was the thing.
Speaker 4: That's the thing that was kind of shocked, not shock.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't.
Speaker 4: I should not say shocking. No longer in college football
should anything shock us. But I was like, coach, you
got forty new ones coming in, Uh, what's that mean
for the rest of the year roster? He goes, oh, hey,
we just had exit meetings. I'm like, okay, cool, yep, elaborate.
He's like, well, sit down, hey, what you're playing you in?
Are you out? I was like that bluntly goes oh absolutely,
it's like you have to be. It's like, we sat
down with our players and it's like, all right, hey,
here's what we see. Here's blah blah blah. He's like,
and he said, I'm fum being honest. With you, Like,
you know, we tell some players, hey, you should probably
go look elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I'm like, man, oh man, that is a different time.
Speaker 7: It's like we sit down and if Little Johnny needs
to go put himself from the portal, we tell little Johnny, hey,
probably be best.
Speaker 4: If you looked elsewhere. He said, it's that blunt. He said,
with every player, you have to be right. I know,
but it's just that's wild times. He's like, that's how
you forty players.
Speaker 7: He's like the feedback that we got an exit meetings,
we knew that we were gonna have the roster ability
to do so.
Speaker 4: He's like, we're still gonna be active in the portal too.
Speaker 2: Fantastic, fantastic. Uh.
Speaker 4: And that's every year, Like little Johnny last year was safe,
Little Gianty this year go getting the portal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, you're not good enough, buddy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't, Like I probably can't cut you.
Speaker 2: Actually I think you can. Can you cut people? Basically?
Speaker 7: I think you can now because it's one year scholarships.
It's always been one of your scholarships. Every year they
got ever do it. Even when we were playing, I
had no idea. Well, he didn't get cut didn't get cut.
I don't did anybody ever?
Speaker 4: Yes, the guys that were asked to medical that was
getting cut, all right, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: How many guys?
Speaker 4: But they we signed with the jam their finger that
had a paper cut, and they're like, hey, you should
probably just take a medical.
Speaker 2: We'll pay for your school in your room, the whole deal. Books.
This looks pretty bad, But I don't think you need
to be out here anymore. Okay, yeah, that's fair, but
that wouldn't a lot of people. I think that's probably
meaning right now, if you're bringing in for you're bringing
forty one people.
Speaker 7: If people got cut when we were playing by medical red, like, hey,
you're going not a medical red hair like you're getting
medical meaning you can't come out here anymore.
Speaker 4: You're still on scholarship. It doesn't count towards our number.
We're gonna pay for everything like your own scholarship. You
just can't be in this building anymore.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine Bill Belichick who's been in the NFL
for a long time, like he personally cut people himself,
Like he called me to cut me and I was
there for three weeks, right, he cut He called me
to personally tell me with his own voice that I
was being released. Can you imagine him if he's if
he's bringing in what you say, forty one players.
Speaker 4: Or something like that, he's forty five.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine like these college these college kids just
talking with Bill Belichick, who's got like you know, he's
been callous doing this for I don't know, thirty years,
forty years, just like, yeah, sorry, I gotta let you go.
Oh coach, I'm enrolled in school here, no fact, I
don't know.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sorry, you're true, because I'm sure, like I'm sure
Rich Rod or whoever we're talking about here. Probably Hey,
gosh man, little Johnny man, you made a couple of plays,
and we really appreciate the work ethic and the things
you brought to practice every day on the scout look.
Speaker 2: And it was just like, hey, we're just going to
let you go. Yeah, we gotta let you go, bud uh. Yeah,
that was That's how it was.
Speaker 4: I was probably too much of a term of endearment.
Speaker 2: We had a uh yeah, we were in training camp
and we had the day off, and so we're of
course in Foxboro and me and Lacy decided to take
a little just a little jiunt down to down to
the Cape. We were driving to the Cape, and I
wasn't really enjoying my time up there, so this didn't
upset me. So I kind of like laughed it off,
but like, yeah, I got a call. We were we
were stopped to get gas at a gas station. I
got a call from a uh a number i'd recognize for,
you know, the Patriots, And he's like, yeah, yeah, man,
this is good fellow chick. Uh yeah, we appreciate your time.
We're just gonna have to let you go today. You know,
good arm talent, wish you luck, thanks many okay, good?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, good good.
Speaker 2: And I hung up and I looked at Lacey and
I was like, let's go have fun. Yeah, good times.
Speaker 4: He actually might be set up better for this. I
did have it backwards though. West Virginia was forty five,
in North Carolina was forty yep Okay.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite stories coming out of yesterday was
the story that popped out about Penn State, who is
currently ranked one hundred and twenty eighth. It's so good
in the country. Their recruiting class one hundred and twenty eight.
Penn State Pennsylvania famously, of course, they they fire James
Franklin with of course no plan. They still have no coach,
and like, what are we doing? What do we say
Kentucky's got a coach before they do? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 8: Who was the last to fire?
Speaker 2: Therefore they were first, very first. Okay, so they had
they had honed in on their coach to be what
they wanted. Of course the b YU coach, right, yeah,
well the b YU they found some money. Crumble CEO
what's his name, Jason McGowan decided all right, let's pony
up a little money I got. I saw a ton
of cookies every single day, expensing ones too. They sell
out every single time. So they helped them walk in.
So they got their coach. They re signed him at
b YU for nine and nine and a half million,
so of course left Penn State standing at the altar. Well,
what did James Franklin do? Not Patty at all? Is
he no? You know, had media in and he was
serving Crumble cookies everybody good for him, Good for him.
I didn't think he had that in. I didn't think
he did either.
Speaker 8: Ranked twenty work.
Speaker 5: In matt the state is one hundred and fifty. Yes,
they're behind South Dakota State.
Speaker 8: They're behind Colgate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only one hundred Colgate's state.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but so Virginia was one hundred and twenty one.
There were one hundred and twenty one.
Speaker 2: And this is going to take some time to come
back from this Penn State. This is going to hurt.
And my god, your ex coach James Franklin just trolled.
Yeah they ever live in mess He controlled out of
James Franklin with a cookie. You retired for the rest
of you got trolled with a box of delicious cookies.
Speaker 9: Someone sent Crumble to the athletic director's office.
Speaker 2: So good, it's so fantastic. I love everything.
Speaker 7: Let's figure out what Penn State's options are real quick
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Penn State donors are pushing for athletic director Pat Kraft
to promote interim head coach Terry Smith.
Speaker 2: To the full time head coach.
Speaker 7: Cool, don't know that that is going to be the
best move for Penn State.
Speaker 2: Do you know much about Terry Smith?
Speaker 4: He's just a lifer position coach.
Speaker 2: You just you called him a standard. You just called
him a standard pretty much. That's what he is.
Speaker 7: He's a lifer position coach. Like he's never really been
more than that. And that's fine. Obviously, there's a great
coaches that that's what they are. I don't think he's
ever been a coordinator. He's been associate head coach, you know,
he's been. He's had titles assistant head coach. But no,
he like, he played at Penn State, so he's a
Penn State guy through and through. He's coached at Penn
State since twenty fourteen in different roles, but they've all
been as a position coach. He did play for the
Shreveport Pirates in the CFL, so that does give him
some clout with me.
Speaker 4: But that's about it. Three and three as his time
as the intermhead coach.
Speaker 2: All right. So they're doing all right, They're doing pretty good.
There's a lot of I know, there's a lot of
Strangely enough, there's rumors for the Bower over there. The
boar can't ever say that. Power he's just saying about
Kaylin de bour Well seems like a devower. He looks
like a debower to me.
Speaker 4: Penn State got coaches paid three hundred and seventy million
dollars in extensions for having their name attached to Penn State.
All right, hour two, coming back your way here from
the lie I raise the case studio off the bench.