Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn from
a championship backfield to your morning drive.
Speaker 2: Hester and Hester got at.
Speaker 1: A bar you're locked in to Off the Bench to
troll live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Game. James, that was good.
Speaker 3: I paused for a second because I was waiting for Matt.
Speaker 4: The yo the same, the howl better with three. It's
not even not even necessarily Matt's fault.
Speaker 3: Just it just is what it is.
Speaker 5: Just sorry, you just report the facts.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Hybrid rock Star. It's just the way it is.
I think he's nervous right now. I think it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this seems like it seemed like that's such a
laid back, care free person that this seems like something
he would get nervous for, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's never been a person that enjoyed physical activity.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you got convinced to do it.
Speaker 6: I don't either, because he's hard to convince it. Like typically,
if he doesn't want to do anything, he just doesn't
do it right and really doesn't have any bones about it,
Like I ain't doing that.
Speaker 7: Anyways.
Speaker 6: Welcome Inn What's Happening OTV Friday Morning, Jake Elandra Tata,
the original Tripod, the o G Tripod Og Trypod, Madison
Houston being a hybrid rock star. He was supposed to
run at like nine. I think he got pushed back
to one and some one also that is a listener
of OTB is running at one twenty as well. That
made him even more nervous with somebody that might know
him is going to see him and see him struggle
and also beat his time.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm a lot so hard if that guy comes
back there.
Speaker 7: I just beat Flim by seven minutes. So that's what
he said.
Speaker 5: He was saying that after the show.
Speaker 4: He was like, I don't know this person, I don't
know what they look like, but I have to beat
this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, I think he's going to do better than he
thinks he is.
Speaker 6: Yeah he will. He'll do fun. He's a competitive turd.
Once that happens, he'll turn it on. I he'll pay
for it later, he'll turn it on. There's no doubt.
All Right, we got Bobby Carpenter joining us in fifteen minutes,
a lot of Buckeyes being mocked to the Saints. I'll
have that conversation. Jared Mitchell is going to join us
at eight. I'm gonna try to get Jake clark On
as well. Got basketball to break down women's basketball. They're
playing a game playing in sweet sixteen. There's a thing
or two about men's basketball as well. Before we do that,
as we always do, little vibe check around the room.
Speaker 7: Has somebody doing.
Speaker 8: I mean, like I said, if we were to get
Will Wade, which we did, it would sustain me for years.
So I'm feeling great, Like I life is being breathed
into me right now, so I could not be better. Also,
some baseball tonight.
Speaker 7: This is kind of utopia for you.
Speaker 8: I know it's like they're not doing great, but I
still watch every single game.
Speaker 3: Watch I'm sick in the head.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're all gonna do it, that's all.
Speaker 8: I'm sitting there watching all the midweek games for what
you do?
Speaker 6: You'd having a midway hard for what, no reason other
than love of the game. No, It's funny because like
even when they do good, because they're doing bad on
the weekend, we're like, doesn't matter whatever.
Speaker 4: Stupid right, But that was like that was like me
this basketball season. I'll shut Kentucky on the TV. It
was like a Wednesday night, and it was when they
had that big lead. Remember, I mean they jumped out
eighteen to two something like that, and I'm watching it usually.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they lose a heartbreaker at the end.
Speaker 4: I was like, and that was fun Victoria's Taylor, why
are you even excited? I was like, they almost won. Yeah,
it's so funny that you say that. We have a
two time national championship winning coach. We're in the middle
of March and you're like, oh, by the way, baseball's tonight. Yeah,
because there is so much crap going on. It's basketball.
You got men in the headlines, you got Lane Kiff
in its spring practice. It's like, it's kind of an
embarrassment of riches. A little update for you guys.
Speaker 5: You got a truck I did not drive.
Speaker 3: Why I did see a different car?
Speaker 4: Why did I not drive Victoria's car here today? She
was a doctor's appointment this morning. I drove my sisters.
Speaker 5: Yeah they have.
Speaker 4: She just got a new vehicle and they're like in
the process of selling the old one of them. Yeah,
I said Victoria. I mean, I said, Heyley, I needed
for two days. I need it for two days.
Speaker 7: I have never heard of a car taking this line
to deliver.
Speaker 4: I think that I ordered a Ferrari straight from Italy
and you customized from Austin, Texas.
Speaker 3: Off like you literally should have just went to Austin
and just bought the car.
Speaker 4: Called him yesterday. They're like, yeah, it's still a mobile.
I'm like, bro, it's been sitting there for three days.
Speaker 5: Can I go get it?
Speaker 4: I was like, I'll just go off to work.
Speaker 5: It's three hours away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very easy.
Speaker 5: They were like, let me check.
Speaker 4: They're like, technically you can go get it, but we
would have to take it back off of this We'd
have to send it to a different hub. It would
actually probably set you back a couple of days just
to go get it. I was like, so if I
physically show up to a car lot and the vehicle
that I am purchasing is on that lot, I can't
take it for two days? Like yeah, basically, I don't
know what you did company I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: I don't know who you went through, but I'm going
to make sure I never do it.
Speaker 8: Do not Promotive would never to you ever, My god,
they'd bring the car to you, right.
Speaker 7: That's probably.
Speaker 8: I think that day you would have been had that
car if you would have went to buy you automotive
also had.
Speaker 5: To also had to pay four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: I would ask for that four hundred dollars. Did they
give you an estimated delivery Saturday?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, No, you bought the car. Did they give you an
estimated delivery?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was like a twelve day period.
Speaker 3: I feel has it been more than twelve days?
Speaker 7: Oh? Yeah, no.
Speaker 4: I mean like they were like it could arrive at
any point between like the eighteenth and the end of
the month, and I'm like, that's.
Speaker 3: Not okay, Well it's the end of the month. I
would be getting my four hundred dollars.
Speaker 7: Unless your name is mister Max, get.
Speaker 3: Me to get that four hundred dollars because I will.
Speaker 4: They're dragging their feet because they can. Tomorrow is the
very last estimated day that they gave me guarantee it
comes in.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow, and we did.
Speaker 4: They'll call me at nine o'clock Saturday night. They close
at nine, They'll be like, hey, it's in then that way,
I can't go get it till Monday.
Speaker 7: That because you pick it up from the car. Max.
Speaker 8: Here, Hey, they don't even take it to your house.
Speaker 4: They could bring it to my house. At this point, guys,
I don't want that. I would rather just go get it. Like, no, no,
I don't want you delivering anything to me.
Speaker 7: That's rough.
Speaker 6: Hell No, we got Jackson's car. We did it through
car Vana. This was a couple of months ago. It
was pretty easy.
Speaker 4: My dad's bought two vehicles through there.
Speaker 6: They just by itself on a flatbed and they delivered
to your house.
Speaker 4: Did Comax had a little bit of a better deal
And I was like, oh there wasn't what, no big deal.
Speaker 5: Nope, they're not the.
Speaker 3: Same again, they would have had me so messed up.
Speaker 4: Oh, guys, I have called them every single day. They
probably hate me. They have my number saved and they're like,
don't answer that. Do not answer that phone call. Yeah,
we d have a different vehicle.
Speaker 6: Just not sorry, I got excited. I thought you actually
had your vehicle. No, no, you know what though, But
but what you just said about having so many things
go on right now currently for l s U.
Speaker 7: Hopefully it's taking your mind away from it a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least during the day.
Speaker 3: He's like, then I wake up and night.
Speaker 4: I go home and I stand in my driveway and
I'm like Will Smith on Fresh Prince of bel Air
when the living cleaned on. I'm just gonna looking around
waiting for something to happen.
Speaker 5: Sorry that it's fine, guys. I'm not even mad about it.
Speaker 7: You're not You're not getting that before April.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not even upset.
Speaker 4: No, sometime between now, when the end of the year,
I'll get this.
Speaker 7: I imagine I would be going so ham on the phone, Oh.
Speaker 5: I called him.
Speaker 4: I was like, you do realize I could have bought
a one way plane ticket to Austin, Texas, went and
got the vehicle myself, saved probably two hundred bucks, and
had it two weeks ago.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Like, how do you explain that to something?
It had some good barbecue in Austin too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been like that.
Speaker 4: Is like the one place Coopers I have never been,
Salo Salt Lake.
Speaker 8: Is like, okay, that's when people I don't know what
I would compare it to here, like when people are like, oh,
you got to get some good jumbalaya and you go
to like a jumbalaya shop or something like that.
Speaker 6: I love Salt like I don't know. Everybody I say
from Texas says the same thing. But I'm like, look,
I'm a simple man.
Speaker 3: I mean, Salt Lake has its place for sure, Yeah,
but Cooper's too. For shoopers, it was.
Speaker 5: A lot only big city in Texas. I've never been two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've been Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, wake
up and all of them.
Speaker 5: Never been to Austin.
Speaker 3: You're not missing much.
Speaker 7: I knew that was coming.
Speaker 3: There's no reason to go there.
Speaker 7: How how about how quickly I could look.
Speaker 6: Obviously we're going to get into Will Wade and how
it all played out and everything.
Speaker 7: But look, we talked. We've been talking about for two days.
Speaker 6: We talked about it yesterday because you know, it was
already happening, and we'll break down what it means and
who what went and where.
Speaker 7: I just think it's pretty cool how quick like it
was a it was like kind of like a rumor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And like like I said, over the last couple of days,
we've all said it like worst kept secret and battery's
been going on for weeks. But from it not like
actually being officially official over the last like forty eight
hours and then you technically still had a coach and
Matt McMahon. Yeah to this man was on a plane
boots on the ground in at and Rouge before the
sun was down yesterday, Like how quickly it all kind
of came together, and how quickly it was like from
all right, he's meeting with NC State on Wednesday night
and blah blah blah. And you know you still got
Matt McMahon. You got to figure it out too. Yesterday
on Thursday, he was here before the sun went down.
Speaker 7: Like it's amazing how quickly everything went down.
Speaker 3: It happened so fast. It was like a wildfire right
like it was.
Speaker 8: A rumors started coming out, and then it was he's
meeting with NC State, and then it was they couldn't
come to agreement, and then we hired Heath Schroyer and
again like it was just Domino's that just kept falling
and falling and it did happen super fast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I know they've been working on this, like
I said, like like I talked about for sure, like
we all know that, but still like there's a lot
of hurdles that you got to get over. And they
were like, I don't care. They were the guy running
the hurdle race. That's just running through everything right, not
even did not even care.
Speaker 3: But he looked happy as hell on the plane.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he does have to work for a guy
named Boo.
Speaker 3: Boo, such a dumb nat.
Speaker 4: The audio me and Moose from back in the studio
yesterday for a far We're playing the audio and he's like, yeah,
we're gonna play Bookrrigan here. I was like, well, no
freaking wonder will Wade left end z E state. What's
to work for a guy named Boo? Also, you should
have seen him up there, Oh my god, he looked
like he just lost his new puppy.
Speaker 6: Did I think a lot of people will know Boo
from him? Uh, you know, being a part of the
college football playoff as well and having to hear him
talk about the rankings if you remember going back a
couple of years. Don't worry, we'll get to all that.
We got a lot of show, a lot of show left,
but pretty remarkable how quickly everything came together. We'll fire
it up. I'll tell you that I briefly talked with
him yesterday. He is fired up, to say the least. Yeah, Uh,
to be back and to have the opportunity to try
to finish what they got started here.
Speaker 7: And it doesn't happen very often. It has happened four
in sports.
Speaker 6: It doesn't happen often, but you get a second chance
out of place like this, and to say he's fired
up would be a big, big understatement. All right, we'll
go ahead and we'll take our first break. As I said,
we're gonna have Bobby Carpenter join us. He's gonna break
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Speaker 1: Off the Bench to Jacob Tigers turn Talkers. This is
Off the Bench, all.
Speaker 6: Right, Welcome back in ot B here on this Friday morning,
live from the Raising Caine Studio. Gonna go to our guy,
the General, Bobby Carpenter, now live from parts unknown. Who
knows where Bob's at at this point? What's up, Bob?
How are we doing?
Speaker 7: Brother?
Speaker 9: I'm doing well, that's how How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 6: Doing fantastic? Good to see your face there, are you. Gosh,
there's there's so many things you could be doing right now.
You probably already worked out, probably slinging some HVAC systems
right now.
Speaker 9: Uh, not quite.
Speaker 10: I'm actually heading to my workout, getting ready to pull
on the right now my little morning show. So pretty uh,
pretty excited Fridays, you know, story the upper body, palm,
feeling good for the weekend, Gonna hit a little uh
what you like to call street work.
Speaker 9: So it's a teacher class at Ohio State.
Speaker 10: And so when I do that twice a week, I
can't really get the road work in and some running
the way that i'd like to. So I'm gonna probably
run some one tens this morning and then head in
there and fill the upper body day before hopping on
XM with my guy Matt Schickt Moving for a little
college sports today.
Speaker 6: All right, so my co host is not here, Matt
Flynn is in Houston right now. I'm doing a high
Rocks event, Hybrid Rockstar high Rocks. Never heard of it
before he started to train for it, so he's doing
that right now.
Speaker 9: What is high Rocks.
Speaker 6: It's a what it's it stands for Hybrid rock Star.
But it's like a CrossFit, a Landra What is it?
It's like a cross It's like.
Speaker 8: A CrossFit type competition where you got to write run
eight kilometers, so it's eight of one kilometer runs, and
in between all the runs you're doing like wall balls,
sled pushes, pulls, burpie jumps, stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, to quote the legendary Kenny Powers, I play real sports.
Speaker 9: I'm not trying to be.
Speaker 3: And they're called hybrid rock stars.
Speaker 10: Where's the rock star? If you're if you're Flynn, you're
a rock star doing that? You should have to do
that with ingesting some sort of illicit substance like whether
like it's just simply alcohol like a beer mile situation.
Can we maybe some crack cocaine whatever it is, Like
Billy Idol said he got off heroin by smoking crack,
so like type of stuff that I'm talking about. So
if he's gonna tell me he's doing some sort of
event like this, flint up his game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, man, it's only Bobby can
put it.
Speaker 7: I knew he'd have a great answer for us.
Speaker 6: Bob, I wanted to have you on this more than
one because of Mission Man and on a chance to
do shows there on eighty four anymore, but also I
wanted to ask you.
Speaker 10: I think Kester, I mean you got you took the
glow up man, It's okay, like very good thing.
Speaker 9: You know, I'm here with the stars stars, so I
get it.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's your words, that's you know, it's not mine.
I'll jump back on eighty four with you. I'm trying
to like get it done where I can do once
a week. I want to be once a week on
eighty four. You and I need to be there like
the noon show.
Speaker 10: I'm with that. That'd be perfect, man. I mean, you've
laughed hardstock. There's so much attrition. I mean, listen, they
got this for you. We'll talk to live in mass
We get that worked.
Speaker 7: Out, all right.
Speaker 6: So obviously we covered the New Orleans Saints here, Bob,
and there's you know a couple of Buck guys that
could find their way to New Orleans at number eight.
Now you know, Rvel Reese might be gone, my guy,
Sonny Styles might be gone. You've got Caleb Downs, you
got Cardinal Taate, so a lot of Buck guys and
the Saints were well represented at Pro Day the other day,
you know, and our listeners know what I think about
Sonny Styles, Like, I don't even need to go any
more down that road. If I was selecting anywhere in
this draft, like he would be the guy I would
go to But for you, I mean you played the
position for the buck.
Speaker 7: Guys. You know what Sonny Styles is all about.
Speaker 6: You saw him come in and literally like start in
the back end, go to Nickel, shift over to Mike linebacker,
have the green dot on his helmet on a Matt
Patricia defense. So for you, like in Sunny Styles and
his fit in the NFL, how do you see a
playing out.
Speaker 9: So I think you could go and put him in
there and play them at pure Mike.
Speaker 10: And he's a three down guy that has you know,
he's got blitzed value, he's got coverage value, you can
play the run. He's two hundred and forty five pounds
and you see him. Hester mean, you guys all saw
his combine numbers and you were there beside him, like,
I mean, he's a big human, like a really large human,
really smart guy. He grew up in a football family.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 10: Lewis Fredick was talking about out, you know, having conversations
after talking with his dad and they played together in
Atlanta and that's always fun. Stuff is just a football
family and a football guy at him like you're getting
You're getting an all star dude.
Speaker 9: And I had some conversations.
Speaker 10: There's I've got some friends over there in the in
the New Orleans front office and on the staff, and
I think that they'd be happy with probably any of
those four guys potentially when they draft, and they you know,
they they love drafting Buckeyes and they've done it, you know,
with a handful of guys there, Chris Olave, Pete Warner,
you're still on the team currently. So Sonny, Sonny would
be a home run. Like and the thing is that
he was an off the ball guy, but if you
look at him and how big he is, he's somebody
that you can do a lot of stuff with. Like
there's no physical limitations. So really the only limitation is
can he learn like new skills. And you know, I
know everybody wants to be like, well, can he be
an edge? You know these guys dge guys, Well, he
played safety and you know Nickel, like he's never really
played on the edge, and I just think he's never
really been asked to. So like, there's things over the
course of his career that I think he has the
physical traits to possess to do it. The guy works
his butt off, So I think if you like kind
of train him in some different stuff. He can begin
to give you value that you probably haven't unlocked yet.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 6: I mean I think he can do so many different
He's twenty one years old too. He's played forty five
games in a Buckeye uniform and he's twenty one years old.
Like that to me is remarkable. I mean, he got
to school at seventeen years old, goes to a place
like Ohio State and finds a way to be on
the field as a seventeen year old, Like that just
doesn't happen.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know that as well as I do.
Speaker 10: So, I mean, he was one of the kids tester
that reclassified, Like he left after his junior year of
high school to come to Ohio State. You know, he'd
won a state championship in football, he'd won one in basketball.
And I think it's like, all right, his brother was
already a Notre dame, like what else is left? And
him and his brother are coming out and together and
someone thought like, well, who is older, Like well, Stunny's
older than Lorenzo, And then well how are they in
the same class? Now, I'm like, well, Lorenzo got h
came out, got red shirted, and it was two years
ahead of him. And then Sonny graduated early, no red shirts.
So there there's your two years and next you know
they're coming out together.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I mean it was wild. Like I watched him.
Speaker 10: He grew up to the town beside mine, and so
we played a lot of games against him.
Speaker 7: My dad was, Chaster is your town, right, right, And he's.
Speaker 10: From Pickering said, and so we know that there's games
back and forth. And I remember seeing playing against his
brother and his brother's good, you know obviously, and you
needn't know his dad's dad played Ohio State, playing in
the NFL. And then I remember his freshman year. Sonny
pops in there and I'm like, wait, who who's the
older one? And my cause one of the decordings like,
oh he's the older. He's younger, like he's six one
five as a freshman, Like how is that even possible?
Like I was six to one, like one fifty five
as a freshman playing free safety. So I mean he's
always had those physical traits and kind of experienced and
not a lot of wear and sere on his.
Speaker 7: Body, all right, So I think RVL Reese would be gone.
Speaker 6: I think Sonny Styles has maybe you know, the ability
to go to the Saints at eight if he is
still there. Which if he is still there, go pull
your hamstring and select that guy. I don't think the
Downs is going to be there, but Cardinal Tate could
be there, and the Saints are in the market to
add a receiver. Now I've had questions just because and look,
you know, we've we've covered the buck Eyes. I mean
we've gone to their games and we've seen these guys
up close and personal. I think he's a really good player,
Cardinal Tait. I think he is a really good player.
But he's always been a two. He's never been a one.
And there's been some really good guys in front of him.
We all know that as well. But that would be
my question. The guy that's always been the two, he's
always been Robin, He's never been Batman. But when you
select somebody at number eight at receiver, like they've got
to be Batman, why should the Saints select Cardinal Tate.
Speaker 10: I think he's got Batman ability and he's got Batman talent,
just a function of it.
Speaker 9: And here's the thing.
Speaker 10: Has I mean, you know, you start looking at this
and you know, and you've got you know, when you're
at LSU and you have Jamar Chase, all right, he
was great, and then you have oh, gosh, what's his name,
Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 9: Well Justin Jefferson was kind of the two. You know.
Speaker 10: Then he didn't play the next year, and it's like, well,
you know, is he kind of afterthought? He maybe ended
up being better. You look at the guys, I think
it's all relative to the guys that you're with. You know,
he was behind uh, you know, Jackson, and there was
a Mecca was here and then y'all Jeremiah Smith just
comes out of nowhere.
Speaker 9: Marvin was there. Take.
Speaker 10: So there's all these were really good and so they
really talented players. And what the thing I think is
the most impressive to me is your receivers are kind
of a different group a little bit. And you know,
you were fortunate to play with some really good ones
who were good dudes, and so is I But not
that they're bad guys, but but some of them, I
mean they play a position where they're I mean, they're
they're the mean, the fancy cat man. I mean, they
have France are Cock and for him to be able
to not like have an ego about that because some
guys would get salty.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Then I came in and I was just impressed, like,
never complained and once it get me the ball more,
I need to be the feature guy. Just all right,
I'll show up and work like and if he's better
than me, that's all right. But I'm gonna continue to grind.
I'm gonna continue to do this. And I think it's
that showed in his play. Obviously it's showed in his film.
So I think it's what I love most is just
his mentality about it. He has the traits to be
a number one receiver. It's the function of like he's
also got the mindset of he's gonna be a great.
Speaker 6: Catch up with our guy, Bobby Carpenter here on OTB.
All right, Bobby, I'm gonna put you on the spot
if you could only select one of those Buckeye players
you had to pick, but you can only take one,
which one are you taking in?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 9: Gosh?
Speaker 7: I mean, and you're best player available type mindset?
Speaker 10: Okay, I was gonna say it's just for the Saints.
I'm trying to fit pick needs and stuff too. Oh man,
it's like I said, you got I mean, now you've
got five kids, asked, But like trying to pick between
you know, I said this yesterday, It'd probably be Rvel Reese,
just because I think he's still the most raw of anybody,
and I think there's still a tremendous upside. I think
Rvel has the ability if you look at his frame
and he's two forty five, but he has the ability
had another ten pounds and I was.
Speaker 9: Talking with Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 10: We were watching him go through workouts and some of
the other, uh, the gms and coaches that were there,
and like just how sudden Like it's amazing, just like
his sudden power and explosion that he has and I've
never really seen anything like it. And there's still more
in the tank that you're gonna be able to, which
I don't know if that's ever the case when you
draft a guy in the top you know, five or
ten or whatever it is, you know he's good, but
there's a lot more. So I think that he just
has the most intriguing upside and he's a guy that
likes to work, So I think you're gonna be able
to realize that as well.
Speaker 7: All right, Bobby, we don't want to hold you any
longer from that workout. I will tell you this.
Speaker 6: At the combine, every bluck Eye that we interviewed, I'm like, yeah, man,
I'm good friends with Bobby Carpenter.
Speaker 7: We're like, oh yeah, mister Bobby. Yeah, he's always in
the in the weight room over at the facility.
Speaker 9: Oh, Carneal gives me crap all the time. He was back.
Speaker 10: He said, we're gonna go run some sprints today. And
I'm like, listen, man, when you get old. As soon
as you start sprinting, you become stop sprinting, you become slow.
I can't take two consecutive weeks off or then you
just the road to being a normal person.
Speaker 6: All right, Bob, do this after your workout, google Hybrid
rock Star High Rocks workout, and then make fun of
FLYNT some more.
Speaker 7: After you google it.
Speaker 9: We'll do a'll sentiment text.
Speaker 7: All right, Bob, appreciate your brother.
Speaker 9: Oh go on, guys.
Speaker 6: All right, Bobby Carpenter, Kylie Gover at Sirius XM. You
can hear him today at one eastern noon local time
on College Sports Today over there on Channel eighty four.
Speaker 7: I was appreciate my god, Bob, you never know what
he's gonna.
Speaker 6: Say or what he's how he's gonna compare something didn't
have hard drugs being on the video card hard?
Speaker 5: Can you say that on the radio?
Speaker 6: I'm like, Bobby ken, Oh, let me just tell you
from somebody that has done XIM shows with Bob for
five years. He doesn't care if it's local radio, regional radio,
or national radio.
Speaker 7: Bob's gonna say what Bob wants to say.
Speaker 3: That's why I've never suggested bringing Chris Doring on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, to be honest, So it's.
Speaker 3: He might be better about it.
Speaker 6: On TV, Orah lives away that you wouldn't want to record, right,
Bobby talks away to record fair enough, you know, so
because Doran can quickly turned on the Chris Doran Mortgage
company voice, like I've been in the car with him before,
talking normal and he gets the phone, Hey, yeah, Chris
Doring here with Chris Doring Mortgage. Yeah, we got some
really incredible rates for you here today. And I'm like,
who in the world is this? We make fun of
him pretty bad. So that's Bobby no words, yep, that's Bob.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man.
Speaker 6: I still like with RVL Reese and I know Bobby's
way closer to the situation.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Eighteen games total in college does scare me a little bit.
If he's gonna go like two three, he's going to
top ten regardless.
Speaker 7: But I would eighteen games.
Speaker 5: I would take Sunny Styles.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I would too.
Speaker 6: But y'all know that in forty five games twenty one
years old. His brother's in the same draft and ran
a four to three. His dad played in the NFL,
A football family guy, graduated high school early and started
for the buck Eyes like when he was seventeen years old.
Speaker 7: There's a lot to like.
Speaker 6: I mean, look all of those guys from Ohio State, obviously,
but ar Bell Race is not gonna make it to
the Saints.
Speaker 7: I don't think Downs is gonna make it.
Speaker 6: Tate and Sunny Styles could make it to the Saints
at eight and with Tate probably being the one that
has the best chance to make it, but still there.
I liked Bobby's answer. But Cornell Tate's not justin Jefferson.
Justin Jefferson, as we said the other day, had fifteen
hundred yards in the season where people call him the
two that was not a two situation. All right, we
gotta take a break. When we come back, we kind
of reset. That's the only time Bobby could join us.
Didn't want to miss that, and we'll truly get the
show started to catch you up on all the things
going on around LSU basketball. Will Wade coming back all
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Speaker 6: Obviously, the big news, well, it's kind of funny, like
because Taylor did lay it out. He's like, you know,
it's kind of one of those situations where there's a
lot of news. But I would say the biggest news
surrounding LSU Athletics is Will Wade coming back. Something we've
talked about in linked over the last two days and
I think.
Speaker 7: We all agree it just feels right.
Speaker 6: This situation might not feel right in a lot of
different cases, this one does.
Speaker 7: When you have a coach that was let go and
you bring him back.
Speaker 6: Nobody wanted Will Wade to ever leave, no matter what happened,
and you go back, you checked the archives of this show.
Speaker 7: I know that was our.
Speaker 6: Fielm at least I don't remember where Bob landed on it,
but I know for me, like, I'm like, look, I
don't care.
Speaker 7: I want Will Wade to be the basketball coach.
Speaker 6: So he's coming back to LSU, and for the first
time in a very long time, LSU basketball feels like
it matters again because you can say what you want
about Will Wade and how everything went down and what
comes with his name, but one thing you can't argue
with is when he was here, LSU basketball was relevant.
It was talked about, not just locally nationally. It had juice,
it had energy. The p MAC had an actual pulse,
and honestly, like, that's what we're looking for. That's what
we want again, is to be excited to go into
the p MAC, go to those games the women's team,
they do it all the time, and it's an incredible,
incredible energy and you're just like, man if both the
teams that played in that p MAC could bring the
same thing. So it's not just about you know, wins
and losses, it's about bringing back and having an identity
to your basketball program. It's about getting to a place
where fans care again, they want to be a part
of it. It feels big when you walk into the
p BAC for a men's game, and I think we
all agree. Will Wade brings that. He brings an edge,
He's got a confidence about him.
Speaker 7: He has that.
Speaker 6: To kind of make you believe in LSU that nobody
else really has right because even like you know you're
going to a sweet sixteen, it's like, man, I think
els you's got a chance to win. I think else
you can do it, Like Will brings that to the table,
even if like you pulled back the curtain and it's
not fully factual.
Speaker 7: Will make you believe that it's not going to be perfect.
Speaker 6: There's probably gonna be some you know sometimes where it's
going to be difficult, but there's gonna be excitement, there's
going to be interest, there's going to be a real
desire to be great with Will Wade in LSU basketball.
That's what he did the first time that he was here.
It's what he's done everywhere he's ever been. So I'll
tell you this, if you care about LSU athletics, if
you care about that program having life again, you should
be fired the hell up about this because this was,
in my opinion, the only way that you could fix
the LSU men's basketball program from where it was to
what we want.
Speaker 3: It to be, to just take it back to what
it was before.
Speaker 8: Like, I think he brings that belief because he's done
it before, and like he didn't get to coach whenever
they made it to the sweet sixteen, but he still
like curated that team.
Speaker 3: He still took him to that point.
Speaker 8: So I think that's why everybody, most people, I would say,
like majority of people are very excited to have will
back because not only that, but like he just has
a great personality.
Speaker 7: Like it's not it fits what we want.
Speaker 8: Exactly right, Like I I guess great personality might not
be the best way to put it, but like, but
for us, it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very entertaining.
Speaker 8: It's very like you're breathing life into a program that
was dead for the past three or four years.
Speaker 5: And that's all you have to do. Like I hear
people say, oh, can will Wade truly win big?
Speaker 10: Here?
Speaker 4: Is he going to fail at LSU's second time around?
I would be all that matters is from day one
he gets here is there's going to be energy guys.
LSU men's basketball they were they met COVID restrictions this
year in the p MAC.
Speaker 5: I mean they had room to spare.
Speaker 4: They didn't have to worry about the six feet apart
thing because there was nobody in the building. It was
a graveyard. It's not going to be that way with
Will Wade. Like, yeah, there's a lot of people that
are still going to watch every game. But do I
want to sit there and watch a losing basketball team?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: I don't, And like, I don't think anybody's going to
be like, oh, in year two, Will Wade's got to
win a national championship. It's never happened here. Like, if
you're Will Wade and you're here twenty years, you make
three to four Final Four appearances, your dale Brown, and
your name's on the basketball court. That's what this LSU
basketball program is. Like, I'm not asking Will Wade to
come in and completely turn this thing around in one
year because it's going to be hard to do that
even with the portal. I see these people though online.
Pete Thamil one of them. Huge shocker there. Pete Thamil
said Will Wade back at LSU after a mess process. Okay,
you can hate the fact that LSU rehired Will Wade.
Nothing about this as a messy. From the day you
hired Wade Ruse, you were bringing Will Wade back. This
was this was always in place. You hired way Rus,
you hired he destroyer, you got rid of Scott Woodward
before all that, who is the one who fired Will Wade?
There was nothing about this It was a messy. This
was some he methodical and planned out. Like I know
earlier we were talking about, oh, this happened very quickly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to us it did.
Speaker 4: But I mean if you if you go look at
the process, this was all lined up for it. And
then Sean Farnum Farnham yesterday said Will Wade is returning
to the place he left in shambles. He didn't leave,
he didn't choose to leave this program. He was let
go because, in my opinion, you had really weak leadership
at the time. He's back, He's cleaning up a mess
that should never have been made and folk should be
excited about it.
Speaker 7: You're right.
Speaker 6: I mean, there was some things set in motion and
that allowed this to become a reality, and it wasn't
gonna happen to Scott Woodward was still athletic director. It
just wasn't going to on either side, right Like Scott
Snicker bring Will back, Will wasn't coming back if that
was the case. But Urgin's playing no verge, going for it.
Bases are loaded. He ain't worried about a walk right now.
He's trying to light He's trying to find something that
that he can put into play and pick up a
couple of RBIs right now and he's swinging.
Speaker 3: Meant to do it. Yeah, I said it yesterday.
Speaker 8: You basically got the death penalty without the NCAA giving.
Speaker 3: It to you.
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Speaker 7: Hello motivation says, he goes out, he goes down to me,
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Raising Kine studio. Do you want to get to this comment?
Jonesy says Jacob. But Will was paying players before most
teams were any study.
Speaker 3: That's not true.
Speaker 7: Now I was read one million dollars when other teams
were paying.
Speaker 8: Entucky before most teams Will were actually incorrect, Like that's fair,
but there are multiple coaches that were under investigation and
multiple coaches that were paying players.
Speaker 3: That's just factually incorrect.
Speaker 6: I think what the person was trying to do was
saying that's why they were good.
Speaker 7: You can't say that because what he.
Speaker 8: Did make I was about to say, we did this
last season, like we talked about this last season, because
to answer your question, T Bob was like on he
was a Matt McMahon like keep him like was not
down with Will Wade because him and I would talk
about it and we like did this last season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at what he do.
Speaker 8: You think McNeese has the same resources as everybody else does.
Speaker 7: Two different teams to the tournament.
Speaker 6: Right, and the NC statement doesn't hold.
Speaker 4: On twenty and fifteen at NC State and people be like, oh,
that's kind of an average record. Yeah, but they had
a losing record, so it's like you have to you
have to look at what the team was before you
got Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, look, this is not the place that you're going
to steal our son John.
Speaker 7: We are too fired up. We know too much about
what he can do for the basketball progra.
Speaker 8: The people that think that, like LSU cut a two
hundred million dollar check for all of the coaches and
all of the buyouts in one go kill me. Do
you think they're just straight up up front giving Lane
Kiffen ninety one million dollars.
Speaker 3: No, that's over what seven years?
Speaker 4: And nobody's saying that Will Wade's gonna come in and
win a Natty year one. But he's won everywhere he's been.
Speaker 6: This is the most we've talked about LSU basketball in
four years. Yep, yep, I mean.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because we start talking about them and then it
would go south, and then nobody would want to come
home because it was going south, and we're like, okay, cool,
you'd be like, we'll talk about.
Speaker 5: It, okay. Gods, why did they lose by twenty eight?
Speaker 9: Kid?
Speaker 5: Well, they're not good.
Speaker 6: All right, we got Jared Mitchell'll talk about LSU baseball,
probably football too, because that's what Jay Mitch can do
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