Speaker 1: I'll start to you to present some off the Bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abart.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Aybar the bitch.
Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob a bear?
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 2: You'll welcome back? Go off the bench? All right? We
gotta get into these, uh Brian Kelly bits bites from yesterday,
as he had a lot to say on the new
landscape of recruiting and whatnot, but before he died right
back in a landro how's the Chris party yesterday? First
Christmas party of the season. Christmas party was good? Is
that Leberge? Okay?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Ondy gambling? That's funny at the casino. I didn't do
any gambling. I did have a few drinks because that's
what one does a Christmas party. Then he flirting at
the Christmas part? No no, uh, Taylor, what did you
get to do last night? Very highed?
Speaker 4: I feel like what did I get into last night?
To Bob, You're gonna love this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me, babe. Christmas movie? Which one school Christmas Man?
That's victorious? Wait, Jim Carrey, went Ron Howard, Yeah, hell yeah,
hell of a movie did not review well at the time,
which I cannot fathom because I think it's a masterpiece.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Jim Carrey had to get Navy seals to come train him,
ors like them or CIA people to train him in like,
uh kind of interrogation techniques.
Speaker 3: Basically, he had to sit.
Speaker 2: In that chair for like, I think like six hours,
four to six hours to get that makeup on, and
tried to avoid to avoid panic attacks. They taught him
to like they taught him techniques to like take his
take it, you know, kind of calm himselfing and keep
his mind out of there. That's crazy. You ever seen
Lord of the Rings some of it? Yeah? Have you
seen Fellowship of the Ring? Which one's that one? The
first one?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the big orcrtz white hambur on his face?
God I which you could remember the actor's name so
I could credit him, but I don't. But he had
to sit through twelve hours of makeup to film. He
would start at midnight, get done at noon, and then
go to work. Absolutely not how bad do you want it?
And what are you willing to sacrifice to get it?
You know, you want to be alerts. He also played
the Witch King, which was less makeup attempts but still
really cool. Jake, what did you do last night? Celebrate?
Speaker 3: Did you say?
Speaker 2: Did you also by birthday?
Speaker 3: Yesterday?
Speaker 2: Is it yesterday?
Speaker 3: That was over the weekend?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Hell yeah yeah, Knox turned thirteen. Let's go shout out
knocks in the house.
Speaker 2: Skinny though, you know I fell you in no line,
but now I was just like, you know, he's just
he still play no line, yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah,
he'll play no liness felt though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's kind of shot up. Yeah, maybe it's gonna
be tall like Jackson.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Shout out to whoever's jeans. You know,
I've told you all this. My mom's adopted and we
don't know any family history. My mom's five ten, so
you know they got a chance.
Speaker 3: There we go, you got a chance.
Speaker 5: I gosh, I think yesterday was like first day we
didn't have anything, but we did.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah.
Speaker 5: Took Harlow on a stroll around the neighborhood because the
Christmas lights she loves, like three days in a row. Like, yeah,
we take her and you know, whichever o the boys
wants to go. Last night, Memphis rode his bike ahead
of there and just white white.
Speaker 2: What are the other boys doing playing cod.
Speaker 5: Playing something Minecraft Jackson, probably playing in c double a. Yeah,
knocks in Hudson are kind of into this like hunting
game where you get a certain amount of points depending
on how rare the animal is.
Speaker 3: I mean they are all at it.
Speaker 5: I mean they're talking about like albino gators and how
much they're worth and does.
Speaker 2: It have like a like a light gun or something
or is it nos just it's just on like Xbox
on the Xbox Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay, the albino that's it's probably like one of the
trophy animals. I used to have this one of these
games you get like a like I mean I've had
a game, so I had Cabella's Dangerous Hunt. Okay, the
whole thing about that, like you could go hunt white Tail,
but there were two predators in the area as well.
If you're hunting the deer, like bear might jump on
your back or something's crazy crazy game.
Speaker 5: Uh our own, uh, Taylor, because you're albino and you're
also a gator from where you went to little league practice.
Speaker 2: Junior high Yah junior Okay, I didn't know that there
was actually a uh a Gator connection either, Okay, trying
to get one. Yeah, all right, let's get to let's
get to Brian Kelly here. I think we might just
kind of go down the list here for a minute.
Let's just start with Kelly won the new landscape of recruiting, it's.
Speaker 6: Not just about finding the right fit academically. It's not
just about finding the right fit where you can develop
holistically and graduate and play for a championship.
Speaker 2: It's about what the most.
Speaker 6: Money I can get. And that's unfortunate, but it's the
world we live in, and you have to be able
to adapt, and you have to be able to.
Speaker 3: Realign and be prepared.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of funny to hear this, because you know,
you hear that, you kind of like, well, duh, it's
been like that for what feels like, you know, over
a year now. The only thing I maybe disagree with you,
he says academically, Yeah, the only thing I maybe disagree
with there is saying that's unfortunately. I certainly understand from
a code perspective, recruits perspective, how unfortunate it would feel
when you recruit your ass off for like two years
and just a big money offer comes in the end
and you lose him. But I think the players are
getting paid might not think it's that unfortunate. And again,
these coaches have done the same thing for you know, decades.
Speaker 3: Here is Kelly on.
Speaker 2: The Tyler Miller nil example, kind of show what he's
talking about.
Speaker 6: You need a collective, you need the anil to supplement
your recruiting efforts. And that's just the reality of what
we live in because you can't close every one of
these just because you've got great relationships and they want
to go to LSU. I'll give you an example where
we see Tyler Miller, you know, relative to revenue sharing,
another school might see him much higher because they value
him twenty percent forty percent more because they need him more,
and so their number comes in at X. It doesn't
mean we devalued him, but we've got three other tackles
in our program. And so that's where the rub comes, right,
That's where this comes of, Well, so and so's offering
us X and you're only offering us why, Well, that
has nothing.
Speaker 3: To do with your value.
Speaker 6: It's just the other program doesn't have a tackle and
they desperately need you as their cornerstone, and so they're
going to spend more money. So it's not your market value,
it's what they need. And that's where this becomes really
really difficult.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to get into like a definition
war over market value. Again, to me, I think a
team needing you and being willing to pay you more
in some ways is your market value. But I understand
what he's saying, right like, if you were to just
objectively look at what all tackles are played, that that
would be among the same skill level, then he's being
offered much more because a unique set of circumstances whatever.
But but one thing it is worth pointing, I think Jake,
is that it would it is very difficult to build
a roster in this sort of environment right where you
you know, if like how do you build depth, Like
look at the Lance Hurt example, how do you build
depth when your backup may be so talented that like
Tennessee's gonna pay him more than you're paying your best guy,
right like, So it's very tough to build. I do
agree with that, Like you said, it's very it's very
tough to build talented depth in today's college football right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Because I mean, you've got a certain number you're
trying to stay around. And you know, if you've got
five tackles when you got spread that out. But if
another team has two tackles, they need a third, and
the two tackles they have they don't feel really good about,
then they're going to spend more of what they have
available on that position. And so like it is going
to come down to how many do you have at
this position?
Speaker 3: What do we need to spend for backups?
Speaker 5: Well, we can't spend that for a backup because we're
already kind of solid at that position. So yeah, it
is like you got to manipulate the system and you
got to kind of move all that money around. You
got to make sure like you've got money, uh, you
know for every position group and you can't overspend necessarily
on just one group. But some teams getting a situation
t in defensive tackle, I think is a great example
of this in the last spring short a window where
teams were just giving us money needs two good players,
not game changing players. And you know those players had
some okay seasons, right, I mean you remember the one
from from Oklahoma Williams that you know, was like one
of the big names. I didn't call his name. On
Saturday night he played, I didn't call the game.
Speaker 2: Simi and Berra went to Miami and Miami's defense was.
Speaker 5: Hot garbage, right, but they needed, yeah, you know, a
defensive tackle, and so they were going to put everything
they had into that one position. And some teams are
doing that, and so that's where that market value goes
way up and over what you had or what you're
willing to spend, because maybe you feel not great but
good about where you sit and the other team feels bad.
Speaker 3: I will say this.
Speaker 2: Though you may think you don't like this, but this
is also why we see such good football in theory, right,
Like why everybody's getting better is this exact thing. Because
now Tennessee can go shore up their left tackle position
with a guy that would have been riding the bench
for much of the year here at LSU. So again,
I think it does lead to better overall football, which
is a very good thing, even if it's very tough.
Here's Kelly five. This is on Kelly in terms of
can they compete with the big in terms of portal recruiting?
Speaker 6: Begin So that's the bar, right, I mean, it's Oregon,
Ohio State, it's Michigan, it's Georgia, Alabama. I could keep
naming Notre Dame. I mean, I'll give you all the name.
You guys know what they are. But now it's no
longer about just your brand. Your brand has to be
backed up with the ability to supplement that with dollars
because that's what we're in. And so if you want
to get into the portal, if you want to be
able to close some of these, you have to have
active participation from a donor base. And it can't just
be one or two guys. It has to be from
all those that want to see the Notre Dames of
the Ohio States, or the Oregans or the Alabamas do well. Uh.
They have to be involved, and so that means the
lsus Uh.
Speaker 2: If they want to.
Speaker 6: Be at the top of the of the food chain,
then we have to be involved as well. And that's
just the rey of where we are today and whether
we like it or not, it's where it is today.
Speaker 2: He do he play on the Freudian slip there? It
definitely sounded to me like he was gonna say Notre
Dame and then he's like the Notre Dames, and I
was like, Okay, yeah, well slick, well, you slick on
your feet. Who's he talking to there?
Speaker 3: Like, is he talking to like us, like the.
Speaker 2: Average grassroots person, or is he talking to maybe more
of the people, because like, the only people that can
really give money are people who have a lot of money.
I'm sorry, I don't think the average person. If I
told my wife I wanted to give ten dollars a
month twenty dollars a month to college football players to
play for, do you know what she would do to me?
Like it wouldn't matter where Derek Carr finished in QB
are Okay, I mean done, Like no freaking chance. And
I think that's probably how a lot of people feel
right now. Also, when you're talking about like twenty bucks whatever,
it's really hard to feel like that's making a difference.
Right when we have millions of dollars being thrown out there,
it just feels like you're Pisson and the win. So
who do you think he's talking to, like other business owners?
Speaker 5: Like I mean that, And and also you know there's
people in the state that went to LSU that you know,
have have that money that you're talking about, and maybe
he's trying to wake them up a little bit. I
think we all know who kind of some of the
main donors are. But there's people out there that, you know,
there's successful businesses that started in Louisiana found it in
Louisiana that again, they have strong LSU ties.
Speaker 3: And I think he's like, hey, we need all of y'all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know these other programs they have that.
You know, the Michigans they certainly, as we've learned, they
have that. Notre Dames they have that. And so I
think you're just talking to everybody that's got these strong ties.
And maybe they've given him before tea and and they
haven't in a while. Maybe they didn't like the direction
of where college athletics is going, they didn't like the landscape,
and they said, I'm not giving money to that.
Speaker 3: I's like, well, we need you to.
Speaker 2: He talks about that. Man, you don't know what answer
that is off to your head laundry. I'm trying to
see which one it might be. Uh, it might be
Kelly thirty five or maybe thirty three. Let's try Kelly
thirty three.
Speaker 6: First, we really didn't have this kind of across the
board commitment to the financial end of it. The way
we do Now schools in the AAC, schools across the
country are involved in this as well. Now, I mean,
so you can imagine, you know, some of our some
of our guys, they're not only getting hit by SEC
and Big ten schools, but they become the number one
priority for the best school in you know, the Big
twelve or or the AAC or Conference USA. And the
numbers are crazy because that becomes you know, their five
star if you will. So now it's across the board
and and sometimes you got to listen to it, and
it makes recruiting even more difficult because.
Speaker 2: Of that that diner.
Speaker 3: But the Big twelve in the same category as Custa.
Speaker 2: There is make no mistake, there is a proxy war
taking place between the conferences right now, right like Kiffen Kelly,
everybody's out here trying to crap on all these other conferences.
And then, uh, the ACC and the Big Ivant seen
your March comments yet, I heard about it. I'm going
to look them up here in a bit. But oh,
which coach was it? One of the coaches basically laying
out hold of it. He's like, you're telling me Oregon
a PAC twelve team one is winning a Big ten
this year Texas, a Big twelve team is winning the SEC.
Speaker 3: This year it was McGuire at Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, SMU, a group of five team is winning
the ACA. But sure, but yeah, but yeah, these these
other these other conferences just aren't anywhere close. I mean,
I'm a firm believer that the gap is not as
large as we make it out to be. But but yeah,
make no mistake, there is approximate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your remark said.
Speaker 5: The Selection Committee continues to show time and time again
that they are paying attention to logos versus resumes.
Speaker 2: Dam get him, Brett.
Speaker 3: Brett's a savvy, savvy operator too. Look and I agree
with him. We laid it out yesterday.
Speaker 5: Arizona State has the same amount of rank wins that
Alabama does, and they have two losses. Alabama's got three. Like, okay,
we'll make that one make sense. Why is Arizona State
back at fifteen and Alabama's at eleven?
Speaker 3: This is just Alabama. I mean I'm talking to again.
Speaker 5: Three ranked wins versus your three ranked wins. They lost
two games on the road, both games were close. You
got blown out by a bad Oklahoma team, and you
lost to Vanderbilt yeah. Like, so if I look and
I played in the SEC, I think it's the best
league in the country.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's like some massive I played against
those guys like on Sundays, Like, oh, yeah, I know
you because I played you on Saturday. I I agree
with all of that, but also like to think that
Arizona State or a team like that, it's not in
the same category right now.
Speaker 3: I think it's foolish because the game has changed.
Speaker 5: The maths is different, and because of that, like that
gap that was there for.
Speaker 3: So long used to be a canyon, now it's just
a small gap.
Speaker 2: I mean, just her color there. Those those those teams
are also taking players nowadays.
Speaker 5: So so yeah, if I was if I was the
Big twelve and.
Speaker 3: You know, Boise State or UNLV got the.
Speaker 5: Four seed over me, and my team had two losses
and Iowa States got a decent resume as well, I'd
be like, hold up, now they don't have a single
ranked win. And because they had a close loss, Jordan
Tyson got hurt.
Speaker 2: So no, I mean I can do it just like
Jordan Travis last year. Forget about what you actually did. Yeah,
and rank ranked wins is its own animal. Right are
we talking ranked at the time? Are we talking ranked now?
Like the ranked wins thing is is hard to parse?
Uh as well? All right? Uh when we get back
a couple more answers, especially one on revenue sharing and
what the future looks like for LSU, keep it locked
right here on off the bench.
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Off the Bench.
Speaker 6: Christmas, just like the.
Speaker 2: Too, not the jetpack, towered jet pack saying, ellis, who
needs to flake on that Clemson game next year?
Speaker 3: No bro jet pack?
Speaker 2: No Bro, do not give it. Be scared to go
to Little death Bat, That's what I'm saying. As soon
as that happens, you have truly lost your way. I
don't want to be wake Forest.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be Indiana. You know, granted was
in a pre signetty age, but they did as well.
I will always say, how about you just go beat him?
How may you go beat Clemson? The teams that are
playing you keep winning, Like why don't you win?
Speaker 5: Ow at this point you think teams are like, yes,
we're gonna shoot with the opener. They've lost five of
them in a row.
Speaker 2: They got I mean yes, I would be absolutely probab
gonna be the off season talking about the Clipson radio
shows out the entire year. Well, actually the officers talking
about me, my god, celebrating the first ever three loss
national champion Old Dade.
Speaker 3: Again as will be first three loss.
Speaker 2: That would be crazy. That would be if you thought
Dava was insufferable up to this point. Don't let that
man somehow catch a heater in a playoff run and
and and win a natty. I don't think it's possible,
to be fair clear, that's a very flawed Clemson team.
Speaker 3: They gotta go beat s m U first. Wow.
Speaker 2: Fact, all same bulgas are dead to me. I mean,
I don't know what's going on. You got you gotta
get you gotta take a lap, Go touch the pole,
Go touch the pole and come back.
Speaker 3: That's what Hey, that's what you would tell your players.
Jet back, go touch the pole.
Speaker 2: Come yeah, I ain't come back like we don't need
that's that's a that's a soft and softer. We're thrown
out here right now, make it a long lap, uh,
whenever you're fighting.
Speaker 5: I used to hear that from all less there was
nothing worse than a thousand degrees in baton rouge. You
got sweat in places sweat should never be. You got
puddles in your cleats, and all of a sudden you're
get in a little fight with a linebacker and you
gotta go take a lap around the entire facility.
Speaker 2: It's a big facility.
Speaker 3: I also hate.
Speaker 2: What is it? Uh? I thought the worst part about
playing football here was simply walking out of the billlding
in full pads. Not like the first steps into the
into nature, the first steps when you were enter outside
and it would feel like you stepped into a sauna.
Just a yeah, a wall of moisture. Immediately the sun
is baking. You meet and you're in so many pad
just immediately wet.
Speaker 3: There is immediate backsweat.
Speaker 5: There was no worse feeling for me in my life
than before we had the football operations building and we
only had the game day locker room. So getting dressed
in that locker room, walking and getting on what we
call the prison buses. They were old, very very old
school buses. They spray painted white basically and put like
a purple stripe on them. And we had to bus
over from the stadium to the football practice fields. And
Bo Davis, by the way, because he was in the
weight room at that time, he was the one driving
the bus. He would hit I think every curb on
the way there. But also just like that three minutes
of just you knew what was coming, and it was
hotter than hell on that bus and you're already sweating.
And then as soon as you got off the bus,
you had coach Saban m f and U and you
were about to do his dynamic warm up, which is
basically gassers that you'll you'll you'll really ask yourself, do
I love this?
Speaker 3: And is this what I really want to be doing?
Speaker 2: And so you go from that from the prison bus
to the locker room because you don't have a football ops.
So now within your own lifetime, Jake, uh, dude's making
two milli out of high school that have played one
year of football. Let's go. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that probably would tell that the airnet you do.
Speaker 2: The gassers, Yeah, yeah, exactly right. Uh oh, you want
to do gassers. I'm out hitting the pearl. I'm about
to get paid, laid a dog a heady time.
Speaker 3: I ain't.
Speaker 2: I ain't out at everybody.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope.
Speaker 2: I love that all these young kids, I'm not paid.
Speaker 3: I'm not mad at the fact that they get to
benefit off of you know that they have. I do
have a problem with them thinking.
Speaker 5: That they can just hide from their problems or throw
their problems to the side and go to the next one.
Because once you get to the next level, there's no
next one, and it doesn't.
Speaker 3: Matter how good you are.
Speaker 2: And I don't think the majority of guys that do
what you're saying, I don't think they make it to
the next level. It's true, you know, like when you
see the habitual portalers. Yeah, their habitual portalers for a reason. Yeah,
and yeah, no, that's not their habituals. Yes, yes, now
I'll give you one. I'll give you one. Get in
two and three. You better have some real specific circumstances
that are going to make me believe that you're you
have the toughness or character too.
Speaker 5: Because the one thing about the National Football League, it
really does not matter who you are and how good
you are, they will move on so.
Speaker 3: Fast from you. You could be the most talented guy
in the world. Think about we've seen it.
Speaker 5: We've seen it like Antonio Brown and guys like that.
Like if you step past that line, now, if you're
more talented, maybe you get two chances. Yeah, but they
don't wait on anybody, And so you have to know that,
Like with this mindset that you have in college where
everybody is like just everything that you need will get it,
all the attentions going to you, you just have to
know that as soon as you hear your name called, all.
Speaker 3: Of that ends, Yeah, every bit of it.
Speaker 5: Because there might be two guys, maybe three on every
team that get a little bit of special treatment, maybe
just a little bit, but.
Speaker 3: It ain't a lot. Now, you could be a you
could be a four year starter in that place. As
soon as you're you're not of value to them. Man,
they will cut your ass so fast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and they'll patch you on the ass on the
way out and say, go get a boy somewhere else
because it ain't here.
Speaker 3: You ain't got you ain't got to go home. But
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this might be the last one here. Uh, Let's play
Kelly thirty five. He's talking about the revenue sharing coming
down the pipeline.
Speaker 6: Well, I think what you have to be is thinking
about how you can get ahead of revenue share. How
do you, for example, well, how do you retain the
players on your team and maximize April's revenue share so
that you know when you get to April, right, and
you start to share that revenue piece, Let's say it's
thirteen million dollars, just for a number, right, say it's
thirteen thirteen and a half million dollars, how do you
retain players without that being that thirteen to five, without
that being all invested.
Speaker 2: Into a small number of players.
Speaker 3: How do you stretch that out?
Speaker 6: And you do it by raising money prior to that
and getting to those guys through the collective early on,
and so being proactive prior to getting into revenue sharing,
I think is crucial.
Speaker 2: So this is basically confirmation of something that we've heard
Jakins and we've been talking about for a few weeks now,
which is with revenue sharing coming down the pipeline and
supposedly collective starting go away or supposed to go away,
that all schools are trying to maximize the nut in
the short term and go all in here here over
the next few months. It's like earlier when I said, like,
you know, grassroots, like I don't know, like I don't
feel very compelled to give grassroots Twice I got some blowbacks.
Some people are like, look, man, I mean you get
fifty k people given twenty dollars a month. That's a
million dollars right there. That is impactful. Somebody mentioned you
know that however many thousand season ticket holders they give
two hundred dollars like that, right, there's like thirteen million
like whatever. You know, Tennessee did their ten percent increase
on prices. So look, if you are someone who does
believe in the grassroots movement, well you can get involved.
And the time to do it is now because it's
not going to be by traditions and again in theory
won't be allowed around much longer. So yeah, if you
want to go give, go give to by traditions. But yeah,
everybody is trying to raise as much as possible right
now to go spend as much as possible to make
the roster happy before rev share starts. That's also why
you see guys reclassifying and going older, because like they
want to get in on this final gold rush.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I would like to actually get a
final number on how many guys reclassify to get themselves
into the signing class for yeah, that reason. And so
you're about to see a lot of teams and a
lot of programs spend a lot of money, and there's
going to be teams that like haven't been as active
or aggressive in the transfer portal that are going to
be more aggressive here in this cycle because of it
as well. Like those teams that typically take six to
eight players, they're probably going to take more like thirteen
to fifteen players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean ls you chief among them. Yep.
Kelly said that yesterday excellently. I'm trying to say, and
I don't know, No, We've gone long anyway, and I
don't know the answer. So yeah, I agree, ls you
will be though amongst that crew. You know, we've seen
some numbers. I think Els she's very competitive. They're not
the tippy top, but they're also I mean they are
in the I think they'll be in the top ten
and spinders and whatnot. So we will see.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Uh, when we get back here on OTB, I think
I think, you know, I think we can move on
from from signy day here for a little bit. I've
got some same thoughts. Got some good basketball coming up tonight.
Those we got some unfortunate basketball news. Uh, we'll break
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Speaker 2: Jake Slade dagele lsu tight ends coach leaving to go
be the Houston OC. Of course he was coaching with
Willy Fritz at Tulane, Willi Fritz at Houston now and
Slade Nagle leaving. Uh, not that big of a deal,
but it is the third tight end coach now, LS,
you will have what the third coach of three years
now at the position because was Mike Denbrock technically the
tight ends coach two years ago and then slayed last year.
Speaker 5: So again, not the biggest deal, but you know it
is news. I mean and obviously like he's gonna go
take that job. Yeah, joe Ce job, I mean, he
was a tight end special teams guy. Here, it's a
newc jobs probably gonna be a big bump and pay.
It's somebody he's very familiar with. You know, it's gonna
be else. She's gonna you know when they replace him.
There's a lot of roles that he held, I mean,
special teams coordinator, we're that Yeah, you know, there's a
lot that kind of goes into that special teams is
it's been some ups and downs. Certainly a punter something
they need to look at in the portal, but you know,
they had the kickoff return for a touchdown. You know,
your field goal process outside of the A and M game,
you know, was was pretty good. And you had a
consistent kicker and Aaron Burrell knocking it out of the
back of the end zone every time.
Speaker 3: That's been a plus.
Speaker 5: But even more than that, I mean he sits right
next to Joe Sloan in the booth, right, So this
is somebody that Joe Sloan obviously, you know, trusted and
wanting to have next suicide up in the booth there
calling games, and so yeah, you got to go get
somebody that kind of fits the same mold. Now I
don't know about the special teams portion of it, but
somebody that your offensive coordinator is going to be able
to go up there and trust and obviously a good coach.
That's why Willie Fritz is bringing him to Houston. And
it's a position group that.
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Speaker 5: I don't know exactly where you would fall in the
country of twelve personnel. Again, that's one back, two tight ends,
two receivers, tee. It would have to be in the
top ten percent to me. So it's not just hey,
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eleven personnel. He's kind of a receiver anyway, it's not
the case you've got that guy out there.
Speaker 3: But you also have like a little bit of a
why even though I think you need to get.
Speaker 5: Bigger there, you had twelve personnel out there a ton,
So it's somebody that's very impactful, not just taking up
a spot coaching one guy.
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you goes to go and hols to go out of house.
Speaker 3: We will see more.
Speaker 2: O TB. Wrapping up our two tug a little b ball.
Speaker 1: Next Off the Bench, Welcome back to the ninth ranked
morning sports show in America. Off the Bench, Real.
Speaker 3: Quick, real quick?
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, uh, there's a lot of kicking talk.
Speaker 3: Do you get some Christmas right here? I agree, Hey,
you get some Christmas stuff right here? Thank you? Now
we go. We're getting infected guys, let's go. Yeah, it's
on our schedule, not yours. Hey, right, Alandra, yes.
Speaker 2: He look you have I got to drag you across
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Guys. Oh that's so cute, little going across the space.
This is on our terms.
Speaker 3: See you, Bobbo yours bud.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'll take it. I'll take it however
I can get it. Bilbo back into the chad asking
how many kickoffs were actually field this year LSU. Out
of seventy four kickoffs, keep it, just keep you going,
LSU was sixty seven touchbacks.
Speaker 5: They were gosh, I think Blair said it on the broadcast.
Maybe they were in the top percentage of touchbacks in
the country. You know, their third they got a ninety
percent touchback rate. But again Arizona Luisiana Tech finish ahead
of them, but they kicked it.
Speaker 2: Off twenty times less.
Speaker 3: Okay, So there you go. So LSU and that is
a weapon, like when and you saw what Aaron Anderson
can do.
Speaker 5: But think about like all the dynamic playmakers and returners
in the SEC alone, and if you have a guy
that more times than not nine times out of ten,
maybe even highering that is going to kick it well,
into the end zone.
Speaker 3: He's almost made a couple of field goals this year.
Speaker 5: T Like that is a real weapon for you know,
for you to be able to go out there and
use and keep the ball out of playmaker's hands. So yeah, Uh,
he's a freshman, so he's got three more years of
doing that hopefully.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's someone that could be your field goal
kicker in the future.
Speaker 2: Apparently got a massive leg, Taylor, you were saying that,
Kelly said he could even punt potentially sort of.
Speaker 4: At a press conference that's about two or three weeks ago,
he was asked about Aaron Burrell and he said, you know,
we got to work on his consistency on his makes
and field goals. He said, but I believe at some
point he can kick field goals.
Speaker 2: He can kick off NBR punter. Wow, and he's an athlete.
Never forget the tackle he Adam zach Rye Branch massive
tackle in that week one game.
Speaker 3: Can he put in the ball game?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Just try it out? Might as well, I mean, because
you are really.
Speaker 2: Starting to mess around in these ball games if you want,
Like somebody said earlier, you put Emory Jones at guard,
like you tried stuff go for it even though people
are gonna be pissed if you lose. No, go for
it too much. Maybe go for it a little bit.
Speaker 3: Mignette harl Perkins get a rushing touchdown in a bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Uh So LSU women's basketball, remember, guys,
massive game in the p MAC tonight pass sick out
the PMAC for coach Moulky and company.
Speaker 3: Classic sec ACC.
Speaker 2: Battle as LSU and Stanford going to be squaring up
with one another. I mean, it's a great game.
Speaker 3: But is a class program. But yeah, the ACC portion
of it still not used to it.
Speaker 2: On the men's side of the equation, Jalen Reid out
for the year with a torn ACL Taylor give me,
give me a take.
Speaker 4: The good news is that Damian Collins has played really well.
Corey Chess is giving you valuable minutes. Like are you
better because of this? Absolutely not, but you can kind
of piece it together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, Hunt came in here yesterday after the show
and I was asking him about it, and he's like, man, yeah,
I was there.
Speaker 3: It didn't look good. I don't think it's going to
be a spring situation. So unfortunately he was.
Speaker 5: Right on that one, and uh, you know, it's somebody
that changed his body, Like I mean, he looked like
an outside linebacker out there this year and was really
going to be an enforcer, somebody that was going to
be able to be big on the glass for you.
And so yeah, I'm with Taylor, like they'll find a
way to kind of piece together around this injury, but
there's no way that you're going to be better because
of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, exactly right. It's it's it's unfortunate, especially in
a conference like the SEC where you want to be
as strong as possible. That's a really unfortunate break for
him personally and for the team in program as a whole.
But you know, move the drill. You gotta keep going.
Speaker 3: Moved the drill. That's that hits too close.
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