Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Hester and Hester got it far out a pie you're
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Live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Welcome in off the Bench Thursday morning. I think Thursday right,
that would be correct. Nailed it two days left in
this week. Good morning everybody, What a great day to
be alive. Flynn, Launder, Tata Caine, and Minnie Caine this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, came hit a baby last night.
Speaker 4: I know you say, it's scary when we come in
and Kane's always in a different position.
Speaker 3: We came in and she multiplied this morning. Yes, she
had a child.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know she was pregnant.
Speaker 2: It was on the Hey you hit it, well baby,
nice work snapped right back.
Speaker 3: I know. Well, little Kane was born with a broken leg.
Oh no, blind.
Speaker 2: Suckers twisted. She got some glasses on that, No big deal.
Good morning everybody. We are live right here for the
Raising Canes Studio. And guess what we all walked walked
in today? We all walked in as Elsie Tigers and
winners on the hardwood.
Speaker 5: Did they win?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They did six points, one hundred and six points. Ever
heard of triple digit's? Maybe normally take the game.
Speaker 5: Basketball.
Speaker 2: I know, I gotta stop watching baseball and I gotta
keep watching.
Speaker 5: The last three games of this season.
Speaker 4: You know, you watch the SEC tournament, but they weren't.
They were on the table win the tournament during the
big dams they're in. So we need you. Stranger things
that happened in the sport. LSU men's basketball whips.
Speaker 5: Oh miss the old butt whip.
Speaker 2: Old butt whip came a whole can that's right right there, Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we're just taking everything from me this year.
Speaker 5: Sorry about it?
Speaker 3: About it on that game.
Speaker 4: What I saw was in Oxford, I was like, you
have to win this game, like can Elo Shoe just
claim steak that we also own Oxford, Mississippi.
Speaker 3: Can that's like the second home. Yeah it doesn't matter.
Still their coach Las Shoes come back on the women's
that was in Oxford. No big deal.
Speaker 4: You snagged Lane Kiffin. Yeah, this win, Like what do
they have anymore? They're basically the Canada of the SEC. Now,
are you actually good at? I love that comparison so much.
Old miss Is LSU's Canada.
Speaker 3: Because you thought, likely, surely we could beat these guys
in men's basketball. They're not good at.
Speaker 2: Nope. Oh man, oh man, I love this so much
and everything they are.
Speaker 5: LSU's Mike's heart later, Oh.
Speaker 2: God, I think I think Jake's gonna love that comparison.
Speaker 3: Let's print the shirts. Oh missus LSU's Canada.
Speaker 5: That's a good shirt.
Speaker 2: I do like that. LSU men's basketball defeats o miss
one six to ninety nine. They didn't even get the
triple diggis.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Hunt is going to talk about so much basketball on
his show today.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, sometime we've been waiting. Guess what. I watched
my first dribble last night. So you what you're saying
is your one and I'm want to know, Matt, you
gotta lock into the SEC tournament. That's all right, chance
LSU can I tell everybody, just like I said yesterday,
that McNeice is the best baseball team I've seen play
this year. LSU is the best basketball team I've seen
play NBA and college. Best basketball team I've watched play basketball.
That's just the potential. It sounds like it's there. Hey,
the pencil potential is there. I don't know what everybody's
talking about. I will I come into this game. I
stroll into it last night last and I had already
kind of watched her show. It was time for me
to kind of put on the TV with what I wanted.
As I try to doze off to sleep, turn it
on ls She's down by seven.
Speaker 5: I would have fell asleep before the game was over.
Speaker 4: So they were down when you turn, they were down
by save bags. They come back force overtime like some champions.
Speaker 5: He said, sorry, can't talk.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Yeah, somebody texted me sometimes I can't talk watching
LSGU basketball right now. Elsie's got This guy's name is
Max McKinnon. Yeah, he's good, really good.
Speaker 3: Thirty four points.
Speaker 5: Last night, eleven their only piece.
Speaker 2: Eleven for twenty four field goals, four to six from
three point. We knocked out three eleven three pointers? Are
we a three point shooting team?
Speaker 3: So that's the thing.
Speaker 4: Like, if you watch LOSHU basketball, that's kind of what
McKinnon's had to do, especially with DJ Thomas ol Jalen Riedel,
Like that's something been kept in games was Max McKinnon bros.
People outside of him who did not shoot the three.
The fact that he makes four but you make eleven
as a team, Like, yeah.
Speaker 3: That's huge.
Speaker 2: Let's just do that every game if you could. Yeah,
so what ole miss? Okay, so they've won or they've
lost ten straight? Yeah so what so what it's gotting
a good conference?
Speaker 5: Seventeen?
Speaker 2: Well so what doesn't matter? Sorry, Canada. Anyway, I was excited.
I watched it. I was into it. I was fired up.
Fist pumping in bed. It's great.
Speaker 5: Just laying down. That's so funny. Well, good for.
Speaker 2: Them, ye, anyway, there, I just wanted to start that off.
I think they deserved it. They deserved to be the
lead for us this morning. Yeah, it makes probably the
feel like I'm sure they're all listening right now.
Speaker 5: Max, that's probably super hype that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt, he deserves some flowers. Thirty four points.
I feel like that's a lot in college basketball game, That's.
Speaker 3: A lot in any basketball game.
Speaker 2: Sure, they played for four quarters and two overtimes. What
how are y'all doing. Let's get a little vibe check
around the room. What's going on? Good Morning's Thursday. We're
on the back half of the week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm excited because I come to work tomorrow and
then Saturday I leave to New York. But yes, so
yesterday I get a little sad with straight animals, right,
So I like, I still get I'm still thinking about
this commercial.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think he's.
Speaker 6: Fine because he was a little chunky. I went on
a walk yesterday and I was coming back and there's
a cat. Mind you, I'm not a cat person, like
I am not I'm allergic.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say allergic.
Speaker 6: They make me kind of like itchy, but I think
it's because they gross me out, Like I don't think it's.
Speaker 2: Like a so you get itchy because of the he
b G b's like a medical allergy.
Speaker 3: Cats give her the.
Speaker 5: Ache, they give me the egg. And I'm just like but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he rubbed up on my legs and I was
like gross. But then he started meowing and then he
like laid on his back for me to I guess,
to rub his belly.
Speaker 5: I don't know if cats do that, but you know
how dogs like.
Speaker 3: To rub his belly, not to kick him, right.
Speaker 6: So I was like, oh, you're kind of cute, but
also you're gross me out. So I gave him just
like a little I gave him a little pet because
I felt bad. And then he liked me out again,
and I was like oh. And then I started walking
back to my house. He started following me to my house,
and I was like, you want to come in my
house with me, don't you?
Speaker 5: And he was meowing. But I had to, like own
a cat.
Speaker 6: I've been thinking about him since last night because I
just felt so bad. And then I looked out my
window and he was still out there. But I'm not
gonna have a gross, stray cat in my house.
Speaker 2: You started this story by saying I think he's okay,
because he.
Speaker 6: Was yeah, yeah, so he's not starving.
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I don't think I left like a starving cat.
Speaker 3: He got he got chunky, and I think.
Speaker 5: I've seen him around.
Speaker 6: I think he's like a neighborhood cat that everybody feeds.
Speaker 3: But what's name.
Speaker 5: I didn't give him a name.
Speaker 6: He was You're going to own that cat if he
comes back around. I can see myself like definitely taking
him to get clean somewhere.
Speaker 3: Just despite the itches.
Speaker 5: He's gross but also really cute.
Speaker 6: He's gross, but well, yeah, because you're gross, because you're
outside and you're a straight cat, that's subjectively gross. I'm
not going to bring that into a house where I live.
But maybe if I clean him up, I.
Speaker 5: Can get over it.
Speaker 3: She can fix him, I can fix him.
Speaker 5: That's that is literally me in one sentence. Look, he's chunky.
Speaker 3: Oh that cat's fine.
Speaker 5: He's fine.
Speaker 3: It looks like it ate another cat, buddy.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you hate cats, you think they're gross, but
this one's cute and he was laying on his back.
Speaker 3: He's kind of cute enough to take a picture of it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I had a soft spot for him, because
he obviously liked me.
Speaker 3: You couldn't.
Speaker 4: You couldn't see that. That's actually her screen savers. It's
getting pretty serious. It's two days away from me a face.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I just have a soft spot for animals that are
out on the streets because I feel bad for them.
Speaker 5: If I see a dog, I like leave.
Speaker 3: Water out for it. M So, how much food you
leave out for the cat?
Speaker 5: I didn't leave any food out there.
Speaker 3: Get a little. I don't want him to just shake it.
She'll come right back. Yep.
Speaker 4: M uh with cat next door. It clearly belongs to
our neighbors. But my dog has decided that that cat
is his enemy. I can't stand it, hates it, and uh,
I love this cat now because of the same thing.
It came up to me, you know, up against the leg.
So I'm pettent in the driveway the other day.
Speaker 3: I look up.
Speaker 4: My dog is glaring at me through the windows, sob
how could you do this to me? And he's just
it's it's a it's not a good scene. It's put
some tension on our relationship.
Speaker 3: But it's a great cat. So so is it. It's
around every day? Yeah, yeah, like it. I mean it
lives at our neighbor. It's their cat.
Speaker 2: Okay, got it. We have a We have an outdoor cat.
I've had an outdoor cat for not the same one,
but for over ten years now. Ever since we moved
to Saint Francisville and then I got an outdoor cat.
We moved back to Baton Rouge. They are the best
thing in the entire world. Do anything like So before
we moved to Baton Rouge, before we get like, we
had like snakes around a property, we had mice in
our house since we got that cat.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, do you have a cat? Yeah, I didn't even
see it.
Speaker 3: The cat was outside sometimes sometimes in the woods.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's just like chills out there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, she'll she'll come in, she'll come in.
She she wants to come in a lot. But we
feed her a little bit outside, don't feed her too much.
Got a hunt, yeah, so I think they call those
types mousers. Oh, she's self shell with those she so
my dogs steal. He's like one hundred and twenty pounds
and he chases her all the time.
Speaker 3: But she just stands aground and just face right in
the face.
Speaker 5: I respect that.
Speaker 3: Hope she doesn't do that to codies.
Speaker 6: Maybe she does, you don't know. Yeah, obviously she's holding
her own.
Speaker 3: She hold her own.
Speaker 5: So I should keep that cat then around.
Speaker 3: Yeah for sure, why not?
Speaker 6: And just don't bring him inside a little bit him.
Speaker 5: Girl, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And you don't have to be it's just because you
have a cat doesn't mean you have to be a
crazy cat person, a crazy cat lady.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would never be that. I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 2: They say that people that have cats are more intelligent.
I don't think that's true.
Speaker 4: I think cats are significantly smarter than all cats are.
Speaker 3: But they say the people are the people that own cats. No,
I know, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: That is not true at all. Dogs are objectively the best.
But I got a little the cat respect cats.
Speaker 3: You don't truly own a cat.
Speaker 4: They kind of just hang out with you and then
when they feel like leaving their liquor, I'll see they
tolerate you right, like you don't own a cat. Like
people are like, oh, dogs are smart enough to do tricks.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Cats are smart enough to realize they
don't have to do tricks.
Speaker 1: Mmm.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that. Spin anyway, leave some
food out.
Speaker 5: I wonder I might keep the pest away, even.
Speaker 3: If it's like just lizards. Yeah, press office, I'll get
those two. Oh they get they get everything, dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they get birds. You know, sometimes you don't want
to get birds, but they get.
Speaker 5: Them, just as long as it doesn't bring it to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I did hear that regular, like what would you call
just a regular? Like a tabby cat, a faro cat.
I did read a stat one time.
Speaker 5: That the ones are the wild ones, the fair.
Speaker 3: Ones are the wild ones. But like the type of
you know.
Speaker 2: Well, the tabby's the normal and the gray and white. Yeah,
the normal type of cat you'd see just roam in
the street. Yeah, great cat, orange cat, ye, whatever it is,
black cat maybe whatever. I did read a stat where
those types of cats are the most murderous animal on
planet Earth. And they murder for like no read they
won't even eat it. Like like a stray cat will
kill something like fifteen or twenty living things per day
and they don't even eat them. Want to do it
for sport. Yeah, murderous creature on this planet.
Speaker 5: We had a kid, Patrick Bateman of cats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much in the animal kingdom.
Speaker 4: This was this was our cat. This was even a
stray cat growing up. I got on our front yard
and cat's playing with something. I'm like, what are you doing? Man,
walk up to it. It is like mangoled a squirrel.
This squirrel is about thirty living at this point. Cat's
just looking at I had had to like pull the
cat put it inside. I had to I had to
shoot the squirrel. I'm like, dude, you're not just going
to throw the squirrel up in the air. And he
was just playing with that, and I was like very much,
so we had to take care of that. I'm like, yeah, like, what.
Speaker 3: Are you doing. Yeah, I had no intention of eating it.
Speaker 2: Last year, I was walking out to take this is
before I started the show, so I always do drop
off in the morning for the kids taking him to school.
Speaker 3: We were walking out, you know.
Speaker 2: Everybody had everybody had the book Sex, and everybody's like,
you know, in my mind, skipping out and frolicking and
singing songs. And the cat had left the present for
us right outside of the door, towards going towards the carpoard.
And it wasn't the body, it wasn't the head. It
was the face that had been peeled off of a
buddy rabbit with his ears.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Where was this sitting on the walkway on the outside
between like our our side door that goes out to
our car, like the carpoard and the cars, like just
sitting there looking straight at up at the door. It's
like it was the little ears were flopping. It was
set there like this trophy. Hey, this is my trophy.
This is a here's a gift or the family.
Speaker 5: The kids are screaming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't a great situation. Omy. She was four
big Bunny fan.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Obviously she.
Speaker 5: Liked the halftime show.
Speaker 2: I don't think she did unless she gave it a
real chance though. Yeah, all right, Well.
Speaker 6: She had her dad getting in her head. Really, she
was not unbiased heading into it.
Speaker 2: Really good opening segment there, guys, Wander, Congratulations on your
new pet.
Speaker 3: It's awesome.
Speaker 6: I'm going to New York this weekend. I can't have
pat That's what I just said before.
Speaker 5: I keep.
Speaker 3: About the Bunny face. Ah wow, Monday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Trifi or the whole Foxhill is still
not going to be all the other It's been a while,
so we made it.
Speaker 3: We met it Monday. We had can't take that away
from us one day every couple of months.
Speaker 2: Looking forward to next Wednesday. Then yeah, everybody'll be back together.
Speaker 3: Well, we have the.
Speaker 2: Fantastic show, at least I think we do. We got
the We got the Johnson's coming on today.
Speaker 6: No, so chef Michael Johnson brought Jake that he doesn't
feel good. I said, so he can't talk on the phone.
Speaker 4: Soft food and bad iguana.
Speaker 5: This dude, Yeah, you would eat literally any and everything.
Speaker 3: Oh that's great. I have heard that iguana is pretty good.
Speaker 4: Then well they serve it on pizza and Florida and
chef is all about.
Speaker 2: It because they're kind of a nuisance. Right Yeah, same
thing with uh lionfish.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows that everybody damn lionfishes.
Speaker 3: Well we're gonna have it.
Speaker 2: Was Jay Johnson on then not chef Michael Johnson. No,
so just one, Jonathan, so.
Speaker 5: One, just the one.
Speaker 3: All right, we got a great show, y'all. Stick with
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Speaker 3: It's been a while, sinside.
Speaker 1: Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 5: And it's been a while, susideunderstand on my two fee.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back right here off the bench. Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Ipe.
You are a great day. When I drove in this morning,
it seemed like it was going to be a beautiful day.
I have no idea. I hope it is. I hope
you're staying safe out there on the main streets. Beaton
Rouge Louisiana traffic. That's traffic ben for y'all coming in recently.
You're mega annoying. But the rest of the week, it's
been Okay.
Speaker 5: I live like very close.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Was it Tuesday where the government exit, Yes.
Speaker 1: Was.
Speaker 5: Wrecked into the like the trees over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when that happens, I just randomly go off the
road and the trees. Okay, that happens to me twice
a week.
Speaker 3: You know, should make fun of car accidents.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not just saying, but no, they would even
let you get off the truck.
Speaker 5: I saw. It was like all up in the exit,
like there's literally no.
Speaker 3: Way to go. Yeah. I had a good gallavant through
downtown in the dark.
Speaker 4: Ooh, that's what I did. I drove pass downtown exit,
came back up. Also, people were just people just dumb
that morning. I don't think I went faster than sixty
five on the interstate that morning.
Speaker 3: No, no, no reason. Just a lot of people just
I mean they're.
Speaker 2: Really at any time in the morning, even when we
come in, there's still Like I left my house at
five fifty this morning, there was.
Speaker 3: Still a pretty decent amount of people headed headed west.
Speaker 2: Oh. No, there's there's a good bit. There's a lot something.
There's really I mean, there's really no advantage to going
above sixty five when there's that much traffic, like you
can go fast and kind.
Speaker 3: Of weave a little bit, but then you're gonna sixty
sixty five was the passing and speed that morning. Matt
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you sent over an article that I found intriguing. You
know a lot of people this is like the off
season for football is the season of lists and rankings
and you know, looking for things to talk about, looking
for things to write about. Joel Clatt releases his top
ten college football coaches in the country and I think
this is this a second list that came out this
week of like somebody's top ten college football coaches.
Speaker 3: There's there's been more than the too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like this is the season for the rankings.
So you know what, why not why not dive into
a little bit? Why not talk about it? So he
Joel Clatt, I don't really do you follow jo Joe
Latt a lot?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Joel calls a lot of games. I mean he's
he's he's been around for a long time.
Speaker 2: He list his top ten and coming in at number ten,
it's former Ole Miss head coach, current LSU head coach
Lane Train Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 3: So I wanted.
Speaker 2: To bring this up because I wanted to throw it
to you and just ask your opinion. What do you
feel about the Lane Train sitting there at number ten?
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 4: I mean Lane Lane has to be in the top ten.
I could argue Lane could be maybe a few spots
higher on this one.
Speaker 2: I saw another list earlier this week that it was
like six something like that, six.
Speaker 3: To ten, somewhere in that range.
Speaker 4: You can't put him top five because he hasn't won
the big one yet, But I mean I'll be honest,
Lane did a lot better at Old Miss than I
thought he would, Like I did not.
Speaker 3: Think anybody has ever done. Ole Miss is a place
that you can win a national championship.
Speaker 4: Lane didn't either, And I mean he put a team
together that got damn closed. So you got to give
him credit for that. But I mean, look at the
guys on this list ahead of him, Mario Cristoball at nine.
People have a lot of different opinions of him. That
guy played for a national championship this year. That you
got to have him up there.
Speaker 2: He played for a national championship in the year before
I had the number one draft pick overall. So despite
like he had one, he's had one gaff as a
head coach, right those blew a leadh at the end?
Speaker 3: Bat was it two years ago, three years ago, something
like that? I can't remember what.
Speaker 4: Now they have Kyle Whittingham ahead of Lane Kiffin. That
is all based on to me, what could Whittingham do
somewhere that's not Utah, And he's going to get that
opportunity to be in at Michigan. Like I like Whittingham.
I think he's a great football coach. Lane's done a
little bit more because I get it. Lane didn't coach
in the playoff. Lane brought that team to the College
Football Playoffs every win leading up to that game. Lane
Kiffin got them there in the regular season. Kyle Whittingham
didn't do that, but what he did at Utah, he
brought him to New Heights. Like I'm good with him
being there.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with him being there, Like I'm fine with
any of these lists, because these lists don't mean anything.
It's people's opinion and they're basing it. It's hard to
compare apples to apples. It's like me and Jacob going
back and comparing who would have won in our high
school days. We would have played each other, right, So
you're making comparison space on a lot of different things
and uneven playing field, certainly, But you do have to
think about this and you have to sit there when
you're when I'm doing these lists, I'm like, who would
I rather coach at university? Would I rather Kyle Whittingham
or would I rather Lane Kiffin? And the answer is
certainly Lane Kiffen always. And so like you can respect
these lists and everything we I think as LSG fans
would put Lane Kiffin certainly a lot higher and above
above these other folks. But when I look at that one,
I know he did so many some great things at Utah.
I know he did. I can see it. I can
see what Utah did before that and see what they
did with it. The fact of the matter is Lane
Kiffen was LSU's first choice, and Kyle Whittingham was probably Michigan's.
Speaker 3: Sixth seventh choice. He came out of retirement tech. He
came out of retirement take that job.
Speaker 4: And you know, when I look at Lane and the
transfer portal era, if you want to talk about one
field coaching, I don't think there's a very many better
than Kyle Whittingham. But Lane does a better job in
the transfer portal. In an offensive minded college football, now,
Lane's a better offensive mind than Kyle Whittingham. Nobody's want
to argue that either. I just think he should be
above him, But I mean, I'm fine with it. Kilanie
Sataki at BYU is too high. I think Kolonie Sataki
is a good college football coach. I do not think
Klanie Sataki is a top ten college football He's number
eight on this list. He's number eight on that list.
He has been a really good coach at BYU. Like
Klatt says, I want you to consider, only two head
coaches have more wins than Kilanie Sataki since twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: That's great, But look at what BYU's done in the
big moments.
Speaker 4: And I get it it's BYU, but they had opportunities
to beat Texas Tech last year and couldn't do it.
Two years ago, a lot of people thought they were
going to come out of the Big twelve. It was
in a state upset on Kyle. It was Kenny Dillingham
that took his team to the college football playoffs. So
like Sataki's won a lot of games, he just he
doesn't have that premiere win on his resume.
Speaker 3: Maybe, and I get it it's BYU.
Speaker 4: But I mean still, you have to be objective and
look at everybody as a whole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have uh Kilani eight, then you have winning
him at seven, number six, Steve Sarkesian, who I think
we could all agree it's fantastic coach, good with it.
The top five is you know, so all this stuff
is subjective. I get it, so like we're kind of
arguing out a wall here, but on all the lists,
I see Marcus Freeman as a top five head coach
in the country, all of them, and maybe it's just
my Notre Dame hatred that comes out, but like, what
has Marcus Freeman done?
Speaker 3: Dude? Deserve like all that.
Speaker 2: Like these are opinionated lists from people all over the country,
and in all of them, he's in a top five
that I've seen at least, and I'm just my question is, like, why.
Speaker 3: Is he in the top five of all these lists?
Like I don't know, and like.
Speaker 4: Look, I get it that did Brian Kelly rub people
the wrong way? You had to move on from I
understand that. My argument when Notre Dame fans would try
to troll La Shoe obviously like all missers doing right,
like you stole their coach.
Speaker 3: You want to believe that you guys better.
Speaker 4: My question has always been, as of right now, what
has Marcus Freeman done at Notre Dame that Brian Kelly
hasn't Because everybody's going to point out, well, Marcus Freeman
played for a national championship. Yeah, so did Brian Kelly.
Right against Alabama. It didn't go well for either coach.
But what is Marcus Freeman done other than just going
to continue the success. And I think he's a great speaker.
I mean, he's a great leader.
Speaker 3: Man. I really like Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying like, and I can see a couple
of people putting him up there because it's it's this
is of course very opinionated on a lot of different things.
We're not nobody's on an equal playing field. But he's
a head coach at Notre Dame. He they don't play
anybody during the regular season, so he's always going to
have a great record, and he's always in this format,
especially going forward with their little side handshake deal with
the playoff committee, like they're always going to have an
opportunity to make win a couple of games and make
a playoff run. They have enough money to buy good players,
so they're always going to It doesn't matter who the
coach at Notre Dame is, they are going to be successful.
The way that their program is set up now he
can do. He does things to the mic and on
the camera and off the and off the field that
is really enjoyable.
Speaker 3: I think he's a good human. I think he's a
good leader.
Speaker 2: But it just it just strikes a question like would
you if you were hiring, if you were starting a team,
a college football team. These lists to me come down.
Would I hire him over the people he's in front of?
And I don't know if the answer is yes on that,
I don't know.
Speaker 4: I would, I would, I would hire Lane, I would
hire Sark, I would probably hire whitting him over him.
And then I mean, yeah, I kind of view him
in the same mold as crystal Ball. Crystal Ball played
for a Natty this past year. He'son nine.
Speaker 2: Mm. All right, well, well we'll come back. We'll give
you the top four to bring him up. Because I
was I wanted to ask that question. I was gonna
break and we'll continue this conversation a little bit more.
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going down this joke clatlist of top ten college football coaches.
As what you said, the last segment, the Lane Train
came in at number ten underrated.
Speaker 3: I think you should be top six, at the least
top seven.
Speaker 2: And we just we went down through number five. We
threw some through some question marks at Marcus Freeman, a
five certainly a very good head coach. We threw some
question marks as just to why we're not saying he
shouldn't be. We're just throwing some throwing some wide as everybody,
everybody and their mamas having at top five. But let's
go through the top four and like, really, these top
four I think of all kind of earned it. And
I think any combination of most of these guys that
any anybody can get behind. Number four Dan Landing at Oregon,
Number three, Kirby Smart Georgia, Number two Ryan Dayehigh State,
and number one, the current reigning Natty champ, Kirk Signetti.
I think we could all agree Kurt Signetti would be
number one on this list.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: He won the Natty did an incredible fashion, turned the
worst program in the history of college football into a
national championship into having the number one pick this year
and a Heisman winner. Not a huge deal, but an
incredible season by them. Alandra, you kind of brought up somebody,
Yeah that was maybe got snubbed from this list.
Speaker 6: I think that Joey McGuire got snubbed from the top
ten list, especially if we're ranking them in like the
current landscape of what college football is like after Cliff
Kingsbury and like Patrick Mahomes and all that, I don't
really feel like Texas Tech has been all that relevant.
And Joe MacGuire comes in, goes to a bowl like
his first season there, has great wins versus Texas Oh,
you won the Big Twelve this past season, won the
recruiting battle for Brandon Soresby versus the portal king Lane Kiffen.
They have a great the general manager, I forget his name,
but they just have like a really good nil plan
and culture that they're building over there. So I feel
like they are constantly like winning recruiting battles, like actually
building a culture at Texas Tech, and again won the
Big Twelve this season, went to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 5: Now did they do well in the playoff?
Speaker 6: Not really, but that wasn't really the same Texas Tech
team we had seen the entire season. So I feel
like he at least has an argument to be somewhere
in the top.
Speaker 3: Ten, especially for the current Like yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know what I'm saying, Like the current landscape you.
Speaker 2: Could really maken for coaches, like in the playoffs. I
find it interesting that on this list there is three
coaches that didn't make the playoff Hockey and Winningham. I
think on field coaching those guys are awesome. They're not
as good in the transfer portal. They're not as good
with their roster turnover year after year. My guess is
they want to see it one more year from McGuire,
see if it's not a flash in the pan.
Speaker 4: And like, I'm someone that does not like Joey McGuire
at all, and I'm putting my bias to the side.
Joey McGuire probably should.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: He popped Joey McGuire.
Speaker 3: He popped off.
Speaker 4: Last year at the Big Twelve media days calling out
the SEC, caught out LSU by name, saying they're scared
to play him, and SEC didn't play out of conference games. Matt,
would you like to see the three out of conference
opponents for Texas Tech next year? Abilene Christian Oregon State
that won one game last year in Sam Houston bang
up job there Texas Tech. But Joey McGuire, he should
be in the top ten. And I think it's the
case of maybe they want to see it one more year,
Like I was at a flash in the fan because you look,
all these other coaches are established, Like even if Signetti
did it two years in a row. Yeah, so like
nobody had Signetti number one last year.
Speaker 3: So maybe it's just one.
Speaker 4: We're like, it'll be interesting to see going into the
twenty twenty seven season where maguire fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're gonna have to start like separating
these lists as well to top ten on field coaches,
top ten overall coaches because transfer portal is such a
huge part of the coaching world. Now we've talked about
how like you know, one of the reasons why Nick
Saban got out, Like coaching has changed. It's not so
much about as obviously, it's not as much about the
x's and o's in the onfield and the development development
of men and character and all this stuff that traditionally,
these old school coaches have been the great ones have
been the best at that. Now it's about how cool
can you be? How good are you are in the
transfer port How good are you a managing salary caps
and going and finding money like that's that's a hard
thing to do, Like and how much time does that
take away from your on field stuff? Is going and
finding money, finding people to donate money to your program.
Speaker 3: You gotta do that, and Lane's doing a lot of that.
Speaker 5: Like it just that just is what it is.
Speaker 6: And on three has Texas Tech ranked number three portal
class in the country, LSU number one Indian or LG
number two, Indiana number one. But I just feel like
there's an argument at least for him to be first
one out if anything. But I think Joey Maguire should
be a top ten coachtaki.
Speaker 5: But I also I think he's a good on the
field coach too. I mean, Texas Tech looked.
Speaker 2: Really good and for sure absolutely yeah, he's a good
coach all around. And and a lot of these people
are well they had the best transferporters because they had
the most money.
Speaker 3: Yeah that is true. Yeah, Well, like look at it.
Speaker 2: From a business perspective, if you give any entrepreneur a
bunch of money, not all of them are going to
do well with it. Like you have to be a
good steward of that buddy, you have to work your
tail off. You gotta do like, just because you have
it doesn't mean you're going to use it the right way.
And certainly the best out there in the coaching world
to do it are the ones that can do it
the right way because everybody can go out I mean
there's donors and at every single university, there's somebody that
has been successful from every college out there.
Speaker 3: So you got to be able to go find it.
Speaker 2: You got to you got to sell the dream, sell
the belief, and then you got to have success on
the field to keep bringing in it.
Speaker 3: Certainly he has. So Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 2: These lists are gonna have to start being a little
bit more specific about what that actually means, because like
you said, there's some really there's some ones that are
really good on the field, but they just haven't done
anything outside of that. So anyway, it's a list season,
you know, it's less season. We love a list, you know,
tomorrow we could probably talk about somebody else's list, and
we have our list. But I got I do gotta
say I kind of hated on Marcus Freeman. He is
the I would say, the most handsome on this list,
on this list most handsome guy. Now his hairline, we
got to fix that. That husk to drop in two spots.
I think you you drawl on your hair.
Speaker 3: It's you can't be top five.
Speaker 5: At least it's Marcus and Dan like that's what it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking about like the Brian Kelly Marcus Freeman
like they were so upset with Brian. Like at least
Brian Kelly didn't draw a hairline, right, he just let
it go.
Speaker 3: Just let it go. All right.
Speaker 2: Well, that's good stuff. That's the breakdown people need right there.
Stick with us right.
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Speaker 2: Some people mentioned in the chat that during our amazing
coverage of this top ten college football coach.
Speaker 5: I think this is great stuff.
Speaker 2: We didn't even mention the name Kirby Smart, who is
number three on this list.
Speaker 3: I would put him, I mentioned, but I think that's
about right.
Speaker 5: You would so Fast number one for y'all.
Speaker 6: I would Putney at number one for sure, because he
won the Natty, or because of like others everything.
Speaker 4: Because of where he did it, how he did fast
he did in nine and two and two years at Indiana.
Are you kidding me? This isn't winning the Natty at
Oregon or Alabama. This is Indiana. First year they went
to the semifinals. They were two quarters in Notre Dame,
who they lost to.
Speaker 5: I'm not disagreeing, it's just Kirby's been number one for
so long.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would definitely put him into clad Hadden behind
Ryan Day. Kirby's got an extra Natty he should be too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not putting him up like when I when
I make lists, I'm not I'm not saying like your
overall body work. I'm saying like my list would always
be right now. And Kirby Smart, you could argue, has
lost his fastball a little bit in this new age.
Speaker 4: Last two playoffs, he said. He said, coaching blunders.
Speaker 3: At the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he certainly has in the new age of Nile,
but no one's taken away. You can't unsee anything. I
love Kirby Smart and he should definitely always be in
the top three or four.
Speaker 3: Stick with us right here, off the pitch, off the bench,