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and Matt Flynn.
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Speaker 5: All right, welcome back in Jake Hester.
Speaker 3: Matt Flynn and on a swivel right now, no Greg Sankie,
but we are looking around.
Speaker 5: We are on the prowl for the commission.
Speaker 4: A lot happening.
Speaker 5: There's a lot happening, So we're just going to keep
our head on a swivel here. I know that's the
coaching points my high school offensive coordinator gave me when
telling me how to read the play head on a swivel.
Speaker 3: Find the open guy. Wait, no, no, progression. Hey, read
this this boundary corner to this A lot.
Speaker 5: Of the passes I completed. It was it was called
nineteen at three underneath the center. It was like a
half sprint out left and I set up inside the
pocket somehow with like a little sprint out. It's just
a one receiver out route to your left.
Speaker 4: To the left.
Speaker 5: Nineteen didn't call eighteen at three a lot? Well, I
don't know. So you know you're right handed, not smart,
I don't think. But it worked.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: We do have Commissioner Greg Sankie who's going to join
us now.
Speaker 5: It's my second time this week to be able to
catch up with.
Speaker 3: A commission We've got Catherine here with us as well.
Speaker 5: I'll go ahead and I'll find a way like this.
Speaker 3: Head said, yeah, perfect, absolutely gonna get that done. I
can't believe they're trusted me to be able to do this.
Let's see, can you those fat fingers find the court?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: We will figure it out. We'll do it live on
air here. Okay, let's get that out of there.
Speaker 4: That's good. You didn't get this.
Speaker 5: I think I messed it up for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, let's see here, all right, I think we
are on there, we're doing this. Uh, let's see, let's
see where we go here, Let's see.
Speaker 5: Okay, just any just plug it into any. I think
we got it.
Speaker 3: I don't know, commission can you believe they actually trusted
me to do that?
Speaker 5: I hope I got that right.
Speaker 3: Let's see, let's say we're gonna turn both We're gonna
turn both of both.
Speaker 4: Of these up.
Speaker 3: But you got it, tangle It's all right. Hey, we're
doing this live on air. It's fine, it is all good.
You got him all tangled up.
Speaker 4: Okay, I got it.
Speaker 5: I did not knock the soft air. Can you hear us? Commissioner,
thank you? Yeah, yeah, I think we got him as well.
Speaker 3: Look at us, even meadheads can find a way to
be a technical we have to commissioners.
Speaker 5: Thank you always. Pleasures my second time to be able
to catch up with you this week.
Speaker 3: And hey, we are not going to ask you about
the state of college football. We're not asking you about
transfer portals, we're not asking you about nil. We are
about to have like ten minutes to let you breathe.
Speaker 4: Okay, well it turned my I'm on the airplane mode.
So between radio segments like there's this thing about a
potential execut order. So it's like, what's going on, what's
going on? And between radio segments, I'm trying to explain
what is or what's not real.
Speaker 5: Hey, we're not worried about that right now.
Speaker 4: The airplane mode's on them all yours.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: When you're picking out your outfit and you're going through
the color choices, are you like, I want to wear the.
Speaker 5: Sec SEC color.
Speaker 3: How many times have you gone to put on an
outfit for like a different day.
Speaker 5: When you're up there on the podium, you're like, you
can't do it. Too much orange?
Speaker 4: That has happened, you know. When we used to have
the dinner at our championship game, our Legends dinner, I
wore a green tie, ninety eight percent green tie. It
was an Auburn and Georgia game, and embedded in it
were little flecks of orange. Yeah, and Georgia's president came
to me, looked at my tie and looked at me
and said, nicely, you wear some Auburn colors. Tonight I
was in I was doing a dedication to historical sign
I had a pair of I had a blue suit
on a pair of blue shoes, you have to match
wing tip blue shoes. I got out of the car.
Mississippi State President looked at me and said, nicely, wear
your old missuit to this today all miss shoes actually,
so it actually is real and I do have to
think about it, and I'm deep enough into it. Like
the green tie, I could get the Kentucky blue, but
Mark's not till Tomorrow's till tomorrow.
Speaker 3: That's right, You're you're pretty safe. You're always safe actually
with green, that green's always the and I go blue and.
Speaker 4: Blue and gold, blue and yellow because that's our conference
logo for sure. So that's I determined that to be safe.
Speaker 5: Well, Commission, I know you're a big baseball fan, so
LSU's we're on a baton rouge, so let's do we
just made this run.
Speaker 4: In the College World Series.
Speaker 5: And so do you feel safe when an SEC team
is playing? So we played Coast of Carolina when they're
playing somebody outside, do you feel safe maybe wearing a
little purple on a situation like that?
Speaker 4: Sometimes I just don't have a lot Like Okay, people
will say, well, you've got a bunch of crimson, or
you've got a bunch of purple or you've got a bunch.
I just don't have those colors because I have a
lot of green. I have a lot of green golf shirts.
So when I was in in Omaha, I had two
green golf shirts ready to go, but then Coast of
Carolina's teals, so I was in the black and gray mode.
I did have a fun conversation money out with Paul Skeens.
He was, you know, kind of hanging out during the
home run during about him watching. And last year I
was right behind him when we were talking about playing
at Hoover and he's like he was right to add
a bad Hoover and and you know, winning it a
couple of years ago. It's fun for him. So I'll
give you another example. Ole Mississippi or excuse me, Mississippi
State Vanderbilt were playing it's Game three. I had packed
two weeks before because this was like my third destination,
and I had two green shirts and a black and
white striped shirt. Yep, so I wore the green shirts
early Vanderbilt Missippi State. No conflict there. I had a
black and white stripe SEC logo golf shirt and I
walked into misissipp State President's box and by the way
Mississippi State will wear black uniforms. Now you too, It's
like nice you wear you Vanderbilt shirt. So there's no
there's more of that than you understand.
Speaker 5: Oh, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: There is any any good shows, concerts that we've been to, Like,
I know who your favorite band is. I know it
is You two, But anything that you've seen here in
this offseason.
Speaker 4: They haven't know You two hasn't been out in a while.
Bono just did this big interview where he talked about
new music and teased like they come back on the road.
So I'm hopefully. I saw Zach Brown in Nashville early April.
There's a new venue called the Pinnacle. You wouldn't take
the cashield you need a new music venue. It's right
around from the Grand Hiot where we did media days
two years ago. Like four thousand people's great sight lines,
great sound. Four thousand people for Zach Brown concert that
I mean just intimate, really great feel. And then we
went and saw the Eagles at the Sphere April. That
was April twelfth, and so that was my second visit
to the Sphere. Zach Brown just announced Sphere dates for December. Yeah,
have you been to the Sphere. I have, Yeah, which one?
Which what'd you see? Yeah?
Speaker 5: We went and saw Grateful Dead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I didn't I got invitations in.
Speaker 5: The our Deading Company, I guess is what it would
have been.
Speaker 6: I'm not in that group. I was told I should go.
The twstools are unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I've been told, like,
you can go see whatever show. It doesn't really matter
if like if you're a fan of that, it's just
you need to go see the spectacle that is a sphere.
Speaker 4: I agree, And every time somebody does something it's like
next level. Like I saw some of the Kenny Chesney video,
like he did running through the tee on the Sphere.
I would love to have seen that, just to that experience.
We should have like all of our like kickoff our introductions,
when Joe Burrow ran out with the Jersey his last
home games, all.
Speaker 3: The things that go into having a concert there. So
I had Kenny down at the super Bowl. We had
him on super Bowl Radio and he was telling me
all air, like all the different things that go into
just playing one show there because of all the different elements.
He's like, and you want to use them all, but
you don't want to like change who you are in
your concert. But he's like, but you get in all
these cool tools, you got to use them.
Speaker 4: So right in Burbank, next to the airport there's a Marriott,
there's a little sphere that's the production facility and all
the production goes through there. We actually thought the first
year of the sphere of doing advertising we were going
to sixteen. It was we were fourteen. The next year
we're going to sixteen. We found out what a cost
to buy space on the sphere, which was one level,
and then the production costs was next level. So we
let the Smiley Face occupy the sphere and then Monday
we have tickets to see in Birmingham there's a new Amphitheater.
So it's total so eighties absolutely, yeah, and Men at
Work those are the book ends. So Colin hay uh
Land down under and in between his Christopher Cross. So
the yacht rock is for my wife and absolutely I'd
go to that. Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 5: Wait, it's mint at work. The ban sayings that we
can dance it. No, that's the safety daft. That was
not meant ball by me. What you went for it?
Speaker 4: That was what's the if you look at we'll have
that lyric going through.
Speaker 5: That's an earworm for sure. What's look back on all
the concerts' men to what's that one concert in your
life that stands out?
Speaker 4: Like man?
Speaker 5: That was I'll always remember where I will what seed
was that?
Speaker 4: I'll give you two? Can I give you two? Because
we were just there this. I'm from Central New York,
just west of Syracuse. Really nice little village on a lake.
But my dad when I was a kid, who would
go stock car racing, right, So my wife and I
were at Weed Sports Speedway. You'll probably never end up
a Weed Sports, Yeah, I don't think so. Seventy five
clap three point fifty eight Northeast dirt modified with sprint
cars thrown in. But we went to a Huey Lewis
in the News concert there at the eighty five, early
in our relationship. It was our first concert we went
to so that pops uh huh. And then Kathy and
I went to see you two in Dublin at Croke
Park in twenty seventeen to thirty. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would give a lot to go see Huey Lewis
and the News. In nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 4: That was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: I saw Huey Lewis the News in two thousand and four.
Wasn't the same Hugh Lewis. But you know, Brothers opened
up the.
Speaker 4: First time I saw the Neville Brothers, So give some
New Orleans influence. They opened up. But you're at a
dirt track speedway on the clay. That stage it had
this you know, it's summer for the Rocketport. They had
this whole concert series, big names rolling through. Yeah, I
mean it sounds like it eighty five US News that
was sports, which is albums. Yeah, that is a great
l Yeah.
Speaker 5: All right. So on Wednesdays we play would you rather?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: And so since we had you, and we typically do
it around this time, but I'm just going to.
Speaker 5: Give you one.
Speaker 3: And it's involving SEC players. Again, we're not talking to
any of that other stuff here. Would you rather get
hit in the ribs by a Paul Skins fastball or
have to tackle Derreck Henry in the open field two
SEC guys.
Speaker 4: I'd probably take the Derrick Henry thing.
Speaker 7: He goes.
Speaker 4: I think I could try and miss, and I would
The injury would be soft.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you just die the other way On accident.
Speaker 4: So this is a true story. As a freshman, I
was at a place called Maternal College, fall of eighty two. Uh,
Chuck Finley was part of the Northeast Louisiana University team.
We played them. Yeah, I never saw the baseball now
I was.
Speaker 5: I was, But how long in the in the majors
at least over ten years?
Speaker 4: Northeast Louisiana that year had Terry Matthews was on that team.
There was a third pitcher's name. I forget when people
tell me was better like now, they weren't in Omaha
because of the pitching up there, and Matthews went pitched
for the Rangers. Was a major League. But like there
was I never saw the baseball through. So if Skeen's
was up there and I got hitting the ribs, I
would see them wind up and I would not see anything,
and I'd feel this searing thing my side. So I
think the Derrick Henry thing. I'd see him and I'd
go low and probably just jump over me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that felt like it kind of like the face.
Speaker 4: You're going to make. I had a friend. I had
a friend who was an author on a podcast. He
asked me, if I shoot it up to play a
football game. How long do you think i'd last? Right,
I said to him. I thought for just a couple
of sands, I said, I don't think you'd make it
out of the locker room actually putting on the equipment.
Judgment would be such like what am I doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no question, matt commission, I know you got to go.
Hopefully we had, you know, gave you a chance to
take a couple of deep brass here and put on
airplane mode for a little bit.
Speaker 4: The fact we didn't talk about three letters, and that's
right there, highly rewarding. There got the approved price for
next year. Well we can't get an extra second. We
can't promise for anybody else. But can I just stay
here and talk about this other stuff?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw Catherine's grip shrink the other day. I'm
not going a minute longer, she said. It is time
to wrap up right now. All right, we'll be back
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Speaker 3: All Right, welcome back in ot B one oh four
five ESPN Baton Rouge. We just had Commissioner Greg sanky
on and we're now gonna have our guy Billy Luci
on tech SAgs and tech SAgs dot com joins us.
Speaker 5: Now, Billy, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 2: I'm good? What's up, buddy?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 3: You know, just living the dream? You know, just the
day three grind of media days.
Speaker 8: Day three and I'm waiting on the Aggies on day four.
Speaker 4: I know, y'all gotta wait to know.
Speaker 5: I know, it's like I don't know which one's better
or worse.
Speaker 3: The fact that we had l Suit right out of
the gates first team, and then it's like the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the week. That's true everybody else or if it's
like A and M, I think the yeah, they'll last
the last.
Speaker 8: My flight's at like seven thirty out of here Latursday night,
and then I get to drive from Houston to College station,
so that'll be Yeah, that'll be a fun Friday morning
of radio.
Speaker 3: Outside of the Aggies. Of course, you are here and
you'll do a great job covering it all week. Who's
most intriguing to you?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: Who are some teams? As the players? Is the coaches?
Speaker 4: What is it? You know?
Speaker 8: I think, honestly, LSU is a really freaking intriguing team.
I think most teams in the conference are intriguing this
year because of the quarterback position. I mean, it's almost
like there are two buckets. It's these guys that are
going from year one to year two as starters, and
we all have to sit here and speculate and wonder
if it's your team, you hope, how big of that
jump do they make or their first year starters with
a lot of hype and build up, And so I
don't know if I remember. I've remembered a few years
where I've gone, Man, the quarterbacks in this league aren't
that great this year, But I don't know how much
I remember if I remember a year where there really
is a ton of potential across the board, but there's
also like you can't guarantee anything, Like y'all's guy. I
keep saying it, like I think when when I watch
him and Sellers or the two, like, when I watch him,
I feel the best about him. But then I you know,
I watched I was at the A and m LSU
game in the second half, I was in baton rouge
for LSU Bama. You know, I saw the would have
been picked six against South Carolina. But then I watch
him at the end of Ole Miss and I watch
him in a ball I watch him some of the
throws he makes, and the ability to see it is
it's better than anybody. And so he's the one to
me and us with the one of some of the.
Speaker 2: Least questions about him.
Speaker 8: But in a normal year, you go, no, he he's
got to prove it for LSU to become that playoff
team that everybody in Baton Rouge is open.
Speaker 2: And you could say a lot of the same.
Speaker 8: Just take that exact game and you say a lot
of the same about Marcel Reid. Sometimes he looked spectacular,
sometimes he looked like a guy that was starting for
the first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was going to bring up. But
we talked We've talked about out quarterbacks all week. We
got a couple of proven commodities that you know what
you're gonna get. You hope to see that improvement as well,
But you got a lot of question marks all over
the SEC. So this could be a really great quarterback
conference or it could be kind of a mediocre.
Speaker 4: We just don't know.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have some top heavy guys.
Speaker 4: But one person name.
Speaker 5: I haven't heard hardly at all this week is Marcel Ready.
And you know, I think he's a guy that has
the potential and certainly a skill set that makes it
could make him if he makes the right strikes, could
make him very dated, for like, and then you look
at it as why you know Texa and decided not
to bring him? Yep to media days, So you know,
what is there any you know, it's not a like
where there's smoke, there's fire situation, but like what kind
of strides do you see in that? And why do
you think the decision was made not to bring him?
Speaker 8: I think as far as the decision knowing Mike Elko,
we put together our list or our staff, like just
in the office one day or at lunch, where like
who do you think will be?
Speaker 2: We were before or.
Speaker 8: Five of us were talking and Marcel was actually four
worth on my list.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought he'd bring Torri and York. I
thought Trey.
Speaker 8: Zoon who came last year and as a captain, I
just assumed he'd bring him back. He probably just figured
you've already done it once. And I thought armaj Reid Adams.
Actually the fourth.
Speaker 2: Guy that I thought was a.
Speaker 8: Defensive tackle by the name of Albert Regis who's just
kind of Elko puts a lot into those like.
Speaker 2: It's your team, it's your team, it's your you know,
and a lot of that.
Speaker 8: Captaincy will Lee was actually my fifth guy that I
thought he'd bring him. Will was probably the best player
on the A and M team this spring and also
most improved, so they probably rewarded him. I do think though,
with Marcel Reid, he's dangling that carrot for next year
and to say, hey, you're the starting quarterback, but you haven't.
You haven't gone out there and just proved it consistently
week to week to go. So yeah, I think in
a perfect world he'd have done that throughout the off
season to where you go, Man, this guy is just
he we can't go without him. But I also think,
knowing Elko, I would have put him fourth or fifth
on my list.
Speaker 5: You can you see him making that that next step
as a quarter like a weekend, week out starter that
is going to be dangerous every week.
Speaker 8: I do, you know, I think he's gonna make significant strides.
Speaker 2: Not he can throw the ball.
Speaker 8: You guys saw he can throw the football really well, but.
Speaker 2: It's just that.
Speaker 8: You know, Okay, the ball snapped, first thread, second lead,
go and a lot of times it's even the first lead, like, yeah,
this is gonna come open based on and you know
this as a quarterback and you've played with a million
of them. Marcel wasn't supposed to be playing last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know what year did not start? Year three or four?
Speaker 4: Four?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Marcel Connor Wigman was supposed to be the guy.
No One in August outside of probably Marcel, thought that
he was ready to be an SEC start quarterback. So
to me, there's a lot of positivity to watch and go, damn,
he did this, this, this, and this, and the games
where he struggled, what particularly were South Carolina and Texas well,
both of those I would say those were two of
the top three defenses in the SEC last year. So
I think when that running game wasn't going for him
and a lot was put on him, you saw that
inexperience and that kind of inability or lack of desire
yet to just catch that snap and rip it. So
I think he'll start doing more of that. I think
he'll start pulling it and running more rather than feeling
like you know, some of these quarterbacks that can run
so well, they feel like they have to prove first
that they can sit in the pocket and it's like no.
Sometimes That's why he was so good against just Go
and I think you'll see more of that, so he'll
make that big step. My question will be in those
games against whoever it is in the SEC or Notre
Dame that can line up and and take that run away.
Can you win the game with your decision making in
your arm?
Speaker 5: Who's the quarner?
Speaker 3: I don't know, who's the quarterback in the league that's
getting on the hype train, getting all the hype, and
you just you're not there yet.
Speaker 8: Simmons at at Old Miss, there's I mean there's a
lot of he impressed when he went I mean, you
know that little limited action and come in Georgia.
Speaker 5: The Georgia game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but that's that you're replacing a bad, bad dude
in Jackson Dart And you know, I know, I believe
in Lane. I trust him as an OC, but I
don't know. And there's also no Trey Harris who could
have made me look good forget about you know, Like, so.
Speaker 5: I hope he makes Justin Herbert look good for my Chargers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can use him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, I think I think he's the guy in
my second one, and I've known him since he's like
in ninth grade.
Speaker 2: Is Lagway Okay. I think he's.
Speaker 8: Incredible talent and if you ask me is he gonna.
Speaker 4: Be great or not? My answer will be yes.
Speaker 8: But man, there is a ton being put on him.
And I don't think his year last year was that
dissimilar when you look at it to like what Marcel did.
Speaker 3: The stat's twelve touchdowns, nine interceptions, right, it's not eye popping.
I'm like, I'm a fan DJ Lagwage just because things
you said, like you know it's there and you're like wondering,
can't it come out?
Speaker 5: His injury history is concerned, that's mine.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because he is a he's a badass, he's a winner.
Speaker 2: Guys gravitate towards him the.
Speaker 8: Same way I see that in Baton Rouge with Nus.
My thing is that the injury history, the durability. I mean,
he's he looks like a linebacker. You wouldn't think, but
it's just he's so tightly muscled up. You guys play
with a bunch of those dudes sometimes it's like those
are the guys that's just constantly something And so I
wonder I do wonder a little bit.
Speaker 5: Too many muscles, too many muscles to pull.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's why I've never pulled oneever.
Speaker 5: I think I did a couple of weeks ago coughing,
but that's about Yeah. So I got gaged up on
earlier by shriepport people. So like a couple of Texas like, yeah,
we have Blake shape and we played the same high school.
Speaker 2: So we're giving.
Speaker 5: Billy and we met there for the first time a
couple of nights ago. We were able to kind of
like talk about Texas high school football and some guys
I played with that were and I thought you were
going to chop block each other because of it, you know,
we were talking about those Well, let me my question is,
so you've been you're kind of like an encyclopedia of
Texas A and M football and probably Texas high school
football in general. What is who are the top high
school football players that you've ever like scouted, seen or
been excited about seeing them at the next level.
Speaker 8: Man, we talked the other night and one guy that
we talked about is on that list is Derek Johnson, linebacker.
Speaker 2: Waco and just every every level.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was in the same division as him my
entire career. Yeah, he just stud Yeah.
Speaker 2: God, I forget the chiefs in charge to.
Speaker 5: Pick six to him a size of sophomore. Just I
was fresh into puberty too. I was growing, grew like
six inches and six months, you know.
Speaker 2: Trying to chase him, trying to chase him.
Speaker 4: I was at Waco I SD Stadium.
Speaker 5: It was like the second second field in the country
to ever have the fake artificial grass. I think Nebraska
was the first Waco I SD stadium with an upper
deck and a jumbo tron in two thousand. Yeah, you're
two thousand, are you kidding? Me and Derek Johnson just
stalking around.
Speaker 8: And so to me it was it was him. I
watched him play in a playoff game against another guy
that's on.
Speaker 2: That list in Reggie McNeil.
Speaker 5: I played against Reggie twice in high school. He's a stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you really?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: We played all those East Texas teams at evangel Yeah,
Long Marshall regularly.
Speaker 8: A and M had this weird couple of year of
pipeline into Westman Row. You remember Jason Leadou and remember
Jason Ladu du Is my guy. I wonder what he's
up to now.
Speaker 2: He came to he was so shy and quiet.
Speaker 8: It was almost weird how quiet he was like, but
he would open up. But uh, who was the pitcher
d line Bryant? Was it West West? He signed with
A and M, but played at L s U.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, he came back. Yeah, played football. So to
finish my.
Speaker 8: Short list is, Adrian Peterson is probably number one as
far as just the day I saw him ago camp missed.
There were three of them that the day I saw
him when they were in like ninth grade, that guy's
going to be like an NFL star. It was Adrian Peterson,
it was Leonard Davis, and it was Eric Winston. Yeah,
those three mid blocking for Cric Benson.
Speaker 2: And then the one that I've known since.
Speaker 8: He was like six years old because I knew his
dad really well, was Kyler Murray.
Speaker 2: Kyler was doing what he did all the way through
college and into never lost.
Speaker 8: In high school. He was doing it at like six
years old. My buddy sent me a little pee wee
football card and I'm like, who the hell is this.
Speaker 2: It's like, he goes, that's Kevin Murray's son.
Speaker 8: He was like six, and he was just like he
could have juked me out.
Speaker 4: So he never lost in high school.
Speaker 8: Never lost a start. He finished the game that he lost. Yeah,
he finished a game that he lost.
Speaker 2: As a ninth grader.
Speaker 8: He came off the bench, I think in the playoffs
and then won three straight titles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, I would.
Speaker 5: Say that that that qualifies you for being at.
Speaker 2: The top these yours in Louisiana.
Speaker 8: In Louisiana that I've ever seen, mine's Marcus Spears and
Marquis Hill. Those two were at Camp and A and
M and you're like, we're teammates with Spears.
Speaker 5: Andy just just an absolutely freak. That's there's so many physically,
just look they just looked different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like you know, I got.
Speaker 3: A chance to see the quarterbacks from where I went
to high school, so like Josh Boody, John David Booty,
Brock Berlin, like all those advantage just really good players.
Speaker 5: I watched brock Berlin in Rose Stadium and Tyler Texas
as an eighth grader.
Speaker 2: You know, was he was an eighth grader?
Speaker 4: You were?
Speaker 5: I was an eighth grade. He was a senior Pbsably,
I was in middle school, so I was throwing it
like once a game or whatever. And so I go
there and they're playing John Tyler, who's won like five
state championships in the nineties. They ran the SCAT eight
SCAT nine. Uh, and they play this team that was
had a quarterback lined up nine yards behind the line
of scrimmage taking a seven step drop and over three
hundred yards in the first half. And I was like,
I was watching this as a quarterback, and I was like,
I think I'm in love.
Speaker 4: This is amazing.
Speaker 2: Brock Berlin, I forgot. Did he go straight to Miami.
Speaker 3: He went to Florida, then transferred to Miami and then
get him an Arch Bowl.
Speaker 5: At the time, I was like, brock Berlin's here, like
Troy Aikmans, He's yeah, not as good as Brocco.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as far as like once I was done playing
and like started like cover LSU Devin White, Oh yeah,
Devin White is probably like, yeah, that kid has grown
at sixteen years old, running back linebacker was doing it.
Speaker 2: All a and M this funny story.
Speaker 8: I know, y'all got to go a funny story about him.
John David Crowe. Yeah, so he went to the same
high school.
Speaker 5: Yeahring him and.
Speaker 8: John David Crowe was I think it was coach someone.
But John David Crowe, you know, he's no longer with us,
so he was nearing the end and he just kept
he didn't never meddle or try to get in, but
he just kept going up to whether it was coach
someone or coach Sherman.
Speaker 2: I think it was someone.
Speaker 8: And he kept telling him about Devin White. Hey, I
don't know any of this stuff, but I got people
telling me and it was Devin White.
Speaker 2: Devin White, like you know, very early in his high
school career.
Speaker 8: And so he was a random guy that for whatever reason,
and my buddy that worked for a coach someone would
always say, your boy, John David crow came up here
again today and he's asking about that Louisiana.
Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, there he is.
Speaker 3: I got Billy Luci Textaggs dot com.
Speaker 5: Billy always a pleasure, sir.
Speaker 2: Right, guys, appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: All Right, Welcome back again, o t B one of
four five, ESPN Baton Rouge. We are day number three
SEC the Media days just had Commissioner Greg Sanky, Billy
Lucci of text Aggs join us. We've had Jeff Levy
Blake shaping from Mississippi State. It's been a fun, busy
day show today.
Speaker 5: I know the energy has been electric around here.
Speaker 4: Yesterday it was like.
Speaker 3: Yesterday it was energy was hey, like what.
Speaker 5: Are y'all doing through those seconies in there, because I'm
blame them in a.
Speaker 3: Good way, Like what are you doing? Yeah, I'm just kidding.
Actually it probably wasn't their fault. But today's energy much better,
much better.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've uh, I blame that on us as well.
We blame we blamed it on this watch the ta
we gotta watch the table go back self value.
Speaker 3: Well, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa No, No, the
producer of the Netflix deal. It's his fault that we
had him scheduled. He stood us up and so then
we had a plan and we had to kind of.
Speaker 4: He set us up, didn't even call I never even
s all the fella.
Speaker 5: Oh well, okay, you had that is right. But we
did stand him up the night before because he did.
They previewed the Netflix documentary episode with LSU South Carolina
on Monday night at seven, and we were supposed to
go see that preview, and we were kind of like
hanging around here at the lobby or like at on
Radio Road, looking at the entrance, and we're like, we
haven't eaten one speck of food today. It's the first
night here after after media day. I think we're just
gonna Christian Bale this thing. I use your term with
Christian Bale. Yeah, so we kind of irish goodbye on
that one and got food because we were about to
fall over. Yes, we were, so. I guess he knew
that because he was probably expecting us. You roll up
the red carpet a little bit. See my guy rained
Dolph mc michael over there. Look, Michael Lean and me,
one of.
Speaker 3: My absolute favorite teammates of all time. My man had
to play why he had play ef He had to
play h when we were in San Diego together, Like, hey,
do we have a problem.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, I put Randy in there.
Speaker 4: He'll do it.
Speaker 5: He'll figure it out. Gates. Gates is gonna run some routes.
Randy will do the blocking. It's Georgia Legends.
Speaker 3: Hopefully we can catch up with Actually Raydam trying to
schedule him for tomorrow.
Speaker 5: He is h he's electric, one of my favorite guys.
Speaker 4: How about Billy?
Speaker 5: She dropping the Jason LaDue referenced.
Speaker 3: He said, Jason, I haven't thought of Jason Ledue so
twenty years.
Speaker 5: If we didn't have time, I wanted to tell him
the story while he was on. But like a really
good Jason LaDue story from back in college. Was you know,
after after you'd go and hang out with your your
fellow LSU classmates at the bars, whether you enjoyed pops
or not, you'd go and you'd go late night. You
try to get some food afterwards, try to get a
little little food in the belly help you the next morning.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you go across the street, go to like Pluckers.
You go, you go and get some wings, get something
that was open late night. Well, we were there sitting
one night and me and some friends. I think it
was like Josh Cher, maybe it was Peter Daikowski and
then Jason Duo was there right and so we all
sit down to eat. We're eating some wings, minding our
own business. Right, there's this group of gentlemen, young table,
young lads, lung strapping lads that wanted to test themselves.
And they were next to us, and they might have
had a fame some white beat her tanks on. Oh okay,
so that not the crew I was thinking. So they're
sitting there and they're like they're like chugging, chugging beers
or something and like racing and time. No, I'm sorry,
no this one there they were arm wrestling a table
next to us, all right, so there and just like
over the top and just.
Speaker 4: Being just meatheads and dummies.
Speaker 5: Right, And so they're arm wrestling and they look over
at our tailor like, hey, you know what challenged this?
Speaker 4: You want arm wrestle? And they keep like.
Speaker 5: And we just kind of ignormally. Hey, they were just
eating wings. Man, we're having some water. Like, just leave
us alone, we're minding our own business. Water. You don't
want the alpha energy. Yeah, And so they go up
and they like walk up to the dew and they're
like what they said some words, but basically they said,
are you scared? They said some other way they put
it in different terms, and Jason sets down his wing.
He like takes a napkin slow straight from a movie.
Speaker 4: It takes it.
Speaker 5: He like wipes off his mouth a little bit, and
he says, listen, I'm no amateur. Put one hundred on
it in an arm wrestle you. I'm no amateur. I'm
not gonna do this for free. Put some money on it.
Speaker 4: Do it.
Speaker 5: And then again the guy called him whimpy in a
certain way. Jason stands up, puts his napkin down the
slow motion, open fist, slaps the guy in the boo
and it was just like I was like, oh boy,
oh yeah, all right, we got and then of course
guy gets thrown across the table. Hey, the rest is
you have to teach people a lesson sometimes. But it
was just it was perfect, the slow motion and we
just wipe the wing, sauce and ranch off my face
real quick, wipe my hands off. But I'm not an amateur, buddy.
Speaker 3: Why was it always in college like we'd be out
in a group and you know, we'd have Sean Jordan
and Will Arnold with us, right, two dudes.
Speaker 5: I'm like, nah, I'm good. I don't need to I know, No,
I don't need to test the test myself.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: But if there was a group of five Hunt Palmers
walking by, I was like, Okay, one of them's gonna
say something.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: One i'm's gonna say something to Will Arnold and he's
gonna almost kill him. And it's but they did it
consistently and never learned because with certain people, like in
our group, there was no warning shots. There was like
there's like, hey, I'll let you slide to that time.
It was just like, you're not gonna slide because there's
always you know, guys thought they were the baddest.
Speaker 4: Dude of their hometown or whatever.
Speaker 5: Just just remember in any walk life, however bigger bad yard,
there's always somebody batter.
Speaker 3: I just so many times a Landra Hunt was over here.
That's why he's not catching too bad of us straight.
But I was just saying, like a fraternity brother, if
there was a group of five of them, they were
gonna say something to Sean Jordan's every time, and he
was gonna do frat bros. Yes, and he was gonna
go five for five every time. I can't tell you
in my time I've been walking by somebody said something
and the next plant foot for Sean is not like
to stop, it's to push back towards the other way.
Speaker 5: And I'm sorry, I just gotta think it's gotta be
some like sort of rush thing, you rush rats or
is it just sorority, whatever it is. It's just like, hey, listen, freshmen,
gotta go, you have to go start a fight or
pick on the biggest guy at the bar.
Speaker 3: And it never it never stopped my entire time, and
it was always and it was shocked. It was always
the baddest dude that they said it to.
Speaker 5: First, and nobody went there trying to do that. Yeah,
they're trying to like be the alpha. We were just
there to you know, delete some stuff exactly. We just
wanted to have a good time. Yeah, But I never
never saw well maybe I'm not gonna say never never
never ever say never ever saw any one of our
groups start something.
Speaker 3: No, I'm sure it happened, but probably well if we
started something, than it was with another sport and not
with sure, you know, a group of hump palmers with.
Speaker 5: Peace and love hunt.
Speaker 3: I say that, all right, we're gonna take our last break.
I think it's our last break. Let me get this
fingers out Eastern time zone. Yep, last break of the show.
We're gonna get to ask the bench to close it out.
We'll do it right here on one oh four five ESPN.
Speaker 5: Bend rouge off the bench, all right.
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Speaker 5: All right back, yeah, O TB.
Speaker 4: What's up? You talk like?
Speaker 5: You know? Flock of uh geese is a gaggle, you know?
Flock of someone of the huddle, says a flock of
Hunt Palmers as a squad. Look, I see I see
the comments about the camera being flipped and it will
be flipped tomorrow, are we I'm not doing the show
at the camera is not. Now, I'm getting my grit
is getting called into question.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 7: This is the deal. I walked up this morning and
I said, let me get this flipped. Those were my words.
Do you know it? Jake looked at me. He goes,
it's fine.
Speaker 5: We had seven minutes. I wasn't gonna make anybody rush. Yeah,
I just said learned. There's let me hit on the
se Well, he has a huge gap. Your whole hamstring
showing the whole to the upper inner thigh. H not
on purpose, not trying to fly on it that much.
You work two days in a row, so well, I
didn't know yesterday.
Speaker 4: I were all day like, yeah, so you know, good
para yesterday.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I do, man, because I remember that
it's happening like weeks ago at home, and I thought
we threw these pants away.
Speaker 7: You didn't. I didn't, but I did. Telling though, where
the rip is is kind of in like it's kind
of like in your butt crease there, you know, And
so he's hidden. Yeah, you get away.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get it. We're gonna try to sneak out
of here. Some of the show's over. Maybe get just
pair of shorts on. Oh, friend of the show Jeff
Levy the uh at the podium right now? Friend of
this Yeah, I mean he kind of is a friend
of this show. He kind of relaxed about.
Speaker 7: He did like two shows up here.
Speaker 5: He probably listens to our show. He knew he was
uncomfortable sitting down because he knew. I was kind of
like saying, I don't think he's a real person. Ask Flynn.
Speaker 3: This one comes from Alando Villa Reale in the in
the chat here. Wait, why are you wearing the same
pants you war yesterday?
Speaker 4: Their jeans, their jeans?
Speaker 5: Did you get three days?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 4: At least three days?
Speaker 2: You get three days?
Speaker 5: I mean in a road though, in a road though, yeah, yeah,
three days. I'm three days in a row right now.
Speaker 4: With these genes, especially like.
Speaker 5: With a neutral color, I'm not gonna lift that leg up,
lift this one up. This is just a neutral color.
It kind of works with everything. If you don't move
that fast, I ain't gonna.
Speaker 4: It, says daddy on it.
Speaker 5: Why are you grunting?
Speaker 4: Well, I lift it up pretty tall.
Speaker 5: They're trying not to move my right leg because I
don't have to rip any further.
Speaker 3: Uh, Matt wearing the hoochie dad shorts two days in
a row. He definitely has got some hoochie dad shorts.
Speaker 5: Any wears cost a lot of money to lick this cheek. Jesus,
what uh?
Speaker 3: Someone get the face plant video? Oh yeah, so someone
had you know, that podium there, and they got the
camera up.
Speaker 5: Well, he had the camera up, so he didn't have
any hands. He tripped right here on.
Speaker 3: This left side and his chin hit first like and
he got up when.
Speaker 5: An hour and a half ago.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, this was when Lucci was on it.
Speaker 5: But no, no, no, it was before Saintie came after.
Speaker 7: This is when I threw the kids into the deep
end and huge drowned.
Speaker 3: So he's face plan, I mean not face chin plant
and so somebody. The reason I don't think that there's
video is because each of these podiums was filled with people.
Speaker 5: Cameras pointed at the podium and he was in the
very back, So I don't know that anybody see Marler
was on the other side of the room facing that direction. No,
his arm was up, but he was facing that direction.
So I think he might have had a chance to
see people.
Speaker 4: People need to.
Speaker 7: Know though people are many, many people are asking, are.
Speaker 3: Asking, let's see ask the bench. Has Flynn recorded?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Okay, as Flynn recorded any interviews while Jacob Hester is
on serious or is he just hiding out in bathrooms
talking to old coaches.
Speaker 7: No, Mattlin is putting in work.
Speaker 4: Yeh.
Speaker 7: Every time I see him, he's like sitting down in
the media room with his notebook open, like taking notes.
He's like sitting on a bench taking notes. He's been
walking around doing like sort of a car wash of
interviews with other stations, like he has been.
Speaker 5: Just propping up bat Rouge enough the LSU tigers off
the Bench. I mean everybody around the Southeast has heard
of off the Bench for sure because we are talking
about it. So I'm kind of I know, I got
this personam the kind of the guy that doesn't know
the names and the stats. That's not going to last
for long. People we're putting in the work. We're chat
GPT and I got this little handy dandy green there.
Speaker 7: Didn't we decide we're not chat GPT in anymore.
Speaker 5: It did lie to me once artificial intelligence is artificial.
Speaker 4: They kind of dumb.
Speaker 5: But he embarrassed me. I said, hey, you three for
five hundred and ninety six yards in the victory. Hey,
it's okay.
Speaker 2: I had one of that.
Speaker 5: So I had one of those. I found an article
that somebody wrote in a Mississippi newspaper about Austin Simmons
and it is like something about pre law.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, doud pre law, Like you
graduated nineteen He goes pre law. Where'd you get that from?
I was like, this article goes, no, no'm my pre law.
I'm like cool, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 5: Al right, cool cool. I mean I didn't call it college.
Speaker 7: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: No, you graduated nineteen. It was like sports administration. So basically,
all right, that's going to do it for us here today.
Don't worry. We'll be back tomorrow. Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri in Texas,
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Speaker 5: We'll see you tomorrow. Off the bench, say, peeps, is
you got a problem with that?
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