Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 3: The plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bitch.
Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here Off the Bench Friday morning,
Live from the Raising Kine Studio, Hour number two and
Landra Tata coming at you this morning.
Speaker 2: First hour flew by. Caine is back.
Speaker 5: She's back from eternity leave.
Speaker 2: She's back from Attorney Leig.
Speaker 5: I don't give you much.
Speaker 4: I didn't give you much. Man, you gotta you, always
gotta show up. She got an hour.
Speaker 2: Two little pups, where are they? She afferent?
Speaker 4: She abandoned them, two different daddies.
Speaker 2: Caine gotta watch you, and she's back though. Good for her.
Speaker 4: She's ready for the weekend. I'm ready for the weekend,
excited about it. It's one of those weekends that, uh,
we have nothing planned, which the older I get those
are like the best types of weekends when you don't
have anything going on. You can just kind of make
up your own weekend. You want to stand When I
had the kids stay in their pj's all day, So
what do it.
Speaker 2: Play outside?
Speaker 4: Good weather, too good playing outside weather, Taylor, you gonna
be outside.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm actually gonna be outside a lot Tomorrow. I
gotta do a flag football event.
Speaker 2: What where is that sent them?
Speaker 4: All?
Speaker 2: High school? Okay, high school flag football, So.
Speaker 6: You'll love this, ages four all the way up to
high school.
Speaker 2: Very cool. So it's a tournament.
Speaker 6: Yeah, last week there was forty team. I did it
last Saturday and tomorrow last week there was forty teams
or Brett in the chat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shut out. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 7: Brother.
Speaker 4: Flight football is becoming very popular and very fast too.
Obviously it's going to be an Olympic sport in a
couple of years. And the now the youth teams are forming,
the travel teams just kind of liking baseball for both
boys and girls. And I am totally here for it.
Of course I've been a flag foot well coach last
couple of years. Jake certainly is. So it is maybe
Razor one day. It is fantastic, and it's you know,
it's there's certainly a skill to it. It's a little
bit different obviously a way different game than regular football.
But like just from a game planning I tend to
as a coach, I probably follow in the trap of
trying to treat it like seven on seven too much,
where you're trying to run like traditional plays and and
it's and you can't do that, can't run just like
the normal plays. But that'll be fun. And there if
a flag football, so it's really fun to watch too.
I'm like super excited about how it's going to play
out in the Olympics. It's gonna be awesome. And last
time they tried to do break dancing that was a fail.
Chick from Australia up and like a kangaroo. But this
is like an actual, real, real sport. Not to demean
the breakdancers out there. I know we got a lot
of breakdancer listeners all over the world. Good good for
y'all time and probably not the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Flag football. I can get behind this. I'm excited.
Speaker 6: Like so the the high school age kids last week
were really good, but.
Speaker 2: Those six year olds were electric. Oh yeah, that's where
I was out.
Speaker 6: I'm telling the six year old group six and eight,
they were, they were awesome. We had to give a
player of the week, so I had to call him
on the field. Give a player of the week for
each age group. Uh The eight year old kid threw
his hand up in the area and shouted when I
gave him Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. So you're calling like what do you?
What do you? What's your role?
Speaker 6: It's not play by play, but think like, okay, this
team on this field, boom boom boom, this team?
Speaker 2: Where are you? Who are you talking to? At this point?
The parents in the stands? Parents? Is okay? So you're
like MC in this thing?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not. It's not played by play.
It's more like just kind of gotcha posting the thing.
Take ta, pa, but I'm on the field instead in
the in the box, yeah, Pa, not mc.
Speaker 2: MC would work too. I think.
Speaker 4: For sports it's probably the Yeah, it's okay, how are
you gonna get there?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna drive there. What are you you're gonna drive? Yeah?
Watch your car didn't work? It works? All right? How
well it works? Is it gonna be the same car
I drive it? Yeah? Yeah, that'll be. That'll be a
Sunday matter in the market. Yep. I know it's gonna
be exciting.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, with everything else going on, why
not just throw this on top of it too?
Speaker 2: Matt, Yeah, and it's funny.
Speaker 6: I Uh, I was telling you think about downsizing a
little bit, but I was like, wait a minute, I'm
going full dad mood. I'm going to bring a car
seat with me that we already have. Put it in
the back seat, make sure if fit's properly, make sure
I can hook it up. That's gonna be like biggest tests.
So a little bit of changes. If this would have
been two years ago to have been like.
Speaker 2: Oh that one looks cool. Uh Carolina squat. No, not immediately.
They don't off a lot like that.
Speaker 4: Taylor usually wants his car is so low he can't
get over speed bumps. Oh yeah, it's me excited about that. Well,
it's exciting though. New cars always fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm fired up about it. I mean the truck
I have now, you know, paid off, so I go
a truck note not the funnest thing in the world,
but yeah, it'll be it'll be nice.
Speaker 2: It's time.
Speaker 6: It's one of those things where you're like, I don't
want to do it, but I know it needs to.
Speaker 2: It's just it's part of.
Speaker 4: It, part of the deal. I elandra anymore. As the
Orange Cat come back.
Speaker 5: I've not seen that. I wasn't really home yesterday because
I was at Marucci with Matt, so I didn't see
the cat yesterday, so unsure where he's at. I didn't
see him this morning.
Speaker 2: She was working on our swinging away on three zero
counts A. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was hopefully the cat didn't starve to death because
you didn't feed it.
Speaker 5: He looked pretty well fed.
Speaker 2: Somebody's got to feed him, and it wasn't you.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure the other neighbors that had him well
fed were probing him. Feel it made me feel bad
about this.
Speaker 4: The chat reygun Reygun was the name of the breakdancer.
Couldn't think of it. I saw that actually hit my
feed the other day. Strangely enough, I don't know how,
but it did. Her hopping away on the Olympic stage.
The I was reading this morning, kind of looking at
kind of all all the to dos and trying to
keep up to date with all the sports all over
the place. There was an interesting article that I read about.
And I know we've gotten a little bit political this
week here on this ship talking about the men's hockey team,
but there was a article that came out, I think
this was on on three about President Donald Trump is
calling a roundtable discussion to discuss the state of college football.
Is there a fix? Is there a way forward? Is
there a way to clean it up? And it's got
a pretty star studded invit list it's going to be
joining this roundtable. They have invited Nick Saban, Tim Tebow
for some reason, Cody Campbell, which is a Texas Tech
big booster. I think Cody Campbell has been interviewed, like
on Pat McAfee, like he's been very outspoken about his
his role in the boost, the booster role and just
how that's affected Texas Tech and everything. Big ten commissioner
Tom Tony Pettiti, Greg Sank, Brett Yormark with a Big
twelve Commissioner Jim Phillips ACC Commissioner, like some randoms too,
like Tiger Woods, Bryson d Sam, Adam Silver, Condoleeza, Rice
urban Meyer, and Donald Trump is going to serve as
chair of this meeting Ron DeSantis and New York Yankees
President Randy Randy Levine is going to serve as vice chair.
So like this is yeah, Adam's uncle, so this is
like actually a real deal White House meeting. I think
Trump has kind of always been outspoken about or vocal
at least in his willingness to play a role or
like the federal government or the White House playing a
role in college athletics and like this world of nil
and transfer portal. And I read this and just like
reading the reading the headlines, I'm like, great, yeah, awesome, Like,
because there's no way that anybody's ever going to fix
this unless it comes from the highest level. Yeah, We've
always talked about like it's got to be some sort
of bill that's passed, or congressional involvement, or it's got
to be some sort of federal involvement if there's ever
going to be any chance of getting the toothpaste back in.
Speaker 5: No, I'm sure the government's going to clean this up
and make it way more efficient.
Speaker 4: For sure, you gonna doze it. But look, I applaud
the trying. It doesn't hurt to have a conversation. Certainly,
there's a lot of people Nick Saban's probably the first
person that's listed in this article like.
Speaker 2: Being invited to this thing.
Speaker 4: Like, if there's ever going to be a chance of
anything happening, they have to do it at that type
of level. And look, it doesn't hurt to have discussions.
I'm sure there's gonna be discussions like here's like what
we like legally, what can be done, what cannot be done?
And this isn't going to be the show that can
tell you those things. It's just looking at this from
a thousand foot view for them for trying. And it
certainly has a like a list of people going to
the meeting for this roundtable discussion at the White House
that can potentially talk about it because we know, like
we've talked about it a ton like college football when
college athletics in general is absolutely one drunk, and it
starts with college football. The bell count, everything that schedules
messed up more than any other sport. The schedules messed up,
the calendar, everything is just strange about it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: The product on the field is beautiful and it's great
and it's amazing, but it's everything that surrounds it that
affects people's overall view of college football. I believe it
certainly affects mine my personally. I hate some things about it.
I love the product, I love watching the games, but
I hate a lot of things about it. And I
think we all think that it needs to be more
common sense. There needs to be more guardrails, there needs
to be more bumpers, but it's never gonna really happen
unless there is a higher involvement. And maybe this discussion
is just an jury of an entry point, an on
ramp to how do we even do that? Like how
would that even be done? What needs to be fixed?
Because there's a lot, but like where do we start?
I can't do everything at once, But if there's a
chance to do something, maybe it's something small, Like we've
all we've seen people, media people and college football people
all over the place give their opinions on what needs
to be done. Well, let's get a little roundtable discussion
on what can truly be done, Like what could actually
legally be done in some sort of timely manner, maybe
develop some sort of plan of how do we work.
We know NIL is not going anywhere. We're not, they're not.
Nobody's trying to change that. College athletes are getting paid,
that's never going backwards. But the little things like the schedule,
the transfer portal windows, the timing of games, the timings
of national signing days, like all these things that when
people that are just sports fans, that aren't just college football,
Like in Louisiana we were a little bit spoiled because
of our college foot like because of LSU. Everybody's good
like we are, so folks hyper focused on college athletics.
Not everybody else in the country is. But when people
that are just sports fans that are focused on everything,
when they look at like the Lane Kiffin situation, like
that stunk because of the calendar. Nothing else, like coaches
leave all the time, they go take other jobs all
the time. It was the timing of everything. So it's
the things like that that can be fixed, I feel like,
but it does have to come from a highland. So
kudos to them. Anybody any on the other side of
the glass, and any thoughts on the administration calling a
meeting at the White.
Speaker 5: House, I kind of think they have other stuff to
worry about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't like when the government, like we've talked about
this before. I don't like when judges, federal judges get
involved in college football at local judges, No worry about
your own stuff, Like it's college football. It's it's like
not even the real world. It's college sports, guys, let's
focus on that. But I mean, you brought up a
point of I appreciate the effort. I appreciate them trying,
Like Russell Dellen should put this out yesterday that the
NCAA sent members a memo announcing they were planning to
aggressively pursue tampering violators with significant penalties. And you know,
they put out a few of what it would be
like some of the guardrails that they want to put
up prevent me.
Speaker 2: Remember Dabo Dabo called them out.
Speaker 6: Ole Miss fans got the tizzy when blank Kiffin went
after like one Ole Miss player. They said that the
head coach would be prohibited from all football and administrative
duties through the sixth game of the season, so essentially
a six game suspension if they were called. The school
would be fined twenty percent of its football budget. I
mean LSU makes multimillion dollars a year off of football.
That's a pretty big chunk of cash. Like you could say, oh,
twenty percent, that's big. And another one would be the
school would be required to reduce the number of roster
spot it's by five for the next season, regardless of
if the coach is still at that school. So if
a coach is called Tambourine. You move on from him
and fire him, it doesn't really matter. So these are
just some things that they have proposed. So there's a
lot of talk, I mean, Donald Trump, know Donald Trump
across the NCAA of we got to do something to
maybe kind of rain this thing in a little bit.
Speaker 5: Something used to be done. But I don't know why
we can't just have that committee without the diplomats or
like the government, you know what I.
Speaker 4: Mean, because like and I guess at the heart of it,
if they could have the committee, but they're not gonna
have any say. So I'm not saying that the White
House will, but I guess if there's anybody that could, it.
Speaker 2: Would be the White House.
Speaker 4: Like Taylor, you say you don't like the judges being
involved in it, Well, the NCAAA is not enforcing anything.
They can't Well, because schools found the loophole.
Speaker 2: They just get their local like no point.
Speaker 4: Like nothing highlights that point better than our own coach
Lane Kiffin. You know, he's fantastic on social media, very active.
Did you see him at Dez Bryant yesterday? It does
Bryant just tweet something that he does. Brant just said,
good morning, yeah, and randomly Blane Kiffin said, good morning,
does want to get an injunction today? Like it's a
joke and it's funny, but it's also kind kind of true. No,
it's it's real. And look, the NCAA. You can criticize
them over plenty of things over the years. I'm not
saying you can't.
Speaker 6: But all the people that are against the changes and
everything happening in college football, I hear time and time again, well,
why doesn't the NCAA a step in and do something
they can't? The NCAA will oppose a rule and a
player in a school just be like, oh we're suing,
We'll take them to court, put a rule in our favor.
Don't care like their hands are completely tied here. I
don't know what people expect them to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's not like defend the NCAA in any of
this because they they opened up the floodgates. You started it, right,
you started it, and you got your surprised that a
country full of businessmen in competitive states found loopholes in
ways to say you got absolutely no power. And that's
what they've done. Now, how do you get it back?
They certainly can't get it back. Somebody is going to
have to get something back to some power to somebody
and not leave it up to as when Kiffen pointed
out injunctions and local judges who probably graduated from that
Alma water.
Speaker 2: So it's like, what's happening?
Speaker 4: So I, from my seat applaud the effort, and I
hope that there's something that can be done, at least
little things like just something like somebody show a little backbone,
somebody shows something that we can change a little bit. Yeah,
I don't have a lot of faith in it because
I think, like I said, the best business people in
the country and competitive states are always going to try
to find a way. But certainly sanctions would help. Certainly
penalties would help, but who's gonna enforce them? I got
no idea. And will we see Desbrian in LSU uniform
next year? Was really the main point of this whole segment, hope,
So get those get those injunctions filed. All right, we're
gonna kinda break You got anything to say, Kane, No,
all right, we're gonna go break stick with us, off
the bench.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you tired of talking about college football, college athletics,
how messed up it is.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe you need a nice cold beer and that's
gonna be dough.
Speaker 4: Secis do sekis that delicious Mexican lagger, lagger especial. I
think that's Spanish for special amber especial, Liman salt zero,
the Chlada, michelada, chilada, mango apple, you name it, they
got it.
Speaker 2: So if you it's the weekend, it's Friday. Look.
Speaker 4: We like to South Louisiana. We love to kick back,
relax with our family, our friends. We love to have
a good time. We love to laugh, we love to
tell stories. And guess what a little drink in the hand,
make sure it's a dose. Seconds you go to your
local watering hole, you go to your local grocery store,
wherever it is, wherever you find your stuff, make sure
you're grabbing that green bottle, a big green can, whatever
it is. Two x's on the front State thirty. My
friends do responsibly, But when you do drink, do sequis.
Speaker 1: I can't go any further than these.
Speaker 3: It's my biggest wish, from the locker room to the airwaves.
Gets off the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 1: And all those things. We used to, used to, used to,
used to do.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here number two from the Raised
Canes Studio. I think we pretty much solved everything college
football was college athletics.
Speaker 2: I was last segment.
Speaker 5: Tiger Woods alone. Probably absolutely Condeza Rice.
Speaker 4: I was writing her name down in my little notes here.
I've never spelled her name before.
Speaker 2: It's spelled ridiculous easy Ez.
Speaker 4: Doubles, absolutely ridiculous. Thank you for you know, service work
for the country. Actually a member of Augusta National as well.
One can only dream that is one of my bucket
list goals in life, as well as like tens of
thousands of other people play Augusta National. I'm just throwing
that out there, so if anybody's listening, No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: I've been. I've entered the lottery the last two years
and didn't hit.
Speaker 5: Dang, you don't know anybody. I mean, how can you
get in the Kentucky Derby but you can't get to
Augusta True.
Speaker 2: I know somebody.
Speaker 6: I mean it's a little bit more scott rabble egos
every year. Nice to the masters.
Speaker 2: I can get I can get a credential. Yeah, that's
that's what he does.
Speaker 6: The advocate gets him a credential every year and he
goes to the masters.
Speaker 4: Off the bench coming from you from amen corner'd be awesome.
You can just set up the table right right right there,
right there on the green. Yeah, I play the balls.
It lies, Bud.
Speaker 6: You could be an extra obstacle. They're like, you're gonna
have to hit the ball over the radio host he's
about two twenty out.
Speaker 2: No, I will not be quiet. I'm on radio.
Speaker 4: I'm live. Give the people what they want, these hot takes.
Roy mcroy's lined up to putt and he hears me go, babe, God,
it's Friday.
Speaker 2: Guys, did you see you? Do you do one show?
Speaker 6: Guarantee send you for like the week you call them
me Like, guys, I got kicked out day one.
Speaker 2: Want to come back. We took my credential. Let's do
it from the parking lot. Parking lot of Augusta at
least that would have been there.
Speaker 4: So, just like tens of thousands of other people, that's
one of my bucket lists, of course, play Augusta National.
I'm starting to get a little bit wary, and no,
I'm not as confident as I once was that it's
gonna happen.
Speaker 5: No, it's gonna happen. Okay, Okay, I don't know how
it's gonna happen, but you're gonna be at Augusta.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that attitude. There's not that many members. Yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Have to know at least one person that is in
Augusta or like has connections to it. You have to.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know a couple of people that have played,
but I don't know who they played with.
Speaker 5: But also I'm going to just speak it into existence
that you're going to get the lottery.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, like I believe even like members, they are regulated
on how many rounds they can play a year. Now
they can play a lot, of course, but so they
are very choosy of course on people they bring. Of course,
the if you're a member of Augusta, you have to
be invited. You can't apply, like it's a secret club.
Got to be invited, not cheap. It doesn't really matter
who you are. Everybody's treated the same.
Speaker 6: But look for you, the person you're you know, the
best that's the best shot is obviously Aaron Rodgers. But
how close are you to anyone affiliated with the Patriots
or Raiders because I promise you tom Brady could get
you in.
Speaker 4: Tom Brady can play a ghost if he wants to look.
I don't know if I mean tom Brady could find somebody.
If he's not a member, he can find somebody that
is a member. But he's not Peyton. He's not calling
Augusta and saying let me play around. That ain't happening.
I don't care who you are. He could get in, though,
he could find somebody to take him. I'm sure anybody
who getting off at the best to take him. I
believe Peyton Manning is a member. I believe Jake knows
Peyton Manning.
Speaker 2: That's the rumors. Why'd you point it, Kane? Is Jake's
normally sitting there? Kine has no I don't think dogs
are allows. A dog poop on the green.
Speaker 5: Someone that's listening to has to have something. So if
you if you love Matt Flinn, Matt Flynn won y'all
in national championship, get this man to.
Speaker 2: Augusta, take me to Augusta. Please.
Speaker 5: There's someone else, is it Todd Polites that always goes to.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a Todd thing.
Speaker 5: I might have that wrong, but somebody over there like
in the sports properties always goes Man when you and
Natty you can't get him to Augusta.
Speaker 2: Come on, Kane, what about your well your owner?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Todd.
Speaker 2: That he's gone.
Speaker 4: Well, I think the odds are probably like minus probably
thirty five hundred that I probably won't play.
Speaker 2: Your olds are better.
Speaker 5: You've like you've some odds for some of the stuff
that you've done in your life is probably pretty high.
Speaker 4: To JP, LeBlanc in the chest said, I couldn't even
get into play Angola.
Speaker 2: Angla does have a little golf course in a rodeo.
It's a great rodeo.
Speaker 5: No, but I hear it's great.
Speaker 2: Taylor, have you.
Speaker 6: Been where they once? When I was really really young,
Like I don't remember. I have like a picture of
me like they had like a stealthed bull, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't remember it. Uh, we went.
Speaker 4: The only time I've ever been was when we were
living in Saint Francisville and Huck was actually like newborn newborn.
Speaker 2: This was like that.
Speaker 4: I think it was the Fall the Fall rodeo and
he was born in early September.
Speaker 2: It took him. It was really it was fantastic.
Speaker 4: A lot of crafts people loading up on rocking chairs
and cutting boards and all sorts of stuff made there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear the arts actually pretty good.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's actually yeah, it was, it was. It was
actually really fun, really enjoyable. I'm sure a lot of
people listen and have been maybe multiple times. Yeah, people
do they like bring trailers and load up on Yeah,
you know, handmade furniture and all sorts of cool stuff.
Speaker 2: Very fun. I'd about to go.
Speaker 5: Should we call it J Clark?
Speaker 4: Yes, we're gonna go to break and when we come back,
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back right here off the Bench Friday
morning five from the Raizy Kines Studio. We are honored
to have coach Jay Clark your head coach of LSU
Gymnastics name joining the show this morning. We are thankful
each and every week that he joins. Coach, how you doing.
Speaker 7: Doing good this morning?
Speaker 2: Guys, Hell, y'all doing fantastic.
Speaker 4: We appreciate the time and apologize for being a couple
of minutes late. There is absolutely no reason for it.
We just absolutely just went off. We saw a squirrel
last segment and we just kind of kind of lost
track of time. So we apologize for the delay here, coach,
But glad that you're joining us. Well, let's talk about
let's talk about this past week. Let's talk about your
team and headed into a head and end the night
as well. So last week, last week, last Friday, you
lose a great match to a fantastic Oklahoma team, of course,
but you put up a season high road score, kaylen
Chio with a pair of tens on the night.
Speaker 2: How do you think.
Speaker 4: Let's let's get a little recap of that meat and
how how your team did well?
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, in our sport and people hear
me say this and they they kind of get confused.
It's the wins and losses don't determine an awful lot
for us. It's you know, our our scoring average is
what determines how we're seated in the postseason. So even
in a loss, we ended up improving our position nationally
and putting some distance between us and and uh some
other people that are that are below us. But at
the same time, we do want to win them all
and and uh it does matter to us. But when
you go into an environment like that Oklahoma had their
first sell out and program history of an incredible environment very
similar to what we experienced here at feedback on a
regular basis, and and uh it was a great environment.
And when you can stay within two tenths of a
team that's at or above where you're scoring averages, you
you kind of come away feeling like, in many ways
that's a win. It's uh, you our environment is probably
worth two tents to us and and uh and so
when you can stay with them and and and do
what you've done is the competence booster, even in defeat,
which is kind of anesthetical to the way most people think.
But at the same time, we felt good about what
we did. I felt like we raised our floor. Which
has sort of been a theme of ours this year
is that every week we want to raise our floor.
We don't know where our ceiling is. We think our
ceiling is very very high. But but every week, week
over week, we want to raise our floor. And we
felt like we did that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you're you're your leader, Kaylin. She has a
pair of tins on the night. Yet, just for the
the lay man out there, talk tell us what goes
into a perfect How incredibly difficult is that to achieve
in gymnastics because obviously it's a perfect score, there's no
flaws in any but like from they has to be
the best of the best doing the best routine on
a special night. But your team continues to make it
look a little bit routine. How just how difficult is
that to do well?
Speaker 7: She in particular makes it look routine and and honestly
on the ball, and I thought she had done some
better balls that had not gotten that And and there
is a subjectivity to all of it, you know, it's
what's seen by that judge in that moment, and and
uh so it was a it was one hell of
a ball for sure that she that she did, But
we felt like there were some others that probably could
have done the same thing. So much of it is
you know, the level of consistency that you show, and
you know, it's like anything else. Michael Jordan could get
away with a lot of stuff on the court because
because of the reputation that he built for himself as
being the best player ever and and so similar similar
to that. Over time, you know, you you you build
a reputation for doing things at the highest level and
the most consistent level. And and sometimes there's an expectation
that gets built into the human element of judging what
is inherently a subjective sport. You know, all sports have
subjectivity in him, ours is the most obvious because everything
is judged. But uh, you're not going to tell me
that colling balls and strikes is not subjected. And you're
not going to tell me that that past interference is
not subjected. So there's there's a lot of things that
are that are similar. Ours is just most obvious. And
I think she's just more than anything. She does an
amazing job being consistent week over week, and I think
that helps her achieve those individual accolades. Although you're not
gonna hear me talking awful lot about the individual stuff.
It's very short lived with us and and it's not
something that we really emphasize it all. I'm just glad
she's on our team and puts those kind of numbers
up for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you bring up that's such a great point
because anywhere in life, and especially in sports, that subjectivity
comes into play in so many things. And the person
that is consistent, usually whether a ref for a judge
means to or not, will give you the benefit of
the doubt. And certainly she wins at SEC Gymnast of
the week for I think the fourth time this year,
which is gonna give you a lot of benefit of
the doubt. Yeah, but you come back home. You're coming
back home tonight. Look to continue your dominance at home.
I believe it's an eighteen meet win streak in the
PMAC and looking to extend that to nineteen take on Aliban,
number three, Alabama and the PMACK. How are you feeling?
I believe we're getting pretty close to the postseason here,
So how are you feeling coming back home? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean we feel really good. The thing you got
to worry about is you come out of a big
emotional build up and high of going on the road
one versus two, and how does that affect you? But
I've been I've been pretty pleased with what I've seen
in preparation this week. I think we're in a good place.
We we know that Alabama is a vastly improved team
over over what they were last year, and and fully
expect them to push us and give us a test
in there tonight. And and that's where our environment comes
into play, because you know, uh, the battery can get
drained when you get late in the season like this,
and it can, it can. It can be tough to
get up week over week over week and stay at
that at that fever page. So we need our fans
to get in there early and loud and and prime
prime the pump, if you will, a little bit, and
and and get in there and create an environment for us.
But we're excited about it. I think we're relatively healthy
for the most part. We helped some kids out last
week against Oklahoma, and still we're able to do what
we did and and uh, I think over the last
the last three weeks of the season, our goal is
to continue to improve but also get get a little
bit healthier and be all guns of blazing when by
the time we get into March and.
Speaker 4: April because I'm curious as to like you talk. I
know that the PMAC and your team, they have the
advantage of having some of the best fan bases and
the best home crowds in the entire country. What does
that mean to your girls when they're performing? And I know,
like when you go on the road, it's not necessarily
like some of the other sports where it's like super
hostile environment when you're performing on the road, but you'd
be surprised, I can imagine for sure, But I'm assuming
that it gives them. I think you talked about it
earlier in an answer about maybe a two tenths advantage
or something close to that. But like, what is that
feel like for the girl? What is that advantage they
get from the home crub.
Speaker 7: Well, it's just the energy that comes down you walk
into a room of thirteen thousand people that don't necessarily
know everything about your sport because it you know, they
understand some basics, but they don't understand everything, but they're
at a fevered pitch because of the fact that you're
wearing purple and gold. That energy just it just it
just feeds our kids. And the challenge for us on
the road has always been. Are we dependent on that?
You know that we don't want to be dependent on it.
We want to we want to use it to our
advantage when we're at home, and certainly we do and
but but we can't become dependent on that. It means
an awful lot. I'll tell every recruit that comes on
our campus the first thing I show them when we
walk into PMAC is when they come out of that tunnel.
And I promise you, if you come to LSU the
first time you come out of that tunnel and it's
dark and all you can see is the flashlights on
people's phones, but you hear the thunder coming down, raining
down on you, It'll it'll make the hair on the
back of your neck stand up, and it'll be one
of the most memorable things you have in your lifetime.
And so it's unique to to LSU. Uh. There's not
another environment like it in our sport. There's one other
that can get close to the numbers that that get
into their arena, but there's not an environment like ours.
Ours is loud, Ours is raucous. Ours is fast paced
and entertaining, and it's it's just something special and unique
to our to our our place here at l s U.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let coach.
Speaker 4: I couldn't like even imagine doing what they do in
an environment like that. Like I played football, like I
was able to like crowd noise, Great, you just run
and hit somebody, right, You didn't have to stand on
a tiny beam. You didn't have to execute a like
all the crazy uh crazy things that they are able
to do in such an environment. And that kind of
like brings me to my next question, Like you have
a lot of a lot of veterans on the squad,
a lot of a lot of classmen, and does it
help and you navigate such a hard schedule throughout the year,
Like does it help having them who's like really taking
on those leadership roles from just like a psychology standpoint,
getting getting the team ready each and every week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, going into this year, I was concerned
because you lose a Hayley Bryant and Leah Finnigan and
kJ John. We lost a lot of production and a
lot of boys in kids last year, and and I
was concerned who's gonna who's gonna fill those those those
voids and those gaps, and really kept waiting to see
is it gonna be one or two kids that kind
of step to the forefront. I mean, obviously Chio has
done it leading by example, but she's also matured an
awful lot into saying a lot more and bring a
lot more to the table. But it's been sort of
by committee. It's interesting. We've got a freshman that Nina
Blue that really she's so frigging passionate about LSU. She's
been coming to our camp since she was seven years old,
and every day she reminds everybody that it is such
an incredible blessing. It's like the dream of a lifetime
to be here doing what she's doing, and she inspires
an awful lot. We got transfers that have come in
that are seniors from other places that are grateful for
the resource and and the team that they have around
them now that they didn't have at other places, and
they provide us with a lot of context and perspective
on how blessed we are to have everything that we
that we have. So it's been by committee. And I
kept wondering early on where we're gonna what was the
identity of this team gonna be, And really it's an
identity of kind of a collective support for one another, there.
I mean, these kids love each other and it's evident.
And you guys know what you've been in locker rooms
when you know you have that and when you don't.
And and for the most part, our kids are very
much together. And I think that makes a huge difference,
even in an individual sport where they go one at
a time. It changes the way the pressure feels when
you know that you're doing it for each other. And
I think that's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that kind of chemistry does show through on all sports,
and it has certainly shown through with your team coach.
You got, of course, the meet tonight and then Sunday
the podium challenge. How does that and it's a it's
a four team, four team meet, So how does that
kind of change your preparation? Does it really change like
having more teams in a meat Does that change the
way you go about or structure the roster.
Speaker 7: No, but it gives us. It gives us sort of
a dress rehearsal for what's coming in about three weeks
at the SEC Championships, we get on a podium, there's
four teams. It changes the format a little bit just
in terms of the pace of the meat, and it's
I think it's important to experience that. When we're on
a podium on a raised surface, the equipment feels different.
It's got a little more bounced to it than when
you're laying it down on a basketball floor. And so
we just make those adjustments and and get it get
in a different, uh sort of space spatially, because so
much of what our kids do, you know, they're ten twelve,
some cases thirteen feet are better in the air and
flipping and twisting. They're very visual. They spot things like
like camera splashes going off, and being on an elevated
surface like that can change that spatial awareness a little bit.
So it's just a good experience for us as we
get ready for the postseason. Really doesn't matter how many
teams or who's on the floor. We don't have defense
and things that really affect us in terms of who's
out there with us. But it's it's very valuable for us,
and we hope, I mean, the hard part is is
that we're two miles down the road and our fans
are going to see us on Friday night, and will
they still come out on Sunday and will the environment,
you know, feel good in there, and that's something that
we want to encourage our fans to get down there
on Sunday afternoon too. I said the other day, you
get to church, get some lunch, get your kids out,
go to a meet, get them fed, and get them
in bed. That's the way your Sunday needs to look.
And so we're hopeful that everybody will come see us
on Monday afternoon down there too.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you came up with that, but
that is fantastic. Coach.
Speaker 4: Everybody listening, go out support support your tigers as they
take on Alabama. And then they got the podium challenge
on Sunday, and he is, mister j Clark. We appreciate
your time. We will be watching, we will be cheering,
we will be chanting tens all weekend long.
Speaker 2: So we appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2: Of course, thank you so much. We appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right there, he gets head coach, have your gymnastics team,
LSU Gymnastics, Jay Clark. Fantastic insight, fantastic look into the team,
the mindset, the girls, the meats, everything so awesome and
absolutely the best gymnastics fan base in the entire country,
and I can promise you that because there's like I
have two little girls who love gymnastics, and there's like
ten like fantastic gymnastics schools here at that region. I
got to say that all of those has to be
in correlation and in response to the popularity of the
LSU gymnastics team.
Speaker 2: So good luck to them.
Speaker 4: Hope they continue their rain number two in the country,
taking on number three to night in the PMAC l
s U versus Alabama.
Speaker 2: All right, stick with us, we will be right back
right here, off the bench.
Speaker 3: Off the bench, locked in on LSU football twenty four
to seven.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Off the bench.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here off the bench, closing out
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get an update I'd forgot to hear at the beginning
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