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Speaker 3: What's going on today, guys?
Speaker 1: Uh No, Jake Hester as unfortunately our guy is stuck
in travel hell currently in Shreveport, we believe, somehow trying
to find a way home.
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out with you today.
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Speaker 1: Talk Snowpocalypse and National Championship Hour number one, as well
as the big takeaways we'll talk about of LSU going
in next year here as we kind of wrap up
the college football season.
Speaker 3: Uh all, got it to say Saints coaching church as well?
Right now?
Speaker 1: What? And I haven't researched this topic as much as
I will after the show because I didn't think about it, honestly,
but it seems to be parkling a bit, and it's
what Aaron wants to talk about on snaps today. But
was this first twelve team playoff of bust. People are
saying waiting waiting ratings are way down. I've not seen
ratings for the National Championship yet. I thought they would
be bangered because it's the two biggest fan bases in
America and it's on a Monday night, not really competing
against anything but just surface level before you get into numbers,
and we're gonna dive straight to coach, You're not gonna
stay here.
Speaker 3: Do you think this twelve team playoff was a bust?
I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was a bust. I mean, sure,
ratings are down a little bit. You mean to tell
me that twelve games is gonna get slightly lower ratings
than four games or four teams? Not super shocked to
buy that, true. I would like to see the National
Championship ratings though. I mean those are two huge fan bases. Yeah,
and you know people around in this area didn't have
to wake up early and go to work the next morning,
so like, I imagine look them up. I imagine the
Championship ratings of themselves are really really good.
Speaker 1: I thought I think I thought they would be too.
That's what it's going for. Before the game, Elandra bust
or not. I the bust are not to bust bust.
Speaker 5: No, actually, I have said. I said this last week
when I was trying to like defend myself from being
a scrooge, that I enjoy the twelve team playoff. But
if you're asking, like in a general level, I can't
really I can't really tell.
Speaker 1: I can't tell if it's like how much of it
is spurned lovers, because a lot of SEC fans are like, ah,
aren't because my team didn't make it or my team
got knocked out and how And that's the most mean.
We are the most passionate college football region. Yeah, And
it's like anything else where. It's like anything anytime something
is big and new, you're gonna have people kind of
lining up to crap all over it. But then I
guess the other side of that is I can't really
trust myself because my entire job covering college football, so
of course I want more games. It's all like more
games to break down and react to and all that.
So I'm not exactly unbiased at all in this.
Speaker 4: In this conversation twenty two point one million viewers on average,
I peaked at twenty six point one trillion, the most
watched non NFL sporting event over the past year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I think I think maybe Ohio State Michigan last year
would have rivaled that. And then I do know that
LSU Alabama the game this injury back in twenty eleven
was over twenty million. So yeah, so so NAST championship
brating's fine, very good, very good still And if you
ever compared to the NFL, well don't because nothing beats
the NFL.
Speaker 3: It is in a class unto itself. You may be saying, oh,
when were we gonna get a good championship?
Speaker 1: And that is something I agree with because do you
realize how long it's been since we've had a good final,
like a goo, a good championship. It's been since twenty eighteen. Now,
it may not feel that long ago. The twenty six
to twenty three overtime Alabama Georgia where Tua comes in
and saves the day against all odds. But so that
was eighteen and nineteen Clemson dominates Alabama forty four to sixteen.
Of course, in well, sorry, I'll call it eighteen because
it was it took place in January nineteen, but you know,
in eighteen, so it really has been actually sorry, it's
really been since the seventeen eighteen season that we've had
a close championship game, because then it was forty four
sixteen Clipson OVERVA, And there's forty two to twenty five
LSU over Clemson, fifty two to twenty four, Alabama over
Ohio State, thirty three eighteen, Georgia over Alabama, sixty five
to seven, Georgia over TCU, thirty four to thirteen Washington,
Michigan over Washington, and then thirty four twenty three OHIU
SSET over No.
Speaker 3: Dame. So really, this is the closest.
Speaker 1: Game that you've had since twenty seventeen, this game that
we kind described as all right, So I don't know
what it is the fact that just like the the
elephant emerges in the room by year's end, I'm not
entirely sure, but and this happens. You know, we see
this sometimes in the Super Bowls, well you see blowouts.
Maybe not with this consistency, but yeah, here's still hoping
that we can get a more competitive championship next season.
Speaker 5: I know that it goes back to like before the
twelve team playoff, but we were talking about the seating
a few weeks ago Yeah, I wonder if like that's
why for this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was such a and.
Speaker 5: I guess like ten points really isn't that big of
a discrepancy, but Ohio State dominated most of the game.
It didn't get close until like later.
Speaker 1: No, again, it's a it's a massive credit to it's
a massive credit to Notre Dame. They somehow find a way,
found a way to get their game somewhat interesting because
it was a disaster for a lot of it or uninteresting.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 1: Down three million dollars from tcu UJ last year, or
three million dollars three million views or sorry from Michigan
Washington last year.
Speaker 3: I find that to be a bit shocking.
Speaker 1: Though maybe there were some novelty in like a no
SEC final, But yeah, that is surprised that they would
have not been last year. As far as the seed launes,
certainly right, it's a one year sample size, so I
think people are always gonna be hesitant to being too
reactive and we'll probably wait and get a second year.
But like, my biggest takeaway and what to change for
the playoffs would be simply that seed it based in
the rankings. I think you would have had better round
one matchups and it would have cut down on a
lot of the the the complaining. So we'll probably have
the system again next year, and then who knows what
sweeping changes they will make after that.
Speaker 4: Honestly, though, the seeding may have made it a little
bit more exciting down the stretch, not round one because
High of State Notre Dame, like neither of them were
a top four seed, neither of them had a first
round by, like they had to kind of play the
long game here, Like it made it less boring down
the stretch, Like if the top two seeds what I
had the first round by made it to the national championship,
not really that big of a deal, Like you knew,
OHI State was good, they still had to play that
extra game and then Notre Dame kind of became the
Cinderella team.
Speaker 6: So like down't a stretch, it may have actually helped.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Janets has competed against inauguration. Uh that is true, that is.
Speaker 6: I mean not really.
Speaker 4: I mean the inauguration started at what ten am on Monday.
Speaker 3: It was pretty I mean but at least some viewers
are being leading.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was pretty much wrapped up by like
six o'clock but I'm talking about even coverage of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you, if you and a lot of people
are really into it, and if and if you are,
you know, if you are someone who loves politics and
just engage you all that this inauguration. And maybe it's
just because of like you know, with the portion of
the country you live in and who a lot of
the people you know, who people are fans of around
these parts. But man, listening to like my father in
law and others some others talk, it's like this. This
felt like listening to people who really care about the
royal family in England when they have like you know,
a new king or.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 1: Like this was like akin to Royal family coverage listening
to people talk about the inauguration so that, I mean
I could see, I could see I could definitely see
that taking away.
Speaker 3: Some some viewership. Without a doubt.
Speaker 5: Inauguration scores nearly twenty five million viewers, but it was
down twenty seven percent from twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Really that I find that to be pretty shocking, given
the kind of historic nature of a guy getting back
in after being out. But anyway, I don't know, I
can't party your omuched effect that had.
Speaker 3: I guess you got to ask, so maybe.
Speaker 1: Maybe putt put it put a poll in the in
the chat here, do they believe that what was this
first year of the twelve team playoff of success?
Speaker 3: Or was it a bust? Again?
Speaker 1: I'm not one to answer because I would never answer
bust because I love college football and I had a
good time watching it. But also it's because I directly
benefit and monetize college football.
Speaker 5: So we are also kind of like an echo chamber.
So I just don't know what the pulse is outside
of like where we were, because we're like so in it.
That was like, I just I don't know what the
normal Joe.
Speaker 3: Oh, I forget that all the time, dude. Yeah, So
I'll get to people just.
Speaker 1: Like what it's like to be a normal person who
just doesn't fill their head with useless sports knowledge all
days and transfer portal and high school hard body teams.
Speaker 5: One time, when I was back home in Texas, we
were watching the Saints game and Bub Means like caught
a touchdown and everybody was like, who is bub Means?
And I was like, unfortunately, I know who Means.
Speaker 1: Maybe reword this question you said, was one team college
football playoff of bust, that's what we used to do.
I'm sorry, I thought I put that's what we used
to do, the one team college all play off. Or
they just decide who's a champion at the end.
Speaker 5: Uh, that's kind of crazy to decide who the champion is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean again, regretting the run up to this game.
One of the wildest little anecdotes they stumbled across was
a Penn State team that when undefeated, they had two
Heisman finalists. They dominated Oregon in the Rose Bawl to
close out the season. They had a bunch of first
a bunch of draft picks on it, and at the
end of the year the voters are like, no, Nebraska's
national champs.
Speaker 3: Like what hold on now? I mean pissed. So I
get like I get in light of that, this is.
Speaker 1: Absolutely a better champion. It's like I said, this was
a couple of truths, and then we'll move on to
gets Saints because I didn't mean to do this again,
but here we are a couple of truths about this
Ohio State team.
Speaker 3: They had.
Speaker 1: Objectively the hardest final path to the collegewell playoffs. We
have never seen that many quality opponents in a row
in order to win a championship, having to go through Tennessee, Oregon,
Texas and then Notre Dame like this Year's what I mean,
can we stop it? Appreciate everyone? That's absolutely insane. Now
what this led to is minne Ohio State fansay, and
this has to be one of the best teams ever right. Well, unfortunately, no,
take a seat, young skywalker, because while we grant you
the rank of champion, you do not get to sit
on the Greatest Teams of All Time Council because of
your two losses. And this is something that I think
is going to take getting some use, getting used to
here where the team that wins the championship can be
the best team, which Ohio State I think by years
in very clearly was, but they can also be a
team that underachieved at times. There is more margin of
error nowadays. You don't have to be absolutely perfect all
year long, maybe like you did in the past. So
did Ohio State under Achieva times to see you're sure absolutely,
I mean, the Michigan thing will haunt them forever, but
in the end they were clearly the best football team,
which is wild considering that's what we all thought entering.
Speaker 3: The season as well. And here we sit at the
end of the season.
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a lot has happened over the last couple of days.
And the first off is, I guess has to do
with who is no longer there.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: This first name doesn't mean much because he wasn't ever
seriously in played for the Sames. But Ben Johnson, and
you know, a move that we all kind of thought
was coming. Ben Johnson after the Lions get eliminated, has
been announced as the Chicago bears next head coach. He
will throw his lot in with Caleb Williams and see
if he can bring success to the Bears. In some
news that was much more relevant to the New Orleans Saints,
Aaron Glenn has decided to become the head coach of
the New York Jets. And I do find this to
be a bit funny, because you know, we we were
sitting here, like, oh, some people saying Eric Glenn. He's
been telling everybody he clearly wants the He clearly wants
the New York Jet job over the New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Saints, and.
Speaker 1: That was quote vehemently refuted, But I don't know, it
feels like it actually was the case, as he never
took a visit down here. He went up to New York,
they kept him from getting out of the city. He never
made his way down to New Orleans as he decided
to accept the job and end up as the New
York Jets d coach. And really, I mean a cool
moment for Aaron Glenn. I'm sure he's drafted by the
Jets in ninety four. He then starts scouting for them
in twenty twelve, so both his playing and coaching career
began here at one of the most legendary, if not
the most successful NFL franchises of all time. One of
the biggest stages to go from being a young player
and a young scout to now you are the head
man of the organization. Very cool moment for Aaron Glynn. Right,
drafted ninety for scouting in twenty twelve, now in twenty
twenty five, about twelve a year, you know, but a
decade gap between each one. He's the head coach, badass
rister and Glenn Boy. That means is he's no longer
in play for the Northern Saints. Okay, well, then who
is number one? And it seems like right now most
Saints wish lists have two names on them, and the
context surrounding the names are pretty polar. Opposite one is
Joe Brady. Of course, everybody around these parts knows Joe
Brady used to be a Saints assistant that he goes
to LSU co offensive coordinator Hemp, Steve Innsminger and Joe
Burrow engineer maybe the greatest offense that we've ever seen.
He then from there rockets to the top right to Carolina.
You know, the u knew hot phenom under matt rule,
and it just did not work out in Carolina. But
he didn't give up, continue to grind. He ends up
getting this Bills job and it's gone very well. Josh
Allen has a career year, despite the fact that he
doesn't have the weapons that he's had in the past,
and well overall, Joe Brady's resume, while not the most extensive,
is very impressive when you look at the highs of it,
and so.
Speaker 3: A lot of people.
Speaker 1: He's kind of that lottery ticket candidate right where no
head coaching resume, but young at the forefront. I guess
you could say of offensive theory. Again, Josh Allen was
always awesome, but he was more awesome this year than
he's ever been. So you credit Brady for that. You
figure that the Saints over the next couple of years
will be in the market for a young quarterback. Well,
when don't you want to pair him with a very good,
young offensive mind to maybe get him ready. So that
Joe Brady, that is something that he would check all
of those boxes. And then the other one's Mike McCarthy.
And there's a lot of talk out there that maybe
Mike McCarthy's the actual front runner and he's opposite of Brady,
and that again he has a very extensive head coaching
resume approven winner. As we said, it's basically the exact
same resume as Sean Payton and Mike Tomlin, only maybe
slightly better. Really functionally not better, but but like objectively
slightly better.
Speaker 3: But what do you think about this fact?
Speaker 1: One of the other key differences between McCarthy and Joe
Brady is the market for him.
Speaker 3: The Saints don't really appear.
Speaker 1: To be competing with anybody for Mike McCarthy's services, and
that is something that always gives me a bit of pause. Now, again,
the resume is the resume. It's a very good, proven
winner in the NFL. So should it concern me as
much as it does? Like, I don't know that it's
the most solid basis of analysis. If it's just that
my biggest problem with hiring the guys that nobody else
wants to hire.
Speaker 3: But I don't also think that it's nothing.
Speaker 1: Whereas with Joe Brady, he's one of the top names ormaining,
and in fact, it looks like your main competition for Brady,
if that's where you end up going, is going to
be Jacksonville. And we mentioned it, we were talking about
one of the best jobs available. Do we end up
putting the Bears? And then Jackxville is the top two?
Speaker 6: So we did Bears. Jacksonville was three.
Speaker 3: Okay, who was two? Either way, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is that the reporting is that the
Saints and Jacksonville are going to be fighting over Joe Brady,
and I wonder if the Saints it's funny this weather
potentially not timing up at the best time as a
lot of these interviews that had to be pushed back
to the end of the week, and especially with Brady,
got to wait for him to get done with this
playoff run.
Speaker 3: Now potential between the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Maybe could fly in and do a in person visit,
or maybe you just keep it a virtual But the
bottom line is if you do, if it is Joe Bradle, Like,
if you want Joe Brady, can you do what the
Jets did to you? Where can you get him in
town before Jacksonville does? And then if he is your guy,
allow him not to leave. Don't even give him a
chance to go visit Jacksonville and meet Trevor Lawrence and
get all excited about what potentially could be there, the
same way the Jets to not give Aaron Glenn a
chance to come to New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I think that the Saints are
a more attractive job than Jacksonville, but he does have
some ties already here in New Orleans. Here's an interesting
side note that I read that has nothing to do
with the Saints, but Liam Cohen actually turned down He
was thought to be the front runner for the Jags job,
and then he took his name out the running.
Speaker 3: I wonder why he would feel, like for.
Speaker 1: Liam Cohen that this would be like, you know, getting
an NFL head job would be the culmination of a
lifetime of work. And then in the Jags, well, yeah
it's Jacksvill. I mean, you got Lawrence, got everybody else.
But maybe something going on behind the scenes there that
in NFL circles people not to impress. I'm not untillly sure,
but Liam Cohen taking his name out of the running.
Speaker 4: So Jacksonville just fired their GM last piety, yeah, which
a lot of people were on board with. But also
I think that's a good move for Cohen because look,
he's had a lot of success with Baker and if
you remember Member in LA they were together, so they've
been together two stops, They've had a lot of success.
I'm guessing that's not the job he absolutely wanted. I mean,
there's teams out there like Cincinnati Bengals that have a
really good quarterback that their coaches on the hot seat.
Maybe Cohen's thinking, hey, I'm really good with Baker, We're
in all likelihood going to have a good season together
offensively next year. I can I can bounce off of
that and get any job I want.
Speaker 1: Maybe so maybe he wants to be the next Ben Johnson.
We'll see if he can end up getting there. But
so again, I feel like I'm beat a bit scattered here.
I was a little distracted and started the segment. But
Joe Brady, Mike McCarthy, those appear to be the Saint's
top two options. Not much competition for McCarthy. Looks like
you'll be competing with Jacksonville for Brady. Who do you
prioritize with the timing you could get McCarthy in for
a visit this week and if you have for an
impress visit, do you go ahead.
Speaker 3: And pull the trigger if that's your guy? Or do
you be patient?
Speaker 1: Do you wait and you kind of see what happens
with the bills this weekend and whether or not maybe
you can get Brady in sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3: We'll have to see. Speaking of interesting GM rumors, so TJ.
Speaker 1: Jones, who does Saints podcasts, he's a really good follow
on Twitter. Good guy, but he had a pretty interesting
tweet that has done some numbers here. And and I'll
be clear about this tweet.
Speaker 3: I do not.
Speaker 1: Believe it to be one like factual in the sense
that I think that the person that told TJ this
would definitely be a person considered to to to.
Speaker 3: To be in the know.
Speaker 1: And I think there is probably some truth here, even
if it is a bit hyperbolized. But he tweeted out
quote the New Orleans Saints had a strong chance of
hiring Airon Glenn as their head coach. However, Glenn requested
that the team consider moving on from Mickey Loomis's general
manager and allow him to be involved in the hiring
of a new GM. The Saints are not willing to
make this change, according to sources, So again, that seems
like I don't think it's crazy to think that Aaron
Glenn may have, through some back channels maybe gotten that
across we are we are we willing to do this.
Speaker 3: But also it's probably not as.
Speaker 1: Clear cut as the tweet makes it out to be.
I guess the overall takeaway here would be that it's
a rumor that is perfectly positioned to trigger Saints fans because,
as we said objectively and almost any other franchise, Mickey
Loomis would get what happened to Trent Paulkey today and
he would no longer be GM, but because the unique
circumstances here where he is essentially a made man and
he can decide, hey, I do not want to fire myself.
Of course he's not going to. And how much of
a turnoff If it was a turnoff for Aaron Glynn,
how much of a turnoff is it for McCarthy or
Joe Brady. I mean, I guess McCarthy's just getting done
dealing with Jerry Jones. So can't get much more extreme
than that in terms of your kind of owner GM
combination that Mickey Loomis kind of represents. But it's the
last chance for Mickey to try to get this right.
Worrely end up going. We will just have to wait
and see. But Ben Johnson gone, Aaron gLing gone, and
it looks like Joe Brady and Mike McCarthy the next
guy's up to the podium.
Speaker 3: Anything for me, move on search.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say this in the group chat last
night because we were talking about it, or was it
the day before or something like that. I was gonna say, like,
I don't think anybody else is really going after Mike McCarthy. No,
and the Joe Brady thing for Sumer, like I don't
hate it, but I don't want the Saints to be
an experiment for him to be like a head coach.
Speaker 3: If that makes sense, well, I.
Speaker 5: Mean you go ahead, no, Like I just I just
feel like it'd be a better fit if we had
Mike McCarthy. But you make a good point, like is
he gonna want to deal with Jerry Jones Junior?
Speaker 3: Like I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I think, I think, I think, Look, I think
that is the entire conversation, is uh the you know,
we keep calling them lottery ticket OC's. Yeah, do you
try to hit on your Kevin O'Connell. You're you're young
OC who understands or you may maybe to a lesser
extent because he's a bit older, but like a Kyle
Shanahan or something right, but like euroc or like Sean
McVay when he was hit on a few years ago,
what was he thirty three, thirty one? Maybe even something ridiculous, absurd,
like do you want that guy? Because if you get
that guy, like if Joe Brady is that guy, then you're.
Speaker 3: Good for what ten years? Yeah, fifteen years?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's you know, that's the lottery But then
it's also you know, you scratch off the numbers and
you don't win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know with nothing.
Speaker 1: No, I was just gonna say, it's I guess it's
simply this Brady potential higher ceiling. But you know, Mike
McCarthy has a high floor. Like you don't know about
Brady's floor. The floor could completely fall fall out.
Speaker 5: He's also used to like Joe Burrow and Josh Allen
not Derek Yeah, are so well.
Speaker 4: And to her point, when he was the OC at
the Panthers, he didn't have a quarterback and it ended
kind of badly. So right now, like is it Brady
is at the QB.
Speaker 6: We don't know. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4: We were talking about the Jaguars fire and their GM,
right there's a rumor that they might bring in Mike
McCarthy for an interview.
Speaker 6: That's that's something that's that's happening.
Speaker 4: And I got to be honest, I think Mike McCarthy
fits at the Jacksonville Jaguars perfectly. You need somebody to
come in and fix Trevor Lawrence. You've seen because say
what you want about Dak Prescott, more times than not,
Mike McCarthy got the best version of Dak Prescott. He's
won a Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers. He's been there,
done that. He knows how to build a culture. That
Jacksonville team offensively and defensively, has a lot of really
really young talent. They just need a leader, They need
somebody to establish a culture. I think Mike McCarthy's actually
perfect for the John.
Speaker 1: War It is interesting though, because they're coming off of
Doug Peterson, I get it, who was very similar now
doesn't have the overall resume of McCarthy, but also a
veteran coach, also super Bowl winner, also a guy at
at times did maximize quarterback play.
Speaker 4: So I just think that you can't you can't waste
any more of Trevor Lawrence. If Joe Brady doesn't work out,
you almost have to go get a sure thing.
Speaker 6: If you're the.
Speaker 4: Jacks, when you're the Saints, you almost cut your losses
at this point. You know what, Derek Cars he's been
in the league for a long time. He's not gonna
get you that Trevor. We've seen those flashes. If you
can get a coach to kind of get him going
in the right direction, your all franchise can turn around all.
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Speaker 6: Off the bench, this better in the works.
Speaker 3: You know you got to step up your game to
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Speaker 2: No, You're gonna find out to live on your own.
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Speaker 3: Sap then, you know. So, y'all, welcome back to OTV
LSU Baseball. How about guys right around the corner, are
you just like three weeks away now? Yeah? Hell yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, Well, I shout out to the LSU baseball team
as a couple of guys name two preseason to the
D one Baseball preseason All American teams. And it's one
name that you recognize and one that I don't know.
I mean, we probably won't because we're still, you know,
getting used to this new team. Don I'm sure many
of you will. I did not again, I apologize, but
Bear Jones named a first team All American and Daniel
Dickinson named a third team All American by D one Baseball.
Of course, Bear last year finishes three to oh one
on the year, fourteen double two troubles, twenty eight home runs.
It's actually the most for an LSU player since two
thousand and eight. Fifty nine ribbies, fifty six runs scored.
He was second in the SEC with fifty nine walks,
fifth in home runs, fifth in slugging, ninth in total bases.
And that guy's coming back. Hell yeah, especially when you
look at the jump from his freshman year to last year. Right,
look at the jump of the average, the plate discipline,
the jump and walks, the cut down in K's like
if he were to do a similar jump, which, granted,
because he set the bar so high, it's probably possible
to do the same kind of jump. But if he were,
you could be talking about a legitimate Golden Spikes Canada
in Bear Jones and then speaking of Daniel Dickinson. So
this is the guy who transfers to LSU from Utah Valley.
He's a three sixty nine career average hitter in two
seasons at Utah Valley, twenty seven home runs, ninety five ribbies,
a nearly five hundred on base percentage his first time
all whack last year in twenty four. That's three sixty
fourteen doubles, eighteen home runs, fifty three of his thirty
two stolen bases. He's the number thirty one college prospect
in the MLB Draft, according to D one baseball dot com.
So shout out to those guys. One name you know
and another face who's new but should have a massive impact.
Daniel Dixon and Bear Jones are your D one Baseball
preseason All Americans.
Speaker 5: So Kochie and I had Daniel Dickinson starting a second
US year.
Speaker 3: Right, and then Mylon moving a shorts up, and we
had him in the middle of the lineup too.
Speaker 5: I think I had him like above where Kochie had him,
but yeah, we had him like clean up.
Speaker 3: It's interesting.
Speaker 1: He obviously has some pop in the bat, but with
an average ed high with the thirty two stolen bases,
who knows where he ends up. Maybe he ends up
finding his way near the top of lineup the leader.
I don't know exactly, but I do know that I
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anything else has been percolating in your baseball loving stitchhead brain.
Speaker 5: Honestly, not really, because I'm just I'm just so ready
for it to be here. Alla, Like I'm I'm very
excited about this team. Like you said, Baseball America has
them second D one has them third number one transfer
class in the country if I remember correctly. So I'm
just very very excited, especially about the newcomers like Daniel Dickinson.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the new pitching staff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just keep thinking about Chase Shores. Dude, six',
eight let's freaking. Go i'm so.
Speaker 6: EXCITED i, WAS i.
Speaker 1: WAS i was talking to someone about him the other,
day AND i cannot imagine what it would be like
standing in the. Box and and, actually SO i had
this conversation with a cat my my cousin was. Dating
he came To lake a few years. Back a guy
remember the two lane player that got the home run
off Of skeens in the regional it's just like a one,
off just kind of got a hold of. One, well
he ended up coming to. Lake the PLAYER i can't
remember his, name but he didn't come to the. Lake
and so we're sitting there having beers or whatever around Four,
july and we're asking about, it and he described facing
Down Paul skans and just you know how his his
frame with the addition of the, mound it looks like
you might as well be facing down some sort of you,
know giant or cave troll and the balls just coming,
down humming at.
Speaker 3: It he was kind of.
Speaker 1: Laughing he's, like, YEAH i just kind of got, lucky
just swung and managed to get. One BUT i can only,
IMAGINE i, Mean Chase short's even bigger Than, Skiings he's.
THICKER i can only imagine what it looks like that
the face down Shores. Lambert, yeah is that two hit
the home? Run?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah he wasn't a long term. Boyfriend he he did.
NOT i haven't seen him again. Since situationship is All i'll.
SAY i don't.
Speaker 1: Know maybe maybe maybe fling is more appropriate than. Situationship
i'm not sure. It, hey he can always say that
he hit a home run off Of pulse, Right and that's, awesome,
Dude like you can take that to your great that's
a party.
Speaker 6: Story like that's a that's a good it's a great party.
Speaker 1: Story Uh, david we should have played the schemes video,
here but maybe play at the end of the. Hour uh.
More and we still got to get INTO lsu, ALSO
u there's some very Interesting Nick saban interview that he
did on The pivot With Ryan clark talking ABOUT.
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Speaker 1: I, mean do we even do The Nick saban's story?
AGAIN i, mean he said it in the, past but
it's always been.
Speaker 3: Kinda what are we gonna do about?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 3: Though you know WHAT i?
Speaker 5: Mean, yeah that's What i'm, Saying, Tea, yeah, like, okay
it didn't.
Speaker 1: Happen now What Nick saban explains why he believes LEAVING
lsu is the biggest mistake of his.
Speaker 3: Career so we've always heard, this, right.
Speaker 1: But this was probably the most in depth that he's
gone on it in THE uh on The Ryan clark,
podcast based, saying WHEN i LEFT, lsu that was probably
professionally the biggest mistake that ever. Made not because we
didn't have success In, miami BECAUSE i enjoyed Coaching, miami
BUT i found in that experience THAT i like coaching
in college better because you could develop players, personally, academically
athletically and all that a little more than in pro.
Speaker 3: Ball so THEN i can't go back TO.
Speaker 1: Lsu go To, alabama and no disrespect To, alabama it's
Not alibama VERS. Lsu Jimmy sexton stood on the balcony
WHEN i was ready getting ready to LEAVE, lsu and he,
said what do you want your legacy to be as a?
Coach do you want to be A vinci partie or
do you want to Be Bear? Bryant and without, HESITATION
i Said Bear Bryant and he, said what are you
doing going To? Miami seven went To miami, anyway and
in some sort of awful foreshatowing By Jimmy sexton there
he ended up Becoming Bear bryant quite literally going To.
Alabama what do you want the? Video oh, yeah you're
a play. Video bet you made.
Speaker 2: All the right.
Speaker 4: Decisions are there any things that you look back on
coach and said you wish you had done differently throughout your.
Speaker 7: Career you don't like it WHEN i say, this BUT
i think sometimes you have to learn about yourself and
you might think. Things WHEN i left L shoot that
was probably professionally the biggest mistake THAT i ever. Made
not because we didn't have success In, miami BECAUSE i
enjoyed coaching In, miami BUT i found out in that
experience THAT i like coaching in college better because you
could develop players, personally, academically, athletically and all that a
little more than In pro. Ball even THOUGH i love
the status of coaching In pro football and the kind
of guys you're, coached and you're coaching in the best
league against the best. PLAYERS i loved all. That so
THEN i can't go back TO. Lsue go To, Alabama
and no disrespect To, alabama it's Not alabama Versus. Lshue
it's Just Jimmy sexton stood on the balcony WHEN i
was getting ready to LEAVE lsue make a decision about
whether it went To miami Or state At, lshoe and he,
said what do you want your legacy to be as a?
Coach do you want to Be Vince lombardi or do
you want to Be Bear? Bryant and without, HESITATION i
Said Bear Bryant and he, said what are you doing
going To? Miami then that's. TRUE i don't know IF
i ever told that, story but that's the truth outside
Of Skip bertman's office on the balcony AND i went.
Speaker 5: Anyway i'm of the feeling that he would have been
successful anywhere he, went, though so.
Speaker 3: Might have Been.
Speaker 5: Bama like he's still he's Not Bear. Bryant He's Nick.
Saban like he stands alone in.
Speaker 3: That that's a good, point and so somebody say that
in chat as. WELL i do agree with. That if
you if you don't go To alabama and you do that,
here then you do. More but he still Stands, No
that's What i'm. SAYING i don't.
Speaker 5: THINK i don't. KNOW i don't think He's Bear. BRYANT
i think He's Nick. Saban he would have Been Nick
saban wherever he.
Speaker 4: Went, yeah, YEAH i mean he already has the championship
here in his third, season AND i, mean why you
REPEAT a couple of years ago a couple of years
after he, leaves, Like, saban.
Speaker 3: That's such a let's use such a.
Speaker 4: Tease we would have Been alabama With Nick. Saban that's
the part that people don't. Understand it was Never. Alabama
it Was Nick. Saban that's why when so many people are, like,
oh Well, alabama they're gonna be, Fine they're gonna be
in the college football payoff, again you lost the one
piece that you cannot, replace and that's A Nick, Saban
AMA's burning.
Speaker 1: Brown, well you, know if if you Have Nick, SABAN i,
MEAN i guess you never get twenty. Nineteen you probably
get more, consistency more, championships but you never Have Joe.
Speaker 3: BURROW i don't, know.
Speaker 1: Man that's, yeah there it is though Again shaban saying
that leaving here is the biggest.
Speaker 5: Mistaking Nick saban is mid is like peak rage.
Speaker 3: Bait, yeah get out of, here. Bro that's, well all.
Right when we get, back, guys let's do some big
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