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Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.

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Speaker 3: The plays get broken down and science gets denied it I.

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Speaker 2: Gotta come off the bitch.

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Speaker 1: Hour two of.

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Speaker 3: Off the Bench, Live from the Raising Kanes Studio.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome in out number two.

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Speaker 4: Here on a Wednesday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor

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Sharper with the Elandra Villarrial Braxton Risuto along for.

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Speaker 2: The ride as well, and in studio today.

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Speaker 4: He was nice enough to come in his weekly Wednesday segment,

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Doctor Steven Ethridge.

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Speaker 2: Doc, how are you doing great?

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Speaker 4: You were telling us during the break about like we were

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talking about the whole COVID thing about like you remember,

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like the whole birthday thing.

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Speaker 2: I was telling you.

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Speaker 4: My brother actually graduated high school in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Didn't have a prom.

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Speaker 4: They had to do graduation on the football field in

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June in South Louisiana.

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Speaker 2: And I mean he started college.

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Speaker 4: That screwed ups old freshman year Arcane Ida hits and

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that pushed back a year. Like poor dude's been in

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school like six years because he didn't go basically his

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first two.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 5: It was such a crazy time, and I mean how

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it affected so many things. And you know that was

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actually when when I started doing a regular setting with

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Jake back then because of all the crazy COVID are

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we not? That was literally we talked about every week

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the update on on the COVID.

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Speaker 6: You know, are we gonna play football? Is this gonna

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happen this year?

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Speaker 2: House?

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Speaker 6: This season gonna look what are the rules going to

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be like?

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Speaker 5: And there were things like, you know, I remember on

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the sideline having to wear a mask and we're outside

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and and the thing that all I didn't realize is

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we're getting COVID tested multiple times throughout the week.

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Speaker 2: We had to.

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Speaker 5: That's part of the policy. And I'm like, can't we

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just put a little disclaimer on the bottom of the screen.

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You know, we're outdoors, I've had a COVID test literally today,

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you know, I'm negative wear a mask here.

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Speaker 6: But it's it's it was a crazy time.

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Speaker 2: Look that that's better. Let's just start there.

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Speaker 4: We weren't even gonna do this, but like, how did

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that impact y'all, like not just during game day, but

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like week to week, like training room straight any anything

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like that. It was it was probably so many precautions

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you can do anything.

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Speaker 5: It was it was very significant. I mean it was

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just the money, you know, I think I don't remember

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the exact numbers. Sa'll probably butcher it. But so one

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of the requirements I had to get tested the the

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SEC had an independent company that would come in. We

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had to be tested three times a week everybody that

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was on the travel roster. So I'd have to go

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up there like on a Tuesday and get swapped and

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all this stuff. And that was what they had decided on.

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was over a half a million dollars just for the

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football team, just for testing, forget all the other stuff.

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Speaker 6: We had to take extra buses so we could be

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Speaker 5: We had to have extra rooms the hotel, you know,

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Vandy that year, and they had people with the front

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because they didn't want people's families to come in. So

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they had like secure at the front because they didn't

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want family to come to the hotel.

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and things kind of slored went back to normal. Really

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to day that just was very different. The staff had

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to wear a mask, at least the play didn't. Originally

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know a little bit last week, you know, I talked

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about Lindsey Vaughne.

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Speaker 4: The break in the leg, well came in a couple

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days ago. It's actually a lot worse than originally projective.

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a complex tibial fracture in her left leg. She's already

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she had four surgeries in Italy. She just got back

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to the US about to have a fifth surgery. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I mean, can you recover fully from something like that.

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things relative to say that it will never affect her again,

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that she was already dealing with the knee injury where

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you figure all these things out. You know, it's a

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big injury. You know, lot of times you have to

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one time. You have a lot of swelling you have

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multiple breaks. Typically, what you're gonna see is it's bone

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that just shatter and you got to try and align

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everything put it back together. I think that, you know,

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one of the things she mentions she's got an X fix,

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which is an external fixator, which is one of the

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case things that you see. It's a metal like, almost

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like shield that goes around the leg on the outside

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of the skin. It's that the X fix, and it

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holds everything in place, so you got to go take

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that off later. And it's just I mean, realistically, I

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can't see that's not effecting your moving forward. I think

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best case scenarios, she has a really good recovery, fairly

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normal life moving forward, can probably get back to skiing

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Speaker 6: I don't know competitively, but obviously hope the best.

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Speaker 4: Right, I mean, she's forty one, this was probably her

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Speaker 2: But I mean, like everyday life, like what is what

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does that look like for?

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Speaker 4: Like, like if if you and I were to were

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to have that injury, like, what would it I.

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Speaker 6: Think, like I said it would you would you would

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feel it every day? You know.

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walking normal and everything? I think so, you know, if

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if all goes well and you rehab good, and she'll

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just to help her recovery, and I think she'll be

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able to get back. You know, you'll probably have down

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the road more arthritic problems with the joints around that

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that injury, said, the ankle and the knee, the two

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joints on each end, you know, it might be something

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that you know, you'll have some scarring and some muscular

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weakness and things like that chronically. So it's it's it's

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a pretty big deal for sure.

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Speaker 4: Moving from Olympics kind of over to the NFL. You know,

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there's been a lot of off season, like franchise tag

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is this week, free agency's coming up draft. One of

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the biggest players, Patrick Mahomes. I mean, you know, there's

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updates on him constantly. He tore the ACL and LCL

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in December. He's already had his surgery, but he said

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his goal is to be ready for preseason.

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Speaker 2: He's Patrick Mahomes. He's not gonna play in the preseason.

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Speaker 4: But I mean late December, could he be ready for

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early September twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 5: With today's surgery and rehab and the fact that he

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had it so quickly after, I would say yes, he

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could be, But I mean I also feink that's lofty,

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you know, I feel like that's if everything goes perfect,

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if his rehab goes well, if he doesn't have a

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lot of didn't have a lot of swelling after surgery,

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if he's able, and again kind of we had mentioned Lindsaymond.

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one of the best players in the world. I mean

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some people say the best, and you know, he's gonna

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have every resource to help him get there. But that's

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everything's got to go perfect, you know, really I think

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in my opinion for that to happen, but it does,

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it's a possibility. Especially I don't think he's had any

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five six years ago. I don't think he's had a

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that helps as well. There's not gonna be as much

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scarring an old injury. So but I mean, yeah, it's

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he's ready to go at the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 4: So recovery wise, like you know, just for me watch

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him from Afar. I think the quickest I ever saw

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somebody was Adrian Peterson. He did it in I think

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nine months actually, like was an MVP consideration is really good,

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Speaker 2: He did it in nine months.

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Speaker 4: I mean, like everything goes perfect, you know, no setbacks

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anything like that. What is like the absolute quick is

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Speaker 5: You know, that nine month mark is kind of eight

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nine months is probably for an ACL injury, what we

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normally expect on the short end, you know, you might

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see hear or hear of a few rare exceptions. And

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again getting back to some sport like football, but I

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tell people anywhere from that to about a year is

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kind of the normal range, and sometimes even a tad longer.

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better with the rehab, we know the things to do.

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a year. You can pretty much count on it. So

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multilegment to your point with Mames, that that adds a

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Speaker 4: Speaking of that, like you hear the ACL so common, right,

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and you got you got the four ligaments, but like

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the LCL the PCL, you don't hear about them as much.

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why the ACL so much more than the others.

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the frequency with which the injuries happen, the mechanism with

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how you get there. You're gonna see more ACLS, acn

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LCLPCL are less common sometimes don't require surgery if it's

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isolated to those ligaments too, kind of like the MCL

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as well. But you know, if you talk about the ACL,

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tear the ACL, whereas an LCL injury or PCL injury,

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even if you completely disrupt the PCL. There are guys

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playing in the NFL right now who don't have a PCL,

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and they're able to rehabit. It's just not quite as

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important for that louter emotion.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes if they have some other components or base in

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it's not as critical, it's not always fixed, it's not

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Speaker 6: So it's a little bit of all the above.

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Speaker 4: Transition in a little bit into baseball, I mean baseball

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season fully underway and any fan of a baseball team

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hates to hear up they got the elbow injury right

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the old UCL because a lot of times you do

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see Tommy John surgery, So kind of a two point order,

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why such a long recovery? Because I mean I feel

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like that injury, like you mentioned, you know advances ACL

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you can get back a lot quicker than normal. It

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seems like any picture that's out is like a year,

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year and a half a minimum, Like what goes into

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the surgery?

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Speaker 2: And like why so long of a recovery?

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Speaker 5: So so I guess the first part when do we

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fix when do we maybe treat it more conservatively? And

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typically the two things you're going you're going to base

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that on or imaging. So we're obviously we're gona get MRI,

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especially these high level pictures. We want to know how

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big the injury is. And then in physical exam are

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they unstable? So the ligament is is a ligment on

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the inside of the elbow. It's the owner collateral ligament

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is the name of the ligament that's injured. We always

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talk about the Tommy John injury, but that's technically what

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it is. So is it completely disrupted as a partial tear?

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Are they unstable? Is the elbow loose? How how much

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pain are they having? All those are variables to go

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into it. Typically, if it's a full disruption of full tear,

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we're gonna repair that. You know, that's going to be

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almost always. There's a few exceptions, I suppose, and I

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used to the sport too. If you're not a thrower,

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we may not worry about it. We've had you know,

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football players who are you know, defensive players or non

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quarterbacks with the UCL, we just reha them and you're

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not as worried because you know that's more of a

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traumatic injury. That's not You don't need the UCL to

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do just about everything as sports cause ever throw So

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if you're a picture, if you're a quarterback, if you're

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a javelin thrower, you're gonna prepare those.

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Speaker 6: So I guess that's part of the discussion as well.

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What position do they play?

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Speaker 5: Then if it's a big tear, you're going to go

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in And unfortunately it's kind of like the ACL where

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you historically have to reconstruct a whole new ligament, So

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you actually take a donor tend and use the Palm

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reliment at the risk, and you make a new ligament.

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you do what's called an internal brace, where sometimes you

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can repair the old ligament and then put some extra

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bracing with it, like a kind of almost an internal

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stitch or wire.

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Speaker 6: Those are a little quicker. So if you've ever hear.

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Speaker 5: The guy, oh, he had the internal brace, and you'll

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see why, some guys do come back a little faster. So,

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especially with the younger athlete, you might do that. You

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sometimes know you're gonna have to go back down the road.

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Though if it's a picture and he keeps pitching, if

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you do that when there's a good chance he may

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tear that one too, it's not quite as as sturdy historically, So.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of variables.

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Speaker 5: Long story short, and you're right, it's one that we

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haven't gotten a lot faster, at least with the primary repair.

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And I think it's just because there's so much torque

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on that internal elbow when you're throwing that you just

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have to let that thing really heal in Well.

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Speaker 4: Why why pictures though, and not like because like it

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could happen in football share, but like you did, it

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is so much more common with a picture, it seems

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like than a quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I mean, is it just strictly the throwing motion.

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Speaker 6: One hundred percent?

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And in fact, even when you look at quarterbacks, most

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of the UCL injuries, like you know, quarterback for San

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Francisco entered his Georgia. That was the injury that their

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guy had. I can't think it's them guys in Miami

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this past year. Beck Yeah, yeah, a his injury had

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And if you look at both of their injuries, they

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were traumatic injuries. Their arm kind of got pulled behind

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them and so it wasn't a throwing injury, but you

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still needed to throw. Whereas pitchers, there's so much torque

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that's put on that inside elbow with that pitching motion.

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That's why you don't see a whole lot in position

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players either. It's mostly pictures. It's just the velocity, the torque,

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the stress you put on that medial elbow over and

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over with pitching. It's more that repetitive wear and tear.

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Whereas if you look at most quarterbacks, it was more traumatic.

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It was something happened like they got tackled funny or

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hit funny when they were throwing or something.

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Speaker 4: So I was looking at the you know, the Major

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League spring train and it's coming up and everything, three

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different players. I had never heard of this injury. And

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there's so much crap in your hand. You know that

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the average person doesn't know about. They have all suffered

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a broken hammet bone in their hands.

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Speaker 7: What is that?

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Speaker 5: So if you think about you have your carble bones

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in the hands. If you ever look at an X

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ray or a skeleton, you have the long bones in

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your forearm that come down and form the wrist, and

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then you have these small little bones that are kind

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of between those long bones and the wrist and the

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long bones in the hand. Those are all your carpal bones,

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of which one of them is the hamdmate. It is

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one that you'll see injured a lot in sports different mechanisms.

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in golf when people sometimes kind of if they come

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up short and they kind of hit the ground with

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the club, sometimes you'll see that injury. That's one of

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the kind of classic textbook questions we see. So it's

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one of those small bones you have, you have two

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rows of those small carbal bones and pretty pretty commonly injured.

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and you know, they can be anything from just a

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mild you know, hey, you got to rehabit, brace it.

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So sometimes we got to go in and fix some

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of those, depending on which one where it is.

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Speaker 4: Going back to knees real quick before we break, you know,

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I mean, anytime there's a knee injury, everybody fears of

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the ACL. But I hear hyper extension all the time,

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and I'm not quite sure what that occurs, Like.

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Speaker 2: What is what does that involved?

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Speaker 5: So hyper extension is so you know, when you straighten

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your knee, that's extending it. When you bend it back,

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that's flexing it. So if you are fully extended, and

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then sort of if you think about if the knee

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goes backwards a little bit, that's hyper extension. Sometimes you

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can tear something with that, including the ACL. Sometimes it

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will tear. Now a lot of times what you're hoping

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for is just a bone contusion where the two winds

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of the bones hit together.

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Speaker 6: Bruise each other.

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Speaker 5: That's your best case scenario with that injury, you can

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tear structures inside the knee. Unfortunately, with the hyper extension injury,

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you know, I think Willis McGahee is the one. I

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always close my eyes and see he had a foot

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planted guy hit the front of the knee caused hyper extension.

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So that's when I think of just you know, back

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in the day when I was younger and something. Don't

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probably know who he is, but so yeah, that's that's

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based the mechanism it overextends.

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Speaker 4: All right, well, doctor Stephen Atherage, wealth of information here

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and hopefully we'll try to figure out this whole leap

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yer thing. Doc even pointed out that it's more than

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three hundred and sixty five days in a year. It's

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like three sixty five point two, so he even knows

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a little bit about the months as well.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming at today, Doc, my pleasure. All right,

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we'll take a quick time out on the other side.

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and Matt Flann, Alanta hillar Real Braxton Erzudo here as well.

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Right now, we'll go out to the phone lines. LSU

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Beach Volleyball coach Russell Brock joins us this morning. Coach Barrock,

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how are.

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Speaker 7: You couldn't be better on this Wednesday morning?

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Speaker 2: Great? Great to hear it.

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Speaker 4: You know last time you joined me, it was before

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you guys got out there to the NCAA Championships in

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Gulf Shores. I know it didn't go the way you

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guys wanted to, but first off, congratulations won't making it

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that far. I know you guys fail to cal poly

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out there, but coach, you come into the season ranked

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number twelve, and I know you guys have turned into

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one of the top volleyball programs in the country. But

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how do you handle those expectations year in and year out?

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Speaker 7: Yeah? The the funny thing about that is you know,

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twelve is you know, as low as we've been in

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a while. So you know, our expectations clearly are higher

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than you know, the people who are out there casting votes.

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So I think the pressure from within to be great

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and honestly that comes from being a part of you know,

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athletic department, particularly port that a sport that plays in

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the spring, that these greatness all around us like this,

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you know, that's that's the expectation and that's the reality.

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Like we know that we're in a position with the talent,

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with the training, with the facilities of the support, with

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just a positive peer pressure that comes from being a

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spring sport at LSU that uh, you know, you're you're

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gonna be one of the top teams in the country.

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Speaker 4: You got a lot of returners. I mean I think

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it's something like eleven returners from last year's team.

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Speaker 2: Now you got it. You've got a good bit of

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freshmen coming in as well.

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Speaker 4: But you know, you guys get started and you did

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it last year, doing it this year like starting away

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from home and I I realized you're not going far.

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Speaker 2: You're going down there in New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: But is it good to have a lot of veterans

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on the team kind of rely on that experience early on,

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like when you're starting away from home.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean every year is a little bit

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different with the makeup of the roster, and this is

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probably you know, one of the most returners we've had

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since back in like you know, twenty twenty one, where

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we had a bunch of people coming back to the COVID.

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But it's also i mean half of our roster is

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people in their first or second year of competition. So

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we've got a great balance of being young and being old,

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and I think that that brings, you know, a level

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of expectation and an understanding from those older kids, but

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there's excitement and there's energy from the younger ones that

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it's a really good balance. It's been great for our training.

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first weekend, I think there's probably going to be some

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people who are a little more comfortable and some people

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who you know, have a little more uh, you know, jitters,

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and and it's great to have a good group of

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kids that can help people settle in and play the

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way we've been playing in practice.

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Speaker 4: Coach, whether it's Skyler Martin Tatum, Finnlssen, Cameron Chandelier. Like,

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you got a lot of returners, but like, who are

477
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some of the big name players maybe people keep an

478
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eye on early in the season, like who are you

479
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going to rely on to get this thing started?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we've got you know, a couple of

481
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those that you mentioned obviously are huge for us. Julius

482
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Prucker is another win that was a freshman last year

483
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and she's made huge strides to be better, more experienced,

484
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really talented this year. With expect her who do really

485
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great things. Aubrio Gorman as a senior who's kind of

486
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on her last legs as far as her eligibility, and

487
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she's played some pivotal roles for US in the last

488
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two seasons. And then you know, Kate Baker is another

489
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one that's been the lineup, has some huge wins. She

490
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and Tatum pulled out a massive winning at USC at

491
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home last year. So those are the kids that you

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are returning who are experienced and who've won big matches

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for us in the past few years that we expect

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to do it again.

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Speaker 4: I saw that you guys recently added two transfers. Emily

496
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helm of Zeyana Meier, what do you expect from them,

497
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like because they have college experience, but like you're one

498
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here in ben Rouge. You guys are ranked twelve, you

499
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talked about it, you're highly ranked every year. What do

500
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you expect from them? You're one here.

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Speaker 7: You know, one thing that we expect from them that

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they've delivered enormously for us is just the leadership and

503
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the culture that they've added, coming from story programs on

504
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the indoor side and having a lot of success obviously

505
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Emily's coming off on national championship. I mean, the things

506
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that they're able to stay, the credibility that they have

507
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when they even as newbies to our sport. You know,

508
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drive high expectations around them and they have high expectations

509
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for themselves. So I think the biggest thing they've done

510
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so far is they brought in two blockers that we

511
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needed in our training and they've grown in leaps and bounds.

512
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It's crazy to see how fast they've grown, and there's

513
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no doubt that they're going to play a pivotal role

514
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for us this season.

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Speaker 2: Coach, you were just that's that's actually perfect.

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Speaker 4: You were just talking about, you know, kind of be

517
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in a new be to the sport going from indoor

518
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to beach. What does a typical transition look like? I mean,

519
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how much different is that like for the average person

520
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that you know, may not know that much beach volleyball

521
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versus regular What does it What does a normal like

522
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learning curve look like for someone that's making that transition.

523
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's it's significantly more challenging than people

524
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would expect. If you look at the spots on the

525
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surface and they they look like they're the same thing.

526
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I mean, it's you bump, your set, you spike, you know,

527
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you serve like you have a blocker. You have people

528
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casting and defending. But it really is, uh the way

529
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that your body has to adapt to the surface and

530
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has to adapt to the you know, just conditions the sun,

531
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stand the wind, it really does. The court size is smaller,

532
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you have to be well rounded, you can't just do

533
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certain skills. And typically into a players that come off there,

534
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they're pretty refined in the skill set that they need

535
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to be great at. And then there's another skill set

536
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that they really don't even happen master because somebody else

537
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is going to do that for them. And so when

538
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you step into the sand, and you've got to do

539
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,400
it all. You have to do it all excellently. That's

540
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a lot of pressure. And then to do it on

541
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a surface that is completely foreign to your body. Just

542
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teaching your body how to jump and move on a

543
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surface that is not solid like you've done for your

544
00:22:40,319 --> 00:22:44,359
entire life, it's really challenging, and typically that process is

545
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a lot of frustration initially, and then as your body

546
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starts to catch on and your skill set starts to build,

547
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you really hit a pretty quickstcent, but you have to

548
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survive until until that kind of turning point. And so

549
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they've done a great job of really grinding in that

550
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in that first initial phase and super proud of them

551
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for that.

552
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Speaker 4: Post Beach Volleyball coach of Russell Brock our guest right now, Coach,

553
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I understand it's it's not a ton of travel involved

554
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for you guys going out to New Orleans, but I mean,

555
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what does a typical week look like for you guys

556
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going away from home? I mean, you play a ton

557
00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:22,039
of games and it will be on the road, Like,

558
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what does a typical week look.

559
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Speaker 7: Like for you ll thankfully money grow is this past

560
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weekend and not this coming weekend.

561
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Speaker 11: It'll be a lot.

562
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Speaker 7: More distraction heading down that way. But uh, you know,

563
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we're we're going to head out tomorrow and we'll get

564
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down there and we'll train in that facility, and then

565
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it's it's a business trip. You know, it's not far

566
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from home. But one of the reasons why we go

567
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down there and we stay because we don't want to

568
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have any distractions to keep us from really being focused

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at opening weekend. And it's a great opportunity to do

570
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that without having to hop on a plane and travel

571
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down to the west of the East Coast, and so

572
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it's a really good way to start. We can have

573
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a lot of fans that are going to make that

574
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trip or even families that live in that area, and

575
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so we expect to, you know, have all the benefits

576
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playing close to home, but also all the challenges of

577
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being on the road and not sleeping in your own

578
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bed and eating meals out, and also the benefit of

579
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just being tight knit with just us. We're all together

580
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all the time, and that's where our strength comes from,

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is our ability to be unified and be great together.

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Speaker 4: Coach one more for you before I get you out

583
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of here. You were actually just talking about you know,

584
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we go on the road, we practice any other team's facilities,

585
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speaking out facilities, you know, I mean I had you

586
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on once last year in the spring and I had

587
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made it out to the Beach Volleyball facility for my

588
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first time being out there, and I was blown away.

589
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I mean, how does your facility right here in bed

590
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Rouge compared to some of those other programs.

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Speaker 7: I tell you, really, the only facility for beach volleyball

592
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in the country that you ever go to is LSU's.

593
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Then you're going to have your expectation for everybody else

594
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is going to be ruined. We are so blessed and

595
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fortunate to have Death volleyed our our space on campus

596
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with bleachers and shade and great music and food and

597
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:23,799
drink and big scoreboard lights. All those things are premium.

598
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And thankfully when the program was started, Ennis had just

599
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moved out and so that that shell was sitting there

600
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just waiting for So you know, if you come out,

601
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you're going to be spoiled as far as beach volleyball

602
00:25:36,759 --> 00:25:41,079
fans can experience, and pretty much every everywhere else that

603
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,319
we go and play has you know, maybe one or

604
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two of those aspects, but none of them have all

605
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of that uh sort of experience for fans or for

606
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the teams to the brain and kind of live in

607
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and we all a lot to this community and to

608
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our athletic department for been willing to set us up

609
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in a facility like that.

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Speaker 2: Coach.

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Speaker 4: Basically, what I just heard is everybody needs to come

612
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play at LSU because we're the best at everything.

613
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Speaker 2: That's that's what I got from that. Coach. Thank you

614
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so much for your time today.

615
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Speaker 4: Again, your season gets started this Friday the Green Wave Invitational.

616
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Then you're back on your home court next week for

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the Tiger Beach Challenge.

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Speaker 2: Coach, thanks for your time today and good luck this

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upcoming season.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much, appreciate the opportunity, and go Tigers.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely go Tigers. All right, we'll take a quick time

622
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album we get back. Miina Lande will kind of throw

623
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out maybe some position players to watch tonight. We talked

624
00:26:36,799 --> 00:26:39,920
pitching earlier, opportunity for a lot of guys that didn't

625
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throw over the weekend to get some action today this

626
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afternoon against Nichols. We'll kind of toss around maybe some

627
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guys in the field. We might want to see you

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that's coming up next you're on. Off the bench.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in Wednesday edition of OTB. Taylor Sharp.

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Here with the Elandra Villarrial Braxton Rizzuto, your LSU Tigers

675
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,599
will take on the Nickels, State Colonels and Alec Box

676
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,319
at about one o'clock this afternoon, a little bit earlier

677
00:29:15,359 --> 00:29:19,000
of a game as far as midweeks go, and earlier

678
00:29:19,039 --> 00:29:22,039
in the show we broke down who could potentially started pitching.

679
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,000
Laundra and myself have both kind of throwing our hats

680
00:29:24,039 --> 00:29:26,400
into the ring for Cooper Williams. But look, there's a

681
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:32,200
number of options. Zion Theopolis is an option. Danny Lochenmeyer

682
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,440
will see him in some capacity. Connor Binge has yet

683
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,160
to pitch, Like you're gonna see a lot of guys

684
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,319
that you did not see in the opening weekend, but

685
00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:41,599
that kind of rings true to the field as well,

686
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not just on the mound. And I wanted to kind of,

687
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you know, real quick look at maybe some position players

688
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,559
to watch here against Nichols, because again, I think this

689
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,079
is a team that LSU can have a lot of

690
00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:55,200
success against a lot of valuable in game reps. For

691
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:57,720
some players that maybe necessarily did not get in there

692
00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:02,000
a ton over the weekend. Now, the first name I'm

693
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,720
gonna mention is Mason Braun, And I know what you're thinking, Yes,

694
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:06,839
he played a ton over the weekend, but he didn't

695
00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,200
play a ton in the field. He was your DH

696
00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:12,440
over the weekend, and he was great in that spot.

697
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I would just really like to see what he's got defensively.

698
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,799
We've seen the performance at the plate. Remember this guy

699
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,359
was the number one first baseman in high school last season.

700
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,599
Now Zach York has that spot right now. But look,

701
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:28,599
I mean Mason Braun, he's a guy that can maybe

702
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,960
make some things happen for you. He's also listed his

703
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,720
outfield as well. He played there a little bit in

704
00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:38,000
some of the false scrimmages. You have your outfield depth,

705
00:30:39,559 --> 00:30:42,759
Like you know your starters. You know Derek Curiel, Chris

706
00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:45,279
Stanfield when he's healthy, and Jake Brown. There's going to

707
00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,799
be your three starters, some combination of those guys behind them.

708
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Though it's a little bit of a question mark to me,

709
00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:55,319
Mason Brawn could fill one of those roles if given

710
00:30:55,319 --> 00:31:00,319
the opportunity. Look, there's so many guys to mention, Landro

711
00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:02,400
will come to you real quick, like you know, whether

712
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,400
it's somebody that hasn't gotten it bad, somebody in the field,

713
00:31:05,519 --> 00:31:07,200
Like who's somebody for Nicols?

714
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Speaker 2: You're like, I want to see what that.

715
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,079
Speaker 11: Guy's get I'd like to see a little more of

716
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:13,240
Omar Cerno behind the plate and see what he looks

717
00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:17,759
like back there, because Jay, if you've noticed, likes to

718
00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:20,319
kind of like match up the catchers with the pictures,

719
00:31:20,519 --> 00:31:24,799
Like did it with Paul Skeins. He gave him like

720
00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:28,279
the little uh. It was usually Travinsky because he was taller.

721
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 2: I think Aaron Beatty did it with.

722
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Speaker 11: So he kind of likes to match up the catchers

723
00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:35,119
with the pictures. So I would like to see a

724
00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:38,039
little more from Omar Serna. I know, Kate, Aaron Beatty

725
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,720
has definitely made a leap this season from last season

726
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,759
behind the plate and at the plate. But what we

727
00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:50,000
saw from Omar when he was in the DH, I

728
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,839
know he didn't do too well Sunday, but I think

729
00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:55,119
it was either Friday or Saturday that he looked good

730
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,200
at the plate, So I would like to see a little.

731
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Speaker 12: Bit more out of him.

732
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Speaker 11: I agree that Mason Brawn I do want to see him,

733
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,240
but he could play in the outfield, right.

734
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 12: So right, I don't know.

735
00:32:04,039 --> 00:32:05,839
Speaker 4: I think i'd actually prefer him in the outfield just

736
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,680
because you don't have any you don't even be proven

737
00:32:07,759 --> 00:32:09,799
depth behind your top three guys. I mean, you have

738
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:14,480
bodies there, But what about Daniel Harden. Like he's a

739
00:32:14,519 --> 00:32:17,039
guy that a lot of people haven't really talked about,

740
00:32:17,119 --> 00:32:20,200
but you know, he comes from McLennon Community College out

741
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,720
in Waco. He had three fifty four last year on

742
00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:26,799
the community college level, I mean sixteen doubles, three triples,

743
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,559
twelve homers. The guy had fifty nine RBIs. Again, that's

744
00:32:30,559 --> 00:32:33,279
a guy that could give you depth in the outfield.

745
00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:35,160
He got in there Sunday. He didn't get a hit,

746
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,680
but he did draw a walk and score a run.

747
00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:40,039
Like that's a guy maybe maybe get his feet wet

748
00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:41,920
a little bit against Nichols.

749
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Speaker 11: If Chris Stanfield's not gonna play, maybe we can see

750
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,599
Mason Braun and maybe we can see someone like Daniel Harden, which, yeah,

751
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:51,319
he's intriguing.

752
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's a guy that you know, it

753
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,039
was kind of a little bit under the radar, but

754
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,440
and I get it, I know it's the community college level.

755
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,279
He's coming up in competition, but and he's prove it

756
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:01,680
on the college level more than a lot of these

757
00:33:01,759 --> 00:33:05,559
high school guys. The the guy I really want to

758
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:09,400
see gets extended out. And our guy that was on

759
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,880
the wrong side of the motor boat celebration, mister John

760
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,240
Pearson celebration.

761
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I was so incredible.

762
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Speaker 4: I saw a post yesterday and it kind of summed

763
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up this state perfectly. It said, Louisiana sports and Louisiana

764
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,119
sports fans really don't care what other people think.

765
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Speaker 12: At all, and I was like, not at all.

766
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Speaker 2: Okay, was that the first home run celebration or the second?

767
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Speaker 12: I think?

768
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 11: Wait, so I think it was the second because Zach

769
00:33:35,319 --> 00:33:39,119
York hit one. Then well, because wasn't it Jake Brown

770
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:42,720
Brown Zach had I think the first home run today?

771
00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:44,519
Speaker 2: He well, Jake hab too that not No.

772
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Speaker 11: I know, but wasn't I think Zach hit it before?

773
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,519
So I think that was the second celebration. I don't remember,

774
00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:52,119
but it was hilarious.

775
00:33:52,279 --> 00:33:56,359
Speaker 4: It was elite, unexpected, kind of subtle, as subtle as

776
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,759
you could be, but also everybody kind of knew what

777
00:33:59,799 --> 00:34:02,480
was went on. So look, I mean John Pearson. He's

778
00:34:02,519 --> 00:34:04,960
a guy that last year he played in twenty seven games.

779
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,159
He batted two thirty eight On the year, he had

780
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:12,679
a double, a, two home runs, seven RBI. Now he

781
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,960
can play third base. That's that's kind of what he

782
00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:17,920
was listed at last year. But a little bit of

783
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,320
outfield as well. So that's a guy a lot like

784
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,280
Mason Brown could play infield, can play outfield. I got

785
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,360
a pinch hit, got in as a pinch hitter multiple

786
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,480
games over the weekend. He did come away with one

787
00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:32,320
hit in those that bat. So you've seen a little

788
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,480
bit from him over the weekend. You've seen again a

789
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,239
lot more from him. Last year he played in twenty

790
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,599
seven games. But John Peterson could take that next step,

791
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,920
I mean Pearson, John Pearson. If John Pearson could take

792
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,239
that next step, I mean, I think Trink Carraway's got

793
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:50,559
third lockdown. But if you have to mix and match him,

794
00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:52,880
you can. I mean, we saw Caraway play a little

795
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,039
bit of second base. You saw his versatility. John Pearson

796
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,559
just provides you with more depth outfield. Infield. We talk

797
00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:02,559
about the depth of the pigeon staff. The depth of

798
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:06,079
the infield is there. You just need to get these guys,

799
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:09,960
some reps like Jack Rucker and Ethan Klaus. We talked

800
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,840
about them on Monday. They both got there an extended

801
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,199
time on Sunday, it was in the middle of the infield.

802
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,960
I think they're both interchangeable. Like Ethan Klaus was a

803
00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:22,559
highly recruited shortstop a year ago in high school. He

804
00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:26,519
played second On Sunday, they had Jack Ruckert in their shortstop. Well,

805
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,199
Jack Rugert on Monday against Kent State, he got a

806
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,519
little bit of action at second base. Those guys are interchangeable.

807
00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:37,519
Like the depth of this team, the versatility of these players,

808
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:39,320
I like it.

809
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:39,639
Speaker 12: Now.

810
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,559
Speaker 4: I'll ask you this, Elantra. You know we didn't see

811
00:35:43,599 --> 00:35:48,159
Curiel starting the season in lead off. They switched it Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

812
00:35:48,199 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 2: He's been there.

813
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,159
Speaker 4: Jay does like the tinker within the lineup in a

814
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,320
game like this early in the season, midweek game against

815
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,679
an end state opponent. How much Team Green do you

816
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,800
think we're gonna see tonight? Like as far as our

817
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,159
I guess this afternoon, as far as like who's in

818
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:04,880
what order? I mean, I think the normal guys will

819
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,199
get the start, but like where are they.

820
00:36:06,119 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 2: Going to be?

821
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:07,559
Speaker 12: Uh?

822
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 11: I think in terms of the lineup, I don't think

823
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,559
you'll see too much changing, just because it's been working

824
00:36:12,599 --> 00:36:16,440
so well lately. Maybe some here and there, but yeah,

825
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,880
he does like to tinker. But I just I think

826
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,960
it's working so well that I'm not sure how much

827
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,360
of it you'll see moved around.

828
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 4: To me, this is a game where, like, like you

829
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,440
mentioned Omar Serna, I would love to see you Amarserna

830
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:28,760
in this game. I feel like this is a game

831
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,480
Kate will get to start play maybe like the first

832
00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:32,800
two innings Omar Serna the rest of the way, Like

833
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,519
the way Aaron Bed's hitting the ball, I mean he

834
00:36:36,519 --> 00:36:38,119
could he could use a day off. He's called a

835
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:40,840
lot of baseballs. I mean, you played four games in

836
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,000
four days. This will be your fifth game over a

837
00:36:43,039 --> 00:36:45,360
six day period. A guy Aaron Beidi needs a little

838
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,760
bit of rest. I think you're going to see an

839
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,280
extended outing from Umar Serna. I think you'll see Mason

840
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,159
Brawn in some capacity. You know, Landra both talk about him,

841
00:36:53,559 --> 00:36:56,360
whether he fills in it at first. If they do

842
00:36:56,519 --> 00:36:58,440
decide to pull Zac York at some point in this game,

843
00:36:58,679 --> 00:37:01,320
because he fill in the outfield, Stanfield still dealing with

844
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,119
that injury. John Pearson a guy we saw last year

845
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:06,440
in twenty seven games a year ago. I was a

846
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,679
talented squad a year ago, and I get most of

847
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,559
them were midweek, they were non con games. But Jay

848
00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:14,559
trusted him enough to put him out there. As a freshman.

849
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,000
You got to expect a year under his belt in

850
00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:20,559
this program. Jay probably trust him even more. So that's

851
00:37:20,559 --> 00:37:22,599
a guy to watch as well. And then again, kind

852
00:37:22,599 --> 00:37:24,719
of going back to the pitchers before we break here,

853
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:28,679
the guys who did not throw over the weekend Freshman

854
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,920
Reagan Ricken and Zion Theopolis did not throw a single

855
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,000
pitch over the weekend. They are candidates to start this game.

856
00:37:35,519 --> 00:37:38,199
My preference, Lundra's preference Cooper Williams for maybe like an

857
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:39,840
inning or two. I mean he threw two and two

858
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,840
thirds innings over the weekend. One hit, one run, five

859
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,320
k's no walks, pretty good. I want to see what

860
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,679
he's got as a starter, because whether it's a case

861
00:37:48,679 --> 00:37:51,679
of Evans, whether it's a William Schmidt that in that

862
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,599
weekend rotation may not be set in stone. You also

863
00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:57,519
have Connor bench. You haven't seen him. I think you'll

864
00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:01,239
see him in some capacity Locke and Meyer. Can Santiago

865
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,440
Garcia and Zach Cowen get in there and kind of

866
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,239
get their confidence back after tough first out over the weekend.

867
00:38:08,599 --> 00:38:10,000
A lot of things to keep an eye on again,

868
00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:14,519
lsu Versus Nichols in the box one pm this afternoon,

869
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Hood Dental. Why do people hate Nate Yeski? Still I'm

926
00:41:11,039 --> 00:41:12,880
reading I'm reading comments in the chat.

927
00:41:14,159 --> 00:41:17,039
Speaker 11: I truly can't tell if it like they're trolling or

928
00:41:17,079 --> 00:41:17,760
being for real.

929
00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 12: I just keep seeing one of them is being for real.

930
00:41:20,559 --> 00:41:24,519
Speaker 2: He keeps seeing early season Yesky sucks. Like when Yesky

931
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:26,880
was hired, it was considered a home run.

932
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Speaker 4: Higher and elandra all Nate Yeski's doll and has had

933
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:32,360
the staff lead the SEC in strikeouts his first two years,

934
00:41:32,519 --> 00:41:34,280
and they won a national championship last year?

935
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,119
Speaker 2: What more do they need to do?

936
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 12: He also was really good at Oregon State. Yeah, he's

937
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:45,440
won multiple Like I don't, he's been in multiple college ones.

938
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 8: I don't.

939
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:46,519
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't.

940
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,199
Speaker 11: Like everybody knows, I've been like the biggest Nate Yeesky

941
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,320
supporter and defender since he got on campus. Even when

942
00:41:56,519 --> 00:41:59,800
everybody turned on him. What was it a year before last?

943
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 2: It was his first year.

944
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:06,079
Speaker 12: I was like taking bullets for him. I was like,

945
00:42:06,159 --> 00:42:07,079
get behind me, Nate.

946
00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I don't really understand what else

947
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the guy has to do. You've led the you've led

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the SEC and strikeouts as a staff both years he's

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been here. You won a national championship last year. If

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you guys don't remember those games, it was thanks in

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large part to your two dominant pictures Kate Anderson and

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Anthony Ions and and.

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Speaker 2: Then you did a really good job Week one. I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't really understand what I'm missing here in terms

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of all the Nate Yeski hey, but whatever, maybe some

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people do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a that's a troll. But I mean, look,

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you hear it a lot.

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Speaker 4: It's not just here like you've heard it for two years.

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Speaker 2: Just it baffles me.

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Speaker 4: This topic of landro so it last night and as

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you've readden all over it like this is something I

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could see you do in a deep dive in Okay, Okay,

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I am g Academy in Florida Football power. Everybody goes

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there throughout the country to go there and train.

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Speaker 12: I feel like I saw something.

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Speaker 4: IMG has agreed to pay a one point seven million

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dollar settlement for accepting tuition from two students with ties

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to the Mexican drug card.

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Speaker 12: G Hey, I did see this. Why does this have

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me written all over it?

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Speaker 4: Because you love a good you love a good internet

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rabbit hole, I mean, you love as problem.

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Speaker 2: There has to be.

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Speaker 4: There has to be more to the surface than what

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we're seeing. Like so, basically, over five consecutive years, IMG

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Academy repeatedly the number of transactions with two individuals who

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have ties to this uh drug cartel organization. According to

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IMG Academy's continued tuition payments, where the two students resulted

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in eighty nine violations for counter narcotic sanctions and uh

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they got to pay one point seven million dollars. Not

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something I thought I would see. Uh, I mean was

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this intentional? Was it not intentional?

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Speaker 12: I don't know, but I could definitely read more about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it last night.

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Speaker 4: It looks like they were The two students were enrolled

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from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two, so it had

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been a few years now.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, one point seven.

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Speaker 4: Million for accepting tuition from a drug cartel. Yeah, one

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of the two issans. It was a ninety eight thousand

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dollars for one student and one hundred and two thousand

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for the other. It was provided money and services from

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the drug cartel. And if you're thinking that's a lot

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of money, IMG is like like if you've ever seen

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their athletic facilities, Yeah, it's incredible. So ninety eight thousand

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dollars for one student, one hundred and two thousand from

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the other. The names of the students haven't been released.

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I don't know which sport this is for. If it's

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for a sport, I mean it's IMG, so I would

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imagine that it is soccer, sorry, soccer base. It might

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be soccer base. Well we'll find out. But yeah, that

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came out, came down the wire last night. New York

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Post has it every I mean everybody everybody has it.

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Speaker 11: Pro tip if you like, for people that want to

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go down rabbit holes, you gotta go to like Reddit

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or Facebook groups because that's where you get first hand

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accounts from like people that like went to the school,

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know the people that are involved.

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Speaker 12: That's how you go down the road. Have you ever

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seen the Netflix with.

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Speaker 11: The people that know pet Like, you gotta get with

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the people that know the people, or like are in

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the school or work for the school.

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Speaker 2: Get somebody in the note.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, you need insider information.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever seen the cat? The cat thing on Netflix?

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I think it's like literally called like don't f with cats.

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Speaker 12: Oh, I haven't seen it, but I've heard about what

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it is. No, I would not, it's it's no, I

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would not. The way the thing that people describe it

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to me is like a guy.

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Speaker 4: Is just killing Well they don't, they don't show any

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of it, but I mean it's uh the way they

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find this guy though, it starts as like a Facebook

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group kind of one person saw the video, it goes

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to the next and the next they start a Facebook

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group and they like track down this guy to another country, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And like find him. He gets ready. Like the whole

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thing is fascinating.

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Speaker 4: And it's because they joined like a Facebook and Reddit

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group to to figure.

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Speaker 12: This guy out hand account.

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Speaker 4: And then they did, they found somebody who like knew

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who he was or something like that.

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Speaker 11: You remember real fast, do you remember, like a couple

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of weeks ago, there was a teacher in like West

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Virginia or Virginia or something like that, and they were

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looking for him and they couldn't find him. Yeah, and

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like he was out in the forest. So you gotta

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find like, you gotta go on.

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Speaker 12: The Facebook groups. Okay, the people that know the people.

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Speaker 2: Why would end into hour two of the show.

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Speaker 4: We'll have hour three coming up next year on Off

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the Bench, Off the Bench