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He texted us. Turns out doctor has, like, you know,
a life as well, sounds like.
Speaker 2: He likes you.
Speaker 6: Jake More, I don't think he's ever canceled. He's came
in a few times when you weren't here and Jake
was wow.
Speaker 4: I didn't think about that. And when you first said that,
I was like, who's Jake Moore?
Speaker 7: Figure?
Speaker 2: That is he a singer?
Speaker 4: But he likes Jacob More. Yeah, certainly. But it turns
out doctor does have a life and you know, a job.
He has things to do sometimes. But he did text
and say in the medical profession they still utilize fax machines.
So that's two things in life that we know. Fax
machines are still used for doctors. A National signing Day
when high school kids sign a letter of intent and
send it to a college. That's what makes it official.
It's not official until then you can sign it. We
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but he didn't fax it in, so it wasn't official
until he got faxed. So doctors, high school kids only
people that use machines as that we know of. Do
you have anything else if you remember know any other
place of business that use a fax machine?
Speaker 2: Let us know.
Speaker 4: We are curious because we feel like it should be
a dead technology. Taylor Sam Darnold, if he wins this weekend,
if he wins a super Bowl, which they are four
and a half point favorites over the Patriots going into
the game, well he have had the most successful career
of anybody from the twenty eighteen draft class.
Speaker 6: Lamar has two MVPs.
Speaker 2: Probably Trump's won Super Bowl.
Speaker 6: Josh has an MVP. I mean first one to win
a super Bowl though, yeah yeah, and based.
Speaker 4: On how the career, first one to go did Lamar
go to him? Okay, so first one to even go
so far but go into Super Bowl is not going
to give you a better career over an MVP. No,
he has to win it, certainly, could I think so?
Speaker 6: Because I mean that's every it should be every player's
ultimate goal, right.
Speaker 2: I mean that's now. I was doing this.
Speaker 4: I was doing a little research yesterday and I was
like wow, because I was thinking about this question. And
of course the goal always for any quarterback or head
coach is to win championships. That's how you judge the
merit of a quarterback or how good a quarterback was. Now,
certainly MVPs count, and they count heavily, but do they
count as much as Super Bowl victories? I started looking
at former NFL NFL MVPs that are not in the
Hall of Fame. So you can't sit here and make
the argument with Josh Allen's a Hall of famer. History
shows us that he is not yet a Hall of Famer. Now,
I think, lamar, if you get two MVPs, I don't
know if there's ever been a two MVP quarterback that
has not made the Hall of Fame. I don't know
if that's happened. But NFL MVPs in the past that
have not made the Hall of Fame. Steve McNair, Rich Gannon,
he was MVP.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 5: It saw a really funny video with him and John
Gruden yesterday. Yeah, it was like the most football video
you've ever.
Speaker 6: Said, the one on the street.
Speaker 4: On the street, he was sick of video, so good,
sick of football video?
Speaker 6: Getting did his snapcount out loud on the streets of
San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that there are people walking by.
Speaker 5: Nobody even cared like y'all don't deserve to be near
the super Bowl in.
Speaker 4: San Francisco, California and San Francisco, you're the worst. Oh,
Jake's having a good time though, Uh, Steven are Yeah?
One in two thousand and three is rich Gannon MVP
two thousand and two. Boomer Siason MVP nineteen eighty eight.
How about this, Joe Thaisman not in the Hall of Fame.
I didn't realize that.
Speaker 6: Career got cut short obviously, So I mean, when you
look at career numbers, I'm surprised Boomer Sizon's and not
in it. Out of everyone on that list, you had
a long career. I was pretty consistent.
Speaker 4: Throughout Ken Anderson the Hall of Fame either Mark Moseley,
who I don't think I've ever heard of.
Speaker 6: So Ken Anderson, little controversy.
Speaker 2: About won the MVP. Who is it?
Speaker 4: Mark Moseley nineteen eighty two, And at the first sentence
is somehow a kicker won NFL MVP.
Speaker 2: No cartoons been.
Speaker 6: Really clutch.
Speaker 2: It must have made some field goals.
Speaker 4: Anyway, it gets it just It kind of started like because, yes,
Josh Allen certainly has a talent and on a Hall
of Fame trajectory. But if you or if Sam Darnald
wins this game to this point, there's a conversation to
be be had there certainly that his accomplishments are better
than Josh Allen's accomplishments. Now, of course there's not consistency.
He was seeing ghost he layed terrible for a terrible
organization is bounced around by the comeback that that kid
has made is impressive and something to certainly cheer for.
It's one of those things again when we're looking for
storylines going into this weekend, he's one of the largest storylines.
So it's just funny that in a draft class that
saw Baker Mayfield go number one, Sam Darnold went number three,
Josh Allen goes number four, Lamar Jackson goes number thirty two,
and then I have a little asterix partheses Josh Rosen
went number ten, which.
Speaker 6: You know, the great mel Kiper said that Josh Rosen
was the most quarterback or NFL ready quarterback in that
draft class. Interesting, and Rosen had the famous saying, yeah,
I was pretty pissed that I fell in the draft
after getting drafted tenth overall by the Cardinals. Looking back
on it, not great. I got a little little update
on Mark Moseley for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, went in the MVP.
Speaker 6: It was the shortened season due to the strike in
nineteen eighty two. They only played nine games that year,
so there wasn't a ton of position players putting up
a ton of numbers. He was twenty of twenty one
on field goal attempts, sixteen of nineteen on extra points,
made multiple game winning field goals in the final minutes
of games during that nine game regular season, and helped
the Redskins win the Super Bowl that year. So adding
all that up, that's how he won MVP.
Speaker 4: So they played a nine game season and then a
couple of games in the playoffs, so the strike went.
It was a nine game regular season in the season. Yeah,
so I know about the strike. I'm not familiar with
the details of the strike, but I feel like that's
still funny. I don't care if you make game winner.
You're a kicker, can't beat MVP of the NFL? Was
it just like a middle finger to the NFL for
being on strike, Like, hey, we're going to give this
a kicker this year.
Speaker 5: Kickers lives matter, do they?
Speaker 6: I love a good kicker, putter, different story, love good kicker.
Speaker 2: Here's more important to a team? Deep snapper?
Speaker 6: Or I feel like deep snapper might be easier to
teach someone to do it.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: You pin people inside the ten yard line pretty consistently,
switching field position like.
Speaker 2: You just switched your to you said long snapp.
Speaker 4: I saw your expression on your face when you thought
about punters pinning them deep.
Speaker 2: What a weapon?
Speaker 6: A weapon? But I mean they're just not on the
field a ton for me.
Speaker 5: But when they are it matters.
Speaker 6: When when they are it matters for sure. And you
can say the same thing about kickers. But kickers can
lead to points. And I get field position and all that,
But no punter versus a long snapper.
Speaker 4: In the chat right now, I don't know why. So
you can't believe everything you read on the internet. People
like this list. I mean, he's right. If Matt Ryan
and Cam Newton, they as well MVPs. Right, Cam Newton
for sure.
Speaker 6: Kim for sure, Matt not was MVP, but he like
just became Hall of Fame eligible, like a here it goes.
Speaker 2: So I mean move, what was this line?
Speaker 4: Does not have a Hall of Fame career? No, I
don't think Cam Newton does. No, and you know they
definitely don't. But to your point about winning the Super Bowl,
both of them win. Neither them won, Right, But that's
to the point, like if we're making this, if we're
making this or just proposing this question something to ponder
leading up to this weekend, Right, we're finding ways to
get excited for this game. If you're thinking about the career,
who has the better career? Now, I'm gonna say, even
if he wins, I'm gonna say Lamar Jackson because he's
got two MVPs. But Josh Allen, Sam Darnold from the
same draft class, who has a better career if Sam
Donald wins, Because I get it, Josh Allen's a better quarterback.
Josh Allen is an alien. He's one of the best
players in the entire NFL. But if you're looking at accomplishments,
you can't just say because he won the MVP. You know,
these guys on the Hall of Fame trajectory.
Speaker 2: No One. MVP does not put you in the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 6: For what it's worth, Ryan's not eligible yet unless he
was twenty twenty two. He's not eligible for another year
because you've gotta be out five years. It depends on
what Donald does after this, because like Josh Allen, Josh
Allen has set rushing touchdown records through the first like
you know, five or six years of his career or whatever,
like he's going to have multiple records.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Josh Allen is a Hall of Fame right He's
the right one of the greatest.
Speaker 6: I think career wise, Like who's got a better career?
I guess it depends on what they do. Donald certainly
has a leg up if he wins.
Speaker 2: As of right now, And that's the question is as
of right now.
Speaker 6: If Donald wins, never gets back and he just becomes
an average too above average NFL starter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for the rest of his career, there's no argument
it's gonna be Josh Allen at the end of the
day one.
Speaker 4: But it's an interesting thing to ponder right now because
of that draft class. When you think of that draft class. Forever,
it's been Lamar, it's been Josh Allen, but now it's like, okay,
well Baker, you you even had some MVP votes last year.
Sam Darnold had I think was last year with the Vikings,
was tenth on the MVP voting list, certainly had some
votes this year or will it'll come out that he
had some votes this year?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: I think I don't know how that process works. I
think like the voters can vote for first, second, third, fourth,
fifth place, something like that, then they kind of tally
all the all the scores up. But yeah, that draft
class has made a comeback for sure. Now what quarterback
draft class in the last like ten years is the best?
Speaker 6: It might be that one, because all those guys have
multiple playoff wins outside of Rose, yeah, all of them.
Speaker 2: It might be that one.
Speaker 4: Currently, twenty twenty draft class was trying to make a push,
justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts to uh am, I
dropping am I forgetting anybody on that one, not big name,
not big name, that that one was making a push.
They slid this year. Twenty eighteen went ahead of that
one for sure. Now twenty twenty four draft class is
coming on strong with Jaydon Daniels, Drake May, Caleb Williams,
nine boh Niggs. Yeah, Bonick, I'm sorry, Yeah, blanking on
Bonecks there, nine Pinnix being the one that is still
at like a TBD type of guy JJ a little
bit too. But that draft class is coming on really
strong as well. So right now we're watching really good
quarterback play throughout the NFL. High quality quarterback play. We've
saw it. We've seen it throughout the playoffs. I mean,
I realized that making this top ten list all year,
making the top ten list in the quarterbacks, it's hard.
Someone asked me on Twitter the you know, I got
a lot of Packer fans that have followed me from
my playing days and they're like, hey' is Jordan Love
He's a top five quarterback right in the NFL. And
I'm like, I get at one point, like his production,
his output, his skill set would definitely put him in
the top five at a certain point in the last
twenty years. But like right now, it's hard to like
crack a top five and it's like a top ten,
especially top five list, Like there's so much high quality
quarterbacking and it's cool to see like they're all coming
in these bunches at a time. Twenty eighteen draft class,
twenty twenty draft class, twenty twenty four draft class. So
we'll see how each of those draft. It'll be fun
to watch him in the next couple of years. But yeah,
we're cheering for Sam Darnald, also Jairfer dray Math cheering
for a good game this week. But I love those
conversations about who's had the better career because of course
we're not arguing who's a better player. It's the better
career up to the state. So Sam Darnald has a
chance to get one up on the rest of his
fellow twenty eighteen draft class quarterback.
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lost track. We do that here, we get a little.
Speaker 2: It happens ot B CTE.
Speaker 4: Add situation happening again. Diagnosed squirrels here. So we started
yesterday a little kind of a Super Bowl party game,
a prop bet party game. We're gonna we're filling these
questions out. The tripod here is answering these questions and
whoever wins it gets the hoist up the OTB turnover
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Don't just do the Squares game. Do the Squares game
because it's awesome and it's a classic, but also get
a little prop bet action going.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see it.
Speaker 4: So there's twenty three total questions, and yesterday we went through.
We went through sixteen of them. There's twenty three. Then
there's gonna be a total. So we went through things
like linked to the national anthem. You know what the
result of a coin toss is gonna be heads or tails?
First team to score, first jersey number to score, how
many sacks like prop bets like that. We even talked
about mister bad Bunny, mister dust Bunny, how he's gonna do.
What song is gonna play? Tuno Taylor said, Dakiti. It's
a personal fave. Let's say Dakiti. It makes me feel
like I'm on my Game of Thrones, like the death Threat.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I love the name picked it.
Speaker 4: I know I get it smart all right, So we're
gonna keep on going. And this is the commercial and
broadcast section. The next four questions. So this is question
seventeen through twenty.
Speaker 6: I feel like we're in Jeopardy, like we're in the
commercial broadcast category.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. So please answer this question with a question.
Speaker 5: Bunny in the background. You put some bad Bunny on
it make everybody's so angry, just rage Beta.
Speaker 4: Which one is this? This is Dakitiracky, It's not this Monico.
Speaker 5: No, it's neither of those.
Speaker 2: Is it? T t me Praguento again.
Speaker 5: This is saying he's gonna take someone to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, it seems like a nice thing, a nice invitation. Yeah, nice,
all right.
Speaker 4: Question number seventeen, first beer brand commercial that is going
to air during the Super Bowl is it bud Light.
Speaker 2: Mikaelobultri coers like Osekis.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go bud Light because it feels like they've
been like heavy in the marketing game lately and.
Speaker 6: The lately and they always have multiple Super Bowl commercials
every year. Yeah, yeah, out of those four, I'll go, I'll.
Speaker 2: Go bud Light.
Speaker 4: So do Seki says, like they just brought back the
most entrance, most entranced man in the world. I gotta
think we're gonna go. We're gonna see early. Huh, they'll
debut that'll debut it early. They're bringing a back that's
a big deal because he was gone for a while.
Speaker 6: Is this still Michael Phelps or as they go back
to that Readita guy, our older guy. He's back like
that man is maginal guy the originally had like Michael
Phelps for a while. Yea, I know they had the
og is back recently and like within the last month
or two.
Speaker 2: So is it a lead up.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Dosekis as the first commercial just
because of the guy.
Speaker 2: That's a throwbacks what y'all y'all w.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Somebody in the chat ass bud Wiser Budwiser counts for
a bud Light.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they do have specific bud Lie. I'm saying
that bud is not on your it's.
Speaker 6: Different bud right.
Speaker 2: I feel like, okay, are y'all both doing that? Sure? Okay,
all right, we got this.
Speaker 6: And the chad ass like I appreciate it because it's like,
that's a good question, a question worth.
Speaker 5: I feel like they should be separate, like because they
usually are, Like there's usually a bud Light commercial, there's
a bud like the Clydesdales.
Speaker 2: Well, both of them are gonna be wrong. It's gonna
be just seconds.
Speaker 4: Okay, say Thursday, my friends, all right, will a movie
trailer for a Marvel or DC film air?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what they're released schedule is?
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think, but I don't think.
Speaker 4: So you get the benefit of both of both universes,
Marvel and DC.
Speaker 5: I don't feel like there's anything coming up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not like super recent right.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, you never know.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, no, wasn't Robert Downey Junr like in
another one as different here Doctor Doom?
Speaker 2: Has that movie come out?
Speaker 6: I don't know another replays I don't know this came out. Okay,
there's so many I don't follow that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna go with no as well.
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Did you nearly say a potty word? You know, we'll work.
Speaker 6: I can't ultimate.
Speaker 2: Ultimate word start with, I have not I don't even
want to say that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I don't think so. What's a drawing too? Will
there be a surprise guest performing?
Speaker 2: No? Wait, hold on, no, wrong question, my bad. We
already did that. How many times? Well?
Speaker 4: The quote the term dynasty or Tom Brady be mentioned over?
This is low over under one and a half.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out. Okay, no, no, no, I'm changing this
three and a half.
Speaker 6: I still go over.
Speaker 2: Still over, that's one and a half. That's trash.
Speaker 5: If that dynasty so many times.
Speaker 2: If that's actually on.
Speaker 4: Any sportsbook, go there now, yeah, hammer one and so
I'm gonna going three.
Speaker 2: Now, y'all going over. I'm going over.
Speaker 6: I'm going over.
Speaker 2: I'm going over.
Speaker 6: You're gonna pick the number, and I'm going over.
Speaker 5: Check Polly Market, just.
Speaker 4: Pick the number. I think if it was Chris Collinsworth
over thirty eight and a half.
Speaker 2: Now, if.
Speaker 6: The microphone it is Colin's worth?
Speaker 2: But is it really?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 2: It's NBC over over five and a half?
Speaker 5: Is there?
Speaker 6: I know he's completely irrelevant to the Super Bowl. Is
there a Patrick Mahomes odds?
Speaker 2: Because I'm taking the.
Speaker 6: Over on that too, first quarterback to scramble outside the pocket?
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, for sure, This question says first celebrity
scene in a commercial. It says, Rightchel guests. But I'm
gonna say I'll give an over under over under on
CARDI b sightings one and a half at the game.
I think during the game they panned her.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm gonna go I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean it kind of depends on if Stefan Diggs has.
Speaker 5: And I don't think that she's Taylor Swift. No, no,
I think I'm gonna go on the under on that one.
Speaker 4: So one or less for you, So one and a
half on the over, And I mean it kind of
depends on if Stefan Diggs has a big play. I'm
sure I don't.
Speaker 6: I'll just go over just so we have.
Speaker 2: Something I'm gonna go over to just because super people.
Speaker 4: People want to people watch, and she's so she'll definitely
get a people watching as a story but if Stephan
Diggs has a big play, I think he she'd not
get a second look.
Speaker 6: What were the odds on the first celebrity.
Speaker 2: Commercial Celeburty commercial?
Speaker 6: Did you say that said?
Speaker 4: Yeah, first celebrity scene in a commercial. They just said,
write your guests. John Ham for me, put it down, okay,
John Ham, So, y'all are going under and over?
Speaker 2: Okay, got it.
Speaker 6: Ham's hosting the Honors on Thursday night. He's gonna do
MGM commercial when he's got a new show coming out.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna go to break because we're gonna
try to stay on time because our favorite, one of
our favorite sements of the week, coach Kim Milk, will
be joining the show when we come back right here.
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and talk to our favorite guests of the week. Coach,
you're a Lady Tiger's basketball team. Coach Kim Mulki, Coach,
how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 8: I'm great, y'all. Doing good.
Speaker 4: We are doing fantastic. Weather's kind of finally warmed up
a little bit, so we thought out, we're feeling better.
And something that hasn't thought out is your Tiger basketball team.
Ye're coming off a fantastic win this week against Alabama.
Speaker 8: I wish I could bottle that up and play like
that every game, just really, especially on the defensive end.
I've been harping preaching at him all year. God, we
can score points, That's not our problem. Our problem is
we have got to commit to defense. And they did.
That's this fun and defensive effort by everyone that I
have had this year, and consequently you scored a lot
of points because of your defensive effort. So Alabama's a
good basketball team, top twenty five. Don't look at that
score and be misled. We just played that good cause how.
Speaker 2: Do you bottle that up?
Speaker 4: Your defense has improved over the entire year, and I
think in the SEC giving up just over sixty five
points a game on defense, and so how do you
bottle that up? What do you attribute to the improvements
on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 8: I hope I've heard some of it. You kind of
faded on me. I don't know how you bottle it
up other than what we do every day. You get
in a film room, you show them all the wonderful
things repetition. When you have success, you tend to want
to continue to do it. Now. The opposing team has
a lot to do with that as well. So we've
got our hands full going to Texas. That's going to
be a defensive battle, probably not a very entertaining game offensively,
But you know their final four team, they were ranked
as high as two in the country this year. We
beat them here have to play them again, and I
don't anticipate it to be anything other than one heck
of a basketball game.
Speaker 4: Coach, I tell you, so, I took your advice last week.
You told me, I know, I got a lot of
East Texan in me, and so I studied up and
I made a mistake, and so I'm here to make
up for it. Jada Reeshard played incredible against Bama. She
continues to play gray, but Kayla Williams played Grady as
a kay Johnson mccaye full Wiley is playing fantastic, So
like you're gonna need them in this next stretch.
Speaker 2: You got a heck of a stretch coming up? You go.
Speaker 4: You're taking on Texas tomorrow night in Austin. You've already
beat them once this year, but you have a four
game stretch right now that is pretty till you got
your go to Auburn next, you're home at number three
South Carolina, then at number thirteen, Oh miss, how do
you get them prepared, especially after a big win? I
remember my coaches used to coach us so hard after
a big win, after we beat somebody a lot on
the scoreboard, they used to coach us a lot harder.
How did you get your team ready after victory to
go on this four game stretch?
Speaker 8: Well, as you know, first of all, you didn't make
a mistake. A mistake is not a mistake until you
make it twice the way I look at it, And listen, Reshard, Richard, Look,
we've got so many names in Louisiana. You gotta live
here to understand the pronunciation. I was actually picking on
you about that, but listen, you know, enjoy the win
for that twenty four hour period and then it's over
and always right on the board. If what you did
yesterday still looks big to you today, then you haven't
done much today. We won't ever forget that moment. We
won't ever forget that victory. But there are bigger fish
to fry out there. We're trying to win a SEC title.
We're trying to host the first and second round game,
and those goals are much bigger than just beating Alabama.
You don't look too far ahead. We already know what
lies ahead. We don't look at old Me. We don't
have to go look at South Carolina, we don't have
to look at Auburn. All we have to do is
listen to the eyes of Texas. That's all we gotta do,
and focus on.
Speaker 2: Ut That's right.
Speaker 4: Well, certainly the eyes and nationally are on your lady
Tigers as well, getting recognitioned, jumped up to number five
and taking on, of course the Texas. And then if
we just got some news yesterday that in a couple
of weeks the College Dame Day is going to come down,
and a lot of that has to do, of course,
with you and what your ladies are doing, but also
the atmosphere that the fan base brings each and every
week when they when you have a when you have
a home game, which kind of got me thinking you're
about to go on the road three the next four games.
What's the toughest place in the SEC to go and
travel from a fan base standpoint, just the toughest stadium
to play in.
Speaker 8: Well, if we're going to talk about fan base and
people in Columbia, South Carolina is awesome, and so kudo
to South Carolina for showing up for their basketball teams.
I think we have a great fan base. I think
South Carolina and LSU consistently have fans buy season tickets
and sell out those arenas, and then after that, I
think it depends on the type of year that the
respective team has had. I find that when we go
on the road, not counting South Carolina, when we go
on the road, we seem to help fill the stands,
and I ask myself, that's respect. That's our kids are
always on social media. We have a culture here at
LSUS that is attractive to not just sports people but
people who may be considering going to LSU. But we
do tend to draw very well when we go on
the road, and not just our fans, but fans from
the area of where we're playing. That is something to see.
Speaker 2: Matt.
Speaker 8: We take security with us for obvious reasons. Because I
cannot tell you how long it takes us to get
out of gyms, because I believe we have an obligation
to sign autographs, take pictures that could be the first
time someone has ever seen LSU play. And so after
every game we spend ten minutes going back out on
the court and we tell the people, the police security
at those institutions that this is what we do, and
please don't run them out of the gym. I think
it helps us grow the game, I really do, and
I think we have an obligation to do that. If
one little girl for the first time is going to
meet Flaje A. Johnson, then let's do it. And I
think that our players enjoy it. You wouldn't believe getting
off the bus, how they line up, and that's a
good thing. That's a good thing. I know, you know
it happens in a lot of sports, but in women's
basketball that doesn't happen. Happen very often, And I think
it just has a lot to do with the personality
of our team, how we play the game, how we
enjoy the game, how we show excitement and enthusiasm when
we play.
Speaker 4: Coaching brings ups like some interesting questions that I have
about that because the with social media today and like
the different media outlets, players have all sorts of platforms
that certainly I never had, You never had when you
were when you were playing, and didn't have a long
time with coaching. But these these players have a lot
of platforms to build their brand, let people know their personality,
which I think helps, of course, the attractiveness of different sports.
It helps attracting us of women's basketball. So is there
a when you ask coaching staff you also have there's
some there's some pitfalls in that as well. Right, you
see things you don't want to see. You can you
have people that can put some stuff out there that
you might not want your players but out there, do
y'all do any sort of oversight on social media just
presence from any.
Speaker 2: Of your players.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm not sure I understand your questions, so I'll
just answer it broadly. I'm not a social media person.
I don't have it on my phone. Do I have account, Yes,
for obvious reasons recruiting and things like that, but I
do not control them. That is controlled by assistants on
my staff. The only thing I will tell you that
I tell our players is that Social media can be
good for some people's businesses and then promoting things and
for your brand, but it can also eat you up.
And if you stay on there and you read all
the crap that's written on there and the lives that's
written on there, and you're not strong enough to handle it,
it can really demoralize you. I just I don't just
sit down and say, oh, we're going to go to
this class and you're gonna learn. Look, by the time
they get to college, they know all of it. And
what you hope happens is that our administrators have meetings
with them and we do have a lot of me
things throughout the year, from teaching them how to balance
a budget to teach them how to go follow their
income tax. I mean, you have to do all those
things now. And part of that, I'm sure is social
media are used to call them sid sports information people
cannot and do not allow them to just have any
type of media interview without approval from them, because you
know this, there are people that are just not qualified.
And everybody wants to be a journalist now and they're
really not. They're trying to get clickbait, and so we're
very careful in making sure that any interviews they do
they have to go through our media relations department.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a especially when you're dealing with with
kids that are eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, you definitely
have to learn. It's a skill set that needs to
be taught on how to speak to the media and
what messaging you want to get out there, and certainly
more portly a message you don't want to get out there.
My next question for you is more some some advice,
some dad advice that I want because I listen to
your advice and listen to your answers all the time.
You have so much, so much wisdom, and you've seen
a lot, so I want to ask you youth sports
has gotten wild these days, from the scheduling, to the traveling,
to the expense of it. I got three kids that
are all wanting to do different sports and different things,
and it seems like youth sports has just gotten a
little bit out of hand. From scheduling, how many days
a week they're practicing, the emphasis put on like private lessons,
and all this at a young age. If you were
raising a couple of ten, eight and five year olds
right now, how would you handle what kind of sports
and the scheduling that they that they go through.
Speaker 8: Well, the excuse me, the travel, the expenses, none of
that's any different than when I raised mind mat. Here's
the way I approached it. Too many parents live their
lives through their children's sports careers. I was fortunate to
have done everything I wanted to do, so I didn't
have to do that. You don't have to do that.
But it's those parents who never got to do that.
So my advice to them is step back and let
your child figure out what it is they're good at
and that they really have this ambition to be successful
at it. Don't push them into things that you want
them to do. Second thing is I kind of go
back to the summer ball and all that stuff. If
your child wants to do it and it's good enough
to play at the highest level, it's your obligation as
a parent to find ways and means to help them
do that. Rather it's grandparents, whether it's you share it
with your spouse. Don't hold a kid back that is
good because it's inconvenient for you. Oh, we can't go
on vacation because he's got a tournament. Well, guess what
we have to do those things as parents, but don't
push kids into things that they're really not obsessed with.
I want to also talk about high schools. I dealt
with this in high school with my kids, and most
my kids played at the highest level in high school,
public school. You will find high school coaches are very selfish.
They want that kid to play their sport year round. Well,
guess what, You're gonna have those athletes that are pretty
darn good in football and baseball and basketball, and they
do overlap. You allow those players to play all sports.
I believe that playing all sports is only helpful when
they get to the college level. And I never wanted
my kids to be at a school where these coaches
were so selfish. And I'll give this great example. You're
gonna appreciate this, and I love him death. Okay, So
Kramer's five nine, five ten on his tippy toes, however
you want to say it. We knew he was not
gonna be six foot sixty two sixty three. He he
would have loved to play college football, got a cannon
for an arm played against Baker Mayfield in the state championship.
You should have seen those two quarterbacks going at it.
But he knew in the summers he had to go
to these All American Baseball invites. Well, what happens in Texas, Matt,
They want you to play? What seven? All seven?
Speaker 6: Baby?
Speaker 8: He couldn't do that. So a new coach comes into
his high school and I won't say he penal lost him,
but he wasn't gonna let him be the quarterback. And
I said, well, just go talk to him and say, coach,
it doesn't matter. I'm gonna come back when school starts.
You put me wherever you need me on the field.
And I winked at my son and I said, you'll
be quarterback before the year's over. He's throwing the football.
So they started and put him at safety in and
I laughed. I said, that boy's not gonna hit anybody.
But he played state. Then they moved him to the
inside receiver, which he's got great hands. But anyway, get
to about the third, fourth, I don't know, fifth game
of the season, and man, Waco High School was blitzing.
I mean they were stunting. They were just going after
the quarterback. It was an ugly sight. He got home
and I said, you've been throwing the football. He goes, mom,
stop it. Next day after practice, he goes, had you
been talking to the coaches? I said, I've never talked
to your coach. He said, I'm moving to quarterbacks. And
that's the year he went on and played for the
state championships. So the lesson to be learned there and
I loved his coach. I won't tell you who he is.
Great coach won state championship. I said, coach, what lesson
did you learn? You can't be stubborn when you got
a kid that understands sports that's the best you have
and has to go play the other sport because that's
where his future is in college. So we've had a
good laugh about that. But let them do what they
want to do, find the means to get them where
they want to be, But don't live your life.
Speaker 2: To your child.
Speaker 4: That speaks to me, coach, because high school football Texas.
I had to give up baseball to be the quarterback
for my high school team as well, So I get it.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 4: There is no handbook to being a parent, especially in
this uth sports world, so I appreciate every piece of advice.
So thank you for your time. We really appreciate it.
As always one of the best segments we have all
week right there there she is.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Coach matt y'all take care, bye bye, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Coach Kim Olke. She is fantastic. I love it.
Speaker 4: I love I head to ask that because you sports
is crazy these days and trying to figure that out.
Figure out that pathway, Teddy. You'll see it gets wild
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