Speaker 1: Off the Bench. We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.
Speaker 1: The plays get broken down and science gets denied.
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Speaker 1: Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 2: Welcome in our number two, a Tuesday edition of Off
the Bench. Taylor Sharpiluandravil, Rial, Braxton, Risuto all hanging out
with you here this morning. We're busy Hour number one
talking a lot of baseball, mean Lundra kind of broke
down hunts five bold predictions for the Yellow Shoe baseball season,
how they hold up after the first weekend, and we
took a look back at the action last night on
the diamond as LSU takes down the Kent State Golden
Flashes by a score of ten to seven. Right now,
I want to pivot a little bit, just for one
segment to LSU football because LSU Tigers on SI put
out an article of Catholic KI running back Jaden Miles
leaning towards the LSU Tigers. Now shouldn't come as a
huge surprise. LSU does really well with Catholic high and
Jade Miles number one running back in the state of Louisiana.
So it may not come to a surprise to you
that you know, LSU's on his radar. He's on Las
Shoes radar. He's right down the road. He's six ft two,
he's two hundred pounds. He offers from every SEC school
you can think of, I mean Auburn, Oklahoma, Alabama, and
even even some teams in Texas, Houston Cougar's, Texas Tech
Red Raiders. You know, he's looking at a lot of
different schools. Well, last Friday, Sam Spiegelman of Rivals officially
put in his prediction for the LSU Tigers. Now, look,
I get it, it's a little bit down the road.
Things can change, but this makes a lot of sense,
and it's because of Lane Kiffin. Look at some of
the running backs under Lane Kiffen and how they performed.
I mean twenty fifteen when Lane Kiffin was the offensive
coordinator at Alabama, Derrick Henry three hundred and ninety five carries,
two hundred and nineteen yards, twenty eight touchdowns, and oh yeah,
Derick Henry took home the Heisman Trophy that season. Even
even after and you know, twenty sixteen, they had a
good year, but it was a mixture of guys Jalen
Hurts a quarterback. You had Josh Jacobs, Damian Harris, a
lot of those guys, so not all of them had
eye popping numbers, but Alabama still ran the ball really effectively.
Back in twenty sixteen. It was just three or four
different guys and not one monster like you saw at
Derrick Henry running for over two thousand yards. Lane kiffn
gets to call up to Florida Atlantic to be their
head coach. In twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, he had
Devin Singletary as his starting running back. Who's been a
really good player in the NFL. You know, I mean
he's never been at an all pro level, but just
a solid professional running back is Devin Singletary. His first
year at Florida Atlantic, without Lane Kiffin, he had one
thousand yards twelve touchdowns, really good, really good numbers. But
when Lane Kiffin got there in twenty seventeen, three hundred
and one carries, nineteen hundred yards rushing and thirty two touchdowns.
He also added another two hundred receiving. Followed it up
the next year twenty eighteen, thirteen hundred yards rushing, twenty
two touchdowns Lane Kiffen loves to run the football. I
mean I just gave you multiple examples, but it goes
beyond that. Look at quin Shawn Judkins at Ole Miss.
I mean you saw what quin Shawn did his rookie
year with the Browns. He was really, really good. He
finished with about eight ndred yards rushing. He missed a
couple games. Look at quin Shawn Jugkins at Old Miss
twenty twenty two, fifteen hundred yards rushing, sixteen touchdowns, average
five point seven yards per carrey. And he did it
again the next year eleven hundred yards, eleven hundred and
fifty eight fifteen touchdowns and again hovering around two hundred
yards receiving both of those years. Lane Kiffen loves to
run the football. Look at some of the offenses that
he struggled in and some of the whenever he lost
a big game at Old Miss, he would always go
to the podium and Jake mentions it here all the
time because Jake talked to him at SEC spring meetings,
and going into this past year, we said we lost
to LSU in Depth Valley two years ago because we
couldn't run the football and in the fourth quarter we
kept having to throw it. A lot of people look
at the lane Kiffin offense and think, oh, it's a
spread attack, it's up tempo, Lane Kiffin's gonna throw the
ball forty five fifty times a game. But that's just
not the case. That's that's never been Lane Kiffin. Lane
Kiffin has always prided himself on his offense and his
team's ability to run the football. Look at Kawan Lacy
just last season. Kawan Lacy three hundred and six carries,
one hundred and sixty seven yards, twenty four touchdowns, and
he caught a heck of a lot of balls coming
out of the backfield as well. When Lane Kiffin has
a stud running back, he uses them. It's the workhorse.
I mean, he had three hundred carries. Devin Singletary had
three hundred carries his first year under lane Kiffen. Derek
Henry had almost four hundred carries in twenty fifteen three
ninety five. There's a lot to like if you're a
running back about the Lane Kiffin offense. It's, in my opinion,
a big reason why you were able to get Harlem
Berry and Caden Durham back. I remember Kayden Durham entered
the transfer portal and there were a lot of people
that said, Kiffin's gonna bring in Kawan Lacy and you're
gonna lose Harlan Barry. You're gonna lose Cayden Durham. Now,
you lost Caleb Jackson, but Caleb Jackson was kind of
your fourth runner this year because Barry emerged. You knew
Cayden Durham was at least going to be the number
one guy to start the season because of how he
finished his freshman year, and then Juwan Johnson stepped up
in fall camp. So yes, you lost Caleb Jackson, but
Caleb Jackson was your number four. Anyways, it didn't matter
quite as much. You were able to get Harlan Berry
and Caden Durham back because Lank Kiffin is now your
head coach and what he is able to do running
the football. I mean when I look at Harlan Berry
four ninety one last year on the ground really came
on strong in the back half of the year. The
sky is the limit for Harlan Burry in this offense,
because I fully expect him to be RB one at
least going into Game one against Clemson, Caydenduram's gonna have
a role. We talk about it a lot on this ship.
These running backs are so talented that behind this poor
offensive line, with poor coaching, an awful running scheme where
you basically ran an rpo every play and the alignman
could not get to the second level. Caden Durham and
Harlan Barry both each ran for over four yards per
carry last year. At one point in the season, Kaden
Durham had five yards per carrie until about the halfway point,
but they both still got over four yards per carry.
It's because of Lane Kiffin. Mix in a running back
like Sam Levitt, who, if fully healthy, he showed his
ability to run the football. I mean, a lot of
people forget how athletic Sam Levitt is because yes, he
was hurt last year. I get that he played in
four games for the Sun Devils. But when Sam Levit's
fully healthy, he can run the ball as well. I mean,
look at what he did two years ago when he
was at Arizona State. Played in thirteen games, four and
forty three yard rushing, five rushing touchdowns, four yards per carry.
Even last year in seven games, three hundred yard rushing,
five touchdowns four point two. AKA, you mix Sam Levitt
with Caden Durham and Harlem Berry, and this offense is
going to be built around throwing the football. I know
LSU signed a billion receivers in the transfer portal. We
talked about the three talented freshman yesterday that you have
coming in, But make no mistake about it, this offensi's
identity is going to be running the football. And I'm
not saying they're going to get Jaden Miles out of Catholica.
Jade Miles has a lot of options. He's going to
go where he thinks best fits him. But really, any
running back that steps foot in this offense, I believe
is going to have success because you have the best
offensive mine in college football. I truly believe that. And
then with Charlie Wise junior call in the plays, there's
so much familiarity between him and Lane Kiffen. Any running
back would be hard pressed to find a better situation
than the one LSU is going to provide for them.
And that's why even with Harlem Berry, even with Caden Durham,
you added three running backs in the transfer portal. Now
they look like depth pieces, but Dylan Jones from Wisconsin.
He put up solid numbers last year. He began the
season for Wisconsin as the starting running back. Now he
ultimately got passed up, but he was a guy that
played in big time games for He came here knowing
that you had two returning running backs. Guys like Jade
Miles are going to do the same thing. It doesn't
necessarily have to be Jade Miles. But I mean when
you look at this offense again, like what Lane Kiffin
has done throughout the years, Derrick Henry wins the Heisman Trophy,
Devin Singletary back to back twelve hundred yard plus seasons.
He's still playing in the NFL. Quin John Jenkins elite
college career. Yes, he transferred to Ohio State to win
a national championship, got drafted in the second round. But
if qwen John Jenkins doesn't get hurt last year, who
knows me he's holding up that Rookie of the Year
trophy and not Ted Roan McMillan. And we know about
Kawan Lacy. Everybody in the country wanted Kawan Lacy if
he was going to enter the portal and Old Mills
probably had to pay a pretty penny to keep him
in Oxford. There's a pattern in there. There's one constant,
Derrick Henry six three two forty, Devin Singletary a little
bit on the smaller side, Kawan Lacy known as more
of a receiving back before he got the ole Miss Judkins,
the downhill runner. All of these guys had kind of
different skill sets, but all of them succeeded in the
Lane Kiffin offense, whether it's Jade Miles, whether it's another
top running back. Like yeah, Sam Spiekerman logged his pick
for LSU to to get Jade Miles. It makes a
lot of sense. I think you're gonna see LSU continue
to get these top tier running backs. Like everyone wanted
to talk about the quarterback position with Lane Kiffin, I
don't have to worry about the quarterback position. Lane Kiffin's
who went to land a top quarterback, And you're probably
right because he has a quarterback friendly system, but running
back as well. He uses them a lot. They're all
effective in his offense. And you can see going down
the list of guys Henry Singletary, Judkins, Kawan Lacey, it
works for a lot of different type of running backs.
You're not always gonna have a guy that's a perfect
fit for your scheme. Recruitings fickle like that. You could
be targeting a guy and he can flip somewhere else
last minute. You got to bring in a guy. Lane
Kiffin is an innovative enough offensive mind to overcome that.
So I think whether it's Miles, whether it's other top
running backs, you're gonna see a lot of this in
the future as far as LSU being in the running
for some of these top running backs throughout the high
school football. All right, we're going to take a time out.
When we get back, get your questions in the YouTube chat.
We got OTB mailbag coming up. We do it every
Tuesday around this time. We'll have that next you're on
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in Tuesday edition of OTB. Tayler
Sharpy with the Elandra Villarriale Braxton Risuto as well. Okay,
we do it every Tuesday around this time. Let's get
into a little OTB mailbag. I help this special delivery
for doctor bench and look it is marked most urgent.
Speaker 3: We'll be writing to you the internet. What the is
the internet?
Speaker 2: All right? Hashtag mailbag? So this first one's actually going
to be for a Landra because I am not Catholic. Braxton,
if you're Catholic, feel free to jump in as well.
Are you giving up anything for the Lenten season? So
it ain't gonna be Doctor Pepper.
Speaker 6: We know that Doctor Pepper was hard, but what I'm
thinking about giving up is even harder, and it would
include Dr Pepper, But I I don't.
Speaker 7: Know if I can do it. Okay, thinking about giving
up caffeine.
Speaker 2: Like all together.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know this is someone that drinks a quad
espresso every single morning.
Speaker 7: It's gonna be hard. I basically can only drink water.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's some rubers that don't have caffeine.
I think, I think, I think that's right. What about Sprite?
I don't, Okay, well then you you have sprite?
Speaker 6: Then that's a big I don't know if I can
do it, Like, I just don't want to set myself
up for failure. But I also feel like, you know,
if Jesus sacrificed his life from me, I can sacrifice
some caffeine for forty days.
Speaker 2: This is the one of the moments every year where
I realize I'm not tough enough to be Catholic.
Speaker 6: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I know, I know. I told my mom. I'm like, hey,
that's funny for this, for this this reason, thank you.
Because I couldn't do it. I would fail every year.
It's the same reason why I never set a New
Year's Eve resolution or New Year's resolution, because in two
weeks I'm gonna be done. I'm not gonna do it.
I am I'm I'm weak when it comes to stuff
like that. I'm not gonna be able to follow through.
Speaker 7: But I did the note doctor Pepper last year, and
that was hard.
Speaker 2: Guys. She would come in some mornings with like a
junkie itch. She'd like, y'all got any more of them
Doctor Peppers.
Speaker 6: And then the last one that I had before Lynt
was a regular one because y'all know I drink the zeros, right,
But I had a regular one. And then whenever I
like got one after lint was over, it was a
regular one in a can.
Speaker 2: The cams are the best. There is nothing better ice.
Speaker 6: Cold can Doctor Pepper, and it was the best Doctor
pepper i'd ever.
Speaker 2: Had, by the way, I was looking for you the
other day. I showed a hunt. I tried the first
floor in the first floor kitchen vinie machine. Yeah, ice cold,
really ice cold. Tried it last week.
Speaker 7: It used to be hot.
Speaker 2: I just I needed I needed a doctor pepper last
week and I was like, Oh, if it's hot, I'll
just put it in the fridge. Yeah, I cold.
Speaker 6: I also thought about doing alcohol, which is more doable,
surprisingly more.
Speaker 7: Doable than the caffeine. To me, is like giving up alcohol.
But I'm going to New York next weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And when we go to New York is go.
Speaker 2: Drink so right, and like if you guess some were fancy,
like you almost have to order wine, right, So.
Speaker 7: Gonna drink some champagne.
Speaker 2: Hashtag O TB mail bag. How can the Lady Tiger's
softball team be fixed? Easy answer, get hits and score runs.
We talked about it yesterday, Sierra, Daniel, jayl Lassiter, Tory Edwards.
They're doing their part. Everybody else needs to step up
as well. Hashtag mailbag how is the baby room coming along?
Thank you for asking, Daniel basham slowly but surely so
we kind of use that closet in our back bedroom.
So we live in a three and two. We just
got that even though we didn't have any kids. We
were like, look, we're gonna have this house for the
next however many years we want, like, let's just do
it now instead of you know, buying what like close
in on a house. It's not the funnest thing in
the world. So we were like, let's just go ahead
and do it one time. If you know, we happen
to have three or four kids down the road, then
we'll pack up and move. But for the time being,
it works. So we were kind of using that back
bedroom as storage. So like a lot of my winter coats,
a lot of her winter coats were in that back closet.
She did a closet clean out of her stuff Wednesday,
and uh, Friday, I did mine. So that's done. Really,
all I gotta do is get the full size bed
mattress out of there. We gotta wrap it, put it
up in the attic. That's pretty much it, and then
start the process of painting. If Victoria said she wants
to go with a light yellow, because it could be
boy or girl in case we have a girl, somewhere
down the road, and it could fit with an law
shoot theme if we want to do that. So we're
thinking something along the lines of that. But baby room,
baby room, coming along all right, Daniel basham with another
good one. This almost made me cry yesterday. I don't
want this but a landro otb mail bag and a
laundra given update on Punch, So.
Speaker 7: I actually have a really good update on Punch.
Speaker 2: This is positive.
Speaker 7: This is a positive.
Speaker 6: Update on Punch because Punch was Honestly, I'm not much
like an emotional person.
Speaker 7: That Punch was making me highly emotional.
Speaker 6: Like I almost wanted to cry over this little tiny monkey,
and I really want to adopt him.
Speaker 7: But it looks like he's making some friends in the troop.
Speaker 6: Now. One of the older females did start grooming him.
That sounds wrong, but like grooming is different, no, like.
Speaker 7: But yeah, he was getting groomed and.
Speaker 6: He also like she hugged him, so he started to
make some friends in the troop.
Speaker 2: That's positive, right, Like, Okay, yeah, we like it. We
like Punch, we love it.
Speaker 6: Punch is a really cute name for him too, and
he's so tiny. He just carries that big old stuffed
animal around that's way too big for him.
Speaker 3: It's bigger than all.
Speaker 7: It's bigger than him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh so he's like a tiny I haven't.
Speaker 2: Seen a picture of punch at all. Look on Twitter,
I have not seen a picture of punch.
Speaker 6: And just type in punch the monkey on Twitter and
I'm sure you'll find one immediately.
Speaker 2: Somebody here says, h Taylor, you don't have to be
Catholic to give up something for lent. Sure, I know
that I'm using an excuse not to that. That's where
we're at.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, not catholic. Guess I can't do it, right,
Guess I can't do it. I wanted to, but uh,
I can't make it up. Guys, I can't give up
anything like because.
Speaker 7: You know, or doesn't have will power.
Speaker 2: Right Yeah, basically sure, yeah, that's fine, right, we'll take it. Yeah,
take it on the chat. Then that's me because I
know whether it's Victoria, whether I let the OTB crew pick,
whether I let the chat pick, They're gonna say, Taylor,
you gotta give up energy drinks, and guys, I ain't happen.
It ain't happening. I mean, what else am I going
to give up. That's the obvious answer, and it's not happening. Look,
we got the we got the energy drink down here today.
Speaker 7: That's the good one.
Speaker 2: That's that's the good. This is the this is the
sugar Fair.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, you said you couldn't find sugar free.
Speaker 2: They restocked it. But uh, all right, what's punch look like?
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, this.
Speaker 2: We got an update of this guy.
Speaker 7: Do you help? Oh my gosh, look at this tailor.
You're gonna die.
Speaker 2: Oh so he's the gray one. And okay, so the
stuffed animals the orange. He's the gray.
Speaker 7: So he's weak. Monkey.
Speaker 2: Gosh, he's tiny. I mean that is that's smaller than
I thought it was going to be. Look at the
feet in Yeah.
Speaker 7: Wait, scroll because there's another there's more in there.
Speaker 2: Hit the arrow, Hit the arrow button.
Speaker 7: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: All right, well I officially loved Punch.
Speaker 7: We all love Punch. Look at that.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, I cannot. If you're Lizzie Radio, go
look up Punch the monkey. He is the cutest little thing.
But it also might.
Speaker 2: Make you sad.
Speaker 7: But don't be too sad because he has friends.
Speaker 2: Now, oh my.
Speaker 3: God, I can't we gotta name this stuff anima.
Speaker 6: Now I don't know what the stuffed animal's name is,
but his name is punch Fruit, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I like fruit punch, Fruit punch. That's actually cute. Really
that aveo. When the chat says, Taylor, you're gonna make
your kids sleep in a closet. No, okay, we're cleaning
out the closet. It did I know? I worded that
very poorly. We're cleaning out the closet in the back bedroom.
We want to get everything out of there and just
work on the baby room all at once. By the way,
anybody may, I guess you two would never have a
reason to do it. But if you've ever looked up
prices of a baby crib, no, not the cheapest thing
in the world.
Speaker 7: Guess everything that involves a baby is expensive.
Speaker 2: We went and looked a couple of weeks ago some
place I don't even remember where we were, and Victoria's like, oh, yeah,
it's like baby furniture. Went looked and they're like, yeah,
we have a twenty percent off sale. I was like, cool,
how much is this rocking chair? They're like, well, it's
called a glider. Okay, how much is this glider. They're
like eight hundred dollars and I was like, this is
on sale, and then I was like, yeah, it is
on sale because the other one next year it was
twelve hundred. So to me, that's a little ridiculous. But
everything everything baby related, like, it's just it's just one
thing after now.
Speaker 7: Do you look up car seats?
Speaker 2: So we actually already we got a car seat given
to it.
Speaker 7: Is it a Duna no or what is it douna?
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. You're talking about the one that's
like car seat, stroller all in one. That's right, we
don't have that. We weren't given a car seat. It's
just that a Greco or whatever brand, the brand you
see all the time.
Speaker 6: We're supposedly being given one time for a baby shower.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: I was like, do some of y'all want to go
in on this together?
Speaker 2: We can go in fourths still be a decent gift. No,
So we've looked at the we've looked at Duna's. We're
apparently going to get one something, but we we already
do have like a temporary car seat right now, Let's
be honest, we're gonna be carrying that baby every where
we go over the first couple of months anyway. So
the stroller, well, we'll get one, though, we're gonna figure
it out. We want to get the baby room figured
out first. Victoria has a a women only baby shower
in April. So I'm not even invited to its? How
they are, Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not even invited.
Speaker 7: And then the men come at the end.
Speaker 2: I'm not going at all, apparently. Yeah, I know she
didn't want me. I mean, I get it. I wouldn't
want me there. She doesn't want me there, so uh
it uh.
Speaker 6: Just giving baby takes Yeah, the whole.
Speaker 2: Time, she's, uh, baby, so you'll love this. We Uh.
One of my good friends his son turned one years
old on Valentine's Day on Saturday, so we went to
the party that morning or that that. Yeah, it was
like newt. We get there and uh, we pull up
and he goes, how's Razor doing. Victoria's like, guys, stop.
Speaker 7: Can we just stop calling him?
Speaker 2: He's like everybody at the Christmas party and the Garritet
one hundred year celebration, they've all gotten together and claimed
that this baby's gonna be And I mean I didn't
even tell him at a time, and it's just it's
it's the obvious name, guys. A little bit of breaking news.
The baby's not going to be named Razor. I'm would
like to apologize to everyone.
Speaker 6: I think I've said something like I commented on y'all's
picture or something else like I can't wait to be Razor,
and Victoria was like, you're so funny, right.
Speaker 2: Oh, but it's so funny, Like nobody has talked to
each other about it, and everybody has said that, like
like a friend Ben, he doesn't know, y'all, you can.
We walked in, how's Razor doing. My best friend's last
name is Hunt and he already has a kid. But
he told me he's like, hey, if you name your
son Razor, if I ever have a daughter in the future,
all name or Treasure, so it'd be Razor Sharp and
then Treasure Hunt. And I was like, that's the most
tempting I've heard. The problem is, though, you have to
have another kid and all that, Like, yeah, that's a
risk I can't take, but it would be elite. I'm
trying to work in Razor as a middle name and
maybe just kind of go by that I as a
middle name. We're we're trying to we're trying to workship
that in a little bit. Victoria wants to have my
middle name. I hate my middle name. Malone is my
middle name, family name. Don't know where it originates from,
but I don't know. She wants to kind of keep
it going.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think I'm the last one with Malone because my
younger brother's not. But uh, I don't know. It's it's
not gonna be Razor there, guys, I hate to break
the news to everybody. All Right, We're gonna take a quick,
real quick.
Speaker 7: Is a Landra the godmother?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I'd be a great guy.
Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do, guys, We're gonna take bids.
Speaker 7: I'm not bidding on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, highest bidder, highest bidder gets to be the god
I would.
Speaker 6: Love to be the godmother to Razor, but I'm not
I'm not bidding.
Speaker 2: Also, it's not as fun to be a godmother as
someone that's not named Razor. Right, So that's I don't know.
I mean, do people still do godmothers? I mean, is
it like still a thing? Yeah? I know that I
have one somewhere I've never met him. My mom's literally
told me, oh, yeah, these people are your godparents. Never
met him a day in my life. I don't even
think they live around here anymore.
Speaker 6: My brother doesn't really know his godfather.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, we probably will probably just
pick my my sister and my brother in law, because
I mean, they live right down the road.
Speaker 3: RUMs.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's probably. I mean, I guess the logical
answer to do. But I don't know. I mean, is
that is that a thing that I didn't realize people
still did that. I like it, but uh, yeah, we'll see.
We'll see. The god parent is well, is not gonna
bid for it, so she's out of the running. Look,
we got we gotta make some we gotta. I'm trying
to make money off that.
Speaker 7: They're saying that I'm gonna raise Archie.
Speaker 6: They named your baby Archie in the chat, by the way,
actually a kind of cute.
Speaker 2: Archie's not a bad name. Archie raisor sharp, Archie is
not a terrible now one.
Speaker 7: So they said that, Daniel.
Speaker 6: So then they said that I'm gonna be raising Archie
and Punch. I have Punch when in one and Archie
in the other.
Speaker 2: My dad is listening. Just got a text. You don't
have godparents. I think that's a Catholic thing.
Speaker 7: It is a Catholic thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, there you go. I don't have god parents.
I didn't think I did. I don't know if I
did or not. I thought my mom. I thought maybe
a long time ago.
Speaker 6: My mom said, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe not. But no, no god parents,
and I don't. I guess we probably won't have any either.
All Right, we're a little long for a break. We're
gonna take a time out and we get back on
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves gets Off the
Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Welcome back in Tuesday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor
Sharp here with you right now. We're gonna go out
to the phone lines the voice of your lady Tigers.
Patrick right joins us. Right now, Patrick, how are you
this morning?
Speaker 8: Hey morning Taylor, Good morning sir.
Speaker 2: You were a busy man over the weekend. I mean
all three Yelshoe baseball games. You had the electric atmosphere
and the p MAC. That was the women's basketball game.
You tired yet?
Speaker 8: No, this is live in the dream for baseball games.
On a basketball game in four days, that's what we
dream of.
Speaker 2: Let's start with the women's basketball game. We'll get into
baseball a little bit later. What was the atmosphere like
on Saturday night? I mean I was watching on TV.
I mean, how does that compare me? You've done this
for a number of years. How does that compare among
like some of the big time women's games.
Speaker 3: You've done well.
Speaker 8: That and probably the game two years ago with South
Carolina kind of the same deal.
Speaker 6: That game.
Speaker 4: Was.
Speaker 8: That game was on a Thursday night, so it was
you're in a week but game day was here that
day as well, and there was a big lead up
to it. So those two are are probably the two best.
Just and with it being kind of on a on
a weekend, it was in prime time. The fans were
able to kind of kind of have all day on
a weekend to get ready for it. I thought it
was even a little more than the one a couple
of years ago. But those are the two best, just
because at South Carolina, it's a team we haven't beaten forever,
a top five matchup. Our fans have had this one
circled for a long time, and that made it a
little even a little tougher to swallow when it just
didn't quite go our way again against South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, you know, I saw the graphic on
the broadcast and they were like, oh, seventeen seventeen in
a row for South Carolina over lo Shu Patrick. I
thought it was a typo. I mean, what is it
about this South Carolina program unless you just cannot get.
Speaker 8: Over the homep Well, they're they're they're that good. Uh
you know, they're counting this year, their last five years,
they are seventy four and three in the SEC. So
it's not just an LSU thing. It's almost everybody else also. Now,
when the last time we beat him was back in
twenty twelve, and that was just when they started. They
hadn't started making Final four runs yet, but they had
started to get pretty good, and then our program had
you know, we were kind of average, had had a
couple of rough years. Most of those seventeen in a
row were not very close games. A couple were close ish,
but not very close. You know, since coach Malky's got here,
you know, it's it's been six games. Four of them
have been close, you know, the one in the SEC
Tournament Championship a couple of years ago, and all three
games in the PMAC that coaches Coach Malkey's coached against
them have been closed. They just they just make make
the right plays at the right time, and then you know,
sometimes it takes a little bit of good fortune. I mean,
I wouldn't bet on you know, flage A Johnson missing
a couple of free throws late. In fact, you know,
we we shot I think sixty percent from the free
throw and this has been a team that was eighty
percent at SEC play coming in. So it was you know,
if you had to pick away that LSU was going
to lose that game, free throw shooting would have been
kind of toward the bottom of the list. But man,
just stuff just happens that you can't explain. Sometimes I'm
glad you went.
Speaker 2: There with the free throws, because you know, when I
was looking at this game going into it, I was like, oh,
I'm worried about South Carolina's you know, size down low.
LSU out rebounds them, and then yeah, like the free throws.
Is that Is that something that's a concern for you
or you just think, hey was a one off, it
was a bad night.
Speaker 8: No, it's a one off. I mean it just again,
there's there's no good explanation for it. Just it just happens.
And I think, you know, I've seen enough of these
games through how many years, it seems like contagious in
a game, either either you're gonna shoot super well or
if you start missing a couple then then it kind
of goes that way. Also, but looking at the stat sheet,
I mean, everything that worried you are concerned you going
in was fine. LSU points off, turnovers were pretty even.
You know, you mentioned we out rebounded them pretty heavily,
we did, you know, second chance points were closed, field
goal percent was about even on both sides. If you
take away the free throws and you look at the
stat sheet, LSU is the clear winner in the game
because they controlled a lot of the stats that thought
they needed to control going in again. Just one of
those things you can't predict. And that's what makes it
all the more frustrating, is it's it's more what you
did to yourself than what they did to you.
Speaker 2: Patrick, switching from women's basketball to baseball, you had to
do all the games on the diame this week as well.
What were your thoughts on this pitching staff? There was
a lot of excitement. Evans, Cooper Moore, William Schmidt. What
did you see from those guys?
Speaker 8: Well, it's a it's a deep group. Last night, some
of the relievers just didn't throw enough strikes. He had
hit a couple of batters and gave up some walks.
But overall, there is there is so much raw talent
in this group. Now, the one that clearly stood out
was Cooper Moore on Saturday, you know the transfer from Kansas.
The guy is a strike throwing machine. He threw eighty
percent of his pitches for strikes and he's got six
different pitches and yeah, I don't remember all the exact numbers,
but Doug had had some numbers that we read off
on Sunday the day after he pitched. He threw like
thirty eight percent change ups. But he's got fastball, curveball,
he's got to think a little splitter that he throws.
He threw six different pitches, all of them for strike
and you know, doesn't necessarily throw the ball through the backstop.
You know he'll go low nineties. But good proof that
you don't have to have that. Now, LSU's got plenty
of pitchers who can do that. Schmidt again kind of
the you know, not throwing maybe enough strikes, but every
pitcher in the grand total of it had a ton
of strikeouts. It was forty nine over the weekend, and
it was about twelve or thirteen last night, So about
sixty strikeouts in four games. I mean, the stuff is
there for just about everybody. It's just a matter of
a few guys just you know, throwing some more strikes.
I mean a little more consistent as far.
Speaker 2: As the bullpen goes. Patrick Patrick Wright joining us right now.
Do you think this could be one of the deepest
bullpens in college baseball?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: If you again, if you get, if you get some
of the guys who are throwing throwing strikes. But let
me tell you what you got. You know, Gavin Gidrey,
any guy coming off of a year and a half
without pitching, you're not sure. It looks like he is back,
not only in his in his form, but I think
he's better. Uh, he's he was commanding everything in both appearances.
But then you got guys like Devin Shearon who just
came in and struck at everybody he's face this week,
and he faced four or five batters, struck them all out.
Then you got hard throwers, the guys like Gavin Fonteau.
Just yeah, there's there's a lot of versatility. I don't
know now, maybe Guidry will develop into it. I don't
know if coach Johnson is gonna necessarily name a closer.
I think you got three or four guys who are
who are capable of being somebody who could come in
and give you one or two innings of wipeout pitching
to you know, to close out a one or two
run ball game. It's again four games. You got to
get some performance. But on paper, and then from what
I saw with my eyes, there's there's a lot of
lot of talent out out of that group.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we get you out of here. Going back to uh,
I'll let you women's basketball here real quick. It doesn't
get any easier. I mean, you got to go on
the road to Ole Miss on Thursday. How does this
team how does coach Molkey get this team to to
refocus bounce back? I mean there was a lot of hype,
you know, the game was on ABC and then they
suffer a heartbreaking loss. And how tough do you think
that is to kind of, hey, let's rebound, let's put
this one behind us because we got another top twenty
five team coming up.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what happened two years ago when
they beat us here. We then had to go on
the road a few days later at Mississippi State and
got beat that night. And it was one of it
was a classic situation of we almost It's like we
lost the South Carolina game twice like that game got
us beat again. And I think for the group that
was here a couple of years ago, she will use
that point and say, look, guys, we got to put
this behind us. We've got to you know, not let
that happen again. What happened two years ago? Ole Miss
is a team. Yeah, they beat us last year in
the PMAC on Senior Day. It was a pretty close game,
but they're they're a grinded out team and if you know,
if you don't go in there ready to play, they
can absolutely can take it to you. They've got it.
They had a game postponed with Tennessee a couple of
weeks ago due to the ice storm, so Ole Miss
is playing. They played Sunday at Kentucky and lost. They've
got Tennessee at home tonight, and then they've got us
on Thursday. So it is a rough week for them.
That's something to hope we can kind of take advantage of.
They'll be playing their third game in five days when
we see them up there. But as coaches said all year,
this is a group that they don't lose confidence.
Speaker 3: They come to.
Speaker 8: Work every day ready to get better for the next game.
So I think kind of getting that focus back. And
there's four big games coming up. We got a lot
to play for. Need to try to finish top four
in the SEC, try to hold on to a two
or three seed for the NCAA. So there's plenty to go,
plenty to go out there and get I think she'll
have them ready.
Speaker 2: Patrick Ryde, voice of the LSU Lady Tiger's Good enough
to join us today. Patrick, thank you so much for
your time.
Speaker 8: Hi, Tyler, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, that was Patrick right before we take a
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: I think about The Breakfast Club every time I hear
this song, What a What a banger? Good soundtrack of
that movie as well. I love that movie.
Speaker 6: I feel like any eighties movie has a good soundtrack.
Speaker 2: It's a good point. What's the guy John Hughes? He
does a lot of the any any John Hughes movie. Okay,
so we're here Tuesday, Marty Grawl. I'm not giving anything
up for lent because I'm a weak minded individual. Yeah,
Landra said she was going to give up caffeine. I
got an update for you. Maybe here's some sodas with
no caffeine. Sprite seven up the story that used to
be here on this Any root beer that is not
Bark's brand, so a n W mugs root beer, IBC.
None of the only Barks root beer has caffeine. All
the other root beers, You're good, h Canada dry ginger
any ginger ale, so basically any lemon lime ginger ale,
but you have root beer. Also, how about Phanta orange
an orange crush? Didn't know that.
Speaker 6: I'm not twelve years old anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just we're just throwing out options here
for you.
Speaker 6: And then obviously any remember the last time I had
a Fanta anything.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. That's a good point. I don't
or like crush orange crush. Yeah, those are your options.
It looks like looks like you're going back to your
childhood with orange crush, or you're going Sprite and root beer.
That's kind of what I like root beer.
Speaker 7: But obviously Barks is the best.
Speaker 2: One, and of course it's the one with with with
caffeine in it. But uh A and W is not bad.
Speaker 6: I truly feel like if I were, yeah, like what
I feel like, if I were to give up caffeine
and go through with this, I would get sick, Like
with I would get sick. My eyes would start to
get sunken in, I'd have dark circles under them. I
would probably, like, I don't know, I feel like I
would get like, truly start going through withdrawals if I
gave up caffeine.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you need to learn to like sprite
is what it seems like that that that's kind of
your that's kind of your option right now. Just go
with water, I mean, yeah, waters. You know it's funny.
I feel like if I drink nothing water, water tastes
really good to me. But if I drink like a
bunch of doctor peppers and I go back to water,
like water's crap. Yeah, I like water too, as long
as like, I feel like just water is better for
me than just than just water back to doctor pepper,
because doctor pepper is so good. When you go back
to water, it's it's it's not great all right here
you go You like, uh, you like hot apple cider. No,
it's true. Apple cider's got a lot of cinnamon in it.
She's not big on cinnamon. Here you go, perfect Camma
mill tea.
Speaker 7: I can do some cam of meal that puts you
to sleep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, says any herbal tea. So I guess it
doesn't have to be have to be canonil any any caff.
Speaker 7: I could do, like decaf coffee. But there's zero point
in a decaf.
Speaker 2: Coffee since there's a lot of hot chocolate with no
caffeine in it.
Speaker 3: Really good laundry. You ever had a loaded tea?
Speaker 7: No, don't those have caffeine in them too?
Speaker 3: Inane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like drink.
Speaker 7: People tell me about them.
Speaker 2: Oh, here you go, lemonade and smoothies.
Speaker 3: Lemonade is good.
Speaker 7: Lemonade is good. Smoothies. But like I do this, I
drink drinks like for the caffeine.
Speaker 2: Well then I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't drink much like or anything like that, at
least not anymore.
Speaker 2: All Right, that's gonna do it for a hour two
of the show. We got hour three coming up, Nick
Underhill of New Orleans, that football, and we'll close it
out with Ask the Bench that's coming up here on
a TV.
Speaker 1: Off the Bench