Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: I'll start to you to present some off the bench.
Speaker 3: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 1: The hype is over.
Speaker 4: Off the bench the pitch. Now here's Jacob Hester.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in to ot b here on
this Monday morning, one four five ESPN baton rouge and
is always my pleasure to catch up with our next guest.
It is one of my guys, Bill Bender of the
Sporting News at Bill Bender ninety two is the handlegam
I follow their own social media. Bill, always a pleasure, sir,
Hope you're doing well this morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a long day yesterday, as you know
you've been here. I was on I had four lacrosse
games and Grant had a lacrosse game at seven.
Speaker 1: O'clock in the in the morning or evening evening.
Speaker 4: Bella started at eight a m. In the morning. So
Brily and I are definitely like, you'll wake this morning.
I'll be I'll do my best. So I had a
lot of coffee. I should be fine.
Speaker 2: Oh, like so, Bill, lacrosse is getting you know, it's
bigger in the South, and we certainly have schools that
are are doing it. And I've got a facility that
I'm part of, and we're doing it at our facility
as well. It hasn't quite made it down here like
it is up in Ohio, but that feels like every
time I talk with you, you are doing something lacrosse related.
It feels like how we treat baseball maybe down here.
Speaker 4: I think that's the good comparison, and I don't know that.
You know, when you talk about college baseball up here,
it's fun and I'm not saying it's not good, but
you know, I know how serious you guys take it
down there where that when you this is that time
of year in the sports calendar where when you're flipping
through the ESPNS, for example, you know, one channels on
the softball tournament, one channels on the baseball tournament, and
then you know lacrosse is on ESPN. You Over the weekend,
Notre Dame had a really bad collapse against Penn State.
Penn State was down six late. But so I think
that's kind of our becoming our thing right in Big
ten country in the spring. And and that's fine. I mean,
it's great that you have for you. It's got to
be great because it means you can bring in other
young athletes to do a sport there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 2: I'm actually having a lot of fun kind of learning
the sport, watching the tournaments that we have out at
our facility. Uh, you know, you can be a little
violent with a stick. Who doesn't love that in sports
Bill for sure?
Speaker 4: And then well and then you know for us our
sons and a goalie and that's its own you know.
I think I need to write an article on this
at some point. Whether you're playing soccer, hockey or lacrosse,
whatever sport it is, when you're a goalie parent, it
is a different level of stress. It's and it's not
like I always tell him as like, I'm.
Speaker 3: Never you're gonna You're.
Speaker 4: The one in the cage, you're the one performing, But
I'm still gonna be nervous for you because you know,
part of it is will we get hurt?
Speaker 3: Will he do this?
Speaker 4: It is nerve wrecking. But when you watch him play,
it's it's a lot of fun. And I'm sure it's
like that for other parents as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 2: I mean the nerves I have watching my children compared
to when I played, it is not even close. I
was never nervous as a player, always nervous as a parent.
Speaker 1: There so certainly feel that. Bill.
Speaker 2: Hey, you mentioned Penn State, but I don't want to
talk Penn State lacrosse. Let's talk Penn State football because
they've got high expectations and they're a team that Look,
they made the semi finals last year.
Speaker 1: They had a fantastic year.
Speaker 2: But now, like some of the narrative, and you and
I talk about it on off campus all the time,
it's not like to have a nice season, it's to
win a championship. And they probably are going to leave
Big Ten media days as the favorite to win the conference.
Speaker 1: They played for the conference title a year ago.
Speaker 2: Are you in the same belief right now with that team, Like,
do you think that's who they can be? That's who
they are and they're ready to finally take that next
step and win a Big Ten title, play for a
national championship.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, so, there's a chance they'll be ranked
number one in the AP pool. I don't know if
they will. They the last time they were number one
in the preseason was nineteen ninety seven, and they had
a loaded team that year that lost to Michigan. Now
here's one thing to consider. Of the teams that I
think will be ranked top six or top seven in
that pool, Texas, you know, Texas, Georgia, Ohio State, Notre Dame.
I think, well, it's not think Penn State's the only
one that has a returning starting quarterback and Drew Allen
out of those top five teams unless Clemson makes the
top five clip with that kid club neck. So when
you have that all in moment, it's dangerous because to me,
they've got to be Ohio State. They haven't beat Ohio
State since twenty sixteen. That's the game that I'm circling
for Penn State this year.
Speaker 2: Just like as you know, and again we talk about
this all the time. It's man, there's something about taking
that final hurdle.
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about Penn State.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about for a lot of teams, like to
make that final jump to get into that place where
you're playing winning national championships. And we have seen teams
do it before. We have seen teams get up there
and not be able to make that final jump. And
so Penn State certainly probably the one is going to
be magnified the most this year kind of in that category.
But they got to look, they got to deal with
the Ohio State Buckeyes. You know, who knows what Michigan
is going to be. Hey in Illinois is a team
that you know, you know, I love my guy Bi Lama,
and that's a team that's going to be a top
fifteen team in the preseason. So I want to ask
you about maybe where you have and the Oregon Ducks
are going to be right there.
Speaker 1: I still have to like tell my mind put.
Speaker 2: Them in the Big ten, but like, where do you
think the pecking order is going to be if it
is going to be Penn State, Like who are the
teams right beneath them that are going to challenge them?
Speaker 4: Well, High State obviously, and then you know, with what
they have coming back. Anytime you can rebuild, not rebuild,
but reload around Jeremiah Smith on one side and kill
the downs on the other, you're going to be fine.
Speaker 3: Oregon.
Speaker 4: I'm really interested to see how Dante Moore does because
they have more than enough pieces and like you said,
I have to like catch myself and say, oh, yeah,
we're won the Big ten last year. That's weird, but
they did very interesting. It could be top ten with
Luke Aldmeyer coming back and what they have on the
defensive side of the ball. Gabe Jockis is a big
return guy that didn't go to the NFL Draft, and
I got I'm interested in Michigan because of Bryce Underwood.
I don't know that they have the receivers that they need.
But and they've lost after this good comparison to LSU
like in nineteen and twenty, So they lost the second
group from the national title team. How are they going
to reload from that when you lose that much talent
from two classes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always going to be like a question.
Speaker 2: And that's why high school recruiting is still so important
to me and EJ and I have this debate all
the time. I'm like, look, you can win a lot
of games if you do a deep dive into the
portal more than you do high school recruiting. I don't
think that you can win championships right now. And you
go back and you look at Ohio State, you look
at Michigan, you look at Georgia. The teams that have
won the last couple national championship they've dabbled in the portal,
but Bill, their foundation is still out of high school,
and so like that's if you're a high of state,
like that's what you're kind of leaning on. Sure, you've
got Caleb Downs and you went and you got a
quarterback out of the portal that won you a national championship,
and you got a running back. But if you look
at Ohio State, it it was Sawyer, it was Trevon Henderson,
like it was Mecha a Buka. It was like the
guys that you got out of high school that were
the foundation of your team. And so I know the
buck Geys lose a ton, but that's a place that
has been top five recruiting rankings for the last however
long you want to put on it. And so that's
one of those unknown things. We don't know how those
players are going to step in and are they going
to be able to replace those guys, but the foundation
is there.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, so your national title team, I mean, I'm
at assuming i'd go back and look, but you guys,
it was a different era where you were stacking up
really loaded recruiting classes and you played with a bunch
of NFL guys. I referenced that to nineteen LSU national
championship team. There was a real going around last week
where you saw the number of first round picks that
were in that LSU Alabama game that year, Well, most
of those guys were LSU recruit Now, you brought Joe
Burrow in, you supplemented him in the transfer portal. But
I think the best team stack up recruiting classes, use
the portal like free agency in baseball, the right guys,
and then you go from there, and that mix is
probably I agree with you, the mix is the best
way to build a program in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Cause you up with a guy, Bill Bender of the
Sporting News here on ot B. Bill, all right, let's
go to the SEC, and I want to ask you
right off the top, because it's always a great perspective
from you being in Ohio but being a national writer,
so certainly you're eye hustling.
Speaker 1: What's going on here in the SEC.
Speaker 2: What are your preseason as we sit here on May
the nineteenth, expectations for the LSU Tigers heading into this
college football season.
Speaker 4: Well, the openers here and you guys are no stranger
to huge openers, and I'm actually kind of debating, so
we're gonna have our top twenty five quarterbacks for twenty
twenty five come out here on Wednesday or maybe tomorrow Tuesday,
so I better get this article done. But I'm struggling
where to put Garrett Naftmeyer, honestly, because I know he's
gonna be one of the top five, but ordering that
top five is really tough. So I mean, I think
he's he's right there, like, oh, ask you, I mean,
would you put him ahead behind right next to like
Kid Klubnick and Drew Aller. That's where I'm at. I'm
having a hard time scorting those guys out, Bill.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Drew Aller still has a
long way to go for me to be in that
conversation because the talent's there, but also like the decision making,
the processing, and he's athletic, right, I mean, he's a
guy that can do a lot of different things. But
like I go back and I've watched that Orange Bowl
film ten times and the.
Speaker 1: Stat not completing a pass to a receiver.
Speaker 2: Sure, some of that falls on the receivers, but it
also falls on the quarterback and going through his progressions
and being late getting to the secondary reid. So I look,
and this is no bias, this is just my film
breakdown Kay Klubnick and Garrett Nesmeyer to me are ahead
of Drew Aller, and I don't really have it close.
Speaker 4: Well, I think for Drew Eller, it's going to be
can he do this in the big game? Yeah, you know,
and that's followed him for the last couple of years.
That again, not all on him. You've got to give
the guy a couple of guys to throw to. But
when you're less than sixty percent in the all the
playoff games and then against Ohio State in the regular season,
and you know the previous year high of State Michigan games,
he struggled. So I think that's the big question there.
For Garrett Usmeyer, I think he was as hot as
any quarterbacks the end of the year last year. Can
he cut down on the turnovers a little bit? I
think that there's a little you know, I'm a Packers guy,
there's a little farm in his game, a little bit
of the gunslinger in his game. And then I think
Kay Clubbink's just underrated.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: He really good last year. Has to play better against
the SEC team though, So that's what's on the line
for him when they play against LSU in Week one.
Speaker 2: So I've kind of given this comp for nuss Meyer,
he's Jay Cutler with better body language.
Speaker 4: I like it Jake Cutler where well, yeah, years was
playing against Jay Cutler as a green base and but no,
I think there's a little bit of that there and
the potential in that offense when you have the receivers
that they have. He averaged over three hundred yards Nolisue's
last three games, So I like him a lot. And
now Aler, I think despite the talk about the big games,
you have to give him some credit for the full
body of work. He has won a lot of games
as a starter I've been And it kind of ties
into your recruiting discussion. Clemson and Penn Stake can say
we got to return in our investment from these five
star guys club neck pallor. They've taken those teams to
the playoffs, they've stayed at the school. They're probably both
going to get drafted. That I guess that's the new
you know for me standard up, did you get what
you got out of a quarterback instead of having them
go out of the portal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And getting back to I mean you mentioned the
opener there for LSU for Clemson in the quarterback battle,
it's going to be one of the most anticipated games
of the year. I mean, I know it's in week
number one because you know both teams are going to
be in the top ten preseason, both teams think that
you know they're going to be in the cous Football Playoff,
Heisman Trophy contenders, all of that. But where, like, where
would you put that game? Because I know you've got
Ohio State in Texas as well, but like most important
non conference game now, it doesn't have to be in
week one, bill like it can be. You know, we
got the sec ACC Challenge at the end of every
year as well. We got some other good non conference games.
They're going to be in week number two. But which
one would you call like not even maybe what you
think is going to be like the best game, but
the most important non conference game of this college football season.
Speaker 4: Well, I think they're both going to happen in Week one.
Ohio State Texas is super important, don't get me wrong,
But I think the loser of that game still has ouse.
I think that's the most glamorous Week one game, especially
with arch Manning coming up here. It should be in
prime time. I'm sure you and Bobby have argued about.
Speaker 1: This, But yes, no big game should be at brunch.
Speaker 2: Let the people hydrate and be you know, loubed up
and ready to go for that game at night.
Speaker 4: Why can't we watch Ohio State, Texas and LSU Clemson
at night at the same time because we have I
always pull a second TV up me too.
Speaker 3: I can do that.
Speaker 2: So I'll be working the game, but I'll have it
up on my phone.
Speaker 4: I'll probably be in the shoe as you know, and
and but I will have l s U Cumson up
on the phone as well. Now impact though L huge,
it's huge, brothers reasons I mentioned about Clemson. You know,
can they be an SEC school? They're lost last year?
Who were they too? Texas, South Carolina, Georgia. They looked
really poor in the opener LSU. I mean, just a
huge year for Brian Kelly. And you know the constant
is Brian Kelly on the hot seat talk, which I
think is a third but I mean it is coming
off of four lost season, They're gonna need to have
a big year. I think Texas A and M or
not Texas A and m Miami. Notre Dame is another
one to watch you because Notre Dame schedule always the
conversation Miami with Carson Beck. That would be like the
bronze medal game to me on week one. So I
mean it, it's loaded. That's the good part. We're sitting
here now and you know that labored in the weekend
is going to be awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 2: Cannot wait to get there, and when you have a
big game to build up, which we do here locally,
LSU going on the road, a team you played in
the National Championship Game six years ago, Heisman Trophy quarterbacks,
the fight for Death Valley, naming rights, you know, LSU
Big Death Valley, Clemson Little Death Valley. We'll throw that
out there. But all that is on the line in
the opening week. Can I wait to get there? Hey, Bill,
you're the man. We appreciate your time as always. I'll
catch up with you this week on off campus and
enjoy the car pulling to Lacrosse this week.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much, Jacob. I'm trying to get it.
I'm a sneaking out then later today. Thanks so much
for having me. I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: All right again, Bill Bender up the Sporting News at
Bill Bender ninety two, is the handle there.
Speaker 1: Give him a follow.
Speaker 2: Drew Aller to me, man, and I know, look, Bill's
a Big ten guy, and everybody in Big ten country
loves Drew Aller. He is, he's a specimen and I
get he can make all the throws. You can't watch
last year's tape and tell me that him and Garrett
us Meyer are in the same category. Kay Klubnick's in
a different category than Drew Aller. I think Drew Aller
looks great in his uniform. I think Drew Allen is
going to go out there against Purdue and Rutgers and UCLA,
and he's going to have big games.
Speaker 1: But when you have a college football playoff.
Speaker 2: Semi final game and you don't complete a single pass
to a receiver, now you had a unicorn and tight end,
you got two really good running backs with your back,
I get it. That wasn't the game plan. But you
go back and you watch that tape. He goes Warren
is his first read delayed, delayed, delay, can't ever get
to his second read. When he did, it was late.
It was a thing that cost him the game at
the end, that cost him. But they were trying to,
you know, last drive, make a play way too late
over the middle, throws an interception.
Speaker 1: Taite.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you've watched Drew Auler. Am I
wrong in that assessment? Have you seen something from him
that puts him in that same category as those quarterbacks?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think you're wrong. And like what people need
to point out is, like everyone it says, Okay, Garrett
Nosemeyer's in his second year is our first year, is
the starting quarterback? This was Drew Aler's second year and
there wasn't the jump. Yeah, and there wasn't the jump
that you wanted to see. I get it. He's six',
five it was a five star coming out of high.
School when people had all. This you Mentioned Tyler. Warren
Tyler warren's. Gone, now they haven't done a ton to
help him at wide. RECEIVER i mean they may be
a little bit.
Speaker 1: Better and then you're From syracuse is a good, Player.
Speaker 5: Yeah BUT i mean outside of, that, like Sure allen
And Nick singleton are, back but how are the weapons
around him significantly better than they were a year? Ago
like you would have to convince me a lot to
tell me The Drew aller is gonna better this year
than he was last.
Speaker 2: Year, Yeah i'm right there with. You, Look, Texas ohio,
stayed you can't play that game at.
Speaker 1: Noon by the.
Speaker 2: Way bill mentioned it there and he's, LIKE i know
you And bobby have. Argued Actually bobby's on my, side,
RIGHT i, know big noon kicks a. Thing are you
like a big game like a marquee on the blinking light?
There just trying to get everybody to watch which they're
going To it can't be at, noon be Eleven, central
by the, Way like So texas, time you have no
time for the build up to that. Game you, like,
yeah you've had. Months there's nothing like game, day, right
you start off with a nice little you know whatever
game Like Miami not that'd be great like early it's
a good, game it's not the marquee.
Speaker 1: Game like you let that thing build all.
Speaker 2: Day the anticipation, builds, right and then by the time
you get, there whether you're in the number in the
stadium or just watching at, home like you've had that
build up all day, Long Like CLEMSON lsu is going
to get that In ohio, State texas being at Eleventh central,
time it's just not gonna hit the. Same you can't
have a big game while you're having breakfast or brunch or.
Speaker 1: Whatever it makes no sense to.
Speaker 2: Me you can't tailgate all day long to have that
build up on campus as. Well and, Look Ohio state's,
actually you, know credit to, them they're fighting for more
night games because it's just, different and then the viewership's
going to be different as. Well Like i'm gonna be
honest with, you Like Ohio state And texas being at that,
Time i'm gonna have it, on But i'm gonna be doing other.
Things i'm gonna doing other things while that game is
on and not like locked into every single play like
we would be if that thing was under the. Lights all,
right we will take a break. Here we've still got
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Speaker 6: Do what's that win the whole?
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Quarterback Danny ettling for The Michigan. Panthers fourteen of twenty,
two one hundred and eighty nine total, yards three passing.
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with an. INJURY i Think Bryce perkins replaced him or.
Speaker 1: Something and uh From, Virginia, YEAH i.
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that but, yeah he's come, back and since he's come,
back he's been he's been, excellent athlete's been killing in THE.
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escaped from the jail In New, orleans because oh my,
gosh how do you even let that? Happen and then
they put they wrote stuff where the didn't you? Say
they just moved like a sink out the way and
there's the. Toilet they wrote too easy L O l
on top of where the hole is.
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me even though seven of them are still on the.
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in A french.
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got caught at The carousel.
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Montoleone they called him.
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go to the carousel. Bar it's just like not the
place to.
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Speaker 7: Them seven of them still out.
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everybody like in the prison just.
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that took that.
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hey thanks thanks for sharing. That we appreciate. That, yeah
m all, right well we'll.
Speaker 1: See.
Speaker 5: Yeah so my first weekend winter it's gonna Be Scotty.
Scheffler he went from three strokes back to win by.
Five he was a dominant performance At Quail hollow for
THE Pga. Championship the, guys it gets even better because
if you remember last year pulling up to THE Pga
championship is the golf tournament Where Scotty scheffler was arrested
by the police for trying to drive around all the.
Traffic so he gets arrested in that one shows up.
Late this year is fate completely. Turns he wins THE Pga.
Championships a weekend winter for, Me Scottie, scheffler.
Speaker 1: TITE i know you said you had a loser as.
Well while look up my next.
Speaker 5: Week we have two. Losers first loser for. ME i
hate to do, this but my weekend loser is gonna Be.
Paul you don't paulmonary is gonna be more his old.
Speaker 2: Atok if you're just tuning in this week and you didn't,
listen that was the rallying cry T bob Loves paulmonary
like we all. Do but After game one he had
to go for, blood and that's where the old ass
part came.
Speaker 1: In we love Coach.
Speaker 2: Manary, Here Coach, manary you're a real.
Speaker 1: One we appreciate. You but that's where that came.
Speaker 5: From so, Okay when when the series was, over he
had LOST lsu, like obviously they did a great season
and they were he was asked in his postgame press,
conference like what went wrong this season this? Series and he,
said we went up against players that are better than.
Ours that last kid that they threw talking About Jay
shores was throwing ninety nine to one. HUNDRED i don't
have anybody throwing that. Fast there are two pictures of
the last two days had over one hundred and twenty.
Strikeouts you'd have to add up three of our pitchers
to get to a hundred and twenty. Strikeouts he, said
how many home runs this Is Jared jones have this?
Speaker 6: Year?
Speaker 5: Nineteen we don't have anybody with. Nineteen sometimes you just
have to be honest with where you're at and what
you're up. Against the other teams are a little bit
more powerful and just have better arms than we. Do
and we're just not there competing as hard as we
can with what we. HAVE i understand that it's been
a tough year At South, carolina but you're gonna talk, about, oh,
WELL i don't have the talent on the.
Speaker 1: MOUND i don't have the hitters who recruited all those.
Speaker 5: Players, paul this is on, You, like let's go ahead
and throw our players under the bus at the end
of the season because you did not do what you
were supposed to do and you had an unsuccessful. Season
So Paul, minary JUST i don't have the. PITCHERS i
don't have the. Hitters they're not all none of them
are any.
Speaker 1: Good, like come, On, paul Does paul coach there next?
YEAR i think maybe next?
Speaker 7: Year is?
Speaker 2: It BECAUSE i mean the ad that hired him is no, Longer,
yeah in control?
Speaker 1: There how?
Speaker 5: Many how many years did he GET i, Mean i'm
sure it wasn't that.
Speaker 2: MANY i don't even, know BUT i mean it doesn't.
MATTER i, mean six wins at a place Like South.
Carolina you, like if you won six games AT, lsu
you're not here the next.
Speaker 7: Year, no didn't matter five, Seasons so, YEAH i mean
it could be an easy.
Speaker 1: Out, YEAH i.
Speaker 5: DIDN'T i didn't think it was very.
Speaker 1: Long, yeah that's a place like they haven't.
Speaker 2: Been you, know they went back to Back natties hadn't been,
that but still they've been, competitive like even you, know
even a year, ago like they were still like a competitive.
Speaker 1: Team so, YEAH i, mean love our, guy.
Speaker 7: BUT i don't KNOW i love him, Too LIKE i
really have always been a really big pulmonary fan and
a great person and. Everything BUT i just don't get
where like all parties involved thought that this was a good,
idea you know WHAT i, Mean like it's just, yeah
he retired for a reason.
Speaker 2: He, retired and you, know, yes, certainly like but it
ended well here and won a national, championship was like
doing things for the. University AND i get, it like you,
look you're a coach and you want to go out
there and prove that you can do it at other
places In South.
Speaker 1: Carolina so it's a marquee.
Speaker 2: Program but, yeah one of those deals where if he wanted,
To i'm, glad but also LIKE i wish you wouldn't. Have,
YEAH i definitely understand what you're saying, There Weekend. Winner
this isn't gonna matter to any of y'all but, me
But i'm getting it out.
Speaker 1: There Goodison park weekend.
Speaker 2: Winner if you don't know what that, Is i'm not,
shocked but it is Where everton played their home matches In, Liverpool.
England it opened up On august twenty fourth of eighteen ninety.
Two eighteen ninety, two The Grand Old lady has seen
its Last everton. Match they built a brand new, stadium
state of the art, stadium and yesterday was the last
time that they were going to play a home game
In Goodison park again eighteen ninety.
Speaker 1: Two they go out.
Speaker 2: Winning they Beat southampton To danil so they claimed victory
there in the last ever match but well over one hundred.
Years The Grand Old lady again is the nickname of the.
Stadium it's. Crazy i've Seen everton play like five. TIMES
i never made it To Goodison, park BUT i mean
just a legendary, stadium a stadium that, old opened that.
Long sure it's got like a faceless face lift here and,
there but it is a lot of the, same like
original og. Parts you, know they left a lot of
it the. Same so shout out to go to some.
Park eighteen ninety, two so it's Last everton match over the,
weekend which was An everton victory again to.
Speaker 7: Nil wooo we Like, everton, Right, yes.
Speaker 2: That is by far my favorite soccer team and one
that we care about a.
Speaker 1: Lot we can adopt that team.
Speaker 2: Here they finished thirteenth in THE epl, table so ahead
Of gordy Rush Is. Tottenham that's all that.
Speaker 1: Matters ou Ay.
Speaker 7: Gordy, YEAH i got another weekend. Winner shout out To John.
Foster oh, yeah he's From addis across the. River he
was the runner up On American. Idol nice and, no
LIKE i, know he didn't, win but still being the
runner up on the national stage From, Addas, louisiana Putting
louisiana on the map is pretty. Cool so shout Out John.
FOSTER i haven't really listened to any of. IT i
don't Watch American, idol BUT i hear he's really. Good.
Speaker 2: YEAH i typically like watch a little bit of, it
LIKE i like kind of build up and THEN i like.
Speaker 1: FADE i never finish, it BUT i.
Speaker 2: HAVE i haven't watched this season at, all But i've
heard he is, Incredible SO i definitely want to check him.
Out and we're definitely going to support anything that is
local so, yeah shout out to. Him hell of a
run and hopefully he'll come out with some music we
can play here on the.
Speaker 1: Show, WELL i.
Speaker 7: Couldn't even tell you who. Won it could Not foster me.
Speaker 5: Too, YEAH i couldn't tell you his name As jamal
it's ALL i, know.
Speaker 1: All, right shout. OUT i think actually From mississippi.
Speaker 5: Too, right he did old School John foster the old school,
country so it's even better. Both, yeah a quick weekend
loser BECAUSE i know we got to get to.
Speaker 3: Roddy.
Speaker 5: Uh The Pittsburgh pirates are going to be my weekend.
Loser they lose to a guy Named Mick, abel who
made his major league. Debut was just called up only
Because Aaron nola was placed on the injured list due
to a ankle. Spraying abel strikes out Nine Pittsburgh, pirates
but that's not why given him the. Loser paul Skeens
he pitched a three hitter with nine strikeouts in one
walk in his first complete game in thirty three big league.
Starts The Pittsburgh pirates lost one to. Nothing Paul skins were.
Excellent here's his E rra over the last three games
to the last four. Starts two point five to e
R a a point nine to five. Whip he's oh
and three in those.
Speaker 1: Stones oh my, God, pirates you.
Speaker 7: Suck Paul skin's legacy because when people like look back
at we know because we've been following it and we
Know Paul skins and. Everything but when people who like
don't really know and they look back at it and
like in the future or, whatever they're gonna be, like, oh,
well Like Paul skins has all this hype and, nothing
like he has all these l's and it's, like, okay
because The Pittsburgh pirates, suck, yeah and they do nothing.
Speaker 2: If you're not gonna help them for like a million.
Prospects do it that?
Speaker 1: Way?
Speaker 5: Yeah is the r on the year to forty four?
Ridiculous Among National league pitchers is a five?
Speaker 1: Record all, right that's gonna piss me.
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Speaker 1: Espn Sir Roddy. Jones what's going, On Sir.
Speaker 3: Jake i'm doing great.
Speaker 1: Man how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Fantastic you, know enjoying this college baseball, season which we'll
certainly get to, gosh my favorite time of the, year
like we got you, know regionals about to, happen conference,
tournaments all, that SO i certainly want to get there
with you as there's a couple OF acc TEAMS i
want to talk, about but let's start on the. GRIDIRON
i wanted to have you on today because you know
THE acc very. Well you played in the, conference you
do you KNOW acc stuff obviously On SIRIUS xm with
our channel, there AND lsu was opening up with AN acc,
opponent a pretty damn good one and The Clemson tigers
going to be a top five team in every preseason.
Poll so FOR lsu, fans they know K, klubnick but
what are they getting into with This clemson football? Team
what are some of the things that kind of stand
out to, You, Roddy.
Speaker 3: Well what stands out to me is it's the best
team That Davos sweeney has At, clemson at least on
paper since Probably Trevor lawrence is last year in twenty.
Twenty this has been a builds For clemson over the
last five years to sort of get. BACK i think
that because of the Way clemson recruits and because of
the relationships they, build and for people that don't, know
Like clemson is a very very picky recruiting. Team they
look for not only great, players but they look for
great players who are. Fits they don't just throw out
offers to all the five. Stars they don't just throw
out office all the four. Stars and nothing against teams
that do. That clempson just does it. Different so they
like to get to know guys over the course of
years and, years AND i THINK covid really messed that
up man for a couple of, years and so they
had more whisks than they were accustomed. To they obviously
whiffed from a quarterback, position but through changing who they
are both from a coordinator, standpoint somewhat a philosophy. Standpoint
taking three transfers this year and then just, growth like
getting back to their great. Recruiting they've stacked that wide
receiver room once. Again the defensive line is going to
be really. Good So i'm really excited about This clemston.
Team Man, like It's Gara riley's third year as offensive.
Coordinator Matt, luke a guy WHO sec fans are very
familiar with as the offensive line coach in his second.
Year Tom, allen who was a defensive coordinator At Penn
state last, year comes over to coach the defense For.
Clemson A clemson defense that was really disappointing last. Year
all in, all so it's A clemson see with high
expectations and they. Should they should win THE acc and
probably make it to a semi final of a college
football playoffs if everyone stays.
Speaker 2: HEALTHY i mentioned Kay, klebnick and, LOOK i think every
college football fan does know who he, is and it you,
know he had such high expectations because of the lineage
a quarterback that came before him At, clemson and it
didn't start.
Speaker 1: Off you, know maybe how people.
Speaker 2: THOUGHT i thought that was a little unfair to him
because of the expectation because he's a young. Quarterback but
a year ago. RIDY i, mean he took a leap
into the direction that a lot of people thought he
would start his, career which again was, unfair but we
certainly saw what made him the high recruit that he.
WAS i, mean this is one of the quarterbacks in the.
COUNTRY i don't think you'll have a top five list
that won't have him in that in that. Number and
also like the receivers For, clemson they look like they're
ready to take a jump as.
Speaker 3: Well they really. Do Man, like the the thing that
mess With Kate klubnick is was kind of too. One
the dijit with was was so extreme that he had
to play. Earlier but two like the, lineage as you,
said the lineage of quarterbacks That clempton has had didn't
allow us to give them him the benefit of the
doubt and time for. Development And clempton has been a
great development. Team like Even Deshaun watson And Trevor lawrence
got better over the course of their. Careers now they
started off as freshmen just as really good. Players so
we thought that was going to be K. Clubnick it.
Wasn't but touching it to him man like his mental
strength to go through the criticism that sophomore year and
then early last year to continue to work to grind
and to just get better and better and better to
the point where he played really well in That texas
semi final. GAME i JUST i love having watched the
development of the young, man having talked to him and
seen him as freshman, year and then over the course
of his sophomore year and junior, year he's just gotten,
it just really has grown from a confident standpoint and
an ability. Standpoint there's a lot of things that he
got away with in high, school even at a high
level he played at At West lake In, Texas, like
even at that high, level he still had things to
develop with and he absolutely did. That SO i think
that that he has done it from tremendous job getting
better with his, reads getting better being on, time getting
better with his placement in the pocket and climbing in the,
pocket and that receiving core really helps. HIM i, mean you, know,
they AS i, said they whiffed on on probably a
generation of. Receivers so they got two guys in last
year At Westerne kjmore that really helped them on the.
Outside and then they've had two swat guys the last
couple of Years Antonio williams And Tyler brown that are
really really. Good brown has hurt all of last, Year
williams was hurt all the year, before and so they
just got to keep that group. Healthy. Man, like if they,
do it won't be it's not gonna have this top
end ability of like An Ohio States Receiving corps or
An Alabama's Receiving, corps but it'll have the depth that'll
compete with anybody in the.
Speaker 2: Country, now, Righty dabo's, done you, know things a little
bit differently than he has in the. Past now he
is not the portal king Like Lane kiffin And Kenny
dillingham and some of these other, coaches but like he's,
actually you, know had a couple of players come out
of the transfer. Portal he's talked about nil now because you,
know used to he's, Like i'm going to retire basically
if players make. Money he's changed his stance on some
of those, things and you know it didn't have to
be wholesale, changes but it looks Like dad's at least
doing enough now with the new generation of college football
to kind of Have clemson get back to the conversations
that we're, having which is playing for national.
Speaker 3: Championships he has man and and he was he was hesitant, to,
uh he was hesitant to adopt the. Portal he was
hesitant to kind of go to that level of you,
know quote unquote speed. Dating so, yeah, yeah so you,
KNOW i think that the big thing for him was
sort of getting comfortable with with their recruiting. Mentality they're
recruiting overall philosophy with the portal And marry and those
two things. Together and, look he's largely, Right like largely
the the guys that you will find in the portal
are not as good as the guys on that. Rostel
but there are always a couple of positions for even
the top teams that that you can that you can
you can plug guys. In and we've seen that With Ohio,
State we've seen it With, michigan like we've seen it
with those with those those high level, teams they are
mostly build they're mostly recruit developed and building teams rather
than rather than wholesale. Portal so you know What davo
is doing and has done throughout his. Career like we
kind of get On davo for being like the, curmudgeon
the old man who doesn't want to.
Speaker 7: Change he.
Speaker 3: Changes he's changed at every step of the. Way like
he Fired Brandon. Streeter excuse, me he Fired Billy napier
to bring In Chad. Morris he Fired Brandon streeter to
bring In Garrett. Riley so he has done those he's promoted,
internally but when it hasn't, worked he has. Changed he
obviously Fired Kevin stield to go To Brent. Vinnables he's
just Fired Wes goodwin to go To Tom. Allen and
in those, things those catalyts have sort of led them
to big time success in the. Past we'll see if
it does this. Time but that was just it's just
a little, slow like he, likes it's slow to. Change
he's a very bright. Guy he's not too proud to
be the to not be the smartest guy in the.
Room and he is very. Intelligent but he brings in
great football lines around him and pays them well and
intreats them. Well so people love, him, Man and there's
a lot of excitement around this program for those.
Speaker 2: Reasons all, Right, roddy we got about sixty seconds left,
here real. Quick college, baseball two teams out of THE
Acc Florida State North carolina to try to break up
the stronghold that THE sec has on the national. Championship
which one makes it the farthest In omaha and does
one of those teams win a national.
Speaker 3: CHAMPIONSHIP i THINK i would go With Florida state because
the young the young lineup has gotten better and better
over the course of the, year and they've had pitching all.
Year they've got the arm in college baseball And Jamie,
Arnold SO i would go With Florida. State North carolina's
going to be, dangerous and watch up For Georgia. Tech
Georgia tech wan won THE acc outright for the first
time since two thousand and five to the number one
seed in THE acc. Tournament they are playing really well
as of. Late they can hit the daylights out of the,
baseball and they've got a lot more pitching than they used.
To so those are the three teams THAT i really
like out of THE. Acc Inty state's in there, too,
though Like Nty state's a really good baseball team.
Speaker 2: Too, roddy you're the. Man we appreciate time as, Always.
Sarah we'll catch up again, Soon, jake appreciate it, man all,
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