Speaker 1: Welcome into a Tuesday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor
Sharper with you, filling the in for Jacob Hester and
t Bob Aber. We got a Laundra Villa reale on
the audio board. Jordan Kitchen's filling in on the video board.
Thanks for joining us here on this fat Tuesday. Happy
Marty Girl to everyone out there that is out and
about or if you are listening at home. Guys, how
we do win on this Marty Girl A Landra big
holiday for you. We know both of us are super.
Speaker 2: Into parades and I'm super hyped up.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to get down to New Orleans later and
catch me some beads.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be all on the parade route just ready.
Speaker 1: You know what you have to do to get the
good beads right but obviously appropriate. Say no, Cassie's big
into Marty Girl because she's from New Orleans. You were
also from New Orleans. Give me your Marty Girl vibes.
What are your what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: I'm not really I used to be a Mardi Gras guy,
like back of high school.
Speaker 1: Traumatic experience.
Speaker 4: Well, majority wise, the problem is when you lose that
one person in the firm group that is willing to
drive everybody around. You know, then you have to you
don't have to rely on yourself, so you can really
partake in the activities. You know. That's when I was
really in my peak, you know, probably right before COVID,
so you all of my friends didn't moved out of
the state and all that, so I don't really have
that luxury now. I was more I would have to
either uber out there or you know, tag along.
Speaker 2: Well, why can't you just drive?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no, driving is dead. Driving out there
is dead, super dead as somebody from the city. There's
no way in the where I'm just parking my car somewhere,
not no chance, no chance.
Speaker 1: It's appropriate. We're talking Lasue today, guys. Yes, do either
of you know how less you got their colors?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Because Tea Bag ked talking about it last week.
Speaker 4: I do not know this. This is new to me.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't They were gonna play two lane and green
was taken, so they just had purple, yellow, purple and yellow.
Speaker 1: Tea bops. Almost right, He's almost correct, So.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: He was the one who gave me this idea, and
I was like, let me look it up and confirm.
Of course he was about eighty percent correct. Okay, so
doctor Charles Coates, he became the school's first football coach.
All that coach Hall at LSU named after Okay. He
said that they had to have some colors for their
football team. Him and rough Pleasant, who became a governor
of Louisiana later on, and a couple other guys went
to a place called Raymond's store in downtown ben Rouge.
When they got to the store, the store happened to
be stocking up for Marti Gras, and they said, we
need all of this ribbon. We're buying it out. No,
this was like like in February. They were doing it
for like baseball following like they started it at the
first of the year and green had not yet come
in to the department store. They only had purple and gold.
They bought up all the purple and gold and that's
how the color started. Because uh, David Boyd, he was
the first press it in the university. He actually declared
LSU's official colors blue and white ew But they never
actually had any like official uniforms at that time because
they haven't done on sports teams you was just like, Okay,
our official colors are going to be blue and white.
And then he returned years later so it was purple
and gold and was like, I actually like it. So
it's stuck.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm out that a little Marty Girl for you
this morning. That's that's a good that's a good thugget.
But honestly we should be happy LSU to not go
blue and white. That's it's just really generic. It's really generic.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. Also, guys, be on your toes. I'm going
to throw both of you random Marty Girl facts throughout
the show, and you you guys got to get them right.
Marty Girl trivia question, just randomly we're here, we're here.
You'll know when they're coming.
Speaker 2: Process of elimination is what I'm going to use.
Speaker 1: All right, look, let's dive right into it. Yesterday I
kind of gave you a overview of all of spring football.
It will begin on Saturday for your LSU Tigers. But
what I want to do the rest of the week,
one day a week, I want to kind of break
down a position going into what's it going to look
like at spring practice? What can it look like coming
back around to the fall and Before we do that,
let's get this show started. So today I want to
highlight the LSU running back room for twenty twenty five.
So Caden Durham is obviously your top running back, right
He kind of burst onto the scene in that South
Carolina game Week three, really never looked back. He had
over seven hundred and fifty yard rushing six touchdowns in
twelve games, five and a half yards per carry, by
the way, also close to three hundred yards receiving another
couple of touchdowns through the air as well. Look, he
brought life to an offense that was struggling to run
the ball. You saw it from Game one. LSU couldn't
get anything going against USC. They had to turn to
John Emery. He got a little bit of life, but
he tore his knee in that game. They had to
convert Jawan Johnson to running back. When Caden Durham got
in there, everything changed. We know who your top back
is this year. I think he has the ability to
be an all Sez style running back. I think he
is that good. But what's behind Caden Durham is a
little bit more important because Josh Williams is gone, and look,
I get it a lot of people have a lot
of different things to say about Josh Williams should have
been in on certain situations. I thought Josh Williams was
so valuable to this team. His numbers don't jump off
the page, Jetge. I mean, fourteen hundred yards and seventeen
touchdowns in five seasons at lshoot, but it's what he
did in big molts, right. We saw him in the
Alabama game two years ago with Jaden Daniels. He threw
the block to help Daniels score. He had a good
game as well. He was so valuable on short yardage.
He was an excellent pass blocker. He could catch the
ball out of the backfield, as I just mentioned. I
mean he had six hundred yards receiving in his LSU career,
So I mean this is a guy that had really
good hands out of the backfield, could really do everything.
Wasn't phenomenal at one aspect of football, but you could
rely on him to do pretty much anything and he
was there to do it for you. The first guy
we're mentions Caleb Jackson. Look, this is his third year
in the program. He's a guy that obviously looks the part,
but we've been waiting for him to break out, and
it just hasn't happened yet. His play actually decreased this
year than it did two years ago as a freshman. Again,
he's certainly talented. He just hasn't been able to put
it all together. Can he do it? He's not gonna
be honest. I thought he looked a little heavy last year,
maybe a little bit out of shape. Now, who's to
say he can't get back to that freshman form. It's
just something that we're gonna need to see. There was
a lot of hype around Jackson coming into last season
because of the flashes we saw from him as a freshman. Right,
We're like, Okay, he's only going to get bigger, stronger, faster,
and more comfortable with this offense. And then he takes
a step back and it's a little disheartening. Well, enter
Harlem Barry at number one running back in the country.
He's about as explosive as it gets. Guys, when I
bring up these numbers, I need you to understand that
this is not career. This is what he did his
senior year in high school. He was louisy in his
Gatorade Player of the Year. Is a senior two and
seventy eight yards forty one rushing touchdowns on twelve yards
per carry. I get it. He played in a lower
A level of football in Louisiana. I don't give a
crap who you're playing. You put up those kind of numbers,
you could play football. He was also a state champion
in the one hundred and two hundred meters twice in
his high school career. So the guy can flat out
play football. He catches the ball out of the backfield.
Everything I just mentioned outside of pass blocking that you're
going to lose from Josh Williams. Harlan Berry showed that
he could do that and a whole lot more at
the college level. Can't he have an immediate impact in
the Tigers backfield. He's going to be on campus for
spring football. You're going to be able to see him.
You're going to hear reports about him, and it's going
to be able to see him. You're going to hear
reports about him in spring. He is going to be
out there again. He's that early in Rolye. Can he
pass up Caleb Jackson? You also have JT. Lindsay who's
not going to be here in the spring, but look, JT.
Lindsay's no slouch as well. I mean he led his
team to a state championship appearance this year. They didn't
win it, but I mean he guided them all the
way there. And look, as a junior he was really
good as well. I mean he had seventeen hundred yards
twenty six touchdowns as a junior. He was named All
state at the five A level. He posted a ten
to eighty five and one hundred meter as a junior
in high school. He's another Guy's a tray guy. He's
five to eleven. He's one eighty five, so he's a
little bit lighter, but look, he can put on ten
pounds as long as it doesn't take away from that speed.
He has. Both of these guys coming in, super super
talented guys. So here's my issue. Let's say because Kayden Durham,
I'm gonna go ahead and pencil him in his RB one.
Let's say Harlem Berry gets those RB two reps over
a Caleb Jackson in sprint. Jackson already knows JT. Lindsay's
coming in in the fall. I'm not saying this is
going to happen. I'm not saying I want this that
I'm predicting this up. But let's just say, hypothetically, Caleb
Jackson enters of the transfer portal, you still love that
spring window coming up. He knows now that he's the
third team guy behind Durham and Bear, Durham and Barry.
You've still got J. T. Lindsey coming in. So what
if he leaves, that only leaves you with three running backs.
But it actually doesn't. And I know that a lot
of people are gonna, you know, kind of scoff at
the notion of a preferred walk on. However, you gotta
remember soon scholarships are going to go from eighty five
to one hundred and five. I imagine that's going to
change a few things. Interred show Van a kid from
right here in bat Rouge, played at Episcopal High School.
Read put up in high school four thousand rushing yards
and sixty three touchdowns. Now he played fullback, but they
ran that wing tease. He was kind of their primary
running back there. Anyways, back to back two thousand yard
rushing seasons and back to back twenty five touchdown seasons.
He's outstanding. Also, he is state champion powerlifter. He was
a runner up as a freshman. He took the title
during his sophomore and junior seasons. He has nine school
powerlifting records. So this is a guy. Look, he's going
to come in at LSU five eight, five nine, hovering
around two hundred, two hundred and five pounds. But the
guy could play When he played right here in bet Ruge,
he played in a tough district with Episcopal Look. He
was first team All district twice as a junior and
a senior player of the Weegue number of times. This
is a guy that can play football. This is not
your normal walk on. We talked about when Amil Picarella
signed here as a quarterback, right he passed up a
lot of small offers to come to LSU. It's his
dream school.
Speaker 2: Reach.
Speaker 1: Chouvin did the same thing. He's a guy that had
offers to go play at a bunch of smaller schools.
Very similar to a Josh Williams. Go look at Josh Williams.
When he got here at LSU, he was about five nine,
one hundred and ninety five pounds. That's about where Reed
Shouvan's going to be when he comes in here as
a freshman. This is a guy that keep an eye
on now he's not going to be here in spring.
He'll be here for summer workouts, and then when fall
football rolls around, he'll be there. So if Caleb Jackson
decides to transfer, in case he gets passed off going
into the fall, you'll still have Kayden Durham, Harlan Barry, JT.
Lindsay and Read Chovan And I get it, the kids
are preferred walk on. But if he can carve out
a nice role for himself, that's still for running backs
right there. That way, you don't have to dip in
the portal late. This is a position battle really between
Harlem Berry and Caleb Jackson. Then I'm going to be
watching very closely in the spring because that battle is
going to tell you a lot on whether or not
Caleb Jackson sticks around, whether or not he finds other
opportunities elsewhere. If that happens, that could open the door
for guys like JT. Lindsay and Read Shovan. All right, look,
we're going to take a quick time out when we
get back a couple college football topics. I want to
hit some possible rule changes coming to the faking injuries.
I'm gonna get a laudr and Jordan's thoughts on that. Also,
Hard Knocks announced they might be following a new team. However,
it's not a team in the NFL. We'll get into
that as well. Well, that's coming up on the other
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the bench. Alandra has decided officially what she is giving
up for Marty Graw or fat for lent. Remember remember
her and her and Cassie yesterday and we're like, yeah,
we're not giving anything up. Yeah, you hadn't decided yet.
Cassis like, I'm not given anything up. What did we do?
What did we decide?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: So, also one thing about LYNT is that like you
don't have to give something up. You can also like say, oh,
I'm not gonna cuss for forty days or I'm gonna
commit to doing.
Speaker 2: This for forty days or whatever like it. It doesn't
have to be like you're giving something up.
Speaker 3: But I decided I'm gonna give up soda because the
doctor Pepper addiction is real. But also I was telling
y'all before we came back from break, I didn't finish
the story that I saw this thing on Facebook.
Speaker 2: That I think I'm gonna do too.
Speaker 3: This girl is gonna do like a mile, like so
forty miles and forty days, So she's gonna run a
mile at and while she's like running the mile, she's
gonna like listen to a certain prayer or like pray
the rosary while she's doing it.
Speaker 2: So I think I'm gonna do that too.
Speaker 1: Your little fitness involved as well. Yeah, I just sent
out a text message trying to figure out what t
Bob is giving up for lent because that fascinates me.
Speaker 2: Is he giving something up? Did he give something up
last year?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what t Bop would give up for lint,
I don't. He seems like a very like routine person.
Sausage well brought someummer brought, summer.
Speaker 2: Is over, so the like went into broad fall though.
Speaker 4: That Yeah, that very well, that very well could be
a obsession with sausage. It's every time you hear what
is this a go to meal something with that includes
some type of sausage?
Speaker 2: Every time, Jordan, are you giving something up?
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm not gonna waste God's time in life
to him be like, yeah, I'm giving this up. It's
not it's just not. He knows my heart. He knows
I'm just not gonna get it done. So it's like
I'm not evenna waste God's time. God know I'm gonna
be like, hey, I you got a weak out of me.
It's wraps. I can't even do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that that seemed. That seems pretty much on.
Speaker 2: I can't give up.
Speaker 1: The only thing I could give up will be Chip
fil A, and it's just too good, So I can't
do it.
Speaker 2: Jesus gave up his life.
Speaker 4: Man, Thank you Jesus.
Speaker 1: We needed that.
Speaker 4: But you know I'm not too. I'm not perfect. I
can't do it. I just my soul is corrupted. I'm sorry.
I just can't do it.
Speaker 1: Impossible transition into this next topic.
Speaker 2: You know how you could have transitioned. You could have
hit us with another trivia question.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, let's go get your first trivia question
of the day. What does purple, green and gold signify?
Speaker 2: And Marty girl, I feel like Jordan should know this.
Speaker 4: Holy smokes, I don't know. At the good times roll baby, that.
Speaker 1: Would be a saying not colors.
Speaker 2: But very close, fun, fun and more. Fun.
Speaker 1: So purple is justice, Oh my goodness, greenest faith and
gold power.
Speaker 2: One of them who who is looking?
Speaker 4: It's like some of you get off a popsicle stick
of something.
Speaker 1: You don't know where I got where Parade dot com.
Speaker 4: I'm about to say some type of mighty gras uh
one O one dot com or.
Speaker 1: Some parade dot com. For what it's worth, t Bop says,
I'm giving up giving up stuff for lent, So that
is what he's giving up. Bop is not giving up anything,
not surprising.
Speaker 2: Try to be nicer to you during limp.
Speaker 1: Can he do that for forty days? We'll be back
up and Bob do that for forty minutes?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, you gotta think there's two days that he's
not doing There's like the rest of this week that
he's not doing it, and then the weekend there's two
days that.
Speaker 2: He doesn't like.
Speaker 3: So okay, he might just have to extend it to
what how many weeks is forty days?
Speaker 2: Seven seven, seven and a half. Yeah, I can't do
the math.
Speaker 4: Well, well I'm terrible a math too, so I'm not
even gonna be like but but at the same time, Taylor,
you gotta look at it like this, You and T
Bob have a good relationship like outside, like y'all do
what y'all do on air outside of his guys, they're
like best Buzz, their best Buzz.
Speaker 1: I'm prob I hate T Bob. That's not even true.
You're lying. How are you gonna lie on Marty girl, Jordan?
Speaker 4: Because I know what I'm sitting here. I see the
office dynamic every day. They're best of Buzz guys, They're
best of Buzz. Don't don't buy into the the the
script they're running. The jig is up.
Speaker 1: I'm exposing speaking of being exposed, players who are faking
injuries might have finally been exposed. About that? How about
that for a transition? So, Uh, the NCAA Football Rules
Committee has proposed a timeout to be charged whenever medical
personnel enters the field to evaluate players after the ball
has been spotted. UH. Teams with without timeouts will be
assessed a five yard delay game penalty. So what this
is trying to prevent is you see it all the time,
shout out Laying Kiffin and Ole miss this is your
fault right when the ball is spotted right before the
snap of player. Just kind of lays down, you know,
to stop the clock give your defense time too. Well, yes,
you will be charged a timeout. A timeout will be
taken away from you have medical professionals deemed that not
a real injury, and if you don't have any timeouts left,
it will be a five yard delay a game. The
committee says, if a player that's struggling and the official
stops the clock to get that player out, we will
not invoke a time out. However, there are these plays
where the ball is down, the defense is still trying
to get to their side of the ball, and a
player just falls down randomly. Those are the type of
plays that we do not want, that we think is
bad look, and we will think this rule will address it.
I am all for this. I know when we talked
about this, when this rule was first proposed, I brought
up the point of like, hey, now a player has
to sit out a play, what if they had to
sit out the remainder of the drive. But the more
and more I thought about that, you could just put
in a guy that you know is not gonna play
that much if he sits out the rest of the drive.
I mean, who really cares? He doesn't make that big
of an impact for your team. Anyways, I appreciate the
NCAA trying to do something about this. It's one of
those things that I personally believe is bad for the game.
I gotta be honest with you, guys, I don't know
how enforceable this rule actually is. I don't know how
one can determine whether a player is injured or not.
I can look at it and take a pretty much
educated guess and be ninety percent certain did that dude's
just flopping to give his defense extra time. But you're
never gonna know for certain. And it's only going to
take that one time where a player has actually heard
a team has to lose the time out they need
that time out at the end of the game. They
wind up losing over a legitimate injury for this rule
to be overturned. It reminds me a lot of the
targeting rule, how there's so much gray area in it.
Right Like now we talk about okay, well was there
intent behind the hit? The hell are you gonna know
if there was intent behind the hint? Jordan? If I'm
an official and I go up to you and be like, ah,
mister Kitchens, did you mean to target on that play.
Speaker 4: What was your responsible No, mister, sure, I love football.
Speaker 1: There you go. You're not gonna you can't really tell
with one hundred percent certainty. And I get it. Guys
you can be like, oh well, you can look at
it and tell sure, but there's always that shadow of
a doubt where you don't know. I love that they're
trying to do this. I don't know what the answer is,
So I'm not a guy that's going to sit up
here and be like, this is the wrong way to
do it. You gotta flip it, you gotta do it
this way. I don't know what can be done outside
of removing that guy and making him sit the rest
of the drive. Maybe that is it, and sure it'll
hurt the team, and maybe there is a legitimate injury
and your guy has to sit out the rest of
the drive. Tough, Sometimes the bad eggs have to ruin
it for everybody else. I don't know if taking away
time out is the proper way to do it, because again,
it's only going to take that one time where a
team loses because they don't have a timeout and their
guy was legitimately injured for this entire rule to blow up,
and this is one of those rules I would like
to see last. I feel like if they do something
like this, the rule's not gonna last. They're gonna bolish
it in about two or three years. I don't know
what you do about it. I'm not sure it's this though.
What are your guys thoughts on it? Like? Is this
an enforceable rule in college football?
Speaker 4: I say it like this, something needs to be done,
Something needed to be done. Yes, you know that old
Miss Elisitude game. I wrote, Well, what this is about?
What's terrible? Terrible? And you knew it was coming. You
knew it. But it sucks because we're in a position
where you have to do something. So you're right, it
is gonna get to the point where somebody is actually
going to be hurt. And it's like, well, he's actually
hurt if we're losing the time out, if we lose
the game and all that. So it's gonna take that
one instance. What that's gonna happen? But something needed to
be done. So maybe it's just gonna get the get
rid of the egregious ones. You know, I had the
guys just said just flopping and they hurt. But I
don't know, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3: I think that it makes sense. I just like you said,
I don't know how you can enforce it, Like, oh no,
I swear like I'm really hurt. How do you know
for for a fact that they're faking it? Like I
know that we can say, like, oh, you can tell
that they're faking it, but like, how do you know
for it?
Speaker 1: A spontaneous cramp could cause that, right, It could cause
you're like, oh crap, I'm cramping right now, I gonna lay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like the punishment makes sense because that's what they're doing.
They're taking a time out or delaying the game. Yeah,
so that makes sense. It's just how do you enforce it,
because only question.
Speaker 1: There are certain teams that abuse this loophole a lot
more than others. Like, Okay, a stat came out. It
was when LSU was playing ole Miss during the middle
of the game. Ole Miss had thirty seven stoppages due
to injury on the defensive side of the ball. The
next highest team in the country had like nine. I mean,
they were an incredible outlier. I think this rule goes
after ole Miss more than other teams, which I'm perfectly
okay with. I just again, I don't know how you
enforce this. All right, Look, before we go to break,
I want to bring this up real quick. Hard knocks
might be coming to the college ranks. Yeah, to the
University of North Carolina to follow around Bill Belichick. Man
it is. However, this was kind of my big concern
when Bill Belichick took this job. Oh was is he
just gonna try to make this like the NFL now.
I will say college football now is closer to the
NFL game than it ever has been before. But they
keep saying, okay, well, less and less teams are interested.
I get it. In my opinion, this goes back to
the behind the scenes Joe Shane and the New York Giants.
They got clowned an entire offseason. You saw Joe Shane's kids,
each of them picked a different quarterback for him to
select the league neighbors a great player, doesn't have anybody
to throw him the ball. Then he says, we gotta
let Saquon walk. Nobody's gonna pay Saquon that type of money.
And then he goes, man, I'm gonna be sick of
he goes to the Philadelphia Eagles spoiler, And he went
to the Philadelphia Eagles and he won a Super Bowl.
Is this a good idea? I have mixed feelings about it.
I would love it. I think this is excellent for
viewership purposes. Yes, North Carolina has a general manager now,
Michael Lombardi is their general manager. He seems like he
is all for it. I will say, if there is
a coach to follow around in college football vin knows
how this works, that knows how to handle himself in
the behind the scenes aspect, it is Bill Belichick because
he's done it for twenty years in the NFL. You
guys like this, I love you and see hard knock.
So it's going to be offseason too, so it'll be
like between spring and fall practice. Y.
Speaker 4: I love it. I think it's I think Bill's playing
the game. One recruiter going to see this is going
to open up the world to what I got going on,
because you know, everybody thinks Bill Belichick is just you know,
demon like this call over what it is. I watch
Stephen really on Julian Emon podcast other day. Bill Belichick sucks.
But this is going to show the world, like, you know,
as I've gotten older, I've lighted up a bit. You know,
the whole coach of staff is like his sons. So
I think it's gonna be really good.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 4: I think I love it. I think it's good for
UNC show him that we're serious. But I think it'll
be bad if they're terrible this year, Like if they
just actually, you know what the bed, I think it
would be a bad look. It's like, look at these
guys fooling around. It ain't taking That's.
Speaker 1: The thing, right. It's one of those things where, like
anytime you have a polarizing figures your head coach, if
they do something right, people are gonna love him even more.
If he does something wrong, they're gonna criticize every single move. Yes,
but North Carolina knew that risk when they hired Bill
Belichicky Colorado knew that risk when they hired Beyon Sandrys.
If you hire a high profile guy, you kind of
take the good with the bad. It is what it is.
I tell you this for someone who hadn't watched a
Hard Knocks outside of the New York Giants in a
number of years, I'll tune in.
Speaker 4: I'll be there.
Speaker 1: I'll do that. I think it's great for Hard Knocks. Yes,
you want to see the difference between the cut because
we don't look. We hear about the nil deals and
the transfer portal and the payment of players now and
all that. We don't really get to see a behind
the scenes how it all works. We know how it
works in the NFL. This would be the first time
we would take a deep dive behind the scenes look
at it. I'm excited about it.
Speaker 4: I'm excited, but I also think one of these kids
gonna mess up real bad. Oh do you about to
say some Oh no, no, but I think one of
these kids is gonna mess up. It's gonna be like,
I need more money, and he's like, well, you know,
we can't give you too much money. He's like, well,
I'm out of here, man. Like somebody's gonna get caught
down bad, Like somebody's gonna.
Speaker 1: Like this stuff like that already happens. Anyways. I mean,
you hear about it, You're like, it's always rumors, but
you know you always hear. Oh, well, this guy wanted
four hundred thousand dollars extra. The coach staff told him not,
so we took a hike to hear about that. Yeah, alright, guys,
we're gonna take a quick time out when we get
back preview, A and m's brand new football coach has
called out Brian Kelly. We'll break that down when we
get back here on off the bench, Off the bench?
Got what a band? I mean, just banger after banger there.
Thank you a Landra for that one. That has uh
that has made my morning so far. I was depressed
because Jordan's here, but now my mood has completely turned around.
Speaker 2: I don't feel it.
Speaker 3: I was like, mm, Taylor's feeling a little because Jordan's
that was Yeah, I mean we go from Cassidy to Jordan.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what you do. Okay. There
was seen to be a lot of talk in the
YouTube chat about what body part I should get pierced.
I don't know who started this or why. Probably would
not get any body part pierced, however, I don't know.
I mean, what do you what do he? What is
the the most masculine piercing you could have? I guess
just That's what I'm saying, Like, do I have to
keep it?
Speaker 6: I guess?
Speaker 1: Can I get that?
Speaker 4: You should definitely get your ears pierced?
Speaker 1: I think I think maybe just one small ear and
then the left ear.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get get it.
Speaker 1: Get a hoop e ring left ear it would not
be right. No, it's it's the left right.
Speaker 4: Get to get the left piers and get the get
the dangling Saquon Barkley. Get that. It's a little nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Danny Dickinson has on too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Dickison's that.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Look that may work for Danny Dickenson, fly
bro doesn't work for me. Not not really my thing. Okay, look,
I want to mention it something real quick. Here. Sports
Illustrated put out an article. Brand new head coach for
Prairie View A and M. Tremaine Jackson did an interview
with Texas Football Magazine, and he wasn't afraid to take
aim at Brian Kelly in some of his out of
character recruiting moments. He was asked about his recruiting strategy
at Prairie View A and M. He said, look, we
don't wind and dying guys and recruiting. We give it
to you straight up because I don't have time to
de recruit you. You're not going to catch me on
Twitter with my hat backwards dancing on a three to
sixty camera with guys. Brian Kelly did that, and he
ain't won a national championship yet. Okay, so I wanted
to do some digging on that because I canna.
Speaker 2: Say I already started digging a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Tremaine Jackson has been a head coach for This will
be his fifth year coming up. He just got hired
back in January to be the Preview A and M
head coach. He was at Colorado MASA for two years.
He was at Valdosta State for three years, so he's
been a head coach for five years. I was looking
and something puzzled me. Guys, Tremaine Jackson's never won a
national championship either. No, he has two conference championships at
Valdosta State. He's made it to the NCAA Division quarterfinal game,
which he lost. Last year. He made it to the
D two championship game, which he lost, which Brian Kelly
has also done. So my question is why make this statement?
Why why do this? Because you're going to find someone
who covers LSU, who follows Brian Kelly like me, We're
going to do a quick resume search of Tremay and Jackson.
We're gonna call him out. The guy's been a head
coach for five years. He's forty and twelve overall as
a head coach. That's awesome, But stop acting like Brian
Kelly can't recruit. I get it. It is easy to
make fun of Brian Kelly. So many people did the
oh well, he did the fake Louisiana accent when he
said family. He he did all of these things. You know,
he's come up short and big mummy. Sure whatever. You
don't have to like Brian Kelly. But who else made
fun of Brian Kelly because of that Twitter video? It
was Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, no natties. Lane Kiffin never
played in a conference championship game. Also, Brian Kelly outrecruited
Lane Kiffin this year. You go look at the two
four to seven Sports transfer portal rankings, But anybody liked
the guess who's number one? It's LSU now on three?
Does this weird composite average player thing? They got LSU
at like five or six, Matt, anybody looks at it
knows that LSU's one of the top three transfer portal
classes in all of college football. Why take a shot
like this? What have you accomplished as a head coach? Also,
the player that he was caught on video doing the
dance with originally because he did it with Walker Howard.
Do you remember that? But it came out that like
Walker Howard thought it was funny, he requested it, and
it didn't matter because Walker Howard never played here. Anyway,
the guy that everyone made fun of Brian Kelly for
doing that for was Danny Lewis, a tight end. Danny
Lewis did not commit to LSU. He went to Alabama,
and of course the haters, the trolls, whatever you want
to call him, came out and for saying this is
why he didn't sign with LSU. He went to Alabama
because of Brian Kelly. Well, Danny Lewis has played tight
end at Alabama for three seasons now. He has appeared
in thirty two games. Danny Lewis in his three years
at Alabama has one catch for five yards. He has
one catch for five yards. He also returned a kickoff
on a squib kick one time for fourteen yards. So
maybe it's good that Brian Kelly does this because the
two guys that he missed out on, well, he got
Walker Howard never played here, wound up transferring. He loses
out on Danny Lewis, who has been a complete bust
at the University of Alabama. Look at the guys he
didn't do it with. He just brought in a top
ten recruiting class. I believe it was righting number seven
as far as his high school recruiting class. He just
signed the number one transfer portal recruiting class. Maybe it's
a good thing that BAMA got him, because I don't
know how much he would have made an impact here
in bad Route. I don't really understand why coaches want
to take this shot constantly at Brian Kelly. Look, maybe
he's an easy target. Maybe Look, I don't know Brian
Kelly personally. Maybe other coaches just strictly don't get along
with him and don't like him because of that reason.
But to sit up here and say, oh, well, Brian
Kelly's never won a national championship, so that's not I
do it a completely different way. Yeah you haven't either,
Lane Kiffin takes a shot at him. Yeahlane, you haven't
even played for an SEC championships or you're even lower
on the totem pole than that. This guy's been a
head coach for five years and look, forty and twelve
overall record is a head coach shout out to you.
Seems like you've done a great job, but you haven't
won anything of any significance either. So why strictly point
to Brian Kelly strictly bring up the point that he
has not won a national championship when you haven't either.
Clearly your recruiting tech that'sart working any better than Brian Kelly's.
And uh, I just don't I don't get why you
take a shot for something like this. It has never
made sense to me. It's one of those things that
coaches do. They try to get their name out there,
they try to put their name in the media. Look,
Lane Kiffin has been excellent on Twitter. I get it,
that's kind of his thing. Has it helped him win
any big games? If Tremaine Jackson goes to preview A
and M let's say he's incredible, he is the power
of the swack. He goes on to win a national title,
it's not going to be because he did or did
not call out Brian Kelly. I just I don't understand
what coaches gained from something like this. Maybe he thought
it was cool, tell you what it does do I'm
sitting here talking about it it gets his name out there,
and maybe that was his ultimate goal. Because to bring
that up with the resume, you have zero national championships,
five years as a head coach, forty and twelve overall record. Again,
good record, but you're new to the game. Man. You
haven't been a head coach very long and all. You
haven't even coached a game at Prairie View A and M.
Yet I don't really get it. That's just something. Look,
I know it's something silly to bring up. It just
it kind of rilled me the wrong way when I
saw it. I'm like, Okay, let's look up this guy.
Let's see how accomplished he is. Because I don't follow
Division two football that much. I mean, i'll admit that
right now.
Speaker 2: No one does.
Speaker 1: I go pull it up. I know Valdosta State's typically
a pretty good program, which is where he was before
Prairie View. And I look at it and I see that, Sure,
he's won two conference championships. Shout out to you, congratulations,
coach Jackson. No national championships, nothing of any significance in
his five years. I mean again, forty and twelve overalls. Hey,
coach is great, but I don't really see why you
take this shot. I don't get what you get out
of this. Okay, look we're going to take a quick
time now when we get back. Welcome back to more
sports talk. What's some other stuff mixed in Off the
Bench with Hester and t Bob Welcome back. In the
final segment, Hour number one, a Tuesday edition of Off
the Bench, Taylor Sharpier with the filling in for Jacob
Hester and Ta Bob. A bear teased a little bit
go went in to break right there. The LSU baseball
team is scheduled to take on North Dakota State tonight.
We'll see if the weather holds up. They'll play them
today and tomorrow. If not, Ben we'll just do this
whole thing all over again tomorrow. But the Bison are
not a very good baseball team so far. They are
one to nine on the year. But it's worse than that.
They average three point eight runs per game. They allow
over eight runs per game. Their cumulative team pitching er
is eleven point one zero. That's awful. They got Jake Schaefner,
who is going to be close to the top of
their order. He bats four thirty six. Everybody else significantly
lower than that. He's kind of the only guy that's
going to hurt you on this team. I mentioned that
none of the pitchers are going to scare you because
their team era is north of eleven. I don't think
there's anything you could learn about LSU in this game. However,
it's a get right game. Look, some of the arms
struggled with control over the weekend. If they're rested enough,
you could get them in act, get their mindset back.
You have a batter that you think struggling, if you're
Jay Johnson, get him out there starting the whole game.
Play them because the starters aren't going to learn anything
by playing one to nine North Dakota State. So in
this game, what do we want to see? Catch your
position again? Those pitchers that on the weekend, their control
was all over the place, can you get them back right.
You're gonna tinker with the batting order a little bit.
Not your weekend batting order, because I really like the
top three. But you know a guy you can throw
in there and be like, hey, I want to see
what he's got. This is the perfect game to do that.
And you could really do it back to back days
as far as the batting order, goes because honestly, the
guys that you trust, the guys you know are going
to be in the order. I'm sure they'd appreciate a break.
They just played five games and of course of seven days,
and they have another five game week scheduled this week
as well. I'm sure they'd appreciate the break more than anyone.
So look, we'll see what happens they take on They're
scheduled to take on North Dakota State this afternoon, and
they are supposed to do so tomorrow as well.
Speaker 4: You don't want to know, You want to know what
I really want to see by LSU baseball Daniel Dickinson. Well,
no shout out Daniel Dickinson, but can we make the
games accessible? What happened to I have ESPN plus, there's
no reasons?
Speaker 1: Well that was the Frisco Classic? Is they were d
one baseball had like the exclusive broadcasting right today, Well,
a lot of people feel the way you do baseball.
But look, the other games are going to be a
lot more accessible to stream and watch than that one. Look,
before I get out of here, we got about three
minutes to go. I want to preview LSU basketball a
little bit. They are going to take on the Kentucky wildcast,
number nineteen in the country. I know what you're thinking,
LSU basketball is terrible. You would be correct. Kentucky's the
top twenty five team. You would also be correct. This
game is at Rupp Arena, which LSU has struggled mightily
at in recent years. I'm not saying LSU can win
this basketball game, because I think that is a very,
very tall task. What I will tell you is this
might be a game. LSU might be able to turn
this into a competitive game, and I'll tell you what.
Look Kentucky's rank number nineteen. Kentucky's last three games ninety
six eighty three, loss to Alabama on the road. They
go on the road to Oklahoma, get a one point
victory over an Oklahoma team that LSU also beat. Kentucky
wins that game eighty three eighty two. They allow Oklahoma
to score eighty two points on them. Then they were
at home this past Saturday against Auburn. Auburn beats them
ninety four to seventy eight. Now, Auburn's going to do
that to a lot of teams. I totally understand that.
But two of the last three games they've lost and
three of the last five. They beat Vanderbilt at home
back on February nineteenth, but the game before that, Texas
beats them on the road eighty two to seventy eight.
So you have a team that has lost three of
the last five games, has lost two of the last three,
are allowing a ton of points offensively. Now, LSU's never
going to be a great defensive team. They don't have
the post players to do it playing simple. However, look
at the games that LSU has won this year. They
beat South Carolina and I get it, so uth CareLine,
it's not very good. They scored a lot of points.
They took down Oklahoma. They scored a lot of points.
Cam Carter went off in that game. I think Kentucky's
going to win this game because I think they're a
far superior team talent wise. However, LSHO can make this
a ballgame. Kentucky's defense has not been good. They beat
Vanderbilt again back on February nineteen, they only gave up
sixty one. Everything other than that, they gave up more
than eighty points in every game they have played the
last four games. So this is a game that if
I wish you can get hot early again. I don't
think they can win it, but they can certainly make
it a game. That game will tip off six pm
tonight in the rep Arena out there in Lexington, Kentucky. Right, Look,
that's going to do it. For our number one of
the show, kind of a little bit of a news done.
We went through a lot of topics. We had some baseball,
some basketball. Just then a Division two coach decided to
call out Brian Kelly even though he had similar resumes
possible rule changes to college football, and we broke down
the LSU running back position coming up for the twenty
twenty five se In an hour number two, we're gonna
kick things off talking New Orleans Saints. We'll talk about
Tyron Matthews future with the Black and Gold. Rosso have
OTB mailbag at eight fifteen, and Jace Legerne off gridin
football is gonna hop on preview some spring football. That's
all coming up. We'll also talk about the LSU Tigers
at the combine. There are a lot of question marks
around Will Campbell at the moment, I don't think they
are warranted. Look, we'll get into all that in a
whole lot more to stay tuned our number two of
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