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Speaker 2: We have to Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 3: Okay, here we go where the.

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Speaker 2: Plays get broken down and science gets denied to come

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off the bench. Hour two of Off the Bench Live

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from the Raising Canes Studio.

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Speaker 4: Welcome an Hour number two. You're here on a Thursday

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edition of Off the Bench. Tayler Schoffer with the Elonda

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villar Real Cassie Spizzelli.

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Speaker 3: Sorry about that.

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Speaker 4: The reason I was laughing, I just remembered, Uh, my

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dad text me yesterday mid shift.

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Speaker 3: I guess he had tuned in or something, and he

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was like, what what does this mean? Why is somebody

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in the YouTube? Jack keep saying rivers all wet? What

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does that even mean?

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Speaker 4: I was like that of year the Hour two open

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it it's the song. It just it made me laugh. Okay,

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in this hour we're gonna hit a lot of different

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topics here. Bill Bender coming up at eight thirty with

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the Sporting News. Yesterday, Bill laid out an entire March

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Madness bracket prediction. LSU not in that number. Surprised to

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no one, but.

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Speaker 3: We'll look at it. Maybe some of the team's LSU

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is about to play.

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Speaker 4: Coming up here in the Sez schedule, how many teams

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will the conference get in, what the one seeds look like.

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We'll break it all down a little bit. Talks of

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March Madness with our guy Bill Bender. LSU had a

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record season ticket sale recently. We'll talk about the Lane

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Kiffin effect here in Baton Rouge. Right now, though, I

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want to look at the New Orleans Saints and these

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free agent possibilities. The name Jeremiah Love is a name

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that continues to get more and more attraction. You're an

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option for the Saints to take it eight overall. I

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wouldn't hate it because I think Jeremiah Love is really good.

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I think he's the best running back in this draft.

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I don't think I like it. Like if if I

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am the GM of the New Orleans Saints, I'm probably

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picking a big time receiver to pair next to Chris

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Olave because I want to give my young quarterback as

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much help as I possibly can. Now, it is a

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deep receiver class. It's a deep headdresser class. I mean,

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those are the two other positions. Everyone is mentioning that

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class is pretty deep. While some may say you don't

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need a running back at eight overall, the gap between

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Jeremiah Love, and the second guy's probably bigger than the

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gap between like Desmond By and David Bailey or Jordan

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Tyson Carnell Tate. They're all kind of right there in

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that same mold. But let's say they don't take Jeremiah Love,

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they still do need a little support in the running

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the world are you gonna get from Kendre Miller? I mean,

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the guy stays hurt, what's going to happen there? Devin

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Neil showed some plashes as a rookie. I would love

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for Rod your guestimate, to be back because I think

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he was really good at the end of the season.

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Speaker 4: Guys are lead backs, at least not at this point

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in their career, and you don't necessarily need that. I mean,

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you could do a you could do a committee approach

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with the running backs, but I think he would like

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in a perfect world to have a lead back. Rolsa

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Jackson at louisianasports dot Net put out two possible big

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name free agents that the Saints may go after. We'll

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get the first one out of the way, because it

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looks like all the projections are that Breece Hall will

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be franchise tagged by the New York Jets. It has

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not happened yet, but that is the prediction. But for

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the sake of this conversation, let's say it has not happened.

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Let's say Breece Hall does not get franchise tagged. Is

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that somebody the Saints could kick the tires on?

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Speaker 3: I think yeah.

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that knee injury as a rookie. I know that's a

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concern for some people, but when you go back and

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at least sixteen games for three straight seasons now, and

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New York Jets. I mean, I'm talking real, real bad.

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in his professional career on the ground. But he's a

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guy that's been productive for a number of years, and

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you just look at what he's done again. Rookie year,

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he played in four, he played in seven games he

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in the league, nine hundred and ninety four yards five touchdowns,

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hundred and seventy one yards receiving. That's over thirteen hundred

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dollar purpose yards twenty twenty four eight to seventy six

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on the ground, but another four eighty three through the air,

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again over thirteen hundred yards. Last year he finally eclipsed

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one thousand yard mark on the ground, but then you

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that is super versatile and it's a good checkdown option

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for Tyler Shuck. He's a guy that's twenty four years old.

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for three years in a row now, against sixteen games

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played in three consecutive seasons. I think Bresee Hall makes

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a lot of sense for this team. He's kind of

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the size you're looking for. I mean, five eleven, two

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hundred and twenty pounds. You ran a four to three

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to nine in the forty and you could say, okay, well,

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the touchdown numbers got to come up. I understand that,

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but look at how much of a difficult time he

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entire team was just all messed up with Robert Sala

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getting fired mid season. I mean that all whole offense

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was a mess and this year Justin Fields was his quarterback.

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in on Breese Hall and he still had success like that.

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who defenses have to respect, I think Breshall could have

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a breakout year for the New Orleans Saints. And a

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guy at twenty four years old, depending on what his

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contract situation looks like the guy you could give a

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two to three year deal to if you wanted to.

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franchise tagged by the New York Jets. That is the

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The guy that looks like he will not be franchise

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tagged and will test the free agent market. Is Travis

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in New Orleans. I think he is exactly the type

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of running back they need. I mean five to ten,

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two hundred and fifteen pounds. You look at what Travis

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Etn's been in the NFL. He hasn't been a super

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efficient runner. However, I think that had a lot to

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do with the Jacksonville Jaguars offense. Look at Liam Cohen

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coming in this year. Trevor Lawrence had a career year.

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years he was in the league was poor. I thought

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their coaching was really poor as well. Look at what

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he did a season ago, two hundred and sixty carries,

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eleven hundred yards rushing, seven touchdowns, but he really flashed

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through the air six receiving touchdowns on the season, so

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Speaker 3: He's a guy who's a lot like Brisaul.

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Speaker 4: I mean, in four years in the NFL, Travis Etn's

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approaching fourteen hundred yards receiving and caught one hundred and

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sixty eight passes. He's another guy plays very similar to

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haw Alvin Kamara did and Travis Eten's twenty six years old,

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a little bit older than Bresaul, But I mean not

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the injuries, the number of games he is played seventeen seventeen,

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fifteen seventeen, Travis etn has been about as healthy as

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you can ask for, and even behind that really poor

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offensive line for the Jacksonville Jaguars, three out of his

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four years he's eclipsed one thousand yards rushing eleven twenty five.

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Speaker 3: The Saints offensive line.

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Speaker 4: Can continue to get better and again pair him with

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a Tyler Shuck with a really good play caller like

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Kellen Moore. You saw what he did in an offense

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with a good play caller like Liam Cohen. I don't

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see why he can't have that same success under a

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guy like Kellen Moore. I'm not saying he's not a

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good running back. He's one of the best running backs

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in the league. But look at Sakuon Barkley in that

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entire Philadelphia Eagles offense this year without Kellen Moore. To me,

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that was the biggest stamp in the Kellen Moore category

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as far as in favor of him than anything he

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did with the Saints this year was how bad the

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offense was in Philadelphia. They fired their offensive coordinator after

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a year, so they're on their second coordinator since Kellen Moore,

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months and they're on offensive coordinator number two. Saquan took

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the place, he was erradic at times, all of that

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without Kellen Moore. With Kellen Moore, they were dominate. Sakuon

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Barkley was the best player in the league, and they

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win won the Super Bowl. I'm not saying the Saints

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with Super Bowl contenders next year, but Kellen Moore is

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going to get the absolute most out of these playmakers.

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Travis Etn's a playmaker. He's a guy that's been so

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under the radar. I mean, I remember coming into this season,

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the talk all off season long. I never figured out

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why was Travis Etn is gonna lose his starting job

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to Tank Bigsby, Like that's gonna happen. And you turn

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Speaker 3: I never really understood why, because.

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biggs be out of town and he was the third

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string running back for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. And

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eleven hundred rushing, seven touchdowns. He's a He's a guy

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that has been very productive. I mean, thirty eight hundred

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really good. Twenty five touchdowns. But for whatever reason, he's

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just been an under the radar guy, probably because he

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played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and people forget their an

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NFL franchise half the time. He's just one of those guys.

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I would be happy with a Jeremiah Love. I would

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be content with it. I would come in here on

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a Friday on OTB the morning and after Round one

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of the NFL Draft. I don't think anybody in this

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room or any of the other shows on this station

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would be, Jeremiah Love is a really good player. I

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I probably would have went a different direction, but hopefully

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it works out. That should be your response if the

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Saints draft Jeremiah Love. But if they don't, and I

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don't think they should, Travis Etn is a very good

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option for again, twenty six years old. You could give

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him a multi year deal. He would slide into B

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or RB one right away. I like Alvin Kamara. He's

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done a lot for this franchise, but let's call it

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like it is. I mean, Alvin Kamara is a declining player.

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with injuries and even when he was on the field again,

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a lot of it not his fault, but what he's

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done the last three years. In twenty twenty three, six

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hundred ninety four yard rushing, five touchdowns, three point nine

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a carrey in twenty four, it went up a tick

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four point two a care this year a career low

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three point six yards per carry, scored one rushing touchdown.

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team for a number of years, but three.

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thousand yards rush and it was nine to fifty. The

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efficiency wasn't quite there, and then the worst yards per

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carrey of his career came this past year.

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Speaker 4: And I just said the same thing about Travis Eten

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about how when he was put in a better position

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to succeed, he was right there. The problem with Alvin

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Kamara is he just finished his age thirty season. He's

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gonna be thirty one years old at some point next year.

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Travis Athens twenty six, Briestalls twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Love Kamara. I think he still has a role on

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this team.

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Speaker 4: But if you want to bring in a productive running

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back that you know can get the job done, bring

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in one of these guys. Spend your first round pick

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on a Jordan Tyson, a Carnell tait Hell, even go

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edge rusher if you fall in love with a guy

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and he falls to number eight, I would go receiver.

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I think you need playmakers on the outside. He's like,

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let's say you do add Travis Eta or Argument's sick.

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at times, and Audrick Estimate, who had a good end

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of the year.

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Speaker 3: That's a really good running back room. You would have

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a lead back.

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Speaker 4: But none of these guys would be required to have

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three hundred carries on the year. But you can look

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at the numbers, raw numbers and say, oh, well, Bresols

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only rush for over one thousand yards one time, and

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Travis etn his efficiency's been down at times. In Jacksonville,

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the Saints did not have a five hundred yard rusher

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this year. They need all the help they can get.

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I think the allion's going to be better. I think

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you're finally set at the quarterback position, and you're sitting

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pretty at number eight over all, because you have your

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quarterback of the future. You could go a lot of

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different ways Jeremiah Love could be one of the options.

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I would go elsewhere and maybe looking free agency for

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a running back. All right, we're gonna take a time

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out when we get back. L s U a lot

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of season ticket sales. The uh raw numbers came out yesterday.

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We're looking at all next and uh how the Lane

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Kiffin effect is in full swing here in Baton Ridge.

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That's coming up next here on off the bench, off

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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gonna blow a lead. They're just gonna win awards because

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that's what they do. They stack banners. They stacked every year,

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every single year, Bud.

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Speaker 6: They do want to spread the tropes for every company.

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Speaker 2: Com from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off

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the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench.

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Taylor Sharp here with the elandravill Rial Cassies, Bazally along

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for the ride as well. Thanks for hanging out with

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us here this morning, guys. The Lane Kiff in effect

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is one hundred percent real, whether you want to believe

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it or not. So Matt Moscono on After Further of

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You was joined by ViRGE Olsbury on Tuesday, and Verge

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said that LSU had forty four thousand people on the

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football season ticket waiting list, and apparently before that the

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most they had ever had was seventeen thousand. Verge said,

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it's Lane Kiffin, it's the team he recruited, the players

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he brought in, and the great home schedule we have. Obviously,

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LSU opens up at home against Clemson. They'll host A

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and M and Alabama. Both of those teams made the

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College football Playoff a year ago. Texas and Archie Manning

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will make their first visit to Betan Roots since nineteen

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fifty three. For years, everybody's been asking for that return

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trip from twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Well, you got it.

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Speaker 4: But when you look at the total number of season tickets,

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we have it here. You can read the article on

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Louisiana Sports dot Net, and LSU spokespersman told LSN that

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season tickets are sold out, with approximately seventy one two

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hundred and fifty sold and renewals were near ninety eight percent. Guys,

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I appreciate Verge talking about the great home schedule. I'm

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excited about the home schedule. This is Lane Kiffen. This

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is what you get when you hire a guy who

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is a rock star among college football, like this guy

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right here at Lane Kiffin.

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Speaker 3: You had to expect this.

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Speaker 4: Whether you wanted Lane Kiffin here or not, you had

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to know that if LSU hired him the minute he

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stepped foot on campus, this is what you were going

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to get, and honestly, it's what LSU needed. Look, I

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have loved this LSU football program my entire life. I

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fell in love with LSU football at like five years old.

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I mean I remember LSU versus North Texas and Tiger Stadium,

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first game I ever went to.

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Speaker 3: I was hooked.

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Speaker 4: I mean I went to every home game during the

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two thousand and seven National Championship season. I watched Jake

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and Matt play that National Championship in the Superdome and

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when I was in the sixth grade. Still my favorite

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sporting event that I've ever been to. And I will

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admit that the last three or four years, it's just

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been kind of stale for me. Guys, and I love

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covering the team, but the past couple of years covering

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the team it has felt more like a job that

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actually being a fan of the university. And that's okay,

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because I mean, it kind of is a job, but

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Speaker 3: Like it to be both.

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Speaker 4: I have the ability to separate fandom versus Hey, let

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me break it down for you. Here's how it is.

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I'm not going to cut any corners just because I'm

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a fan of this team. But it was a team

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that was hard to pull for. We talked about it

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last year a little bit. Even when LSU was winning

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games late in the season, they weren't fun to watch, Like, yeah,

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it was great that LSU beat Clemson, and everybody was

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excited about it because it was your first time winning

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the season opener since twenty nineteen. I was fired up

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as hell watching it from the house, But you didn't

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realize that that game wasn't a one off, it was

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a sign of things to come. I was in Orlando

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a Universal Studios for this second game of the year

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when LSU was playing Louisiana Tech, and my gosh, I

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was glad I didn't have to watch it and only

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had to listen to Chris Blair on the broadcast, because

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that was abysmal. You beat up on Southeastern fine, and

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then you play Old miss and then you knew you

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had a big problem. Even when Lashue was winning games

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last year, they were not fun to watch. Did anybody

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enjoy watching LSU VERSUS Arkansas this year? I mean I

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enjoyed it because they won in the last minute of

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the game, But outside of that last drive, it was

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kind of a snooze fest. I mean, you could count

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on one hand the number of big moments Brian Kelly

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had here at LSU. Going for two against Alabama, winning

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that game great, that was awesome. Winning the West year

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one under Kelly great. You chopped it away at the

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end of the season when you got rolled over by

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Texas A and M. Somehow the overtime win two years

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ago against Ole Miss right here in bedroom, that's it.

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I mean outside of that, can you think of a

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game win or loss that had a bunch of juice

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under Brian Kelly?

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Speaker 3: I mean, hand up.

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Speaker 4: When LSU moved on from Brian Kelly and there were

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so many candidates being talked about, Lane Kiffin was the

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one name that so many fans latched on too, Me, Landra, Jake, Matt,

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everybody kind of said, hey, at least on this show,

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we'd be happy with Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin's a good coach,

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but there's more than just Lane Kiffen out there. I

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was always a big fan of Kenney Dillingham. I saw

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him take Arizona State to the College Football Playoffs should

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it be Texas if not for a miss targeting call?

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And I saw Sam Levin in the portal and I

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was like, Hey, your best option to get Sam levit's

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probably to hire Kenny Dillingham, bring him over. Little did

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I know what Lane kid was about to do. Lane

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Kiffen Win got Sam Levitt. He went and got Jordan's Seaton,

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the number one left tackle in all of college football.

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In the transfer portal, he got Prince Will Luman Miellen.

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Heven't got TJ. Dottery, who was a miss As leading

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tackler a year ago. This transfer portal class is so stacked.

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I feel like we don't even talk about TJ.

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Speaker 3: Dottery.

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Speaker 4: Tyd Benfield, who was a top three safety in the

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transfer portal from Boise State, played a lot of big

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time football, played in the College Football Playoff two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's an LSU Tiger.

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Speaker 4: Everything Lane Kiffin has had to do along the way,

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he's nailed it. I'm not saying Lane Kiffin is gonna

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win a national championship year one, but there's excitement around

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this program. There's a buzz that hasn't been here for

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me since after LSU beat Texas in twenty nineteen and

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I was like, hang on a second, we got a

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little something going. This offense is different than what we've

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seen in the past. I was on cloud nine after

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that Texas game because I was like, Okay, you beat

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Georgia Southern, great, what are you gonna do against the Longhorns?

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You go perform like that in DKR against that Texas team.

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I get it didn't finish the season like everybody thought

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they would, but at that point with them, Sam Ellinger,

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those receivers, they had a lot of hype around that team,

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and you took over that stadium, you could feel there

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was something different.

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Speaker 3: There's just a different feel in the air. Right now.

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Speaker 4: I'm saying Lane Kiffin's gonna win the national title year one,

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but he has certainly brought a much needed spark to

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this program. Everyone seems to gravitate towards Lane Kiffin.

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Speaker 3: The media.

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Speaker 4: Think about how big he was covered when when he

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decided to leave Ole Miss and go to LSU.

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Speaker 3: That was national news for three weeks.

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Speaker 4: It was kind of made a lot bigger deal and

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blown out of proportion than it probably would have if

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if it wasn't Lane Kiffin, if it was another coach.

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I get they were going to the College Football Playoff

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and all that, but a lot of coaches jumped ship

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and went to other teams. It's the Lane Kiffin effect.

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We've talked about it here. Look at all the players

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he retained, Trey des Green, DJ Piggott, You got Barry

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and Durham back for the players. It's Lane Kiffin. Blake

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Baker looked like he was gonna get the two lane job.

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He decided to stay here in Baton Ridge. Charlie Wise

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Junior had multiple options. He could have stayed at Old Miss,

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he could have went to multiple NFL teams. Pittsburgh Steelers

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showed a lot of interest in him. He decided to

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stick with Lane Kiffin. Just earlier this week, it looked

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like Jake Olsen was going to go and coach for

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Washington in the NFL. He decides to come back and

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coach under Lane Kiffin. This is exactly what this city

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and this program needs. And again it's you still have

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to go out there on the field. You still have

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to do it. You still have to.

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Speaker 3: Win these games.

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Speaker 4: But this program's trending in the right direction, and there's

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more juice under us now than my I've seen in

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quite some time. All Right, we're going to take a

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quick time out. When we get back, we'll shift years

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to college basketball. Bill Bender of of the Sporty News,

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he put out his entire field of sixty eight bracket

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where teams fall breaking down a little march madness.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Thursday edition of Off the Bench. Taylor

527
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Sharp's sitting in here with you. I want to go

528
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out to the phone lines right now. Welcome in our

529
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guy Bill Bender from the Sporting News. Bill, How are

530
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you this morning?

531
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,799
Speaker 2: Hey Taylor?

532
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:29,079
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me on. How you doing man?

533
00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 4: Absolutely I am doing well. Bill, I was every time

534
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,039
you put something out that I make sure to read

535
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it because I mean, you know, I was talking to

536
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,319
Jacob Pester not long ago, and you know he's the

537
00:27:40,319 --> 00:27:42,359
one that connected you and I a while back, and

538
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,319
I'm like, you know, Jake, it doesn't really matter the sport.

539
00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:47,240
Bill is the guy to call, like, You're just a

540
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,400
wealth of knowledge. So I wanted to go kind of

541
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kind of a little March Maddness preview here because a

542
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,640
few days back you put out March Maddness bracket prediction

543
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,759
three point zero of Bill Bender, and you know, I

544
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was looking at it a little bit and want to

545
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kind of to highlight a few things. Obviously, when you

546
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look at the field, you got your one seeds Michigan, Duke, Arizona,

547
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and Houston.

548
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Speaker 3: Bill.

549
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Speaker 4: Out of that group, I mean, who do you think

550
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,559
would be like your number one overall seed. Like a

551
00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:17,759
lot of people talk about Arizona. They've dropped a few

552
00:28:17,799 --> 00:28:20,880
games here and there. Michigan's been dominant all year. I

553
00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,440
mean right now for you, like, who is the best

554
00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:24,839
number one seed out of that group?

555
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: Oh, Michigan's the best team in the country until Saturday.

556
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You know when they played Duke. They have nine guys

557
00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:35,240
that can put the ball in the basket. They have

558
00:28:35,279 --> 00:28:37,839
a great club one track record. They're going into big

559
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,200
ten venues and you know they've won at Breslan and

560
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:44,319
beat Michigan State. They went into Doing one and commanded

561
00:28:44,319 --> 00:28:48,039
that game. It's a really good basketball team. But it

562
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doesn't mean they can't lose to Duke on Saturday. And

563
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those Big twelve teams are in the mix, and I

564
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,000
think Florida out of the SEC has just been as

565
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hot as any team in the country. So at Yukon

566
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loses last night, so it's a very fluid number one

567
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:05,920
seed line. But I think Michigan has stood out a

568
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,759
little bit more than anybody else so far.

569
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Speaker 4: Speaking of the Florida Gators, I'm glad you mentioned them.

570
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You have them at the three seed right now, Like

571
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,440
they're nineteen and six overall, but builder ten and two.

572
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Speaker 3: In the SEZ.

573
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Speaker 4: I mean right now, they kind of look forward away

574
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the best team in that conference. They're on a pretty

575
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impressive run right now. What is the highest like, if

576
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Florida continues on this run that they're on right now,

577
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what is the highest Florida could be seeded? I mean,

578
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right now there are three how much can they improve on.

579
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Speaker 1: That I think they could be a number one. And

580
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,519
I'm not just saying that to like say it. I mean,

581
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the pass is not that difficult. I mean, the Big

582
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twelve teams will sort themselves out. Big ten teams will,

583
00:29:44,599 --> 00:29:46,839
you know, sort themselves without so I think you'll have

584
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one at least one Big twelve one seed, one Big

585
00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:53,480
ten one seed. I do probably that team out of

586
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the ACC unless they get a couple bruises. And so

587
00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:59,799
it comes down to, let's say Florida only lost like

588
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one more games, won the SEC tournament championship, they would

589
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have a very compelling case to be a number one

590
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,960
seed over a Yukon who lost Creyton. But there aren't

591
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a lot of tournament teams out of the Big East.

592
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I'm gonna tell you what, the SEC basketball is solid.

593
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It's a lot of fun. I still I just got

594
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you know, how you get like roped into a game.

595
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Just kept watching Alabama Arkansas last night, kept watching it.

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Speaker 6: What a great game that was.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of the SEC, like, let's just stick there. As

598
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we were just talking Florida, I mean, how many teams

599
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could we realistically see out of that conference to make

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00:30:35,839 --> 00:30:36,359
the Big Dance?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they all the way down to Missouri. Basically,

602
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you know, can Missouri get in the tournament? I think

603
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Auburn's gonna be on it. It really depends on Missouri

604
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and Auburn. You know, where does Auburn go there? Their

605
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keen palm and net rankings are really good, but they've

606
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lost a couple of games. You know, Texas, A and

607
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,039
M should get in. I think you could get double

608
00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:58,799
digit teams again, not out of the question. It's just

609
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a matter of which one of those couple teams there

610
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at the bottom dripped off. You know, Georgia and Texas.

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It was a little tenuleous for them a couple of

612
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,720
weeks ago, but ten Texas is probably looking a little

613
00:31:09,759 --> 00:31:13,400
bit better now. So you know, it's super competitive, kind

614
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of like the conversations I have with you about football

615
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,000
that there. I don't know how many national championship contenders

616
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are in the conference. There are a ton of teams

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that could make the final four.

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Speaker 4: Bill transitioning out of the SEC to a team that

619
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everybody seems to be talking about right now. You have

620
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them as a ten seed in this bracket prediction that is,

621
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of course, Miami, Ohio undefeated right now, how good is

622
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:41,519
this team all?

623
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Speaker 1: They're really good and I you know, look, I'm gonna

624
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be a mac homer here. I went to Ohio that

625
00:31:47,119 --> 00:31:50,440
was the rival for Miami. I don't necessarily like Miami

626
00:31:50,519 --> 00:31:54,160
because of that. But this team's awesome. They remind me

627
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,440
of the Miami team that was they had my freshman

628
00:31:57,519 --> 00:31:59,799
year of college. That's so long it's been when they

629
00:31:59,839 --> 00:32:02,359
have Wally's irbiak and there's a lot big reason why

630
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,759
he's been out there a little bit. This is an

631
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:08,480
excellent Miami team. Four guys a shoot three pointer, I think,

632
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,160
and I'm biased, even if they lose a game or two,

633
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,039
they should be in the tournament. And you can do

634
00:32:15,119 --> 00:32:17,240
it if they lose in the MAC tournament and you

635
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:20,160
get a second MAC bid. Right now, they're about a

636
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,200
number ten in seed. I think they keep winning, they

637
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,880
should be higher. So they are a fun story. Travis

638
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,400
Field's done a nice job with them. There's only so

639
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,599
many nice things I can say about a rival school

640
00:32:30,599 --> 00:32:33,599
from my Aleno But you know that last one they

641
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,599
do come to the conbo in Ohio University would be interesting.

642
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,720
If the Bobcats could play spoiler there.

643
00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 4: I'm sure, I'm sure you would you would hate if

644
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,440
the Bobcats played spoiler there.

645
00:32:42,319 --> 00:32:43,039
Speaker 3: On Miami Ohio.

646
00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 4: Bill I, I didn't want to open up old wounds

647
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for you talk about the rival school, but I had

648
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,599
to bring up Miami of Ohio. Of course they have

649
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,720
had an excellent season. Let's stick there kind of the

650
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,000
lower seeds in your projected bracket because I mean, look,

651
00:32:58,039 --> 00:32:59,839
Miami Ohio right now, you have them as a tendc

652
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,119
But every year there's a team. You know, when everyone

653
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,400
wants to fill out their brackets, they always try to

654
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,079
pick one dark horse and they're like, hey, this is

655
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,559
my Cinderella team to go to the Sweet sixteen, the

656
00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:13,240
Elite Aid, whatever it may be. Is there a dark

657
00:33:13,279 --> 00:33:15,119
horse team for you right now that you think could

658
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:16,160
maybe make a run in March.

659
00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that. I mean, you know, Saint

660
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,440
Louis is not really a dark horse either. They're having

661
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,000
a fantastic season. The Billikins with Rabbi Abilla, so we'll

662
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:29,640
get to see him all over again, and they're really good,

663
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,599
you know, in that thirteen to sixteen range. You know,

664
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,119
Belmot's always dangerous, they're always a team. But they got

665
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to get in the tournament first. You know, some of

666
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these teams that are in that thirteen to sixteen range,

667
00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:42,480
I think we're gonna hear a little bit more about

668
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:46,599
them if they get in the tournament. In particular, Yeah,

669
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,160
North Dakota State, they're having a big year, you know.

670
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,119
They they go up to the FBS in football, and

671
00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:56,079
they've been really good in their conference in basketball. So

672
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,440
the Bison could have a one of these landmark years

673
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,559
for the program. I did chuckle when I saw Lenardi's

674
00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:06,599
bracketology had Michigan playing app State in the first round.

675
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,159
That's just that's just paying attention to your history on

676
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,199
the football side. There's no question I think that would

677
00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:14,480
get a lot a lot of reaction if that game

678
00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:15,800
actually happened, Bill.

679
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Speaker 3: Michigan fans would hate that. I mean they would be nervous.

680
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 4: They would be nervous, no question, Bill Bender, This Morning News,

681
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,880
our guest right now, Bill, looking at your bracket, the

682
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field of sixty eight. You got four teams that are

683
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,000
on the bubble right now, Missouri, Ohio State, New Mexico

684
00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:34,280
seedon Hall right now. If the season were the end today, like,

685
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,360
which of those teams do you think is most likely

686
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,559
to make that final field?

687
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Speaker 1: I think Missouri as long as they can win a

688
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:43,280
couple more games and you know, maintain a decent record

689
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,400
in the SEC. Ohio State would be a close second.

690
00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:49,320
It's Ohio State's the team that we're going to debate

691
00:34:49,519 --> 00:34:54,280
all the way through selection Sunday based on those quad

692
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,159
one components, right like that. They haven't beat a Quad

693
00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:00,400
one opponent and they've got an opportunity this weekend against

694
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,360
Michigan State to do that. But this Ohio State team,

695
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,239
I think sometimes I'll watch them, I'm like, yeah, it's

696
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,480
a tournament team, and others other times it's like, no,

697
00:35:08,559 --> 00:35:11,199
they're really not. And that's where when you're in that

698
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,239
spot where Missouri and Ohio State are, the thing you

699
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,039
got to watch for is that scenario. I was just saying, like,

700
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,039
if Saint Louis loses, are they still in the tournament?

701
00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:22,920
If Miami loses, are they still in the tournament? How

702
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,800
many big thieves will there be in the conference tournament

703
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,199
week which is coming up closer than we think, right, So,

704
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:32,679
I think it'll be a lot of fun to figure

705
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,800
that out. But the long winded way of answering your question,

706
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:39,039
I'd give a slight edge to Missouri, but that really

707
00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:42,079
is tenueless as well?

708
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Speaker 3: Bill?

709
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Speaker 4: Before we get you out of here, I mean, do

710
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you you mentioned Michigan, you know, best team in the country.

711
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,320
Is is that your favorite right now to win it

712
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,480
all in March or you think? I mean, look, obviously

713
00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:55,599
there's there's craziness in March Mata and it's that that's

714
00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:57,239
why we call it that writers. I mean, is this

715
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,559
Michigan still lose right now?

716
00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: Well, I mean they've had good teams in the past,

717
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,840
and you know, this Big Ten when we get into March,

718
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,760
the Big Ten's national championship drought's going to come into

719
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,719
focus again. I mean, I'm forty six years old. I

720
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,599
was in sophomore in college the last time the Big

721
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:17,639
Ten won a national championship in basketball. It's crazy to me.

722
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,960
You know, Michigan State in two thousand, So there would

723
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,199
be a lot of pressure on Michigan from that standpoint.

724
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,559
I do think if I was filling out of bracket today,

725
00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:30,159
I would probably put some combination of Michigan, Duke or

726
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:33,679
Houston in the in the championship game. I still like

727
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,559
Houston a lot because that defense, and of course they're

728
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:38,920
playing Arizona this weekend. It's like a mini Final four

729
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,360
on Saturday, by the way, So but yeah, I would

730
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,639
answer I would pick Michigan with the understanding that I've

731
00:36:45,679 --> 00:36:49,400
watched Michigan national championship caliber teams not win the national

732
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,280
title with the Fab five and with Trey Burke and

733
00:36:52,639 --> 00:36:55,239
you know, with John Beeline. So there'd be a lot

734
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,480
of pressure on those Wolverines. But man, they have an

735
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,960
extra year. They are very very good. Under Dustin May.

736
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 3: All right, Well, just one more for you here, Bill.

737
00:37:02,039 --> 00:37:05,519
Speaker 4: You mentioned kind of a mini final four here, obviously

738
00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:09,039
Houston Arizona matching up Michigan with the Big Game as well.

739
00:37:09,119 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 3: Who do you like in those two matchups?

740
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: Well, I think, you know, obviously I'm gonna take Houston

741
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,119
in the first one, and then that second one. It's

742
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:21,960
tough one to call because it's gonna bring up you know,

743
00:37:22,119 --> 00:37:24,719
I growing up in Big ten country. One of the

744
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:28,599
most memorable regular season games I ever watched was the

745
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:31,480
five to five versus Duke in the regular season at

746
00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:35,840
Chrystlaer Arena. It was an unbelievable game. Michigan lost to

747
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,280
Christian Lightner in overtime, and I'm wondering if this will

748
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,599
be that kind of memorable game. I'm gonna pick Michigan

749
00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:46,559
to win, but man Duke is with Boozer and the

750
00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:49,599
amount of talent they have, anything goes. I'm wondering, you

751
00:37:49,639 --> 00:37:53,159
know what, I'm wondering, Taylor, what the TV ratings on

752
00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:55,360
that will be? Oh's I wonder how many people are

753
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,679
tuning into that game. I think they're gonna be surprising.

754
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:00,880
Maybe it's just me. I think the radiance of that

755
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,719
Duke Michigan game, we're gonna be off the charts.

756
00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,039
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna I'm gonna be tuned in's. That's

757
00:38:06,119 --> 00:38:08,480
that's the game that everybody's kind of circled for a

758
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,920
few weeks now once they realized it was coming up. Bill,

759
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you have been a wealth of information as always. Look, guys,

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if you want to see more of Bill's stuff, go

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to the Sportynews dot com.

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Speaker 3: You can see his.

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Speaker 4: Full breakdown, detailed breakdown, field to sixty eight projected, and

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a whole lot more from Bill.

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Speaker 3: Bill, thanks for hopping on with.

766
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Speaker 1: Me today anytime. Thanks for having me. I'll talk to

767
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you soon.

768
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it absolutely.

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Speaker 4: That was Bill Bender of the Sporty News. We will

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take a quick time out coming back. We're closing out

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hour number two, you're all off the bench.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in final segment here in an hour two

802
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,239
of a Thursday edition of Off the Bench, Taylor Sharp

803
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here with you, Londra Villa, Reale, Cassie's Bazzally.

804
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 3: Cassie, I'm struggling. You'll be fun.

805
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,119
Speaker 4: Guys went those different things to different people. I explained

806
00:40:41,119 --> 00:40:45,360
the other day that it's a good thing. I'm not Catholic.

807
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,320
I couldn't. I couldn't do Lynt, I couldn't do it. Cassie,

808
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,760
I'm someone who knows my limitations. Like I explained to you,

809
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,119
I explained to a landro I was like, I use

810
00:40:53,199 --> 00:40:56,800
that as an excuse because like she made the point, like, well,

811
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,400
even though you're not cal like you could still give

812
00:40:58,480 --> 00:40:58,920
up for Lynt.

813
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,320
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, that's my built in excuse.

814
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:02,519
Speaker 6: I don't.

815
00:41:02,519 --> 00:41:03,039
Speaker 3: I don't want to.

816
00:41:03,079 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 4: I don't want a reason to do difficult things like that.

817
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,280
That's I'm just I'm a weak minded individual and I

818
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,280
know my limitations.

819
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,559
Speaker 3: That's fine, It's it's no big deal. But like, I

820
00:41:14,559 --> 00:41:17,519
wish you luck. You're one day in. I did it.

821
00:41:17,639 --> 00:41:18,639
Speaker 7: I did it last year.

822
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,199
Speaker 3: I know I survived. I would I would have chose

823
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,000
something else, but.

824
00:41:22,039 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 7: Uh, however, last year I did cheat and I got

825
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,840
canes instead, which is not very a good Like you're good.

826
00:41:29,079 --> 00:41:32,679
My goal is to like not replace it with something else,

827
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,920
like just I get you. I can't cheat and just

828
00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:38,920
oh I'm not gonna get your place. I'm gonna be Keane.

829
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 3: Oh how the ashes go? Yesterday you got yours? Cassie,

830
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,280
Did you get your ashes?

831
00:41:44,559 --> 00:41:47,079
Speaker 7: I did, but for the first time ever, they didn't

832
00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:49,599
draw like across my forehead. They just like sprinkled it

833
00:41:49,639 --> 00:41:50,480
on top of my head.

834
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: Wait what I sprinkled?

835
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,840
Speaker 7: Yes, Like I've been Catholic my whole life and that

836
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:55,840
that's never happened.

837
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:56,039
Speaker 6: Ever.

838
00:41:56,159 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 3: Did you go to a different place or is this

839
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:58,559
I went to.

840
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 7: The church on Elish's camp as Christ the King, which

841
00:42:01,039 --> 00:42:04,760
I've there was there a bunch of people. Maybe they

842
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,920
were just like, yeah, here eight o'clock at night. So

843
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,280
I don't know if they were just like, just get

844
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,119
out of here. Concern Well weird, Yeah, that is weird.

845
00:42:14,159 --> 00:42:18,079
I've never in my life had ashes sprinkled off. Yeah,

846
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And like I I am very close with my priests,

847
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,719
like at the church at home and so, like I

848
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,360
texted him. He hasn't responded yet, but I was like,

849
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:27,119
why did.

850
00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:27,519
Speaker 3: They do this?

851
00:42:27,599 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 7: Because I've literally been casting my whole life and I've

852
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,119
never seen this before.

853
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 4: It was probably one of those things where, like Landra said,

854
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,599
just like grab and go, like I mentioned, uh uh.

855
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:38,920
We we talked about this the other day. My dad

856
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,679
growing up in Alexander. He said they had a drive

857
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,159
through funeral home where they would prop up the casket

858
00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:44,960
at the window you could pull up if you couldn't

859
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:47,320
stop in and pay your respects and go. Maybe it's

860
00:42:47,639 --> 00:42:53,440
maybe it's something like that. Ludre, you played softball in

861
00:42:53,519 --> 00:42:57,480
high school. What would you consider a lot of ron

862
00:42:57,639 --> 00:42:59,000
scored in a softball game?

863
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 8: Well, are we talking about Oklahoma?

864
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,079
Speaker 4: Yeah, you said this the other day and it literally

865
00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:09,239
did not register, and I went back and looked at

866
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it yesterday.

867
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm curious though, tell the people to score.

868
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:13,920
Speaker 3: It was like thirty six.

869
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,519
Speaker 4: It was thirty four to four, zero, thirty four to nothing.

870
00:43:18,559 --> 00:43:20,679
They beat the poor U in five innings.

871
00:43:20,679 --> 00:43:24,519
Speaker 8: By the right, did you find how long that game lasted?

872
00:43:24,519 --> 00:43:27,840
Because that's what I'm curious about, Like, how long was

873
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:28,320
that game?

874
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 4: That's got to be the longest five inning game, like

875
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:31,559
I would imagine.

876
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,800
Speaker 8: It doesn't tell you on the box score.

877
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 3: Let's see, I got the box score right here.

878
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,199
Speaker 8: Sometimes it might or like on the stats.

879
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, let me get a stat I can't find it

880
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,599
right now, but anyways, let me I can find it.

881
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,880
Scoring by inning, Oklahoma put up an eight spot in

882
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:49,679
the first.

883
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:51,559
Speaker 3: UTEP was great.

884
00:43:51,559 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 4: In the second inning, London, Oklahoma did the scoredy runs

885
00:43:54,079 --> 00:43:55,159
in the second inning.

886
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 3: No big deal.

887
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,599
Speaker 4: They followed that up with twelve and the third and

888
00:43:59,639 --> 00:44:03,960
none in the fourth. Okay, fourteen runs in the fifth inning.

889
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,320
Fourteen runs in the fifth inning.

890
00:44:06,559 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 8: In that thing, they had like two grand slams.

891
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,159
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, they had a lot of hits. My

892
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,480
question would be four twenty four.

893
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,199
Speaker 8: I think that's how many hits they had.

894
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:26,039
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a lot, twenty five, twenty five hits

895
00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:30,599
and yeah, thirty four RBI. Obviously they only struck out

896
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:35,639
one time. So twenty five hits, thirty four runs they

897
00:44:35,639 --> 00:44:41,199
struck out once. That's pretty good. And they had ten walks,

898
00:44:41,519 --> 00:44:43,360
so the majority of them were hits. I mean, twenty

899
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,800
five hits to just ten walks. My question is, is

900
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,639
Oklahoma softball program actually underrated?

901
00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 3: No?

902
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,119
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean they've been like on the top

903
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:55,239
of the thing the entire like for years since Patty

904
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,239
Gasso has been right.

905
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,519
Speaker 4: I just feel like nationally, we don't like because you

906
00:44:58,639 --> 00:45:01,519
called women's basketball when they won four straight under Geno Arema,

907
00:45:01,599 --> 00:45:04,960
like that was everywhere. I mean, Oklahoma won four straight

908
00:45:05,079 --> 00:45:07,639
national titles twenty one to twenty four, and I feel

909
00:45:07,679 --> 00:45:09,400
like people just kind of forgot about it.

910
00:45:10,199 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 8: I don't know. Maybe I'm like two in it to

911
00:45:12,159 --> 00:45:14,199
like see it from a sure of you. But I

912
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,559
don't feel like Oklahoma's underrated. But maybe I'm like, I

913
00:45:17,599 --> 00:45:21,280
don't know, I just they're like a historically good program.

914
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,320
Speaker 3: They're insane.

915
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 4: They have eight national titles from twenty to twenty twenty four,

916
00:45:27,079 --> 00:45:29,639
including four straight and.

917
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,280
Speaker 8: It was like and then the in between it was like.

918
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,639
Speaker 4: Every other Yes, so it was thirteen, sixteen, seventeen. Yeah,

919
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,920
so they went sixteen and seventeen back to back, skip

920
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,920
three years, four straight. I mean, that's one of the

921
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,800
best modern dynasties we've seen in college across any sport.

922
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that might be the best.

923
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:54,159
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I get a Juniorrema and Yukon, but Oklahoma obviously.

924
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 3: Still really on the softball yes, yeah, And I mean

925
00:45:57,519 --> 00:45:59,440
like it's it's not even closed, and like they're not

926
00:45:59,519 --> 00:46:00,719
ranked No. Number One right now.

927
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,639
Speaker 4: I'm like Oklahoma's they've lost two games already this year,

928
00:46:03,679 --> 00:46:05,880
but they went that period of time where they had

929
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,760
lost like one game total in two years. Like I didn't,

930
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,039
I didn't realize just how dominant they were. I mean

931
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:14,760
I knew they were. And like, so your point, like

932
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,119
you're you're somebody you played softball, You're locked into softball.

933
00:46:17,119 --> 00:46:18,039
Speaker 3: But like what the.

934
00:46:18,119 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 4: Average sports fan, it's kind of been glossed over. I've

935
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,320
kind of glossed over it. Like I knew they won

936
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,639
a few championships here and there. I went back and

937
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:27,920
looked yesterday I was literally scrolling through our group text

938
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,280
saw the graphic you had sin and was like, that's incredible,

939
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,000
So shout out Oklahoma Softball. Thirty four runs all right.

940
00:46:34,039 --> 00:46:35,800
On the other side, we got our three of OTB.

941
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,920
We got a big dealer, no big deal coming up

942
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,239
Speaker 2: Next off the bench,