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Speaker 1: All Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester

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and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where.

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Speaker 1: The players get broken down and Science gets denied to

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come off the bench. Hour two of Off the Bench

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Live from the Mercedes Benz Baton Rouge Studio starts now.

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Speaker 3: Walk back in, Oh tb Alburt number two. I got

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a feeling. I know how this conversation is going to go.

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Speaker 4: But it was in the news yesterday that apparently LSU

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and LU Football are toying with the idea of adding

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a logo to their jersey, and it would be a

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company logo like you see in the NBA, like you

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see in professional soccer.

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Speaker 3: Now soccer obviously is different.

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Speaker 4: I mean they've pay millions upon millions to have basically

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their logo is the team logo on the jersey. You

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got a small badge. This would be I'm sure a

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jersey patch. It'd be somewhere on the shoulder. It would

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be small, probably be the same size as the Nike

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check on the jersey. And the report said it would

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be to help LSU raise money to pay their athletes.

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Because we all know what the settlement, it's going to

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be a little bit over twenty million dollars per year

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for the athletic department. How do we feel about the

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potential of LSU football throwing a company's logo on their

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historic jerseys.

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Speaker 2: You better watch out because old man take incoming. So

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I know, I feel like I'm driving really slow. It

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is coming. Let me start with this. So I think

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we're all for staying ahead of the curve when it

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comes to nil, making sure that we secure good players. Uh,

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in every other sport, not every other sport, but a

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lot of other sports do it? Jacob skewed because he

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watches European sports a lot, they certainly do it.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Nascar cars have logos and sponsors all over that. Golf, yes,

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but it's golf. Yes, but they have to wear a

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shirt and a hat.

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Speaker 3: It's a spot.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a it's different. It's not like a

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I believe it's different.

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Speaker 3: The bag's got seventy two logos on it.

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Speaker 2: The bag, Okay, the bag? Maybe? Yeah? All right?

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Speaker 4: Every sport so except football Baseball big advertisements now Major

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League Baseball on their sleeves.

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Speaker 2: He didn't realize that I don't watch Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 4: But isn't the aschos on of it is anymore a

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landre like oxy clean, Like wasn't it for a while?

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Speaker 3: Yeah it was.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mattress bag now is it really? I

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don't know. Probably yeah.

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Speaker 4: Basically football is different to me because like the NFL's

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practice jerseys even that's what I was gonna say, was

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our practice jerseys in in Green Bay, and that gets

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as much viewership eyeballs on it, especially like training camp times,

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Like every picture you get is what it's like.

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Speaker 2: I'd be all for that Bellen Healthcare, which is like

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the big healthcare.

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Speaker 3: Provider up in We were Buick for the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Just classic Classic should have been Toyota.

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Speaker 3: Baiting that he had a Buick deal.

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Speaker 2: Hey, coach, we're gonna go ahead and put these Buick

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logos on all of our jerseys. They're giving me a

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pretty good deal in a car. Okay, So, uh, I

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guess first opinion is I hate it. I hate the

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thought of it. Uh. Our classic jersey, we're just looking

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at nuts here, just being a baller. Our classic jersey

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has the LSU, which is nice, small not it's classy.

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Speaker 3: We didn't wouldn't have that LSU when we play so.

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Speaker 2: The logo whatever it is, whatever it ends up being,

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is going to be bigger than the LSU on the jersey.

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The font's going to be bigger. So you're going to

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read that, you know, more than you're going to read

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the lsue. I just hate that it has got to

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this point now. I'm sure after a couple of years

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of doing it, if it passes a couple years doing

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we wanted the.

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Speaker 3: N Cuba, that is a caveat to the n Cuba

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has to approve this first.

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Speaker 2: They have power in something.

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Speaker 3: Sort of Wow, it's first time I've heard them.

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Speaker 2: But like if they deny it, could we do it anyway? Then,

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just sue at the stay low probably yeah, yeah, so

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we can do it. So yeah, I think it's Uh,

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of those things if it happened a couple of years later,

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we wouldn't really notice it, but like this is it's

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so fast, Like it changed from amateur to professional. Know

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now it's like we got revenue sharing like it was

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the wild Wild West. It's still kind of is, but

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at least there's like some sort of rules coming into

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play now with the REV share and like in a

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maximum amount of expenditures that you can use. And I

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know people are you know, tightening their belts on budgets

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on different aspects of athletics so they can afford to

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go out and pay players and attract good But there's

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other ways to do it. You know, they do have

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to go spend more on players and to allow you know,

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the people, the higher ups to still make their same

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amount of money, I guess. But yeah, I think the

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practice jersey would have been, let's just dip our toe

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in it a little bit instead of putting it on

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our classic uniforms, our classic college football. So like college

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fans were dealing with so much change, let's not slap

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us in the face this.

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Speaker 3: Fast A Landra Tata, how do we feel about this?

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Speaker 2: I hate it?

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Speaker 6: Well, on football Saturdays, I'm not watching a NASCAR race,

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I'm watching a football team. So nope, I'm out all right.

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And I know what you're saying, Well, that gives more

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money to LSU. I don't get any money out of it.

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Speaker 2: I don't care, Laudre.

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Speaker 7: I'm somewhere in the middle. I don't like it from

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like a just general standpoint. It has nothing to do

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with like football, Like, I'm just kind of sick of

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ads being in my face twenty four to seven, Like

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someone is always trying to sell you something. Your phone

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listens to what you're saying because it's trying to push

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stuff to get you to buy it. Like I'm just

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sick of that kind of stuff. But I do get

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raising money for a better program or whatever, but like

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I'm just so sick of all the consumerism stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's ways to raise money.

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Speaker 6: I mean games are already four hours because of all

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the commercials. To her point, like ads are thrown in

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our face constantly.

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Speaker 2: Good have like drink drink my High.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, drink my High.

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Speaker 2: I put that okay, I was about saying you're good

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with my High. Like, let's replace the numbers with just

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the behigh logo. What about the just the LSU logo?

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Take that off on the helmet, take the right side

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off smart.

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Speaker 4: So our boy Devin Snow aka hold the Mayo put

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out some odds to who the company would be to

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be on LSU's jersey.

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Speaker 7: Gordon has the best ones.

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Speaker 4: Second best, oh really second pains canes. So he goes

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raising Canes minus two fifty Gordon McKernon minus one point

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fifteen walk Ons plus one hundred, Labar's plus two hundred,

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Fred's plus two fifty Community Coffee plus four hundred, Mike

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Anderson's plus five hundred, Benny's car Wash plus six hundred

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Zippies plus eight hundred and the long shot Hungry Howie's

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plus twelve hundred Benny's.

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Speaker 2: Is your best odds there? For sure. They got they

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Speaker 4: Think if you're like, if you're a bet and you

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want to get some actual juice, I think Community Coffee

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plus four hundred.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Creut Coffee got that money.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Like that's what I was thinking. That is like

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some of those places don't really advertise, like Fred's doesn't advertise.

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Speaker 2: I don't really see them exactly. Yeah, that's what Freds

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would be like the coolest one that I think. There's

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probably another company that's probably like minus.

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Speaker 7: Like some industrial steel company or something.

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Speaker 2: And familiar. I'm very familiar with their you know, their

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with their game, their their game, but their company, their

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relationship with you know, l SU. It's it would be power.

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Speaker 3: That's yeah, we can't stand for that.

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Speaker 2: We can't say no, we got to get my high.

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Speaker 3: We can't stand for that. That can't happen.

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Speaker 4: Howard, AD's better than Gatorade because gators in the title

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of Gatorade.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah yeah, but you know, because you're better than

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that doesn't really meant you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, I know, I know. Whyt

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you just do my high on New Jersey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, I'm sure that I would pass compliance.

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I like buying the helmet, Yeah, just take the whole helmet.

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Speaker 4: If fate they start putting decals on helmets, well I

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my stand is I'm okay with it for practice. If

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you want to do it during practice again, you go back.

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And we've been doing this in the NFL for thirteen

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seasons now, so this has been a thing. NFL jerseys

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don't have logos. The NBA does, MLB does MLS does,

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every NHL does not.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe so.

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Speaker 4: Like, but you've got a lot of the major sports

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that that have done this, and so unfortunately, I think

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it is inevitable that at some point it is going

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to happen. Now NFL maybe it doesn't because NFL is

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the biggest sport that we have.

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Speaker 2: They protect the shield too pretty hard, right, I.

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Speaker 3: Don't be the first either. No, I don't want to

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be the first that does this.

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Speaker 6: One about practice, Like out of Colorado did it last

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year a couple of teams that it was like three

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or four they did like the players social media to

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like pump them up in practice, but like you're wearing

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that during a game.

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Speaker 2: That's that's why I started started this off by saying,

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like we always know that we want to be on

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the front line the cutting edge of like staying ahead

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in this in ever changing in il world and paying

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players world like this one is so such a sensitive

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topic because you're dealing with something that's so traditional and

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like we like we don't do a lot of crazy

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uniforms because the traditionalism that is the LSU standard uniform.

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We love it. It's beloved. So my hope is just

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like you, I'm absolutely practice jerseys all day. Do it.

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You want to put shirts on, you want to put

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patches on everything. The players where in a press conference

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after the a you know what, put them on. The

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coaches put it on Brian Kelly. Yah. They already saw

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that he gets shown as much as you know a

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player does on the sideline where you can actually zoom

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in and see a patch, right, So Brian Kelly gets

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shown like and it benefits the coach to have more

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money to pay for players. If that's what it's really for,

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put it on them, but don't bastardize the college traditional uniform.

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Speaker 4: Someone was asking, what if you put a small sticker

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on the back of your helmet.

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Speaker 3: The problem is with LSU.

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Speaker 4: One of the iconic things about the LSU helmet is

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you have the State of Louisiana flag and the American flag.

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Speaker 3: On the back too.

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Speaker 4: So even if you put it on the back of

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the helmet, then you're taking away from, in my opinion,

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the state flag and the American flag, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's always real estate back there too, like

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if something happens in your program that there's always space

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for a sticker for like a remembrance or something like that.

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special special real estate there. Anyway, it's the world we

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Speaker 4: I wish they would just put the American flag patch

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like they had against was it on? Yeah, Well it's

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a little bit better than that one from Burlington.

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Speaker 3: Hey, that one looks like it's been through a lot.

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Speaker 2: Old Glory went through a lot of meth. Francis Scott

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his prison window, the bombs bursting in the air. It's

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old glory flying, tattered, beating up. Never even thought the

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college football teams two hundred and fifty years later would

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be thinking about putting Dillard's logo on their jersey.

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Speaker 3: I feel like dealers just caught a stray.

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Speaker 2: Love.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great.

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Speaker 6: Just don't be the Lakers, like the Lakers are, like,

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you know, what make our jersey look better?

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Speaker 2: Wish dot com.

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Speaker 3: I just wish dot com.

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Speaker 2: It's like a It's kind of like Tu.

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Speaker 7: Right, It's like it's like the t is like tu

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wish dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Like is the original te.

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Speaker 4: Where you can get stuff for dirt cheap and it's

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dirt cheap made when you get it.

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Speaker 2: I've never I have, and I just.

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Speaker 3: Tiger.

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Speaker 2: I just never cared enough to go. Well. China.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, American really really cheap, and it's pretty American to

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get cheap stuff from China.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, I'm in to her point.

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Speaker 4: Matt Flinn looking like Sea Bass from Dumb and Dumber. Absolutely,

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you guys have Sea Bass.

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Speaker 2: A couple of boiler makers.

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Speaker 3: Not bad good see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you because I look big, tough, strong, Yeah,

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like I'm gonna whip your ass.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll step away when we I'm back.

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Speaker 4: Well, Joe dirt well, Joe dirted one of the most

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iconic scenes in the history of film. Then we've got

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Jay Johnson joining us in fifteen minutes from now. Say

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Speaker 8: Damp up and caught down this stage for my whole

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Speaker 1: We traveled back two thousand and seven. Shamps Purple and

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Gold to the core. This is off the bench with

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Hester and Flynn, Matt and Rougees go to for all

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things Louisiana sports.

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Speaker 5: Come off on this.

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Speaker 3: Are you scared.

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Speaker 2: Travel without a car?

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Speaker 6: Been out back with the Beaver Pass and be Davis Slash,

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Dirty Back, Stroll, Dirty Back, No Rocaine and the pro

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paint ball.

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Speaker 3: Got it heard this song since Moby Dick was a meno.

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It's a nice pull. Well, I mean, speaking of kid.

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Speaker 2: Rock, Well, hold on where you get to that? You

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know every day every year?

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Speaker 3: Take a great album, by the way, take egg.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby Trip A couple of years ago. Yeah, I

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went shoe I think it's two years ago. Or three

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years ago. Our table was right next to kid Rock. Yeah,

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and so we're sitting there, we're kind of hanging out

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with him a little bit throughout the day and uh,

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you know, comes the Cole Pops. He comes over and

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he comes out to me. It's like, hey, look over there,

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and I'm like, where he said these nuts? I don't

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think that worked. That is the delivery there, So I

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got these nuts wrongly.

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Speaker 7: So good story, kid Rock best concert I've ever been

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to kid Rock.

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Speaker 2: So I I don't know if it's the best I've

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ever been to. But he played. He played at our

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victory super Bowl victory party at the Marriotte Hotel in Dallas, Texas,

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and it was just like the packer, like our player

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and family and close friends whoever was like on the list. So,

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I mean you're probably talking three hundred people. The dude

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rocked his face off. Yeah, worked his ass off.

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Speaker 7: I was exaggerating when I said back, but definitely like

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top five concerts.

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Speaker 2: It was actually kind of shocked a like how good

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it was? So good?

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Speaker 7: It was electric.

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Speaker 3: So you were at the Kentucky Derby when so Virginity won, Yeah, yep.

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Speaker 7: It was what Kentucky Derby first Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why.

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Speaker 4: That's why the video resurface is when Sovereignty one, I'm like,

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so Virginity Mario and I had to play it. Yeah,

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and now my phone continues to blow up.

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Speaker 7: Tell you it was on a random three million views

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right now, dude, I'm in that video for a total

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of two seconds.

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Speaker 6: Just when we panned to I'm in a wedding a

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year and a half ago and we're lining up doing

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a little sendof thing at the end of the wedding. Well,

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like you line up on either side. Some girls sent

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a cross from me go, hey, I know you. I

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was like me, she was, yeah, the guy in that

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Sovereignty video. I was like, I don't even think I

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said anything in that video.

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Speaker 2: Wait, what is I don't know the video?

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Speaker 3: Okay, get that ready.

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Speaker 4: But first, but first, speaking of kid Rock, he starred

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in one of the greatest films of our lifetime, They

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the World Joe Dirt and here is because tomorrow is

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the fourth of July, a scene that everybody needs to see.

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Speaker 9: As my head cleared, I realized I needed a different approach.

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Then I got a brainstorm, hired Indian tracker to help me.

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Man that's a great idea. They can find anything. It's

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like in the movies. So I headed for a reservation.

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You want me to put my ear to the ground,

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Listen for hoof beats, check for footprints.

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Speaker 3: Look for broken twist.

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Speaker 2: But this is the modern age.

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Speaker 8: That stuff doesn't work anymore, which is why I have

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to open this fireworks.

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Speaker 9: Then I wasn't getting buy them when tracking wagers come on,

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you're supposed to be good at tracking stuff. Man, I

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gotta find my parents and I've got to figure out

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a way to sell more fireworks.

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Speaker 2: I'm going broke with this spencer.

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Speaker 9: Also, well, I see you got them snakes and sparklers.

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But there's good stuff, man.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff.

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Speaker 3: This is the good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Snakes and sparklers.

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Speaker 8: Are you nuts, dude? You need stuff to explode?

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Speaker 2: Go boom?

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Speaker 9: Why is that good?

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Speaker 2: Mostreet good? A lot of sunset good?

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Speaker 3: Why Boom's good?

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Speaker 9: Man?

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Speaker 8: Firecrackers you stick them in mailboxes, you drop me toilets,

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you shove them up bullfrogs.

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Speaker 3: Ass, I would never do.

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Speaker 2: That because I'm gonna be a veterinarian.

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Speaker 8: Well there you go. Someone shoves THEMTI up of bullfrogs,

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but blows him to piece. He comes back to you

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to fix it. You win twice.

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Speaker 9: Brother, it's good bitz.

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Speaker 8: So you're gonna tell me that you don't have no

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black cats, no roman candles or screaming mimis. No, Oh,

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come on, man, you don't got no lady fingers, buzz butterles,

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snicker bombs, church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zippity do

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dies or craft flappers.

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Speaker 6: No, I don't.

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Speaker 8: You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell

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me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen splitters,

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whisker biscuits, honkey riders, hooskerdoos hoosker, don'ts cherry bombs, nipsy

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dazers with it without the scooter stick or one single

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whistling kiddy chaser.

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Speaker 2: No, because snakes and sparklers are the only ones. I like.

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Speaker 9: What that might be wrong, it's not what you like.

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Speaker 2: It's the consumer spleen splitters.

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Speaker 4: But he's doing that scene, like is he just like randomly?

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Like whatever's there's no way you can remember all of that.

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Speaker 3: There's no way that.

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Speaker 2: Took a couple of takes. He was too too good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's way too good and.

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Speaker 2: Chaser.

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Speaker 4: God, my gosh, that was good.

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Speaker 2: I guess said. We used to watch that in high school.

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My junior year, we would watch it. I mean, the

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lineman would get together. We'd go to Ryan's Steakhouse. Oh heck, yeah,

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because Thursday was all you can eat steak, so we

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go there, fill up.

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Speaker 3: Great cut of meat.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that was absolutely the finest end of the cirlin.

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And then we would go to somebody's house and we'd

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watch Joe Dirt. That was our tradition every Thursday, every

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Thursday for the Tyler Lee Red Raiders. Every Thursday, every Thursday.

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All right, how else do you think we made an

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incredible run to the second round of the playoffs?

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Speaker 4: Y'all only made it to the I can't round of

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the playoffs junior year, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who'd y'all lose to mesquite Le'skeete Skeeters.

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Speaker 3: Wait, you lost to a team with the mascot the Mosquitoes.

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Speaker 2: Uh no, the Skeeters of Skeeters. Yeah, that's short for

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Mosquito mosquit Skeeters. They had a I think one of

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the top defensive tackles in the whole country went to

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ut I can't remember his.

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Speaker 3: Name, I must have been dynamic if you can't remember, they.

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Speaker 2: Put him that running back too. I don't remember anybody's name.

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So at that time, my high school had never been

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past the second round.

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Speaker 4: This is my junior year, and you you think that

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that school could come over to Shreveport evangel and get

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a victory.

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Speaker 3: Uh, my senior year, we could have how far y'all go?

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Speaker 2: Then we gotta be in the semifinals.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's better.

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Speaker 2: We should have won obviously. Would you lose to then Midland?

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Speaker 3: What's your Midland?

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Speaker 2: Midland High? They hadn't been playoff since nineteen fifty eight.

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Maybeat us? Not Midland, Lee, not the second not.

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Speaker 3: Cedric Benson went to Midland.

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Speaker 2: Cedric Benson went to Midlandyuh.

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Speaker 4: You lost to a school that had been to the

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playoffs since Elvis dropped his first album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they got beaten by Converse Judson in

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the state championship Taylor. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Did you at least get to go play like in

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Cowboys Stadium in the semis?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we played there after the first round. We

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every year you play your first round at something like

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the better team's home field, or maybe it was a

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coin flip. But second round on, you were always playing

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at Texas Stadium. Oh okay, all right, that's at least

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that's cool. Nineteen fifty eight stats is probably something you

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should forget. Don't tell people that again. I don't know

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if anybody knows this, but that year LS won its

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first national title? Did they? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I thought I was so confused.

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Speaker 2: I thought you were talking about I got it wrong.

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Your face.

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Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about two thousand and three,

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your senior. I'm like, no, they didn't like you were

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you were there. I was so confused. All right, somebody

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that's never confused. He's always got a plan.

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Speaker 4: The head baseball coach for the national champion LSU Tigers,

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Jay Johnson, joins us when we come back here on

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OTB off the bench, Hey, Matt, tell the people about

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their sekies. Why I remind Jay that he's coming on

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the show.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you gotta send it a little reminder. All right.

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00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,480
Fourth of July America's birthday. We better way to celebrate

473
00:24:33,519 --> 00:24:37,079
it than with a Mexican longer. Go stock up today.

474
00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:39,920
You're gonna everybody's gonna go to their Fourth of July. Well,

475
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:41,680
you're gonna get together with family you're gonna get together

476
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,519
with friends. There's no nothing better to do than to

477
00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:47,759
go for days. Go to your wherever it is, your

478
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,920
grocery store, your liquor store, the convenience store, they everywhere,

479
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,599
we know it. They got it, cool it down, get

480
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,720
yourself some ice cold lines, cut them up into slices.

481
00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:02,480
There's nothing nothing better. Golden Mexican logger. And then they got

482
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,559
the amber. Whatever your choice is, go for dose. I'm

483
00:25:05,599 --> 00:25:09,279
gonna delete some beers tomorrow, and I hope you delete

484
00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:09,880
some beers.

485
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Speaker 4: I've already got him in the fridge. They will already

486
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,319
be accounted for. You should already stock up as well,

487
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,960
be prepared for a party tomorrow, and go for dose.

488
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:28,759
Speaker 2: Time ago. I can still remember how that music used

489
00:25:28,799 --> 00:25:29,960
to make me smile.

490
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven Champs Purple and Gold to the core.

491
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This is Off the Bench with Hester and Flynn, Baton

492
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,799
Rougees go to for all things Louisiana sports.

493
00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:48,079
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in OTB one oh four to

494
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,640
five ESPN, Betton Rouge and very excited for our next conversation.

495
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,960
Someone we caught up with every single week during the

496
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,279
baseball season, and now we get to talk to him

497
00:25:59,319 --> 00:26:02,079
as a two time I'M national champion. It is the

498
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,359
head baseball coach for the LSU Fighting Tigers. Jay Johnson, coach,

499
00:26:06,839 --> 00:26:08,720
We appreciate it. Thanks for hopping on with us. I

500
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:10,559
know it has been a whirlwin for you.

501
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,839
Speaker 5: Been a little busy, but the best kind of busy.

502
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:15,839
So how you guys doing.

503
00:26:16,279 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: We are doing great.

504
00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:20,319
Speaker 4: And you had look you have been because you know,

505
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,960
we were talking about it. After a national championship. You

506
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,799
see a lot of people Okay, let me go ahead,

507
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,759
take a rest, take a load off, let me you know,

508
00:26:29,839 --> 00:26:32,480
reflect on what just happened. But that is not the

509
00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:34,000
approach of Jay Johnson.

510
00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:34,839
Speaker 3: It never has been.

511
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Speaker 4: I mean, you have been working towards next year's team already.

512
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,440
It feels like coach since the moment that the final

513
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out was recorded.

514
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely took a Sunday night to celebrate and

515
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,440
be with be with this team. It's just a crazy

516
00:26:54,559 --> 00:26:58,519
dynamic that it's not avoidable. It's not anybody's fault. It's

517
00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:02,240
just the way things all kind of matriculated and transpired,

518
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,440
particularly for baseball and the baseball schedule. It is what

519
00:27:06,519 --> 00:27:08,720
it is, and you know that going in, you know

520
00:27:09,039 --> 00:27:12,759
it was actually, when we beat Arkansas to not have

521
00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:16,039
to play again on Thursday, I felt like that almost

522
00:27:16,039 --> 00:27:17,960
saved us a little bit. It just gave us an

523
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,680
extra day not just to get ready for Coastal, which

524
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,960
was huge to have that extra day to prepare, but

525
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,799
to try to just hold serve in recruiting while we

526
00:27:26,799 --> 00:27:30,519
were playing. And so that was good and set the

527
00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:33,480
table for some things we're able to do when we won.

528
00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:38,680
And yeah, the celebration was awesome. Definitely taking pockets at time,

529
00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:40,720
like when I'm on a plane or something to watch

530
00:27:40,759 --> 00:27:44,400
highlights of the series. But other than that, you gotta go.

531
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,279
We got some catching up to do. So it's been

532
00:27:47,319 --> 00:27:47,920
pretty busy.

533
00:27:48,279 --> 00:27:50,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and really, like you said, there's nothing you can

534
00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:52,720
really do. It's not that you don't want to enjoy

535
00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:55,440
and celebrate with the team, it's because of the calendar.

536
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,960
And with the calendar, as we talked about the last

537
00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,960
time we had you on, like the portal was open

538
00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:02,680
and there was players that were making decisions. There was

539
00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:05,039
you know, players that had already been in the portal,

540
00:28:05,079 --> 00:28:07,200
out of the portal and gotten to their new school

541
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,440
and you're still playing baseball, and so like during that

542
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,559
entire process, coach, how do you make sure that you

543
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:16,480
your staff, everybody you're focused on the main thing, which

544
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,279
is to go win a national championship, but also knowing

545
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,400
that you probably have to start some of these conversations

546
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,279
just to make sure that when it does end, you

547
00:28:24,319 --> 00:28:27,279
actually have an opportunity to get whichever players that you're

548
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:28,200
trying to get to LSU.

549
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a tough balance. I think we did a

550
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,440
good job prior to Omaha. We picked up a couple

551
00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:39,680
veteran hitters that kind of have a dynamic that we

552
00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,359
need for next year's team, so that that was helpful.

553
00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:47,960
Then the Omaha thing, you'd really try to sell, like

554
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,920
turn on the TV man like this is like this

555
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,680
is this is what this is about, and you know

556
00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:57,480
you want to be a part of that and just

557
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,519
hang tight for another week or so. And some guys

558
00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:04,920
did and some guys didn't. Then that's okay, And yeah,

559
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,480
I mean I wouldn't trade Omaha for the world, and

560
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,119
I'm proud of our team. I think one of the

561
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,200
positives maybe this time around is we have a few

562
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,279
more guys that contributed to that that we'll be returning

563
00:29:19,559 --> 00:29:23,359
than the last time, and so it's not quite as

564
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,240
much of an overhaul, if you will, Like I think

565
00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:30,000
in twenty three, if I'm not mistaken, like maybe two

566
00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:32,720
of the nine starters were coming back, and and this

567
00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:35,200
year it might be might be four, might be five,

568
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:38,519
but it might only be three. But the young pitching

569
00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:42,039
we have in the program with Case Evans, William Schmidt, Maverick,

570
00:29:42,119 --> 00:29:45,640
Rizzy Cooper Williams, potentially a couple of guys coming back,

571
00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:48,759
you know, hopefully Zach Kallen Jaden new like, there's there's

572
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:51,160
a really good foundation of a really good pitching staff there.

573
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,880
And just as our team proved this year, the game

574
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,160
is about pitching. So we'll find the right guys and

575
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,319
keep keep moving to the finish line hero the next

576
00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:00,920
couple of weeks.

577
00:30:01,319 --> 00:30:03,839
Speaker 2: Coach, I just want to start by telling you thank

578
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,519
you for a couple of things. One, you've made my

579
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,519
entire family like huge baseball fans. We all own proud

580
00:30:09,559 --> 00:30:12,400
Runners of LSU baseball jerseys. Now we watched and had

581
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,880
such a good time throughout the entire run as a family.

582
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,200
But then at the celebration, somehow my little boy snuck

583
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,039
onto the field and was getting autographs after the celebration,

584
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,359
and you were very kind to him. You spent time

585
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,880
and said hi to him, and you signed his ball

586
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,599
and he's got a little glass case. I want to

587
00:30:27,599 --> 00:30:29,319
start by saying thank you for that, thank you for

588
00:30:29,359 --> 00:30:34,599
being kind to him. And I wanted to say, in

589
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,720
ten years from now, when somebody asks you reflect back

590
00:30:38,759 --> 00:30:42,279
on the twenty twenty five LSU baseball team, how are

591
00:30:42,319 --> 00:30:44,640
you going to how would you describe this team in

592
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:45,720
the season as a whole.

593
00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think two things come to mind. First off,

594
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our motto for the season was tough and together, and

595
00:30:53,079 --> 00:30:56,440
that was from day one of August. And I kind

596
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,440
of came up with that of you know where, I

597
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,720
felt like we needed to elevate the program and the

598
00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:05,319
team from last year, and that's what they were I

599
00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:08,240
mean through this entire deal. But the hallmark of the

600
00:31:08,319 --> 00:31:13,799
team was consistency. And there was just so many points

601
00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:17,440
along the way where you pointed to it and go like, man,

602
00:31:17,559 --> 00:31:19,559
this is pretty good. Like I don't know if we're

603
00:31:20,119 --> 00:31:22,680
the most talented team, even though we had exceptional talent,

604
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:26,559
especially on the mound, but we're doing this the right way.

605
00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:29,079
These guys are doing this the right way. They're responded

606
00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:33,640
to success. Well, they responded a failure. Well, they're motivated.

607
00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:40,480
There was very few lapses in anything concentration, intent, and

608
00:31:40,799 --> 00:31:43,680
that's why I'm just I'm really proud. There's a quote

609
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,880
from John Wooden that great teams play near their capability often,

610
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,519
and I really believe that's what this team did. And

611
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,000
you know, we're not just the national champions. I feel

612
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:55,240
like we played the best of anybody in the country

613
00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:56,200
in twenty twenty five.

614
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Speaker 4: Because you know, with LSU had baseball coach Jay Johnson

615
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:03,559
here on OTB coach, one of the things you and

616
00:32:03,599 --> 00:32:05,839
I often talk about is, Okay, you have this high

617
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,799
school recruiting class and you've put in so many hours,

618
00:32:08,799 --> 00:32:11,759
so many days, weeks and months and really years into

619
00:32:11,799 --> 00:32:16,119
trying to get this player on campus. Outside of actually

620
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,759
winning a national championship, is it the best feeling when

621
00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:22,640
you get them through the MLB Draft or when they

622
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,960
call you and say, hey, coach, I know you probably

623
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,440
thought I was going to enter the draft. I'm actually

624
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,559
taking my name out all that hard work that you

625
00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:31,759
and the staff did, I'm going to come play baseball

626
00:32:31,799 --> 00:32:32,000
for you.

627
00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:36,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a pretty good one, because the first thing

628
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:42,119
you mentioned doesn't happen without decisions. Like that, Like we're

629
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,680
not the national champions without Case and Evans, Derek Curiel,

630
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,880
William Schmidt, those guys that just did it last year

631
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,759
or Jared Jones returning, you know from last year's draft.

632
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,680
And you know, we just had one with with Omar

633
00:32:55,759 --> 00:32:59,960
cerna freshman catcher who's a great player. Which man, you

634
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,440
put cater Embadie and him together. Not only are they

635
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,039
both great catchers, but they both have power and play

636
00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:10,200
first base, DH maybe place third. That that's a really

637
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,440
big lift because there's a lot of questions right now

638
00:33:13,079 --> 00:33:16,240
with how things are gonna shake out, Like we're gonna

639
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:17,559
wear it on the chin a little bit with our

640
00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:20,119
high school recruiting class. There's just there's too much money

641
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,279
in this draft. Like I don't know if MLB got

642
00:33:23,279 --> 00:33:26,880
tired of players choosing to go to college R L,

643
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,079
s U or what, But yeah, getting Omar through, you know,

644
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,400
to pair with Cad was a big deal and feel

645
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,079
great about that. And it's like, you know, thinking back

646
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:39,880
on it, like when you know Cason told me he's coming,

647
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:43,240
like that, that's how these championships and those things happen.

648
00:33:43,359 --> 00:33:46,920
And same with same with a lot of these guys.

649
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:48,640
So yeah, It is a good feeling because you can't

650
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,279
get to that championship unless decisions like that are made.

651
00:33:51,359 --> 00:33:54,000
And and hopefully we'll be fortunate, you know, with with

652
00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:56,039
a few of them, and we're trying to prepare for

653
00:33:56,759 --> 00:34:00,359
all scenarios. But yeah, I don't know what maybe League

654
00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:02,559
Baseball did, but they're pumping a lot of money into

655
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,440
this this amateur draft this year.

656
00:34:05,359 --> 00:34:07,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to kind of piggyback on that too, I mean,

657
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,480
laying in a big recruit or getting someone to stay.

658
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,440
It's all validation, right, It's all validation of hard work

659
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,000
that jump put into it, the scouting reports, and then

660
00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:18,000
what you put on the field, just like you said,

661
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,159
And another validation is when a recruit like that signs

662
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:23,840
with you, comes and has a lot of success. And

663
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,119
to that point, Derek Curie I named National Freshman of

664
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:31,639
the Year. What did this freshman class and specifically Derek

665
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,960
really mean to this team all year?

666
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really happy for him. He's had an outstanding

667
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,360
year and playing at LSU, you get a lot of attention,

668
00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:42,599
and so he's gotten a lot of attention, but he's

669
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,679
deserved it. And then you know, kind of maybe narrowly

670
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:48,199
missed out on some of these awards, but that's the

671
00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,280
one that counts because those the guys that know the

672
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,599
best and are most in tune with college baseball. So

673
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:57,440
to be the d one baseball dot com National Freshman

674
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,960
of the Year, that's the one that counts in my opinion,

675
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:04,519
and very proud of him for that. Just love how

676
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,719
he goes about baseball, like he builds his life around baseball,

677
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,719
and I thought that was well to serve. Now. I

678
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,039
liked your question too about this group. I think on

679
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:18,360
the twenty seven man roster in Omaha we had seven freshmen,

680
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,320
which was by far the most and very thankful for

681
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,159
that group because you know, we're going to really lean

682
00:35:25,199 --> 00:35:27,519
into them and lean on to them next year and

683
00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:30,400
then the year after that and expect some of those

684
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,840
guys to get better. And they a lot of them

685
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,800
contributed to a national championship team. I mean, like I said,

686
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,920
I mean Evan's freshman All American now pitched fifty plus

687
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,679
high leverage innings. William Schmidt was seven and zero. Maverick

688
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,199
Rizzy led our team in appearances. John Pearson kind of

689
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,800
became the right handed hitter we went to off the bench.

690
00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:53,840
Derek obviously Kate Aaron Beattie. You know, we won several

691
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,039
SEC games with him behind the plate, and I feel

692
00:35:57,039 --> 00:35:59,199
like he's poised and ready to take that deal over.

693
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,559
So really, uh, really excited, just really excited about that.

694
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:08,079
And you know we'll get another good class of probably

695
00:36:08,159 --> 00:36:10,679
less of them to be honest with you, you know,

696
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,920
just the way that it is, but that's okay, And

697
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,920
try to blend it in with the you know, return

698
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,920
a few guys that maybe are on the cusp of

699
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,679
the draft or returning from our team, and then a

700
00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:24,440
few guys in the portal and strap it on and

701
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,679
do it again and excited for that challenge.

702
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 4: So coach, you mentioned William Schmidt there and has me wondering,

703
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,800
like you look at what Kate Anderson went from his

704
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,119
first year to his second year on campus, right, I

705
00:36:39,159 --> 00:36:41,480
mean first year obviously he did some good things, but

706
00:36:41,599 --> 00:36:44,159
the second year he explodes one of the best you know.

707
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:45,119
Speaker 3: Pitchers out there.

708
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 4: Like so for William Schmidt with like when you see

709
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,840
the town you mentioned, he's seven to zero, right, but

710
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,320
he's gonna have a bigger role on this team. Do

711
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,239
you go about it in the same way as far

712
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,159
as developing the player, like Hey, here's what we did

713
00:36:56,199 --> 00:36:57,719
with Cade, We're gonna do a lot of the similar

714
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,599
things with you. Or is like every player a little

715
00:36:59,599 --> 00:37:01,719
bit different and you've kind of got your own plan

716
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:02,639
for William Schmidt.

717
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question, and I feel like we

718
00:37:05,679 --> 00:37:08,159
have a few pictures in that boat, so like, I

719
00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:10,840
think there's a lot of learning that can be done

720
00:37:11,039 --> 00:37:13,360
for you know, William Schmid or a Cooper Williams, who

721
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,360
was awesome for us down the stretch. I mean, the

722
00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:19,039
appearance in the Super Regional was huge, and I think

723
00:37:19,039 --> 00:37:21,760
with both those guys you can take some similarities because

724
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,400
there are actually similar body types and good athletes, kind

725
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,960
of like Kate was. I've told everybody like if I

726
00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:29,760
let Kate hit, I bet he would be a starting

727
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,599
outfielder for us. You know, he's a terrific athlete, and

728
00:37:33,679 --> 00:37:35,280
if he wants to come back next year, I'll let

729
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:40,800
him hit two. So on the record, that's kidding, that's

730
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:46,480
the Nationals. Your ear up. You know, Kochesky is excellent,

731
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:50,199
and we have some really good plans you know for

732
00:37:50,199 --> 00:37:52,920
for like I said, Cooper Williams, William Schmidt, Maverick, Rizzy

733
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,280
Maverick's going to throw up in the Cape Cod League

734
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,639
about four times over three weeks and get get on

735
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:02,239
the mound. We're going to send Cooper out to Arizona

736
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,239
to do some training stuff and then we have a

737
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,199
very specific plan for William that we're working through and

738
00:38:09,639 --> 00:38:12,440
I'm really excited about that, Like I want to you know,

739
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,320
the portal is part of this thing, but I've always

740
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,719
been a program developer, program builder, and those guys are

741
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:22,199
at the heart of that. So really excited to dig

742
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:23,639
into that with them.

743
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,039
Speaker 2: So Coach Jacob and I we were both fortunate to

744
00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:30,199
be a part of national championships and our respective sport.

745
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,400
And I was here in two thousand and three when

746
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,960
we won a national championship, and I remember the off

747
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,960
season for the two thousand and four season, so right

748
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,880
off that Coach Saban made it a point that we

749
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,559
all felt to let that new team understand that we're

750
00:38:46,599 --> 00:38:49,559
not the old team. And it was the hardest physically

751
00:38:49,639 --> 00:38:51,840
and mentally off season we had ever been through because

752
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,880
they wanted to reset everything, and he wanted to make

753
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,079
a point that like, we're not going to be complacent,

754
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,400
we are not gonna We're not gonna read our press

755
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,719
clippings We're going to work your tails off. And this

756
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,039
is a whole new team. So your strategy, you've already

757
00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:07,559
done it once, but your strategy going into a brand

758
00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:10,679
new team, a new offseason, and what kind of message

759
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,400
do you need to send it? And is that a

760
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,840
challenge coming off of a national championship?

761
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, and I think we John Gordon, the

762
00:39:22,679 --> 00:39:26,760
speaker writer ye become a friend of mine and I

763
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,039
actually had him help me with this last time, and

764
00:39:30,559 --> 00:39:36,519
he talked about really clearly delineating this is not repeating

765
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:42,719
defending anything. This is attacking a new opportunity. And we'll

766
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,920
bring in a group of players that have not won

767
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,119
a national championship. So like, wouldn't be fair to them

768
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:53,840
for the staff the returning players to not give everything

769
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,400
they can so that those guys can be a part

770
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:01,480
of that. Also, I think, I know how hard this

771
00:40:01,679 --> 00:40:05,159
is to do, and don't take it for granted. And

772
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,320
I said this somewhere like this just didn't happen overnight.

773
00:40:09,559 --> 00:40:13,760
So you have to, you know, recommit, reinvest to what

774
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,840
we call our process of winning, and that starts the

775
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,639
first day of school. Like we start lifting the first

776
00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:22,000
day of school, we start skill instruction the first week

777
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:26,320
of school to max out the days and opportunities to develop,

778
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:30,880
you know, because Date Anderson developing strength, developing a slider

779
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,440
like that just didn't show up in you know, April,

780
00:40:33,639 --> 00:40:35,840
like he was in on that as soon as the

781
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,400
season was over. You know, the improvements that you know,

782
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,239
Jared Jones made with you know, contact with pitches in

783
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,639
the zone, like that was a lot of work over time.

784
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,679
And he's a talented player and because of that work,

785
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,480
being really deliberate, you get to those things. And I

786
00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:57,639
understand that probably probably go overboard on it. I don't

787
00:40:57,679 --> 00:41:00,880
think you can manufacture it artificially. I think the players

788
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,760
see right through it. So kind of what I do is,

789
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,679
you know, we'll have a ring ceremony for this team

790
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,079
that won the championship, and I think you have to

791
00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:12,199
let those guys enjoy that or and be a part

792
00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:15,159
of that and some of it otherwise like kind of

793
00:41:15,159 --> 00:41:16,599
like what the hell are we doing it for in

794
00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:19,920
the first place, So you have to like respect that

795
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:24,960
and at the same time, like when it's October twentieth

796
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,519
and we're in the fourth inner squad, like I'm not

797
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:33,199
thinking about last year's national championship, so it's just maturity

798
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,000
and actually feel like we have guys that were a

799
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,199
part of this thing that we're a part of. Maybe

800
00:41:39,199 --> 00:41:41,559
the season before, which was still a successful season. We

801
00:41:41,639 --> 00:41:44,920
won forty four games, and they know the difference and

802
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,079
we'll work accordingly. And there are so many positive things

803
00:41:49,119 --> 00:41:52,679
that we can take from this team that are actually

804
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,599
transferable and translatable. But we won't take that for granted

805
00:41:56,599 --> 00:41:59,559
because culture doesn't transfer from team to team. I believe

806
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:01,960
that's a big myth. You know, you have to reset

807
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,400
and re establish that every year.

808
00:42:04,559 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 4: All right, there, he is head baseball coach for the

809
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,199
LSU Tigers, Jay Johnson. Good enough to join us all

810
00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:11,920
season long? Coach, We can't thank enough for your time.

811
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,400
We appreciate it every single Thursday. When you join us,

812
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,760
I would say, like, enjoy the all season, but we

813
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,559
know the grind never stop, so we appreciate even today

814
00:42:20,639 --> 00:42:21,920
giving us a couple of minutes.

815
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,119
Speaker 5: No problem. It's from the football experts. How many football

816
00:42:25,119 --> 00:42:26,519
games are we going to win this year? What do

817
00:42:26,559 --> 00:42:26,840
we got?

818
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:30,039
Speaker 4: Hey, we're going We're going double digit, coach, We're going

819
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:31,960
double Hey, we just got to get that opener.

820
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 3: We got to get that opener. You got to start

821
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:34,800
out on the right foot.

822
00:42:35,679 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 5: That's right, Absolutely Clemson, right, that's right, all right, let's

823
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:39,960
get it done.

824
00:42:40,079 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 3: Absolutely.

825
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 4: There is coach Jay Johnson every single Thursday here during

826
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:48,119
baseball season, was good enough to join us.

827
00:42:48,159 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 3: Good? Let Jay Johnson go give give the boys a

828
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,639
little speech over there in ponder Rosa. I bet he

829
00:42:54,679 --> 00:42:55,960
could fire a football team up.

830
00:42:56,639 --> 00:42:59,039
Speaker 2: There's no doubt I may can fire anybody up.

831
00:42:59,119 --> 00:43:01,199
Speaker 4: Because if you're a champion, I don't care what sport

832
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,840
it is, you got something to you.

833
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 2: I just write this down quote, I love it. Culture

834
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,039
does not transfer from team to team.

835
00:43:08,599 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 3: Does not talk about that when we come back here

836
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:12,480
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837
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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven, Shamps Purple and Gold to the core.

863
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This is off the Bench with Hester and Flynn. Baton

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Speaker 3: Yalla Doll school Bus, Kick it up, Ran. What was

866
00:44:44,559 --> 00:44:47,199
that quote you said you really liked it from Jay Johnson.

867
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,599
Speaker 2: Culture does not transfer from team to team. It does

868
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,800
not By Jay Johnson on Off the Bitch.

869
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,679
Speaker 4: A coach can create the culture and you can mimic

870
00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:03,119
the the style, the way he goes about his business

871
00:45:03,159 --> 00:45:06,639
of a coach. But I love that because every group

872
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,679
of people you put together, different things organically are going

873
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:11,199
to come out.

874
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:12,159
Speaker 3: They're going to happen.

875
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 2: Yep.

876
00:45:12,679 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 4: Like two thousand and six, LSU had a different culture

877
00:45:15,519 --> 00:45:18,360
than two thousand and seven. A lot of the pieces

878
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,880
were the same, we just had a different mindset.

879
00:45:21,199 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 3: The two thousand and seven football team that.

880
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,039
Speaker 4: We were a part of, I think for me had

881
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:28,960
the best culture of any team that I've ever been on.

882
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 3: Like nothing fazed us.

883
00:45:31,119 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 4: Now we were talented in two thousand and six, but

884
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:35,679
I just feel like we had a different mindset.

885
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 2: Th Almost every championship team you can go back and

886
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,199
say it was just a little bit different for whatever reason,

887
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,440
and it's hard to even put your finger on, like

888
00:45:42,679 --> 00:45:44,639
how was it different? Why was it different? What made

889
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:49,079
it different? It's just it's just the combination and a

890
00:45:49,119 --> 00:45:51,199
group of people that do something special and it's hard

891
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:55,320
to put your finger on why. But culture doesn't transfer,

892
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:56,320
but expectations do.

893
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:59,679
Speaker 3: And W hit that as well when we come back

894
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