Speaker 1: Let's I'll start to you to present off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the bench. Now.
Speaker 1: Here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What is going off?
Speaker 3: Bedrooms Louisiana? How we feeling here in this Tuesday morning?
I hope everybody's doing very well. Uh. If it's your
first time here, welcome, This is radio show. It's Off
the Bench talking about sports some pretty good time.
Speaker 2: My name is T. Bob.
Speaker 3: Nice to meet you. This is Jake seated beside me. Jake,
god to introduce yourself to all of our new listeners.
Speaker 4: Well, we don't know each other very well, so it
might be Jacob Hester to you, but soon Yeah, it's
trummy Jake.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then we have a Bill Landra. What's up? How
are we doing this morning?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 5: I'm a little confused as to what's going on right now.
Speaker 3: But okay, somebody yeah, just in case somebody's tuned in
for the first time, going to make him feel welcome.
Speaker 5: Why are you wearing?
Speaker 3: I don't want to be CLICKI clickie? What a button
up shirt? Yeah, I don't know. I had in my car.
Speaker 2: It's kind of.
Speaker 3: No, like I had, I had, I had, I had
a T shirt on and then I saw this the
car was like, I want to see what that looks
like with these pants.
Speaker 2: But then it it's like missing a button. I realized
again that's never been an issue for you. Yeah, yeah,
but uh you know, in fact, I'm surprised. Yeah, but
I'm also like out of uh No, it's visiting a
button on the bottom, which is a problem.
Speaker 3: That's fine, No, it's not because that leads to if
like I moved the wrong way.
Speaker 2: Then there's gonna be a weird.
Speaker 3: Hole at the bottom and you're just gonna be seeing
straight belly button. No I will, but I'm saying, but
you know, you move like like one direction too many
and you can quickly get into some hot water.
Speaker 2: My least favorite part of the show's Taylor Sharp.
Speaker 3: If you never listened before, guys, do not be turned
off by Taylor. It is a good show. I promise Taylor.
What's up, man, how are we doing today?
Speaker 6: It's going on t Bob. I like the crop top
Tuesday idea. I think it'll be fine. I'm not worried
about your buttons. Plus you're someone who like barely buttons
your shirts anyway.
Speaker 3: Get top buttons, yes, bottom buttons markedly different, guy, bottom
button markedly different.
Speaker 2: You can't. Okay, I'll show you on the commercial.
Speaker 5: What I'm saying the situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of kind of like a gene ass aunt.
I don't know. You know, I bought a bunch of
new pants.
Speaker 6: You just kind of called yourself out on like the
note bottom button. Like you could have said, guys, I'm
not wearing any pants. We would have believed you because
we can't really see them.
Speaker 3: And look, I'm amongst friends, and I was just you know,
I was already like unsure about the shirt, and the
Landra immediately mentions it the first segment. It's like, geez,
let's just like go ahead and throw it all out
there on the table.
Speaker 5: Then I just was curious.
Speaker 4: No, I think we should really ask the question if
you're missing buttons on a shirt that was just randomly
in your car, what you got going on in your
car the bo.
Speaker 2: I think, uh.
Speaker 3: From super Bowl week, I was back and forth so
much that it's still I mean, I went to the
car wash yesterday to vacuum the inside and like I
have like a pile of like you know whatever, I
just have like a pile of a lot of I
have a pile of clothes and sweaty.
Speaker 2: Answers going on over there.
Speaker 4: No, no sweaty No, I'm saying the answer is like
if you like, if you still want to park in
your cars?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, this is all super.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 6: It makes sense that this is the bottom button too, right,
Jake like he slow.
Speaker 2: It all so, I don't know, I care whatever.
Speaker 6: Sucked, I like, for sure, what better way to impress
the new listeners and viewers than were the butt?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly right.
Speaker 5: I mean, do we have any new ones like that
you know about or something? Is that why you started
like that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I just thoughtful, yeah, just thoughtful and empathetic, and you know,
I want to want to make sure that everybody feels welcome.
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Speaker 3: We got some LSU news just you know, look, it's
it's whatever. It's gonna be a great show. I think
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Speaker 2: All right, I think I want to start here.
Speaker 3: So LSU basketball els you men basketball at a in
a bit of a tough spot right to and ten
in the sec right now, of course, Cam Card with
the incredible sequence we broke down yesterday giving you your
second SEC win, but to and ten right now six
SEC games remaining, Guys, five of those teams are ranked,
so it's gonna get worse before it gets better. And
kind of throughout the season there's been a lot of
talk of Matt McMahon, is he the guy?
Speaker 2: Is he not?
Speaker 3: Things along those lines, Uh, for what it's worth, I
feel like on this show, how we framed it is
when when those conversations that come up, it's kind of
been like, well, I mean, what do you want him
to do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: There's obviously no investment in LSU basketball at a time
when investment is as important, more important than it has
ever been, and like, who could you bring in that
would have success within this context? And well, it appears
that the LSU administration agrees, as they announced yesterday that
they are going to stand by Matt McMahon and Jake.
They are meeting behind closed doors to try to figure
out ways to invest more in men's basketball and again
just to reinforce the point on the reinforce the monetary point,
something that football really already proved to us. Right when
you look at the teams that were good this year
versus the teams that weren't. But it's probably even more
so in basketball because there's less variables, less players. So
you mean you get a couple of guys and all
of a sudden, you're good. So right now, LSU'SNIL budget
for men's bastal is just under two million dollars. That
is thirteenth out of fourteen teams that we have data
on in the SEC. They're ahead of only South Carolina.
Well why didn't you know it? Look at the SEC
standing who are the bottom two teams?
Speaker 2: LSU, South Carolina.
Speaker 3: For what it's worth, Old Mississippi State, they're budgets north
of five million dollars. They've both been in the top
three five all a year and then and look, most
of the information's coming a great article by Shaye Dixon
on three. But the alter example Jake maybe missooh to
eighteen in conference play last year, they get angry, it
spurs investment. They're now eight and four in the SEC
after getting some key transwers, and we'll probably make the tournament.
So again, the first point here is.
Speaker 2: Ly Missouri's fifte in the country. Miss yes, Missouri will
make it.
Speaker 3: So so So I guess the first point here is
it's really inarguable you gotta pay to play. Yeah, if
you don't want who that's fine, But if you want
to play, you want to be competitive, you gotta pay.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I know, we know, we all know forty three
and forty two's Matt McMahon's record since he's been in
bat Rouge. But let's not forget this is somebody that
was one point fifty four and sixty seven, has a
couple of tournament wins.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: He made it to the round of thirty two a
couple of different times when he was at Murray State.
So he didn't just forget how to coach. I think
what T Bob's saying, I while hardly agree with, like,
you have to have investment, you have to put resources
behind it. Look just like the basketball did in twenty
fourteen as a conference. It was awful. It was bad ball,
and Greg Sanki said, this is embarrassing. We're not going
to do this anymore.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 4: Put more resources into basketball. Hire better coaches, Hire coaches
that can get you to where you want to go,
Put money into facilities, put money into everything surrounding basketball.
Speaker 2: What was legal at that.
Speaker 4: Time, and then now you have the ability to go
out there and by yourself you can make your basketball
program better. You have to spend. That's just the way
that it is. If you want to be competitive in
a major sport, and I would throw baseball into major sports,
certainly in the Southeastern conferen and you have to spend.
You have to be able to go out there and
get players. And when you look at the totality of
the SEC and basketball right now, it's by far the
best conference. Joe Lenardi the other day had fourteen of
the sixteen teams in the NCAA tournament. Now fourteen probably
aren't going to make it, but we're sitting here, it's February,
the eighteenth and fourteen of the sixteen weren't in the tournament.
The two that aren't LSU South Carolina. So it is
a damn good basketball conference, maybe the best one that
we've ever seen. From top to bottom. Fourteen out of
sixteen teams, and you've got the number one team in
the country, you've got the number two team in the country,
You've got I think what I know last week you
had five of the top ten. So that's what you're
competing with and you can't Nickel and Diamond. You have
got to throw resources. If you want to complain about it,
you've got to put your money where your mouth is,
and you've got to go put into the program. You've
got to go get players. You've got to go better
your program. And if they do that, maybe year looks different.
But until they do, it's going to be a lot
of the same.
Speaker 3: Again, So the road to getting back is not This
is one of the positives of basketball in terms of
affecting the media turnarounds. The road to getting back is
not nearly as long of a runway as that of football,
even though we've seen that shortened in the transfer portal era.
But especially basketball right a strong link sport where one
player represents twenty percent of the players on your you know,
on your team at any given time.
Speaker 2: You can do it in an offseason.
Speaker 3: Again, look at the Zoo from and eighteen to now
eight and four, and like Jake said, top fifteen in
the entire country. So there is hope if you. My
question is this, though, Jake, like this all sounds great,
but where's the money going to come from? It feels
like you're being pulled in seven million different directions right now.
And while we're not as poor as we thought, we're
still not a particularly rich program or or or state.
And again on the on the on the kind of
interest level, I think I think basketball probably scores third
or fourth. Uh maybe, And that's going to be more
opinion than anything else. But I just I mean, this
all sounds good, but but where do you come up
with those extra four or five million dollars? Do you
really have that kind of change line in the couch
cushions somewhere?
Speaker 2: Do you you got to go get it?
Speaker 4: Like that's some of that's on the basketball program. Yeah,
Like what did coach Malkey do? Like she didn't like
hold back? Yeah, she wasn't whispering that she needed stuff,
she was yelling it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And now you look at their product and their program.
Their top five team in the country consistently, they have
eleven thousand fans in the p met consistently, and they were,
you know, they were very very loud, And I think
that's how you have to be in selling their program.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, maybe you can like pitch investors by
showing them. Because men's basketball is the second highest revenue
generating sport in college sports.
Speaker 2: So maybe there's like a take that, yes, it's going
to be expensive, but.
Speaker 3: We're leaving money on the table right now, and if
we invest, we're spending more up front, but we make
more in the end. Like I don't maybe that was
I do believe this we have Scott Woodward's kind of
the perfect person to manage this situation. I think a
fundraising has always been one of his greatest strengths.
Speaker 2: But I do not envy him.
Speaker 3: I think this all has to be incredibly overwhelming, trying
to give all these programs and all these coaches and
all these individuals happy and correctly budgeted to keep up with,
you know, because the expectation LSH is to compete for
championships in every single sport, and realistic or not, it
is the reality, and they've done a damn good job
of it. But again, I would feel stretched very thin
right now if I was a member of this administration.
But I do believe though, at the end of the day, Jake, again,
I don't think LSU has a Matt McMahon problem. I
think they have an investment problem. And so I think
they've correctly identified the issue and now it's a matter
of can you prove that hypothesis by coming up with
the money, and then if it still can't happen over
a couple of years, okay, well then we have a
different conversation. But yeah, I mean again, and not that
I even entertain this at all, but if you were
to move on from me on too, it's like you
have like nine million dollars.
Speaker 2: It's like a ton of money. So there's no point.
There's absolutely no point.
Speaker 3: But again, I but I actually don't believe that he
is the issue anyway. I think that they just need
money and they say they're going to so we will
see do they have the resources.
Speaker 4: We talked about that whenever he was hired, and we
talked about, Okay, here's your coach and you're going to
be married to him because you had to give guarantees
because of the Will Wade situation and what you thought
was maybe coming down And it doesn't look like anything.
But at the time, the coach whoever took over, had
zero scholarship players, didn't have a single person on the roster,
and they probably thought some kind of a postseason ban
was coming.
Speaker 2: So what were what were you going to sell?
Speaker 4: It was going to be a tough sale, and you
knew whoever took the job, if you wanted any coach
with any kind of resume, you were going to have
to know that good, bad, and different that you were
going to be tied together for a long stretch of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But again I don't I mean again, I think I
like you said, Man, this is a coach. In seven
years of Mergen, they only had one losing season, made
tournament three times, col mating a thirty one to three record,
eighteen and oero conference records. So again, not a McMahon
problem my opinion. Uh, monetary problem. Now it's gonna feel
worse for it gets better. You know, there's any stretches
going to be a brutal. But uh, let's wait and
see what this team does in its off season. Coming
up next here on off the bench, a member of
the basketball team stepping away. What does it have to
do with football? Uh? Plus, it's being bandied about amongst
the national media whether or not Brian Kelly has the
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Speaker 1: There Welcome back to the best morning sports show around
sorta hits off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Thing again, no.
Speaker 3: Time much.
Speaker 1: We can let go.
Speaker 5: If you won.
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oh wait, no, I thought he said he named his
son in honor of you, Rusty trumpone chart, but he
did not. He said it's your unbones unborn son. Eventually,
is this an ai song?
Speaker 4: No, it's a banger there, Bob, uh, this is Archaie monkeys, right,
it's just overplaying it. No, we had a we had
a pivot. I mean, you know who this is me.
I'd blame Matt.
Speaker 2: This is don't don't play. Nobody got time for that.
Speaker 3: Come on now, Uh, it's back boys, right, No, it
is back boys. No, it's into I'm getting confused. That's
the only thing I'm confused about. I am a little confused,
and I don't know why. Insane it is insane. Okay, okay,
that's the only thing I was I was getting twisted
up on. That's why I was kind of hesitating on
my answer.
Speaker 2: What I just it's that's a simple look.
Speaker 3: I don't have to keep the entire BSB and n
C catalog completely like cataloged. Given that they operate, they
share a lot of brain space.
Speaker 2: In my head. It was the same time it was
the boy band era. I liked both JC that is
what we're looking for.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can hear both of them.
Speaker 2: It's fair.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean I'm gonna say something bold.
I think JT and Nick Carter kind of sound similar.
Speaker 5: I'd have to. I can see where you're getting.
Speaker 2: I mean their voices are modulated to all hell anyway.
Speaker 5: JT doesn't do that. JT's sweet vocals are all real.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 3: So two four seven Sports came out with a came
out with an.
Speaker 4: Article Murphy, Sam and Jodi aren't going to transition from
Nick Carter to two four seven sports again.
Speaker 2: I feel bad. It was not a bit.
Speaker 3: I was just having my brain is fried. It was
just a little bit of boy band confusion. I mean,
get ready for a full day of it. I studied
Jonathan Martin's case for an hour yesterday. I have no
brain cells left Hunt Palmer and the Jets as I
had the first in sync CD and thought it was
a Backstreet Boys CD called in Sync like as so
Hunt to be to be fair to Hunt, in sync
does sound like an album name. Yeah, like you know,
it could could could it could definitely be It could
definitely be an album in sync together. Yeah, that's very
deeply funny though, Hunt, Oh God must spend a little
more time on you in and that I was Banker.
You still love that too as well?
Speaker 2: All forgot about that one?
Speaker 3: All right, okay, so let's let's get into two or
seven sports though, Actually let's do this first, a bit
of a.
Speaker 2: News piece for the l s U football team and.
Speaker 3: The LSU basketball team to serve as a little connective
bridge between our topics. Trade As Green stepping away from
the LSU basketball team apparently needs to focus on academics.
Matt McMahon, trade As Green, Brian Kelly. They all got together,
they collaborated, They decided this was best for all men.
Speaker 2: Of course they did.
Speaker 3: Football's like, hold up, now, trade You're pretty good at basketball,
but uh, you are and now elite Sunday player in football,
and we're gonna have you in eligible come fall.
Speaker 2: So, of course, football is aErving a lot of influence here, Jake.
Speaker 3: Here's my biggest takeaway on the story is to me,
something very nostalgic about this, a.
Speaker 2: Story involving academic eligibility. Like I thought we.
Speaker 3: Were firmly in the I didn't come here to play
school era of college athletics, Like I did not think
that school really mattered for anybody anymore.
Speaker 2: So something a bit.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, nostalgia, bit warm, like an old blanket that
I used to have growing up. About breaking down a
story in which a player has to take a break
for academic eligibility.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm sure he'll be fine.
Speaker 3: I think it's more of an issue of, uh, it's
got to be borderline impossible to play football and basketball
and do school and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, how about that. Guys, look at that.
Let's you know, LA ain't change too much yet.
Speaker 3: It's got a little some some still left in the tank.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that it did. We never hear these
stories anymore. I mean, we used to hear these all
the time. But you are talking about a young player.
So it's not like, Okay, this guy's a junior.
Speaker 2: He going to class.
Speaker 4: Because he kind of knows what the situation is going
to be in the spring. He obviously has two more
football seasons at minimum in front of him. And so
it's one of those issues. And look, I understand it.
I mean school is hard enough playing one sport. I
can't imagine what it was. And then basketball, I mean,
you're on the road all the time. You're trying to
make sure your academics get done, like on a bus
or a plane sometimes. And so if there is a
situation football the main sport what he's on scholarship for,
you know, you have to take care of your business.
And so no surprise that if it did kind of
get to a situation now, I mean, we did just
start a new semester, so maybe this is some carryover from.
Speaker 2: The fall as well, or maybe it's just, hey, he.
Speaker 4: Needs this structure, and you know, there's a situation where
we don't want it to become a problem. So maybe
it's not as bad as we think. But maybe there
was a couple of issues that popped up. And so
you know, no surprise that he would be taken away
to focus on the academics portion as he gets ready
for spring practice and the l Street football team going
to count on him as much as they're counting on
almost any player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so in Minstream Mountains.
Speaker 3: The chat says the money is better in the NBA,
he should step away from football. So the first part
of the statement true, the money is better. The the
the real elephant in the room that you are missing
there is it is impossible to make the NBA is
damn near impossible trade as Green is guard sides in
the NBA. Yeah, he is a huge receiving tight end
on a football field. There are five ten you know,
five or I don't know, like damn near five, probably
seven times the amount of NFL job available as NBA
roster spots. So like, yes, I feel you in a
perfect world where you could choose which sport you're good
enough to go pro? And yeah, you know, play baseball,
play basketball absolutely fully guaranteed contracts.
Speaker 2: Are you a kid?
Speaker 3: Me? But guess what, it ain't that easy, right, Like,
he is an NFL player, not an NBA player, So
that is why football has to take the priority first
and foremost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's not even a question. I think
he's a good basketball player. He can play in college
super athletic.
Speaker 2: That is not.
Speaker 4: Where his future is. His future is on a gridiron
on the Sundays. And you got to take priority. You
got to understand what the situation is. And we talk
about this all the time when we're talking about the Pelicans.
It's like, Man, a lot of times, once you get
past like the first eight picks in an NBA draft,
it's kind of like, is that guy gonna make the roster?
It's crazy because we're talking about lottery picks. Sometimes it
just sit in the G league and they don't ever
even get up. We were talking about uh Terrence Shannon yesterday,
right because he had his banner upside down, like he
is like the thirteenth man on the tee Wolves bench.
He had his jersey retired. He's averaging three points per
game in the NBA. He's played sixteen games this year
and he just got his jersey retired. That's how hard
it is to make it in the NBA.
Speaker 3: It's the most genetically exclusive sport in the world, you know, UH,
and all sports are to some extent. Right, you can't
play NFL O line unless you're a giant, unless.
Speaker 2: You really, unless you really lam.
Speaker 3: You really can't play in the NBA unless you're like
a true true giant. So UH, trade has Green, I'm
stepping away from basketball which I'm fine with. Folks on academics,
stay eligible, get ready for football, because my god, after
the ballgame, after have that season and trade as green.
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all gonna watch USA Canada Thursday?
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, absolutely can't. No, wait, I feel bad.
Speaker 3: I missed the boat the first game, and I even
had my friend group.
Speaker 2: Text telling me I should watch it.
Speaker 3: So I was texting about the Auburn Alabama gang, complaining
how unwatchable it was, and they were like, well, don't worry,
we got USA something and I was like, are you
I don't know, I haven't paid hockey want to watch?
Speaker 2: I care?
Speaker 3: And I missed out on a great time. So absolutely
I am going to watch Sersey. Are we at all
concerned about the revenge factor here?
Speaker 2: It's tough to beat a good team twice, but.
Speaker 4: This one's in Boston.
Speaker 2: I know this is not north of the border.
Speaker 4: They had the crowd last time, and you found a
way a couple of hushmakers to go out there and
get the victory. So you're counting on and leaning on
the home crowd there in Boston.
Speaker 3: Do you believe that there will be a fight right
when the puck drops?
Speaker 2: I don't know, can you? Can you do it again?
The championship game changes the what if Canada wants to
do it? Then you got you got their hands?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think the US does it again. But
I think there's a chance that Canada wants to get
some revenge and they drop gloves immediately.
Speaker 6: Because ain't no way Canada Canada boos the national anthem
in the Boston Garden.
Speaker 2: That ain't happening. No, they might. They might not, but
they will, but they might.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if they're gonna have the fans
you're the boot, right, I mean fans most likely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they might not like what the masshole has to say.
They're in Boston. If they do.
Speaker 3: Boom, will we boo the Canadian anthem? Maybe the more
interesting questions. Yeah, we've never I agree, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I hope not. We've never been known to do that,
at least I've never seen it.
Speaker 3: I think Brad the d cook got nails and Jenny says, uh,
if we us a boot Canada, I will be pissed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, let them have it be the bigger That's like,
that's what like, let it be the Mexican national team
does in soccer.
Speaker 3: It's like the ultimate Patty maneuver though, is they go
low and you go high and then you still beat him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, but then again, the massholes you never know.
It's very true. Nookie says tickets are fifteen hundred bucks.
It should.
Speaker 5: I also think that.
Speaker 2: Boston people are doing it.
Speaker 3: It was if it was Philly, really pund Boston, I think.
Speaker 2: I think, I think they do. I don't want them to,
but I think they will.
Speaker 3: But no, we all independently arrived at nampooing, so like
it could definitely be the same situation.
Speaker 5: So I think it's symbolic because Canada and USA are
beefing like in real life right now.
Speaker 2: No, no's what I said.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like a not nearly as high stakes
pay a limitation.
Speaker 2: Of like the old Cold War game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when when US and Russia now granted they were
constantly threatening nuclear war in the ending of life as
we know it. Yeah, a little bit of higher stakes there,
but still some fun out of out of the rink circumstance.
Speaker 2: It isn't influencing What's on the line.
Speaker 3: Gulf South closing a thread from yesterday, says Roger Cadel's
on McAfee. A few months ago, he said today had
an eighteenth game in a second bye week. It pushed
the super Bowl back a week, and he mentioned President's
Day giving everyone the day off after. Okay, so there
you go to get their eighteenth game. They're going to
finally hold the President's Day Monday over our head.
Speaker 2: And again a day in which we would still be here. Yeah, yeah,
for sure, for sure, but you know it, it'd be nice.
Speaker 3: I mean, it'd be nice for the people, like, like,
nobody should have to work to day super Bowl, at
least not if it's like an office job, sales whatever,
Go get hammer, go fine. All right now, when we
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Speaker 3: Brian Kelly two or seven was looking around college football there, okay,
which coaches have the most approved in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2: And again national out of that here Breck Carford whatnot?
Speaker 3: And uh, they landed on your LSU at football coach
Brian Kelly. Uh, and the reasons are obvious, right, of course,
it's the fact that the last three coaches of all
won national championships Belie lead last three did it in
their third year, so you're already maybe a bit off
schedule if you look at it that way. It's the
fact that in three years you have not made the playoff,
despite having an expanded playoff I think definitely two years ago.
Ironically enough, ends up hurting you because although you had
Jaden Daniels in a Heisman winner, an incredible offense team
Heisman winner is not something to take for granted in
any school's history, much less LSU. But going nine to
three with those three guys is something that like, yes,
it's successful, but it ends up flipping all the way
back around on you and almost becoming a point of criticism.
And so, yeah, you haven't really competed for championships. And
this offseason, now you've recruited well in this offseason, you
signed the number one portal class in the entire country.
You invest way heavily than you ever have, and so yeah, look,
I mean, Jake, I know I'm being a bit wordy here,
but bottom line, I agree with two four seven and
I think at dovetails with and it's good instincts on
them because I think, you know, we talked about so
much your locally and a dovetails with what we've been saying,
which is like, if they can't compete and I don't
need a national champion, it's not natalimpship or bust. You
got to make the playoff. You have to make the playoff,
and if you do not with this team, then I
will never expect you to again, Like I will officially
adjust my ceiling to a point where I don't think
that you will, and I'll just prepare to be pleasantly
surprised or hopefully be pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in this conversation, we could go conference
by conference and we could pick maybe a coach that
has a lot of expectation, has some pressure to do
something more than they've done in the past, Like even
a James Franklin of Penn State. You can put him
in that conversation. He made the semi finals last year,
but now they want the next step point. They want
him to go win national championship. You know, Ryan Day,
that was kind of always a conversation. Dan Lanning will
probably start to feel some of that. No matter how
good you are, what are you going to do to
take that next step? Until you win a championship and
you know in the SEC alone, you could go to
a Hugh Freeze like Auburn last year was two and
six in Conference play, five and seven. Overall, that is
not a program that is okay with that. They gave
Hugh Freeze a lot of money to turn that thing around.
Hasn't done so so for them, and they want to. Yeah,
they want to go from five wins to eight wins.
That's what they need to do. So everybody needs to
do something a little bit different. But I'd love the
fact that LSU's a place that has high expectations and
you're supposed to do big things and if you don't,
people are asking questions. Those questions get louder and louder, right,
and sometimes it can be too much and it can
be toxic. I understand that, But that's what kind of
program you are. Because national championships last twenty five years,
it's Alabama and then you and Ohio State or tied
for the second most.
Speaker 2: Okay, So with.
Speaker 4: That being known, you know what the deal is. And
Brian Kelly from day one mentioned that multiple times, Like
in his first press conference he mentioned that, so they
understand the deal, and you're right, like, their next step
is you have to make a twelve team college football playoff.
If you don't, it is going to get incredibly loud.
It's going to be an uncomfortable situation. I think because
you realize what it is. And if you asked every
single coach across the way there, they would tell you
that same thing.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, Oh, we need to make a playoff.
That is the next step.
Speaker 4: Like we've won ten games a couple of times, that
is not going to be good enough in this season.
You have to go play a postseason game with a
championship on the line, and you know, ESPN dot com
put out an article about, you know, for the top
twenty five, but really the top ten, like games that
are going to be kind of the difference maker games.
Speaker 2: And for LSU, it was the opener. It was the
first game of the year.
Speaker 4: Now for a lot of people, it was not like
even teams Notre Dame opens up against Miami, that wasn't
their game. Ohio State opens up with Texas, that wasn't
their game, or either one of them Ohio State or Texas.
Now Clemson wasn't LSU, but Lshu's was Clemson. Yeah, because
you've lost you last five. We know that this staff
has lost their last three. And if you want to
make the twelve team playoff, you have to win your
opening game. You can't keep trying to play catch up.
You've done a nice job of playing catch up the
first two years. Last year you almost did, but you
fell short. Yeah, because you take.
Speaker 2: Away any margin of era that you have for yourself
when you lose the first one.
Speaker 3: Well, it just again, like we said yesterday, it comes
at a time where you're probably running into the best
Clemson team in what four years five years? Looks like
they may have good weapons again. Cavee club Nick gonna
be very good next year right there at ness Meyer
on all the Heisman odds list to all American defensive linemen.
I think it will help one of the Big tens
top pass rushers like this new look else you officevenn't
going to be tested. So yes, I do believe that
Brian Kelly has the most approved next season.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that's a problem. Right.
Speaker 3: I didn't come here to play school, think about it, Jake,
Like when you used to play in these big games,
I remember this is always a line that it was
not fake, but it's one that I used to to
to bring up a lot in interviews and whatnot, Like
in the run up to a big game, like this
is why you come here. You come here because you
crave the stage, you crave the pressure. You want to
be on the field on Saturday, knowing that they are
going to be millions of people watching and the chance
for glory is there, and that's what else you's going
to have, So do not shy away from it, embrace
it and accomplish.
Speaker 2: Improve people wrong.
Speaker 3: Mostly going to be a massive season in Van Rouge
here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and again it should be like that. That should
be the expectation. And you scheduled these like this is
your schedule. You knew that it was going to be
a gauntlet. And when you decide to play these games,
which I enjoy, I'd rather that in the directional school you.
I know a lot of people disagree with that. Knowing
you had the SEC slate coming, eventually you got to
go win one of these things, Like there's not going
to be an excuse. It's on the road, it's against
another top ten team, it's against kay Klubnick, who's going
to be a top five preseason Heisman guy.
Speaker 2: All those things that we know about Clemson.
Speaker 4: They've got a d line that's going against a very
inexperienced offensive line. As far as the group together, well
that's great, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares. Got to go win, closing everyone next.
Speaker 1: Off the bench, yeah, to.
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L s U Southern in the box today.
Speaker 2: I'm not wrong here.
Speaker 3: Starter Official starter not announced yet, at least it wasn't
before the show.
Speaker 2: Maybe I missed something. Okay, I haven't seen it.
Speaker 3: The potential starters. You're a lefty transfer Connor Ware. Of
course we didn't see Gavin Guidry this weekend, and then
Zach Cowen.
Speaker 2: No kids that Cohen? Uh well, uh cow it is.
Speaker 3: He?
Speaker 2: We saw him last year in the tournament.
Speaker 5: Yes, I mean he pitched in the tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean like LSU played. I guesst him last year
in the tournament.
Speaker 5: He didn't face l s U.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, he was and they held Okay, he
was there, he didn't pitch against.
Speaker 2: Ok yeah, they we missed him. Okay, that's what I
was trying to remember.
Speaker 5: It was Camden Wicker who was rumored to come to
L s U but he never did.
Speaker 4: Okay, even like d one was reporting there, right yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: So uh so Connor, where Zach Cohen, Gavin Gidrey one
of these three likely to start again with this really
reinforces how many options they have. It's freaking unbelievable. Then
as hard as Southern goes last weekend, uh in the
Cactus Jack HBCU Classic Cactus Jack. Yeah, Travis Scott, listen
to that. That's a generational divide right there. To some
Travis Scott cactus Jack. To some others, it's mcfoley mankind
dude love.
Speaker 5: But is it Travis Scott for this?
Speaker 3: I have no idea I was gonna say, I have
no idea what the original cactus Jack is like.
Speaker 2: Did mcfoley make that up? I don't know.
Speaker 3: But they beat Texas Southern Prayer, View A, and M
but lost to Grambling to start the season. So two
PM in the Box today the baseball team back looking
to build off of what was it basically a perfect weekend.
Speaker 2: As we said, I.
Speaker 5: Think this is where you really see the team's depth.
I don't know, I feel like you really won't see
like the people that you saw this weekend.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean again, the names that we just mentioned
are people that you would feel like could be names
on the weekend on almost any other team, And here
they are fighting over trying to start a midweekend.
Speaker 2: So depth, Yes, J Johnson's bill quite the roster Hour
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