Speaker 1: All start to you want to present off the bench.
Speaker 2: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 3: It is I gotta come off the fitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hesser.
Speaker 4: Yo and welcome in to OTB one oh four five
ESPN Baton Rouge ninety four to seven Alexandria eleven thirty
am the Tiger up in Shreeve for Jake, Alandra and
Cassie here with you today. Tatay Is He's said, I
think at the beach. I'm gonna say he's at Branson.
I'm trying to think of the whitest place that I
possibly can. That's Branson. That's where Taylor's at. He does
go to Britain.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say he's been to Branson on vacation before,
so not far off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're sending him on vacation because I'll be at
SEC spring meetings next week and so we're going to
overload Tata when he gets back, and we do have
a lot to get to.
Speaker 2: Cassie is with us today.
Speaker 4: Cassie, I'm gonna make you get on the microphone multiple
multiple times today.
Speaker 2: Are you ready for that?
Speaker 6: All right? I'll be ready?
Speaker 2: All right? Sounds Okay, sounds better enough, all a.
Speaker 6: Lot better than I thought.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm actually like awake this morning, which is very odd
for me because I don't wake up early in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a I mean, you just graduated, right.
Speaker 6: I did on Friday?
Speaker 4: So did you not have congratulations? By the way, did
you not have any early classes ever?
Speaker 7: I think the earliest class I had was eight am, which,
like that was rough, but that was freshman years. Like
I lived on campus, so I woke up like the
latest that I could. But other than that, I tried
to schedule something like past ten because I'm not a
morning person.
Speaker 4: So Hunt show, which you're on every day, that's like
the perfect time for you.
Speaker 7: Yes, I wake up at like ten and then like
get here like eleven.
Speaker 6: It's nice.
Speaker 4: Then you get tired hearing Hunt talk about the Cubs
in golf and random baseball fades.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, fair enough. We have a very very Meathead
show today.
Speaker 4: I was just talking it through here with everybody, and
I didn't mean for this to be like the ultimate
Meatthead show. But we've got Bobby Carpenter joining us at
seven point thirty. We've got Blake Baker joining us at
eight am. We've got Mikey Matuk joining us at eight thirty.
He gets more meatthead as we go. And then we've
got Flynn who's actually going to come in at nine.
He's not going to do his normal like eight o'clock flustering,
and of course he is going to be the new
co host of this show starting on June the second,
But we we guilted him in the group chat into
coming in because we have a company wide headshots that
we have to do. Did I forget that it was
headshots and wear my normal hoodie and a hat? I did,
But they did say that we could kind of wear
whatever our personality was. Yeah, So I like, this isn't
a bit like I truly think I should be able
to wear a hoodie and a hat because I wear
a hoodie and.
Speaker 2: A hat every day. I agree if Flynn said he's
not doing it if he can't wear my high hat.
Speaker 5: Hey, they said to dress like their business casual or
something either either either or or something that's on brand.
So like hoodie and hat that's on braid, it's fine,
my high on brand.
Speaker 4: So Moscoto's gonna have a button down with jeans, some
new pair of shoes that are relevant and obviously no
hat is gonna have. You know, all Hunt's gonna have
on a Polo hard tuck into some khakis.
Speaker 2: That's what he's gonna have on.
Speaker 6: Uh, what are those shoes called? Clarks?
Speaker 4: You miss me with that, Like, I don't even know
what they're called. I have no idea, Like I only
wear a Nike, so I have no idea. Musa is
gonna have on something very similar. He's gonna have on
a polo oversized jeans and sneakers. Yeah, Paul's gonna have
on I mean, like, so my whole point to look.
Speaker 6: The same Polo jeans.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 4: And if Handy and Jimmy were in here, I don't
know if they are, I could give you what they're
going to wear. I bring that up to say, if
I can guess what they're going to wear, and it's
okay to wear in the staff picture, we should be
able to wear whatever.
Speaker 2: We want to wear.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you he's not gonna take my head off.
That's fine, But you you kind of bougie. You said
you had to go home.
Speaker 6: I had to go home.
Speaker 2: I forgot and put your face off.
Speaker 6: I want to put something on my face. I gotta
do something in my hair.
Speaker 5: And uh, Cassie's like, well, we have that meeting right
after the show, and I'm like, well, Matt doesn't have
to worry about doing his hair, so he should understand that.
Speaker 6: Like Cassie and I got to do stuff. I take pictures.
Speaker 7: I just brought my stuff. I'll just be Yeah, doan
a make up during the meeting. Yeah, that's smart.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as much meat head and this as we have
on the show today.
Speaker 6: There's also two girls here.
Speaker 2: Well that's yeah, it's great. Wait do you don't think
girls can be meatheads?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: I think I could absolutely, like sometimes have meathead tendons exactly.
Speaker 2: That's terms of endearment.
Speaker 6: Have you seen my hands?
Speaker 2: I don't call like I don't call my afternoon show
meathead Radio because it's a bad thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah I know, Oh it's.
Speaker 2: A good thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm just saying, we're like talking.
Speaker 2: You want to see if you're a meathead? That doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: I mean it really doesn't.
Speaker 4: I mean the tagline is too gritty to be pretty,
so it kind of fights with That's fine, all right,
So we'll see if you're a meathead. By the end
of the show, it's a high barn across, so we'll
see if we can get you've.
Speaker 6: Seen these callouses?
Speaker 2: Oh you have have callouses on your hand from throwing around. Waight. Yeah,
it's gonna go a long way.
Speaker 6: I was so to tie it back to girl like
meathead girl.
Speaker 5: I was getting my nails done yesterday and the lady
was like, you know, they like massage your hands at
the end of it or whatever, and she was like,
what is this.
Speaker 6: I'm like, h they're callouses.
Speaker 2: Oh she didn't even know.
Speaker 6: No, Well, she was like, are you good?
Speaker 2: Are you good?
Speaker 6: So your hand's fine, just a little well.
Speaker 4: Alandra has been working incredibly hard. Are you still doing
before the show?
Speaker 5: I haven't done that in like the past two weeks
because I there's just a lot going on and I
don't know the new workouts that we're doing.
Speaker 6: So I've been going in the afternoon, which I think
is harder.
Speaker 4: Oh, afternoon's much harder. If you're going to go work out,
it's got to be like when your feet hit the ground.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's so much easier for me to go at
four thirty in the morning than four thirty in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: If you're going at four thirty, what times this place open?
Speaker 6: So I open it.
Speaker 5: They like, let me go and open it so you
have it, and then yes kind of they have.
Speaker 6: A key box, and then I get it out there.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're doing to me, yes, a step too far here,
and the code is yeah, right because we already know
where it's at, so let's uh, let's die go back.
Speaker 6: So I open it and then she comes in.
Speaker 5: The coach comes in at five, so I'm like halfway
done with the workout when she comes in and she
just like helps me through the last part of it
and I'm out of there by like five thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then cold plunge and.
Speaker 6: Then I cold plunge, which I don't know.
Speaker 4: If you know this, Matt knows a lot about cold plunge,
so it loves a cold plunge, so real about it.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, Well we have one.
Speaker 4: We have a cold tub at Elite, so like, don
just a plunge, like, yeah, the whole thing, the whole shebang,
got the hot tub cold tub next to.
Speaker 6: Each other, so you do like the you do some
in the hot tub contract.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm telling him I could get there yet, we'll
get real meathead is here.
Speaker 4: Today's fine, we'll start talking about it here in a
little bit. I'll tell you the daily supplement list.
Speaker 2: That we have to go.
Speaker 6: You got to make sure you get protest.
Speaker 2: That might I might.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make Bobby do that. I'm gonna tell Him'm
gonna do it. But just wait till you hear his
daily uh supplemented supplement intake before like ten am. We
did have some SEC baseball a Landra. Yeah, we didn't
have the game that we kind of were staying up
waiting for, which was a big bummer, but we did
have three games go final in the SEC tournament. We
had Alabama take care of Missouri four to one. We
had Oklahoma take down Kentucky five to one. Kentucky thirteen wins,
projected to be a three seed before the tournament started.
If you're the Wildcats, thirteen is typically the number, but
that was the number with fourteen teams, not sixteen teams.
Speaker 2: Does Kentucky get in?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think you got to consider that they are in
the SEC though, Yeah, you know, I don't know really
how much the whoever picks takes that into consideration, but
there they've been so hit or miss the entire season,
and I think what were they projected?
Speaker 6: Three?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a three seed, yep them, Mississippi State, Oklahoma. There
was like a handful of SEC three seeds.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they barely slide in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they get in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, again, the thirteen wins, that's always what we kind
of have pointed to. I do think the math has
changed a little bit because they're sixteen teams and how
many teams from each league are going to get in.
But I do think Kentucky is going to be able
to find their way as a three seed, and it's
going to be a three seed that nobody wants to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the regional I would No, I wouldn't either.
Speaker 4: Florida takes care of South Carolina eleven to three.
Speaker 6: Bad luck for Paul.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of things I had I
haven't pulled up. I'll have to pull it back up
because I had, and it kind of hurt me as
I was reading it. Yeah, what I there saw too,
And I actually think it was our guys from SEC
unfiltered who we caught up with.
Speaker 2: Chris Phillips here, I've got it right here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to close the book and sum it up on
South Carolina's twenty twenty five baseball season. Most losses in
program history at twenty nine, the least amount of SEC
wins ever with six, tied for the least SEC series
wins with one, second, most runs allowed ever at three
hundred and eighty five. Fourth, worst run difference worse since
nineteen fifty one minus sixty one. Worst SEC run difference
previous was minus one hundred. This one, so previous minus
one hundred, this one minus one fifty seven. So you
were fifty seven runs worse than you've ever been before.
This is probably and realizing what the SEC is, we
get it. And again you add two teams, one great team,
one good team, it does kind of feel like maybe
the worst season. I mean, it's hard to say those
things out loud that they just did. And look, we
love paulmonary here on this show. Paul was great to
us while he was a coach of LSU. He was
great to us after he was done. When he took
the job, T Bob and I were like, man, I
don't know if they go sad ways, what's that going
to do to the legacy?
Speaker 5: So I think what makes that worse though, is that
there's this quote from Paulmonary after the season ended. I'm
an optimist by nature, and I thought we had what
it took to compete in this league. And obviously we
didn't disappointed, but not discouraged, which is what we were
talking about I think last week when we were like,
what do you mean you didn't know how competitive the
SEC was?
Speaker 6: You coached in it for years, and you coached in.
Speaker 4: It, and you were still around like LSU, like helping
out fundraising you what.
Speaker 6: Jay needed, right right? You helped j out his first
season here.
Speaker 5: And to answer your question about affecting his legacy, I
mean I kind of. I don't think so, only because
of what you just said, Like, yeah, this was a
terrible season, but we love Paul. You know, he's still
going to be pulmonary to LSU fans. I don't know
about the rest of the SEC, but here, I think
he's still going to be like loved and remembered for
what he did for LSU. But man, that's a fall
from grace.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know it is.
Speaker 4: And his legacy it's like heart And this has happened
to a lot of coaches, like the first one that
popped into my head obviously was coach Miles. Yeah, and
you can have whatever thought you want about Coach Miles,
but that was somebody that you know, helped me out,
was someone that gave me many, many opportunities to play
running back in the SEC. Right, And I always tell
Jimbo fishing like the same thing. But when he went
to Kansas, it was like, oh no, don't do that.
Don't go to Kansas. And then it turned out exactly
by the way, Cassie, your host, Hunt Palmer still owes
me a steak dinner because he said Kansas would not
win a single Big twelve game with Les Miles as
the head coach, and they won one. They beat Texas Tech.
So today on the show, exactly as soon as he
asked you the first question, say excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about that.
Speaker 4: We're talking about these old We're talking about you oweing
Jake a steak dinner from.
Speaker 2: Texas Tech being got to all right, and he'll be
caught off guard because I know he's not up this early.
It does take it or leave it? What does take
it or leave it?
Speaker 7: It's like it's basically like asked the bench, but like Okay,
we just asked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he didn't.
Speaker 2: He didn't. He didn't let y'all get involved.
Speaker 5: So like the producers that asks the question, okay, yeah.
Speaker 6: All right, like hey, Hunt, take it or leave it?
It's or leave it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, ok yes, perfect, Okay, I'm typically prepping for the
other show during that.
Speaker 2: But when when is that in the show.
Speaker 6: It's still last segment.
Speaker 2: Oh perfect, Okay, I'll tune in for that today because
he knows, damn weyll he goes me a steak dinner
from like five years ago. Now maybe for what the
coach Miles and can just beat Texas Tech. It had
to be.
Speaker 6: I think that was a wall back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to be.
Speaker 5: To me, it reminds me of Mac Brown, even though
like he was kind of mediocre and you and Ce
that last year was bad.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 6: I think they finished. He got tent tied for tenth
in the ACC.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll come up with a list, because it's
not just coach man airy Les Miles is on that list.
I do agree Mac Brown is on that list. So yeah,
a lot of coaches unfortunate.
Speaker 6: Bill Belichick might be on that list.
Speaker 2: Chelsea, don't be on that disaster God reports are my
man's engaged.
Speaker 5: Now, I did see that, and they're supposed to get
married like Christmas time. Bill Bill Bill talk about rooning legacy.
Speaker 4: And that that young lady does not seem like someone
who would be real interested in signing a pre nut.
All right, I mean I can't even blame her, like
I'm just saying she doesn't seem like somebody's gonna be
okay doing that.
Speaker 6: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 4: Bil and Bill, Like your sons are right there with
you coaching.
Speaker 5: They are like, hey, pops, Pops, Like, oh, I'm sure,
I'm sure the sons are like.
Speaker 6: Wake up, good luck, God.
Speaker 4: Look better you than me. All Right, we'll take a break.
We got Bobby Carpenter about fifteen minutes from now. We'll
now you get to some of those SEC tournament baseball scores. Also,
Alan't just watching the ACC tournament, and I'm very proud
of her because if I've got to watch it for
off campus, by god, she's got to watch it as well.
There was a big kind of upset to one of
the bubble teams in the ACC, so we'll cover that
coming back your way here on otb off the bench,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to off the Bench.
Speaker 4: A Londra I keep waiting for big voice lady like
to continue to say something like add to it, and
it's just like so blunt.
Speaker 2: I oh, I'm supposed to go now microphone zone, but.
Speaker 6: Also let the music.
Speaker 4: I'm always gonna let that happen. Anyways, I'm trying to
figure out a couple of things in the chat. I
figured it out now. So they were talking about somebody
in a chat, and our guy Daniel Blant got mixed up.
He thought they were talking about Mike. Guy Bill Bender
said that's Jake's goo too, which it is. I love Bill,
He's a love the dude. But he does look like
the robot from Futurama, And now I can't unsee it.
Speaker 5: Wait, I need to see this guy. I've seen Bill Bender.
I need to see the robot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and Bill's picture that we use that everybody uses.
I'm not saying Bill doesn't doesn't totally look like that,
but it's like the most.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I don't even know what word to use.
Speaker 6: Uh, he kind of does look like the robot.
Speaker 2: Bill doesn't look like the picture in real life, but
the picture, yes, yeah, But I mean Bill's great though,
great human beings. I can call Bill like right now
and be like, hey, Bill, uh seven thirty Central time?
You down?
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, give me a call. And the dude stays
on interviews all day long. Really yeah, he blocks out
like seven am to three pm.
Speaker 2: Just for interviews, just for interviews.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, Yeah, because he's a right, you know, he's
a writer. But he's like, look, that's how I get
my work out there. And he understands the game and
then he turns into lacrosse coach after that. So shout
out to my guy, Bill Bender. No, he's not coming on.
That's Bobby Carpenter that's coming on. And nobody's ever confused
Bill and Bobby Carpenter. But Bill is friends with Bobby,
so I'll make sure that he knows. Y'all confuse the two.
All right, ACC Baseball Tournament, real quick. We're not doing
a deep dive into this, but I did think it
was important to point out a couple of the scores
because there's a couple of bubble teams in the ACC,
and certainly the ACC is the only conference right now
that anybody would even put up next to some of
the teams in the SEC. You had Virginia Tech take
care of Stanford seven to four. It was Pitton Louisville
thirteen to eleven. Actually, it was a really fun game
watching that one during off campus yesterday. And then you
had one that Alandra watched, went to sleep, woke up
and watched again. Boston College takes care of Notre Dame
five to four in ten innings. I want to get
back to that game. But cal all over my Miami
twelve to two. Early in the day. Miami also one
of those bubble teams. And why I'm pointing this out,
they were projected to be in Baton Rouge to play
LSU in their regional as a three seed, and there
were some people like, hold up, like I know, Miami
is not right now. The Miami that you know, anybody
my age knows. They did miss the tournament last year.
They were supposed to be much better this year. Thirty
one and twenty four overall, fifteen and fourteen in the ACC. Again,
the ACC is probably the second best conference in the
totality of top to bottom in college baseball. Fifteen fourteen
probably still gets you in I would, I would assume,
but you can't be losing the cow twelve to two,
who has a nine to twenty one record in the ACC.
Speaker 5: Not a good look at all, especially in the tournament.
Getting run rolled in the tournament.
Speaker 6: Not a good look.
Speaker 5: But I do think that in a conference like the ACC,
that fifteen wins will get fifteen conference wins will get you.
And so so the one that I saw it was
a two seed for the Baton Rouge Regional. But you know,
everybody has difference for Miami.
Speaker 4: For Miami, oh wow, because when I saw Arizona was
the two seed, which would be a great storyline, would say,
obviously being in Arizona.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the one that I'm looking at, which I think
is USA Today that does it, because you know USA Today, Baseball.
Speaker 6: America and d one all do like the polls and
the rankings and all that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so they had Miami as a two seed, Southeastern
as a three, and then Briant as a four, and
then they had Arizona going to the Fayetteville Regional.
Speaker 6: But I mean, it's all whatever until we get there.
Speaker 5: But yes, can't be losing to Cal now by a
run rule in your tournament, no.
Speaker 4: And so like we'll see. And that's why we always
talk about conference tournaments. It's like, Okay, well, what can
you lose? What can you gain a lot of times
you have more to gain than you do to actually lose, Like,
but a team on the bubble, like you don't want
to lose, and you don't want to lose to a
team like Cow with the record they have, it's not
a quality loss. Now you can go on a run
and improve your resume. So we'll see if this one
actually hurts Miami. We talked about Kentucky a little bit
earlier in the SEC. Have they done enough to be
able to get in Notre Dame? If we're staying with
the ACC like, have they done enough to get in?
They were a team that was on the bubble outside
looking in in a lot of places. Maybe the last
four in which we talked about I think we talked
about on this show. I can't remember, Like when you're
the last four in, it's really like you're the first
four out because you're going to have bidstealers, Like people
are going to come steal your bid because they win
their conference tournament and you didn't have them in the tournament.
So that team that was supposed to win the tournament's going
to get in that large bed and it's not going
to be you and Notre Dame goes down five to
four to a bad Boston College team Boston College eleven
and nineteen in the ACC. Notre Dame losing record in
the ACC thirty two and twenty one. Overall, the fighting
eye might be on the outside looking in now.
Speaker 5: I think they will be only because, like I was
telling you earlier, I did watch the game last night,
and their head coach was saying, like, man, we want
to keep playing. Hopefully we win this game so that
we get further into the tournament and show the committee
that we can go into the tournament. I don't think
that a losing record in conference plays helpful at all,
and then losing to Boston College last night in extra
innings not going to help your case at all.
Speaker 6: Because you can't go.
Speaker 5: Deeper into the tournament, you can't show the committee anything anymore.
Speaker 6: No, man might be on the outside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's gonna be some proud programs. Notre
Dame certainly one of those, Miami one of those. Some
ACC teams that they might have half stepped. They might
have allowed a Kentucky to solidify themselves even though Kentucky didn't.
Because if you go out there and you continue to
win and you better your resume.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're the team that gets.
Speaker 4: In, maybe the SEC team doesn't get in, but you
did not take care of business. So we've got games
coming up early today. There is a ton of first
pitches that are going to be like in thirty minutes
from now, Elandro, what time did you say that the
A and M Mississippi State game is going to be.
Speaker 2: Nine to thirty central?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Central?
Speaker 4: All right, so we'll be able to catch some of
that here on air. We've got again a ton of
games that are starting at eight am in the ACC
and some of the other I know Cusa's got one
starting at eight am.
Speaker 2: Big twelve get started game number one.
Speaker 4: They did not play yesterday, so I believe the first
game in the Big twelve is nine am local time
Arizona State and BYU. All right, let's go full meathead
when we come back. Our guy Bobby Carpenter will join
us to do just that, because we have sixteen days.
Speaker 2: To put the all meathead team together.
Speaker 4: In the field Steel College Football magazine, they allow us
it's gonna be a third year in a row to
pick every position starting twenty two All Meathead team, We're
gonna start to throw some names around. We want to
hear some names from you in the chat as well.
Let's don't be two big of homers here. Okay, it
can be some LSU guys like any Meatthead team is
gonna have wit weeks on it. That's the obvious. But
throw some other names inside the bay U four chat.
Hit us up on a YouTube as well, search one
oh four or five ESPN. We'll be live right there,
Bobby Carpenter when we come back here on OTB.
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Speaker 1: This is off the bench, all.
Speaker 2: Right, welcome back in.
Speaker 4: It is OTB one four five ESPN, Baton Rouge. It
is now time to welcome on my Meathead brethren, mister
Bobby Carpenter. Morning juice up there in Columbus, Ohio, of
course with me on Sirius XM always on channel eighty four.
You can hear him with us on Meathead Radio. You
can hear him on the weekends with our guy Chris
Plink as well.
Speaker 2: What's going on, sir? How are we doing?
Speaker 3: Oh? It's great to hear from you, sir. You know,
I mean, I'm concerned you're how you're doing this first
week without tea Bob Man.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know it's uh, it's lonely up here on
this island because well you know that my co host
Matt Flynn starting on June the second, you know Flinner
as well, and so it's not shocking that he would
leave me by myself here for two weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a bumber. We couldn't figure out some
of a better timeline, you know. I mean, you're a
big log justice, guys. Football is all about efficiency. Like,
you're not gonna come out of the game without somebody
else being ready to go in for you, like the coach.
You shall run off the field like what are you
doing over here? Oh I'm tired, Like no, no, no, no,
you will tell you, we'll get this stuff. Please send
this stuff in for you. Apparently if tea Bob didn't
get that, get that memo.
Speaker 4: No, I mean he did want snap a ball to
a quarterback that wasn't ready, which actually won LSU of
the game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he snapped the ball.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, I guess we weren't ready because we
thought we had more time. We didn't have more time
to lot hit triple zero. But it's okay. We are
making our way because that's just what meatheads do. We
just we find a way, Bob, And so that's what
we're going to do for the next two weeks. I
got a lot of meathead questions because as I laid
out today's show, I didn't really even mean for it too.
But when I reached out to you this morning, I'm like,
oh my gosh, we have Bobby on. We have Blake Baker,
the defensive coordinator for LSU. He played linebacker in college.
Meathead Mikey Matuk if a baseball player could ever be
a meathead is my guy, Mikey.
Speaker 2: And then Flynn is.
Speaker 4: Going to come on here later on at nine, Like
today turned into a total meatthead show. So I'm gonna
ask you which every card carrying member of Meathead Nations
should know this off the top of his head. How
many supplements do we take a day?
Speaker 3: How many supplements do I take to day? I'm gonna
be honest as I'm really I got on like replacing
stuff and that's kind of a once a week deal. Man.
I'm a man, I'm probably forty two this year. I'm
school is it. I'm I'm understand my body is broken
and fall apart. I've tried to lay back off the
tree and say he's so much red meat, and I
get my blood work done like once every four to
six months, and like my levels are so high. It's
like I don't I don't want to just destroy my
kidneys because that in combination with you know, usually some
heavy recreational drinking on the weekend. It's it's just a lot,
you know. So, oh, I am a need head. I
don't want to end up on dialysis at some point
in the future. So I do take like a supplement
packet that they have, like you know what's ultimate means?
That is I go through the highest stage facility, you know,
like they've got the team vitamins and that like what
those guys take. I'm like, I'm just I'm gonna take that,
you know, I want you should take magnese and said,
we'll hold on. Let me see what's in this little
baggy here that they make, ohigher state recovery one. Oh look,
magnesium cherry tarts, like some sort of be vitamins, Like
all of us are all those things are already in there.
So what all do I take? I mean a number
of things like that and.
Speaker 2: Sounds like what don't use well.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing. The only thing I don't take
anymore is like a scoop of creatine, and then I
will have some protein powder from time to time, and
then I do have some amino acids, you know, if
I'm if I'm like you, So you're running around, you
got the kids, go on a million things, and I'm like, gosh,
I don't ever want to be people that have you know,
they can plain like man, I can't eat well like
you don't eat well because you're not prepared. And there's
times where I know that I'm not going to be
able to have like the dice nutritious meals that I
would like I've lifted. I'm running around, you know, I'm starving,
so I can't. I got a little menio aster packet.
Maybe I've got a little stash of beef jerkey and
the center console in my truck, so I'm I'll pop
that out and that's going to also help supplement everything.
Speaker 4: I knew you'd have an answer ready to go. It
was even better than I thought it would be, Bob.
And that's look, I think we all need to be
on the supplements that you're all there, and I also
need to go steal mine from LSU like you still
years from Ohio State.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know there's RTVS. Man, you got a sun
that's the d line. And so do I like I
missed the days of like when it was a challenge
to see how many calories I could ingest in a
daily basis. Yeah, and so I'm like, dude, I tell
my son, like, Hey, these aretds there, why don't you
drink them? I'm like, just dude, if I drink those,
I would be three hundred pounds. You're trying to get
to three hundred pounds. So, like, you keep working on
that because your body's like a raging incinerator. My metabolism
now is like a lifel So you I don't burn
you as much as you do.
Speaker 4: Oh that that's very well said Bob. I literally couldn't
say it any better. Let's keep the meathead theme going.
You and I have, as I texted you, we have
sixteen days for Phil Steele's College Football magazine to give
our All Meathead Team. And this is a third year
in a row he's allowed us to do this. The
first year though that we won't have Utah quarterback Cam
Rising as QB one on the All Meathead Team.
Speaker 2: And honestly, last year he disappointed us. Like you can
be a meathead.
Speaker 4: And the reason he was the QB one because of
the style that he played with. But you can't make
the club in the tub. You can't be a meathead
in miss as many games as he did. So even
if he was coming back for his seventeenth college football season,
he wouldn't be on the the All Meatthead team. So
who are we looking at? Like, who are some names
that we're looking at? It can be quarterback, it could
be other positions that you know right now without a doubt,
they're already on the team.
Speaker 3: Me we talked a little bit about it Monday. I mean,
it feels like James King is the leader in the clubhouse.
When you brought up cam Riseman, Like who, well, I
watched the film. Looks like Kim Rising when they're playing football,
that same thing, and like he's a guy that you
know is at Georgia, tex So he's not, you know,
obviously the most prominent school in the state. But you
watch how he played against Georgia, you watch how he
played against Miami, just a reckless abandon for his body.
I mean, the dude will pull down on like third
and eight here and what are you doing? And then
he runs through like three tackles and stretches to get
the first down. All right, I mean you had a
better plan for that than I did. So I'm going
to say that he's probably the leader in the clubhouse
that I'm about have to go back and like look
at some other quarterbacks. Got Honestly, I'm kind of jaded
just watching you know, how he plays the game and
how aggressive he is there. I was looking at some
defensive linemen and there's a guy that really caught my
I sent you. I feel like some schools like you
just need to have a dude from there, like one
of these positions. And Aaron Graves at Iowa for interior
defensive lineman. I mean when you hear the guy has
his hands uses as among the best in the country,
and that still stems from a dominant high school wrestling background. Yeah, Like,
if you're a wrestler and a defensive or offensive lineman,
you've got one foot on the meat at todium already
for that position. And so Aaron Graves is a dude
that I was looking at him like, man, like a
tough run stuffer, athletic. He can run, you can rust
the passers. I'm not going to hold that against him
just because he's that still the dude when you're like
just a big time high school wrestler and people say
you've got strong, heavy hands like that just screams meat
head to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question about that.
Speaker 4: Like you said, Iowa interior defensive lineman, like all that
checks and they need to in the wrestling background for sure.
Last year, I'm trying to think what Buck guys we
had on the list, Like I know Jack Sawyer was
on the list. I don't even have to look at
it because like the Jack Sawyer's meatthead. Any Buck guys
that you want to go ahead and nominate for the
All Meathead team again, we've got two weeks left here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's gonna be It's gonna be tough, Like I'm
not this like grind on this a little know the roster.
Speaker 4: You're probably going to down on the bench next to
the guys like as soon as we get off here.
Speaker 3: You know, Carson Hensman the Center, he played two years
ago at center. Last year they brought him something to
lock when heat. But you know, like people view like
being meathead like just a rage control animal. But he
sat there and learned from stuff at the lock on
stuff like this is way stronger, more physical meat, but
stuff is a little more still and so they learned
all guys get hurt. Next you know, he's starting at center,
and dude, if you go watch the push that he
was able to be a part of, like the Penn
State game, they're driving because there's nothing better hushers than
taking a knee in four minute offense, like getting the
ball back and just three four first downs and then
knee and it out. Oh yeah. And then you go
watch some of the other playing text bass. They're playing
organ Like, dude, he's he's the tip of the speir
at center and like putting a dent in the middle
of that defensive line. He's a dude from Wisconsin, like
grew up on a farm talking about nil like maybe
I want to help my dad buy the farm beside
our farm for more farmland. Yes, it's like Ben Hartstock
gets centered, which in today's game, Ben Harstock might have
been like I look at him and like he's a
good guy that you know, someone who embodies that. The
thing is, I mean, you know this has like they
lost two good running backs and both those guys in
Treyvon Henderson and quintin Rich and Quinnshawn Judkins, Like, if
you're going to be a meathead at running back, you've
got a block and like you go watch the highlights
of those hues blocking and pass pro were blocking for
each other. They were awesome. But they're booths gone, and
so I've got to see a little bit more from
some of these guys to probably can say like, hey,
I think that you're gonna fill it nicely and you
can slide you into that leadhead role because you've got
to prove it out there on the field. So when
you lose like fourteen guys, it's hard to say, like
this guy's approven lead head out there, you know they
can get it done.
Speaker 4: We were talking about LSU's defense, Bob, and like they
have four or five guys that would certainly fall into
the Meadhay category, Like what weeks.
Speaker 2: Is going to be on the team.
Speaker 4: But Flynn was asking this question and I wish he
was here to ask you himself, but I'll throw it
out there, Els you could have like four or five
like thrown off white boy psycho guys on their defense.
Is that one too many? Can you have too many
of those? Because it feels like the line should be
set at three. They might have four or five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Check milksick situation, Like you don't want that the.
Speaker 3: Checks though, as long as it do I mean you can,
I say, as long as you can run a little bit,
like I'm fine with whatever. You got to have dudes
that can still run. And if they can run, and
then the other thing is you got to have someone
out there that can be like the ring master that
keeps them under control, kind of like the lion tamer,
you know, if you are a tiger famer in this case,
because you get too many of those access and they
kind of feed off of each other. It's like Toronto's
when they start eating, and that's when you get like
the late fifteen yard penalty. You know, someone's kind of
holding a guy up, you know. And now, back when
we played like duders actually a whistle, that's not really
a thing anymore. They're gonna call you through a fifteen
yarder or maybe some some targeting. Like so here's the
good news. You can tell your boys this that the
fact that there's essentially four or five that doesn't take
into account all of the haves or games that they
could miss for potential targeting. So you may only have
three US at any given point in time.
Speaker 4: That's that's very that's probably something that that will happen.
We've got LSU's defensive coordinator Blake Baker joining us in
like fifteen minutes from now, so we can ask him
that question as well. One more meathead nomination before I
ask you about maybe the Buckeyes and the Big Ten.
Speaker 2: Diego Pavia at quarterback.
Speaker 3: Ooh, he is. He is intriguing because, like he checks
some of the boxes that you were talking about, Like, dude,
that's willing to run. Maybe you want to still advise
not a big fly guy. I like Diego Bobby. Dude
will put his team on his back and like, well
he pulls the down hess he forgets that he's a quarterback.
He thinks that he's a running back. Yes, and you
know he also was on a in a situation where dude,
he's asked to do that on a pretty good seed.
Speaker 4: All right, now, let's get to some maybe big picture,
Big ten just general college football stuff here. Obviously, your
buck guys won a national championship, and obviously they lose
fourteen guys to Sunday to the NFL Draft and more
through probably undrafted free agents, so they have a lot
to replace right now. Penn State is the one that
everybody's kind of glazing and talking about how great Drew
Aller is going to be, even though he didn't complete
a pass to a receiver in a college football playoff
semi final, which still blows my mind right now. For
you though, like where the buck eys? And do you
like Penn State as much as everybody else does.
Speaker 3: I like Penn State's roster and they're very talented. Drew
Aller's got to say that jump, you know, as you mentioned,
like he kind of took like a little baby step.
But I forget who put out the article on ESPN
with like the tiers of quarterbacks, and I think they
had him in like the maybe tier one B. I
was like, uh, maybe one A. I was like, I
don't know if I can get there with it yet,
Like he's shown some good things, but I gotta I
gotta see that next step being able to be taken
where your team is winning because of your points. And
he made some plays last year, but they never really
asked him to be the guy that they fully went
all in on all the time. And part of it
is too is Penn State is I said James frank
But I was talking to Bill Bender, you know, our guy,
about this, and he had an unbelievable stat with James Franklin, like,
in the course of his record, he has never lost
to an unranked team. He is twenty nine to zero,
but against like rank opponents, and that's not not top ten,
that's like top twenty five. I want to say, he's
got like a sub five hundred record, and so the
ability to win those perceived big games, they come through
and be able to get over the hump. It's it's
a little bit like Blane Kiff and Asket in all
mess Like, dude, we've had a lot of talent. You've
been really good, Like you've beaten most of the teams
you're supposed to be. Maybe you slip up here and
there a little bit, and like we've got to go
see you kind of punch that thing and break on through.
Jim Morrison in the door style.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they I mean, if not now, then win for them.
Speaker 4: I mean, certainly Penn State needs to go out there
and if they truly are the team that we keep
hearing that they're going to be and also like they
had a nice draw in the college football playoff as well.
I don't want to be smirch the teams that they play,
but they had a better drawl than some team and
then they weren't able to finish it and play for
a championship there. So we will see if the Nitney
Lions can actually live up to the height that they're.
Speaker 2: Getting here in the off season. Bob, you're the man.
We appreciate it, sir.
Speaker 4: Keep throwing me some of those meathead names, because again,
you know how we do because we are meatheads. It's
going to be like two days away and I were like,
oh my god, we forgot to turn this list into
Phil Steele.
Speaker 2: So just keep texting me the meathead.
Speaker 3: Names, all right, and also tell your Boyslinter, like, listen,
I don't know what's this arbitrary views day, Like listen,
if he wants to get in the game, tell him
to get his buck down there to show up when
the time starts.
Speaker 2: All right, yes, thank you.
Speaker 4: And he's supposed to maybe come in later today, so
we'll play that clip for him and he's on QB
one time.
Speaker 3: Bob, I mean, listen, when when you're the quarterback, the
world revolves around you, like practice doesn't start till you're right.
I'll say real quick. We one time had so many
quarterback injuries that we only had our starter and our
scout team quarterback. And during the season my senior year,
and we actually up to our practice because our quarterback
had to leave earlier scouting guy. Yea is it our
fifth guy because he had class at like five thirty,
and so we actually did like our special teams, individual
everything last so that we could go our work in
with him. So that's how important splitter is.
Speaker 2: Well said, well said Bobby the Man. We appreciate it, sir.
Speaker 3: How a going, sir?
Speaker 4: All right, there is Bobby Carpenter. You can catch you
on the morning Juice there in Columbus, also with me
on off campus and really throughout multiple shows on Serius
XM College Sports Radio Channel eighty four. All right, we'll
wrap up our number one. We've got again Blake Baker
joining us to kick off our number two.
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Speaker 2: We have yet to talk.
Speaker 4: LSU softball obviously very disappointing in to their season, losing
to Southeastern Louisiana at two different times. Nebraska moves on
from the Baton Rouge Regional. I believe they're going to
be taking on Tennessee now in Knoxville, and we've got
a lot of stuff to like get to and break
down and you know where the softball program kind of
goes from here. But there was some news that I
think Elandra we actually talked about. Gosh, maybe Sunday night
is when we talked about it, but it just became
officially official.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yesterday Sydney Burzon hit the transfer portal, which that's huge.
Burzon obviously was arm that coach mostly relied on throughout
basically her entire tenure here at LSU. And after this season,
she accumulated two two ERA four hundred and sixteen strikeouts
in four hundred and eighty six innings pitched. That's a
lot of innings, yeah, and that's a lot of strikeouts.
So Sidney Burzon your ace obviously and one of the
best arms that coach had this season and the season before.
But yeah, hitting the portal, I would be looking out
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ou obviously, one of the biggest You.
Speaker 4: Asked like, how much of that and you played the game,
So I'll throw this one to you. How much of
that has to do with you had a freshman pitcher
come in you think, and didn't take over fully as
your top go to ace. But it certainly kind of
felt like maybe even the playing field.
Speaker 5: It definitely even the playing field. But I don't think
that Jaden has too much to do with it. I
think that Sid's been here three years and she has
done her job, and she's been a great pitcher in
a great arm. But I mean, you've lost two of
your own regionals in the last two years to me.
Speaker 4: And then when you lose, when you lose to an
end state opponent, when you're the top dog in the state,
that's always going to even heighten losing in your regional
not getting out, like if you would have gone a
Landra and you're playing in you know, Nebraska and you
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hits a bomb, Okay, but it's the fact that who
beat you, You didn't get to the even the final
of your regional.
Speaker 2: That's why a lot of people are so upset about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean this weekend was very disappointing, to put
it bluntly, like to lose to Southeastern twice at home
and you had a second chance versus Yukon you shut
them out, but it and the way that you lost,
like all errors, is what's like super disappointing to me.
And then the management of the arms, I don't know,
it was incredibly disappointing, but I think it doesn't have
to do with the freshman coming in. It probably has
to do with you've been here three years and you
haven't really won anything, and you're a good arm so
she probably wants to go try to win something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, we'll continue to break down Softbab.
Speaker 4: Like I said, we hadn't gotten into it yet maybe
what the future of the program is going to look like.
Speaker 2: But when we come back here to kick.
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