Speaker 1: Let's all start to you want to present some off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and T.
Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now, here's Jacob Hester and T bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Oh what's going on y'all? Welcome back to OTB Hour
number two. Happy three eleven day to all those who partake.
Uh amber is not the color of my energy this morning.
Maybe blue is because I'm freaking cold, dude. Maybe you're
all mixed up because of this weather. Don't know what
to do? Here you go. I am once again asking
the OTB crew if anyone would like to apologize to
Posatani Phil that that son of a because it is
March eleven and we cold made and now granted, I
look if we were from Bowling Green. Who by the way,
Eddie George, Yeah, coach a Bowling Green. How about that, dude,
we're from Bowling Green. I'm sure we wouldn't be feeling cold,
but I'm not. Okay, I'm a little warm weather boy,
so say sorry? Why we go Bowling Green? Coach Stud
was from Bowling Green and he used to always clown
us back in the day for when we would complain
about it being cold, when it'd be like forty degrees
and he'd be out there in shorts and a T shirt,
just absolutely chilling, relaxing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, spring doesn't start until March twentieth, so I'm not
apologizing to Phil because it's not technically spring yet, so
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: That's why you should be apologizing because he was right. No,
I mean, he's right.
Speaker 3: He said six more weeks of winter. So after when
spring starts on March twentieth, if it's still cold after that,
then maybe I'll think about apologizing to Phil.
Speaker 2: Feel like it's been it's a grade on the Louisiana curve,
Like this is surprising that we're still feeling this way.
Speaker 4: I will say, I am open to giving that fat
son of a gun an apology if there we go.
Speaker 2: If this keeps up the rest of the week, let's go,
there we go? Oh shoot, oh what else? Oh? This
is another random thing that I stumbled across yesterday. Did
you know that Andrew luck is now Stanford's GM. Yeah?
I did, But in a interesting move in the organizational chart,
the Stanford org chart, he's actually above Troy Taylor the
head coach. So in almost every situation in college football
there's a coach, it's an NFL GM in the org chart,
Andrew Luck is actually in charge of the head coach.
I know, isn't that crazy? He exists independently of Taylor
and in fact can choose to move on from Taylor
if he should want in a in a in a
couple of years. Of course, Oliver Luck one of the
premier football administrators, so it kind of following in his
father's footsteps in that way. But I just thought that
was interesting as collegeoble is trying to find its way
and when strategies change and whatnot, GM roles are fascinating,
right because, I mean, we were talking about it in
studio yesterday. Steph Curry's now the assistant GM for day
David said, how about that there, which the biggest piece
of that news story to me was Steph Curry and
I guess a little group that he's put together. They
have eight figures ready to commit to Davidson men and
women's basketball, which when you look at like on a
per player basis, yes you have to pay more basketball,
but the overall lift of the roster is way less
than that of football. You're telling me you can't make
Davison in this air consistently good with deep figures like
you absolutely should be able to. But the Andrew luckting's
interesting because in the NFL, the GM is in the
owner's pocket and a lot of times they're you know,
the GM controls the fate of the head coach, and
at Stanford that is now the case. And it's just
crazy to think about because in football, the head coach
has always been the the the king of the fiefdom, right,
is his own little power playground in which he gets
to decide all things in a dictatorial way. I imagine
that a lot of ads would prefer this Andrew Lux
set up. But we'll see. Yeah, that's fascinating.
Speaker 4: I didn't think about that, because you're right, I mean,
nine times out of ten in the NFL, the GM
is who decides the fate of the head coach, and
he's definitely in charge in the NFL, no matter who
you're talking about, unless it's like a Bill Belichick situation.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's that's.
Speaker 4: Very interesting because if you're gonna be the GM of
a you know, a program like Stanford, like you're gonna
have roster decisions now because of the pro model. So
you were going, now you want to be in lockstep
with your coach because you want to be successful, But like,
are you going to have final say on who gets
like that those final offers? Are you going to have
final say in who you get out of the transfer portal?
Speaker 2: Like when you're watching quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: If Troy Taylor's like, man, I love this guy, and
Andrew looks like that he ain't in, does he have
the final say to say?
Speaker 2: Now we went off? I mean he's you know, he
says he's very excited to learn from Taylor and work
with him and whatnot. But it seems like at least
in the ORG chart he would. So something to watch
certainly going forward as these positions continue to evolve. Something
to watch going forward into this weekend is SEC baseball, Baby,
that's right, the best league in college a league where
twelve of the top or excuse me, twelve of these
sixteen teams in the conference are ranked. The top four
teams in the nation are all in the SEC. It
is an absurd league full of absurd power. And we're
just gonna do a very surface level check on how
things have gone for each team going into going into
conference play? How did you handle the beginning of this season?
And before we get there though, real quick, what are
you most looking forward to when it comes to SEC baseball?
But just from LSU and no, just like anything, okay,
Like I'll start like for me, it could be anything,
it could be something about a player. Like for me
it is it is simply the the the community aspect
right and the and the rhythm of the next ten
weeks with everybody like like one of my favorite things
to do here and it just feels like a Norman
Rockwell pain. It's Americana at its finest. Is when my
next door neighbor will put the projector on his garage.
It'll be Friday night. Kids will be running around in
the cul de sac, beers will be in the ice chest,
and all the dads will be sitting in folding chairs
watching the game, getting you know, eventually having to deal
with some wife agro, maybe taking a break around the
fifth inning to try to get the kids put in
to bed before coming back out for the late is like,
I'm just looking forward to community. I'm looking for to
the rhythm, the Sunday stress of a of a rubber
match to decide this series. Like, that's what I'm most
looking forward to.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think when you look at from top to bottom,
that's always one of the most exciting things is you
know it's going to be high leverage, high level, you
know type baseball almost every single weekend.
Speaker 2: Very rarely do you get a.
Speaker 4: Weekend in SEC baseball where you're like, Okay, well we
should sweep you know, like that doesn't like you always
are shooting for two of three because the entire league
is so good. So yeah, I agree with you there,
But also like I'm looking forward to Texas and Oklahoma
joining the league and L Shoe starts off on the
road against both those teams in the first four series
in SEC play, so you get a chance to have
some new blood. You know, the L Shoe Texas rivalry
might be the biggest in baseball, like because football, like
it's gonna be it's gonna be A and M for them,
and you're gonna have other rivals. But in college baseball,
because of what they've done in their history, what you've
done in your history, you recruit against each other all
the time. That actually could be where LSU and Texas
kind of create their own little thing, and so I'm
excited about that, adding more teams and more good teams,
because both of them are good teams. Even though like
Oklahoma's like fan base, I think is in for rude
awakening when it comes to, you know, teams coming to
Norman and kind of taking over the stadium or them
trying to go somewhere else they're going to see because Norman,
Oklahoma right now, and Oklahoma's baseball stadium, the Dale Mitchell Park,
is not like the other SEC stadiums, and so they
not like us, is what Jake is saying.
Speaker 2: That not at all.
Speaker 4: So they're about to learn that it's a different level
of different brand. Even look, again, good baseball team, but
Texas and Oklahoma I think they add something to SEC baseball.
Speaker 2: Uh so they let Okay. I found an article in
the Tennesseean admittedly probably a bit of a bias here,
but I haven't yet pulled the trigger I tried yesterday
bout my wild and I haven't yet pulled the trigger
on getting a baseball season D one subscription for the
SEC extra. And so this is gonna be a very
surface level kind of power ranking. Look and what the
teams have done up to this point as they Power
ranked them going in the conference play, and number one
on the Tennessee and Power rankings is well Tennessee, which
again admittedly deservedly so defeating national champs. Uh, they're one
of two undefeated teams left in the entire country right now.
Sixteen and OH late lead the SEC and average. They
lead the SEC and ERA, they have elite power, lead
the NCAA in fact in runs with one hundred nine
nine in ERA with a one to a three. So
unfortunately Tony B and his tiny little PP remain the
team to beat in the SEC.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm okay with Tennessee's sixteen and oh Tennessee won
the National champchampionship. Sure, yeah, I'm okay with them being
where they're at the power rankings. You could make an
argument for a couple of teams. I like you laid
out there. The top five in baseball is basically the SEC.
So sure, and we're going to find out. And we're
going to find out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the
end of.
Speaker 2: April, which I hate that I'm going to be in
Green Bay for that. Number two on the Power rankings.
Here is Arkansas. They are fifteen and one right now. Interestingly,
Warden Street has argus somebody lack a true race, but
the offense has been better than expected. And I was
talking to some Markans fans at Disney last week and
it was funny because I was like, look, Dave's gonna
get one eventually. Okay, he has to. They're too good
not to. And you can see that they are firmly
in their Mike Tomlin era as my optimism was met
with doubts and grimaces as he's like, good, I mean, baby,
if you can win when it matters. So Arkansas is
still going to be very good. But for Arkansas, the
regular season does not matter to that fan. It is
only what they do in the postseason. And I understand it.
Speaker 4: I mean, you were a flyball away from that national championship,
and when something like that happens to you and you
don't win it, and you've been so close, and you've
had so many great, great regular season runs and you
still have not won the big one. As a fan,
you're thinking it's never going to come. There is something
that has cursed this program. So you're right, they could,
I mean they could lose only seven games and it
wouldn't matter.
Speaker 2: People wouldn't want to hear it. They don't care. Yeah,
I agree, I agree. Number three on this list is LSU,
currently number one team in the country sixteen and one
as well. The Tennesseeans take is at LSO's great depth,
maybe lacks the star power previous teams, which I know.
I think. Was this Alandra or Taylor who is disputing
this in the document? Whoever it is, speak up in
state your truth. I disputed it, do you, Okay? Okay?
Speaker 3: I disputed it because I personally subject I understand that
this is subjective. But I think that Stephen Milam is
a star, if not a star in the making. Obviously
Bear Jones is as well. Daniel Dickinson also a star
in my opinion, but objectively, Daniel Dickinson, Chase Shores, Kate Anderson,
and Connor Where are all top one hundred prospects in
the MLB and Chase Shores and Kate Anderson.
Speaker 2: Are top fifty. So I think we have some star
power on the team. I think they have star talent
right now, but I think ultimately where you you know,
where you get to be thought of like a Tommy
Tanks or Cruz or Charlie Condon or like justin Lebron's
are in Alabata. It's gonna be sec play because right now,
like you said, a lot of these guys great prospects,
a lot of these guys new faces, not Steve Mileman
Bear Jones, but certainly where their legends will be written
are over the next ten weeks. Number four, Number four
floor number four on this list. Florida coming in at
fifteen and two, because of course Florida is always good.
And here we arrive at maybe the most exciting matchup
of the week in Florida at tennessee. Are you a kid,
met That's gonna be some great baseball to watch. Number
five's Alabama sixteen and one. Again Lebron's been unbelievable. Warden
Street is pitching maybe a relevant weakness Georgia at eighteen
and one. Here's where this gets a bit odd once again.
Wes Johnson's offense at Georgia is elite, but it's the
pitching that seems to be their weakness, as they've had
to come back a few times against lesser teams, and
that maybe could be a red flag going into to
conference play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is difficult because some of these SEC teams
have not played anyone to this point, and you have.
Speaker 2: A situation like look, LSU, they go to Frisco.
Speaker 4: That's obviously the best competition that they've had to this point,
and so it would be concerned learning for me to
if my pitching staff was struggling right now win against
who I've gone against, like if the bats weren't there,
like I can maybe talk myself into Okay, it's been
the cold weather or it's been they'd been going against
slower pitchers and they're used to facing ninety four ninety
five and they'll find their groove. If my pitching staff
was struggling against directional school, you, that's where I would
kind of be concerned. So certainly something to watch with Georgia.
Speaker 2: That's their number six. Number seven is Vanderbilt, which you
just want to I mean, they're thirteen and three, great pitching,
maybe lacking power, but like I think the bigger point
here is this is such a deep conference at this
point that Vandy, if every good Vandy team could come
in arguably at number seven entering conference play. Number eight
is probably the team that I've enjoyed laughing at the
most thus far, and that is the Texas A and
m Aggie's who everywhere around there on this list, you're
gonna see very positive overall records by far sae form
a Zoo. The worst record is Texa M nine and
six and now graphic out for the uh put you
that Gavin out for the entire season their best player.
Real tough to get revenge on Schlo when you're falling
on your face here out the gate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you wanted to try to keep things together,
so you give someone that job that hasn't ever had
a job close to the magnitude of a Texas A
and M baseball job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: And so it's not to say that they can't rebound,
but when you've never had the experience of doing it
at that level, I'm not gonna believe that you can
maybe next year, right And it sounds so crazy because
they've played fifteen games, But if I'm an A and
M fan, I'm worried that we don't have a coach
right now that has gone through the fire, knows what
it's like, can find a way to quickly turn this around.
And that was kind of that's the ambled that they
took whenever they decided to kind of promote a young
guy when they tried, they thought, maybe we can keep
some of the core together, and they did get some
of the players that were in the portal out of
the portal because they made that decision. But also you
have to know that you don't have a lot of experience,
certainly in a job at that magnitude, and they did.
Speaker 2: They just feel a bit like LSU last year, right
number one preseason. Then the game start and it all
just looks way different than you thought it was going
to nine and ten. We got the Mississippi schools, Missippi
State coming in at nine, Ole Miss coming in at ten,
Missippi State eleven and four on the year, or Miss
fourteen and one, but like statistically kind of near the
bottom both in scoring and runs allowed. You got Texas
coming in at eleven. They're thirteen and one, struggled offensively. It's
a relative week schedule. You got Auburn at twelve, thirteen
and three, Oklahoma at thirteen, they're fourteen and one. Kentucky
all the way down here, fourteen to twelve and two.
Kentucky team the fourteenth team on the Tennessee Power Rankings
again just showing how deep this conference is. South Carolina
with Paul Minary fourteen and three. Granted they lost one
of their best pictures in Jersey Beck, but still that's crazy.
It's still crazy thing about Paul being there and then
dead last and maybe the only actual bad team yeah
in the SEC is Missoo at eight and eight. They're
allowing nearly seven runs a game. It is by far
the worst in the conference. And you mentioned Jake, you
can never expect and never should expect a sweep in
conference play. Yeah, but I'll be damned if LSU shouldn't
really be hoping to maybe get one here because this
is by far the odd man out in this conference.
You get them at home to open conference play, you've
been red hot, they've been read not like if there
was ever a time to sweep an SEC team, it
is right here out the gates for LSU.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they started out the season one in five and
honestly they kind of got run out of the building
and some of the those losses that they had, I mean,
including a ten to two loss against Alabama State. Now
they have split series with Evansville, they split Beaming Binghamton, Binghamton.
Speaker 2: Binghamton's good. I've said it. They'd be number five on
my power rankings if they were in the SEC. They
sitting here looking at it like they dropped two games
to them. Yeah, the bing Eington was it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, they dropped two games to them. T there's
just I mean, this is this is a bad baseball
team right now. I mean, they gave up ten runs
to lynden Wood. I look, you know me, I know
a lot of schools in a lot of places. I
don't know where linden Wood is. Couldn't tell you, true,
I can't if Jake can't tell you, that's a problem. Yes,
they beat Southern fifteen to three, but that's their only
dominant victory. I mean even in Florida A and M.
They had to come back against them. So it's not
like they've played the who's who. Like Yukon's a good
baseball program, but even Yukon's not a to their standard.
Stetson's okay baseball program.
Speaker 2: They lost it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's funny, like we say, like there's not
many times this is one of those times, like you
should go out there.
Speaker 2: And expect all three games. So It's funny. I know
this NOOKI you mentioned Southern Southern. Former Southern coach Kerrick
Jackson's the head coach of Missoo there, so please know that.
Shout out coach Jackson. But hopefully not this weekend. Uh
so there. It is a little, very quick overpass on
the se. I will dive more into Missoo throughout the
rest of the week. Oh, Chris Little says, Lindenwood is
right down the road from Missoo. So I don't know
if you know this. That means it's in Missouri or
it could be in Kansas City. Oh crap, our Kansas.
Damn it like the Kansas situation about that? I don't know,
damn you geography, no idea. Yeah, let's go ahead and
when we get back we do a quick OTB mail
background coach Kim Molke coming up after that. Keep it
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning Sports show around sorta
it's off the bench with Hester and t Bob and
alright cyber so modib malbo.
Speaker 2: And quickly the launder I help this special delivery for
the bench and look it is mork no way the
same the internet? What the is the internet is? Then?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Right, hasseg otb mail bed? Which SEC road baseball venue
is the best atmosphere? I can't. I've never I've never
been to any SC road baseball so I'm not a
great person to answer this. I think anecdotally, the dude
in Mississippi State's always got to be up there. And
if you look at attendance stats there, you know that
that that would maybe reinforce that.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I'm with you. The ones that I've been
to certainly wouldn't fall on this list. Vanderbilt, Florida certainly not.
Speaker 2: No. Uh.
Speaker 4: From everybody that has been to most or if not
all of them, it usually comes down to LSU Misssippi State.
Speaker 2: I would also say, I mean, look, I thought the
beer showers at all miss looked like a lot of
fun at times. And I'm sure Lindsay Nelson's popping right now,
right and they just renovated everything. They made it bigger.
I actually have a brother in law, Marianovich, who is
a US. He's a from uh or a whatever. He
went Tennessee and he'll be going to the Florida Tennessee
Series next weekend, so I'll have some boots in the ground.
Hashtag O tob mailbag. French onion soup overrated or underrated?
It radically have it raided. It's kind of whatever. Yeah,
I don't think about it often. It can be good.
It is very heavy, though it is very heavy, A
lot of gravy feel yeah, man like again, very good,
but I don't know how much I need on top
of it, And a lot of times it's served in
tandem with other foods and it's really gonna bust you up.
Hashtag go to the mailbag. Best LSU baseball uniform combination.
I love pinstripes. Love pinstripes. Wait, but you don't like
the Vanderbilt pin stripes. I don't like black pinstripes.
Speaker 4: CA capone, Okay, I don't like baseball pants.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't be black? Okay, okay, should not have black baseball pants.
Speaker 4: You should have white baseball pants or gray baseball bans.
Speaker 2: Hashtag OTB mail bag if you had to live one
week in the life of either an amphibian, a reptile,
or an aquatic vertebrate. Uh, and they lived in your
body for a week, which one would you choose? And why?
I would choose a indaconda. Yeah, I would choose a reptile.
That's a that's a snake, right stiks reptiles. Yeah, I
would go reptile because I gotta be honest, man, just
laying around and sunning all day doesn't seem awful for
a week, get away from the human rat race of
go go go and American capitalism having to work twenty
four to seven and all that other sort of stuff.
And I just sit around and my son, except when
I want to eat a rodent Like hell, yeah, I'm
into that now. Granted, the snake switch with my body
may get me fired when he's going around licking everything
to smell.
Speaker 4: Or just like you know, wraps itself around another human.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna get you fired? But yeah, make me
a reptile. Dude has to go to my bag favorite
pizza in town. I don't really have one, to be honest, dude,
I'm ambivalent.
Speaker 4: M Yeah, I'm not a pizza snab. I'm just not
like pizzas for the most part. Pizza now you can
get look, you can get some bad pizza. And I
don't want to throw any names out there because you
never know. Yeah, with you later, I don't know. I'm
not a pizza snob.
Speaker 2: No, look, I mean it's it's like a deal where like, okay,
if you're talking sit down, pizza's a couple of spots,
right Roca is good pizza and wine or art and
pizzas good? Or is a pizza and wine? I can't remember.
Uh No, Now, that would have been my favorite, but
it's not around around like because that was different, it
was unique, and I thought it was very well executed.
But Red Zeppelin's good for like traditional pizza.
Speaker 4: I think my kids love lit and it might not
be for everybody my cats and I know.
Speaker 2: You fast service pizza places, but again there's there's a
few of those there as well. There's a Pesto Pizza
Lit that I love. So I don't know. Man, you know,
pizza not the bat and Rouge strong suit. No, it's
not hashtag, go to the mail bag, go to Saint
Patrick's Day. Drink of choice jamison, Yeah, green beer. You know,
Jameson and green beer, Like, don't overthink it. Okay, it's
it's the holiday. It doesn't even matter what kind of beer,
as long as it's green and coming out of a
keg hashtag go to your favorite form of potato any
and all. I know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like I'm a I could turn
it into Forrest Gump having a conversation with Bubba about
shrimp when it comes to like a potato, Like, I'm
Bubba in your forest and I'm just continuing to go
on about.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be hard for me to get
away from just a great French frine. I love hash
brown but I love hash browns as well.
Speaker 4: I love that breakfast with patoessat potatoes potatoes.
Speaker 2: Hell, I'll take a potato wedge. Yeah, I like mash.
I mean, who doesn't love mashed potatoes. Oh god, Potato
chips are my single biggest weakness on the planet. There's
a reason I can't have them in the home. That
that just salty goodness. Like if I have a bag
of kettle cooked potato chips in my home, I cannot
control myself. I will eat myself into oblivion.
Speaker 4: You know, I have pretty strong will when it comes
to food. Kettle cooked potato chips. It's a weakness for
me as well.
Speaker 2: It does beg the question. Are potatoes and eggs the
two most versatile versatile foods out there? I think so right,
Like you get a million different ways you can enjoy them,
toppings by themselves, like they're just the best hashtag. Oh
to mailbag. You wake up and realize that you and
Taylor switched bodies free key Friday styles. What are some
ground rules you lay down for each other. I don't
care about ground rules. Tailer could do whatever he wanted
in my body, but I would take a million nudes
of myself in Taylor's body and use him as blackmail
against him should he ever try to cross me later
in life. I can't top that. Uh, that's actually that's
actually within my ground rule. Is my only ground rule
for you, t Bob, nothing that winds up ends me
up in jail. And no face tattoos and face tattoo
fair fair. Okay, we can agree on that, then I'll
throw that back at you ideally, and then we can
figure out a way to switch back. It's it's like
it's like my old junior high fantasy of switching bodies
with Britney spears, taking pictures of my boobs, and then
mailing the pictures back to myself so that when I
switched back, I would have pictures of Britney's boobs. Again,
a very complicated plan, but kind of genius if you
ask me. Hashtag otb mail bag. Uh, let's do. Oh.
I didn't realize how Irish Jake is likes Irish fishy,
likes potatoes. True, actually true, didn't think about it. My
mom's maiden name is Bailey. There you go? Uh? Has
that go to me? Meilback? What's your favorite parade Marty
Gras or other? If it's in Baton Rouge. I mean
Saint Patty's Day is great, so is Spanish Town. I
would maybe air on the side of Spanish Town a little.
People love Spanish Town. Yeah, but also Saint Patty's too, though.
I mean, you actually got to ride in Saint Patty's
after National championship, didn't you. No, I was in Arizona. Oh,
you were training. That's right. That sucks.
Speaker 4: I didn't come back for the championship parade either, Like
I didn't even I don't even think I knew it.
Speaker 2: You missed less miles putting on the leather jacket and
watching his demeanor change completely. I did.
Speaker 4: I knew I had one opportunity to go get it
right at the compound.
Speaker 2: That's what I was working on. Yeah, and you ran
your forty cam Yeah, scatapoo, go leave? What are we doing?
Speaker 4: Got three quarterbacks ran the forty three and jay Len
Milroe wasn't one of them.
Speaker 2: Scared to do. If we're talking to Orleans, Praids and
Demian will always just have the close face to my
heart because I went to the Indemian Ball for like
ten years straight. It was one of the first things
I did when I got down here. It was my
first experience at Marty Girl ever, and it just imprinted
on me. Unlike uh like I was a little baby
chick fresh out the egg saying mama, only it was
Marty and I was very drunk. Is somebody asking who
Jake Lamatta is in the chat? Let me see? Uh
who is Jake Lamata? It's a raging bull. I don't
know who Jake Lamana was.
Speaker 5: What.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm sorry, I don't want to talk
about it. Okay, I've never seen raging ball I've also
never seen the brutalist though. You know there's a lot
of don't even act like you've never seen the raging Bull. No, no,
is it Denier No, that's like and that's like the
story that you love. Or is it Cinderella Man the
okay crell that's a true story as well. Yeah, yeah,
you've seen that, right. Sure, I've seen God, I saw
a million Dollar Baby with Hillary Swank where she hits
her neck on the on the on the stool. You've
never seen Cinderella Man or raging Bull. No, Okay, relax, guys,
let's go to break. When we get back, hope he
cats up with coach Mulki. I haven't got an answer
back yet. I should have, just so we'll see. We'll see.
Keep it locked here on OTB.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Ester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on y'all? Welcome back to tb where
every single Tuesday. We are so lucky and so blessed
to be joined by the best in the business, and
that is the legend herself, Coach Kim Mulkey. Right here
on the cusp of the tournament basketball coming to baton Rouge.
Coach Moulkey, what's going on? How we feel on this
Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5: We're hanging in there. Still got a little respiratory deal
going on, but you know, life goes on. How are y'all?
Speaker 2: We're doing well? Doing well? Coach missed you last week.
We were both on vacation. I don't know if you
have many of those or get to do many of those,
but I haven't got to talk to you since I
was that my daughter's Louisiana Day play for the first
grade over there at you High. We're here at U
Club for the U High Golf tournament. But in the
play they have everybody dress up as prominent Louisiana figures
and cultures. And what did you think about the video
I sent you of Lil Coach Kim and lit Simone Augustus.
Speaker 5: Well, I thought it was precious. I'm just I've gotten
a lot of videos lately. They had another school evob
during Marty girl that did a get a multi kid
float and all these kids were in the float dress
with all the stuff I wear. So it makes you
feel I don't know, special. I guess it's just sweet
to see young people that follow women's basketball and their
parents just put them in a position to learn a
little bit more about this game. But it's cute and
I loved it.
Speaker 2: And again it's it's incredible because you know, beyond championships
and whatnot, you are inspiring the next generation. But let's
talk about championships and whatnot. You've been always You've always
been very upfront about your goals for the conference tournament,
and it's mainly to do enough and to get out
of it health wise. Do you feel like you accomplished both.
Speaker 5: Goals well under the circumstances. Yes. And let me just
clarify anybody that's a competitor, when you play man, you're
playing to win. And I've been doing these conference tournaments
for years and I've always always been nervous and I've
won I don't know, T Bob twelve thirteen tournament championships,
So I go to win. Please understand that. But you
hold your breath also because I've also been in those
tournaments where significant players get injured and they're not able
to play in the NCAA tournament. So I've always questioned,
when a committee sits in a room, how important is
a conference tournament versus a regular season. Yeah, and I
think I think conference tournaments should never be more important.
But I think where we are now with the way
they do committee seating, when you have teams that are close,
they really use those to give them a higher seed,
and I'm not sure if that's fair either. What I
do know is we went to the SEC tournament. Of course,
I was out all week with a death in a family.
Flage everybody knew was not going to play in that
conference tournament. It's not that important for her to go
out there and continue to hurt, and so you still
ask in your team, next man up, next coach up,
go in a game, and they did that. Now, I
don't know how much people realize what we did against
Texas without flageout Borrow, when Michayla played very few minutes
because of foul trouble, and for us to go and
really really go toe to toe with at that time,
the number one team in the country I'm not in
the mare victories, but our kids fought like hell to
win that ball game.
Speaker 2: And coach, what can you take from that?
Speaker 4: Because you mentioned like there's players that you're going to
be counting on here coming up in the NCAA tournament
that kind of had to step off, But like, what
kind of benefits can that give you? When you have
players that have to play against the number one team
in the country, they play pretty well and they get
that experience.
Speaker 5: Well, it gives me confidence in them because they now
have that confidence. And I saw a lot from young
people that maybe I didn't see throughout the year because
Slage was available or michaela was you know, so they're
not on the floor, so you learn a little bit
more about them, so you know, it's it was just
good to see. And I made sure after that game
that you know, there's no all victories. That's not what
I played for. But you do learn in loss. If
I've said that many times, if you don't learn and losses,
then you're gonna lose again and you're gonna make the
same mistakes. And I learned a lot about my team
under the circumstances we were playing.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, and I know, and in the postgame you're
kind of asked about maybe a you know, a lack
of offense from your team, but you kind of point out, well, look,
i mean, look, we held Texas to fifty six points defensively, right, So,
like i'd say, our defense is defensive game. Our defense
pretty eamn good as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you got two coaches that chef defense.
I mean, every time we played each other, it's going
to be an ugly game because it's gonna be a
defensive battle. So I'm like, yeah, we struggled, but that
team played defense. But guess what, that's the number one
team in the country and they only scored seven more
points than we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so now it's urnament time. Coach basketball coming two
Baton Rouge assuredly, no matter what the seed ends up being,
and that's the kind of overall goal. You are someone
who's tournament resume speaks for itself. What are your kind
of biggest questions, concerns, strengths as you prepare for another
one of these win or go home tournaments that make
college basketball so special.
Speaker 5: The first thing I'd like to say is thank you
to LSU administration for recognizing and making sure that calendar
is open and that gym is available for us to host.
That is not a given. Do you realize this will
be the fourth year that we will host and that
goes to the top sixteen seeds out of the sixty
eight seventy two of how many go to the tournament now?
And we get to do that, And that's special. And
the reason it's special it is a reward for what
you have done your body of work all year and
we're going to get one of those. Had we one
out and Lage, you know, playing and we've done, we
would have been a two seeds regardless. So now we
might be a three seeds, so be so be it.
And what you get to do is you get to
play in front of your home crowd. Now they set
it up not like you're gonna have an advantage because
you only get so many seats here and other teams
have to have so many seats, but you're also it's fresh,
it's new, and you're not seeing anyone in the SEC.
You're gonna see teams from other conferences and so that's exciting.
And then if you win two games, which are not easy,
you win two games, you're gonna go to Spokane or Birmingham.
We're not going to Birmingham because your sec top two
seeds are going to go there and they're not going
to put you in the same region. So we're gonna
go to Spokane, is my prediction, and we'll see a
Big ten team or that it's usc y or you
know last year we were in Albany, New York and
ended up in the Elite eight, losing to Iowa. So
it's exciting. It's do or die and get your tickets
because it's not going to be cheap. NCUBA takes over
and they charge a certain amount for each ticket, but
we for four years straight now get to do that.
Speaker 2: And coach, you've been through this so many times.
Speaker 4: After a conference tournament, you're getting ready for the NCAA tournament.
So you know the blueprint and the map of how
you want to get things done. But does it ever
change like with this LSU team right, you mentioned getting
healthy and you've got some players that were able to
get some extra rest, Like is that the goal this year?
And does that goal kind of change of what you
want to get done before you actually find out who
the opponent is.
Speaker 5: Well, we always after the conference tournament, you take a
few days off and then you come back and for
three or four days. We'll start back tomorrow and we
will work on us. We'll get up down the floor Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
maybe scrimmage the guys a little bit and just you know,
stay in that flow, stay in that rhythm. One day
it may be all defense, one day it may be
all offense. Call out quick hitters, call out plays, call
you know, keep them, keep their mind fresh. And then
on Sunday, which is when the selection show is, we
won't go that day and I want a selection show,
a little party there in the PMAC and watch it
together with the public. And then as soon as that
selection show is over and you see who you play,
my coaches go to work. They get in the office
and they all start trying to find him and as
much as they can on the opponent. And then come
Monday and Tuesday, the NCAA's here and they tell you
what days you can be on the floor. And you know,
so it's not like we're gonna just be on the
floor after that when we want our regulars practice time,
we have to follow the same guidelines as the the
three schools.
Speaker 2: So again, like coach said, regardless, uh more basketball coming
to the p MAC. So pack it out, do what
you can with the a lot of tickets everything else,
and make it hard for the other team. Cheer on
this Tiger team. Fourth year in a row, you get
tournament action and the PMAC coach, we cannot thank you
enough for waking up with this. And no you're not
feeling well. You're the absolute best and we will talk
to you next week.
Speaker 5: Hey, guys, take care now, thanks you two.
Speaker 2: You're the best coach. Kim Moulkey legend. All right, when
we get back, very quick, wrap up to over two.
We all just coach, and then we'll get to our
three where Nick Gunderhill's gonna tell you everything that happened
yesterday and is happening with the New Orleans Saints. God,
it's cold.
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off the bench.
Speaker 2: Okay, we have ten seconds and we're back, so we're
all right. Hey, okay, guys, sorry, ten tickets here to
wrap up our number two. Apologize to this backclock management
by me, but we will be right back with more.
We got Nick underil breaking in all of your Saints.
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