Speaker 1: I'll start to what 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 aber.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob a beer.
Speaker 2: Welcome back baby. That's right.
Speaker 3: Maybe I have number two rolling right along, not a
ball the law we're gonna fou.
Speaker 2: Can you understand me? I don't like that we're all
with a whoo? Who are I understood that part?
Speaker 4: You said? Who understands what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Do you understand the other one?
Speaker 4: Say it again again?
Speaker 2: Sorry, this this whole I didn't mean.
Speaker 4: Say again. I meant what you were saying.
Speaker 2: This bit is just losing steam.
Speaker 3: I don't think it is incredibly fast, just just a
sinking chip.
Speaker 4: If you say the sentence again in that same point,
we are.
Speaker 3: Taking on water and the pumps are not keeping up
our number two of OTB here and uh look at
this guy's Louisiana sports dot Net citing that Ian report
huh a rap report rapper report report, saying that a
deal could be finalized with Kellen Moore as soon as
Tuesday and announced as quickly as Wednesday, I'll gladly pay
you tuesday for a head coach today. Do you know
that there's a reference to no have you ever seen Popeye?
Bill Kurt?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Spinach right, yeah, yeah, that's true. Well Wimpy. Uh,
he's always trying to He's how glad you pay you
tuesday for a burger today?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, who knows if you will? But uh, he's trying
to give.
Speaker 4: Them burgers like free beer tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look man, hey, look you buy this man like, I'll
pay you back tomorrow. I promise, I promise. Just give
me this burger. I'll pay you tomorrow. Just give me
this coach. So uh, in all likelihood, the Kellen Moore
story continue. I mean again, we probably know it's happening
and and and will likely have the official announcement late
tonight or early tomorrow. Probably it will leak out that
the deal is done today, and then he'll have your
maybe like press conference and everything else tomorrow, playing flights
and all of that sort of stuff. So what then
does the Kellen Moore era of the Saints start to
look like? From a coaching staff perspective, there appears to
be a lot of belief that Eagles quarterback coach Doug
Nussmeyer will end up as.
Speaker 2: The see which you know, man.
Speaker 3: Is just cool, Like, it's just cool from a human
narrative perspective, where you could have Garrett us Meyer top
of the Heisman charts, borderline all American quarterbacking the LSU
football Tigers, and even though he's a coach, his son
who has lived all over that is the college in
the state that he is most called home his entire life.
You could have him quarterback in the LSU Tigers with
great expectation on his shoulders while his father is offensive
coordinator for the New Orleans Saints. That's pretty cool. It's
objectively cool.
Speaker 2: Uh no, maybe.
Speaker 3: It goes full storybook and they end up drafting us
and he's awesome and he leads Saints to the super
Bowl and like this stranger in fiction and there's movies
made about who knows but Doug Mussmeyer looking like he's
a big top cannon for the OC position. What do
y'all think about this? And this is maybe the first
point in the show where I would really really love
to have Jake here because he would have much better
insight than us on this, but it seems like Brandon
Staley is a name for defensive coordinator that keeps getting
banned about it. I personally really like that. I think
Staley is a very good coordinator and was that's why
he got the head job to begin with. I you know,
I'm not a Chargers fan. I was kind of a
sucker for Staley as a head coach, so I felt
like he was always like I feel like he wasn't
like a god awful.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a disaster.
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe he took risks at times that
didn't work out for him, but I don't know, he
kind of I'll say this about Staley, he has a
little bit of David Griffin in him and that he
talks real smart and that's a great way to get
me to believe that, like you're gonna be the man.
But I think that'd be a very good defensive coordinator.
Pick up Staley and that's a big name. So now
Ross does say Ross Jackson on Louisiana sports Net does
say that another name to watch would be Tamba linebackers
coach George Edwards.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't George is not as much.
Speaker 5: They've had good linebackers, right, I mean he developed kJ,
which is why Devin White had to leave because they
did such a good job developing kJ. Brady kind of
took that job. Lavonte David's been great. I mean they
got good backs.
Speaker 3: He was decordinated with the Vikings, but he didn't call plays.
Must have been under the Floores administration. I wonder if
administration Zimmer must have been under the Zimmer administration.
Speaker 5: Wait, what so Dallas probably considered him for the job
play calling?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in all likelihood, probably he was the second guy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if you get Brandon Staley, Doug smiber really,
I mean it's Kellen Moore and Brandon Staley. I think
it's a pretty pretty powerful little combo there potentially. Now again,
what pieces will they have to work with? Only time
will tell. But it looks like Kellen Moore when we
the head coach of your New Orleans Saints, well, I mean.
Speaker 5: Brandon Staley, like his defenses were all a solid in
uh LA, would the problem wasn't couldn't score any points?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Why because Okay, Kellen Moore was under a offensive play
calling coach in Dallas, Right, that was his first time
he comes in the entire offense is thrown to him.
He's under a head coach that probably got the job
before he was ready. There was defensive minded anyways. So
you have a really young offensive coordinator that didn't have
much experience. You have a head coach that has no experience.
That's why it didn't work in LA. I mean his
defenses were still really solid though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. That's kind of funny to think
about too.
Speaker 3: What I mean a literal inversion if it does come
to pass where the students become the teacher and vice versa,
as they would have switched coordinators and head coach roles. Guys,
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Speaking of the New Orleans Saints, guys, the Super Bowl
odds are out for twenty twenty six, and how about
it Black and Gold to the Super Bowl. Well, seems
like the oracles out west don't have a lot of
belief as right now in a world where the Cleveland
Browns exist and Miles Garrett's trying to get traded and
Deshaun wants in as a tourn Achilles and probably misses
all of next year, it is the New Orleans Saints
who have these single worst odds to win the Super
Bowl next year at an incredible plus fifteen thousand plus
fifteen thousand. What were the Lester City odds when they
won the Premier League?
Speaker 2: Who was somewhere in there? I think I think it
was twenty Let's see because wow, Okay, Leicester City was
five thousand and one.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the Saints' odds are triple that of when
Leicester City won the Premier League. So the point of
that is, guys, if they could do it, you know,
crazier things have happened, Okay, or actually guess not, I
guess this would be crazier in that Wait no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
so I guess that point kind of rings hollow because
if they could do it well, they actually have better odds.
But the point is, guys, that was pretty crazy and
this would be pretty crazy as well for you.
Speaker 2: So so what let me let me okay, let me.
Speaker 4: Let me think about this.
Speaker 2: Let me think about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so how much how much would how much were
ten dollars pay? Why is my brain not working? If
it's plus one hundred, you just gonna double?
Speaker 2: Right? How much would plus fifteen thousand?
Speaker 3: I don't know, my brasin where I can't even do
it right now, But the New Orleans States, even the
Carolina Panthers are plus twelve thousand, five hundred Falcons plus
six thousand bucks plus four thousand Saints plus fifteen thousand. Guys,
it's time to put all of us to put money
on it. And create that positive in energy in momentum
to make it, uh, you'd make you'd win fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2: Worth, absolutely worth, dude, I agree, absolutely worth. Now, I
would not go up to I would not go to.
Speaker 3: One hundred, even though you'd win obviously, what fifteen thousand
at that point, Joe lebono cash out of the first
win or two? I mean, think about if you did
this last year, you probably could have gotten an okay
cash out after the two and o start.
Speaker 2: Remember that two and start?
Speaker 5: My god, remember who against what a long time it
was actually be wound up being very bad.
Speaker 2: So who's the first one? Was Panthers and Cowboys? I
mean there his cowboys. I knew that.
Speaker 3: God, those were heady times. Those were heady times, dude,
you know. I mean we're coming here black and gold
to the Super Bowl. Were spitting the car facts out.
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever really were fully bought in
on the scents.
Speaker 2: And you're proud of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're proud of your cynicism and your negativity. You're
proud of your pessimism. Good because you helped that you
cause the collapse there.
Speaker 6: Yes, because I actually feel pretty good about Kellen Moore
being the next head coach.
Speaker 4: So if I feel good about it, then.
Speaker 2: I meant we had to get da out of here.
Speaker 6: What I don't we had to get Derek Carr still
being the quarterback. That's what I don't feel good about.
And yes, we absolutely had to get Dennis Allen out
of here. And he should have been out of here.
He should have never been the head coach.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I'm going to be interested to
see if Keller Moore ultimately is a named head coach.
You did these odds change just to Tad because I
don't look at the Carolina Panthers. Okay, they have Dave Canalis.
And we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago.
Every bench Bryce Young and brought him back. I just
checked to make sure I was right about this. Seven touchdowns,
no picks in the last three games of the season
for Bryce Young.
Speaker 2: Was he great?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: It was like fifty touchdowns nine picks throughout the year,
but he ended on a seven nothing run. Look where
Dave Canalis was. He was at Seattle. He helped turn
around Geno Smith's career. What happens there? He goes to
the Bucks, he helps turn around Baker Mayfield's career. Then
he takes the job with the Panthers. He turns Bryce
Young around. I mean, I know, we talk about oh,
Sean Payton and this guy and this guy. I mean,
Dave Canalis is as good of a quarterback coach as
there is in the NFL. If you can bring in
a Kellen Moore and a Doug Nosmyer, can you get
anything out of some of these young guys?
Speaker 7: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: The only thing that worries me about Kellen Moore is
no fault of Kellen Moore's because he did ah. He
did a fantastic job walking into an uber toxic situation
in Philly, keeping everybody happy, navigating, you know, threading the needle,
and then find a way to win the Super Bowl. However,
in a really good Super Bowl game plan. However, the
Philly roster is probably one of the most well constructed
rosters in NFL history.
Speaker 2: I mean, on both sides of all.
Speaker 3: But if you just look offensively, a massive offensive line
featuring all pros and Lane Johnson and like lot on
the other side, you means, just absolute dogs. The best
running back in the league and Saguan Barkley, a quarterback
in the league, in Jalen Hurts, who is maybe not
the It was definitely like he's not the most proficient passer,
but in tangibles he's top of the league. You know,
tier one in tangibles, Tier one running Billy, tier one
size durability. You got one of the greatest short yardage
plays of all time. You got an all Pro receiver
in aj Brown, and then you got Devontae Smith. Like
so again, kel Moore did a really good job of
managing all of that and pulling out from its death
spiral and getting good things out of it. But my god,
the comparison, so we talked about yesterday, the comparison between
the two rosters is drastic. It's gonna be like living
in a first world country and then all of a sudden,
you you moved to a third world country in NFL terms,
So I don't you asked me like, oh, well, what
can you do these quarterbacks?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't well, Like to your point, this is a
closer roster he had with the Chargers unfortunately, where it
didn't go well. Now he wasn't running the show there, right,
that was Brandon Staley. We just talked about it. Kellen
Moore a lot more experience and now that he had
with the Chargers. But I mean, to your point, maybe
the worst quarterback he's had, because we talked about it yesterday.
He's had success with three very different quarterbacks. It was
also Dak Prescott, justin Herbert and Jalen Hurts. Yeah, I mean,
I'm not crazy about Dak Prescott. We know that he's
probably better than Derek Carr, and then he had better
weapons there even with the Chargers. I mean he had Herbert,
he had Austin Ekeler. I mean he had competent players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had Herbert Heed Herbert, which you know, still
still one of the better quarterbacks in the league. I'd say,
but hmmm, good luck to.
Speaker 3: Kill him more. Trying to make a meal out of
these ingredients. This is a bit like, uh, you know
an episode of Chopped where they throw like cheese puffs
in there.
Speaker 2: You still love Chopped as well? Chopped great.
Speaker 4: I'm on beat Bobby Flay now.
Speaker 3: I would actually love to a shout out our guy,
Jada Cody. He'd beat Bobby Flay back in the day.
I would love to go to the filming of one
of those shows one day and see how they actually work,
what the timings?
Speaker 2: Like, well, how how how that? How that all? I
always wonder how do they keep the food warm before
the judges taste it?
Speaker 4: They probably got like heating lamps or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but is that gonna lie? I mean, is that
not taking away from like you have me microwaving it.
Speaker 2: I just food looks so good though, No, it's incredible.
Speaker 3: I just I mean O look, I mean, I guess
the same thing could be said about restaurants.
Speaker 2: How do you keep it warm? And and you know
when you gotta time it all out of it?
Speaker 7: Crap.
Speaker 2: It's all about presentation anyways.
Speaker 5: Like you'll see a clip and they're like, it's absolutely delicious,
but like why does it look like this on the plate?
Speaker 2: Like who cares? Well? Uh no, no, no, I mean
I don't. I don't not care.
Speaker 3: I mean, first and foremost, I want the food to
be good. And you can do a thing where you
ironically make really good food and like you're actively like
I don't give a damn bout presentation. That could maybe work.
But there's somebody to be said for plating, you know,
for a nice plate, right, like even when you cook,
if you're making a Let's say you're putt to get
a little breakfast plate right, and maybe a little grease
is leaking off the sauces making you know, maybe grab
a little paper towel, just wipe up that white wipe
up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Of greasy of your nice kind of Oh, here's your
eggs you're baking. Maybe a little toast on the side. Whatever. Yeah,
Oh dude, I've been I've been having so much fun
in that black scent making breakfast.
Speaker 3: Who did a breakfast for dinner for the kids last night?
That thing's awesome, except it's like I'm used to cooking
at a slower paste. There's the same pan, and I'm
like cleaning and over and now now I'm just cooking
everything at once.
Speaker 2: I wish I wish it was an octopus. I had
eight arms. It'd be awesome in more ways than one.
Speaker 4: Would be crazy, so much stuff done if I had MS.
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'd do if I had eight arms.
I guess I do whatever I want.
Speaker 5: Ye'd be really hard to buy shirts, that is true.
Speaker 4: Make some holes in.
Speaker 2: Them, It's true. No, you'd have to. You definitely have
to get it off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: If you have any good.
Speaker 3: Uh, like griddle top flat you know, Blackstone recipes. Of course,
the YouTube hole goes infinitely deep on this, like the
YouTube hole does.
Speaker 2: On anything that you get into.
Speaker 3: But like I I like still getting information just interpersonally
from people. So if you're in the body for a
YouTube chet you did accomplished for five ESPN hit me.
Speaker 4: I think kbachi is the popular thing to do on
the Blackstone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I know, I know that, but
that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I want other things, is that, Like we'll probably dobachi
later this week. We did the smash Burger thing Breakfast yesterday,
and Breakfast is really going to be in one of
the stall warts because I'm a massive fan of like
making pancakes from scratch. It's incredibly easy and once you do,
the mixes just take like absolute garbage. Uh, but yeah,
I always want more.
Speaker 2: There's some more suggestions, guys posta la on the griddle.
That's interesting. Yeah, I will learn to do the onion volcano. Leonardo,
You do not have to worry about that absolutely all right.
Speaker 3: When we get back here on O TV, I think
guys may have to talk a little bit of Pelicans
before coach.
Speaker 2: You lock.
Speaker 3: Also, I actually got to talk about the situation with
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Speaker 4: It's mud on the dance.
Speaker 2: You better not kill the girl.
Speaker 1: DJ gonna burn this, burn this house right down. Welcome
in to the best morning sports, this show around off
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Speaker 2: Thank you getting a word. Hey, won't move you around.
Speaker 4: I'll take you all the way.
Speaker 1: Boy, Just come on, hell wanna say?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, guys, I apolize for the Pelicans tease.
Speaker 2: I was just naming a thing that was in the document.
Speaker 3: All the commercial break was just people sitting there saying like,
why why it's two minutes too long, blah blah blah
blah blah again, stick around. We've got Coach Molkey coming
up right after this. Okay, relax now as far as
Pelicans go, okay, rely, Okay, We're we're just gonna do
this real quick.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do this real quick. Guys.
Speaker 3: The Pelicans have lost nine in a row. So they
lose Thunder last night. They're twelve and forty one. It's
see third time this season they've lost nine in a row.
At a time when everything is going wrong with the
New World Saints, the same ownership group has also run
the New Orleans Pelicans completely into the ground.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And here's the final thing, Trey Murphy, how about this?
Guys already third all time in threes for the New
Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 2: What a franchise? What a franchise? Trey's Uh? Here we go?
Thank Who's who's first?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: If I had to guess, think Page is still up there?
Paige might be the Ryan Anderson maybe? God, but wasn't
that long? I don't know. Me, I don't know how
long he was there there, I don't know. I don't know.
That's a good question.
Speaker 3: He just passed up brandon ingram Mitchell Napp says it
can't be a professional organization lose nine games in a row.
Speaker 2: Well, actually you can. What a bit.
Speaker 3: Again, it's the Pelicans third time this year losing nine
in a row. I said this one, we got to
push that thing to ten, Like, come on, now, let's
get better. You're gonna do some of you the worst.
Alva War's wanting said, CJ is number one. That's crazy
if that's the case. But I could, I could actually,
I guess I could see it.
Speaker 2: YEPJ, So who's number two is a page?
Speaker 4: Number two? Is Trey on this list that I'm looking at?
Speaker 2: Weird?
Speaker 4: And then Jose Alvarado, No, this must.
Speaker 2: Be like anyway, So okay, I promise you two minutes
there were.
Speaker 3: Uh the situation with the Mavericks surday number one too?
Speaker 4: CJ is number one, Drew Holiday to Trey brandon.
Speaker 2: Ingram uh Leavincio.
Speaker 3: No, no talking about the one v two men's basketball
matchup in Tuscalue Saturday.
Speaker 2: Uh is the Iron Bowl one v two? Yeah? Oh wow?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: And Alabama is now one, not Auburn.
Speaker 3: So I'll say this, dude, and I apologize to you know,
people who care.
Speaker 2: But like.
Speaker 3: I've I've never been a men's college basketball fan, and
so for me get into it takes LSU being good
and relevant, and with the current state of the men's
program at LSU, that sport might as well not exist
in my mind. Like, and I feel bad because I know,
I know, like a lot of people look forward to
it on Saturdays and watching and it's all Auburn fans
have at this point, and so they're latched on like
a you know, like like like like Rose falling out
of the Titanic, clinging on for dear life.
Speaker 2: But I just I don't care. I don't care at all.
Speaker 3: So no, you will not be getting any Alabama Auburn
basketball talk. If you want that, I know there are
plenty of great resources out there that'll give it to you.
I do want to talk about how insane the Dallas
Mavericke situation is right now.
Speaker 2: Did you see at the game last night?
Speaker 3: They had over a thousand fans protesting before the game.
They had multiple fans get kicked out of the game.
They kicked out some fans because they had fire Nico signs.
They kicked out one guy who they put on the
jumbo trock because he was singing and then he immediately
transitioned to fire Nico, which, by the way, what are
we doing. You're kicking out the very people that are
like doubt, like what do you do? Now? You're the
ones that did you your dumbasses? Like when you do
something dumb and then you get mad at someone for
calling you like you just looked dumber. The owner, walking
back to his seat courtside at the third quarter, gets
booed by the entire crowd like it is unreal. This
trade is absolutely insane, and now Anthony Davis is.
Speaker 2: Out for multiple weeks with a not contact.
Speaker 3: Injury and Taylor, what did Kyrie or what did I
Luka Doncicch do yesterday?
Speaker 5: So if you look at the box score, I mean,
it's fourteen points for rebounds, five assists. But if you
watch that game, like I'm a nerd, I stayed up
and watched that game. It didn't tip off till nine
thirty last night, so that was one big complaint. But uh, look,
you only played twenty three minutes. But the plays he made,
I mean, he got a rebound and he just threw
a full court bullet to Lebron. He was dishing out
passes for open threes. I mean he was excellent, and
I get it, fourteen points, but he hadn't played in
a month and a half.
Speaker 2: Only twenty minutes. I thought he was awesome. I mean, Nico, bruh,
why did you do this to your career? Dude? Of
your high flute and talk.
Speaker 3: I hope we get the story one day that he
was forced to by his bosses because all of this
talk of like, you know, the easiest thing to do
would have been to do nothing.
Speaker 4: Him and Rob Polinka boys, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Also, like Luca was running the floor last night, and
I know they tried to make up this story which
I think this was an excuse for them doing it,
about them being worried about Luca's conditioning.
Speaker 2: Luca looked fast last night. He looked, he looked fast,
but he looked figure.
Speaker 3: Uh. Leonardis says Nico blew up the Steph Curry deal
when he worked at Nike because he kept calling him Seth.
Speaker 2: Steph's signed with under armoured n moron? Is that true?
And fairness also.
Speaker 3: Get the Michael Jordan deal, though, isn't how him and
Pelinka got to be friends.
Speaker 2: In the first place. Organized Kobe SR not not like Kobe,
thank you.
Speaker 6: It's like a communist country, you know, like we're just
gonna do whatever we want and when you complain about it,
we're gonna yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: This is not a democracy.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable, un freaking believable. As every day passes, it becomes
more shocking like it's not getting better with time, it's
actively getting worse with time.
Speaker 2: All right, Coach Molkey coming up next here on o TV.
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We might be the luckiest show in the nation because
we are joined by LSU women's head basketball coach coach
Kim Mulki, this time fresh off of an eighty two
seventy seven Super Bowl Sunday battle in the pmac an
Electric environment, LSU sweeping Tennessee for the first time in
school history.
Speaker 2: Coach, what's going on? How are we doing this Tuesday morning?
Speaker 7: We're doing great. We head off yesterday in the day
and I've got to talk to you. I've gotta go
to my monthly luncheon. I've got to go to TJ
RIZ and do the radio tonight, just the off day.
You know, the life in the the world of coaching,
it never ends.
Speaker 3: But coach, uh, that is something. And at this point,
you know, I don't like love to keep I don't
want to I don't need to keep bringing up stuff
like this because at this point it's just what you've done.
But like when you got this job, nobody went to
the games. You said, we're gonna change that, and you
change it through winning, but you also change it through relationships.
Speaker 2: Everything that you just said, getting out there in the.
Speaker 3: Public, shaking hands, meeting people, the power brokers, everything else.
What did it mean to you that on Super Bowl Sunday,
a couple hours before the biggest sporting event in America
to have that incredible crowd that was in the PMAC
on Sunday, Like, did you take any moments to reflect
on just how far y'all have come?
Speaker 7: I have not reflected, but I was very much aware
it was electric in there. I acknowledged it after the
game on the radio. And you know, te Bob, you're right,
winning puts butts in seats. But if you don't have
a relationship, and that's just something I believe in and
a lot of coaches don't believe in. It they don't
get out in the community, they don't raise their kids
in the community. I raised my kids in the community
in Waco, Texas, and this is what we created there.
Speaker 3: Coming home.
Speaker 7: I don't have my kids, they're grown now, but my
my connections to the state. You still get out, you
speak everywhere you go, you embrace everybody. And then winning, man,
it helps as well. And to think that we had
that many people and a lot did. A lot of
season ticket holders did go to the Super Bowl, and
I just encouraged them every chance I got to speak,
is give you tickets to somebody. Just give them to somebody,
and let's have people in those seats.
Speaker 3: Well, and the people showed out and it was raucus.
And then once again the team came through after the game. Coach,
I can't remember it was KG or miracle, but one
of them was talking about how you're always preaching to
them about impact, like when you get in the game,
your goal should to be able to make an impact,
no matter the amount of time that you're in the game.
Speaker 2: And I just wanted you to kind.
Speaker 3: Of explain that philosophy to us, how you communicate to
them what you mean by with that kind of impact philosophy.
Speaker 7: Every player in any sport wants to play, and I
tell them, when you get that opportunity, impact the game
in a way where it makes it hard for me
to take you off the floor. And I don't mean
scoring the ball. I mean if you're a defensive stop,
for man, take a charge, get a steal, make something happen.
If you're a scorer, go out there and contribute whatever
it is that you're good at. Impact the game in
some way. And our bench, I don't even like to
use the word bench. I can only play five at
a time. Yeah, those that came in when Flasee and
Marrow got in foul trouble in the third quarter, Man,
they want the game for us. Really, They extended the lead,
they impacted the game. They played extensive minutes because it
was hard for me to take them off the court.
And that's what you try to get. You try to
make them understand it's not about the five to start, Man,
I got to have eight in nine. And when you
get your opportunity, produce.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: And coach, you want to talk about the bench, because
Tennessee is known for that style where.
Speaker 2: They play a ton of people. They do like full
like hockey line shifts.
Speaker 3: I know foul trouble is a contributing factor, but did
you get the feeling at all that maybe your team
wanted to show some of their depth, show that. Okay,
you're known for playing all these people, but guess what
we can keep up to in that regard.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, that is the most unique thing
I've watched. I can only think of west Kid all
west Head used to play a style like that back
in the day, but not on the women's side of
I ever seen. I think it's probably a case of
they want to wear you down, and I'm not changing
my philosophy. I'm not stubbing like they do. I'm gonna
go with my rotation based on the field of the game.
And I just thought that our bench was so valuable,
particularly in a game like that when they are stubbing
a lot and then bringing fresh legs. But it didn't
change how I approached the game. But I just can't
emphasize enough late in the season, this is what you want.
It's not something I haven't been preaching to them. I mean,
now I'm in that locker room, we're in that film room,
and I'm telling them, guys, we have to produce when
you get in the game, no matter what rotation you're in,
if you're my seventh one or if you're my eighth one,
we got to produce. And man they did. I know
we talk about Miracle and we talk about KG, but
I can't say enough about Jada Richard. If only freshmen
we have, we win by five big buckets and scores
of free throw and her minutes were valuable. She didn't
get the minutes Miracle did or the minutes KG did,
but what she did in the minute she got was
so valuable.
Speaker 3: Well, and it goes back to that impact that you
were talking about. There's play of ways to impact the game.
What about growth points, coach, because again this is the
second game against Tennessee and the impact of the press
are are very different between the two games, and that
you weren't forced into a lot of turnovers this game.
And you kind of credited the fact that in game
number one you had so much success in creating open
looks and and and layups.
Speaker 2: What were your biggest growth.
Speaker 3: Points that you saw to your team from Tennessee Game
one to Tennessee Game two.
Speaker 7: Well, I can't I don't know Tennessee's scouting report. But
I'm gonna address that from what I thought different When
we played them in Knoxville, they pressed and we really
handled them. We only had fourteen turnovers for the entire game,
but when they were pressing, we would beat the press
and get layup after layup after a layup, And I
mean we went up eighteen points and the amount of
points we scored in the taint was off of transition
layups because we took care of the ball. I found
it to be different this game that Tennessee did not
press us like they did. I mean, they were there,
but it was different. It was like they did not
want to give up those layups they gave up in Knoxville,
so it was more of a half court defense. And
so consequently, we only had thirteen turnovers this time around.
So taking care of the ball was key, especially when
you played teams that try to get a lot of
spiels and Coach.
Speaker 3: One other kind of theme or trait of this team
this year has been their ability to close out close games.
You know, every time y'all are in a dogfight, y'all
seem to find a way to come out on top.
And it's different contributing factors every time. I mean Sunday,
what twenty to twenty two from the line in a
game that end is like that, I mean absolutely critical.
My question to you is you've been you've done this
for so long, and you understand the value of how
these things carry over into the future. It is how
important or impactful is this ability to win close games
when it comes to tournament time.
Speaker 7: Well, I will say this, of all the teams off coach,
this team has really other than one game, they really
have learned how to finish games that are close. They
don't get rattled. That doesn't mean that we're not going
to lose close games. We've got one coming up Sunday. Guys,
it matters to play at home. And my goodness, you
saw them go to South Carolina talking about text as
they get blown out South Carolina and then they get
another chance at South Carolina at home and they beat
South Carolina. So it's there's something to playing at home,
and it's real, especially when the teams are of equal
talent and it's just gonna be a tough one. We're
all tied. Three of us are tied for first place,
and that's an honor in itself, but it's temporary, but
it just tells you that when this season is over,
you've got some SEC teams that are worthy of one
seeds and don't just pick one out of the SEC.
And we'll see if that happens. But finishing lots of
tough games brings that experience that when you're in a
tough game that then you win or lose. You've been
there many, many, many times, and it just seems this
year has been just a ton of times.
Speaker 3: And well, coach talking about there this Sunday two pm
in Austin, Texas, a top five matchup, the fifth ranked
LSU team going against the third ranked Longhorns. It is
going to be an absolute battle. Coach, What does Texas
do so well that? Like? What does this give us
a quick Scotter report on the Longhorns.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I can't believe I'm going back
to Austin, Texas after doing it for twenty one years
in the Big Play. Truth, I think I'd have to
go back to hear the high of Texas are anyway,
but I will be in the new Arena. Moody and
what you're going to see out of VIC staff for
teams is the same thing we used to see when
he was an assistant at Texas A and M for
coach Gary Blair. The same thing he did at Mississippi State,
and that is hard nos, aggressive, push up in whatever
it takes defensively, that's how they play now. He used
to press the lot. That does not press as much.
But anything they do in a half court defense, it
can be ugly and it just makes you look bad
if you don't take care of the ball.
Speaker 3: So can't wait for that game on Sunday going to
be so much fun. Coach, what about this, There's a
pretty cool event. We'll continue to talk about this over
the next month or so, but coming up a March eleventh,
five pm the Cocks Auditorium. You're going inside the courtroom
with TBS News Jan Crawford.
Speaker 2: It's a Q and A with you. Tell me a
little bit about what to expect at that event and
why it's so important to you.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm real excited about the event. In fact, you
guys are announcing it before anybody else, including myself. I
was going and have a permission to announce it today
at my monthly lunching. But we need to promote it.
We need to let everybody be there. And Crawford is
a legend in just you know, she's with CBS and
she's been doing the legal corresponding for thirty something years.
She knows everything about this Supreme Court. She has written books,
a book about the Supreme Court. Jan and I became
friends through mutual friends. And she's a divorced mother of four.
And I know, t Bob, it's hard to believe that
I would number one be a friend with a journalist, okay,
And number two she's a dang Alabama graduate, so little
country girl, I know it from North Alabama, went to
Alabama common threats and I do love Nick Saban. But Jan,
in her own right, she is a journalism major. She
ran the student newspaper, an editor of all that stuff
at Alabama. Then she goes and works for the Chicago Tribune.
Then she goes to law school, gets married, moves to DC,
and becomes you know, a legal cars. You see her
every day on CBS. Just turn it on. She's always
doing stories, especially when the court is in session. And
the thing I love about out her most is he's
a good Southern girl. She's never forgotten her roots. But
she's so dang smart, and her youngest child plays college
basketball at George Mason, so we have that common thread.
But I want everybody to come just listen to her
and just for me to be a part of it.
It's kind of like it's going to be a fireside chat,
and we need to show up and show out like
we do at my ballgames. That's thing. That place, Cox
Auditorium seats a thousand, and let's get in there for
about an hour and have fun with old Mulkie and
a journalist.
Speaker 3: If you can believe that a five pm Q and
a inside the corum Tuesday, March eleventh, The Cox Auditorium
will continue to discuss it as you get closer. Coach,
I could tell that you were tickled with Kg's answer
in the postgame about how she turns it on against Tennessee.
What what what she say that Tennessee picked up the
phone a little bit too late in the transfer portal?
Speaker 7: Yes, And I said, well, thank goodness, but I'm gonna
tell you, y'all played sports. We've played sports. Little things
that matter to us may not matter to a coach
or to another player. We all have internal motivation, and
I noticed this about KG. When she is like on
fire and she's really feeling it on the court, she
will kind of mouth off to the other dean's coach
and I finally asked one of my coaches, I said,
what is she saying down there? And they finally they
didn't know if she was gonna get in trouble if
they told me. But what she does is she'll just say,
you should have recruited me, you should have recruited me.
And so she's got this little chip on her shoulder
or whatever you want to call it that when she's
doing good, she wants to like say those things to opponents.
And I tell her, you can't do that. You gotta
stop doing that. You're gonna get teed up up and uh,
you're gonna cost this and furthermore, they're not gonna like you.
They're not gonna She goes, I don't care. I just
have to get it off my chest. I don't care.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah, That's what I'm talking about, dude. Coach. Look,
I mean, until it becomes a tea, until we comes
to you, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Uh, Coach, You're the absolute best. Good luck this week,
good luck on Sunday. Cannot wait, I cannot wait to
watch Thank you again.
Speaker 7: Hey guys, have a good one.
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Speaker 2: Or what do you wanna do here? Can we is
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench.
Speaker 3: That's a big apologies for me. You know, I always
like to go along with coaches, right, and so it
is what it is. We got a long commercial break.
I feel badly. I feel badly, but we got a
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the other side.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.