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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in hour number two OTB.
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Speaker 3: Doctor Stephen at the Ridge here us as he is
every single Wednesday. Doc, how are we doing this week?
Speaker 5: Doing really well?
Speaker 3: Are we prepared for Thanksgiving tomorrow? Are we ready to go? Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Absolutely? I've got a solo Thanksgiving. I'm actually excited about though,
really solo.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The family's on their way to Texas right now. Hope
they're driving safe.
Speaker 3: Okay, very good.
Speaker 5: I'll beat with the neighbors. But I'm kind of excited
to watch football.
Speaker 2: Just watch a little bit by yourself.
Speaker 3: Sit there, watch a little ball.
Speaker 5: It's been a few months since I've had a day
off night.
Speaker 2: So what part of Texas they had it to.
Speaker 5: They're just going to Waco. So she grew up outside
of Waco and Clifton, so they're on the road, maybe
even listening, so shout out.
Speaker 2: The center of Texas.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 2: I was like, I mean, that's kind of what it's like,
the biggest it the center of Texas.
Speaker 3: Austin's Austin's kind of the center, right, all right, Taylor
pull up a map of Texas for us.
Speaker 2: I like studying. They're like, yeah, well, Waco is the closest,
bigger city to the middle of Texas.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it my teacher did.
Speaker 3: I mean, what you're supposed to be a texton. This
feels kind of weird because.
Speaker 2: What the secments about?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, it wasn't, but now it kind of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is what do you do for brain injuries? Doc?
Speaker 3: Oh? Lord, who's he asking for you?
Speaker 2: So you're able to kind of by yourself, so you
get to watch a lot of football. So are you
gonna do it like any of the traditional stuff?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna?
Speaker 5: Well, we have some neighbors that I'll probably go grab
some stuff with, hang some lights.
Speaker 3: Perfect, So definitely Austin's west of Waco abline is kind
of more than any other par.
Speaker 2: Maybe they meant from north south maybe yeah, north south ish?
Speaker 3: Are you just like in the middle, like not east
west situation?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Maybe the middle of like where people are.
Speaker 4: Because there's no, people from Waco to Lobbick.
Speaker 2: You're saying, I mean past.
Speaker 4: You know what, I didn't realize Lubbock was that north.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like the Panhandle.
Speaker 2: Was like down in this area.
Speaker 3: I thought it was just like straight where I'll pass
is where it's at, but just straight down and even
with like.
Speaker 2: Where this t is on the map. All right, I
guess there we go. There you go wake definitely dead center. Nope,
it's not not at all. I think it meant that.
Maybe it meant the middle from top to bottom. Nobody,
nobody really so yeah, I like how the Alamo is
just on there too. Whatever, Well, it's all the major remember,
you know, never forget it.
Speaker 3: You can't forget it.
Speaker 2: They still have a Yeah, can we go.
Speaker 3: To that b yu b Colorado last year in the
Valero Yeah, yeah, show you don't say that boll game.
I don't think they have an sec TI thing. It's
a big twelve situation.
Speaker 5: It's big twelve pac twelve. But now I don't know
what that even means.
Speaker 3: They're getting that large buddy, we're going to the Texas Bowl.
Speaker 2: We're gonna make every year.
Speaker 3: You can go ahead and book your travel. It's gonna
be a Texas Ball. If L Shoe's got a record
like we do, you're going to the Texas We at.
Speaker 5: Least go to like the music city, except that that's
kind of my vote.
Speaker 3: Going to because the Shoes tied to Houston. You know
you're gonna get more fans if you go to the Bowl.
It's it's actually.
Speaker 2: Smart to Texas Ball last year.
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, that's right because grandfather played for Baylor.
Dad played for L s U. Yeah, you're going for.
Speaker 2: Law Shoe or bail Yeah, oh yeah, for sure, but we.
Speaker 3: Got I gotta get the breakdown. Definitely, you're going for
allow Shoe. Okay, what is your grandfather? Mister al and
think about that.
Speaker 6: A he he definitely went for They.
Speaker 2: Were talking a lot of trash play quarterback there he
should go.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, but you were going for LSU.
Speaker 4: I was definitely going all right, well yeah, nice couch?
Speaker 3: Uh? Anything different this week being a kind of a
it's not a short week, but it's a it's a
different week, kind of a weird week. Practice may be
scheduled a little bit different, Like do you worry about
anything like getting out of your norm?
Speaker 5: Yeah, different week? You know, I think y'all referenced earlier,
are gonna practice early tomorrow. They're gonna let the guys
have that you do something for Thanksgiving. But I think
from a standpoint of what we do on the medical side,
it's it's it's it's basically the same, you know, it's
it's by the time you get a Thursday, it's it's
getting to be easier practices anyway.
Speaker 2: So so we heard, uh, we're not we don't need
to get any specifics, but like there's a laundry list
of you know, injury lists at this point of the year.
But just like it's that.
Speaker 3: Time was getting his workout.
Speaker 2: Definitely get to work up kill jogging out there last week. Okay,
Saturday was rough, but it's kind of it's it's one
of those things that's the kind of the year. I mean,
that's always this time of the year, the end of
the season, of the regular season, that list is always
going to be pretty long. Is that pretty normal for
it to be, you know, a decent amount or is
this a little bit of abnormal situation?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this time of the year, it is normal. You're
trying to use as much duct tape and everything else.
We can to hold the guys together. Saturday was a
little more than we'd like to see. You know, we
were you know, out there quite a bit. Fortunately, nothing
too too crazy, but it was it was definitely a
busy night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. Yeah, man, it is one of those nails.
On the broadcasts. We were like, okay, going back to
the old injury tent, going back to the injury tent,
and look, if you can't say anything on this, like obviously,
but when like when you decide to go into the
injury tent, like, I guess, what's the protocol? Like, is
it depending on what the body part is? Is it
depending on what's going on? Kind of because it's not
a big space, but you got to be in there,
you got to do examination.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a little bit of all the above.
So what's the injury. You know, we have guys down there,
they're a little bit more specialized within a shoulder versus
a knee versus other things. So then also what's the
position or the offense defense? So which trainer is gonna
go in at least you know, usually they kind of
break it up, so there's some different different ways we
kind of break that down. And then yeah, you just
kind of figure out what you need and whatever we
can do in there. Unlike I know we had talked
about earlier in the year, the NFL has pretty strict
rules of who can't go Yeah. Yeah, there's none of
that can go out. Yeah, but I mean to be fair,
I don't ever remember a time that we've had anybody
come and, you know, from a coaching side and give
us any anything.
Speaker 2: You never got day Baled, We never did.
Speaker 3: That's far. I know we're trying to get like go
down to Gordio. Hey, Gordya, like get up in that
tent like that. What's going on in there? Okay, so
you're gonna miss big playoff game you have Madison prep. Yeah,
a big game because I'm gonna stay back for us.
I'm gonna stay back.
Speaker 5: Somebody needs to. I can't imagine why, but you know.
Speaker 2: Uh, dog, I heard somebody talking about this other day.
Not necessarily from a sports injury. I was just curious
because I've had some like some shoulder issues recently. Not
Christmas tree related either, like my back, it's just you know,
life related. Doing too many push ups, I guess, listen
too much weight. What's a Jesus what's a frozen shoulder?
So that is a great question, thank you.
Speaker 3: That is my mother in law has had a frozen
shoulder as long as I can remember.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the fancy name for frozen shoulder is adhesive capsulitis.
Speaker 3: So that's adhesive capsule itis.
Speaker 5: So so the shoulder, like any joint, has a capsule
that's wrapped around it. So what happens for whatever reason,
sometimes it's after an injury. Sometimes we just see this
one of those kind of just because things though, but
you'll develop almost some scarring on that capsule and it
will literally lock the capsule down. And so what you'll
see is these people come in with the shoulders that
literally can't move limited and even like I'll grab your
shoulder and that's you know, and I'm talking about doing
my exam, you know, the first question is can you
move the shoulder? So can you raise it up? Can
you go through a normal range of motion? And then
if you can't, can't I Sometimes you're get stuck here
and then I lift it and it comes right up.
Other times I'm moving and that's that's that's usually when
you have a frozen shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you say capsule, you just something like the
socket that the the arm bone is in.
Speaker 5: Like what basically, so the capsule is almost like a
water balloon that wraps around it and it kind of
everything that's inside the joint. So you talk about like
when you have a swollen knee, well, why where is
that swelling. It's inside that capsule. So that's why it
kind of looks and feels like a water balloon. And
that's the kind of the way I describe it a
lot of times is you think about a water balloon
wrapped around all the joints, have it even your fingers, everything,
and so in the shoulder for whatever reason, it's one
that's very prone to getting locked up.
Speaker 2: And now is that water balloon stuffing that can like
I don't know, be burst or like the be it.
Speaker 5: You can you can damage it. So for example, if
you had an acl injury and a knee. The ones
that sometimes have more stability problems are if they have
other injuries like but also the capsule, because the capsule
does add some stability, so you can tear the capsule.
It doesn't really pop per se, and can get this
raw some circumstances, but typically you know it can be torn.
You can't injure the capsule.
Speaker 3: Now I heard this.
Speaker 2: They told me about like the treatment for it, like
there's not a lot of treatment for it. And now
I didn't believe this part of it, but somebody said
that sometimes they'll even put somebody under anesthesia and just
like yank the hell out of their shoulders.
Speaker 5: That is definitely true. So with the frozen shoulder.
Speaker 2: Yet it is the skull for learning that.
Speaker 5: You literally will take them into the o R, you
put them to sleep and you just grab the shoulder
and you'll hear those addeachments popping. So you'll just force
that shoulder and it said pop pop, and it's it's
one of the more kind of grewsome things we will
sometimes do.
Speaker 3: That I don't like any of that.
Speaker 2: I could do that, call me in next time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all right, so fun. We got to talk
about our guy, Sir Joseph Burrow, after a turf toe
injury has sidelined him, I believe for the last nine games.
And we talked about it when it happened. Not all
turf toe is created the same. This one required surgery,
which obviously is gonna be different than you know, if
you just have a mile case of it, any calls
for concern because there's a lot of people saying, like,
why would Joe Burrow come back they've won three games. Well,
you've never talked to Joe if you asked that question, right,
But like, if you're healthy, like and this is an
injury that had surgery on it, you would feel like
he would be pretty safe to come back, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's it's there's always a little risk.
I mean, let's just be honest. The first time you
step on the field after an injury, you know, you
tore ligament, you you had whatever, We're always a little
bit worried, especially if it's in the same season. So
when is the right time? You know, And you're gonna
do as much you can to protect that. They're gonna
put some extra plating in the shoe that's gonna help
prevent motion of the toe. They're gonna do a lot
of splinting, taping, hato. They're they're they're not fun, but
they work and and and that's because what we're what
we're talking about is you put a little composite steel
plate down the bottom of the shoe, and that makes
the shoe bend less and so if shoes bending less,
the toe is bending less, it's less stress on that joint.
So they're gonna do all that, you know, Uh, the
risk is going to be pretty small. It's probably a
little bit less than what it would be had he
not just had it repaired. But I think they're going
to look at it. And to your point, you know,
with with with Joe, Yeah, he's gonna be out there.
I remember in the National Championship game, the last last
touchdown in the first half, and remember got hit really hard.
The sims New hit him, and uh, we were afraid
he might have broke a rib. And we couldn't find
him because we're like, we just got check him out
and the trains, you gotta check him out. He had
snuck out the field because I think he was afraid
that we might pull him, which we're not going to
do that there, you know. But I think literally we
couldn't find him. He we go out there and he's
throwing balls in the field by himself, like because he's
snuck away because he didn't want us to take a
look at.
Speaker 2: Him ducking the docks. I like it. I mean, yeah,
some people are just built different, right, and some people
just and that kind of like bridges me to my
next question on it. For you, it's like this day
and age in college football where there's payment, people are
making money, people have are thinking like really big picture.
You know, people with a lot to lose will sit
out bowl games and different things, like in a season
where things aren't going the exact way you want and
players are dealing with injuries rather they're big injuries, small injuries, whatever.
It is. How much of the decision to play or
not to play because of injury at a time like
this is individually based and based on the person. Is
it the coach that makes the final decision or is
it the player that is able to make that decision.
Speaker 5: Well, it has changed, for sure, you know, because there's
so many more variables than there were even a few
years ago. But at the end of the day, I
think the way we approach the process really hasn't changed
that much. So it starts with the player. I mean,
that's where it all starts. We talk to the player
because if you tell me you don't think you can go,
you're putting yourself and everybody else at risk going out there.
So even if it's something where maybe medically we're thinking, hey,
this guy looks pretty good, his knees looking better, his
whatever is looking better. So it starts with discussion with
the player, and then yes, medically, obviously we're we're brought
into the discussion like, this is what the injury is,
Can you play with this? Is it safe to play
with this? What would be the worst case scenario? And
it does sometimes change based in the year. You know,
if somebody has a shoulder that's a little bit unstable,
sometimes they'll play the rest of the year and fix
it at the end of the year. And if it's
a year when we're hey, we're looking like we're gonna
make a playoff run or all that, is there any
risk to do in that? Of course, just like talking
about with Joe, there's always a little risk, but that's
weighed differently in a year where yeah, maybe we're out
of the playoffs and you're saying, well, gosh, the best
thing medically might be to just fix this shoulder now
or there very least rest you. So it's a lot
of those discussions, and we involve the players. Now, it
involves the agents. You know, historically would be the player,
the parent, you know, we would say, hey, look, do
you want to get your mom or dad on the
phone or have them come in along with the trainers.
And a lot of times the coaches are involved, but
probably they're the last yeah piece in that equation most
of the times. You know, we try to make all
the medical decisions independent, but obviously their input. This is
what we want you to do the rest of the
year is going to be important.
Speaker 2: Has there ever been like a situation where you're like, man,
I just don't think you should go and the players like, no,
I'm going doc, And it's like from Happy Gilmore Sam,
You're like, what do I know, I'm just a doctor.
Speaker 5: Probably every year we have some of those, And and
then there's different lines. You know, if somebody is a
concussion head injury, they are out. We are not putting
them back in, even if you say that. But there
are other ones where I'm like, well, look, there are
risk if that's the way you approach it.
Speaker 3: Like maybe a small tier in your labor m or something,
you know, meniscus maybe or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And it's it's it's it's you got to decide.
And and and even with some of our players that
are not you know, collegiate athletes. You know, if it's
a high school player, it's different if you're a sophomore
versus a senior. If I'm a senior and I'm not
going to college, I've got this. If I'm playing tomorrow
night with with you high a chance to play in
the playoffs and this is my last go. It's a
lot different than a guy who's a D one blue
shit prospect too. If you go out there and mess
up your injury, your career might be ended. So so
even at the lower levels, it's it's always discussion and
there's different levels of injuries that that we have to
talk about.
Speaker 3: All right, last one before we let you go. If
you don't know, Doc loves LSU through and through, but
he also loves Florida State fs U. That's where he played.
Go knowles.
Speaker 4: Jo Mills with Mike Norvel congrant next year. Congratulations A right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Novel coming back.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's been a uh. I have some group texts
that have been on fire. Not always a good fire,
but yeah, it's been. It's been an interesting talking point.
Speaker 3: There, Okay, But I mean, look, they built a new
football facility, updated the stadium, so that buyout money. I
think got to put back into the program.
Speaker 5: It's a big it's a big money. It's a big number,
and you know they just extended them and a lot
of things. It's it may not be a decision people liked,
but it was a business decision. I reckon, Yeah, it
was a decision.
Speaker 2: It was a choice. Maybe they can get out of
the buyout. Hey, people are trying it.
Speaker 5: You hear things, all right.
Speaker 3: Doc, we appreciate it. Enjoy a low key Thanksgiving question
for it. I appreciate it. All right. We will take
a break. We've got Kim Moulkey joining us in about
fifteen minutes from now. We've got Connrae Garrett joining us
in hour three. We're gonna do munchies today since we
won't be here tomorrow, so a lot still come in
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Hucks said, you know what, Dad, that seat over there
came about that life. I'm a guy that needs to
be on this side of what they want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're on this side of the camera. That'd
be a good opportunity to hear from the younger generation
of Tiger fans. Football fans. I got Huck is all
about all over the NFL, all over college football. So
I want to get some predictions from you get some.
We're gonna call them not hot takes. We're gonna call
them hook takes. All right, ready, that was good? All right?
Who is going to win the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 8: Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: The okay, all right, Danny Die all right?
Speaker 2: Out of the a f C. Well, who are they
going to play out of the NFC?
Speaker 3: Don't say the Packers. Don't say the Packers.
Speaker 2: So whoever you want, it's a good matchup. To give
a good matchup, that's a that's very likely to happen. Actually,
as the Rams, of course playing incredibly by far, I
think maybe maybe not by far, but probably the number
one on the power rankings list, Yeah, I would say so.
All right, Okay, who is Huck Finn's favorite NFL football player?
Speaker 8: That's hard, all.
Speaker 4: Right, give me well, I mean we know number one,
Derek I went to the same school as you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I also like Justin Jefferson, Mason.
Speaker 2: Taylor, Okay, yeah, all right, yep, big Saquon guy as well. Yeah,
big Saquon Barkley guy.
Speaker 4: He's not giving me enough points on my fantasy team though.
Speaker 8: Well, well, I also like Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 2: That should be the NB absolutely all right, yeah, okay,
national championship in college.
Speaker 4: You see how he started saying running backs and match like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't do this. Mister Jake did give you
a card of Mike Allstarle, but you got to learn
about Mike Alsto plays fullback.
Speaker 3: So do you load to like YouTube highlights? You ever
do that?
Speaker 4: Like if players like Derek Stingley highlights that.
Speaker 8: A YouTuber where like the crazy NFL players.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, just when you get home today, you get
back to your tablet, just google Mike Allstart highlights and
I promise you you'll enjoy it. Yep, Okay, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Mean I'll be in the car for five.
Speaker 3: Hours, so you'll have plenty of time.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: They well be in the car for five hours, so
I guess by the fifth hour, maybe I'm running out
of things to watch.
Speaker 3: I'll watch some fullback highlights.
Speaker 2: You can watch Mike Alstock, Carrie.
Speaker 3: Mike Allstotts highlights on YouTube. It's like when we remember
when we talk about Sean Jordan's Hilight tape. It's like
that in the NFL, then not in l Pass high
school football exactly.
Speaker 9: I think you'll love this. I made Victoria watch Michael
stut highlights. Like in July, I couldn't decide what to
watch on TV. She's like, what are you gonna watch?
I was like, we're actually gonna watch this. Come sit
down right here.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 9: It was like, there's this peak football right here. And
we watched a ten minute Michael Start highlights. You know
what was bressed?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean she's got eyes in a brain, of
course she was, Hey, taste.
Speaker 2: We got some hashtag asks in the chat right now,
all right, hashtag ask huck, who is your favorite l
s U football player?
Speaker 8: L s U football player?
Speaker 2: H mm hmmm, of course I like.
Speaker 8: Present or like of all time?
Speaker 7: Of all time?
Speaker 6: Okay, Derek Stingly Yeah, okay, wow, also liked Sorry dad,
all right, those highlights are a little too grainy.
Speaker 2: Might be top thirty.
Speaker 3: He's like, wait, Dad, you played that all the.
Speaker 8: Shoot top five.
Speaker 2: Actually you actually often tell me that I'm the what
are you falling? The ninth best quarterback in l s
U history?
Speaker 8: Not actually so voted. I looked it up. Voted at
said third, okay, voted and of all time six.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 10: Hey you're the top six, but but you're number four,
my heart, Dad, all right, ask Gatorade or.
Speaker 3: My high.
Speaker 8: Hydration my high taste gater.
Speaker 2: From Brady is not about being honest, dude.
Speaker 3: He broke it down the love and he's like, oh hydrated,
my high, but my gosh, oh wow, would be your
own people? You know?
Speaker 2: Well, closing you.
Speaker 3: Go from there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we got to close up shop now.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's cook.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite family Thanksgiving tradition?
Speaker 8: Mm hmmm, do you know?
Speaker 2: That's kind of a good question. We kind of do
a little some different every year. True, you get that
hand though, Yeah, where we're kind of I don't know
if we have any like actual things that we've done
every single year that kind of stick out.
Speaker 9: Watch you yell at the packers every Thanksgiving? Huh, he
didn't watch you yell at the packers. Everything's given. True,
we do yell at the packers. We watched the football, yes,
of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: After after Thanksgiving we got Elvis comes.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, true. I'm pretty I'm convinced it's twenty six.
Speaker 2: Twenty six.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm saying it's not before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: He's always yep, right after.
Speaker 4: It's a late Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Mhm, that's that's a late Thanksgiving. Little tradish.
Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely, all right, Well, there's no coming back from that.
I don't know that Huck's gonna take over the family business.
As we're seeing in the chat here.
Speaker 2: Well tastes better, obviously, he's got some productive criticisms. Got
something that's actually been a big part of the Taste
Test committee on the last two flavors that came out,
the barry Berry early on and then the Island Eyes.
We have a couple of flavors that are approved by Huck.
Speaker 3: Can we get the grape pushed along?
Speaker 2: Do you like the grape? We've tried the grape at home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, it must have been memorable, be real good.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to get the grape plug for like
a year.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I thinks over there we go, There we go,
there we go, right, there we go.
Speaker 2: Its basically just a flavor company.
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Speaker 1: From the locker room to the airwaves gets off the
bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in OTV here live from the
Raising King Studio. Always our pleasure to welcome on our
next guest. We look forward to it every single week.
It is the head coach. LSU hoops coach Kim Moulki
joins us. Now, coach, what's going on? How you doing?
Speaker 7: I'm living life, guys. I'm out walking in the beautiful
sunshine here in Saint Thomas, the Virgin Islands and had
breakfast with the team and hear roosters crowing in the
background and don't have anything to do until four forty five.
Speaker 3: How are y'all our coach? That is incredible. When I
was talking to you last night, I'm just sitting there
thinking like, man, I need to get on the basketball broadcast.
I mean, I'm on the football broadcast. We're going to Norman,
Oklahoma and you're in the Virgin Islands. I think I
did it the wrong way.
Speaker 7: Well, look, you guys are used to winning, right, Yeah,
we don't have a head coach. Hell, I think you
ought to call the athletic department and say, guys, y'all
need to let us go with Moulkey on some of
these trips in football. Right, I said, we want to
be around, we want to be around a winner. But
look sounds like lots hopping in baton rouge and trying
to find a coach. And I don't ask questions. I
just get posts from people because not on social media.
So there's all kinds of rumors out there.
Speaker 3: Coach, how crazy is that? Because I mean you've gone
through where you've taken a job or you take the
LSU job. Like, how crazy are some of the rumors
that are out there compared to like what actually happens
when you take a new job.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I've been very fortunate. I haven't had
to look out of a suitcase. Most coaches, you know,
fired and moved to the next job. When I left
the places I've left, which are only two places, guys,
it was about it was my choice and so I
know how blessed I've been. But what is funny is
the things people make up to gain attention on social media. Yeah,
and they don't know anything. They just stir it up.
But sometimes, from what I've been told, social media has
kind of what's going on, but then they just really
you know, make it sound better or worse or whatever
than it really is.
Speaker 2: I think we are all really really ready for the
rumor mill to stop and for something to happen, because yeah, well,
just like you, we're kind of tired of just seeing
all the opinions and all the people with quote unquote
insider knowledge out there. So hopefully we get some some
sort of solidification here pretty soon. But well, I guess
we'll see. But let's make this about your your lady tigers, Ay,
and y'all went down in the Virgin Islands. You're in
Saint Thomas, like you said, so tell us kind of
the schedule of traveling there to a place like that.
It's a little different than just traveling to a normal
away games. You're going to the islands, of course, I'm
sure you give them some time to enjoy the sites,
enjoy the scenery.
Speaker 7: Well, Matt, it's interestinct that you said that, because we
left baton route four fifteen in the morning yesterday to
get on a six o'clock flight to take us to Atlanta.
From Atlanta to the Virgin to Saint Thomas. So we
get to the Battery's airport yesterday, we load the plane,
everything's good, we closed the doors, we leave the gate,
and for three hours we sat on the runway. Yeah,
the Atlanta airport shut down. They had a storm going there,
so it was all everything was. You couldn't go in,
couldn't go out, And we were getting close to whatever
that rule is with the airlines now that you can't
stay on a plane more than three hours. I think
we were right at it, and all of a sudden
we got clearance. But here's what I want to say.
Delta Airlines was absolutely phenomenal. They held the plane for
us in Atlanta because there were not only fifty of us,
other planes and people that were getting on that only
flight from Atlanta to the Virgin Islands Saint Thomas. So,
I mean, how accommodating is that. You don't hear of
that nowadays, but they understood that many empty seats, we
hold the plane. So I can't think those those guys enough,
But we're gonna do fun things. We'll do a catamaran,
we'll do a lot of fun things. But we're here
to win two ball games. And sometimes when you're in
places like this, you lose your focus and you don't
look good. But you know everybody that's here has that
same problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and coach, I mean, you've done this certainly in
the past before, Like you take these trips and you
look One of the things I love that you do
is like your players, like you're going to take them
as close to home as possible as well. Y'all did
that earlier this year. You've done that certainly throughout your
time here at LSU. I love that. I think that's
an awesome deal. You know, if somebody from North Louisiana
you go play up there. So like when you're scheduling
a trip like this, though, kind of what goes into it,
Like what's the thought process and how do you maybe
choose which.
Speaker 7: One you want to go to when you've been in
And as long as I've been, there's nowhere I haven't been,
so it's like, maybe maybe I don't need to be
the one deciding on the great trip we need to
take our team because I did not realize I've been
here numerous times, guys, but I did not realize until
I asked my team at the end of practice, how
many of you have never been All but one had
never been here. So I was like, see, make sure
you make a decision not thinking about what you have
done as a coach. So we've done it all, Puerto Rico,
the Bahamas, Hawaii, Maui, the whole bit. And there's only
so many in November that you know are being hosted,
you know, so we will keep doing it. I think
it's a learning opportunity. I think it gives all of
us a chance to go places that we may not
could afford or would never go, and our institution allows
us to affords us that opportunity.
Speaker 2: Well, coach, he got this great opportunity this week and
then of course next week looking forward to another opportunity
against Duke. And it kind of got me thinking about,
you know, you have this long stretch in betwe games
right now got me thinking about the comparison to game
preparation for football, and I was just curious on how
that compares to your game prep for your certainly for
you but for your players, a football is all about
watching as much film as you can film film, film?
How much of that of the studying film and your
opponent goes into before each and every game?
Speaker 7: Well, y'all correct me. I'm trying to play football coach here.
In basketball coach, y'all have eleven, you know, games plus
the playoffs. Now, so you you know what weekends your
by weekend, so you kind of know and you think
about it. How many? How many games? Tell me how
many games the national championship in football will have played?
The national champions How many will they have played if they,
you know, go all the way to the title. How
many games? That?
Speaker 3: I think? I think sixteen, depending only if you got
to buy in the playoffs or if you take the longer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so say MAC sixteen right right? Can you imagine
I would be screaming from the mountaintops if that was
my season. I have to start, I have to start
in September October, and if you go through the playoffs
through April. So you know, I think back to the teams,
my forty and oh teams, and we say a lot
of games, right, So in football, every one of your
games is magnified because that's the only game you're thinking
about that week. We may have two or three games
in a week, so you have to make sure you
don't get kids too high too low. And in ours
we have a lot of weak games. I admit that,
So I tell the kids, you know, I'm not going
to overemphasize this game, but it sure would be embarrassing
if you lost this game. You guys have to really
really focus on that one game in football, right, and
then you flush it and then you move on to
the next game. And you have to do that, you know,
sixteen times if you go all the way to national championship.
Ours is such a long season, so you have to
keep them motivated. You have to think of creative ways,
not only in the film room, but on the court,
to mix in a little happiness, to mix in a
little fun, and then jump them and get on them hard.
I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not a psychologist, but that's
a lot of what we do.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's a great point. You're right. I mean, sixteen
games compared to forty plus games is something completely different.
And you know, the game after when you do get
back stateside against Duke, it is an ACC SEC Challenge,
and you know us football meat heads, like we are
so like SEC, we want to prove that we're the
very best. Like is that the same way in every sport,
Like you're prideful about the conference, and you want to
go out there and show like hey, like week in
and week out in the SEC, like we're playing against
the best of the best.
Speaker 7: I think so, I think you know there are personal
ribbalies within our conference, but when we're not playing each other,
you certainly want conference to do good because it makes
us all look good. The ACC SEC Challenge that of course,
is not selected who we play by us. That is,
you know, the women's administrator of each conference decides that
based upon I guess pre season what they think everybody
will be. And at the time, Duke was a top
ten team and they've struggled here this year, so by
the time we played them, they won't even be ranked.
So that was one of the ranked opponents in the
non conference that we were counting on. But that's okay.
I'm not changing my philosophy on non conference scheduling. I
pick and choose when I want to make it a
little bit harder, and when I don't want to make
it hard. No one knows their team better than their
own coach. And I'm not in I'm not into coaching
because somebody out there, or a fan out there, or
a media person out there, thinks I should play a
tougher non conference. It's worked for me through the years.
Give me a two to three whatever seed. Hey, if
we run the table, you get a one seed. So
it's in our it's in our control somewhat. And we
have been very successful doing it.
Speaker 3: The way we want to do it, no question about it.
And we look forward to watching every single game, certainly
with everything coming up. Cannot wait to watch down there
in the Virgin Islands, Duke. When you get home and
all season long, coach, you're the best. We truly appreciate
your time. Enjoy a couple of days there in the sun.
Speaker 7: God, and enjoy Thanksgiving with your families. I wouldn't know
what that felt like.
Speaker 3: One day we get it.
Speaker 7: One day I will be able to say, oh, so
this is what you do at Thanksgiving. And now we
don't know anything about that holiday in basketball. But in
Christmas time, I make sure we're all at home and
understand the meaning of Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, A good one, you too, coach, the absolute best,
good enough to join us every single week here on
OT that's right, right about it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, unil I was like thirty something. It was like
no Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Oh I had not Yeah yeah, it was like Thanksgiving
and Christmas. I think, gosh, maybe retire probably huh yeah.
In the NFL we played a game on Christmas Day
one time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's multiple years or it was like I played
on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Oh yeah, being Green
Bay for sure.
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving yeah so uh yeah, but you know.
Speaker 2: Thinks she's been doing a long time. I don't really
know what Thanksgiving that.
Speaker 3: But coach, if the broadcast team goes down, you know,
if they have maybe a little bit too much fun
and they stay out in the sun a little bit
too long and maybe they got like a bad sunburn
or something, and you need to tap in OTB. Let
us know. We'll be there Friday.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was a give and go.
Speaker 3: Oh if you want like we got you, comet you.
I promise you it's not gonna be the best broadcast,
but it'll be the most entertaining broadcast.
Speaker 2: I promise you that good goshamight did Joe Friday.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break more OTB when we
come back here live from the Raising Kates Studio.
Speaker 1: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: You have issues.
Speaker 4: Uh, they don't have issues. They don't have any issues.
Speaker 3: I actually have an I actually think like tomorrow is
maybe the best dos Sekis day. You're gonna have a
great meal and you're gonna have football for the rest
of the day with no other responsibilities, right, I mean,
feed up, watching some ball with some family and friends around.
Go for dose. Come on, I mean, it's it's right there.
It makes all the sense in the world. You're going
to have a utopic experience when you go for dose
on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's uh. You kick your feet up and
then look, we got got so much football weekend. We
got egg Bowl, we got tie guess, we got Saints,
we got everything. So make sure it's a dose sekiest
type of weekend. Make sure you get it today because
stories probably closed tomorrow. So make sure you're getting your
dose secies today, get it in the fridge, getting the
nice just get it ready for you and your family.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all, go go for dose Sei.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we all ma.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 1: Just to everybody that living it up, Tigers term talkers.
Speaker 2: This is off to every day one night's quoting.
Speaker 3: You can keep this up in the background, so happy
as I tell them, because this song is a star.
And there's a new star of downtown Baton Rouge coming,
and that is Valley's Baton Rouge. You can't wait for
y'all to see the brand new Land based casino and
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They got the dining depot, five unique restaurants ready to go.
Cannot wait for y'all to see all the major upgrades
they have done. I'm telling you you're not going to
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bellow Baton Rouge. It's got the DraftKings sportsbook. Indit like
the biggest TV I've ever seen in my life. You
got Pelicans pen bowling. You got a ten story hotel.
It's got two hundred and forty two new rooms. Every
room was renovated. Luxury suites they got those. Hey, do
they have one that overlooks Tiger Stadium? Sure do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got a shuffle board table one.
Speaker 10: Too, It does it does? Did we partake? We did,
and you should as well. All that's in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 3: It is oh at Valleys.
Speaker 2: They got an upgrade.
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the class.
Speaker 2: Huck is probably embarrassed as heck to see his his
pops chair jam out the jaw rule he was also
he is also chair jam out.
Speaker 3: This is an ox Cord Flynn family staple. It feels like, yeah,
he's gonna hear this on the way to Florida. There's
no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: No doubt in between Mike All Start videos.
Speaker 3: If he doesn't watch Mike All Start Videos, that's on you.
Speaker 2: He's gonna watch.
Speaker 3: He's gonna watch the A train. We need hunking here
during Christmas break. Yeah, we need to get like Memphis.
Not we'll get. We'll get Memphis in Mike at there.
Speaker 2: Want to come. It's you know it's gonna become of.
Speaker 3: All eight children. Absolutely, we we got we do like
we we have to have since Huck and Memphis are
close to the same age during Christmas break, Yeah, they
got a lot of sports takes. Yeah, we'll have both
of men. Yeah, because my other boys are like they're
you know, teenage age and they're like, you know, sleeping
a little bit. Yeah, now jack I mean Jackson football
practice right now. But mempicin Huck would be what was
his take? He said he came on last year and
said two years ago, and they were like, who's the
best quarterback in the NFL? And he gave an answer,
probably Burrow. And then he's like, who's the worst quarterback?
He's like the Jets quarterback Zach Wilson, He's trash.
Speaker 7: Was wrong.
Speaker 3: He was definitely right at say Jets quarterback. Ye, I
did write down Huck's Super Bowl prediction. So if he
gets it right, he gets turnover chain. The turnover chain.
Is he familiar?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I'll have to show you. I'll
show you the turnover chain.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, you are about you much rights are
off right. Yeah, the WOLFFAC shares an officer. We'll get
the pictures hung up. Eventually. Our office is gonna have
pictures of my family in it.
Speaker 4: By the way, that's fine neck me and Matt too
off office.
Speaker 3: Ye yes, basically basically what he said.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: All right, So Matt and Huck are going to leave us.
They are headed to Florida. Hey, enjoy the trip. Everything's giving.
Enjoy Hey, family, I think my high taste better than gatorade.
Drink my high. Doc off the bench, all right, go
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