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Speaker 1: Answer Live from the Raising Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: Here's Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: You way o TV here old this Wednesday morning. Jake
Flynn a landrat taytay oh here with you. A lot
to get too excited about today?
Speaker 4: Excited to be excited about. Frank Wilson joined the show
at eight thirty. Get us a little fired up for
LSU travels to a tusclusive take on Alabama.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to that. That would be funny. He holds
a pretty high position over there at LSU. The interim
head coach, ye headball coach, good one. Excited about that.
I can't wait to have Frank on the show. He
was good enough to have us in his facility.
Speaker 6: Will be good enough to repay the favor, sure, sure so,
looking forward to that conversation. As Tata said, we do
have a lot to h to get to a lot
of movement there.
Speaker 4: If you will with L s U before we get there,
as we always do a little vibe check, pleasant treats
and such.
Speaker 6: How are we doing? How we live away? Get it
out of the way. UH doing fantastic. Excited for uh,
excited for the Tigers to get back on the football field.
Trying to plan out that Saturday. How I'm going to
take it in.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna watch it definitely am house light, trying to
set all of the other stuff around it kind of
a kootramond. Am I gonna have surrounding the game? Am
I gonna cook something good? I gonna make a DUMBOO?
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I hadn't had one yet, and it's crazy. All I've
made one a couple of weeks ago. Is fantastic. So
it's my turn. I'm next man up. Yeah, so just
getting forward.
Speaker 6: Let me looking forward to that man looking forward to
you know, coming off of bye week, we're all hungry,
We're ready to see these Tigers come together. But it's good,
it's good. Good.
Speaker 5: We got past the real hump day yesterday. We all
know that it's all downhill. Excited about these quarterback rankings.
A little bit later too, ooh, a lot of movement. Oh, man,
I broke my pin. It's because you're beating it like
a drum.
Speaker 6: I know. I got a new pin last week. I've
been very pleased with it.
Speaker 4: The new grawl is the only drummer I could think of,
and I did want to go cliche, So sorry.
Speaker 6: Gonna say you're you know, Neil Neil Pert.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, Now I got a new pen last week,
and it's very exciting because I write a lot in
a note book. Yeah, I write notebook for work for you,
do you know, for my high for yep, and uh,
very picky about my pins. But this is a Sharpie
brand pin. I never knew they made things that weren't markers.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Thing comes out real nice. Yeah, uniforms and everything. Alandra,
welcome back.
Speaker 6: To the world. How you doing.
Speaker 7: I was telling y'all this morning. I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'm just like annoyed now because I was telling y'all
this morning that I've not had contact with the outside
world since like six thirty pm last night, because I
guess Verizon's having an outage in my area. So I
also have Verizon's internet for like my WiFi, so I
didn't have Wi Fi or something.
Speaker 7: It's still on SOS mode right now. Yeah, I went
like full cave man. Y'all were like, well what did
you do? I literally, late.
Speaker 8: In bed, played like New York Times crossword puzzles and
listen to music. I've read a little bit of my
book that I've been reading too, and then I just
went to sleep because I know it's yeah, well.
Speaker 6: What do you do?
Speaker 7: What do you do?
Speaker 6: Here's my question? Where did you how? How could you
access the New York Times?
Speaker 8: Because I so I pay for the New York Times
games because I love them, so like you can so
if you pay for it offline, Yeah, you can play
offline and you can go back in the archive and
play like old crossword puzzles.
Speaker 7: So I mean it's like four ninety nine a month,
So I just pay.
Speaker 6: For that, and all right, huh.
Speaker 7: Because I pay for New York Times.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I love him.
Speaker 7: There's a new one called Pips that's super fun.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Okay, you have to like have the dominoes add
up in the certain square and yeah, it's fun. So
I just played New York Time games offline, and I
told you, well, I told a while ago that I
go back and read like classic books that I was
maybe too young to read or ever. So I've been
on the count of Monte Cristo, right, great, Yeah, it's
really good.
Speaker 7: So I liked it on that.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, absolutely super Okay, old that I was doing
like that early.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, technology keeps you up a little bit.
Speaker 7: We all know. I go to sleep early anyway. So
I was out by like eight forty five. So if
any let me know if anybody else had Verizon.
Speaker 6: Right and there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no I have, but you have had. I didn't
have any issues, Yeah, scrolling away.
Speaker 7: I looked it up and it's supposed to be restored by.
Speaker 8: Ten fifty three, but who knows. Yeah, that's what they say.
It's been twelve plus hours.
Speaker 6: What so they're going to give you a credit on
that bill. Crosswords your go to any other kind of
type of like, so.
Speaker 8: I like, I like all the New York Time games.
So the crossword one Pips is new.
Speaker 7: And it's fun. Oh you have never heard of It's
like a domino game. I'll show it to you. And
then they have wordle obviously, and then they.
Speaker 8: Have the mini Crosswords, which I like.
Speaker 6: I don't really know what word.
Speaker 8: Is it's you have to guess the word, and if
you get certain letters right, they'll give it. If it's
in the right spot, they'll give you green, and then
you've got to guess the rest of it. Or if
it's in the wrong spot but the right letter, they'll
give you like a yellow.
Speaker 6: You try to get it in the least amount.
Speaker 7: Of guesses and like five or six.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a big pseudoku.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 6: That's the one I don't alane.
Speaker 5: Yeah, connect I'm either I'm either retro bowl or yeah.
Speaker 8: New York Times Connections is fun too, but sometimes they
make me mad because they don't make sense.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, sorry that happened, but.
Speaker 7: So o s Yeah it's on SOS mode right now.
Speaker 6: I just don't understand how that is attacked you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know, or maybe my neighborhood. I don't
I really don't know. Maybe I don't know because yours
is still working too.
Speaker 8: And there I had like guarantee gives me a hot
spot so that when I take it on remote, and
I tried to turn that on to see if that worked,
and that didn't work either.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, we'll figure it out. We'll get to
the bottom of it.
Speaker 4: Verizon, if anybody works for Verizon, hit us up, call us.
Speaker 6: What's the number? We will continue to slander your name. Yes,
what's the what's our phone number? Here? For nine? Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah? No, no, no, it's four nine I think.
Speaker 6: Also, sure, give us a call. Uh. How are we doing? Yeah,
we're good.
Speaker 9: I didn't have to be onmish yesterday, so uh I
uh watched some basketball. Don't let the Pelicans get hot,
get hot? Watch some college ball. Duke Texas surprise, surprise,
Duke looks good. What else is you in the world
of sports? A lot to talk about today? Excited? Uh,
you know, a prom us to me and Flinden and
playing this. We've both worn vest a total of two
times and just so happened to be on the same day.
Speaker 6: So y'all's core is so warm. Let me let me
know about your arms.
Speaker 10: He's got the hood to his next little warmer and month.
Let me answer your question with a question. Is it
below fifty five degrees? Yes it is.
Speaker 6: Let's play football, that's right, I like it.
Speaker 8: Ohid was rocking the best yesterday.
Speaker 6: Cade was killing a.
Speaker 7: V had the Mercy Dad uniform oh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, shout out. Hmmm.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, I was laying in bed last night,
you love to make fun of the vest, drifted off
to stret You know what, I had a dream we
were beating Bingville fourteen three. Then I woke up kind
of sad, but then I cheered off when I realized
it was only a dream, because well, I know we're
gonna beat Bingville by way more than that, you know,
So felt better instantly, and can be fourteen to three.
That ain't gonna be the box scorebo.
Speaker 6: Ingo? Is is that Alabama? Sure? Yeah, have you got
a shot at it? I'll take fourteen to three, though,
I'll take it. I'd be a gritty win, it would.
It would be a very gritty win. All right. So
obviously we do have a lot to get to.
Speaker 4: Lshu's got a president, Lsho's got an athletic director, and
they will hopefully soon have a head.
Speaker 6: Football coach on a permanent basis.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna have the interim head coach, Frank Wilson
join us a little bit later on in the show
at eight thirty, looking forward to that conversation. Getting ready
for the trip to Tuscaloosa, Tata mentioned it. We had
basketball yesterday, the LSU Tigers both at action. You had
the Pelicans flocking up and getting their first dub. You
had the trade deadline. The Saints made a couple of moves.
One of them I'm gonna have to live with for
you know, the rest of the year. We'll get to that,
the grades of those trades, all of that conversation when
we come back here on O TB.
Speaker 11: Off the bench, Yeah, gotta choose my answering machine now
that I'm alone, goes by. Now it's then we can't
come to the phone and.
Speaker 1: The Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 4: Come out of the gates out there, Landra, I don't know,
slippery slope.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to bring my vibes up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, R and B. Wednesday, I have the gates.
So you have a bunch of music downloaded on your
phone as well.
Speaker 7: I was playing I don't know, like sometimes I do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, like Apple Music, it downloads it. Yeah, Yeah, we're
team Apple Music.
Speaker 9: You don't have to like cell signal thing as long
as you have like if.
Speaker 6: It's not downloaded, yeah, album downloaded, I don't know, it's
in the cloud.
Speaker 8: It's in the cloud somewhere because I can hear I
can listen to it on the plane if I don't
have Wi Fi on the Yeah, so those are all downloaded.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we gotta teach these kids what a download means.
Speaker 4: Like they know these you have to downloads.
Speaker 6: On my iPod. Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we had the little the little Nano. It's more
one mm hmm. God thoughts man the time to be
at break.
Speaker 4: We got one for the two thousand and five SEC
Championship game.
Speaker 6: They gave you can tell us.
Speaker 4: Nothing because think about that five three iPod three iPhone
one with the screen.
Speaker 6: Yeah it was.
Speaker 4: It had like abscribed two thousand and five SEC champs
Even though we got beat so bad in that game.
Speaker 6: I didn't want to see that thing was Georgia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even when I went, even when we were playing
in the NFL, Like I remember Lacy for Christmas Company,
like one of these mini iPods, and I keep it
all clipping on, and that's what I would That's what
I would use when I was out, like in Prego game,
I have it clipped on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you got a silver one.
Speaker 6: Then I probably had a green one for Green Bay.
I was in Seattle. Green one for Seattle Leon Green.
Speaker 5: And also had a I got another version of the
eye pod that was like a thick one, so it
was a big boy.
Speaker 6: It was like a lot of gemmy.
Speaker 5: It was probably a brick at least fifty gigs, no doubt,
no question about it, no doubt.
Speaker 6: And it had like the colored screen on it. But
it's still works, so I could you could download a
movie on it, so I'm not you gotta look at this.
This is th watch mission impossible, thrill.
Speaker 5: One inch screen, it's probably about one in one and
a half inch screen, but corner to corner, but it
had color and I could put in my my little
wired ear pods in.
Speaker 6: And I remember watching the movie hot Rod for the
first time on the iPod.
Speaker 5: On the iPod on a plane, and I remember watching
this thing and I was like it was like right
up to my face, like this right, and I was cackling,
like laughing out loud, you know, you know the movie's funny,
like when you're by yourself and you're laughing out loud,
you're vocally projecting laughter. And I remember the lady next
to him, he was like she wasn't real thrilled because
I was like laughing really loud. But yeah, watch hot
Rod right there one and a half inch screen.
Speaker 6: And now you know the rest of the story. It's right.
You're welcome, all right. So LSU does have some news.
They do have a president. They do have an athletic director.
Speaker 4: We'll throw it to Tata here to give you the
latest and the greatest there. As far as LSU hiring
a new school president.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Wade Ruse from McNeese say White was there very long.
But when he had got there, This actually comes from LSU.
Revilee shout out to them. They actually have a ton
of info on Wade Ruse. McNeice was in the midst
of a fourteen year decline in enrollment. He has completely
flipped that in a short time there, they're actually on
a steady incline in enrollment. When he had gotten there,
it was the largest drop in twenty two years. He
completely flipped that. He was there in twenty twenty when
Hurricane Laura hit. That was a tumultuous time for the
city of Lake Charles. He navigated through that, so hadn't
been there very long, but went through a lot at McNeese.
Familiar with Louisiana obviously, and you know you pair him
with a Verge Alesbury, you got alignment at the top,
So I mean, that's that's where we're at.
Speaker 6: You got something like you know, you got something in place.
Speaker 4: We knew it was gonna come yesterday, but it's good
just to actually see it. And then Verge was on
AFOL yesterday and pretty much like right after he got
off air, it was announced that he is going to
be the full time athletic director. So there's no interim
that gets taken off. And we on Friday when we
were listening to the press conference Matt, we kind of figured, Okay,
this is going to be the deal because he had
the full autonomy to hire the head coach, right, he
had all the authority to do so.
Speaker 6: And so if you're going to give somebody that they're
going to be your athletic director, yeah, if.
Speaker 5: You're giving somebody the ability to the authority to hire
the next day after you just you know, agreed and
fired a coach and paid him fifty three million dollars
or will be paying him that amount of money. You
aren't going to just let somebody pick the next guy
that's not going to be there.
Speaker 6: That would be that would be an egregious situation.
Speaker 5: That would be a situation where I don't think other
coaches around the league who would be interested in the
job would like to have I don't think they would
like to know that during this job search, with so
many job openings around the country, that I'm gonna get
hired and then a month later, you're gonna have another
athletic director, not the guy that chose me and hired me.
That's not like it's not a real good recruiting message
to send to a potential head coach out there, especially
like they said, they want the best, they want the biggest,
they want they want the top of the pecking order,
the top of the food chain when it comes to
a head coach here at LSU, which which LSU deserves.
So I think it's a great move, hopefully with the
president's situation. You know, look, it's uh, I was telling
you all during the break, It's like, I, you know,
I know that we have to have all the we
have to have alignment, we have to be everyone's got
to have the job and the titles and everything. But
I hopefully this is the last time we hear the
president's name, and you know, a long time until he's
on the field, you know, during a TV time, I'm
out handing somebody a certificate for something, because that will
mean that things are running smoothly. That means things are
running well. That means the hires are correct. That means
Vergin's doing a good job. The new head coach is
doing a good job. So it's one of those situations
that it's you know, you're you're happy that somebody's in place.
There's a little stability here. The fear of the unknown
is gone, except at least in those two positions. And
so hopefully if they are the they seem seemingly like
the They seem like the right choice.
Speaker 6: I think it was the obvious choice.
Speaker 5: Everybody pretty much knew that the president was going to
be the president. We figured after the announcement, with Verge
having full autonomy on the head coaching job, that he
would probably be at least the first person to get
the get the the opportunity to become the bad So
there we go.
Speaker 6: Now, I'll got to just find a coach. But it
doesn't sound like it's uh they're going to be in
any rush right now. Now.
Speaker 5: If they do find somebody that they feel can be faster,
but it has to be the top of their list,
they'll do it. But I think Verge said it yesterday
that they're okay with a playoff head coach for a
playoff team if that, if they decide that that's the
one that they want to pursue.
Speaker 6: And look, Verges is an LSU lifer. We all know that.
Speaker 4: We kind of know the resume played here, has been here.
I think he's like twenty fourth year in the LSU
athletic department. He has touched all the phases of the
LSU athletic department like everybodyfore that seems a little light,
you know, like he's been in every single role, like
he has truly paid his dues. He's worked himself up
to this, and he is somebody that, Look, we talk
about having passion for LSU, having passion to attack the
job every single day, Well, Verge is going to give
you that. Verge is somebody that's done that for the
last two and a half decades. And then you go
back to his playing days in the eighties for LSU. Right,
So we laid it out what you were looking for
in your next head coach and your you know, next
athletic director. And I'm excited for Verge. Happy for ViRGE,
Verge for twenty years, So excited for him that he
gets this opportunity he is well yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Mean he's been you know, inentered before.
Speaker 4: He's been you know, the right hand man to the
ad before, He's been right underneath multiple ads and now
it's his time to shine.
Speaker 6: His career is the way that it should happen. Like
his career path.
Speaker 5: He's worked hard and it's not like he's come up
through the ranks and he's finally found himself and made
himself like coming up through ranks throughout the country and
at different programs.
Speaker 6: No, he's been at LSU.
Speaker 5: He's seen the good, he's seen the bad, he's seen
everything that you can see, and he has done it
the right way. So extremely extremely happy for Verge, and
I know that he's going to do a great job
and well looking forward to kind of this whole coaching
process and his first can you imagine get into your
job and like your first order of business is coach
for the LSU Tigers. Yeah, after they just I aired
a fifty fifty million dollars man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exciting, No good, that's that's kind that's the kind
of player that says, I want the ball. I want
the ball. Came on the line, I want the ball.
That's what Urgin's saying. Yeah, give me the ball. All right.
So you know you do have those positions filled.
Speaker 4: Now, as we said, you got your president, you also
have a chancellor as well, right ta, So you know what, Yeah,
team from fourteen years ago, those jobs were kind of
combined and now the chancellor.
Speaker 6: Now you bring somebody in.
Speaker 4: So now you have a president of the system and
then you have a chancellor at the Baton Rouge campus.
Speaker 6: You knew that, told y'all. I was telling you all
yesterday about it. Jim Dalton.
Speaker 4: He uh wait, So that position was open to but
yet like it's been a while, like you combined them
for a long time, and now now we got a
new one.
Speaker 6: As when we were in school, this is how it was. Yeah,
we had the chance You knew that, right, Yea, here
you go.
Speaker 9: He's the first chancellor of the LSU campus since the
president chancellor roles were merged in twenty twelve.
Speaker 5: Twelve was a year, right, So they got unmerged yesterday, Yes,
there was an unmerging.
Speaker 6: What do we do that for?
Speaker 4: I mean, you took a look at it, let's see
what it works. You looked at the analytics of it,
and you said.
Speaker 5: The merging in Yeah. Yeah, We've had three head coaches
since the merging. So we said, no, we need some
more stability. Let's unmerge it. Let's bring on the chancellor.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I believe the mark the new president is to
be the fifth committee member, right to make the football higher.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Verge said that on Okay, all right, I mean.
Speaker 6: Me and Matter not on the committee. Just to confirm, Okay,
can we reach out?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we could, look, you can reach out who says
they have.
Speaker 6: To stop at five? Yeah, that's true. It is. It
is a state school. Let's put it to a vote.
Speaker 4: I think I've put it on every platform that i'd
like to be a part of that.
Speaker 5: So I think I'm comfortable saying though that since we're
not on it, I don't think Vere really needs that committee.
Speaker 6: Let's just let's just go with Vergis pick. Let's not
get a vote on it. But if there is a
committee team, Ot'd like to be on there. You know,
I'll stick with the football guy on that committee. Yeah,
I'm with you on that. On and with you on
that the other guy's very successful. Great, but let's just
stick with the football.
Speaker 4: Guy, all right, So some stability there for LSU. We'll
see what it looks like. Who's the next head coach?
What the rumors are going to be. Is it going
to be in early December? Is it going to be
in early January? Is it going to be after a
playoff run? That we don't know, but you do now
know who the president, the chancellor and the athletic director
are going to be in a full time role. And
we'll take a break more OTB when we come back
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Speaker 1: Five two thousand and seven shams, purple and gold to
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Speaker 6: And the call of t T Wait a minute, hold on, dog,
she got a kid? All right, welcome back in o
t B. You got a cue. It's ahead. Had heard
this song in twenty years? How long? Ten years? I
don't know, fifteen?
Speaker 7: Do you not know this song?
Speaker 4: Matt?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was to do this karaoke.
Speaker 4: He uh, there was a blind spot in his childhood
that somebody didn't fill with R and B I mean hits.
Speaker 6: But I thought the Blaze the Blades had twelve songs.
Speaker 7: I told you you know, this wasn't in the root.
Speaker 6: This wasn't in the twelve. I mean it's a deep cut.
Gotta be who is this? R Kelly and er?
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, cool, I don't feel.
Speaker 6: Like this is usher. Just had the Super Bowl three
years ago. Deep cut R Kelly lets deep peep like
R Kelly's got some baggage. Sure, sure it comes a
little baggage. Also has some hits. That's that's one of them.
That's one of them. Dude, she's got a kid. That's
a great line.
Speaker 5: Anyways, looking up the role of a chancellor at a
university right now, but your friend telling you about it. Hey,
it can either be an executive role or a ceremonial role.
I haven't figured out which one we got yet. All right,
just to give me a bunch of words, A bunch
of words sounds that don't mean anything. Still confused on
the unmerging though, glad we did it though, all hands
on deck.
Speaker 8: If I could be honest, I didn't even know we
needed a chancellor, like I thought maybe we already had it,
or maybe I'm trying to figure out what they do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 6: Hmmm. Him and the new Prayers are gonna split.
Speaker 8: Hey act as an ambassador represent the university and preside
over events like graduation ceremonies.
Speaker 7: So they're basically just like the public, like the pr person.
I would say, yeah, yuh.
Speaker 5: In a ceremonial role, yes, an executive role. They could
act as the CEO of university.
Speaker 7: Okay, but I don't.
Speaker 6: Know who's above is the president higher?
Speaker 9: See, that's the thing. It would be some tension. Be
fun to keep an eye on power struggle.
Speaker 6: You're fun to watch. You're already trying to create something.
Speaker 11: Huh.
Speaker 6: They did. They created a position yesterday. Touche douche.
Speaker 4: LSU basketball starts tonight. Hell yeah, okay, all right, either
one of you all work in the game.
Speaker 6: Not tonight.
Speaker 9: No, I'm excited about it, though, genuinely I'm excited about
I love LSU basketball, even though they're not good.
Speaker 6: Who were playing Tarleton's Charlton State, which is not a state.
Speaker 8: Huge agriculture community out in Tarleton.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, where's it? It's in Texas, right, it's kind
of is it Tarleton? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yes, I didn't know the seventh. That's a fair question.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because it's you could a person because it's called
Charlton State. So how would you.
Speaker 6: Know that's true? Mm hmmm. You looked at me like
I was crazy. I got a third eye. I do know.
Speaker 4: Abilene Christian beat Charlton State in football and they tweeted
out Charleston's not even a state in Charlton State got
but heard about it and Evelyne Christian had to release
an apology.
Speaker 6: No first sae Tarleton is not a state?
Speaker 8: In Stephenville, Yeah, which is I guess like a suburb
of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know, suburb of Tarleton.
Speaker 8: Or like maybe in all in the area. You know
how there's like a tri state area situation. Maybe it's that,
don't I don't know too much about Tarleton. It's a
big agriculture community.
Speaker 6: Search Charlton State University.
Speaker 9: First article that came up Abilene Christian issues apology.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, William I'm with you, Jonathan. If it's not
a state, then what is it.
Speaker 5: I'm not an idiot. You looked at me like I
was an idiot. Asking if it was in Tarleton.
Speaker 7: Texas, I said Stephenville, and Jake.
Speaker 5: Looked at me like I was as I will. It
could be named after a person I don't know. Is
it named after John Tarleton? Tennessee businessman, rancher and philanthropy.
Speaker 6: From Tennessee.
Speaker 4: Guy from Tennessee gets a Texas university named after him.
Speaker 5: Apparently Tennessee's helped Texas out a lot in Texas's history.
Davy Crockett and John Tarleton without far enough, Texans are weird.
It was originally called John Tarleton College, since becoming a
state school.
Speaker 7: I just know some country ass.
Speaker 6: People that went to Tarleton, some folks named Ricky.
Speaker 8: Yes, some ffa kids that went to Tarleton Delia.
Speaker 5: What But do you think John Tarlton State University has
a president and a chancellor?
Speaker 6: No shot? No shot? How many people can pull that off?
Speaker 7: Just tell us, you, just tell us you.
Speaker 6: Let's go at least for a state. Charlton's not a state.
That's fair, Guys, I don't have to be an apology
show tomorrow. So watch what you say.
Speaker 9: They're the Tarlton State Texan Rider. Wait what their official
mascot is the Texan Rider. So I guess they're the
Texans the Texan That's what it says here.
Speaker 8: So do any of us know what the l s
U basketball team is looking like this season?
Speaker 6: And last year they were terrible at it?
Speaker 9: Like you added you added Markel uh Sudden, you added
Max McKinnon, you added Ron Zipper.
Speaker 6: These guys are supposed to be shooters. Now will they be?
Speaker 9: I don't know because last year you thought you added
shooters and they were atrocious at shooting from the outside.
So if you can turn that around, the deed An
Thomas is going to be your point guard. He's gonna
cut distribute everything for you. You can have shooters on
the outside. I mean you can make something happen, all right, and.
Speaker 6: Get behind that for mat Man. Matt McMahon's like the
nicest human being.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's very good people.
Speaker 8: But we were talking I remember us like talking about
this last season is how the SEC is starting to
be like really good in basketball, Like Auburn Florida.
Speaker 6: Won the NaSTA made the tournament, but.
Speaker 8: Right so maybe they can make something happen. But can
they and the competition that we have in the.
Speaker 6: SEC, we'll see, Yeah that you know, that was the issue.
Speaker 4: You had some good wins and the non COD last year,
but just got buried in the SEC.
Speaker 9: So I think your goal this year should be five
hundred record in the SEC because the SEC is good
enough the way.
Speaker 6: You're in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got to go up. There's no doubt about it.
Like there's pressure around the program to be better. And
you know, you had a situation where you thought you
were gonna get all these penalties. You didn't get all
these penalties, but you thought you were. You didn't have
anybody left on your team, so you started from scratch.
But you're far along the road now, right, Gotta go
win some games, Gotta go in some games in the SEC.
And they get started tonight against Charleton State, Kim Moulki.
The squad got started last night beating Houston Christian One
eight to fifty five.
Speaker 6: M just beating up on Texas.
Speaker 5: They've been playing a lot of exhibitions though, right, and
that's been like a hundred point Oh yeah, spreads.
Speaker 6: Love it, keep it up.
Speaker 7: Do you really have a question about the women's basketball team.
Speaker 9: Though, yeah, yeah, I mean flags bag, Mikaela Williams's bag.
You got some big name, Well yeah, I mean they're
they're gonna be dominant again.
Speaker 7: Do we want to play? What had to say about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do you have to have it? Yeah? This is
so so Kim Monkey.
Speaker 4: After the news of Scott Woodward was let go as
the athletic director, did not come to her press conference.
You know, assistant coach was pretty heartbroken because her and Scott,
obviously we're very close, had a great relationship there. So
last night after the victory against Houston Christian she did
speak to the media and.
Speaker 6: Here's what coach Kimmunky had to say. What's Scott? What
would been to you and death department with his partnership?
But what wad you look to you, Scott Ard?
Speaker 8: So anytime a coach is hired by somebody, you have
special feelings.
Speaker 7: My feelings are far.
Speaker 6: Deeper because I'm from the state.
Speaker 4: And I want all of us to always do good.
Speaker 7: I wants to look good, I wants to smell good.
I was all everything good about the State.
Speaker 6: So I'm happy I heard Verge.
Speaker 9: Is now the a d I'm happy because I think
Verge is like a lot of us. He grew up
in the state. This is his school and town, all
of us.
Speaker 6: So obviously still pretty upset. Yeah, she doesn't love it.
Speaker 4: I think she does, you know, like ViRGE and appreciates
that Verge is the one that got the job. I
think you heard that there in Virgion a lot of
things women's basketball over the last couple of years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can tell.
Speaker 4: Still upset by Scott Willard being leg go as athletic director. Look,
not only did Scott hire, they won a championship together.
You know, that's tough.
Speaker 5: And I'm assuming they had some sort of you know,
prior relationship. I don't you know that. It's what it
feels like, right, They've they've known each other for a while,
had a really good relationship.
Speaker 6: And it's tough.
Speaker 5: Like she said, anytime somebody hires you and you have
that a relationship. If you're at a university where the
athletic department has given you everything that you need to
be successful, and then you are successful, there's a bond
that is that is built there, developed there. And I
think we knew when she took the job at LSU
it was an emotional.
Speaker 6: Decision for her to do it.
Speaker 5: It wasn't like she was looking for the next thing
and was gonna, you know, go to Yukon or wherever
it was.
Speaker 6: She wasn't looking for that type of situation.
Speaker 5: She came because it's home, Yeah, and it's an emotional
thing for her, and she coaches that way, and she
teaches that way, and she she is the leader of
young women that way. And that's why she's so respected
and beloved because that's how she feels about this university.
And you know in scott Wood where she felt bad
about him as well, because he feels the same way
about this universey. I don't think anybody's ever questioned that.
But Verge also is in that same breath of caring
and being lsu through and through Louisiana through. So I
mean it's, uh, it's probably the best of a bad
situation for her. And it's still I mean, it's still
happened a couple days ago, so it's like it's not
like that whole thing has passed, you know, like.
Speaker 4: She said, time will heal. Well, it's all we been
a couple of days. So yeah, no doubt about it.
And you and I have you know, seen you know
coaches that we played for, Like when coach Miles got fired,
I'm sad.
Speaker 6: It's a guy that.
Speaker 4: Trusted in me and put me in a position to
go get drafted and changed my life. Right, And I
named a child after Coach Miles. Shout out Memphis Miles,
Panther speed the Packers. Case you're wondering, Flynn, Uh, he'd
want me to tell you that. And he already did
meant a lot and when he got fired, I wasn't
playing anymore. But still is like, man, that that sucks.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you're kind of sad for what was
not what because.
Speaker 4: You remember, you remember like when things were going great.
You remember championships and you remember all the games that
you won together. And even though I hadn't played here
like eight years, I think after he got let go,
still hurts. That's you know, it's a guy that changed life.
And for coach Moulkey, it's kind of what it sounded
like there. Now coach had already built up a resume
and had great moments, but to come here and win
a championship, that was the ad that was a part
of that.
Speaker 6: Go Panthers.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, I was just gonna say that.
Speaker 8: I know that people are gonna be like, oh, well,
they get paid millions of dollars whatever, But I actually
feel kind of bad for Scott Woodward. Like, and I'm
kind of with Kim Molky, like he went to LSU,
he grew up here, he and yeah, he's gonna get
paid millions of dollars to leave or whatever, but I
mean I feel like he really wanted to be here,
and like maybe I don't agree with some.
Speaker 7: Of the hires that he made, but like I still
kind of feel bad for him.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean yeah, Like I very much plan
on having a relationship with Scott in the future.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's easy, like emotionally, it's easy for people
to write off like just like tough decisions and people
like losing their jobs because of the money that's involved,
and it's easy for ever and that's a natural thing.
Speaker 6: And I understand that. Like, well, I don't feel sorry
for him, like he's getting paid blah blah.
Speaker 7: Blah, but there is like his letter made me feel
bad for him, right.
Speaker 5: And it's still like humans involved, right, and there's still
you know, and I know the at the in the
Football Ops building, there's a lot of people that are
uncertain about their future, and it's hard for people to
feel sorry because of the money that is involved. And
that's the life you choose, right, I mean, if you're
an a d if you're in sports, that's the life
you choose. But it still doesn't make it like emotionally,
especially when you're in a place you love you it's
your dream job, you've worked it, that's the thing you've wanted.
Speaker 6: It still doesn't make that any easier.
Speaker 5: So, like from an emotional to standpoint, Yeah, you can
feel sorry for people, Yeah, certainly feel sorry for that.
Speaker 6: They've they've lost their their dream. They can't hold on
to it any longer.
Speaker 5: Right, Although all the fun stuff does help, I can't
that's a humid thing does help.
Speaker 6: But so I get it. I get it from both
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Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 4: So there was twenty one deals at the NFL trade deadline.
Speaker 6: Uh. The New Orleans Saints actually were part of two.
Speaker 4: So Rashid Shaheed on an expiring contract, as we talked
about weeks ago, probably the more likely to be traded.
He goes to Seattle, and Seattle sends these Saints a
twenty twenty six fourth and fifth round pick. ESPN dot
Com gives the trade for the Seahawks and a minus
and for the Saints a B plus.
Speaker 6: I like it. I like it.
Speaker 4: We gotta be you got some assets, and you needed
some and you mishandled a fourth round pick to get
a receiver that's got less than fifty receiving yards already
on the year, so you at least get that back,
and you get a fifth round selection on a guy
that you know, again had an expiring contract.
Speaker 6: Good play, very exciting player.
Speaker 4: But now you have seven draft choices and we'll get
to more than you know, another one that you got
a little bit later on. So for the Saints, you're
not going anywhere. You've got an asset that can give
you two draft choices. I like it for both teams.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do too. I mean, it's it was a
great way to make up a terrible trade with Ale.
Speaker 5: I mean, now you're at least bag you get rid
of a talented guy that was about to need to
get a contract extension, and you get back to, you know,
seven draft picks. For the draft, there's seven rounds, so
you're back at kind of like even right, you're back
at even par right now. So and it wasn't like
the Saints were kind of in the same situation as
like the Titans were. They just didn't have a lot
of assets to go and make the big crazy trade.
Now he thought maybe it was Chase Young gonna be
I mean, you would think that everybody would have been
had a price tag on him, like nobody was going
to be safe in that building. I mean maybe Tyler shuck,
he's a second round quarterback, but like, who else would
have been kind of an untradeable guy.
Speaker 6: I don't I don't really know. I was actually kind
of hoping Rattler would get traded. I don't even know
if that was on the table, But there's people in
need of quarterbacks are clearly you know, done with with Ratler. Yeah,
so I think that he could have garnered some some
sort of price tag. So uh but you know, good
give for the Saints. You did it.
Speaker 5: You didn't maybe do it to the extent that some
people wanted, but you did something. You did something you
got you know that that mean they got poking a stick, like, hey, you.
Speaker 4: Also sent Trevor Penning to the Bush League balls and
got a six round pick back. Saints got a B
plus on that grade, chargers a C plus chargers needed
so much help on the offensive line, even if it
was Trevor Penning, Hey, at least it was these.
Speaker 6: At least it wasn't
Speaker 1: Off the bench.