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Speaker 6: Yeah all right, all right, So this show goes to
Mobile every year for the Reese's Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: Will be down there again this year.
Speaker 6: I believe the game white is February the first, so
we'll be there the last week of January, kind of
leading into the game. And so LSU initially just had
two players that we're going to be playing in the game,
but that list continues to grow and it is now
I believe, up to six players. You've got Savion Jones,
You've got Garrett Dellinger, You've got Miles Frasier, Emery Jones,
Mason Taylor, and now Kyrien Lacy as well.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so who accepted here recently? Like who's the
new Emory Joe? Mason Taylor was about twenty five minutes, okay,
And then every Jones kind of leaked online because Jim
Naggy tweeted out the equipment bags at l SHU sent
him and one of him was number fifty, and I
think Kiran's number two was on there as well. Sharp
eyed people first tied at number two. I say, Gilbert,
he's coming back. So so I'm looking forward to that man. Now,
now we got some more connects. Watch always a great week.
Excited to see practice. Uh see who's going to help
out their draft stock and is going to be there?
Oh really look for seeing him.
Speaker 4: Keep it in your pants, Jake.
Speaker 6: So you say stuff like that every time, like there's
like a white running back that I just like, you know, like, oh, man,
I hope they give me a chance to play running back.
Do you like that if you want him to have
his opportunity, because honestly, I didn't get that opportunity.
Speaker 4: I could see you fanboy over Cam's catabit.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 4: Last year and it's.
Speaker 7: Not like that T Bob may have.
Speaker 8: T Bob was the worst with Sam Hartman last year.
I thought he was gonna ask you to leave the
room so they could be alone with Sam Hartman was wild.
Speaker 1: Have y'all seen the clip where you've never seen anybody
that could look at it like there's a I think
they're playing the Ravens.
Speaker 7: Yeah she's in this lady.
Speaker 1: I'm a Ravens fan, But who is this man? Yeah?
Instagram And I feel bad now because it's become very cliche.
It's a little tired it's a little trite. I think
everybody talks about it, but it did kind of blow
me away.
Speaker 4: In real life.
Speaker 7: We could tell.
Speaker 1: It looks like a Disney.
Speaker 7: Prince's for me, it's a little too pretty.
Speaker 4: Wait, you didn't get to go, Jake, you didn't get
to go to the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: No I did. I'm saying, like from day one, I
was a fullback. Was like, what you're saying, And and
Cam's not a full back, saying he's a fullback. Yeah,
the whole line. Oh my gosh, it's like, oh, he'd
be a nice like maybe even a fullback. I'm like, y'all,
y'all are ridiculous. This man is a ball running back.
First off, he's not built like a fullback. I don't
think he's big enough. I think he's like two two
hundred and fifteen pounds, right, I played fullback a two forty.
It's a big difference there. Yeah, he's got way more
skills than a fullback. He's more athletic, I mean, certainly
than I was. I mean, this guy so we saw
the route, Hey, okay, exactly, he has good hands.
Speaker 4: Caan like I could run a route I was doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was doing everything, and I think, uh,
he's gonna have the opportunity down in Mobile to prove
that he is an NFL running back and don't try
to make him something.
Speaker 4: I mean, I got no doubt he's gonna do well
in Mobile, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he's already shown that he can play
against that caliber player and have a ton of success.
Speaker 4: The NFL is different.
Speaker 1: We'll see, but I think he'll kill in Mobile what uh,
I mean whatever, I think he'll be finding the NFL.
I don't know if he'll be like great, but I
don't know if anybody will be great, you know, I
don't know. I mean running back.
Speaker 6: I think it's a different measure of success, and maybe
some other positions as well. It's almost like we barely
have any guys that are true bell cows anymore because
the position is so different now.
Speaker 1: One the ones that are are just outlier physical for
exactly like Saquon Barkley, right, which like look at Saquon
Barkley's thighs, that's like vitavea levels of like is that
actually human? How is that possible for you to be
that big and strong? Fast?
Speaker 4: What what a trader end up doing this year?
Speaker 6: Actually so he signed with the forty nine ers initially,
but then he caught on.
Speaker 1: With the Rams. Oh so he went undrafted. Yeah, oh wow, interesting,
Well Scataboo go undrafted? Oh no, no, no, okay, I
was talking with you. I think, Jim, we're talking about
it on off campus the other day. I think I
think early third, like at worst fourth was the situation.
And that's before you get back and coming to Jake Hester. Boys,
here we go. Dude, give that executive. Let this man
play running, like, give him the rock, let him play
RB Guys.
Speaker 6: I think it's a hell of a list. I'm sitting
here looking at it. I didn't even know some of
the names that are going to be down there. It's
gonna be a good year. It's gonna be a fun year.
Speaker 1: Did you see Cam Scattaby talking about because people were
talking about is he like concussed like what to keep
doing with his with his helmet? You know, he always
kind of looks like he's trying to like shake stuff off.
He said, he's just super o c D about how
his helmet fits. And so he's constantly that's like his
like tick during the game. He's just constantly, constantly trying
to get it like just right. He says he can't
play with it if it's not like exactly where he
wants it to be. I don't know what yours was.
Speaker 6: I don't mine, So I would kind of double palm
my helmet on both sides and I'd have to kind
of shake it to kind of get.
Speaker 1: It back to where like it originally was supposed to be.
I think we all have a little bit of a tick. Yeah,
I don't know if I had one, I'm not sure.
But but that no, scattaboy is not concussed. That's just
he's not trying to shake off the cobwebs. That's what
it looks like. He's just trying to get his trying
to get his helmet ready and mentions that's his cam
agent doing. Ervis let him go to mobile what why no, no, no?
See a player? And I, okay, let me take a
step back.
Speaker 6: I probably understand where you're coming from a little bit,
because right now you're thinking, man, his stock is at
an all time high. Yeah, he let the film talk
for Yeah, no, I understand that. But unfortunately, in the
position that he's in, there's still gonna be people that say, oh,
he's a nice college back.
Speaker 1: He can't do it in the NFL. I've already heard it.
Speaker 6: So that's a player that, even though the tape is
already there, he's going to have to go to mobile
and prove that he can pass, protect one on one
routes with the linebackers, which I think he's going to
crush all those type of things.
Speaker 1: They're gonna want to see that, right, It's.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, look at uh, look at lad McConkey
last year.
Speaker 1: Obviously, what do you think that would I.
Speaker 4: Don't know, I don't know. I'm not good at that fifth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he earned his way into getting traded for
early in the second round despite your fantastic video you.
Speaker 1: Did about it. And look at I mean, and here
he is now top ten receiver in the NFL and
year number one. What did Matt did say? He's not
gonna have three hundred career catches? Matt and I talked
about that.
Speaker 4: He's not gonna have three hundred group that was his initial.
Speaker 1: He's already over a third of the way there isn't
oh no, no, actually he's right under it.
Speaker 4: The eighty nine or something.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, that that probably that probably ain't kinda that's
not going to age too well. I don't think which
player outside of the l s U guys are you most.
I haven't looked at the rosters yet. I gotta do.
Speaker 4: I gotta do a deep dive in the rosters before
you go down.
Speaker 1: Hey, Ratleys is gonna be there. I'm sure that you know.
Speaker 4: O Lineman sixty nine. Yeah, pretty eamn good. Georgia was
worse without him, got better with him.
Speaker 1: Even though george offensive line was maybe a bit of
a desployment this year. In some ways, it's fair, uh,
I mean, Skatboo's pretty exciting name.
Speaker 4: To be fair, you.
Speaker 6: Got Riley, Leonard, got Xavier Watts from Notre Dame. That's
You've got Howard from Ohio State. Big names Jackson dart
Ole Miss quarterback, Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 1: He's gotta play football games and grass man who wants
to play in like the dart Turf.
Speaker 4: I was like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Man talking about? I don't know that was so actually
pull it up because we might as well play it. Taylor,
give me the Dylan Gabriel interviewing before the Rose Bowl
because a lot of people are.
Speaker 4: Saying he's stoned maybe his maybe is I don't know,
but he Uh, he was just talking.
Speaker 1: He was just talking to talking the Hawaii Uh truly
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Speaker 1: Bank, we will be at Ohio State if we do
be at our best. What's your best to look like?
Speaker 9: Competitive making plays, being good in situational football. Not for
the coach talk, but it's just the reality of the situation.
But we love the Rose Bowl, we love warm weather.
I think we should play more football on nice grass
instead of our artificial stuff.
Speaker 1: And the more sun the better. Why do we do
it to ourselves?
Speaker 9: Like do fans want to sit in the snow and
the rain? And let's just make arenas, Let's make domes,
Let's do grass, Let's do more fireworks at games. Yeah,
let's do that. Okay, all right?
Speaker 10: So first of all, if you keep winning, you get
domes the next two games.
Speaker 9: So I love that.
Speaker 1: Did you know that I do? Or now I do?
Speaker 9: But let's just let's continue that evolution.
Speaker 1: I think that's important.
Speaker 5: I think what I'm really hearing right now is that
every football game should be played in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be unreal?
Speaker 9: I don't think anyone would be mad at it, you know,
but and for everybody, not maybe just the travel or
the travelers.
Speaker 1: That's tough.
Speaker 9: But let's let's find more Sun. Let's find more Sun.
Speaker 1: I don't know, first all shout out to every game
on is because those media days like that, like it's
very hard to get anybody one on one, but certainly
the star quarterback, Heisman finalists.
Speaker 6: But now she's got gold. I clips have been played everywhere.
Speaker 8: It's just like, I just want to point out the
question that was asked was what does you.
Speaker 1: All look like?
Speaker 7: The question was what's best to look like?
Speaker 1: And that would the answer did not answer her question. No,
Man's like, well, you know that the country has like
different types of weather, like some places get like what.
Speaker 4: You just correlate with the rest of what do you
all really like cold weather?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 4: Do you really do you like cold weather?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: Let's just not do it change weather?
Speaker 1: My man kind of played like he was on that
Super Pac too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the edible like actually, actually, to be fair, Dylan
Gabriel played well. Everybody else for Oregon did not show
up like that man was under constant duress and still
found some ways to move the ball. Everybody else, Yeah,
it was it was just awful. Well, I mean, or
it's just really good. Still Moore arenasworks, I mean, thankfully,
I don't know if you have seen like the weather
in Dallas, but it's gonna be crazy. I mean, the
Cotton Bowl obviously is an indoor well the Cotton Bowl
itself actually an outdoor stadium, but they play the Cotton
Bowl in Jerry's world, they're in Arlington.
Speaker 6: But so the game's Friday. I was supposed to leave Thursday,
I think like middle of the day. They moved that
up to early Thursday morning. Now we might have to
go Wednesday.
Speaker 1: After this.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be like snow maybe and stuff.
Speaker 1: Right to try to beat snow up there. Yeah, and like, uh,
that's gonna be awful for infrastructure, Like for everybody. Travel
of the game is gonna be got off. Was it
Packers Steelers super Bowl that was there that?
Speaker 6: I mean it basically everything was iced in, snowed in,
and nobody got a chance to do anything, like even
the teams outside of like going to the game.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, Okay, I'm gonna I'm
getting my way to Houston on Saturday to take my
oldest son to watch the Bush League Bolts in the playoffs.
It might be a snowployow situation and bony or something,
but I gotta get from Dallas to Houston on Saturday.
You're gonna be uh, You're gonna be riding with John Candy.
I'll do it.
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Fresh off a nice ten point win over Auburn that
was not as close as a final score would indicate.
Coach Mulkey, what's going on? How we feel in here
on this Tuesday, frigid morning.
Speaker 3: Let's go play some football, man, This is football.
Speaker 1: True, actually true, Coach. I want to ask you about
Kayln Gilbert. Obviously, a fantastic night against Auburn, red hot
in the first half, another hyper efficient scoring performance from her,
and she was really the talk of the post game.
But I want to like, when she was up on
that podium, she alluded to the fact that when when
when she was being recruited and everything that there were
a lot of comments about her and her her her
character right, or her her what kind of teammate she is,
and you could tell that it kind of got to
her bit right. She feels a bit defends about, a
bit prickly about it. And so I wanted to ask you,
how when you because you've done so good at this,
when you have these players that are these strong personalities,
there's all these kind of ideas out about who they are,
who they how do you discern whether or not that
player will be a good fit and how do you
get them to buy in? Hell? Did we lose?
Speaker 11: Coach?
Speaker 4: I think there's a long with any questions on me.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the reason why we're good to go. Dang,
y'all can't fill while I'm trying to figure.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know, I'm sorry. I did just kind of
I just kind of chilled a little too much.
Speaker 1: That's on me.
Speaker 4: Uh, okay, you got the question, question Okay.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I would love nothing more, coach.
Speaker 3: Okay. I listened to her at the press conference. I
didn't recruit her out of high school, so I didn't
know what people said about her. Or anything like that.
I learned a long time ago from a guy named
Bob Knight. He made a comment, you judge people based
on your interactions with them, not what other people tell you,
because each relationship is different. When we recruited her to
come here, I sat with her, as did coach Bob Starkey,
and we first talked about her basketball and things we
had seen on the court that she had to clean up.
What would that be, cleaning up your turnovers, cleaning up
your ability and your effort to play defense? And I
loved her response. She was very honest and said, I've
never had to play defense. I've always, you know, worried
about the offensive end, and I'm gonna make up for
it on the offensive end. And so it was really
a good conversation, A very hones this conversation I have
since learned, like you guys are talking about, she does
play with a little chip on her shoulder, and she
feels disrespected by the things that were said in the
recruiting of her and things that were not fair to her.
I can tell you I will coach kids that want
to come play for me. My reputation precedes me on
being the type of coach that will give you freedom
on the floor, but there's going to be disciplined and consequences.
And when a young lady wants to come here, I
have great respect for them until they make me lose
that respect. There were so many people that said, don't
take Angelie, she's a cancer in the locker room. Don't
take Flage, she'll never pass the ball, don't take this one,
don't take that one. I think those kids pretty much
have branded themselves in a way with they can go
out and make money and he set for life. Gilbert
is a very quiet individual. She's not going to be
the life of the party. In fact, when we gather,
she's going to be the one that stands off to herself.
She's on the floor watching and listening to everything that
you say. And you know, she's just on the offensive end.
I don't know that I've coached any better than her
on being able to score the ball.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, and Tony, you mentioned her kind of
quiet nature, because she's definitely got like a brooding intensity.
You can almost like feel it rolling rolling off into
the chip on the shoulder you're talking about. And yes,
and and and it's different. I mean, it's it's it's
another very strong personality and different way that you are
getting to come into a cohesive unit. And I know
you've talked a lot about Look, it's amazing what you
can accomplish when nobody cares about who gets the credit.
But how do you take elite players that are always
used to be the best player on their team from
the time they're probably like, you know, seven years old on.
How do you get them to buy into that philosophy?
Is there a process? How does that work?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: I always try to tell them when we do good
as a team, all the individual accolades will come. And truly,
what is your Why why are you at LSU, Why
are you playing for Kim Walk? What did you come
here to do? We don't care about leading the country
as an individual in scoring, We don't care about all that.
What we care about is championships. And obviously that championship
caught your eye, or you wouldn't have been interested in us.
And I just try to make them understand that when
we all play good and we win championships, everybody eats.
They love to hear that, let's go eat everybody, and
so I tried to make them understand. I think Marrow.
I'm gonna use her as an example. She spends two
years at nepaul, won every individual award, there was Freshman
of the Year, leading, this, got this one, this, she
said there was something missing, and she said what was
missing was an opportunity to go to the NCAA playoffs
and see how far we can go and to know
how that feels. She just wanted to experience how that felt.
And what an unselfish comment. And you see now she's
one of the top rebounders double doubles in the country
and an undersized as an undersized post player, and she's
just a great example of unselfishness.
Speaker 6: Coach, we talked a lot of times about, you know,
the atmosphere inside the p MAC and going back to
that Auburn game, you had over eleven thousand people in
the building. There was a Kim Lucky lookalike contest during
the game as well, so you had the fans interacting.
I mean, what is it like for you to know,
you know where it was when you got here to
what it is right now as far as the fan
buy in.
Speaker 3: Well, I remembered going all around Baton Rouge and the
surrounding areas and I said, guys, there's lots of season
tickets to be had right now, good season tickets. And
I said, I'm gonna tell you you better get them
now because those season tickets you're gonna want, you're not
gonna be able to get them later. And I know
that sounds arrogant somewhat, but I know how to sell
a product, a good product. I knew that I was
from this state and I could get guys and people
who didn't give a rip about women's basketball to come,
and they have and they bought those season tickets. What
I did not take into account was this queen of
sparkles and the and all that I've never worn anything
like that in my life. And I got talked into
it and I kept saying no, no, no, no no.
And then they hit me up at a week moment.
You know, we all have those weak moments, and they said, coach,
you said your goal was to sell tickets and to
take one for the team. And I'm telling you, people
who don't care about sport or even understand women's basketball,
the fashionist day will come just to see what you're wearing.
And I thought, yeah, but that's kind of self serving,
you know, I don't care that anybody sees what I'm wearing.
And then at the end of the day, I want
them to watch that court. And they said, but they
will if you get them there. They can't not just
sit there and go, well, what is that position that
dribbles the ball all the time? Or what was that
called a rebound? So you're teaching the game indirectly coaching.
Isn't that what you want to do before you retire?
And I just got caught in it, and I guess
it's taken off and give credit to those who who
caught me at a week moment into doing it well.
Speaker 1: And but you're empowering a lot of I think young
women as well. And I mean just look at all
the little girls and everybody else in the crowd, Like
you're empowering them that you can be beautiful and like
to do that and still be a great athlete, right,
Like you can combine these things that in the past
sometimes maybe people felt like you could not. I mean,
it has to be pretty surreal looking out there and
seeing all of those sequins and all that glitter, because
it was it was it was pretty insane looking just
on like the broadcast at and I mean it lit
the internet aflame earlier this week.
Speaker 3: Well I didn't. I don't. I'm not honestly ever aware
of that. I learned about the Kim Molty lookalike through
my hairdresser, who you met.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. She said.
Speaker 3: She showed up to do my hair and makeup that
day with a blonde wig on it. And I said, oh,
are you envious of me? Or something like that? And
she said, girl, we're all gonna be like you today,
don't you know? And I said, no, I don't. And
so that's how I learned of what they're doing. And
I know they did it last year, but they don't
come ask me. You know, if it's something that they
feel like is a great promotion, they will do it.
And you know, it's all in fun. But the main
part of all of it is selling tickets, fill the
PMAC and teach the game of basketball and t Bob.
I grew up in the country and I'll always be
forever in love with the decisions that my parents made.
My mother allowed me to play ball with the boys.
She go out there, get hurt and get bloody.
Speaker 1: Do what you want to do.
Speaker 3: If that makes you happy. But we're gonna go shopping
the Godshaw's every summer. We're gonna get the nice clothes
to wear to school, and you're gonna you know, I mean,
she taught me about life, and she just taught me
you can do so many things. It's not just be
the little tom boy from Tickball Louisiana. You can be smart,
and you can graduate valedictorian, and you can learn all
these things and be a little bit of everything. And
so I give her great credit for letting me be
who I am, but also teaching me other things about
being a woman.
Speaker 1: Oh question about that's fantastic. Coach. I do want to
ask you about your upcoming game against the program that
I know you respect a ton in Tennessee, number sixteen
in the country. They're thirteen and one.
Speaker 6: They just had their first loss their last game against Oklahoma.
It was a one point defeat, eighty seven to eighty six,
so a high scoring game as well. What do you
see right now with this Tennessee team, You know, kind
of knowing that they've been successful to this point and
they've really been going in the right direction over the
last couple you know of years since they made a
change there.
Speaker 3: Well, let me try to explain this because you guys
haven't seen it. I have never, in all my years
of women's basketball, seen the style of play that they play.
They have ten transfers. They substitute every two to three minutes,
four and five players at a time. They literally do
the full court run and jump trying to create turnovers.
They act up threes all over the floor. They take
you off the dribble. It's like a playing street ball.
And if you have not seen them play, you need
to look at it. Because I'm sitting here going, Okay,
that style is great, but how do you recruit a
post player to it? How do you win a championship?
All I know is it's working and it's effective. And
this new coach, Kim Calwell, won two national championships at
the D two level and she's not changed her philosophy.
So I'm sitting here last night yesterday was our day off,
and I'm thinking, how do you go on the road
and compete with that? Knowing that not only are they good,
it's a different style. And if we don't take care
of the basketball, we don't stand a chance. If we
take care of the basketball, we then have to keep
them off the offensive board. They're so athletic. It's not
your traditional looking type of play, and I'm like, holy smokes.
And so Oklahoma is very good as well. They have
five starters back, and they brought in a young lady
named Beers, and that child will probably be the newcomer
of the year in our league. She was a post
presence for Oklahoma and got a lot of rebounds and
kept them off the boards. But think about what I'm
getting ready to tell you. Oklahoma turned the ball over
thirty one time against Tennessee and scored in the eighties.
Speaker 1: How do you do that.
Speaker 3: Well, if they're gonna press you and you get the
ball over the front line, you're gonna get lay up
after lay up after the left. They had forty eight
I think paint points. Well, they don't have forty eight
paint points because they had these two big posts in there.
It was forty eight paint points off of the pressure
that Tennessee creates. And so it's kind of strange to me.
It's like, thirty one turnovers and you won by and
you scored in the eighties, and forty eight of those
were in the paint. It's really interesting, y'all. Need to
go try to find that video. So when you see
us play, you're gonna think what the heck is going on?
They make you play fast.
Speaker 1: Well, it almost sounds like they're doing like a hockey
strategy with full line shifts, just keeping legs for us
trying to I mean, they want to outrun you. It
sounds like, so, so how do you combat that when
you have a smaller rotation?
Speaker 3: Well, exactly, they want to outscore you. And I have
said it many times about my team. Our defense to
me is not where it needs to be because I
think we still have some young ladies that have a
mindset that we're gonna outscore you too. I may go
with a small lineup. I think if there's not gonna
be just that post present and they're gonna spread the
floor on you, they're gonna play, they're gonna press you.
I may need more ball handlers in the game and
people that can get in there because it is very
difficult for bigs to go outside the painting guard. And
so I'm tossing and turning at night trying to figure
out do I go with a totally different lineup? Do
I sub? Like every time they sub, I'm gonna take
my chances and sub because we do have depth. I've
got six to seven perimeter players, more than I've ever
had since I've been at LSU, and let them go
get that experience.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 1: Guys. That is going to be this Thursday. It's in Knoxville,
number six LSU. It's number sixteen Tennessee at five thirty PM.
So an earlier tip, get ready to watch if you
want to see something very exciting, very different. As coaches,
alluding to their coach Mulky, we cannot thank you enough
for coming on with us every single Tuesday.
Speaker 4: And the last outfit too, I can't. It was just incredible.
I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3: I know we played Tennessee twice. That's really unique. So
we play them there Thursday and then they have to
come back here, so it'll be interesting little two games
and we play them because that style is something everybody
needs to go see. And I just hope that we
can handle the ball and compete with them because I
know we're ranked higher, but I have to tell you
they may be the favorite.
Speaker 1: Damn. There you go, guys, Thursday at five point thirty,
get ready to lock in. Coach Molki, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Take care, guys.
Speaker 1: Nice coach absolutely the legend herself. All right, when we
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Speaker 2: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench, get them.
Speaker 1: I next clean? Uh So kay, guys, sorry, this generally, uh,
this last segment every Tuesday goes a bit short because
we end up going.
Speaker 4: A long coach.
Speaker 1: We'll give it. How could you not because she's an
absolute legend. So let's set at the table for hour three.
Here we got Nick Underhill to come up and fill
you in on the latest uh coaching search for your
New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4: What else?
Speaker 1: Oh, we still haven't gotten to our baseball talk. LSU
opening up number two in the polls for the Perfect
Game polls. There's like eighteen different Yeah, there's so many polls,
but still LSU opened up number two in the Perfect
Game polls. Maybe more interesting is just how many ranked
opponents LSU plays. And again, of course, like always the
SEC we still got the TA NFL Story of the
Day day coming up.
Speaker 4: Have we not cleared anything else out?
Speaker 1: I think maybe? Yeah? And oh we got a little
bit of Chargers news. We didn't talk about North Dakota State.
We should give them a shout out as well, Jake
winning their tenth Nanny the past fourteen seasons. How about
it too. It's going to be a very fun hour
three here on o TV, so don't go anywhere, keep
it locked in. We got plenty more coming up for
you off the bench.