Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down and science gets denied the Bench.
Hour two of Off the Bench Live from the Raising
Kine Studio.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, oh tb Our number two here
live from the Raising Kine Studio. Jake playing a Landra
Cassie here with you on a Friday afternoon. One of
the most underrated players in l s U history got
some dollar dollar bills yesterday. Like, take guess who I'm
talking about. Okay, Landra, I guess I want to talking about
He still currently plays in the National Football League.
Speaker 4: An underrated l s U.
Speaker 3: One of the all time, might be a Hall of
Famer by the end of his career. Actually should be.
By the numbers. Daniel Hunter, Daniel Hunter, Loanda knows ball.
Let's go, Matthew does. Cassie was sweating.
Speaker 2: I guess you. Okay, don't call me, don't call me.
Speaker 3: Daniel Hunter and the Texans agree to a one year,
forty million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 2: There we go.
Speaker 3: Forty so well deserved this. Oh yeah, I mean top
five in the league in sacks yet again. This is
Hunter's second extension with Houston after signing a two year,
forty nine million dollar deal back in March of twenty
twenty four. Whoa I finished with twelve sacks in a
Pro Bowl in twenty twenty four, So the Texans gave
him a one year, thirty five point six million dollar
extension to the back end of that original deal. They
also gave him twelve million dollar raise in twenty twenty five,
bumping his salary to thirty two million, and then now
this year, one year forty million dollars for the nail hunter,
who was third in the NFL with fifteen sacks a
year ago, just continues to be so impressive, continues to
be one of the best in the game. He's an
incredible human being if you've ever had the pleasure of
having a conversation with him. And he's going to end
his career potentially with a gold jacket. Yeah, he has
one hundred thirteen and a half career sacks. He had
like four LSU.
Speaker 5: Previous to this year. I mean, I would say the
common fan out there who isn't like fully into the
NFL probably didn't really know the name, just like the
Sander passerby Er fan, Like you don't see any Hunter
jerseys walking around and you're talking about like stats, just
having this sleepy I don't even want to say sleepy,
like this subt a little career that nobody's talking about.
And then you're mentioning him with a gold jacket, which
is pretty incredible, So well deserved. Good for you, and
certainly try to keep that defense together. Get rid of
c J. Stroud, replace that guy. Did he hurts you
at some point?
Speaker 3: You hate c J. Stroud?
Speaker 4: Those card stuff?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's card. Yeah, that's true. It's an investment, so.
Speaker 2: It always circles back to the car.
Speaker 3: So Daniel Hunter in his career, this is going back
to twenty fifteen, has seasons of six sacks, twelve and
a half, seven fourteen and a half, fourteen and a half,
only played seven games, still had six sacks ten and
a half, sixteen and a half, twelve and fifteen. He
just had his second most in a season.
Speaker 2: Hey look good doing it too, muscles.
Speaker 3: That's what we used to look like in our uniform, right.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, for sure, obviously I didn't want to say it.
Thanks for bringing it up, though.
Speaker 3: What an incredible career though, I mean, really, one hundred
and fourteen and a half sacks, very well deserved, one
of the best to do it in his position. Houston's
not going anywhere now. They got to get better quarterback
play to your point, But so you can do those
kind of things too, when you've got some money to spend.
That's what kind of brings us back to the Saints.
Like the Texans twenty two million dollars of caf room.
Speaker 2: Still, hey, that's enough to go get your little quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know who has the most caf room in the
National Football League?
Speaker 2: Uh, let me cause uh blind guests here. Seahawks.
Speaker 3: No, although they got a lot. Seahawks got fifty eight million. Yeah,
pretty decent. That's John so good at his job. I
don't know John Snyder. I love that man so much.
He was a dude.
Speaker 2: He's a great dude.
Speaker 5: The most room in the Let's say someone else ran
out the Dolphins playoff team playoff ten Eagles, Chargers, they.
Speaker 3: Have the most calf room by over six million dollars.
They've got ninety nine million dollars of cap space. Titans,
your Second Raiders, Jets, Commanders, Seahawks, Bengals, Steelers, Cardinals, Patriots.
Speaker 5: Somebody getting overpaid that's not really their mo though.
Speaker 2: They they have to spend a certain percentage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't hold on to all of it. I
believe they did just sign a center from the Commanders,
but that was like three years, thirty million dollars. So
you're a like, Okay, let's let's have this conversation because
I can tell you're done and talking about numbers. You're
the Chargers. You've got ninety nine million dollars to spend. Okay,
you just made the playoffs in a very difficult division
with the Broncos and the Chiefs. All right, I know
this isn't the best free agent class. I had a
GM tell me at the combine. He's like, yeah, you
know those top one hundred lists that you see of
top one hundred free agents. He said they could probably
cut that down to thirty five. Right, He's like it's
not great. I'm like, okay, but still like you can
add pieces.
Speaker 2: One hundred free agents list is pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yes, to make like your windows open right now. You
have justin Herbert, You've got hardball like, you've got nice pieces,
you've got a good defense. You got to go spend
that money, like you gotta be smart. But like for
the Chargers, Like, if i'm them, I'm like, all right,
i am going to sign a veteran running back. I'm
not going to a couple of them. I'm not gonna
have what happened to me last year with Nagie Harris.
I'm signing multiple four to six solid offensive or sixteen
probably the way they get there, you know what I'm saying. Like,
I'm like, the guys that I'm signing to be backups
are guys that have starts other places. Yeah, Like I'm
giving them like a two year, four million dollar contract,
four to six of them. Like maybe guy passes Prime,
maybe a guy that's a spot starter, but with the experience,
I'm not having uber drivers out there protecting Justin Herbert anymore.
Like there's a way to spend money in a good way,
not overpay for somebody, create depth and have a good
Like you make the postseason and you got almost one
hundred million dollars under the cap, Like you got to
go spend some of that because these windows don't stay
open very long. They only have they owner, they only
have five million dollars of dead money.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 3: To give you a comp the Saints have sixty six
million dollars.
Speaker 5: Do you know, can you restructure people let's just say
they let's just say that they can't find ninety nine
million dollars to spend on new people, so you're going
to restructure. Maybe you have you have some guys of
course in your room that you're gonna want to sign
the long term deals that might be coming up on
their last year or whatever it is. We like, could
you restructure, like at justin Herbert to not to change
his pay because I know he's he has recently somewhat
When did he sign his contract extension two years ago? Yeah,
something like that, But like, could you say, all right,
well he's owed fifty million this year, fifty million next year,
fifty million the following year. Could you structure to say,
let's take twenty five of it from next year and
put it towards this year's salary cap?
Speaker 2: Do you know? Like if that works that way?
Speaker 3: I don't could don't think that everybody anybody's ever been like,
hey we got some extra, we got some extra.
Speaker 5: I want to seventy five million cap. It would just
Herbert this year, because then you know how it is.
Speaker 3: I think then if you do something like that then
you're like resetting the market again. And then like all
these quarterbacks like Herbert's making seventy five million this year,
he's not.
Speaker 5: He's not resetting the market because this annual salary is
just the cap is getting like the cap hits differently.
He's not restructured to seventy five per year. It's just
like when somebody signs for fifty million a year, but
the cap, you know, eight of it gets hit in
twenty twenty nine. It's just like, you know, I don't
know how those gymnastics work. Just saying like this, we've
never really been in this position, this situation.
Speaker 3: You just said.
Speaker 5: They got almost one hundred million dollars to spend for
a playoff team. Who's offensive line they had players on
their offensive line, they just all got hurt. Yeah, so
it's not like they have like these glaring weakness, like
enough weakness, go spend one hundred million dollars, but they do.
You have to spend what up to ninety five percent
of the salary cap. It's at least ninety it's I
think it's not. I think it's ninety To your point,
either way.
Speaker 3: Spend it right, like you got to spend like two
hundred and seventy million per team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great problem to have, but problems aren't
problems no matter if they're good or bad.
Speaker 2: You gotta they have to be solved.
Speaker 3: So that like that makes them a player for Trey
Hendrickson and some of the other top free agents that
are out there. I'm just glad the Saints have some
money as well.
Speaker 5: Now what they do with that money, I'm glad they
have money. And Mickey's on a heater.
Speaker 3: So when you go to ESPN dot com put out
an article in u Kat Tarrell contributed to this biggest need.
It says for the New Orleans Saints interior offensive line.
It says Saints coach identified the run game as one
of the areas the team needs to improve, and that upgrade,
of course, does begin with your offensive front. So it
is funny, like we always talk about how bad they
are in pass protection, but they weren't great in run
blocking either. So I know it's not sexy, I know
it's not flashy, but you need some real help in
the interior that offensive front. Like Eric McCoy's good, but
he's got to stay healthy. Sees rees not good and
you gave him more money, like you got to and
I hay bagging on the guy, but it is what
it is. Just like if if we didn't play well,
people told us not played well in a long time.
Speaker 5: People tell us every day, like we don't do well
at radio, Yeah every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people tell us we don't do good and a
lot of things, yeah, don't do great.
Speaker 2: Maybe Caesar was hurt, maybe had a couple of broken
legs for four years.
Speaker 3: You gave him more money, So that's on you. So
you can't do another one of those deals. But again,
it's a place where you've got to upgrade and you've
got to make some tough decisions. Uh, you know, Alonte Taylor,
he might walk, Marshaun Lttimore got traded, Paul Stondebo left
in free agency, Like you've lost some real talent at
that position. But can you bring him back? I don't
know they're gonna bring back Cam Jordan, as we've talked about.
So and it's kat kind of summarizes here, like what
do you expect to happen? And it says re sign
only one of their big four free agents. The Saints
seem set to lose Alonte Taylor Cam Jordan will become
a free agent next week. The league year starts Wednesday.
Mentions that cam Jordan reunion isn't out of the question,
but it's more likely that if you bring back one
of your savvy vets, it's gonna be to Mario Davis
and not Cam.
Speaker 5: Jordan's okay, who's playing at an extremely high level as well,
well into his thirties.
Speaker 3: If you lose both those guys, that's a big hit
in the locker room as well.
Speaker 5: That's I mean the production this year, their leadership, because
it was great. Their production was great, But that's a
big void to fill, like just a strength, Like I mean,
how long has those two been in the locker room
and everybody's leaned on them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's hard to replace that for any dollar amount. Yeah,
and there's gonna be some people that want Tomorroow Davis.
I know he's thirty seven years old, but when you
look at the linebackers that are available, the top guys
are all older guys. Bobby Wagner's gonna be thirty six,
Leavonte David is thirty six, Kaden Ellis is gonna be
thirty one, Matt Malonald's gonna be thirty one in zelone.
He's gonna be thirty two when the season starts, So
all the top linebackers are going to be older. So
they're not going to like completely shy away from Tomorrow
Davis because he is thirty seven. He just had one
of his best years of his career, so you're gonna
have competition for him as well. That's why I was
so imperative you get under the number, because you got
to make some moves, and you got to make some
moves on some guys that were on your team. It's
not just bringing in new guys from new places. But
Matt Flynn, big Mickey fan, say he's gonna get it done.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get it done. Playoff bound Saints who.
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 3: All right? We'll take a great more OTB when we
come back here live from the Raising Kine Studio.
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about ten fifteen minutes from now. LSU Gymnastics.
Speaker 5: Maybe crush them, Hea, they good tigers.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about? I was told
the numbers are not what we want to talk about.
So where we going?
Speaker 7: I want to talk about numbers? Talk about numbers. We
got a It was just a suggestion.
Speaker 3: Elis Baseball Sacramento State. Hell, yeah, they need to bounce back.
Speaker 2: Boy do they.
Speaker 3: Couple losses in a row, Well, get right weekend, need
one lose Monday thirteen to ten, you lose Wednesday seven
to two. Sacramento State coming into town on Friday, Saturday,
Sunday six thirty pm first pitch, Saturday six pm first pitch,
and then Sunday a one pm first pitch, and then
he got Creighton in the midweek on Tuesday before you
head to Nashville to take on Vanderbilt. Need some momentum,
that's for sure. We're going into SEC play and it's
got to start this weekending at Sacramento State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta get the bats rolling, certainly.
Speaker 5: I think I feel like that's fans, and I think
Jay Johnson probably feels pretty good about his.
Speaker 2: Three weekend starters right now. And I think he even mentioned.
Speaker 5: That he's got a pretty good idea of his or
like Maine, you know, four Leavers are that he feel
really comfortable with. But it's all about the bats. Gotta
get him hot.
Speaker 3: Sacramento State's three and nine, it didn't really matter. I
think with Northeastern the kind of similar record, Uh, sacramentost
State is not one of an away game. They've lost
five games in a row.
Speaker 2: It beat Saint Joseph's twice.
Speaker 3: Here's Saint Joseph salty this year.
Speaker 2: Salty real salty.
Speaker 3: Uh, you gotta sweep the series. It is what it is.
They've lost five in a row, they lost two Pacific,
they got swept by col and they lost to Fresno State.
Speaker 2: Hmm, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: You hate conference sweeps. You need to get right. They're bad,
you haven't played well. You gotta dominate. Yeah, you see,
Irvine is a good program for sure, but I'll swept him.
It's not a great team. You got to do the
things that you haven't been doing right. You have to
go out there. You have to be better at the plate. Obviously,
we talked about it going back a couple of weekends ago,
Like you were really good on the mound. That has
kind of falling apart. You've given up thirteen and seven,
so twenty combined runs your last two games. I know
he scored ten runs against Northeastern. I know you made
a little comeback there, but like as y'all pointed out,
that was with a lot of backups. That's guys that
were pinch hitting in that game. They were the ones
that made the comeback. You didn't get anything started after
you got your first two hitters on base a ton
on Wednesday night in Lafayette. This lineup as much as anything,
they've got to have a breakout weekend. They got to
get a get right situation at Sacramento State.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wandra, what we say yesterday the last six game
is bad about.
Speaker 7: To ten seventeen sea the starting Yes, that's with Curiel
having a really nice day at the played against Lafayette,
So that's even with that.
Speaker 2: So obviously he was little.
Speaker 5: He wouldn't getting on base how you like, until that game,
so hopefully that carries on. Yeah, and you got to
get the middle of that lineup going.
Speaker 4: It's really the middle of the lineup.
Speaker 7: And if you want to make a change, like I
would say, Trent Carraway is making a case to be
like third in the lineup because he's second on the
team and RBI.
Speaker 4: He's clutching the moments.
Speaker 7: He had that Grand Slam a couple of weekends ago.
I think it's two because he had the other one
versus Lafayette. Yeah, we're scored the only two runs that
we had, So I mean again, like I think that
LSU probably will and can sweep the series because they've
swept every weekend. It's the midweek games that are kind
of struggling. And yes, one hundred percent they need to
get the offense going. But I just I still feel
really good about the team, even though they're kind of
cold right now, and it's really the defensive side that
like kind of gives me some worries. You've got it
like a lot more air this season then you had
the entire last season, and you're replacing a lot. You're
replacing second base, first base, and third base. So I
just think that they everybody just needs to find a rhythm.
And I feel like it's been in the past where
Jay's teams kind of start off a little slow and
then once you get into that sec play and everybody
starts to kind of get to know each other and
like find the team chemistry and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Not that not that they don't have it now, but it's.
Speaker 7: Different practicing and scrimmaging than being an actual game.
Speaker 4: So I think that.
Speaker 7: The issue that that can cause issues with Sacramento State
is that team's smaller Mid major teams try to like
pepper you a little bit and just get the ball
and play and will play like some small balld like
situational hitting and stuff like that. Yeah, so that's that's
the one thing that I would watch out for with
Sacramento State is ken Elishu's defense that has been kind
of struggling a little bit deal with the small ball.
Speaker 5: I guess it's more normal for batters to go cold
than like defensively to Yeah, could, but I mean, I
guess it's the beginning of the year. Jay's still figuring
out who what his roster is, who's defensive line. There's
probably positions that he's still probably tweaking, and then sometimes
you got to take a lower batting batting average to
get a better glove. Yeah, and so maybe he's still
trying to figure all that. But that I would I
would agree like that's more of a concern on defensively
the airs than like going cold at the play that happens.
Speaker 2: So it's baseball. It's a long season.
Speaker 5: Like you go through these streaks and hopefully you got
more guys that aren't on them than than are. But
everybody gets a cold streak. So it's just been unfortunate
that everybody's kind of been cold. Right, most most of.
Speaker 7: The batters, like Whenever Kuriel's hot, York and Steven Mylam
are cold. If Milam's hot, Curiel's cold. So I don't
think that they've ever.
Speaker 2: Been like, yeah, they're not ham and egging right now.
Speaker 4: You're not synergized.
Speaker 2: They're not synergized.
Speaker 7: You'll probably see Ethan Leighton, who is usually their Friday starter.
Interestingly enough, he bats too. I don't know if he
has this season, but he's like a two way player,
like he'll hit.
Speaker 4: And he'll pitch.
Speaker 7: But probably see Ethan late and night, and probably see
Cason Evans for LSU.
Speaker 2: We're gonna crush Ethan and strike him out.
Speaker 4: Both and strike him out. Yeah, three losses.
Speaker 3: Sorry, defense is certainly not something that has been stellar.
Last year. The biggest thing Jay would always talk about
was the defense and how good they were. And these
losses you've had, you know, multiple errors in these games.
You have not given yourself an opportunity. So there's a
lot of things, right, a lot of things that LSU
needs to work on here in this series against Sacramento State.
Something they need to go out there and kind of refocus.
They started the season so hot, right, they've hit a
rough patch here. Certainly, to their standard. And you've got
conference play coming up here next weekend. I mean it
is here. You've got this series, you've got Creighton, and
you've got a road trip to Vanderbilt. So let's see
if the boys over at the box can get it
done tonight. All right, we'll take a break and when
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Speaker 1: Locked in on LSU Football twenty four to seven. You're
listening to Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: I want it most much, all right, Welcome back in
OTB here live from the Raising Kines studio. Gonna go
to the phone lines now. Jay Clark, head coach, Yell'
shoe Gymnastics joins us. Now, coach, we appreciate the time.
I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 6: What's up this morning? Guys?
Speaker 3: Uh doing fantastic. Any chance that the Tigers get to
face off against the Florida Gators is a good day
for OTB. So we've got that going for us, but
for you, and every time I feel like we talk
with you, it's like the same story. If we go
back over the last you know, two and a half
three weeks, you were going to face the number one,
the number three team in the country twice, the number
seventeen team in the country, and now you're going on
the road against the number four team in the country. Uh,
just kind of business as usual for you and your
gymnastics team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of getting kind of repetitive, for sure,
but when seven of the top eight in the country
or in this conference, I guess it's unavoidable. It's uh,
it's crazy, but we enjoy it. Man. I think I
think our kids do better in those environments against those
kind of teams, and and uh so on to the
next one. Man, we we'll, we'll, we'll be down there.
Uh uh in Gainesville Sunday, Sunday evening. I think it's
sixth Eastern and uh, I guess it's on ESPN two
or something like that. So uh, hopefully everybody tunes in
and we can pull one off.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 5: Let's let's take I know it's Friday, headed into the
week ahead, and then the next uh.
Speaker 2: Next meet.
Speaker 5: But let's take a look back, since we hadn't talked
to you since last Friday, and let's look at what
you did this past week. And of course you uh,
you beat Alabama, You top Alabama on Friday night, then
you go to the Podium Challenge and come on top
of that one. It just seems like your girls are
really kind of performing at a very high level at
this point of the season.
Speaker 6: They are, they are, and we were able to make
some some lineup changes and get some people in that
had not been in a whole lot and and see
what they would do and and try to developed the
depth that we keep talking about we have, but it's
not depth if you don't develop it. So we got
we got an opportunity on Sunday to see how they
did and actually improved our score from Friday to Sunday.
So feel really good about where we are right now.
And knock on wood, you know, our health is holding
pretty well right now, so you know, we feel good.
We've got two more meets in the regular season and
then get into the SEC Championship and see where we
can take this thing.
Speaker 3: So coach, being in this situation like you have so
many different times being one of the top teams in
the country getting to this point in the season. Are
there a lot of things that you do with your
team that are going to be repetitive, a lot of
things that you've done in years past or is every
year kind of different and there's new challenges, there's new things,
there's new teams, there's new teammates, and maybe you got
to kind of switch it up a little bit.
Speaker 6: Well, the overarching, the overarching principles stayed the same, but
as you know, every team has its own personality and
different people emerge, you know in terms of filling voids
that were left, and you know, voices change and all
those things. So you know, we make we make allowance
for that, and we sort of read the tea leaves
and try to stay present and where we are. But
at the same time, you know, the the overarching principles
and the messaging and what works for us stays the same.
And a lot of these kids came here because they
understood what that looked like and and uh so it
doesn't change an awful lot, but you do have to
make allowances for those that step up into the leadership
role that that have different sort of nuances to the
way they like to express things.
Speaker 1: And do things.
Speaker 5: Coach here, I'm curious, so you're going into this next
meet against Florida. So, like from Jake and I's perspective,
when we just hear the name Florida Gators, it like
creates a very emotional response in us with bro me too.
Speaker 6: Man, I'm telling you, it is, it is. It is
the all time word. Now you listen, you're talking. I've
been here fourteen years and as far as I'm concerned,
I'm an LSU Tiger. But you got to remember where
I'm from too. I'm from I'm from Georgia. We don't
like those as a whole lot. So it's it's it's
it evokes a visceral response from me as well, and
I don't I have a hard time tamping that down
during the week and remembering that we don't have defense
because I really would like to play something.
Speaker 8: Because it's so funny, guys, it's such a cool thing
about sports, especially in college sports, and no matter what
the sport is, it's like sometimes we could just drop
the coach speak and just talk how it is, like
we we don't like them over here, and it's it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a great rivalry and that's why. And
you always want them to be good too. We talked
about from a football respective, I want Florida to be
good at football because when I beat them, I wanted to, like,
I wanted to hurt a little bit.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, And look, there's a difference between not liking
people and also have a respect for your opponent. Because
I look that roster we're going against this weekend, maybe
maybe the most loaded I've ever seen in thirty five years.
I mean, they're ridiculously talented. But but we always compete
hard when we're there, and I love going there. It's
generally very very close and in a great environment, not
quite like the p MAC, but but also very good.
And we get excited about these environments. Man, it's it's uh,
it's why they come here, it's why you it's why
you come to the SEC, and it's why you come
to ls US to get into this kind of situation.
Speaker 3: That's really where I wanted to go next and ask
you because obviously you've been very successful. LSU's won national championship,
a lot of attention around the gymnastics program, so coach.
When you go on the road to one of these
sec environments, I have to imagine they're not whispering sweet
nothings to your team. I mean, you're a team that
everybody wants to beat, and that's a that's a compliment
whenever you get to that status.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know, people think of our sport that
haven't been to the PMAC or been in these environments
and they think you're sitting on your hands like you're
at Wimbledon or something. But it's it's you're not. I mean,
these students sections are crazy. Some of the things that
get hurled at you verbally or every bit as as
a as a hard to hear as they can be
in a football stadium. So it's it's interesting, it's you know,
people don't people don't extend greater respect just because it's
it's a bunch of young women out there.
Speaker 5: Coach this part of the season, you have quite an advantage,
especially on your your staff. What kind of what does
Haley Bryant mean to the girls on a team right now,
especially kind of going into into the season, getting ready
to postseason. What does she mean to your your team
and your staff.
Speaker 6: She stabilizes a lot of things because they had such
an incredible respect for her as their teammate. And you know,
you worry about that when you hire somebody right out
of school and you don't know, you know, in a
in a typical situation, I would not have done it
if it had not been Hailey Bryant. I would not
have hired somebody right out of right out of college
and coaching their teammates from the previous year. But they
had such an amazing high level of respect for her
that the transition has been very, very easy, and they
now they feel like they've got an even deeper confidante.
And I trust her with that, you know, they can
they can bring things to her that she understands that
that she can provide a greater level of perspective on
now that she's you know, crossed over to the dark
side of the force, and and and and she's she
just really does a great job of of of honoring
her position but also kind of staying in that role
where she was as a teammate, where they can come
to her with things that she can. She has such
a gentle, sort of servant minded leadership style that she's
you know, she's cossibly trying to help you even if
you you know, if you make a mistake, you mess up,
she's gonna kind of come alongside you rather than point
her finger and bark at you. And I think they really,
they really appreciate that about her, And uh, I think
it's it's really helped us a lot in in ways
that I guess I didn't even anticipate that aren't necessarily
tangible thing that I could express to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something certainly an experience and a leadership that
not many girls like you said, if it wasn't Haley Bryant,
then it probably wouldn't have happened. So it's quite an asset,
and I can only imagine just from a mental perspective
that's going to help in the postseason as well. Coach,
I want to stick with ask another Haley Bryant question,
but it's not really it's not about LSU. So I
want to get away just for a second, and I
want to ask a question for kind of the common
the casual gymnastics fan that love LSU gymnastics but maybe
not tuned into like the rest of it in the
in detail of gymnastics. So, Haley Bryan, I want to
ask you what's the difference between college gymnastics and Olympic
type gymnastics, because I when Hailey Bryant was beating girls
that would going to the Olympics, Like, I want to adjust.
You can give me, like just a brief explanation of
what the difference is between that competition and the college competition.
Speaker 6: In simpless terms, it's the number of skills that we
have to do. Like, the difficulty level is still very
very high for us, but it's the number of skill
When you get to the Olympic level, they may have
to put so many skills into their routines when they
come to school, come to college, we're able to take
the best of what they do and kind of shrink,
if you will, the duration of these routines, so you'll see,
you know, a barantine for us might last twenty five seconds.
A barantine at the Olympic level might might last twice
that long. So we're still doing We're still doing that
level of difficulty. And Haley certainly physically was able to
do pretty much anything at a at a world class level,
but the collegiate rules are such that it makes no
sense for us to push the ovelope to the ceiling
of what these kids are capable of, whereas at the
Olympic level, I mean they're uh, execution sometimes goes out
the window because it's just about stacking difficulties. So philosophically
it's very different. We're much for about clean execution, really
good landings and making things clean, whereas at the Olympic
level it's stacked your difficulty because you get two different scores.
You get a difficulty score and you get an execution score,
and that difficulty score makes the difference. Like Simone Biles
was so much better than everybody in the world, is
that she could do things nobody else could do, and
do a lot of them, and that's the biggest difference.
We sort of have condensed it at the collegiate level.
Speaker 2: I just know saw Haley whipping up on some Olympians
she has.
Speaker 6: She's dude that if she had wanted to pursue that pass,
and she didn't, she was all about, you know, staying
at the level ten level, which is one step below
the elite level, and then going to college. But had
she chosen to do that, I think she would have
been a force to deal with at at the elite level. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Catching up with LSU Gymnastics head coach Jay Clark
here on OTB, Let's go back to this meet against Florida.
What do you feel like maybe or what are you
hoping to get done to be able to go out
out there and put the best score like it? What's
one maybe event? What's one thing that you're like, Okay,
I've started to see it. It's close to happening. We've
played really well, We've done really well out there, but
I want to see this as we challenge ourselves against
Florida coming up.
Speaker 6: Well, I think we've seen we've seen a lot of
people go in spots on three events and be able
to handle it and still keep us at a very
high level. There's one spot on vault that you know,
we just we need to kind of settle in that
middle part of our lineup on vault still. And it's
hard to believe that when you're you're ranked number two
in the country on an event, but we we just
want to make sure that we can we can reasonably
expect every time we go out there that we're going
to go six for six, and we seem to have
one little spot where it keeps giving us trouble here
and there on that event, I'd like us to really
get off to a great start in the first half
of that meet. If we've had trouble in the past.
This year, it's been early in meets whether we start
on bars or whether we start on vault. And this
week we'll be the away team, so we start on
and I want to see a start pass on bars
and then continue that through the first half of the meet,
because I think if we do that, we've got a
chance to finish very strong. I like where we are
on beam and floor right now. I think Courtney and
Haley have done an amazing job getting our kids in
a really good mindset and of consistency over there. I
just want to see us improve on those first two.
Speaker 5: Cause you have a luxury have so much depth on
your team. Uh, I'm curious as when you're when you're
deciding on the rotation. For me, how much of that
is a game day decision because of the depth you have,
maybe one person is not feeling it as well. Then
have as good of a warm bat is there? Every
like game time decisions that you thought that you make
that you didn't think you'd make earlier in the week.
Speaker 6: Well, we don't. We try not to do it right up,
you know, at the time at the beginning of the competition,
but we uh, we will make them late in the week.
So we've had two days of practice so far. We're
going to train tomorrow morning before we get on the
airplane and go, and we'll make our decisions immediately after
that practice and make sure they have it in their
heads so they can wrap their heads around. Some times
people are surprised if they're not in, and sometimes they're
surprised if they are, and I like to give them
time to kind of digest that so that we can
set aside any emotional reaction to that and make sure
that we're dialed in for everybody else. It can be difficult.
It's the best problem in the world to have, but
nonetheless it's a problem, and it's the one I want
to have, is to be able to have to make
those decisions. And we're still making decisions. In a typical year,
by now we've sort of settled in, we know exactly
what we want to do, all sticks on every event.
That's not the case right now because we've got some
options that have all done very well and I just
want to make sure that we go with the hot
hand and that we put the right people in to
give us the best chance to win. So I wouldn't
say game time, but it is close. I mean we
try to do it definitely within the last twenty four
hours of each meat.
Speaker 3: All right, there he is Jake Clark, LSU gymnastics head
coach going on the road to take on those Gators
hashtag Gator hater here OTV coach. We appreciate it. You're
the best. Good luck coming up, safe travels, and we'll
catch up again with you next week.
Speaker 6: All right, guys, have a great weekend. Go Tiger.
Speaker 3: Thanks all right, you as well.
Speaker 2: I mean that's great.
Speaker 3: That's double wave me Florida. I love hate there.
Speaker 2: Wow, he interrupted my question to talk about how much
you didn't like.
Speaker 3: Him, what you'd even finish? What you even say?
Speaker 2: It out exactly what I wanted them to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck. It's gonna be a good meet number
two versus number four teams in the country on the
SEC network coming up this weekend. All right, we will
step away more OTB when we come back here live
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I do think j Clark just went up in the
tier list of LSU coaches.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. He kind of dropped that coach
speak a little bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love hearing it now. He came back through the
respect on it which I don't have. That he does
he does. We don't no respect, no r E S
P E c T. You're Jort wearing losers, nerds, dorks.
You don't even look good doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even look good doing it.
Speaker 3: I don't think we get to play them in baseball
this year either. We do. Actually, it's in if I'm
not mistaking it, because I remember Dorian was talking about
coming to the games. I think it's very very like
maybe the last series.
Speaker 4: It's usually late in the season.
Speaker 3: I think it's a very last series. It's going to
be home.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, punks, Did I see some people? Does Matt Flann
need to throw out the first pitch?
Speaker 4: Wait? Do I need to hit a bill? Would you
do it?
Speaker 3: Matt?
Speaker 2: Hell?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I will hit a bill and ask him.
Speaker 5: Wind up or stretch. I would you got to do
full wind up. I used to pitch as a youth.
I had a big high kick too. I had like
it because I was Nolan Ryan guy, Nolan Ryan high kicked.
I might come out of pants on baseball pants.
Speaker 3: I think I should. Can you throw it out on Friday,
Kevin Fog throw it out on Saturday, and.
Speaker 4: You on Sunday.
Speaker 3: And that's to Davis Price. On Sunday, he is at
the rushing record.
Speaker 2: It would make more sense for you to throw it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got I got youth baseball, Like, that's gonna
be out.
Speaker 4: There one night. You gotta go.
Speaker 3: Can we do double cannon action?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've done that before at the same time. Yeah,
they've done that. We're like Riley Green threw it out.
Speaker 7: And then I think the governor did after or something
like that.
Speaker 3: I want to go at the same time, though, and
I want to see who's gets there faster.
Speaker 6: Bro.
Speaker 2: I'd sling that thing. I'll be I'd be at the
park three hours early getting treated.
Speaker 3: I don't know that they'd let us do it before Florida.
We'd be ripping our jerseys all trying to get the
crowd ready to go.
Speaker 4: We're gonna make this happen.
Speaker 5: Sneak a beer in my back pocket. I'd shot get
it right there on the mound.
Speaker 2: Be awesome.
Speaker 3: I've got a lot of ideas.
Speaker 7: I need the gun to be working too, so I
can see the speed on that.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll sling that. I am afraid. I'm afraid of.
I am afraid of A while pitch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just don't miss.
Speaker 3: Just don't miss short. You can throw it third road,
Just don'ts.
Speaker 4: That'd be embarrassing if it went straight to the ground.
Speaker 5: Dude, I would throw it probably about eighty five. Make
make the catcher go down, have to dig it out
of the dirt. Hit him like in the inner thigh.
I heard him for the game, all right, Oh.
Speaker 3: This might actually be when we're in what he.
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: We'll figure it out. More TV women come back off
the bench.