Speaker 1: All start to Yoda presents Off the Bench with Jacob
Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go where the.
Speaker 1: Plays get broken down, then science gets denied.
Speaker 2: I got to come up the bench. O.
Speaker 1: We're two of Off the Bench live from the Mercedes
ben so Baton Rouge Studio starts now.
Speaker 3: All right, man, welcome again O TV.
Speaker 4: Here on a Tuesday morning, always our pleasure to catch
up with our next guest. L s U Legend, hate
your legend, the guy that made me fall in love
with L s U Football.
Speaker 3: Mister Kevin Falk kay fuk. What's up? Brother? How are
we doing right?
Speaker 4: Well, we just had a bad idea of during the
break Flynn and I, you know, cause we're forty and
getting old. We ran up and down the stairs here
in this building. It's a four story building. So we
went all the way up, all the way down, all
the way back up, and you know, my breast a
little short, Kevin.
Speaker 3: That's what I just did.
Speaker 5: Now, not the bread is going. What's gonna happen later on,
like tomorrows and your knee, your past, It's gonna be like,
what the hell were y'all doing it? Jevin?
Speaker 6: We got done and I was like Jacob, and there's
four stories here. I mean, it's like a mountain. I
was like, Jacob, why am I both of my achilles
hurt so bad?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 5: He was walking that right now?
Speaker 4: Oh, man, Kevin, Like I said, it's always a pleasure
to kind of catch up with you. And obviously we
could sit here and we could talk old LSU stories, which,
as you know, will probably find a way to get there.
But I wanted to have you on because I look,
you're going to be kind of giving back in and
working with youth, you know, different ages, high school guys,
college guys, pro guys that are trying to stay ready,
get ready for the sea. And just want to have
you because that is something that man, I know, if
I would have had the opportunity to do that when
I was growing up, I certainly would have taken full advantage.
So kind of tell everyone what you've got going on on,
kind of what's coming up for you.
Speaker 5: Well, yesterday I just announced, uh that I was going
to be working with Elite Training Academy with their PROS
off season program. It's something that you know was in
the words for a little while. I started working with
with Clyde was there over there, and I love the facility,
the set up, the guys, the atmosphere there. It was
a professional type atmosphere. And when Greg approached me about
coming and training for the summer, I was like, why not, Uh,
stay in touch with the kids, shoot some of the
knowledge that I have to them and answer any questions
that they have about you know, the game of football.
After football. What to expect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of those things, and I'm glad you
mentioned it there, Kevin.
Speaker 3: Like all those things kind of rolled into one.
Speaker 4: It's like what to expect during football, what to expect
like right before you make the big jump, and also
like what to expect after it's done.
Speaker 3: I mean, you and I have talked about that before.
Speaker 4: It's we worked our whole lives to get to that
point and one day that whatever that is will be over.
It's like, well, you got to go find something to do.
You got to go, you know, be in the community.
And that's not something that we've ever really done. Because
if you now, because if you don't do it like
we're talking about, to get ready for it, it's not
gonna be enough.
Speaker 3: So you have to do it that way.
Speaker 4: But then it's like there's this transition period that a
lot of us kind of get lost.
Speaker 3: If you don't have a plan.
Speaker 5: Most of us get lost. Yeah, because it's tough. I
don't care if you played two years, three years, five years, ten,
fifteen years, you're going to have that transition is going
to happen to you. And like you said, if you
don't have a plan in order and fit for you, oh,
it's going to be tough for you to you know,
to get back on your feet to understand that life
is a lot different than on the football field.
Speaker 4: So Kevin kind of, you know, talk about maybe your
relationship with Clyde. That is something in Clyde and I
great friends man, one of the best human beings. But
like he's in a great period right now where he's
getting an opportunity to play for his home state team
and play for the for the New Orleans Saints there
with an opportunity in the roster where you can go
out there and kind of change the path of.
Speaker 3: His career, right right.
Speaker 5: That's definitely a positive for Clyde in this situation and everything.
But the relationship with Clyde was built when I first
got there as a director player person. There one of
the first things Clyde ask me, Man, I need help
with my past protection, and I just lit up. I'm like, wow, okay, okay,
that's what I'm talking about. Okay, And we got to
work and well, you know, like I know, playing in
the league, we none of us get taught how to
pass protection, not at a young heir. Yeah, they tell
us to go cut that guy, cut that guy and
get over. Well, when you get to the league, that's
not cutting anymore. You can't cut. They don't want you
to touch me. So we got to work and he really
got good at it. And like I told him, I
had the opportunity to watch Clyde play his whole senior
year because for some odd reason, we seemed to play
the team that Clyde can played the week before after them,
and I got a chance to see all of his
films and I was amazed at like, how how how
hell compact he was as a running back, his battance,
his Hi tech balance and everything.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kevin, So I just want to like the listeners
to know, like I've had the privilege of being around
you quite a bit. You've been around the program a
long time, and I can tell everybody like first in
like you're one of the most like selfless, humble, the
such not a me person. You're all about making a
difference with the people around you, and like that's what
I respect so much about you. This truly want to
like the legends of LSU a great ambassador for the school.
So like tell us right now, I know you've been
working with the school, Like what is your current role
within LSU with the players, the current players right now
or where you've kind of what you've kind of been
doing with the team in the past couple of years.
Speaker 5: Well, not with the team. I work for administration right now.
I do a lot of you can engage with uh
go to a lot of events. But every year I
go to the Touchdown Club of New Orleangy and at
the beginning in a year and talk about the season
and upcoming expectations for the team and everything things like that,
but also do a little bit of training outside of that.
I actually just pulled up to a high school seven
on seven that I'm coming and watch right now. Trying
to stay involved with it. Signs stayed with involved with
the kids, the community and everything.
Speaker 6: Like Jacob fit, can you imagine being the high school
football team and you got Kevin Fox just rolling up
to help us out.
Speaker 2: Dude, what an incredible journey man. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: They probably they probably don't even know. They probably take.
Speaker 4: It for granted, right for sure, not some of them,
not everybody. Oh man, Kevin, I do want to ask
you so for l s U this year. And I'm
not even trying to get into like names and high
school recruiting profiles and all of that, but like in
their running back room this year, it is going to
be a true sophomore, and it's going to be a
couple of true freshmen that get leaned on, get counted on.
And I always tell people like running back is a
position that you can transition very quickly, and you can
go from high school to the college ranks.
Speaker 3: And if you can run the football, you can run
the football.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 3: If you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4: I don't care how big, I don't care how fast,
I don't care how pretty you look in your uniform.
If you can't read a zone run or a gap
scheme run, you're not going to find a way onto
the field. But Cayden Durham, sure you know, certainly did
that a year ago. But when you have like young
players like that, all right at that position, because you've
coached the position at the collegiate level, Like, what's the
one thing like you try to make sure that a
young running back room, Like, what's the one thing that
you have to make sure is covered Because you don't
have a Josh Williams anymore who's like this fifth year
senior in every pressure situation.
Speaker 3: Well number eighteen was going to go over there last year.
Well Josh has moved on.
Speaker 4: You don't really have that, So like what would be
the thing that you think, think, all right, when you
got a young running back room, this is what you
got to make sure it's taken care of.
Speaker 5: I don't think there's anything dealing with on the field.
I think it's off the field. Make sure that their
confidence is there, that they're confident that they can get
the job done. And if you have if they have
that confidence in themselves, they're going they're going to be
okay on the football field. But you can't take that
confidence away from.
Speaker 4: One of those things that probably now it's changed. Okay,
so all three of us know this pass protection, it's changed.
Speaker 3: Like back when we played.
Speaker 4: We had Jimbo on yesterday a k faul like Jimbo
was like, no, we're cross key and everything. We're scanning,
like we are not going to make this easy for you.
Like in today's offenses, you can play a younger running
back because a lot of times you either free release
or you're like checking will backer and getting out. Like
that helps the calls because you don't have to worry
about a freshman not knowing who's blocking and protecting the
biggest asset, which is the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Man. When Joe Brady came there, unlet's you and Joe
Brady implemented that style of offense, I was like amazed. Yeah,
and like the back can get out sometimes there is
times to where you get caught, but it ain't often.
It's to have a guy that's back there. I mean,
I'm talking about the quarterback that understands the scheme and
he gets you out of it.
Speaker 4: Don't get the quarterbacks too much credit, but we got
credit guys.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like there is such a huge difference playing at
quarterback when you're back there, Like the confidence level you
have when you have a running back back there that
you can absolutely trust as opposed to somebody that you're like, Okay,
this guy's this guy's that in five hundred right now
on pass protection on either no one is assignment he's
keying off of or when it comes down to it,
if you can make the block or at least throw
a little bit and give the quarterback a path, right
give him, give him something to look at, give him
something to react to. So you know that to me
when I look at when I look at running backs,
all running backs at LSU are gonna be talented. They're
gonna be big, fast, strong, They're gonna be able to cut.
It's the vision you talked about. But being able to understand,
especially with a quarterback like Nesmyer and so what I mean,
what a breath the fresh air Ka Durham was last
year coming in and being able to, you know, give
us that extra juice running the ball. But I'm hoping
that as he gets older, going into a second year now,
can take that next step with the pass protection, just
becoming that all around trustworthy back that we can that
we can rely on. So like Kevin, what's watching Durham
last year come in and play? Like, give me your
thoughts on him? How do you see his his career
kind of progressing this year.
Speaker 5: In year number two, year one, he did an amazing
job of just waiting to turn, not pressing, and when
it came the opportunity came, he took advantage of it thoroughly.
I think with the past protection for him, I think
we're in good shape. Just seeing him in a couple
of situations that he had last year, the technique could
have been better. But at the same time, how much
are they working on it? Yeah, because from my understand
that there's a lot of teamwork being done. And to
see what I've seen from him so far in THEO
FAD protection, I think he's ahead of the game and
I think going forward he's going to be good because
it seems like he's the type of guy that wants
to learn.
Speaker 3: All right there, he is lsu legend.
Speaker 4: Kevin falk Man can't wait to see him there training
at Elite Training Academy Burbank and lead in Baton rouge
Man and you know, look, if we could put somebody
in that facility to go and mentor running backs, it
is Kevin falk so Man excited to have you on
the squad, look forward to it and always appreciate our
converse stations.
Speaker 5: Man always thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: And Kevin Fagg the guy. I mean, I'm that's not
lip service. I've said it a thousand times. Like I
liked LSU football, you know, kind of growing up, but
I loved LSU football. After watching number three, I got
that's my core memory of like growing up watching football
was watching him. Did I ever think would play the
same position? Al you probably right, probably not, But I
mean I went to the Independence Bawl when they played
against Michigan State and just watching him and Eddie Kennison
and watching them live and in person do their deal,
Like that's what made me want to go like try
to play football at that kind of level.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it's not just like I wouldn't give them
just lip service, like knock up against like honestly one
of the best dudes. Like you're going to talk to Humble,
We'll never talk anything about what he did, but just
go do the research yourself.
Speaker 2: If you're someone young, rat out listening.
Speaker 6: And haven't seen him play for the Patriots, like go
back when the Patriots were popping off.
Speaker 4: It's yeah, and it's one of the things like it's
it's a good point because like when he got to
the NFL, it's like, all right, well, your role's got
to change a little bit here.
Speaker 3: It's like, okay, well what's that going to be. It's like,
you're gonna be a third down back, right?
Speaker 4: Like at that time, it's like why that.
Speaker 3: Likely play on third down?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And they had some like some backs that.
Speaker 4: Had done it, like in the early nineties and certainly
some after k Faulk. But it's kind of the originator
of like the first hey you are a third down back?
Why because well, you can make any run. We know
that you can catch the football. And number twelve back
here a guy named Tom Brady trust you, and you
said that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the most for a third down back. The
most important thing is that your guy trust you. Not
only from a past protection standpoint that because that's that's
the number one thing, but getting to where you need
to be understanding the timing of the route, understanding you're
not the first or second, maybe not even a third
read in the progression, but you know what, every now
and then you gotta be the first guy in the
progression depending on what's that late having the understanding thinking
what the same thinking the same thing that that the quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: That you can trust worthy. Man, But yeah, just go back.
Speaker 6: We kind of forget here in South Louisiana that what
he did with the Patriots because of what he was
and who he is with LSU, right, like what he
did with the Patriots, like the second thing we think of, right.
So just I mean I was watching some I saw
some clips of him online the other day. Man, just
I remember watching those growing up, or say growing up.
He's not that much older than us, but high school,
early college of seeing him falling out.
Speaker 4: Hey, we're forty, let us say watching growing upeah, because
everybody says it to us.
Speaker 2: Christian, I don't know about you. I'm not forty.
Speaker 3: You are whispering I'm forty.
Speaker 2: The right side of forty.
Speaker 3: In what seventeen days?
Speaker 2: I'm not coming.
Speaker 3: I'm out? What what week are you out for?
Speaker 2: That is that?
Speaker 3: Next week?
Speaker 2: I'm out?
Speaker 6: Next next Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2: Thought, I know, y'all are gonna just poo all over
me for.
Speaker 3: The whole show all three days.
Speaker 2: We would never do that, map well, I'll do that.
Speaker 7: I never got Blake Baker to call a poodle for miss.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We would never do something, I know, because we're
family guys. Yeah, two day family, yes, two day old family.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Back, you've been here before, team, I've ever decided to
go off Gallivant and in Chicago, I had these trips book.
Speaker 4: All right, yeah, but after after next week, you're good, right,
you're yeah, certainly like after.
Speaker 6: Next after next week, I don't have any other trips, right, yeah,
Actually there's one thing else later in the month.
Speaker 2: I gotta go SLINKs in my head. Oh, so you're
you're basically going to work a week, all work a week.
Speaker 3: All Yeah, you're like a fireman. Is that not well,
all the week?
Speaker 2: My contract says, right, that's where you are. You're fire
the other week.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's what you're contract are.
Speaker 3: Do you sleep up? You're like fireman like when you're on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're installing a pole. That's the only reason Matt's on,
knowing he only had to work every other week.
Speaker 3: I don't think I love you saying you're installing the pole.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure I love that. I'm sure I love that.
Speaker 2: I don't know. See what happens.
Speaker 7: It probably works better than the elevator.
Speaker 4: I will never like the other day when we had
arms full of stuff and don't freak out, and all.
Speaker 3: Of y'all got on the elevator.
Speaker 4: They're like hey, yeah, They're like, hey, come on the elevator,
because like we were all taking stuff down to t
BOP's car for him. First time I'd ever been on
the elevator here, Oh my gosh, first time, and it's terrifying.
Speaker 3: I don't love it. That kind of stopped and the doors.
I'm like, cool, cool, you.
Speaker 6: Know, like when you get an elevator, you look like
the top corner it says like service, this is the date,
this is the inspector, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Does it say like nineteen, like eighty nine or anything.
Speaker 7: It does not say a recent time. Okay, Like I
have actually looked at that and I think it's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be a whistled anything sooner than
I thought.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's not bad.
Speaker 3: It's more recent than I thought.
Speaker 2: So bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 2: I mean it probably it probably doesn't get used that much.
Speaker 4: There's so many people that use this elevator in this
building that it makes me angry.
Speaker 3: Like this is a four story building.
Speaker 4: You obviously were not raised by who I was raised by,
because like the elevator was an option. Ye, like, oh
there's stairs available, carry your ass up those stairs.
Speaker 7: Sure, well, my knees sounds like change.
Speaker 2: Loose, change my knees.
Speaker 3: Like I had. You know, I've had four surgeries on
my knees.
Speaker 6: Either accept it or yeah, walk up some stairs. Yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 4: The elevator should never be used in this building by
t O TV.
Speaker 3: Can we make that pack?
Speaker 7: I'll make that pack, Taylor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, well back or elevator. Elevator said, I.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't make all right, And if we catch you twenty
pups on the spot, at least on the spots.
Speaker 2: Now, I say, if we catch you, that's a ten
dollars fine.
Speaker 4: Right, all right, there we go. It is done again.
I can't wait to see Kevin Fault work over at Elite.
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Speaker 3: All right, we.
Speaker 4: Got a bunch still coming your waist. They locked in
here almost at channel eighty four.
Speaker 3: That is not right. It is one O four five
ESPN baton rouge. Oh man, here we go.
Speaker 4: This is where Flynn, when you start talking about the
old Dose secys watching a game and which you're down
five to one, what was the only thing that was
a saving grace at dose sechies? What is a saving
grace whenever you know, you're at the beach, or you're
at the lake, or you're you know, shower beer, bath beer,
cold tub beer, all the above.
Speaker 2: Uh, your first three hour radio show. Got some cold sweats.
Speaker 6: Going, sickies, Grab that ice cold Mexican lager. I like
to keep a nice frosty mug in my freezer. Some
fresh limes, Oh yeah, I like to slice the limes.
Can you just like pinch the lime? We're on the
top right there.
Speaker 4: Look a couple of those scids are going to be
enjoyed in a super regional that's right.
Speaker 3: Drink responsibility, go for dose.
Speaker 6: Run and running, run and running, pen run and running
and running, running and running, running, And in this context,
there's no disrespect someone I'm.
Speaker 1: Boss from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
the bench with Jacob Hester and Flynn.
Speaker 3: Ship the ship wash.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back and it is O t B
one four five ESPN bat Rouge here on this Tuesday morning.
Fay Kelly is going to join us talk a little
golden Cleat's combat up here in about five minutes from now.
Excited about that very cool event, I kind of want
to go do. It is funny, like we're talking like
before during the break. One of the things like we'll
always like if there's a ball around, right, you're gonna
pick it up.
Speaker 3: You're gonna throw it around a little bit.
Speaker 4: So like my soccer background, like if there's somebody kicking footballs,
I'm always like, hey.
Speaker 3: Can I get one and get on this through through
the uprights?
Speaker 4: Did you ever see the video that we did at
the Senior Bowl this last year?
Speaker 3: Have you seen that?
Speaker 2: All Right?
Speaker 4: So it's me, It's Chris Doring and Rhett Lewis. HD
Lewis works for the NFL Network. Played receiver at Indiana
during of course, played receiver at Florida, and we were
kicking extra points and because i mean, look, we're all
mead heads and we're going out there.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, there's a ball out there, let's
do this.
Speaker 4: So I'm in like I'm in jeans and boots, but
I'm like no, no, But I'm like, it's a ball.
Somebody's challenging me, like I'm gonna go out there and
do it. So I was the first up, you know.
So I mean, I'm in Chelsea boots, but I go
out there first attempt nail it through the uprights. Let's
go my man, Chris Doring tried six or seven times
and could not get it.
Speaker 3: Through the up right.
Speaker 4: Just couldn't extra any of the above, couldn't get it,
couldn't get it.
Speaker 3: In left low.
Speaker 4: And then Red got a little fat and cocky and
he tried to like back it up a little bit,
and he never made one. Our producer tried, Dennis tried,
he couldn't make one. Our boss to Olivia. So there
was one extra point.
Speaker 6: Made on the day with the boots, with the boots on,
I mean makes sense. You're a soccer guy, yeah, I
mean you know, and we did you played soccer?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Right before he became like a fat defensive lineman.
Speaker 3: No, it's a goalie.
Speaker 4: The thing is, though, even at two fifty three, I
could still pick him up and put him down, certainly.
Speaker 3: Like I didn't say you were for like saying high school?
Speaker 4: You know, uh so no, my brother was actually my
head soccer coach in high school.
Speaker 2: Really yeah? Right? So you played until what grade?
Speaker 3: All the way through?
Speaker 2: You played as a senior.
Speaker 3: Played as a senior. You've never heard this story.
Speaker 2: No soccers during football season, right? Uh?
Speaker 4: So it overlaps a little bit. And the way my
brother would do it, he pushed everything back as far
as he possibly could to start to see and then
he'd have to play the sea, you know, the first
two weeks with you know, non football guys, which wasn't great,
but then the football team would come and yeah, we'd
play a bulk of our games. But so I had
already signed with LSU, and you know, back then, like
the head coach who every sign would still come visit
you in the spring and so if you were playing
like a spring sport, like they would come in. And
I've told a story a bunch on air, but you know, look,
it's high school soccer. It's freezing cold in Louisiana or
certainly in North Louisiana at that time. It's January, February whatever,
February March, and so I'd already you know, signed, committed
whatever for LA shoot and we average, dude, like it
was a friends and family deal. I mean twenty people, right,
twenty people at a game, and that's like.
Speaker 2: Some family, big time, maybe a friend.
Speaker 4: So I don't remember how word got out because it
wasn't social media, but like word got out that coach
Saban was coming to watch me play soccer. That was
gonna be his visit. He was gonna come to the house. Whatever,
body come to that soccer game, dude. We had thousands
of people there, like two thousand people at this at
this soccer game at evangel from Sonny School from soccer
from twenty to like two thousand, right.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 4: My brother, who was the head coach, made his budget
for two years based off the gate of that game
where coach saving came sweet. I always played goalie because
my brother's like, look, I'm not getting beat seven to
Neil back here, Like you're sorry, Bud, you can run,
that's cool, don't care. I was like, Adam, let me
play up top. And the second half we were down,
like we were down three nail. They were a really
good team we played, and I'm like, let me go
up top. Let me just come on, I want to
coach savans here, let me run. And thirty seconds he
puts me up top, corner Kit comes in put one
in the back of the net, and I'm just like,
you know, doing the old Jordan to my brother, like
I told you, just let me run.
Speaker 3: You want to win.
Speaker 6: Let Booby spin booby spin and uh, yeah, you weren't
straight back, straight back, straight back, straight back the.
Speaker 4: Box, between the pipes, between the picky, I don't know,
between the net in front of the net.
Speaker 6: So like you, I don't know. There's got to be
a term for this, and it's the net. Yeah, what's
in the box?
Speaker 3: Uh hockey, I don't know. That's that's movie seven.
Speaker 7: You sle something from you earlier, so I don't remember.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go ahead, let's take this break.
Speaker 4: We're gonna come back talking a little Golden Cleats combines
right here on o TV, off the bench, all right,
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Speaker 4: All Right, welcome back in OTV here on Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3: I think I might even said afternoon earlier.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of radio shows. This one's in
the morning though. We're up bright and early in the morning.
Packy Kelly is here to talk about the Golden Cleats Combin.
I'm very excited about it. We did this a year ago.
The videos are awesome.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see how it all plays out again,
I believe. First off, welcome to the show. I know
we were talking before, but still thank you for hopping
on with us the fourth year.
Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 7: Fourth year of our of that, Yes, does it does.
Speaker 3: It feel like I mean, four years feels like it
just goes.
Speaker 8: Like that, it does the older I get.
Speaker 3: Oh, I know.
Speaker 4: So he's given me a hard time because I just
made forty in May and he's got seventeen more days
before he gets forty.
Speaker 3: So he's letting me know that.
Speaker 6: He said, I got seventeen days to talk some trash
and call him, call them old.
Speaker 3: And you do, and you do it very very often.
All right.
Speaker 4: So this event is going to be on June the tenth.
It's going to be at LSU's Football Operations building. This
year is about community, fashion, wellness and football.
Speaker 3: It's a great opportunity.
Speaker 4: And I mean the things y'all do in the community remarkable,
but like what a great opportunity for everybody just to
get a chance to also see what they don't get
to see and to go into that building. And it's
something as former players we probably take for granted that
you know, we can go in there and say hello
to everybody, but you know that's something that a lot
of people never get the opportunity to do.
Speaker 5: It is a.
Speaker 8: Unique you know, the single kind of originated twenty some
years ago with moms asking me to speak and they
ask them what their position their kids played, and they go, oh,
I don't know. He gets the quarterback and they would
feed him on Thursday night, you know before the games.
That I said, oh, we could do better than that.
And so that's kind of how it's originated for us
and has evolved into you know, the Golden Fleets and
and it's really kind of a it got to be
a little you know, there's a lot of guys that
would like to be wearing a skirt into Golden so
they can you know, get on the field and do
all some of the stuff that we used to do.
But it's another way that we love to engages you know,
as as athletes, you know how tight your schedule is.
And it gives these players an opportunity to be regular
college kids and do something they really are good at
and get these ladies going, and both of them, both
sides of love it. And that's really fun.
Speaker 4: I forgot about that fact is that like the current
players do come out and they're like the coaches and
the kind of walk.
Speaker 8: Leaders and stuff and big cheerleaders to get these you know,
ladies that are kind of like you're not forced to
do every activity because you may have some issues like
throwing or a leg bad leg. But boy, they really
enjoy it. And I was sharing with you one of
the ones they always do. You know, people say, well,
what do you suggest like when you go after the dummies?
Don't shoot for those numbers. Those are way too high
for you because you're gonna go head over heels. And
we have plenty of food show that I was just.
Speaker 4: About to say, like how many if we had that
are just gone way over and they're doing like a
summer saut into the bag.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well you get there and you're in the middle of
the l Isshoes facility. Yeah, you get to see how
like the back scene, the backstage view of everything, and
then they put a tackling dummy in front of you
and I can just like first time, you're like, oh yeah,
I'm gonna hit the snot out of this thing, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: We you mix up like the drills too, Like sometimes
there's a kicking, passing and emotion drill and agility. So
it's just fun and you know there's everybody there probably
has a little bit of competitiveness, Yeah, for sure. And
the women try to they start to come and pack,
you know, like four or five, six of them like
our team, and it's just a great, you know, girls
night out, but it's also a great opportunity to have
some fun and a venue that you normally wouldn't get
an opportunity to do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and y'all do so much.
Speaker 4: I mean, the Kelly Carris Foundation, I know, is something
that you know is near and dear to y'all, and
y'all got a lot of different things that y'all work
with and it's another great opportunity to put those on
stage as well.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, And you know, it doesn't matter where we've been, honestly,
there's people in need. And the beautiful part about being
in this kind of position and platforms we can be
a voice to that and help people. Because anywhere I've gone,
there's giving hearts and people don't want to help other people.
And that holds pretty darn true to Louisiana because they're
just really good people here.
Speaker 4: Did you know, coming like four years in you know
it now, but like, did you know so many people
had so many like opinions women about football and how much
football they knew in Louisia No.
Speaker 8: Here's the passion level is really high and they know
their football, you know. So there are places we've been
where the coaches are trying I said, honey, we got
to roll back a little bit. I don't think we
need to teach the sea gap. How about we just
do this and go for it. You know that kind
of stuff. But you know that's what you know, your
level of understanding is a lot more fun. So they're
they're they're hyped up and they they love their football
and passionate about it.
Speaker 3: They get to watch a little little tape right in process.
Speaker 8: Yep. Every year, you know, we add a little something different.
So wellness is being a little more of our focus
this year, so at local hospitals, UH and vendors that
are doing everything from B twelve shots, stretching and yoga,
and we really urge people to come. The four to
six is not an entire cocktail and eating time. It's
a lot of our vendor time. So that if they
want those opportunities, I'm saying, don't lase a fare into
four o'clock. Try and get there at four and then
you can really get all these experiences available to you.
Because once the program starts them a little more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then it's more like coaches.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, this is real time and we all
know what that means when that whistle blows hits now, madayes.
Speaker 6: So the coaches are there and they're kind of giving
some chalk talk.
Speaker 2: Are they talking strategy? Different techniques? Okay?
Speaker 8: So it depends on what if you're on the offensive defense.
And then sometimes we have a group of rules, we
have a rule room, you know what I mean. There's
ever change in rules and we're like address them. Yeah,
but it's both educational and there's the physicality part and
then there's the fun part. So you know, it's a
four to nine and there's plenty to do in that timeframe.
Speaker 4: That's that's a great the rules portion of it. Okay,
Because we were talking beforehand. I was down in Destined
for spring meetings for the SEC and we had the
rules official on with us and we interviewed him and
it's probably our longest interview. It's like twenty seven minutes
because I was like, no, we're going to you are
explaining this to me, how's this process work? What is
your thought process in doing this? And there's so many
different things now in college football. It's like I need
to know that rule and I need to know like
every detail of it.
Speaker 8: And as you as a speaker on the mic, right
that shares your voice during a game, Yeah, you know,
it's like I don't know that he really understands that.
I mean so when I'm listening, and you don't want
to be that guy, right, because then you're giving a
miss information but not really you might be misunderstanding.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So that's why I would totally understand.
Speaker 4: Oh man, if I'm not calling L s U games
and I'm watching a game, if gets it wrong yelling yeah.
Speaker 8: About.
Speaker 6: We take it for granted that we get to watch
football from a like a higher knowledge standpoint of knowing
knowing the rules, knowing the strategy, knowing the technique, what
people are looking at.
Speaker 2: We take that for granted.
Speaker 6: But most people don't have that sense of knowledge or
even the very basic knowledge of They have a fan base.
That's what makes Louisiana amazing and lu because they have
the passion so for you to create something cool that
is for uh, these ladies that go and learn more
about the game. But you know what it's for, like
an amazing reason and a cause and you're helping.
Speaker 2: It's just such a.
Speaker 8: You know, it's an enjoyable event, and like I said,
it's shared, you know what I mean. Every I think
it's a lot of give give in terms of like
it's a great experience for the coaches because they've volunteered
the time for this, right and the players. The players
and the coaches get to see each other in a
different venue. I mean, you know, it's one thing to
be coaching eighteen and twenty two, twenty three year old,
so those need to be coaching twenty one to seventy
year old ladies.
Speaker 3: Just about that. I was just about to ask you
kind of like, what's the age.
Speaker 2: Ra on up?
Speaker 8: Okay, I haven't really looked at everyone's birthday this. We
get some ups. We do get so much, which really
excites me because I'm getting up there too.
Speaker 3: So we get it.
Speaker 4: You're in your thirties, yep, we get it before you
say it to the rest of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get that, all right.
Speaker 4: So if they want to register for the Golden Cleats,
combine Kelly Caresfoundation dot org.
Speaker 3: You can also find more information there.
Speaker 4: And last year it looked like I don't I don't
know what the number was last year, but it looked
like it was sold to the guilds.
Speaker 8: We got to four hundred with our four hundred our participants,
and we appreciate this time so we can get these last.
But I do need to let you know, I think
like eight pm on Sundays, our online registration will close.
Speaker 3: Okay, So those ladies.
Speaker 8: That are like trying to figure out they're going to
be there on Tuesday, it's a week away, then make
sure you get that done this week.
Speaker 4: All right, It is a week from today, like you
just heard there, June the tenth and Sunday Sunday night
is the last kind of time to register. We'll certainly
continue to hammer it home here on this show. I'm
gonna see I'm gonna see if I can get my
wife out there. We'll see if we can get your
wife out there. I might just like come let the
wife do it. And I want to bring my daughter.
My daughter's not too yet, but I want her to
go out there and watch mom. She's you know, watch
the old VHSS. That's right, it's how old it is
of Dad out there, maybe playing some football. We gotta
get mom out there.
Speaker 8: Well, you're i'd be beta tape, just so you know,
take your vhs and.
Speaker 3: Run, okay, well play on.
Speaker 7: The TA for the kids.
Speaker 8: That's a beta tape.
Speaker 3: Either one of y'all back there.
Speaker 8: It was before meta, so beta meta. It's not the same.
Speaker 2: Familiar with h though.
Speaker 4: Familiar familiarly you didn't have you didn't have to go
back to Blockbuster and turn it in, and you know,
if you didn't rewind it, you got like charge a
dollar or something exactly.
Speaker 7: Go with Katie and Lacy though they.
Speaker 3: Go, okay, all right, anywhere there's three right there. Absolutely
you need to go.
Speaker 7: I think it'd be so fun.
Speaker 4: It would be a great experience for you. And it's
inside access. I think my favorite part that you don't
get a chance anywhere else.
Speaker 8: Oh, I mean you get coverage of the entire facilities
pretty much.
Speaker 4: I mean like you get coached by Lshu's coaches and
their players players see everything.
Speaker 3: How many people.
Speaker 2: What a unique experience.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're right, there's a lot of people that
can't come that would wish they could certainly come. So again,
June the tenth Kelly Cares Foundation died to work for
more information in the Register. I can't thank you enough
thank you for stopping buy hanging out with again this year.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, you old old man.
Speaker 4: Right, we will take or break more OTB on the
other side when we come back on one O four
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