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Speaker 1: Locks in to Off the Bench Control the Live from
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Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 5: Welcome inn Off the Bench live right here, Raising Kine Studio.
That's right, it was so good yesterday we decided to
running back by ourselves, Tripod Mountain up once again as
mister Jacob Hester is going to be joining us in
a couple of segments taking care of the family business.
It's uh, it's that time of the year, guys. It's
that time of the year. People going down left and right.
Things spreading through the schools, kids bringing it home, sicknesses everywhere.
Speaker 6: How are we doing though?
Speaker 7: I feel great? WHOA, that didn't sound like that's feel great.
Speaker 4: I don't believe you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel I feel great. I think the I
don't know. I haven't talked like all morning.
Speaker 6: You did come in a little quiet, little quiet, Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, but I'm good. I just was not into it
at first. But we're good.
Speaker 8: We're the show started, and then everything the vibes are
up now are up?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I got up too early this morning?
Speaker 6: You got up too early?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: What does that mean? You're like an early rise of
thy thought.
Speaker 8: About like and I went this morning, but I got
up at like three point thirty and I couldn't go
back to sleep no matter how hard I tried.
Speaker 6: So that sucks.
Speaker 4: I know, got a count sheep that never works for me.
Speaker 7: I've tried that. It never works for me.
Speaker 6: Does that?
Speaker 4: Does that work for anybody? I don't even know what
that means?
Speaker 7: You count?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's supposed to be jumping over a fence on
your head.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just visualize them.
Speaker 6: All, thought bubble. Yeah, oh no. We had some issues
with our so so there's issues with our house alarm.
Speaker 5: So we've had issues like like a battery like runs
down in one of the sensors or something, and it
never happens during the day. It always happens like at
two in the morning, and of course the alarm starts
like everybody start all.
Speaker 6: My wive's like, can you go check the house? Like
what's going on?
Speaker 5: I'm like, well, apparently there's just a low battery one
of them little circle batteries.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, messing up the whole night. Nobody can go back
to sleep. Kids waking up angry.
Speaker 6: What's going on? Daddy?
Speaker 8: What is it?
Speaker 6: The fire alarm, like the burglar alarm, like the security alarm. Yeah,
on the fire alarm.
Speaker 7: You're gonna want to replace those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we had to get replaced yesterday. But like
I had to like bypass all these different I don't know.
That's annoying that things like that always seem to happen
when you're dead asleep, and it's gonna make like the
most commotion taking me off. Hey Taylor, hey man, how
you doing. I'm doing great.
Speaker 4: Busy week this week, busy week next week as well,
Like we got a lot going on right now. But guys,
I feel it. I feel the Thanksgiving in the air.
Victoria was putting together like, hey, here's what we need
to get at the store, Like, this is what we're
bringing to the family Dinner's touch stuff. We were putting
that together last night. I can feel it. I can
smell the corn bread dressing.
Speaker 5: I think now's like pretty we're pretty close to the
time where you got to start making that corn bread
and like letting it dry out on the countertop.
Speaker 6: People still do that.
Speaker 8: My grandma, your grandma does and then I used to
help her like crumble it all up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do that with my dad and my dad
usually makes like a big tray and yeah, he would
crumble the corn bread.
Speaker 5: I heard a lot of Thanksgiving hate a little bit
this year, really, yeah, talking about you know, the Pilgrims
and how it wasn't a big friendly meal that everybody portrays.
Speaker 6: It as friendly.
Speaker 4: At my house, it's.
Speaker 5: Very friendleel you know, everybody as long as everybody's like
on the same side of the political side of things,
usually pretty.
Speaker 4: No, isn't thought. I thought that was the top three
icebreaker topics. They always say icebreaker topics politics, religion.
Speaker 5: Can you imagine the amount of next week, the amount
of around the Thanksgiving table Brian Kelly, Sue and Lsu talk,
there's going to be and like, well no, yo, Landry's great, now,
well why is he doing this? Blah blah blah. It's
gonna be like it's going to be state politics next
year or next week.
Speaker 8: When when I went home back to Texas, what was
it last weekend? Yeah, my aunt so her husband went
to Texas A and M. And my aunt was like,
what is going on over there? And I was like,
I don't. I couldn't even tell you. Honestly, I couldn't
tell you. We're just a hot mess, hot ass.
Speaker 4: Like if the people at Ella shoot don't know what's
going on, how am I right?
Speaker 5: We're like that, like that a girl that walks in
a bar, like dressed the nines, looking great and she
comes out with like mascara running yeah, no shoes on,
ripped dress, like all that stuff.
Speaker 7: We're a hot mess, harol undone.
Speaker 8: Yeah, white girl wasted, La, She's white girl wasted.
Speaker 6: Right now, somebody's gonna think she's attractive.
Speaker 4: That right, there's always that one that's looking down from
the corner.
Speaker 2: Of the bar.
Speaker 7: Hang on, hang on now that feels creepy.
Speaker 6: Someone's always like, I got some daddy issues. I'm ready.
Speaker 4: I can fix her.
Speaker 6: I can be the one to fix her. Put a
ring on it.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: I just hope they're good, you know what I'm almost
So we've we talked about it yesterday. I think everybody's
talking about it. It's kind of like dominating every LSU
sports topic.
Speaker 6: But like, do we want to keep talking about it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: We got the gist of it. Now we get the
gist of it as much as.
Speaker 4: We're going to.
Speaker 6: Hey, how was that timeline going?
Speaker 7: So I finished it?
Speaker 8: No you didn't, Yeah, but I want to. I want
to make it look good before I present it. The
timeline's done, it's on paper, it's on my notebook.
Speaker 6: I love it. Nice work.
Speaker 5: So we were talking yesterday about it's been such an
S show, yes, the last couple of weeks. Right, like,
let's document this like for real, let's how you've been
in an easily readable version, a nice little timeline. Now
you were kind of talking yesterday about going picking a
little bit deeper into that whole Brian Kelly, all of
it run.
Speaker 8: Conception to like basically when he stepped foot on campus.
You could say it's when it started, Like I went
all the way back to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 6: So we can put some graphics with this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to make a power.
Speaker 8: Point point would be good, and just present it to
the class y'all know I love a rabbit hole.
Speaker 6: So got that to look forward to. This week, we're
gonna do a little.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh man.
Speaker 4: Save it from Monday. Will still be relevant then because
you're going to go to tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow Friday, that is true. Right tomorrow we will be
pro dream and Friday Friday it will be a rouses
because it's game week.
Speaker 4: That actually is a good, good Monday topic.
Speaker 6: Anyways, that's a great Monday topic.
Speaker 7: It look really good.
Speaker 5: Well, it is game week. We are one closer to
l s U versus Arkansas. Baby the boot baby L.
She doesn't even know where the boot is stored. Probably
so was it player interviews yesterday? There dust in it off?
Were they the white glove pulling?
Speaker 4: They were pulling it out of the out of the
closet where like spare mouthpieces.
Speaker 6: Go it was in there, held jock chap.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, they used to carry that thing around with like
white glove.
Speaker 5: We were like those gloves off bare hand, that thing.
Speaker 4: Bare handed after the game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not that important.
Speaker 8: Oh lordy, if it was the crystal ball, I could
like the crystal football that they used to understand.
Speaker 6: Sure you got a white glove that we bring that back.
Speaker 4: Crystal ball is such a good it's such a good triphy.
I don't like the college football playoff and now it's
just like it's a little sleek, a little slim ball
a little cylinder looking.
Speaker 8: It's the same thing they do with everything. McDonald's has
no color to it anymore.
Speaker 4: But the character chairs, yeah, the.
Speaker 8: Taco bell no color. All the buildings around everywhere they are.
Speaker 4: It's hard to find like a like a blue and
yellow Walmart anymore now too, those are all like gray.
Speaker 7: Everything's great.
Speaker 6: Where you were.
Speaker 5: Growing up, did you, of course Waburger huge thing. Texas
were your waterburgers themed?
Speaker 8: Yeah, so some of them were like the ones in
Corpus always had something because the first one ever was
in Corpus. But most of them were kind of generic.
But there were some that I would run into that
were themed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so all every single water burger was themed. There
was an Elvis one. There was a Dallas Cowboy one.
There was a hot Ride one. There was like, uh,
Marilyn Monroe, like, uh Maryland, who is who's a guy
that she Dean something? Margin Dean Martin was h she
was a JOm but it wasn't wasn't met him. It
was like the Dean Martin era, I guess. Yeah, so
they were all famed.
Speaker 6: It was weird. So yeah, they've kind of taken away everything.
Speaker 5: They've taken away the playgrounds place.
Speaker 2: Growing up.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah yeah, and the chairs to be the characters.
Speaker 4: Remember you had the whatever the purple guy's name is,
You had the Hamburglar, Hamburglar.
Speaker 6: Get all of them. It's great. What a world that was.
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Everything went downhill.
Speaker 8: When they started taking the colors out of McDonald's.
Speaker 4: We do a hashtag put the color back in McDonald's.
They still do toys, though, but.
Speaker 7: They're always like books or something. Kids don't want books.
Speaker 5: No, McDonald's still does actual toys. Okay, Now there's a
lot of books out there. There's a lot of like
like little cardboard books. I gotta put together, like put
together like a little wooden hat or something. They don't yet.
They don't really want that chick Flake gives away like
educational things.
Speaker 7: No thanks, give me brain rot.
Speaker 5: They just want something that your parents can throw away
later about three hours later when they get tired of it.
All right, when we come back, what we're gonna do here,
We're gonna take break, then we're gonna come back. We're
gonna talk about the the new college football power rankings
for the playoffs, and take a look at a lot
of news out there swirling about a former coach here
jumping to the top of the leader board for odds
on favor to be the LSU next head coach. So
we'll look at all that, and we'll look at odds
on favorite for all the head coaches in college football,
all the openings around the country. There's a lot of them.
There's gonna be more, there's gonna be names swirling around.
So we'll take a look at all that right here
when we come.
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Speaker 1: Com Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.
Speaker 9: She I can't figure it out, all.
Speaker 5: Right, welcome back in off the Bench here Wednesday morning.
Uh my, apologies on that first segment, we didn't have
our beautiful dog Cane, the Cane the third.
Speaker 6: Good girl.
Speaker 7: She's so cute.
Speaker 1: She is.
Speaker 5: Quiet though, she is really quiet, shy, sucks on radio,
awful great visual.
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more laundry. We're getting crushed in the chat right now.
Speaker 2: Would you just bark?
Speaker 7: I was trying to bark.
Speaker 5: We're getting crushed in the chat, sat Landry, Matt. This
isn't a show about Texas. You're in Louisiana, got it.
We were talking about colorful fast food restaurants. Yeah, Waterburgers
here boring though delicious, but boring.
Speaker 7: The one on isn't the one I Bourbank kind of
like l s.
Speaker 4: Huish though I don't know, never been inside. I've been,
I just haven't been.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I feel like I peeked in there.
Speaker 5: And yeah, neither is Kane. The third though obviously du
still colorful. Yeah, I would say most.
Speaker 7: Especially the original one. They have that tiger print what
is it the carpets tiger print? So there's tigerprints something
in there.
Speaker 5: Well anyway, sorry people, Sorry for in the first segment
talking about random things.
Speaker 4: We never do that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, get better, get better fast food places agreed, put
more themed things and people like that. People like to
be entertained. Speaking of entertainment, Uh, Nick Saban, A lot
of rumors swirling around around about him. I actually have
a buddy that heard it from their hairdresser that he
was going to be the next head coach here.
Speaker 8: So wait Nick Saban, Yeah, yeah, yeah, his hairdresser, hairdresser,
I buy it.
Speaker 7: So hairdressers know everything.
Speaker 5: I can tell you one thing being around town, just
like randomly just gas station, picking up some food, just
doing whatever.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of experts out there.
Speaker 5: There's a ton of people that know exactly what's going
on because they got a guy.
Speaker 6: They got a guy that has.
Speaker 5: A friend that has some sort of booster cousin, and
they got a guy and they know. And apparently this
hairdresser said Nick Saban's gonna be the next head coach.
Speaker 4: The phrase I'm hearing has already burned out, and you're
gonna hear that phrase a lot. It's like I'm hearing no,
let me stop you there. No, you're not at this
point from whom with the crap show that's going on
down the street. Anybody who tells you they've heard something
probably hasn't heard anything. You can go ahead and cross.
Speaker 6: Them off the list.
Speaker 5: And no, it wasn't my hairdresser because I shaved my
own head.
Speaker 6: It was a buddy's hairdresser.
Speaker 5: So this is like, I mean, we're only six seven
people were moved from the start of the source, so
the start of the person that just made it up
both in here. That's that's kind of what we're doing. Yeah,
because nobody knows, nobody really, Yeah, there's probably a handful
of people. Now have they reached out to do I
believe they've reached out absolutely, because they should rich it,
reach out to everybody. Yeah, save's got, of course, a
lot of ties back to Louisiana. It's got friends here,
he's got business. I mean, there's there's a lot of things.
So what is surprising is a lot most of the
times where there's smoke, there's fire somewhere and there's a
good article Louisiana Sports dot Net. You can go check
it out about at least all the college head coaching vacancies,
the Vegas odds, and usually Vegas has their finger on
the pulse of most things. Saban as of yesterday, has
surpassed Joe Brady as the favorite to land the job
at LSU. For whatever that is worth. Take that with
a grain of salt. But at least from the betting standpoint,
which of course the people that make the lines, they
make the lines, but then it's controlled by who's betting
and all that good stuff. But the movement is pretty shocking,
and there has to be some validity to something out there,
and I don't know what that is because the line
went from if I'm reading this correctly, seventy five to one.
Speaker 6: To two to one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a big jump.
Speaker 6: It's a big jump. It's a big jump.
Speaker 5: Even if it went from ten to one to two
to one. Now we're talking it's seventy five to one
to two to one. So there is clearly something there.
Whether it's just because it's going through the hairdresser rankings yeah,
or everybody's talking about it at the salon. I don't
know what it is, but it's there's something happening there,
and it's pretty wild to see.
Speaker 6: Like, I don't.
Speaker 5: Like if we were looking at a sport, right if
we were looking at a game and the team was
seventy five to one to win their division, then all
of a sudden it went to two to one, what
would happen?
Speaker 6: What would that mean?
Speaker 5: It mean that the starting quarterback or the starting star
player for the other teams all got hurt.
Speaker 6: It means they got a new.
Speaker 5: Star player, like something, something of a huge magnitude had happened.
So I don't know where this is coming from, or
what's the stem of it, what the root of it is.
I'm sure this just came out yesterday, so I'm sure
I'm assuming if there actually is some validity to something.
You're gonna hear more and more talked about it throughout
the day and throughout the week.
Speaker 4: I don't know what is less likely, Saban or Saban
jumping Joe Brady because that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, did Joe Brady want being the favorite?
Was always weird to me.
Speaker 4: It's just because he was here in nineteen, but he
literally left college football because he didn't want to recruit.
And guess what, on don't know if you guys know this,
A lot's changed in the recruiting landscape since twenty nineteen
and it's way more crazy now. Doubt that's going to
bring him back in. But Matt, I mean, you were
a recruited best shaving and I understand you have to
reach out to it like that. That's what everybody says.
I'm not talking about what Saba did in the past.
I'm talking right now. Would you want ALSU to hire
a Saban like if he was willing to come, would
you want them to hire save it?
Speaker 5: I think if they hired Sabing here, First of all,
am I talking about too close?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 5: I think if they hired Saban. I think everybody would
be really excited. For one, I think it's if you're
going to have somebody that could navigate the show that
is happening outside the football facility right now, from the
administration to the political side of things, to all the.
Speaker 6: Suing back and forth with the X.
Speaker 5: If you want somebody to navigate that and not really
care about, you know, what politicians say, and the strong
arming from everywhere else outside of football. He's probably the
guy that could handle all that because he's not gonna
you know, he wouldn't like listen to you, right, He's
Nick Saban. He's the greatest coach of all time. So
I think there's some excitement there.
Speaker 6: But like.
Speaker 5: I've always said since this whole thing started, like why
would he take this job?
Speaker 6: Why would he take any job? What?
Speaker 5: He doesn't? First of all, he did have anything to prove.
He doesn't have more money. I mean, I guess you
could always make more money, but like, he doesn't need
to make more money. I would assume. I don't know
his personal financials, but I'm assuming it's stable to quite stable.
So like, what what does he need to do? Why
would he take the job? Well, it says seventy two
years old, seventy three years old, seventy four? Is he
seventy four seventy four? I mean not that he can't
do it at that age. I'm just saying, why would
he Why would he put himself because he that man
only knows one way to coach, right, it's his way.
Speaker 6: You think, just because.
Speaker 5: He says he's going to be you know, a little
bit more calm or whatever, you think he's actually gonna
do it when the stuff it's the fan. I mean, no,
he's gonna come in now. I don't know what they've
offered him, If they've offered him anything. I'm sure there's
conversations that like, come in and do this, you know,
get it turned around right the ship for a second,
and then you can be part of the administration or athlete.
I mean all I've heard all that stuff. You can
be coach for three years and be an athletic director.
I don't know does he want to do that. I
guess we'll I guess we'll see. But something has clearly
happened to go to seventy five to one. Betty nods
to two to one.
Speaker 4: I don't think Saban should take this job. I don't
think he should want this job. I mean, like you
mentioned what, he doesn't have anything to prove, right, Like
he's won everywhere he's been in a high level. If
you're Nick Saban, realistically, you're probably here three years. You
don't win a national championship in three years, then you
failed here at LSU. Because that's the whole reason you
bring somebody in like that, in you know, in his
advanced age, because of what he's done. That's why you
bring him in. If Saba doesn't win a championship, it's
gonna be viewed as a failure.
Speaker 6: It is, Yeah, I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unless it's like, you know, get us to that
point and then be part of the athletic like the
direct ad stuff and be part of keep your stay
here in Baton Rouge and help us, then you're still
part of how we got back to that.
Speaker 6: I get that. It's just a matter of like still why,
like why would he want to do it?
Speaker 5: So yeah, I think it'd be irresponsible for LSU to
not try to like come up with some arrangement where
he comes in and either coaches or helps or does
something that's probably irresponsible. Again, Nick Saban is the greatest
college football coach to ever live. And I'm proud to
say that he recruited me. I played for him for
a couple of years. Didn't necessarily love it because he was,
you know, he's a hard ass, for sure, but I
understood even at the time. I was like, this guy's great,
this guy's an amazing head coach. So but I do
think it's probably he said it. He said it last
year he said that leaving l s U is one
of the biggest regrets or the biggest regret of his
entire career. Maybe that's because he, you know, NFL didn't
work out, but I also think he's probably had a
little piece of L s U in his heart for
since he's since he's left here and probably regretted that decision.
Didn't regret, of course, his time at Alabama. I'm not
saying that at all. I'm just saying that I think
that was that one decision that he's always kept roots
here in l s U or in Louisiana.
Speaker 8: So he also left because of the way that things
are going in college football now. So I just don't think, yeah,
that has it. It's actually probably gotten worse, and I
don't know, like I just maybe he'll come if he
were to, like he might be successful in it.
Speaker 7: But I just don't think he wants to. I don't think.
I think he's having a good time on game day.
Speaker 8: What I'm saying Pat McAfee, I love them together.
Speaker 5: So I never saw him smile when he was he
was our coach. Yeah, and then I saw him smile
like years later at Alabama, like in a press conference,
and I was like, that looks forced. That looks like
you've been like you hired a nice pr person. They said,
you have to your cheeks like you gotta.
Speaker 6: Let's just work on it.
Speaker 5: They go up, they don't go side to side, they
don't go down, they go up.
Speaker 6: Let's work on it.
Speaker 5: But like since he's been doing game day, I see
like true happiness on his face when he's doing it.
You can tell he loves Pat McAfee. You can tell
he loves like being part of that that whole crew.
And he does a really good job. He does, and
it looks like he really loves to someone a reclin
or too with a little throw blanket.
Speaker 7: He looks so cumpsy TV.
Speaker 8: That's the life I want to live, just like watching TV,
wrapped up in a blanky and somebody brings me a cake.
Speaker 6: We'll get something for a we can all hope for
one day.
Speaker 7: He's living his best life.
Speaker 6: He is living his best life.
Speaker 7: Right Stop trying to put him in these dogs.
Speaker 6: Maybe come help us hire a coach, put him on
the committee.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of my thing, like in order for
me to like this, and this is just one person's opinion, obviously,
Like I'm not saying I don't want Nick Saban as
a coach, but what I don't want is two years
from now, you do this process all over again. That's
what I don't want. Like in a perfect world, I
want a guy that can be here eight to ten
years right now. Let's use proven that they have a
four year window or you're out the door. But if
you're successful, you could be here for as long as
you want. Maybe if you hire Saban, you find a
guy that you're like, we love this guy. A Kelvin
Shepherd's a guy that's been brought up because a lot
of people, myself included, have said I don't want it
right now because he doesn't have the head coach and experience.
Could you bring in a young guy that you love,
you think can do it in a few years, learn
under Sabin for a year or two, and then take
the reins from there, like maybe that way is the
way to go on something like this. I just two
to three years down the road. I don't want to
be doing this whole over again.
Speaker 6: Yeah I don't either.
Speaker 5: If you want to look at it from a different
point of view, though, if you think about all the
head coaches that could possibly come, and you name a
name in the NFL college name, take the top name
besides Nick Saban and throw him in this landscape where
we have governors evolved, we have top donors involved, we
have the top businessman Louisiana involved. We have a new president,
we got a new AD, we have all these things
involved that look very unattractive to a lot of coaches
because at the pecking order it's going to be governor
or the supervisors, ad, all these things, and the head
coach is going to be down here. You can make
the argument that a saving comes, he's the top of
the pecking order if he comes, because I don't think
he's going to deal with any of that BS.
Speaker 4: I don't think you think you could say that, But
I think that's how it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you could say, I mean, anybody in Louisiana would
say yes, sir to him. So I guess that's kind
of what I sawed, like anybody that could deal with this,
No one's gonna deal with that better. But again, just
why why would he do it? So we'll see. But again,
whether there's smoke, there is fire. And he has jumped
for some reason in the betting nods from seventy five
to one all the way to two to one, which
is a wild jump. And I can't wait. There's got
to be some more information that comes out on why
that is.
Speaker 6: But we will see.
Speaker 5: LSU will eventually name their head coach and we can't
wait to see who it is. And we just pray
and hope that it's gonna be a good one and
it's gonna be lasting stability here at LSU because that's
what they deserve, that's what we deserve, that's.
Speaker 6: What this program deserves.
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Speaker 5: You say, all right, welcome back off the bench Wednesday mornings.
I hope you drive is going well this morning. What
a beautiful world we live in. We're gonna come in
here every morning talk sports.
Speaker 6: Sports. The greatest thing on Earth.
Speaker 5: Brings out competitiveness, brings out the fire, the intensity. It's
the greatest reality show on planet Earth. It was Reality
TV before we even knew what reality TV was. And
by god, the LSU drama could be on e could
be on Bravo. It's actually kind of a shame that
hadn't been like a camera crew following like creating this,
like making a documentary about the events that have happened,
like laundry. You're gonna lay that out this week or
maybe next Monday with that timeline.
Speaker 8: I'm sure there's I'm sure there's somebody that's always filming something, you.
Speaker 7: Know what I mean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, everyone's got a phone on their.
Speaker 7: They document everything, you know.
Speaker 8: They make that thing called the Path that they release
every week. They even released one like after Brian Kelly
was fired. So I'm sure there's stuff out there.
Speaker 7: On film.
Speaker 5: But can you imagine the documentary thirty for thirty, like
like behind the scenes, following like Jeff Landry before that
press conference, Hey watch this, I'm about to shake it up. Yeah,
following Scott Woodward, following Brian Kelly, the board, the board,
how they're making their decisions on all this stuff that
would be electric.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: That's the part I still don't get though, is like
where they're saying that Scott Woodward didn't have authority because
the Board of Supervisors didn't approve it, and then everybody
wants to blame Scott Woodward for giving him that contract,
but he obviously had to approve it with the Board
of Supervisors.
Speaker 7: So it's like, okay, I don't.
Speaker 6: Oh that was such a good clip I saw on
the socials. Yeah, I think you sent it the clip
of from the office.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, cause because we don't like him.
Speaker 7: I like him him, I have cause.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely not because you stay and M. It's
because of cause because we don't.
Speaker 7: Like you, because you keep losing to Texas and M.
Speaker 5: Because you keep losing. I just saw that. I just
read here that the boot Trophy, the famous rivalry trophy. Yeah,
between LSU and Arkansas weighs two hundred pounds. It was
ten thousand dollars hunk of gold.
Speaker 7: It weighs two hundred pounds.
Speaker 5: Two hundred pounds, that's what they're saying right here, And
a ten thousand dollars hunk of gold.
Speaker 7: How what'd you think that's going for.
Speaker 5: Since nineteen sixty So that was nineteen sixty six, So
let's see gold prices since nineteen sixty six have soared
up to like a five hundred and seventy percent.
Speaker 7: Oh snap, yeah, sell that and get a coach with it.
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. It's pretty good. That's a good
investment on that. That boot for sure, Like we don't
need it though no one cares about it except for Arkansas.
No one at LSU cares about it at least all right,
So we just talked about l s U and Nick
Saban jumping up to two to one. Let's look around
at all the other some of the other big coaching
jobs that are available and look at their like what
coaches Because this is this is ever evolving. I guess
it's based on information that's leaked to the crowd sources. Meetings, UH,
private jet tail numbers, all that good stuff. But let's see,
we'll take a look at starting the SEC Arkansas Ryan
Silverfield that surpassed James Franklin as the favorite there. Ryan
Silverfield is the head coach of Memphis. I don't know
a lot about Memphis except that who they beat earlier?
They beat They beat Arkansas, didn't they, Yes earlier, Yeah,
they beat him. So yeah, he's the odds on favorite,
surpassing James Franklin. If funny enough, James Franklin is not
the the leader in the clubhouse on any big time
schools right now. Auburn John Sumraw has surpassed Kenny Dillingham
as the favorite. Of course, John Sumraw with too Lane,
Kenny Dillingham, Arizona State, somehere else seems like a Auburn
fit for whatever reason he does. And I'm not basing
that on anything because I haven't really watched Tulane.
Speaker 6: I've heard him talk, and I've seen.
Speaker 5: The way he physically looks, and he just to me
looks like an Auburn guy.
Speaker 4: He's also completely different than what you've had in your
last three coaches. Yeah, none of which you've worked out
a little bit more alpha. You've had you've had mentality, Yeah,
kind of finesse. He's more of that that gritty, hard
news guy. I love that fit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually like that a lot too.
Speaker 5: And again I'm basing that literally off off just vibes
only you were.
Speaker 4: You were just talking about Ryan Silverfield. I don't think
a lot of people realize how good of a coach
Ryan Silverfield is. You know, when we were doing the
uh the preseason college football records, a laundra actually put
Memphis at twenty four, which was a great pick, and like,
the reason I loved it the most was Ryan Silverfield.
Silver is in his sixth season. Okay, he's never had
a losing season at Memphis. He is working on his
third straight double digit win season. He's fifty and twenty
two overall and four and oho in bowl games at Memphi.
Like Ryan Silverfield, kid coach in football. That would be
an excellent high. Four on bowl games at Memphis. Yep, okay, ah,
I mean Arkansas, you I mean and he beat Arkansas,
So yeah, that seems like a pretty good fit. I mean,
he's he's eight and two right now, trying to close
in on his third straight double digit win, right, great
coach so you're saying basic only his first two right,
Ryan Silverfield Arkansas seems right, jumps John summer Off feels
like an Auburn fit. Oh, Jake thinks Jimbo Fisher might
be getting a Lookxie over there.
Speaker 7: So I don't know, like Jimbo would be a really
good fit at Auburn.
Speaker 5: Because he's been at Auburn. Yeah, his quarterbacks Damion Craig there,
Damien has been coach.
Speaker 8: I feel like he's one of the ones that does
want to come back. Yeah, I feel like he had
enough time away where he's like, actually, I kind of
feel like I want to get back into it, and
I don't know, Auburn feels like a good fit. And
then last week, you know, rumors, how rumors go. But
to this Ryan Silverfield thing, there are reports last week
that he was already taking the job at Arkansas and.
Speaker 7: That he was supposed to meet with but those were rumors.
Speaker 8: Who knows, So maybe that is one of those like
where there's smoke, there's fire kind of things.
Speaker 4: But to that point, two weeks ago, he was linked
to the Virginia Tech job and it didn't happen for
whatever reason. Maybe he was holding out for a school
like Arkansas, like Silverfield's a guy out there that's gonna
have some options. To your point about Jimbo, he's twenty
five to one right now at Auburn, Like he's one
of the top nine guys right now in terms of odds.
Like his name's actually decently hot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm assuming that he is also surprissed James
Franklin because there's been so much action with James Franklin
or Virginia Tech as well.
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm. Jimoh Fisher currently twenty five to one for
the Auburn John Hey, Jake.
Speaker 7: Ya, come on, just come on.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have to wait.
Speaker 7: We have a while.
Speaker 6: You can take the take the dog down, all right.
Speaker 5: Florida Lane Kiffin Hester passed Eli Drinkwitz as the favorite.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's who I don't know.
Speaker 7: Florida is gonna be the that feels like a lateral
move swing.
Speaker 5: For the fences. They're they're gonna do. Is that's what
they're gonna do. We just talked about Nick Saban, so
we we don't need to rehash that, all right. Eric
Morris Hester passed Zach Robinson is a favorite of Oklahoma State,
talking about this. Yeah, head coach North Texas Zach Robinson,
oh C for the Falcons, and he was the quarterback.
That's probably the reason why he was at the top
of the list. He had a really good career. Oklahoma State, Yeah,
they have really good career. Uh so you at the
you got any like good feedback on North Texas mean Green.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're really good, man, I mean they're what are
they eight and one right now? Like North Texas is
rolling a little bit, and like Eric Morris. He was
the oc co OC at Texas Tech in twenty seventeen.
Patrick Mahomes was his quarterback. He goes to in Carner
word gets a guy named cam Board. Cam loved him
so much that when he was named OC at Washington State,
he goes over there with him as well as well
as the you know, the head coach and everything and there.
And then now he's at North Texas in his third season.
He's eight and one. Eric Morris in North Texas like
he fits Oklahoma State. When Oklahoma State has a good offense,
they're fun. Eric Morris is one of the best offensive
coaches in my opinion in college football.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how sexy of a job is Oklahoma state though not.
It's not right unless you could have tried to coach
with like a lot of boosters and a lot of.
Speaker 2: Like unless you got a beautiful mullet too.
Speaker 5: Unless you got a beautiful mullet. I mean, it's that's
a prerequist.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm. Speaking of facial hair, how's my mustache going?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 6: Free light? It's not like it's not dark hair that's
the problem.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just for men. Perhaps it's been growing for weeks now. Yeah,
I know that's it's not short, m it's just.
Speaker 6: Not deep in color.
Speaker 2: So who do the uh who? The eyes makers.
Speaker 7: Saving two to one?
Speaker 2: All right, they.
Speaker 6: Jump from seventy five to one to two.
Speaker 7: You know who? I you know who? I like that
we haven't really talked about. Maybe I said it.
Speaker 8: I don't remember, but you know who plays like hard nose,
fun physical football and it's fun to watch and they
run the ball. Yeah, okay, another tech Texas tech Joey
maguire is awesome. Like I wouldn't mind have LSU went
and tried to poke around over there and see what
they can find.
Speaker 7: But I like Joey McGuire.
Speaker 2: I bet Joey likes his check book at Texas tech.
Speaker 8: Fair enough at oil money roster looked, Yeah, didn't they
spend the most?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think so.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Odds like that are always they're fun. It's always funny
who it has going in which location, and oftentimes it's
not very right. But you know, anytime that Nick Saban
jumped from seventy five to one to two to one,
that's going to grab everyone's attention here in ben Uge.
Speaker 5: That's what we're saying, Like Better's betters can influence the line,
but betters aren't influencing the line like that. He might
go from seventy five to one to forty five to
one based on some big bets or whatever I mean.
I mean, I guess I really don't know what it's
talking about, Like how much bet can influence.
Speaker 6: That big of a line.
Speaker 5: But somebody went in there and changed that on the
computer like big time, and it's based on something, it's
not based on nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just saw Coach Saban in the Saban family suite
at Brandon any State for the weekend.
Speaker 2: He did not have an L. Shue shirt on.
Speaker 6: Isn't it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Their fields named Nick Saban Field, Yes it is,
and coach would they would they take the name away.
Speaker 6: If he became LS, I'll probably leave it. Yeah, let's
not call it that.
Speaker 5: Maybe a week Yeah, l SH versus Alabama on Nick
Saban field.
Speaker 3: So the odds to become the USC coach in twenty
twenty one when Lincoln Riley did, the best odds were
Luke Fickle, also PJ Flag, Mario Cristobal for Tennessee. When
Josh Heipel got it in twenty twenty one, Billy Napier,
Jamie Chadwell, and Kevin Steele had the best odds. Yeah,
so we could go down, we could go down a
rabbit hole of a different Let's see what was LS
shoes When Alabama opened up after Nick Saban, Dan Lanning
was the leader in the clubhouse, followed by Dabo Sweeney
and Mike Norvel.
Speaker 5: Dick Dixon just texted, I said, when k was hired,
his name wasn't even on the betting list.
Speaker 3: I'm looking right now. So when October nineteenth of twenty
twenty one, it was Mel Tucker, Yeah, plus two hundred,
Lane Keffen, Luke Fickle, James Franklin, Jimbo, Billy Napier, Bill O'Brien,
Mark Stoops, Joe Brady, Bob Stoops, Dave Randa, urban Meyer,
and John Gruden.
Speaker 6: Let's get Griden's called to day.
Speaker 4: Who was Tucker's agent? I obviously it Ain'tymore who was
his agent? His name had gotten floated sowhere and he
had one good year at Michigan State, I mean not
always blew my mind.
Speaker 5: Hmmmm.
Speaker 2: So there you have it. Love that fun though, but
it's fun. Who was all on the list?
Speaker 7: Four l s U It was Saban, Joe Brady Lane.
Speaker 5: Actually lanes the second now lanes fifty plus three, seventy five,
Clerk Lee five to one, oh Dan Lanning seventy one,
James Franklin nine to one, John summer Off ten to one,
Brent Keith fourteen, Jim Bow eighteen, and dyln Am twenty.
And you got drink lets, Marcus Freeman, Jeff Bron, Lincoln Riley,
Dabo Hello, would we be happy with Dabo? Ten year contract?
Speaker 4: Anybody he's got the resume, It's probably gonna be Matt Campbell.
Speaker 6: Did you just see him sprinting through the Yeah? Ye boy?
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Speaker 2: So what was y'all's overall thought on coach Saban? Well,
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Speaker 5: Taylor had a lot of agism talks. Wow, like it's
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Speaker 4: I did say it.
Speaker 5: Seventy four is like the new sixty four?
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