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Speaker 1: Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive Hamsday.

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Hester and Hester got it five out a far. Your

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for the Live from the Raisin Caine Studio. Here's Jacob

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Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in on this Wednesday How we do win? Everybody?

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Taylor Sharp here with you on Off the Bench, filling

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in for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn here in the

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We got a lot to cover. We had an LSU

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men's basketball game last night, we had an LSU softball

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game last night. We got baseball tonight. We got a

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weekend series coming up as well. I mean, there is

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a ton to get to. Three guests on today's show.

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Doctor Steven Etherige actually will be in studio in his

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normal eight am slot. Then LHI Beach volleyball coach Russell

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Their season officially begins on Friday and then Devin snow,

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I know he's normally in our Monday spot, the craziness

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of Marty Garral out there in New Orleans. Devin will

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join us at nine point fifteen today again. Taylor trop

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here with the at Lane Villarrial Braxton Risuto along for

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the ride as well.

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Speaker 4: Guys, how we.

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Speaker 3: Doing this morning, Alandra? First day of lent? How we

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doing with no caffee?

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Speaker 5: I decided yesterday that I wasn't gonna set myself up

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for failure because I knew, like, again, I'm going to

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New York next week. I keep getting targeted so hard

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on my algorithm for like places to check out while

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I'm there, of course, and there's like all these coffee

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shops that look so good. So I'm like, I'm not

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gonna set myself up because I know that I'm gonna

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like try until next week and then next week's gonna

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come around and I'm gonna get a coffee and then

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I'm gonna feel worse about myself than if I like,

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you know, like, I'm gonna feel bad about myself if

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I if you don't reach you caffeine and then I

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drink caffeine next weekend.

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Speaker 3: You've ever seen on Dodgeball Vince Vaughan and says, uh,

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if you have a goal, you might not reach it,

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but if you don't have one, you're never disappointed. Right

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exactly exactly. That's exactly where I'm at, Braction. You're not

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you're not doing later you know.

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Speaker 4: Oh it's ash Wednesday is getting the Ashes.

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Speaker 5: So Brittany and I usually walk across the street to

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Saint ag.

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Speaker 3: Oh, like right there, Yeah, it's the one. Is that

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the one that's like kind of behind Sonic, Like, yeah, okay,

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that's a big church.

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Speaker 5: It's bigger than like because I'd never been there before.

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and I go, like because it's right across the street,

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so we'll probably go after this and just go get.

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Speaker 4: The real quick.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's bigger than I thought.

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Speaker 3: So that's the thing with ashes, Like it doesn't have

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to be like your church. You can just kind of

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go yeah whenever, Okay, it's cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they do like drive through.

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Speaker 4: You stick your head out the window.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if they still do it, but I've

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like heard about maybe it was like a COVID thing

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they started doing.

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Speaker 3: But I never did it that way, as drive through

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ashes is is an interesting thought. Okay, so that brings

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me right into this. My dad told me up in

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Alexandria when he was growing up, they had a drive

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through funeral home. Okay, and basically, like it's exactly how

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you think. Yeah, an open casket. There was a window

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you could drive up at. Like basically, if you wanted

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to pay your respect, you couldn't make it to the

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funeral or the wake or whatever. They had like a

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drive through funeral home with a little casket viewing area

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and you can just fig your head out the window

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wave give them the piece rolling out. I mean, right,

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but that's that's I'll have to I'll have to get

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the name of it from him my alt text a

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little bit later and see what the name is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he said there was a drive through funeral home.

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Speaker 7: I know, my cousin graduated, uh in, and so since

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Speaker 4: A drive through graduation. They just in diploma through the room. Everything. Well,

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Speaker 3: So you were talking about ashes like the Catholic I

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think it's the Catholic church that does the holy water

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on the baby, right they to.

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Speaker 3: I saw this picture the other day. It said it said,

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throwback to one of the craziest times of our life.

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mask on. He literally has like a squirt gun shooting

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the baby with the with the squirre gun. And that's

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how they that's how they blessed them. And I'm like,

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what are what are we doing?

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Speaker 5: What an insane time?

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Speaker 3: We're gonna tell our kids about that one day and

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like they're not gonna believe this, but that didn't happen.

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Speaker 4: But ye know it.

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Speaker 5: I know it sounds dumb, but it did.

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Speaker 3: And when you learn about it in class, they're going

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to leave out all the craziest like that's that is

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Speaker 4: Happen. Last night.

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Speaker 3: LSU basketball, Well, they played a game if any of

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you are still interested, but they were in Austin taking

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on the Texas Longhorns, and Texas was on a four

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game winning street coming into this game. They were turning

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in the right direction and the game started out well

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for year LSU Tigers. I mean, they had an eleven

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to seven lead early in that ball game, and then

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then it was kind of back and forth. But what

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always seems to happen with this team happened once again.

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This team cannot make shots down low. I mean, it's

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I've never seen anything like it. They shot thirty two

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of sixty two, so they were fifty two percent from

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the field for the game. We'll get into the second

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half a little bit later, and they were good from

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the line as well, sixteen to nineteen.

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Speaker 4: That's not what hurt them.

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Speaker 3: Points in the paint again, thirty eight thirty six, But

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a lot of that was in the second half. They

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went on a drought where I mean they were missing

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shots point blank at the rim, clanking them off the

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back iron, clanking them off the side of the rim,

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off the backboard, and you name it. They weren't making shots,

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and Texas's lead extended and extended and extended. It snowballed

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on them, and Texas wound up having a fifteen point

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lead going into the halftime break. Well, your LSU Tigers

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stormed back. They lose this game eighty eight to eighty five.

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gonna have to outscore teams to win games. I mean,

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they scored fifty two, but they outscored Texas fifty two

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to forty in that second half, and they had opportunities

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down the stretch to win that game. They just couldn't

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do it because once again Matt McMahon squad finds a

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way to dig themselves into a big, double digit first

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half deficit. I don't know why. It's like this every

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single game. Most of the time they just come out cold.

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LSU had an eleven to seven lead, and it was

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kind of a back and forth game and Texas slow down.

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really hurried on the offensive end. They were forcing things

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that weren't there, and they were missing shots right there

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at the rim. It's kind of the same old song

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and dance with this team, because, like if you look

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at the box score, everything else was It was not bad.

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I mean, Markel Sutton finished with twenty one points, six

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of ten shooting. Max McKinnon. He didn't get the start,

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but I mean he came in within the first couple

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of minutes. He played thirty three minutes, so that was

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a de factor started for him. Twenty seven points eleven

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of seventeen shooting. You tell me you get twenty seven

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from Max McKinnon, twenty one from Markel Sudden. Despite the

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fact that ls who's been awful this year, I would

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have said, hey, they probably had a pretty decent shot

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at winning that game. But again, the double digit deficit

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in the first half, it's it's every game with this team.

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I mean, there was, and if it's not that, it's

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another Remember the Kentucky game a few weeks back.

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Speaker 4: LSU was blowing out Katuki.

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Speaker 3: You had a sixteen point lead in the first half,

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going into halftime, and then down the stretch.

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Speaker 4: What happened.

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Speaker 3: You could not make your easy open shots. Tucky comes

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all the way back and wins that game. It's basically

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the same thing here. Just flip it first half to

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second half. Because you did such a good job in

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the second half of this ball game. Look, we'll lay

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it out again. You outshot Texas from the free throw line.

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Now you got to do a better job of not

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fouling defensively, Texas took thirty four free throw attempts and

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you took nineteen. I mean they were twenty three of

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thirty four, but they made more than you attempted. That's

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one of the things you look at in a basketball game.

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make more free throws than your opponent attempts. They did that,

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and they were at home. That gave him a big

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advantage because they were only sixty eight percent from the line.

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But didn't Matt. But of course LSU was going to

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get out rebounded. I mean, this team is soft down low.

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Thirty four rebounds for Texas, twenty seven for l shoot.

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Offensive rebounds were about even seven for the Tigers, eight

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for the Longhorns. And Texas turned the ball over more

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than you. You've done a good job. Last Saturday against Tennessee,

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LSU turned the ball over three times, turned it over

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five times last night. It's only eight times in a

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two game period. That's really good for a basketball team.

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That's not very good. It's just you keep digging yourself

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into these first half holes. I mean, your largest lead

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was four. That was early in the game. Texas's largest

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lead was seventeen. That was with about four minutes to

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go before the first half ended. But there were some positives,

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and it's hard to find positives for a team that's

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two and eleven in the SEC.

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Speaker 4: I get it.

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Speaker 3: But Jalen Reese, who I have been a little critical

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love earlier in the season, it just you seemed like

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you he was hesitant to shoot the ball. He wasn't

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putting up a ton of points offensively. Jalen Reese has

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had back to back good games and he was four

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for twelve last night.

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Speaker 4: I get it.

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Speaker 3: The shooting percentage wasn't great, but he was two for

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four from three. He made all four of his free throws,

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hit fourteen points. You combined now with his twenty point

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outing on Saturday, that is thirty four points for Jalen

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ree and a total of one turnover. He turned it

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over one time last night, did not turn it over

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at all against the Balls on Saturday. This is a

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guy that has been thrust into the starting lineup due

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to injuries to DJ Thomas. Even Max McKinnon's been banged up,

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and as a freshman Jalen Reees, he's really answered the

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belt these last couple of weeks. Now it hasn't resulted

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in wins. Those are going to be really hard to

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come by for this team. But Jalen Reese has actually

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stepped up in a ton of really nice job. You

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knew you were gonna get scoring for Max McKinnon an

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out of conference. You thought Markel Sudden was going to

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be that next big gut. He had a good game

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last night. But Markel Sutten's been hidden this once you

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got out into SEC play. But Jalen Reese is is

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really impressed. And it's the minutes he's playing too. He

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played all forty minutes against Tennessee. He played thirty seven

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of the forty last night. They are relying on him

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a lot here in SEC play due to these injuries,

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and honestly, like in a season that's lost. Look, you're

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fourteen and twelve, you're two and eleven in the SEC.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Wednesday edition of Off the Bench.

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Speaker 3: Taylor Sharp here with the Elandra Villa Riale Braxton Risuto

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here as well.

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Speaker 4: LSU versus Nichols today.

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Speaker 3: Actually one o'clock first pitch here on a Wednesday, a

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little bit of an earlier time for a midweek game.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're LSU Tigers taking on the Nickels State Colonels

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today alec Box Stadium, their fifth game over a six

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day period. Biggest question for everyone tonight, who's going to

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get the start on the mound because again, fifth game

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in six days. There's a few options out there, and

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it's want to put to some guys that did not

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play at all over the weekend. Reagan Ricken has a

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chance to start this game. Look, he was I think

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the forty sixth overall player by Perfect Game as far

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as the top one hundred freshman go coming into the season,

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number fourth ranks high school right handed pitcher in the

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state of California, thirteenth overall in the nation. This is

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a guy that had a lot of hype coming into

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the season, and again we haven't seen him yet on

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the weekend. Reagan Ricken certainly a possibility out there for tonight.

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Another one who we didn't see over the weekend, kind

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of surprising. We haven't seen him yet. Maybe it's for

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this moment. Zion Theopolis, he was the number one right

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handed pitcher in all of Ohio last year, came in.

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He participated in fall ball and he actually threw the

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ball really well. According to Hunt MOUs So, anybody that

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was out there at fall Baseball scrimmage said that Zion

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Theopolis actually threw the ball really really well. I mean,

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you look at what he did in high school He

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was a twenty three and three mark as a starter

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in high school, one forty e two hundred and forty

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five strikeouts at just one hundred and sixty four innings.

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high school. He started a lot of games, and he

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had a lot of success doing it. So that's certainly

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an option to start for you here on this Wednesday.

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There's also Connor Binge has not pitched yet. Now, I

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don't know if Connor Bingche starts this game, but didn't

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see him over the weekend, and we saw him in

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a lot of different spots last year. He was a

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setup guy that used him in the back of the

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bullpen on a lot of midweek games. We even saw

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him in some weekend Actually, he played in sixteen games

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a year ago. So I don't know if Binge necessarily starts,

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but I do think we see Connor Binge at some point,

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and I think you have to see Connor Binge because

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there's a chance that he's a pretty significant part of

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your rotation going forward to here in twenty twenty six.

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My preference is Cooper Williams. Now, I don't need Cooper

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Williams going for five six innings in this game, because

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you'll probably need him on the weekend. But I just

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want him to get the feel of starting here in

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twenty twenty six in case that actually has to happen

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on the weekends. Look, I think Caseon Evans is going

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to be able to be a Friday night guy, but

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there's a chance he's not. He tried this with Zachkess

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after zach Hess's good freshman year, and it didn't work

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out for it. Zach Hess was a lot better as

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that back Indo the bullpen guy, than he was a starter.

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You ultimately made that switch and your team was better

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for it. Maybe that happens to case of Evans again.

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I thought he did a fine job. I think he'll

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be good there. But look, Cooper Williams was up for

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a starting rotation as well. It was the four guys.

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It was Evans, Cooper, Moore, Williams, Schmida, Cooper Williams. Those

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are the guys you heard. And honestly, if you want

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a left handed arms starting your weekend rotation, Cooper Williams

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is probably that guy.

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Speaker 4: Maybe get him a start.

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Speaker 3: I mean he went two and two thirds innings over

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the weekend, gave up one hit, one run, five k's,

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no Waltz, so he was solid his first time out.

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Is that a guy you could put him there, give

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him two to three innings, be fine by Saturday if

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you need him. The good news is you have so

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many arms still available. I mean I just rattled off

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three or four of them there. But we haven't seen

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Danny Lochenmeyer yet. Now locker Meyer is not going to

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start this game, but look at what he did in

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relief last year at North Dakota State. I mean a

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two thirty seven eer do a lot of big time

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innings for the boys in a year ago. Santiago Garcia

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is available. Landra mentioned him the other day. Is like

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a guy that we were excited to see who maybe

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didn't quite live up to the hype and opening weekend,

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and he's available. He didn't throw very much over the weekend,

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and it'd be nice to get him a bounce back

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spot against a Nickels team that will get into doesn't

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hit the ball particularly well. And hell's that Cowen. That

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Cowen threw in one inning over the weekend and he

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wasn't good. Now, concern levels probably not there for a

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guy like Zach Cowen, because well, you know what he

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can do, but get him out there, put him in

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there for an inning or two, get him out build

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that confidence back up a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Going into this weekend.

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Speaker 3: You'll see a number of guys the good news is

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you should have success against Nichols. I don't ever want

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to short change anybody, but they struggled pretty mightily against

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Tennessee over the weekend. He had won sixty four as

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a team, and a lot of people are gonna push

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back and say, yeah, well Tennessee has one of the

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best pitching staffs in the country. Yeah, LSU probably should

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as well. It's kind of the quality pitching that Nichols

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is going to see today. It's pretty much what you

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saw over the weekend against Tennessee. In there's three games

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against Tennessee ten to nothing, five to one, twelve to two.

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So was it super competitive. I mean, they put up

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a total of three runs in three games. Also, it'll

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be their sixth game in five days as well, and

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I just don't see them having the pitching depth of

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a team like LSU. I mean, again, they struggled over

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the weekend with their starters. There're go many runs they

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gave up, Like five to one wasn't bad on Saturday,

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but you gave up a ten spot on Friday.

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Speaker 4: You give up twelve over the weekend, and those.

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Speaker 3: Were supposed to be your front line, top of the

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rotation guys, and you got crushed by Tennessee Again. Tennessee's

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a really good team, but you're at the bottom of

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your bullpen. Like I think LSU is gonna have a

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lot of success here, and it's a great opportunity to

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get some guys in there that one haven't pitched yet

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or two struggled in opening weekend to get some confidence

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back Landre, I'll come to you here real quick. Like

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there's a lot of options. I mean a lot of

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names were just thrown out there, but I mean it

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didn't have to be somebody that goes five innings. But

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who do you want to see start today?

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Speaker 5: So I agree that I would like to see Cooper

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Williams only because I'm not convinced that William Schmidt has

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the Sunday spot locked in. He might, but I don't know.

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It depends, So I would like to see a little

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more of Cooper Williams, and I would like to see

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him not coming out of the pen and just starting.

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But yeah, you mentioned lock in myyers that how you

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say it, Yeah, Danny, And yeah, he was a reliever

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last season, but you know Jay will move people around,

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so he he's another option. He's somebody that I would

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like to see just in general. He was at North

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Dakota State. I know it's not the same type of competition,

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but he did pretty well there. I think he was

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number twenty one in the top one hundred transfers in

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the transfer portal. So I would like to see him

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in general. But I know he threw some this weekend,

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not too much, but I would like to see Cooper

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Williams get the start. I thought he would get it

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maybe on Monday, even though he threw Yeah, I guess not.

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But yeah, that's my opinion on that.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you and like for lock and Meyer start

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relief whatever, we got to see him because it's another

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lefty in the bullpen right like right now, you know

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you have Cooper Williams as a lefty. DJ Primo has

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been on the roster for a number of years, but

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he's been kind of hid and miss. Yeah, and he

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brought in a few transfers, but like Danny lock and Meyer,

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like look as far as the transfer pictures go, Like,

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I know people love Santiago Garcia and rightfully so, but

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Danny lock and Meyer had a two point three seven

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ERA a year ago and threw a lot of innings

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for North Dakota State.

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Speaker 4: He's what six three two twenty. I mean, that's a

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guy that.

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Speaker 3: As a left he coming out of the pen, he

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could play high leverage moments where you played high leverage

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moments a year ago.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, like a two point thirty seven ERA and

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thirty eight innings. Like again, I know in the competition

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at North Dakota State it's not the same, but that's

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pretty good. Fifty six strike fifty six strikeouts in eighteen walks.

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And I don't know, Like I guess I didn't hear

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too much about Santiago Garcia. I just whenever he came out,

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loved the name, I mean the game, and he didn't

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look great. I know it was his first outing, but

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he didn't look great on what was it, Saturday Sundays?

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Speaker 4: No Sunday Sunday.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, maybe throw him out there or see if

476
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he can get his confidence up, you know, get some rhythm.

477
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,519
I know that been on the call was talking about

478
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how sometimes it's just about getting out there and getting

479
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reps and finding your footing.

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Speaker 3: So Sidieoger see a fun fact high school teammates which sleeping.

481
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I mean that's you know, there's familiarity there. But yeah,

482
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I mean Garcia transferring in. But yeah, I mean a lefty,

483
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,480
another lefty out of the bullpen, because it's weird to say, like,

484
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,079
you have a lot of options as far as left

485
00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:43,759
handers out of the bullpen, but almost all of them

486
00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:46,839
are question marks outside of Cooper Williams. Because again DJ

487
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,000
Primo has been here and you've been waiting for him

488
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to make that next step, but he hasn't done that yet.

489
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,599
Like he's been hitting this he said some good outings,

490
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,920
he's had some bad. I mean Cooper Williams is that

491
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,839
one guy. Like sure Lochenmeier was good last year, you

492
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,880
haven't seen him in an LSU uniform. Like for Santiago

493
00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,440
Garcia last year at Oregon, I mean he was he

494
00:24:06,519 --> 00:24:09,000
had three and oh mark but a four point two

495
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,960
zero era A. He threw thirty innings with four saves

496
00:24:12,559 --> 00:24:15,200
at forty strikeouts, only nineteen walks. I mean that that's

497
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,839
right up there with a Danny Lockenmeyer. So another guy

498
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,240
that could really make an impact for this team off

499
00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:24,680
the mound. I mean, there's so many options. And again

500
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,559
I hate to pile onto Nickels, but he won sixty

501
00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:30,839
four over the weekend. Now are your pitchers tonight?

502
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Speaker 5: You know he also run rule?

503
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Speaker 4: Does last year they did? They don't ask for a

504
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run today?

505
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Speaker 5: Wait, I will Can we get a run roll from LSU?

506
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:41,720
Can LSU run roll?

507
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Speaker 6: Nickel?

508
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Speaker 4: There you go? Because last year you didn't specify us.

509
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Speaker 6: Did Gavin pitch Monday?

510
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Speaker 4: Gavin did pitch Monday?

511
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Speaker 1: He did?

512
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Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, and so Gavin's pitch twice, so he's we're

513
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probably not gonna see Gavin Gidry.

514
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Speaker 4: Here's my plus. I mean, we know what he can do.

515
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They really just wanted to see if Gavin Guidry was

516
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fully healthy for his injury.

517
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Speaker 5: And like knock on wood, I feel like, yeah, I

518
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:06,440
feel like Jay's just trying to see what he's got

519
00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:08,119
right now. So I think we'll see the people that

520
00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:11,920
we haven't seen yet. Absolutely, and then and then he

521
00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:13,200
looks like he's in a rhythm.

522
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks great, like he didn't miss I am.

523
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Speaker 3: I am perfectly okay with not seeing Gavin Gidry again

524
00:25:18,839 --> 00:25:19,440
until the weekend.

525
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Speaker 4: Like that that guy keep him right was.

526
00:25:22,599 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 5: The exact like the talking the like he's fresh, but

527
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,039
doesn't say like that year off did not affect him

528
00:25:32,039 --> 00:25:34,680
at all. I mean, I'm sure it did, but like

529
00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:36,440
you know what I mean, it doesn't look no right.

530
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 3: And it had really been closer to eighteen months because

531
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I mean, he didn't throw all last year, but he

532
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,799
missed the back half of the year before that. Like Gavin,

533
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,279
he almost looks better than he did before the injury.

534
00:25:46,319 --> 00:25:48,200
I mean, is as wild as the things that is

535
00:25:48,279 --> 00:25:50,799
to say Gavin looks really good. But yeah, I mean

536
00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:53,119
guys like or See you can get back out there.

537
00:25:53,559 --> 00:25:55,680
I'm okay with seeing Cowvien for an inning if you

538
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,079
want to build his confidence back up, like going into

539
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the weekend. But I mean as far is like, you're

540
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,519
not going to see Evans Schmidt, Cooper Moore and Gavin Gidriy.

541
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I mean, those are the guys you're not going to see.

542
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,680
Outside of that, it's kind of fair game for whatever

543
00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:11,000
Jay Johnson wants to do. And uh again, I think

544
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,920
they'll have a lot of success against the Nichol's lineup

545
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:14,759
that really struggled.

546
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Speaker 4: Over the weekend. All Right, we're going to take a

547
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quick time out.

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Speaker 3: There is something going on around college sports right now,

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Speaker 3: I think five champions in that uh in that Jacob

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Speaker 4: I think I think it's fine. I think it's what

602
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I out here.

603
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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: I mean he said champion five times in that live

605
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read was not paying at a lot of college basketball

606
00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:13,519
coaches right now are taking a lot of heat for

607
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calling out their players. So on Sunday, UAB lost the

608
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game fifty five to fifty four to two lane alec UAB.

609
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It's a close loss, so you're're thinking, okay, one point loss,

610
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but they made just ten of twenty two layups in

611
00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:33,359
their defeat, and coach Andy Kennedy he had one, I

612
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,039
think is a pretty funny reaction after the game. He said, guys,

613
00:29:38,119 --> 00:29:41,319
we're talking about layups. These are scholarship players that are

614
00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:44,480
making more money than most people in this room. Isn't

615
00:29:44,519 --> 00:29:46,440
too much to ask for you to make a layup?

616
00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,759
He said, seriously, we're in Bozo land, man. We can't

617
00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:52,240
finish at the basket and that's where we really miss

618
00:29:52,319 --> 00:29:55,119
some of our injured players. And he took a lot

619
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of pushback for this, and I struggling to figure out

620
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,039
why he's the I'm the only one. So Kansas State

621
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,000
fired their head basketball coach Jerome Tang on Sunday. They

622
00:30:06,039 --> 00:30:09,519
played a game on Wednesday that they lost to Cincinnati.

623
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:11,960
It was ninety one sixty two, so a blowout loss,

624
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,640
and Jerome Tang went up there and said that, he said,

625
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,759
it's ridiculous. Uh, these dudes got to have some pride.

626
00:30:19,839 --> 00:30:22,279
It means something to wear the Kansas State uniform and

627
00:30:22,839 --> 00:30:28,359
went on to say that this team was embarrassing. He said,

628
00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:29,640
you know, play with some pride. A lot of these

629
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:34,440
guys aren't going to be here next year. And Kansas

630
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:38,640
State fired. Now, when you go look at his record,

631
00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:41,039
I've seen a lot of people come out in defense

632
00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:44,440
of Kansas State and say, yeah, but you know he's

633
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,559
fallen behind. I mean he was seventy three and fifty

634
00:30:46,599 --> 00:30:50,880
seven overall at Kansas State but first year twenty six

635
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,839
and ten, second year nineteen and fifteen. He was just

636
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,319
sixteen and seventeen last year and ten and fifteen this year.

637
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,640
So you you can see the decline.

638
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:58,319
Speaker 4: I get it.

639
00:30:58,359 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 3: It's been declining for three straight years now. Made the

640
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,279
tournament year one, but nothing outside of that. So I've

641
00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:08,799
heard a lot of people say, yeah, well, you know,

642
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,480
Jerome Tang, it wasn't working out anyways. So this was

643
00:31:12,559 --> 00:31:14,839
just an out for Kansas State. And I was thinking, Okay,

644
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,880
you know, maybe it's maybe it's just a coincidence that

645
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,359
they fire him right after this, butte they emi will

646
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:27,680
put out well Sunday shortly or Sunday night after Jerome

647
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:30,759
Tang had been fired. The Kansas State was firing Jerome

648
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:31,880
Tang for calls.

649
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 4: He said. The basis for the cause.

650
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,319
Speaker 3: Firing is language in his contract that references an activity

651
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:44,680
that brings public disrepute, embarrassment, and ridicule to Kansas State.

652
00:31:45,559 --> 00:31:51,759
So they essentially fire Jerome Tang for calling out his

653
00:31:51,839 --> 00:31:54,440
players in a press conference, saying well, you know, most

654
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,880
of them are going to be here next year anyways.

655
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,400
I'll figure it out. You give power to the players

656
00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:03,720
in the transfer portal. That's all fine. When a coach

657
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,559
decides that a player's not up to snuff and he

658
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,279
says they're not gonna be here next year, they can

659
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,359
enter the transfer portal.

660
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Speaker 4: He's ridiculed for it.

661
00:32:12,079 --> 00:32:14,319
Speaker 3: I just I've kind of an issue with that because

662
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,759
for the longest time, everyone had argued, well, the NCAA

663
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:21,680
and the coaches have all the power, the players have

664
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:24,519
no power. Sure, that's fine, you're not gonna hear much

665
00:32:24,519 --> 00:32:26,839
of an argument from me on that. But now it

666
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,759
just kind of seems like the players have all the

667
00:32:28,839 --> 00:32:32,839
power and nobody else can really say otherwise or they

668
00:32:32,839 --> 00:32:33,559
get in trouble for it.

669
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Speaker 4: Don't you kind of have the same problem.

670
00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:38,839
Speaker 3: Shouldn't there be more of a checks and balance this

671
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,480
system going on here in college athletics? There's not A

672
00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:46,000
player can enter the portal whenever they want, and you know,

673
00:32:46,079 --> 00:32:47,599
a coach can leave a school whenever they want.

674
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Speaker 4: But when a coach gets mad about it and calls

675
00:32:49,839 --> 00:32:51,400
out his team, you fire the guy for it.

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Speaker 3: Now I get that Kansas State's probably looking for a

677
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,160
way out because they didn't like the way the program

678
00:32:58,319 --> 00:33:00,160
was going. They didn't like the direction of things. I

679
00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:02,839
just mentioned that they had been declining as a basketball

680
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,920
team for I mean three straight years. Now you went

681
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,039
twenty four and ten. You hadn't gotten back to twenty

682
00:33:08,079 --> 00:33:08,640
wins since then.

683
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Speaker 4: He's in year four.

684
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Speaker 3: But I don't see why these coaches are taking so

685
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:19,160
much criticism for criticizing their players. Their jobs are on

686
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:23,039
the line too, and those coaches have families. They got

687
00:33:23,119 --> 00:33:26,680
to win games. If not, they're out the door. So

688
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,599
as a coach, if you think you've done everything you

689
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can to get your team prepared and your players aren't

690
00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,799
showing up, they're not doing what they're supposed to, you

691
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,799
gotta let everybody know, like, hey, it's not on me.

692
00:33:39,039 --> 00:33:41,400
I deserve to be here. I've done my job. I

693
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,559
mean my players to go out and do theirs. Also,

694
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,720
players are paid nowadays, guys. I mean you heard Andy

695
00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:50,200
Kennedy say, you have players on this team that are

696
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,319
making more money than most people in this room. You

697
00:33:54,359 --> 00:33:56,160
want to make money, you want to be treated like

698
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a professional. This is what apps professional coaches call out

699
00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:02,799
their players all the time. They get criticism for too,

700
00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:06,119
which I think is dumb. But I just I don't

701
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:10,159
really think Andy Kennedy, Jerom Tang, whoever else gets criticized

702
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:11,679
for this. I don't really think they're off base here.

703
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You want to be treated like an adult, like a professional.

704
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,960
You want to make money doing this, okay, but you're

705
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,559
gonna be held to a higher standard. You're going to

706
00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:23,519
be called out in press conferences. Your coach is going

707
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:27,119
to criticize you even more because it's essentially your job

708
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:29,360
to do this. If you're not doing good at your job,

709
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,400
you're gonna get called out for it. Just like that

710
00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:33,360
head coaches, if you're not performing on the court, it

711
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:38,239
all falls back on him. I don't really know why

712
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,920
this is a discussion. I just think it's it's a

713
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,239
little silly. Like when you look at this, you're like, okay,

714
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,880
this is where college athletes have gone. And you hear

715
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,000
the you know, the old head say, oh well, you

716
00:34:49,039 --> 00:34:51,840
know the soft generation. I mean, when you look at

717
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:58,360
something like this, yeah, yeah, it's andsure, like what Andy

718
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,840
Kennedy said is is fun. And you know Andy Kennedy

719
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,320
as of right now is still employed. But I don't know,

720
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,119
I mean, unless I'm completely off pace here, and again

721
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,119
they go back to Jerome Tang's record twenty six and ten,

722
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,800
nineteen and five, sixteen, and seven, ten, and fifteen, so.

723
00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:17,639
Speaker 4: They were trending in the wrong direction.

724
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,559
Speaker 3: Now, he had had a winning record overall, but I mean,

725
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,239
you get four straight years on the decline, hasn't made

726
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:29,000
the tournaments in Jyer one. I just think it kind

727
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,719
of sets a bad precedent to fire the guy right

728
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,159
after those comments. I mean it was four days after

729
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,079
he made the comments Wednesday night after the game. They

730
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:41,039
fired him on Sunday, So, I mean, what are we

731
00:35:41,159 --> 00:35:41,599
doing here?

732
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,079
Speaker 4: Can no coach speak their mind anymore? I mean, can.

733
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 3: A coach has to show up? But in all this work,

734
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,400
take all the blame with the loss, and he can't

735
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,880
call out his own players. I mean, it's not like

736
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,920
he was yelling at at opposing player or throwing something

737
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,719
on the court like it's it's not that now again,

738
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:12,079
Kansas State says anything that or Pete Pete Dmile tweeted

739
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:17,360
anything that brings public disrepute, embarrassment, and ridicule to Kansas State.

740
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:20,599
I'm sure as this story moves along, you'll hear more

741
00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:25,519
and more, y'a always do. It's not just gonna be

742
00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:27,960
one thing that they let your own tank for. I

743
00:36:28,079 --> 00:36:30,559
get that there's gonna be more under the surface.

744
00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: It just.

745
00:36:33,559 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 3: From the outside. That's what you see right now. As

746
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,760
the story changes, people's opinions will change. I get that,

747
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,840
mind will, But I just think it's even before he

748
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,639
was fired, Like whether he was fired for this or not,

749
00:36:52,639 --> 00:36:54,880
he took a lot of flak for for calling out

750
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,480
of me. National ESPN was playing and I listened to

751
00:36:57,559 --> 00:37:00,159
National ESPN driving in every morning. They were to talking

752
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:02,519
about your Rome Tane calling out the team again. Andy

753
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:05,519
Kennedy called out his team. That made national news. Just

754
00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:09,280
I guess if you want to fire the guy, if

755
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,199
he did something else wrong, fine, I'm all for that,

756
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,840
whether it's off the court. On the court, he did

757
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:19,559
something wrong, get him out of there. But I don't

758
00:37:19,599 --> 00:37:23,480
know coach is catching flak for calling out their players

759
00:37:23,519 --> 00:37:26,719
who aren't performing. I just I don't really see what

760
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,320
the point of that is. All Right, we're going to

761
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,119
take a quick time out and we get back. We're

762
00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:33,280
going to wrap up our number one busy hours two

763
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,320
and three. So in hour two straight up eight o'clock,

764
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,079
Doctor Stephen Etheridge will be in for his normal weekly segment.

765
00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:41,519
We'll have him in the studio. I'll let you beach

766
00:37:41,559 --> 00:37:44,239
volleyball coach Russell Brock will join us. Their season officially

767
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,639
begins on Friday. We'll get a quick preview from him.

768
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,679
Then in hour number three, Devin Snow, who normally joins

769
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:56,159
us on Monday, will join us Wednesday today nine point fifteen.

770
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We'll get his breakdown. He got a lot of Marty

771
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:00,840
girl thoughts. We'll get all that from Devin, but when

772
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,079
we come back, we'll wrap up outward number one. Here on,

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of Marson did and say, Miss Katie, have you ever

798
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a thovel on? Anyway?

799
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 1: Settling down?

800
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 4: Would you marry me?

801
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Speaker 9: Heref I ask you twice?

802
00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 6: And making pretty.

803
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Speaker 1: Fees off the bench presented by Hoodental.

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Speaker 9: Stood says he away.

805
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Speaker 6: He everyone is.

806
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Speaker 9: Head and kitties please. I should have been a cowb.

807
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Speaker 5: I should have learned.

808
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 4: I don't want to cut this song off. What a banger.

809
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,280
Speaker 5: I decided to honor you instead of Jake today. Okay,

810
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:10,840
it's usually R and B Wednesday. Okay, but I'm playing

811
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:11,880
some Taylor Ass songs.

812
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,159
Speaker 3: This is this is a Taylor Ass song. If I've

813
00:40:14,159 --> 00:40:19,519
ever heard one one hundred percent. So we had a awakening.

814
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,280
In the break, Alandra asked if it was a leap

815
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:22,960
year this year.

816
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,679
Speaker 4: We were informed that it was not. No, why do

817
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:26,400
we have leap years?

818
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I think your theory if we

819
00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:30,679
just take one of the days off of thirty one?

820
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,079
Speaker 3: Well, because you got like so like, there's there's some

821
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,320
months that have thirty days, some months that have thirty one.

822
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,639
Speaker 5: That's Matt's best friend.

823
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 4: In a normal year, February has twenty eight days.

824
00:40:41,079 --> 00:40:43,559
Speaker 3: Right, you just pluck two of the thirty one months,

825
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,199
stick them right there in February. We got thirty months

826
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:47,639
in February. Keep it wrong.

827
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,559
Speaker 4: And I don't really understand that. That's stupid. I don't

828
00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:51,840
like it.

829
00:40:53,519 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 3: Oh, I do have an update on the drive through

830
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,360
funeral home. Yeah, by the way, my text for my

831
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,039
dad there was a I've through funeral home in Alexandria.

832
00:41:02,119 --> 00:41:06,440
It was a converted bank so they would stand the

833
00:41:06,599 --> 00:41:12,239
casket up okay, facing the drive through window and people

834
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,199
could go by and pay your respects without ever having

835
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,320
to get out of the car. So drive through funeral

836
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,960
home in Alexandria that I had that ride that was

837
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:20,599
an actual thing.

838
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,679
Speaker 5: So I that's crazy, by the way. But I'm asking

839
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,840
Matt's friend about the leap year, right, and I said,

840
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,079
why can't you just take one out of the months

841
00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:32,440
that have thirty one days?

842
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 4: You can't. They're gonna say you can't.

843
00:41:34,519 --> 00:41:37,639
Speaker 5: You can't, said, honestly, we could. There's nothing about physics

844
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:42,360
or astronomy that requires February to be weird. Also, it's

845
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,239
just history, history locked it in. I'm not out to Caesar.

846
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,559
I'm not part of the Julian calendar.

847
00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:48,519
Speaker 6: Oh that it is.

848
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 4: I'm not a math whiz here.

849
00:41:52,199 --> 00:41:55,159
Speaker 3: But if every four years you got an extra day

850
00:41:55,159 --> 00:41:58,320
in February and that three hundred and sixty six days, Yeah,

851
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:00,800
and we have three hundred six five days a year,

852
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,320
you're not taking one away from another.

853
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 5: So it's because the Earth orbit. Wait, hold on, I

854
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,519
can't do this in real time. But there's a reason

855
00:42:11,679 --> 00:42:13,960
why it's every four years. It's because of the way

856
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:16,880
that the Earth orbits and like, we would still have yeah,

857
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,400
we would still have three hundred and sixty five days,

858
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,039
it wouldn't be three hundred and sixty six.

859
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 3: This seems way dude, Like, who came up with this

860
00:42:24,119 --> 00:42:27,320
seems dumb. Let's just have February like all the other

861
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:28,039
months and move on.

862
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:29,079
Speaker 6: It's stupid.

863
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:34,639
Speaker 4: I think, though, like this could be completely wrong.

864
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,199
Speaker 5: This is pretty sure talking about though. When I was

865
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,719
talking about Ben and Lynn and I was like, is

866
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,719
this some people feel listening to otbs because.

867
00:42:41,519 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 7: We do this well?

868
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 3: When you brought up the question here in the break,

869
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,119
I'm like, I don't know anything about leap years. No,

870
00:42:46,199 --> 00:42:48,079
as a matter of fact, I know I know less

871
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,760
than nothing about leap years. But I mean you, uh, like,

872
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,039
if you're born on February twenty ninth on a leap year, yeah,

873
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,400
I'm pretty sure you're twenty four.

874
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,199
Speaker 4: Have a birthday? Pretty right? You're only four when you're actually.

875
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:06,039
Speaker 5: Like yeah, Like on Modern Family, Cam's birthday was on

876
00:43:06,199 --> 00:43:08,559
a leap year, and so he would always like his

877
00:43:08,679 --> 00:43:11,400
p one name for you is his fortieth birthday. He's like,

878
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,840
I'm turning ten years old. He had like this ten

879
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,840
year old birthday party.

880
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,039
Speaker 4: That's actually hilarious.

881
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 3: I think like, if you're twenty one eighteen, that type

882
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,480
of thing, I think you are supposed to celebrate at

883
00:43:23,519 --> 00:43:26,960
March first, Okay, I think I would do the twenty eighth.

884
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 6: I don't think it would matter. I would have twenty

885
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,159
eight too, just a February.

886
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,519
Speaker 3: But I think I think it's if they it total

887
00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:34,119
number that I think it's March first. I'm not one

888
00:43:34,159 --> 00:43:34,880
hundred percent on that.

889
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 6: But see, we.

890
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 3: Shouldn't have to have this discussion because February should only

891
00:43:39,519 --> 00:43:41,320
have I mean, February should be thirty days like like

892
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,960
everybody else. What is in March, March is thirty one,

893
00:43:44,559 --> 00:43:47,880
July thirty one. Pull them, pull those days, slot them

894
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,159
into February. Boom, be done with it.

895
00:43:51,039 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 4: I don't know.

896
00:43:52,559 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 3: The the drive through funeral home made me think of

897
00:43:58,119 --> 00:44:02,159
some of the other stuff that we did during COVID,

898
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,199
because that had COVID to me written all over it.

899
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,599
We talked about the UH baptized and the babies with

900
00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:10,199
the square guns. Do you all remember when they came

901
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,000
out and said, well, you can't have Thanksgiving like you

902
00:44:13,039 --> 00:44:14,480
can do it, but we just want all your family

903
00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:17,320
members over zoom. I can, I'll call in over zoom.

904
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,840
And then the dots at the grocery store I had

905
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,320
just looked at. I remember the dots at the grocery

906
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:26,119
store and like me, I didn't mean anything by it.

907
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,599
I wasn't trying to be malicious, like I had the

908
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,880
mask one because I had too to go into the store.

909
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,480
I vividly remember this. I was at Walmart, and walker

910
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,679
I uh stared at the checkout line. I don't even

911
00:44:37,679 --> 00:44:39,800
know what I'm picking up, like a few things. I'm

912
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:42,119
just standing there, mind of my business. The older gentleman

913
00:44:42,199 --> 00:44:44,199
in front of me turned around and goes, sir, sir,

914
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,719
I need you to back up, please, And I was

915
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,559
like what, and like I wasn't right up on the

916
00:44:49,559 --> 00:44:50,760
guy and he goes, your dot.

917
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,199
Speaker 4: You have to be on your dot. You're not on

918
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,079
your dot. So I literally took like two steps back

919
00:44:55,119 --> 00:44:55,679
and stood.

920
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,639
Speaker 5: On my dogs, like when we used to like go

921
00:44:57,719 --> 00:44:59,719
into the restaurant with the masks on and then you

922
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,400
say down and take your mask, but you had to.

923
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 4: You had to put it back on, like stand up, immediately,

924
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,119
put it on and leave.

925
00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 7: I got a funny one. I think it was my

926
00:45:08,199 --> 00:45:11,719
cousin's birthday. His birthday is in April, and we obviously

927
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,199
couldn't have a birthday party, so.

928
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 5: We sounds like when it was just happening right.

929
00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 3: It was like my sister got married March fourteenth, and

930
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,639
that was like one of the last weddings they had

931
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:21,679
in twenty twenty.

932
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:28,039
Speaker 7: But basically we, I guess lapped around like his house

933
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:30,159
in the neighborhood and like drove by and told him

934
00:45:30,159 --> 00:45:30,840
happy birthday.

935
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,159
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, the like when people were doing like the

936
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,280
drive by, the drive by happy birthdays or the drive

937
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:38,559
by graduations, like you.

938
00:45:38,599 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 3: Were saying, anyways, thank goodness for past that. Hopefully that

939
00:45:42,519 --> 00:45:47,199
doesn't happen again. Pretty fun hour one there. We uh,

940
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:52,400
we got a little semi education on a on a

941
00:45:52,599 --> 00:45:54,800
leap year. I'm sure Landra like she dove into it,

942
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,920
but it's a I like, it's it's it's Matt Flent's buddy.

943
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,360
We're not sure how accurate that even is. Coming up

944
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,079
an hour number two, Doctor Stephen Ethridge in the studio

945
00:46:02,159 --> 00:46:05,320
for his normal Wednesday spot, LSU beach volleyball coach Russell

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Brock at eight fifteen. Then in the nine o'clock hour,

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we'll talk to LSU football, We'll talk some Saints. Devin

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snow aka hold the Mayo. He joins us for his

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normal nine to fifteen slot to push you back from Monday.

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He was a busy guy out there in New Orleans

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with olda marti rawl going on, but a busy hour one.

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I'm an hour two and three coming up. Stay tuned.

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Top of hour number two. We got doctor Etherg in

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studio here on off the bench, Off the bench.

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Speaker 2: We all know hard work not just a slogan, it's

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a way of life, and that's exactly what you get

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with PALA, founded right here in Louisiana, proudly one hundred

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percent employee owned.

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Speaker 6: Something we always want to remind you about.

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Speaker 2: PALA has been delivering industrial constructions, specialty services and power

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solutions since nineteen seventy three. So from heavy industrial projects

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to safety services and advanced specialty applications, their companies serve

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critical industries across the Gulf.

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Speaker 6: Coast and certainly beyond.

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Speaker 2: So when the job to man's precision, safety and experience,

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Paler delivers, every single time, employee owned means every project matters,

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every detail counts. You can learn more about their full

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family of companies at palogroup dot com. That's p A

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l A Group dot com. Palagroup dot com