Speaker 1: Santa's Little helpers from Jacob Hester and t bab Baber
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Here's Jacob Hester and t bab a Bear.
Speaker 2: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Me and Taylor just started yelling at each other during
the commercial break because I asked him for his opinion
and then he was wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, it sucks.
Speaker 3: It's funny part about opinions, and so I had to
shout down his wrong opinion. So give me your opinion
and we'll get to Baylor after this. But give me
your opinion on on Travis Hunter's heisman candidate.
Speaker 4: No again, Like I I love Travis Hunter. I told
you during the break, I think he is the best
player in college football. I just look at look at
and I get it everyone's going to say group of five.
I understand that. I just think that Ashton gent again.
Travis Hunter impacts the game in so many different ways.
I don't really think you can go right or wrong.
I just look at he carried his team into the playoff.
I mean teams are keying in on this guy and
they still can't stop him. I mean, Hunter is an
excellent player. Again, he impacts the game in so many ways.
Genz's just been so dominant this.
Speaker 3: Year, so so so your argument is kind of that
gent is more uh or okay, I won't say your
argument is this?
Speaker 2: To me?
Speaker 3: I hear that, and it kind of seems like to me,
it's like, okay, so gent is more singular in his dominance,
and but like that's why I think Hunter is a
heisman for me, because he's the most singular player I've
ever seen in my entire life. I have never seen
somebody do what Travis Hunter did this season. And it's
in a conference in the Big Twelve that Jake, you've
been propping up that we keep trying to tell you
how good the Big Twelve actually is and how exciting
and close it is top to bottom. And here you
have a Colorado team that was absolute hot trash two
years ago and damn near made the conference championship this
year and finished very well, a team that got better
as the season went on. And I see a player
here who's number one in the conference and catches with
ninety two. Number one in the conference, is fourteen receiving touchdowns,
number two in the conference with eleven hundred and fifty
two yards. He's first in the nation with twenty one
catches of twenty yards or more. He's number one in
the conference.
Speaker 5: Having only twelve point five per catch that he has
those numbers, ninety two catches will.
Speaker 3: Do it bro nine to two catches. A lot of
catches in college football, we have.
Speaker 5: Like do we have air yards underneath that? And have
you seen that year? I have nineteen areas curious.
Speaker 3: But he's also written number one of the Big twelve
and pass breakups and he's got any any second in
the Big twelve or four picks. And he was honorable
mentioned for now his first team Big twelve offensively, but
he was honorable mention for offensive Player of the year,
and he was the Big twelve Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2: And he literally played double the amount of.
Speaker 3: Snaps of everybody in the country again and he did
it in the Power for So that's my argument.
Speaker 2: Gent's awesome. It's incredible.
Speaker 3: And in this thing about Heisman stuff, it's it's like, uh,
listening to any best of podcasts or they're trying to
rank stuff everything is great.
Speaker 2: Everybody on this list is incredible. I mean, we mentioned right, Dylan.
Speaker 3: Gabriel, uh literally the most touchdowns ever accounted for in
college football, cam Ward having the closest to like one
of those uh uh uh just unreal quarterback season that
one guy seems he's like in a year where quarterbacks
are down, cam Ward's the only one having one of
those insane ars.
Speaker 2: So everybody's incredible.
Speaker 3: So I'm not trying to criticize or take down Gent,
but but I I think for me, it's it's it's
clear cut that is Travis Hunter, because we've never seen
it before. Now for Gent, look, twenty five hundred yards
fourth most all time, one ninety two per game, but
the most impressive part there is fifty eight yards ahead
of number two, so an outlier singular as well in
terms of how dominant he's been seven point two yards
per carry, twenty nine rushing touchdowns, insane, insanity.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just I can't.
Speaker 5: I think there's a lot of things that I want
to say and add to, but I literally cannot.
Speaker 2: To accuse yourself from the conversation.
Speaker 5: You can't even talk about their resumes, no, because we're
not supposed to be showing that we're leaning or we
leaned one way on who we voted for, and the
rules are really laid out and strict, so we can
talk about Cannis, but we can't like debate.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we obviously think some sort of order.
I personally think Hunters are gonna win it one and two.
We think it's going to be Hunter and gent Who
do we think finishes fourth?
Speaker 3: I would have said Dylan Gabriel, but after cam Moore
losing to Syracuse, is probably gonna go Gabriel.
Speaker 4: Well that's as I was looking at because like the
numbers are in cam Ward's favor, the team's success is
in Gabriel's favor. What are they going to Valley?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: This also maybe you think about what an awful time
to be an Oklahoma fan, where like, don't forget this,
Dylan Gabriel was by far the best quarterback in the
Big Twelve last year.
Speaker 2: Like his numbers smashed that of.
Speaker 5: Queen Years Queen and Queen Queen Queen. I couldn't remember
how I said it. Yesterday was Kina State.
Speaker 2: It's like pinch, I went pinch, But.
Speaker 5: I could remember yesterday on off campus and I was like,
I don't want to say it like that again.
Speaker 3: Queen years, but he smashed Queen's numbers, and you ran
that man out of town. And now he's the quarterback
of the only undefeated team of the country, the Big
Champs are number one seed of the college football Playoffs,
going to New York for the Heisman, and you just
went six and six and your quarterback trench quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Going to Mississippi State. Yeah, how about did you good
get for Levy?
Speaker 3: So I thought that was interesting because weeks and weeks ago,
Aaron called a Missippi State game and you know, they
talked to coach or whatever, and he was asking Leby
about Arnold, and Levy was like, look, man, I thought
Arnold was gonna be the like the man, like, I
don't know what they've done to him, because like he
was like I thought, like, I was super excited about
arm probably one of the reasons why they let him,
you know, kind of let Gabriel go.
Speaker 2: So I think that'll be a pretty for two.
Speaker 3: And also for tact and art, you kind of want
to get out of the spotlight a little bit, right,
even dealing with that glare that Oklahoma Missippi.
Speaker 2: State is not in the spotlight. I mean, I'm not
it's not a shot.
Speaker 3: It's not a shot compared to Oklahoma State definitely moves
in the shadows a bit.
Speaker 4: You just want to get it right now Oklahoma though,
because I mean you got replaced at the Tennessee game,
one of the biggest games of the year.
Speaker 2: Then they go back to you like just get a
fresh start. Yeah, I agree, I agree. All right, Uh
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so let's look at this Baylor Bears team.
Speaker 2: Jake.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I've not watched Baylor play a ton
of football this year. Maybe watch I watched a couple
of games in the run up to this. Uh, but
it's it's it's it's it's a weird year because they
lost a few early on and everybody kind of stopped
watching him. But then they seemed to get stronger and
stronger as the year went on. Right, So they lose
to Utah early on. Uh, then they lose to Colorado
the game they should have won. Yeah, the double Hail Mary.
They gave up back to back Hail Mary's to lose
that game. Then they lose to BYU, which at the
time you're like, oh, that's a bad loss, but you know,
by you up being good. Then they lose that Iowa
stayed badly, but at the time you're like, oh, you know,
I was, They're not even good. Oh no, they end
up being pretty good. So really outside of Utah, uh,
three losses to three of the top four teams in
Big Twelve. So Baylor is a team that in the
Big Twelve was not as good as the best, but
pretty much better than the rest. And they ended on
a really nice six game winning streak, culminating in a
complete dismantling of a hot Kansas team and they sinking
of the Pontoon Parlay beat Kansas forty five to seventeen
to end the year. Very impressive stuff from Baylor. And
you look at the numbers, Jake. So they finished six
and three in conference because for one of the reasons,
one of those games was not a conference games eight.
Speaker 2: And four overall. Yeah, the gosh, which game was it?
That wasn't it?
Speaker 5: B Yu, Maybe I don't know, Yeah, it was one
of them, maybe Utah.
Speaker 2: Actually I think it was no, because Utah's was Kent State.
Doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fifth, fifth in the conference is where they
finished eight and four, six and three, And you look, Jake,
they don't do.
Speaker 2: I mean, their offenses their strength, but.
Speaker 3: Overall they're not like overwhelmingly good at at at anything.
They're just a very solid team, kind of top to bottom.
Speaker 5: I do think that they've got a quarterback that is
going to keep them onst scheduled. They have a quarterback
that it's going to be able to to make plays.
Speaker 2: In this game.
Speaker 5: Again, like to your point kind of what you're saying, like,
he's not certainly going to be the best quarterback that
you face, but saw your Robinson, somebody that's you know,
played a lot of football, and down the stretch he
played his best football.
Speaker 2: And it's an offense that's.
Speaker 5: I think, where's all your start. I think he started
Missippy State. But he comes in and kind of air
Ray principles for him, and so you can kind of
see that in his game. It's a lot of short
intermediate passes. There's not a lot of pushing the football down.
They feel like his long this year's fifty three yards,
but it's not going to be where they're trying to
take the top off the defense. They are going to
try to death by a thousand paper cuts. That's kind
of what the style of this offense has been, and
so like, can you get that taken care of if
you'r LSU's defense, Because honestly, like when you look at
when Lshu's defense has struggled at times, it's been that
intermediate pass over the middle of the field. Yeah, sure,
and that is really what Baylor tries to get done.
And so you have to make that adjustment to that
because this offense is going to try to have long
time consuming drives in the past game and you know,
look the older in the football they got thousand yard rusher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they they got a pretty nice little rushing combo
there in Washington and Pendergrind had.
Speaker 5: Sixteen hundred yards between them and right at six yards
per carry. So again, like this offense, it tries to almost,
I don't want to say, like put you to sleep,
but a little bit, and then it gets you to
take that one chance, bring that extra defender, and then
that's when they hit their big play.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And to be fair, I said they don't do anything
like Uber well, and that's not entirely true. They they
do have a very high scoring offense. Now how they
get there is just very solid, but it's a bit ironic.
In fact, the defense is the weakness of this team.
So here you have Dave Randa, a defensive mind, a
head coach where the offense is what has carried them.
They are second in the Big twelve and thirty five
points a game their third and total yardage seventh and
passing six in rushing Jake two forty six, so very
fifty to fifty make you defend both. They're plus five
and turnovers on the year. UH the fourth in the conference,
converting forty four percent of their third down These are
like a few key staffs I look at for teams.
UH fourth converting forty four percent of their third downs
and defensively their second in the conference getting off the
field only allowing to thirty five percent converged rate. Of course,
it's been one of l's u's great strengths this year
has been third down sixth in sas seventh and tiffles
seventh in sacks allowed. You know, fifth in red zone
score percentage six and touchdown percentage And yeah you mentioned
uh Sawyer Robertson sixty two, twenty six hundred yards, eight
point three per attempt, twenty six to seven picks.
Speaker 2: Very solid.
Speaker 3: Brice in Washington freshman running back one hundred and seventy tempts,
thousand yards, twelve touchdowns, Dawson Pendergrass one hundred carry carries
six hundred yards. So again, a solid is the word
that they keep going back to when I and look
at this Baylor Bears team much better than what you
faced last year in Wisconsin. If you played like you
played last year, you will lose this game one thousand percent.
So you better come in locked in and ready to win,
otherwise you gonna put an embarrassing end cap onto this
twenty twenty four year.
Speaker 5: And also like to go a step farther, like in
what you're talking about in these various solid stats and
what we're talking about with kind of how they try
to run their offense, like they're leading receivers forty four catches,
forty one catches, twenty three Carris thirty catches, right, so
like they really spread the football like another receiver's got
twenty eight catches, Like it would look completely different on
on maybe some other offenses that have kind of the
stats that Baylor has and being close to some of
the top end the conference, like there's no one dominant
receiver you've got Cameron's got forty four catches six hundred
and forty three yards. Hawkins has forty one catches five
hundred and twelve yards. They got another receiver, Presley twenty
eight catches three hundred and eighty nine yards. They got
some tight ends thrown in there as well. Michael Trigg,
I think a lot of fans will remember him Old Miss.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: He was like, you know, I don't know if you
remember it. Remember actually Mint was.
Speaker 5: So excited, came from USC went to Ole Miss. They
needed a Baylor uber athletic guy, but never really turned
the corner. This is certainly his best season to date.
But that's the thing. Like with this Baylor offense, you
have to cover every blade of grass.
Speaker 2: You can't really just sell.
Speaker 5: Out on one player or one scheme because they have
four receivers, including a tight end, two backs, and a
quarterback that's highly efficient. And again like they want to
low you to sleep a little bit and then hit
the big play behind you.
Speaker 3: You know, and I will say this, I obviously feel
infinitely better about this defense, even though, like you said,
sometimes they have struggled at times that intermediate stuff over
the middle. If you're telling me that the key is
going to be kind of playing disciplined and assignment sound.
I do believe that it's something that LSU has been
really good at this year, and especially you look at
the last couple of weeks. That's the Vandy offense that
you have to be uber disciplined and assignment sound against,
and they were and that final score is not as
close as a game. Same thing for the offense that
Oklahoma is trying to run different styles. But again those
themes of like needing to understand your responsibility and be there,
I believe in this staff.
Speaker 2: Do we have a list of the opt outs?
Speaker 3: Opt outs are gonna be very interesting in the age
of an al because if you're getting paid, you can't
opt out.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't skip the bowl game.
Speaker 3: So I wonder if we see less of them, or
maybe it ends up being more because guys are just
gonna transfer anyway. But but but yeah, if you're not transferring,
like we fully expect you to play.
Speaker 5: Yes, right, because it's supposed to be the deal that
you have with these collectors.
Speaker 2: You're paid in this game. So I wonder, so LS, you's.
Speaker 5: Gonna have a couple of guys that you know opted
out or you would think I guess opted out because
they're going pro, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean Campbell and Mason Taylor are the only ones
that have announced they're going pro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have not enough.
Speaker 4: They haven't announced whether or not they're playing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't imagine they would. I don't know why
they would, but but maybe they will. That's true. I mean,
that's gonna be. That's a security blanket.
Speaker 3: And uh and you know your your corner stone there
that you may have to replace me.
Speaker 5: You know, well, will Campbell give you know, his his
good friend, his best friend, Garrett Nessmyer like a solid
like I mean he I mean he is dating you know,
Garrett's sister.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, yeah, like it. You know, if
you want to get in good with the father.
Speaker 3: In law, what are you doing any funny protectives so
funny to think about.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if the juice is worth
the squeeze there from a risk to reward standpoint me personally.
Speaker 2: How do you think George is feeling today?
Speaker 3: They're happy about playing the SEC championship Carson Beck UCL
How about their Ray Guy finalist punter out for the
year with a knee injury. It's a couple of brutal,
brutal injuries to take right before you're trying to make
a playoff run. All right, just go to break when
we get back on to a quick mail bag and
then we got coach Kim Molk coming up.
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Speaker 1: Chris, Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show
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Speaker 6: Off the bench.
Speaker 2: What's going on, y'all?
Speaker 3: Welcome back to OTV and right now he's at a
distinct pleasure eight thirty Every Tuesday, we are so lucky
to be joined by the livid Levigen coach Ken Molky,
head coach of your LSU women's basketball team, fresh off
of a MICHAELA. Williams home coming up there in the
three one eight, playing Gramblin, putting on and playing a
very good game, coach, saying for your time. There's a
lot to get into today, but I want to start
here because you said something that will tickle Jake's heart
all the way down to its icy little core.
Speaker 2: As you were talking about last week.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people seem to forget that
the three one eight is also a part of our
great state. What does it mean to you to bring
that area, you know, into the fold in the manner
that you did.
Speaker 7: Well, Good morning to you guys, And let me tell you,
three one eight showed out, showed up and showed out,
and we're over eight thousand people there, and of course
we didn't have bands or cheerleaders, and it was just
it was a shocking then for me. I don't know
what I thought. I know, back in the day when
I played at Tech, you couldn't get a ticket. But
it's been a long time since I have been to
the Bowser Streetport area, and I just have to get
it to all the people that it was a big deal.
Speaker 5: Oh that's great to hear, coach, And of course I
can appreciate the three one great love there and it
was great scenes and I love what you told us,
you know, a couple of weeks ago. Like you know
your players, you want to try to give them the
opportunity to go back home and to be celebrated like that.
It certainly looked like it was a great celebration on
the court, I believe, I mean high school jersey retired.
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken, well.
Speaker 7: Let me tay. It was a beautiful sight. Before the game,
Mikayla and at and T, one of her nil deals,
presented a ten thousand dollars check. Wow to the trainers.
She has trainers up there that have a gym and
work out young people and that's what they do for
a living. And to watch her be able to give
them a big check prior to the game was touching.
And then Parkway coach and principal and everybody affiliated with
Parkway presented her jersey to her and retired her jersey.
So it was a great day from Mikayla. It was
a great day from North Louisiana and certainly for our
program in LSU.
Speaker 3: What about you, coach, I mean you spent a lot
of time up there, right, I mean that's that's where
it all got started, that's where your kids were born.
How was it for you on a personal level to
get back.
Speaker 7: Well, unfortunately I did not get to visit with everybody
that came from Ruston and Arcadia and Monroe, and there
was too there was too many people. When the game
was over, I couldn't get off the floor because people
just rushed the floor to touch our kids, to take pictures.
And thank goodness, LUSU police who travel with us prepared
ahead of time and made sure that we had accommodations
with all the state troopers. And let me tell you,
they treated us like royalty. I don't think we stopped
at a red light the entire time we were there.
Speaker 5: Coach, I can appreciate you with the deep out of Arcadia.
That's where my mom's family all lives. And you know,
I didn't know that a lot of people knew about Arcadia,
So I find about archive subtle drop there.
Speaker 2: Coach, Well, you need you need.
Speaker 7: To give T Bob a little history lesson about o'bonnie.
Speaker 2: Sir, Yeah, you go, I should know that was their
final destination, Bud. Oh, really, I don't know anything about
Bonning Clyde Axe.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, last one on kind of the patentry coach
here a little bit, but uh, in your post game
you were talking about your team and kind of the
you know, the Beatles sort of celebrity nature of it,
and how after games, you know, y'all will stay and
sign all of the autographs and and you know, go
the extra mile for the fans, and especially a game
like this where you have so many people getting to
get eyes on, uh, the team that normally are not
able to can you feel like do you feel can
you feel it in real time that you're kind of
inspiring that next generation? Like do you see like a
young girl who maybe looks to be like ten or
eleven go up to MICHAELA and get her autograph?
Speaker 2: And then like, what does that do to you when
you see that? You know?
Speaker 7: I have felt that guy since I got back to
LSU in South Louisiana. I felt like we were building
something that was so yearned for in this state. And
I don't I can't describe it. You have to just
really experience it. And I'm gonna give you other examples.
The night before we played, we had tons of LSU
people donors need us at Earnest and restaurant and we
stayed there three to four hours, certainly trying to get
money for nil. But yeah, those grown women, y'all, I
mean grown women like my age and older I should say,
not just grown women, old women. Okay, no, I'm season.
Just sit with me in a one on one setting
and speak and just how I've inspired them to be
a stronger woman. And just, Kim, you just have a
presence about you that makes everybody else strong. And you know, Okay,
I don't know what I do, but I am who
I am and there's nothing pretentious about us. And then
to have them come from Shree Sport and Stonewall and
Logan Sport and all that area to our games and
they sit there the other night to the bitter n
against Stamford and then had to drive back to Once Louisiana.
So I have no sympathy for those that live in
Baton Rouge and left the last thirty seconds of that game.
Those women stay to the bitter end. And then you
go to the game and you watch all these people
turn out for MICHAELA. Williams and LSU and then flood
the court and go into the bus and it's raining
and these people stay in and at the locked gate
screaming at you, And yeah, you do realize what's going on,
and you don't take it for granted, and you go
over there and you sign that autograph and take that
picture because it's not gonna last forever.
Speaker 2: Coach, you mentioned the Stanford game, and I forgot that.
Speaker 5: We haven't talked to you so and I want to
get into that, and I know it's in the rearview mirror,
but we talked you on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: That game happens on Thursday.
Speaker 5: Down five with twenty three seconds left, just the entire
really the second half of the fourth quarter, to put
your head down, to see your team go to work,
and you mentioned it like a slow starting team. You
mentioned that with us on Tuesday. It happened again on Thursday.
But there's never a quit in this team.
Speaker 2: I mean the too gritty to be pretty mentality that
y'all continue to have.
Speaker 7: What was that?
Speaker 2: Have you ever been in a situation like that?
Speaker 5: Down five, twenty three seconds your force overtime and then
you win it by six, Jake, I've never.
Speaker 7: Been down much. No, So to answer your question, I'm teasing,
I've been blessed. But that was a crazy game. First
of all, I used my last time out fairly early,
and I did it for this reason. We were spent,
we were exhausted, and time was running out, and I said,
if we're gonna make a move, kind of like I
did in the Virginia Tech game, it's fun of four.
I said, Gods, we gotta go now. It's gonna be
too late if we if we hold anything inside. And
I was just given them a little extra time right there,
get some water, taking deep breath. We got to go,
and they did. They just played their hearts out. They
made plays. Mikayla Williams was unbelievable, but so was Kaylen Gilbert.
And then you don't take tomorrow's contributions and Flage's contributions
were granted. What they did throughout the game, I've never
been a part of that, and honestly, I still can't
tell you what the hell happened. Flange's ability to make
the inbounds pass be a turnover might have been the
play of the game. We ran a play to get
Gilbert to three. We call it backwards, And if you
go back and look at the game, I had a
freshman in at point guard because Shy Wilson had tweaked
her ankles that took her out in that moment. So
we executed that got the three out of it. And
people think that was a desperation three. No, that was
a playing three. Gilbert shoots like that. And then the
last play, honestly was for Gilbert to tie it. I
told him, we're not going for the win, We're going
for the tie. We'll beat them in overtime. Come on, guys,
and it was supposed to be you'll appreciate this shake.
It's supposed to be a handoff like you give to
a running back in football. You throw the ball to
Mikayla and then you get in a dead sprint, get
a handoff, lay it up. Well, they fumbled it. Well,
we had gone over that in the time out. I said,
if you can't get a clean handoffmorrow, you go set
a screen for Mikayla Valine junction. But Michayla didn't wait
for the screen. She just elevated and shot it and
made it well.
Speaker 3: And Coach, this is why I love your postgame. I
love hearing you talk because the level of insight that
you give into your thinking and how you arrive at
these strategic decisions, you don't get it very often. And
one of my favorite things that you're speaking on.
Speaker 2: Is having to go small, and you know you don't
practice it a lot.
Speaker 3: You don't necessarily like that, and so when you don't
practice it well, then you have to keep things simple
because if you try to do too much, you ever complated.
Speaker 2: That's some mistakes happened when you're having to kind of
improv on the fly.
Speaker 3: Did you have any idea that that maybe was going
to be in the cards tonight or is that just
full improvisation, Like, here's what I'm feeling in my gut
with all my experience.
Speaker 7: The beginning of the season, you kind of talk in
staff meetings and say, guys, were our best team may
be our small lineup, and at that moment you just
make sure you've got that in your bag. But we
don't go to practice and practice with the small lineup enough.
What we do put them in situations and talk to
them about if we do go small. What keeps you
from going small? At this level, most everybody you play
is gonna have huge post players, so you end up
getting killed on the board. You can go small when
you've playing a team that's your size in the paint area,
and Gramlin was and Stamford was in the last few
games we've played. I did not think that I would
have to go small that early and basically do it
for the entire game. So it wasn't like we weren't prepared,
but we really, we really have not had to do
it that much. And I thought we did it admirably.
And the reason it did it is we couldn't guard
Stanford with our bigs.
Speaker 5: The other night, coach, I want to ask you about
the next game coming up on the fifteenth, and so
you mentioned, you know, in the Stanford game you can
kind of tell Okay, you know they're pretty tired here,
let me call this time out.
Speaker 2: Let's get going, and you certainly did.
Speaker 5: Then you travel up to Shreeport for a game against Grambling,
like we've talked about. So since you don't have a
game coming up to the fifteenth, do you change the
schedule a little bit, maybe give a little bit extra
rest even though it is earlier in the season, just
because your team has traveled a ton already.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you look at the schedule ahead of time. We're
not allowed to play games during finals week, so we're
off all this week, and so I want to say off.
I mean, we can't schedule a game, but practice wise,
we did not practice yesterday. We will not practice today.
I'll jump a plane here this afternoon with some of
my coaches and go see one of our son he's
in Iowa, and we have a lunch in the day,
my monthly lunch, and there'll be five hundred people there
at the Crown Plaza. Some While the girls have the
day off, we continue to work and we will practice
early tomorrow morning because the temac will be available at
that time, and practice Thursday. Some of them have more
finals on Friday. Give them Friday off, practice Saturday, and
they get ready to play Sunday.
Speaker 2: Coaches, you, LSU Football's play an their bowl game.
Speaker 7: I've heard it. It's called them kill must ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the musketball.
Speaker 3: Let's go, dude, LSU Baylor. Uh, there's no way you
go to the game, right. I haven't even checked the schedule.
I don't even know when the Texas Bowl is.
Speaker 2: But but how are you? How are you? Yeah? Thirty?
Speaker 3: First are how we feel about it? How a little
little little swirling emotions in the heart there?
Speaker 7: Well, listen, my paycheck is signed, I LA and I
don't think there's any emotion. And I think people want
to make something out of it because I left Baylor
in a dynasty. And I'll tell everybody, Uh, I didn't
leave Baylor. I love Baylor, loved the people, still have
life upon friends. It was just my calling to come
back here the LSU home, and I was blessed that
I'm one of those coaches that's never been fired and
where I've moved in my life, it's been by my
own choice. Now at the end of the day, had
damn it, they better go win.
Speaker 2: The ball game. I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent. Uh that paycheck life. That
doesn't remind me of my old man too. Sheesh, y'all
are very similar to just absolute badasses. Uh, coach, you're
the best. Thank you so much for joining us every Tuesday.
I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas season. Congrats the
trip to the three one eight. It was great for
everybody involved. And Uh, we'll we'll, we'll.
Speaker 2: Talk to you next week.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 7: You want to know what I'm doing. I must like
you two guys. I'm glad y'all are a lot younger
than me and you're married and you have children. Because
I might flirt with you a little more out in
this rainy weather, walking to get my exercise so I
can eat another day. Hell behave yourself, you two.
Speaker 3: Hey, coach, you're welcome to flirt me anytime too. Okay,
I don't care about my wife. That's fine, she's fine.
You know who cares.
Speaker 2: Let me know. Um oh, I feel a little. I'm
gonna take that one. I'm gonna take that one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be very happy that coach Molgy said she
wants to flirt with us like that's a certified dub
for tm O t B. Okay, Murphy, Sam and Jody
and you flirt with y'all game, flirt with y'all.
Speaker 2: You punks.
Speaker 5: God, E've been on fire lately, though, I really have.
Look she had me at Arcadia stone Wall Logan Sport.
I mean she's still had some deep cut three. I
got Ken and Stonewall now.
Speaker 2: B Yeah, I got and uncle him some whall, don't
I I didn't know that? Yeah? Yeah, uncle board, I'll
say yeah, I fell board Peterson boy.
Speaker 5: So I love every every part of it. You know,
my grandma's name is her mother, Gwyneth Nice. Yeah, your
mom's mom is still listening through one eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So yeah, shut out.
Speaker 5: Arcadia was the final spot of Bonnie and Clyde. They
had the Bonnie and Clyde Trade trade days there. It's like,
you know, the last weekend of every month or something
like that. Uh, I don't have the museum there.
Speaker 2: I actually know nothing about Bonnie and Clyde, nothing at all. Yeah. Nothing.
You haven't seen the Netflix movie with I know there's
like a million movie I've never seen any of them.
The Highwayman, A lot of that was actually shot in
downtown Hammond. Wasn't okay bringing back the film text.
Speaker 7: Got it.
Speaker 2: We were trying to change the city and y'all just
keeping this. We were in college.
Speaker 4: A lot of the kids were trying to get like
cass as extras so they could like Miss Claus and
stuff because it was like ready, it was like two
miles from Southeastern's campus.
Speaker 2: All right, so we gotta go. It's gonna be very
quick on the back end. But you know, I'm never
gonna cut Coach Mulgi short. I could talk to you
for hours.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, wrapping up our two.
Speaker 7: Be off the bench.
Speaker 2: This boom boom, boom boo.
Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the bench with Esther and T Bob.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I full disclosure.
Speaker 3: I always thought Bonnie and Clyde were two lesbians, So
learn something new every day.
Speaker 6: I just don't get how you think Clyde.
Speaker 2: Is a girl. I don't know. I don't know. Did
did they get shot up in a convertible or something?
Speaker 6: I don't think it contible.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I don't know. It doesn't matter what
kind of car. Do I have any idea? I have
no idea about Bonnie Clyde. It doesn't matter what kind
of car. Yes, that is a long time ago.
Speaker 6: I don't know how there's so many pop culture references
to Bonnie and Clyde. I don't know how this is like.
Speaker 2: Well that time.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's how I think I've gotten all of,
like any knowledge that I have about it. Well, like
there's always two women. Shout out Arcadia, miss, shout out Zuckerberg.
Speaker 2: How about it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, shout out my man bringing the two point five
billion dollar data center to West Slitiana.
Speaker 2: Canna help?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: So, it's gonna house data servers, it's gonna how it's
gonna create thousands of direct and indirect construction jobs.
Speaker 2: A couple of four hundred.
Speaker 3: And fifty thousand square foot buildings show me the first
time by the twenty five second done by the twenty six.
Future phases could triple the size of the operations and
even lead potentially the construction of a power plant to
meet the utility needs of the operation.
Speaker 6: There we go, guys, I'm about to send a picture
of the Bonnie and Clyde carr in the group chat.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe.
Speaker 6: Because they shut that thing up.
Speaker 3: Specialized AI data centers, sometimes called quote AI factories, provide
the infrastructure to help train AI systems and algorithms deliver
insights on them.
Speaker 2: There you go, guys, What Louisiana at the forefront of
the A Revolution did y'all see the quantum computing stuff yesterday?
We'll get to it next door, off the bench.