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Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: I'll start to you want to present off the bench.

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Speaker 1: This is what we have been waiting for.

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Speaker 4: The hype is over.

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Speaker 3: Off the bench.

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Speaker 5: I got to come off the fitch.

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Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hesser.

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Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in SEC spring meetings. Here in Destin, Florida.

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We have got LSU women's head basketball coach Kim Mulkey

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here with is coach.

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Speaker 4: It is always a pleasure. We appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to be here.

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Speaker 7: I wish I didn't have these high heels on and

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I was in flip flops and on that beach out there.

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But I'll come back with my family later in the summer.

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Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, coach. What spring meeting is this for you

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and your coaching?

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Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you I'm much rather be in Destined

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because that's my vacation of choice. But when I was

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in the Big twelve all those years we would go

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to the Broad Morn Colorado springs and places. Well, I'm

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not a golfer, right, so anything with a beach and

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uh and water.

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Speaker 2: I'm more I'm more in to.

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Speaker 6: And how much have the the you know things on

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the agenda, the bullet points changed. I guess over the

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years because it feels like we've been really about four years.

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It's been so much about NIL and transfer portal, where

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same when you were at Baylor and other places, but

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now it's it's kind of been just heavy in IL

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and transfer portal.

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Speaker 7: It is, and you know, every year you talk about

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the same stuff and that kind of becomes boring. You

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talk about referees, you talk about game schedules, you talk

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about non conference skal, you know, all the same stuff.

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But what is really transpired now is that we have

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these meetings and we're really waiting in the unknown. We're

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waiting for a judge to have a ruling. It's it's

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kind of like you're building the ship as you're on

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the water.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 7: It's it's crazy because it's like things could change and

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level out next year. But then it's we're talking about

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things that we think are going to happen, and then

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what if they don't.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 6: Does it give you any peace of mind that it

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is the SEC? You do have Commissioner Greg Sanky, So

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no matter what it looks like that the SEC will

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probably get the best of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, what's our saying?

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Speaker 7: It just means more right, And having been in the

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Big Twelve that I didn't think much of that.

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Speaker 2: You're focused on your league.

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Speaker 7: But now being in this league with the addition of

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OU in Texas, it really does. It's like, Sankie, You're

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sitting there and he's got to make tough decisions. He's

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got to address things with each institution to try to

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have a collective hole that we all follow the same rules.

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And I think, gosh, she's got to be one smart dude,

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or he's got a lot of smart people around him

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because he has to fix a lot of things and

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he has to make tough decisions. And I just I've

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enjoyed being in this league. Enjoyed the listening ears, I've

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enjoyed the competition. I've enjoyed the great coaches. I've enjoyed

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meeting coaches in football and men's basketball that I've watched

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from AFAR and now I can say I know them

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because of SEC.

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Speaker 2: Meetings every year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no question about it.

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Speaker 6: What would you say, coach, is maybe the one thing

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this year that maybe you had the most discussions about

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in those rooms, Like was there one major topic that

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y'all continued to come back to.

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Speaker 7: Very a very heartfelt conversation was revenue share. And I

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think the message and we just shared it with the

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athletic directors is.

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Speaker 2: We keep here in.

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Speaker 7: Seventy five for football, fifteen for men's basketball, five for

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women's basketball. And then you realized after meeting these last

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couple of days, not everybody's getting five percent shared in

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women's basketball. And so while we're competitors and we only

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think about ourselves, and let me get what I can

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get from LSU, and LSU does take tremendous care of

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my program. I do have a heart for those who

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how are you going to compete with the LSUS in

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the South Carolinas and the Texas who have been to

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final fours and one national championships and probably are getting more.

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Speaker 2: You do want.

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Speaker 7: The conference to do good, And I then sympathize with

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the athletic directors. They're looking at the bottom line, you know,

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the final results of money, and you can't do that

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in women's sports. You cannot do that. I've said it

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many times. So you guys on you and T Bob

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on the radio, No women's sport makes money none and

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so you have to see value in them. You have

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to see those sold out arenas, you have to see

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those television appearances, those championships, because you can't put a dollar.

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Speaker 2: Value on that.

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Speaker 4: It is something coach.

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Speaker 6: It's a great point that we don't talk about, like you know,

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the pmacs going to have thousands of fans when your

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Speaker 4: That's not just the case everywhere. And so when you're

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Speaker 6: Percentages, well, LSU's gonna do whatever they can to keep

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that going right. They're going to make sure that you're

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taken care of. But it's something we don't talk about.

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It's not going to be the case everywhere, and those

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those teams and those programs are going to have steep challenges.

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Speaker 7: And as I said, we all are competing against each other.

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institutions in this conference and we want to always be

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able to say to the other conferences it does mean

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more in the SEC. And if we don't have everybody

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getting to the NCAA tournament and doing good because they

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can't get their players that require a little bit more

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money's it hurts all of us in the League. And

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but two teams this year. I can remember when I

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got in the league, we weren't that good in men's basketball.

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 7: Well, don't allow women's basketball to lose what they have gone.

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and playing, women's basketball is as high rated as.

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Speaker 2: It can ever be.

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Speaker 7: So let's don't lose that and we slip and then

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and we've lost that.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great point to me right now, your

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viewership in the arenas, and I've told you this on

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the radio. I mean, I've got five kids, but I've

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got four boys, and there's nothing more they enjoy than

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going to the PMC and watching your team play.

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, I have one of each too. And

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my son is like your boys. He grew up watching

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some of the greatest women's basketball and he can't sit

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there and go, well, they're just girls. No, he grew

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up playing against those just girls. And he has a

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great respect. Having played baseball at LSU, he just has

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great respect for the highest level of women's basketball, and

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Speaker 2: To stay there.

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Speaker 7: And as I said, I'm spoiled at LSU, But I

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hope spoiled is not the word. I hope the product

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we have given them in a short period of time

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is a return on their investments.

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Speaker 6: Right, new players probably coming in probably literally like right now.

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Speaker 2: Well they did this past weekend.

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Speaker 7: So my coaching staff, we moved in freshmen and transfers.

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for workouts in the summer because some are doing USA

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Speaker 2: A long season.

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Speaker 7: So what I do, as I tell them, you can

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slower pace in the summer, take a class or two,

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our strength and conditioning coach. So several of them chose

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group you've got coming in. Coach through freshmen in high

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school recruiting, which I know is very important to you.

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profile transfers as well.

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Speaker 7: Listen, they all look good on paper, right, but the

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transfers have proven themselves at other institutions, So we know

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what the transfers are capable of doing. What you don't

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don't put too much pressure on them. Let them find

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themselves and their role within our program and get them here.

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play that we have. We think we'll have outstanding perimeter

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play this year. What we don't know is we have

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Speaker 6: Last one coach, because you know, I got to get

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a baseball question and with you, LSU Regional, Will you

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be in the box? Will you be supporting the Tigers

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because you know baseball as well as anybody that I know.

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Speaker 2: I plan to be there.

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Speaker 7: I'm waiting for my grandchildren to come in Saturday for

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my camp which starts Monday, and I'm babysitting them all

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Speaker 2: Do want to take them there.

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Speaker 7: I'm familiar with Dallas Baptists, having been in Waco, Texas

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for twenty four years. Even have some friends who have

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children that play for Dallas Baptists. Not anybody else in

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the regional that I know of right now, But I

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do love baseball. I love the playoffs in any sport

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because I think it's just taking up a whole notch

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offensively and defensively, like the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I'll watch it.

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Speaker 2: Right now, but I wouldn't probably.

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Speaker 7: Watch it during the season because they play so many games. Yeah,

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people just tend to take it up a notch when

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it's playoffs, and I.

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Speaker 7: I know it'll be exciting, and we gotta do it

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so that we can get a super regional in Baton

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Speaker 2: Jay's just really had a good year.

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Speaker 4: Coach, you're the best. Truly appreciate time.

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Speaker 6: I know you've got a lot going on back home,

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trying to get back home, so I appreciate the sit down.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome, big guy.

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Speaker 6: All right, there she is LSU coach Kim Mulkey will

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Speaker 8: Welcome back in off the bench? Is that right?

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Speaker 9: There was Jacob Hesser with LSU women's basketball coach Kim Maulkey.

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I got to say the SEC just continues to beat

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the Big Twelve because the beginning of that interview, Coach

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Maulkey about you know what's it like being in Destined

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for the SEC spring meetings and coach said, well, you know,

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when we were in the Big Twelve, we would usually

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go somewhere like Colorado Springs. I'm sure Colorado Springs is lovely.

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My sister in law used to live right outside of

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Colorado Springs life says it's a great place. But this

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is spring meetings and there's nothing better than being at

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Destin on the beach for SEC spring meetings. And that's

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why the SEC is the best conference in all of

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collegiate sports. Stay winning SEC. Excellent location for those spring meetings.

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video interview with Paul Finebaum yesterday and Jay got him

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bit later in the show. But like they got the

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job there on the location for SEC spring meetings. All right,

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put up an article kind of mentioning, you know, his

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notes from OTA's his biggest takeaway so far during the

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media portion availability if you will of practice. Media actually

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expected to be present again today at OTAs as the

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Saints are in their second week of offseason workouts. But

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Ross kind of put out heading into today, put this

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up yesterday of things he wants. What's to keep an

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eye one out there at Saints camp. We'll break it

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all down next here on Off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Off the Bench.

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of things they're doing here in May that we definitely

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want to tell you about. They are growing their Baton

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So you do have some time left, right, You still

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got about a week left and they're gonna announce a

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to off the Bench. I didn't mean it

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when I said I didn't love it, so I should

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have hell, I said I never should have let you go.

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Speaker 2: Didn't nothing.

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Speaker 3: I was stupid, I was foolish. I was learned to myself.

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Speaker 2: I could no father that I would ever be with it.

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Speaker 4: You know, never imagine.

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Speaker 3: That, said Hubsrsel. Because I didn't know you, because I

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didn't know me, would gonna know everything.

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Speaker 6: I never.

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Speaker 4: I'm a feeling now that I don't hear you because

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I don't have a child.

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Speaker 2: Back in.

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Speaker 9: Number two Thursday edition of off the bench. So we're

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just vibing there, just vibing there into the ball music.

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Nice nice vibes here on a Thursday. Okay, guys, I

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want your honest opinions. Don't have to worry about that

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with the laundry, Jordan, you might be a little bit

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too nice.

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Speaker 8: What do we think?

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Speaker 2: Shirt?

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Speaker 8: Is the shirt of yay or what do we what

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do we think?

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Speaker 4: I can't really like see, like I need to get

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up close.

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Speaker 9: Because I can't what somebody was asking about the designs

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are so yes, are not comprehending what that is? It

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almost like so any any like white you see it

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looks like a sketch drawing of people, whether it's like

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men women like dressed up you have, Yeah, I don't

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really And it's got like New Orleans stuff. So on

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their website it's called men's second line shirt. On the

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back it says French quarter second line. But it's it's

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pretty much this pattern all over. It's got like the

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sparkle here and.

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Speaker 2: You need to get glasses. I literally could not make.

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Speaker 8: Out what it's.

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Speaker 9: It's it's hard especially here like it you know what

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it looks like right here on this camera.

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Speaker 8: This one's a little bit brighter than the other one.

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Speaker 9: It looks like one of those seventies like Saved by

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the Belt type vibes when you just see like all

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the bright colors.

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Speaker 8: That's kind of what it looks like here.

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Speaker 2: But I don't hate it.

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Speaker 10: It looks like a comic book. Like it's very like

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I told you when you came out of the bathroom,

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was like very tea boy desk.

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Speaker 1: Like hate it, but you never wear stuff like that,

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So it.

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Speaker 10: Looks a little I don't a little outward worldly, but

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like it's not bad. Honestly. You just got to get

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the chest hair. You get some chest hair with it,

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it'll make it.

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Speaker 8: The buttons you can turn that camera bright.

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Speaker 4: We don't have.

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Speaker 1: We don't.

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Speaker 8: We don't have the t BAF. But we got a

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little bit on a little bit. Yeah yeah you got blonde.

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Speaker 10: Yeah how did your face get tam but your chest

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in it?

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Speaker 9: Because here here's what happened first day and a half.

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I mean we were swim trunks and nothing else right,

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typical beat you tied. Well, I felt myself getting a

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little red, and I was like, I don't want to burn,

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so I wore the sleeveless shirt so it got basically

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here down, which is why the arms look a lot

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more tan, and.

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Speaker 8: Then left the face.

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Speaker 9: So I basically alternated every other day after like the

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first day and a half. So it's a little bit

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look whatever, okay, wondering when when the shirts on the

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tai looks even Hey, that that's all I care about.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but also it's day one of the shirts.

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It's gonna take time, its time they won it looked.

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Speaker 8: It looked better in the dark brown shirt for sure.

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For sure, no.

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Speaker 10: Dark brown was ups vibes. Now you're like, now, I

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ain't gonna lie. It's like it's very t Bob. It's

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just his T Bob shirt. So it's like so t Bob,

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Like when I look at that, that's I can see

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T Bob having a rotation of just shirts just like that. Literally,

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he literally has a rotation of shirts just like that.

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Speaker 9: I mean, this was purchased four like he just gave

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it to me because it didn't fit it like this,

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this is t Bo.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy because he lost all out.

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Speaker 8: Of weight because when he when he told me, ye,

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T Bob's.

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Speaker 9: Still like like yeah, like I imagine Bob's still in

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an XL.

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Speaker 8: This is a medium.

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Speaker 3: Put a small T shirt on and it was like.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so during break deering break, I'm just sitting here

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like this, you know, like just hand on the chin

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and I could feel it like right in here, like

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the shirt is shirt getting a little tight, like right

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in here. There's no way this would fit. Absolutely not.

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But when he texted me two weeks ago, he's like, hey,

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I have a Queen of Sparkle shirt.

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Speaker 8: Do you want it?

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Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, sure, did not know what it

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looked like, like.

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Speaker 10: With some give you a shirt, you got to know

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some type of it ain't just some regular T shirt

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you finna get.

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Speaker 9: So the jeans though, like I got the no he

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didn't give me. She was saying, like, make it work

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with jeans. I wasn't planning on wearing this today. I

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would do it with a darker jean since the shirts

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so bright. I got the lighter jean on today.

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Speaker 8: But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Go to Miami, you gotta get a live.

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Speaker 8: I look like I'm at SEC Spring Meetings. Is where

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it looks like, yeah, this is an SEC. This is

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an SEC Spring meeting shirt.

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Speaker 1: Good professional move right there?

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Speaker 7: For sure, you look like you're about to go enjoy

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a night at splash.

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Speaker 10: Well, look and get get nice and lubricated, or like

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you're going to a drag brunch?

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Speaker 1: What what? Family? You hate family? You hate it, you can't.

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Speaker 10: You despise everybody sitting at the table with But you

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got to keep a nice straight face.

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Speaker 1: Like, hey guys, what's going on? Love you guys.

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Speaker 9: But it's a really good impression of me, really good.

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That is probably the best you try to do the

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Sometimes you try to do the Taylor impression. Uh when

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you're when you're doing the intro at hour, that one

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there just.

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Speaker 8: You know, just chef's kid. That was perfect.

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Speaker 1: Shout out with Chef Michael Johnson.

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Speaker 9: Speaking of Chef Michael Johnson coming on our number three

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we'll have we'll have chef coming on for our normal

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munchie segment at nine to fifteen. We will have a

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big deal, a new big deal at nine am. Right now,

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the a few minutes before we get to the Brian

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Kelly interview, which we will do after this upcoming break.

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Ross Jackson at louisianasports dot Net put out his biggest

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takeaways for the Saints at OTAs. Whether it's you know

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the quarterback competition, what the rotation is going to look

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like on the lines of scrimmage or receivers, everything like that.

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Want to dive into that a little bit. He has

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a good write up of it where he goes way

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into detail up on Louisiana Sports dot Net.

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Speaker 8: You can see it there.

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Speaker 9: And he mentioned that when he was out there during

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the media viewing portion, it was the first media practice,

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it was easy to call Spencer Ratler the front runner

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of this quarterback competition. You know, there's no surprise Rattler's

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been in the NFL for a year. Ratler actually completed

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all eight of his seven on seven passes. Now, that

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doesn't mean that Tyler Schuck was bad. He said it

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was six or seven of the eight passes that Tyler

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Schuck threw he completed as well. So you like to

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see that. It's not like, oh, they were both bad,

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Spencer Ratler just sucked a little bit less. No, they

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actually both did a really nice job. But look, when

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it comes to the Saints quarterback situation, we talked about

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Jay Cayner earlier this week with that oblique injury, and

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we kind of thought he was the third guy in

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line for that job. Anyways, Well, with that oblique injury.

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I mean, watch out for one hundred Deckers. He's the

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undrafted free agent. He was actually a tryout player. He

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wasn't even an undrafted free agent that came to camp.

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They kept him on after that first week with those

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tryout players. He's from Iowa Western, but he's not a

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normal Iowa Western quarterback. So he was at Iowa State

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for three seasons twenty twenty, twenty one, and twenty two.

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Was one of the highest rated quarterback recruits ever in

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the history of Iowa State football.

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Speaker 8: Played sparingly his first two years.

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Speaker 9: In twenty twenty two, he takes over as the full

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time starter, and he wasn't bad sixty six percent completion

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over three thousand yards now, nineteen touchdowns, fourteen interceptions.

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Speaker 8: But it was his first year as a starter.

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Speaker 9: If you remember the sports betting scandal that came out

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with Iowa players and i with State players, it was

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kind of that whole state Hunter Deckers was one of

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those guys involved when he was a quarterback at Iowa State.

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So you know, he leaves the team, he goes to

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Iowa Western, and if Iowa Western in last season, sixty

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four percent of his passes three eight hundred yards, thirty

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two touchdowns, just ten interceptions, and uh, he can run

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a little bit as well.

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Speaker 8: He's a big guy. He's about sixty.

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Speaker 9: Three, He's around two hundred and twenty two hundred and

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twenty five pounds.

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Speaker 8: He's a talented guy.

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Speaker 9: I'm not saying hundred Decker is going to come in

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and challenge Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shack for a starting position.

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Speaker 8: That's not going to happen.

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Speaker 9: They've invested too much into Tyler Shock and Spencer Rattler

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has been here for a year already. What I am

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saying is that if that oblique injury turns out to

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be more than just a few weeks setback for Jay Cayner,

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one hundred Deckers could make this team. There's a lot

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of buzz around him right now coming out of training camp.

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The next position that Nick wanted to or that ross

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excuse me wanted to highlight was the starting offensive line.

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So we've talked a lot about Trevor Pinning during the

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first couple of days of OTA's moving from right tackle,

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where he played last year, to that left guard spot. Well,

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it's been Kelvin Banks at left tackle. Most kind of

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expected that Pinning at left guard, McCoy and Ruiz at

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center and right guard. Everyone expected that, telling us a Fuaga,

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who was your starting left tackle a year ago moving

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to right tackle, which was his dominant position that he

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played in college. He played a lot more right tackle

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than left tackle. If you remember when they drafted Fuaga.

480
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A big reason why me and a lot of other

481
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people wanted that to be the draft pick was because

482
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of his versatility. He could play on the left side,

483
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he could play on the right side, he could play

484
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guard and tackle. They've moved him back over to right

485
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where he's apparently more comfortable, even though I thought he

486
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was good at left. But Kelvin Bank's that more pure

487
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left tackle. So that's kind of your starting OH line.

488
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But the Saints have a chance to actually have some

489
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decent depth on the offensive line. You brought in Dylan

490
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Radunes from the Tennessee Titans, who a lot of people

491
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thought was going to be that starter at left of guard.

492
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But moving Pinning over there, maybe Raduones is a good

493
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rotational piece, a good swing guard. Will Clap is currently

494
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on the roster. He could play center guard. Nick Saldeveri

495
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can play guard. He's currently still on this roster. Landon

496
00:23:18,039 --> 00:23:20,279
Young has played a lot of football for this team,

497
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left tackle, right tackle. He's kind of been your plug

498
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,720
and play guy. Anytime one of your starting tackles go down.

499
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He's still on that team. That's four guys that can

500
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make decent backups for you. Now they're not going to carry.

501
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I don't expect all nine of those guys to make

502
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the team. But you have options on the offensive line

503
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because Pinning can play tackle, will clap center guard, Landon

504
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Young as a tackle, Dylan Raduones can play either guard spot.

505
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All of a sudden, you have quality depth on the

506
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offensive line. If you're starting five that you have put

507
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together right now works out.

508
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Speaker 8: I actually like.

509
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Speaker 9: The pieces there a little bit more than I did,

510
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especially this time last year.

511
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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 9: He goes on to mention Brandon Staley's defense is as

513
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one of the things to look at, stand up edge rushers,

514
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changes in front coverages. We're gonna get more into that

515
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as the season gets closer. But sticking with the offense here,

516
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he mentioned Chris Olave and Rashid Shahid is two guys

517
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to keep an eye on, and it makes a lot

518
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of sense right both of them coming back from injuries

519
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,599
of that injury plagued receiving corps that you saw in

520
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,519
twenty twenty four. A lot of people have asked, oh,

521
00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:25,680
did this Where the Saints going to draft a receiver

522
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high in the draft.

523
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Speaker 8: They did not. Where are they going to sign a

524
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big name free agent? They did not.

525
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Speaker 9: I don't consider Brandon Cooks a big name free agent,

526
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but they did bring in Brandon Cooks. So is a

527
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Lave or Rashid a wide receiver one, No, but maybe

528
00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:44,480
they don't have to be. They're both quality receivers when

529
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they are fully healthy. You also added Brandon Cooks. He

530
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is passed thirty. He has a little bit past his prime,

531
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but he could still make a little bit happen. Now,

532
00:24:53,519 --> 00:24:55,599
his production did drop every year he was in Dallas,

533
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,640
but he dealt with some injuries as well. If he

534
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,319
can stay healthy, do you have a great receiving cord. No,

535
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,720
I'm not trying to say, oh, Tyler Shuke's gonna come

536
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,119
in here play in front of a really good.

537
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Speaker 8: Starting five on the offensive line. He's got studs on

538
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the outside.

539
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Speaker 9: No, that offensive line still has question marks because you

540
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,079
got a lot of new pieces and your receivers. Let's

541
00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:15,599
call it like it is, are below average. You don't

542
00:25:15,599 --> 00:25:18,119
have that bona fide wide receiver one, but maybe you

543
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,759
can have a decent group with a lave Rashid Shihed

544
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,359
and Brandon Cooks. Maybe that's enough to just help out

545
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,240
Tyler Schuck a tad. You're not gonna go out there

546
00:25:28,279 --> 00:25:30,480
and again give him the best weapons. I think this

547
00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:33,200
is actually one of the weaker wide receiver corps in

548
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the NFL.

549
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Speaker 8: You have Dante Pettis.

550
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Speaker 9: He is apparently working pretty high in the receiver rotation

551
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:40,599
at OTAs you signed him in the middle of the

552
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,720
year last year. You have Bubb Means, who you drafted

553
00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:48,119
a year ago. So you have pieces there, but they

554
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,160
all have to stay healthy. Again, you don't have that

555
00:25:50,279 --> 00:25:52,160
one dominant guy, so you got to make sure that

556
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,039
room's as healthy as possible so each receiver can complement

557
00:25:55,079 --> 00:25:59,079
the other. The last thing he gets into is the

558
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,480
cornerback spot. You have mckinstree, you have a Lante Taylor.

559
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:05,440
They are both back. You traded Marshaun Lottimore to the

560
00:26:05,519 --> 00:26:08,119
Washington Redskins halfway through the year. We know that, and

561
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you lost Pulsing a d Boat to the Giants in

562
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,079
the offseason. Mckintree, I think can lock down one of

563
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those spots. It's uncertain whether or not a Lante Taylor

564
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,279
can play that outside corner position just because he's played

565
00:26:19,319 --> 00:26:21,000
a lot more nickel in the NFL.

566
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Speaker 8: As he has as that boundary.

567
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,279
Speaker 9: Corner mckinrey can lock down one side, who could be

568
00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:28,759
on the other because my preference would be playing nickel

569
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:30,599
package pretty much all the time. That's kind of a

570
00:26:30,599 --> 00:26:33,359
base defense for a lot of people. Anyways, Keep Alonte

571
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,400
Taylor right there as a slot corner half kool Aid

572
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,119
mcentree on one side. Hopefully one of these younger guys

573
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,680
can stop up Vetteran Isaac Eaedam has taking the majority

574
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of the first team reps. But Quincy Riley's out there.

575
00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:48,599
Quincy Riley's going to battle Isaac Headam for that starting spot.

576
00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:50,759
When you look at Quincy Riley, he was a fourth

577
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,920
round pick, so the Saints, you know, spent pretty significant

578
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:55,079
draft capital on him.

579
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Speaker 8: Three years at Louisville.

580
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Speaker 9: Eight interceptions, one of them returned for a touchdown down

581
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,519
seventy four total tackles, Like he's got a little bit

582
00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:07,279
forced to fumble there as well. His numbers don't jump

583
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:11,839
off the page. But he's a solid receiver corner. He's

584
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,240
decent size for a rookie like that's a guy to

585
00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:16,079
keep an eye on it. I think the battle between

586
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,119
Iatom and Quincy Riley's going to tell you a lot.

587
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,119
If one of those guys can step up, you no

588
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,799
longer need Alonte Taylor to play out wide. I think

589
00:27:22,799 --> 00:27:25,440
if Alante Taylor is an outside corner, it's out of necessity,

590
00:27:25,519 --> 00:27:27,799
not because that's what's best for your defense. Because I

591
00:27:27,799 --> 00:27:29,920
think what's best for your defense is having a guy

592
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,920
like Alonte Taylor roaming in that nickel position because he's

593
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,160
been so good there at his time in New Orleans.

594
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,519
All Right, that's just a few things to kind of

595
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,440
highlight take a look at again. Media is supposed to

596
00:27:40,519 --> 00:27:43,599
have availability at OTAs today. I'm sure Ross will have

597
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,440
another updated ride up, but he put that out yesterday

598
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,519
on Louisiana Sports dot Net. Want to kind of to

599
00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:50,960
break it down a little bit, all right, we're going

600
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,960
to take a time out when we get back. We

601
00:27:53,039 --> 00:27:55,480
got another interview from our guy j Kester out there

602
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,720
at SEC spring meetings. He said he had to sit

603
00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:01,000
down with Brian Kelly about a six seven minute interview.

604
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,839
We'll play that here on the other side, on off

605
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:03,240
the bench.

606
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Speaker 4: Off the bench, go to go Tommy's dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, that's a bad picture.

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Speaker 6: You know that they win the Angies Award every single year,

610
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but that's not the only award that they win.

611
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Speaker 4: I mean Best of Baton Rouge.

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Speaker 6: Winner Tommy's Windows Doors Insiding voted best window company in

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the Advocate Best window Company.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot that advertise, you know, throughout this region.

616
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Like we get that, there's a lot that you see

617
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across town. But you know what best means. It means

618
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the top one, the one that nobody else can compare to.

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And that's exactly what you're gonna get with Tommy's Windows,

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Speaker 4: That is Go Tommy's dot Com.

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Speaker 3: This is off the bench.

624
00:29:16,119 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 4: Mom. We'll do an Oklahoma Drill Coach to see which show.

625
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:23,119
Speaker 5: Okay, listen, I gotta do him every Monday, Okay, true penance.

626
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, we're rolling three two one.

627
00:29:31,119 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 11: Johnny goes right now in SEC Spring meetings a head

628
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,279
coach the l s U Fighting Tigers coach Brian Kelly,

629
00:29:36,279 --> 00:29:39,039
alongside Chris dor and Jacob Pastor, I and Peter Burns

630
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and BK. You got to be upset because all the guys,

631
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:43,000
all the sponsors here at spring meetings. You're ever ready

632
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,799
go play golf right now and you gotta go do

633
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:45,359
fine bomb?

634
00:29:45,599 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 5: Is that a golf Yeah? I mean that's much more

635
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,319
important than golf, right, I.

636
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 4: Mean, yes, I didn't.

637
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Speaker 5: I didn't get a laugh from I didn't get a

638
00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:53,119
laugh from anybody.

639
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 11: You see interview with him yesterday, Plane just absolutely ripped

640
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,000
him and so it was so awkward and.

641
00:30:01,039 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 5: Laying is he can do funny things. Let's put it

642
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:05,319
that way.

643
00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 11: What what the hell did you learn this week?

644
00:30:08,319 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 4: Anything?

645
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: You know?

646
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,039
Speaker 4: I did learn a lot.

647
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:16,119
Speaker 5: One is that we think as football coaches that we

648
00:30:16,119 --> 00:30:19,400
we live in a vacuum. In other words, whatever we

649
00:30:19,559 --> 00:30:23,039
decide in our room is gospel. Then we get into

650
00:30:23,079 --> 00:30:27,440
the AD's room and it don't mean nothing because you

651
00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:29,720
really have to look at it from two perspectives. Right,

652
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,119
the coaches, we're thinking about progress, right, we're thinking about

653
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,000
transfer a portal and getting it into the right window.

654
00:30:37,039 --> 00:30:40,440
We're thinking about nil and how we can get some

655
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,359
clarity and some teeth to that, and then we're thinking

656
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,599
about revenue sharing and how we can get eighty five

657
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,519
or one hundred and five on our roster. Then we

658
00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:54,000
walk in there and they go, hey, look, we need revenue.

659
00:30:54,039 --> 00:30:57,519
We're giving you guys twenty million dollars. We need revenue.

660
00:30:57,599 --> 00:30:59,599
You need to play more games, you need to do

661
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,680
these things. And so it's a perspective, right that you

662
00:31:03,799 --> 00:31:07,400
gain that when you're sitting in that room. Those ads

663
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,039
have to think about the revenue piece as well. And

664
00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:12,480
it's not to try to put you in harm's way,

665
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,519
but the reality of it is, we're the third most

666
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:21,440
watched sports in the country. It's number one is the NFL,

667
00:31:21,799 --> 00:31:24,519
number two is the NBA, and number three is SEC football.

668
00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:29,079
I mean that's major. People want to watch teams from

669
00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:32,720
the SEC play and particular play each other. Right, So

670
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:36,880
it starts to put in perspective eight versus nine games, right,

671
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,680
it starts to put in perspective, hey, do you play

672
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:42,519
playing games? People want to watch the SEC play. And

673
00:31:42,519 --> 00:31:44,759
so then we go back into our room and we go,

674
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,440
how about we control what we can control I know

675
00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:50,839
that's a long answer to your question, coach, would it

676
00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:53,000
help if y'all had more meetings maybe together with the

677
00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:55,599
high football coaches and the ads, you just get more done.

678
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:56,599
Speaker 4: It's a great point.

679
00:31:56,759 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 5: We felt as a group that the New Orleans meetings

680
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,079
where it was the ads and the coaches meeting together,

681
00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:06,759
it was our most productive time that we've had. And

682
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:10,640
when you're split like this, like there's some important things

683
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,119
that are coming up on the window, the transfer portal

684
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,839
window that we haven't even got a chance to address

685
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:19,119
with them, and how important it is, it will change everything.

686
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,240
If we don't get that portal window in January, it

687
00:32:21,319 --> 00:32:22,079
changes everything.

688
00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:23,559
Speaker 4: You want one portal window, We.

689
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Speaker 5: Would like one. We will live with what we have

690
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,720
right now with a second because there's no sec transferring

691
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:30,640
in that second window.

692
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Speaker 4: We would live with that.

693
00:32:32,519 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 5: We would prefer one, and it needs to be in

694
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,920
January or the calendar just changes.

695
00:32:38,079 --> 00:32:40,039
Speaker 6: So Coach, then you don't know who your team is

696
00:32:40,079 --> 00:32:42,039
if you have no idea, We'll think of it this way.

697
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Speaker 5: Fiscally, you got guys that want to leave in May

698
00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:47,400
to a May portal, you got them on payroll for

699
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,200
three months. You might as well just throw it out

700
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,720
the window. You're burning through Monday. And so if we

701
00:32:51,759 --> 00:32:54,759
want to be fiscally responsible, you know, if we want

702
00:32:54,799 --> 00:32:57,519
to think about player safety and listen, any kid that

703
00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:59,359
wants to go, he wants to go in January.

704
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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to wait around kid.

705
00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 8: Exactly.

706
00:33:03,279 --> 00:33:06,039
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, well then that's the other side of it,

707
00:33:06,119 --> 00:33:08,240
right then you're going to be losing money and you're

708
00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:13,599
irresponsible fiscally. So I just again, I think being together

709
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,759
with the ads where we can really just say here's

710
00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:20,599
our issue, this is what we need, that's what we've learned.

711
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,960
I think we're making progress over perfection right now.

712
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Speaker 4: But it's real and it's a good thing.

713
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Speaker 12: I think the thing that I love the most about

714
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being here is seeing the camaraderie between all of you coaches.

715
00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:34,240
Everybody watches game days and going at each other, but

716
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you guys really do a lot of things together. And

717
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do you find it more open now about how different

718
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,079
coaches are doing things because of the challenges that you

719
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face and because of the uncertainty that you're willing and

720
00:33:48,279 --> 00:33:51,000
maybe because there's twelve playoff spots now too, you're not

721
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:54,599
fighting for just one. That your information sharing about things

722
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that you probably wouldn't have before.

723
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think all that's right.

724
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Speaker 5: I think first of all, there's a respect that we

725
00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:04,960
all have tough jobs, and we're all listen, we love

726
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our jobs, were paid way.

727
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Speaker 4: Too much money. All those things are true.

728
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Speaker 5: But I think there's a true respect for each other

729
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,119
in the way they do their job and the job

730
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that they have.

731
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Speaker 4: And then it's a it's a really good group.

732
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Speaker 5: There's nobody in there that that hasn't earned their opportunity

733
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to be there.

734
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Speaker 11: Five eleven those are two numbers that are starting to

735
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:28,480
pop up. Five automatic qualifiers eleven spots or four automatic

736
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qualifiers from a certain league.

737
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Speaker 4: Where do you feel the coaches stand five to eleven? Five?

738
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:39,679
Speaker 5: Well, I mean pretty obvious, right, I mean more automatics,

739
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:43,239
you know, and the opportunity to maybe even steal another one.

740
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,960
So I think that that's that's probably you know where

741
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all of our coaches are.

742
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Speaker 12: Are you afraid that the committee would limit that? Be

743
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,039
like say, all right, you're getting the five, we're not

744
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going to go above that.

745
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Speaker 5: No. Our concerns with the committee is in terms of

746
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,800
waiting your schedule. They look at just the right hand column,

747
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,039
and what that looks like a loss is a lot.

748
00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:07,880
Not all losses the same, and I know nobody wants

749
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to talk about losses, but the truth of the matter

750
00:35:10,079 --> 00:35:13,440
is losses are different, and I think we would rather

751
00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:18,960
see a cleaner understanding of the process. Look, when I

752
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000
went was that Notre Dame we played for the national

753
00:35:21,119 --> 00:35:24,519
championship against Alabama in twenty twelve. That was the computer.

754
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,119
It was all computer. Now we've moved very subjective. We're

755
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:31,280
over here. We need to move it back into the

756
00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:35,840
add some ratings. Bill Connley's got one the Massy Report.

757
00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,039
I mean, I know we can't do an RPI, but

758
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if we can do something that brings the selection process

759
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into a finer line.

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Speaker 4: We'd be in good shape.

761
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kaush, there has to be something because in basketball

762
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,920
we talk about quad one victories.

763
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,039
Speaker 13: In baseball we do talk about RPI. Softball RPI, that's

764
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a metric that we use and we have that. There

765
00:35:52,039 --> 00:35:54,639
has to be something that you can say, hey, I

766
00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:56,719
know this team lost, but they lost on the road

767
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:58,559
to this number ten team. They lost on the road

768
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to number four, and then at number you know, at

769
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home at number three is a tough loss.

770
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Speaker 5: Just look at the Indiana and the excuse me, the

771
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Indiana and Alabama. Analogy right, Alabama had eight wins against

772
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six plus win teams. Indiana had four and they lost

773
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to one that didn't you know what I mean of.

774
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Speaker 4: Less than six. So you got to balance it.

775
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,559
Speaker 5: You got to look at all losses are not the

776
00:36:21,599 --> 00:36:23,679
same and so there's got to be some kind of

777
00:36:23,679 --> 00:36:25,360
index in there. I know, what's hard to do, an

778
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,760
RPI because you know, our our number of games is

779
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,159
not big enough for you to get that index.

780
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Speaker 4: But we can do something. Yeah, it's fascinating.

781
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Speaker 11: Continues a role in these conversations are being had and

782
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hopefully you guys and the athletic directors and the head

783
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:40,199
coaches hang out a little bit more to kind of

784
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:41,599
solve that stuff. I know you got to run.

785
00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks guys, I appreciate it. You thanks for having coach.

786
00:36:44,599 --> 00:36:48,199
Speaker 11: Brian Kelly, coach LSU Tigers joining us SEC spring meetings.

787
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 9: There was Jacob Ester right there at SEC Spring meetings

788
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,199
with LSU had football coach Brian Kelly. They talked a

789
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,000
lot about, you know, the college Football Playoff Committee, the

790
00:36:59,519 --> 00:37:01,679
move to say sixteen team playoff. That has just been

791
00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:06,559
a topic that everyone has discussed. We'll kind of gonna

792
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,880
give you my my thoughts on that BK press conference

793
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:10,320
coming back on the other side of the break, But

794
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:12,599
the SEC coaches kind of seem to all be in

795
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:13,400
locksed up.

796
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:13,599
Speaker 8: You know.

797
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Speaker 9: I kind of broke down Sinky's comments yesterday about oh,

798
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our three teams got left out and two of them

799
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beat Georgia and you gotta have quality losses.

800
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Speaker 5: You kind of.

801
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Speaker 9: Echoed that, Cinnamon, and look, I mean, I can get

802
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:27,920
behind it. You have to do it's best for your conference,

803
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,360
but I still just don't quite know where they're getting this.

804
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,440
We'll kind of break that down next coming up here

805
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on off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to off the bench.

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Speaker 4: That one person that will always have your heart.

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Speaker 4: That shot that won for me.

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834
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Speaker 2: Don't know about Shaw, but I know what about us.

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Speaker 14: We do remember, girl, I was the one who gave

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you your first kiss.

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Speaker 4: Because I remember, girl, I was the one who.

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Speaker 2: Said, put your lips like this.

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Speaker 14: Even me, all the feeming people screaming your name, your

844
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love with can you wm up dab It's.

845
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Speaker 9: Not welcome back in Welcome back in final segment, hour

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number two. Here on a Thursday edition of Off the Bench,

847
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guys want to welcome a new member to the YouTube chat,

848
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:50,320
Island Taylor, who is taking a screenshot of me in

849
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the shirt and made it their profile picture. So shout

850
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,760
out Island Taylor. Good to have you in. Tell what

851
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,679
I'm gonna miss we're talking about this, Jordan. When T

852
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,559
bubb was leaving, like T bups chess there and T

853
00:40:03,679 --> 00:40:06,519
Bub's knee like they got to follow him to barstool.

854
00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:09,719
That's that's the only that's the only logical answer. But

855
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,519
I'm gonna miss T bumps chess there in the chest.

856
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Speaker 10: No man, shout out T Bob Chess there. Shout out

857
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,239
T Bob legg and I think it was like an elbow. Yeah,

858
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,840
shout out T Bob's knee. If they're still around, they rebranded.

859
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I I don't know where they're at.

860
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 9: Okay, you just heard Jacob Pesser's interview with Brian Kelly

861
00:40:28,039 --> 00:40:31,199
there at u SEC spring meetings. Now, obviously it's centered

862
00:40:31,199 --> 00:40:33,880
around the college football playoff, you know, moving to the

863
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,519
sixteen team playoff, the selection committee all that's kind of

864
00:40:36,519 --> 00:40:39,599
been the big topic of conversation over there at SEC

865
00:40:39,639 --> 00:40:42,559
Media Days Now. Yesterday I played an audio clip from

866
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:45,800
SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki of him talking about, you know,

867
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,599
it's almost more important to not lose now than to win.

868
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 8: Two of the three.

869
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 9: Teams they got left out of the College Football Playoff

870
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,360
in the SEC beat the University of Georgia and they

871
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,119
got penalized for playing a tough schedule.

872
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,679
Speaker 8: Cally's kind of echoed that sentiment, and.

873
00:41:00,599 --> 00:41:02,079
Speaker 9: Really a lot of coaches like, it's not just Kelly,

874
00:41:02,119 --> 00:41:04,360
it's not just sank Like they're all kind of in

875
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,599
lockstep about the College Football Playoffs selection committee and BK

876
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,559
when when asked about the selection committee, he brought up

877
00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:13,760
Alabama and he said, look, the University of Alabama had

878
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:18,039
eight wins against teams with six wins or more. Indiana

879
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,920
only had four wins over teams with six wins or

880
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,400
more and lost one of them. He went on to say,

881
00:41:24,519 --> 00:41:27,840
not all losses are the same, some are worse than others.

882
00:41:28,159 --> 00:41:30,760
I get that, and I get Sankie and Kelly and

883
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:33,239
whichever other coach you want to bring up. They they

884
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,400
kind of all have the same opinion on this, wanting

885
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,639
to boost your conference, wanting to do what you think

886
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,760
is best for the SEC. But I don't really know

887
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,039
why they're only looking at this one way. I mean,

888
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:45,519
I do know why they're looking at this one way,

889
00:41:45,599 --> 00:41:48,480
but I don't know how you can do that. Okay,

890
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:51,159
let's go back to Alabama's losses. Kelly says not all

891
00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:55,719
losses are created equal. I agree with that. Alabama, two

892
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,199
of their three losses are to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Combined,

893
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,519
Oklahoma and Vanderbilt had five SEC wins this year. Vanderbilt

894
00:42:03,559 --> 00:42:07,039
finished seven and six, Oklahoma finished six and seven, so

895
00:42:07,079 --> 00:42:10,440
that's a thirteen and thirteen combined record. Overall, Alabama lost

896
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,760
to two teams with a combined record of five hundred,

897
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,960
both of them losing records by multiple games in SEC play,

898
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,679
those are bad losses. The same thing with Ole Miss

899
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,079
Ole Miss is two of their SEC losses were Florida

900
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,400
in Kentucky. Kentucky went one in seven in the SEC.

901
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,119
Their only SEC win was against the Ole Miss Rebels,

902
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,039
and Florida went four and four, So that's five combined

903
00:42:36,199 --> 00:42:39,159
SEC wins between Florida and Kentucky.

904
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Speaker 8: I get it.

905
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:44,199
Speaker 9: Indiana's schedule was not tough they lost a bad game.

906
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:46,719
But we can't sit here and pretend that Alabama and

907
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,400
Ole Miss did not lose bad games.

908
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Speaker 8: They did.

909
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 9: Ole Miss had a good loss to LSU on the

910
00:42:52,519 --> 00:42:56,559
road in overtime. That's not a bad loss. You lose

911
00:42:56,599 --> 00:42:58,800
to Kentucky, Granted it was early in the season, but

912
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Kentucky's only SEC win. You lose to Florida. Now, Florida

913
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,559
was kind of hot when you played them. I get that,

914
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:07,280
But you can't lose games like that and make it

915
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to the College Football Playoff.

916
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 8: You cannot give up.

917
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,639
Speaker 9: If you're Alabama, you cannot give up forty points to

918
00:43:11,679 --> 00:43:15,119
a Vanderbilt and expect to get into the postseason. You

919
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:20,440
cannot get beat twenty four to three to Oklahoma. I mean,

920
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,599
at least when they allowed Vanderbilt to put up forty

921
00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:24,880
on him. It was forty to thirty five. The game

922
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:28,440
somewhat came down to the wire. You got steamrolled by

923
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,480
a bad Oklahoma football team that finished with a losing record.

924
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,599
Now it was on the road, but twenty four to

925
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:38,239
three didn't even score an offensive touchdown. Everyone tried to

926
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,599
hype up Jayala Millroe for two years. I never bought

927
00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:42,400
him too. The hype, but people tried to hype up

928
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,880
Jayala Molrow for two years. You had Ryan Williams, who

929
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:46,719
was one of the best receivers in the country last year,

930
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:50,440
and you couldn't score an offensive touchdown. You cannot make

931
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,199
the College Football Playoff with losses like that. I get

932
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:55,000
what Kelly's trying to do, I get what Greg Sankee's

933
00:43:55,039 --> 00:43:56,679
trying to do. I just can't get on board with

934
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,119
it because you can mention the bad loss for Indiana,

935
00:43:59,159 --> 00:44:01,800
you can mention you kind of snuck in. They lost

936
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,840
the conference championship the Clemson. They didn't deserve it either.

937
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,559
Did Alabama and Olt Miss really deserve to get into

938
00:44:09,599 --> 00:44:12,159
that College Roble playoff? Sure they both beat Georgia. Congratulations

939
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:18,360
Georgia didn't make it to the national championship. Everyone talked

940
00:44:18,679 --> 00:44:21,360
all season long and continuing into the offseason about how

941
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:26,320
bad Georgia's offensive weapons were, and then when they got

942
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,679
in the College Bable Playoff, you had Gunner Stockton Carson

943
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,519
Beck turned the ball over a lot last year. Like

944
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,840
Georgia in twenty twenty four, was not the Georgia we

945
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,760
had seen in the past five years. Like, no doubt

946
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,639
about it. On paper, that's a good win. But is

947
00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:39,320
that win alone enough to get you in the College

948
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:44,239
Fotball Playoff? I don't think so. Alabama beats LSU. LSU

949
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,840
goes nine to four, but that was during LSU's three

950
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,599
game skit. I mean they were as cold as anybody

951
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in the country during that game. No, I'm not saying

952
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if they would have played at a different point in

953
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the season, would the result have been any different. No,

954
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maybe it wouldn't have been quite as lopsided. But I mean,

955
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you gotta win over Georgia. You gotta win over LSU.

956
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Speaker 8: He beat.

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Speaker 9: What what else does Alabama have? There's not a ton

958
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of top fight wins there as well. Same with Little Miss.

959
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You beat Georgia. Okay, cool a South Carolina. South Carolina

960
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didn't have a bad loss. Your losses were to LSU

961
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at home by two points in a game or three

962
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points in a game that you should have won. I

963
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thought South Carolina should have won that game. They let

964
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that one slip away.

965
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Speaker 8: Ols.

966
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Speaker 9: You got lucky to come out of Columbia with a

967
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win that day and you lose. So you could say, okay,

968
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well they should have got in and they didn't have

969
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,480
a bad loss, but you lost to Alabama and Ole Miss,

970
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the other two teams that were in consideration. While South

971
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Carolina may have not had the bad losses, why I

972
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actually thought, out of those three teams, at the end

973
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of the year, South Carolina was playing the best out

974
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of the three. How could you justify putting in South

975
00:45:51,679 --> 00:45:54,800
Carolina overall Miss in Alabama that both have a head

976
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to head over South Carolina. There is a lot wrong

977
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with the College Football Playoff Comittee. We could sit here

978
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and hairs and talk about all the different reasons why

979
00:46:02,519 --> 00:46:05,079
people don't like it. Why you know, everybody hated the

980
00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:07,159
BCS and you went to the four team playoff, Well,

981
00:46:07,199 --> 00:46:08,960
four teams not enough. You got to go to twelve.

982
00:46:09,039 --> 00:46:11,119
Now people hate the twelve team playoffs. I get there's

983
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always going to be holes you can poke in things

984
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and complaints that you can bring up about a selection

985
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committee because at the end of the day, there are

986
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people in their bias and if the SEC wants to mention, hey,

987
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,000
we think we should have got more teams in, that's great,

988
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But don't mention oh, well, you know, our teams beat Georgia.

989
00:46:26,679 --> 00:46:29,679
Our teams didn't suffer bad losses. Yeah they did. Alabama

990
00:46:29,679 --> 00:46:32,159
had two bad losses. Oh Miss had two even worse losses.

991
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I'm not saying that the College FOOTBA Playoff comittee is perfect.

992
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They're not a lot of people complaining when Florida State

993
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didn't get in two years ago. But not putting in

994
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a ole Miss, Alabama or South Carolina, in my opinion,

995
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is not one of the missteps by the College FOOTBA

996
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Playoff committee.

997
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Speaker 8: All right, that'll do it for hour number two.

998
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Speaker 9: We got one more hour left here on this Thursday,

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coming up at nine am. Just like we do every Thursday,

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and then some Melosie baseball to wrap it up.

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Speaker 3: Off the bench.

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