Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 3: I'll start to you want to present off the bench.
Speaker 1: This is what we have been waiting for.
Speaker 4: The hype is over.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 5: I got to come off the fitch.
Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hesser.
Speaker 6: All right, welcome back in SEC spring meetings. Here in Destin, Florida.
We have got LSU women's head basketball coach Kim Mulkey
here with is coach.
Speaker 4: It is always a pleasure. We appreciate the time.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to be here.
Speaker 7: I wish I didn't have these high heels on and
I was in flip flops and on that beach out there.
But I'll come back with my family later in the summer.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, coach. What spring meeting is this for you
and your coaching?
Speaker 7: Well, I'll tell you I'm much rather be in Destined
because that's my vacation of choice. But when I was
in the Big twelve all those years we would go
to the Broad Morn Colorado springs and places. Well, I'm
not a golfer, right, so anything with a beach and
uh and water.
Speaker 2: I'm more I'm more in to.
Speaker 6: And how much have the the you know things on
the agenda, the bullet points changed. I guess over the
years because it feels like we've been really about four years.
It's been so much about NIL and transfer portal, where
I'm sure you know you had a lot of the
same when you were at Baylor and other places, but
now it's it's kind of been just heavy in IL
and transfer portal.
Speaker 7: It is, and you know, every year you talk about
the same stuff and that kind of becomes boring. You
talk about referees, you talk about game schedules, you talk
about non conference skal, you know, all the same stuff.
But what is really transpired now is that we have
these meetings and we're really waiting in the unknown. We're
waiting for a judge to have a ruling. It's it's
kind of like you're building the ship as you're on
the water.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: It's it's crazy because it's like things could change and
level out next year. But then it's we're talking about
things that we think are going to happen, and then
what if they don't.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 6: Does it give you any peace of mind that it
is the SEC? You do have Commissioner Greg Sanky, So
no matter what it looks like that the SEC will
probably get the best of it.
Speaker 2: Well, what's our saying?
Speaker 7: It just means more right, And having been in the
Big Twelve that I didn't think much of that.
Speaker 2: You're focused on your league.
Speaker 7: But now being in this league with the addition of
OU in Texas, it really does. It's like, Sankie, You're
sitting there and he's got to make tough decisions. He's
got to address things with each institution to try to
have a collective hole that we all follow the same rules.
And I think, gosh, she's got to be one smart dude,
or he's got a lot of smart people around him
because he has to fix a lot of things and
he has to make tough decisions. And I just I've
enjoyed being in this league. Enjoyed the listening ears, I've
enjoyed the competition. I've enjoyed the great coaches. I've enjoyed
meeting coaches in football and men's basketball that I've watched
from AFAR and now I can say I know them
because of SEC.
Speaker 2: Meetings every year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no question about it.
Speaker 6: What would you say, coach, is maybe the one thing
this year that maybe you had the most discussions about
in those rooms, Like was there one major topic that
y'all continued to come back to.
Speaker 1: I thought a.
Speaker 7: Very a very heartfelt conversation was revenue share. And I
think the message and we just shared it with the
athletic directors is.
Speaker 2: We keep here in.
Speaker 7: Seventy five for football, fifteen for men's basketball, five for
women's basketball. And then you realized after meeting these last
couple of days, not everybody's getting five percent shared in
women's basketball. And so while we're competitors and we only
think about ourselves, and let me get what I can
get from LSU, and LSU does take tremendous care of
my program. I do have a heart for those who
how are you going to compete with the LSUS in
the South Carolinas and the Texas who have been to
final fours and one national championships and probably are getting more.
Speaker 2: You do want.
Speaker 7: The conference to do good, And I then sympathize with
the athletic directors. They're looking at the bottom line, you know,
the final results of money, and you can't do that
in women's sports. You cannot do that. I've said it
many times. So you guys on you and T Bob
on the radio, No women's sport makes money none and
so you have to see value in them. You have
to see those sold out arenas, you have to see
those television appearances, those championships, because you can't put a dollar.
Speaker 2: Value on that.
Speaker 4: It is something coach.
Speaker 6: It's a great point that we don't talk about, like you know,
the pmacs going to have thousands of fans when your
team plays.
Speaker 4: That's not just the case everywhere. And so when you're
talking about.
Speaker 6: Percentages, well, LSU's gonna do whatever they can to keep
that going right. They're going to make sure that you're
taken care of. But it's something we don't talk about.
It's not going to be the case everywhere, and those
those teams and those programs are going to have steep challenges.
Speaker 7: And as I said, we all are competing against each other.
But at the end of the day, there's sixteen good
institutions in this conference and we want to always be
able to say to the other conferences it does mean
more in the SEC. And if we don't have everybody
getting to the NCAA tournament and doing good because they
can't get their players that require a little bit more
money's it hurts all of us in the League. And
I mean, look at men's basketball. Didn't we have everybody
but two teams this year. I can remember when I
got in the league, we weren't that good in men's basketball.
So what did we do to help men's basketball get better?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: Well, don't allow women's basketball to lose what they have gone.
To me right now, in the history of my coaching
and playing, women's basketball is as high rated as.
Speaker 2: It can ever be.
Speaker 7: So let's don't lose that and we slip and then
we look up two or three years down the road
and we've lost that.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a great point to me right now, your
viewership in the arenas, and I've told you this on
the radio. I mean, I've got five kids, but I've
got four boys, and there's nothing more they enjoy than
going to the PMC and watching your team play.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, I have one of each too. And
my son is like your boys. He grew up watching
some of the greatest women's basketball and he can't sit
there and go, well, they're just girls. No, he grew
up playing against those just girls. And he has a
great respect. Having played baseball at LSU, he just has
great respect for the highest level of women's basketball, and
you just kind of wanted.
Speaker 2: To stay there.
Speaker 7: And as I said, I'm spoiled at LSU, But I
hope spoiled is not the word. I hope the product
we have given them in a short period of time
is a return on their investments.
Speaker 6: Right, new players probably coming in probably literally like right now.
Speaker 2: Well they did this past weekend.
Speaker 7: So my coaching staff, we moved in freshmen and transfers.
And I don't require the whole team to be there
for workouts in the summer because some are doing USA
Basketball stuff and it's such.
Speaker 2: A long season.
Speaker 7: So what I do, as I tell them, you can
pick the session in summer you want to come, or
you can come in the fall. You're here, it's a
slower pace in the summer, take a class or two,
do individual workouts, and get in that weight room with
our strength and conditioning coach. So several of them chose
to come on the first session, and then some will
be here the second session, and then they'll all be
here in the fall.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know you're looking forward to that pretty good
group you've got coming in. Coach through freshmen in high
school recruiting, which I know is very important to you.
We've talked about that many times. But some pretty high
profile transfers as well.
Speaker 7: Listen, they all look good on paper, right, but the
transfers have proven themselves at other institutions, So we know
what the transfers are capable of doing. What you don't
know is those high school players and their rankings. But
we sure are excited about those high school players, but
don't put too much pressure on them. Let them find
themselves and their role within our program and get them here.
And we are excited. When you think about the perimeter
play that we have. We think we'll have outstanding perimeter
play this year. What we don't know is we have
had to replace a lot of post play and so
it'll be interesting to see when we're all on the
same page how good we can be.
Speaker 6: Last one coach, because you know, I got to get
a baseball question and with you, LSU Regional, Will you
be in the box? Will you be supporting the Tigers
because you know baseball as well as anybody that I know.
Speaker 2: I plan to be there.
Speaker 7: I'm waiting for my grandchildren to come in Saturday for
my camp which starts Monday, and I'm babysitting them all
week as well, so I.
Speaker 2: Do want to take them there.
Speaker 7: I'm familiar with Dallas Baptists, having been in Waco, Texas
for twenty four years. Even have some friends who have
children that play for Dallas Baptists. Not anybody else in
the regional that I know of right now, But I
do love baseball. I love the playoffs in any sport
because I think it's just taking up a whole notch
offensively and defensively, like the NBA.
Speaker 1: I'll watch it.
Speaker 2: Right now, but I wouldn't probably.
Speaker 7: Watch it during the season because they play so many games. Yeah,
people just tend to take it up a notch when
it's playoffs, and I.
Speaker 2: Know the box will be full.
Speaker 7: I know it'll be exciting, and we gotta do it
so that we can get a super regional in Baton
Rouge and you know Omaha and Jays.
Speaker 2: Jay's just really had a good year.
Speaker 4: Coach, you're the best. Truly appreciate time.
Speaker 6: I know you've got a lot going on back home,
trying to get back home, so I appreciate the sit down.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, big guy.
Speaker 6: All right, there she is LSU coach Kim Mulkey will
step way more coming back to your wait.
Speaker 8: Welcome back in off the bench? Is that right?
Speaker 9: There was Jacob Hesser with LSU women's basketball coach Kim Maulkey.
I got to say the SEC just continues to beat
the Big Twelve because the beginning of that interview, Coach
Maulkey about you know what's it like being in Destined
for the SEC spring meetings and coach said, well, you know,
when we were in the Big Twelve, we would usually
go somewhere like Colorado Springs. I'm sure Colorado Springs is lovely.
My sister in law used to live right outside of
Colorado Springs life says it's a great place. But this
is spring meetings and there's nothing better than being at
Destin on the beach for SEC spring meetings. And that's
why the SEC is the best conference in all of
collegiate sports. Stay winning SEC. Excellent location for those spring meetings.
I was watching Brian Kelly a little bit on his
video interview with Paul Finebaum yesterday and Jay got him
as an interview as well. We'll play that a little
bit later in the show. But like they got the
beach in the background, it just looks great. A plus
job there on the location for SEC spring meetings. All right,
we're going to take a quick time out when we
get back. Ross Jackson over at Louisiana Sports dot Net
put up an article kind of mentioning, you know, his
notes from OTA's his biggest takeaway so far during the
media portion availability if you will of practice. Media actually
expected to be present again today at OTAs as the
Saints are in their second week of offseason workouts. But
Ross kind of put out heading into today, put this
up yesterday of things he wants. What's to keep an
eye one out there at Saints camp. We'll break it
all down next here on Off the bench.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to off the Bench. I didn't mean it
when I said I didn't love it, so I should
have hell, I said I never should have let you go.
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didn't know me, would gonna know everything.
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I don't have a child.
Speaker 2: Back in.
Speaker 9: Number two Thursday edition of off the bench. So we're
just vibing there, just vibing there into the ball music.
Nice nice vibes here on a Thursday. Okay, guys, I
want your honest opinions. Don't have to worry about that
with the laundry, Jordan, you might be a little bit
too nice.
Speaker 8: What do we think?
Speaker 2: Shirt?
Speaker 8: Is the shirt of yay or what do we what
do we think?
Speaker 4: I can't really like see, like I need to get
up close.
Speaker 9: Because I can't what somebody was asking about the designs
are so yes, are not comprehending what that is? It
almost like so any any like white you see it
looks like a sketch drawing of people, whether it's like
men women like dressed up you have, Yeah, I don't
really And it's got like New Orleans stuff. So on
their website it's called men's second line shirt. On the
back it says French quarter second line. But it's it's
pretty much this pattern all over. It's got like the
sparkle here and.
Speaker 2: You need to get glasses. I literally could not make.
Speaker 8: Out what it's.
Speaker 9: It's it's hard especially here like it you know what
it looks like right here on this camera.
Speaker 8: This one's a little bit brighter than the other one.
Speaker 9: It looks like one of those seventies like Saved by
the Belt type vibes when you just see like all
the bright colors.
Speaker 8: That's kind of what it looks like here.
Speaker 2: But I don't hate it.
Speaker 10: It looks like a comic book. Like it's very like
I told you when you came out of the bathroom,
was like very tea boy desk.
Speaker 1: Like hate it, but you never wear stuff like that,
So it.
Speaker 10: Looks a little I don't a little outward worldly, but
like it's not bad. Honestly. You just got to get
the chest hair. You get some chest hair with it,
it'll make it.
Speaker 8: The buttons you can turn that camera bright.
Speaker 4: We don't have.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 8: We don't have the t BAF. But we got a
little bit on a little bit. Yeah yeah you got blonde.
Speaker 10: Yeah how did your face get tam but your chest
in it?
Speaker 9: Because here here's what happened first day and a half.
I mean we were swim trunks and nothing else right,
typical beat you tied. Well, I felt myself getting a
little red, and I was like, I don't want to burn,
so I wore the sleeveless shirt so it got basically
here down, which is why the arms look a lot
more tan, and.
Speaker 8: Then left the face.
Speaker 9: So I basically alternated every other day after like the
first day and a half. So it's a little bit
look whatever, okay, wondering when when the shirts on the
tai looks even Hey, that that's all I care about.
Speaker 1: I mean, but also it's day one of the shirts.
It's gonna take time, its time they won it looked.
Speaker 8: It looked better in the dark brown shirt for sure.
For sure, no.
Speaker 10: Dark brown was ups vibes. Now you're like, now, I
ain't gonna lie. It's like it's very t Bob. It's
just his T Bob shirt. So it's like so t Bob,
Like when I look at that, that's I can see
T Bob having a rotation of just shirts just like that. Literally,
he literally has a rotation of shirts just like that.
Speaker 9: I mean, this was purchased four like he just gave
it to me because it didn't fit it like this,
this is t Bo.
Speaker 1: That's crazy because he lost all out.
Speaker 8: Of weight because when he when he told me, ye,
T Bob's.
Speaker 9: Still like like yeah, like I imagine Bob's still in
an XL.
Speaker 8: This is a medium.
Speaker 3: Put a small T shirt on and it was like.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so during break deering break, I'm just sitting here
like this, you know, like just hand on the chin
and I could feel it like right in here, like
the shirt is shirt getting a little tight, like right
in here. There's no way this would fit. Absolutely not.
But when he texted me two weeks ago, he's like, hey,
I have a Queen of Sparkle shirt.
Speaker 8: Do you want it?
Speaker 9: I was like, yeah, sure, did not know what it
looked like, like.
Speaker 10: With some give you a shirt, you got to know
some type of it ain't just some regular T shirt
you finna get.
Speaker 9: So the jeans though, like I got the no he
didn't give me. She was saying, like, make it work
with jeans. I wasn't planning on wearing this today. I
would do it with a darker jean since the shirts
so bright. I got the lighter jean on today.
Speaker 8: But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Go to Miami, you gotta get a live.
Speaker 8: I look like I'm at SEC Spring Meetings. Is where
it looks like, yeah, this is an SEC. This is
an SEC Spring meeting shirt.
Speaker 1: Good professional move right there?
Speaker 7: For sure, you look like you're about to go enjoy
a night at splash.
Speaker 10: Well, look and get get nice and lubricated, or like
you're going to a drag brunch?
Speaker 1: What what? Family? You hate family? You hate it, you can't.
Speaker 10: You despise everybody sitting at the table with But you
got to keep a nice straight face.
Speaker 1: Like, hey guys, what's going on? Love you guys.
Speaker 9: But it's a really good impression of me, really good.
That is probably the best you try to do the
Sometimes you try to do the Taylor impression. Uh when
you're when you're doing the intro at hour, that one
there just.
Speaker 8: You know, just chef's kid. That was perfect.
Speaker 1: Shout out with Chef Michael Johnson.
Speaker 9: Speaking of Chef Michael Johnson coming on our number three
we'll have we'll have chef coming on for our normal
munchie segment at nine to fifteen. We will have a
big deal, a new big deal at nine am. Right now,
the a few minutes before we get to the Brian
Kelly interview, which we will do after this upcoming break.
Ross Jackson at louisianasports dot Net put out his biggest
takeaways for the Saints at OTAs. Whether it's you know
the quarterback competition, what the rotation is going to look
like on the lines of scrimmage or receivers, everything like that.
Want to dive into that a little bit. He has
a good write up of it where he goes way
into detail up on Louisiana Sports dot Net.
Speaker 8: You can see it there.
Speaker 9: And he mentioned that when he was out there during
the media viewing portion, it was the first media practice,
it was easy to call Spencer Ratler the front runner
of this quarterback competition. You know, there's no surprise Rattler's
been in the NFL for a year. Ratler actually completed
all eight of his seven on seven passes. Now, that
doesn't mean that Tyler Schuck was bad. He said it
was six or seven of the eight passes that Tyler
Schuck threw he completed as well. So you like to
see that. It's not like, oh, they were both bad,
Spencer Ratler just sucked a little bit less. No, they
actually both did a really nice job. But look, when
it comes to the Saints quarterback situation, we talked about
Jay Cayner earlier this week with that oblique injury, and
we kind of thought he was the third guy in
line for that job. Anyways, Well, with that oblique injury.
I mean, watch out for one hundred Deckers. He's the
undrafted free agent. He was actually a tryout player. He
wasn't even an undrafted free agent that came to camp.
They kept him on after that first week with those
tryout players. He's from Iowa Western, but he's not a
normal Iowa Western quarterback. So he was at Iowa State
for three seasons twenty twenty, twenty one, and twenty two.
Was one of the highest rated quarterback recruits ever in
the history of Iowa State football.
Speaker 8: Played sparingly his first two years.
Speaker 9: In twenty twenty two, he takes over as the full
time starter, and he wasn't bad sixty six percent completion
over three thousand yards now, nineteen touchdowns, fourteen interceptions.
Speaker 8: But it was his first year as a starter.
Speaker 9: If you remember the sports betting scandal that came out
with Iowa players and i with State players, it was
kind of that whole state Hunter Deckers was one of
those guys involved when he was a quarterback at Iowa State.
So you know, he leaves the team, he goes to
Iowa Western, and if Iowa Western in last season, sixty
four percent of his passes three eight hundred yards, thirty
two touchdowns, just ten interceptions, and uh, he can run
a little bit as well.
Speaker 8: He's a big guy. He's about sixty.
Speaker 9: Three, He's around two hundred and twenty two hundred and
twenty five pounds.
Speaker 8: He's a talented guy.
Speaker 9: I'm not saying hundred Decker is going to come in
and challenge Spencer Rattler and Tyler Shack for a starting position.
Speaker 8: That's not going to happen.
Speaker 9: They've invested too much into Tyler Shock and Spencer Rattler
has been here for a year already. What I am
saying is that if that oblique injury turns out to
be more than just a few weeks setback for Jay Cayner,
one hundred Deckers could make this team. There's a lot
of buzz around him right now coming out of training camp.
The next position that Nick wanted to or that ross
excuse me wanted to highlight was the starting offensive line.
So we've talked a lot about Trevor Pinning during the
first couple of days of OTA's moving from right tackle,
where he played last year, to that left guard spot. Well,
it's been Kelvin Banks at left tackle. Most kind of
expected that Pinning at left guard, McCoy and Ruiz at
center and right guard. Everyone expected that, telling us a Fuaga,
who was your starting left tackle a year ago moving
to right tackle, which was his dominant position that he
played in college. He played a lot more right tackle
than left tackle. If you remember when they drafted Fuaga.
A big reason why me and a lot of other
people wanted that to be the draft pick was because
of his versatility. He could play on the left side,
he could play on the right side, he could play
guard and tackle. They've moved him back over to right
where he's apparently more comfortable, even though I thought he
was good at left. But Kelvin Bank's that more pure
left tackle. So that's kind of your starting OH line.
But the Saints have a chance to actually have some
decent depth on the offensive line. You brought in Dylan
Radunes from the Tennessee Titans, who a lot of people
thought was going to be that starter at left of guard.
But moving Pinning over there, maybe Raduones is a good
rotational piece, a good swing guard. Will Clap is currently
on the roster. He could play center guard. Nick Saldeveri
can play guard. He's currently still on this roster. Landon
Young has played a lot of football for this team,
left tackle, right tackle. He's kind of been your plug
and play guy. Anytime one of your starting tackles go down.
He's still on that team. That's four guys that can
make decent backups for you. Now they're not going to carry.
I don't expect all nine of those guys to make
the team. But you have options on the offensive line
because Pinning can play tackle, will clap center guard, Landon
Young as a tackle, Dylan Raduones can play either guard spot.
All of a sudden, you have quality depth on the
offensive line. If you're starting five that you have put
together right now works out.
Speaker 8: I actually like.
Speaker 9: The pieces there a little bit more than I did,
especially this time last year.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 9: He goes on to mention Brandon Staley's defense is as
one of the things to look at, stand up edge rushers,
changes in front coverages. We're gonna get more into that
as the season gets closer. But sticking with the offense here,
he mentioned Chris Olave and Rashid Shahid is two guys
to keep an eye on, and it makes a lot
of sense right both of them coming back from injuries
of that injury plagued receiving corps that you saw in
twenty twenty four. A lot of people have asked, oh,
did this Where the Saints going to draft a receiver
high in the draft.
Speaker 8: They did not. Where are they going to sign a
big name free agent? They did not.
Speaker 9: I don't consider Brandon Cooks a big name free agent,
but they did bring in Brandon Cooks. So is a
Lave or Rashid a wide receiver one, No, but maybe
they don't have to be. They're both quality receivers when
they are fully healthy. You also added Brandon Cooks. He
is passed thirty. He has a little bit past his prime,
but he could still make a little bit happen. Now,
his production did drop every year he was in Dallas,
but he dealt with some injuries as well. If he
can stay healthy, do you have a great receiving cord. No,
I'm not trying to say, oh, Tyler Shuke's gonna come
in here play in front of a really good.
Speaker 8: Starting five on the offensive line. He's got studs on
the outside.
Speaker 9: No, that offensive line still has question marks because you
got a lot of new pieces and your receivers. Let's
call it like it is, are below average. You don't
have that bona fide wide receiver one, but maybe you
can have a decent group with a lave Rashid Shihed
and Brandon Cooks. Maybe that's enough to just help out
Tyler Schuck a tad. You're not gonna go out there
and again give him the best weapons. I think this
is actually one of the weaker wide receiver corps in
the NFL.
Speaker 8: You have Dante Pettis.
Speaker 9: He is apparently working pretty high in the receiver rotation
at OTAs you signed him in the middle of the
year last year. You have Bubb Means, who you drafted
a year ago. So you have pieces there, but they
all have to stay healthy. Again, you don't have that
one dominant guy, so you got to make sure that
room's as healthy as possible so each receiver can complement
the other. The last thing he gets into is the
cornerback spot. You have mckinstree, you have a Lante Taylor.
They are both back. You traded Marshaun Lottimore to the
Washington Redskins halfway through the year. We know that, and
you lost Pulsing a d Boat to the Giants in
the offseason. Mckintree, I think can lock down one of
those spots. It's uncertain whether or not a Lante Taylor
can play that outside corner position just because he's played
a lot more nickel in the NFL.
Speaker 8: As he has as that boundary.
Speaker 9: Corner mckinrey can lock down one side, who could be
on the other because my preference would be playing nickel
package pretty much all the time. That's kind of a
base defense for a lot of people. Anyways, Keep Alonte
Taylor right there as a slot corner half kool Aid
mcentree on one side. Hopefully one of these younger guys
can stop up Vetteran Isaac Eaedam has taking the majority
of the first team reps. But Quincy Riley's out there.
Quincy Riley's going to battle Isaac Headam for that starting spot.
When you look at Quincy Riley, he was a fourth
round pick, so the Saints, you know, spent pretty significant
draft capital on him.
Speaker 8: Three years at Louisville.
Speaker 9: Eight interceptions, one of them returned for a touchdown down
seventy four total tackles, Like he's got a little bit
forced to fumble there as well. His numbers don't jump
off the page. But he's a solid receiver corner. He's
decent size for a rookie like that's a guy to
keep an eye on it. I think the battle between
Iatom and Quincy Riley's going to tell you a lot.
If one of those guys can step up, you no
longer need Alonte Taylor to play out wide. I think
if Alante Taylor is an outside corner, it's out of necessity,
not because that's what's best for your defense. Because I
think what's best for your defense is having a guy
like Alonte Taylor roaming in that nickel position because he's
been so good there at his time in New Orleans.
All Right, that's just a few things to kind of
highlight take a look at again. Media is supposed to
have availability at OTAs today. I'm sure Ross will have
another updated ride up, but he put that out yesterday
on Louisiana Sports dot Net. Want to kind of to
break it down a little bit, all right, we're going
to take a time out when we get back. We
got another interview from our guy j Kester out there
at SEC spring meetings. He said he had to sit
down with Brian Kelly about a six seven minute interview.
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Speaker 11: Johnny goes right now in SEC Spring meetings a head
coach the l s U Fighting Tigers coach Brian Kelly,
alongside Chris dor and Jacob Pastor, I and Peter Burns
and BK. You got to be upset because all the guys,
all the sponsors here at spring meetings. You're ever ready
go play golf right now and you gotta go do
fine bomb?
Speaker 5: Is that a golf Yeah? I mean that's much more
important than golf, right, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, yes, I didn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't get a laugh from I didn't get a
laugh from anybody.
Speaker 11: You see interview with him yesterday, Plane just absolutely ripped
him and so it was so awkward and.
Speaker 5: Laying is he can do funny things. Let's put it
that way.
Speaker 11: What what the hell did you learn this week?
Speaker 4: Anything?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: I did learn a lot.
Speaker 5: One is that we think as football coaches that we
we live in a vacuum. In other words, whatever we
decide in our room is gospel. Then we get into
the AD's room and it don't mean nothing because you
really have to look at it from two perspectives. Right,
the coaches, we're thinking about progress, right, we're thinking about
transfer a portal and getting it into the right window.
We're thinking about nil and how we can get some
clarity and some teeth to that, and then we're thinking
about revenue sharing and how we can get eighty five
or one hundred and five on our roster. Then we
walk in there and they go, hey, look, we need revenue.
We're giving you guys twenty million dollars. We need revenue.
You need to play more games, you need to do
these things. And so it's a perspective, right that you
gain that when you're sitting in that room. Those ads
have to think about the revenue piece as well. And
it's not to try to put you in harm's way,
but the reality of it is, we're the third most
watched sports in the country. It's number one is the NFL,
number two is the NBA, and number three is SEC football.
I mean that's major. People want to watch teams from
the SEC play and particular play each other. Right, So
it starts to put in perspective eight versus nine games, right,
it starts to put in perspective, hey, do you play
playing games? People want to watch the SEC play. And
so then we go back into our room and we go,
how about we control what we can control I know
that's a long answer to your question, coach, would it
help if y'all had more meetings maybe together with the
high football coaches and the ads, you just get more done.
Speaker 4: It's a great point.
Speaker 5: We felt as a group that the New Orleans meetings
where it was the ads and the coaches meeting together,
it was our most productive time that we've had. And
when you're split like this, like there's some important things
that are coming up on the window, the transfer portal
window that we haven't even got a chance to address
with them, and how important it is, it will change everything.
If we don't get that portal window in January, it
changes everything.
Speaker 4: You want one portal window, We.
Speaker 5: Would like one. We will live with what we have
right now with a second because there's no sec transferring
in that second window.
Speaker 4: We would live with that.
Speaker 5: We would prefer one, and it needs to be in
January or the calendar just changes.
Speaker 6: So Coach, then you don't know who your team is
if you have no idea, We'll think of it this way.
Speaker 5: Fiscally, you got guys that want to leave in May
to a May portal, you got them on payroll for
three months. You might as well just throw it out
the window. You're burning through Monday. And so if we
want to be fiscally responsible, you know, if we want
to think about player safety and listen, any kid that
wants to go, he wants to go in January.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to wait around kid.
Speaker 8: Exactly.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, well then that's the other side of it,
right then you're going to be losing money and you're
irresponsible fiscally. So I just again, I think being together
with the ads where we can really just say here's
our issue, this is what we need, that's what we've learned.
I think we're making progress over perfection right now.
Speaker 4: But it's real and it's a good thing.
Speaker 12: I think the thing that I love the most about
being here is seeing the camaraderie between all of you coaches.
Everybody watches game days and going at each other, but
you guys really do a lot of things together. And
do you find it more open now about how different
coaches are doing things because of the challenges that you
face and because of the uncertainty that you're willing and
maybe because there's twelve playoff spots now too, you're not
fighting for just one. That your information sharing about things
that you probably wouldn't have before.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think all that's right.
Speaker 5: I think first of all, there's a respect that we
all have tough jobs, and we're all listen, we love
our jobs, were paid way.
Speaker 4: Too much money. All those things are true.
Speaker 5: But I think there's a true respect for each other
in the way they do their job and the job
that they have.
Speaker 4: And then it's a it's a really good group.
Speaker 5: There's nobody in there that that hasn't earned their opportunity
to be there.
Speaker 11: Five eleven those are two numbers that are starting to
pop up. Five automatic qualifiers eleven spots or four automatic
qualifiers from a certain league.
Speaker 4: Where do you feel the coaches stand five to eleven? Five?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean pretty obvious, right, I mean more automatics,
you know, and the opportunity to maybe even steal another one.
So I think that that's that's probably you know where
all of our coaches are.
Speaker 12: Are you afraid that the committee would limit that? Be
like say, all right, you're getting the five, we're not
going to go above that.
Speaker 5: No. Our concerns with the committee is in terms of
waiting your schedule. They look at just the right hand column,
and what that looks like a loss is a lot.
Not all losses the same, and I know nobody wants
to talk about losses, but the truth of the matter
is losses are different, and I think we would rather
see a cleaner understanding of the process. Look, when I
went was that Notre Dame we played for the national
championship against Alabama in twenty twelve. That was the computer.
It was all computer. Now we've moved very subjective. We're
over here. We need to move it back into the
add some ratings. Bill Connley's got one the Massy Report.
I mean, I know we can't do an RPI, but
if we can do something that brings the selection process
into a finer line.
Speaker 4: We'd be in good shape.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kaush, there has to be something because in basketball
we talk about quad one victories.
Speaker 13: In baseball we do talk about RPI. Softball RPI, that's
a metric that we use and we have that. There
has to be something that you can say, hey, I
know this team lost, but they lost on the road
to this number ten team. They lost on the road
to number four, and then at number you know, at
home at number three is a tough loss.
Speaker 5: Just look at the Indiana and the excuse me, the
Indiana and Alabama. Analogy right, Alabama had eight wins against
six plus win teams. Indiana had four and they lost
to one that didn't you know what I mean of.
Speaker 4: Less than six. So you got to balance it.
Speaker 5: You got to look at all losses are not the
same and so there's got to be some kind of
index in there. I know, what's hard to do, an
RPI because you know, our our number of games is
not big enough for you to get that index.
Speaker 4: But we can do something. Yeah, it's fascinating.
Speaker 11: Continues a role in these conversations are being had and
hopefully you guys and the athletic directors and the head
coaches hang out a little bit more to kind of
solve that stuff. I know you got to run.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks guys, I appreciate it. You thanks for having coach.
Speaker 11: Brian Kelly, coach LSU Tigers joining us SEC spring meetings.
Speaker 9: There was Jacob Ester right there at SEC Spring meetings
with LSU had football coach Brian Kelly. They talked a
lot about, you know, the college Football Playoff Committee, the
move to say sixteen team playoff. That has just been
a topic that everyone has discussed. We'll kind of gonna
give you my my thoughts on that BK press conference
coming back on the other side of the break, But
the SEC coaches kind of seem to all be in
locksed up.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 9: I kind of broke down Sinky's comments yesterday about oh,
our three teams got left out and two of them
beat Georgia and you gotta have quality losses.
Speaker 5: You kind of.
Speaker 9: Echoed that, Cinnamon, and look, I mean, I can get
behind it. You have to do it's best for your conference,
but I still just don't quite know where they're getting this.
We'll kind of break that down next coming up here
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Speaker 9: Not welcome back in Welcome back in final segment, hour
number two. Here on a Thursday edition of Off the Bench,
guys want to welcome a new member to the YouTube chat,
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I I don't know where they're at.
Speaker 9: Okay, you just heard Jacob Pesser's interview with Brian Kelly
there at u SEC spring meetings. Now, obviously it's centered
around the college football playoff, you know, moving to the
sixteen team playoff, the selection committee all that's kind of
been the big topic of conversation over there at SEC
Media Days Now. Yesterday I played an audio clip from
SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki of him talking about, you know,
it's almost more important to not lose now than to win.
Speaker 8: Two of the three.
Speaker 9: Teams they got left out of the College Football Playoff
in the SEC beat the University of Georgia and they
got penalized for playing a tough schedule.
Speaker 8: Cally's kind of echoed that sentiment, and.
Speaker 9: Really a lot of coaches like, it's not just Kelly,
it's not just sank Like they're all kind of in
lockstep about the College Football Playoffs selection committee and BK
when when asked about the selection committee, he brought up
Alabama and he said, look, the University of Alabama had
eight wins against teams with six wins or more. Indiana
only had four wins over teams with six wins or
more and lost one of them. He went on to say,
not all losses are the same, some are worse than others.
I get that, and I get Sankie and Kelly and
whichever other coach you want to bring up. They they
kind of all have the same opinion on this, wanting
to boost your conference, wanting to do what you think
is best for the SEC. But I don't really know
why they're only looking at this one way. I mean,
I do know why they're looking at this one way,
but I don't know how you can do that. Okay,
let's go back to Alabama's losses. Kelly says not all
losses are created equal. I agree with that. Alabama, two
of their three losses are to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt. Combined,
Oklahoma and Vanderbilt had five SEC wins this year. Vanderbilt
finished seven and six, Oklahoma finished six and seven, so
that's a thirteen and thirteen combined record. Overall, Alabama lost
to two teams with a combined record of five hundred,
both of them losing records by multiple games in SEC play,
those are bad losses. The same thing with Ole Miss
Ole Miss is two of their SEC losses were Florida
in Kentucky. Kentucky went one in seven in the SEC.
Their only SEC win was against the Ole Miss Rebels,
and Florida went four and four, So that's five combined
SEC wins between Florida and Kentucky.
Speaker 8: I get it.
Speaker 9: Indiana's schedule was not tough they lost a bad game.
But we can't sit here and pretend that Alabama and
Ole Miss did not lose bad games.
Speaker 8: They did.
Speaker 9: Ole Miss had a good loss to LSU on the
road in overtime. That's not a bad loss. You lose
to Kentucky, Granted it was early in the season, but
Kentucky's only SEC win. You lose to Florida. Now, Florida
was kind of hot when you played them. I get that,
But you can't lose games like that and make it
to the College Football Playoff.
Speaker 8: You cannot give up.
Speaker 9: If you're Alabama, you cannot give up forty points to
a Vanderbilt and expect to get into the postseason. You
cannot get beat twenty four to three to Oklahoma. I mean,
at least when they allowed Vanderbilt to put up forty
on him. It was forty to thirty five. The game
somewhat came down to the wire. You got steamrolled by
a bad Oklahoma football team that finished with a losing record.
Now it was on the road, but twenty four to
three didn't even score an offensive touchdown. Everyone tried to
hype up Jayala Millroe for two years. I never bought
him too. The hype, but people tried to hype up
Jayala Molrow for two years. You had Ryan Williams, who
was one of the best receivers in the country last year,
and you couldn't score an offensive touchdown. You cannot make
the College Football Playoff with losses like that. I get
what Kelly's trying to do, I get what Greg Sankee's
trying to do. I just can't get on board with
it because you can mention the bad loss for Indiana,
you can mention you kind of snuck in. They lost
the conference championship the Clemson. They didn't deserve it either.
Did Alabama and Olt Miss really deserve to get into
that College Roble playoff? Sure they both beat Georgia. Congratulations
Georgia didn't make it to the national championship. Everyone talked
all season long and continuing into the offseason about how
bad Georgia's offensive weapons were, and then when they got
in the College Bable Playoff, you had Gunner Stockton Carson
Beck turned the ball over a lot last year. Like
Georgia in twenty twenty four, was not the Georgia we
had seen in the past five years. Like, no doubt
about it. On paper, that's a good win. But is
that win alone enough to get you in the College
Fotball Playoff? I don't think so. Alabama beats LSU. LSU
goes nine to four, but that was during LSU's three
game skit. I mean they were as cold as anybody
in the country during that game. No, I'm not saying
if they would have played at a different point in
the season, would the result have been any different. No,
maybe it wouldn't have been quite as lopsided. But I mean,
you gotta win over Georgia. You gotta win over LSU.
Speaker 8: He beat.
Speaker 9: What what else does Alabama have? There's not a ton
of top fight wins there as well. Same with Little Miss.
You beat Georgia. Okay, cool a South Carolina. South Carolina
didn't have a bad loss. Your losses were to LSU
at home by two points in a game or three
points in a game that you should have won. I
thought South Carolina should have won that game. They let
that one slip away.
Speaker 8: Ols.
Speaker 9: You got lucky to come out of Columbia with a
win that day and you lose. So you could say, okay,
well they should have got in and they didn't have
a bad loss, but you lost to Alabama and Ole Miss,
the other two teams that were in consideration. While South
Carolina may have not had the bad losses, why I
actually thought, out of those three teams, at the end
of the year, South Carolina was playing the best out
of the three. How could you justify putting in South
Carolina overall Miss in Alabama that both have a head
to head over South Carolina. There is a lot wrong
with the College Football Playoff Comittee. We could sit here
and hairs and talk about all the different reasons why
people don't like it. Why you know, everybody hated the
BCS and you went to the four team playoff, Well,
four teams not enough. You got to go to twelve.
Now people hate the twelve team playoffs. I get there's
always going to be holes you can poke in things
and complaints that you can bring up about a selection
committee because at the end of the day, there are
people in their bias and if the SEC wants to mention, hey,
we think we should have got more teams in, that's great,
But don't mention oh, well, you know, our teams beat Georgia.
Our teams didn't suffer bad losses. Yeah they did. Alabama
had two bad losses. Oh Miss had two even worse losses.
I'm not saying that the College FOOTBA Playoff comittee is perfect.
They're not a lot of people complaining when Florida State
didn't get in two years ago. But not putting in
a ole Miss, Alabama or South Carolina, in my opinion,
is not one of the missteps by the College FOOTBA
Playoff committee.
Speaker 8: All right, that'll do it for hour number two.
Speaker 9: We got one more hour left here on this Thursday,
coming up at nine am. Just like we do every Thursday,
We're gonna do big deal or no big deal at
nine to fifteen, our munchie said, with chef Michael Johnson,
and then some Melosie baseball to wrap it up.
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