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Speaker 6: All right, Welcome back in I renumber two of OTV
one oh four five ESPN, Baton Rouge, Jake Flynn, Moose
and Tata all here with you and now we are
going to go to Omaha, Nebraska. The Voice of your
LSU Tigers. Mister Chris Blair joins the show voice, how
you doing man?
Speaker 7: Always a pleasure, Yeah, man, thanks for having me on. Guys,
I hope you're having a starting a good week and
pretty good weekend. One baseball game in the books.
Speaker 5: Uh, the weekend was fantastic. Guys.
Speaker 6: Look, when you play against one of your rivals in Omaha,
you win the game like LSU did. That's up a
nice matchup tonight against UCLA. But CBU have certainly been
to Omahall before. You've called the Tigers games there. What
is it like this year, maybe even compared to twenty
twenty three, because the crowd looked electric the other night
against Arkansas. Certainly we see all the different scenes from
all the different bars there in Omahall, it certainly looks
like LSU as well represent it.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, I think
you know, I learned both in seventeen and twenty three
that there's kind of waves of the purple and gold
that that that make their way here to o mah
which I certainly understand, and you know you're kind of
you're almost there to the second wave again. The Tigers
played later tonight take on a UCLA team which I'm
sure we'll talk about. But you know, if suddenly you're
able to kind of stay in that winner's bracket in
that road to the Championship series gets a little clear, yeah,
I think you'll have another way. But yeah, there's tons
of Tiger fans here, and you know, it's like everybody
else has probably said that you've talked to. I mean,
we got here with the team on Wednesday, and everywhere
you go, it's immediate like, oh, we're so thrilled unless
you made it again. Uh so glad to have you
guys back and U And that goes for every place,
not just the place with the jello shots.
Speaker 6: Oh there's yeah, there's no doubt about that. Rocos is
one thing, but there's plenty of bars that are filled
with purple and goal. The other night, we were expecting,
you know, Ace on ace, and we got the the
Kate Anderson version of what we thought we were going
to get from LSU. But I just assumed, Look, zach
Rut's going to be in there. He's going to go
six seven innings, and it is going to be ace
on ace. It's going to be this lefty duel. But
Arkansas and Da Van Horne, they pulled zach Rude after
thirty eight pitches, and look, it makes all the sense
for you know, after you hear him talk about to
explain it. Now you know, obviously they saved a lot
of their bullpen when you know a guy comes in
and does exactly what Arkansas was looking to get done.
But how surprised were you that zach Rute only lasted
thirty eight pitches and they did make the move in
the moment.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think we all kind of understood,
you know, kind of what he was looking at. Although
I mean you either have to believe Dave Van Horne
has seen so much baseball that he literally knew what
was going to happen, which again, it ended up being
a three run ball game. So I mean, it wasn't
as if, you know, the wheels completely came off, and
you also understand, okay, you know, to get through the
long haul. His stuff in working tonight, he doesn't look comfortable.
Let's go ahead and go to Gackle, who I'm you know,
was was ridiculously good. But still, I mean that being
that early is the only reason it really kind of
surprised me. I mean, I understood the zach Rup was
you know again, you don't know what would have happened
if he stayed in a couple more you know, pitches.
Speaker 5: But I mean it.
Speaker 7: Didn't look good. That's awfully early to run up the
white flag. And I'm not and I'm not accusing him
of giving up the game, don't get me wrong. It's
just it did surprise me.
Speaker 4: I gotta admit boys, what's happening, is Flynn?
Speaker 7: What's un man?
Speaker 4: Man, it's been a long time. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh So, looking ahead a little bit to the night's game,
would you s l A, how do you see the
how do you see Jay shaking up the lineup? If any,
how do you see the lineup playing out after the
former from the other day?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think he I think you know again,
Derek curryel and Jay has said this. This is not
me coming up with this. I mean he said, this
is the engine that gets LSU going. And again, you know,
Hunt and I talked about it on the broadcast the
other night. When you look at when Curriel plays well,
what LSU's record is, and when he struggles, and that's
a lot of pressure to put on a young man. Uh,
you know, whether he's a true freshman or not. At
this point of the season, that's still a lot to
put on him. However, it looked. It looked pretty good
and looked pretty successful, you know, down in the order
a little bit. But I don't know, you know, we'll
see I mean, obviously, I think it's always dictated on
pitching matchup and and so it wouldn't shock me to
see this the lineup be a little similar. But then again,
it wouldn't shock me with the with the analyzation of
of all the data and how they try to line
it thing up, wouldn't shock me to see something totally
different than what we saw on Saturday.
Speaker 6: Now, Chris, we fully expect Anthony Iinson to be out
there and to be the guy and to do Anthony
Ironson things. But such a luxury for what Kate Anderson
did for you the other night, in the fact that
you only had to use Chase Shores for an inn,
you only had to use Cason Evans for an inning,
and so like having everybody available. It look even if
Anthony Iinson doesn't have his best stuff, which you look
last time out, he was barely missing some of his spots,
but he was missing and LSU had to find a way.
But saving that bullpen in game number one, even if
Anthony Iinson doesn't have his stuff, is obviously a big
deal for LSU.
Speaker 7: Oh one hundred percent. I mean, that's that's kind of
you know, I was kind of thinking about it once
the game went final. You know, Jay was kind of joking,
but I think serious. You know, the day that Tigers left,
when he talked to the media about, hey, it would
be great to go up there and you know, start
the World Series with a win and kind of make
that path a little bit shorter to the Championship Series,
which obviously was thrilled to see him get and his
Tigers get Saturday. But again, to me, the biggest takeaway
was in a game where runs were at a premium,
you were able to keep Kate Anderson in there. Your
young man goes very deep for you. Chase Shores didn't
have to labor very much when he brought the flamethrower in,
and then Casean Evans and suddenly now you know, with
this intimidating gauntlet that the College World Series can be.
I mean, I don't think LSU could ask to be
in a better shape to have won that game one
against Arkansas and to have the pitching staff, and I mean,
I don't know how you make it. I don't know
how you come into the second game in the winners
bracket not feeling as good as you possibly can based
on what you still have available. Again, knowing that you
have Anthony Hynson to start your second game here at Omo.
Speaker 6: Now one of the things is probably gonna get lost
a little bit. And look, I did it earlier this morning.
You're talking about all the things that you know attributed
to the win against Arkansas, and you kind of forget
about how good defensively LSU was. Some of the double
plays that they were able to turn, even the play
to finish the game, like, that's not routine by any means,
and Steven Milin goes, you know, and finds a way
to get it out and makes it look more routine
than it should. But the defense was so big for LSU,
and it's been good all year long.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it really has. I mean they're on pace again
to be one of the best, if not the best,
statistically defenses in the program's history, which is again you
can go through the entire list of the players that's
one of the Purple and Gold and been great, great defenders.
So yeah, I mean, and you know, you think back,
that's one of the things that Jay just kind of
quietly talked about is this season went on, you know,
because everybody wants to talk about, you know, his offense
or you know, how's the pitching staff coming along. And
while both of those have had really great moments and
then they've had not so great moments, the one consistency
has been defensed defensively.
Speaker 8: And you know, you.
Speaker 7: Look at a team like Arkansas, I think they've been
held under two runs once this year. The other night,
it's a team that gets runners on. They're not the
most aggressive team as far as stealing bases, but they
get traffic on bases and then they seem to be
able to find the key hits. And for them to
have one base runner reached second base the entire game,
a handful of hits given up, I mean, it's just
I mean, wow.
Speaker 4: I mean, and.
Speaker 7: Again, some of those plays you talked about, that double
play early, the first double play of the ballgame, couldn't
have come at a better spot where all of a sudden,
it kind of looked like the strike zone was getting
a little elusive up. You give up the single and
then suddenly boom there's a strikeout and then he gets
the double play. But yeah, you're right. I mean, I
think defensively is probably something of all the things people
talk about for LSU from a Nash you know, media perspective,
probably the least they talk about is how solid this
team is defensively.
Speaker 5: Chris.
Speaker 4: You you mentioned earlier that Jay had said that Curie
El is kind of like the engine that makes the
roster go. But talk to us about what Mylin's doing
right now and kind of what he means to this
LSU lineup in this team.
Speaker 7: You know, it's crazy, Matt when you think about it,
because I've had to stop myself a couple of times
from saying, hey, you know, if you're getting offense like
this from Stephen Mylin, you know that's kind of land
yapp because that's that's I mean that that that really
doesn't tell the whole story because we all know what
Stephen mylm is able to do at the bat, which
is nothing more impressive to me is just the way
he goes as a switch hitter from from left to right.
So that's let's give him prop So it's not as
if suddenly out of nowhere Steven Mylem's producing. But it
had been a tough season as solid as he's been
at shortstop, and now all of a sudden, where he's
spent most of the season, or at least the back
half of the season towards the back of the lineup,
he's starting to see him move up a little bit
and contribute. And you know, again, in a game like
Saturday's game where base runners ready to premium and runs
are ready to premium, I mean, you get a night
like that out of Stephn Milem that makes a difference
in the ball game.
Speaker 6: All right, there, he is the voice the LSU Tigers.
Chris Blair, good enough to join us from Omaha. Chris,
we appreciate the time, enjoy Omaha, and good luck on
the call tonight.
Speaker 7: Looking forward to it, guys, Let's have some fun.
Speaker 6: Absolutely again, Chris Blair, good enough to join us here
on ot B.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: We said it while you were gone, We kind of
nominated you to go along with us, like if LSU
makes it to the Championship Series, like can we find
a way to.
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You're listening to off the Bench, Well, we're.
Speaker 4: Not really locked into watch football, No, no, no, It
tells you baseball season Tigers are in Omaha.
Speaker 5: This does. This song does make me want to have
like some kind of a coconut drink in my hand.
Speaker 4: Though this song doesn't make me want to party at all.
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's about their relaxation and the kicking your feet
up there, pal.
Speaker 4: I don't really so when I go to a beach,
I don't like to relax.
Speaker 5: Oh really, you don't like you.
Speaker 4: Just like I'm not a big I've never understood like,
let's go to the beach and I can't do that.
Speaker 5: I can't well, actually i've met you that tracks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, relaxing is not relax same to me, I'm gonna
be doing something like if we're at the beach and
I'm not get them off, let's throw it, let's go
jump in the water, let's do it.
Speaker 6: Get like that a little bit too, but let me
get some free time to do what I was just describing.
Speaker 5: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: I get it like, I'll do it. Mhm. We're just
everyone's a little different. You know. If I go you know,
if I'm I'm on the little boat, I don't want
to just sit there and like do nothing. I want
to jump off that thing. How deep is it out? There,
Captain cannon Ball. But yeah, like I said, relaxing is
just not relaxing to me. Like that's why I've never
you know, I just we had our kids, we'd go
to the beach, and it's just it's a little distressful
all this stuff. I gotta carry all the stuff, you know,
I gotta set it all out, and you just kind
of sit there. Then they get all tired. About thirty minutes,
you got to pack it back. Yeah, all Rightah, sitting
there stressful.
Speaker 5: Let's get a little weekend winners.
Speaker 4: That's how win it.
Speaker 5: Has done every bud.
Speaker 7: You can't have anyone out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's got a key bark.
Speaker 4: Apologer got too far. I'm by winning. I went here
and I win there.
Speaker 6: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 5: Winning?
Speaker 4: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
What's that.
Speaker 8: Win the whole thing?
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna start this off with a weekend
winner slash weekend loser from the same game Slasher. Grant
Holmes struck out fifteen Colorado Rockies for the Atlanta Braids.
Fifteen of them. What a lot of strikeouts. Almost set
the franchise record. I believe it's sixteen. So he strikes
out fifteen Rockies. Well, the Braves won obviously, they lost
ten to one.
Speaker 2: Oh, how do you score ten runs?
Speaker 6: Grand Homes struck out fifteen Rockies and they lost the
game ten to one.
Speaker 1: Oh, was it just like strike out home run?
Speaker 2: Strikeout home run?
Speaker 4: Like what appen?
Speaker 6: The wheels came off after they took out Grant Homes completely?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it gave up ten a season high for
the Rockies, and runs gotta.
Speaker 5: Be probably.
Speaker 6: Series high just from the one game that's probably probably. Yeah,
Rockies been strike out fifteen and lose ten to one.
Speaker 5: It's hard to do. It's impressive.
Speaker 4: Actually, the Rockies kind of went a little run there after.
Speaker 6: We a little bit after we poopoo on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can winner here. This is like one of
the big I guess winners probably of the year. Mister
JJ spawn JJ spawn rallied held off in an absolutely
diabolical golf course to win the US Open yesterday. It
was absolutely We can get into more about the details later,
but yeah, holds on to win his first major, only
a second PGA tournament victory in his career, and he's
been at it for quite a while. But yeah, takes
home four point three million dollars.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm sure Sam Burns took home a pretty
good purse as well.
Speaker 4: He took home a good purse and he is probably
very upset about making that money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know it.
Speaker 4: Was a tough It was a tough last twelve holes
for that guy. Yeah, but we can get into that.
But yeah, JJ spawn, we're all about the weekend winners
right now. Held it off and jumped on the scene,
absolutely exploded onto the scene. Most people hadn't heard of
this guy who's a casual golf fan, but it really consistent,
good player, I guess on the PGA for a long time.
Has really popped off this year. He got in a
playoff with Rory at the Players Championship earlier this year.
But before that it only won one time at the
Valero Open in twenty twenty two. So JJ Spaine US
Open can't ever take that away from him.
Speaker 5: Last forever bet they do moves. She got a weekend winner.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, he kind of talks about him earlier
in the first time we were talking College World Series.
But Jacob Borson summed up pitching the deer from coastalth Carolina.
Speaker 5: Awesome last night.
Speaker 9: Man to be on that stage, winner's bracket, take control
of the thing. He just goes a cool seven and
a third, no big deal against the program like Oregon
State and punches out of them.
Speaker 4: Leave.
Speaker 9: It was seven that he punched out, just gave up
the one run. Catter was filthy.
Speaker 4: He's got a shanz two and oh two days off.
Speaker 5: All right, Hey, he's a large human being as well,
giant man. Yes, my god.
Speaker 6: Chris Buden was interviewing him after the game. I was like,
how's the air up there, fella, Jesus te.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first weekend winning for me. We had already talked
about this previously as well. Louisville Cardinals, I mean it
looked like their season was over. They looked dead in
the water. They rally get a big time win over
Arizona to send them home. And I'll pair this with
my weekend loser, the NCAA, because when Arizona went home,
you know they put up a picture of the Arizona
baseball team saying thank you for your good season. Well
they did that, and here's the Arizona baseball team. The
only problem is when I scroll up in the tweet
they tag the Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team, and you can say, okay, Arizona, Arkansas. No,
this is Razorback Baseball not even close to Arizona. So, uh,
good for you, NCAA, you got you got Arizona right here,
and then you.
Speaker 2: Tag the Arkansas Razorbacks. Stay hot.
Speaker 4: They're just used to doing that this time of the year.
I was, I was trying to look that up earlier.
What is their tag arkanasa or whatever it was? You know,
I get it.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's a little slept now now and it's like
a Razorback like wrong in turn got fire. Probably probably
somebody somebody's heads got a roll unfortunately.
Speaker 5: Immediately, Yeah, that happened. Uh weekend winter, the box office
is back.
Speaker 6: I love going to movies, Doug, don't you know, don't
get to do it often with you know, uh all
the the youth sports and such. Love going to the movies.
One of my favorite things that I've ever done in
this profession. So I used to travel to uh the
games for Cox Sports and on Fox Sports Radio. I
would do a hit for the SEC but also at
the end of it, I'd go see a movie on
the road because I was by myself and it was
like I'd give a movie review on Fox Sports Radio.
Used to love it, right, So the box office for
a while went away.
Speaker 5: I think it might be back.
Speaker 6: How to Train Your Dragon made a eighty four million
dollars on opening weekend. Leelo and Stitch made to this
date three hundred and sixty six million, Mission Impossible one
hundred and sixty six million. Now the worldwide gross is
like over four hundred million, so I don't know. I mean,
even Karate Kid Legends, they keep squeezing that in forty
four million. Final Destination, Bloodlines one hundred and thirty one million.
Speaker 4: Right, hold on, you're telling me right now, there's a
Final Destination, a Karate Kid, Leila and Stitch, a Mission.
Speaker 5: Impossible, and How to Train Your Dragon?
Speaker 4: And this is not nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all of them, all of them a sequel or
a remake. Yes, So the box office numbers are big.
Speaker 5: We love that, No, they are.
Speaker 2: We went to the movies on Friday and like, it was,
what did you say? You saw? How I Train Your Dragon?
Not my choice, Victoria's choice?
Speaker 5: Well, how was it so you and your wife?
Speaker 4: No, we met with.
Speaker 2: A couple that has like a kid, and they picked it.
Speaker 5: So was a child with y'all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, all right, all right, I.
Speaker 5: Say if you if y'all went and there was like no, no, no, no,
we got it.
Speaker 6: We got ceial lists came out as well. Rom Com
made twelve, so it was good.
Speaker 1: I obviously went in completely blind, didn't know anything about
it and never saw the animated so.
Speaker 4: It was pretty good. But you can make you can
make a billion people. The point was like the theater.
Speaker 5: Like I'm just saying with the other options, like there's
some really.
Speaker 4: Good, good options. But I've been known to sit there
and watch a movie with my kids at home or something,
and everybody's already left the room or falling asleep, and
I'm sitting there just this is into it, not even
noticing they're gone. Oh.
Speaker 6: I had never seen the movie, Luca Disney movie, and
I put it on for Harlow. She was interested for
like thirty minutes and so, which is a long time
for a two year old. And I sat there and
I looked up after thirty more minutes like, oh, yeah,
been here anymore?
Speaker 5: You're they were running that invest But at the end
of these sea monsters.
Speaker 4: They were riding that vespa, riding that downhill bicycle.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm I'm pop committed at this point. I
never tell you before.
Speaker 4: I mean, go to the movies these days. It ain't cheap.
Speaker 5: Uh tell me more.
Speaker 4: Oh and one of those like movie themed popcorn buckets. Yeah, oh,
but I mean we're looking at twenty five thirty bucks
for that thing. Yep, but nothing hits like a movie
theater popcorn.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure the Mission Impossible one has like a
set of keys that you have to put together and
unlock the top to get the popcorn.
Speaker 5: I take that one.
Speaker 4: See the one for Dune too, kind of weird looking, Yeah,
I want to google that one.
Speaker 5: Keebob Black that one? Sure he did. Any more weekend
winners or losers? You want to talk about the red
Sox trade? No, I do not want to talk about
the red Sox trade at all.
Speaker 9: Don't know they really ruined the great weekend of sweeping
the Yankees, didn't they.
Speaker 5: I thought it was gonna be a weekend loser for you.
It's why I gave you the floor.
Speaker 9: I mean, it is weekend loser, but I figured.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to because he's lush talking
about don't want to do it to Sam Burns. So
I'm just gonna say that golf fans in general that
were locked into the US Open having to come back
after the rain delay yesterday in an absolute just pile
of wetness on that golf course and watching the best
golfers in the world go for this title in that
kind of environment, most people struggled. Now a couple people
rallied and played great in it, but goodness, it was
a wet mess. I would have I think a lot
of people out there might have liked to see that
kind of good delayed to Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd give weekend loser golf fans. It's like, sure,
it's the US Open.
Speaker 4: Nine of the.
Speaker 1: Big name players were in contention, like Sam burn is
probably the only name you know, and then he collapsed.
Speaker 4: Yet Scott, you had some people up there, but it
looked for a long time like we were going to
see somebody win by default because everybody else lost it. Yep,
thank god that jaspont I actually kind of went out
there and won it, so it kind of gave us
something to cheerful. But man, that course, with it being wet,
it was eating him up already, but with it being wet,
it might have been nice to see this that thing
get kind of pushed to Monday. I agree with you
on that. Of course, two golf takes getting of course
looked awful. I mean, what would you've shot on that
course after the rain seven hundred seven hundred lease and
then Jase's fund and then it started raining. He had
this the shot of his life walking up to the
green on eighteen. He had to make a tuput from
like god knows where, other side of the earth and
it starts raining on him hard.
Speaker 5: Got a boy, all right, We got Shaye Dixon.
Speaker 6: Now Shay, he's got some scheduling, so we'll probably have
a quick segment and then get to Shay around eight
point forty. But obviously some big LSU recruiting news to go. Look,
I mean they right now looks like they could have
the number one class in the country when it's all
said and done.
Speaker 5: So a lot of recruiting news to go over.
Speaker 6: A five star receiver that's committed to LSU was in
a full Tennessee uniform on an official visit over the weekend.
Speaker 5: So we'll get to all that with Shadez when we
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Speaker 3: Centrope from the locker room to the airwaves. Gets off
the bench with Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 6: H right, Welcome backan O TV one four five ESPN
Baton Rouge Tata. You are certainly the member of the
team that keeps up with recruiting the most. Tristan Keys
is somebody that is a five star player committed to LSU,
one of the top receivers certainly in the country. This
last weekend he was seen in a Tennessee uniform and
enjoying himself.
Speaker 5: And it's not uncommon for us to see that.
Speaker 6: Well, what are your thoughts if you're an LSU coach
or if you're somebody that has this kid committed and
you see that, you get a little worried there.
Speaker 2: Tite No, Okay.
Speaker 1: So the last time I filled in for you guys,
right after Memorial Day, he had taken a trip to
Miami on official visit. So I started reaching out to people,
and Bryce Coon for go to Verse seven hopped on
with me.
Speaker 4: He actually went to.
Speaker 1: Mississippi, visited with him, visited with the coaches and everything,
and his take on it was kind of, Look, he's
fully committed to LSU, but he's a guy that wants
to get out, wants to see the sites, wants to
take his visits. I mean, he didn't seem overly concerned
with like, hey, this guy might be a flip risk,
and obviously that can change.
Speaker 2: But the word now is like he's committed. He just
kind of wants to take his visits.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Obviously, if you're LSU, you don't want that, but you
kind of can't tell them not to do it. Like
he's gonna the kid's gonna do what he wants to do,
but not overly concerned. But I mean, it's it's something
to keep an eye on, all right, I.
Speaker 4: Think you said. I mean we don't. I don't follow
the recruiting as much as I probably should, but seems.
Speaker 5: Like the game's change. I mean, all of us in
this business.
Speaker 6: It used to be something that was like Tier one
what we followed, and now through guys leaving after a
year transfer portal, it's just not.
Speaker 4: It's a little watered down now because they most people
are worried more worried about recruiting the guys that are
already on your roster, right, make and making sure that
they stay there. But I tell you, one of the
trends that I hate in recruiting is the photo shoots
in uniforms. I think it's cringe worthy. I don't know
what it does for anybody, because you see one recruit
it's got ten different uniforms on and he's posting about it.
What good is that doing to anybody? I don't know.
I just think it's cringe worthy. It's an old man take.
I got it like, I just don't see the point.
I don't understand it. I just think it looks dumb, Like.
Speaker 5: I don't know this is going to sound old man
as well.
Speaker 6: There was something, I am god, there was something about
putting on an LSU uniform for the first time, no doubt.
Speaker 5: Once I was an LSU Tiger.
Speaker 6: The first time I ever put on the game uniform
was to get ready for Oregon State in two thousand
and four.
Speaker 4: It's an incredible feeling. Yeah, And I'm sure like when
they started this trend in the recruiting world, whoever started it,
it was awesome at that point. But if you're recruiting,
you're going on ten different visits, butting on ten different
uniforms just to take a picture for social media.
Speaker 6: What are we doing If Huck is getting recruited for
any sport and he goes on a visit and they're like,
all right, uniform time.
Speaker 5: You can be like, m actually, let.
Speaker 4: Me help you get dressed. But okay, well, I'm not
telling anybody not to do it, because that's the thing
to do.
Speaker 6: I just when you're thinking, like I want to I
want to act like all the masters. Man, they'd be
out there hitting the poses up, they'd be doing the
like I just think they.
Speaker 5: I just don't think.
Speaker 4: It's like I don't maybe maybe, but I get that,
I get the I get why you do it because
it's the thing to do. I just don't like that
it's the thing to do because, like you said, it's special.
When you get to put on that uniform for the
first time, that is an unbelievable feeling. It makes you like,
it's like it's a it's kind of a culmination of
the work you put in to get to that point.
Oh well, it's just watered down. Like if if so
you go play at l s U, those pictures are
going to live forever of you. At a Tennessee uniform.
Speaker 5: So you're saying you would not, as Abbo sends me
a reminder here in.
Speaker 6: The chat, you would not be the dad of the
Florida recruit that also put on the full uniform in
the picture, saying you wouldn't be.
Speaker 4: Too serious a dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is about I've never seen what I'll find it.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is what parents. This is one of the
times that I'm so glad. Okay, this is the LSU
commit This is not the parent.
Speaker 4: Who are these people cheering?
Speaker 2: I was wondering, none of them are players.
Speaker 5: Who are these people?
Speaker 4: Are these higher like extras?
Speaker 5: I was wondering that too. Did they get like a
fee for this?
Speaker 4: Are they just someone went out on the streets of
the university and said, hey, come up here and we'll
give you a pom pom.
Speaker 2: It's like a runway.
Speaker 4: It's an orange runway. Huh huh. Well all right, well
I'd like to shave about this too. It's kind of
like the that let's see toy box, you know that
we're putting the recruits in.
Speaker 5: We'll ask Shay about that and much more when we
come back.
Speaker 6: Shaye Dixon on three joins us to break down some
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Speaker 3: Five From Players to Legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown LSU
football like only champions can.
Speaker 5: Just don't like that one? Which one that comeback? That lady?
What she said was the legends cringey? All right, somebody's
not cringey? Is our guy?
Speaker 6: Shaye Dixon on three Sports Bengal Tiger on three Crushes.
Speaker 5: It always shaye ez. What's going on?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 5: How we doing?
Speaker 8: And you don't live with me? So yes, you don't
think I'm prettyzy, but uh all right, I'm driving actually, uhm,
I better have to bet right now for the National
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players here, I'd assume your l club status.
Speaker 7: Is up today.
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Speaker 8: Actually we've got a confirmation that.
Speaker 4: Yeah with Emily uh her first year. Last year, I
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Speaker 5: You did OLK club?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 5: You want to give me one why we're teammates. I
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Speaker 4: Uh, it's your own l You have your own letter.
I have my letter, you have yours.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Well, I am going to eventually get
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Speaker 6: There you go, all right, Shay. So we were talking
before you hopped on. There's a couple of guys I
want to ask you about. So Tristian Keys is probably
something that you've had to answer a lot already. He's
going on his official visits. There's videos and pictures of
different uniforms, but the one obviously with him in the
Tennessee uniform going down the orange runway there with a
crowd is certainly making its wave on social media status
with him and his LSU commitment.
Speaker 8: Still committed, which as you if people don't know what
you're referencing, the entire Tennessee staff and personnel all did
kind of a tunnel cheer and forum and I think
it kind of brought out in a lot of people.
I'm glad I'm not a college football coach right now,
but that's how you entertain and wine and dine in
the new era of five stars. But look, Tristan Key
is coming out of my alma mater, Hattiesburg High End
phin belve They Lshue recruited so well there and I
guess most people know this, but look Batton Ruge to
Pattisburg and Laurel Oak Group. All that is toloyser than
it is to Startville or Oxford or tuscaloosas. So even
being Mississippi kids, we've seen them have a lot of
success in that area. Recently in Tristan being committed out
of Hattiesburg High, he was always going to make these
visits Miami, Tennessee this past weekend. A and M was
in the mixed two weekends ago, but his final visit
of a month this weekend LSU, and it will be
kind of a who's who of guys on campus with
camp official visits. The Biden splashes this weekend, so a
jam Pig weekend and Keys will be there as the headliner,
one of the headliners.
Speaker 4: See what do you think the opening line is for
LSU coaches on recruiting wide receivers? Did they just basically
look at what we've done over the last decade in
wide receivers, because it's if anybody should be able to
recruit wide receivers in the country, it should be LSU.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think I remember that Tristan and committed and it
was kind of turning that way, but he committed the
day after Jamar Chase when we did this new contract.
So aren't overseeing overlooking what the guys like Jets and
Jamar and obviously into Malik and Brian here recently have
done in the NFL. So uh, really, it's the same day.
Speaker 7: It's that pitch.
Speaker 8: It's hey, look, always gonna have talent. It's the same
picks they give quarterbacks, which you know, we all lived
through the less arrow. I'll want to nady so but
you know, not knocking you, mat you you're the goat, right,
But no one is looking at these kids look at LSU.
Think about it that when they were fourteen, maybe they
started really knowing they had a chance to play college football. Well,
well she's went two heismans of quarterbacks. Since then, every
receiver is gone on to immediately set these NFL records.
So I think it's kind of most LSU fans are
over thirty are kind of wake me up in my
dreaming type, Like every top quarterback looks at US, so
do all the top receivers. Bo Bentley, a top five
quarterback coming out of Texas, is down to LSU and ouh,
And it's kind of a reverse. It's like not the
Lincoln Riley days anymore. LSU's more of that team. So
I think the pitch to Tristan Keith is the same
as quarterbacks as Look, we've had one of the top
ten offenses, a peen offense in the country year after
year now, and once again that's my odds on Davor
Jeen the Heisman. You'll have quarterbacks and you get to
the ball.
Speaker 4: Now, Shay, Sorry, Louise translation of the word goat.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely means something else when
he's talking to you, Shay. Another recruit that l Hue's
been certainly heavy on for a long time, Lamar Brown,
who's on lshu's campus.
Speaker 5: I mean he goes to U High.
Speaker 6: There was word that he is not going to have
his official visit at LSU. What's kind of the read there.
Speaker 8: I'd be a bit surprised if he doesn't.
Speaker 4: Sh o he left us on a cliffhanger.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. I don't know if he did that
on purpose, but if he did, it's genius.
Speaker 3: That was.
Speaker 4: Yeah. When you go to that bridge at one ten
on the way to the airport, a little hit a
dead spot right there.
Speaker 5: Do you a little bit Oh, well, he's got me
on the edge of my seat.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to wonder committee come out lamar and Brown
high school.
Speaker 4: High school kid's got you on the edge of your seat.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, like I mean, this is my son's teammate.
My son plays right next to him on the defensive line.
So you know, I'm intrigued by it, and you know,
I don't want to ask my son like, hey, how's
the recruiting going.
Speaker 5: Uh, shay, we got you back. He left us on
our cliffhanger there.
Speaker 7: My bad.
Speaker 8: I thought. I thought I spoiled the start of it,
and then you said give us a cliffhanger. I didn't
realize nobody heard me. I do think vid he ends
up visiting LSU this weekend, that's my guess they have.
It's way too big of a weekend. But Jake, you
said it easy, you high kid. These kids, they I
don't think people outside of Louisiana maybe or even Batteries
get when we say they go to the lab school
like they're playing football next door to the ops building.
They are on campus every day. So when you get
the chance to go to Miami and Texas and A
and M has always been the other team outside of LSU,
You're going to have a blast and seeing something new
for the first time with a red carpet rolled out
for he as a five star, but he ended up
visiting A and M as playing this weekend. Then said hey, look,
I mean not not going to visit LSU and going
to go back to A and him again. And there's
five days in between now and the weekend. I'll be
surprised if that holds up. And if it does, and
then it's quite telling of where he sits with LSU.
And I think LSU would receive that message loud and clear.
But again with between official visits and the splash this
weekend in camp, I uh, I think they hope. Odds
are he'll probably show up.
Speaker 4: Say, let's look ahead a little bit. I'm always gonna
talk quarterbacks, ask quarterbacks, and just a real general question
about uh in town guy Elijah Haven Like, any any
new updates on him with going into I know he's
not this coming year, but uh, we kind of gotta
look look ahead with him. Any any updated news, right,
I mean for.
Speaker 8: This cycle it's been Bo Bentley. Uh, And then you
look ahead because there's so many guys in next year's class.
Even a couple in Louisiana and a couple that have
offers one out of evangel uh and then obviously went
out have done him here. And I look at Haven,
Michigan's been on him, m Baylor, a couple of schools
in Texas pretty heavily since early on. And then LSU.
I do think LSU takes two quarterbacks. I just get
a feeling that there's too many guys out there and
that had interest that if the dominance fall that way,
they would take two. And and he's firmly in that
big I don't think he's in a rush to make
a decision anytime soon. But the other one I would
watch is another border state kid and coming out of
Texas and Colton dus Meyer, who it's already taller than
not just Garrett but also Dog so he's got the
height and Yank he's a southball, so a little bit
of a mix up there from Garrett. But that's kind
of two names I have Wright, or at least you're
looking at the end state guys that I've offered those
two out of Donomit evangel and then you're looking into
East Texas and saying all right, how can we get
enough Meyer on board?
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