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Speaker 1: Live from the Raising Kine Studio. Here's Jacob Hester and
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Speaker 1: Ja k.
Speaker 5: Hester is in Arizona.
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, in Phoenix.
Speaker 4: And Phoenix, Arizona. At the NFL Owners meeting, you were asking.
Speaker 7: About the coaches picture when that comes out came out?
Speaker 5: Yeah shoot him that So I was right.
Speaker 6: I thought it was at the coaches meetings.
Speaker 7: I don't know, I mean, they came out it was.
Speaker 6: The same thing.
Speaker 5: I think it's probably everybody just goes there.
Speaker 6: I remember as being like, who are these some of
these people.
Speaker 5: Owners just like toot their own horn a little bit.
Speaker 7: How many of the coaches. Could you name just by
looking at them?
Speaker 6: I actually feel like you can name a good bit
of it.
Speaker 4: You'd probably hit a decent amount, way more in NFL
than in college, for sure.
Speaker 6: There were like two last year that we were like,
who are these people?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's some standard looking white dudes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they're all wearing the same thing.
Speaker 5: They're all wearing the same thing. I could, I could
pick most amount. We should.
Speaker 4: We should go through it though, But good morning, everybody,
Welcome in, Welcome into the show. We're excited to everybody.
Speaker 5: Listen.
Speaker 4: We're excited to be here another day. They kept us
on after one day of the tripod rolling. They said,
you know what, let's.
Speaker 5: Run it back.
Speaker 6: I don't know how that week didn't get us pulled off.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's fair. It's a fair question. It's a
fair point. But we're excited to be here. We got
a lot to get to today.
Speaker 5: We have. I don't know if y'all heard we got
a new coach at LSU.
Speaker 6: Wait, who Dylan Roola Dyl?
Speaker 4: Yeah he's going to Oregon. Uh no, Will Wade. It
was good to hear Benificier. Good to hear breaking the
news right now. So we'll get to the at a
press conference yesterday getting introduced. Quite the to do with
him being introduced yesterday. But a lot of fantastic quotes
coming here, a lot to react to as well, so
we'll get that. We'll get to that in our one here.
We got Jake Clark joining the show as well. Eight
thirty Clark coming on the LSU Ben Rouche at the
PMAC hosting a regional for the NCAA tournament for gymnastics.
Speaker 5: Pack the p MAC Pack the p MAC so it
actually starts tomorrow.
Speaker 4: There's like I think there's like nine teams in town
and they're all going to compete at the p MAC
over the next.
Speaker 5: Four starting tomorrow, soa April first through fourth.
Speaker 4: So Jay Clark coming on to talk about his LSU
team and god, they are just stacked with all Americans
on that team.
Speaker 5: As well, we got Nick Underhill joining the show.
Speaker 4: Like I think you heard Taylor at the start of
the show saying Kelly Moore spoke to the media a
little bit yesterday.
Speaker 5: So got Nick Underhill joining the show. So we got
a good show. But before we.
Speaker 4: Get to all that, you know, we don't like we'd
like to start out a little easy. It's seven am,
no reason to like get a little too crazy. I
like to get a little vibe.
Speaker 5: Check happening. What's going on everybody? How are we doing?
Speaker 6: Doing great?
Speaker 2: I feel like I had something that I was going
to talk about here and I forgot what it was.
I do that all the time. I'm like, oh, when
they asked me how I'm doing tomorrow, I'm gonna tell
them about this. Oh yeah, And then I always blank
whenever y'all get to me, and I'm just.
Speaker 4: Like, good, Yeah, I'm just doing doing great, doing great.
Sometimes I do that, like mid question when we have
a guest.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just blank.
Speaker 7: We've seen it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it happens frequently.
Speaker 6: We're familiar.
Speaker 4: That'll probably happened to day your game Mattehuh yeah, you're
familiar with my game?
Speaker 5: Yeah absolutely, Yeah. Well, I look, it doesn't matter what
we're doing. It doesn't matter what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, I mean, nothing else that we're talking about
is more important than what I have to say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to say about what happened yesterday. Has
let me this.
Speaker 4: If anybody remembers last time to try bouts rolling for
a week, what you had a had.
Speaker 6: A cat, that the orange cat.
Speaker 2: I didn't kick it, Okay, just to be very clear, No,
I actually pet it, which is uh not characteristic of
me for cats rub No, not, that didn't happen. So
I did see the cat the other day, and I
was going to show y'all. I took a picture of
him to send to y'all, and I forgot.
Speaker 7: To do that.
Speaker 6: But I did see the cat the other day.
Speaker 2: He looked just as healthy as ever, and he was
chilling like in his normal spot. He didn't follow me
this time, though, I don't think he saw me, and
I didn't want to go disrupt.
Speaker 6: Him and then feel bad for leaving him again.
Speaker 5: So I just so, is it fair to say you're
not an animal lover?
Speaker 6: No, I am an animal lover.
Speaker 2: I don't like cats, though, that's like the one that
I just like. I don't we we just don't vibe
me and cats, But I love animals like I love dogs.
Speaker 5: I don't know if cat's real vie with anybody, right?
Speaker 2: So I was at my I was at my friend's
house this weekend before the concert. We were getting ready
and she has a cat, and her cat started rubbing
up against you know how cats rub up against your legs.
He started rubbing up against my legs, eggs, and I
was like, okay, well, I'm just I'm gonna pet you
even though like yeah, and then I told her and
she was like, he doesn't rub up on anybody's legs.
You say I'm an animal whisper honestly.
Speaker 7: Now you say you don't know if you're connect to people.
I got a cat next door. I'm trying to convince
my neighbors to just let me have it at this point.
Now Frankie's not okay with it. That's kind of his
sworn enemy. It's kind of a one sided affair. The
cat doesn't really care about him. He hits the cat.
But no, it's awesome. Like I'll go I'll be bringing
my cans in from the end of the street. The
cat like follows me down the driveway, comes up to
me everything. Every twice a week. That happens when I
bring the cans out and I'm bringing them back in.
Awesome cat love it.
Speaker 5: Good, Good for you.
Speaker 7: It's not going Negotiations aren't going well on that fraud,
but we're going to keep at it. Well, are you
conferring with Frankie not his decision. He lives there for free.
Speaker 5: Not his choice.
Speaker 4: We have this, uh I I've told you about our
cat outside cat, old Cindy Clawford.
Speaker 7: That's a phenomenal name for a kid.
Speaker 5: That was me.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you kids don't know who Cindy Crawford is.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 4: We had two cats when we lived in St. Francisville.
One was Aaron and the other was Alexander Miamilton.
Speaker 5: These themes are these are tier Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean it's not a big deal. Like I spent
a lot of time with them. We spent a lot
of time on the names, and uh yeah, I just
we just crushed it. And they're all outside cats. They're mousers.
Before we would before we got the cat at our house,
their current one what we had mice, we had snakes, lizard,
we had all sorts of stuff. We were like kind
of we're kind of like in the woods. Right since
we got the cat, nothing absolutely nothing. Now it probably
kills more things than it should, certainly some pretty birds.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but is it anything You're going to miss?
Speaker 4: Bunnies? Not no, because I didn't know it was really there.
I'll told you about the bunnies.
Speaker 5: Huh uh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the cat left one on display. Yeah, it's kind
of a murderous cat.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's murder's cat, but a sweet little thing. Hers
a lot. Cindy Clawford wouldn't play ny Clford.
Speaker 4: Didn't play around. She looks innocent to She's little, she's
not real big. She was probably the runt if I
had a guess, but she crushes it.
Speaker 7: Hell yeah, man, bit of an update for you. Okay,
god's the trucks and Beton Rouge. It is in Baton Rouge.
Should I get it today? Yes, I'm gonna say wednesday, because.
Speaker 5: These folks take their time. They take their time. They're
nothing if not thorough. So but it is here. So
you got an update from the driver, the company, the.
Speaker 7: Number, I mean, yeah, but someone from the actual betroage
company called me six o'clock yesterday, was like, it is.
Speaker 5: Here, all right, like tomorrow morning.
Speaker 7: We have to put it through you know, the emissions
test all that, but inspection sticker on it.
Speaker 4: They're like, and then we're good. So do you go
pick this up or they come to your house and
drop it off. They can come to your house.
Speaker 7: However, Matt, forgive me for not trusting them to drop
it off in a timely manner. It's on Seagan Lane.
I'm going to get it perfect. You don't know when
not that bad. I'm gonna assume Wednesday. I'm not counting
on today. Today's not happening.
Speaker 5: Well, congratulations, dude. It's a big deal.
Speaker 7: It's like almost, it's like almost here.
Speaker 5: So y'all can have two cars now, Yeah, how's that
going been? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean she works from home, so not that big
of a deal that my sister.
Speaker 5: She does work from home, but there are other things
she can do outside of the.
Speaker 7: Like today, I drove my my sister's old car. She
just got a new one, is in the process of
selling the old one, and she's like, hey, she's just like,
you know, get the title and all that, and she's like,
you can just drive it for a few days to
get years. So I drove my sister's car yesterday and today.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 7: But after that we're I'll tell you what we're in
the clearer Man. Takes a village, it really does. It
takes a village to get this guys.
Speaker 5: How's how's razor done? Big crushing it.
Speaker 7: She's twenty four weeks or she was twenty four weeks
last week. It's measuring twenty seven weeks. So he's a
big boy.
Speaker 5: Got some kicks happening.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I felt of you last night. I've only
got a couple, You've only got a couple. Yeah, I
mean it's probably Tom. She's like the Taylor baby's kicking.
You want to feel it?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Sure, and then all goes quiet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's about right.
Speaker 7: It's uh, it didn't happen a ton, but I've gotten
I've gotten two or three in there all right enough
to know that like she's not faking it. There's there's
actually something going on. It's like we're we're on the
same page. You now took a little while. Yeah, he's
measured in twenty seven weeks though, so a little bit
ahead of schedule.
Speaker 5: Uh do you have that? Did you find that coaches picture? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I have.
Speaker 5: I just want to see it. I want to go
through it.
Speaker 4: I want to go through it and a little bit
later and try to guess some names.
Speaker 5: All right, there's some obvious.
Speaker 4: Fully light blue shirt, right. I think the only one
that doesn't have a form of blue on it is
Brady No, uh, Cohen?
Speaker 5: All right? Liam, I mean my god? All right?
Speaker 7: Well, so Sirianni a little bit more jack than I
thought he would be. Yeah, he's been hitting the gym
over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Hey, I was thinking about this when you were you
were playing some music before.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're going with.
Speaker 6: Today, Well, today's eighties eighties.
Speaker 4: During my event this past week, when I'm working out,
you know, I get on some I get on some
good songs recently.
Speaker 6: Were you working out with headphones?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, this was like during the actual Hierroxydy.
So we're going and like it's like a it's a
party in there. There's a DJ, there's a there's fog machines,
there's like a dude on the microphone, and a lot
of stuff happening. So this is towards the end of
the race. Well, like I'm passing an hour into this thing,
and I can't remember if it was like so sandbag
lunges are the last thing you do, I'm sorry, second
to last thing you do.
Speaker 5: Last thing you do is wall balls And yes, it was.
Speaker 4: Horrible, thank you. Uh, I can't remember. Phil was a
run before or after the lunches, which is one of
the things I was like dreading the most.
Speaker 6: Yeah, your legs felt like cinder blocks.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm running, am I trying to trying to
make make sure time I go. I'm like looking at
the time of watch, but I have no clue if
I'm on track to beat my goal or whatever. And
I'm like getting exhausted and like this is like the
most tired I was, my legs are heavy.
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, Anti app plays.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: Hell yeah.
Speaker 2: So I was doing a well. First I remembered what
I was gonna ask. I was gonna or say whenever.
I was going to ask what was the hardest part
of high Rocks to you? And then so the other
day I did this is gonna sound funny because the
name of it is funny, but they're called like a
fart like run where it's like yeah, so you do
like yeah, you do like thirty on thirty off, but
it's like you're not really off, You're just running slower
yep or guild you like a minute fast, a minute whatever,
That's that's.
Speaker 6: What it's called.
Speaker 2: And then I was doing it and I was like, man,
I'm tired. I was like on the last like five
minutes of it, break your neck.
Speaker 5: Yes, just came on the headphone.
Speaker 2: Yes, well I added it to the playlist obviously, duh.
Speaker 6: And now I need to add Annie up.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like when it's so two things came at
the end of the thing. It was Annie up and
then the bulls enter I thing, yeah came on and
both of those things.
Speaker 5: I can do this.
Speaker 6: Yes, what was the hardest?
Speaker 5: That's incredible.
Speaker 4: Uh, the hardest was hard because I've been asked that
it comes at you in waves. There's a stretch. There's
a three things stretch, like the second through fourth thing
you do in the middle is we.
Speaker 6: Say the middle is the hardest part.
Speaker 4: Is uh, sled pushing, sled pulls and then burpie broad jumps.
Speaker 6: See the burpie broad jumps is would.
Speaker 4: Get three things suck pretty bad. But towards the end,
I mean obviously the end is the worst. Like they're
running right before and after the lunges. It's like your
toast and then it's just making it. For a guy like me,
that's the hardest part. Is the running is the worst
to me.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now there's some people out there that do really well
because they're good runners. They just they don't do the stuff.
They're not strong. They don't do the stuff in the
middle as good. Yeah, as well.
Speaker 5: Excuse me, it's good. That's good.
Speaker 7: I'm assuming you have to go a certain distance on
the Burbie Brool jumps.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a distance. It's like two hundred meters or
something like that. I can't two hundred meters. I thought
you were gonna say like fifty feet.
Speaker 5: It might be one hundred meters. I can't remember. It's
it's a good little wayso yeah, again it's meters, not yards,
So I don't understand it.
Speaker 7: But your fancies about kilometers you ran yesterday and he.
Speaker 5: Came back speaking of kilometers being fancy. The Saints now
have the right to the to Italy and then the
whole country.
Speaker 4: There's an NFL Global Markets program, and they got granted
the rights. I think this is didn't didn't Gal Benson
have an audience with the Pope recently?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 4: That's a fancy way to put that, have an audience
with the Pope. I read it that way. I didn't
come up with that.
Speaker 5: But it's good.
Speaker 4: She had an audience with the Pope, and now they
have the rights, the global market rights to Italy, which
I have no idea what that really means. I think
that means that they can market in Italy and I
believe they got they had the rights to France. It
has nothing to do with games, I don't think. Originally
I saw this, I was like, Oh, that means they're
going to be like like the Jaguars are to London
any time they play overseas, usually them or something like.
That's what I kind of thought it was, But it's not.
It's just kind of like the global marketing rights expand,
like the game and stuff, so they can market the Saints.
Speaker 6: Which you can probably like get TV rights or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know how that France for sure, because they
play in Paris.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe they want to play in Italy and
that's why they're going to start the marketing push.
Speaker 7: Now, well Pinky's up and then like the Saints are
going to be Italy's team, Like that's yeah, like Saints
merge all that.
Speaker 4: That would be sure. But they got France's rights a
couple of years.
Speaker 2: Ago as well, so that's why I feel like they're
probably trying to imagine.
Speaker 5: Or expand.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we don't really I feel like Italy
and France are very much Saints markets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would I would think so, definitely more France. Yeah,
maybe Pope's got.
Speaker 2: Some pull those I'm gonna say, isn't she friends with
the Pope?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: They had an audience, had an audience with him.
Speaker 5: All right, anyway, we'll research it tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll give you the updates on this Italy Saints situation
throughout show.
Speaker 5: Huh, we should ask Nick.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he will have an entire breakdown ready to
go on.
Speaker 4: This again, Nick underhurljo on the show at nine nine fifteen,
something like them. All Right, you got a great show
for you. We're gonna go to break here we come back.
We are going to break down, talk about let's show
you play some clips from the Will Wade introductory press conference.
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Speaker 4: All Right, welcome back here off the Bench Tuesday, morning,
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All Jake's off Gallivanton with the NFL folk. Sure with
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Do you feel like with this a new NFL gig,
he's lost a little grip. Probably, absolutely. It used to
be a little grittier when the college college After.
Speaker 6: He talks about how tired he is all the time.
Speaker 5: No, like, bro, what you doing scheduling change bub But.
Speaker 7: When you were at he had Bobby going to Bobby,
so the same thing. Just like, Jake, you've you've you've
moved up. You've got to forgotten about all a little poyeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jake, you've changed.
Speaker 7: You hate to see you knew it was gonna happen. Yes,
he didn't want to believe it type of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're here. He started iron in his hoodies.
Speaker 2: Notice that I didn't, But now I'm gonna have to
pay attention. I did notice maybe a little bit concealer
under the eye.
Speaker 5: What m H.
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 5: So we have to bring that. He's not even on
video for NFL.
Speaker 2: No here he was like, I can't, I can't have
the risk of people from NFL radio into O TV
and seeing under eyebags bags.
Speaker 5: Michael Star wouldn't wear that like.
Speaker 4: Also, I would never talk about how tired he is
in the morning ever, from his schedule not changing at all,
like at all at all. He speaks at the same
hours after that. I mean, in fairness, he had he
really never knew anything about NFL when we talked to him.
Speaker 6: Who Jake, and now he knows everything.
Speaker 4: He knows everything, and he won't know anything about college sports,
you know, exciting.
Speaker 2: Well, well then you need to like lock in on
college sports.
Speaker 5: No, for sure, I got it, collegiate guy. I'll be
the college guy from now on.
Speaker 7: You're gonna be quizzing Jake on SEC head coaches.
Speaker 4: He's already forgotten. He's already forgotten Levy's name. He forgot
Misissippi States in the conference. He doesn't even he doesn't Missouri.
He didn't believe Missouri's in the conference anymore. I'm gonna
have to convince him.
Speaker 5: You don't have to teach you.
Speaker 7: Maybe a lot of drinkquences.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Old fancy feet over there, Jacob Hesser, NFL guy.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Well, I didn't come here to reflect and talk about
the past and any of that stuff. I came here
to win, and we're gonna win immediately. Everybody has this
notion like LSU basketball is not meant.
Speaker 6: To be average, mediocre or pretty good.
Speaker 3: You can throw that stuff out.
Speaker 6: That's not who we are. That's not who we are.
Speaker 3: This program, this program's meant to be great. This program's
meant to compete at the highest levels of college basketball,
night in and night out. And as we say down here,
it just means more.
Speaker 4: There is Will Wade, the General. He's back. Let's go
round number two here at LSU. Get it has. He
was introduced yesterday at the PMAC. Now he is officially
back to work. And uh, when I was listening to
the press conference, that little those those little clips right.
There are the thing that stuck out to me the most.
Of course, there's a lot of energy in the whole room.
Speaker 5: Uh. He fed off that energy and he brought that energy.
Speaker 4: And Uh, it wasn't a situation where he said, look,
this is gonna take some time.
Speaker 5: We're gonna build this thing. This has got to be
built the right way.
Speaker 4: No, because of the climate of college athletics, you can
come in and you can compete fast. And we've seen it.
We've seen it in all every single sport in the
Elane Elaine gotta do it fast and well, Wade said.
The expectation is not to be great in the future.
The expectation is to be great immediately. And that's what's
stuck out to me the most. And at this school,
this program, on all athletics, demands excellence, It demands championships,
it demands the best.
Speaker 5: That's why we love it. That's why the school.
Speaker 4: Administration has pushed so hard on all these coaching hires
and made these moves that other teams wouldn't have because
we expect greatness and everything. Basketball has been the sport
and we talked about it last week before the Will
Wade move happened. It was like, all right, because everything
else is so awesome, Like we want basketball to be good,
but it's not like a do or die, make or
break my life situation. But now that he is here,
he is saying he put the challenge down, he drew
the line in the stand and said, no, we are
going to be great. And he said this LSU program
is not here too, and it's and is not meant
to be mediocre. And when I heard that, it got
me excited. I was in basketball guy me so, and
I think that dribblehead absolutely legiped.
Speaker 5: Give and go ahead. I don't know what what is this?
Speaker 7: Those are those are basketball thing, Jess, So, I mean
those are all basketball. I never heard of you that way.
Speaker 4: But I mean I don't freak terminology, like I don't
know a lot of basketball terms, but those are the
ones I knew.
Speaker 5: So what did y'all think of? And I know we're
about to we're gonna go break.
Speaker 4: We'll probably break this up talking about this, and but
just give me the quick overview of what things stuck
out to y'all from the press cones. Because my thing,
when I when I saw it, I was like, he
didn't really need to say anything else. And his press
conference wasn't that long. He didn't like talk for too long,
but it was this program is not meant to be
a mediocre and I didn't come here to reflect on
the past.
Speaker 5: I came here to win immediately, and so that was
those things to me.
Speaker 4: It's like this day and age you can and the
confidence you're speaking with, the energy you're speaking with, That's
why LSU made the moves that it did.
Speaker 7: The last question of the of the press conference, Scott
rabbolay for asking it. He said, you feel like you
o LSU something, and Wade gave a great answer. It's
about a minute and a half two minutes, and he
basically said, yeah, I do, because you.
Speaker 3: Know, yeah, there is a part of me that feels
that way. I've never connected with a fan base and
with people like I have with LSU and Louisiana. And
I feel like we left the book open a little bit,
We left some chapters out there, and we left some
chapters unfinished. And to have the opportunity to come back
and finish that off and to bring pride and joy
to people that I care about, yeah, I feel a
heavy burden towards that and That's a big reason I
came back. I mean, look, you can look at the
records and this is I told I'm going to say
something that I've only told to my wife and some
close personal friends because they've all asked the same question.
All you're thinking, like, what in the world are we doing?
You can win a lot of places, but there's nothing
like the meaning of winning with your friends and meaning
when you feel like you're playing for a bigger power
for lack of a better term, and you have more
purpose too. You have a bigger purpose. And a lot
of my best friends are sitting in this room right now,
a lot of my best friends are down here in Louisiana,
and I feel like that we have a greater purpose
with this program than anywhere that I've ever been.
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, That's.
Speaker 7: Why I came back.
Speaker 4: Love it, Love it for mister will Wade, the General.
Tell you what I'm gonna threaten.
Speaker 5: Today.
Speaker 4: That's more, I'm gonna threaten to stay on time. We're
gonna gona break, We're gonna come back, We're gonna keep
breaking down his press conference.
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Speaker 3: You know, we're coming back to make history. We're gonna
make history.
Speaker 6: One way or the other.
Speaker 3: We're coming back, like doctor rus said, try to hang
a banner, win a national championship, or I'm gonna be
the first coach fired from the same school twice. But
one way or another, one way or another, we're gonna
make history. That's gonna be a it's gonna be a uh.
It's gonna be a fun ride one way or the other.
Ain't no doubt about that.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: A little humility, a little humor to start out the
press conference.
Speaker 2: But that's like exactly what he was before, right you know,
Like we were talking about it yesterday, and it's if
not for nothing, he's gonna give you a good quote,
you know what I mean. Like, if he's not gonna
do anything, he's gonna give you a good quote. And
that was he had a cute a couple of good
ones yesterday. He had that one and then the NC
State one. They're pretty bad at a guy who they
thought wasn't very.
Speaker 7: Good will to take you take a subtle shot, right
like he's like, oh guys, I'm not going to get
into it.
Speaker 4: Change they also said, look, I'm not for everybody. I
realized that, and you know what, L s U is
not for everybody, but that's the beauty of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, y'all can hate us because he ain't us here.
Speaker 6: It is.
Speaker 3: No I know people have been talking about us a
little bit. I understand I'm not for everybody, and we
understand also that L s U isn't for everybody. But
one thing we both understand is I'm for L s
U and L s U's for me, And make no
mistake about that.
Speaker 2: Right, we got your but doesn't Isn't that how like
it's felt though, Like it's felt like we're just meant
to be, Like we're just like this is a marriage
that is meant to be, Like we got divorced, but
we found our way back together.
Speaker 6: And it feels like.
Speaker 2: Will almost said Jay Will really really wants to be here,
like he loves it here and he wants to be here,
and we want him here. And it's just I feel like,
like you said, one way or another, it's gonna be
a hell of a ride.
Speaker 5: Right, Matt.
Speaker 7: You talked about it, you know, going through all these
coach it searches. You said, I want people that want
to be here. This guy left what everybody considers a
better basketball job to come back through the school that
I understand the administration is different, but to come back
to his school that let him go a few years ago,
to take essentially less money because he loves being here
at LSU and bad reage. And like they don't show
it on the press conference that you're gonna watch on
YouTube erning news channel. But as soon as he walked
off the stage, the first thing he did, he ran
over to the student section, jumped up in there, shook
their hands like he used to do every single home
win when he was here the first time. Like the
guy forgot nothing. It's it's basically like he never left.
It's awesome, Which is.
Speaker 4: Like this never happens, right, second chances in athletics, at
least coaching never never really happens, at least that I
that I can ever remember. Maybe a coach leaves on
his own will and comes back later, but never from
a getting fired situation. And you just said it like
they gotta they got a divorce, but now they come back.
It wouldn't like a divorce. Someone split them up, right, Yeah,
someone split them up. But now that person's out of
their lives, so they're back together. Yeah, found their way
back together. Now, there's a lot of money involved in
a lot of business situations. But when you look at
this press conference and not a comparative look, but if
you look at them side by side and you think
back to like Lane Kiffin's press conference, both of those,
you could feel the reverence in both of those coaches
voices for the excitement to be here at LSU. And
everybody's heard coach speak. Everybody's heard that coach that even
even like good speak, and you can tell when there
is scripted things to say to make them sound better
or make them sound like they're more affectionate or have
more love towards something like you. Every I think everybody
listening has heard and be like, Okay, well that's yeah,
that sounds good, but that's fake or that sounds good
but whatever I believe in Well Wade's press conference and
even Lan it's like you could feel, well, you could
feel the genuine like how genuine both of those humans
are to be here. And I'm only speaking of those
two because they're the two most recent ones, right, I know,
we got great coaches on a lot of different sports.
I'm just isolating those two because it's the most recent
one and it's the loudest ones that have kind of,
you know, put LSU in the crossairs of most national
media members and national sports fans, which is fine, awesome.
Speaker 7: You asked the question last week to Jay Johnson, if
you remember, I mean this was right after the Wade
news broke. He said, Hey, what's it like workan versus
cool that you know's going to invest in every single sport?
And Jay said, twenty year old me would have said
my dream job was at Arizona and I had it.
He said, the only job I would have left for
was LSU. I mean, even a Jay Johnson who's not
as loud, not as you know out there on social media,
the other two guys understands that LSU's a little bit different, right,
And like I thought that was a great quote from
him last week.
Speaker 4: That was like when he said that, I was like,
holy hell. I was like, that's that's incredible. His dream
job was one thing and he left it to come
to LSU. Because now it's the noon dream job when
you figure when you found out it's available, and you
find out the resources, the passion behind the fan base
and that's why we love LSU athletics. So we're fired
up to have the general back. And look, the transfer
portal window opens up April seventh, so he's going to
be off and running. And just like early January when
the portal opened for football, it'll be the first gradable test.
That was the first credible test for Lane Kiffin. Well,
we'll see in a week's time pretty much what's gonna happen.
How will Wade's gonna do?
Speaker 5: And look.
Speaker 4: He like we said, he drew a line in the
sand and he put he put his own high expectations
on himself and didn't really give himself a long runway
to get there. He said, we're gonna do it immediately.
We expect to do it immediately. Well, he also said
that they're going to be strategic certainly about the way
they spend dollars, but in this first year there might
be a little sticker shock. They're going to spend some
money because you know, you have to. You're gonna have
to spend some money because you got to rebuild a roster. Taylor,
you were talking about people that we could talk about today,
about guys on the team that could retain, but certainly
there is going to be a lot of new faces
on that roster and probably proved pretty shortly when the
portal window is next week and they are they're going
to have the money to spend. Not really sure exactly
how much, because he did kind of deny the fact
that anything's been a certain amount's been guaranteed.
Speaker 5: But we know that we'll Wade can go and raise
some money and is going to be good at that.
So we will see.
Speaker 4: But they said they will not be afraid in there.
For everybody else, there might be a little sticker shock,
But I got news for you will.
Speaker 2: I think we're over the stick ye, like we're After
you said that you were gonna paying Kevin ninety one
million dollars over seven years, I was like, all right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, whatever, Yeah, Now that LSU's paid what two hundred
million in the last couple of months on two new
coaching hires, I don't think the sticker shock's going to
be there.
Speaker 6: Something.
Speaker 5: Did you say million bucks?
Speaker 6: Did you hear this part? I don't know. You might
like this. I know that whenever he said this, I
was like, okay, this is like a okay.
Speaker 2: They asked about the staff and he was like, we'll
probably have something in place next week, but I'm not
going to have a whole bunch of staff. I'm not
going to have a whole bunch of assistant coaches. At
the end of the day, I'm the general manager and
the head coach. I'm going to be making most of
the decisions. I'm going to be doing the recruiting. And
I was like, Okay, this is very different from like football,
where you you'll hire like a million people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, do do we have the missing piece?
Speaker 5: Was what the club?
Speaker 7: I didn't know if we had it, No, he might.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I did find that interesting where he said he was
going to be the head coach and the general manager. Now,
I don't know if that's common practice or not in basketball.
Certainly wouldn't be in football. In basketball, of course, you
got less people to deal with le's players, so I
guess it's easier to do it there. But I don't
know what the standard operating procedure is in basketball. I
would assume since he made mention of that, that it's
not common practice for the head coach to be the GM.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess there's other places that do have one,
but here I do have the quotes.
Speaker 3: We're not going to have the biggest staff in the world.
I don't want to have I want to have one
hundred people run around and walking on top of each other.
But you know, we're going to have our shell recruiting
staff in place here in the next you know, hopefully
by the first to next week. You know, I would
think we'll have two to three assistants and then we're
gonna leave a couple of spots open and and and
work through that as we as we move forward. But
we'll have we'll have two or three folks in here.
We'll run a tight recruiting I'm not a guy. I've
done this at other places, Like I'm the in college.
It's a little different in the NBA, Like I'm the
head coach and the general manager. Like there's no like
you don't have to have all this other stuff. Like
the decisions on the roster are ultimately gonna come down
to me. Now get input from everybody else, but it's
gonna be beat.
Speaker 6: I mean one hundred he said, We're not gonna have
one hundred people on staff. Seventy six is pretty cool.
Speaker 5: There as already a riff in between the Elise coach.
Did he just take a shot at link.
Speaker 6: He might have. Wow, we're starting the beef here. He
needs Martin.
Speaker 2: Also, uh, somebody put out it was Glenn Gilbot. He
put out a report yesterday that he's that way is
set to hire Johnny Jones and Rick Stanberry off from
the Mississippi State ex Mississippi State coach. But then I
read the r and in the article he was like,
he said that he asked Will Wade about it, and
that Will said it wasn't completely accurate. So I'm like, okay,
are we just not complete either not completely false, but
also not completely accurate.
Speaker 6: But he's also reporting it like it is.
Speaker 5: All right, it's somewhat accurate. Somewhat accurate.
Speaker 7: Oh our guy from McNeice, the equipment manager, he was there, Yeah,
a meir who carried the boombox gear front in mcne scared. Yeah,
good for him, absolutely all right, got to bring him on,
all right, shout up with niece. All right, that's good stuff.
Speaker 4: We are fired up to have Will Wade back, of course,
and even more fired up after that press conference.
Speaker 5: So well done, mister general. All right, sick with us.
We'll go to a break right here. Off the bench,
off the bench.
Speaker 4: Oh man, you know what, uh thinking about that new
basketball team's gonna feel like make me want to do
hearing that press conference yesterday. Everyone have a little beer.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make sure I go
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Speaker 5: Well, if you're gonna celebrate.
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Speaker 7: You can tell. You could tell the people in that
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They were they were dapping people up. I was talking
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Speaker 5: Look at him.
Speaker 7: Look at that guy.
Speaker 2: It was smart, honestly a good question. And I ran
it by Chris and he's like, that's a good question.
I said, Should I ask him?
Speaker 6: He said no. I was like, true, I'm nervous that
somebody's gonna look at me like I'm stupid.
Speaker 5: Oh, you should have.
Speaker 6: I know I would have been shaking, coach. I would
have I would have the way you.
Speaker 4: That's right, mister coach. I don't know mister all right,
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