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We are inching closer to practice, very very very excited.
Peruse in mince Matt's is, how do they think the
coffee table way before eight am.
Speaker 2: That's wild. We were wondering away again. Yeah, it's two
days in a row, so it ain't an accident. I
don't know, man, I didn't even get a refail. Yeah,
oh yeah, this is an issue.
Speaker 4: It's not good. It's not good, Jake. No, it's not
good at all. No. No, Like, it's eight am, what
are we doing.
Speaker 2: It's almost as.
Speaker 3: Bad as uh, not wearing pants at a children's museum.
Speaker 2: And you're like, why is he saying that?
Speaker 3: Well, because I forgot to tell a very funny story
from the weekend in which I did not wear pants
at a children's museum.
Speaker 2: So I took the kids.
Speaker 3: To go hang out with the cannon on Saturday at
the New Orleans Children's Museum, fun Place or whatever. And
in the gift shop, you know, grandparents do this, so like, okay,
you can pick out a toy, you can go on
toy all the kids can.
Speaker 2: And Bobby's getting.
Speaker 3: A little magnetic trains lately, you know, like Thom's tank
engine all that sort of stuff. Well, in my family,
we love pirates, and they had this pirate train and
it looked so fricking cool, right, Like the the engine.
The engine, the train engine has like a Jolly Roger
on it. It's got like a treasure chest cant it's
really cool, right, Yeah, but he needs a little expensive
i know, Bobby like latch onto.
Speaker 2: He hands it to Papa Bear or whatever, and so yeah, and.
Speaker 3: You can tell Papa's like, oh, this is a little
like this is a little much for what it is
this deal. But I was like, NA, look like I'll
get this, you get that it whatever, it'd be good.
And uh so we buy it and then we're eating.
It's got this beautiful little overhang that we're eating at
that's over the water, over a little pond over there
in the city park. And when just out of nowhere,
because he's just a little tear and it's what he
does with everything right now, Bobby grabs the the engine,
the badass, the centerpiece of the train, you know, like
the whole reason why we bought it, and he just
chucks it in the water. U and I can tell
the cannon's pretty o CD and I can tell that
this is kind of like bugging him, right. He also
do an apple juice in the water, so he's littering.
That's a big no no. So all of a sudden,
he's kind of pissed, and I'm like, I'm kind of
pissed cause I'm like, I love this train. Oh I
thought this train was all like I kind of put you. So,
so I go inside him, like, hey, do you aw
the net? I gotta see if I can get this.
I gotta see if I can get this some of
the water whatever. Five minutes later, they come back with
a net. So, next thing you know, and it's it.
We're on a deck that extends over the water. So
next thing you know, I climb over a couple fences.
I mate no way down to the water's edge. I
take off my shoes, my socks, my pants, I hike
up my underwear to the bottom of.
Speaker 2: My ass cheeks.
Speaker 3: And so if you're and it's freezy, and so if
you're walking across the bridge at the New Orleans Children
and you see him, you see a sixty three, two
hundred and sixty five pound man with a Bill Cosby
sweater on man and seeming like winning the Pooh, Like
you know, I don't even know. It's just giant white,
creamy thighs wading through the water desperately trying to fish
something out with a net. Unfortunately, by the time I
got down there, the train had sunk.
Speaker 2: But I did.
Speaker 3: I did get the apple juice out of the water,
but you didn't get the train. I send there for
ten minutes, pantsless, freezing, freezing water up to my right
up to my balls, you know, like like just full
thigh show for everybody. So again, guys, if anybody who's
at the Children's Museum this weekend and you saw a
pantsless man waiting around in the water, it was nothing creepy.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to save a toy train.
Speaker 3: Oh man t I mean, if anybody saw the cosm,
I started laughing so hard. The I had this on
right right right here to stay on top of winning
the Pooh situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah at the Children's museum. Yeah, you're luck you
didn't end up in cuffs.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: Again, I thought like I you know, I thought at first,
like okay, I can just take my shoes off, but
then I was like, oh no, I'm gonna have to
get like in here, in here, So I.
Speaker 2: Just started laughing.
Speaker 3: Man, pants off, shoes off, just wading, wading in the water.
Speaker 2: Did you go back into the museum and all that
not to get.
Speaker 4: The trains as long as I know, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
absolutely yeah. Did you put your pants back on?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, I put my pants back on before
I came back up to the uh to the kind
of uh maid like that was.
Speaker 2: A step too far. God did not get.
Speaker 3: The train though, still bums me out something about that,
and you know it sucks, like credit to them for
finding me a net out of nowhere. Yeah, but if
we'd been quicker with the net it would have been
I would not have I would not have even had
to go underneath.
Speaker 2: How deep start it float underneath? I could walk out.
It got pretty pretty fast, okay, because I.
Speaker 3: Could only walk out about five or six feet before
it was gonna it was. It was gonna go up
to the waist, in the chest and and and everything else.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: Jay Pistol says, this makes the texta day Brazil story
may be true. No, no, guys, no, not true.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest. It's pretty incriminating.
Speaker 4: The fact that you're just willing to in a Cosby
sweater in front of children because I love my kids. Yeah,
you know, and the ear As train was experience because
you didn't want to litter.
Speaker 2: Exactly, like, let's be clear, credit to me.
Speaker 3: I got that apple juice out that water, okay, and
I picked up a couple other pieces of trash that
I found along the way, so you don't litter on
my watch. Bro Um, get the hell upount her here, dude,
Uh did you try returning the trains without telling was
missing the main part? No, I am a little shocked
given the level of effort that the employees saw me
go through that they weren't like to do another train, but
they didn't so.
Speaker 2: How much we talking to you said, it's kind of expensive.
Speaker 3: So one piece was see this cool shipwreck. So again,
these are all the classic wooden sets, not like a
mechanical train set.
Speaker 2: You know, the little magnet or the wooden track little magnets. Yeah,
everybody has. I'm just take it exactly right.
Speaker 3: So they had this awesome like shipwreck one where it's
like the train goes through like a shipwreck tunnel whatever.
It was like fifty bucks, but that's what Bobby latched onto.
The Cannon's like okay, I'm gonna get it for him.
And then I'm like, okay, well if you get that,
i gotta buy the train. Like the matching train to
go into the shipwreck and.
Speaker 2: That was thirty eight. That's what I'm saying, such a
stupid ass waste of mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just throw in the water like you're heating it.
Speaker 2: Thrown in the water. I throw food. Everybody throws everything everywhere,
just everything on the ground. Like why, I don't know what?
What are you at? Animal? It doesn't matter. You can
yell me, you can spang. Well, I don't have hard's
like really spag him, but you know, you try to
freak him out. You can't do anything, dude, Yeah it
does a little.
Speaker 4: Tiny hands probably didn't even feel it, but uh hey yeah, yeah,
I know, Milroe.
Speaker 2: We get stronger by the day, guys. Those trains too.
Speaker 4: So Jackson, my oldest, he was really into tom I
mean really yea. And we lived in San Diego and
they had like a train store that was dedicated to nothing.
Speaker 2: But wooden train. I love train.
Speaker 4: I mean, she bobbed this thing. It was a big
store too, and you know how expensive those things are.
But the amount of money that we spent on trains,
and then like one day, just like you don't play
with that. But that man, he knew every train by
the name and there was like three different blue ones
and if you called, if you called Gordon Thomas, like silly,
that's Gordon.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: I mean this man knew him and hey, you know
what the Thomas A Train theme song banger uh.
Speaker 3: Also the Thomas A Train narrators start started crew in
England it was Ringo Star right in America is George Carlin.
Speaker 2: George Carlin and then Alec Baldwin.
Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know Alec Baldon go you know before
she had a Yeah, what was the.
Speaker 2: I had? Oh?
Speaker 3: One thing that does not get old with those trains,
putting the magnets in reverse and watching you know, the
men visibly push each other, you know where like like
the magnets like you're like at each other, look at
this magic? Yeah, how have I wrot this? I mean
that that is true. Like I don't care how old
I get. Magnets always remain fun.
Speaker 2: To play with. Always I can see you getting some
and just like trying.
Speaker 3: I mean, was there anything cooler than when you were
a little kid and you would get a pencil and
you'd get one magnet on there, like a circle magnet.
You put one on there, then you put one the
opposite side and it just floats and you can like sit.
Speaker 2: They're and tap it. It's the best, all right. So
that was a segment. Well, look I had to I
didn't know the story.
Speaker 4: And then like you like there were some great memories
from from me and the family, like Harlow started to
pick up trains not that long ago, and Katie and
I are like, we put onto Thomas theme song on
YouTube right now, we're making this happen again.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 4: Do you still have the old trains we have at
you know we have I don't say a lot, we
have some of them. And when I say we had
this table size like that would cover it with trains.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, we had that firstborn Yeah NFL money firstborn.
Oh yeah, we live either on either side, let's go. Yeah,
we live in big.
Speaker 3: And so I guess the overall point is, guys, you
should wear pants at the Children's museum.
Speaker 2: And if you're not gonna wear pants, don't wear a
cospy sweater.
Speaker 3: If you're not gonna wear pants, you better have a
damn good excuse, which I don't know what you just qualifies,
but I'll let.
Speaker 2: Me feel like I did.
Speaker 4: I mean, you you were saving the Earth at a time.
Speaker 2: Credit to me that apple juice ended up in the trash.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, guys, coming up next to a little
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: What's going on, y'all? Welcome back to otb Uh. It's
time for some OTB mailbag. I help this special delivery
for the bench and look it is marked most urgent.
We'll be writing to you the Internet. What the is
the Internet?
Speaker 3: All right, let's get it started. J Pissel five oh four,
has to go to the mailback? Was the shipwreck that
the toy train went through the New Orleans Saints front office?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a good bit. It's a good bit.
Speaker 3: It was not, but but I will wardrobe points that
made me laugh when I read it during the commercial.
Speaker 2: Has to go to your mail bag?
Speaker 3: Who had the greatest Super Bowl halftime performance of all time?
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know. I just gotta be completely honest.
Prince was pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, but I don't know that there's I've ever
seen one that I'm just like, God that stuck with
me or I love that, like like there's a ton
of like, oh that was good.
Speaker 2: Like Uh look, I thought Lady Gaga was awesome.
Speaker 3: I thought the final stunt of jumping off and catching
the football was pretty freaking fantastic.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't think she lip sang.
Speaker 3: I think I think she might have actually been live vocals,
which I appreciated.
Speaker 2: Uh, the West Coast Kendrick thing was pretty cool.
Speaker 4: With fifty and was that with fifty and everybody? Yeah,
the memes from that from fifty hanging upside down?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thick Fitty, I love thick Fitty. Those are great.
Or is that like when you're like when you said
the fifty cent coin that that's what he was in
that moment? Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, man, I mean I remember seeing
Janet Jackson nipple. That was cool at the time for sure,
although I didn't know what was going on around it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I liked Usher last year. I thought he
was great.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I thought, you know, I thought, you know,
I mean, it's pulling out my heartstrings there.
Speaker 2: So am I crazy? Though? Like, so we're already going
back to Kendrick, like we just had Kendrick, right.
Speaker 4: I guess he was like like you know quickly, but
like he's like the main He wasn't the headliner. No, no, no,
the headliner was I think like doctor dres knew okay, yeah,
just char those two.
Speaker 2: And then when m came out yeah yeah yeah did okay,
So it was it was the Drake guys. That makes sense. Yeah,
So I gotta do some I told you on the
way here. I gotta do some research because.
Speaker 4: Last year on Super Bowl Radio, like we do a
full gosh hour maybe on the halftime show and who
it is, Like I was in my bag for Rusher.
I was good, Yeah, I don't. I'm not in my
bag here. So I'm gonna do some research and I
had to dive in here.
Speaker 2: Next week. I will say this.
Speaker 3: I mean Kendrick probably my adult life, it would be
him and j Cole, but him having the edge in
terms of the most albums, the most rap albums that
have listened to, like like over and over again. Hashtag
OTB mail bag TB. What's the most money that you
were offered on a cash out on a bet you
let it ride, you know, with nothing Deren says he
was offered seven hundred on a twenty one dollars bet
and left with nothing Sunday, Thanks Mahomes. I've actually never
cashed out any but Jake, I'm sure you've had some
of these with some insane parlays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if it gets up to like four figures typically
and it's not like crazy where I'm like, this is
going to happen.
Speaker 2: If you offer me four, I'm cashing out. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean, I'll play it. I do play it safe.
What the hell are you playing if? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess if you're getting a four figure
cash out, what are you threatening them with a sixteen
team parlay that's got fourteen legs done?
Speaker 4: No, look like a sixteen to fifty dollars parlay is like,
you know, twenty four hundred bucks?
Speaker 2: Oh real?
Speaker 4: So you know if they offer you a thousand, it's like,
you know, I'm gonna take that all fifty bucks?
Speaker 3: A hashtag No, it's smart, it's smart. A hashtag TB
mailbag who had the worst Super Bowl half time performance ever?
I do remember feeling like Adam Devine was trying to
Adam Levine. Yeahs when I say Adam devineh this isn't
pitch perfect. Shout out Adam Divine, my guy.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: I do remember thinking that he was like actively thrusty,
like just thrusty in my face, like so much, like
really really in in there. The weekend wasn't great, No, no, no,
I mean that the.
Speaker 3: Looking Lost memes were fantastic. I feel like when we
went through the classic rock phase, those were all just
very boring.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when after the Janny Jackson they were like, let's
go compul.
Speaker 2: Lately old school. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so those weren't great. Hey,
I like Bruno Mars. I like Bruno Mars. I forgot
about him. He was good.
Speaker 3: Hashtag go to be Memba, go to Continental Breakfast Pastry.
It's obviously the croissant.
Speaker 2: Right, A classic croissants. I mean yeah, a classic croissant.
Speaker 3: Is the greatest, state is the greatest uh maybe the
greatest bread out there. I mean, I love sourd is
pretty hard to beat, that's true, that's true, And I
love biscuits sandwiches, but like, on just a pure taste level,
I think a croissant may be the best vehicle for
a sausage, egg and cheese. Jake, did you know that
people put mustard on their sausage biscuits, which I love mustard.
Speaker 2: I've never thought to try that.
Speaker 3: I know, I think it sounds great, but I never
I've never even heard of it. I guess it might
be a Texas thing, but it makes sense, right.
Speaker 2: Is this an Elandra thing?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I found this, maybe she can confirmed to I know.
Speaker 3: This was just a random videos on Twitter yesterday, uh
where some guy was shocked that Texans don't put beans
in their chili.
Speaker 2: But then I heard the mustard thing.
Speaker 3: Mentioned, and it makes sense because all sausage we dip
in mustard and it's great.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're still link sausage. Yeah, so why.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't we just throw like a sausage that like gone?
So now do they mean just sausage, I mean sausage
and cheese. I'll try out both and I'll report back.
Speaker 2: I don't know about mustard on that but but but
I but I don't not like it. I don't know.
I've never what's the best thing to dip like into mustard.
I'm gonna go soft pretzel sausage for men. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just going through broad Fall. You did and it
was great you did so sausage. Yeah finally, not even close.
Yeah yeah, uh, that's actually probably like the only thing
I really eat mustard.
Speaker 2: I guess sandwiches as well.
Speaker 4: Olivia made the house that we're staying at. Everybody got
a homemade pretzel, just says I'm a text and I
put your beans in my chili. Look, I don't know, man,
everybody she made a homemade pretzel. She makes Yes, she
made homemade pretzels and made one for everybody. I thought
about stealing Coach new Heisl's, but he was gardener.
Speaker 2: He had a clamp on it.
Speaker 3: Let's see what else we got here. Has to go
to the mail bag. Favorite food made with puff pastry. Uh,
I'm wait, what what's I don't I don't know what's
a puff?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: What technically is a puff? Magic dragon?
Speaker 3: H has to go to the mail bag. My wiping
kids are out of town this weekend.
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Do I live at the Gentleman's Club? No, that's an awful,
awful idea. Why are you paying for it? It's awful
idea you're not going to do.
Speaker 3: It's like my grandfather told me, Okay, every man's got
two heads, and you get into trouble when you let
the little one do the thinking.
Speaker 2: So I know the the sorcery your dad's dads. Yeah, yeah,
you Bobby SR.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I only met him a handful of times, but
his botes are legendary.
Speaker 2: Absolute legend.
Speaker 3: But uh but I know the the the sorcery that said,
tiny head can work and and and don't let them lead.
Speaker 2: Okay, down, boy, you know what you do? You do?
Speaker 3: You just sit around, maybe get yourself a bunch of
Chinese food. Yeah, I want to watch some movies or something.
You know, you just watch every movie. You don't clean up,
you don't put on pants, You just go around Winnie
the poo and all weekend.
Speaker 2: That's what you do. T Bob.
Speaker 4: So you were an inspiration for me when I was
stuck in Atlanta because, like we talked about yesterday, man,
I was to my point. And I try to I
like to think I'm pretty mentally tough, but I was
to my points like if I if I don't get
home to my family right now, I'm gonna break down.
I'm gonna break And So I've been eating healthy for
a good period of time, right and I'm sitting there
and I'm like, what's gonna make me happy?
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: And I went and got the biggest order of Chinese
food that you can imagine. I mean, sessame orange chicken,
the biggest thing of noodles you can imagine. And I
sat there. Yeah, I just sat there. I went in
a corner and buy out spring roll k. Yeah, I
love spring rolls. And so I go over there and
I just I grubbed and I used chopsticks because I
wanted it to take longer. I wanted it to be
like enjoy every Yeah, every single bite it's.
Speaker 3: A heady played by Jake there, chopsticks extending it enjoyment.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: So I just sat there as much and it was
you know, for those thirty minutes took me to sit
there and eat all that food. I was like, at
least right now, my belly's happy, even though I'm about
to break.
Speaker 3: The problem is, did the later come down? Did it
worsen how you were feeling or didn't carry you through?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, that's you know.
Speaker 4: After that's when I paid three hundred dollars for a
hotel room and I got there and they said we
don't have any hotel rooms. So I guess it didn't.
You know, it didn't really help the situation. But I'm
not sure anything could have helped the situation. But again,
in those thirty minutes, at least I forgot about being
stuck for two and a half days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott Nice opened the show talking Chinese food cravings
at seven am, and now he's given me one.
Speaker 2: Damn it. I know that's I don't think we've ever
gone Chinese here mobile one of what the good Chinese?
But I'm not sure anybody comes here is like mobile Chinese. Wait,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean when I take people out in bed rouge,
I think Asian fusion me personally, where was that?
Speaker 2: I just brought an all narrative.
Speaker 4: Remember like three years ago, like whenever any of us
had anything, that's where we went. Yeah, it's great for
like a three month period or so.
Speaker 3: Good food, it's good food, has say good cheat mailbag
is egg dropped soup. It's egg drop soup over eight
or underrated. I don't know my life properly rated. Yeah,
I think I think it's great.
Speaker 4: You're gonna find me. You're not gonna find me talking
bad about many soups. Yeah, I love soup, me too.
I'm not gonna you know all kinds, chowder, soup, whatever. Uh,
there will be Chinese food consumed it some way today. Yeah, Scott,
you're correct, I think yeah, I mean it seems like
it's inevitable.
Speaker 2: Uh this point.
Speaker 3: All right, there's another successful OTV mailbag.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back in It is OTB here live
from Mobile, Alabama, as we continue to preview the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: Going to go out to practice a little bit later
on this afternoon.
Speaker 4: I believe eleven to two is going to be the
practice window, So looking forward to that, I am watching
Ta Bob try to figure out this board and how
to call coach Kim Maulky, So we see if we
can get that done as well. Coach Moulkey and the
squad go to South Carolina. Tough loss there, but fought
really hard. I think we talked about it before the game.
Sixteen and a half was the point spread, obviously in
favor of South Carolina. LSU fights in the game but
comes up short, ended up losing there by ten. Then
they come back though, and they get a victory inside
the PMAC against Texas A and M. So we'll see
if we can get Coach Mulkey here on the air. Tea, Bob,
how we fieling right now? About the technology?
Speaker 2: Oh, we're good, We're good. It was for some reason.
It was just the bluetooth was not to be very discoverable.
Speaker 4: Oh, we're gonna actually get coach, like we have no
way you know, we're here live on since we have
no way of.
Speaker 2: Doing it within this here. We got like a red
like it's actually I hadn't heard, you know, Hello Joe, Coach,
what's up? Hey, we're live, we're live here on air.
What's up, Coach? How's it going?
Speaker 3: Everybody's favorite segment every single week, The legend herself Coach
Kim Moulke joins us here on off the bench.
Speaker 2: Coach, how are we doing on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5: Well, we're doing good. I'm getting ready to walk the
neighborhood for about an hour and come back and head
to the office and see if we can figure out
how to win another one at home against a very
very very good Oklahoma team.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: By the way, guys, as coach referenced, there a massive
game coming up this Thursday night in the PMAC six pm,
the thirteenth ranked Oklahoma Sooners against the seventh ranked LSU Tigers.
Let's start their Coach, what does what does Oklahoma do
so well that y'allre going to have to be prepared
for come Thursday.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm very familiar with Oklahoma. Now I'm
not since Jinny has become the coach, but boy did
we have some battles back when I was a tailor
in the Big twelve. They're always always good. This particular team,
her style of play, she played the head coach played
at Iowa, and she just has that spread the floor
shoot the three has probably, in my opinion, maybe the
newcomer of the year, and Beers. Beers is a big
girl inside. We played against her in Mali when she
was at Oregon State and she and Angel had battles
inside the paint. You can expect an experienced squad. They
pushed the ball up the floor just they're just good.
They're well coached, and they do a lot of things
within their abilities. And if you know, I said, well,
they're athletic, No, they're not what you just call athletic
gonna blow by you, but they're just hard to defend.
Speaker 4: Coach, I feel like every week that we talk with
you this season, it does feel like we have some
unique game plans. And we talked about Tennessee and the
style of play that they have, and now certainly Oklahoma
and then South Carolina last week they've got a different style.
Speaker 2: Is this more than the normal?
Speaker 4: And I know that you've you know, faced every single style,
but I do feel like in the SEC this year,
there's like no two teams that are alike and everybody's
kind of got their own way of doing things.
Speaker 5: Well, that is true. If I only have two conferences
to compare my career, you know to and that would
be the Big Twelve and the SEC. And if you
just asked me on the surface, both are outstanding the SEC.
When people talk about it across the country, they just
talk about speed and quickness and athleticism. Well that's true
to an extent. And you've got the Oklahomas and the
people who have coming in have come in the Texas.
They bring their own style, as you say, and it's different.
But you've got a new coach at Tennessee brought her
own style. It's good for the game. And it just
depends on what your philosophy is what you recruit. I
always believe this. You don't go recruit to what your
philosophy is. Necessarily. I wish recruiting was that easy. You
have to be able to adjust as a coach to
the strengths of your kids. And we have been able
to get people that blend in at LSU or at Baylor.
But you can't be so hardheaded that when you see
you can't run certain things with certain teams, you change
and you adapt.
Speaker 2: Coach.
Speaker 3: Speaking of coach Calbo over there at Tennessee, she recently
gives birth to her son. Not a week later coaching
against South Carolina. I mean to toughness on display right there,
but you gave her a baby gift.
Speaker 2: A few weeks back. Are you Are you willing nor
and or able to say what you gave Coach Calwell.
Speaker 5: Oh, sure, it was just like a onesie and some baby.
I don't know if it was rattles or whatever. You
just go in the store and say, hey, I need
something for a newborn boy. I like to tease a lot,
and people sometimes take that out of context, but I'll
always be me. And I just told them I got
her her son an LSU onesie and they laugh. Did
the same thing for the coach Finley at Florida. She's
expecting a little boy, So.
Speaker 2: Why do I do that?
Speaker 5: I just remember being young, an assistant at Louisiana Tech,
having a first, being pregnant with my first, and Pat
Summit just grabbed me one night before we played them,
and she just said, don't you get out of coaching.
You can be a mother and you can do this.
You got to have a little help. But I just
remembered that, and I'm thinking, you know, I'm at the
tail end of my career. I'm not a spring chicken anymore.
And I thought, maybe I'll just give them a gift
and encourage them to keep coaching. You can do this
and It's a great way to raise kids around the
ball and in a gym.
Speaker 3: Man, I just got goosebumps. What a wholesome story. So
the generational passing down of wisdom encouragement from Pat Summit
to you now to the next generation of coaches. Incredible
stuff there. All right, let's talk about a couple of
recent results. Again, massive game come up this Thursday. Obviously
last Friday, I'm didn't go the way that y'all wanted it.
Before we get to the A and M game, what
was your message to the team after South.
Speaker 2: Carolina in terms of what comes next? What did you
tell the team?
Speaker 5: My message to the team afterwards was the same as before.
This is not our biggest game of the year. It
might be to the media, it might be to the naysayers,
but what this game is is one of many tough
ones on our schedule. And you're down ten to nothing
when the game starts because you're on the road. That's
the approach I always take. Now, let's go out there
and let's see what we can do. When the game
was over, the message was, what do you think are
we any good? Did we just hang on? Did we
get blown out? And I made each of them, talk
about what they could have done individually through the course
of a very very close game. Next time you play
them or next time we're on that court, what you
can do better, and just talk about it and hold
yourselves accountable and walk out of there not too low,
not too down. But if we had won, I'd given
them the same message. You don't walk out here excite
I like you just want another national championship, act like
you've been there. And so it was make sure that
you don't get too high and you get too low.
And we fought. We couldn't score the basket ball very easily,
but you know, I attribute that to the defense. I
attribute that to people you're playing against, just like in
the A and M guys. A and M game, guys,
we didn't shoot the ball well. A and M is
known for their defense. Their defense at A and M
is better than their offense. So they have to really
really send you and be strong and be tough and physical.
But you know that with certain teams, Ole Miss will
be another one just like that. They're known for their defense,
so you weather the storms offensively. But the things we
have done the last two games that I still kind
of scratch my head, how do you have twenty eight
offensive boards and hop people below forty percent shooting in
the last two games. Then you break the record the
next game and you have thirty offensive boards. Well, it's
a great teaching moment because people don't want to hear
offense sales tickets. Defense wins championship. But when your offense
is suspect and it's not going great, your defense can
always be good. There's no reason your defense can't. And
your rebounding can always be good. And we've been able
to do that very good the last two games, and
one you lost, one you won, but you were in
that one that you lost and had an opportunity. It
just didn't go our way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, coach, I know you have to appreciate the effort
because you're right. I mean, Friday night on the road
against one of the top teams in the country. Your
team did fight till the very end, and so you
have that. But then you can't really feel sorry for
yourself at all because you got to come back on
Sunday and face a Texas A and M squad, and
so I know you appreciated their fight coming back home
and then winning the fourth quarter as well. As a
tight game and you pull away, you outscoring by seven
in the fourth quarter. And so the resilience that your
team showed on really short rest there against another quality opponent,
I know you have to appreciate that effort.
Speaker 5: I'm not in the mall victories. Us back up and
then all answers talk about what you just said. We
were the only team thus far to go to South
Carolina's place and play within close to single digits. I
think Duke lost by eleven. We lost by ten, getting
close to that, you know, just getting closer and closer.
But what we did, we held them to sixty six
points on their home floor. Yeah, now that's I think
it was sixty six. Yeah, So I mean it wasn't
a high scoring game. And that's because you have two
coaches who know that you've got to defend in the
half court. So all this pressing that Tennessee does and
all these new styles of play, at the end of
the day, both of us are experienced enough as coaches
to know that if you're going to ever win a Natty,
you better defend in the half court. And I just
thought it just it was that type of game. So
you come back home, you don't really have the opportunity
to get on the floor. We get home late Friday
night and you have Saturday. Then you have an early
three o'clock game on Sunday, so you can't go out
on the floor and you know, just have a killer practice,
but you have to get on the floor, get some
shots up, you have to defend them, you have to
get in the film room. So we had to do
all of that on Saturday, and we did. Okay, it
was alumni Day and we had over one hundred and
twenty former players there, so it was a good weekend. Well,
now we have to flush that. We gave them yesterday off.
We don't play until Thursday. And I'm telling you guys,
Oklahoma is really really good. They won the Big twelve
last year. And you know how good Texas is, and
they'd be Texas.
Speaker 3: And again Oklahoma's coming up here pretty soon. Tennessee's making
a return trip. Two batteries. We're in two Texas. Kentucky's
told it like a lot of ranked games left to go,
a lot of challenges, as coach said, you know Friday's
game whatever, Like I hate the biggest game that sees
There's a lot more on this schedule to come, coach,
did you ever think you know that little girl from
Tangipa Ho, did she ever think that she would see
the snow that you saw in back rooms?
Speaker 2: What did you do and what did you do for
Snowpocalypse twenty five? Wow?
Speaker 5: If y'all enjoyed it as much as I did with
your children, because I don't care how old we get,
if your children are around, You're just gonna go back
and play with your kids. So I I went out
and walked to just look outside when I could, and
I was like, this is crazy. The only time I've
ever seen this is in Colorado when i'd take the
kids snow skins. And then Kramer, my son, y'all know
he lives here, and he came over with his roommates
and one of my assistants was here. Two of my
assistants came over, and Kramer brought the old football. Guys,
that's what we use. Yeah, get a show, and we
threw the football out in the front yard and he
made me take my gloves off so I could get
a good spiral. And I said, well, help Tom Brady
use gloves. Why do I have to take mine home?
He goes mom, you're always quick witted, and so we
threw the football, but he tackled me in the yard
and I said, boy, if you had hurt me, you
would have been in deep trouble. But we had fun,
just acted like kids in a candy store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It's something I'll never forget for sure, very very very
fun week. Well, coach, Look, we can't thank you enough
every single Tuesday making time for us.
Speaker 2: I know it's an incredible big time of year.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your walk and again, guys, pack out the PMAC
this Thursday night, six pm. A Top fifteen battle defending
Big twelve champs Oklahoma coming to town.
Speaker 2: Show him what the Tigers are all about. Thank you
so much, coach.
Speaker 5: Guys, don't have a good one.
Speaker 2: Nice coach.
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Speaker 2: We mentioned, Okay, two things I want to talk about. First.
I don't really have any.
Speaker 3: Follow ups here in terms of like, I don't think
this becomes a conversation, but these are some interesting numbers
that LSU fans will be interested in. The Athletic did
a write up on the portal winners and losers over
this offseason, and I don't know if I quite appreciated
how good LSU's class is. So yes, we know they
were number one ranked or whatever, but LSU led the
entire country with eight top one hundred transfers. So if
you look at the transfer portal the top one hundred
players in said portal, obviously getting eight of them basically
means with hundreds of teams choosing to dip their toes in,
you nearly got ten percent of the players. No other
FBS program has more than six now, credit in the
sec oal miss Auburn they had six, Texas Tech had six. Yeah,
sneaky big haul for the Big twelve. But credit to
LSU for doing such a good job in this portal period.
And how about this, I thought, this is a great number.
Two one hundred and two starts added to the roster.
So you had even experience over two hundred starts added
to your roster with this portal hall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that means you weren't star chasing in the portal
like sometimes a lot of teams can do. Yeah, and
Lsho's done it. Other teams have done it. Hey, this
guy was so good in high school. He was a
five star top ten at his position. He's got three
career starts, he's got six career catches. Well, sometimes, you know,
high school evaluators they miss, just like they missing the NFL,
and you're, you know, thinking this guy is going to
be this and he turns out it's not for him.
Speaker 2: He's not that guy.
Speaker 4: A lot of teams will chase that guy in the
portal A lot of times that just does not work out. Right,
there's a reason why he hasn't gotten on the field.
I want starts. I want production. I want a guy
that has been through the fire. I want somebody that
when we plug him in, we bring him in, he's
going to be our guy from day one.
Speaker 2: And that's what they've done in this class.
Speaker 4: They haven't really gone out there and got a Denver Harris,
who we think maybe can be something because he was
this in high school. And look, I mean I think
he's on two schools past LSU. Really right, Yeah thinks so,
I'm pretty sure he is. So that's not what they
did in this class. They win guy guys that are
productive in other power for conferences. They have tape on.
They've seen them against teams that you know, you know
on Ohio State out of the Big Ten, like they've
seen that film.
Speaker 2: They've seen these SEC players.
Speaker 4: They have seen them go out there against teams that
they're going to be facing here in this upcoming season.
So yeah, I love where they're at. I love that
they identified that they had an issue and they like, hey,
hand up, like we have not done our job in
the portal, and then they attack it as much as
any team this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, LSU again, eight of the top one hundred, so
eight percent of the best players in the portal going
to one school, no FBS program in the country, bringing
in more here's the conversation to go back to Jim
Knowles real quick, just keep it on a little bit
of college football, and Penn State goes and hires Knowles.
Uh does this put Penn State over the top, because
this is them clearly trying to show like, look, we're
willing to invest, we're trying to make.
Speaker 2: Moves, but like the defense was already so good. Like
how much of an upgrade is Knowles? Do you think?
I mean, he's one of the best out there. I mean,
I'm not gonna act like he's he's not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's great, But Penn State was already great.
Speaker 2: Say they were already more great. They were already like
a top five defense. The defense wasn't why they lost
the games this year that they did. Drew Aller throwing
across his body late trying to throw a dig route.
Renzone offense got him into trouble. That for a state matchup.
Speaker 4: So they're very creative on offense, they are, and we
saw a lot of that this year. I mean Tyler
Warren alone, he's in wildcat, he's lining up at center,
and they got the polecat offense out there against USC.
But once everything kind of does become condensed, that offense
changes because you can't do as many things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the window dressing changes.
Speaker 4: You can't have all the fun that they have between
the twenties, and so they've got to figure that out,
and they've got to They got to figure out is
Drew Aller going to be a true dull threat quarterback?
Are we going to run him on some of these
Q runs? Are we going to continue to protect him?
Because once their backup quarterback went into the transfer portal,
like he was a guy that came in and he
was the Q run guy. Well then when he went
into the portal, they just stopped doing it and Drew
Aller was sold to us as somebody that was a
dual threat quarterback and John Clifford couldn't do the things
that Drew Aller could do. So they got to figure
out who they have at quarterback. And then if they
figure that out, they got to be willing to go
out there and run their offense. Yeah, like you can't
play scared and go win a national championship. And so
they got to put all their faith. You're als coming
back for a reason he's got to be the reason
they go play for a national championship.
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