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Speaker 3: So, with LSU having an FCS opponent a lot of
times during weeks like this, we'll kind of go around
the country look at some of the biggest games of
the weekend in the college landscape and see kind of
what's going on and some of the other teams you're
gonna be fighting for for a college football playoff spot.
And so here in this segments, that's what I want
to do. And I'm going to Matt, I'm gonna give
you game in every window. So we do this in
the afternoons. I'm gonna give you the games in the window.
And you tell me, if you only had one TV,
if you could only focus on one you can't quad
box it, which game you would pick and why so
in the early window, So that noon eastern on Saturday.
You've got Texas Tech in Utah, Texas Tech seventeen, Utah sixteen.
You've got Arkansas in Memphis, You've got Syracuse in Clemson,
You've got Maryland in Wisconsin, You've got SMU and TCU.
Speaker 2: I believe that.
Speaker 3: Rivalry game is something about the skillet, old old skill,
It the old skillet, something like that. Yep, so you
got that as well. Of those games?
Speaker 2: Is it the obvious Texas Tech in Utah.
Speaker 4: I would probably go to Texas Tech Utah, even though
it's probably gonna be boring. I was really tempted to
say serious cues Clemson because it's kind of fun to
watch this Clemson thing spiral a little bit. I want
to see Dabbo just keep exploding a little bit. Also
like to tun to see if he hurts himself running
down the hill because it's coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe got a prediction.
Speaker 4: Why Maybe that's why he was so mad this past week,
because the hill's coming for his knees, I'm telling you.
But yeah, it's it's Texas Tech. I mean it's a
top twenty matchup. Yeah, Texas Tech. I think was my
sleep or two win the or it was my pick
to win the Big Twelve this year. So and I
hadn't watched them at all this year. So if I'm
picking a game, which is this is you know where
we're it's a reach a little bit. This might be
one of those times where I play outside of the
kiddos during that point.
Speaker 3: The kids, you got my attention, not because I love you,
but because the slate's bad.
Speaker 4: Today's late is not grade at eleven, we can go outside. Yeah,
this past weekend there wasn't a lot of playing outside,
you know what I mean, there was I was locked in.
There are some good games, but this week all your kids.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: And that next windows starting at three pm Eastern time,
so to local here Oregon State and Oregon, Auburn and Oklahoma,
TWU Lane and Old Miss, Michigan and Nebraska.
Speaker 2: So you get some good ones there.
Speaker 3: Uh and the G six you got James Madison and Liberty,
Oh yeah, that one, you know watching that one, n
C State and Duke out of the ACC Temple and
Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: Again. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Actually this is more difficult because you do have Alburn,
Oklahoma two Lane, Old Miss Michigan Nebraska.
Speaker 2: I don't really care about the Michigan Nebraska. That's just me.
That's going to be three yards and a cloud of dust. Yeah,
that's your type of guy. That's a sick.
Speaker 4: That's an old school football game for sure. The two
games that I yeah, the two Lane Old Miss game.
I'm really intrigued to watch that one because how good
really is TWU Lane. We think that they're probably a
little bit underrated right now, but not being considered in
the top twenty five.
Speaker 2: How good is the line went up on that game.
Speaker 3: By the way, it was eleven and a half yesterday,
now thirteen and a half in favor of Old Miss.
Speaker 2: Interesting. I like it. Let's say, let's Hammer at Louisiana. Yeah,
I m might. I don't know. By a hook is
Old Miss opposer this year?
Speaker 4: Fan people are talking, but really it's it's Auburn Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 4: This is going to be I think, a really good game,
a fun game to watch. You get to see John Mattier,
who I think has a really good shot of winning
the Heisman this year. You get to go see him
perform against an SEC school. And that's what we've been
waiting on right can his game? Can's game translate to
the Southeastern Conference weekend week at and up to this
point we have seen nothing, No kinks in the no
kinks in the armor for him. You get Jackson Arnold
get to go have his opportunity that not many people get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that is revenge? How is that? How is
that for you?
Speaker 3: Like as a quarterback, because you talk about all the time,
the one time you listen like heavy Metal before it
gave you threw your first five passes basically into the stands.
Speaker 2: Yeah, them, So like you have to stay like in
the zone.
Speaker 3: You got to stay a little woof saw and remember
the game plan and protections and checks and you know,
be on everything you're supposed to be on. But also
like I hate them. I want to hurt them, you know.
I want to go out.
Speaker 2: There and in their stadium.
Speaker 3: I want to be able to just gladiator style put
my arms out and.
Speaker 2: Are you not entertained? Right? That's what I want to
do if I'm Jackson Arnold.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you look at the like the week preparation
leading up to it, like that's where you know you
don't mind staying an extra hour and a half and
watching a little bit extra film.
Speaker 2: You don't mind.
Speaker 4: You might do about ten fifteen pounds more on the
old bench press on a Tuesday. It's just one of
those things where you don't need any motivation. If you're
Jackson Arnold too, get that extra prep work now. Where
he has to have good support around him is to say, hey, Bud, Hey,
hand on your shoulder.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's gonna be all right. Hey, you need to
take a deep breath.
Speaker 4: I know you're gonna be mad and play pissed. Be mad,
but be mad in your preparation. That's where you need it.
That's where you're going to win this game. Be man
your preparation, control your emotions because as a quarterback you can't.
You can't pin your ears back. You can't play like
your hair's on fire. It's a different position. You have
to play poised. You have to be in control of
your body, like every time any anybody that's doing things
where you find motor skills. Right, So golfers, hitters, pitchers, throwers, kickers,
you have to be Yeah, you got to be able
to take you into the nose. You don't get them out,
you don't out to them, that's right. You can't just
go bang your head against the wall.
Speaker 3: You can't go and schmid it and get your helmet
and bang your hand on your helmet, your pointing as.
Speaker 2: You come out for the start lineup announcements.
Speaker 4: You take that energy and you beat them, and you
put that energy into your preparation.
Speaker 2: And but at the end of the day, if.
Speaker 4: You're running down the sideline and you scramble a little bit,
you might look for contact every now and then, all right,
you might celebrate and you might give such a hard
fist pump and a fist pump after you score your
first touchdown your arm pops out of socket. Like it's
gonna be exciting, but it's going to be fun to watch. Man,
I'm really excited about that game.
Speaker 3: Man too, watch a MA tier quarterback. Yeah, they it's
a good quarterback matchup. I think it's two teams that
had a very mucky game last year, but it was
a good game.
Speaker 2: You know. It's like, does either team want to win
this game? Oh? Okay, Okay, they do? Okay, cool, because
it looked like for a while they didn't. Someone probably
has to at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Oklahoma end up making a play at the end.
But I think this version is going to be much better.
I am very intrigued by the quarterback matchup.
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All right, Moving on to the next window. Here in
the college football slate, you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna name it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sound like a front runner cause I'm just
gonna pick all the big games.
Speaker 2: I know, I know. All right, let's start it.
Speaker 3: Let's start at six pm Eastern time five pm local.
You've got West Virginia and Kansas. A little bit later on,
you've got South Carolina at Missouri. We got Boise State
at air Force. You've got Florida at Miami. You've got
Illinois at Indiana. That's a ranked on rank matchup as well.
Illinois right now the number nine team in the country,
Indiana number nineteen. You've got the Apple cut between Washington
and Wazoo.
Speaker 2: That game is going to.
Speaker 3: Be a yeah, six thirty kickoff time, so it falls
into this window. You've got Arizona State and Baylor as well.
That one's got a little salt to it, little juice
to one of those games.
Speaker 2: You know me, just like we describe I'm going to
Illinois Indiana. Yeah, you're absolute coach teams.
Speaker 3: There's going to be three players at minimum that still
have a bullhorn face mask in that game.
Speaker 2: So no posers in that game. Have you seen the
face mask that there are people are wearing now?
Speaker 4: I think I saw Michaeh. Parson's won last week. It
doesn't even have a top to it. It's just bolted outside.
Speaker 2: What was that? I don't know. I don't like it
doesn't have a bullhorn. Yeap. I don't like it. I
don't like that at it all. They're out alpha enough. No,
they're ugly. It's like the old school.
Speaker 4: In the first Revolutions came out the Revo speeds like
and Peyton it was the only one.
Speaker 3: Because before that he had like the longest face mask
known to mand It was like twenty four inches long.
Speaker 2: They went to that revolution. Baby, that thing was so ugly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a revolution the first year they came
out in high school.
Speaker 2: Mine was more for head size than look. Yeah, I
mean because you're I got a bucket head. That's probably
what Peyton's very He might outperform both of us at
had Sie.
Speaker 3: He definitely has the red dot and you and I
forehead for sure, You and I both had the red.
Speaker 2: Dot on her forehead. He's got a square yeah, not
a dot all right.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the that's the that's the rank matchup. The
Illinois at Indiana. Two really good teams. That probably should
have been the game day location, but I think they
went to Indiana last last year, so probably not gonna
do that twice.
Speaker 2: So that is the game. Uh, two really well coached teams.
Speaker 4: I can't sit here and like lie to the listeners
and say I've been like dialed in to their offensive
philosophies and what their defensive stats are anything. But look,
it's a ranked matchup, it's at six thirty, it's at
prime time. We're all gonna be locked in. No, we're
not gonna be locked in L she's playing.
Speaker 2: Uh uh you just tell the people you're not gonna
be watching L s U.
Speaker 4: Nope, I'll be watching them. I'll probably be in the
stadium too. We'll see Arizona State. It must be a
parking pass game I have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have a burg Mess yet. I need
to get one of those as Gonna state Baylor though.
I'll be into that one.
Speaker 2: YEA be interested to see that one because I'm I'm
kind of a Baylor guy. Uh. South Carolina Missouri. Uh,
I see that.
Speaker 3: You've seen You've seen the line on that thing. It
was eleven and a half Missouri. It's now down to
nine and a half. So Lenora Sellers I believe was
a concussion last week. Maybe if he's trending like he's
going to play, maybe that's why you have some movement
there in the line. But how about Missouri nine and
a half point favorite right now against South Carolina. Look,
they're twenty third in the country now, they still don't
go on the road for three more games. They got
South Carolina, they've got UMass, and they've got Alabama before
they go on the road to take on the Auburn Tigers.
Speaker 2: Like I know, they hadn't you know, played anybody.
Speaker 3: I get it, Central Arkansas, Kansas and Louisiana Lafayette. I
understand that. But they're in a great spot. They're in
a bo Rabula is playing awesome. He's got seven hundred
and ninety one passing yards already, seven tutters through the air.
Matt Hardy coming over from Louisiana Monroe four hundred and
sixty two yards already on the ground in five touchdowns, just.
Speaker 4: Saying, yeah, I'm looking at these games. So I'm looking
kind of tightly. They're at the night games. The lines
are not very good. Like the closest line is minus
two and a half. That's so Baylor's a two and
a half point favorite over areas in the state. The
rest of the the rest of the lines I see Besides,
like some of the smaller games, no one's really going
to care about unless that's your alma mater.
Speaker 3: Most of these games are seven in Southeastern again, Telusu.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be locked in. He told us yesterday.
Everybody that h he's cheering for Southeastern, Yeah, to win
the game. He's picking them. He should to some the
monits where we went to school. I agree, I mean,
I don't disagree. There he said line up like twelve
times yesterday. It's true. What a poser, Such a poser.
Speaker 4: But yeah, most of those games in the night not
not great. So there are some really good games on Saturday.
I'm intrigued by him, but like.
Speaker 3: There's like five, there's like five good games in the
rest is garbage.
Speaker 2: So this segment was it was. It was tough.
Speaker 4: This was a tough segment to get through because there
was pretty much three three games that.
Speaker 2: I would actually watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like I said, for the eleven o'clock games, I'm
I'm playing outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to the swing set. We're playing cats.
Speaker 3: Waitnute, you never want to play at noon on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: What's going on? Dad? You? Okay?
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, son, Southern miss is playing Old Dominion.
Speaker 2: That's a real game. But directional school. Yeah to school
you m and as we say here often.
Speaker 4: But there are some the good games are good. Yeah,
I'm excited, but I really am looking forward to the Auburn.
Speaker 3: There's some like real games, like with playoff implications. I
would throw that into that category. I throw too Lane
Old Miss into that category. It's certainly with the Indiana,
Illinois into that category. Uh, Arizona State, Baylor, you know,
for different reasons, like for Indiana and Illinois. It's like,
I think the Big Ten is probably going to get
four teams in the Collge football playoff.
Speaker 2: The winner of this might be the fourth team. I
like to get your venue too.
Speaker 4: When we come back for break, if you think Notre
Dame mathematically still has a shot.
Speaker 3: We call that radio tas when we come back on
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Speaker 3: All right, So we got some decent games in the
Southeastern Conference. It's starting to take its shape a little bit.
You've had a game here, a game there. Some have had,
you know, the opportunity to play like Old Miss play Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Tucky played Old Miss early in the season.
Speaker 3: But like you've gotten at least you know, an idea
of what's going on in the SEC. You get a
better idea certainly this week, But from what you've seen, sir,
like where you at right now with maybe the top
packing order, because that was a lot of the question
that I've been getting over on off campus.
Speaker 2: It's like, Okay, well we really have a clear favorite right.
Speaker 3: Now in the SEC. I actually I don't think you
have a clear favorite. In years past, you certainly have
had that, but I think there's like a group of
teams now. I don't know how many teams you're putting
in that category that still have championship to them.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm probably if I'm having to rank power rankings
in the SEC, I mean, how can you not start
with Georgia.
Speaker 2: Probably the way.
Speaker 4: Gunner Stockton's playing right now, playing pretty well. We kind
of we talked a lot about Gunner coming into the season.
We were a little well on the fence with him,
a little bit questionable on how he's gonna play. Yes,
very talented kid, a freshman last year, having to come
into the tough situation and did some really nice things,
but it kind of looked like it was some of
the nice things he did was a little bit on accident,
like he scrambled and athletically was able to get out
of the pocket, and he made some plays that weren't
you know, made some really good plays, but it wasn't
like working the offense. We were going through my first second,
third read then hitting the check down. But we have
to remember that he's he's a young kid. He's a
young quarterback, and I think he's starting to kind of
get into a little bit more of a rhythm. They
get the big win, and you know it's again you
can't let the hairline fool you. He's still a young kid,
and he is very talented, and he's going to and
he's starting to play with that offense. So I think
they're going to be dangerous. Obviously, George is always going
to be a tough out. Kirby Smart is is the man.
Are we ready to I mean, I'm always going to
say L s U L S She's like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, else she's the highest ranked team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course in the A people and they see
and they should be.
Speaker 2: Offensively.
Speaker 4: We know whe're at But LSU is always going to
be my chalk answer. It's still who I'm picking. But
I'm trying to kind of talk are we ready to
start talking about A and M a little bit?
Speaker 3: I think so that was gonna be. That's kind of
one of the main reasons why I wanted to talk
about this and what a.
Speaker 2: Great what a great win, great win.
Speaker 4: And you know I was you know, I'm not a
Texas A and M guy, but I was cheering for
him against Notre Dame because I'm so anti Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: For whoever you're anti independent, that's right.
Speaker 4: If you are an enemy of my enemy, you're kind
of my friend a little bit, you know what I mean.
So I was a Marcel Reed playing and play very well,
so athletically, we know where he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we know how good he can be. We saw
it firsthand last year.
Speaker 4: Can he become a pocket passing quarterback consistently right? Can
he get through his progressions? Can he re get a
good pre snap breed a post stap Reed. Well, he's
kind of proving that he can. So far, so far,
so good. I mean, Rubber will meet the road plenty
of times this season in the SEC play. But to
this point, I don't have it pulled up right now.
I had it pulled up yesterday a really good status.
I think he had something like eight eight or nine
touchdowns to one interception, really really high QB rating really
really high completion percentage and he is starting to trend
and show at least on the Vegas stats for in
the Heisman odds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that look does a big game for them, and
they get a chance to take a week off before
they host the Auburn Tigers A and M does so
it's going to be obviously a big contest there, a
big challenge for them, but they do have a bye week.
You've got not this week, but next Like that's really
when you start to see maybe who can separate themselves.
Like in the SEC, you've got Notre Dame in Arkansas,
lsu Ole, miss alburn in Texas, A and M Tennessee,
Mississippi State, Alabama and Georgia.
Speaker 2: So not this week but next week.
Speaker 3: That really because like is Alabama back into that conversation?
Is ty Simpson who's playing incredibly well right now, highest
quarterback rating in the SEC. Can they go on the road,
Can they go to Athens and make any noise and
kind of quiet some of that stuff that you know
the Bama is burning stuff that was talked about in
week number one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it'll be Ty Simpson is playing well even though
they have the big opening week loss to Florida State.
If anybody that we're talking to knows anything about opening
week losses, it would be us.
Speaker 2: And we know that you can bounce back. We know
that you can play well.
Speaker 4: So no season is dead after an opening season loss.
So let's give let's give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
From that, I'm looking forward to a good game there.
Playing Georgia on the road is always going to be tough,
especially with if he contend, if Gunner Stockton continues to
kind of increase his production levels and increase the way
he can play within a system.
Speaker 2: So yeah, looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: I want to look too far ahead of this weekend,
of course, but certainly, just like you said, I have
at Notre Dame playing a decent amount of teams kind
of shocking to me.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a conference though you bumped.
Speaker 3: It was the reason why, like every year you have
a preseason top ten team that finishes outside the top
twenty five. It's almost like an absolute So I was like, well,
I'm gonna go a Notre Dame because of their first
three games that they're going to play really like the
first three tough games.
Speaker 2: If they lose to Miami and A and M, which
they did.
Speaker 3: It's like, all right, he lose one more. Yep, you
oh the top twenty five and so and that haven't
been bad losses. They've been one play away really in
both games. But yeah, Arkansas is good enough to beat
Notre Dame next week.
Speaker 2: I will be yelling, Sue, oh yeah, I'll be gone
the Hogs. Yep, we call on the Hogs next week. Game.
Speaker 4: Really hate to Notre Dame. I really don't like them.
You know why you've said. It's not that I don't
like their traditions. I love their traditions. I love their uniforms.
I love the gold helmet, I love when they go
to the green. I love everything that about them. I
don't respect them. That's the thing that's the difference maker.
I don't respect you, Notre Dame. And I know that
means that's going to shake your world when you hear that.
I said that for sure, that means a lot. But
I don't respect you because you're not in a conference
and you're a bunch of whims. Yes, freaking turns.
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Speaker 3: And you see Will Helmer's former LSU pitcher has joined
the show now, just like us, part of the g
team over their Gordon mccurrn.
Speaker 2: So what's up man? How we doing? Not a whole lot, man,
Just thank you guys for having me. I expected you
to bring some jello shots from Omaha. Oh man. I
still got plenty of stash at the house.
Speaker 5: They shipped about four hundred them down that I didn't finish.
Speaker 2: But here I am still alive. Oh man. It was
a great content.
Speaker 3: And I know you're doing a lot of stuff there
with Gordon Louisiana loaded, you got that hat on there,
but man, the ultimate heype man there in Omaha, you
had to be like by the time you got done
with Omaha, I know you had to be like, Okay,
that was a great experience, but I need like a
four day nap.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a few days off after that one,
but that was after like day four. I was like struggling.
Speaker 2: Man. Yeah, you know, doing eight hundred and eighty eight
shots today, but you can still do what are you
twenty five twenty not even man twenty appreciate that twenty
three twenty five? The world is your O.
Speaker 4: Say, I don't need you complained, you complain about naps
or anything. You send us old guys to Omaha and
do a couple of jealous shots, like after day one,
we need like we need to rest that.
Speaker 5: How many could you do in a day? You think
jellous shots, jello shots.
Speaker 2: I can put them down. I can put it down.
Speaker 3: So you just talked me about your old then you
got challenge and the old athlete came out.
Speaker 4: It was like you need it, But it's like the
first day of vacation. It's like you go really hard,
but then you got to have that rest day. For us,
you don't need a rest day. You're twenty three, so yeah,
noes today is allowed. That's right, no rest days. But
uh yeah, it's pretty good. So let me ask you
this was it. So now we're we're in the midst
of the football season right now. So as a former athlete, now,
how do you take in like the game to experience?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 4: You kind of try to every day in Baton Rouge
relive a little bit of the Omaha experience. You go
out there and you party a little bit, you tailgate.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what it's all about. You know. Even
when I was at LSU playing baseball, we did that.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's okay, Saturday morning and then you roll out
to the tailgates and you let it rip. And so
I'm still doing that, you know, still doing that, and
now I'm just kind of video on it video you're
letting looking at the rest of the Louisiana se for
you know, North South and everybody outside of Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Awesome, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's been it's been a lot of fun just
getting that that new experience even outside of just LSU
athletics and being an LSU athlete.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's pretty unique.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of new experiences, court to Table is also
right down the street here from where we're at pickleball.
Look like a new experience for you, and it turns
out that maybe you know, you know, being an athlete
and being a pickleball athlete might be a little different.
Speaker 5: I mean a little different. I'm not the lateral guy.
I prefer to go down the mountain your north south.
I'm north south. Okay, you're a full ball I mean
Court to Table. It's an awesome location. They did it upright,
and all the investors over there and what they did
just an outstanding place to you know, host a venue
or you know, go eat lunch or have a whatever.
Speaker 2: It's an awesome place. Yeh.
Speaker 4: So I've kind of told I've kind of heard that
I need to get there. I need to bring the
kids there because it's like, you know, as as parents
of younger kids, like it's, uh, it's priceless when you
can find a place where you can eat and kind
of and like let them just kind of go room,
let them room, and like sometimes you go to restaurants
with a group of people and you let them roam
in places you probably shouldn't let them run. Like the
restaurant's probably not that cool with it, but they don't
say anything to you. You got to make but sometimes
they do say something to you. You know who you are. Sorry, Okay,
take it easy now, relaxed, But like that's pretty valuable.
So like I've heard that, I got to go there
and like that. The food's actually like pretty pretty great,
Like it's not.
Speaker 2: Like what you would expect from the menus. It's a
stud Why do we.
Speaker 3: Why do we deflect from how the pickleball contest went
when he played a pro pickleballer.
Speaker 2: You're right, we were trying to get the school to.
Speaker 5: Talk about food much rather talk about that I am
at pickleball.
Speaker 2: But you'll get to score in second.
Speaker 3: I mean you talked about being a pickleballer a little
bit flint. I mean, look like three times, baseball players
and quarterbacks are always good at ping pong, Like there's
a ping pong table everywhere that you go, quarterbacks, baseball player,
So I just thought maybe it would translate to the
pickleball court.
Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't horrible, but it was pretty bad
close enough. They want to go back.
Speaker 4: There's so many people playing pickleball now, like I'm sure
like there's a pretty big, uh skilled gap between the
See somebody bring their own paddle.
Speaker 3: Just yeah, just get out of their hole. Yea, you
don't need to be there. You're not about that life
and that's okay, but they are.
Speaker 2: They are and they know that.
Speaker 3: So your your college career, obviously, by the end of
your college career, like you al was in full force.
Speaker 2: So when you first got to LSU, it hadn't even Okay,
that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So it started my sophomore year, I guess kind
of in the middle, I guess the end of day.
Speaker 3: What was it like being like in school when you
didn't have it and then all of a sudden you
have it and it probably starts slow a little bit,
but by the end.
Speaker 5: Of your career, I mean, it was full force. Yeah,
And so you know, to me, like just being at
LSU was enough for me. And I was a local
kid from New Orleans and I just wanted to be
at LSU. So it wasn't ever a big deal to
get paid or whatever, but to see it kind of
take shape into what it is now and what all
these you know, guys like Gordon are doing with you know,
I think we have thirteen football athletes and two cheerleaders
and you know, just it's taking so much shape to
what football and college sports is today. It's it's good,
you know, it's it's great for kids. And I mean
he was Gordon's on the forefront of it too. Oh yeah,
I mean he was first, I mean out the gate.
You know, you know, he's a huge part of this
community and and everything that he does, and so you know,
being in being able to support ls U sports and
l s U football especially, it's huge. And that's that's
how you win games now in college football.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the only way to question.
Speaker 3: But I mean we're seeing, you know, where LSU's roster
is now to where it was a year ago.
Speaker 2: It's like you.
Speaker 3: Put nil dollars into it, and it's like he turns
out you can cover some receivers if you do that.
Speaker 4: Well, So let me, why do you think that Gordon
Kurna wants to be such a force in the NIO world.
From an outsider looking in, it seems like it's just
because he cares that much about l s U athletics
and he wants that out. I don't you know, for
the profession that it is, it's probably like the first
thing people would think of from a market xtamble. But
you know that, like he wants to get back to
the community so bad.
Speaker 2: And that's just who he is.
Speaker 5: You know, he loves everything l s U and LSU
sports especially and so he's going to do everything he
can to make sure that he puts, you know, fans
and athletes in a winning environment. And that's what you know,
you know, that's what you're brought here to do it,
l You're supposed to win. And you know, when you're
surrounding yourself with good players and good people in the community,
everything adds up. And you know you're seeing what happens
in baseball and basketball.
Speaker 3: And that's about says it's not just football, No, it's not.
I mean, I just I mean, I mean baseball. It
feels like you've got a ton of athletes there as well. Yeah,
I mean, it gives it gives. I mean LSU's special
in college baseball. Like I try to explain that to
people on my serious XM show, Like college baseball, like
you don't understand, like this is like the major league
team here, but still like to put college baseball players
out in front like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, Gordon, for me.
Speaker 3: At least that I saw, was like the first one
to really push college baseball in the NIL space.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean, and college baseball like you're saying here,
I mean, it's different than everywhere else, and it is
one of the only you know, it's it's football baseball here,
you know for the most part, and this is a
baseball football town and there's not a lot of places
like that. So when Gordon kind of went into this
NIO world, I think he you know, he saw that
as an opportunity.
Speaker 2: Let's push out.
Speaker 5: Baseball, let's push up let's push out football, and and uh,
you know, see what happens. And it's obviously turned out
n I L has grown so much, and I think
it's only going to continue to grow and in every way,
and you know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: So tell tell us what you're kind of kind of
what your role is, kind of like what's your day
to day is like. Because we saw the content, we
saw the different things that you're doing, but like kind
of what are what are the things on the horizon
for you?
Speaker 2: What are you? What are you doing? Kind of day
in day out with with Gordon Mcarney.
Speaker 5: That might be the toughest question. It's different tough questions.
It's different every day. I mean I do a lot
of stuff. So we started the Louisiana Loaded thing, him
and I where I kind of go around Louisiana, showcasing.
Speaker 2: Everything throughout the state, all over Louisiana.
Speaker 5: North, South, Shreveport, do large cut off wherever see.
Speaker 3: He gives me the cities, want to ask you all
to give me Louisiana cities because.
Speaker 2: He don't know. I know he's from Texas. That's right,
I told fair enough. St George right down the room.
Speaker 3: So okay, So like when you go to these different cities,
like where is that content?
Speaker 2: Like where can people find it? Kind of like where
some things are doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, I mean it's all over any it's you know, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook,
uh whatever, you could got it on YouTube.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going around.
Speaker 5: Basically, the idea is to showcase Louisiana culture, you know,
for people in Louisiana and for people outside of Louisiana
and so whether that's going to eat, going to drink
at a bar, going to hunt, going to fish, doing
you know everything, Louisiana was made for the.
Speaker 2: Coolest, coolest thing you've done so far.
Speaker 5: Uh, I mean, Omaha was pretty sweet. Okay, Okay, See
a couple of weeks ago, I took you know, three
or four baseball guys bow fishing, had a good time.
We went out of you know, the chef over there
and you don't you I don't know what that is. Yeah,
I figured, you know where slide Dell is. I do
close to that in the Marsha in the marsh marsh
times I've hopedale yea sweet spot you know that's just
a little further south. But we went you know, close
in the marsh out of slide deal and they had
a good time, made a cool video out of it.
Speaker 3: That was a baseball players that have like been through that,
like from this area.
Speaker 2: Was the baseball players that had no with.
Speaker 5: Jason Evans, Jake Brown and Steven modelom Okay, so they
got it after a while.
Speaker 2: I mean, both fishing is tough. Yeah, oh yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 5: And so you know, you got to get the hang
of it a little bit, but they got the hang
of it and we had a good time.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, man, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: All right, before we let you go, and again Willhelmer's
is our guest here on OTB outlook for this baseball season.
I mean, it feels like they got a lot of
Jimmy's and a lot of Joe's coming back, and of
course Jay, you know, leading the helm there, you're gonna
always have an opportunity. But it feels like, look, you
want a national championship, and I know you're gonna lose
players from a team like that, but it really feels
like they did a good job of trying to replace
those players.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I mean the easiest time to recruit is after you
win a national championship. And you know, I've seen you know,
they take you know, guys on visits every week, you know,
up here at football games, and you know it's immediate commit, commit, commit, commit, commit,
So it's easy to recruit. And they've got some studs
that came in this year on the mound that you know,
pitching staff is going to be great obviously with Coachysky
and and everybody that you know does everything with that,
and you know it's it's Jay Johnson, you know. So
he's the Nick Saban of college baseball and you know
that's that's what he's preached since he's he's gotten here
to the players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he wants to be. He wants to
be Alabama football for college baseball.
Speaker 3: So Matt and I played for coach Saban here and
when Jay found that out, like he's like he'll he'll
pick your brain like about like little bitty things, and
that's the thing. So I actually I tell this story
all the time, but I met when I was playing
for the Chargers during the lockout year. We were working
out at the University of San Diego when Jay was
there and there was this guy and he was like
grinding on times, like in the weight room and he.
Speaker 2: Was like always working with the players.
Speaker 3: I'm like, is this dude, this guy's like always here,
like we can't be here and he's not here. And
introduced myself to him and it was Jay Johnson and
it's like you know, so, you know, years later I'm
doing radio and it's like, hey, eh, she needs a
new coach, and it's like Jay Johnson Arizona I'm like,
you got.
Speaker 2: To get that guy I called. I called I call
when he's.
Speaker 3: Working players like I like, I kind of called Scott.
I'm like Scott like he goes, we're on top of it,
what we're doing. I'm like, but you got to go
get Jay Johnson. So I've never met somebody like even
like with coach Savan, Like he's got all the traits
of that. But it's hard to go over there and
not see his car in the parking lot every day.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah, I mean, no kids, no pets, loves
his wife.
Speaker 5: I don't know how much, but he loves base He
says baseball is his kids. Says that's how he that's
how he treats it, you know, take it from me.
You know he treats those players like his kids, and
that's why he's so successful.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to another great baseball season. Will we appreciate it?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Man, thank you guys for having where where can they
find the Louisiana load of like you know, I know
you mentioned like on is it on Agged Gordon? Like
is it on a different play at louisianaloading? Totally separate? Yeah,
so awesome link together, but yeah, no, for sure. Louis
analoaded on all social media. All right, check that out.
And you know g Team's always got something going on
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Speaker 1: Alright, locked in on LSU football twenty four to seven.
You're listening to Off the Bench, all.
Speaker 2: Right, welcome back in It is OTB.
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Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here every single Thursday for any
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Always a good time to to, you know, talk about
l s U baseball, very cool thing, Louisiana loaded that
he's doing throughout the state of Louisiana and fishing before.
Speaker 2: Very few times I've only.
Speaker 3: Been because because i I'm you know, I mean, like
most things I do, I'm a little redneck old school,
like I just like to get a line in the
water and just hang out.
Speaker 2: It's a fun hangout. The bow fishing got am.
Speaker 3: Low quicker than you know, quicker like you know what
I'm saying, Like you can go fishing. You could sit
there for like three hours.
Speaker 4: Like I'm I'm I'm a I would. I grew up
going fishing. I didn't do any like I mean, grow
up at Texas, I didn't saltwater fish a lot.
Speaker 3: So now I mean I didn't either. Grown up in
North Louisiana, we had the lakes. We had Cross Lake,
Caddo Lake, abst Too, Talita Ben like all like you
could look in any direction and you had a lake
that had some good fishing in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had like Tyler like we did most of
our fishing in like Palestine, but like Home of Adrian,
Peter and Peterson Palace in high school. Yeah, no big deal.
Maybe the best highlight tape I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Uh well, yeah, one of the best running backs you
ever say, period at all levels.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So it was largemouth bass, it was stripe bass. It
was crappie aka sak a perge, blue Yill, all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So I got down here. I hadn't. I didn't fish
as much in Louisiana that I should have because I
love fishing.
Speaker 4: I left Honting. I just hadn't. You know, do you
play sports when you're here? So it's not a lot
of time.
Speaker 2: I tell you all the time.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, you you grow up and you
do something and certainly like if you were hunting, right
and you do it and you can do it when
you're playing high school football, you know whatever, and then
you get here and you're like, I'm gonna keep doing that.
I've done that. That's you know, I don't have time.
I'm gonna do it on the bye week. Yeah, I'm
gonna do them. I'm gonna go and we're gonna get
a bye week. And then Bobby comes, You're like, I
don't want to do anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of pulled him here right now, like
kind of bruises all over my brain. And then you
come here as a full grown adult with family, It's
it's a little bit.
Speaker 2: Different making excuses. But I have been both fishing and
it was fun, kind of like kind of a little
bit cheating, but yeah, that's cool. How's it cheating?
Speaker 4: I mean you just shoot him in a narrown just
spotlight them. They don't have to bite anything, you know,
it's fair. It's kind of like if you we just
went out there, hold the game. Huh you just have
a huge trouble hook and you just started foul hooking things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, it's fine. I'll that is not a knock.
I love it.
Speaker 3: I want to check out, you know, all the things
Will is doing, because that'd be very very cool to
go out you know, throughout the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 2: Yes, even North Louisiana. People don't be here. There's a
lot of.
Speaker 3: Stuff going on up there up in North Louisiana.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate that, appreciate this time.
Speaker 3: Appreciate him coming and hanging out with us there and
again you know, part of the G team.
Speaker 2: All right.
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