Speaker 1: I'll start to what you want to present some off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and T
Bob Abart. Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob a bear.
Speaker 2: Somebody's asking if their four year old should be allowed
to play GoldenEye. Uh okay, yeah, sure, okay, we're gonna
make a We're gonna make an audible. Coach Molkey has
told me she has team breakfast at eight thirty, but
she can do right now. So go ahead and call
uh coach Moulkey right now, and let's uh, let's stop,
we'll we'll push back our college football playoff conversation. Yeah,
four years old GoldenEye, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh okay with it. I mean there's no blood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can actually turn off blood. Yeah.
That was another thing. My mom was very strict on
those videos back today, you know, like the the the
m a ones that was only ever allowed to play those.
Speaker 3: That's why, homie, why you are like you are.
Speaker 2: You know, Preacher's daughter and all that, no doubt, will
you be Preacher's son? Well no, but it's it's an
arc type, right, It's not about me being the son
of a preacher. It's about that classic preacher's daughter, like
crazy because she was raised.
Speaker 4: No where I grew up, it was cloth like preachers
like he Actually it's called p k's you.
Speaker 2: Can do okay? Yeah, yeah, I mean I've definitely seen
well okay here she is our favorite coach, coach Kim Mulky.
Every single Tuesday, she makes time for us, this time
from the Bahamas. Coach, what's up? How's the uh? How's
the trip going? After the tough win yesterday?
Speaker 5: Well, it was a tough win. I'm not sure we
should have won that game, but little luck at the
end there and we made a play to win it.
I was proud that we fought hard to get back
in a position to win it. But give credit to Washington.
But it's beautiful here. There was though we're staying out.
Is absolutely wonderful and you know we get ready for
a final four NC State team on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick. So I thought Jake did a great
job of pointing out coach. So obviously the first quarter
a bit disastrous, right, but what did you learn from
your team after that? In winning the second, winning the third,
winning the fourth, and especially making the plays at the end.
What did you learn about your team's resilience in finding
a way to kind of overtime grind back to that victory.
Speaker 5: Well, I've been preaching this from a coaching perspective for weeks.
We start slow, and that is kind of a it's different.
We usually start fast, and we've been starting slow, and
we dug ourselves a whole. And I said, we dug
ourselves a whole. Listen, they put us in that hole.
So it wasn't what we didn't do, it's what they
did to us. And we just had to have a
mindset that, guys, the only way you're gonna win this
ball game is you got to do just a little
bit deeper than they do. And we just kept hanging
in there, hanging in there, and and I told them
after the game, win or lose, I was proud of
the effort that you gave to put yourself in a
position to win it. And that's what you did, and
you made the play. I just felt like, you know,
it's it's so hard to go on the road to
these tournaments and the Bahamas and different places and your
your focus and you've got Thanksgiving coming. I don't make excuses,
but I know what the setting is, like, I know
what you face, and you know we we we move on.
You just go in the film room last night, you
go in the film room this morning. You go in
the film room again tonight. You address some things that
you can correct from that before you play the next game.
Washington played a zone and as coach Bob Starkey, who
had the stout on that said, they haven't played zone
in two years. But you know what, you know what,
that's respect and we've got to figure out a way
to start better, regardless of their.
Speaker 4: Man or zone coach, How difficult is that, because, like
you said, they have played zone in two years, and
this is a tournament. You don't necessarily have the normal
prep time that you have because you have events there
in the Bahamas, and then now you like you have
to turn around, you have to play an NC State
team here in a couple of days. You don't have
the normal time in between games, and so not just
the distractions maybe of being in the Bahamas, but just
preparing for teams that you're not used to playing and
on such short notice.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, it's it's always better if you have
some prep time, but what you do is you prepare
ahead of time. Guys, you have to do scot out
and reports before you come here and make sure you're
not starting to scratch. And the thing about it is
you have to prepare for all of them because you
don't know if you're gonna win or lose, and you're
gonna play next. So you do your work before you
get here. And then not so much the written part
and in the film room as watching it. And then
coaches go out on that floor and we're doing things
on the floor without necessarily telling them what we're doing it,
you know, and you do things that you're gonna see,
and you prepare while you've got our dream team, are
guys there to help them?
Speaker 2: Coach, I want to talk to you about the plays made,
or kind of about the plays. Maybe at the end
of the game, right you force the deb all turner
or a great defense, it sets you up for the win. Offensively,
you go and you execute. You're a team though, that
is one of the better teams in the entire country ever.
Really you've been right, meaning that, like, you don't always
play in a ton of close games, So how do
you get your team prepared for those moments when it's
not something that necessarily happens a ton on the actual
game day itself.
Speaker 5: Let me kind of explain what took place and what
does take place when you see a zone defense. Now,
I don't know about in football, but in basketball, I'm
gonna have four to five what we call quick hitters.
Quick hitters, that's where the ball needs to go, here's
who needs to shoot. This is what you do after
that ballers take over a zone is if you don't
penetrate and have the ability to get in the gaps
and create stuff, the zone's going to be very, very effective.
I would think in football, you can't just go pick
somebody and get a receiver open. They're gonna throw a penalty.
So you gotta find the gap. Yes, yes, and so
you do the same in basketball. The quick hitters. I've
got four or five of those. Sometimes they work, sometimes
they don't. Yesterday, with forty minutes of facing a zone,
you gotta have athletes, especially on the perimeter, who can
penetrate and get in the gaps, shoot the jumper, dump
it off to a post player. And we just stood
around and did exactly what they had hoped we would do.
And that was one pass jacket up goes in. Great,
it doesn't go in. Oh, here we go again. The
second thing that you do is you eliminate on the
defensive end them getting more than one shot. And when
you play a team like a Washington that shoots a
lot of threes, where are the rebounds coming, Guys, They're
coming along, So your guards are going to have to
get a lot of those long rebounds. That should be
exciting because it allows you in the open floor take off.
Let's get some transition buckets here before they get their
defense set. So there was just a lot of things happening.
Many good things happened in that game. If you sit
down and you say tell me about LSU's team this year,
I think most people will tell you perimeter outstanding, death
on the perimeter outstanding. But what do they have in
the post? Well, if you look at that status sheet
after the game last night, both post players had a
double double. You had eleven offensive board by Samiah Smith.
They battled in there, and they don't against the zone
really have the ball in their hands very much unless
our perimeter can penetrate and get the ball to them.
So I was very proud of those two kids in
theremorrow and Somaiah. They battled and got lots of offensive
rebounds and gave us second chance points to, you know,
try to score the ball. Obviously, we didn't shoot the
ball well from the perimeter, and that's what happens when
you don't shoot it well, you gotta do other things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I certainly did that.
Speaker 4: I mean eighteen rebounds between those two players, coach, and
I want to ask you eight overall. Yeah, I want
to ask you about Kaylen Gilbert getting the last bucket there.
I mean, that's somebody that's coming off the bench for you.
Certainly you've got offensive firepower throughout the starting lineup, but
what was it like for you to see a player
take the initiative and go win the game coming.
Speaker 3: Off the bench.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I sat most of the game away from the staff.
There were some seats that were courtside, and it allowed
me to just sit there and watch as if I'm
watching practice, because I'm still evaluating do I have the
right people on the floor, do I have the right
kids against this zone? And so I said, and I evaluated,
took this mental pictures of my team yesterday, and Gilbert
already knew she's the best drible penetrator we have, and
she's one of those players I got to take the
good with the bad. What do I mean by that?
She might turn it over and frustrate me, but maybe
I need to leave her on the floor a little
bit longer because she may make a spectacular play. That's
something you learn over time. And so I put her
in taking her out, and I thought, well, you know,
we're not getting any dribble penetration, and so let's see
if she'll get in there and make something happen. Now,
she has the lateral speed and quickness she loves. So
that last possession, I even had Pola in the game,
and Pola passes the ball to Flause.
Speaker 2: It was hide.
Speaker 5: It almost knocked her down. It was just an off
balance pass and that's going in the back court. If
that ball hits the backcourt, game is over. And Flasee
makes some kind of backhanded, underhand miraculous play and throws
it in an area where there was a loose ball,
and there's a Washington kid right there, and Gilbert's right there,
and Gilbert had the hand quickness to not let that
be a tie ball. I mean, she just yanked it quickly,
and she had the presence in her mind of what
was on that shot clock and what was on that
game Clark, and it was about six point one second,
and she just did what we should have been doing
the old game, dribble penetrate going there and make something happen. Now,
when that ball went up and the double clutch, if
you look at the move, not many girls can double
clutch like that. The spins she had on that ball
was unbelievable because normally that ball is going off on
the other side of the rim. We did Havemorrow over there,
if I remember, she was gonna get the offensive rebound
and hopefully get a putback. But the spin on that ball, y'all,
it kind of reminded me of remember that shot Tiger
Woods had that one time, and it was just like
slow motion and that ball just kept going slowly, yeah,
and slowly, and then it falls in. And that's what
happened yesterday.
Speaker 2: All right, Coach Show, No game today ranked un ranked
NC State Tomorrow, twelve thirty Central for everybody who wants
to watch check it out. What's the plan for today
in the Bahamas?
Speaker 5: Well, we're gonna have film here in about fifteen minutes,
we'll have our breakfast together sim session, they'll get taped,
and then we will walk down the hall to the ballroom.
It really it's a ballroom that you play in and
we'll go and we'll have an hour practice. If I
need another hour, I can go to another gym. I
don't know that I'll need another hour.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 5: Just you just got to get to the facts, get
to the point, get what's your game plan is, and
then you give them per dim and they'll enjoy the
rest of their day and have film again tonight at
nine and then from there you go and go to bed.
So that's pretty much our day. You give them some
time to just relax and go to the beach and
go to the pool and go do what you want
to do.
Speaker 2: So you're not going to go to the club coach
after the players go to bed.
Speaker 5: Now, But let me tell you, I'm assuming it's live
entertainment that I pass by every day that I go
to the film room. And I love music, Guys, you
or never had a drink in my life, but I
love to go sit and listen to music. It just
makes my heart feel good. And every time I pass
that place, I'm thinking, God, that's a great song. It
goes back to seventies, but god, that's a great country music.
I mean, they're playing a variety in there, and it's
I picked in the curtain and there's live entertainment, and
I thought, you know, I don't have time to go
in there before. That would just be my cup of
tea to just sit and listen to music.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe just you know, sneak off you you deserve it,
just a little meat. It's a few minutes.
Speaker 5: Well, you know when you sneak off T Bob, you
know what happened, The cameras come out right, Yeah, I guess, yeah,
track a picture of you and you lose a game.
Speaker 2: Oh look what they're doing.
Speaker 5: Oh they're not focused. Oh you know it's if you're
conscious of that, or at least I'm conscious of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, that's that's crazy to think about. But again
you're absolutely correct, like in all things, Coach Moulki, absolute
legend in the Bahamas, NC State twelve thirty tomorrow, guys,
gonna be a big time game. You see it right there,
look at the finish from Gilbert. Coach, thank you so
much for making time for us this morning, and best
of luck with the rest of the trip.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, y'all enjoy your families. Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving, And
you know what, I'm blessed to just coach a game
at the end of the day. No one's more competitive
than the three of us. But Thanksgiving it is the
time for you to reflect, just like Christmas is love
on most children. Have a great one.
Speaker 2: Yes, man, Happy Thanksgiving. Coach your best all right, when
we get back, let's do a little OTV mail bag,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America.
Speaker 2: Off the Bench Bag Game made Dame and you could
welcome back. Welcome back to O t B. Hey, guys,
how about y'all just let Coach Molk go to the club. Okay,
don't film anything. She didn't even drink. She just wants
to listen to music.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if you can't appreciate that, we do
it as.
Speaker 2: A fellow teatoller, fellow tea toller, somebody who doesn't drink.
I know tough. I can be you I'm never actually
drinking alcohol whiskey wine. It's water. Escalandra, she's tasted it before.
She called me out on it.
Speaker 6: That's not true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a big drinker. But you can get
away with that one.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 7: Actually, I don't ever drink out whiskey and wine either.
People ask me sometimes.
Speaker 2: About I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm the true non drinker t tller.
Speaker 2: You know who else is a tea tller? Hitler? So
you know that's you got to make peace of that. Also,
to be fair, he was doing a ton of crystal
meth and animal hormones, so you know, not really, but
he thought that. Yeah, yeah it does. Yeah, he's just
sitting to madness. He's just every single day uppers doubters.
But it's science. It's not drinking. He's doing science exactly.
Speaker 8: Oh damn, come on now, I then it's time for
a little OTB mailbag.
Speaker 4: I help this special delivery for.
Speaker 2: Writing to you the internet. What the is the internet?
Oh this is a really tough one. Guys, love Mary Kill,
Thanksgiving Day, nap, Thanksgiving Day football, and Thanksgiving Day food.
It's easy for me. I'm going to marry the food.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna love the food, marry the football, kill the nap.
I hadn't taken a nap since.
Speaker 9: Yeah, although because you got to have that every year.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs to see uh Cooper Rush versus Easton Stick
or whatever he's played. It's not true Western Branch. Excuse me, no,
I I I'm killing the football, marrying the food. I'm
loving the nap, and I'm killing the football training automobiles
and pass out while listening to the comedic stylings of
Steve Martin and John Candy and be very happy. I
don't need the football.
Speaker 6: I think I'm with you on this one.
Speaker 2: Also, they got rid of the egg bowl bummer.
Speaker 3: It's not a napper.
Speaker 2: I love a good nap, I mean, but yeah, but
the Thanksgiving nap especially just a full, full, full belly,
little alcohol buzz.
Speaker 3: Who's watching these kids while you nap and lost? What
do you mean on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2: They running around? That'd be five hashtag O t B
mailbag star. Hmm, that's a little risk. Gape has to
go Gmail bag. Last week, the Pelicans had ninety Last week,
the Pelicans had ninety percent of their salary out injured.
Have you ever heard of anything like that before?
Speaker 4: Last year? Before yeah, exactly right, exactly.
Speaker 2: H I'll say this the I feel bad, was I
a little off Basin's eye yesterday, like because some people
are saying that maybe that that maybe I don't know,
some people are saying that maybe that's not like one
on the next thing. There's a lot of stories saying.
Speaker 6: Okay, like you don't even like ignore the next thing.
He still deserves to like get.
Speaker 2: Called down, like I done with him either way. But
there was no animosity before I learned that he apparently
really wanted to go play for the next even if.
Speaker 10: He didn't, there should be animosity.
Speaker 9: This guy who's stolen millions of dollars from this franchise,
there's no interest in playing. I don't think he's going
to play any in the future. And it's New Orleans's
fault because he did this before they gave him that
fat contract.
Speaker 10: So they're just as much.
Speaker 3: As why do you say fat contract?
Speaker 10: Well, you know, Jake Let's.
Speaker 2: It is a fat contract. Actually, know what's funny about
the contract, it's actually pretty team friendly, like because he's
not playing. The Pelicans can get out of it. I
want to say, in like a year, I think, yeah,
they can get out of it pretty much just Scott free.
It was very incentive laden U. Hashtag O to be
mail bag? Can we get some shaboozie played during the break? Terrible?
Speaker 10: You've heard it on TikTok. I'll play it for you.
Didn't break.
Speaker 3: Today's R and B Tuesday.
Speaker 6: It's R and B Tuesday.
Speaker 7: And also that song is horrible and I'm sick of
hearing it.
Speaker 2: It's it's pretty good. Hashtag to be mail bag.
Speaker 3: Soft what I think?
Speaker 2: That's what that was about? It for this and united
of a response that I've seen out of this group. Uh,
do you owe Lucy an apology for the football? Yeah?
Why would I apologize to her for being right? Again? Like,
screw Lucy and.
Speaker 10: She's the one that pulls the football the way it's
her fault. Yeah, are you apologizing?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I'm not. I don't ever want to become so
cynical and beaten down that I don't go to kick
that football. But unfortunately that's where I am with the
Pelicans now. I finally just won't kick it. I'm just
going to walk away. I'm just gonna walk away. Alba
mars Wanting said. Alfred Payton had twenty one assists last
night he did.
Speaker 6: Alfred is a name I know they.
Speaker 2: Lost, but twenty one assists.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he went to Uh he's an alumni of my
favorite college.
Speaker 3: The University of Louisiana Lafayette.
Speaker 10: That would be correct.
Speaker 4: Has more mail back questions a couple of two before
he signed with the Pelicans.
Speaker 2: Damn all right, I'm gonna allow like a few more
seconds for a couple more questions come in, and if
they don't, then we're gonna uh go to break and
come back into our playoff breakdown. Oh, has to go
to your mail bag, bunchies tomorrow. I will ask you
up if you can do tomorrow? Right, we should have
one more. Who else is going to try to make
that stock that chef is talking about? Anybody?
Speaker 6: I missed that?
Speaker 2: Anybody? Oh? Yeah you did?
Speaker 3: Now I don't know my you were?
Speaker 2: You were out to the trade. Never mind.
Speaker 3: My mom does all the cooking on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to spend all day based in and
baby in that bird. Baby, God's do so much fun.
Speaker 6: I don't even get Thanksgiving food this year. Uh, why
I'm not gonna go to Texas?
Speaker 2: Uh, it's you gonna stay?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I probably just chill.
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, no, no, there's not a friends giving
or anything.
Speaker 7: You can usually go to my neighbors, how but they're
going to Tyler.
Speaker 3: Yeah he little Tyler, Texas. Who's from Tyler, Texas?
Speaker 6: Old Matt Flynn, Earl Campbell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the best sweet Thanksgiving dish that isn't pie?
Speaker 9: I mean, hey, now, sweet potato castlele Hey now wait,
what's sex and a pan?
Speaker 6: It's a bunch off. It's like, I don't know what's
all in it, but it's so good.
Speaker 7: It has a Graham cracker crust, so I don't know
if that makes it pie, but it's so good.
Speaker 2: I will say to Taylor's point two, potato castle is great.
It was very funny. So my daughter's class last week
had their Thanksgiving celebration and they had a big meal, right,
everybody brought in food. We had a big thanks even meal.
You know, you never really met any of these parents before.
Everybody's getting these like, you know, these tiny little helpings. Bruh.
I went in on this Thanksgiving meal. I did two
full plates, piled to the top, ham turkey rolls, green
bean castle, sweet potato castle, cranberry sauce, mac and cheese,
green beans, green bean casserole, two plates full to the brim,
all gas, no brakes. God, it was so good, it
was so good.
Speaker 3: Greens beans, potatoes, tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Huh, green bean potato has to go to my back.
Gu start my first D and D campaign. Anything I
should know going in, says Bo Wilson. Just have fun,
Just have fun. Man. Let's see what did Greg ask?
That's that one? Get out here? Yeah? D's under dragons?
Has that goes to cranberry sauce? Yes?
Speaker 8: Or no?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't turned down many foods. LETA be honest.
Speaker 10: I don't want it.
Speaker 2: I don't want it on every bite. But I like
to keep a pile of cranberry sauce to the side.
And you know, I mix everything up basically, and every
now and then I'll do a little cranberry on top
of a bite, just to give it a little different
flavor profile, a little sweet kick pumpkin sweet potato or
pecan pie. Pumpkin sweet potato, pumpkin potato are very similar
to me.
Speaker 4: All three like, I'll take all three.
Speaker 3: I had one.
Speaker 4: Oh, Daniel says I would invite a Lona to our Thanksgiving,
but not Taylor but when ask in front of Taylor.
Speaker 3: So he knows.
Speaker 9: To think that you were important enough for me to
go to your Thanksgiving is a huge step.
Speaker 10: Not going to that. I got many other places to
be Guys.
Speaker 2: A lot of people want you to track down Jackson
Arnold and distract him in the same way you did
Diggle Pie.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, okay, where do.
Speaker 3: Anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I was in their head bad but okay, so where
do the do we know where the opposing team stays?
Speaker 2: I think the Renaissance.
Speaker 3: Didn't cook anymore.
Speaker 9: Renaissance they they got too good for It's crazy, like
they wanted more meeting rooms.
Speaker 6: Oh gotcha?
Speaker 3: I think was the situation.
Speaker 4: And I think actually lot of cooks like good with
it because they actually now they get to like card sale.
Speaker 2: God, you know my Renaissance.
Speaker 6: I'll be at the Renaissance on Friday.
Speaker 2: Do you know my favorite part of a breakfast buffet
is what at a hotel like that? No, I think
the bacon is generally pretty bad. The sausage links, not
the patties. The sausage links you always have. Really, it's
a very buffet able food.
Speaker 6: The potatoes actually, like I load up on some potatoes.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, another another one that holds pretty well.
Speaker 3: I like to make my own waffle.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Always fun, Yeah, fresh tasty.
Speaker 4: Definitely more sweet when it comes to breakfast and savory.
Speaker 2: God, I was eating a summer sauce, suggests man, it was.
Speaker 7: So good, asking Laudra if she has any friends she
can go to, while not inviting her to his Thanksgiving dinners.
Speaker 6: So I mean he's going to Georgia.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Georgia, guys.
Speaker 4: Actually I'm going to Shreveport. T Bob's going to Georgia.
Taylor is really the a hole here? Yeah, exactly, I'm
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Speaker 6: It's fine. I'm I don't need it. It's fine, all right.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: All right, look, I got a d M from a
person that I do trust saying that the Zion Report
is inaccurate. So I'm going to delete my tweet and
I'm going to I miss what song we're playing formally,
No one formally apologize to UH for maybe getting a
little too a little too mad.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I trust somebody that you trust.
Speaker 2: Not bad instincts by you, you know, I think I
think that's again good instincts by you. But this is
my opinion, and I do trust this person, so I'll
give them whatever. All right, let's go ahead and look
at the college football playoff. I've had Taylor put together
not a tearless, but it's on tear maker. But we
have each conferences in the teams that could maybe get in,
and then we're gonna put them in the playoff. We're
going to figure out where the points of inflection are.
So let's start with the most obvious stuff on this list. Okay,
I feel like, no matter what happens, Ohio State and
Oregon are both in the college football Playoff. Correct, Yes, right,
one of them wins, one of them loses, they're both in. Also,
Penn State automatically going to be in. Yes, we'll hold
off an Indiana for now. Out of the big twelve, Jake,
there's probably a million different Well, actually, okay, let's stick
with obvious. Notre Dame put him in if they lose
to USC, No, then take them out. They can't overcome
a Northern Illinois loss if they lose again. Okay, but
but we'll give them you know, I don't think they're
gonna lose USC, for whatever that's worth. Now, group of five,
do we just want to go Bois in there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, go ahead and put boys in. Okay, so
we're up to five spots now occupied out of the twelve.
We have not yet touched the Big twelve eight CC
or SEC Big twelve. I think the Big twelves easy
because it only gets one in. But knowing the one
is the complicated part.
Speaker 3: I like Arizona State.
Speaker 2: Scat about does anybody else feel more passionately about Arizona
State than another Big twelve team?
Speaker 9: I was gonna go, you know, based on what they've
done recently, Arizona State looks.
Speaker 10: Like the best team.
Speaker 2: So who is the inside track to the championship right now? Jake?
Obviously Arizona State does they control their destiny? Colorado does
not anymore? Right, they would need a loss, so.
Speaker 4: Right now, okay, so we can play this game just
real quick in the Big twelve. Let's go around the
room UCF versus Utah. Who do you think wins U
s F versus Utah? Yep, Okay, you see F is
a favorite. It's in Orlando.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you see F.
Speaker 4: Okay Colorado Oklahoma State and Boulder Colorado, Okay State Colorado
get to win a big twelve games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Arizona.
Speaker 2: Arizona fans are just so poor.
Speaker 10: I would think Arizona State in that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Baylor Kansas.
Speaker 2: Uh now, I'm not going against Kansas.
Speaker 10: B Yu'll go b YU over Houston.
Speaker 3: Cincinnati TCU.
Speaker 2: I have no idea t Yeah.
Speaker 4: Iowa State Kansas State at Iowa State, big home team?
Speaker 2: Is this form again? Is this a game they called
form again? I am I making that up? I don't know, Uh,
I mean, I guess I'll go with Iowa State though
it's a rivalry game. It's in des Moines though, or
wherever they play games.
Speaker 6: Ames Iowa State Kansas State.
Speaker 3: Neither team plays in des Moines. It is it is
for games in Iowa City.
Speaker 2: But whatever, Uh don't get don't you lost of details?
But it is called farm again.
Speaker 6: It's called farm again, So.
Speaker 2: There you go. You didn't know that digit, mister City guys,
I like that city exactly.
Speaker 3: It's farm Iowa State or Kansas State.
Speaker 2: I was thinking State, Yeah, I mean again, it's yeah.
Speaker 3: All right, Texas Tech, West Virginia.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I'm riding with Mountaineers. Where's that game.
Speaker 3: At Texas Tech? Love it?
Speaker 2: Actually though Mountaineer's sneaky good this year. Not great, but like, actually,
what's their record right now?
Speaker 4: Another five and three league play? I don't Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. Five and three league play.
Speaker 3: I didn't really matter. Let's go West Virginia for t
Bob all right.
Speaker 4: If that happens, UCF beats Utail, Colorado beats Okay State,
Arizona State beats Arizona, Kansas Beach, Baylor b YU beats Houston,
TCU beat Cincinnati, Iowa State beats k State, in West
Virginia beats Texas Tech, you would have Arizona State in
Iowa State in the Big twelfth Champions game, and we.
Speaker 2: Feel like Arizona State would win that. So, just because
either way, only one team's gonna make it, let's just
put Arizona State in our playoffs.
Speaker 3: Even if the favorites one.
Speaker 4: Like if every team that Vegas favored won this weekend,
then it would still be Arizona State, Iowa State.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, So it's like okay, so now we have
the big twelve represented Okay, out of the SEC Georgia
and Texas.
Speaker 3: Georgia and Texas are in yep, Okay.
Speaker 2: We are now up to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight teams in there four spots left that would feature
the SEC champion in all likelihood. Right, We're not playing
with an A and M win quite yet, because that
makes everything a little bit crazy.
Speaker 3: Even if Texas lost that game, they still probably find
a way to get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the loser of the SEC Championship is
still going to get in, even if it's Georgia getting
the third loss, yes or no.
Speaker 10: SEC Championship. I mean he's got three A and M's
got three.
Speaker 2: Well, then take okay, then maybe take Georgia and Texas back.
I mean.
Speaker 3: No, right now, I mean to your point.
Speaker 2: Okay, I think Georgia Texas get in. I think Tennessee
gets it because they'll finish your two losses and one
have to play in the championship. If they win, they gotta.
Speaker 3: Nashville.
Speaker 2: But let's put Tennessee in for now? All right, Okay,
how many are reupt you now? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine? Is that right?
Speaker 3: I think you have to put in go ahead and
put in SMU.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, now from the accs, do you think SMU
is gonna win the a SEC Championship.
Speaker 3: I mean, Clemson would have to have.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna Miami, I know, but Clemson would have
to have Syracuse beat Miami to get into the a
SEC Championship game, which certainly can happen inside the Artists
formally known as a Carrier Dome. It could happen, but
I don't think Clemson can just sit there. Even though
they can get some some quality points if they beat
South Carolina this weekend, I still don't think that they
can asn't at large get in right.
Speaker 2: Now, Okay, so let's say that SMU wins the ACC.
We now have ten of the twelve filled. We would
have an eleven and one Indiana a million three loss
SEC teams, and then well, I guess South Caroline gett
knocked out of CLEMS wins and then you're gonna have
a two loss loser of a conference championship Miami and
at best a two loss Clemson right, two spots left.
I think eleven and one. Indiana gets it.
Speaker 4: I think so too has to in that scenario. Scenario, Yeah,
I mean what scenario they get left out?
Speaker 2: Though, now that these SEC teams lost, I don't see
how it's possible, and I'll put them in there.
Speaker 4: The only way they would get left out if if
they put Clemson in, which I don't think they'll do.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that.
Speaker 2: But we still have room for a second ACC team here. Look,
because we got one spot left, and really, to me,
are you gonna put one of these three loss SEC
teams in like a and m ole Miss, South Carolina
Alabama over a two loss Miami that lost in the
conference championship or a two loss Clemson that maybe even
beat South Carolina. Like, I feel like both those ACC
teams would maybe have a stronger pitch to get in. Like,
if you're thinking about the three loss SEC teams, I
think South Carolina's playing the best football, I like the best,
but they can't make it because they lost. Even if
they beat Clymps, they lost the head to head to
both Alabama and Ole Miss. The teams are directly competing
with Yeah, if you had to choose a three loss team,
it's probably all miss. They don't have the awful losses
like the other teams do, and they have a big
win or I mean, well, I mean their losses aren't great,
they have big wins. I I think, I honestly think
a second ACC team gets in. Yeah, and you'll only
end up with three SEC teams.
Speaker 4: Because right now in the AP top twenty five, you've
got Miami at eight, SMU at nine, Clemson at twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't care. You can put Miami or
Clemson in. I guess the overall point of this exercise
is to show how going into this week, I would
expect the conferences to break down. I think this is
pretty accurate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think four Big ten, Yeah, three SEC, I agree,
one big twelve. I also I think two accs certainly
can make it.
Speaker 3: And then you're one group five and you're one independent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There you go, guys.
Speaker 4: Now, if Notre Dame is to USC, that's where it
becomes real interesting because one of those three loss SEC
teams is getting in and we all know who's going
to get the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 2: Alabama, Yeah, lame, lame.
Speaker 3: I think we can all agree.
Speaker 2: There so many people carried water for Alabama.
Speaker 9: Well there was Oh look, I was listening to people
arguing yesterday for a three loss Alabama over Indiana.
Speaker 10: I just said, don't like that.
Speaker 3: No, you can't do that.
Speaker 2: Wait, what did you say?
Speaker 9: I heard people like last night I was listening to
a show and like there were people arguing three loss
Alabama over Indiana.
Speaker 2: I can't even with this idea of like, I don't know.
At a certain point, if you believe that, then you
just need to say that the SEC needs to just
form it so and nobody else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly there one loss, sure was a lopsided loss,
but it's to one of the top three or four
teams in the country. Alabama has a loss to Vanderbilt,
who now has five losses. They got blown out by Oklahoma,
who hadn't been great this year.
Speaker 10: So I mean, what are we looking at.
Speaker 3: I think indian is in Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think they got blown out, but not bad enough
to take them out of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: All right, when we get back there, it is guys,
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Speaker 10: Off the bench, Yo, what's going on?
Speaker 2: Y'all? All right? A couple of minutes closing up our
number two, here is something near and dear to my heart.
I am joined by Melanie Abart of the of the
of the Nutcracker that we do out of Baton Rouge Ballet.
It's right around the corner. I'm I'm butchering this arm
out of breaths to training Mellie. What's up? How are
we doing today?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 11: Okay, you were a good friend. You came run down
to get me, so that's why you're out of bread.
But it's the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater. We are so
happy to have you back.
Speaker 6: Tea Bob.
Speaker 11: Okay, I brought you a special gift. Remember do you
remember last year when I came.
Speaker 2: When I brought I do well? I thought you brought
me a no cracker last year.
Speaker 11: Now I did, and it was it was sort of
an archived Nutcracker. It was like we it was I
think it was kind of ratty because it looked like
it was gone through a football game and had a
flurtal lee and I thought, oh, this is perfect for
tea Bob because it was purple and gold and it
had a flirt lee.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This year, Oh we got another one.
Speaker 11: Well what did you do with that one?
Speaker 2: By the way, it's up there with the two that
I got from my uh Nutcracker tea your house? Okay?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 11: So I brought the authentic box and everything. Now this
do you want to grab that? Okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 11: So now this is this year's limits It edition. Listen,
nobody just gets these for free.
Speaker 2: Tea Bob.
Speaker 11: I pulled some strings for you because you were such
a great performer last year, and I didn't know if
you were going to let the listeners know when you
were actually performing this year. So I looked it up
because last year, you're like, I don't really need to
tell everybody which which shows I'm going to be in.
So I looked it up.
Speaker 2: It's Saturday. Yeah, have you been saying five time? Yeah?
We're going prime? Yeah this year Saturday afternoon, Saturday night.
Where can everybody get tickets.
Speaker 11: Bats Ballet dot Org. But look, do you see something
special about this?
Speaker 2: Well, I would say this. I was the Purple Party Dad,
and I do see a purple suit there. So I'm
going to go ahead and think that I was so
revolutionary in my part. Right, there's no what's the old
saying that all the actors say, there's no small roles,
only small people or something like that. Not me, Okay,
I brought such an energy to the Purple Party that
that you have now themed the Nutcracker after me. No,
I don't know. He has a beautiful cape, a wonderful
golden cape. What am I misschieing?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 11: Nothing, I mean it's exactly because in honor of the
Purple Party family.
Speaker 2: Because you were so amazing the last year.
Speaker 11: No, I mean, but you really did bring it. I
mean you took in so everybody loved watching you. Tiba'm
just the energy that you brought to the show.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 11: But I think that this one looks like a golden girl.
Speaker 2: Look at the cape it is.
Speaker 11: See a Nutcracker with a cape like this. So I
was really excited about this one. And you're in Grayson's show,
My little seven year old.
Speaker 2: Is your daughter in the.
Speaker 11: Show this year?
Speaker 2: No, not yet. Yeah, we have him in training to eventually,
hopefully one day be in the show. But I can't wait. Guys,
it is the best time a week, every single so
getting ready to remember. This is an original production here
in bat Rouge. It's a ton of people's like part
of their Christmas tradition. If you've never been, it is
so much fun. But you need to make sure that
you get the tickets on the website because if you
go to secondary sites the prices can get way inflated
and jacked up.
Speaker 11: So there are only thirty five to ninety dollars. If
you see prices higher than that, it's a third party website,
don't go there. Go to Batmos Ballet dot org. And
do you know who the guest artists are this year?
Do you know where they're coming from? Junior Dance Theater
of Harlan Oh, Wow, sugar Plum Ferry and her Cavalier
and the Snow Queen. Oh, we are so excited to
have them. Lindsay Donnelle and Elias Ray. They're going to
be amazing. Of course, we have the Batman's Ballet Theater
Company dancers along with about three hundred.
Speaker 10: Local children this year.
Speaker 11: We're really excited and this is the first year under
the artistic direction of our new artistic directors, John A.
Cox and Rebecca Acosta.
Speaker 2: All right, look we got we're gonna have more on
I got play more of a vezie, Melanie. Thank you
so much. Come out to the Cracker, right around the corner.
Guys off the bench,