Speaker 1: I'm off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob
Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 3: What happening y'all?
Speaker 4: Welcome in now number two of OTV. Hope having a
great day. Two day, T Bob, Jacolandra and Tte hanging
out with you. Massive news here. This comes from Tiger
Woods official Twitter quote. I can't believe I'm saying this,
But a few weeks up to ruptury my left achilles,
the sleeping in the hyper bear chamber, plus the explosive lifts,
my doctors and trainers have me on, have me ready
to play the Masters next week. Can't wait see y'all
on the course. Well yeah, dude, Tiger back.
Speaker 3: Believe that Jake a few weeks after rupturing is.
Speaker 2: Crazy stem cell therapy. Hell of a thing, hell of
a thing.
Speaker 5: Hey, look at the look at the top comment here
Jason Whitlock, T Bob what right here?
Speaker 6: I need good luck? Tiger.
Speaker 3: I saw that.
Speaker 4: Poor Jason, he's just thinking about Tago's peanut butter skin.
They got all excited oh.
Speaker 6: I feel like Tiback loves Jason Whitlock.
Speaker 3: Now I've I look, I hmm, how do I say this?
Speaker 4: I obviously vehemently disagree with Jason Whitlock on a lot
almost everything. Uh, I guess I do have some but
grudging appreciation though, for him being so true to himself,
even though I do not align with his beliefs. Jason
Whitlock is as Jason Whitlock as he can possible.
Speaker 3: Also, I'm very gullible.
Speaker 4: And so I too would see something like that and
be like, oh, that's awesome, hell yeah.
Speaker 3: Without really thinking twice about it. So I I.
Speaker 4: Could see falling into uh, into that trap. I no, exactly, yeah,
exactly right. But yeah, peanut butter skins an all time
quote too.
Speaker 6: Like honestly, when when earlier it's.
Speaker 3: Like those big jokes and peanut butter skin.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Like honestly, when you you were like, oh,
we're not on YouTube? Is that an April Fools prank?
That's the first time I thought about April Fools.
Speaker 3: Like again, big upset you.
Speaker 4: You strike me as someone who would just love to
get your sister or your uh yeah or whoever whatever,
your brother doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Nook here. Are you sure you didn't get the joke?
Speaker 4: No, with luck could have gotten joke. I mean, it
could be like one of those super dry April Fools responses.
I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he did. But
I will say this, if you're having to go out
of your way, and as someone who has to do
the salot, I can say this, If you're having to
go out of your way to explain your joke, it
was probably not a very good joke. If the sarcasm
is not evident, it's.
Speaker 3: Not great sarcasm or satire.
Speaker 7: Right anyway, No, I feel like if somebody's like I
can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, that's kind
of like you.
Speaker 6: Did a good job.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you think you did a good job.
Speaker 7: If somebody can't tell if I'm being sarcastic, yes, I
think I did a good job being sarcastic.
Speaker 4: If you are trying to purposefully mess with someone, then yes.
But if you are trying to be sarcastic then show sarcasm.
Speaker 3: Then no.
Speaker 4: Right, because you know, if you're being sarcastic, you don't
want somebody to take you literally. It's the opposite of
the intention unless, like my buddy Josh Drossik, his favorite
form of humor in college.
Speaker 3: Were just lies.
Speaker 4: He would just lie and then later reveal the truth
and laugh. But it wouldn't be like a punchline or anything.
I was like, that's just like a little white lie,
like you just told me you went Nate somewhere for
lunch that you did it. There's no like pay, not.
Speaker 6: Even like good enough stories to lie on.
Speaker 3: No, No, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: And so.
Speaker 6: Unless you run into somebody cool, it's.
Speaker 4: Like it always kept you on your back heel, never
knowing what the actual truth.
Speaker 6: Of the matter was enough story to make up.
Speaker 4: He's a bit like uh Chunk from Goonies. Just rewatch Goonies,
and you know nobody believes Chunk ever, because all he
does is uh lild boy who cried wolf syndrome and
all that.
Speaker 2: Great character though.
Speaker 4: Great character, great character. T PL line is layers. Yeah, okay,
sure there, okay, exactly, all right, let's uh, I can't
believe I'm gonna say this. Let's start this hour with
the New Orleans Pelicans as and look we had Coachmogi
coming up at a thirty. We got to mail back
coming up next, but the Pelicans announcing Jake. They are
shutting down Zion, Williamson and CJ. McCullum for the rest
remainder of the year, winning a few too many games lately,
even without TJ.
Speaker 2: The Pelicans shut down a long time ago to true.
Speaker 4: True, So only seven games left in this god forsaken season, thankfully,
But when it's all said and done, give it up, guys.
Zion managed to play in thirty games this year. Let's
go thirty games.
Speaker 5: I honestly lost that. I took the under thirty more
than I thought it would be.
Speaker 4: The crazy thing is again he was also in the thirty.
He averaged twenty five seven and five.
Speaker 3: In the thirty.
Speaker 4: He got his first two ever triple doubles. Like he
was really good, just never played.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so like this year, you take a look, and
obviously I know that Brandon Ingram got traded, but he
played eighteen games for you. Zion played thirty games for you.
Murray played thirty one games for you. Let's see, Jose
played in fifty one games for you.
Speaker 3: Not even Jose could make it through.
Speaker 2: CJ played in fifty six games for you.
Speaker 4: How does the old man continue to be the most
available out of everyone. I mean CJ mccolem had a
fifty point game and three forty point games this season.
Speaker 3: And poor CJ.
Speaker 4: Remember he used to have the thing where he made
the playoffs every year of his career.
Speaker 6: Oh, him and Dame had a roll in the way.
Speaker 3: The Pelicans have just squashed that and then some.
Speaker 5: He just imagining the Pelicans telling CJ only that they're
shutting him down in Zion's like none enough. He gets
to be shut down. I get to be shut down too.
Speaker 4: The Pelicans just used their forty second starting lineup.
Speaker 2: Guys forty second.
Speaker 3: In seventy five games. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 2: Mean think about this. What the Amaiah Robinson Earl has
played the second most games this year for the Pelicans
at fifty nine.
Speaker 4: Who No, I am fifty ninety second most too?
Speaker 6: What the hell?
Speaker 3: Who's played first?
Speaker 2: Uh? Let's see Hawkins, Jordan Hawkins me see the rookie? Yeah, sorry,
Hawkins played fifty six.
Speaker 6: He doesn't hate New Orleans yet?
Speaker 3: Oh man, it.
Speaker 2: Got He's played the most by ten games. By the way,
he's at sixty nine.
Speaker 4: Has there ever been a season in which two professional
franchises in the New Orleans Saints in the New Orleans Pelicans,
have you ever seen this many injuries? I mean, it's unfathomable.
Here's what JJ Barrigo said about this year's team quote,
I'm not sure I've been a part of a season
like this before. In totality, I've not seen this. You
go through stretches in a season where you're injured, every
team does, but to see it start to finish, I've
never seen anything like it before. I mean right because
it started literally first game of the year, Johnta Murray
kicking ass out for the year.
Speaker 3: Then who came up next?
Speaker 4: And was Zion the one who came up lame next?
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, They've all come up lame.
Speaker 3: Her Trey goes his laboram what did.
Speaker 4: Herb end up being rotator cuff? I believe, okay, was
that shoulder my getting him and Trey confined?
Speaker 2: I didn't think about her. Her played twenty games.
Speaker 3: It's just.
Speaker 2: Again, he had a labrom tear.
Speaker 4: And after the New Orleans Saints just had the most
injury plague season we've ever seen. Now the Pelicans as well,
I mean, what in the world did y'all do? On
airline Highway to offend the gods.
Speaker 2: So much at m I mean you and you traded
Brandon Ingram for a bag of pe nuts. Basically, I
mean Bruce Brown and Kelly Olynnox. Now Kelly Olynks actually
played actually been great for you. But I'm gonna be honest,
like Jamal Caine played thirty games for this Pelicans team,
I don't think that a diehard Pelicans fan can tell
you anything about Jamal Kane.
Speaker 9: Jamal kay Odd think Jamal Kane's a fun player when
you get him. I've always been a fan of his work, personally,
Italian Jobs probably my favorite.
Speaker 4: I felt like that was a pretty good Michael that
came out way way better than I thought it was
going to go. But yeah, I know nothing about Tamall Kane,
so that's why I had to do that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you shouldn't.
Speaker 3: No, I mean to be fair.
Speaker 4: Gold South, said Boogey Cousin says the franchise cursed. I
mean again, I can't help but feel like it all
goes back to that night against Houston when Boogie grabbed
the game winning rebound and everything was coming together in
his achilles snapped. I have known no happiness since that moment,
maybe a couple of moments of happiness, but nothing almost nothing.
Speaker 3: Since that's true, that's true, this unseious.
Speaker 10: Wow, And y'all made me do this too. I know
a bad time to hop off the Knicks. No opportunity,
I can't.
Speaker 4: You cannot. Look if you were if you were a
neutral in I could. But you are a direct rival.
Speaker 3: You are the.
Speaker 4: Team that stopped the one championship caliber Pelicans team there's
ever been, the Hornets. But still no, I cannot hop
on the I. I cannot hop on the bandwagon with you.
Speaker 2: He do it, won't do it?
Speaker 7: Like my first professional game ever, So that was my
first favorite Antonio.
Speaker 4: I'd be head over heels in love. What a competent, wonderful, amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, dude, I grew up going to.
Speaker 4: So I think with my old man because he like
retired right around the age that I was really loving
basketball and so he ain't have much to do anymore,
and so we had season tickets. We'd go to damn
near every single Hawks home game. So yeah, bro, like
Mookie Blaylock, Steve Smith, uh to Kimba Mutumbo, those are
my big three.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: There was some Tony Kuk coach mixed in there Christian
Latner for a bit as well. Stay aug men the
plastic Man. But Mookie was my guy. Miki Block was
him and to Kimbeckkie hell yeah.
Speaker 3: I uh.
Speaker 2: The only time I've ever sat court side at an
NBA game was Hawks not I went to Atlanta, went
to Atlanta as for my brother in law like senior
trip present whatever. Yes, at court side, and it was
fun because like where Alandra and Taite are was t
I and Nelly.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say that that's that, that's yeah, That's
what I remember is like Jermaine Dupree and all, like
the old like Atlanta music scene would always be around the.
Speaker 3: Uh and so I was.
Speaker 2: I was still playing and it wasn't deep maybe two
three years in my NFL career, huh. And I went
up and I was like introducing myself to Nelly. I
was like, I'm gonna say what's up to him? Hey,
what's up? Jacob past He looked at me, he said,
oh you that white mfor.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Nelly, And I was like supposed to.
Speaker 2: That's how he knew me, was being a white running back.
That's how I took it at least. Hell yeah, dude, sure,
I mean true. Me and my brother in law talk
about that all the time.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: But he was cool.
Speaker 2: He said, said, what's up?
Speaker 7: Did you know Pearl Jam their original name was Mookie
Blaylock because they were such big fans of him.
Speaker 4: I did not know that where the Mookie played before Atlanta?
Why would he have been in Pearl Was he like
from Washington?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Did he play for the Sonics.
Speaker 2: I think I thought he played for like maybe a
West Coast team, but.
Speaker 3: Maybe the Warrior.
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking, maybe them.
Speaker 4: I have some vague memories of Warriors that I think
Pearl Jam is a little bit of a better name
than Mookie Blaylock to a band, to a band name
he went to Oklahoma called.
Speaker 7: That and then they signed and they changed it.
Speaker 2: From Garland East, Texas. Played for the Nets before he
played for the Hawks.
Speaker 3: Know that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know where Pearl Jam would.
Speaker 3: Have I remember the Hawks, old old Lenny Wilkins.
Speaker 4: I don't think you ever won a championship, but won
a a ton, but won a ton of regular season games.
I think most for a while there.
Speaker 2: I will say, like sitting and watching a game courtside
in the NBA, you just you don't realize how big
and athletic NBA players are until you get on their level.
Speaker 4: It's the single most insane sporting experience I think you
can do if you ever get a chance, you have
to do it. I think I think I've been fortunate
enough to do it three times. And yes it is.
There's just not enough room on the court. They're too big, dude.
Speaker 2: It takes, and they're at the other end.
Speaker 4: Uh, I'll never forget. Against the Suns, I went my
boy Kyle. He brought me shout up script and Devin Booker.
I was talking trash and Devin Booker turned and stared
at me and glared at me in the eye. And
the amount of godlike energy coming out of this man,
I absolutely wilted. It looked like a young Adonnis like Apollo.
Uh decided to to this, this demi God decided to stare,
to cast his gaze upon me, just a mere mortal
And I completely wilted.
Speaker 8: And he.
Speaker 3: Looks small and he's so big. He's probably he's so big.
Speaker 4: He's as you are, oh bigger, Like he's so big.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, my god.
Speaker 2: Never mind, and he looks like he's with everybody else.
He looks like he's six ft on TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, No, it's it's that like say
he's listed his six six there you go, so in
the a courtside.
Speaker 4: Probably the crazy thing ever, Uh, definitely something like I
was see Nascar Live versus TV's not even close. And
then hockey is the one that I always go back to.
Hockey live is just a different animal, so much fun,
the sights, the sounds smashing against the glass. Hell yeah,
the fish don't fry in the kitchen and the beans
don't burn on the grill. I do not, But it
took a whole lot of true ry in just to
get up that hill. An how we're up in the
big leagues. Yep, and I've seen I forgot. That's pretty good, though,
I forgot what comes back?
Speaker 3: Shout out Nellie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I need some country grammar coming back.
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Speaker 1: Back to sports talk, maybe off the bench they.
Speaker 3: Got in like fifth grade.
Speaker 4: We're wrapping this song with my friends on the Duluth
Wildcat shout out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you definitely would have been around that time. I
talk about what I used to back in six to
eight radio. There was a channel where you could call
in and type in a number and it would play
the music video attached with the number, like on demand
the box or whatever, I think it was called the box. Yeah,
And so like when this song came out, I was
young high school and you know, napster was out there,
but not really and so if you wanted to hear
a song, that was like one of the only ways
you could do it on demand, yeah, right, you had
to call to your radio station, Hey, could you play
a Country Grammer by Nelly please? So like around here boy,
And it was like a dollar ninety nine two ninety
nine or something like if you did it, man, My
mom and dad were like, what in the hell are
you doing? What is this three different two ninety nine charges.
I'm like, I want to hear Country Grandma by Nelly? Man,
are you talking about? I want to see the video.
Speaker 3: I wanted to watch the tip drip. I had no idea.
Speaker 2: I had no idea like what a range rover was
until this song. No, I'd never heard of it before
my life.
Speaker 3: I don't think they were talking about a street sweeper.
You think, I don't think so. It's wait what, I
don't think they were talking about a street sweeper.
Speaker 6: It's so good, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Not something that cleans the streets.
Speaker 4: I feel like it's an auto shotgun like the one
I used to use in modern Warfare.
Speaker 3: Two, and you can wield the exact same one. But
I could be wrong. I'm not sure the striker I
think is that what he used to be called. I
don't know.
Speaker 2: The twelve gauge twelve round revolving cylinder shotgun.
Speaker 3: That is the striker from modern Worverord two.
Speaker 4: There you go, bang bang otb mail.
Speaker 8: I help this.
Speaker 3: Special delivery and look it is marked most urgent writing
to you the Internet? What the is the internet?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 3: High sag oh TV mayl bag.
Speaker 2: In baseball? Yes, high sock or low pants? Legands? Oh
pants to the cleats, pants to the cleats.
Speaker 10: See.
Speaker 6: I'm actually I think I like the high song.
Speaker 2: Oh you feel like a high sock? You feel like?
Speaker 6: I think the sock's part of the uniform.
Speaker 7: I probably depends if you have stirrups.
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 7: I like stirrups if you're not wearing stirrups.
Speaker 4: No, I was always a I was always a high
sock set. Yep, even though I'd go with both. If
I was a BASEBA player, I'd probably do both, depending
on the uni. I wanted to feel a little more
old school one day, go high socks, a little more
new maybe go low.
Speaker 2: Jipper Jones would alternate between high and low. Yeah, I
few that I remember being. I just remember Griffy having
long pants and just looking so tight, I mean not
Griffy could do anything and looked like true.
Speaker 3: Has to go to the mailbag? How many Caesars did
Lily Rose Depp have it knows for autun Oh a lot?
I mean what seizures? How many do we see some
extreme physical acting? How many?
Speaker 6: How many?
Speaker 5: Because in the movie did they mention like, oh, she's
done this like every three hours.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's a good point. I think you took
the question very seriously, and I'm proud of you for
doing so. I'm not sure h has to go.
Speaker 3: To the mailbag Since the catholicaik committed to Ohio State, Uh,
do you guys get.
Speaker 4: Do you guys get to code Red Moscona continuously until
the kid changes his mind.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I don't know what that means. I
don't know.
Speaker 2: Look, TIBOWI and I are working on the U High kids. Okay,
we can't worry about the kids either.
Speaker 4: Shout at the Golden Gallopy, of which we'll be hosting
Friday night. You're gonna go, uh donate money, you know,
bid on the auction. So we're not standing up there, Mike,
say when.
Speaker 5: You when you get them in there, to make sure
they donate, shut them doors behind them, bro.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you do shut them doors and threaten them
with a street sweeper. Hashtag to your mail bag. Best
April Fools prank you've pulled on someone or had pulled
on you.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't really have him, know that I have.
Speaker 6: I don't have any.
Speaker 3: Christer got me with something one time. I can't remember
what it is, but she tried to get me recently.
Speaker 4: Not April Fools, but you know the thing that everybody
was doing with the face time where you answer and
it's like.
Speaker 3: Some random guy. Yeah, yeah, it was like some.
Speaker 4: Random guy and it's supposed to be like, oh I
kidnapped this person or whatever, And as soon as it
popped up, I said, sorry, Sis, I am way too
chronically online.
Speaker 3: They'll fall for this.
Speaker 4: Answer your phone, yes, you know my sister's face time
meaning it generally means like the kids want to talk
to each other, the cousins.
Speaker 3: So if I have my phone on me right, I
will answer it. Hashtag OTB mail bag.
Speaker 4: What was your dream car when you were in high school?
Speaker 2: For me, still the same one that I dream of
to this day as seventy one Dutch Challenger.
Speaker 4: Sadly, I was just insecure and I just wanted like
a giant lifted truck. All the girls were in two.
Speaker 2: I had that as a junior in high school. Yeah,
probably got laid pretty sick. Dude, would you have Okay?
Yeah you had one?
Speaker 3: Yeaeah, I did truck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, guy, you don't feel like a
truck person. I mean, to be fair, I don't really either.
Speaker 3: I was living a lot, I mean, because you know,
we had We had.
Speaker 4: Had a lot of very well living like you know,
like massive lift kids like twelve forty inch mud tires.
Speaker 3: We used to go mudd and all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did too. My first car. Was it like
an eighty seven Chevy Silverado?
Speaker 3: Hell yeah?
Speaker 2: And that the thing sounded like him in eighty seven
drove back when I.
Speaker 4: Get in trouble. My dad at the time was coming
back to work here for Adious. He was driving back
and forth all the time, and he bought a very
very cheap and old Alero uh, just to drive the
airport back basically, And so when I get in trouble,
I'd have to drive that.
Speaker 3: And my god, that man made it smell like fart
and cigars. That car is just baked in to the
to the carpet. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Hashtag ot B mail bag. How do you all feel
about all the OTB parodies?
Speaker 9: Love?
Speaker 4: Absolutely love has to go to b o Meg? How
soon Well Good would be doing a torpedo bat? I
imagine pretty soon if it's proven to be effective enough
has to.
Speaker 3: Go to the mail back. Are we buying Sidney swinging
with Glenn Powell?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4: I I think it's I don't think. I don't think
she wants to dive back into.
Speaker 3: Relationship quite yet. Yes, I think there's a see some attraction.
Speaker 2: Friends with benefits, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think bored.
Speaker 4: Yes, some version of friends with benefits or situationship, as
Alandra said.
Speaker 3: You're at the sister's wedding.
Speaker 2: It's a little more than friends with benefits.
Speaker 6: Y'all are gonna have fill me in on this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the term situationship is used all the time, and
I can't quite figure out what it means.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's pretty self explained.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like I don't really know what a
relationship is. I know what friends with benefits is, I
don't know what the whole situationship.
Speaker 7: Like a combination of both.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like a little like friends with
benefits is very clearly delineated line where people are saying,
this is what we're doing.
Speaker 3: I agree, and then there's a bit more emotion involved.
Speaker 4: It's a bit messier, but it's maybe also not technically exclusive.
So all of a sudden, one person goes and does
something and then the other person's like, well, what the f.
And they're like, well, what do you mean we're not
actually together, that's what we're sounding together.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: I think that's kind of the point of the situationship. Okay,
last one he has to go to.
Speaker 3: Your mail bag.
Speaker 4: Mickey bar or Mickey ice cream sandwich. Uh, well, let's
just go be Mickey dove bar or ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 3: Like, do you want the bar coated in the chocolate
ice cream sandwich?
Speaker 2: Ice cream? Sam?
Speaker 6: I like an ice cream Samie.
Speaker 3: Oh really, Laundry, give me the bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, ice cream sandwich, Bluebell if I'm picking.
Speaker 3: Bluebell ice cream, Sammy, it's very both.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I'm not gonna turn on ice cream.
I'm gonna be honest with you. Like I bought the
Ninja like creamy ice cream machine.
Speaker 7: I want one of those so bad?
Speaker 3: Oh really?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's perfect because like, all you do is
get a fair Life forty two protein. You pour it,
you freeze it, and then you spin it up and
you've got healthy ice cream.
Speaker 7: So many good recipes on Instagram. I've been wanting a
creamy for so long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, like I can't say anything anyways, So it
satisfies your sweet tooth and you're eating healthy because all
it is is, you know, a protein shake. It's just
an ice cream form.
Speaker 3: Well, why don't you give a launder a protein creamy?
Sometimes I'll leave that to you and.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't have the protein creamies even though you
have been drinking my shakes every night.
Speaker 3: Anyway, that is mail bag more. We got h coach
Kim Moulkey coming up next to you. Be blocked off
the bench.
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Speaker 1: Real kind of off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 3: What's happening, y'all?
Speaker 4: Welcome back to OTB and we are lucky enough one
more to put a bow on the season. Another incredible
year for your LSU women's basketball program, and we once
again have the head of said program on the program,
Coach Kim Maulkey. Coach Milkey, what's going on?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: I know it's a very busy time. Uh.
Speaker 4: An exhalation after a long grind. Thank you so much
for joining us this morning.
Speaker 8: How we feel well, we're tired, but no rest for
the weary. We don't even have time to, you know,
think about the last game and the season because we're
in the transfer portal and bringing plenty. Yeah, that's what
I say.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 8: It's the world we live in, guys. I'll give examples.
And it's just something wrong with this picture and we're
boarding the plane that you know, after a loss and
you want to kind of rethink the game, and I'm
on the phone, you know, on the plane talking to
portal kids and we've got our own kids that'll get
in the portal. I mean, it's it's just free agency
and you just never know. I mean it's you know,
years ago you worried about transfers or what it needs.
Is they not like you? Is you know what it now?
It's they don't get into the portal because they don't
like you or they're not playing. It's just hey got
to go try to get some more money, some betteranishle
deals or want to It's it's just it's broken guys.
Speaker 3: And coach.
Speaker 2: Also the timing of it. I mean you said, like
you're you're trying to replay everything that happened in your
mind and you've had these players that for multiple years
have you know, been with you in those relationships, and
you're trying to spend that time with them. But you
have to be on the phone because if you don't,
you'll fall behind in the portal. With the current calendar, Like,
why is it that we have to like have that
right now while we still have games going on?
Speaker 8: You you and you preaching to the choir. I I
don't know the answer. I just know that kids are
visiting places when the playoffs are going on, and we
you know, we're done now, so now we don't bring
people in. It's I don't have an answer. I just
know that my generation of coaching years, as you know
Staban and el Fortner yesterday at Georgia Tech, they're getting out.
It's this is not this is not what it's supposed
to be like. And those they're not opposed to money,
they're not opposed to young people making all that they can.
It's just the transfer portal is not is not healthy
in their eyes.
Speaker 4: Do you have a solution, like if you were if
you were given unilateral control, do do you know what
some of your potential solutions would be?
Speaker 8: Well, I would sit at a table and go, let's
fix the calendar. First of all, let's you can't you know,
it's an advantage to lose so you can start bringing
people on your campus versus those who keep winning in
the playoffs, which is what you get paid to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 8: The calendar has to be fixed first, and then from
there the details of how many times and you transfer
should you take a year away, if you transfer, should
you be able, should you have to sity here? There's
so many discussions people you know, talk about, but nothing
is ever done. And the reason I've come to the
conclusion is lawsuits.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yes, this has been created because of lawsuits.
Speaker 8: So I'm not an attorney and I don't know the answers.
I don't sit at a table and have these discussions
and give solutions. But I can just tell you it's
it's it's it's tiring, guys, it's tiring.
Speaker 4: Well, And you know, I was hoping to get on
here and hear that, like you know, you got a
couple of days too, unwind and to reflect and kind
of basking another great Elite eight finish, But doesn't sound
like that.
Speaker 3: What keeps you, what keeps you going? What keeps you most?
Speaker 4: As you said, some of the other greats you know,
I've decided maybe it's not for them anymore.
Speaker 3: What keeps you on the grind?
Speaker 8: Well, we're gonna have some days here when the final
four begins that are called dead days, so you can't
bring anybody in, you can't do anything. So there'll be
that during the final four that'll let you come up
for air, but then as soon as that period is over,
you're right back at it. What keeps me going? Sometimes
I ask myself that question. Honestly, why do I keep
doing this? I don't need to win more championships to
validate my resume or my career. I never ever am
motivated by money. Money, yes, it's great, but at the
end of the day, if you're frugal with your money
through the years of working, you have enough. What is it?
I think it changes from day to day on what
it is. I think I'm in charge of a big
company just the way I look at it. There are
many people in my company that are young and just
getting started in the profession, and I feel a sense
of responsibility there. I feel a sense of responsibility to
Lsu who has given the unbelievable chance to come back
home and given me a wonderful contract. I think, just still,
I have a platform that people appreciate, and that's just
pure honesty, no agenda. I don't answer to any group
of people. I just speak from my heart, and I
do believe that people still appreciate that. I honestly believe that. Well.
Speaker 4: There was a quote from Flage recently that I thought
really hammered that home where she was talking about what
it was like to play for you, and that that
was the biggest thing is that coach Molki is going
to keep it real with you one hundred percent of
the time, let you know exactly where you stand and
whether you want to hear it or not. And it's
that accountability that creates that she said, why so much
fun to play for you? Which I mean, that's a
little refreshing to hear a coach because a lot of
times you think about this court generation. They don't want this,
they don't want that, but some people still want to
be coach that way.
Speaker 8: I think I really have to keep telling myself a
couple of things. When I lay in bed at night
and say my prayers, there is more good in this
world than bad. I have to say that we just
see the bad. And I also say God, I know
young people's cheep wont in life is for somebody to
push them to become what they're capable of becoming. And
I just have to believe those things. And maybe that's
my answer to your question, is when I don't feel
like that is still the truth and what I believed,
and maybe that's when it's time to retire the critics,
the people that you know, the haters, as the young
people call it. I don't hear any of that because
I don't live in a social media world. I think
when I speak, whether you agree with me or you
disagree with me, I have to believe that it's refreshing
to have a coach that just speaks how she feels.
And when I can't do that and I get up
there and it's fake and it's phony, and I have
to think about what I say because it has to
be politically correct, maybe that's the time to step down, coach.
Speaker 2: And we're talking about the schedule and all the kind
of different changes in the relationships that you have with
your current former players. So whenever the season is done
for you and you're having to be on the phone
like immediately like what is the price? Like what's the order?
I guess is it? Okay? Let me see where my
players that could come back are, be it WNBA or
transfer portal, high school recruiting, transfer portal. Like when you're
building this roster, kind of what's your process of figuring
out who's going to be on this roster?
Speaker 8: Well, you now as a coach never takes for granted
that they all are coming back, because those that you
never think the league will leave. So you have to
have what I call end of season individual meetings. I
can't have that this week. They're all scattered because of
spring break, right, So you you schedule those as quickly
as you can around the class schedule, and you have conversations,
and in those conversations, you get a feel if they're
coming back. But let me quickly tell you, you don't
always get the truth. Because the portal was open till
April twenty third, and as I tell people, know the
portal is always open. You can rest assured people are
constantly talking. I mean, that's just that's what they're doing.
And so you never truly know. You know, you lose
seniors and who's not coming back, so you just kind
of count scholarship minus seniors. And then you get in
the portal looking for particular physician players that you need
or who you think you can really get a you know,
have a shot at signing, but the portal. They can
go into portal the last day and it's it's a gamble.
Speaker 7: Guys.
Speaker 8: You just don't know.
Speaker 4: Do you have dedicated members of the staff that are
monitoring the portal kind of.
Speaker 3: Around the clock.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, I've never looked at the portal. I would never
know how to get in there and see who's in
and who's out. That's their job. I have recruiters, and
your job is to know who's of the portal. Your
job just to you know, give me the information, and
my job is to make the final decisions. But it's
and then you have to re recruit your own players,
and that, you know, feel me that something's not wrong
with that. You work, you work your whole life to
get players, and you never know what makes them leave.
And I've kind of come to the conclusion control what
you can control, and that's about it. That's how you survive.
Just control what you can control. You can't control people leaving,
so just keep working to replace them.
Speaker 4: Uh And and here we are kind of doing the
same thing that the rhythm of the season hits or
the season ends, and we haven't even discussed it yet.
So I guess hearing the back end of this, what
will be your lasting memory of this twenty four five
LSU women's basketball team that finished in the Elite eights,
falling in a close battle to number one overall seed
will be your lasting memory.
Speaker 8: Well, I think there's so many things about this team.
I will think about all the close games we won.
I will think about just how we fought to the
bitter end in games that people didn't think we should
win or that we were capable of winning. Certainly, my
personality is I will think and never forget tough losses.
But thirty one and six, is that what we finished?
I don't even know the record, but that's a lot
of wins. And I don't ever ever take for granted
Elite eates and Sweet sixteens because there are five young
people in my locker room that had never been to
Sweet sixteens or Elite eights. And you know, I don't
let people value or judge my team based upon how
far they think we should have gone. I'm there every day.
I know what our strengths and weaknesses are, and I
feel like we had another successful season at LSU. You've
finished third in the league, You've got a top sixteen seeds,
You've got to play two games at home in the playoffs.
You falter overall number one seed, a seed a team
that you beat the previous beating the previous year. You
just put things in perspective and nobody nobody hates leading
worse than I do. But you allow yourself a few
days to really reflect. And this was a remarkable year,
and that's kind of how I view the year. And
I'll think about individual players, I'll think about in these
I'll think about a lot of little fun things we
did along the way, and get ready for another year
whoever might be on that roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's amazing just how quickly you've made
success the norm here. I mean Natty Elite eight, Elite eight,
Like you said, hosting every single year just truly fantastic
and it's always an honor coach, Ken, I thank you enough.
I know it's crazy busy. You got a ton going on,
and you make a lot of time for us every
single week here and we are very cognizant of that
and we appreciate you, so thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Well, it's a joy talking to you guys. You guys
have an athletic mind. You guys have been in the trenches.
You guys understand. You guys have been in the locker room.
So it's easy for coaches to talk to people in
the media who get it to understand, and they're not
trying to get clickbait. They're not trying to get soundbites.
They're not trying to, you know, to to do anything
but get a true sense of what it is to
be a coach and what it's like to be in
a locker room. And y'all ask questions that are so
relevant and that's why I come on your show and
that's why I enjoy you guys. Y'all love on your families, yes, ma'am,
And we'll see you next year of God's willing, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2: Sound appreciate you.
Speaker 3: We'll do Thank you again. We love you, will see
you next time.
Speaker 8: Thank you. All right, take care now, all right.
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Speaker 1: This show around off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: All right, Joe, we only got a minute here and
again you'll y'all know this deal.
Speaker 3: It's like this every Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Love to go along with coach Maulky there he always uh,
she always makes time for us, and it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: I could I could listen to her talk.
Speaker 4: About anything, really, but it's fecially the travails of being
a legendary coach in this rapidly evolving world. But as
she said right, there's more good than bad in this
world and young people still want to be pushed. As
long as that is true, coach Molki will still be there.
Our three of Off the Bench coming up next.
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