Speaker 1: Let's all start to it. You want to present off
the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and T
Bob Aybert.
Speaker 2: I got to come off the pitch.
Speaker 1: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: What heaven? Y'all welcome back to oh T b Our
number two.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Jake was just telling us that during the break, Miley
Cyrus is being rumored to headline next year's Super Bowl
halftime show. Uh. I think I could see it. I
think I could see it. Even though Jake, you g
asked what hits she has? I was like, quote, you know,
you know, like Party in the USA, like Wrecking Ball.
And then I'm not entirely sure. Y'all mentioned flowers. I
don't know if flowers are at the top of my head,
I know i'd recognize it.
Speaker 4: For her, it was huge in the last I teen did.
Speaker 2: I know you're doing a great job that I know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying. I'm not saying
you don't. But she's got a good bit of hits.
Speaker 4: Nothing breaks like a heart is a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, that's on the other hit list here that
I'm looking at don't tell me Angel Charlie Angels.
Speaker 6: I would probably say that it would be like most
halftime shows where she was she would bring out others,
which I'm a big fan of, always liked when you know,
it's like, oh, I didn't expect that person to be
here on stage, Like that's why the La one was
so good because it was No Snoop, It was Dray
and then it was Eminem, then it was fifty Cent,
then it was Kenchrick Lamar.
Speaker 2: She needs to come in on a wrecking ball next year,
without a doubt. She doesn't underwear a tank top, set
up just like the old music video and then shaved
and then glam up from there, change from there.
Speaker 4: I would love if she did some Handnah Montana stuff.
Speaker 2: It looks like he could be the one from Hannah Montana.
Three is her highest charting Hannah Montana song.
Speaker 4: Really, I don't know, that's surprising.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I said, seems like I have no idea,
which just it's the only one from Hannah Montana that
I see mentioned in the other hits category that Google's
AI has generated from my Google search. Here we go,
you know it is this Flowers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, you know.
Speaker 2: You know I know it. I know it, I know it.
I don't know that I've ever listened to it casually. Yeah,
uh no, that does not count. She's saying with Dolly Parton.
I mean that's one thing we're already ting about. Yeah,
due Joeline, bring out Dolly Parton, could be could be great.
Bring out Billy ray.
Speaker 4: Well right all the way back for one, they're beefing back.
Speaker 2: To what it's still. I feel like they've been beefing
for a decade. Don't get over you got a year.
Speaker 4: He like performed at Trump's inauguration. It looked and sounded terrible.
Y'all didn't see that going around online?
Speaker 2: Yeah, terrible. Why did they get Billy Race? But it's
the most low cloud like what?
Speaker 4: But also I was telling Jake that Miley does like
really good covers and she covered nothing else matters by
Metallica and it's so good and even Metallica like has
praised the cover before and they covered it together before,
like on the Howard Stern Show. Okay, so I would
think it would be super cool because everybody keeps talking
about how they want Metallica to be the Super Bowl
halftime show, and how they've never done it before. I
think it'd be cool if it was Miley and they
did nothing else matters together and she brought out Metallica.
Speaker 2: That would be pretty sick. So some options there if
it indeed does come to pass, Dane, Dane, Dane, We're
gonna have to give you those second commentment, two boks
at two bonds is Landy Wilson to headline super Bowl
next year. She needs to get off and bring back
her booty, make Boody crazy again. I don't disagree with
the sentiment, Dane, I too want to encourage everybody to
live their booty life to the fullest. Right. However, however
you achieve said goals. But uh, two and ten minutes
before eight o five am is strong, work, strong work,
Proud of you, proud of you man, all right? So
I think, look normally do flustering this hour, no flustering.
So I feel like we're off to a good start though,
h yeah, exactly right. So what I I mean? I
don't know. I got some college football stuff I want
to talk about. If you'll have what do you want
to talk about? Then? I don't know, just keep going
seeing squirrels in the room. I don't know. Hmmm, I
love lamp. It's actually not lamp in here is uh
just looking around the room named the squirrels. I'm like,
I'm like, I'm like, look at it. Yeah, there's one
right there.
Speaker 4: I see something about Bill Belichick's girlfriend in this doc.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to get into that. Yeah, I think
it is just absurdly. I don't know what. Actually, I
don't know exactly what what I'm looking for. Maybe it's
just absurd, but okay, I think it's wild. I think
it's pretty wild how upfront Bill Belichick is being about
this this girlfriend's situation. Normally, when you see an age spirity,
like any think he's seventy two. I think she's like
twenty four or twenty five or something like that. Normally,
when you see that is a lot, right, it's kind
of insane. I don't know what the hell they talk about, right, Yeah,
no idea Like y'all are like a decade younger than
me basically, but I can talk to y'all, but y'all
are kind of old souls, Like I don't know what,
I don't know what they talk about. But that's so
I guess here's the thing. Normally, when you have that situation,
the girl ten do kind of be you know, maybe
a bit a bit hidden, but in the shadows, you know,
you know they're dating. But out of maybe some sort
of societal shame, you you you don't show each other
off too publicly. Well, uh, not the case with Bill.
Bill said, okay, you aren't gonna give me an NFL job. Okay, okay,
bet I'm gonna show up to the NFL Awards red
carpet with a Hugh Hefner red sports jacket on all
twenty of my Super Bowl rings. I got so many
super Bowl rings, I'm gonna give my twitter or four
year old girlfriend one to wear. And she is dressed scandalously.
Just just really driving home the physical disparity between the
two parties involved. But that's not where it ends. As
if the red carpet wasn't publican jake. Probably my favorite
commercial from the Super Bowl featured Bill Belichick and his
girlfriend the the the Dunkin Donuts commercial. She's in it
with him. I didn't see any commercials. Look at this.
Look at this screenshot. This is a super Bowl commercial
featuring him, him and his girl, like Bill's out here
like I'm in it.
Speaker 6: Man, I'm about to say he love Yeah, he is committed,
pot committed, pot committed.
Speaker 2: And you have in the commercial. But you know super
Bowl rings.
Speaker 6: Just be warned. I mean those are that's what they
talk about. It's that stolen valor what do we do?
I mean, it absolutely is. But Bill Saints screww. You
don't want to give me that coaching job.
Speaker 2: But that's where I'm gonna put two people unnoticed. First
is Bill Belichick's girlfriend, because now Bill's on a college
campus and there's there's gonna be a lot of her
walking around, and he's gonna be very powerful on said campus.
I'm also putting Joey Freshwater on notice because Billy Saltwater
has entered the chat. Okay, Billy is ready to take
Lane's crown as the biggest player in college football. So
watch out.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I know you're on that super Bowl commercial together, but
just wait. Don't let the president of Kappa Delta get
in a meeting room with Bill. You might you know,
you never know what's gonna happen. Tried else.
Speaker 6: It doesn't feel like he's even the coach of North
Carolina right now, he's wearing like suits when he meets
with these players and everything.
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 4: I feel, what do you even call it at that point?
A late life crisis something?
Speaker 2: I mean, look again, and a lot of new that
he hadn't been in in a long time. To be fair,
I think most single men at that age and most
single women at that age would love to be able
to date someone, at least from a physical standpoint that
young and probably form mental right makes you feel young,
I would imagine. But again, did they talk about like Snapchat?
I don't know, probably not, that's probably That's what I'm saying.
That's probably old. Have you all seen the vid penguin memes?
What Bill Belichickerltics girlfriends? Dude?
Speaker 7: I laughed so hard at that the other day.
Speaker 2: Good keeping?
Speaker 4: No, no, just like that right there?
Speaker 2: Stop all right Bill? He tells her go to your room,
which she makes them mad.
Speaker 4: Uh do they talk.
Speaker 6: About I don't know, because any time I do an
event at l s U with the youth like people
that are on the team, now I'm like, and what.
Speaker 2: Do y'all talk about? I used to be able to
talk about video games and now I can't even do that. Anymore. No,
and kind of fake out of it, like, oh, you
play Marvel Rivals?
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know out of material, who's bigger boobs,
Bill or her. Actually, there's a lot of bad visuals
on the internet where Bill is looking busty. Unfortunately, this
suit looks great.
Speaker 7: Yeah about saying this picture not him at all?
Speaker 2: No, he looks great here. The suit he wore with
the recruit that I saw the other day was not
a good look. Not a good look, and Bill should
only be showing up in the finest of tailored suits.
Speaker 4: We got some people defending the girlfriend in the chat.
She it's not his super Bowl ring. She was a
D three cheerleading champion.
Speaker 2: Oh, I apologize, that's on me. I just assumed. And
when you assume ring, yeah, look at me, I'm a
freaking jerk. Dude, I apologize.
Speaker 4: I mean, how dare you t bob you disgust me?
Speaker 2: Do you think Bill reads her bedtime stories? No?
Speaker 7: I mean he's got an early bedtime too at this point,
so probably.
Speaker 2: Camera the bedtime guys, I mean.
Speaker 4: Green camera footage is pretty late.
Speaker 2: The ringe camera footage is all time good. Uh, even
that was pretty early. It was, Yes, it was. It
felt very six am son coming up a bit of
a walk of shame, uh sort of situation, although again
credit to Bill, no shame in his game any longer.
Speaker 4: Man, you don't care. You know, when you get to
a certain age you just stop caring. Like old people
do not care?
Speaker 2: True, how much to Bill I look for horny old man,
I just creep everybody out and not really have to
feel guilty about it anymore? Yeah, would you? Yeah? I
mean every time in these workout class and majority women
the entire time, I'm just telling myself to not like,
just like just try not to make anybody feel weird,
don't be creepy. So I just like try to like
stare at the mirror and just like look at myself.
It's yeah, yeah, I don't want to be. No nobody
wants to be the creepy work guy. And maybe, maam,
I'm not trying not to be. What were you saying
to I was like, how much did Bill ever actually care?
Speaker 7: Because the mean thing about it, you know, he wore
kind of the ratty sleeveless hoodies on the sidelines when
no other coaches did, Like he never really cared what
the media thought about him like, this is Bill Belichick.
Speaker 2: True, true, this is him reaching his final form his
this this is the most evolved Bill Belichick that we're
possibly going to get head coach of the UNC tar Heels.
Which what does that mean? I don't know. I don't know.
I mean, you got Duke out here paying four million
dollars for Darien Mensa. Screw you, Duke the hell out
of here. Maybe she's an old soul. Maybe shout out
to Bill tho oh, Billy Saltwater now on the at
Chapel Hill, Will Bill coach twenty games? At youans? No,
he's done after a year. Yes, you think he gets
an NFL job after this year? I know, I think
I think I think he gets at least two years.
I think he gets at least two years. Mike Willis, Wait,
they really hired him to coaching college. That wasn't a bit? Yeah, no, no,
he is. He is actually the the UNC titles that
go to he got a big quarterback commit. I'm uh, i'm,
I'm I'm I'm pretty sure. Uh ye all are so cynical.
I think their soulmates can help. She was born fifty
years later. True? True. Maybe we're just being a hater.
Shout out Billy. All right, when we get back more
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports. This show around
off the bench with Ester and T.
Speaker 2: Bob Honor of flustering. We'll keep the Shenanigans going as
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Speaker 7: You can call but that's already been done.
Speaker 2: Like what are we what are we thinking? I don't know. Uh,
maybe they do exist, you know, to be fair, I
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Speaker 2: Okay, send me to simmey so we can start to
check out out. I can't pull the check out our
competition a little bit. How about this dude? Ari Wisman
and on three was writing about a quote that Jalen
Hurts had and if I was Kirby Smart in Georgia,
I would put this quote everywhere on my social media,
maybe even put it up in the building. Uh. Jalen
Hurts after the Super Bowl talked about the quote Dog
influence on this so all to have an Eagle team saying,
quote a big and he was asked about the Eagles
success and the Super Bowl whatnot, so quote A big
part of it has to do with the Georgia background
on defense. I think that starts with the Kobe Dean
and all those guys who are able to play ball
in college together and bring their ways to the league.
I think it has a big impact on our culture
on defense, how they play, how together they are. I
think that seats through the team in any ways. I mean,
what a recruiting pitch for Kirby Smart. There you have
Jalen Hurts, the Super Bowl winning quarterback and one of
the best teams we've ever seen, talking about how a
big reason for the culture of the team is Kirby
Smart's culture that has translated to the team because of
Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Nolan Smith, A Khilley, Ringo, Lewis Klein,
Nikobe Dean. You know what else it does for me,
Jake to bring back to LSU. It reinforces just how
like or it reinforced how absurd that twenty twenty one
Georgia team was like we always think about it from
the offensive perspective, Like, we know, it was really stupid
that in twenty nineteen you had Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase,
and Justin Jefferson playing college football patently unfair. Well, in
the same way, it was unfair that all these guys
who are now Super Bowl champions all the same team
were all of that twenty one Georgia team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they were you know, at the time you
felt like they were one of the best that we
had seen. But we had just seen you know, two
of the greatest and twenty nineteen LSU and then twin
twenty Bama, So maybe they didn't get there just do
at the time, maybe we were still like, yeah, they're good,
but they're not those two teams win. In fact, like
you had three straight years of elite football teams.
Speaker 2: And and just like, I mean, you just had a
bunch of NFL guys you said, a bunch of NFL
guys playing in the college all and it's just it's
just completely unfair. So shout out to uh the dog
influence on to fill up Delfia Eagles. Did y'all see
Ryan Williams.
Speaker 4: Nail polish deal with Sally Hanson?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, uh, what do you think about you saw this?
Oh yeah, yeah I didn't. Sally Hands Ab was a
big fan of it. Abe, that's that's a problematic tweet.
I know Ab is full of problematic, but yeah, that's
it's a problematic. Yeah, I know, I want I want to.
You know, Ab is very funny, but then he does
something like that, I like feel bad like talking about
how funny is but whatever does matter. I'm gonna say this.
I don't care that Ryan Williams has a as a
as a fingernail deal the yourd thing.
Speaker 7: Did Caleb Williams he didn't have a deal in college,
but he's been doing that.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, dude, if that's your thing, own it,
do it make money off it? Why not? Now? Like,
all I do care about is you just catch touchdowns
on Saturday. Right. If you do what you did against
Georgia last year, you can be sponsored by whatever the
hell you want to be sponsored by. All it did
was remind me of and I've told this story to
you all before, so I apologize. But when I used
those when in sixth grade, I had a very self
aware moment. I was at my friend's house. There were
girls over there. I was trying to flirt with them,
so they're like, let's paint your nails. So I did,
painting him like highlight or lime green. And then later
that day or maybe the next day, I had Atlanta
Hawks game and my father. I'm a thirteen year old short,
very chubby, I have braces, buzzed hair, exceedingly pale, uncle
fee levels of pale. Really looked like an infester with
the buzzed head, and I had on Pacific Sun black
denim shorts that went halfway down my calf with Chinese
lettering up the side and an emo hoodie on. And
I remember sitting there and looking at my shorts, my hoodie,
my pain and nails and looking at my father and
being like, wow, what a disappointment I must be to
him like and being like, you know what, he's a
really good dad for let me do this because I
look stupid, like I look so lost, and every bit
of the insecurity that I feel in junior high is
being reflected in my style right now. And I didn't
even get to make up. M didn't even get the
ultimate prize. Pay him a nails for no reason, least
Ryan Williams getting paid is black, no light lime green
high let her lime green black denim shorts halfway down
the very bad as far as Chinese letter, hack Son.
Speaker 7: Not good as far as him getting paid for his nails?
What does that do for him on game day? Because like,
what if a company's like, hey, we want you to
wear these nails with our advertisemental game day he wants
to wear gloves, whether it's like a rain game or
something like that, Like, how's that gonna work?
Speaker 2: Uh? A pretty salient question.
Speaker 7: Actually they're just thinking about that because I was like,
it's kind of important.
Speaker 4: Also, how about this. Girls paint their nails every all
the time. Why isn't Sally Hanson sponsoring a woman athlete
that paints her nails?
Speaker 7: I agree, I think we should boycott Sally Hanson.
Speaker 4: That's why OPI is elite.
Speaker 2: I wonder, I wonder, I mean, is it because they
already have that market? But are you really expecting Ryan Williams, Okay, here's.
Speaker 4: You're playing college football? What really? Here's what mail are
you really appealing to by being sponsored by Sally Hanson?
Speaker 2: Here's what it is we're talking about it If you
sponsor Livy Dumb, we're not talking about it because it
is what it is.
Speaker 4: We just talked about all the people that no I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so, okay, whatever, if you sponsor whoever, We're not
talking Page Beckers. We're not talking about it because that's
more normal. The whole reason this story has any legs
is because it's viewed as being abnormal, and so by
announcing it, you go a bit viral and you already
start to reap some of the advertising benefits. We've played
right into big Sally Hanson hands here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, big nail polish, Big nail polish.
Speaker 2: I will say this, I love the smell of like
nail polish and nail polish remover doing poppers. All right,
when we get back here on OTV, let's talk to
head baseball coach Jay Johnson. Keep it locked off the bench,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sorta.
It's off the Bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, somebody's back baby, and that's LSU Baseball this
Friday in the Box opening day on Valentine's Day, and
how appropriate as we learn about this team that we
will fall in love with over the rest of this
spring and hopefully deep into summer. And right now it's
time to welcome on one of our favorite people in
the world, a man who is gracious enough to make
time for us every single week. And that is Yeah,
LSU head baseball coach Jay Johnson, coach. What's up, man,
how are we doing today?
Speaker 8: I'm doing great. I don't think anybody's been that fared
up to talk to me in a long time. I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Well, I missed you, to be honest.
Speaker 8: I appreciate that some very.
Speaker 2: Good memories doing this, Doing this weekly, and then even
last year was awesome, man. You know, like like the
team itself, you stayed the course, you answered all of
our questions every single week and found a way to
figure that thing out and and and and finish really
really strong. And let's start with kind of the off season,
because I cannot fathom how much work, knowing how obsessive
you are, how much work you put into creating this team.
Right that feels like an entire couple of jobs in
and of itself. So it's kind of crazy to think, Okay,
so much work has been done up to this point
and now the season actually begins. That is that a
little like odd to wrap your head around.
Speaker 8: Yes and no. I just try to take things as
they come, and you know, it's a new time. And
when you think about why we had to put all
of it together and how much of it it was,
it was really because of good things. I mean, I
think we've moved twenty three players onto professional baseball in
the last two years. That has to be at the top,
and a couple of SEC records in there have a
number of draft picks for one year and twenty three
number of pitchers drafted last year, and so inevitably there
was going to come a year where there was a
lot of turnover. We had a few guys decide that
what this is wasn't for them as well, So it
was just the high school deal was like a three
year effort. I mean, to be honest, it was this
group we started recruiting right when I got here, which
is a few summers ago. Feel great about those guys.
And then when you look up with all the attrition
due to professional baseball, that we had some work to do,
and so there's a little heavier lifting in the portal
than we normally do and feel good about where we
landed now. It's as you said, it's the reward for
all that is, let's go play, go line it up,
and try to win every game of the fifty six
game playoffs.
Speaker 6: Coach, when you have all these new pieces, and you
mentioned like high school guys, and it's a great class,
but also the transfer portal class, like in a good way,
has this maybe been the most difficult to try to
figure out where everybody was going to fit because there's
been so many good players at different positions that multiple
guys can play multiple positions as well.
Speaker 8: Yes to know, yes, and we have more than nine
capable guys. No, And I'm not quite sure why. I
feel like I know this team better than I did
last year's team at any point, and I think there's
just a little more versatility in what guys can do.
It's not as one dimensional, you know. One of the
things that I didn't love last year is like might
be the only team I ever had. We definitely had power,
but it felt like we had to sell out to
get to it and didn't make us this good offensive
team where there's a lot more ways as we could
score with this group, and I'm looking forward to that.
I think it should manifest itself in good defense. On
the pitching side, there's a little to be determined, But
I mean that in a good way, you know, like
we kind of shaved some guys down where for one inning,
you know, it's electric, you know, So we might use
a lot of guys, which I like doing anyways, because
I think it's good for team and whatnot. So I
think there's maybe a little more to be settled on
the pitching And I don't necessarily mean that in a
bad way, just that I think we can use a
lot of guys and finding where they fit first might
be might be a little bit bigger challenge.
Speaker 2: Well, and and again it's a year where you feel like,
as you're kind of alluding to there, that you have
a lot of arms. It's just about what kind of
slots will they end up falling into? How much then
does it help coach to finally, for your first time
in LSU have the same pitching coach in consecutive years
as niate, Yes, you will be back. Whereas everybody else
everything went so well, they kept going elsewhere, finally getting
some uh some some consistency there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank god. Uh yeah, And I think it's it's
really helped because we have a lot of new pictures
this year. Like I said, we had an sec record
pitchers drafted last year, and he's he's really good at
what he does. I think the guys have a really
good understanding of who they are and what they need
to execute in terms of the older ones. And then
we have four really good freshman pictures that he's going
to get to see them through their whole time here,
and there's a lot of value in that. And you know,
last weekend finally tipped to the offense a little bit,
which it should, you know, after seeing him for so long.
But the pictures have kind of, you know, had the
upper hand in this thing. And as a coach, that's
usually the way you wanted to go because if you're
if you're banging around your pitchers all fall and all
early spring, there's usually a ceiling for your team. But
Coach Jets's done a really good job with those guys.
Speaker 6: Coach, I'm always curious when you bring in very talented
freshmen like you do every single year, and this might
be the best class, Like, what are some things you
look for as far as okay, this player is going
to be able to help us, like when you see
him in the fall, Like is it a mentality? Is
it more physical than anything, because like in the football
side of things, it's like, okay, physically, you've got to
be able to handle this as a freshman, or we
can't play you right now.
Speaker 2: What are some of the things that you look for.
Speaker 6: In these freshmen and kind of when do you know
that they're going to maybe be able to help you
in this upcoming season?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think sometimes you can see it in the fall,
but you know it's a lot better stample size, like
the four weeks we've had here leading up to the season.
If they can sustain what you saw in the fall
during this time and not lose that over like a
Christmas break, then you may know that you have something.
Definitely have a few that are going to help, you know,
Like I mentioned, there's four freshman pitchers that are going
to get inning. The core group of position players. You know,
they may not all be in there right from the start,
but it's a really good foundation of guys that I
think are going to be great players here, you know,
and some are going to play and get some chances
right away, and some are going to you know, be
right in that kind of whatever. I would call ten
to fifteen group on the position player unit. But if
someone goes down, I think they can can step in
and contribute. So it's a good group and glad they
chose LSU because they all had a lot of options.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course with baseball, not just other college options,
but literal professional options as well. Well. I was thinking
about that the other day, coach. Something that you've talked
about really since day one here has been kind of
the evolution of the college recruiting pitch and getting guys
to choose to come to college. Have you noticed as
investment increases around the SEC, around the ACC. I mean,
we always talk about football being a super league sport.
It definitely feels that way in baseball right now, especially,
Have you noticed, maybe just through looking around, that players
are more and more taking their talents to the college game.
Speaker 8: Now, I would say no, but I don't have any
numbers to back that up, and I'll just tell you why,
because I mean, we lost four high school guys in
the draft last year, So I mean it's like I
don't ever think about them because they're irrelevant at this
point in time as far as LSU and what we're doing.
But I still think the top guys are going to go.
What I will tell you that the change has been though,
is definitely more seniors come back because there's just not
as many spots to put them in college or excuse me,
in professional baseball with the contraction of the Major league
draft and contraction of the minor leagues, and so it's
it's made our league in particular, you know, a really
really old league. Like you look at like Chris Stanfield.
I mean that guy has two full years of SEC
at bats. You know, Danny Dickinson has six hundred college
at bats. Louis Hernandez has eight hundred college at bats.
So there's this older guys sticking around. And that's that's
what I noticed is the biggest change.
Speaker 2: Coach a obiting day, a couple of days away. You know,
everybody's so excited all the d everybody's so excited as
the head coach, do you have any obening day superstitions
or can you maybe describe the emotions of of what
it's like when you when you step out on that
field for the first time. The beginning of a new season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, your your heartbeat is definitely going, and it's it's
always exciting. I think I try to take like a
pretty measured approach to it. Like you get to like
ten days ago and your team always is just ready
to play somebody else, like in their like emotional state,
where I'm sitting here going like, hey, hold on, like
we're not We got to get going. We got to
keep working for like another week and a half. And
so I try to stay there. And then Opening Day
and I heard this from This was actually from one
of my competitors. I heard this a long time ago,
like ten years ago. It's like the problem with Opening Day,
everybody's always trying to do too much. And so that's
kind of that's kind of become my message of like, look,
you know, as I say, guys like trying to do
too much, that's not a plan, Like, that's not a
like this is really still about execution. And you know,
my one of my strengths is mindset, I think, and
so this is the first test of trying to keep
them in the right mindset. So I try to keep
it at that. But it is exciting, and it's really
exciting here because so many people are into it, and
that's awesome, Goach.
Speaker 6: I mean, opening day and Opening weekend certainly is something
we're all looking forward to. But as you know, like
if we get six weeks down the road, there's going
to be players that have probably stood up and stood
tall that weren't really maybe there for opening Day. And
we were talking about this, I think it was on Monday,
where like at the end of the year, Jake Brown
and how he was playing the Nashon Larson kind of
coming out of nowhere and really solidifying a lot of
things for you, Kate Anderson at the end of the
of the year. How fun is that as a coach
to be able to see guys emerge within a season,
young players, and just I don't want to say come
out of nowhere, because obviously you saw the talent. There's
a reason they're at LSU, but whenever you call upon them,
you know, guys that we weren't talking about in the
preseason end up being some of the best players.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's great, and those are really good examples that
you just mentioned, and it's hard to do that sometimes
as a young player, you know, in this program. But
the good news is what it does show to me,
is shows a lot of character, shows a lot of
mental maturity. You know, can you stay with it when
you're not necessarily just getting everything that you want? And
in my opinion, we probably have twelve players in terms
of how they've played, deserve to be in the opening
day lineup as a position player, and you obviously can't
do that. And so you know there's guys that are
going to have to like lean on maybe some experience
of that before and you know, fall into their best
character and not fall away from Hey, I'm not getting
what I want. But I think that's where communication is important.
You know, It's something that I try to live by.
Like I met with every player yesterday for five minutes,
the forty meetings in a five hour period yesterday, and
just try to line up like, hey, this is where
we're starting on Friday. This is for Friday, Like you know,
this is where you need to be ready for Friday
and big change.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: I mean some of my teams, both of my teams
at Arizona that you know went to Omaha. It didn't
look the same the end as it did at the beginning.
And you know, I always give the story here you know,
of twenty three, we've opened at Texas A and m
we won two, had a three in sec play. Should
have swept them, like played good enough to sweep them.
And you know Kate Beloso, Braden Joe Bart neither of
those guys touched the field that weekend. You know, Hayden
Travinsky wasn't even on a roster, and those guys ended
up being pretty important, you know. So that's how it
goes sometimes on a good team.
Speaker 2: Coach, last one for me here, I want to ask you,
so a lot of times you talk about developing a
young guy, developing a transfer, a new guy, but what
about a guy like Stephn milem where by the end
of the year, I mean it was a starter throughout
the season, but by the end of the year was
just playing at such an astronomical level that it's like
the expectation for him is going to be well, pick
up right where you left off, think it even greater.
Like when somebody already finishes so strong and he's playing
so well, how do you try to carry that all
the way through an offseason and into a new season.
Speaker 8: That's a good question, and you feel like you had
a bug in my office yesterday in my in my
meeting with Stephen, we talked about a couple of things,
and number one is like he's such a popular player here,
you know, because he plays hard and he's got a
edge and all those things, and you know, like the
not trying to do too much or meet some external expectation.
The good news with him is like this guy's just
a ballplayer at his core, Like he's a guy that'll
get better when the game starts, you know kind of thing.
And he's healthy. Now that's probably the most important thing,
like behind the scenes, like when he was hitting all
those homers and the rogues at the end of the season,
like he essentially had like a broken bone in his foot.
And yeah, so I mean he's uh, he's tough, he's
he's a baller. He's gonna play shortstop for us this year,
which I'm excited about. If you've been out at any
of the scrimmages, the range piece is really good, his
feet are really good. He's got a good clock, and
you know, I'm excited about that. I think it's going
to make us better defensively, and I think he's up
for it. I'm so excited to have him back and
being at the forefront of this thing.
Speaker 6: And coach, last one for me, it wouldn't be baseball
season in South Louisiana without watching the weather already here in.
Speaker 2: The opening series.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what do we got? I mean, I just got
to I just got a text from Jordan's Billingsley, our
grounds guy, and that's usually Hey, let's talk about weather.
So what do we got? What do you guys? Maybe
you can help me out.
Speaker 2: Saturday's not look Saturday is not looking great. Coach. How
do you feel about an opening day double header? Coach?
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what. If there's a day to play doubleheader,
it's opening day, Okay, true? Yeah, Like and and you know,
I don't know where we're at as far as this,
but like, if if we had to move, that's probably
the move we would make, just to give everybody a
little bit of a heads up breaking news on the air.
But I'm not confirming that at this point in time.
Speaker 2: Potential breaking news right there. Hell yeah, the best count coach,
real man. Uh really just genuinely so excited. I know
we cant be very long to thank you so much
for making time with us on such a busy week,
and best of luck to you and the boys this weekend.
Speaker 8: All right, guys, have great day, See you soon.
Speaker 2: The legend coach J Johnson can wait. I would be
there if one Valentine's Day I'm gonna do stuff with
the wife. One'd be there on Friday.
Speaker 6: I think I actually got word that my wife and
kids are all going to the game and I'll be
working on off campus.
Speaker 2: We'll see you later. We're going to the box. Yeah cool. Well, look,
maybe get a little late night doubleheady action and if
that happens then yeah, y'all got to wait on me.
Uh yeah, exactly, shout out J Johnson. Man love that man.
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Speaker 2: What hep y'all. Welcome back to O T B. Closing
up our number two here on this Wednesday morning. Uh
and what feels like an ad lib. Did y'all see
John Rocker almost fight Patrick Mahomes Senior on Bourbon Street?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What the hell? John Rocker is still a large bro. Yeah, Like,
I was like, whoa that dude. Not only did he
not quit the juice, he was like, Oh no, I'm
going all in on the stair. Oh you can't drug
test me anymore. I Am going all in on this thing.
John Rocker looks like the personification of Lafayette to me.
Speaker 4: John Rocker has been in the headlines lately.
Speaker 2: His haircut's not bad enough for the Lafayette though. Uh man, look,
I mean he's pretty big. He must he was talking
that ish because what he said he said to him like, dude,
care took a joke or some Rocker definitely skipping leg
day a little bit, though, Johnny. You know you're looking
a little top heavy there. Here's the question, though, So
Ta Ta thinks that John Rocker would just smash I mean,
he's bigger, but I've seen show ponies, you know. It's
a little bit of show muscle dude. Pat. Pat's got
a little more, a little more, a little more street edge.
Speaker 7: Pat's also doing the fake hold back thing though, where
his guys are pulling him back even though he was
kind of like already walking away.
Speaker 2: That's a bad sign. Rocker has no ash.
Speaker 4: So Patrick Mahomes Senior is a menace to society.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, dude. I mean, be careful, be careful.
You're messing with Johnny. I don't know. John rock is
thrown off too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, John Rocker is off his Rocker.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't think this is particularly close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but does he can he fight or does he
have confidence? That's why I don't know.
Speaker 6: But Patrick Mahomes Senior just like flinched at him and
Rocker didn't move.
Speaker 7: Well wait, wait, not only does he not only does
he flinch at him, Watch Mahomes Senior waits until there's
somebody in between him to flinch at him. Watch where
I don't see coming he's coming. He's waiting till there's
somebody in between. Thembody's also holding back? Or why did
John Rocker walk like that?
Speaker 2: He's like, you're right right way, wit you said he
does have a button pause right there. No, he does
not know. He does not allowed to look at that thing.
I could iron my clothes on that. The hell up
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the right for a little bit, but then like I'm
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