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Speaker 1: Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and

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Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive.

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Speaker 3: Hansday, Hester and Hester got it?

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Speaker 4: Fiveta Pa.

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Speaker 3: You're locked in to Off the Bench to troll the.

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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz of Baton Rouge Studio. Here's

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Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 2: You welcome in oh TV Right Friday, Friday one four

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five ESPN, Baton Rouge.

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Speaker 4: Jay Flynn, a Laundra Tata, The Gang's all here with you.

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We are Football Friday. Let me count, let me use

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the fingers and toe. We are twenty nine No.

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Speaker 2: Twenty eight, now twenty eight hours away from college football

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starting in Dublin, Ireland.

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Speaker 4: In Dublin Farmageddon, Farmageddon. I'm excited. So what do we decide?

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It's at eleven tomorrow right neon Eastern Yep.

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Speaker 2: I keep I have to think in Eastern time, and

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I have to remind myself that no wrong, God's time

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or Elvis time.

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Speaker 4: I believe that would be.

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Speaker 5: I think I'm not mistaken. I think there's a six

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hour time difference from here and there, so it would

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be five pm Ireland time.

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Speaker 6: Yes, let's get sat on the internet yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I don't even care what time the game is. I'm there.

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Speaker 2: It's football, it's real, it counts. It's between two good teams.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 5: They tell me no real plans for the weekend, which

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is incredible. So good to get a chance for just

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concentrating on the TV standing up thirteen inches fourteen to

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twenty five inches away.

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Speaker 2: If it's not an LSU, you can stand back and yeah,

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I don't have to move back quite as much, but yeah,

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I do.

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Speaker 4: You know, you get it.

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Speaker 5: I like to stand right next to it. So I

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moved my head around like back and forth, like it's tennis.

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Speaker 4: Yep. How are we doing everything? Good? Everybody good?

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Speaker 3: Good night?

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Speaker 4: Is laundro overachieving? Running in the rain miserable? Why did

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you do it?

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Speaker 6: Because I was already.

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Speaker 4: No, I was grip the rain doesn't wash away, grip.

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Speaker 1: Bro.

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Speaker 6: It was a mile and a half away from my house.

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Speaker 7: I had to Okay, So that was that was in

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your neighborhood.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the best.

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Speaker 2: Like my dad, like when we used to run sometimes,

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like he drops off away from the house and drive off.

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Speaker 4: You got one way to get home. Both working out

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that picture.

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Speaker 7: It's raining. I'm here, I'm looking out the window. I'm like,

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where is she? It was it wasn't raining, neighbor, Yeah,

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right in here?

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Speaker 4: I had nothing, no rain really, Yeah, well that's what

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Speaker 7: I was looking. I was like, where is she? I

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was like, drops avoid that area.

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Speaker 4: I did see some.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's that time of year where there's

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gonna be some dark clouds rolling in every single as

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it was.

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Speaker 4: It was thundering here, but there was I saw some

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in the distance, but we didn't catch any. This little sunshiny,

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Speaker 6: It was very hot and sunny whenever I left for

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Speaker 4: So run faster, yeah, I do. We missed it. How

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far did you run?

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Speaker 6: I was, so's three point four something miles because I

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was already a mile and a half out five Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So you're getting ready for one, right, half marathon?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Thirteen thirteen points something?

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Speaker 6: Thirteen point something.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. The bumper stickers you see them all around town?

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super fun, voluntary thing to do to yourself.

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Speaker 6: It's not, but that's the point, completely voluntary.

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Speaker 4: What's it?

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Speaker 8: Uh?

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Speaker 4: What's it for? Which one is it.

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Speaker 6: It's the Louisiana Marathon in January.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we got some time.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I gave myself time. I cannot just get

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Speaker 2: If we're already hitting like a good pace a little

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bit over three miles and we're in August, you're you're good?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? What do you think? Can we get a get

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you like my high sponsored shirt to do this running?

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How we feeling?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Doing sponsorship?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Can we get our girl a hat? She wants one.

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I mean she's at your baseball hat, your baseball I

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love a baseball. She sent the pictures running in a

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hat yesterday.

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Speaker 5: But this isn't a running hair like runners like to have,

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like those little short ones. I don't care what like

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the volleyball.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I actually don't like.

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Speaker 2: That, like uh Wesley Snipes and white Man King John. Yes,

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exactly that kind of that's kind of exactly you get it.

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Speaker 4: No, I'm where one. I wear this hat to run in.

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Speaker 2: You're supposed to be able to wear melons and they're

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you know, you're supposed to be able to sweat in them,

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wash them, clean them.

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Speaker 4: The best way to wash your hat throat in the dishwasher.

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Really absolutely, no idea. It'll sparkle kind of hat you wearing,

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sparkly ones, sounds like it. That really works. The dishwasher, Yeah,

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it does what I do with mine. I actually have

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like these things.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to buy these, and I've never had one,

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but I seen like the infomercials, the former, Yeah, the former, like.

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Speaker 4: The shade it. Yeah, and that's why you just buy

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a melon hat. You can, they say you can just

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clean it. You're good.

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Speaker 7: Dallas cowboys had got some dirt spots on. I've been

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trying to get out, so I'm gonna have to dishwashers.

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Speaker 4: That's do doo.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you got some spots on the organization right now too.

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And ain't pret your guy, man, he just keeps digging

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himself a hole.

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Speaker 6: Does something else happened?

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Speaker 7: I gotta tell you, Matt little offended that you said,

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my guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you guy.

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Speaker 5: It is your guy, the guy I'm stuck with. No, no, no, no,

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You've been stuck with him for your whole life.

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Speaker 4: So and you chose this.

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Speaker 7: Pass to your choice about decisions. To your point though

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about like him digging a deeper hole. He said, well, guys,

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this is the exact same as the Dak Prescott situation, Like,

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what's the problem by freaking out? I'm like, Yeah, you

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paid Dak the highest paid player in the league, which

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he didn't deserve. Like, you're costing yourself more money in

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the long run, contracts ain't going down.

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Speaker 5: And this feels a little bit different, doesn't it. Like

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I kind of feel like Michael Parsons might just say,

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you know what, Bud, you can hold my shoulder pads

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during the first game because I'm not wearing them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's kind of how it feels. Like it's what's

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gonna happen.

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Speaker 7: And like you're gonna get the deal done with your

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quarterback always. The quarterback's always going to get the deal done.

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Speaker 4: This is different.

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Speaker 7: Plus, I mean, Michah deserves it more than Dak. The

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team in the NFL Michael Persons wouldn't start for.

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Speaker 5: And then I guess, I guess Jerry's trying to sell

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his documentary right now because he like who asked him

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to say these things? He just came out and said,

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like the agent said some very disrespectful things to him

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about this contract negotiation. All right, why would you put

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that out there? And then he keeps saying you guys

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get it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: He keeps saying, if y'all saw what I offered Michael Parsons,

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all right, show us would you give him? Keep saying that,

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and he's like, this is going to work out in

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the long run. I'm like, it's good for the Dallas

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Cowboys because you run it like it's a soap opera.

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It's not good for them from a football standpoint, but

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he doesn't care about that.

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Speaker 5: I was reading recently that Michael Parsons has the same

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agent as I believe Jalen Ramsey, and a couple of

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years ago, he was in a similar situation and he

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set out games to Stronghold and he got a deal done.

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Speaker 4: I can't remember.

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Speaker 5: I don't remember what team it was, but he set

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out games, games, and so same agent, so I might

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have a similar playbook.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun to watch. It's gonna be fun

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to watch just.

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Speaker 7: The super Bowl hopes for this season.

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Speaker 4: There it is. They're all down the drain. I love so.

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Speaker 5: One of my favorite parts about the beginning a football

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season is after the first game to see all the

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eliminated posts. Yeah, team eliminated from playoffs.

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Speaker 6: I love the ones that are like ass.

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Speaker 4: Especially when they got like a tear system.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, oh my gosh, he has The tier list that

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they did last season was so funny. I remember we

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were like regularly sending it to each other.

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Speaker 6: Was so funny.

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Speaker 4: Quarterback tier lists like that are fantastic.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and the Saints were always like super mega ass Yes,

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oh we.

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Speaker 4: Laugh because that's how we don't cry. We'll get to

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the pain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to some Saints quarterback news. Who they're

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going to start in their final preseason game. We certainly

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got to get to some SEC scheduling news. Herb Vincent

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out of the SEC office is going to join us

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at nine to forty am to kind of go over it.

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How it all kind of came together certainly was a

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talking point at spring meetings in Destin this year. You

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had a lot of people that wanted you had a

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lot of people that did not want it. There was

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not an agreement there by any means, So how did

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that agreement happen? So looking forward to catching up with

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Herb at nine forty We'll go ahead, listen, We're gonna

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take a break on time.

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Speaker 4: What this isn't even on top this is early.

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Speaker 2: It's actually like a minute and a half early because

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I do want to get into the scheduling model.

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Speaker 4: Also, I put it out there to the people who

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did they.

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Speaker 2: Want to see LSU's three permanent opponents, be like if

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you could pick one, like who would that be? And

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I put the four teams that I think would be

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most people's choice for LSU. You probably know that we're

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gonna have a little bit different opinion here on this

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show than you've probably heard on other shows, and so

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we'll give.

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Speaker 4: You that opinion, wouldn't we come back here.

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Speaker 3: Off the bench.

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Speaker 2: Go to Russellpools dot com. That is a website for

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Russell pool Company. And you go to that website, You're

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going to see a lot of different pools. You're not

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going to see the same pool twice because they are

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going to customize your pool.

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Speaker 4: I mean, these pools look completely different.

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Speaker 2: And you'll see like they can really do whatever that

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you're kind of dreaming up in your head, Like incredible

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work they do over there at Russell Pools. And really

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it's some start to finish and then afterwards as well,

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right because they can maintain your pools. So they are

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truly that one stop shop that we always talk about.

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Have them come out, look at your space, tell you

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exactly what they can do for you. Russellpools dot Com.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're about a little over a week

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away from Labor Day, and I think that traditionally that

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is when public pools, your private community pools, whatever it is,

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they start closing down. Well, if you get your own

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a pool heater, never close that pulled down swim year round,

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whatever it is. They think turn key your job, Russell

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't be good. I'm losing, wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: So good?

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Speaker 3: So good.

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Speaker 1: From Flares to Legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown l s

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U Football like only champions can.

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Speaker 3: Sugar Sue.

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Speaker 4: Monky Friday, Fun Friday. I can't wait to slam dunket

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later in the show. That's called Lady. That's gonna be

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maybe even at the very end.

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Speaker 5: So listen to find out three hours all three hours,

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when are we going to play slam Dunk the funk.

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Speaker 4: They're giving more and more way about your teas. He's

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just supposed to be a teaser. R. Maybe we just

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throwed in there randomly throughout the show.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we got news out of the SEC, and

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it broke yesterday around I'm excited about this.

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Speaker 4: I don't know four thirty or so. I know I

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was still on air whenever it broke.

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Speaker 2: But the SEC something we've long talked about, talked about

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it for a lot of years.

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Speaker 4: It was the main.

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Speaker 2: I would say, the main conversation it was there was

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like three or four because college football is college football now,

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but probably the main conversation down in Destin for spring meetings.

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And they are now going to implement a nine game

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conference schedule in twenty twenty six. So this will continue

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with a single standings, non divisional structure. Each school will

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play three annual opponents, focused on maintaining many traditional rivalry games.

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Each team's remaining six games will rotate among the remaining

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conference schools. Each team will face every other SEC program

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at least once every two years in every opponent home

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and away in four years. So you won't have the

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situation where we played at Kentucky in two thousand and

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seven and you didn't play at Kentucky again until twenty

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twenty one.

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Speaker 4: Like, you won't have those situations anymore. This is a

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big deal.

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Speaker 2: This is something that you know people outside of the

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SEC wanted the SEC to you know, to take part

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him because the Big Ten, Big twelve, that's what they had.

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So now the ACC is the only one that still

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has eight games. The Big Ten remember, like the last

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two national champions they didn't play another power for opponent

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in non conference and their argument well as they had

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nine conference games. And so now i SEC also has

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the nine conference games that the Big Ten and the

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Big twelve have always talked about.

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Speaker 5: So look here here's I got a question just before

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we kind of get into who at the three yearly

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opponents should be is what what game is going to

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be excluded going forward? Like when when people start getting

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used to this and start planning their non conference schedules.

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Speaker 4: Is it the big.

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Speaker 5: Is it the bigger games out of conference games or

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is it gonna be the rental win games? Which game

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are people going to drop?

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Speaker 4: Do you think?

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Speaker 2: So when you got these contracts like these, you know,

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these primetime opponents, they usually are the ones that get

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picked up by TV partners and they get put in

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you know, sometimes in a neutral site location and they'll

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be in Mercedes Benz in Atlanta.

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Speaker 5: So I would just like, like from an LSU standpoint,

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like if you know you're playing one extra SEC game

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the year, are you scheduling Clemson anymore? Or are you

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still going to schedule Clemson and not schedule Lois in attack?

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Speaker 2: Well, the SEC still have the rule in fact, where

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you have to play a power for non conference opponent.

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That's gonna be the question too, I hope.

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Speaker 4: So I like to see it. I want a game

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that matters every single week, and that's that's like it.

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Speaker 2: That's where we're gonna start our conversation. I put it

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out there last night to a vote. Pull out these

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numbers here, three hundred votes, so appreciate the interaction there

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as always. And I asked, I asked the people, like,

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who do you most want to see as a permanent

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opponent for LSU? Because you're gonna play three, You're gonna

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have three every year. Those three stay on your schedule.

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The other six just rotate around it, okay. And I

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put the four teams that I believe the most that

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LSU fans would want to see at least one of those.

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I put Alabama, I put Auburn, I put miss and

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I put Florida three times.

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Speaker 4: Times. Three times would probably be my answer.

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Speaker 2: So with thirty five point four percent of the vote,

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Alabama with twelve point nine percent of the vote, Auburn

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with thirty three percent of the vote, Old miss in

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Florida three times eighteen point seven percent of the vote.

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So so we're joking with the Florida part. But I'm

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not joking when I put those four teams. If you

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want to play in your three permanent opponents Mississippi State, Kentucky,

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and Vanderbilt and be serious about it, that is your opinion.

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You're entitled to that opinion. We are just wired differently.

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We think about things in a different way. Because when

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I think of Mississippi State, when I think of Kentucky,

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and when I think of Vanderbilt, nothing jumps into my brain.

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You could go a bluegrass miracle, cool moment on Jefferson Pilot.

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Sports was the breakfast game. Those teams don't create any

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emotion for me. Zero I played against those teams. I

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played against Mississippi State every year. Hell, we had a

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great game with Kentucky where we lost in triple overtime.

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Speaker 4: Good game. What's the end of that game? Like when

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people were finishing up their lunch.

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Speaker 2: But Vanderbilt, like we played against Vanderbilt when Vanderbilt was

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one of their better teams.

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Speaker 4: With bad body language Jay at quarterback does nothing for me.

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Speaker 2: College football is about looking forward to every single Saturday

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and looking forward to tailgating all day with your people

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and having this anticipation in this.

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Speaker 4: Build up that you can't even turn it off.

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Speaker 2: You just you're giddy all day long because you're like,

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it's LSU Alabama, it's LSU Ole Miss, It's LSU Florida.

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Speaker 4: I love the Auburn series. I wish that came back,

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like those are the memories.

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Speaker 2: Immediately Auburn, Blenda Bird, Alabama, Jayden Hitt and Mason for

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a two point conversion Florida. I can give you ninety

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seven of them. I can give you nineteen ninety seven.

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I can give you oh seven. I can give you

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fake field goals that bounced up and a kicker caught it.

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Speaker 4: I can give you.

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Speaker 2: I can give you a guy that throws a cleat

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that gets a fifteen yarder and LSU hits a fifty

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plus yard field goal in the fog you can't even

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see it go through in a night where LSU was

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a twenty one point underdog.

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Speaker 4: Ole Miss last year.

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Speaker 2: I can give you moments immediately, and every single Tiger

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fan is going to know exactly where they were when

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those moments happened. And you want to take that away

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because it's easy. Life ain't easy. Easy, ain't fun, you say, ah,

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But winning is. Yeah, winning those games is real fun.

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Winning those games that are memories forever. That's what's fun.

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Beating the teams that you hate, that's what's fun. Beating

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the teams that when you see your their colors, it

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makes you want to punch them right in the chest.

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Speaker 4: That's what's fun. I getting three teams that create no emotion.

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What does that do for fans that spend their hard

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earned money to go into Tiger Stadium to see the

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team that they just very much dislike and for LSU

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to go out there and beat that team. Mississippi State,

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Kentucky and Bandy. If that happens to be on the rotation,

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we'll play them. But every year.

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Speaker 2: That that that doesn't create the emotions that I'm looking for.

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In college football, the people that.

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Speaker 5: Get assigned to your three yearly opponents by default become

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your three rivals. And I don't want a rival to

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be either one of those schools. But I guess the

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counter argument would be, yeah, win of those games is fun.

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To win in championships is more fun, well unless just

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won three and not too long of a time frame here,

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playing those playing that schedule, playing those teams, playing those big,

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big games, And it's more meaningful that way when it

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happens that way, when you have to go through the

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hearts of light.

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Speaker 4: But that's why people go to the SEC.

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Speaker 5: That's why players choose to put on an LSU hat

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when they're sitting in front of their family and their

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friends and they're making a decision for the next four

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or five.

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Speaker 4: It is those big games.

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Speaker 5: So when we look back, when I look back at

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the time playing like I, you know, I think about

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the Ohio State National Championship game, sure, but I probably

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think about playing Florida more. I probably think about playing

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aub Or more just because of the games and what

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it means, like playing in Tiger Stadium, playing in front

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of your home fans, and like, you know, that was

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how electric the atmosphere is, and you're going to take

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that electric electricity way down, like if you if you

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get that and that's not what you know, SEC Foo,

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if you want to kind of do that and choose

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your own schedule, like an easy schedule. Just drop out

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of the SEC, become independent. How about that Notre Dame.

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Make your own schedule.

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Speaker 4: I think they won one back in the set. Yeah. Probably. Hey,

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yeah you can schedule.

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Speaker 2: You can go play Stanford, you can play cal Yeah,

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you can play maybe Pitt one year, so Michigan State

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on the rotation.

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Speaker 4: Then when you finally play a real team, you're not

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ready for it.

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Speaker 2: No, because you're not callous. You got punch right in

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the mouth and you're like, oh, wait a minute, this

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is different. This punch is a little bit harder than

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I'm used to.

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Speaker 4: At.

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Speaker 2: Like the emotions that those teams create in players and

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coaches during that week, you can't explain it. Like when

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you're playing against Mississippi State, you think I'm doing everything

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I possibly can to get ready for this game. You

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truly do, and you're like, I'm gonna go about my business.

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I'm gonna do my work. I'm gonna make sure that

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I watched that tape and you maybe you get your

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work done, You're ready for the game. When you play Florida, Hey, Matt,

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let's stay, like, let's stay like seven minutes after real

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quick like, let's, uh, let's work on this one, will route. Hey,

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let's work on this option that we put in this week.

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I don't I don't feel one hundred percent about it

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right now. Hey, let's go Hey, real quick, real quick,

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let's go watch some of that extra protection tape that

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we had there. Because the last thing that you want

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to do is lose to the jort wearing Florida Gators.

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You want every like, with all of your being, you

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want to go out there and you want to be

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victorious against that team.

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Speaker 4: Help.

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Speaker 2: We came back from the NFL one year, me and

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Flynn had the same bye week, okay, and so we

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come back to y I had been in the NFL

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for two years, both of us.

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Speaker 4: We're supposed to be like professionals. All right.

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Speaker 2: We're playing against the Florida Gators and those front running

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sobs are jumping on the eye of the tiger. I'm

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on the sideline. I feel somebody tugging at my belt.

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I look back and it's Flynn because my ass is

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at the hash Mark trying to fight college kids. Okay,

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because that's what kind of emotion Florida brings out in me.

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Speaker 4: And it's not just them.

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Speaker 2: It could be the Auburn Tigers, it can be Alabama,

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Ole Miss not as much, but I know there's a

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lot there because those are the teams that create those emotions,

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not Mississippi State. Like Kentucky and Vanderbilt. It's nothing against

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those programs. Nothing against this again, Kentucky beat us Vanderbilt.

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It has nothing to do with them, but it's like, no, no, no, no, no.

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These are the opponents that create what we love about

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college football.

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Speaker 5: Hey, can you imagine hosting the top recruits, the top

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recruits in the country, and bring them to a game

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and it's a home game versus Vanderbilt or Mississippi State,

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and that's like the big one.

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Speaker 4: You bring him to you and you think the crowd

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would be.

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Speaker 2: Doing like they did the gator chomp in twenty nineteen,

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and the whole crowd, you think they'd be doing that.

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Speaker 5: When you're when you're hosting these genuinely wholeheartedly ultra competitive people,

478
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,759
ultra athletic people. You bring them to the games and

479
00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:56,960
you want them to be in a crowd that you're

480
00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:01,319
seeing people gator chomping. I don't care if it's left over, right,

481
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,160
right over, left, whatever it is you want to see

482
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:06,000
him against Alabama at night because they want to see

483
00:24:06,039 --> 00:24:08,880
the best on the best, and that is what college

484
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,920
football they got. College fans want to see. And like

485
00:24:12,079 --> 00:24:14,720
in this like day and age where you know you're

486
00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:17,160
kind of starting to stray away from a lot of tradition,

487
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,440
at least the least you can hope for is good

488
00:24:20,519 --> 00:24:22,599
competitive games every single week. That's why I want the

489
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,359
I want the rent and win out of the schedule completely. Yeah,

490
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:27,200
I wish every single game was competitive.

491
00:24:27,279 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 3: Ye.

492
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,160
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, FCS schools, I love you. I got to

493
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:31,680
place in my heart right.

494
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 2: Uh, there's there's hall of famers that were much better

495
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,960
football players and both of us sitting up here right

496
00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:39,640
now that played at FCS schools, a lot of them.

497
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,799
All right, this isn't a slide at you. So there's

498
00:24:42,839 --> 00:24:47,960
different there, there's levels to this thing, okay. And in

499
00:24:48,039 --> 00:24:50,200
the springtime, I would love to set up something where

500
00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:52,759
FCS schools had a chance to come over to FBS

501
00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:55,519
schools and you had fans in the stadium and it

502
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,160
was a spring scrimmage and hey, you get paid money

503
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,920
to come over here, you will give you the entire game.

504
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:02,319
Twenty thousand people might show up and you get all

505
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,920
of it all right, But I don't need to ever

506
00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,319
see that again in Tiger Stadium.

507
00:25:09,759 --> 00:25:10,759
Speaker 4: I just don't need to see it.

508
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:16,039
Speaker 2: I want the games that create the emotions that we're

509
00:25:16,079 --> 00:25:20,599
talking about here on the sideline, in the stands, in

510
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,640
the booth, all over the stadium. And so there's maybe

511
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,720
there's a place for those games. Maybe it's a springtime.

512
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 4: I don't know. But it's not our job to care.

513
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:30,559
It's just not.

514
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,880
Speaker 2: That's harsh, but it's not. It's not the fbs's job,

515
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,559
it's not LSU's job to take care of the now

516
00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,359
called group of six are the FCS level.

517
00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:42,279
Speaker 4: It's just not.

518
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,319
Speaker 5: And again, like if you get those teams on a rotation, great,

519
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:47,640
like your strength to schedule it worked out in your

520
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,160
favor whatever for that season, but like to say year

521
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,720
and year out that you're like, you'd rather position yourself

522
00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,839
to like get in or have a chance to get

523
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,079
in by default because the schedules easy, Like that is

524
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,200
the most that's that's Notre Dame energy right there. In

525
00:26:05,319 --> 00:26:08,039
my opinion, I keep coming back to that because Notre

526
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,680
Dame pisses me off all the time, like getting the schedule,

527
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,240
getting the conference and I'll respect you, but I don't

528
00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:18,039
respect you until you do that. I don't care who

529
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,119
you schedule because I know what your schedule is gonna

530
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:25,079
be every year. I know you're gonna schedule with the

531
00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:28,799
best possibility to get yourself in a game that you're

532
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:29,279
gonna lose.

533
00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, and when they play that game every single time,

534
00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:34,839
and you and I have been a part of one

535
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:39,559
of those games when they play somebody that you know

536
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,039
has gone through the fire, somebody that is calloused and

537
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:43,160
came out on the other side.

538
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,519
Speaker 5: Now, our stats look great at the end of the year,

539
00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,559
and they just don't have like what memories of their

540
00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:49,160
fan base have.

541
00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:51,039
Speaker 4: Nothing.

542
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,880
Speaker 2: I mean two thousand and six Notre Dame Sugar Bowls

543
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,400
probably like one of the easiest games.

544
00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:59,599
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got Rudy. We don't want to only have

545
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:00,799
Rudy in forty years.

546
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 2: No, h Inside the Balue four chat, people talking about

547
00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:05,880
the you know, the stands in some of these games

548
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,640
being completely empty by halftime, and hey, that was a

549
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,400
point of conversation again. Down spring meetings, that's where everything

550
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,880
kind of gets handled. That's why they have those meetings,

551
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,480
and they're there and they're in those boardrooms for you know,

552
00:27:16,559 --> 00:27:17,519
twelve hours a day.

553
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 4: And the athletic directors that I talked with.

554
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,839
Speaker 2: And we talked to thirteen of the sixteen on air,

555
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:31,759
they said, we don't want our stadiums looking half empty

556
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,000
on TV ever again. And they point that's why they

557
00:27:36,039 --> 00:27:37,640
wanted to add this ninth game. Like it's going to

558
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,680
bring in revenue. Obviously, look we're not, you know, we're

559
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,480
not going to pretend that it doesn't. But also you're

560
00:27:43,559 --> 00:27:46,000
going to have more competitive games. You're gonna have people

561
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,039
actually stay for the entire game instead of when Oklahoma

562
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:55,759
plays Bethune Cookman and you got, you know, twenty thousand

563
00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:59,640
people in the stands. And so like athletic directors noticed it.

564
00:27:59,799 --> 00:28:02,319
They notice and they understand that it's now easy to

565
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,319
sit at your house and watch the game. They're trying

566
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,400
to create that environment that we're talking about, the environment

567
00:28:08,519 --> 00:28:11,640
that I could go across every LSU fan and say, hey,

568
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,279
give me the moment in Tiger Stadium, and every single

569
00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:16,119
one of you's gonna have one ready to go. You're

570
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,839
gonna have it ready. It's gonna be the first thing

571
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:19,759
that popps into your brain is gonna come out. So

572
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,400
as like five seconds into it. You're gonna explain why

573
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,319
you fell in love with LSU and why you fell

574
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,200
in love with Tiger Stadium, and you're gonna have that

575
00:28:27,319 --> 00:28:29,279
right there ready to go. And you know who, It's

576
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,240
not going to be Mississippi State, Kentucky or Vanderbilt, not

577
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:33,880
one of y'all.

578
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 5: Nothing like mentioned like the economic benefit that we get

579
00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:42,759
from the big games and the lack of like the

580
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,440
effect that that'll have. Like we can let the Pro League,

581
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,119
we can let Brian Holding talk about the economic impact,

582
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,319
but like those big games have a huge impact on

583
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,880
the state and the city and just every in small

584
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,799
business all around. But like as a competitor, you want

585
00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:58,799
to go to a place and you want weekend. You

586
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,039
want to face the best. You want to play people

587
00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:04,519
you hate. You want to play people that create emotion,

588
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,000
that stir you emotionally. And as a fan base, you

589
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,119
want that too. Like in the in the middle of

590
00:29:09,119 --> 00:29:10,920
the season, like you're worried about the big picture. You

591
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,640
want to win a national championship. We're not taking that

592
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,599
away again. You could do that, and it means we've

593
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,319
won three in the last what twenty years, less than

594
00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:22,960
twenty years, we've won three. No twenty five year old

595
00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:26,279
whatever world. I can't I can't keep count his old brain.

596
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,079
But the blueprint is there. You could do it, you

597
00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:36,200
just and you can't manufacture it with a schedule. You

598
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,480
have to play the best. You have to play those

599
00:29:38,519 --> 00:29:40,440
teams at callous. You have to play those teams that

600
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,599
as a competitor, you want that.

601
00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:41,839
Speaker 3: Like.

602
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 4: I hate it. I couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand

603
00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:47,279
the games we were supposed to win. Let's go out

604
00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:48,759
here and play Fresno State this week.

605
00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 5: That I didn't even I mean, I hated eleven o'clock

606
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,200
Mississippi State games at the time. I know Missippi State's

607
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,000
a lot better than they were then, but you know,

608
00:29:55,119 --> 00:29:57,440
not by a ton, Yeah, not by a lot.

609
00:29:58,039 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 4: Yeah. I hated playing Anderbilt.

610
00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 2: Yep, I'm right there with you. I mean I had

611
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:10,480
same It's I'll give you an example of kind of

612
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,920
just from our experience. When we played Miami in a

613
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,400
top ten matchup in the Peach Bowl, beat the hell

614
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,680
out of them. When we played Notre Dame in a

615
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,240
top I think it was top five, top five matchup

616
00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:25,680
in the Sugar Bowl, beat the hell out of them.

617
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,839
When we played Ohio State and National championship game, even

618
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,359
though they got out to a ten to nothing lead,

619
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,160
we beat the hell out of them. We were so

620
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,759
callous and so ready for those games because what we

621
00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:40,079
had gone through in the sec the teams that we

622
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,759
had played to get to that point, and once we

623
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,839
played somebody outside of our conference that had not done those.

624
00:30:46,759 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 4: Things, it was easy. Games were easy.

625
00:30:50,839 --> 00:30:54,039
Speaker 2: They quit all three of those teams, quit all three

626
00:30:54,119 --> 00:30:57,599
of them, And I think that's because of what we

627
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,200
had gone through to get to that point.

628
00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 4: Of those ended in a national championship. Six was very

629
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,480
close to ending in a national championship.

630
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 5: So you know what, But I get and I get

631
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,160
there's probably people out there like going through the seasons,

632
00:31:10,319 --> 00:31:12,839
be like and creating counter arguments, Well, what about this

633
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:13,480
year you lost?

634
00:31:13,599 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 4: You what about this year you lost? They had a

635
00:31:15,039 --> 00:31:15,960
weaker schedule, and they.

636
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,599
Speaker 2: Did tell us that we need to go watch the

637
00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:24,400
nineteen eighties LSU Florida series, like Florida all ten all

638
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:25,880
ten games that they played there.

639
00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:28,240
Speaker 5: Yeah, now, and I'm not even talking about that. I'm

640
00:31:28,279 --> 00:31:30,880
just talking about, like, well, here's the here's the counterpoint

641
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,200
to the argument. This is, like, you had a strong

642
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,400
strength of schedule, you played a weaker strength to schedule

643
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,400
opponent and they beat you.

644
00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:38,599
Speaker 2: They were less count the way strength to schedule metric

645
00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:40,720
is in play. Now we'll talk about that a little bit.

646
00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:44,599
Speaker 5: But like I get there, you know, I can understand

647
00:31:44,599 --> 00:31:46,559
everybody's counterpoint. But at the end of the day, it's

648
00:31:46,599 --> 00:31:52,960
just soft. Really like play the best. It's LSU. They'll

649
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,119
play the best, want to play the best, look forward

650
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,160
to it. They'll put somebody in the mouth.

651
00:32:01,799 --> 00:32:05,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you have those three letters and you're representing

652
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,200
those three letters, those three letters are not soft. Those

653
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,799
three letters want all to smoke. Those three letters should

654
00:32:13,799 --> 00:32:17,359
strike fear in people. Those three letters shouldn't look for

655
00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:21,880
the easy way out. Those three letters are champions. Those

656
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,359
three letters have some of the best to ever do it.

657
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,160
Those three letters don't need to be grouped with Mississippi State,

658
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,519
with Vanderbilt and with Kentucky.

659
00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 4: Not every year.

660
00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:37,519
Speaker 2: We'll take a break and when we come back, we'll

661
00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:39,519
tell you who we want to see. Everybody's gonna go

662
00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:40,119
around the room.

663
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:40,519
Speaker 4: Let's go.

664
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: You get to pick one team. Who do you want

665
00:32:42,839 --> 00:32:46,000
LSU to play. The one that cannot go away no

666
00:32:46,119 --> 00:32:48,559
matter what happens, it can't go away. And we'll tell

667
00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:49,960
you why, and we'll do it when we come back

668
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,759
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683
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684
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Speaker 3: Com, Tigers Turn Talkers. This is off the bench.

691
00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 4: Last night. Yeah, the scheduling talks got me through that funk?

692
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,079
Speaker 2: Yeah?

693
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:39,519
Speaker 4: Oh, how are the cartoons last night? Wild? Wild? Unreal?

694
00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:43,239
All right, I'm the top recruit.

695
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 5: Oh my god, just witness y'all destroy Vanderbilt fifty to

696
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,519
nothing at two thirty?

697
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 4: Where getting two thirty? Yeah? Okay, I about to say

698
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,599
that starting at noon? Did y'all see that? Did y'all

699
00:34:59,639 --> 00:35:02,679
see that? Eight thousand people in the crowd? Wild? Why

700
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:09,360
where do I sign? Wow? Can I come? Now? M

701
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:15,119
this is purple and golds for me? Destroyed them?

702
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 2: You could make the argument I get it, like I

703
00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:22,000
want the easiest path to the playoff. But now strength

704
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:23,920
to schedule is a metric that they're going to use

705
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,280
like it's going to mean something. So we'll get to

706
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,000
that point a little bit later on. And look, I

707
00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:32,119
am a self described meathead. I know I'm a meathead.

708
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,920
Like I don't want things easy. Some people do, and

709
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,400
that's great. Life's about choices and decisions. We talked about

710
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:42,800
that often. But I can't tell you, like how how

711
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:46,320
much pride I had in NFL locker rooms. When I

712
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,800
could hear a Florida guy yapping and just yapping, I'm like, yeah,

713
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,159
we went three and one against you, Bud. When I

714
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,199
heard a Bama guy just yapping, yapping, Hey, we went

715
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,000
four to oh against you, matt went five and oh

716
00:35:57,519 --> 00:36:02,159
against you just constant yap, and it's like they're like,

717
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,320
there's this pride and there's this yeah because we went

718
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,159
to LSU, all right.

719
00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 4: I don't really care where you went. We went to LSU,

720
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:10,760
all right.

721
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 2: We went to the place, you know that's had some

722
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,880
of the best college football players of all time. We

723
00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:19,199
went to the place that Right now, we're in this

724
00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,360
NFL locker room, and y'all know, y'are all huddled around

725
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,760
this TV. You know who you're huddled around this TV

726
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,119
even though we're pros to watch the Honey Badger, every

727
00:36:28,159 --> 00:36:28,840
single one of y'all.

728
00:36:29,639 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 4: That's what y'all. Y'all are watching Tyron Matthew right now.

729
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 2: Because he goes to LSU and he's special and he

730
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:43,119
strikes fear in everybody. So you can call it whatever

731
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:47,159
you want. LSU's an alpha. They're not They're not a beta.

732
00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:51,000
They're just that's what it is. LSU's a big dog.

733
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,480
They they they want to play the best. So if

734
00:36:56,559 --> 00:36:59,199
if you don't have that again, that's that's fine. I'm

735
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,239
not I'm we're wired differently and that's okay. But l

736
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,199
s U and that helmet sits in front of us.

737
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,519
That's an alpha. And if you don't want to play

738
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:16,039
the best of the best, I got nothing for you. So, Matt,

739
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:17,079
who do you want to play?

740
00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:21,559
Speaker 4: It's taken a lot. It's like mental fortitude for me,

741
00:37:22,039 --> 00:37:25,039
say I say.

742
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:27,519
Speaker 2: It just means it's taking me a lot not to say,

743
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:33,000
not to say bad words and that and try to maintain.

744
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:38,599
Speaker 5: What we got journalistic integrity on this show. Buddy, I'm

745
00:37:38,679 --> 00:37:41,679
just just surprised. I'll say that I was surprised with

746
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:46,360
some of the reactions. Go ahead, Oh well, the answer

747
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,119
is really easy for me. I will be very upset

748
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,800
if we do not play Florida every single year. I

749
00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:57,119
hate Florida, but it's like, uh, I love to hate

750
00:37:57,159 --> 00:37:59,360
him like I love it. I love that passion, I

751
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,719
love that rivalry.

752
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 4: I love that game.

753
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 5: I love the emotions it brings out. I love the

754
00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:10,679
games being in the stadium for that one. I love feeling.

755
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,320
I love feeling a game like. It's just a weird

756
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,480
feeling that when you go into those types of games,

757
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,639
the air feels different, it smells different, like I don't

758
00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:23,199
know if it's barometric pressure. I have no idea. We

759
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,239
have all been there, old fashion. You can't explain it,

760
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,079
but it feels different.

761
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 4: And I love it. And I hate them, and I

762
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,840
love that I hate them, and I love that they

763
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:36,199
hate us. I do too, Yes, And.

764
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 5: You know, for the players I played with a bunch,

765
00:38:40,199 --> 00:38:42,360
loved having cold pops with them, love talking about it.

766
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: One of my best friends in this world is a Gator.

767
00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:46,159
But guess what that's still telling them how much I

768
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:50,719
hate them. When we talk about the games, we both

769
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,079
get mad at each other. We both want to fight

770
00:38:53,159 --> 00:38:56,440
each other. Yes, we both talk that ish to each other.

771
00:38:57,559 --> 00:39:00,360
And it's great. And that's what college football is. Don't

772
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,760
take that away. Leave that in college football when a

773
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,519
lot of other stuff is getting taken away with transfers

774
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:14,000
and nils and paying people and like pseudo professional players.

775
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,199
Speaker 4: I get it.

776
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 5: There's a lot of like old heads, and I'm like, oh,

777
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,960
that's taking the spirit away from college football with the

778
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:21,519
amateurism and all that stuff.

779
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:23,519
Speaker 4: Don't take the rivalries away.

780
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,599
Speaker 2: They've played every year since nineteen seventy one as well.

781
00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:29,320
I don't know if people realize that. And I mean

782
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,360
there was only a gap because they played, you know

783
00:39:33,199 --> 00:39:35,000
before that. I mean they played every year. There's like

784
00:39:35,039 --> 00:39:38,159
a five or six year gap. But I mean this

785
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,039
is a true rival. This is somebody that you played

786
00:39:41,159 --> 00:39:43,320
every single year. And by the way, what is our

787
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,880
guy Handy talking about? Nineteen eighties and we got to

788
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,719
sit down and watch it LSU one, one, two, three four.

789
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,960
They won four times against Florida in the eighties and

790
00:39:52,039 --> 00:39:54,159
tied one or four to four and one.

791
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 4: There we go. I think, let me see eighty nine,

792
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,480
oh eighty nine went their way. Sorry, so five four

793
00:39:59,639 --> 00:40:04,280
or four, five and one? That bad Handy terrible, too bad?

794
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:04,599
Speaker 5: Right?

795
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 4: So yeah, Florida. No surprise at your answer, Alandra.

796
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,199
Speaker 8: So I have two that I feel very adamant about.

797
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,639
But I'll go to the obvious answer here and say

798
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:23,119
Texas A and M. Because of how competitive that's that

799
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,280
always is, like it we go back and forth with

800
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,840
them pretty much every year, like the home team usually wins,

801
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:32,960
and I feel like there's juice to that game and

802
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:34,559
it's usually I feel like.

803
00:40:34,559 --> 00:40:37,679
Speaker 4: A night game and then it's only been a day

804
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:41,880
game that I can remember. Once in Jaden's senior year.

805
00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:46,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, yeah, when I had my my boys there,

806
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,599
Flynn brought his his crew there, Flint sat behind us,

807
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:51,920
and every time Matt House gave up a touchdown, I

808
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,599
remember Matt coming upstairs.

809
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,599
Speaker 4: Like what coverage? What are we doing? What we play

810
00:40:55,639 --> 00:41:00,000
it here? Quarters? Yeah?

811
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 2: You knew the rhetorical you knew the car Yeah, yes, yes,

812
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:05,320
rhetorical question Farley.

813
00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:07,119
Speaker 4: All right, text A and M.

814
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,639
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I feel like there's like a genuine hate

815
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:10,519
between the.

816
00:41:10,559 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 4: Two seven overtime game. Did that?

817
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:15,079
Speaker 2: Yeah it wasn't before then, but that that game certainly

818
00:41:15,119 --> 00:41:17,119
did it. Yeah, all right, Texas A and M.

819
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, one of the answers is Florida,

820
00:41:21,519 --> 00:41:23,960
but y'all already did that. So I'll go to Auburn

821
00:41:24,079 --> 00:41:26,679
because I'm upset l issues not playing Auburn this year.

822
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,159
Speaker 4: Like growing up here, I agree with that.

823
00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 7: You know, back when you guys played, the two big

824
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,280
games of the year were always Florida and Auburn. And

825
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,599
the thing I loved about him the most was they

826
00:41:36,599 --> 00:41:39,320
were always home the same year it was the odd

827
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,599
years like oh seven. Like I was telling you guys,

828
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,320
like I can remember the exact spot that I was

829
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,760
sitting in when you hit Burd in the end zone.

830
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,639
It was a section three or one or thirty four.

831
00:41:48,639 --> 00:41:53,000
If anybody's wondering, which is the Auburn game like something

832
00:41:53,119 --> 00:41:56,119
out of the ordinary always seemed to happen, Like the

833
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,079
play at the last second LSU coming back at that

834
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,679
scorchy eleven AM game from twenty to nothing, the four

835
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,800
net game when he throws a guy over his shoulder

836
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,159
and you go back to the earthquake game, Like to

837
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,039
me outside of Florida, the Auburn game, like, at least

838
00:42:11,079 --> 00:42:14,000
for me growing up, you know, early two thousands, really

839
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,920
getting into LSU football, that game always meant something and

840
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,039
something crazy always happened. So like Auburn's an easy answer

841
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:20,280
for me.

842
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right there with you all. Florida and Auburn

843
00:42:22,639 --> 00:42:24,559
probably would be my choices as well.

844
00:42:25,079 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 5: Wow, when when we were getting recruited at our at

845
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,760
our age, that was Auburn was the rival like we

846
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,320
like LSU has like this the rivalry that kind of

847
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:37,440
shifts and changes with the tide. But that was, you know,

848
00:42:37,559 --> 00:42:41,079
coming off of the cigar game. That was coming off

849
00:42:41,079 --> 00:42:43,119
of all different like the like all sorts of things

850
00:42:43,159 --> 00:42:46,039
happening in pregames and post games. And I just remember

851
00:42:46,119 --> 00:42:50,519
being recruited at the time, seeing the seeing the highlight

852
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:52,679
film that they show the recruits with Phil Collins in

853
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,440
the air tonight. Yeah, And I could see it coming

854
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,840
in the air tonight and they're smoking cigars in Tiger Stadium.

855
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:57,079
Speaker 1: Yeah.

856
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,079
Speaker 7: And look go back to a couple of years ago.

857
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,760
Bone Digs gets pulled out of the game from TJ.

858
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,800
Finley comes back in. It's one of the greatest plays

859
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,239
I've seen in Tiger Stadium. Home more away on that

860
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,599
fourth down where he throws a touchdown pass. Like Auburn

861
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:11,639
was dead in the water. They came back and won

862
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,760
that game. And like my dad raised me to hate

863
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,320
Auburn because of the cigar gave me's like Tyler that

864
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,519
got down, there's Tommy Tupperville and that sob was smoking

865
00:43:20,559 --> 00:43:22,920
cigars on our field and like so like growing up,

866
00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:25,320
Auburn was like the team I hate it all.

867
00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: Right, we got to take a break more Auburn hate

868
00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:28,639
when we come back here on HOTV.

869
00:43:29,119 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 3: Off the bench.

870
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Speaker 4: See these are the emotions.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about makes us go later, good Lord, some

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Speaker 1: Two thousand and seven, shamps Purple and Gold to the Core.

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895
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Speaker 4: What movie does this friend you have?

896
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Speaker 5: I don't know, budd can you tell me the water Boy?

897
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He's at a frat party and talking. They're like, have

898
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you seen anybody?

899
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Bobby Bouchet's see a lot of see a lot

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of girls. Yeah, see a lot of guys. Due what

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Speaker 5: I don't know, cooking a snake. I hadn't seen the

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Speaker 2: I don't know if we've had time, but uh K

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twenty eighteen LSU at Auburn Cole Tracy at the end

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of the game.

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Speaker 4: I lost my mind on the sideline watching that game.

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I had never been in that building and experience in

911
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LSU victory.

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Speaker 2: We lost both times as a player, once because they

913
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called Ronnie Prude for landing on top of another player

914
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on a miss extra point game. Another opportunity and the

915
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game would have been tied, and they made it.

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