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the Live from the Raising Kines Studio. Here's Jacob Hester
and Matt Flynn.
Speaker 2: Yo and welcome in.
Speaker 3: To ot b Here live from Rouses on Burdbank and Lee.
It is a Football Friday edition of the show. Jake
and Flynn here at Rowse's Alandra and Tata back in
the Raising Canes studio.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, sir? You're okay, Bud, Let's ask
how you're doing. You don't sound sound great. It's okay,
it's all right. You know.
Speaker 3: That time of year, time of the year. Is that
time of the year. It happens to me every year.
I don't know if it's like a combination of that
with talking six hours a day.
Speaker 2: I'm not real sure.
Speaker 3: I've got to get better before the weekend. Sure they'll
want to be on the l s U Football Call.
Speaker 4: Well that's not important, is this show though?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But this show, like you know, we we color outside
the line sometimes if.
Speaker 4: You will, definitely with crayon.
Speaker 3: I mean that's understood. So but yeah, like you know,
the official broadcast. I mean, Chris has such a great
radio voice. I don't want to be over there like
all flimmy. That's a very tacklep No, I better not
be saying that.
Speaker 4: I bet every now and then's good. Yeah that's true,
that's true. I know, but no, everything's great. Man excited
to be here or right at rouse. It's just like
we are every single football Friday this football season. Rouses
On Burbank so kind of hungry too. Every time I
walk in here, they're all prepping. I tell you, I'm
about the fiftieth person that walks in here, and I
walk in here at about six thirty every single Friday. Everybody
here working, getting ready, getting ready for the weekend. We
got my man make a sushi, make a sushi every
single morning right here at the Mongolian Grill. Yeah, we're
they're throwing some ice over there in the seafood.
Speaker 2: They got lobsters, lobsters.
Speaker 4: I got the lobsters and now getting ready for the
breakfast bar. So I'm excited. Yeah, So come see us,
Come stop by Rouses this morning. Come say hi to us,
give us a little wave. Doors open, No, doors open.
Speaker 2: Three minutes ago they were already open.
Speaker 4: Check it out. Well, they got a Christmas tree up
to you, right, no ornament, looking a little barren.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like I'm feeling Christmas, but I'm not quite
ready to give myself over fully. Like right over your shoulder,
there's a couple of presents that look like they're about
to go up for decor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not quite yet, not ready, just yet. We're
getting there. How about you? You got the lights up yet?
Speaker 2: No, not yet.
Speaker 4: Next week do you do it? Do you put him up?
Speaker 2: No? No.
Speaker 4: Last year was the first year that I've never not
done it myself. And we, you know, we called we
had a we had a guy that came and did
it for us. And because that's that's like a pretty
popular thing these days. Oh for sure, all sorts of
different companies doing this. Guy was a Solow just kind
of doing it himself, outsourcing it himself, nice little entrepreneur,
and he did a great job.
Speaker 2: And so I'll never go back.
Speaker 4: So no more Clark Griswold for you, No more Clark
Grisswol for me, no more untangling it from the It
doesn't matter how good you roll it up at the
end of every year, how good you tape it up, maybe
put a zip tie on it, whatever, it still gets
tangled and I don't understand it. But we're festive. But no,
I'm doing great, man. I'm excited for the weekend. Uh,
the weather's fantastic. Got football l s U Alabama? Yep?
Speaker 2: Whoever the Saints play? Do they even play? Panthers?
Speaker 4: Panthers yep, got that game. Kind of checked out after
last week on the Saints. Be honest with you, I know,
if I gotta be honest, and you were in like
all them, you were all in all they did My
guy rat right wrong rat debt.
Speaker 3: But uh, if got lit is listening to the show
and you want to hook me have some Christmas lights again?
Speaker 2: That was awesome, No big deal. Yeah, shout out to them.
Speaker 4: That was fun.
Speaker 3: Wait, you can install. These are gonna look much better
than when I do them. Okay, all right, a dog
a hunt. That didn't look too great.
Speaker 4: When I did to myself, but we had you're big,
your your big g I I guy, though I am.
You do a lot of things that I wouldn't expect
you to do not because you want to because Katie
makes you. I'm sure, yeah, obviously, yeah, obviously. But you
can learn anything from YouTube, which is fantastic. I'm thinking
about putting in some and selling some French drains myself,
and you're gonna do it yourself. Yeah, I've been watching
some French train videos.
Speaker 3: Who are you calling to help you? That feels like
me and Dixon might be in your in your job.
Speaker 4: I've already I've already called YouTube.
Speaker 3: I understand you've called YouTube, but I feel like that's
gonna be more than a one person job.
Speaker 4: Do you have any French train experience?
Speaker 2: Moderate? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well you mean you gotta gotta gotta dig.
Speaker 2: A little canal, Yeah, gotta get some aggregate.
Speaker 4: You gotta get some piping, Yeah, a lot of DIY,
a little tricks of the trade. Right, they're excited about it?
Are you gotta make sure the angles are right? Water's
got a flow, baby, and.
Speaker 2: You're excited about this?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm really excited about it all right?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna do it on Sunday instead of watching
the Saints play?
Speaker 4: I'm well, I like to play outside, so I might
do some sure fridge draining outside I just want to
get into brickland too. Have you ever done that? Yeah?
That too? Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Want to get into it. Huh something you want to
dabble in wet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we need a little help, we need a little
brick wall action.
Speaker 2: I can tell you.
Speaker 3: I can tell you so of all the things that
I've done, because Katie's redone like nine houses. So it's
like you better learn or you better get ready to pay.
And when you're redoing them in the houses, you don't
really want to you know, you don't want to shell out,
and you try to make a profit when you're flipping
a house. I don't mess with plumbing. I don't mess
with plumbing. That's not bad that that's an expert thing.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about, like installing like a new half bath. Okay, right,
I'm sure, but yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Can do all the I'll work with wood, I'll do
all these things. I'm not installing plumbing. No, Yeah, that's
for the experts that attach yeah leg together. Yeah, and
that's how you ended up with like a flooded yard.
Probably pryly while you're getting those new drains French trains, French.
Speaker 2: Trains, Okay, spice it up.
Speaker 3: Churching it up over there, dirt. I am more excited
about Saturday than Sunday.
Speaker 4: That's for sure, no doubt, no doubt. I'm very excited
about Saturday. Got a big slate of college football. Now,
how many night games has this been for LSU. I
think we've only played one in the day.
Speaker 2: I feel like Vanderbilt was in the daytime. I think
that might be it. Yeah, it might be it.
Speaker 3: Now you're gonna have Arkansas at homes going to be
in the daytime.
Speaker 2: It's an early kick.
Speaker 3: Now, you did that to yourself obviously with the record,
and then they didn't help either with their record, So
that one will be during the day. But it's going
to be like it's a great atmosphere. Alabama fans are
going to show up for the LSU. I've heard so
many people, I've seen so many clips of Alabama fans
being like, yeah, like we don't really like Tennessee, we
don't like Auburn obviously, and those are our two biggest rivals.
But there's something different about LSU weekend in Tuscaloosa. Sure,
Like there's like kind of just like respect factor. It's
a hate too, but it's like a respect factor. And
the weekend when LSU comes to town, everybody is on
a different level. Like I've seen like ten videos of that,
So I'm excited to be in the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: I'm a meat heead.
Speaker 3: My favorite thing to do was to go on the
road and you make the play and you could hear
a pin drop in their stadium.
Speaker 4: There's no better feeling. So you got that opportunity. You
got that opportunity to make him hurt. This is one
of those situations where you know, you know, I don't
know how the mathematics works out, but virtually you're out
of the playoff hopes obviously, so you can make them
hurt and make them real sad and make them miserable
and take them down with you. So it's one of
those deals where what a great and incredible opportunity is
for those kids that come together. And we've seen it.
We've been over to the facility, we've heard Coach Frank talk,
We've heard all the things coming out. Despite everything that's
happened with the administrative level and the government level of
the whole LSU situation right now, it seems like everything
within that building, within that football building, is pointed in
the right direction and the Ara pointed up and Frank
Wilson said it on our show the other day. I
don't really know what the outcome of the game is
going to be, but our team is going to fight,
and our team is gonna strain. And I love that
use of that word strain because it's something that you
have to do to be able to compete, and that
I think that's something that might have been lacking every
now and then. I'm not going to see every play.
I'm not going to say we've played lazy all the
time and we've done these different things, but I think
it's a little bit different. How excited did he get
when we asked him how practice was this week? Jake
and Matt y'all would have loved practice. He stopped you finish?
He did, and they said we were hitting. Yeah, and
that's something we just haven't crazy we haven't seen because
we haven't been at Price, but like we haven't heard
that they've been doing that, and so all those things
have come out about you know, being practiced is a
little bit, you know, a little bit uh different, I
guess if you will, But it seems like we turned
the corner now again that doesn't automatically put points on
the board. You got to execute your plays. You have
to call the right plays. We got a you know,
a new play caller, so we'll see how, you know,
if he can get into a rhythm, get us flow
gart no Smeyer. He still has not played like himself
all year, doesn't you know. I mean it's he's not
the one that's having a strain and like fight and
hit people like we've we've heard that. So it's one
of those things, like he's got to get in and
play better quarterback position. Now they have to put him
in better position. They have to call better plays, they
have to give him better routes, they have to give
him better concepts and put him and give him a
better opportunity to do that. But yeah, of course you
got to execute football plays. But I'm just excited to
see how those kids come together and fight.
Speaker 3: To me, yeah me too. It reminds me a little bit.
And we talked about this yesterday. I think I don't
or even remember what show I talked about it on.
But of the twenty twenty one game, Now, you were
a three touchdown dog in that game and you went
to Alabama. Coacho who had been let go, he was
going to finish the year, and you went there.
Speaker 2: I mean Max Johnson's playing quarterback.
Speaker 3: He threw a touchdown pass to Brian Thomas Junior to
Jack besh right.
Speaker 2: And so it was that team.
Speaker 3: TDP Jack besh pace for the Raiders. Oh Max, Yeah, yeah,
TDP had a big game. He had a costly fumble,
but he had a big game. And you look, you
threw it into the end zone. If you catch it,
you tie it up. Extra point would have won it.
And you were a three touchdown dog. And they fought hard,
hard in that game. They played cover zero all game.
They're bringing people left and right, and they had a
good plan in the run game.
Speaker 2: And you lost twenty to fourteen.
Speaker 3: And again you threw it into the end zone last
play the game, you catch it, you know, I think
actually there was a penalty a holding ability.
Speaker 2: Well last play, but either way, you get what I'm saying.
You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So like, this isn't that situation and being a three
touchdown dog, being a.
Speaker 2: Five hundred football team.
Speaker 3: You know, with with Max Sjohnson at quarterback, this is
a five and three football team that's underperformed. But they've
had some flashes, certainly defensively, and you're what is it? It's
a touchdown spread right at Alabama? Nine and a half
right now?
Speaker 2: All right, so nine and a half.
Speaker 3: It's not twenty one like it was last time in
the situation that I'm talking about. So I'm with Frank,
I don't know the outcome. I just wanted to look different.
I just wanted to look like LU football. I just
wanted to look like the games that we were a
part of, the games that we've seen so many times before,
where your opponent win, lose, or whatever they felt like
they played you two weeks from now.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, make them feel it. LSU got to make
Alabama feel you tomorrow night and feel you, of course
on the scoreboard and your.
Speaker 2: Execution, but physically physically feel you.
Speaker 4: You want Alabama to wake up the next day and
be sore, right sore from being in a battle. And
I think that we've kind of missed that mentality a
little bit throughout the season. But look, Lsho's the team
the exact same roster as we started started the season,
exact same roster that was preseason ranked in the top ten.
That was when we were into SEC media days, most
people were choosing picking LSU to either be to win
or play in the championships. So the team is not
a different team. It's the same team that I've had
that played a little bit lackluster at times. The play calling,
the scheme, the offensive scheme that we've brought to the
table has been far from lackluster. It's been behind that
it has not been good. So I'm looking forward to
what could be and what we could see because the
potential is there, the talent is there. They just got
to go there with the right mindset, the right game
plan and execute on it. And if you do that, yeah,
you got a real good.
Speaker 2: Chance of beating Alabama.
Speaker 4: Yeah you are. I mean, there's no reason that you
can't beat Yet, if all things were equal, and let's
say we had better coaching on the offensive side of
the ball throughout the season, we executed better, the mentality
was there, or practice might have been a little bit better.
Whatever all those rumors that we've heard before Brian Kelly
was let go, there's no reason that you shouldn't be
as good or better of a football team as Alabama.
Speaker 3: All right, get you ready for the first break of
the show a lot of chatter in that chat about
still the YouTube TV situation. The game is on ABC,
and so, as Jeremy points out, you can find some
Bundy years. But also as as Greg points out, you
can go old fashioned little radio call. You could gather
around in your living room.
Speaker 4: That'd be a choice.
Speaker 3: Gather around, listen to it like I used to listen
to Jim and Doug in the living room.
Speaker 4: You can do it all gathered like an Indian style
theater of the mind, Indian style on the living room floor,
with the fire going and listening and waiting on every word.
Speaker 2: Okay that they said, yep, sure you can do that
as well.
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Speaker 3: All right, So the LSU injury report as they get
ready to head to Tuscaloosa, Carrie's current will play against Alabama.
It's a big boost. You got one of your tackles.
We were wondering what that was going to look like.
So good news there, bad news. Wit weeks is doubtful.
Speaker 2: So Frank Wilson said.
Speaker 3: Last night that Witt is trying to play, but there's
less than a fifth chance he suits up.
Speaker 2: It's not great, No, it's not great.
Speaker 3: And this was the target date for Wit talking to
him a couple of weeks ago, like the Alabama game
was his all right, the bye week, I have a
couple of weeks. That's the game that I want to
get back to and just hasn't responded, Uh you know
to the rehab there, And let me tell you, nobody's
more mad about.
Speaker 2: It than with weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Unfortunately, this isn't one of those Zion situations. No, No,
we're going to see how long we could stretch this
minor injury. This is one of those fight like a
dog to get back on there and do all the
rehab you can want to get back out of there because
you could tell you can see the hurt in his
face when he's not when he's on the sideline, And
that's the way it should be when you're a competitive
athlete and a guy that wants to be and a
guy that's an undisputed leader.
Speaker 3: He said, like his eyes started to like glass up
a little bit when I was talking with him, and
he wasn't going to be able to.
Speaker 4: Go remember when he got kicked out of the game
here Florida, what he was doing on the sideline. That's
a man that wants to go play LSU Tiger football. Yeah.
So he he kind of epitomizes what everything that we
kind of talk about, how you want how you want
everybody to go and play.
Speaker 2: He kind of epitomizes that. I know.
Speaker 3: It's like a twenty point difference in points per game
with with.
Speaker 4: That with I know, which is wild because like you know,
he's not making tackles from sideline to sideline every single play.
It's just the it's the emotions, right, It's the it's
the you know, if we look on the offensive side
of the ball, it's a quarterback that's calm, cool and
collective and you're in as confident in the huddle and
a guy that's stuttered in the huddle and doesn't know
what it's like. It just makes everybody feel a certain way.
And that's what a leader does. I don't care if
it's football. I don't care if it's if it's in
the in the office building, I don't care if it's
Tidley Winks, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: Are you get out of here here? Look at us?
What is tilly man? I don't know, but I was
about to say it.
Speaker 4: We're gonna look it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll do it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just that that's what he brings to
the table and he can try it. And you saw
him on the sideline last game. Against a and m
like yelling and pumping everybody up on the sideline. It
just hits it when you got sweatpants on. Though. You know,
it's just not the same. Yeah, it means something, It
certainly means something, yeah, but it doesn't mean the same.
So if he can't go, certainly will be missed. If
he's fifty to fifty, put him in some pads though, Yeah,
on the sideline, Like I said, like even if they
even if somebody forgets and thinks he's playing and he's
not playing, he just looks for a second late. It
just hits different when you got football pants on or sweatpants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate it, man, I hate it if he's
not able to go. He is, without questioning, the leader
of your defense.
Speaker 2: And you know he.
Speaker 3: Does make those plays sideline the sideline. He is such
a good rusher. He is, you know, so good in
the run. Blitzes as well that Blake likes to dial
up and total effort. Total effort, which is something that
should be non negotiable.
Speaker 2: But we talked about it last couple of games.
Speaker 3: You've had some situations where there's been some effort questions,
Like you don't have to worry about that with what
weeks So unfortunately, it doesn't sound like he's going to
go thought that, you know, he was going two weeks ago,
thought he was going to be able to be ready
to get back into this game. And now it's like, oh,
does he get back? You know, does he get back
this season? So unfortunate because he plays so well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just you know, you start wondering about like
was it more serious than you thought? Was it different?
Like and do we really know what it is? I mean,
it doesn't really matter what it really is if he
can't get back on there. It's one of those kids
that you trust that he's doing every single possible thing
to and then some to get back on the field.
So certainly if he doesn't, if he's not able to play,
certainly we'll be missed on that defense. But you know
it's uh, I think it's going to see. I think
you're going to see even without him, I think you're
going to see a new mindset on the defense. I
think now the defense has been the bright spot of
this season. Now they've had bad games, but that secondary,
those four or five guys on the back end of
that defense, they also have been bringing all the energies
to every single game, every single play. So they're the ones,
in my opinion, that have picked it up in place
of what weeks not being there as far.
Speaker 2: As at least bring the energy.
Speaker 4: I don't know about their vocal leadership abilities. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It might be awesome. I don't have no idea.
Speaker 4: But the way they play on the field, I hope
rubs off on the defensive line, the linebacker. I hope
it rubs off on the entire team because those guys
fly around, those guys fight, those guys strain every single play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take Halsey, Cooley, Delaye, I'll take them all.
I'll take them a hall, i will take all those
veteran guys. I'll take them in a back alley fight. Yep,
I can tell you that.
Speaker 4: And it's going to be a really really cool matchup
our secondary versus that talented wide receiving corps at Alabama.
Speaker 3: And now, dude, would you travel Delaane because you got
Bernard to Williams over there. Bernard's actually been more productive.
Williams is the name and the talent. Would you travel?
Would you just play right left when you have.
Speaker 4: Two I don't believe they have. They haven't really traveled
Delaine this year, So I wouldn't do something you're not
used to unless you spent unless you spent the whole
bye week and a lot of practice time with him
playing on the other side, he hasn't really traveled. I
mean even I thought I saw him one play when
I was sitting in the bowl against A and M.
I thought I thought I saw him traveling with what's
yeah conception, I thought us on traveling there, but he wasn't.
He just followed him down in the bunch in motion
and it looked like he was playing like Nickel in
the slot.
Speaker 2: He wasn't.
Speaker 4: He was just following him from the outside of the
Mando man. He didn't travel with him. So I don't
know why you would make you know that move for
this game. And when you have two I mean, it's
not like it's a week a week link on the
other side, right, so I don't expect to see that.
But you know they I mean number one and two
for Alabama good good, great receivers and not not just
like they're one and two the number you know Jersey
number one and two there, So there's gonna be some
great I cannot wait to see that because I've enjoyed
watching Ty Simpson play all season long. I think he
makes a couple of throws. He makes a couple of
throws every single game that you're like, whoa boy, that's
that was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's like next level. That's like really good at the
next level.
Speaker 4: But you know it's not. But it's not always there,
Like they're they're not always getting guys open. Conceptually on offense,
they they do some really nice things, but then they'll have,
you know, two three and outs in a row, so
they're kind of like a little Jekyll and Hide on offense.
Speaker 2: But when they're good and rolling that offensive line.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's plenty of snapshots I've taken watching film
with them where he's sitting with a wall around him.
No one's within five yards up on either side, so
you gotta get pressure.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here o TV. Bye from Rouse's
or making Lee.
Speaker 4: I need to I need to set a record straight.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: I reported some news yesterday. I think here off the bench,
I think I'll know we don't want to be we
don't want to break news here on this show. And
you know I've got got a few times on radio
by maybe some fake news that comes across the old ticker. Well,
yesterday I got got reported some fake news. Oh, misinformation
maybe is what we should call it. Yesterday I saw
a tweet come by or a quote from Drew Brees
talking about Spencer Rattler. It was fake, it was real fake.
I reported it like it was real. It's so because
of my journalistic integrity, I wanted to get out in
front of it, you know what I mean. But I
can report that I definitely Drew Brees thinks that. Might
not have quoted it, might not have said it, but
he definitely thinks it.
Speaker 2: So there you go, guys.
Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna apologize because I don't even know
what y'all expect. Where'd you see it at? On Twitter?
And he took it as gospel? Well I take everything
as gospel in there. They had the quotation marks and
everything with Drew Brees' face on it.
Speaker 3: Was it from a verified account at least? Mean that
matters on X anymore?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know. Yeah, it doesn't matter. You can
just pay for that. Yeah, that's true, pay for that
type of action. So he did it. Look that was
a big quotation mark too, and it says breaking news.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you're a sentially an idiot?
Speaker 4: Well, what's life anymore?
Speaker 2: I got got. I don't think you might cares.
Speaker 3: It's a safe I don't think anyone cares, right, But
I can't report that he thinks that. Okay, well, look
you got You know you're big jay journalists now, so
you want to make sure that not really at commercial break.
Speaker 4: I had to go to the restroom and I was
looking at my phone and just saw it. So I
took a screenshot and then forty five seconds later I
read it on air. So like, what do you want
me to do? How do y'all get your news.
Speaker 2: That old x X unless it's like Pete Zamble or somebody.
Speaker 4: Wow, all right, pizza smooth talker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what he does for a living.
Speaker 3: So yeah, preach, you're not going to have an obituary
for one coaching college football this year at least. Okay,
Luke Fickle oh coming back next year as a Wisconsin
head coach, got the full.
Speaker 2: I believe. I believe it was audio. I believe it
was an interview.
Speaker 3: Got the full throated endorsement from the athletic director.
Speaker 2: All right, good, they're pretty good this year to t
Bob is them. Don't worry.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was thinking about that, saying this is before eight. Okay,
I don't know what to really think about that. They stink, right, Oh,
they're bad, bad, bad bad?
Speaker 2: Now yeah? Right, well good, Well, it's good to have
the support.
Speaker 3: And what you always talk about Wisconsin, you know, is
that team that at some point was number five in
the country always probably around this time, yep, and then
they'd end up nineteenth.
Speaker 4: Maybe around this I'm this is a little late in
the season, a little late in the season, but before
Halloween they were number five in the season, you know, consistently. Yeah,
every year game day was hovering around their games, whether
it was at home or somewhere else, there was you know,
they have a little five minute special on game day
about the jump around and everything like that, because they
were so good.
Speaker 3: Not this year, not in a while, certainly not to
what we've known that program to be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a little surprised that he's going to keep
that job because folks in Wisconsin love football. Man.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, I'll lean on you for
this conversation.
Speaker 4: Like the folks was like the good people in Wisconsin
love their Packers and they love their Badgers, like and
they expect to be good. They have great facilities up there.
Madison is a great college town, and they expect to
you know, I really think they liked where they were at.
They were the blue collar team. Yeah, they were the
team that ran the ball. They were that epitome of
like what Big Ten football really is. That fan base
isn't like and they love it, and so to settle
for mediocrity, maybe below mediocrity yep, for this period of
time is a little bit surprising at me. And I
don't think that the fan base can be very happy
up there. Like they're overly nice. They are. People in
Wisconsin are sarcastically nice, and it seems like sarcaslic nice.
So like maybe they're like, well, he's a really nice
guy and blah blah blah, but like that at the
heart of it, they want to win, man, And yeah,
it's I enjoy college football a lot when Wisconsin the
Badgers are at least relevant, and they're not. They're far
from relevant right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so to your point, I'm looking, let's go back
to twenty thirteen. Twenty thirteen, they finished twenty first in
the country, twenty fourteen, thirteenth in the country.
Speaker 2: That was what Gary Anderson. Paul Chris comes in.
Speaker 3: They finished twenty first, ninth, sixth, thirteenth in the country.
And then Paul Chris goes four and three in the
OVID year. I still won a Bowl game, nine and
four the next year, seven and six the year after that,
and gets fired. Okay, so he finished sixth and ninth
in the country. In eleventh in the country, not a
bad run.
Speaker 4: Luke Fickle gets you in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Luke Fickle seven and six, five and seven, and then
this year two and.
Speaker 4: Six, seven and six, five and seven, two and six. Yeah,
you gone, bud, And.
Speaker 2: They are fifteenth in the Big ten and.
Speaker 4: They are throwing the full well do you say full
thread support? Yeah, fully throated. Okay, that's aggressive? What what
just aggressive? But apparently true? I yeah, he should be fired.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, does a place like Wisconsin look at
the landscape of Auburn being open, LSU being open, Florida, Virginia, Tech, Arkansas,
so on and so forth, and like, would we really
get a guy that would be better than Luke Fickle
right now in this cycle? Or do we let him
come back for one more year the buyout would be
a little bit lower and just hope and pray that
maybe he makes a coordinator move.
Speaker 2: And it's in the a d came out.
Speaker 3: He's like, Oh, we're gonna have more support for him,
We're gonna have a better pool of money for players,
and blah blah blah blah blah, right, assistant coaches and
all these things. But some of it can be because man,
where would we fall in the pecking order of these
jobs right now that are open, not.
Speaker 4: In the forefront. I don't know if they think like
that up there. I don't know why anybody would think
that about their state university and that it's a proud
fan base, Like their facilities up there are great, Like
it's not like they haven't dumped any money into that place.
Like Wisconsin, they got a proud tradition, they got rose balls,
they got like, they have the whole deal, they have
the whole package. They've just been they haven't been relevant
in multiple years. So I don't think that they would
sit there and look at, man, we're just in the
pecking order of these job openings. We're at the bottom
of the barrel. No, I don't think they would think
that at all. Now, maybe they have to look within
and be like, we have not given this coach the
support the financial stout to go to go get players. Now.
I don't know any of this because I don't follow
Wisconsin football, but like, if they're saying that and they're
keeping them, it's kind of telling me that they know
that they haven't supported the coach enough. Financially to go
get players or to go get the stuff with the
higher the coordinators that he wants that they should. So
they're like, all right, well, yeah, there's a losing record,
but it's kind of on us a little bit as well.
I mean, you saw what the we're the presidents there
of the ads at Arkansas when they fired Sam Pittman.
Speaker 2: Yeahybody get every resource with to be successful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we fired him last week, but like guess what
not his fault is us. We didn't give them many resources.
So it kind of gives me that feeling just like
looking at it, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: W's our Virginia Tech. I don't know if you've seen it,
but like when they made.
Speaker 3: Their job available, they like put out a plan already,
Like they put pen to paper and they like, hey,
here's our plan for our next coach. Here's the money,
here's the resources, here's what we're going to do. Like
they immediately did that because that was kind of the
same narrative for them. So hey, and that's what makes
Florida and LSU and Penn State I think very attractive
is because obviously their status in college football, but you know,
from day one, the buy in and the resources and
the desire those are already there. Yeah, where other people
are saying, hand up, my bad, guys, we didn't give
you what you needed. And then you got others that
are like, we didn't either. Here's our new plan. Got
to pay to play, bud, Yeah, you do.
Speaker 4: Got to pay to play in this day and age
in college football.
Speaker 2: And you also have to when you spend money, spend
it wisely. Right. No position group can have.
Speaker 3: You know, twenty five thirty percent of your allotted money.
You got to spread it in the right way. And
that's why you hire gms. That's why you hire personnel.
It's like any team in professional sports, which now is
what we're talking about in college sports. Yeah, I got
nine guys at receiver, at nine of them. Oh that's cool,
it's great. How many are you gonna play? Probably three
at a time, right, but you got nine. What about
offensive linemen? I mean those you got?
Speaker 2: Ah, you got kind of six, maybe seven at most.
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah, you're gonna start seeing the the gms of
college football at each place. You're gonna start seeing them
losing their jobs when the money's not spending correctly. You're
not really seeing it a lot. But in the NFL,
you have gms lose their job all the time, right, Yeah,
So you're gonna see gms being on the hot seat
a lot more going forward, specially if they're dedicated to
that position and they're the person that is making the moves,
because I'm sure in a lot of these places they're
still trying to figure out the hierarchy between the head,
the head coach, the AD, the GM of all these
different college is it called GM, it's just so they're
trying to figure out that peccing order, that hierarchy, who's
making what decision. I'm sure every little college is going
to be a little bit different. But like when people
start realizing though the GM's involved and in charge of
scouting and bringing these guys in and making these moves
and negotiating these contracts and all this stuff, like they're
going to start losing their jobs because the roster isn't
good or money that you get from from boosters or
donors or the NIL or the REV share or wherever
that money comes from. When that is being spent poorly
and you're not getting the results, those guys are going
to start going before head coaches.
Speaker 2: Sometimes that's a great point.
Speaker 3: I think you there better be some pressure on some
of these gms if you're building the roster and if
you've got to deficiencies because you overloaded one position and
didn't pay enough attention to the other and you have
an injury or.
Speaker 2: Two, that's going to fall on you, just like it
does in the National football.
Speaker 4: Because I think to this point it's falling on the
head coach, right that's the biggest thing that's falling on
the head coach right now. But it's gone that that
pressure and that responsibility is going to start falling to
someone else.
Speaker 3: All Right, more OTB when we come back here live
from Rouses on Burbacon.
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Speaker 4: I got an interesting comment here in the chat. Somebody said,
if Nuss is available in the third round of the Saints,
look at him. And Nuss is not a third round
guy right now. The way he's played up to this
point in the year, the way that offense is produced
around him, I think he's kind of This has been
a pretty detrimental year up to this point for Nuss's
draft stock, I think.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: I don't think he has a third round grade probably
right now. I don't know what type of grade he
has what other people are talking about, but like I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't see that right now.
Speaker 4: Now he's got the opportunity here, fresh fresh coordinator, fresh
start mid season, to get back to the old form. Now,
the old form Nuss.
Speaker 2: How do I say, how much will they go back
and watch a year ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you can't unsee some of the things that
you're seeing, right, But you also can't unsee what you
saw last year and every time every other time he's
come in and played. Now he played as a first
second rounder last year. Yeah, Now this year you look
at the body of work and if you forgot, like
he probably hasn't played like a doesn't have a draft
grade right now, like up to this point for just
this year. So there's a balance there that you have
to look at. But you also have to I mean,
there's a recency bias on everything like what have you
done for me lately type situation. But he's got an
opportunity to get back to that form, So I hope
he does. I love the kid, and I've been you know,
I think we all know that I've been one of
the biggest supporters of him, So I don't like saying that.
But if I'm just looking at it from an objective perspective,
not a fan of Garrett Destmeyer, he hasn't played like
a draft pick this year so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll have an opportunity.
Speaker 4: I think unities. That doesn't mean that doesn't mean he's
not going to but it's gonna have to you know,
as of right now, I don't think so it's gonna
You're gonna have to slip into the perfect situation.
Speaker 2: I do think he would be a.
Speaker 3: Guy that would go to the Senior Bowl down to
Mobile and be you know, impressive there.
Speaker 4: At least how many go six go to the Senior Bowl? Uh, Yeah,
I think now, I think they would look at a
total body of work for like the invite to the
senior bo That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So I'd like to like.
Speaker 4: To actually take a look around the landscape and look
at all the seniors. You got an opportunity.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have some new You're gonna have the opportunity to.
Speaker 2: Use the middle of the football field.
Speaker 3: Like they haven't done him any any favors either, Like
it's a combination, but they have not done him any favors.
Hopefully with the new offense, new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Though yes it doesn't matter what we say. But guess
what does Paul's in your hand today?
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