Speaker 1: All start to you want to present off the bench
with Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah, off the bench with Jacob Hester and Bob Abert.
Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Abert.
Speaker 2: Did y'all see Sidney Thomas and an SEC coach slender
d MS? I wonder which one that could have been?
And then well, wait, what who is Sidney Thomas golfing with? Yesterday? Oh?
Nick Saban spotted on the golf course. You're like, who's
Sidney Thomas? That's completely I didn't yesterday. Yeah, that's completely understandable.
She's a ring girl from the Tyson Paul fight, and
as we said, as much you want to make fun
of Jake Paul, it's like the most watched thing ever
had of her sixty million live lute viewers. So she
had her life changed overnight because big boobs are powerful
in a way that I do not fully understand. Uh.
But Nick Saban was spotted on the golf course just
a day or two after Sydney said in a podcast
at SEC coach was slide in her DM and split
in saying, poor miss Terry. I think she went to Alabama.
I think as well. Maybe I.
Speaker 3: Know coach Saban, I feel like as well as I.
Speaker 2: Know any other coach.
Speaker 3: Really it wasn't Nick, but it is a funny story
that they took a picture and connected don Well and then.
Speaker 2: And then Kiffin tweeted, hey, we got our answer. Yeah,
he posted, I got a stand up for Kiffin here,
although it's probably Kiffin and say that didn't he just
hard relaunches his marriage. Yeah they're back together. Yeah, okay,
let's let Joey freshwater. Leave them alone. Leave Joey alone.
You don't know, it could be a position coach for
all we know. You know what, that's a great point.
You know, it could be maybe Brad dating. I'm just kidding.
I'm just trying to choose him as a random person
that I can imagine is Matt House. Yes, uh, oh
my god. Now that is Pete twitter hete said we
have the answer. This is Lane Kifvin's twitter. He quote
tweets the Sydney Thomas picture. Her tweet with Nick Saban.
It says, we have the answer our dr at Alabama football.
I mean ten out of ten, no notes, did you
see the guy? It would be funnyf it was Calebor, but.
Speaker 3: I mean after his player got kicked off the team
for asking his daughter a question.
Speaker 2: I don't know that he wants to be doing that either.
See the guy who was like, I've put together all
the pieces. I have four possible suspects of them were
the jack back guy from Parcels Given Given, Givin and
Sam Pittman. Yeah, not like even in like in a
bad way, just a little all time. My god, big
titt love, big titties. We gotta think. Okay, we gotta
together this thing. I'm there. I'm right there with Sydney
and Sam. I know, but we just talked about it
the other day. It feels like not anymore. We we in.
We in the Tigo club together. I got you, fam
don't worry. Guys. Oh you're saying you're in it because
of the piece and Sydney. That's what I'm saying. I
can say this. I go what you're saying. Representation matters.
I love seeing my Tigo brethren succeed Taylor Mathis and
her walking bets hell. Yeah. Now, I don't like Taylor's
crypto rug pull. Okay, but it's hard out there, you know,
having these giant memories just tempted me every time I
look in the mirror. It is hard out there. If
you go to Goodwood, it was hard out there until
I heard that Mickey Loomis press conference. Yeah. Now my
wife's gonna be like, what the hell happened. I'll be
like roster mismanagement, lack of draft picks, h a wide
receiver room full of spring football players.
Speaker 3: That somehow is even more disrespectful than say in UFL.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of spring football players out there. Jo
son of a gun. Yeah, yeah, looking good. Yeah, I
can't believe Lane, you man, Lane, that that's that's that's good.
May be get a get him, get him a Sea
of the Week award there, he deserves it for that.
Give the week. Yeah, Cody, give him a Cody. Give
that man a Cody. So. Portal combat continued as LSU
continues to clean up on the transfer portal class already
has the number one transfer portal class in the nation,
and yesterday looked like they added a player at a
position of need that they needed and that is North
Carolina State defensive back to Marcus Cooley. We mentioned him
last week, Okay. Tamarcus five eleven two oh five played
the nickel FRENCY State this year, three picks, two force fumbles.
Was he a freshman? Why do I not have his
year written down here? How many years? I believe he's
played two years? Okay, Oh, that's right. He's gonna be
draft eligible. He is in the draft class of twenty
twenty seven. Yeah, so be draft eligible. I thought he
was gonna be drafting. Mave, I'm wrong. I'm got mean, guys.
I gotta be honest. A lot of the portal stories
kind of blue together, and it's tough to remember whose
story is. Who's here? You go?
Speaker 3: So we played in twenty three in Maryland only four
games though, so he probably got a red shirt.
Speaker 2: And then last year at NC State, Yeah, he's still
a young football player, but so yes, but it'll be
a red shirt sophomore. Yes, I believe. Okay, that's what
I was looking for. So Tamarcus Cooley last year, very
good year for NC State. Three picks, two FoST us,
a lot of good stats. Great, here's the best part.
Graded out at an eighty point three eighty point eight, oh,
eighty point eight according to PFF, which, of course we
went for our top five PFF grades the other day.
Only Braydon, Twinston and Zy Alexander would have had higher
grades and listened on this defense and listen to this
t run grade. So against the run eighty one point six.
Love it now.
Speaker 3: Pass rush grade is why I got knocked out a
little bit, sixty nine point five. I don't need you
to rush the passer coverage grade eighty one point eight.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 3: So if it wasn't for the pass rush grade, we're
talking about a player that might have been eighty four
eighty five.
Speaker 2: So he played nickel at MC state, but it seems
like they're projecting him to be a safety here, correct, right, because.
Speaker 3: You're going to have I think personally it's going to
be Weeks and Keys in the middle. You're gonna have
Perk at the star, and now you need to find
two safeties, and so.
Speaker 2: You want Delaine to work in there. Like to star
takeaway from a kind of traditional Nickel spot, because both
Mansor and No mean you could play a star in
a Nickel. It just depends on like what you're you know,
just like Nickel because you're only playing two traditional linebackers.
But either way, I mean, maybe that's Delaye and Coolly,
maybe it's one of them, along with like uh Jardin Gilbert.
Speaker 3: Gilbert's back, Spears is back. So you'll have some players
here from a year ago. But this is this is
a big one because of how much of a position
of need it was. And we were sitting there waiting,
it's like, man, you love what they did at tight end,
you love what they did in the interior offensive line, receiver, a.
Speaker 2: Lot of really good players. You got to get a safety.
Who's going to be the safety?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you had to go get one, And now
you get one that has over an eighty grade. You
look at you know, kind of his body type. I
do think he can give you some flexibility there. He's
two oh five, so he's not a slender safety, so
he can you know, play closer to the line of
scrimmage if you want him to. He can certainly play
a deep center field having that Nickel experience covering guys
in space.
Speaker 2: So now this was a big one.
Speaker 3: It might not get all the fanfare that some of
the other ones got because you know, this service says
these are the top ten players, but when you look
at position of need who was available, this is as
big as any of them.
Speaker 2: True, the context very important here. Also who you beat
out Ole Miss Kentucky basically every other SC team. Remember
he was going everywhere, was crystal Ball to Old Miss
one hundred percent as well. Sorry about it, Lane, Maybe
a little less time sliding into Sydney's dms, a little
more time raising money.
Speaker 3: And look at the games that he played the best
in the for the most part, Tennessee Northern Illinois, who
look beat Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: Hey, Northern Allinois may be by transit of property college
football national.
Speaker 3: Champion, It might be Duke who was a nine win
regular season football team, right Georgia Tech, who we saw
battle Georgia to.
Speaker 2: The very end.
Speaker 3: And so some of his best games Clemson right there
at seventy. So I mean some of his best games
were against some of the best opponents on the schedule.
In fact, his worst game was against probably the worst team, Stanford. Yeah,
you know, it's kind of chilling.
Speaker 2: Maybe didn't take the game plan series, but look, you
look at the defensive back room and I don't think
there's a position group on the LSU football team that
has had a better portal season. Mansor Delaye, Tamarcus Cooley,
Jackiem Jackson. These are guys like you look at some
of these other pickups and there's kind of depth pickups,
there's potential pickups. These are guys that all have legitimate
starting experience in the power for and you return Woodland
stamps and guys with legitimate starting experience in the SEC.
So Corey Raymond has finally been given some good ingredients
with which to form a meal. And I think I
think you're because you already saw such an improvement in
the secondary this last season. Well maybe the safe safety
at corner especially like it's it's it has the potential
to really start to take off next season. A plus
job increasing this and that's not even getting into the
freshman that you're adding, really an a plus job of
increasing this defensive back room in one offseason. It is
actually good to and you still got to go out
there and win games. We'll get there.
Speaker 3: We're not there right now, but it is good to
hear leadership say, hey, we messed up, we didn't do
what we needed to do in this process, and now
we're going to do it. And then you actually do
it now again, you got to go win games, right,
you got to make the playoff next year. We know
all of those things. We will get to that portion
of the conversation as we get closer. But after hearing
Mickey Loomis talk and hearing Brian Kelly talk, at least
Brian Kelly realized we did not do enough in the portal.
We've got to go spend more. We've got money to spend.
Let's go spend it. And they're bringing in solid players
to this team, to this program, right. So it's refreshing
after hearing Mickey just say whatever he wanted to say
and not bring in players now again, we'll get to
the gotta go win portion, We'll get to the opener,
we'll get to all of those things. But right now
you have done what you set out to get done,
which is add solid, starting quality players to your roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And it wasn't just Coolly over the weekend tight end.
Donovan Green at it as well. This is a very
much a filling in the corners type of mood here.
Move been to A and M for three years six four,
two sixty five, A big big boy, it says the
yackle that Jake has been yearning for. Uh started and
played as a freshman, then tours a cl as a sophomore,
and then this last year kind of played a bit sparingly.
So still I don't know what his ceiling is. But
now with green sharp Lafleur, you you you have you
have enough guys, and you have guys with different skill sets,
and you have a nice mixture of ages. Real there's
only one, there's only I mean it's offensive tackle. That
is the only spot remaining for LSU if they want
to get an A plus, which they probably already have
given they have the number one transfer portal class in
the country. But if if in my mind, if you
want to get an A plus on roster management, if
you can manage to get one experienced tackle, there's nothing
left for you to do here. So TD, you think some.
Speaker 3: Of the players that they have brought in, and they
brought in a lot of interior guys, is it even
a thought that maybe one of those guys can kick out?
Do they believe that what they have here already is
capable of being a left and right tackle combination.
Speaker 2: Maybe so, But then may then even maybe you just
go get like a death guy or something. I don't know,
mains to be seen. I do believe that DJ Chester
probably plays guard next year and Braylen Moore play center.
I don't know that I see of the two guys
that they signed, I don't think anyone really is the
tackle size. But I mean Tyree Adams did. I still
got to watch the Bull film. Actually, I just realized,
have you gone back and watched it? Yeah? I have
not yet. We should do that sometimes.
Speaker 3: I've had a lot of plane trips, true, a lot
of paint train trips.
Speaker 2: You know, when I'm not watching you road trip? So
a plus F and a Brian. Great job in the portal. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show in America,
Off the Bench.
Speaker 2: So you saw an hilarious vanlaythingclip yesterday where they're talking
about like what's the most two thousand and one thing
you could watch? And Van talks about the old NFL
Live jacked up segment and they specifically show a highlight
where somebody gets knocked the hell out and his hands
are doing you know the to a thing. Yeah, and
what's his name? Two hands is so messed up Jackson,
Like I forgot who was on the call or who
was who was doing the highlight. But it sounds like
he gets serious for a second, like he lowers his voice,
like what, and as you can see, he's got the
hands locked up. And then he answered it you got
jacked off, like what?
Speaker 4: Damn?
Speaker 2: And credit to Bill Simmons, who you know, I think
doesn't always whatever. Bill's an acquired taste. But Bill didn't
nail it. He said, those old jacked up segments look
like SNL parodyinge ESPN.
Speaker 3: And that that I think is actually very damn Madcott.
I would love to be on it, you know, back
in the day, like you know, the one doing the hitting.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I mean you don't want to end
up on the wrong side of a jacked up No
you don't. We got Hunt Palmer in the bayeu Ford
YouTube chat calling this Matchbox twenty Hunt. This is Vertical
Horizon Matchbox twenty. Yeah, this is not Rob Thomas the
same thing. No, no, it's all the same.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, no, Because if we were talking
about some wizards or something and we said they're the same.
Speaker 2: You would be so mad, Yeah, because they're. Yeah, Handolf
and Radagas and Sarmon and the Blue Wizards are all
as sorry that they just say, guys, wake up? What
do you I would be embarrassed to make such a
metaphor as you did. I would be embarrassed to call
vertical horizon matchbox funny. Then Gary Allen covered this too,
Yeah he did. We played it the other day. That's
also I prefer horizontal shoreline. His brain, y'all.
Speaker 3: I could feel the heat as he tried to warm
it up waiting on it.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell your horizontal shoreline. It's not a terribleness.
That's pretty's pretty good from Happywood shoreline. That's talks about
the steam. That's what I was looking for, because horizontal
is right there. Yeah, yeah, that was easy. That was
all right. Let's go to uh. I help this special
delivery for the bench and look it is marked most
urgent writing to you the internet. What the is the
internet has to go to the mail bag. What would
it take someone to check the Seltzer on the table?
We can't. We have to we have to promote the
celt on the table. I don't want to drink? I
tin on the table for a long wait? Did would
it take to do? What to drink? Drink? The celter? Good?
Then you're drinking a Friday? How many years? As this
will be four years coming up in February? Right, we've
been I think so, I think so it feels like it.
I think anything it was around COVID when it happened,
wasn't it because we all got COVID together? Yeah? I
remember that. It was fun. It shows from my house. Yeah.
Hasseg to be mail bag? What would you do if
Pinocchio roasted you for five minutes straight and his nose
never grew I'd be pretty upset. I'm not gonna lie like, no,
that's not true, Nor could you be mad at who's
determining this. Sea Bob has little hands. Yeah, he's like, no,
they're average twice and his nose growpy it's a lie.
He's broken. Hasseg to be mail bag? Should the Bengals
keep Kye York as a water boy since when he's
on the same team as Burro had chased the trio's
undefeated twenty and oh yes, oh yeah absolutely. He redeemed
himself in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: I know he had the one big miskick, but he
also hit a couple of big ones a fifty nine
yarder I believe.
Speaker 2: So he'll get another opportunity now, well, I don't know.
He missed all his kicks in the playoff game the
other day. Oh wait, no, never mind. I was watching
Week one. Hashtag otb mail bag, T Bob. Did you
see where Chris Branch had the take of a hot
state winning back to back titles while also losing to
Michigan next year in the Athletic Pulse Company show? I
did not, But I only bring this question up because
I love Chris Branch's morning Pulse in the Athletic It's
very good. Hop on there, hop on Louisiana Sports done that.
There's a lot of great work being done. Hashtag to
be mail bag. Did you know who Robbie Williams was
before his strange movie release? Okay, I still is? Is
he a UK singer? So they they made a movie
is called wild Man, and it's a it's a bio
pick on Robbie Williams, but he's played by a CGI monkey.
But it's apparently very good, like has reviewed very well,
but it made no money. Now money on a big budget,
made absolutely no money. But no, I have no idea
who Robert Williams was was d no money, no good
Like I'm talking like I think like a couple million
dollars on like one hundred and ten million dollars yikes. Yeah,
somebody getting fired for that one both? Yeah, which would
that be so bad? What did it be the worst
thing in the world though? Where it reviews really well?
So you made a critical darling and it doesn't matter
because nobody sees it and it sucks because it's a weird.
I like when weird concepts succeed, right, because that's how
we get people to take chances. Yeah, but whatever has
to go to bed back. Glyshell's top three candidates to
the same head coach Shop based on the names Non,
I'd go Glynn, Aaron Glenn, Joe Brady, Mike McCarthy. I
would have I would have done the same except Fhlip
McCarthy and Brady. I think I do the same as
ut Yeah, hasse goes to remember best COVID memory. Remember
the time that we all spent outside with our family.
We did not like, we didn't go inside.
Speaker 3: We like we played football, pick up football in the
front yard every single night when I got home.
Speaker 2: From doing the show, and.
Speaker 3: I truly like my boys football game like went up,
like my younger boys because they were going against their
older brothers, Like that's where they that was like the
foundation of their football. And I think it went up
because we were outside every single day and their brothers
didn't take it easy on them, so I did enjoy.
Like all the families in our neighborhood were outside all
the time, and just like it felt like old school.
Everybody's outside come home when the street light turns on,
which you'll just never get ever again.
Speaker 2: I used to walk around for my kids and strollers
and wagons and just get hammered. This weekend or backing coach. January,
drink like a six pack of beer. I think I'm
on like a on like about a forty eight hour
DRD January now probably thirty six so it was thirty
six less. We'll see if we can do a real
dry January. Oh congratulations, Yeah, Jesus me too. I probably
won't to drink till like my birthday. Just you. Just
like Landra goes out to eat, a person asks what
she wants to drink, and she's just like excluded, not
for me. I just meant like water. Yeah, maybe a
Shirley Temple, Doctor Pepper, probably Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple, police,
Roy Rogers. Sureley Temples are freaking delicious. But it's just
like objectively embarrassing to order as an adult and sip
your kids. It's awesome.
Speaker 3: You get a Shirley Temple and you put it in
front of Alice and then when the waitress walks away,
just grab it.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying, I mean, you take a
couple of SIPs. Yeah, all the dad tags. Yeah, well
I know all about the dad tax. My kids like
roll their eyes at this point. Yeah, Hash sego to mailbag.
This team up changes topics on his daily turkey sandwich
is all the same sandwich, No, it switches up, depend
on what we have. Sometimes some pickles get on there,
sometimes some peppers, sometimes some microgreens. Have we got that
can go? It can go all over the place, but
generally the base will always be just turkey, cheese, butter, lettuce, mayo,
and then everything else works off of that. All right,
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports this show around
Off the Bench with Ester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: What hading y'all? Welcome back to OTB and it is
Tuesday at eight thirty, which means it is our favorite
time of every single week because we get to talk
to the living legend herself. Coach Kim Mulkey, fresh off
another couple of great, tough fought sec wins LSU remaining undefeated.
Coach Molky, what's going on? How we feel this morning?
Speaker 4: Well, you're feeling good with the win row Mike. We're
going on the court now. I'm not a hell of
a sight, so I'm sitting up here like you, two
football players with ice packs everywhere. What is a living legend?
T Bob?
Speaker 2: A living legend? So sometimes you have geniuses who are
only appreciated after the fact. Be it like a Van
Go right, Van Go died, poor and destitute, cutting off
his ear, send it to his girlfriend like a complete psychopath,
but now he is celebrated. A living legend is someone
whose accolades we can see and appreciate at the time,
and that is you, coach, because your resume speaks for itself.
Speaker 4: I wish you'd tell my family that they need to
treat me better. I tell them all the time, y'all
need to appreciate me. While I'm still on this aret. No,
I'm teez and I'm just in a cut up mood today.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, you should be.
Speaker 4: We're supposed to talk about basketball. Let's talk about that
bandy game. I'm still scratching my head. We had twenty
one opertions forward and we had to struggle to win
a ball game. And so I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
have to look at the film and figure out did
we not do anything with those offensive boards. We did
have terrible turnovers in the first half. We had twelve
and we put them at the foul line with about
six and a half minutes to go in the second quarter.
And a lot of that was charges. They took charges
left and right. So it was a very very weird
if I can use that word. And basketball was a
weird kind of game. Well, I mean, yeah, great crowd,
a great crowd, and of course when it's tight like that,
I think the fans actually like it. They say at
least through the game, and they don't get up and
leave in a blowout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean, hey, you want to talk about
a funny ripple effect of the success you have, and
is exactly that right, Like, I know, as a coach
you want to beat a team by thirty, but as
a fan, when you're in the stands, something like Tennessee
on Thursday with an incredible kg left handed finish or
last night a five point went home, like, yeah, it
keeps you. It keeps you on the edge of your seat.
So you haven't had a chance to watch the film
yet then, because that's what I wanted to kind of
pick your brain about. I know you mentioned the foul
trouble in the second quarter, and now that lent itself
to the oddness of the game as well. So you
have not still figured out how you could have twenty
one offensive rebounds, only three of which were long offensive rebounds,
and still the game be this close.
Speaker 4: Well, the fact we had four sitting over there by
me in the second quarter when they were shooting free
throws and six and a half minutes. So when you
have when Taylor Williams off the floor and point guard
off the floor and playing a lot of players, you
get out of sync and out of rhythm. So a
lot There's so many things that attributed to that, and
I don't ever want to take away the fact that
you don't give Vanderbilt credit. Those guys. They they're coming
in here after two losses and they need a win,
and they shot the ball extremely well here and more
those those guys can score with the best in the SEC.
And if I went back and looked at it, I'm
curious to know if I had to play them again,
what I guard them differently. I'm a big man, demand
pressure of the ball. And what we did was we
got off the point guard a little bit because she
was like the league four freshman in the country, and
we did good on her by the way we guarded her.
But I just like to be a bunya. I like
to press you in, not give you an opportunity to
look at everybody make that first pass. I don't know.
I'm searching in my head before looking at the stem.
Why was that game like that? And it was a
very very weird game.
Speaker 3: Coach, I want to go back last time we had
JO and you were about to play Tennessee and you
talked about their unique style and what it was going
to take for y'all to you know, go against a
style like that, be victorious than you were. But I
want to ask you from you know, your perspective and
being a coach, when you game plan for something unique
like that against Tennessee, how difficult is it to cut
it loose because you work on this one team because
they do this, you know, one thing that nobody else
really does, and then all of a sudden you got
to cut it loose.
Speaker 2: And then you go play a Vanderbilt team. What's that
process like, Well.
Speaker 4: It's very different. You're exactly right. In the Tennessee game,
I want with a small line up because of the press.
I didn't want to leave there defeated because we couldn't
handle the pressure and we had all these turnovers. So
we handled it beautifully. We scored sixty points in the
paint against Tennessee. And that's not when you If you
just said I scored we scored sixty in the pain,
you're sinking, Wow, you got dominant post players. No, we
scored it on layups. Would beat their press in the
back court and just get lay up after layup after layup.
And yet I've got to come back here and play
a bandy team that their press is not like Tennessee
and they only do it a couple of times. But
what they do is they're just solid, their their their
coach really really good because day Ralph was with Gino
Rim for years and they just mixed some things up.
I just you have to prepare like that. The next
game we play is not until Sunday, and it's against
a different type of teamed the those two. So anyway,
it's a mystery to me how that game was so
close and so many different things that we did good
and bad, and I can't it was just a weird
game to try to explain.
Speaker 2: So, Coach, one thing about this team is when you
all have been in close games, you are consistently finding
ways to win them. And as you just kind of
reference with this last answer, you're winning a lot of
games in different ways. When you look at the hallmarks
of teams that have postseason success, how important is it
to be able to first I think, you know, operate
in crucial, high pressure situations and then secondly to be
able to adapt to the situation at hand, Because it
feels like this team has both of those trades.
Speaker 4: Well, as you said earlier, coaches don't like them to
be close but when you get two teams that are
equal in talent and are capable of winning the game,
you're going to be in cloked games. And I guess
this is a great experience for our team for later
in the year. I was asked, I think in the
press conference last night, how are we winning these?
Speaker 2: And of course you know, I'm I'm you know.
Speaker 4: I don't let the media control my press conference. As
I can sing a song, I can crack a joke,
and then I can be as tough as I need
to be. But I just funny being funny with Red,
I said, read, why would you insult me like that? Man,
don't you know it's great coaching?
Speaker 2: She said, you said, it's my coaching son, that's and
we had.
Speaker 4: Fun with it. But the truth of the matter is,
and I've always said this, a coach does little things
through the course of a game, guys to maybe a
quick hitter, to score basket or something. But at the
end of the day, you'll always hear multi say I
am only as good as my players. Every win I've
ever had is because I was blessed to coach great players,
and they allow me to coach them. They allowed me
to go after them. They allow me to love on them,
they allow me to be hard on them. And what
I have is I have a group right now. They're
very talented. Some are more talented than others. Some right
now are more confident than others. Some are more experienced
than others. But I've got three or four that will say,
give me that ball, coach, I'll go win this game
for you. And that's how you win the close games.
And sometimes you make the shot. Sometimes you don't make
the shot. But they're not afraid to fail. And that
comes from the personality of the coaching. I'm afraid to hell.
If I was afraid to fail, I wouldn't have taken
this job. I wouldn't have taken the Baylor job. I
mean I narrated seven and nine win seasons at each play.
So you just don't play. You're confident in what you do,
you're prepared and what you do and sometimes the other
team is just.
Speaker 2: Better on that given night, Coach, do you do anything different?
Speaker 3: And look, you've done this so long, and we laid
out your resume so many times, and so you've been
through every situation and so like when you've got a
stretch right now where you've got to go to Tennessee
or ranked basketball team. Then you come home, you play
a good vanderboll team, but then you're right back on
the road the next two games and two tough games
in a four game stretch on the road against Florida,
on the road against South Carolina. How do you handle
that as far as your schedule, knowing you're not going
to get as much rest there you got to go
on the road three out.
Speaker 2: Of four games.
Speaker 3: Like, what does the schedule look like in that situation,
maybe to compare it to a normal schedule.
Speaker 4: Well, right now, after last night, we're going to take
today and tomorrow off and that'll give them, you know,
a chance to get some treatment and do some things.
Now they'll be in the gym on their own. They
very rarely do the kids just say stay out of
the gym, but I'm not going to have a team practice.
And then we'll get in there on Thursday and prepare
for Florida Thursday, Friday, leave Saturday for Florida, get on
their floor, play them on Sunday, then to come back
and then we'll forget about Florida and we'll start concentrating
on South Carolina and guys held there on like a
sixty seven wind streak. And you know, at South Carolina
and they're that good. I remember the Flage's freshman year
when we took the team there and from the hip,
it was just, oh my goodness. But what a great
learning experience for them because they won the national championship
that year. That group did. So we'll tire shoes up
and we'll go and we'll learn, and we're not supposed
to win at South Carolina. And here's what I've told
this team. This is how you get to the host
at home. You've got to take care of your games
at home. You've got to go on the road. And
that's there's three or four on the road that we're
not supposed to win this year, and you got to
upset somebody. And I'll put Tennessee in that group as well.
We were not supposed to win that, even though we
were ranked higher. They're just you know, they're all hyped
right now and they've got all this stuff going. We
weren't predictively.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, do you know what you accomplished and
winning in Knoxville for a third time in a row,
you well, I didn't know.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that until after the game. They mentioned
something about growing one of two teams. You've done that,
and so you got to do that, take care of
your home business, beat the teams you're supposed to be,
and sneak one of those in that you're not supposed
to be, and you'll be sitting pretty at the end
of the year, coach.
Speaker 2: And then I got to ask you about Anissa Morrow.
She's just on fire right now, nine double doubles in
a row. She plays with a hunger. I love the
story about y'all sitting down and her talking about how
I have all the individual accolades, I want to win
and she seems to be gaining steam here. How much
has Anissa meant and what does she mean to this
team going forward?
Speaker 4: Well, ask yourself, y'all, former athletes, how many young people
today have that mentality?
Speaker 2: They true, I.
Speaker 4: Don't really care about in il. I've had all the
money I need at this school. I got all this.
Speaker 2: I just want to win, yeah, and I.
Speaker 4: Want to go in the playoffs. That mentality is rare now.
And when she said that to me on the phone,
I thought we got to get this young lady. My goodness.
She wants to do what we're trying to do here.
I thought one of the telling things she said in
the press conference last night, she was asked about how
hard she plays, and I've said it many times. She
plays as hard in practice as she does in the game.
And she told them why. She said, this game was
taken away from me, and I don't ever want to
have that feeling again. And I think it shocked the
reporters because none of them picked up on that until
last night, and they asked her, what do you mean,
and she said, I had three knee surgeries in high school.
Speaker 2: I had no idea. I had no idea she had
the three knee surgeries, she said.
Speaker 4: And I've known about niece's knees obviously, and we take
good care of her in that area, but I don't
talk about it much because I don't want anybody in
the WNBA to ever hold anything against that young lady.
Whether she's got a good knee, bad knee, or anything.
You judge her on what she does on that floor.
And when she said that last night, she just told them,
I know what it feels like. They have the game
taken away from you, and I don't ever want that
feeling again.
Speaker 2: It is beautiful. I mean, her motivation laid out clear
for everyone to see. Coach, which family member gives you
the most crap? Which family member needs to respect the
living legend more?
Speaker 4: That was a joke. I am blessed. Let me let
me tell you. You guys have children. So here we are,
we're going to talk a little raising of our children.
You guys have children. I have two grown children, two grandchildren,
and it is amazing that they can come from the
same gene and be so different. I have a daughter
that's my oldest, and she went to Baylor and all that.
This is my daughter, guys, And I'll just say it.
You know, I have many flaws, and one of them
is I grew up in South Louisiana and I say
ugly words, okay, and I'm not proud of it, and
I asked God to forgive me. And you know, I
try never to embarrass anybody, but you know, I just
it's just one of those I quit doing resolutions about
it because I always end up losing. But she never
ever does a bad word. Oh And I look at
her sometimes and I go, do you really belong to me?
And she's just she's just a she's into her face.
She's one of these young ladies that God, you just
want your son to marry. And I say that honestly
because she just she's got she's got it going on,
graduated with honors, two degrees. Uh just so played for
me at Baylor, was on the forty and o Dean
played softball at Baylor that went to the World Series.
And then along comes old Kramer boy three years later.
And you want to talk about daylight and dark. But
see now he's gotten my quick wit. He'll say a
choice word every now and then. And I always say,
somewhere in the rooomb, it was mixed up because see,
she doesn't care about clothes and how she looks. When
she played, he wore Kobe's, he wore Lebron's, and I
never knew he was ordering off of my Nike you
at count and sending them and shipping them. Get cleats
made into it. And so he's my girl and Mackenzie's
my boy. And life goes on. And so I probably
give Kramer the most hell of any of them, because
because it's Kramer, and he's got such a good heart,
because if you just know him, he's got a good heart.
And look he's working in the athletic department now and
trying to find his way and it's just fun to
watch him grow up.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, coach, Well, it's fun talking to you every
single week. It's the best part of our week. Every
single Tuesday, Coach Mulgan makes time for us. Congratulations on
a couple another great wins, and enjoy the bye and
can't wait to continue to watch his team. Thank you, coach.
Speaker 4: Hey, guys, you're welcome. Take care now, nice.
Speaker 2: Coach, ah Man God, best part of every week, Coach Kimbulke,
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the best morning sports show around sort of.
It's off the bench with Hester and T Bob.
Speaker 2: So I know, like me, you do this, but we
normally don't go this short last, but I'm always going
to go extra long with coach. Now we're gonna get
right with Coach Moulky every time we talk with her.
So I appreciate it, but I think I think the
trade off is worth it, even if it's maybe not
the best for man management standpoint, because again, I just
don't think there's a better I don't know. She's just incredible.
She's someone who if she was like a CEO men's football,
I think she should just be successful no matter what
she does. Now that maybe does not give the full
credence deserve to her strategic acumen. Like you look at
the game plan against Tennessee, get outside of her comfort zone.
You look at the game plan against Vandy manage to
find success in votes despite the fact they're so different.
But what a what a legend.
Speaker 3: Finding ways, finding ways to win games and they're still undefeated.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a sparse start in program history.
What is it now, nineteen to Oh yeah, it just
feels casual too, you know, yeah, we definitely do take
it for granted. But it's because you want a Natty
your time. I mean it's crazy, it's crazy. Uh shout
out Anisa mar twenty three and fifteen nine double doubles
in a row, legend our three of OTB. Next off
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