Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from Off the Bench presented by All Star Toyota.
Join Jacob Hester and t Bob Avery as we spread
some holiday cheer and talk all things sports live from
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Christmas party started, Santa. Tell me if you.
Speaker 2: Until like.
Speaker 3: Santa Town, let's.
Speaker 4: Go holiday Christmas party.
Speaker 5: Tonight, Company Christmas Party, I mean tonight, can't wait. I'm
with you, Landra. I think I'm thinking about tying one on.
Speaker 6: You know, but no, that come on, no, no, there's
like literally.
Speaker 7: Has it's right under.
Speaker 4: That is not true.
Speaker 5: You got to understand, though, I live about four minutes
away from where the party is. Yeah, and that would
be about thirty minutes in the opposite direction.
Speaker 4: That's way too much. That's way too much.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: But I will see you at the.
Speaker 5: Party party, oh sixty nine, buddy, buddy. But uh yeah,
it's gonna it's gonna be, you know, I remember, I
remember getting you know, we're getting pretty pretty pretty sautuff
last year at this too. It's always a good time.
Speaker 2: You Yeah, he keeps saying that I canna be like Thursdays, dude, Guys.
Speaker 8: Believe it or not I went a little too hard
last year at the Christmas party.
Speaker 7: I guess I think I'm gonna go too hard tonight.
Sorry about it.
Speaker 4: I mean that is true to Jake's woyd.
Speaker 5: Just last Saturday at the Nutcracker wrap party, I ended
up at doctor Mike's house till like one a m
was the last.
Speaker 4: Person to leave. Everybody else is gone. It was just
with the family.
Speaker 9: Family.
Speaker 4: Guess the time for me to be hitting the old
nasty trail.
Speaker 8: Wife pulls him to the side, She's like, hey, like,
when's he gonna leave, And he's like, I don't know
what to get Hi out of here.
Speaker 4: He just keep saying his uber's on the way.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I can't wait there.
Speaker 4: I love a good holiday Christmas party. I love an
open bar because open bar. But then also it's.
Speaker 7: Like I love a photo booth.
Speaker 4: At the beginning of the night, there's always a little
bit of you know, but an awkward conversation. Everybody's no,
you're not not going to the motion. I'm looking for
it right. Everybody's finding their footing.
Speaker 5: But open bar gets going and then like some hugs
start happening. A lot of a lot of nie slapping
and laughing and telling. Everybody's like talking to everybody. Everybody's
basically just yelling at each other. Nobody's listening to each other,
but everybody's having a great time.
Speaker 7: I went to the last one.
Speaker 6: I was only there for like an hour because we
got there late because we had like a Calandro's. They
did the Whiskey Raffle the same day, so Matt did
like a remote from there and I had to go.
Speaker 7: So I'm excited to be there for the full time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hell yeah. Are you gonna show up at six though,
because no, that's not the play.
Speaker 4: No, it's not playing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm a fashionably late type person. But also like
it's not on purpose. Sometimes sometimes I just literally lose
track of time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I I feel like about it.
Speaker 5: Six thirty, arrival time seven o'clock, maybe thirty.
Speaker 8: But also you gotta leave a little bit before it's over.
You don't want to be I don't want to pull
Teababa be the very last person there. So I'm thinking
a cool six thirty to eight thirty.
Speaker 9: You say that now, it's after I was thinking for
me seven to eight.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, something something like that. They're like seven
to eight. I'll probably do six thirty to eight thirty,
like somewhere somewhere along those lines.
Speaker 4: You say that now, but who knows you might be
feeling you know, might be having fun at o'clock, and
then who knows what happens. Yeah, I ain't our more
of open bar. Let's see. Let's see where this goes.
Speaker 9: Uh to work the next morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be gonna be hurting on Friday, make
no mistake about that. Yeah, I don't know if old
Ball is going to be seeing me at five am
on Friday or not yet. Even so, sometimes that is
the best thing to do, if you force yourself to
go sweat it out and just really attack that hangover
with a ferocity.
Speaker 2: I can.
Speaker 4: You know you can, though, right?
Speaker 9: Uh uh uh?
Speaker 5: What did y'all just tell me yesterday? No tea beta energy?
Okay you can, Jake said, we can't say can't. Okay,
remember you never seen ever and all that you can.
You just gotta do it for yourself.
Speaker 7: I've done it a couple of times, and it sucks.
Speaker 4: It does suck. Really really can't.
Speaker 9: I can't say can't because then you say can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that's funnier though.
Speaker 2: That's still not to the principle of what they're trying
to get done. No, anyways, I need to see the
p s A. How I want L s U players
to look like when they're getting paid.
Speaker 9: N I L dills to not vape.
Speaker 4: Let's see this.
Speaker 5: Dumb, stupid, crazy, dangerous.
Speaker 4: In one word, would I use dope?
Speaker 9: Nope?
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and doesn't smoke wheed.
Speaker 8: Also absolutely no, I didn't like dustin Diamond. What even known?
It is like a no.
Speaker 5: I mean, look to be clear that I think they
are talking about weed. I don't think they're using dope
in regards to like heroins like I think of it.
But like that is if that's not a sign of
the times, Because you meant you wanted to go to
New York City earlier, Alandra, And I mean you go
to any major city in America now and all you
smell is wheat the entire city.
Speaker 4: Like every he just smells smell it.
Speaker 8: Like if there's like an accident in the interstate and
I'm stopped, car comes by, just smell it, Like what
are we doing?
Speaker 9: Hey?
Speaker 4: We won.
Speaker 9: Uh there's that's That's what I'm going to recreate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that's actually a great call.
Speaker 2: Myers going to be Zach Morris can be uh a
c slater walking down in the jury.
Speaker 4: But who gets stuffed in the locker?
Speaker 5: Uh? I was gonna say, just like, even though it
doesn't make complete sense, just Blake groupie.
Speaker 4: You know he's probably been there before. Like yeah, what I'm.
Speaker 5: Saying, like, you can put him in there and nobody
would be confused about it. Everybody woul immediately understand. You
have the Weeks brothers giving Blake group you a swirly
and they pull them out and it's like, dumb, you
don't acknowledge that they're bullying. You just do an anti
vaping thing. It's like on a even bullies don't faate.
Speaker 8: What do they do that with the you don't recognize
your butt? Okay? The beginning of Ted, the original Ted.
Speaker 4: I do not I've only seen original Ted one time. Okay, well,
I don't know if I'm.
Speaker 8: In the beginning. He has like no friends. He just
moves in the neighborhood. It's like Mark Warberg is a
kid and uh his name is John bennett'salking around the neighborhood.
Every hey's like kid lost Bennett and he walks off,
and these two kids are beating the crap out of
this other kid, and the kid that's getting beat up goes, yes,
cram Bennet, and then they go back to beating them up.
Speaker 4: Exactly, yes, exactly. Okay, that's really good.
Speaker 5: Actually damn, I mean if they don't do that, that's
gonna be very disappointing. Uh yeah, Ryan Swim's probably Tea
Bot's already probably hard in the photoshop lab.
Speaker 4: Putting our faces on. Uh on, saved by the bell.
Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about the textass Bowl, because this
is something I want to be talking about. For a while,
we keeping his track, but now it's the perfect time
doing what will what.
Speaker 9: This man say? A week getting distracted?
Speaker 4: What do you mean? What was that a team effort?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Not fox will go Okay, I I keep distracted.
Speaker 9: I guess that's my point. That's what we always did.
Speaker 7: Uh as we did talk about this a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 4: No we didn't. No, no, we didn't. All right, let's
oh my god, you'll annoying me now.
Speaker 5: I don't want to talk anymore. I do, though, Okay. So,
uh no Emory Jones, Noil Campbell, no Mason Taylor, no
CD do say Dryan, no Javior Suggs, no Kemorian Pipton.
Speaker 4: Am I missing anybody else? I mean obviously, like no
Ricky Collins.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think about players that played that will
not be available.
Speaker 9: It will always be a surprise.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's more names. There's more names that maybe we
can't talk about. Yeah, that we think. But okay, let's
let's engage with just these right. Uh these are pretty
critical names. And you going against a Baylor team that's
had a pretty solid season, a bit of an up
and down season, but they have one of the best
quarterbacks in the bowl season.
Speaker 4: Really, uh so, what does it look like?
Speaker 5: Yesterday the media was able to go to LSU practice
and Wilson Alexander tweet out with the LSUE offensive line
was Jake It was Tyree Adams at left tackle, Paul
ma Being at left guard, DJ Chester at center, Bo
Bordelon at right guard, and Miles Frasier at right tackle.
That's gonna be very interesting to watch play out and
I have no idea how to predict how that.
Speaker 4: Will work out.
Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong, And Tato maybe you know this.
I mean, it's been a long time. Didn't Fraser play tackle? Yeh?
Speaker 8: Tackle?
Speaker 4: Fi?
Speaker 8: Because remember when he came in, people are like, he
could play tackle, he could play center. I mean they
kind of liked him everywhere.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I mean so that makes me feel a
little bit better about the situation that he does have
experience out there playing tackle. He's been on an island before.
It's been a while, but still he does have that experience.
The other players. I mean, you know, Adam's playing a
left tackle. He got a couple of plays here this year.
But still, I mean, you're going for maybe the best
left tackle in the country. Uh, it's going to be
a downgrade. That's not to besmirch Adams, it's just what
it is. Oh, that's pretty ball, Oh is it? Jelannie Watkins?
Speaker 4: I don't know what, I don't know. It doesn't matter. Uh,
here's here's where I would be concerned.
Speaker 5: Jake, though, is it's it's not just like can they
physically get it done without a doubt?
Speaker 4: That is a question.
Speaker 5: But like we all believe in Dave Randa as a
defensive coach right and as a defensive schemer, I would
feel as if Dave Randa is looking at this the
same way that Mike Elko was able to take advantage
in the second half against maybe like a Paul Mabinga.
But I would believe that Dave A. Randa is looking
at this and sort of licking his chops in terms
of because I feel like there's been a few times,
even with the very experienced LSU officsive line this year, Jake,
where they've been able to be manipulated into mistakes. And
now you think about Randa and the just years and
years of his experience that he has in creating pressure.
When he was at LSU, one of the things I
used to enjoy most was looking at the number of
times he would bring four or more than four, and
the looks that he would bring them out of right
where a lot of times it would be like only
four are coming, but you never know where they're coming from.
I am going to be fascinated to see if this
offensive line can hold up from a physical standpoint and
from a mental standpoint in terms of responsibilities, because this
is a lot of moving parts, you know, not a
lot of chemistry having been developed in games before this,
and now it's all on DJ Chester to make these calls.
Miles Frasier, who I don't know if the guards were
helping him, you know, I mean Garrett Dellinger. Uh, that's
a ton of experience to to to try to replace.
And we'll see if Chester's up to it. And then
we'll see if borderline Fraser might being out of because
that's the other part.
Speaker 4: LSU's offensive line at this point probably could have done
a lot of these calls without talking to one another.
That's how long they've been playing with each other. That's
a real thing.
Speaker 5: So I'm I'm I'm a bit concerned, but deeply intrigued
to watch this Bowl game O line and also speak
maybe the next year who you can maybe get excited
about in terms of pieces moving forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this part of it is what it
is for all teams that are playing in bowl season. Yeah,
we're gonna have to, you know, piece everything together outside
of the twelve teams that are playing in the college
football Playoff. There's not even the New Year's Six Bowl
games anymore. Those are now playoff games. And so this
is going to be the situation across the country.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I don't know what Baylor's team looks like. Maybe we
can do a deep dive into that. Yeah, that'll require
some research kind of what their numbers look like. But
this is what you're going to see across the country.
And it's a little nerve racking because you've got again
your biggest asset, Garrett nuss Meyer, who's going to be
your guy next year, and a guy that's on every
single way too early Heisman for next year article that
you see like he's you know, across the country, Like
I know, there was, you know, a stretch there where
a lot of people were doubting him, but no, he's.
Speaker 9: He's really good.
Speaker 4: Well, it'll be fair.
Speaker 5: There was also a stretch there where a lot of
people are calling him the best quarterback in the country
until he fell off.
Speaker 2: Now and people I talked to on my other show like, no,
that Garrett nest Meyer is a dude.
Speaker 9: So that that's your asset.
Speaker 2: That's what you have to protect and so like it
is a little nerve racking there as far as receivers
and backs, like, you'll be good there.
Speaker 9: But tight ends an offensive line in this ball game.
Speaker 2: We talked about earlier safeties as well, but protecting your
biggest asset, it should be a warrior. Because this is
a completely new offensive line. Only one person is going
to be playing in the position that they started the
year being the starter.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so three completely new faces and four people playing
in new positions.
Speaker 4: What about tight end? Who do you have?
Speaker 5: Obviously you got trade as Green still in his sort
of hybrid role. Who else would know? Pimpton and Mason Taylor,
No mac Mark way.
Speaker 9: Either, he'd been going for a minute.
Speaker 5: But still, I'm just you're gonna be enforcing your down
three tight ends from what you thought you had entering
the season.
Speaker 2: And Borderline was your jumbo tight end. Yeah, and now
he's playing right guard. But you know you can always
do another you know, you throw another alignment in. There's
there's the old jumbo.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it's still new.
Speaker 4: It is still new. It is still new to be fair,
like what other tight ends are on the roster.
Speaker 8: Gabe Leonards has played a lot of special teams. He's
a former walk on, he plays a ton of special teams.
I'm just looking at the guys physics.
Speaker 5: I love look, I love a I love a walk
on that has worked his waiting special teams reps. That
means they like it. That means he works his ass off.
It means he's pretty good. I would love to see
him get an opportunity in this game that that that's
a that's a fun kind of opening to reward a
player that does things the right way.
Speaker 8: I mean, Gabe Leonards, Landon Craig, a freshman walk on
and Trade's green. Wow, and those are your guys.
Speaker 4: Wow, God, Carrott, No smier Man. What a weird game
to be playing in.
Speaker 2: Jake, you know yeah, I mean because even in even
in the bowl game he played last year like he
hadn't played all year, but he had elite neighbors and
Brian Thomas Junior, and he had Will Campbell and Emory Jones.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like he had.
Speaker 4: This is the inverse. This is a complete verse.
Speaker 5: He's got a new offensive line, he's lost his major
safety blanket in Mason Taylor, uh CJ. Daniels has been
solid for him all year long. Is current Lacy playing.
Speaker 8: Haven't heard one way or the other.
Speaker 5: Who announced they are playing yesterday. M M, somebody confirmed it.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to watch this video that LSU Football posted
as well.
Speaker 9: Bins is yes, Swinston's playing.
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, thank you, Landra good John. Shout out
to Braden Swinson.
Speaker 2: Giovanni, Peter Still who started as a walk on but
did earn a scholarship. He's a special team's war daddy
as well. In the video that they posted on Twitter yesterday,
if some of the throws nes Meyer made you could
tell he's yeah, forty five's in there at tight end.
Speaker 4: Warnerville ever get his hands on Pikachu.
Speaker 9: I knew when you said Giovanni that something was coming.
Speaker 4: I was either gonna go that or uh Giovanni Minjo.
Speaker 9: Luigi Giovanni was in one of them, and trade Has
was then the other. So there's two tight ends.
Speaker 4: Okay, there you go.
Speaker 5: Givonni Hey man, I hate yeah, hell yeah, dude, there
is right there forty five.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 5: Look again, I think this is a great opportunity for
a guy that practs hard, works hard, like this is
a great opportunity to finally get to go play and
maybe do some on on game day. So I'm rooting
for Giovanni Bernard Peterson, Peterson. I am rooting for Giovanni Peterson.
You know, Peterson is my mother's name, made a name.
Speaker 9: I did not know that. Maybe you're related, probably, but
he I mean, he's bobby.
Speaker 2: He's six four, two fifty, like he's a he's a
player that well I'm almost six four months old.
Speaker 9: You notice.
Speaker 2: He did play like he played in the bowl game,
you know, against Purdue. You know I remember a couple
of times. So he's from Colorado. I don't think you're related.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to study the roster like you study
an opponent's roster. Yeah, to make sure you're up to
snuff on who, what, when, where, and how.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the old flip charts not gonna be the one
that we've used all year.
Speaker 5: No, the point is, okay, look, guys, you want to
see though, I say, okay, watch this game through the
lens of just understanding how much change is gonna be,
especially offensively, and then we can all just watch this
game to be fascinating to see how Garrett Mesmeier navigates it. Right,
What a weird end of the year test for us
heading into twenty twenty five and who will excite us
as you move forward into twenty five? All right, when
we get back, because that's the other report about a take,
it's not even really representative of the roster because of
the portal guys and everything else, Like it's gonna be
vastly different. It's such a like kind of twilight zone
sort of roster you're gonna have here. All right, when
we get back here on OTV, I want to talk
a bit about a college football playoff.
Speaker 4: Talk to some Saints packers as well. Keep it locked
here on OTV.
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Speaker 4: Then how much do you think this Bowl game means?
Speaker 5: Tell us you because I think it means something to Baylor,
their winners of six.
Speaker 4: In a row, a season that felt lost at a time.
Speaker 5: I mean they're sitting there at two and four, really disappointing,
lost to Colorado game they should have won.
Speaker 4: You know, it would been really Dave Randa on the
roads right. It would been real.
Speaker 5: Easy to just give it up, pack it in. They
managed to finish strong. They win six in a row.
They finished six and three in conference, you know, right
outside the top four that all finished seven and two,
right on the edge of it. Really, they would have
been in that crew had they not somehow found a
way to blow that Colorado game. So I guess the
point of this is, this is a Baylor team that
has believed to finish hot. Jake, you mentioned that it
doesn't seem like they've had a lot of portal attrition
in this time, like they'll be bringing a more complete
team to Bear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were trying to look it up during the
break because there's not a ton of guys.
Speaker 9: There's not like mass exodus.
Speaker 2: As far as you know what it looks like going
to be playing in this bowl game. There's not a
lot of early entries into the NFL as well, like
you have if you're LSU.
Speaker 5: Very interesting, very interesting, and one of the best quarterbacks
in the Big twelve as as we alluded to. In fact,
where does he rank in terms of let me see here,
passer rating, Yes, Sawry Robertson right now, third in the
Big twelve and passer rating twenty six, touds seven picks,
eight point three yards per attempt, sixty three complete completion percentage.
So a defense that will be missing a lot of
safeties and whatnot going to be going to be tested here.
I guess so like last year, I thought they Bowl
game meant a ton LSU desperately needed to get the
ten wins. Yeah, in an almost ironic twist, I find
like myself a bit more ambivalent on eight and five
verse nine and four.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't know why. I mean, do you
ever want to win the game?
Speaker 5: You always want to win the game, But it feels
like LSU fans temperament at this point, since the season
has already was lost a long time ago, and so
many feels minds.
Speaker 4: I almost give the feeling that.
Speaker 5: A lot of people are almost like their excitement or
lack of it's all gonna have to do with like transfer,
portal and offseason, moving rosters and looking forward to the
future as opposed to this bowl game. Though again, this
bowl game is looking forward to the future because you'll
get eyes on guys that are going to be expected
to step up in some of these roles next season.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you have a lot of positive momentum going
right now.
Speaker 2: I think, get sure with all the money that's coming
in and what you've done in the transfer portal. You
had a top ten recruiting class, and I know that
momentum kind of goes in peaks and valleys, but I
think you do have some right now. Yeah, I think
it's helped a little bit of the sting of having
a disappointing regular season.
Speaker 9: So sure, you know, I think you want to keep
that going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want to blow this up. You're right,
you don't want to blow that up. That's a very
good point. Uh, we'll see, We'll see what I mean.
Speaker 2: It does mean a lot to Baylor, like you you
can tell it means a lot to Baylor. It's Dave
Ranto coaching against his former team where he was a coordinator.
The way they've been playing, what a win against an
Lshue would mean for a team like Baylor.
Speaker 9: So you're getting their best shot.
Speaker 4: It's weird too, remember Baylor. Uh, when de f ren
first got there, they.
Speaker 5: Were what a diving inch away from being Big Twelve
champs right first year Okloma State barely finding a way
into the end zone to win the Big Twelve. Otherwise
it would have been random Baylor. And since then they've
taken so many steps back. This is a chance for
them to really gain some momentum heading the offseason.
Speaker 4: So we'll see. We'll see her soon enough.
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Rouge Jake, how do you feel about the current state
of college football? This is a debate I was having
with some friends yesterday. They were kind of they were
claiming college football to be rudderless, talking about whacky seating,
teams wearing I guess what like color rush uniform.
Speaker 4: Somebody's up like some people are upset with like Tennessee.
I think in a hot States unions or a hosted
somebody else's un needs.
Speaker 9: A hot State's wearing all red, Tennessee's wearing all white.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, neutral presentations on the field, even though there's like
a home game a home team. How do you feel
we'll get to diego Pavia as well? But but but
how are you currently feeling? Do you like do you
like how college actually start with the playoff?
Speaker 4: Specifically? Do you like how college football is handling the
playoff this far?
Speaker 9: Yeah? I mean what, we don't even know what it
looks like. We won't have a game until tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Do you think that the seating is Oh it is tomorrow,
let's go. Do you think the seating is off kilter?
Speaker 2: I mean I actually don't mind it, because if you
turn it to a one through twelve, I think you're
gonna have the big ten the SEC get the first
six spots every year, even some years where maybe they
don't deserve it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm okay with it. I'm okay with the seating.
Speaker 5: What do you think about the sort of neutral presentation
somewhat in terms of the home teams are the home teams,
but they'll paint the field and such to make it
look like it's a like a playoff GA.
Speaker 2: No, I think if you get a home playoff game,
you've earned the right to add the home playoff game
as though you should have your colors, your marks.
Speaker 5: I agree, Like in a wild card game like an
NFL home it's just a home game, home game. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree that that would be a maybe a slight
change that I would make. I would say this college
football I do not view as rudderless. I view it
as maybe captain less. But it is being because somebody
as well. Okay, well, who's controlling it?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 5: The invisible hand, right, that most magical of economic forces.
You know, it's controlling college football money the market, and
for now it's I it's odd, Jake. There are certainly
little things that need to be worked on and chained.
Lill shifts in direction I think in an ideal situation,
but for the most part. I like what the invisible
hand's doing? You know, was this not the most enjoyable
college football season we've probably had since two thousand and
seven in terms of unpredictability, exciting teams on the rise,
you know, teams that we picked to finish last and
in up first upsets every single weekend. No thousand pound
gorilla in the room where it's just kind of like, oh, well,
throw your hands up. I remember Georgia twenty one. When
else you made like did anybody believe that anybody was
beating that team?
Speaker 4: I guess Ohio.
Speaker 5: State got close, but it was very kind of like, ah, whatever,
they're gonna you know, they're gonna win the night.
Speaker 4: So it's interesting.
Speaker 5: You can call it captain lists, rudderless, whatever you want.
I do like the direction of the evolution, even though
certainly there's probably some things that need to be cleaned
up a bit.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this, I mean this year had more parody than
we've had very long Like O seven.
Speaker 2: Remember, like there was teams like Boston College in South
Florida and West Virginia that were like number two teams
in the country. Yeah, we had a lot of parody
in that season as well. And that's what I think
made it fun, It's.
Speaker 9: What made it engaging.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of fan bases that were staying
in it longer because they didn't really know what was
going to happen.
Speaker 9: So let's let this one play out.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are angry and screaming
and how his Boise stayed in Arizona State. I know,
our guy Hunt Palmer went all in. I'm like, Hunt,
you haven't watched an Arizona State game this year. You
haven't watched the game probably played West of Texas this year.
Like so like it, Let's let it play out. Let's
see what happens. Let's see what Arizona does against the
winner of Texas and Clemson.
Speaker 9: Let's see what Boise State is able to get done.
Speaker 2: And then at the end of the day, if it
turns out the way a lot of people thought, then
we'll revisit this conversation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I agree.
Speaker 5: Now I do think of the virtually there is going
to have to be and this ties into Diego Pavia.
There's gonna have to be some sort of collectively bargained
something or another.
Speaker 4: I don't know what a union looks like.
Speaker 5: In a a thing like college where the players are
so transient. I mean, I suppose the NFL union is
no different in that regards in a lot of ways,
because yeah, I mean, honestly, if you're if you're bargaining
on behalf of the players union in a NFL CBA,
you are bargaining on behalf of future people that really
have no say in it, but will be beholden to it.
So I guess it's not that dissimilar. So I think
you'll get there, and it will require the players giving
up some leverage, and it will require you know, the
the the schools as well. We'll get there eventually, and
maybe you get a commissioner again. But it is kind
of fascinating, right you look, right now the owners control
the NFL through Roger Goodell.
Speaker 4: There really is no is there is there a leader
in college football?
Speaker 5: Not leader like, is there like somebody who actually has
commissioner power in college football? Because it ain't the NCAA
and Charlie Baker. No, I mean, you say Greg Sanki,
but look, everybody was so excited to get their thumb
theer nose at Sankei.
Speaker 4: His own people included Kurry did it on the SEC championship.
Speaker 9: Podium with him five feet away, and tell me the.
Speaker 5: Playoff committee didn't love getting a hold of Alabama out.
Speaker 4: In the SEC to three teams.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Greg, because look, everybody loves it when you're everybody's nice,
when you're in the cat bird seat and you're kind
of lording over everybody else.
Speaker 4: But when you when they have a chance to get you,
they don't get you.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of fascinating thing that the second biggest
sport of America doesn't actually have that central leadership.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, Jimbo talks about this all the
time on Tuesdays with us. He's like, you know, who's
who's the leadership, Who is the say all be all,
who has.
Speaker 9: The final answer. He's like, there's not that person.
Speaker 2: He mentioned it being the second biggest sport in our country, right,
bigger than MLB, bigger than NBA, bigger than all of it.
And it's like, imagine that those leagues didn't have a commissioner.
Speaker 4: It's kind of funny. It's almost like the ultimate.
Speaker 5: Free market capitalist experiment. I mean, it is truly just
being run by the money and market forces. We'll see
where it ends up going but hey, I'm pumped, dude,
I'm pumped playoffs this weekend. I love the parody. There's
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mixed in off the bench with Hester and timom.
Speaker 4: Cood Mom It's lovely? Were the first sleeve ad together with.
Speaker 5: Hey, I got a UI design question. Let's say pay
attention to Laundra. Let's say what I think she was
trying to suffocate a fly with her eyes back there?
Speaker 7: What does that even mean?
Speaker 4: That's my favorite family guideline.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think Peter's sleeping in a class or something and
the teacher calls him out for And I wasn't sleeping.
I was just trying to suffocate it. There's a fly
in my eye and I was trying to suffocate it
something along those lines. My eyes were closed, No, they
were not closed. UI Design question. Let's say your your
design and menu and somebody has to choose between two
different options. Okay, how do you make it to where
you know which option is highlighted?
Speaker 8: What do you mean like like I feel like far
too often.
Speaker 5: I'll be on a menu and I'll be trying to
choose between two different things, and I'm like, well, what
color is the not selecting this color?
Speaker 4: And what color is the selection? Right? Like if you
had black and.
Speaker 5: Red, like you know, color coded or like I don't know,
I'm saying sometimes yeah, like sometimes how.
Speaker 8: Do you bold one of the uh the menu names?
Make the font just slightly bigger, not enough for the
naked eye, but it kind of stands out a little bit.
I mean you can do anything, Okay, you know what,
maybe maybe center that one a little bit more and
have the other one kind of off.
Speaker 4: To the sime, maybe like pop out like when you
like when you scroll on it. Okay, Yeah, that's a
pretty good call too. I mean, good job, Taylor wins.
So you Landri. You gotta be quicker, paid more attention.
You would have maybe you could have beaten him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just don't really fully understand what you're asking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm probably not. I don't think any do anyway. Uh,
how do you feel about Diego Pavia?
Speaker 5: So a judge recently granted Diego Pavia a restraining order
against the NTA, but really restraining order well, it's not.
It just means that for now he is eligible to
play football next season. The judge for the time being
has agreed with him that there needs to be discussion
as to whether or not Juco years count against n
C double A eligibility. This is a court case that
an all likelihood would not be finished Jake until after
next season. So it certainly looks like Diego Pavia is
going to be back at Vanderbilt for one I mean
maybe two years though, right he played two years at JUCO,
and if they end up ruling that Juco does not count,
that's another year that Pavia would have.
Speaker 4: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: I feel like it just feels like a step too
far to me. I'm not sure why all.
Speaker 9: The ish going on right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Diego Pavia trying to get another year because he
did go through the grind of Juco is the thing
that's a step too far. Not players getting twelve and
a half million dollars out of high school without taking
a snap, not players making demands of how many third
downs they play, not guys having personal drivers to and
from practice. No, but Diego Pavia, who knows he's not
an NFL player, trying to get an extra year.
Speaker 9: That's a step too far.
Speaker 5: It's not Diego Pavias specifically, it's maybe the slippery slope
that this ruling represents. Now, granted, I don't hate the
idea that Juco maybe wouldn't count, right, Like, I'm okay
with a guy being allowed a bit more leeway. You know,
guys sometimes need more time to develop. Maybe they got
to learn how to get their head on straight academically. Like,
I don't hate that from a ruling standpoint, would I
potentially fear Jake and this could come about in this
ruling Whenever they go to court for this, what if
they say the NCAA has no ability to enforce eligibility
at all because they might not be able to Why
would they be able to do everything else They've ruled
the NCAA can't do anything, and so you have no
eligibility and guys just get to play forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami guy's playing for nine years. You got Cam
Rising playing for seventy three years.
Speaker 5: At least that's through you know, COVID medical red shirt.
Speaker 8: Three medical red shirts a lot though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean three yeah, I know, come on,
come on, but three season and the injury sucks not
you got to play all nine years junior college.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just said no.
Speaker 4: No, Look, I just said I think I'm okay with
the Juco part of it. I didn't know it wasn't
a part of the n tw b A.
Speaker 5: So like that's that's a that's a that's a fine argument.
I'm I'm wondering what happens. Is that what breaks the
camel's back into a CBA if there's a rule that
there's no eligibility or do people like what the coaches
even care what they want? No eligibilion and all of
a sudden they got more stable rosters, less recruiting. We
just have a full farm league. So someone can stay
at JUCO for four years.
Speaker 2: Juco's aren't four year schools or two year schools, so no,
and then transfer and play four more years. No, Juco's
are only two years. And so that's you know what
Diego was able to do. I don't know, man, I
think this is a Juco versus an n C Double
A situation. I don't think you're gonn get to a
point where you got forty two year olds out there
playing in the n C Double A. Now if you
want to open it back up, T Bob and I
will start training now to get a little n I
l deal.
Speaker 4: I will not.
Speaker 5: My body's yeah, no, my body's done, dude. My shoulder, man,
I can't even lift a freaking still. I'm out here
or somewhere else. You gotta try something different.
Speaker 8: Why not running back?
Speaker 4: He's too old running he can't play runn back?
Speaker 9: Can play running back?
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, Like, would you want to
or just taking running back?
Speaker 9: Yeah, and be a war daddy too.
Speaker 5: You can get Uh, you'll play full back and we'll
give you like one.
Speaker 9: Or two plays. I'll play running back.
Speaker 5: Uh. He's telling you you gon't beat out, you go
beat out Kaden Durham Boat this old dog, this whole
so cranky, silver whiskered, basting hon.
Speaker 9: I'll know bruh anti SnO old dog new tricks, but
an old dog and tricky. Every once in a while,
it was.
Speaker 5: Like little one of them little kids, like one of
them little whippets. But you know there's a little uh
yeah right, and that what they're called the real fast. Yeah,
those things can fly. JA could be a goal line
back not see Yeah, I agree, I would take I'd
take Jake in the yard. I don't think I'm taking
Jake against Kate Durham in the open field right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I finished my long runs in the end zone.
Speaker 8: Uh wow, that just feels like a rim shot.
Speaker 4: You should come after me, not Kate. Need a dude,
he's playing hurt out there was.
Speaker 8: It eighty seven against something like that? Eighty seven?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he also got outsprinted by a ref in that ville.
Speaker 9: Okay, did he tackle me?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: He did not get a smooth hip flip.
Speaker 9: It's the ref like page.
Speaker 8: So he also had like a thirty yard head start.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but you got to see the top speed.
He had a nice hip flip too. It was really
smooth on the ref's part to be fair, all.
Speaker 2: Right, I mean, just because you can't block three techniques anymore,
don't know me in a no chance?
Speaker 4: Look, man, okay, I want let's do it.
Speaker 5: I want you to train and then do one practice
one practice running back.
Speaker 9: I tried. Look, I tried to do this two years
ago for real. No, no, not me.
Speaker 2: But I had an idea for a reality show where
you take a group of twelve former NFL players that
all played at least four years so vested into the NFL.
You give them three months to train, the reality TV
show follows them during the training, and whoever wins the
competition gets a million dollars in a full year guaranteed
in the UFL.
Speaker 9: Actually like that, I mean Bob, like Bobby was on board.
Speaker 5: Oh man, that'd be great because because all y'all are
also athletes with the utmost confidence, So it would be
and everybody, every man of the twelve would believe they
were going to win. So it would be fascinating to
see who would actually never emerged that hold on. We
gotta go to break. We gotta do a break very long.
I apologize more to be closing hour.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the best morning sports. This show around
off the bench with Hester and t Bob.
Speaker 4: What's ahead and y'all what's going on? Taylor? Could you
do shimp for me?
Speaker 5: Or actually we'll get it ready for next hour because
I don't think we have time here. I apologize, I
I lost track of the haven't told me?
Speaker 4: Told me?
Speaker 5: Guys, I still want to talk about Kendre Miller. We
got big, no big yid, we got month. You don't
watch a Superman trailer in our number three, which just dropped.
How about it? We got our NFL story of the
day day, asked the bitch. So we got a lot
left to get to on today's show.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: Probably probably should kept that music going. Huh, Taylor, do something?
Speaker 4: What do you want me to do? Can you tell me?
Speaker 8: What do you think about? My favorite over?
Speaker 9: L s U? There we go?
Speaker 4: Thank you God.
Speaker 7: Answer this random phone call in the air?
Speaker 4: Yes, who is it? I don't know? Answer? See what
they're gonna say.
Speaker 7: I'm got it? All right, they're on the air.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Yeah, what's going on?
Speaker 3: I just want to know who?
Speaker 9: Pete and Evans called sup this morning?
Speaker 4: And Evan cold Soup? Who's Sup?
Speaker 9: That's all? Thank you?
Speaker 4: All right, all right, have a good time. Did it?
Does anybody know Pete and Evans? Sue?
Speaker 9: Wait? I called that?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 4: I have no idea what just happened?
Speaker 5: I'm just absolute fever dream train.
Speaker 8: Going through this one of the Who was that?
Speaker 4: Why did you call? Call back? I have so many questions?
Speaker 9: He say, who? Pete and Evan Soup?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Evan Cole? Who's Evan Cole? Am I missing something?
Am I missing the joke?
Speaker 9: Here?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 4: It's gone over my head? It's entirely possible. Uh favorite though?
Is it a host?
Speaker 8: He's a business execs CEO of h D Buttercup, a
home furnishing, an interiors retailer.
Speaker 4: Makes sense now, yeah, I have no idea what he said.
Speaker 8: To be fair, we could have said Evan Cohen. Evan
Cohen hosts on Sportsman Like the show that comes on
right before that was when he has being Radio. That
makes actually way more sense, That makes way more sense.
Speaker 4: Who the hell is Evan Cohen?
Speaker 8: Evan Canty and Michelle the show that comes on before
us
Speaker 9: Off the bench.