Speaker 1: Let's all start to you want to present Off the
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Speaker 1: Off the bench with Jacob Hester and T Bob aber
Off the pitch.
Speaker 3: Now here's Jacob Hester and T Bob Aber.
Speaker 4: Yo, what's going on y'all?
Speaker 5: Welcome back to oh TV.
Speaker 6: It is our two here on a Thursday, and we
are very lucky at eight am every Thursday to be
joined by LSU Softball head coach Beth Tina. Another massive
series coming up this weekend against South Carolina Game Cox,
a top ten series once again. But before we get there,
it's also a big weekend for a great cause, the
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It's all very easy and it helps raise money and
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Speaker 5: So you know, unfortunately many of us know.
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donate right there on the website as well. Coach Drina,
what's going on, how are we doing today?
Speaker 7: You did so good on all of that. So caressed
with you. It's like you do this for your job.
My gosh, I'm proud of you. Yeah, it had all
the information for the first time ever. Yeah, tell you
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and so everybody listening g e a u xteal dot com.
And again you also get to get out to Tiger
Park walk on the field, which is very cool. And
again it's going to be a massive week in Tiger
Parks as LSU hits the road last Saturday, it takes
two to three against Georgia and then has a beautiful
midweek win over ul before now hosting South Carolina. What's
going on though, Coach a needing to add on the
Teal walk before we get into the softball itself.
Speaker 7: I just think it's a cool day for SEC Softball,
the whole SEC will be Teal. All fifteen teams will
be in Teal on Saturday, so you can check everybody
out on ESCNSDC Network, all of the platforms. Everybody will
be in Teal, so a big day. And then of
course they're just like going over the symptoms. Like women
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this it's like for you to remind your wives and
sisters and mothers and friends that they need to take
care of themselves too.
Speaker 6: So an incredible cause guys, and if you can't go,
be a part of it. This weekend, coach, I want
to ask you about.
Speaker 5: What was going on in your head.
Speaker 6: Third inning in the midweek this week against ul right,
because you're the great series against Georgia, you get two wins,
the series ends on a loss, but still a positive
weeken overall, anytime you hit the road in the SEC
and you take a series that's a big win, but
so it ends and a loss, and then third inning ul
jumps out to a four nothing lead, and at that point,
you know, those are kind of some testy waters. What
does it say about your team that immediately top of
the fourth they come back, put up a sixth spot,
end up pushing that game out of reach and just
kind of, you know, resettle, they sweet the season series,
but just regain all the momentum that you've.
Speaker 5: Had all year long.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think any of us ever felt like
we were out of it, you know. I think everyone
has so much confidence in our offense and what they've
done all year and their ability to score. So maybe
just a little quick wake up we were on the road,
then back on the road and moving a little slow
to get it started, maybe and a little punch in
the mouth. And nothing like a little punch in the
mouth get your woke up in the morning, you know.
But I think the way our offense has been swinging
and producing runs, everybody felt confident.
Speaker 4: Because you only have two losses on the season. But
to see your team with both those losses bounce back
and then get right back into it, I mean, you
lose to cal State, then you come back and you
blank Utah and then you have a performance like this,
Like I know, you appreciate the way your team bounces
back as well, because there's not been a lot of
adversity this year, but when there has been adversity, they've
kind of, you know, gone back and got back on
track right after that in the next game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they have really answered the call. You know, anytime
they've gone down, they've been able to answer it. In
game I think the Kentucky game, the middle game, the
lead changed, you know, three or four times. Every time
they were able to answer back. So the fact that
they're able to answer it, I mean, they set out
to be tough this year. They set some parameters of
what that looks like, and they measure it and they're
trying to be the toughest team in the country, and
I think moments like that is where they show their toughness.
Speaker 6: What were the biggest takeaways from last week and in
terms of you you mentioned toughness, I mean certainly Friday night,
the thriller there with the seventh an win five to three.
Really taking care of business the next day after that
was the biggest element that you learned.
Speaker 5: About your team in the series win over Georgia.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you we hadn't felt like that yet.
Like a road series in the SEC is tough to compare.
We had been in friendly Tiger Park and tournament play,
and you know, we hadn't felt uncomfortable like that yet.
Like their crowd did a good job, and just being
in a different state and all the factors. Like, I
think it was good for especially our young players, some
of them that was their first SEC series, you know,
nine newcomers to this program this year, So I think
it was good for us, and it was uncomfortable and
we weathered the storm in that game.
Speaker 4: Now you get to come back home. As you mentioned there.
But as we talk about every single week when we
have you own coach, you've got a team with a
number next to their name, because that's what it is
in SEC softball. This time is going to be South
Carolina number ten team in the country. What have you
seen so far from them on tape.
Speaker 7: Well, it's a new coaching staff and it's virtually an
entirely new team. Like as we were going through the scout,
I mean, there's one name that is familiar to us,
on this team since we've played it last time. So
it is an entirely new team, a lot of transfers,
new arms, and they are pretty traditional softball day. They
sling it pretty well. They have three good arms, so
you know, we'll see how that plays in Tiger Park,
but you know, I think it'll be a good matchup.
They've done really nice job this coaching staff in their
first year. They've done a really nice job of just
maximizing what they have with this team, and they've earned
their way to the top, which is kind of cool.
You know, like they started unranked and they've earned their
way to this ranking. So they've played well well and
and coach.
Speaker 6: Statistically, right now, your team is dominant, I mean all
categories on the mouth, you know, offensively, defensively, ranking near
the top the sc top of the country in a
lot of cases.
Speaker 5: What is what is the pitching plan for this weekend.
Speaker 7: On our side? You mean yes, I mean I think
we'll just continue to attack them with our best arms.
You know, I don't think any of us pitched as
well as we could have against Georgia. I think everybody
had moments they would like back, you know, and we've
worked hard this week to try to clean some things up.
I thought jayden Heimner was really good on Tuesday night
against ULL. I thought she did a really good job
there attack the zone in a tough zone there too
on Tuesday, So I think that was good for her
to kind of bounce back from that. And the Sydney
is Sydney. Man, if we run twenty nine out there,
you know, we got a chance to win a ball game, right.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Verzon's incredible. Hey, what did you think about the
Now this is not LSU, but it was a saltball record.
What was your reaction to the seventy eight mile hour
pitch that we witnessed last week equivalent of one ten
on the mound from the men's side.
Speaker 7: This was a big talk at practice yesterday, you know,
and some of the girls just think like it's the
coolest thing ever, right, like just cool for our sport.
Like they're like, man, hat's off, that's legit for seventy
eight Why are we knocking it? Why are we saying
bout stuff about it? Like it's seventy eight miles an hour.
So I think our team was pretty impressed by it.
And that's somebody they're really familiar with you know, I
think they faced her three times last year we played
Tennessee and SEC tournament too, so somebody they're familiar with.
So I think it's cool for them to see that too.
But it's incredible. How are sports growing and how these
athletes just continue to get better and better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna to ask you that, coach. I mean,
you're obviously familiar with being on the mound in the SEC.
What was your best miles per hour and how much?
How much does that grow? Yeah, over the last couple
of years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know you could probably just catch mind,
mariand and just flip it off back, you know, so
we don't have to go there. That was a long
time ago, you know, I think the mound was further
back then or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it is.
Speaker 6: It is insane. It's it's it's it's it's baseball at softball.
The the the the skill of these athletes, the power
they able to generate. I just have no idea how
it's even physically possible to do that, uh with that motion.
But uh, if anybody can hit it, though, coach, it's
your team eight starters hitting three thirty or better, five
hitting over four hundred. Of course, dan the coffee leading
the way fourth in the country with a six thirty
three on base percentage. Uh normally, I know we approached
things from the from the kind of mound with you,
But what's been the key to such an offensive success
throughout the top of the lineup or throughout the entire
lineup this year?
Speaker 7: I think the energy around our offense is just awesome.
And Bryce and Sandra and Zach they've all done such
a good job of just preparing our team. And I
think like the big thing too, is they're utilizing our strength.
You know, they've like relabeled some categories, they're trying to
earn some different things within the game, within the game,
you know, and just really tried to capitalize on the
things that we do well. And it's really cool to see.
You know, the talk yesterday was like we scored eleven
runs on Tuesday and I think Danica was zero for four.
Like it's pretty cool that, like it's not about any
one person. You know, a lot of times it feels like,
oh my gosh, Janic is not on base, but like
we scored eleven without Danica and then you know, same
thing Saturday at Georgia. I mean Jala last a four
for four with a grand slam, Like I just think
it can be anybody's day, any day we play. Which
is a really cool thing about this offense. We're not
just dependent on any one person. It's really an overall
team offensive concept.
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Speaker 5: Coach. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 7: Thank you guys are the best. I appreciate you so much.
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Speaker 3: Back to sports Talk, maybe off the bench?
Speaker 5: What's going on y'all?
Speaker 6: Welcome back to otb Cbob, Jakelandra and Taylor hanging out
with you today. So one of the more recent mock
drafts concerning your New Orleans Saints actually had them taking
Mason Taylor in the third round of said mock draft.
It started round one with Marshall edge Mike Green, which
again no fault to Green. But if you want a
workout that would or if you want a pick that
would absolutely trigger Saints fans, look no further than going
with a small school pass rusher with a high relative
athletics score.
Speaker 5: Only eight and a half in chance though, Like, why
we love to see that?
Speaker 4: Then eight and a half eight and a half.
Speaker 5: That's right, baby, we love to see that.
Speaker 4: Oh my mine is king.
Speaker 6: Then it has to go with Eastern East Carolina cornerback
Sean Revel. I guess here's a deal Mason tayl though
in this going third round. Absolutely the Saints would be
interested in Taylor, although you have Foster and you signed
Juan Johnson to that big deal. I think though, or
do we think that Taylor helped himselfen up yesterday where
he's not going to be around at pick seventy one.
Speaker 4: I thought you're gonna ask, yeah, if he would be there,
he's not gonna be there. Yeah he's yeah, he ain't
gonna be there. He's gonna be there at seventy one.
The production team from the moment he stepped onto campus
until he played his final game for LSU, all time
leader in like every category for tight ends, and then
he did what he did yesterday. He's he's a top
fifty five pick for me. So I don't think there's
any way he gets to seventy one. He's going to
impress and probably already has in draft meetings as well.
High football IQ. Yeah, he's not lasting until seventy one.
Speaker 6: Now the other another name that's been making the rounds
in Saint circles, the Shader Sanders stuff seems to continue
to percolate, as it appears now that the Giants will
not be selecting a quarterback the Browns.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: I think the Browns are what the ladies that they're
leaning towards Abdul Carter as well, so Shoulder could be
there at nine. We talked to Nick Underhill about this
and he pretty much shut down the idea outright, which
that makes sense, But what about quinn Yours? The Saints
and quinn Ewers set to have a dinner on Monday,
and like, what is youers current draft grade?
Speaker 5: When is it thought that quinn Rors is going to
be off the board?
Speaker 2: I'm seeing like lay fourth and maybe even fifth round.
Speaker 5: And so I guess that begs the question.
Speaker 6: Do the New Orleans Saints explore that? I mean the
same way you did with Spencer Rattler last season. Yeah,
here you have a guy that was a massive recruit
coming out of high school, somebody who had a lot
of success on the college level, maybe not quite as
much as some people want it, but look, man, when
he was on at Texas he looked really good. Like
you look at that Michigan game last season. Obviously the
Arizona State game wasn't good for the majority of it,
but when you had to have it at the end,
you weres making some pretty massive plays. Would you be
down for the Saints? Like, what's the highest that you
had won the Saints to go to get Quinn Yours?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think third round's crazy, Certainly not
fourth round. He's a borderline top one hundred player in
this draft. I think ESPN actually has him like one
to twelve. So he's right there on the edge of that.
When Quinn Yours is locked into and it looks like
he cares, Yeah, man, he can spin it as well
as anybody, Like he can make all the throws. I've
covered like four or five Texas games in person over
the last two years, and he'll he'll make you go.
Not many guys can do that. Not many guys can
fit it in that window. The problem is, and you've
heard me say this one hundred times for whatever reason,
there's like once or twice every game he forgets every
rule that he's ever learned. He's like, I'm gonna throw
that ball. Yeah, I'm a like, there's there's a squatted
corner in cover two and I'm going to throw the hitch. Yeah,
and he predetermines it or he thinks because he's got
such a great arm that he can do things like that,
and it gets him in trouble so many times. And
so there is a lot of good when when you
watch his tape, more than any like fourth round quarterback
you're going to watch. The problem is he short circuits
every single game for a handful of plays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of crazy too.
Speaker 6: He throws with a he throws with a touch that
is nearly unparalleled, like the when again, like James say,
when it is on and he's making the correct decisions,
his throws are asmr levels of buttery smooth, like I
can feel them in my molers. That said, I would
not expect a I don't have a I would not
have a ton of expectation. If you were to draft Quinn,
you were just like, I don't have a ton of
expectation for Spencer Rattler. It would very much be a flyer,
like maybe you get a guy because we got to remember,
quite frankly, there just aren't that many late round quarterbacks
that end up being a legitimate starter in the NFL. Right,
we have we done this exercise before, Like if you
look at the top twelve guys right now, I mean,
certainly Dak is probably the highest paid of those kind
of mid to later picks. Brock Perty will be another
one that jumps to mine. But what almost everybody else's
first round?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just jail herds second round round?
Speaker 6: Okay, yep, yep, yeah he would be. He would be
probably the best in terms of not being in the
first round. So, uh, just approach to Quinn, you weers
thing with that context in mind, right, Like good to
take a fly er. Maybe you get lucky, maybe you
get a guy that'd be awesome, but don't put two
mens expectation on it. One thing I'll say, though, Jake,
I love or or HM. I don't know if I
want to offer an I love or not, because it
probably is. I don't know if I've done the same thing.
But I think it's worth pointing out the the maturity
of quinn yours because the opposite was pointed out for
much of his career. Uh, he was a number one
player in the country coming out of high school. He
reclassifies and he goes up to a Io state because
they could do nil payments when Texas could not. So
he started his career by doing everything he could to
chase the bag right. Then he ends up back at
Texas and he ends up working his way to be
the starter. And despite the fact that he leads Texas
to two good years, including well back to back playoff appearances,
Texas wants a gone at the end of this last
season said hey, Quinn, thanks, but we're done with you.
And he had a market in college football, Like the
rumors are he had anywhere from four to six million
dollar offers on the table to do exactly what Carson
Beck did and go be a quarterback for.
Speaker 5: One year somewhere else.
Speaker 6: But Quinn, over time, citing his own personal growth, said, look,
that's not really what motivates me the money, and I
feel like I am Texas through and through and I
don't want to ruin that reputation by going to play
for someone else. And so now he's going to go
to the NFL and he'll probably make less over the
entirety of his contract than he would have made in
just one more year of college football. And you can
say that's dumb. You can say whatever, but again, and
I'm not disagreeing, but I think it's worth highlighting the
character growth there from yours in terms of what motivates
him and what he values. And in this more cynical
age of college football, it's nice to see someone who
still just really cares about the school itself that he's
been a part of.
Speaker 4: Now it's a great breakdown because you're right, like, he
came into college and he had the haircut, and he
was the number one guy. He was one of the
highest rate of recruits we had ever seen. And you
really honestly never heard any good stories about him, like right, wrong,
or indifferent, And we didn't know those stories. We weren't
there in Columbus. But there wasn't a lot of good
And then he goes to Texas and certainly within the
last year and a half has matured himself. Even how
he handled the Arch manning stuff I thought was really
well done. Cool, just never even covering that Sugar Bowl
two years ago when Arch first time he gets to
talk to the media and everybody's there. That picture came
out and that wasn't a true story because Quinn had
already gone the media already talked to him. I was
like five feet from there, and then Archie was the
first time he got a chance to talk. It's Arch's hometown,
so a little misleading, but still once that picture came out,
he didn't cry about it and complain about it. He
went about his business, had a good game against Washington,
and then within this year kind of the same thing.
You're hearing arch manning stuff, and he led his team
to you know, a place back to back years that
Texas hasn't been in a very long time. And you're right,
like he definitely would have made more coming back to college. Yeah,
like he's probably gonna have a contract that's like four years,
four million, yep, in the NFL, like if he gets
traft to where we think he's going to. But you know,
he challenged himself, thinks he's ready to go and didn't
chase the bag this time.
Speaker 6: And yeah, and it's at a time when I mean,
look at the relationship between Carson Beck and Georgia. Here's
a here's a guy who you would have thought that
these two sides. I mean to remember, Georgia fans were
obsessed with Carson Beck at first, right, he stood he
waited his turn. In the age of the transfer portal,
he was patipped and he bided his time, and then
eventually he took over the starting job. And yet now, uh,
there is no relationship. In fact, they coming to Peyton,
did you see Gunner Stockton talking about Becky When they asked,
you know, did Carson tell he was leaving? He kind
of hit this smirk and was like he was busy.
You have Kirby Smart in the run up to the
playoff game talking about how the guys play harder for Gunner.
So in this age of nil, again, it's easy to
become cynical, and it's easy to kind of lose sight
of what motivates you and Quinn you were to not
do that. And so if the Saints do end up
taking a flyer on Quinn, you wards I score him
now much higher in the intangibles department and leadership than
I maybe would have previously. Again, I don't have a
lot of expectation, just like I don't for Spencer Rattler. Uh,
but you know, you throw enough of these guys against
the wall and maybe you end up finding an answer
somewhere there.
Speaker 4: At I will say this and lasting on Queen yours
arm talent wise, and the ability to make the throws
that you have to make to play in the NFL.
I think he would have the best arm talent in
the Saints quarterback room, including Derek Carr.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably that's not the only to be successful in
the NFL. But you mentioned it when he is throwing
down the sideline to Matthew Golden and he drops it
in a bucket, and you've heard me say this. He
looked like he ran down there and placed it in
his lap. Yeah, and he makes throws every game that
I've ever covered him that nobody else in the building
can make, including Arch Maining. I think. Now that's not
to say Arch won't be a better quarterback, but as
far as what he can do, we forget. He was
a perfect recruit, like he was one of the top
three guys ever when he was getting evaluated. You still
see that a ton in his tape.
Speaker 6: So maybe the New Orleans Saints with a Texas quarterback
in their future. We will see coming up next here
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Speaker 3: Back to sports talk maybe off the bench, Welcome.
Speaker 4: Back, OTV one four to five, ESPN, Baton Rouge, T Bob.
I just found something. I don't know if my phone
heard us talking about MLB payrolls. How about this one
more Dodgers fact.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is the story.
Speaker 4: Yeah, three hundred and seventy million dollars, the Al Central
so Cleveland, Detroit, the White Sox Minnesota, Kansas City. The
combined all five teams payroll is five hundred and forty million,
and the Dodgers is three hundred and seventy b.
Speaker 5: Again, it is it is unprecedented.
Speaker 6: It is unprecedented, and I want to be clear, while
you know, outside looking in, you know, I'd be angry.
Speaker 5: I'd be like, ah, this is unfair or whatever. If
I'm a Dodgers.
Speaker 6: Fan, I could not be more happy with ownership, right,
I mean, that is ownership clearly telling you, look, we
are reinvesting our profits into the team and we are
doing everything to can to bring you the best product
that we can every single day. So again, they are
the bad guys, make no mistake about that. They will
be treated such the entire year. But if I were
a Dodgers fan, I would be over the moon right now. Also,
shout out Mookie Betts hit a weird stomach thing going on.
Apparently he couldn't eat food for like two weeks.
Speaker 5: Did y'all see this?
Speaker 6: He was throwing up everything he lost over twenty It
started right for the Tokyo trip, but they finally figured out.
Doctors couldn't figured out. They finally figured out he can
eat food again. So MOOKI that's why I didn't play
in the Tokyo game.
Speaker 5: Straight up. He went from one to seventy five to
one fifty could eat food?
Speaker 4: Oh I missed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like freo zimpic.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, exactly. Uh So, shout out Mookie, Glad, glad.
He's all right, Jake. We got another pick and roll
today because I need some winners, baby.
Speaker 4: I yes, I do have to put together now, I
don't I have to hop on. I don't have them
yet because games aren't until later tonight.
Speaker 2: Sojanke's gonna have to tell you fake ones and then
the real.
Speaker 5: Picking ro different.
Speaker 4: I don't have to have them as early as we
did when games were at eleven am. Trying to put
some of this together.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 4: I got some great matchups though, as you should in
the Sweet sixteen. A lot of styles that differ from
each other, so that's always exciting. Which style is going
to kind of win out there? So I'll have those
probably by the end of the show.
Speaker 6: Michigan State old mess who wins Michigan State?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, yeah, Michigan.
Speaker 4: State still plus twenty two hundred to win a national championship.
They went on an absolute role to end the season.
They didn't win the Big Ten tournament, but if you
look at the games leading into the Big Ten tournament
and they did win the regular season in the Big Ten,
that's crazy value for them considered like other teams like
a duke in a Florida like plus three hundred, plus
three seventy five right now plus twenty two hundred, Tom
Izzo Michigan State, I don't know. I mean we see
Mo Pete and matteen Cleves and all the fellows in
the stands for all these games as well.
Speaker 6: And then again, Chris Beard, what was the stat Chris
Pallica the Bear had to an interesting number the other
time the other day about whatever. I guess that Chris
Beard has created switch sixteen upsets as an underdog in
the almost exact same situation that he's in with almost
right now. He's done it twice before, so maybe Beard
can make.
Speaker 5: It a third time. Uh, Florida, Maryland, who y'all like?
Speaker 4: I like Florida. I picked him to win a national championship.
But the Crab five is really talented.
Speaker 5: The Crab five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the name. Yeah, you know Fab five Michigan,
The Crab five from Maryland. They play Maryland Crab they
play five players. Crab Feast, they don't there's no bench,
there is no bench. They play five players. They're incredibly
talented and that's who they roll with. So if I'm Florida, like,
my thought is, I'm gonna make you guard me and
I'm gonna try to get somebody in foul trouble, so
you have to play your bench.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna run, I'm gonna I'm gonna,
I'm gonna pick up the tempo in this game.
Speaker 4: Tiler's guys to Flora, I mean, Florida' scores points. We
know that. But Maryland is going to ride or die
with their five. Now. It's as talented as anybody like.
It's just the problem is you don't have a six
seven eight. But if you just look at who they
have one through five, great recruiting class. They brought some
guys in. It's talented. If I'm Florida though, like Taylor said,
I'm running you. I'm gonna make you foul me. I'm
gonna get you in trouble. I'm gonna get you off
your game. I still think Florida is the best team
in the country, but it's gonna be a challenge.
Speaker 5: Auburn Michigan.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously, right, like Auburn the the pick here
they've been. They ended up as a number one overall seed.
Huh even with the late season losses or.
Speaker 2: No, did duke and the Duke's is the number one overall?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Thought, I thought Auburn did get it.
Speaker 2: I think Auburn still.
Speaker 6: I think Auburn still into Broom probably the key to
the win, as he always do. I just love that
Michigan has two seven footers named Danny Wolf and Vlad Golden.
I mean, these guys are straight out of Central casting
for just some giant goons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Blad Golden was really good for FAU and their
final four run as well. He goes over with Dusty
May from FAU to Michigan. He's their leading score I mean,
a lot of things go through him, so it's a
different style of basketball. But Auburn's got to be careful team.
Michigan did win the Big Ten tournament. They played really
well in the regular season. Shocking to me that they
got a five seed. I thought they would get better
than that. Like when you win the Big Ten tournament
and you were second in the Big Ten in the
regular season and outside the SEC they got the most
teams into the NCAA Tournament, Like for me to get
a five seed like that feels like I should have
at least been a three seed. You look at their
resume and who they've played and who they've beaten in
this season, not only in conference play but into none
con Michigan's capable of beating Auburn like they really are.
After they had their three game stretch Michigan did where
they lost to Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan State. Since then,
they've been on an absolute tear. Haven't lost the game.
That's including ranked wins against Purdue, against Maryland, against Wisconsin.
Then obviously what they've done here in the NCAA Tournament.
You see San Diego was a trendy upset pick. Yeah,
they beat them Texas A and M. Obviously as a
four seed they housed them. Ends up being about twelve.
Albert's got to be on upset alert.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they've already taken care of a couple of
the other in that street, a couple of the other
Sweet sixteen teams that are still there. Texas Tech Arkansas
coach cal looking to continue this just insane finish to
a year that appeared so dead early on what Texas
Tech just all about defense, just just dominant defense and
then letting JT. Toppin be their their kind of offensive engine.
And then for Arkansas, I mean, who do you have here?
Speaker 4: By the way, Topping was at New Mexico. Crazy that
New Mexico won a tournament game, like after losing a player.
Yeah like that. I guess that's why Richard Patinos now
the Xavier head coach, you know. For for Arkansas, A's like,
can we cantinue to be Cinderella?
Speaker 5: Yeah? You know, can we?
Speaker 4: Like it's wild to say that about a coach cow
team in Arkansas who's won national championships in basketball before,
but they are attend seed. I think New heisl said
it best. He's like, there's Cinderella with a Jimmy chow
shoe on.
Speaker 5: Well done, coach.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Boogie Flan's kind of interest in marks.
You know, he was the big five star NBA prospect kid.
He hurts his hands, supposed to be out for the year,
He's back for the tournament.
Speaker 5: He hadn't done anything special yet.
Speaker 6: But he has so much natural talent that maybe maybe
maybe this is the moment where he where he writes
his legend.
Speaker 5: Alabama b yu b yu so hot right now.
Speaker 4: Fris this is gonna be like te It's gonna be
a track meet. Yeah, It's gonna be an absolute track meet.
The you know what the total in this game is?
Speaker 5: I do not.
Speaker 6: I know that Alabama's off is a great all year long.
And I read that over the past five weeks BYU
fourth nationally an adjusted offensive efficiency, second in offense overall,
and uh yeah, just tearing it up.
Speaker 4: One seventy five and a half damn is the total
number for this game. You look at Florida and Maryland,
two good offenses, that's at one fifty seven. Duke in Arizona, Now,
Arizona is atrocious shooting the three point ball. They're three
hundredth in the country, but still like a team that
can score points that's one fifty four. Texas Tech in
Arkansas's one forty seven. Yeah, this game's at one seventy five.
It is going to be back and forth. It's going
to be high scoring. BYU can keep up with Alabama.
I know Alabama's got the nation's best offense, BYU's in
the top twenty. Yeah, so this is going to be
one of those games that if you blink, you're gonna
miss like six baskets. Probably the game, honestly, like up
tonight Slate that I'm looking forward to the most, even
more than Florida and Maryland.
Speaker 5: Alabami BYU. Then you got Tennessee Kentucky.
Speaker 6: You love this an SEC rivalry finding its way and
like two teams that even within the SEC have a
specific rivalry now finding their way to one another in
the Sweet sixteen. Kentucky's already beaten Tennessee twice this year,
and yet it seems like everybody's picking Tennessee to win
this game.
Speaker 4: I guess it's just one of those situations where it's
like you ain't gonna get me three times.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're really good.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna get me three times. It's not the
best matchup for Tennessee. That's why they've gone down twice
to Kentucky. But Tennessee certainly has found their form. You
look at what they were able to do in the
SEC tournament. Now they lost to Florida, but Florida just
mollywopped everybody. Tennessee beating Ucla that's a big win in
the tournament. Ucla was one of those teams that if
they would have made a run all the way to
San Antonio, I don't think anybody would have been shocked
because they had that kind of talent and Cronin on
the bench. But they take care of them sixty seven
fifty eight in the last round. So Tennessee's playing well,
but Kentucky just they have their number. As I mentioned,
it's not a great matchup for them. Kentucky was actually
a dog to Illinois in the last round even though
Illinois was a sixty Kentucky wins that game by nine.
So this is going to be a heavyweight fight. I
would expect like low scoring too, Like I don't even
know what the total is. Let me look at it
big moment one forty five and a half right now,
I expect it to be under that in just like
a little bit of a heavyweight. Let's figure each other
out a little bit, then we'll start to throw some haymakers.
Speaker 5: Duke Arizona, I mean, is it still just Duke best team?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Even though I did find Tommy middle interesting piece here,
Jake So Arizona's Caleb Love.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it used to be at UNC yep.
Speaker 6: And he's the one that hit the game winning shot
to end coach K's career in the final four back
in twenty twenty two. So already has experience with giving
Duke car heartbreak.
Speaker 5: Going to try to do it again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know that Arizona can keep up with Duke.
I love Tommy Lloyd. He was a long time Gonzaga
assistant and he's the head coach now at Arizona. They've
got a good basketball team, just offensively. If Love is
not on, I don't know that they can get production
from anybody else to be enough to beat Duke. When
Duke showed us that they can win the ACC Tournament
without the nation's best player and probably number one overall
back and Cooper flag that goes a long way with me.
And that was a Louisville team that was the top
ten team in the country. They beat North Carolina as well,
without their best player. They've got him now. He is
fully rested. He's locked in. He played in the first
round game when a lot of people told him he
didn't have to, because he's like, why, I'm healthy, I'm
going to go play. He's locked in. Duke's locked in.
I think they win. That's why this is the biggest
line of any of the games. That's Duke minus nine
and a half and.
Speaker 5: Then Houston Purdue.
Speaker 6: I mean, defense wins championships and that's what Houston does, right,
Like that's.
Speaker 4: Just number one in the nation. Yeah, and they play
a brand that nobody else plays. The thing that you
worry about, I guess if you're you know, a Houston
backer is okay? What if the offense doesn't show up?
What if we go cold one night? Is the defense
going to be enough? Can we score enough points? I
think maybe in the later rounds it's not gonna be enough.
It's gonna be enough. I think Purdue has been very fortunate. Now,
High Point was a good mid major, but they played
high point in McNeice. Yeah, I mean NIE is a
very good mid major, but they've played high point in MCNIE.
I think that's why they're here. Houston had to go
through Gonzaga in the second round. That like Gonzaga being
an eight seed was surprising, lot of people thinking six
seed after they won the West Coast Conference tournament. But
they go through Gonzaga. I think that builds them confidence.
I think they actually make slight work Purdue.
Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 3: Back from the break where the sports talk gets real
kind of off the bench and with Hester and t
Bob's having y'all.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to OTB Hope everybody's having a great day today.
Rapping about two we got Jay Johnson coming up next.
Did y'all see any of the stuff coming out of
the Lebron Uh Pat McAfee interview. Pretty interesting man, getting
Lebron to sit down for an hour.
Speaker 4: I don't really get that anywhere.
Speaker 5: Pretty fascinating stuff.
Speaker 6: Well, actually, before you get there, t T, what did
you think about Bronni dropping thirty seven in a G
League game?
Speaker 2: It's exciting?
Speaker 5: What's I mean?
Speaker 8: That's impressive? Ben Simmons never dropped thirty seven in a
G League game. He's passed them for He's passed them
for career threes too.
Speaker 5: So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, uh, one thing that the only thing.
Speaker 6: And first off, I think Lebron actually came up was
pretty likeable on the whole thing. And honestly, hearing him
talk about the Broni stuff, like, regardless of what you
think about all that, it is cool from a father
son perspective. He was talking about how big like basically
when they were on the court to the other that
first game, that it was just like, you know, he
felt like he wasn't even there, like he was on
another plane of existence, Like it was such a weird,
like unbelievable dream come true type of moment. It was cool,
you know, because he had the cardiac arrest and everything
like the year before.
Speaker 5: The one thing that I didn't.
Speaker 6: Really love that he talked about you hear him talk
about Yanna scoring two point fifty in an NBA game
in the seventies.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear that portion of it. I heard a
lot of it, but I did see the graphic of that.
Speaker 2: I fear.
Speaker 6: Ah, dude, I think it's so disrespectful to the old
school cats that came on. And it's like, it's it's,
it's it's it's not only dispecable to the actual skill
of the players that came before.
Speaker 5: And I get what he's getting.
Speaker 6: At, but uh, but also it's flawed because like, yeah, man,
generation to generation, like we build off of those who
came before us. Okay, Like, when did you learn that
if you shoot light through a prism, it splits into colors?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what, junior high? Yeah, maybe maybe
fourth or fifth grade. Okay, maybe a little bit before.
Speaker 6: Exactly right, Well, if I dropped you before the time
of Isaac Newton, who discovered that you would appear to
be a genius even though you did not discover that
you only got this. So it's like, just because I
could drop you in a previous time and you would
be better, that doesn't mean you're better than those people,
at least not naturally. And here's what else would send
me down a rabbit hole in I don't care who
you're talking about, Giannis Lebron, anybody. Still, nobody's ever been
as freakish.
Speaker 5: As Wilt Chamberlain. Will Chamberlain was seven feet one inches
tall with a vertical jump. That was that that I
went on a.
Speaker 6: Deep dive on this and it is thought to be
four forty six to forty eight inches.
Speaker 5: Spudweb had a forty six inch vertical Yeah.
Speaker 6: Will Chamberlain was seven one and could Joe And that
was in Chuck Taylor's maybe in PF flyers. That was
without weight training, without good shoes, Like, okay, do the reverse.
Speaker 5: What if you dropped Will.
Speaker 6: Chamberlain into today's game, he would still be putting up
crazier numbers anybody else because he's more athletic.
Speaker 4: Than the physicality of the seventies. Like you were going
to catch a fade if you came into the lane
as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, so no, get out of here. Get out of here,
bron I love you, but no I don't. I don't
agree with that. That kind of triggered me. Shout out
wil Chamberlain though. All right, when we get back.
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