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Speaker 1: Good Morning at seven am here on Friday, June thirteenth.

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Today in bed Ridge, you can expect a rainy skies

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with a high of eighty five. On today's show, we'll

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have Mikey Mottok in the studio during the eight o'clock hour,

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JD Pakel have won three sports at nine o'clock and

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then at nine thirty Peter Burns. You can follow us

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on Twitter or Instagram at a TV underscore ESPN and

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watch us on YouTube at the one of four or

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five ESPN channel. Our number one of Off the Bench

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Live from the Mercedes benz a bet Rouge Studios starts

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down All.

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Speaker 2: Star Toyota presents Off the Bench with Jacob Hester and

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Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 3: Let's go over.

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Speaker 2: Let's go from a championship backfield to your morning drive. Ham'sday,

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Hester and Hester got it five out a five. Your

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locks in to Off the Bench. We bright control the

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live from the Mercedes so baton Rouge Studio. Here's Jacobsser

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and Matt Flynn.

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Speaker 4: Yo, Jordan, you gotta yo yo, Hey you go yo.

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Here you go, Taylor Gosh, come on, guys, we can't

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mess that up. On a Friday, camp Man a weekend.

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Vibes already all over this place. Oh TV, Jake, Jordan

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and Tate, Alandra and Flynn both out on vacation.

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Speaker 5: Hey man, we labor through, We labored through.

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Speaker 6: We are here. The question really is going to be,

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will Flynn pull a tea?

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Speaker 2: Bob?

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Speaker 4: Will we on Sunday night at about eight nine o'clock

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at night? Guys, you're not gonna believe this. I booked

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my flight on the wrong day. I won't be back

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until Tuesday.

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Speaker 7: I'll say no, I'll give him the benefit of the day. Out.

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Speaker 1: Got no reason not to trust him until he gives

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me a sou I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 6: I don't even know. I don't know how many times

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that happened to Tabob, though I got.

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Speaker 7: I got to the point to where I was surprised

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if it didn't happen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, guys, you're not gonna believe this. Yes, I I

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messed the dates up. We planned for this, like, yeah, Bud,

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I'm gonna be solo Monday.

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Speaker 6: I knew that.

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Speaker 5: Got to dig it out the mud man. Be Okay,

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I can't get too I can't do too much about Flynn.

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He did provide me with some of My High. So

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I'm feeling great. You know, the energy is up.

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Speaker 4: He's still get some My High drinkmihigh dot com go

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check it out. That is Jordan's voice that you hear there.

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He is filling in for a Landra Jordan.

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Speaker 6: What you know? Wild sports take?

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Speaker 4: Have you and Tay Tay been yelling at each other

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here at seven or two am?

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Speaker 5: Well, really we haven't. Really, We've been talking about My High. Honestly,

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we haven't really got to the to the sports takes

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because you know, I walked in and I saw the myha,

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I'm just like yo, Matt Flinn's the owner of this company.

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We don't have My High around his building? What is

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going on around here?

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Speaker 6: He's cheap?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and I find out he's cheap, so

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very cheap. What he did provide the little uh he.

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Speaker 4: Has a box here, Yeah, he does have a box

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of My High. Anybody wants to come in and get

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a little bit there. So we will all be back together,

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I do believe on Monday.

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Speaker 5: But Musso' is in on Monday.

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Speaker 4: Never mind, never mind, Muse will be in for a lot. Yes,

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like we were saying beforehand, nothing like starting a new show,

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and then just a week into it, it's like, hey,

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by the way, I gotta go on vacation.

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Speaker 1: It's only two of the four members too, Like it's

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even worse than Flinting.

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Speaker 7: I'll be I'll just be an out.

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Speaker 6: I let's see what it like. Where are we're June?

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What June thirteen?

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Speaker 4: For the fourth I am trying to uh to go

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to the beach, and so like I'm going to like

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I typically do, and I go gonna zoom.

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Speaker 6: In, zoom in to the show. Now when I do that, obviously,

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like that.

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Speaker 4: Was with T Bob, and T Bob brought us, you know,

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in from breaks and did all the talking and all that.

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I wonder if Flynn knows that he's gonna have to

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do that, it's gonna like he's gonna like trying to

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put the big boy pants on. He's gonna have to

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drive the show while I am at the beach. Now,

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you know, a bad teammate would have just left him

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hanging by himself. I'm gonna be a good teammate, gonna

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you know, still come on the show every morning and

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sit here and hang out. But I don't, Taylor, I

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don't like the way you're smiling right there.

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Speaker 7: I'm just thinking, like what up?

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Speaker 1: And if there's like you'll be there because you do

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it all the time, but like what if there's an

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internet issue? Like I'm just Flynn's gonna be sweating the

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whole show. I'm excited, yo.

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Speaker 4: Really honestly, because I know he's not listening in Turks

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and Caicos right now. We actually do need to play

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in like a seven fifteen. I'm just gonna like turn

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my computer off, like it just crash, yeah on the screen.

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Speaker 6: And lost him and then he's.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna lose it.

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Speaker 6: He's got to come back.

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Speaker 4: I mean he he did say that hosting a show

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solo was more nerve wracking than playing in front of

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one hundred thousand people.

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Speaker 1: Really, I can see that you got a helmet on.

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It's tunnel vision, and you're prepared for it.

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Speaker 5: What you've done to say, you've been what your whole life,

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you know, So I get that. But look, there's nothing's

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wrong with a little baptism by fire.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes you gotta get thrown in the fire and survive,

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like and that's the best way you can learn from

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it is by getting thrown in the fire.

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Speaker 4: Like, I am trying to think what my first So

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I actually kind of did so low before I got here.

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You know, not every day, but it would be some

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of the time when I was hosting in Shreveport. But

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the one that kind of stands out to me, I

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was pretty new to serious exem because it like wildly.

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I started this in February, and I started series sex

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Cement March like of the same year, twenty eighteen probably,

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and me and Big Swagu Marcus Spears were doing the

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show together, right, and it was a Friday, and I

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don't remember what happened, but we were going to have on.

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It was maybe Kirby or somebody like the Kirby Smart so,

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somebody of that nature, you know, and about an hour

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into the show, Spears stuff just crashes. Okay, So I

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got two hours left national radio by myself, and you know,

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luckily I had Kirby because I know Kirby played for him.

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But when you're looking at the clock and you're like,

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oh my god, it's eight o'clock. I got to get

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to ten o'clock. Actually it was earlier, so it was

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like seven o'clock. I gotta get to nine o'clock. I'm

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by myself here. This is national radio. It's like, what

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are we going? And I didn't have a producer at

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that time that was talkative on the mic, very very

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good at the technical side of it, but it wasn't

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a talker. Oh man, I'm going to talk about And

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if you go solo in a show, right, you plan,

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you prep, you have everything in front of you, like

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you have your talking points.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Hey, at some point I got to give like a

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seven minute dialogue on like something right, oh now, when

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you're not ready? Now, when you haven't done that? That

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was That was probably the most nervous I've ever been

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on a microphone, just because brand new to this national

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company and this is going.

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Speaker 6: Like through North America.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, And I'm sitting here and I you know,

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I'm I'm I'm hosting it and I'm leaning on on

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spears and then doom out.

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Speaker 5: Do you feel like you became better from that point on?

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Speaker 6: It wasn't even like gosh, it wasn't even like a nerse.

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Speaker 4: It was like a disappointment that I didn't didn't have

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it ready to go like I would have. And so

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like from that day forward and my my serious ex

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symbols always last at me because you know we have

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technical issues.

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Speaker 6: I mean even though like.

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Speaker 4: Because like I'm in Baton rouge EJ's in Miami. When

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Bobby does it, he's in Columbus. My producer one's in

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l A Ones in DC. So you're gonna have things

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pop up every now and again, right, And I always

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have like the eleven minute monologue ready to go. Any

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any show that I do, I am ready for that

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eleven minute go right into a monologue of what I'm

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going to talk about and we'll figure it out at

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the back end of it. So yes, that that that

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taught me that you have to have that ready to go.

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Speaker 1: That's that's like my biggest biggest fear when I'm when

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I'm solo hosting for you guys, because like.

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Speaker 7: Jay Gulla, if you're aware of this, I love me

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a monologue. It's kind of my thing.

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Speaker 1: But whenever I have like a guest scheduled, I learned

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this because it happened to me one time. Just like

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you're talking about, I have a segment ready to go.

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If they don't answer, if the drops whatever, like I'll

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always have something back up.

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Speaker 7: Because of that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, they never like that's going to happen when you're

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doing a solo show and you've got guests lined up

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to kind of Okay, if I get to there and

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I get there, I can make this point.

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Speaker 6: I can make that point.

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Speaker 4: Somebody's not answering, Yeah, that's going to happen. I don't

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nere's any question about that.

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Speaker 6: All right.

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Speaker 4: We do have, as Tata laid out a ton to

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get to We're gonna have Mikey Matchuk actually sit in

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with us for the full eight o'clock hour, somebody that's

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been in Omaha, somebody that's played the full distance in Omaha,

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won a national championship. So very excited to have Mikey

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in studio with us. We are going to have JD

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pakel On on three Sports. You've seen JD everywhere does

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a fantastic job. Jordan's a little nervous because JD is

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pretty high on the LSU Tigers. I've tried to calm

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Jordan down because there's a lot of people that are

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high on the LSU Tigers. Are got connor O Gera

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who joined us yesterday. He's got him winning a national champion.

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I understand where you're coming from. But also it is

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okay to have that kind of alpha confidence as well.

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Speaker 5: You're right, you know, I appreciate that everybody wants to

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blow smoke up or you know what. I appreciate that,

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but it's like, man, I'm not gonna really be fully

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bought into this season just yet until week one, until

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I see what happens after that Clemson game, because you

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have to show me. I get it. It's not the

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it's not the end of the world if they lose

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against Clemson week one. But at a certain point you

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can't go, oh and six, you know, what's your your

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week one matchup like that. As soon a point you

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gotta start the season one and oh so if they

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do that, then I'm like, okay, I'm ball all mall in.

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You know, I'm on a nuts bus, baby, we riding,

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but if we all want, hey, the nuts bus needs

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some gas. I don't know what to do, Brian Kelly,

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he doesn't know how to change the tire. Something is

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going wrong, and I just everybody hyped it so much. Yeah,

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it's gonna come back.

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Speaker 6: I think it is very fair.

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Speaker 4: I think it's very fair for LSU fans to say

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I think we can be that team, but the opener,

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and wildly enough, I mean, you can lose the opener

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and you know, you go ten and two, lose one

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SEC game and you're in the playoff, but PTSD from

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losing that opener, and you're right, how many times you

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know have you fought back? You lose the opener and

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it's like you're scratching your claw and your fighting and

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then you like you fall one game short of what

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you know your goal was. Like if you would have

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won the opener, just started season one and zero, it'd

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be different.

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Speaker 5: Did not happen to Jaden Daniels his first year, was

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that his first.

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Speaker 6: They went to the SEC championship game.

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Speaker 1: They would have beaten Georgia because they wound up with

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four losses. They had three in the regular season. So

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if they would have beaten Georgia, I don't think they

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would have gotten it at nine and three for ten

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and three whatever they would have been.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Kelly was on that.

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Speaker 1: Podcast the other day, I don't I don't remember whose

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podcast he was talking about how like hey, this is

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the first time, like we're right like Clemson all over

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the locker room, this this, this and that, like it's

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it says Clemson here and there, and you know, a

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lot of people had pushback saying, okay, well, for the

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longest time, you put too much stock into the Alabama game.

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Speaker 7: I don't want you to do that here.

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Speaker 1: I would normally agree, but whatever the hell Kelly did

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in the past, do the opposite. He's like, this is

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the first time we've done that. I'm like, good, do it.

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Change it up, do something different. So I don't know,

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we'll see if it works or not. But he's taking

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a different approach.

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Speaker 4: See, I hadn't seen that yet, but making too much

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of the Alabama game. Like, there's one thing that we

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all have to understand is Nick Sable's coaching that team

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that entire time period. It's not even like a slight

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a Dabbo or anybody they've played, but like Nick Saban

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and Alabama for a long time was just inevitable.

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Speaker 6: That's what it was, right, So I think it's a

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different scenario.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, like coach Miles and that time period, it

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was like all built up around one singular game. I

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don't think this is building up around one singular game

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like that game was in the middle back end of

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the season. This game has just started off. This game

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is from the very beginning. Why would you not be

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putting up all the logos of the team you're facing

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in the first week. I talk about it all the time.

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I'm trying to think of the openers that we had

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while I was.

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Speaker 6: At LSU.

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Speaker 4: I think we had Oregon State, Arizona State, and I

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know we had Mississippi State my last year.

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Speaker 7: It was like a Thursday night game or something.

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Speaker 4: Missippi State kicked off the season Thursday in Startville. Yeah,

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maybe like six we did have I think ULL or somebody,

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but like for the most part, like we had Power

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five opponents, right, and Arizona State. We didn't get the

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chance to, like, you know, think about it all all

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season because it was Hurricane Katrina.

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Speaker 6: That's why we let off that game.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, I definitely remember Mississippi State, like talking

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of aut it and that being a off season rallying

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cry of hey we got an SEC opponent from week one.

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I don't give a damn who it is. It's in

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the SEC, it's on the road. And Maffatt talked about

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it all the time. We're what one tens you.

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Speaker 6: Think it's hot here Starkville Mississippi. It's ten times lotter

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than here.

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Speaker 5: Right now, they're.

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Speaker 6: Out working you.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, the whole streams coach. Yeah, I

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gotta get your mind right.

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Speaker 6: So I love that. Why would you not? Like you

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got a dog right off the top in week number one.

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Speaker 4: It's a top five tight matchup, your Heisman Trophy candidate

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quarterback versus theirs, your death valley versus their little death valley,

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Like all hell, yeah, I want I want that game

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talked about every day, every day, every single day.

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Speaker 6: I want something talked about in that game.

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Speaker 4: So if people don't like that, I don't like that

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because I think you need to highlight it. It's not

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we nine. That's where you get into trouble with Alabama.

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It's Nick Saban's Alabama.

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Speaker 6: It's week nine. What about the first eight weeks? But

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you don't have that, There's there's.

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Speaker 7: Nothing else in front of you.

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Speaker 1: And like to your point, it's it's it's the marquee

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matchup of quarterbacks, right, But it's more than that. Like

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Jordan's talking about everybody hyping up LSU. Everyone is saying

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this is the best roster Brian Kelly's ever had at LSU. Yeah,

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but you could argue this is the best team Brian

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Kelly's played in the opener. I get the twenty twenty

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three Florida State team that was a neutral site game

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both times. This is a true road game against a

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against a cave club. Nikias's top three receivers from a

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year ago back. They have a great D line. Your

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line is your biggest question mark, Like, you have to

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highlight this game because if not, you're going to lose

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it again.

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Speaker 5: And didn't Clemson actually bring transfers in for the first

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time ever.

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Speaker 6: A couple a half like two, I think actually two

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or three.

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Speaker 5: That's like record for Clemson.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they'd never brought one in. The only transfers

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Day had brought in. It was someone who had deep

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ties to the school was.

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Speaker 5: A McCoy, Bruce McCoy or he went to Tennesse. Yeah

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now he is Tennessee, Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: And then they brought somebody in that had Simon mc

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clemson played there, left and came back. So they had

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never really gone and got like a true transfer from

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somebody else until this year.

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Speaker 6: And I think they got two or three. So it

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looks a good roster.

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Speaker 4: Their front seven on defense might end up being the

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best you play all season long. You've got a brand

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new offensive line, right, there's going to be things that

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give you problems in this game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well look, but you also have some advantages too.

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Speaker 5: It's funny we say this and we're talking about this

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because one of my biggest gripes, and I think I

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told you this off camera when I last time I

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was here, and I was like, my biggest gripes is

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when you watch week one of an LSU game or

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LSU season and then look at the roster, Well, look

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at who's starting week one, and it looked who's started

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like week six. Yeah, and it's just like, bro, if

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y'all didn't play such a Marquee match of week one,

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like you're trying to figure it out when to fly.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with the Marquie

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matchup week one. I'm not hunt oh man.

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Speaker 5: I So I went back and looked at, you know,

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your year when y'all played like y'all played, like I said,

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Arizona State, you played Missippi.

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Speaker 4: State, Oregon State No. Four freshman year oh five?

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Speaker 5: Were youre talking about the Katrina year.

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Speaker 6: That was Arizona State?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I'm just like, you know, can we get

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a game like that? You know, can we play at

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Arizona State was ranked ranked at the time. Really, Yes,

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Oregon State game was a battle.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Derek Anderson was a quarterback for Oregon State. Do

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you remember that name.

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Speaker 4: He was like the one Cleveland quarterback who had some success.

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Speaker 6: He made like a Pro Bowl in Cleveland.

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Speaker 7: I remember he replaced the Charlie Frye who was awful.

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Speaker 5: That's like five Pro Bowls and you get that in Cleveland. Yeah,

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there's no question.

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Speaker 6: Yeah I am not.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to play little sisters of the four

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in the week number one, Like, I'm just go win,

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just go win. Florida State had to play you and

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they beat you twice. USC had to play you, they

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beat you. U C l A played you, they beat you.

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Mississippi State played you, they beat you.

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Speaker 6: They had they had to play LSU and they won.

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Speaker 5: So I'll never forget that Missippi State one because go

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figure it out. You remember if when after we lost

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the Missippi State game, they grittied on the tiger Ie

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in the middle of the field like the was it

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was like right out the National championship.

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Speaker 6: Yes, right after maybe the greatest college football season.

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Speaker 5: That was such a slapper.

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Speaker 6: They didn't know that that that team wasn't going to

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be very good.

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Speaker 5: Yea, So when they hit the gritty, I was like,

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oh okay, bet okay, okay, all right, no loving war.

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Speaker 4: Look, Mississippi State doesn't get to celebrate football victories over

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LSU very oftenies really all right, uh, we will step away.

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When we come back, we'll certainly get this thing started.

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We'll look at Omaha games starting today, kicking off with

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set to take on Arkansas tomorrow night. But to get

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things started there in Omaha, it will be Coastal Carolina

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taken on Arizona. That game is going to be at

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I believe noon, correct in that a one eastern first pitch,

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so it's gonna be at noon and then at five

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pm local time. You're going to have Oregon State in Louisville.

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And we talked about it yesterday. I got a look excited,

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maybe even got ahead of ourselves. As we're talking Coastal

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and Oregon State. Do we believe that there's gonna be

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any other outcome? Are are we riding with Coastal Carolina

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in Oregon State? In these first round matchups.

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Speaker 1: Coastal for sure, the organ State one cand get a

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little bit dicey, but I mean yeah, everybody's kind of

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projecting those two to, you know, be the final two

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remaining in that top part of the bracket.

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Speaker 4: Jordan, you do Hunt show a lot, so you have

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to listen to a lot of baseball takes. You have

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ninety seven different Major League Baseball hats that you wear

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every other day, so I know.

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Speaker 6: You've got to have a baseball take here.

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Speaker 5: My baseball take is LSU Championship. Let's go.

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Speaker 6: I'll you tune Hunt outs. What you're telling me, Well,

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it's just.

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Speaker 5: More college baseball wise, is like LSU. Everybody else really

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doesn't matter. Like I'm not, I'm not the college baseball guy.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: I like college football, you know, I like college basketball.

473
00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:46,799
I like the pros. You know, I'm more of a

474
00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:48,680
pros guy when it comes to baseball. But of course

475
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:51,759
I watch LSU my favorite LSU players though, I'll tell

476
00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:52,480
you that, can you.

477
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 4: Know, Sorry, Hunt, Sorry, sorry that Jordan doesn't listen to you.

478
00:22:57,839 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 6: Oh I do apologize. Oh that's true.

479
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I got Coastal, I've got Oregon State, and

480
00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:07,039
if they do advance. That game six that we talked

481
00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:10,519
about yesterday could be electric. Coastal's got all the belief

482
00:23:10,599 --> 00:23:13,759
that they can go win this deal and they don't

483
00:23:13,759 --> 00:23:14,559
want to hear about.

484
00:23:14,319 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 6: Being a mid major.

485
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,160
Speaker 4: They have won a national championship. Sure it was gosh

486
00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:22,519
was it nine years ago? Now twenty sixteen, I believe

487
00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:24,519
is when that went down, But that doesn't matter. Like,

488
00:23:24,559 --> 00:23:28,880
when you get that done, then everybody that follows behind

489
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:32,960
that championship believes that they are, that they are champions,

490
00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:36,079
they have the ability to go win a national championship.

491
00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:38,240
And so I do like Coastal there in that matchup

492
00:23:38,279 --> 00:23:41,680
against Arizona, and then for the Beavers for Oregon State,

493
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,279
like blue bloods don't play on the.

494
00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 6: Road, they just don't.

495
00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,720
Speaker 4: And Oregon State is that in college baseball, Like think

496
00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:53,960
about non conference games. We're talking Georgia, Ohio State, right,

497
00:23:54,279 --> 00:23:56,519
they don't go on the road and play a non

498
00:23:56,559 --> 00:23:59,240
conference game very often. If they do, it's like a

499
00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:02,599
one off win with some massive, massive brand that's kind

500
00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:05,480
of on the same level as them. But because Oregon

501
00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:08,559
State was independent, right, they played in the PAC two

502
00:24:08,599 --> 00:24:11,640
in football, they played in the West Coast Conference in basketball,

503
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,680
they're independent in baseball. They didn't have a home, they

504
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,400
didn't like, they didn't have the ability to play weekend series.

505
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:23,079
They're in Corvallis because after they played their non con

506
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,640
they had to find people that had off weekends, and

507
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,000
that just doesn't happen in college baseball. Once you start

508
00:24:30,039 --> 00:24:32,319
conference play, it's like, okay, we're in the nitty gritty

509
00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:34,839
of it. But for Oregon State, they had to reach

510
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,759
out to teams in the Big Ten. They had to

511
00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:40,240
go play like Iowa and like what they were calling

512
00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:42,839
a neutral site but it was like right by Iowa,

513
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,160
and you had to travel across the country and like

514
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,640
a neutral site series, you had to play a bunch

515
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:52,000
of Big West teams, you know, you're you know cal State,

516
00:24:52,039 --> 00:24:55,000
fulletin UC Irvine, Long Beach, like those teams, Like you

517
00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:59,559
had to do whatever you could to just get games now,

518
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,000
I mean, and they know their schedule actually was pretty good.

519
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,319
Speaker 6: Ended up playing some really good teams, but mostly on

520
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:06,759
the road.

521
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,599
Speaker 4: So them going to Omaha, Nebraska, that ain't nothe but

522
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,480
a thing for them. They've done that all season long,

523
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,440
and you saw how much they enjoy playing at home

524
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,759
in Corvallis last weekend against Florida State down four to

525
00:25:20,839 --> 00:25:24,359
one with two outs and you win the game. There's

526
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,160
something about Oregon State being battle tested like they are

527
00:25:27,279 --> 00:25:29,519
that I think is going to play really, really well.

528
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 6: And I started out the process.

529
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 4: Thinking Coastal, but the more and more I think about it,

530
00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:37,160
dive into it, and the way Oregon State has played

531
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,440
this year, the things they've had to overcome this year,

532
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,799
I think the Beavers actually went Bracket one.

533
00:25:42,079 --> 00:25:44,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I could see it going either way.

534
00:25:44,839 --> 00:25:48,319
But everyone talks about, Hey, Coastal Carolina has over fifty wins,

535
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,640
Oregon State sitting at forty seven. So that's kind of

536
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,599
what and what you talk about playing on the road

537
00:25:53,599 --> 00:25:56,799
a lot. You're battle toested, you're comfortable away from home.

538
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,240
What did we talk about this LSU baseball team a

539
00:25:59,279 --> 00:26:01,319
month and a half ago? Why can they hit the

540
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,480
cover off the ball at home? Can't hit a lick

541
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,599
on the road. Now that's changed a little bit, But

542
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,400
there's a lot of teams like that. Oregon State's one

543
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,559
big games on the road, and we don't know, you

544
00:26:11,559 --> 00:26:14,119
know how many fans of what fan base. I imagine

545
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,039
a lot of Oregon State fans are going to travel

546
00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:18,200
to Omaha because they haven't seen their team play a

547
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,200
lot this year, so they might have a lot of

548
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,400
this little home crowd behind them in Omaha.

549
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,519
Speaker 7: No, I don't I don't hate that pick at all.

550
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: Like everything you need to be successful in Omaha, like

551
00:26:27,759 --> 00:26:31,599
Oregon State has it.

552
00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:33,640
Speaker 6: They also have a tie on the record. I gotta

553
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:34,119
do something.

554
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,839
Speaker 4: I saw that investigating, But the time is probably because

555
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,160
they were cross country playing a game. They're like, hey,

556
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,359
we got to get home. We gotta give us a weather,

557
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,599
we gotta get back to UH to Oregon. UH and

558
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,200
Bracket too, obviously the one that we're gonna all be

559
00:26:48,279 --> 00:26:50,400
eye hustling a little bit more than Bracket one.

560
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 6: You've got UCLA and Murray State.

561
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,079
Speaker 4: That is going to be Saturday noon first pitch, and

562
00:26:56,079 --> 00:26:59,359
then of course Arkansas and LSU no surprise, going to

563
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,839
be the prime time game there. Ucla Murray State real

564
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,400
toss up for me. Now, UCLA has not lost in

565
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,480
this postseason. They have not lost a they have not

566
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,319
dropped a game, like and I feel like we hadn't

567
00:27:13,319 --> 00:27:16,720
talked about that zero losses on their resume here in

568
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,160
the postseason. Right now, you know they probably expected to

569
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,640
have to go to Austin, Texas and they got UTSA

570
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,200
at home. But still you can only control what you

571
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,440
can control, and they've controlled all of it because they're undefeated.

572
00:27:30,799 --> 00:27:33,400
And then Murray State has by far had the hardest

573
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,680
path to get to this point. You go through Old Miss,

574
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,839
you go through a Georgia Tech team that won the

575
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,400
ACC regular season that probably should have been one of

576
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,519
the sixteen host sites. And then you go on the

577
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:48,519
road to Duke and you lose the first game and

578
00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:50,480
have to come back and win the next two, and

579
00:27:50,519 --> 00:27:51,400
you do just that.

580
00:27:52,519 --> 00:27:53,599
Speaker 6: They have been through the fire.

581
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,359
Speaker 4: There's no more like you know, Cinderella win one for

582
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,319
the gifver like they know, they believe that they belong there.

583
00:28:01,599 --> 00:28:03,960
And just like I talked about with Coastal Carolina earlier,

584
00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:06,359
like with them winning a championship in their history. Now

585
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,880
Murray State certainly has not won a championship first time

586
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,319
they're in Ovaha, but you know that they're leaning on

587
00:28:12,599 --> 00:28:15,200
Fresno State in two thousand and eight as a four

588
00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:18,200
seed going playing kind of a similar path that they've

589
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,880
had in going to win a national championship. Murray State's

590
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,240
been a really good team all season long. They were

591
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,640
a four seed but they were forty four and fifteen

592
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,599
on the year. What chances do we give the Racers

593
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,039
against the Bruins.

594
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't.

595
00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 7: I don't give them much of a chance. I hate

596
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:37,519
to say that.

597
00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people we're picking UTSA against UCLA.

598
00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 7: I was not one of those people.

599
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,839
Speaker 1: I've been very impressed with the UCLA If there's a

600
00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:48,200
team that's won a lot of games, Ral Cholosky for

601
00:28:48,319 --> 00:28:51,039
UCLA might be the best player in this tournament. For

602
00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:52,759
those of you who don't know, the guy hits three

603
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,839
sixty seven and has twenty three home runs on the season.

604
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:58,359
He can hit a little bit. I mean he's got

605
00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:02,039
seventy three RBIs and really the top out of the

606
00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:04,799
top five guys in their batting order. The lowest batting

607
00:29:04,799 --> 00:29:07,359
average is three thirteen. Yeah, and these guys can hit.

608
00:29:07,799 --> 00:29:10,400
And Murray State they've had good pitching. Their staff's not

609
00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:13,440
going to be that deep. So if UCLA can get

610
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,240
to that starter early on, I think this a batting

611
00:29:16,559 --> 00:29:19,079
lineup could have a lot of success. UCLA's got two

612
00:29:19,119 --> 00:29:23,160
pretty decent starting pitchers. Like I really like the Bruins

613
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:24,599
their team. I mean, I know we talked about it.

614
00:29:24,599 --> 00:29:27,519
The other day, you were saying, take LSU Arkansas out

615
00:29:27,519 --> 00:29:30,279
of it, who would be your best bet as far

616
00:29:30,319 --> 00:29:32,720
as uh, you know, what their favorite is to win

617
00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:34,599
the title, and Ucla was my pick.

618
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 7: I'm kind of sticking to that.

619
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: That's kind of maybe the team I like the best

620
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,960
that a lot of people are talking about in Omahall.

621
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,039
Speaker 4: You know, UCLA is a program that I think a

622
00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:48,279
lot of people just assume they've had this long standing

623
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,319
history of success and you know that they've always been

624
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,240
in the thick of it, and I think they just

625
00:29:55,279 --> 00:29:58,319
get that confused with other schools that are located in

626
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:03,279
southern California through USC and cal State Fullerton and those schools.

627
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:09,039
For UCLA, now, there was a time period where they

628
00:30:09,079 --> 00:30:10,759
were like, they looked like they were about to be

629
00:30:10,839 --> 00:30:14,799
that team twenty ten, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen they make

630
00:30:14,839 --> 00:30:16,880
it to Omaha, but before then they had only made

631
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,960
it twice nineteen sixty nine and nineteen ninety seven. Now

632
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,480
that twenty thirteen team they did go win a national championship.

633
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,839
It's been twelve years since UCLA has been in the

634
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:31,680
College World Series. So like the history, and I'll be honestly,

635
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,480
I was surprised by that, Like I just you know,

636
00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:36,359
growing up, it's like Southern California, Southern California, USC all

637
00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:39,400
these other teams, and I thought I remember UCLA being

638
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:39,720
in there.

639
00:30:39,759 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 6: They were not.

640
00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 4: I mean, they had a chance to really parlay that

641
00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:47,559
ten twelve thirteen run into extended success and they didn't

642
00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:50,119
do it. Now they've been closed, So the Brewin is

643
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,440
going to be real hungry to be there and to

644
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,680
go get a victory. And for them, they might not

645
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,680
tell you publicly, but when you look at the field,

646
00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:02,279
no disrespect to Murray State. It's been awesome to watch,

647
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,359
but you would pick Murray State to be the team

648
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,000
that you go against.

649
00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 6: They're a four seed, right and it's Murray State.

650
00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 5: Like you said, it is Murray State.

651
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,799
Speaker 6: Don't disrespect John Morant like that.

652
00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:17,799
Speaker 5: And on my team. So I forget John Moran, well.

653
00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 6: Two years ago, wish he was John Moran.

654
00:31:19,799 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 7: Come after your Juordan.

655
00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:23,839
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, hey, I practiced the Second Amendment.

656
00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:29,599
Speaker 4: On that note, let's take a break and we'll preview

657
00:31:29,839 --> 00:31:32,839
l s U and Arkansas in detail when we come

658
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,359
back here on OTB.

659
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:35,319
Speaker 2: Off the bench.

660
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 6: So when Flynn left for vacation, he's like hey, we

661
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:42,640
have my phone.

662
00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 4: May y'all let me know, y'all hit me up, y'all

663
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,640
need anything, like, I'll be right there, Like I'll post

664
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:47,960
all the show stuff and so.

665
00:31:48,279 --> 00:31:50,039
Speaker 6: We'll get it all out there, whatever. Whatever.

666
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,079
Speaker 4: We've gotten two messages from him, which look, it's fine,

667
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,119
it's okay, you're on vacation, go do you. But we've

668
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,680
gotten two messages from him. One was an ice cold

669
00:31:59,759 --> 00:32:04,680
air port, Do sequis right. The second one was him

670
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,759
on a T shirt because he's turning forty. You know,

671
00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:10,559
you got like a birthday theme going right there, he's

672
00:32:10,599 --> 00:32:14,200
on a golf course with this ridiculous haircut, but in

673
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,279
his hand he's got a nice cold. Do sekis right.

674
00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:22,039
So Flynn goes for dose. We go for dose. You

675
00:32:22,119 --> 00:32:25,519
should go for dose. And it is the best pull beer,

676
00:32:25,559 --> 00:32:28,880
beach beer, lake beer, shower beer, tailgate, beer, stadium beer,

677
00:32:29,279 --> 00:32:29,839
any beer.

678
00:32:30,319 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 6: It is always going to be do sekis.

679
00:32:33,039 --> 00:32:37,279
Speaker 4: And so here in this month of June, all these

680
00:32:37,279 --> 00:32:40,519
different activities going on, probably gonna be outside a little bit, man,

681
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:43,240
Go ahead and have that cold or refreshing do secies,

682
00:32:43,319 --> 00:32:45,720
drink responsibly, and always go for dose.

683
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,279
Speaker 2: From players to legends, Hester and Flynn breakdown on L

684
00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:01,440
s U football.

685
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 3: Like only champions can.

686
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,559
Speaker 6: And just kept telling me I wouldn't, So I didn't

687
00:33:26,559 --> 00:33:29,680
man a great song. But like I bet you won't, Well, okay,

688
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,000
I won't.

689
00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:30,279
Speaker 2: I won't.

690
00:33:30,319 --> 00:33:31,039
Speaker 5: I won't do it, won't do it.

691
00:33:31,079 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 6: Don't have to come back, I bet you I won't

692
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,759
do Whenever I want to come back.

693
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 4: You're gonna get dad jokes all the time here.

694
00:33:39,079 --> 00:33:42,119
Speaker 6: I am a father of many L.

695
00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:46,319
Speaker 4: S U Arkansas last matchup here to break down in Omaha.

696
00:33:46,359 --> 00:33:48,960
And again we got mikey Matuk joining us for a

697
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,960
full hour to break it all down. But we're not

698
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:53,720
just going to concentrate on like the one singular game

699
00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:56,480
with Mike. You certainly want to get his experience and

700
00:33:56,559 --> 00:33:58,960
him being in Omaha making the run all the way

701
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,559
to a national championship. But but it is the game

702
00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:06,079
that everybody is talking about. It is the game that

703
00:34:06,119 --> 00:34:07,839
I think everybody wants to see.

704
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 6: It is blue blood on.

705
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 4: Do we call Arkansas a blue blood because they haven't

706
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,400
won that national championship?

707
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 6: And for me, you need to win one of those

708
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:18,440
to be a blue blood.

709
00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: I think it's more of like an Oregon in football, right,

710
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,000
like the last ten to fifteen years, they've been pretty good.

711
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,360
They've never broken through whatever category you put them in.

712
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,360
That's where I'm putting.

713
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 4: Oregon's pretty good. Pretty good comp there. I'm trying to

714
00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:35,039
think fucking because they haven't won one, Like.

715
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 5: Well, how many do they have in total? Do you know?

716
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 6: Arkansas?

717
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:38,159
Speaker 2: They don't.

718
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,199
Speaker 4: That's yeah, Like if they had one, I'd call them

719
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:44,440
a blue blood because they've.

720
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 5: Won a ton of games.

721
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,119
Speaker 4: Cut like a blue blood, you gotta go win the

722
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,800
entire thing. So, okay, it is blue Blood versus Power.

723
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:57,199
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know a recent Powers Bama.

724
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 6: It is a big marquee matchup. Let's just put it that.

725
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 4: It is Ace on ace. It is deep lineup on

726
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:08,039
deep lineup. Who are the X factors going to be

727
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,039
in the matchup? Like that is going to be something

728
00:35:11,079 --> 00:35:15,920
I'm paying attention to for Ella's shoe, Right, You're going

729
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:23,599
against a lefty, all right, so the lineup could look different. Now,

730
00:35:23,639 --> 00:35:26,480
the first time that you played this same team that

731
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,199
with the same pitcher, you went with kind of what

732
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,159
your normal lineup was at the time. Now, the last

733
00:35:33,159 --> 00:35:36,760
time you went against the lefty against West Virginia, Josh

734
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,440
Pearson was the leadoff hitter right because he hits left

735
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:40,800
as well.

736
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,519
Speaker 6: Kuriel got moved down in the lineup.

737
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 4: Do we expect to see the same type of movement

738
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,519
that we saw against West Virginia here in this matchup?

739
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,760
Because remember Derek Uriel went what three for three five

740
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,599
RBIs in that game where they moved him down.

741
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 6: The next game they moved him back up. But if

742
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,960
you do it against the lefty and he's.

743
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 4: Super regional, I'm gonna assume you're gonna do the same

744
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:05,559
thing in Omaha.

745
00:36:06,199 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like Curiel at the top. I'm one of

746
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,119
those weird people that's like, you can move the lineup

747
00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:14,320
all you want, don't move your lead off batter. I

748
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,920
think the fact that he went three for three, maybe

749
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,239
you keep him because he he in the first matchup

750
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,119
against Arkansas, he batted at the top. He went one

751
00:36:22,159 --> 00:36:24,719
for five, but he had two RBIs, he scored a run,

752
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:26,920
so like he did Derek Curie, all things right, he

753
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,719
got on base. Pierson batted clean up that day and

754
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,559
he actually went.

755
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 4: Oh for three, hit fifth that day, didn't he I'm.

756
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm completely looking at her went oh for three

757
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:38,480
that day.

758
00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 7: I think Pierce strike, Yeah, I don't know if he

759
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,280
leads off.

760
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 4: I just think if you did it in the super

761
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,519
But again, I mean, obviously Jay Johnson, he does like

762
00:36:51,559 --> 00:36:53,800
he's gonna move things around. He's going to come up

763
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,880
with what he feels like in that moment is going

764
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,880
to be the best lineup. So that is one thing

765
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,039
to pay attention to whenever it is rolled out there.

766
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:04,199
And Jake Brown somebody that probably doesn't start the game,

767
00:37:04,639 --> 00:37:06,920
but when he's in the game, he's your cleanup hitter,

768
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,360
right because the splits between lefties and righties obviously is

769
00:37:10,679 --> 00:37:13,519
going to be ipopping. When you look at it, it's like, oh, okay, well,

770
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:14,960
I understand why you're.

771
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:15,519
Speaker 6: Making that move.

772
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:18,199
Speaker 4: And to have a piece like that on the bench,

773
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,760
knowing as soon as they get a righty out of

774
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,679
the bullpen, you can go, you know, your normal cleanup

775
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,039
hitter against a arriety off the bench against that guy

776
00:37:26,159 --> 00:37:28,960
obviously something that is key for LSU.

777
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 6: So we'll see how it's formatted.

778
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,159
Speaker 4: We will see how the lineup ends up shaking out,

779
00:37:33,199 --> 00:37:37,039
because again Jay likes to move different pieces around depending.

780
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 6: On what the matchup is.

781
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 4: Last time out, Root did go six innings, gave up

782
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,880
five hits, two earned runs, struck out six, did not

783
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:48,639
walk a batter. Kate Anderson five and two thirds, seven hits,

784
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,960
three runs, all earned, one walk, ten strikeouts. But even

785
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,800
I think to the breakdown here more importantly, Chase Shores

786
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,960
came in, he went an ending in a third. He

787
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:03,400
only gave up two hits, one run, no walks. That's

788
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,559
a big part there. And then Zach Cowen came in

789
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,280
three innings, only gave up two hits, no runs, walk

790
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,000
to struck out three. I love kind of stacking it

791
00:38:13,159 --> 00:38:16,559
like that, right, And it's like a very elementary thought

792
00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:22,079
process of baseball, of going you know, speed, elite speed

793
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,800
guy with a devastating change up right, You're just you're

794
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,079
changing the speed on them, right, You're changing you know

795
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,320
what they have to pick up out of the pitcher's hand.

796
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,920
So look, if it works out like that again, you

797
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,639
go Anderson, Shore's Cowen, I think you're in a good spot.

798
00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 1: If you'rre Lshoe, I think you just found who's the

799
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:40,559
key to this game.

800
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:44,039
Speaker 7: To Jake, I mean, no no secrets.

801
00:38:44,079 --> 00:38:47,599
Speaker 1: Zach Cowen not awful, but not you know what he

802
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,400
was earlier in the year and that Arkansas game. That's

803
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,840
a one run game, Zach Cowen gets the ball the

804
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,880
last three innings, strikes out three, gives up no runs

805
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,360
like you can get that, Zach Cowen again. You don't

806
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,119
have to burn as many bullpen arms if you can

807
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:03,199
go three innings for you giving up no runs like

808
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,599
that might actually be the key to the Arkansas game again.

809
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,079
Speaker 4: And of course, like we're making a lot of you know,

810
00:39:10,199 --> 00:39:13,280
this game one for LSU, it's gonna be game four

811
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,599
over you know, overall in Omaha. But the thing for

812
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,320
LSU fans, no matter what if you win or if

813
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,440
you unfortunately lose, you are not in a terrible spot.

814
00:39:27,559 --> 00:39:31,519
Right It's not complete doomsday if you lose again the

815
00:39:31,639 --> 00:39:35,000
obvious statement, you want to win the baseball game. Nobody

816
00:39:35,119 --> 00:39:37,400
is going to be able to throw somebody out there

817
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,480
in a game two scenario like LSU and I'm talking about.

818
00:39:41,199 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 6: In the entire tournament.

819
00:39:43,599 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 4: You have one A and Kate Anderson, and one B

820
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,599
and Anthony Jinsen, and you can flip those rotate them

821
00:39:49,639 --> 00:39:51,800
however you want. It could be one A, Iinsen, one

822
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:56,679
B Anderson. You have the best one two punch in

823
00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:00,719
the nation. So even if you do d this game,

824
00:40:01,039 --> 00:40:03,760
it is not all over for LSU. You can climb

825
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,920
your way out of the loser's bracket. Not what you

826
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,960
want to do, but this team right now and the

827
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,840
way it's formatted, it is set up to make a

828
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,559
run in Omaha. So game one highly important, no question

829
00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:19,480
about it. You'd rather Anthony Yinton pitch in a game

830
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,599
in the winners bracket, but that is certainly something because

831
00:40:23,599 --> 00:40:26,119
I think we're making so much and just like Arkansas,

832
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,000
I've been on two Arkansas shows this week, so much

833
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:33,039
about this one single game. That's not what Omaha is.

834
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:37,079
Omaha is a grind. It is lengthy if you're doing

835
00:40:37,119 --> 00:40:40,199
it correctly. So look, we'll break this game down, but

836
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,199
certainly there's going to be big things to play for

837
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,360
either way, for LSU or Arkansas, depending on who wins

838
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,079
and loses the game. All right, we will step away

839
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:53,679
here on OTB and when we come back, Taitay is

840
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gonna hit you with a little LSU football recruiting news

841
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here on one oh four five ESPN Baton.

842
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843
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844
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845
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849
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850
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851
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852
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get that with the you know, the trash service, the

853
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854
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it's like they're just gonna skip over you for a week.

855
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Like that's the best part about having somebody local. Two

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863
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Speaker 2: Three Tigers turn talkers. This is off the bench.

864
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:27,079
Speaker 6: Had on a stuff Miss.

865
00:42:29,199 --> 00:42:34,599
Speaker 4: Bad Woman, Welcome back in O t B one O

866
00:42:34,679 --> 00:42:38,559
four five ESPN. Matton Rouge and we were actually talking

867
00:42:38,599 --> 00:42:43,239
about it during the break there Certainly, high school football

868
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,639
recruiting has changed.

869
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:45,559
Speaker 6: We all know that.

870
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 4: Ten years ago we used to have the old Bayou Bash.

871
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:52,559
Ten years ago, we used to do a live show

872
00:42:52,679 --> 00:42:57,679
on CST from the Convention Center. As the signees came in,

873
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,719
we would break down every single signee on TV.

874
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 6: Like, we all know that has changed. It is no

875
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:04,599
longer the same.

876
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 4: The portal certainly has affected that as far as you

877
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,719
can get players out of the portal, and you might

878
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,960
only have a guy for a year. Sometimes they'll even

879
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,000
make it to their first fall. They get here in

880
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:17,599
January and they transfer before that's even over right, So

881
00:43:18,119 --> 00:43:24,679
it's changed. The following every single day recruiting part has changed.

882
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,599
Speaker 6: I mean there used to be times I.

883
00:43:26,519 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 4: Would do radio and that would be the lead topic

884
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:33,000
of a like high school recruiting and who LSU had

885
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,760
gotten and where their class is not the same there,

886
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,079
But still doesn't mean that LSU's not doing big things

887
00:43:39,119 --> 00:43:42,760
in high school recruiting. It is still very important if

888
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:46,159
you're a football program to build the foundation of your

889
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:49,679
program through high school recruiting. You look at you know,

890
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:53,800
Michigan their national championship team, the Buckeyes last year.

891
00:43:54,159 --> 00:43:56,039
Speaker 6: You look at Georgia in the back to back years.

892
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,039
Speaker 4: They have guys out of the portal for sure, but

893
00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:03,000
the foundation of that team was through high school recruiting,

894
00:44:03,039 --> 00:44:05,920
and so LSU's still doing big things in that realm

895
00:44:06,039 --> 00:44:07,519
and Tite.

896
00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:09,320
Speaker 6: They got another big commitment yesterday.

897
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, BIG's an understatement. Sixty six two ninety five. Emmanuel Tucker,

898
00:44:15,639 --> 00:44:20,000
offensive tackle. Obviously at that size, four star player. He

899
00:44:20,119 --> 00:44:23,559
was the seventeenth ranked offensive lineman for twenty twenty six.

900
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:25,840
The way I always look at it, Jake, it is

901
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,599
really hard, for whatever reason, to get guys in Mississippi

902
00:44:29,639 --> 00:44:32,679
to leave the state. Brian Kelly has done a really

903
00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,079
good job of that, and then when you look at

904
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:39,440
this O line class, it's actually coming together pretty good.

905
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,320
So she got Jalen Chapman already on board. He's an

906
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,679
interior player. Briceton Martinez we've talked about before from EA.

907
00:44:47,079 --> 00:44:50,480
He's a tackle and you're still after the Maryland monster.

908
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,000
Emmanuel Ianacho, who not exactly a small guy, six seven,

909
00:44:55,079 --> 00:44:57,599
three point fifty, He's going to be an interior player.

910
00:44:57,639 --> 00:45:00,599
Speaker 7: Like, if you can land all those guys, you.

911
00:45:00,599 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: Got four or five guys, do you really feel confident

912
00:45:03,519 --> 00:45:05,239
about all in the same recruiting cycle.

913
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,119
Speaker 7: Like credit to Brad Davis.

914
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, more and more these elite offensive linemen. We saw

915
00:45:11,119 --> 00:45:13,639
it last year, curious Kerrent, you flipped them from Arkansas

916
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,079
what a month and a half before signing day, and

917
00:45:16,119 --> 00:45:19,840
then on signing day Solomon Thomas who was from Florida,

918
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,880
he had been committed to Florida State for like a year,

919
00:45:22,199 --> 00:45:24,840
you flipped him on signing day. Like as good as

920
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,519
LSU's offensive lines have been, the sum's always been are

921
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:30,440
the hole has been greater than the sum of its parts.

922
00:45:30,519 --> 00:45:32,960
You're now landing elite guys under Brad Davis.

923
00:45:33,679 --> 00:45:36,039
Speaker 6: Yeah, right now in this upcoming class.

924
00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:39,119
Speaker 4: You are second in the nation on on three dot

925
00:45:39,159 --> 00:45:42,039
com team rankings, only USC right now ahead of you,

926
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:45,800
and that's because they have eighteen more guys committed than

927
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,599
you do. So that's why they have the number one spot.

928
00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:51,880
Nobody has more five stars committed than you do. Only

929
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,239
Ohio State has the same amounts. So LSU right now

930
00:45:55,559 --> 00:45:58,199
doing great things in this twenty twenty six cycle. We'll

931
00:45:58,199 --> 00:46:00,800
see if it can continue, because, as we also talked

932
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,039
about during the break, you got to get to the

933
00:46:03,039 --> 00:46:03,679
finish line.

934
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,519
Speaker 6: That finish line.

935
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 4: Sometimes it feels like it is thirty miles away, but

936
00:46:09,599 --> 00:46:12,679
you know here you are. You've got a great transfer

937
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,159
portal class. You've had top ten classes over the last

938
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,480
couple of years. You did finish with a lot of

939
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,639
the things that we talked about last year. We'll see

940
00:46:20,639 --> 00:46:22,840
if they can hold on to all the players that

941
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,960
are here in this class. All right, when we come back,

942
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,440
we are going to be joined by Mikey Matuk. He's

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