Tiger Rag Radio spoke with Kendall Rogers of D1Baseball in hour one to discuss the LSU baseball team’s recent struggles on Tuesday night.
The crew also talked with former LSU men’s basketball star Rudy Macklin about the current state of the program and what coach Matt McMahon’s future in Baton Rouge could look like.
In hour two, Tiger Rag Radio visits with former LSU baseball star Todd Walker to break down the Tigers’ hitting woes. The crew also speaks with Reed Darcey of The Advocate about LSU women’s basketball’s most recent loss to South Carolina and what the Tigers must do to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament.
00:00 – Introduction and LSU Baseball Recap
12:00 – Kendall Rogers on LSU Baseball’s SEC Outlook
25:30 – Rudy Macklin on the State of LSU Men’s Basketball
45:15 – The Future of Matt McMahon in Baton Rouge
1:02:10 – Todd Walker Breaks Down LSU’s Hitting Slump
1:18:45 – Reed Darcey: LSU WBB vs. South Carolina & NCAA Run
Here is the complete transcript of the show from AI. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes.
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Champan. Champagne. Say it for us. Say it for us. For effort, but it is shamp.
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Well, it’s it’s it’s hot outside. It’s it’s uh it’s getting to be baseball season, NCA tournament season. Uh the Tigers.
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Does that mean the baseball team’s gonna start playing?
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Maybe. The Tigers play tonight at 6:30 against Kraton. Kraton’s from Omaha.
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Maybe the Omaha vibe will run off on the rub off on the Tigers and they’ll start hitting the ball. They’ve never played Kraton. That that’s amazing. They’ve
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been in the same stadium as Kraton quite a few times at um Rosen Blat and um Have you ever in your in your long
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illustrious career covering in which I got fired twice? But LS covering LSU baseball? Not really.
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You mean you’ve written the authoritative book on LSU baseball under Skip Bertman? You’ve been covering baseball since the beginning of time.
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And uh [laughter]
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so what I want to know is three years younger than me. Ser That’s right. That’s right. So serious question. Serious. Have you ever seen a
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more talented group of players slump as badly as this team has against inferior competition?
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Um,
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maybe may probably not with the that last part with the RPI, the the teams they’ve played are really low in RPI and that’s why LSU is really low in RPI now.
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But I can tell you the 2001 Tigers, the 2000 Tigers that won the national championship, they started off six and five and they got swept at home by
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Houston. Houston was um you know they’re better than like Northeast but they weren’t a a baseball northeastern but they weren’t like a baseball power but
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they were they were pretty good but they got killed in all three games and I remember talking to Skip after that and
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they were six and five and uh I had put all the stats of of those losses in there and they all reverted back to like
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the worst teams of the 70s for LSU and I go in the dugout and Skip goes you think we suck don’t you? [laughter]
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And he was laughing and everything and um you know, but they and they had a couple of little slumps that year, but
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nothing like this, you know. Um this this is kind of strange because they’re they’re just not hitting other than Jake
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Brown and and Derek Curiel. Uh what was Jay’s comment last week about batting?
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He said he said the take is our best friend.
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Yeah. We’re doing better when we don’t swing than when we swing or something to that. Yeah. And that’s amazing because the Notre Dame coach when they were off
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to an 8-0 start, he said that he’d never seen a team do so well not swinging, you
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know, because you you you kind of set the pitcher up to get your right pitch.
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But um what what LSU has not been doing that they did do and when they went 8 and0 is they’re not hitting mistakes uh
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according to Jay Johnson and and uh they’re not taking advantage of of situations and and they’re just not hitting o overall. I mean they they
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they’re like around 200 210 over the last several games. I think it’s 206 actually.
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Yeah. Yeah. and and um you know they just look a little snake bit because sometimes they they hit it well and it gets caught but but but you know that
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happens every now and then. This is this has happened for a series of games and uh it’s worrisome because if they’re
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hitting like that against these lower teams, you know, when you go into the SEC, you’re thinking, uh oh, it’s going to be like 2024 all over again. But the
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key the thing is the the they really don’t play an SEC team that’s tearing it up until like you know according to the
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paper right now until miss like later in the season. Vanderbilt’s got a worse RPI than LSU. They’re 10 and seven. So and
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it can turn around real quick. But we’re going to talk to Kendall Rogers about that at uh 620. He’s going to join us
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the national uh baseball writer from D1 Baseball. Then we’re going to switch over to the uh situation with men’s
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basketball to see if Matt McMahon can survive or not. Rudy Macklin, member of the greatest LSU basketball team ever,
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45 year anniversary of the 198081 Tigers. Rudy’s going to join us at 6:30.
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Then we’re going to have Todd Walker on at 7 to talk about LSU’s hitting slump.
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But I don’t think I think Todd Walker had like maybe one slump in his career and it was early in Omaha in 90 uh3 and
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he busted out of it like with a grand slam against&M. But we’ll talk to Todd about hitting. He’s he’s an expert uh analyst for ESPN and the SEC Network.
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And then at 7:30 we’re going to talk a little NCA tournament women’s basketball with Reed Darcy of the Advocate.
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So, the women’s basketball is up to number five. So, they’re they they’re they’re just missing a number one seed when the when the brackets come out
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according to the rankings, but they they they’ve played really well again against South Carolina. I think they’ve proven
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that they, you know, could beat them if Multi could ever out coach Don Staley.
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It’s starting to remind me of of 1986 with with the men when LSU lost three times that season to Kentucky. Back then they played twice in a regular season.
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Then they lost a close game to him in the SEC tournament. Then in Atlanta in the Southeast regional, Don Redden and
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Ricky Blandon uh beat him and and LSU went to the final four. Yeah. Todd’s imitating Ricky Blandon running down the court like a like a stalled airplane,
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[laughter]
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like a winged airplane. But Ricky was great in that game. Ricky and Don and the late great Don Redden and uh could that that was that was one of Kucky’s
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biggest NCA tournament losses ever because they were like 31 and five going they were number one seed. Everybody thought they were going to win the national championship and Eddie Sutton
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lost to Daddy Dale and Daddy Dale also beat Eddie Sutton in the regional to get to the 81 Final Four
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when he he beat Arkansas in the in the in the um the Sweet 16 game, right? And then they beat Witchaw State to get to the final four.
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Right. That’s correct.
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And and that was that was in New Orleans. And Rudy Rudy just tore up the place in the in the Superdome. And and if he doesn’t hurt his shooting finger,
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who knows? LSU might have beat Indiana in the in the national semi-final.
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Indiana was always LSU’s nemesis in those early years.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was the first one. Uh and then they lost to him in 87
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in the regional final. And if Dale had won that game and he wins that game as if Fes Irvin makes a couple of free throws. I mean
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and Nikita Wilson makes that 14 15 footer.
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Well that he didn’t get that shot off in time but but yeah if he’d have got it off a half second earlier and that final four was in New Orleans. So who knows
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what Dale could have done at a final four in New Orleans. But um you know,
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people forget, yeah, LSU had a 12-point lead late in that game against Indiana, but you know, it wasn’t all coaching.
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Bobby Knight got a lucky break when first Fess Urban missed those free throws. And then, you know, when Keith Smart hit the game-winning shot for
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Indiana to win the title that year, that wasn’t a drawn up play. Okay, so just got a rebound and threw it up.
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Before we went down that that hole into the past there, we were talking about the comparison between LSU and Kentucky in the 80s,
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right? Sorry. Versus versus what, right,
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LSU is doing, women are doing against South Carolina right now. Reminds you of that. So, how do you think it could end up?
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Because the women have come close to beating South Carolina twice now.
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They’ve come close to beating beating them in the past and uh you know they just lost to him again in the SEC
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tournament for the second time this year. So if they get him again maybe in the national semifinal or in the national championship game, who knows?
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That’s when they might win it and that would that would be awesome. That would make up for all those other losses, huh Andre?
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I would think so. I mean it only takes one time and if it’s in the postseason that would I I would agree with you. I would say that it it makes up for all about three of them at least.
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Maybe. Yeah, maybe not all six. And andre these this year for sure. One of the things you’re working on,
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Andre, is the fact that LSU’s best players have not played well when it counts in those two South Carolina losses.
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And it’s not necessarily that they haven’t played well, but it’s those two together that haven’t played well with each other. Who’s those two?
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And those two are FJ Johnson and Michaela Williams. your two uh most tenured players uh that have been at LSU in the past four year three or four
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years. So, they they definitely have to play better um as the tournament moves on because if y’all remember down the
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stretch, I mean, Angel Ree was was a big reason of why LSU won games in the tournament 23, but it also came from their other veterans. It came from Leia Williams. It came from Alexis Morris,
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right? and they’re going to need big games from all their stars, which the way that Malaysia Full Wley is playing right now, I have, you know, no doubt in
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my mind that she’s going to be able to keep it up. But LSU is going to be able to have they’re going to have to be able to get big games from especially Michaela Williams. Uh at least one of
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those two because uh if if both of those two are having kind of an off game, it it shows you what happened on on Sunday.
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They they just can’t afford to both have bad games like that. and especially on a consistent basis because and like I said in four of their five losses this year,
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they have failed to both put up 20 points or more or 15 points or more.
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Uh that’s those are good points and I cannot wait to talk to all you guys and of course Reed Darcy about it because I
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got some loaded questions for him um about how this team is, not just those two, but this team is performing in
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clutch moments all season long. and certainly against South Carolina. But I will say this,
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I actually think that this LSU women’s basketball roster is more talented than South Carolina’s roster.
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I would agree with that. And and not only that, but it gives them say it gives the FJ Johnson’s and the Michaela
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Williams a little more margin for error because of that depth. But my thing is is that you cannot be so bad to the
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point where you’re really just you’re kind of rotten on the bench, which is,
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you know, at one point Kim just kind of let Michaela go, not Michaela on the bench, but she she she benched FJ for a good bit. And in big games like that,
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you cannot have your senior guard on the bench, especially in a game like the South Carolina game where she scored 21 points against in in the last matchup.
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So, you can’t have that inconsistency going into March. You have to find, I guess, a medium there where it works between all three of your your guards.
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Yeah. I think to to quote the great Skip Bertman against South Carolina, LSU has to get through that pressure barrier.
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That’s what Skip used to talk about a lot. You know, you got you got to get LSU’s been getting to that point, but they haven’t quite gotten through it.
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And uh you know, maybe they’ll get one more chance in a in a huge game. And uh
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you know I think it’s funny. I mean you can’t really point to any coaching issues in any of
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in any of the losses and even though you’re saying she has better players but they just haven’t performed up up to
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snuff and and really there’s only uh you know I don’t think you can you know the only criticism I ever remember of of Kim
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was um when when she lost to Iowa in the Elite 8.
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uh you know she didn’t maybe put her best player on on um Caitlyn or she um she didn’t switch around enough but it
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was you know it was kind of six of one half dozen the other you don’t really know but you know it’s it’s it’s rarely if ever coaching with Kim so it’s just a
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pressure barrier and in fact in in this game against South Carolina they they were in it you know all the way through it late still
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had a chance unlike last game during the regular season against South Carolina where FJ missed two key free throws with 45 seconds to go. This time Kim Burns
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her last time out gives them instructions and they go out on the court and they they don’t follow any of the instructions,
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you know, press, foul, anything that she said to do. Right. At least that’s what she described.
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Right. Right. Okay. We’re gonna uh we’re going to have to take our first break and we’re going to come back shortly with uh Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball.
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Hello, welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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This is Glenn Gilbo and Todd Horn and Andre Champaga with Tiger Ray. Luke, just call him Luke.
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And we’re joined by Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball. Kendall, how are you tonight?
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I’m doing all right. I’m here to comfort you guys a little bit.
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Yeah. I want to know what you’ve done with the LSU baseball team. [laughter]
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Man, I tell you what, it is weird. you know, we we talk about it so much in sports about the team, you know, after
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the national championship team. And, you know, unfortunately, I I do think this club is going to be fine long term. I I mean, you know, it’s not just because
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I’m on the show, but like I just kind of am a just a believer in LSU baseball.
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Like, I just feel like they’ll figure things out. But there’s no doubt there’s some warning signs. I mean, this is a team that, you know, we go back to even
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last or two weeks ago or I guess it was LA, you know, early last week, you know,
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the Nor Eastern game, I’ll give you the mulligan because it’s a long weekend.
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You’re playing a, you know, you’re playing a scrappy Nor Eastern team on a Monday. They they really need the RPI win. Uh, but then you go to Louisiana
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and Lafayette and then you play the way you did. So, after that, you’re thinking, okay, two sneakers in a row,
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man, this team’s gonna be on fire. Well,
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they come out on fire on Friday and then it’s like we’re back to the same team the rest of the weekend. So, you know, I
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don’t I don’t know what the answer is. I thought they were kind of over it a little bit on Friday, but you know, the only thing I’ll say and I and trust me,
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I didn’t think they played well at all in either of the last two games that series. But the one thing I will say that maybe is a silver lining is I don’t
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know what the total number was, but it felt like the number of balls that they hit on the screws in that last game were a lot. Like I thought they had a lot of
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hard contact. So that tells me eventually those those hits will start falling in. But I mean again, there are some serious warning signs with the
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actual I say makeup of this team right now.
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Yeah, Kendall, let me ask you about 2024 because the same kind of thing happened. And I remember just I remember thinking, “Oh, they lost a couple of games.
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They’ll be fine.” But I I think what’s better about this team is their three weekend starting pitchers, Evans,
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Cooper, and uh William Schmidt. Do would would you agree with that? You think this starting pitching is better than 24?
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No, I definitely would agree. You know,
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the the thing about it is Moore and Schmidt have been pretty good. You know, Tase over the weekend was really good.
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Nine strikeouts, no walks. That’s just that’s a big step forward. So, you know,
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you’re led to this question, okay, the the pitching, at least the starting pitching is coming into form. When will the rest of the team kind of follow
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suit? And again, I look at, you know, up and down this lineup and, you know, I look at guys that, you know, just don’t have great numbers right now. And I’m
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like, I can’t imagine that fits. You know, you’re looking at, you know, Stephen Milm hitting 250. Seth Dardar,
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certainly a well accomplished hitter hitting 256 after the year he had at K State last year. you know, Aaron Bey, uh, Aaron Bey has got a lot of heat. Um,
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he hasn’t been great behind the plate and he hasn’t been great at the plate at times. And so, that’s a guy for me, I think, for LSU, he’s supremely talented,
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but for LSU to get where it wants to get at the end of the year, which is Omaha National Championship. He’s going to have to be the guy for me, does George
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have to take a big step forward as the season progresses? Kendall, whenever if you take a couple steps back and look at
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more of a an, you know, airplane overview of of just what all the baseball that you’ve watched through the
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years. Could this be as simple or close to as simple as the teams that they’ve
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played are not all that great and their pitching is subpar and LSU is used to
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playing against teams that have better pitchers and when they get against higher caliber competition with better pitching they may perform better or break out of it.
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No, that’s one way to look at it.
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[laughter]
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You know, I guess it is. I mean, it could honestly uh you know, I’m joking more than anything, but you it honestly could be as simple as once they get into
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conference play, they kind of know they have to do it a little bit. You know,
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the thing about SEC teams, and again, I I’m not trying to make excuses for SEC teams, but if you do well in the SEC,
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like honest to God, like it doesn’t matter what you even do in the first two weeks of season. As long you do well in conference, that’s all that matters. So,
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I will say this, as of right now, I I am not terribly concerned about LSU, but I will tell you this. If they go to
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Nashville this weekend with the same energy, making the same mistakes, the Killer Instinct isn’t there. I will have
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alarm bells sounding. I I do think that would be very disturbing if you’re an LSU fan. If the first week in a conference going against Vanderbilt, the
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team that certainly LSU and Vandy have had their big bouts over the years, like if that doesn’t get you going, I don’t know what does.
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Well, you you talk about LSU struggles.
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Vandy’s had their share of struggles as well so far. Like 10 and seven right now. Yeah, right now it could be one of those things where it’s like a arm
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wrestling match between two really weak armed people or something [laughter]
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where like neither team can really do neither team can really do anything right, but they’re both really talented.
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I think the big key is uh you know for Vanderbilt is I you know I just haven’t loved their starting pitching. I do like some of their offensive pieces. Colin
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Barzy uh assuming he’s healthy and playing this weekend, he’s a powerful guy. Breen Hog powerful guy. So I mean
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there’s a lot of parallels there. I think LSU’s upside’s a lot higher than Vanderbilts, but it’s two teams with a lot of talent that just, you know, so
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far, you know, it just hasn’t panned out. The one thing I will say for LSU that I cannot say for Vanderbilt is Vanderbilt has not had a weekend this
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year, we were like, man, they’re really good. I mean, even Global Life opening weekend when I saw Vandy, you know,
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Colin Barzy went off, but they didn’t look very good. LSU. The thing I keep going back to with LSU is the offense
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was really good in Jacksonville against UCF, who I think is going to be in contention for regional spot and against Notre Dame, a team we’re finding out is
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pretty good. So, that is the one weekend that gives me a lot of hope that this team is going to take a big step forward. Well, Kendall, before we let you go,
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just curious, where are you at this weekend?
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I will be here locally, actually a Big 12 series. I might I might hit one game of Miss Texas. I’m also going to see Kansas State and uh Houston here
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locally. K State D Kennedy one of the top hitters in college baseball. I want to say last week or two weeks ago we had three home runs in a game including a
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grand slam. That’s the one thing guys I would say to kind of keep an eye on as we get SEC play or the home run numbers.
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I feel like you know I don’t know about you guys but I kind of feel like the you know you’re seeing more of those explosive home runs that you saw two years ago. I don’t think we saw it near
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as much last year but it feels like this year man there’s been a lot of power generation. I don’t know if it’s the weather, it’s been a little bit warmer than usual or what, but that’s kind of
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what I’m keeping an eye on, not only in the SEC this weekend, uh, but also ACC, Big 12, etc.
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All right, Kendall, thanks a lot for your time and have a have a good night. Good night.
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All right, buddy. We’ll keep up with you.
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Welcome back to Tiger Rag Radios. Glenn Gilbo, Todd Horn, Andre Champagne from Tiger Rag. And we’re now joined by
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threetime first team all SEC and all-American SEC player of the year
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1981, Rudy Mlin. Rudy, thanks for joining us, pal. Uh, thanks for having me. Hey, Rudy, it’s Todd. Um,
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uh,
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we gota we gota I mean we we’re going to talk about 1981 in a little while, but we we got to address the elephant in the room right now. I mean LSU’s got one
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more game in the SEC tournament probably. Maybe they’ll have more, but more than likely against Kentucky on Wednesday morning at 11 tomorrow morning at 11:30.
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It may be Matt McMahon’s last game as LSU head coach. uh at least if the fans get their way. This the sentiment seems
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to be strongly on the fan side that they want him gone because there’s just no energy in the
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program right now according to the the fan base collectively.
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But my point is that LSU is not in a financial situation to
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buy out another coach and another coaching staff and and pay a buyout potentially for a new coach. That’s dead
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money. But aside from the financial issues,
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Matt McMahon had to take over a program from one of the popular choices to replace him, Will Wade, who basically
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destroyed the program. And and Matt McMahon was hired to stabilize the program. And my question to you is, has
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he done it? And is he getting a fair shake right now?
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Well, from day one, uh it was the odds were against him. uh immediately uh with what Will Wade had done to the
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program, it put the school on probation for a number of years and that meant he couldn’t contact any players. He couldn’t recruit any players. He
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actually had to put together a team in 30 days when he first took the job because my first question to him when I first met him was why did you take this
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job? And when it comes to recruiting itself, the day LSU went on the first day LSU went on vacation, all fivear and
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fourstar recruiters, recruits, they talk to one another in all-star games, the AU tournaments, they all talk to one another and say, “Hey, what do you think
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about LSU or what do you think about this school?” They said, “No, I don’t want to go there because they’re going to be on probation. That means they’re not going to be on TV. They’re not going to be on the tournament in the
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tournaments.” And so they the reputation of the school was killed that day. Now fast forward to what coach McMahon has
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done. Yes, he had st he has stabilized the program with players. But when he came off probation, they did not give
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him the amount of meal money he needed to go into the portal to get the type of players he he should have in order to
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bring the program back to the glory days of Dale Brown. And so that made it tough for him. then he had his top players get
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injured. And so if you’re going to bring your reputation back to the uh to the school itself, sometimes you have to
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bring in another coach with a big reputation. Well, LSU doesn’t probably don’t have the money to do that. And so
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if you’re going to if you want to get to the to where it was back when I played,
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you got to find a male version of a kill. Do they want to pay that kind of money? You pay big money to get a football coach. We understand that you
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pay big money to get the women’s basketball coach. To me, the best in the country, Kim Moy, you pay good money to get a a baseball coach. So, are you
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going to pay good money to get a good basketball coach? You you basketball is like the short end of the stick. You know, in order to boost the reputation
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of the school, you need a spark. You need a big-time reputation coach to come in. You got to pay for him. And as far as McMahon, he stabilized the program.
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Yes. And it may be the best interest of the school to release him in order to get a big name, but can they afford a big name?
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Yeah.
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So, back back when I played with the Knicks, Hubie Brown told me in this business, we don’t worry about feelings. Okay.
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So, Rudy, let me ask you that about sparking the program. This is just a question. All right. Obviously, it would be great if you, you know, if you had all the all the money in the world,
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which LSU doesn’t right now, to to bite off that dead money. That money that’s dead means it’s a it’s buyout money and
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it can’t be used to stimulate the program. It’s sitting there as a debt that you have to pay for, right? So,
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that money is going to be more stabilized at the end at this time next year.
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way. Uh McMahon has got possibly, you don’t know what’s going to happen in the portal, but possibly five
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key players, core players that could come back, including Don Thomas and and Jaylen Reed.
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Why not just give him additional money so he’s got the same type of roster development money that that the other
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SEC schools have? And what do you have to lose?
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Because the fan, most of the fans, as you said earlier, as well as alumni and the administration, they’re in a we need
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to win now moment. Okay. So, it may be the best thing for them to let him go
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and bring in a big name if they can afford it because you need that spark. I like this coach. I like McMahon. Really,
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I do. But he came at a time when the reputation is down and you need a spark.
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And that spark is a bigname coach to start over to get the attention of the recruits across the country. And uh so but if LSU had the money to do that,
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then yes, business-wise, you should go after a bigname coach. But since they do not have the money to do that, you know,
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stay with him another year to see if he can do it.
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Hey, Rudy, would you mind staying with us uh through the break? Come back with us. Sure, absolutely.
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Okay. Okay. Okay, we got we still got a little bit of time here on on this. Um,
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how late in the game is it right now? I mean, I I thought that if they were going to fire McMahon, they would have done it a couple of weeks ago and then
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start looking for a coach. Did if they do decide to let McMahon go, is it too late in the game to to find the right coach or how do you feel about that?
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[snorts]
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I thought about that same question the other day and just the other day I’m like I think they may have waited too late.
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Yeah. to let him go because a portal opens on like April 7th, right? Yeah,
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exactly. Yeah. I think they may have waited too late because they could have got a jump start on that, you know,
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those players coming in the portal and who who was available and and to go after him. And so it may be to the point where
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they don’t have the money to go after the big man coach and they waited too late to jump to to let him go. So they may have to stay with him.
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Yeah. I I think uh just from listening to you two guys talk, the best thing might be to give him a decent amount of
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money to get out of the seller in roster uh payments, roster purchases to give
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him a chance, get him some better players, and if he doesn’t win next year, you’ve you then next year you probably will have more money and then
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you can go hire that big coach. But, uh we’ll we’ll be we’ll continue this conversation with Rudy Mlin. uh with more Tiger Rag Radio right after this.
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All right, welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio. We’re with uh Rudy Mlin. Go ahead, Ty.
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Hey, Rudy, just to pick up where we left off really quick, you ideally may be too late right now as we were just discussing, but you would like them to
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be able to bring a big spark in like a Kim Moy type hire or a Lane Keifin type hire. may not be able to do that,
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but but what what provides that spark more, a bigname coach or winning?
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Oh man. Uh if he can but there’s no guarantee, right? No guarantee.
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No guarantee uh as far as him winning if we do did give him another year. and uh
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and but having a bigname coach come in uh he comes in with a lot of fanfare and a lot of players across the country, the
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top players in the portal and in the AAU circuits all will know who this person is and they’ll they’ll gravitate to him
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the same way they gravitate to Lane Kippen and Kim Moy. Uh but because LSU is in this predicament of uh not having
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the money uh and uh to pay for a bigname coach like that and they waited really too late to to me now to to to let him
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go then give him that that one more year and the Neil money to go after the players and see what he could do in this one year.
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Yeah, that would be fair.
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I think that would be fair to me because he was he deserves it.
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He was just he deserves it after what he been through from the beginning. My heart goes out to him, you know, and and the reputation was immediately destroyed day one when LSU went on probation,
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right?
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Day one it was destroyed and all all the top players live off reputations. The top players gravitate toward great basketball powers with reputations.
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LSU’s was destroyed and now they got to get it back. but in particular there in one more year with him and give him the
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the funds he needs to get out there and get those top players to bring because he know what he’s doing. He know he he knows the X’s and O’s. He executes well
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out there. The players play hard for him. He just don’t have the talent.
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Yeah. And let him get the talent for this year.
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Come one more year and see what he could do.
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Yeah. He only needs like a a couple of them, man. But, uh, well, speaking of that, let let’s talk about when it was great. [laughter]
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When you when you were playing at LSU,
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Rudy, the, uh, I was a freshman at LSU in 7980 and and Todd was there right right after. And the atmosphere in that
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building, man, what what was it like as a player just walking out into the PMAC as a player with with Daddy Dale in those uh, those great years?
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It made it even it was so special because when I came in 76 that crowd wasn’t there. It was probably like the crowd like it is now but less. Okay.
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[laughter]
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It was less even back then. And to have that crowd come out come out that se that my sophomore year when we had uh beat Kentucky uh when they were
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number one and it was amazing to see. I mean, they were having up holding up fingers for tickets outside, people
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wanting tickets, and it was ticket scalping going on at that time. And and and the fire marshals like turning a blind eye to people who sat in the steps
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in the aisles, you know, and and it was like Old Miss was sold out. Okay. Old Miss, you sell out for Old Miss and and
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Mississippi State. I mean, it was just amazing, man, to see a packed house every time out. And every time somebody
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shoot a jump shot and hit, they you hear the crowd go whoop. And you just love that kind of stuff, man. And when you dunk the ball, the crowd goes crazy. And
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we had the front row lunatics. Remember those guys? Oh, yeah. The front row lunatics up front, man.
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And and oh, man, it was just amazing atmosphere to see it transform from that football school, you know, to a basketball power. Okay, we were it then.
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Okay, football was kind of lagging a little bit. Sure.
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And basketball had taken over and that was that was a beautiful thing. And it went statewide.
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Everybody became a Tiger fan statewide and that’s a beautiful thing. Beautiful thing.
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And the the uh you won the two games in the Superdome to get to the final four.
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You had two great games. What was that atmosphere like? Did did they bring the assembly center with them to the dome?
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Oh, they they brought everybody. I mean they brought it’s not only the assembly center man they brought it from other schools. It was amazing other
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universities when they talk about LSU whether you went to ULL or MC or Nicholls whenever they talk about LSU basketball they said well you know all
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we have to do is win this game. Oh you a we now you [laughter] part of LSU now.
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Everybody use the word we. Okay. And so that was a beautiful thing. And so to to to have you know 40 50,000 I think it
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was in the dome you know to watch a game a basketball game was was was beautiful man and uh it was about the journey you
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know it was all about the journey than the destination.
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So Rudy you mentioned that when you got here in 76 it was dead relatively speaking.
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How did how did they build how did they build the program? How did Dale build the program? You all had great players.
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He was not a bigname head coach when he got there either.
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Exactly. It was amazing because when he recruited me, uh, we sat in in Shaunie Park where I learned how to play in a
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famous der in a famous summer league tournament, how we were going to design, how we were going to build the program,
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he and I, just he and I together. And we spent two and a half hours talking about the type of style we were going to play and the new guys he brought in to build around me. Okay? I was the focal point,
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right? And he talked about this guy named Greg Cook. He talked about this guy named Jordy Oberg, right? And he talked about having we had Kenny Higs
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there. He said, “I just need one more. I need one guy that can come in and make an impact right away.” And he said, “I’m building this around you.” And he said,
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“If you go to any of those other basketball powers, they’re going to do well whether you go or not.” He said,
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“But if you come to LSU, you can always say you built something.” And I came on that promise alone. And when I came with those guys, the three freshman, myself,
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Jordy, and Greg Cook, and we start playing together, we knew we had something special. But it also opened the eyes of recruits across the country.
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When the other recruits saw that I took the chance to come to LSU, a football school, a coach with a losing season,
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they said, “LSU must be okay.” And so they said, “Yeah, come on. Let’s go.
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Rudy Mlin came. we need to go. And it gave him his first winning season. I think we went 15 and 12 and we were
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close to getting into the NIT. But we had something to build on and they were able to recruit. But he changed the
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style of play. He had gotten rid of some guys, some guys the year before, brought us in, changed the style of play, went
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to an aggressive, you know, defense and running the basketball. He wanted to run the ball and he knew then he had something to build on. Well, Rudy,
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thanks for coming to LSU and stay and staying in Baton Rouge all these years and and and working for the state and thanks for joining us tonight, man.
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Great great appearance.
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Oh, thank you so much. And I enjoy reliving those memories because it’s something I can uh cherish forever. Thank you all. Well, we enjoyed it. Thank you, Rudy.
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And we’ll be back with more Tiger Egg Radio right after this. Thanks, Rudy.
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Hello. Welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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This is Glenn Gilbo and Todd Horn and Andre Champagne from Tiger Rag. And listen, you can listen to this whole
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show wherever you listen to your favorite podcast or on YouTube uh shortly after the show ends. can also
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get it on the Tiger Egg site and go back and listen to that great interview with Rudy Macklin. Um those were some heady
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times, man, when he was when he was playing for the Tigers and and you know those he he was like a fifthear senior in in 8081 cuz he I
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think he got hurt one year and missed the whole year and uh so yeah, he they weren’t great when he first got here but but they built and got better uh each year. So go
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back and listen listen to that. But um and uh he he made some great points about uh Matt McMahon too because you
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know it wouldn’t be right to bring in a new coach and then suddenly give him all the money for the roster because I mean
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every year McMahon’s been here he’s been at the bottom for the roster money in the SEC and he’s been at the bottom of the SEC most of the time in the
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standings. So it it doesn’t take it’s not hard to figure that out. So give him a little more give him significantly more money. let him bring in some great
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players to go with DJ and Jaylen Reed and and uh Jaylen Reese who’s really coming around and Robert Miller III is
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developing. You know, there’s there’s a makings there of a team. But um Todd Horn wrote a great column early this
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week about the Matt McMahon situation that exploded on uh the U metrics and social media and so forth. And since
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then, several donors and LSU people have been talking to Todd. And Todd, what are you hearing from them about McMahon,
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Matt McMahon’s status?
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Well, you know, I want I’m going to equate it to to what Rudy said. He said buzz. Everybody would wants to build the energy back into the program. And
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everybody realizes this is this is not the old days. And the old days were just last year when you could you could uh
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you know come in and and pump money into the program and turn around. They can’t afford the buyout right now. And the
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alumni and the donors especially know that.
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I think they could buy get the buyout but they can’t get the buyout and the new coach and the new roster.
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Right. But the problem is even with the buyouts, okay, is that’s that goes on your debt right now. We know it would
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cost them like 20 million minimum in dead money.
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You know, eight for Matt, his staff, the buyouts for Bill Wade or whoever the company that’s what Verge told us, but what
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you’re telling me is that the donors are also not ready to do it.
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Well, I’m not saying they’re not ready to do it. They realize the impracticality of it. And the most important thing is those dollars, that
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debt hits the books right away. So LSU is already looking at a $30 million deficit, possibly $35 million deficit
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right now from the Brian Kelly shenanigans, but that would immediately put it to 55 million. Okay? And so the
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the the the donors realize that they want the buzz and they would love to have, believe it or not, the buzz of a
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Will Wade come back because he won. He won here. He had the buzz. Now it’s his his he’s he’s kind of grown in folklore
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as to how he won. He only really won one SEC championship and went to one sweet 16. It got worse each year.
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Yeah. But but they were in the top five every year of the SEC.
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But he’s demanding $15 million for his roster. So they can’t a why spend at least $20 million to spend another $15
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million so you get a high caliber roster in when you have a coach right now who with that same $15 million roster would
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be at the able to compete in the SEC because he’d have the talent to do it right and that’s what they need to do.
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Maybe not 15 million but they need to up the money and um and and give him a better chance I think. But
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one last thing on what the the So they’re talking about Will Wade, but they’re not seriously talking about approaching him. That’s what I’m gathering right now.
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Hello and welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio. This is Glenn Gilbo with Todd Horn and Andre Shampon. Um we’re going to continue our conversation about uh Matt McMahon uh later on in the show,
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but right now we’re switching over to baseball and we’re joined by the natural as he was often called at LSU, Todd
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Walker. Todd, how are you? Glenn, I’m great, man. You’ve been around a long time, man. You were covering us 30 years ago, dude. I mean, this is in your blood, right?
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Too long, man. Too long. [laughter]
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But speaking of that, I I was trying to remember because I covered your whole career at at LSU, and I don’t really
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remember you having a a hitting slump except for the one you had briefly in Omaha that you busted out of big time
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with the grand slam against uh Texas A&M. Uh, but h [clears throat] what what do you think of this teamwide slump or most of the team that that LSU is in?
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And how were you able to avoid slumps?
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First of all, I couldn’t sleep when I didn’t get a hit, which is normal. Now I look back on baseball, I wish somebody would have told me, look, the best of
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the best go through slumps. And slump doesn’t necessarily mean you’re striking out all the time. I mean, you can get balls all over the ballpark and and you know, you go through times when they’re
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just right at people and then you have this bad luck streak in the big leagues,
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you know, you can go 0 for 20, for 25 and, you know, and and still be a good hitter, but I never thought that way.
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So, I remember I I want to say I was 0 for five, 0 for four against UNO and me and Mike Neil went back to the box and we turned the lights on and we hit all night. I remember the sun coming up,
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man, my hands were bleeding, you know,
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that type of stuff. So, I couldn’t deal with it. And I’m sure like there is no grinder. There’s no bigger grinder in that clubhouse right now than Jay Johnson, right? But he can’t play.
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There’s only two 300 hitters in this group right now, which, you know, I’m going to speak out of both sides of my mouth. It’s still baseball. It’s very difficult. My my son always, you know,
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uh uh says that, you know, if they throw 96, they’re a good good pitcher, but if they throw 86, they’re not. And that he he equates velocity to to whether
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they’re good or not. So, they’re facing a lot of guys that they’re, you know,
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that that that couldn’t make it in the SEC, yet they’re not getting hits. And that’s a little concerning, but at the same time, his baseball and it’s tough.
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And I think a lot of times I went out there going, man, if I’m playing, you know, uh, Dartmouth or High Point, you know, or somebody like that, I feel like I got to get five hits today. And you
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end up, you know, like running yourself in the ground. And so, I think there’s a little bit of that going on. Clearly,
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Jake Brown is has been great. Um, I’m not overly concerned about it because it’s a talented group. You know, one through nine. Like, they really don’t have uh, you know, a bad hitter. And,
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you know, they’re going to feed off each other. In addition, you know, when I when I think hitters, I look to the walk, strikeout, you know, can they handle the bat? Are they handling good
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approaches? And there’s a lot of guys that have at least as many walks and hit by pitches, you know, free passes than they do strikeouts. And that that tells
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me that’s a sign of a good hitter. And there’s a lot of those guys in this lineup. So, it’s just a matter of time for the balls start falling around. I’m not overly concerned with it, but again,
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if you look at the numbers after, you know, what is it? Uh, 17 18 games of non-conference play and you only got two
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two guys that are above 300, that, you know, that would that would be a little cause for concern. Todd, you you mentioned that that Jay is a is a
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grinder and he’s probably, you know, not able to sleep at night just like you were whenever you were playing, but you know, like you said, he’s not in the box
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himself. And he said that he said, “I’m not in the box.” And and that’s obvious,
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but what can he do from a coaching perspective? And what is he doing from a coaching perspective? Because he’s like an offensive coordinator from football
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in in baseball. So, what is he doing to try and walk them through this slump, so to speak?
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Gosh, it’s such a great question because it’s so hard to answer. You can’t gr you can’t go, “All right, let’s go to the cage for 5 hours and work it out.”
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That’s not the way it works. In fact, if anything, it goes in the reverse direction. At at at some point, you became a psychologist. Like, those guys are there for a reason. They all were
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the best players on their high school team. Some have been at LSU. Steven Milm, he’s got the at bats in the SEC.
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At some point, Stephen Milin has to understand that he doesn’t have to carry the team. Uh, a new guy like Dardar has to understand that he just has to do his
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job. Take the walks. You don’t have to be big, you know, just just do what you are capable of doing. A lot of times in baseball, it’s patience and it’s going
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three, four, five games without getting a hit, but you’re going deep in counts. You’re helping the guys behind you. Um,
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you’re hitting balls hard even though you might be out. you’re doing your job.
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Getting a ground ball to the right side with a guy on second, nobody out, moving them over, that type of thing. Getting them in from third with less than two outs instead of striking out. There’s certain things you can do, you know,
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that that make a difference that doesn’t necessarily reflect on your batting average. And I think you’re seeing a little bit of that. But for Jay, he’s got to be pulling his hair out because
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again, what he’d like to do is probably like Bertman used to do us, you know,
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make us run 18 miles in the morning, you know, and and back when I played, it was more of a punishment thing. now and we understand that doesn’t work. I think
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now he just tinkers with the lineup, see what works. Although the bell’s ringing now, you got to go now. It’s SEC time.
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Um, you’ve seen him move guys around in the lineup. Uh, ultimately, you become a psychologist. Some of the best hitting coaches I ever had in the big leagues really didn’t talk about technique. They
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they just they just filled your head full of positive thoughts. You’re the best. You’re great. You know, you can do this. And I think at this point that’s
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all that’s the most important thing is making the kids believe in themselves and understand who they play for which is LSU, you know, two-time national
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champion in the last three years. But that same message is being said when they’ve lost the last four out of five,
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which is you can’t just put on the uniform and walk out there and have people lie down. I mean, they’re going to fight you probably harder than anybody else. talking to Todd Walker,
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former LSU national champion in the 1993 season, went to Omaha twice in the LSU
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Hall of Fame, long Major League Baseball career. Uh, and and is a baseball analyst for SEC Network. Who what game are you at this weekend, Todd?
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LSU Vandy. Are are you are you’re broadcasting the LSU Vandy game this weekend?
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No, I don’t have anything till March 29th. They got Old Miss and Mississippi State. I thought you were asking me about the matchup.
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Oh. Oh. Uh, I got you. I got you. What uh what do you how do you see this LSU Vanderbilt uh series coming up this weekend?
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Well, if the standings mean anything right now, Vanderbilt’s in last place,
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right? They’re 12 and five. Uh LSU’s what what LSU 10 and seven? Something like that.
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Vanderbilt’s 10 and seven. LSU’s 12 and five right now.
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Oh, yes. Yes. Yeah. I I wasn’t very good at math. Um, [laughter]
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so always when you go on the road in the SEC, it’s more difficult than if you play at home. The numbers play it out.
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If you if you go look at last year, you know, like I think Arkansas was something silly like, you know, 25 and four at home. You know, there’s certain teams that just play way better at home.
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I think you’ll see that with Vanderbilt.
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Connor Finel is probably the guy they’re going to face on Friday night. Remember last year, um, he was undefeated. He in seven starts he went six and0. Uh, big
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tall linky kids. got command of the fast ball with some movement. Uh can trick you with some off speed and hitters counts, that type of thing. He’s their Friday night guy. Saturday, Sunday guys
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are also right-handed. So, it’s a predominantly right-handed staff. Um they got a couple bullpin arms they can throw at you left-handed, but that’s a
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positive, you know, with the left-handed bats, including Jake Brown in LSU’s lineup. Uh Steven Mil moves over the left side, you know. So, um but they’re going to be good. I mean, you know,
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every week’s going to be difficult. Uh they’ve got, you know, Brody Johnson was the SEC tournament uh MVP last year. Uh
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he’s back. Uh Brady Hulcom, 6’5, big old big old dude hitting 350 with nine home runs. So they’re swinging the bats a
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little better than they have in the past. Um probably like I said earlier, kind of a product of who you’re playing.
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But um they’re going to play well at home. So it’s it’s a it’s a tough thing for LSU. Clearly you would have liked to go in with some momentum. I think it’s the opposite right now. They’re probably
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doubting themselves a little bit, but this is a good way to get back on track.
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And what what’s your impressions of LSU’s weekend rotation so far?
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Oh, I mean, I’m I’m not that that’s actually my least of my concerns is the arms, you know, Case Evans uh is a stud.
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Cooper Mo has been great from Kansas,
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transfer over. Um you know, and then the local kid, William Schmidt’s been great.
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Um so they’re three three guys that they start. I can’t imagine that Jay’s going to do anything with that rotation regardless of the outcome of the game because those three guys have been
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really good and if one doesn’t last very long they can always bring in you know six talent bullpen Arms Maverick Rzzy you know some of these guys that are
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that are really good so I think the concern is the defense
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giving away free passes which is walks hit by pitches and then when you throw the errors in there I mean they’re second to last in errors
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um you start doing that. If you look at the SEC uh schedule when it’s all said and done, the teams that are in last place are the ones that gave up the most
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walks, gave up the most hit uh hit by pitches, and committed the most errors.
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And LSU is doing that right now, and it’s not a good sign. But um I think that’s the concern. The pitching staff for me is not a concern at all. I think they’ve they’ve attacked the zone well.
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Yes, one of the best in the country, you know, not only with working with pitchers, but adapting. Um so he’ll get it figured out. Uh, Zack Cowan is a good
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example of somebody that needs to figure it out, but he might be a little upset that he wasn’t drafted. There might be some mental stuff going on there. Um,
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his change up’s his best pitch and he can’t get to it. I mean, they’re hammering that fast ball, you know, and uh, he’s got to feel comfortable like he’s got to hit spots, you know, cuz he
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doesn’t throw 98, throws 91, 92. But he’ll figure it out. There’s no doubt to look at it that way that if you just
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But, but the problem with with Zach is you got to keep throwing him out there.
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And if he keeps struggling, you got to keep throwing him out there until he figures it out because he will. But there’s a lot of trust involved in that,
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right? So, I think overall, I’m not worried about the pitching staff. It’s the errors. Uh, and then, yeah, we got to get these bats going.
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Uh, so overall, statistically, LSU is not very good right now, but you don’t sound all that worried about this team
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turning it around in time to make an impact during a 10-week SEC season.
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Well, it’s not a, you know, I think I think that Jay said at one point this is the most talented roster he’s ever had.
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I think MONA had told me that or I don’t see that, especially in 2023 with the roster they had there. But it but it reminds me of the 2022 routine.
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Remember, they weren’t going to make the they weren’t even going to make the postseason. Right. Right.
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And and they end up getting in and they were one win away from going to the super regional. So that’s what you see.
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You know, you start looking back on those moments. uh and they’re a far far away from they win the SEC tournament having to win that first game that year and they’re far cry from that right now.
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um they’re too talented. And so again, I just think it feels like without being in that clubhouse, it feels like they put a lot of pressure on themselves. And
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of course, it gets it gets worse the more losses you stack up, right? Because then you start losing and you’re like,
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“Wow,” you start doubting yourself, like I said, and you don’t feel like the LSU that you should be. But if this is in fact the most talented roster that Jay
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Johnson has ever had, then they’re going to figure it out. Todd, when uh when you had brief slumps when you were hitting
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at LSU, what what did did what did Skip say or what did Skip do? Do you remember?
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The greatest thing he did that I figured out later on in life is he didn’t touch me. He didn’t say anything to me other than being positive and he didn’t touch
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me. And uh and because of that, I was able to just not focus on the things I should focus on and not the fact that
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I’m, you know, 0 for 12 or whatever, you know, struggling, not not hitting it like I feel like I should. Um and so I was just able to do my thing without any
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outside noise. And that’s going back to what I was you asked the question what Jay Jay can do as little as possible,
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you know, and other than being a psychologist because you start going in the cage, like I said, start working mechanics this time of the year, it’s
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going to work in reverse and it’s not going to be good. Uh it’s more mental at this point. Hey, maybe you should take the first pitch or hey, you know, with
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the guy on second, nobody out, you you know, they’ve got all the statistics now. You’re going to get a 90% chance you’re going to get an off speed pitch first pitch. you know, if it’s around the zone,
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those things, you know, you’re a great hitter, you know, um uh certain things like that. I mean, it wouldn’t hurt if they get Chris Stanfield back at some
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point, but um you know, but one of the one of the things of winning national championships, you got to stay healthy,
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you know, and Gavin Gry was cruising along till he till he got the start last week and then, you know, now he’s walked a few guys. I just I know what he’s
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trying to do is get guys in different roles and get them get them some work in. But ultimately, you got to be in the role you feel like comfortable in for
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for for me like I see Zack Kellen uh you know and Gavin Gry as closers at the back end. So you you don’t got one talented kid, you got two. Uh and now
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you start putting them in roles and keep them there regardless of what happens.
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Um and we roll from there. So, I don’t see the pitching staff, the the rotation, the bullpen, and then the closers changing that much. Um, I just
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think they get they probably need to be a little more patient and a little more selective at the plate. And selective means smarter. You know, like I just said, it’s not always a best thing to go after the first pitch.
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All right, Todd Walker, thanks. Words of wisdom. Appreciate your time, buddy. We’ll see you down the road, man.
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Thank you. Thank you. All right, we’ll be back with more Tiger Egg Radio right after this timeout.
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All right, we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio. Another great guest, Todd Walker.
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Uh you you love these athletes who really can talk about the game and that’s Rudy Mlin and and Todd Walker so
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far tonight. Baseball players, it it’s kind of a natural. They always know how to talk about the game and they remember everything. But but Rudy as well and uh
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that that’s two great guests and Todd Todd with some uh some great insight there on uh on hitting. uh you know Jay
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does as an offensive coordinator as you said he he works a lot with those guys but at a certain point you know it’s
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it’s up to them as you said but uh let’s uh we’re going to have Reed Darcy on at 7:30 but let’s let’s return to our
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conversation we were having earlier about Matt McMahon and um this this
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emotional cry for for Will Wade uh one of one of the big misconceptions I think is that you know yeah will Wade got
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caught cheating a lot in a short period of time and uh you know half a dozen
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level one violations uh and people are like oh well you know that’s all okay now because you know they’re paying players anyway and that’s
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only true to a certain extent because a lot of the stuff uh Will was doing was would be illegal now I mean it was there
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was some money laundering and and uh you know he he actually used his wife’s bank account, you know, to to funnel some
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money. And uh you know, the phone call said it all, just how brazen he could he could be. He while on that phone call
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talking about Javvante Smart. He was bragging about how he bought previous players. I thought that was the most amazing thing about that FBI wiretap.
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But I’ll say this, he has he he was immature. He was reckless. I think he has grown up quite a bit and he’s pro
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proven himself at MC and and you know pretty much at at North Carolina State.
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He’s in a losing skid right now, but he’s done a pretty good job there his first year. He’ll probably end up in the tournament and he’s at a really good
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spot now. But, you know, I don’t think it’s automatically going to be the same if he does somehow come come back to LSU.
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Uh, no. You know, I did a lot of deep research on on analytics on Wade and on on McMahon, and they’re two totally different types of coaches. You know,
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McMahon is more of a systems coach. He tries to to develop players, run motion offenses, screens,
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screens, lots of, you know, very patient, right? Half court, right? But he runs, too.
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Yeah. but and and defense. Even though the defense hasn’t been good this year,
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traditionally, he’s a great defensive first coach. Doesn’t have good defensive players. That’s that’s what it comes down to.
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When you look at the analytics, Wade has always won by having great players, like top caliber players. And when he was in
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the SEC at LSU, he had good players. It was preNIL,
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but he was still, as we know, paying for them. Um, but it’s interesting to me that that one of the conditions is he wants a $15 million a year roster. Well,
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that that you the top teams in the SEC this year, Florida, Alabama,
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I was going to say Kentucky, but they’re spending a lot more than this. Are averaging between 12 and $18 million expenses for their Florida is Arkansas, right?
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Yeah. Arkansas. Arkansas’s is below Arkansas’s below 20. I I believe so.
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Arkansas is about 18 on the D. So Kucky’s above 20 and they’re not any good.
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But 15 puts you in that that area where you can get one or two like all-American type players.
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Where where do you think M McMahon is right now? Eight.
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I think they they were at eight last year and the year before that they were at 1.5. Yeah. So what do you So eight last year. Where do you think they are this year?
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I I don’t know. I don’t I I know. Well,
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you got to combine still under 10. You got to combine the revenue share, which didn’t exist before this year, right?
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So, we know that they’re getting 15% of the 20 and a half million, right? According to what Verge told us,
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but that really that that didn’t go into this roster. Yeah, it went into this year’s roster. Oh, okay.
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Okay. So, that that’s part of that 8 million. So that’s that, you know, KY spending 22, Arkansas’s spinning 18,
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Florida spinning about 18, and LSU is about eight or 10. Yeah. No, they’re at eight. Okay. They’re at eight right for this year.
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Now, what they’re going to be moving forward, that’s why to me.
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Okay. So, you’re saying this roster that LSU has now was about 8 million. the one that is playing in the SEC tournament against Kentucky tomorrow, minus their top two revenue earners,
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which was Edon Thomas and Jaylen Reed are worth a million. And that’s the bottom of the SEC,
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right? That’s in the bottom third of the SEC now,
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right? So, you haven’t supported the stabilization of the program with the type of roster. Roster development,
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roster expenditure is the most important thing in the SEC right now. That’s why Wade supposedly doesn’t want to think
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about coming back to LSU unless they’re going to commit, similar to what LSU had to do for Lane, to a certain amount of expenditure on the roster. Well, Will Wade’s not lane.
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No, I know. But the point is is the similarities are They were They’re demanding, “Hey, look,
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if you want to win, you got to give me $15 million.” Wade’s saying that.
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Yeah. Well, well, give Wade give McMahon that. Or or if you do get a new coach, um it doesn’t have to be Wade.
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You know, there’s other good coaches out there that that would ask for that much. But, uh we uh we we’ve covered all that.
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And we’re going to switch gears over to women’s basketball right after this break with, uh the great Reed Darcy from the Baton Rouge Advocate. We’ll be back
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Welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio. This is Glen Gilbo with Todd Horn and Andre Champan. Correct pronunciation. He We’re
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trying to get his change his name to Andre Champagne. But uh we’ve had a great show tonight with Todd Walker and Rudy Macklin so far and [snorts]
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uh also Kendall Rogers early on baseball. If you want to listen to the show, go to your uh where you listen to your favorite podcasts or go to YouTube
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and it’ll also be on the Tiger Egg uh site shortly after the show. And right now we are joined by Baton Rouge
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advocate, women’s basketball writer Reed Darcy. Reed, how are you this evening?
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I’m doing great, guys, but I’m not sure how I feel about uh going after a couple LSU legends there. [laughter]
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You know, you should feel fine because you’re becoming a legend yourself.
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You enjoy a little little time off in between the SEC tournament and the NCA tournament.
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Yeah, it’s a nice little break. Doesn’t slow down completely, but it does slow down a little bit. Um, and I’ve kind of taken the time here, I think, to look up
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some hotels and some restaurants in Sacramento because I really feel like uh that’s where I’ll be headed in a couple weeks. Oh, and why why is that?
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Well, I think when you look at it, you know, a couple things changed uh through the weekend of the conference tournaments. One is that Vanderbilt lost
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to Miss and the other thing is that LSU beat Oklahoma and beat them pretty badly. So, I think those two things kind
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of um pushed LSU up in the rankings, at least according to the selection committee, uh which means that they’re
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probably going to get paired with UCLA now, who’s probably going to be the number two overall seed. Uh if you remember the last time the selection
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committee offered that glimpse into the top 16 seeds, they really did it. They really were careful to avoid uh pairing
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SEC teams with each other. So, because Texas and South Carolina have those last two number one seeds locked up, I’d
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expect um LSU because they’ve they’re presumably higher than Vanderbilt now,
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to get paired with uh that number two overall team, which really looks like it’s going to be UCLA. Reed,
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whether it’s UCLA or Yukon or South Carolina or Texas that LSU has to face in the
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tournament, and like you said, it’ll probably be UCLA. I I believe you. Can they win any of those games
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if they are fighting amongst themselves like Joiner and Faux Wy
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Sharky is pushing or Starky is pushing uh Malaysia uh well Williams out of the huddle and they’re not following
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directions in clutch from the coach. Can can can they put all that pull is that is there a problem? Is are things rotten
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in Denmark or is that just emotion in the heat of a game and they just need to learn from it?
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Yeah, I think the FY joiner thing and then and then this, you know, Bob Starky, Michaela Williams thing, you know, it was probably just a sign of frustration, you know, more than
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anything. And I think when when you get into those competitive environments in a hostile, you know, against a hostile crowd and a really good team and and uh
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things, you know, aren’t going as well as you’d hope them to do, I think things like that can happen in basketball. So,
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I personally did not look too much into either of those incidents. But, uh that being said, I think LSU overall, um need
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needs to be better at just executing its halfcourt offense. I think that’s probably number one. Uh because there’s a couple instances here, you know, when
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you think back to other South Carolina losses and other losses that LSU has had in the season. Uh they have not been able to score in the half court nearly
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as effectively as they need to. You know, they can’t um be as reliant on their transition offense as they are because they’re going to run into so
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many good teams who can score the ball and no matter how LSU really defends them. So, if LSU has to take the ball
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out of the net um as often as they did in the second half of the game against South Carolina, then they might run into some troubles and they might have some
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frustrating little um brushes, I suppose, going toward timeouts toward the sideline. So, you know, at the end of the day, that’s kind of basketball,
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but it’s kind of a symptom of frustration that they have to be feeling after, you know, losing to South Carolina so many times. Hey Reed, this is Andre.
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kind of sticking with that South Carolina loss, it seemed like LSU had played some of their best basketball in the first half, but then like we’ve seen
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many times this year and I think all five of their losses just a breakdown in the second half. Just what have you seen I guess from from these trends and and I
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guess from those losses that are just not allowing LSU to kind of come through in the clutch?
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Yeah, South Carolina has done a really good job of executing its half court offense late in games. It’s really done a really uh a good job of making sure
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that um it it’s getting good looks in the half court, getting high percentage looks in the half court. And what’s
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happened as a result of that, they’re scoring buckets and those buckets have taken away transition opportunities from
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LSU. And that’s really when LSU is at its best, at its most dangerous, when they can run in transition. And you know, if you look in the second half of
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the game against South Carolina on Saturday, you they were either um not defending well enough, giving up open
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shots, or the times when they did uh force a miss. They weren’t grabbing um enough rebounds. South Carolina, I
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believe, had nine offensive rebounds just in the second half of that game when they turned those uh rebounds into about 14 second chance points. Um so, so that’s not going to cut it. You know,
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for a team like LSU that is so dangerous in transition when they can get out and run, uh they need to defend and rebound
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and then they need to do it against uh some of the top teams in the country,
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probably UCLA in the Elite 8, uh if they want to get back to the final four. was going to start with that because it’s the key to unlocking uh that transition
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offense that’s been so dangerous for him.
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Yeah, and you make a good point because you know South and it a lot of it had to deal with personnel issues in the second not issues but personnel decisions in
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the second half of that South Carolina game. what with LSU if they do match up against a UCLA, how big do you think a Kate Koval becomes just for this team,
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you know, having to defended Lauren Betts, uh, just with that matchup and I guess we haven’t really seen Kate much in the past few weeks, but it seems like
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she has been kind of trending in the right direction. What What have you seen?
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Sure. Yeah, she’s definitely trending in the right direction. I think she’s playing she’s played some good basketball in spurts lately. I think
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back to Mississippi State. Uh she was awesome in that game. Was probably the best defensive game she’s played all year. Um looking ahead, looking too far ahead, you know, admittedly to that
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matchup with UCLA that they’re probably going to run into. Um Lauren Betts is 6’7 and then so they need um their
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tallest player Kate Koval who’s 6’5 to to match up with her. Amaya Joiner has been a good defender and a good
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rebounder at times, but she’s 6’2 and it’s going to be asking quite a lot of her to tussle with Lauren Betts down
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low. Not too many players across the country can, but I think Kate Koval has shown that she has the potential to do that. Certainly, you know, she’s um
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gotten I think she’s gotten more comfortable on the defensive end of the floor throughout the season, and obviously she has the size, strength um
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and skill to to really defend and and and rebound around the around the rim well. So, she’s going to be key. But,
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you know, I think back to I I look at UCLA and and I think that, you know, if you look at their guards, you know, they kind of like to play um the smaller
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lineups. you know, they’re um they have a lot of shooters and so they don’t exactly have uh two strong post players.
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Uh they they kind of space it out a little bit and so that might actually kind of play into LSU’s hands a little bit because that gives them an
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opportunity to put all four of their guards on the floor at the same time.
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Jada Rishard, Malaysia File, and then FJ and Michaela. You know, I think if they ran into a bigger team like maybe Yukon,
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they wouldn’t have that opportunity. But uh because say say they do run into UCLA, I think they can go small in that matchup which is a positive for them
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because those small lineups are really when they’re at their best when they have all four of those guards on the floor.
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Yeah. And just wrapping up here, we have about a minute. Just just quickly tell Gary Reus was hired as as the Ruters head coach on Monday. You you’ve been
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covering this team for a while now. Just how much of a loss is this for Mali and her staff?
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Yeah, pretty big loss. uh Coach G, as they called him. He’s um a really great recruiter and then that’s really where his strength is as a coach. He he helped
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LSU sign two number one freshman classes in four years. Uh this freshman class that LSU has right now um has been really really good. You know, I think
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it’s um met expectations, if not surpassed them, and and if they can keep those players out of the transfer portal, it’s going to be the backbone of
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their program for the next two or three years. Um, so, so it is a big loss and I think that Kim Wilki is going to have to find another coach who is a good
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recruiter to so they can find someone who can help her sell the LSU brand. U,
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sell her system, sell the promise of them competing for national championships and going on deep runs through the tournament. Um because uh
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Rita did did a pretty good job of of you know connecting with the players and the people around them and and selling LSU for them and build and giving uh Kimoki
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helping her uh get some talented rosters that can compete for titles.
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Real quick, Reed, is he going to return and finish the season at LSU or do you think he stays at Ruters?
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I I don’t know for sure yet. Um, but I would imagine that he can uh spend a couple weeks here doing double duty. You
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know, if you think about it, the transfer portal doesn’t open until after the national title game this year. So, that helps coaches um in his position.
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They don’t necessarily have to uh have have that crunch that other coaches have had in the past where they’re trying to coach in the tournament and build out their roster for next year.
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All right, Reed, we’ll get get back to work on your Sacramento uh entertainment. Um, uh, I’m sure there’s I actually I’ve covered an NCA
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tournament in Sacramento. It’s pretty cool town. Nice capital. Cool downtown.
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So, have a good time out in Sacramento if LSU goes out there. And, uh, thanks for joining us and we will be back with more Tiger Rag Radio right after this.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio. Thanks to Reed Darcy for joining us and uh we’re going to update you right now on
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the LSU baseball game against Kraton going on out at Alex Box. What’s the score, Todd?
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So, we’re in the top of the third with one out. So, Kraton’s batting. They’re up two to one. Bases loaded right now.
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And LSU is on their third pitcher of the game. Kraton is up two to one. With bases loaded.
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With the bases loaded. about to be the fourth pitcher of the night.
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And who who has pitched so far for the Tigers?
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Reagan Ricken started and then Dax Daith went in relief. Did not even record it now. And uh now Ethan Plugg has gotten himself into quite the trouble here.
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And but so he’s still in there. He’s getting pulled as we speak. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Base is loaded, one out. Well,
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LSU’s got three hits so far tonight. Gosh, one air. Wow. They got to get over that.
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They have stranded. They have also stranded many, many times already. Five.
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Well, at least they got some traffic on the bases. That’s Maverick Grizzy is coming in. Oh, okay.
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So, uh, not ideal because these are Ethan Plugg and Maverick Grizzy are both guys you would think they were going to try and save at least for SEC play here.
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But, well, they’re not going to, you know,
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they’re saving Gavin Gry for for sure, I would think. But it’s still three days away. Um, but uh turning back to women’s
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basketball, Andre, where where do you see the Tigers going in the NCA tournament? Like what what which regional?
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I would agree with with Reed. I think they’re going to go to Sacramento strictly for the sole fact that Old Miss went one and done.
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Well, don’t they have the the first two games at home though? They do. They do. Okay. So, if they win those two games,
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you think they’re going to go to Sacramento as well?
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That is true. Yeah. Yep. um be because Miss and actually I I really do believe that this UCLA I mean to be the best you’re going to have to beat the best.
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That’s what they always say. But you know like Muli said when they won the national championship in 20 in 22 they didn’t beat the best that year.
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No, but you have to No, but you have to get of course you could say they did.
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You know, you have to get a little bit of luck. And so for them to get a little bit of luck is I think is going to be needed. And uh you know I I don’t think
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that UCLA matchup is is really their friend especially after matching up against them the last two years and
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especially in a year where they really just they they don’t have the bigs that they usually do down low. Lauren Betts is really really dominant. Um and I
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think there is a strong possibility with women’s basketball this year with with it being so heavily I guess talented
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especially from the SEC. Uh right now their prediction is I think they have Kentucky in the same bracket as them.
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That’s a team that really could knock off UCLA in my eyes. And where is the women’s final four? It’s in Phoenix this year.
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It’s in Phoenix. Okay. So if if the women get to uh get to Phoenix, Todd and I will be covering the team there,
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Andre. We appreciate your coverage so far. But you’re not traveling, right? [laughter]
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Business is business, I guess. Who who would do your your radio reports if if you were in Phoenix? So that’s that’s what’s said.
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We’ll call I don’t know, guys. I think we can make it work. [laughter]
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Well, I I think it’s going to be interesting because, you know, L LSU has been close all year, you know, and and sometimes things just kind of flip in
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the NCA tournament. It’s going to be fun to watch.
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Yeah, I think so. I mean, uh, like I said, this year I expect a lot more parody than we’ve seen in the past couple years. I don’t know about you,
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Todd, but um I mean that that the SEC is no joke this year. It really isn’t. Um and you’ve seen that all year. I mean,
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Texas, who just won the SEC, got creamed by Vanderbilt a couple weeks ago, and then, you know, Vanderbilt just got creamed by Old Miss, who you know, it’s
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just everybody’s beating up on each other.
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Wouldn’t it Wouldn’t it be cool if somebody else beat South Carolina again and then LSU beat that team and won the championship without having to beat South Carolina? That would be cool.
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It would be funny if that happened. and I wouldn’t rule it out,
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but you know, and not to contradict what you just said, Andre, because I think there’s a lot of truth in that, and you do see the old misses beating the var
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upsets, especially in the SEC during the course of the year, but I think South Carolina, Yukon, UCLA, Texas, LSU,
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that’s the cream of the crop. It is. It is.
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And the cream of the crop usually rises to the top. So, Wow, that rhymes.
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Yeah, I know. Well, not only that, but you just saw number two UCLA beat number nine Iowa in the Big 10 championship by
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50 points. I mean, that is there there is a big difference in those in those teams, but I do think the SEC is a lot
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better than the Iowa and the Michigan out there. So, that could be me being biased. Iowa lost by 50 points.
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50 points in the conference championship game. God, was Caitlyn at the game? No.
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Jeez. And fit boy, they they could have used her. They miss her,
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man. All right. Well, you can tell we’re out of guests right now. We’re just kind of winging it here, [laughter]
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Hello, welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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This is Glen Gilbo with Todd Horn and Andre Shampon. Bad news from Alex Box uh in the top of the third or going into
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the bottom of the third. Kraton for LSU won. Still early though. Still early in the season though, too. But not good
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news from uh from Alex Box. Um uh they’re not the only ones losing.
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Vanderbilt is also losing uh to Indiana State 6 to3. Does Larry Bird play for Indiana State?
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He did play for Indiana State.
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We are at the Super Chevy dealer studio right now. I want to thank our guests,
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Kendall Rogers from D1 Baseball. Rudy Mlin, the great forward for uh LSU on the 198081 Final Four team, the greatest
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team in LSU basketball history. Uh Todd Walker on the 1993 national championship team and Baton Rouge advocate women’s
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basketball writer Reed Darcy. You can uh listen to tonight’s show in full at your favorite place to uh I mentioned Kindle.
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I didn’t hear. Sorry. Okay. Well, why don’t you listen, Pat?
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I should uh listen to your favorite where you listen to your favorite podcast or you can get on the Tiger Rag website or YouTube. Uh should be up
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shortly uh after the show. Um, the LSU men’s basketball team plays at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow against Kentucky to kick
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off the SEC men’s basketball tournament in Nashville. And Tiger Egg will have coverage of that as soon as the game
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ends. And uh, let’s see. Um, we uh will
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also be covering the uh, baseball series at Vanderbilt this weekend. Not not in person, but we’ll be we’ll be covering
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that going in. We’ll have the uh report on the Kraton game tonight and uh we’re wrapping up the show.
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Anything else, guys? Well, you know, every day on tiger.com,
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there’s always six to eight at least fresh new original content articles that uh
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Yes. And get your money issue around Baton Rouge right now at the Tiger Egg news stands for free. Great issue. One
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of our best issues, I think. Great job by Mr. Todd Horn, financial wizard. probably might get you a job at LSU, man.
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I don’t I don’t think [laughter] that’s something.
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They need some help over there crunching the numbers, man.
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Believe it or not, Clint, I’m not looking for a job. [laughter]
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[snorts]
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And uh Andre, uh what other scores do you have?
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Let’s see. I had I had scores. Uh Coastal Carolina number 16 is uh putting number 12 Wake Forest on upset alert 10
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to four. two lane in uh instate two lane is beating number three Mississippi State four-2 right now. Miss is nodded
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with number seven Southern Miss one to one. And that is that is about it for now. And LSU trails Kraton in the first
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ever game with Kraton 4 to one at Alex Box Stadium. They’ll be at Vanderbilt this weekend. Jay Johnson has a press
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conference tomorrow um to set up the SEC opening weekend series. And if LSU loses tonight, it’s not going to be a fun [laughter] press conference, man.
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There might just be one would be tonight.
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Jay is Yeah, that’s right. Jay’s getting tired of those press conferences. I can tell. But all right. Well, that was that was a good show. Thanks everybody for
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joining us. Uh we will be back next week, same time, same bat channel on Tiger Egg Radio. Have a good evening.
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