Tiger Rag looks back on the LSU’s 35-34 overtime loss at Kentucky: defensive breakdowns, controversial calls and costly turnovers. Mississippi State columnist Rick Cleveland with Mississippi Today gives an update on Bulldogs quarterback Kamario Taylor and breaks down the surprise team of the Southeastern Conference. Preston Guy with Tiger Bait gives the latest on top Louisiana prospects in the 2027 recruiting class, Easton Royal and Ahmad Hudson. He shares his thoughts on LSU’s disappointing loss and looks ahead to Mississippi State. On3’s Chris Low gives his insight on whether Lane Kiffin has changed since coming to LSU and the future in Baton Rouge.
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Players are better people than they are players. This is Tiger Rag Radio and good evening everyone. Welcome to
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another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Malmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, the editor that is Gwen Gilbo. Case Kishnik
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our producer and also a reporter for the Louisiana Radio Network and Tiger Rag Radio. Tonight we are back at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, the main
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library on Goodwood Boulevard. We’ll be talking to a couple of library folks here in a little bit, but we’ll also have a great lineup of guests for you as
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well. Rick Cleveland from Mississippi today will help us get a scouting report on Mississippi State and get the latest
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on Kamario Taylor, the star quarterback for the Bulldogs, who right now it’s in flux on whether he will play or not Saturday at 11:00 a.m. against the Fighting Tigers.
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He’s going to play.
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He’s going to play. You feel he’s going to play? He’s going to play.
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Okay. Preston Guy from Tigerbait will join us as well in hour number two. And then Chris Lowe from onree.com will get
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his thoughts as well. And of course, uh, guys, we got to start off the show by recapping a really a gut-wrenching loss
Chapter 2: Recapping the loss at Kentucky
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for the LSU Tigers on Saturday night in Lexington as LSU loses by one point at
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overtime. And Todd, uh, when we were just talking here before the air, I know we all gave our predictions, our our our
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win loss predictions at the beginning of December. No one got that one.
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Yeah, I think I you gave a a game by-game analysis and you I think you had it, Glenn.
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Why are you bringing that up now? You didn’t bring it up after I got the Old Miss game, right? Why you bring it up?
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But I think you you picked it like 317 or something else you wouldn’t.
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Yeah. Uh, I made that same pick uh like in my Saturday piece. Yeah, basically I said they’re going to win big.
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Yeah, they’re gonna win big. And here’s my I think my view of it. Blake Baker has been disappointing me.
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Yeah, Blake Baker. We we’ll we’ll certainly get into Blake Baker, but I think I I think for most of the summer I
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was at nine and three, but maybe when you guys asked me my prediction for when you put it on tiger.com, maybe I said 10 and two because I got caught up in all
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the, you know, the hoopla and all the, you know, all the excitement. I kind of I kind of was guilty of that too.
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Yeah. But when you take uh the big picture view of this thing and you sit there and say, you know, it’s a lot to
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ask for pretty much a new coaching staff. I understand there’s a lot of defensive coaches back from last season,
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60 new players. It’s just a lot to ask for this team and with this schedule to go 10 and two. But that being said,
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not Kentucky. You don’t lose to Kentucky. I know what you’re saying.
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Yeah. But that and to have the football twice in the final five minutes of that game with the opportunity to put it away
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after the defense did hold. I’ll give him credit and you couldn’t. And that is just, as I mentioned at the top, a gut-wrenching
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loss that just sticks on you. And I don’t they could run the table from here on
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out. I don’t think they will. I think there are some issues with this team. I think the loss of Whit Weekes is huge.
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We saw it heck on the first play of the game. So that just losing that game is just like, man, they they should not have lost that game.
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It hinged the whole season that that loss, I feel. I mean, it could still be turned around, but it’s like you’re looking at the season differently now,
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whereas the Old Miss game, you you really didn’t because I think, you know, a lot of people saw that possible loss. Anyway, what were you saying?
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I didn’t say anything. What? What were you thinking? What What do you want to see?
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This is the longest you’ve ever gone without talking on the show. No, go ahead.
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No, I think that that Jeff’s point and your points, y’all agree. I mean, LSU had ample chances to win that game at
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Kentucky. Uh I think that the 77 yard burst on by Baxter up the middle,
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more than one player messed up on that play, right? That that I don’t think that was so much that Weeks wasn’t there. I think it was that nobody was there. Yeah,
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exactly. I mean, Devon Keys jumped early. They said, “But but where’s the safety? Where’s the other linebackers?” You know, where’s the cornerback?
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But and when you’re watching and where were they on the last play of the game, by the way?
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Well, when you’re watching Baxter run down the field, my first immediate thought was, would that play have happened if Whit Weekes was on the field? And Lane talked about it Monday.
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He looked at the point differential of this team last year when they had Whit on the field and when he when he didn’t.
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And it’s it’s two different teams. So, yeah, but I I you know, I know last year is different.
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I thought Devon was playing as well as Wit was. I mean, I I I don’t watch as well as Todd does, but I thought Devon
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is quicker than Whit, and I I didn’t see any drop off in the defense.
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Well, I I I actually don’t really fault Devon Davon Davon Devon Keys on that particular play
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because it was a blitz. It was a run blitz and that means he’s going. So he was doing what he was supposed to do supposed to do. And so now maybe somebody else
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didn’t or maybe he should have adjusted but but whatever. Yeah. I don’t know.
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But right I think somebody else should have been doing something.
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Yeah. Nobody was there and that that was the problem. Okay. That is a problem.
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That’s that’s not how it’s supposed to have 11 guys on the field.
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No matter how you look at it. Okay. But but that play they could have over they did overcome that play. Yeah.
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They they you know the two uh the two turnovers. Uh, is Sam Levit just like a turnover kid? I don’t know. You know, I mean,
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hey, nine turnovers on the season. He um 10 interceptions. No, eight intercept.
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Eight interceptions and a fumble. That’s nine. Nine. That’s nine. I know. I know you went to Woodlon.
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Uh, but he he uh he he he threw only six interceptions in his first two seasons.
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Now, you know, one of those seasons was a half season, but still, he’s never thrown this many interceptions this early in a season in college. Uh, and
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the other thing is is that the red zone opportunities this this they’ve got a a decent offense, the red zone
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opportunities, and you know, we can talk about Kein and that he’s changed. He’s not nearly as aggressive as he used to be. That he would have gone for it on
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fourth and one three years ago, five years ago, last year. Last year, last year, whatever.
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Of course, he was playing Baker last year.
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And and we can talk about how he should have gone for it, but you can make a case that he made the right decision.
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Yeah, he he had he had definite argument on his side.
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But I think the problem the biggest problem this team has offensively in my mind is they don’t have any guards that
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can block, run, or pass. And that’s why Levit’s still under pressure quite a bit. And that’s why you don’t go for it
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on fourth and one at midfield with the game on the line because, you know, you can’t get one yard because your guards can’t block. One of the most shocking
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things that happened in that game, and I don’t think really anybody’s mentioned or really I haven’t heard a lot of the postgame discussion, is that they were held to less than a 100 yards rushing
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against that defense. They averaged 2.6 yards a carry.
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That’s why I’m saying that it’s getting any push that I I thought they would be able to run the football.
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They they did kind of leave the running game. They kind of left the run, but why would you when you’re winning for much of the game?
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Yeah. Well, maybe because they he didn’t think they were running well. Let me ask you before that fourth and one did they have any third and ones or earlier in
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the game where they got completely shut down most of the time what they were doing whenever it was short yardage on third down or fourth down I don’t remember
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they didn’t have a fourth down that’s what I said I don’t remember but on on on short yardage third down plays they were doing that little swing pass
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out to Dylan Jones and that was effective it was wide open which is a lapse on Kucky’s part but to Jeff’s point. Kentucky has not been able
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to stop the run all season, but yet they do miraculously against LSU. Miss couldn’t stop the run all season when
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they when LSU comes, but they stop LSU’s running game. LSU’s running game is supposed to be the core of their
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offense. And you know, we’ve been led to believe that they have a good running game because it’s compared to last
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year’s running game, which was non-existent.
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And yet they don’t have a good running game, even though statistically they were ranked.
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Well, statistically they do, but they haven’t run against the only two good teams they’ve played all season.
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Exactly. When it when it’s not cut in time, they can’t count on it. And that and that’s the problem.
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And that’s why you don’t go for it on fourth and one at midfield when you can punt them deep and rely on the defense,
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but then the defense goes into this uh the what are they playing? Some type of prevent prevent.
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Yeah. I mean, yeah, that was so weird cuz they were really playing well. Yeah. I mean, the offense put them in terrible situations and they came through and then
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the punt puts them on the 19 yd line, 90 seconds left basically, no timeouts, and they just shoot down the field.
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Well, and then, you know, we can sit here and we can bemoone the loss and I’m sick of talking about it to be honest with you, but but
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all that said, cathartic cathartic for our listeners.
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All all of that said, LSU still had chances to win a game.
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We all know how it ended with the, you know, the the spreading, splitting of the Red Sea, whatever you want to call it, blue sea,
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and and him going up the middle for the for the touchdown. But look, look at all look at, you know, LSU has the chance to
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tackle uh what’s his face uh on the punt return twice uh right after he right after he catches it. And there he goes.
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Uh he stepped out of bounds. Uh they reviewed it and they didn’t see that his foot was on the white, which it was, but that’s another story.
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Wayne said he got blocked in the back.
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There was a Yeah, there’s players.
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Twice, I heard. Twice, I heard. So, yeah. And but but they also missed one or two tackles on that.
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That’s right. That’s right. And and so Okay. So, there’s that. Take that away.
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The tush push. I don’t care how you look at it, you know, judgmental or whatever.
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You look at the rule book and his forward momentum was stopped. Yes.
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And like I wrote in a column yesterday, Baxter lifts him up and then pushes him
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with the rest of the team. He that play should have been over. It didn’t require a whistle. It didn’t require a time limit or a time minimum. Mhm.
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You know, I heard all day yesterday that, oh, well, for it to be a stop of forward progress, it’s got to be for 2 seconds or it’s got to be for 3 seconds.
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That’s completely that’s that’s not like written down. That’s not written down anyway.
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That comes from observations because it is a judgment call.
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Yeah. Well, it is a judgment call, but it’s also says that it is whenever forward progress stops. And when you go backwards, your forward progress has
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stopped. You were pushed back. He was pushed back and it was stopped. But then
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the fact that Baxter lifts him up and you have to watch it from the other angle to see that happen. And it’s he he
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uh he you know the rule does say you you can push but you can’t pull. And there is a moment in the replay cuz I watched it a bunch too where he’s kind of
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pulling him from the side. It’s a pull, you know, but it but it’s not like pulling his head. No, but but you know
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it was it was close. Plus a lot of it a lot of that replay you can’t see Mincchi.
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Well, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter the fact that and you listen to the announcers on the play on ESPN when it happens on the video from the
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opposite angle which you were probably watching.
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Um I watch them both actually three.
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But but but the it’s the same. Whatever angle it’s from, it doesn’t matter. The audio is the same. They say, “Oh, Mie, stop cold.” Yeah, right.
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You know, stopped cold. That’s the first thing they say. And then, you know, I know Glenn uh has talked to various
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people and he doesn’t necessarily believe uh without verification that the referee told Keifin, what Kein says the
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referee told him, which I’m thinking we’re going to play in a minute. But it it jives with, you know, what happened.
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Yeah. with what happened on the fields like why is it J because the Keifin’s asking referee that was the that was forward progress
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stopped why why didn’t why didn’t oh he was okay jives that he was talking and see and here’s the biggest indictment too you go back to the game
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book for the game the official game book and it says this play was reviewed and
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the call stood because he was not down how they worded it basically they they were reviewing the wrong thing.
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Yeah.
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They they didn’t review forward progress, right? They did not review forward progress.
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They were reviewing if his knee went down. That’s right.
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Of course. Now, that playbyplay could could be wrong, too, cuz those things really aren’t that official. What part of the playbyplay?
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Like the stat book. You’re saying what they put in.
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Oh, yeah. But it says the official game book. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah. But I just know how those things are created.
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Whatever. That’s what it says. Well, the uh Well, let’s go ahead and take our first break.
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We’ll hear what Lane Kitman said on Sunday uh when uh he was asked uh what kind of explanation he got from the
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official on why the employ play or blow the play dead when it certainly looked like Mincchie’s forward progress was stopped. So we’ll get to that when we
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, we are broadcasting again tonight from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, the main library. We’ll be talking with Brandon Riley. He’ll be talking about MakerFair,
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which is, I believe, this Saturday here at the Goodwood Library uh after the LSU Mississippi State game. So, they uh it works out for them that it’s the 11:00
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a.m. kickoff for that one. But, we’ll continue talking still looking back at um Saturday’s tough loss for the LSU
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Tigers. We were talking about the tush push and the forward progress. How it certainly appeared that Kenny Mincchie’s
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forward progress had been stopped for more than two seconds until he was uh but that’s irrelevant.
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I know. I know. Uh I don’t think it’s irrelevant.
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It is. Well, anyway, Todd, you’re you’re forgetting. How many times have you seen a game where it
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where a guy’s forward progress is stopped, but he kind of moves and and scores.
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Yeah. But not when he’s horizontal to the ground. Okay. Okay. With five guys pushing pushing him back.
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Okay. But but that was that play. That’s not forward progress in general, which is what you were discussing. Well, let’s hear what Lane Keifford had to say about
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the uh the call when he was asked about it on Sunday during his teleconference.
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The line judge just said, “Hey, in that situation, there’s just too much at stake. You know that he said he’d be killed if he would have
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blown the whistle for the play being stopped, even though appeared to be stopped.” And my complaint always is
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don’t not if you would have blown that whistle on first down or if there were 10 minutes left in the game for forward momentum for forward progress being
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stopped which you blow the whistle for protection and for the rule for the way the ruling don’t not blow it because it’s a such a big play. The rules are
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the rules. So if you see it that way then see it that way. That’s my complaint with it. I agree with that last part. I I completely agree with what he said.
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But the one thing is is, and this is important, and if you read the rule, or if you hadn’t read it, go read my column
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because it’s in the rule’s there. You don’t have to blow the whistle. The play is dead. And it says specifically, a
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whistle does not have to be blown. It’s still dead because forward progress has stopped.
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And so it was stopped. The play was dead.
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Yeah. And then he picks him up and p which is pulling him. Baxter does and
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that’s illegal. And then the referee says, “Don’t worry, Lane on the sideline. We’re going to review it.
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We’re going to review it.” And they review the wrong thing. Mhm. That’s a problem.
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Do Do we know he said we’re going to review it? Did somebody see this?
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No, I wasn’t standing there. Well, I know that, but but there could have been another report or maybe a uh there was somebody on a tweet thread that said this is what was said.
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Well, it could and that’s a difference because we saw the plays and we can talk about the plays, right? That’s what I said. I wasn’t whereas we don’t know what the guy said.
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Now, Glenn, you said even a more impactful call was the nonfall start pen or nonfall start. Yeah, nonfall start
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penalty that was not called. You just had a false start discussing the best way to describe it. We’re going to call that one.
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Uh well, yeah. And and you know what?
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Right before the two-point conversion, right? Because I mean that was that was the the most obvious to me of the calls.
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Plus, it was the most significant because it was closer to the end of the game. But the closer a call is to the end of the game,
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usually the most significant it is. Case in point, right? the pass interference that was not called in the Saints uh uh Rams game.
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All I know is but so but but hold on. So so if they call that correctly then five yards against Kentucky, they don’t go for two.
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They kick an extra point and then everything’s different and then Kentucky actually gets the ball in the second overtime first and then LSU could be the team that goes for two.
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Yeah, because it’s always better to go second. That’s where you have to go for two.
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Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. So that would that that should have been called, man.
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Yeah. So it should have been the other ones were close.
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Let me ask you this, guys. Uh I am not, you know, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, right?
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I brought it up on Sunday and like people always tell me the NFL’s rigged and this and that.
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So So I know where you’re going. So why did they wait till game six to start the conspiracy? Why didn’t they do it at Old Miss?
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There could have been some calls that went against LSU in that game as well.
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LSU was shooting themselves and they didn’t need the ref’s help in that game for Miss to win. LSU was right. But there also weren’t as many bad calls, but and LSU came back and tied the game.
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I think this is something that we need to examine throughout the season when Will Wade’s team is on the hardwood. I
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mean, they have ruffled enough feathers over there whether they whether they are right or wrong with their argument that
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and I’m not saying it’s it’s you know, Greg Sinki is still the head of officiating at the SEC. Let’s let’s let’s screw around with LSU. I don’t
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think there’s been a direct It’s a worthy topic. It is. And I was going to ask Lane that at the press conference Monday, but they skipped me
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and they went to Cobble twice and I got, let me tell you, and I I talked to the people about it. And that’s not going to happen again because I asked my question
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pretty early. I raised my hand pretty early, right? Yeah. And the girl like skipped me twice.
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Sinki had something to do with that, too.
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Maybe. So, but what what’s your thoughts on it, Todd? That’s not going to happen again.
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My thoughts on the thoughts that on me being skipped. know about you is a you tell them to skip
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maybe not not not a directive but maybe a subtle directive that hey let’s make sure LSU is
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okay so my real my real is not getting the benefit of the calls my most pure thought on that and I did discuss it with Glenn a little bit
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earlier this week I think it’s more that they were playing at Kentucky and there was and there were bad refs
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a rabbid crowd and So, they’re more influenced. The raps were intimidated in the moment by that.
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Um, but I don’t understand the review, which is taking place back in Birmingham. Yeah. The kids foot was clearly on the chalk.
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That’s a good point because the review is in Birmingham.
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So, if there was a conspiracy, it would be more natural in review, right? And which goes back to my point about the tush push, too, cuz Greg might be in the office.
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They could they could there he wasn’t at the game. that the the people, this is my point about being in Birmingham, the people in Birmingham
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don’t have to abide by the rule that the the field ref send back for review.
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They don’t have to abide by judges rules either.
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That’s right. That’s right. Rick, that’s a good point.
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Jeff Polalmo, Glenn Gilbo, Todd Horn. We are broadcasting from the East Baton Rouge Parish main library on Goodwood Boulevard. Coming up in a little bit,
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Brandon Riley will be talking about MakerFair. That’s happening this Saturday. But uh also happening this Saturday, of course, LSU returns home.
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They are hosting 16th ranked Mississippi State. I’m curious to know how many games in the series where Mississippi State was actually the higher ranked team.
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Oh, I’m going to look that up.
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You’ll look it up by Saturday, that’s for sure. Uh one guy that’s It has happened. And it has.
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It has happened. You’re right. Uh uh a legendary columnist in the Southeastern Conference joins us now, Rick Cleveland from the Mississippi today. He’ll he’s here to talk about uh Saturday’s game.
Chapter 4: Mississippi State scouting report
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And Rick, thanks a lot for spending some time with us. How you doing tonight?
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Hey, I lost you there for a second, but uh uh Are you there now? Yeah. Could you hear us? Okay. All right. We’re good. Right.
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Wait, did you miss the legendary columnist part?
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No, I heard that, but I didn’t hear what was next. Was very uh uh
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uh I don’t know. I was trying to figure out who you were talking about.
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Come on. Well, Rick, um how good is this Mississippi State team? They uh and this and do you think this quarterback will
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play? You know guys, they turf toast sounds like the most insignificant thing in the world.
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Oh, but y’all probably been around it long enough to know it could be it could affect their whole season. Uh,
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and that’s apparently what he has and whether it’s that real severe version or not, you know, I don’t
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know. I was at the Alabama game. He walked off the field in a walking boot.
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uh you know I all we know is that he’s you know he’s listed as doubtful and I’ I’d
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say he’s very doubtful for the game and if you watch that game you know he he he is a different guy when he can’t
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use his legs. I mean he’s a great passer but he is a fantastic runner.
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Didn’t he didn’t he play pretty well twice on the injury? Yeah, but I think he exacerbated the injury against
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Alabama. I think it got worse. And that that happens with turf toe. And uh apparently there’s also something going
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on with his lower leg. Uh but you know, everybody’s so secretive about these things.
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I’ll be waiting like everybody else to find out at 11:08 whether he takes the bill or not, you know. Well,
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and they also got the running backs got some issues, too. So, they’re a different team without without those, too.
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Well, what is the drop off at quarterback specifically if he can’t play or is not fully, you know, 100%.
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It’s huge. It would be It would be huge for most teams. I’m telling you, I was riding last I I saw Kamario play for the
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first time when he was 15 years old and his team lost 55 to 52 to Santarian
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Perkins uh who was a senior and the number one prospect in the state and maybe the Southeast
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and uh the 15y old kid almost won the game and uh I’ve been writing for ever
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since then that this guy’s the next big Mississippi football hero. I mean, football star. We’ve got a pantheon of
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pantheon of them and who come out of Mississippi, including Billy Tannon, but right. That’s right. you know, and uh
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Jerry Rice and Walter Payton and Archie Manning and uh Brett Favre and you go right down the list. But but I think
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he’s one of those guys and that’s how good I think he is. And if
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he’s not if he can’t run, he’s a different player. He’s got a great arm and everything, but you know, they
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they’re not the greatest team up front offensively, and he has to he has to
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move around to be able to have time to pass. And I think that’ll be something to watch Saturday if he plays.
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Well, if he does play and he is 100%, there’s no question he’s a he’s an amazing talent. Then like you said, they’re able dual threat, able to run
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and throw the ball when he’s 100%. But Leby’s offense is also, I think, the
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fastest uh offense in the country uh when it comes to, you know, running play after play after play after play. Does
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that if he’s not able to play, Taylor not able to play, does does Billy Pucket or AJ Swan, can they keep the offense
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cohesive and and at that same speed? And is that a real advantage for State?
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I know I know Pucket is a great kid and uh a you know a solid backup, but it’s
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just a huge huge drop off. And I get your point
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about u the coach. He’s he’s he’s moved the football everywhere he’s ever been.
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Uh including Old Miss uh under Tiffen. I mean, he he is a really good offensive
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coach, but you know, Amario Taylor would make anybody a pretty damn good coach.
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Right. Right. Well, what on the other side of the ball, does does Mississippi State defensively
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present any special challenges for LSU or anybody else?
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Against anybody, but particularly in Tiger Stadium against an LSU team is coming off a tough.
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Yeah, I think it’s tough and I think LSU is a still I still think even with two losses they’re a really good football
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team. Uh, you know, people say I’ve heard people say that that that Florida exposed Old Miss. Um, but I really
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thought LSU in the second half kind of exposed Old Miss because I think if if Kein had come out and run the football
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in the first half the way they did in the second half, I think that entire game would have been different.
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So Rick Rick uh Billy Pucket will probably be be the quarterback who starts if Corine can’t go.
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Yeah, I think so. So, he’s been the backup the whole season and uh uh again, he’s a he’s a really good kid
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and a solid uh team player and back, you know, he’s the guy that you put in the in the
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press. He’s got a lot of moxy. He’s a smart player, all that, but he doesn’t have the legs or the arm that Kamario Taylor has.
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And then the other quarterback is AJ Swan, who was at LSU briefly. We probably won’t see him, huh?
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Well, y’all probably know more about him than I do. I I just know that Yeah. I mean, I don’t know that much about him.
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Uh I know that there’s also a big drop off at running back if Boswell can’t can’t play. Uh
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so, you know, I do think State has the right football coach now. I think he’s a really solid solid
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football coach, but they are behind the curve against their competition in in the NIL things. They really upped it
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this year, but they’re still behind everybody else.
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Rick, uh, you you mentioned Billy Cannon earlier, and we forgot one we forgot one Mississippi player, Marcus Dri.
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Um, I wanted to know, did you happen to see the Billy Cannon documentary? It’s It’s only on in Louisiana. I don’t know if you might have seen it.
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No, I haven’t seen it. I’d love to see it. I You’re in it? No, you’re in it. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, how am I in it?
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They uh they interviewed you. They had an interview with you about the Billy Cannon run and and the um Yeah,
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the uh the referee the referee who uh dressed up the fake referee who dressed up to get in the game, which is an
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amazing story. And you did a story on that years after the game. Yeah, there’s still a video of it in the uh in the uh
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Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. That was really really interesting. Uh yeah, but Canon, he’s the he’s an answer to
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the one of the great trivia questions I’ve ever heard is who’s the only native
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Mississippian to have won the uh Heisman Trophy? And nine times out of 10 some you ask that question, people will
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answer, “Well, that’s Doc Blanchard.” And that ain’t so. You know, Doc Blanchard wasn’t from Mississippi. He played high school ball at at a boarding
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school in Bay St. Louis, but he’s not from Mississippi, but Billy Cannon was from Philadelphia, Mississippi. Same place Marcus Dri was from.
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That’s right. That’s right.
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Yeah. All right, Rick. Hey, Rick. Thanks a lot for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it, man. Hopefully uh hopefully Kamario plays because I was
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looking forward to seeing him play in Tiger Stadium, but uh we’ll see. Thanks a lot again for your time here tonight. Okay, buddy. Thank you.
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All right, that is Rick Cleveland from the Mississippi today. We’ll take a break. When we come back, Brandon Riley from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library will join us. He’ll be telling us about
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MakerFair. So stay tuned for that here on Tiger Rag Radio. We now return to Tiger Rag Radio.
Chapter 5: MakerFair details and library updates
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Balmo back at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, the main library on Goodwood Boulevard. We uh come here about four
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times a year to uh talk about all the great events that are happening at the library. And one of the bigger events is this Saturday, MakerFair, and Brandon
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Riley with the library is here to tell us about that. And uh does the 11:00 a.m. kickoff uh work out for you guys this Saturday? Uh it’s actually going to start at 10:00 a.m. Saturday.
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Okay. All right.
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Yeah. We’re really excited about this is our 13th annual MakerFair.
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Uh we planned this uh starting last year. We didn’t know where our budget was going to be, so we were like, let’s let’s just make it medieval, right? Yeah.
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And uh so what we ended up doing was uh we ended up scheduling a whole lot of workshops with people that are going to come and show people how to do simple
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sort of medieval crafts like uh chain mail making, mead brewing. Uh we’ve got another person who’s going to do
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illuminated manuscripts. So people will be able to walk away with their own illuminated manuscripts. Uh we’ve got a guy that’s coming in and he’s going to show people how to make uh miniature
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game boards if you have if you play like tabletop games and you know that sort of thing. We’re also going to have really cool stuff like a stained glass
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demonstration in that big room over there. We’re going to have trey buchets out here, mapoles, a gigantic bayou tapestry. We’re going to have fire
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breathers, fencing demonstrations, armor demonstrations, uh, doulamers, uh, the Baton Rouge doulamer group is going to be out here
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in the morning. In the afternoon, we’ve got this, uh, group out of New Orleans that does medieval music. They’re called, I’m going to butcher it, so I’m
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just going to skip it, but they’re going to be out here about midday playing music for us. Uh, we also have a professor from LSU, uh, Dr. Gregory.
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He’s coming to do a lecture about uh elephants and dragons. Who knew they were mortal enemies back in the medieval? And he’s also going to help people make uh their own kite shields.
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Uh we got so many things planned. And plus about 42 different vendors are going to be out here. We’re going to have food trucks. Uh lots of activities for the whole family all throughout the
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day right here at the main library, 771ven Goodwood Boulevard. So, what why’ you other than cost, was there another
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reason why you went with the uh the um the medieval uh type of uh theme to this one?
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Well, this is a library, so we’re all huge nerds. And it turns out uh you know those you know those groups that used to
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if you’re from Baton Rouge, you know, you used to go out on on certain Saturdays and you would see a bunch of people in armor just wailing on each other at Lake Forest Park. Okay. Okay.
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So that’s the Society for Creative Anacronism. They’re going to be here.
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There’s another group uh and a lot of these people have connections with our staff members. A lot of people are enthusiastic. We’re uh about history, history buffs. Yeah.
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Uh the Ren Festival just wrapped up, I think, out there in Hammond this weekend. A lot of people go out to that as well. So it was sort of an organic
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connection with uh with talent and interest uh already on staff.
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Well, yeah. So, all right. So, uh, and this is what from 10:00 a.m. to what?
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Maybe 4 4:00 a.m. So, certainly. So, after the LSU game, if if you can get out here, there’s probably still a whole
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bunch going on. It sounds like you guys get a big crowd for this every time.
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Oh, yeah. Uh, generally between three and 4,000 people walk through.
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Yeah. It’s a huge event and a lot of people this might unfortunately for them it might be their only trip to the library, but at least they get exposed to it.
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Hey, that’s great. You know, I’m I’m happy for this because it’s such a fun and exciting uh day. It’s always great.
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Uh this will be my third one that I’ve managed and it’s just been a wonderful experience each time.
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Yeah. Sounds like you’re going to have a lot of a lot of food here, right?
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Yeah, lots of food. Uh lemonade trucks, ice cream, gelato, I’m sorry, gelato will be here. Um yeah, lots and lots.
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And it’s free.
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Everything’s is free to get in. Uh all the workshops are free. Some of them you have to sign up for. Uh signups are on our website. If we don’t have enough
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people show up, then you can just walk in. But some of them are limited by resources like the chain mail making program. We only have so much chain mail to make, right?
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Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, that’s exciting. What else is coming up at the library uh that you might want to uh mention while I got got you here for a
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couple more minutes? Well, uh, we’re going to be at the Bookfest this year.
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And the really exciting thing about that is we’re going to announce our one book, one community for next year, which is going to be military themed. Uh, we’re also going to be partnering with some
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other groups in the community like Invisible Injuries, uh, to sort of support programming and do some really cool oral history stuff. Uh, maybe talk
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to veterans about their experiences in support of that, uh, of that event.
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That’s going to be coming up in April, May of next year. Uh but the book festival is huge festival happens downtown. Uh it’s put on by the state
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library, you know. Uh it’s all the bookstores, tons of authors, hundreds of different authors from around the
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country. Uh tens of thousands of people go. It’s it’s a wonderful experience. That’s coming up on Halloween.
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Yeah, that’s always the Saturday of the by-week, so it’s always a good time to get over there by the state capital. Uh and it’s a huge event. Well, Brandon,
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thanks a lot for uh joining us and good luck with uh MakerFair and uh we appreciate your time as always. All right, thanks for having me.
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All right, that is uh Brandon Riley with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
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Later on, we’re going to have Andrew Andrew uh Tadman on to talk about the small business services. We also got to ask him about Florida drumming uh Old
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Miss a couple weeks ago. We’ll get Andrew’s take on that. He’s an Old Miss grad, but uh we’ll get to that and much more also coming up here at 7 o’clock.
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Preston Guy from Tiger Bait. So, we got a lot to get to here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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So, don’t go away. Much more coming up from the East Baton Rouge Library. We’re broadcasting from the main library on Goodwood Boulevard.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back.
Chapter 6: Sam Levit’s turnover struggles
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, the main library on Goodwood Boulevard. LSU quarterback Sam Levit spoke today. And
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Levit is the only quarterback in college football that has at least one turnover in every game. And he talked a little bit about that earlier today.
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Ultimately, you know, it’s taking care of the football and that’s what it’s came out came down to for me week after week. Um something that I don’t feel like I’ve really had an issue with and
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you know, the last two years of that I’ve played and it’s something that’s been showing up this year. So just something I got to hone in on and keep getting better at.
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Levit has had eight interceptions on this season and of course had that fumble and thank goodness for Blake Baker’s defense. They kept him out of
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the end zone after that fumble or that could have been really costly at that moment. Uh Levit also talked about the uh interception luck. You know, some of
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these balls have been deflected. Here’s what he had to say about that.
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The picks that have shown up, you know, honestly, like I hate to say it, but it’s been pretty unlucky situations. Um, like I was actually just talking to
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coach Weiss the other day and like I think there was like some grade on PFF that like the most balls that I’ve thrown that like are in an opportunity
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to get picked off, it’s like less than have actually been picked off. So, um, you know, sometimes that’s how the ball bounces and Hold on, let me turn your mic on. Sorry about that, Zach. Go ahead.
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Yeah, that’s that’s that sounds like a reach.
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No, it sounded to me like he said he’s thrown a lot more passes that should have been intercepted, but I don’t think that’s what he meant.
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No, I I think I you know there there’s been a couple of unlucky interceptions, but that happens. But but I would say
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most of his interceptions are are inaccurately thrown balls like they kind of sailed on him or they they went where he didn’t want them to go. You know,
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the one that I keep thinking of and I keep seeing over and over again is is the the one against um Louisiana Tech.
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No, the one that Well, I see that one over and over again.
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Three and one quarter. Uh, no. The the one against uh I think it was Texas A&M where they were in too deep and he throws the ball to the receiver down the middle and uh they both converge on him.
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It’s like you you don’t throw that ball, you know, you don’t throw that ball, you know.
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I got one more Sam Levit uh soundbite here before we uh break for the top of the hour. This is him talking about fumbles.
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You know, the fumble was brutal. That one really stung just because it was like the situation and um you know I really should have just scrambled to the
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right. You know, I thought about it actually going into the play. Uh kind of tried to force a check down and like I was going up to pass it and it slipped out of my hand or I think it got tipped.
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Um but that one was pretty brutal.
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There’s like not much you can say there other than you know don’t jump and pass the ball. Um especially at that point in the game like I just I need to be you
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know a savier player and not try to win the game on that play. I was trying to ice a game out in four minute.
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The jump passes have been a little weird this year.
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Well, the happy feet and the jump passes and there was some evidence of happy feet this game, not just on that play,
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but on a couple of other plays they had the happy feet had returned. But the thing is is you you got to hope he gets all of that corrected and out of his
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system. uh because they’re they’re not going to be able to to have those types of mistakes and withstand them against uh certainly
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against Alabama and Texas, I think, because Texas’s defense is for real.
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And I and I I tell you though, I like Sam’s interviews. He he’s honest. He’s candid. He he criticizes himself. I
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mean, you know, he he I liked what he said about the fumble. He said it was brutal. It was brutal. And he he admits about the jump pass. So when he first
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started doing that, I thought it was like a throwback to to the old days cuz that’s what they used to do. That was the strategy. You would jump up, but that’s not what he’s doing.
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No, he doesn’t need to do that. He certainly doesn’t. All right, let’s take a break. When we come back, uh Preston Guy from Tigerbait will join us. We also
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have Chris Li from onree.com. He’s set to join us in hour number two. Don’t go away as we continue with more of Tiger Rag Radio from the East Baton Rouge
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Get ready to talk Tigers with producer Case Kishnik and our hosts Todd Horn, Jeff Polalmo, and Glenn Gilbo.
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Chapter 7: Recruiting and defensive analysis
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executive editor Todd Horn and the editor Glenn Gilbo. Let’s get right into our next guest. He is with Tigerbait.com
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and that is Preston Guy. Preston, thanks a lot for joining us here tonight. How you doing? Hey guys, how’s it going?
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Doing well. Doing well. Well, I was listening to your postgame show and I encourage all LSU fans uh to listen to uh Preston and Mike and sometimes you
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guys got Buddy on there. Very wellthoughtout thoughts uh especially after a crazy game like that and a wild finish at the end. But now as we are a
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little bit separated from the game, where’s your disappointment level in that loss for LSU? Say on a scale of one
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to five with five being the highest, Preston?
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Yeah. Um, I mean, four, I’m not going to go five because um I it’s year one and there’s 60 new
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players on this roster and there was a lot of dollar roster all you want. I think we all know a lot of these guys, you know, they had to overpay for Sam
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Levit is, you know, a talented serviceable quarterback, but is he necessarily worth $4.5 million or whatever it is he’s making? And I have
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some questions to that at this point after he’s the only quarterback in the country to lead have an turnover in every single game, right? Um uh the the
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reason why it’s as high as a four though is cuz you really had a feeling, okay, this is a team that can contend for playoffs and that’s going to be real fun
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to see year one under Lane Kein and then you have to wonder, well, is this going to be an every year thing and all that and now you kind of realize that
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basically you go from probably going to make the playoffs to uh very thin chance now because this is a tough schedule and
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to be have a guaranteed shot to make it in, you have to win out and to really have even a blink of a chance, you have
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to lose only one game. And I think both of those are tall tall tall tall orders for LSU at this point. So, yeah, it is pretty disappointing overall.
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Well, the disappointment uh for us, and this is Todd, the disappointment with the loss this weekend sort of uh
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moved into Sunday whenever uh we found out what I think everybody had had kind of feared on the LSU side that Easton
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Royal, the number one wide receiver out of Brother Martin, uh number one wide receiver in the country, was uh flipping
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his commitment, but not to LSU, instead to Florida. And now the scuttlebutt is is that the number one tight end in the
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nation out also out of Louisiana, Ahmad Hudson, could be making a flip to Nebraska soon. What are you hearing?
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Yeah, I have a piece up on Tag Debate right now. I’ve been talking to some sources close to the situation and LSU sources aren’t really denying it. Um,
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apparently, um, a big factor in this is the basketball thing, right? um Nebraska isly want him to be a part of the
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basketball team. And if you’ve watched him at all, you know he’s a phenomenal basketball player. A lot of people compare him to Trade Green. Well, that’s where the differences really change.
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He’s a much better basketball player than Tradez Green. And he kind of likes the idea of forging his own path, you
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know? I mean, doesn’t want to really be the next TradeZ Green. He wants to be his own guy. I think um the big difference in this recruitment process
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is Nebraska’s basketball’s pushing for him and putting money on the table, actively encouraging both. And I think LSU is kind of like we’ll allow you to
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do both. But I don’t think Will Wade is doulling out NIL dollars for him when Will Wade knows his primary focus is going to be football. I don’t think he
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believes his primary focus will be just football. I think he wants to be a true dual sport. So anyways, this is an interesting situation. I’m not saying
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anything will definitely happen one way or the other, but uh Nebraska’s made some tremendous progress using their basketball program to do so.
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Well, let’s go back to Eastern Royal for a second because when you talk about money, I understand that it was $1.6
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million one-year deal that Florida offered him to supersede that that Texas was offering. And LSU had the
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opportunity to counter and go that high, but apparently didn’t want to. Is that what you’re hearing?
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Yeah, absolutely. And of course, Billy Glascock, the GM in LSU, they don’t like investing a ton of money into high
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school recruits, no matter how elite the recruit is, but especially in a position like wide receiver where you can find a lot of good receivers in the portal.
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They prefer to use these dollars on the portal, right, where they have guys with college film who are developed. And you know, there’s there’s two trains of
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thought here. But one, this is the least Louisiana players on an LSU roster probably in LSU history, but certainly
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since 2000. 37.5% of the roster is Louisiana. And there is a soft correlation between team success and Louisiana talent there. You probably
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don’t need a data breakdown to tell you that, you know, Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, and Clyde Edwards Elair, where those guys go to school. Those guys are
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pretty good and they helped you win a championship, right? So again, keeping these Louisiana guys home is a big deal. But here’s the thing.
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if they’re not going to give you a hometown discount, meaning they want to be at LSU more than somewhere else and
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they’re willing to do it for as much or less money, then what’s really the competitive advantage of being the hometown team? I mean, are you going to
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have to pay more to keep them home? You know what I mean? Like, couldn’t anybody just be the highest bidder? couldn’t couldn’t, you know, I mean, West
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Virginia or, you know, any team come in and say, “Yeah, I’m just going to pay you more money than anybody else.” Well, that’s not really a home state advantage
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if you have keep these Louisiana players home. I can’t emphasize that enough. But what’s the point if they’re not going to do it at a discount or or at least match
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the rate, right? Well, let me So, let me ask you this. Is the Royal situation done or is LSU still have an outside chance somehow
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maybe to get a discounted rate and get him home? Is he going to visit the week of the Texas LSU game like he was planning to or is it over?
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No, he’s kind of stupid. But um Preston, hold on a second. You broke up.
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We’re having a little phone in re start that answer from the beginning because we missed that if you could. I’m sorry.
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He’s no his recruitment his recruitment shut down. he uh is not taking he had two visits scheduled to LSU which was
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pretty eye openening that he would do that. Uh he’s not going to take either of those. He’s done taking visits and I’m sure at this point that that means there’s a financial arrangement of sign
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this you’re locked in but part of the agreement is you cannot take another visit. It’s over over. So anyways, uh a lot of times you know saying never for
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something in recruiting is a great way to look dumb covering recruiting because we’re talking about high school teenagers. But I believe this one is truly the the book is shut. Eastern
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Royal will play at least his first year uh in Gainesville.
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Well, and that’s interesting because it could be the second year in Baton Rouge or the second year in Austin or the second year in Michigan or the second
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year I doubt it’ll be Michigan, but yeah, the game starts over again next year.
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It is interesting and I always tell people I would never badmouth a kid in this era of football. I would never badmouth a kid who doesn’t pick you.
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Yeah. And you know about the the home state discount. I mean, you know, if if I’m a player or he’s my son or I’m his
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agent, I’m not taking a home state discount. You know, I I think where you got where Lane’s got to take advantage
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of Louisiana, which first of all, Louisiana’s known for great players, so they’re not going to be on discount, a
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lot of them. And what you do is if you pay as much money like like you alluded to a little bit, Preston, if you can pay
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as much money as all the other outofstate schools, then that home state advantage might put you over the top for
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a real elite player, right?
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Uh and and if if they don’t do that, that that might not be a good thing. And I and I think they are because Lane has talked about
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uh recruiting state and and that’s yeah, that’s what he loves about him. So, but now the wide receiver position, I think you’re right. I think he looks at it a little differently.
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Yeah. The one thing that I think of though, and I wrote this earlier this year about Eastn Royal, he has the opportunity, had the opportunity and
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still, I guess, has in future years to come to LSU from Louisiana and become a legend, more so than he would have at
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Austin and more so than he would in Gainesville. No matter how good he is, it would always be better to be that good in Louisiana. And that would be
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good for his long-term uh financial wherewithal in the NFL as well too. I just believe that. I believe there’s
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there’s history of that with Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Odell Beckham Jr., you know, and the list goes on and on.
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Jarvis Landry, Jarvis Landry, all Louisiana kids made it big and the paycheck comes later in the NFL. Now, I’m not saying they should
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forego a good payday their freshman year in college, but I’m saying that the legendary status of a good receiver at
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LSU is bigger than one somewhere else in this state.
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Yeah, I I agree with you and and certainly it’s one of those deals where I mean there’s just these guys when they do it in their state, they’re just legends in this state. you know, Brandon
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Collins, God bless him, but you know, when he comes back to Geysmer, he’s not treated the way he would have been treated if he had gone to LSU. It’s just
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straight up like, sure, there’s family and friends are proud of him, but when you play for the hometown team here in this state, it’s just different. It’s that’s why they call it a 40-year commitment, not a four-year commitment.
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Yeah. Yeah. And the interesting thing about that point, Todd, is that he’s probably not as big a legend in Alabama as he would be if he was from Alabama
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had he gone to Alabama, which he did go to Alabama. So, it kind of works both ways.
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Preston, let’s get off the uh recruiting beat here for a second. What’s your thoughts here two and a half years in on Blake Baker?
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How do you uh analyze the job that he has done here at LSU?
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Yeah, I’m not beating down on Blake Baker quite as hard as a lot of people are. A lot of people are just I mean I’ve heard everything people calling for
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his head for to be fired saying he’s over paid all that you know and certainly he had some glaring flaws in this game. Okay, but let’s let’s take a
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pause and look at this and realize look in the first half you give up 77 yards on the first run and right uh and then they ran the ball yards in the second
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half. Okay, and they scored three points before that last drive. Now here’s where his fundamental flaw came. I mean,
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outside of this one issue, it is a really good defensive game. His close of half, close of game situations. Okay, so
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the do or die, there’s three do or dry die drives in this game. It was it was the the end of the first half, end of the second half, and overtime, right? On
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those three drives, you give up. Uh it was 15 play yards, touchdown, uh nine plays, 67 yards, field goal, where they
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made you look like Swiss cheese. and then five plays, 25 yards, touchdown.
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That’s 17 of the 35 points that Kentucky scored on three drives. Okay, it’s also 167 of the 401 yards they got on three
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drives. Outside of that situation, you were objectively very good against Kentucky, but the problem is those three drives did happen. And on those three
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drives, it’s a lot of this just off soft zone, eight and a half yards off. And it hasn’t worked all year. It’s never
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worked in any situation in recent history. I don’t know why he continues to do it. I mean, I do know why. It’s because they they lack cornerback depth.
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And the thought process is if you run more man coverage, you’re going to get those guys exhausted and you don’t have the bodies to sub in to keep up with it.
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Particularly, I mean, and if they even let you sub in. So, they’re trying to play it a little more safe. But, I mean, you just saw I mean, Kenny Mchi, I mean,
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if you watch the tape again, it is repulsive how open these receivers are. and you’re playing for the entire game.
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I mean, these guys have I mean, you could fit Kia Souls in between them and the defender. I mean, the middle of the field that that’s been his his uh flaw all three seasons.
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Yeah. That and running quarterbacks. And of course, and don’t get me started on the two-point conversion where I think every fan in South Louisiana said, “Watch the quarterback draw.” And
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everybody but the players on the field knew it. I think the coaches knew it.
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It wasn’t a draw. Lane said Lane said it wasn’t a draw, but it sure looked like one.
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Regardless, it was on it was a run up the middle by the quarterback and and he and he went back and he went was back in the back field. He didn’t just so that
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you know you know what maybe it’s cuz he’s calling it Moses parting the Red Sea. Maybe I was You just stole my line. I swear to God I was going to say who knew that
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that uh Kentucky Will Stein had Moses at center, you know?
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Oh boy. Well, how do you think they uh bounce back here on Saturday, Preston?
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Yeah. Uh, look, first off, let’s talk about this Vegas line. 14 and a half points. That’s a big one. That’s a lot of points. Yeah.
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And Mississippi State coming off a buy after the Bama game. That 14 and a half. First off, I think 14 and a half.
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They must that they must think the quarterback’s not going to play. Yeah, that’s that’s what that is. And like like Rick said, you can aggravate that injury.
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what Vegas is telling you. My guess is that that means Vegas does not have a ton of confidence that Kamario Taylor and Fluff Both are going to be fully
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healthy. Um, yeah. I mean, like AJ Schwan, is that is he the backup? Oh my god. Oh
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gosh, man. That that that may he look his snaps he took at quarterback at LSU may be the worst quarterback snaps I’ve
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ever seen. They were soul. I I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a quarterback that bad uh play real snaps for LSU.
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Anyways, um uh yeah, I don’t think you’re young. You’re young. I can think Andrew Hatch or a AJ Swan, which Andrew
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Hatch Andrew Hatch was pretty good for a couple of games. I was going to name a couple.
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Got the concussion. Yeah. I mean, Andrew Hatch was better than that guy. Come on now.
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Yeah, he was. Andrew Hatch won some games. Maybe maybe Steven Rivers who they didn’t even let throw the ball.
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What What about Jesse Dagel? Oh man, local kid. He might. He was on a bad team.
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All right, Preston. Well, we’ll see what happens Saturday. Thanks a lot for your uh insight on all this. We appreciate it, man. We’ll have to get you back on soon. Have a good night.
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Thanks for having me, guys. Y’all have a great night.
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Preston guy from Tiger Bay. We’re going to take a break. When we come back, we will hear from Andrew Tadman with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. We’re at the main library on Goodwood
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Boulevard. More of Tiger Rag Radio after this. Find out what you can make at the 13th annual East Baton Rouge Parish Public Library Maker Fair to be held Saturday, October 17th from 10:00 a.m.
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to 400 p.m. Bring the whole family for this hands-on making, building, and STEM discovery event. Keep exploring new skills and equipment at library maker
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spaces throughout the parish, including the newly renovated Scotlandville Branch Library. STEM brings families together in ways they can foster lifelong
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literacy, new opportunities and pursuits, and your library card unlocks it all. Go to ebrpl.com for more information.
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We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio.
Chapter 8: Small business services
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Broadcasting tonight from the East Baton Rouge Parish main library on Goodwood Boulevard. here to uh talk a little bit about the small business services that
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the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System offers. It’s Andrew Tadman. And Andrew, thanks a lot for stopping by. I just happened to look this up. According
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to the US Small Business Administration, there are 511 small businesses in Louisiana and God knows how many here in East Baton Rouge
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Parish and in South Louisiana. So, there’s a lot of small businesses out there. And the library has some great
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resources to help those that own a small business, whether you’ve been, I imagine, operating it for 5, 10, 15 years or you’re just starting out, right?
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Yeah. So, we have resources for kind of wherever you are on your journey. We get a lot of people come in who’ve just got an idea. They want to start a business, but they don’t really know
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kind of where to start. So we can get them in the right direction, get their idea a bit more uh solid and show them the next steps.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. And then um so tomorrow we have a um the next in our small business engine series which is for businesses whether
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you’re new or established and this one’s going to be about time management and owner effectiveness using AI of course. Oh okay.
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It’s all part of our series of small business and AI. Yeah.
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So um this is going to be a workshop. So rather than just listening to people talk about AI, you’re actually going to be getting your calendar out and working on it uh with everybody.
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So is it using AI to help your get your small business off the ground?
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Uh it’s really about time management for this specific one. Okay.
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So looking at your calendar, how you can um what tasks you can delegate um what tasks you can eliminate and um we’ve
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been promised that we can save you five hours of time a week if you if I had an extra 5 hours a week. I don’t know what I’d do. I That would be amazing.
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Yeah. So, we’re going to get that all sorted out for you, make you more efficient. Wow.
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And see how um AI tools can be used to kind of take some of the workload off you, save you some time.
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So, who’s coming in to I guess uh to lead this workshop?
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Yeah. So, it’s um a partner that we have a group called the Alliance. So they’ll be bringing in some um experts and uh somebody from an AI company to come in
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and they’re going to be leading the workshop and they’re very knowledgeable and it’s also coming to the workshops is a really good place to um meet fellow
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business owners and kind of network and chat and we do start off with a kind of coffee half hour first.
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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. A little meet and greet and uh get to know everyone I would imagine. Uh, and I think we’ve talked about this before, Andrew, but
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uh, the library probably provides a lot of assistance to small business owners, right? Because they’re looking for something. And yeah, you could Google
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and Google will only tell you so much, right? It it really helps when you can have a personal contact with somebody to
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assist you with the many challenges there are owning a small business.
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Yeah. So, that’s where we come in because I mean, kind of information is our business anyway, providing people with the correct information, the right resources. So just being able to kind of
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walk people through this and um put them in touch with people that can help them in different aspects because a lot of people don’t know what they don’t know
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and that’s kind of where we can direct them.
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So tell us again what time does this start this event that you’re having tomorrow?
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Yeah. So this starts at 8:30 tomorrow at the main library. Tomorrow morning. Yeah. Tomorrow morning. All right. Oh yeah.
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Don’t need to register. You can just show up.
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Just show up. How long will it probably take? All morning I would imagine.
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Yeah. It goes on till noon. They have a nice structured uh workshop.
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Yeah. And and if you miss this though, the the library is here for you, right?
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Yeah. And we also um video all these events, all our small business engine events, so you can watch them on the libraries YouTube channel afterwards.
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Oh, really? Okay. All right. That’s good. Yeah, because that I would imagine that’s got to be pretty helpful. So uh to find out uh the a little bit more
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time management figure out where you can get a little bit save some time by use help with the help of AI and delegating different things uh tomorrow’s event
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will is a big part of it. I got to ask you an old miss question here Andrew. What do you think of the Rebels?
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I feel better after last week and the win over Vanderbilt.
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There was a hangover after beating LSU, but now it feels like it’s well that Florida that was that was tough to watch, but we’ll see. Hey, you
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only got one loss, so uh you still got one more loss to play with here before it gets a little nerve-wracking as LSU
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fans are in. Thanks again for your time, Andrew. We appreciate it. Thank you.
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All right, that’s Andrew Tadman who uh is handles the small business services here with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. We’ll take a break. Chris Low
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from onree.com will join us. A lot more get to here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Chapter 9: Lane Kiffin’s coaching approach
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Balmo along with Glenn Gilbo and Todd Horn. We move on to our next guest. That’s Chris
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Low from onree.com. Chris, thanks a lot for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio as we broadcast from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library in the main library
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on Goodwood Boulevard. How you doing tonight, Chris?
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I’m doing great. It’s good to be with you guys.
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Good to be with you. You’ve known Coach Lane Kein for a long time. You’ve watched him. You know, there’s a um there’s been a one of the uh storylines
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or one of the thoughts that has been I’ve heard quite a bit from LSU fans is that Lane has changed. He’s not as the
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the the aggressive lane anymore. Uh what do you what have you seen from Kein, if anything, that’s different with him
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being the head coach here at LSU as opposed to when he was at Old Miss?
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Uh you broke up on to me a little bit there, but you were asking about him changing. Is that what you’re asking me about?
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Yeah. And if he’s if you see him any different here at LSU as opposed to when he was at Old Miss?
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Not a lot. I I mean, I think Lane’s, you know, he’s unapologetically who he is.
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Uh, and I think he’s he’s he’s changed with his personal life and that’s, you know, and we talked about that when I was there a bunch at Old Miss and he’s
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um much more in tune with his family and just some other things. Personally, I I think as a competitor, as a guy who
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likes to stir it up, as a guy that um isn’t afraid to bite back, um no, I think he’s he’s exactly who he was at
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Old Miss and he’s not afraid to say what’s on his mind, whether it’s a thousand% true, 10% true, 500% true, you
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know, he’s going to say it. And I think that’s but that’s sort of if Lane is your coach, this is the best way I’d say. He’s your coach. When he was at Tennessee, uh when he was at Alabama
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calling offense, the offensive plays when he’s at Old Miss, now he’s at LSU, you love him, okay? Because, you know, he’s got that sort of, as I said, that
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bite back mentality. He’s fishiously competitive. If he’s not your coach or if he left if he left your school, then
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you can’t stand him. And that’s just probably where we are in sports. And I don’t I don’t think, you know, Lane really minds that. I think he sometimes
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is a little bit uh you know I I still get text messages from there from time to time about stuff I wrote, but that’s just he’s always been like that. I’d say
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if you looked at his text list of who he’s texted since the season started, you’d be amazed that it people in the
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media, coaches, uh people he knew when he was in Oxford, but that’s just sort of always been who he is and I don’t know that he’s ever going to apologize
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for it. Chris, what about though the uh the fourth downs? He doesn’t seem to be gambling and taking as many risks. In fact, he even said that after the game.
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Uh you think he’s changed his his approach on on, you know, risking and being a little reckless on the field?
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No. You know what? I was surprised, Glenn, he didn’t go for it. It was fourth actually a little bit less than a yard there. He could have ended the game. and knowing him as long as I’ve known him and watching his career. Yeah.
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I was surprised he didn’t go for it there. Uh he even I think didn’t he say he did. He did. He said five years ago
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he might have gone for it, but he actually went for it last year against LSU on fourth and three. Completed it to tight end Daquin Smith. But he’s got
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problems with with his interior offensive line. That might have been it, too.
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Yeah, I think Lanz is smart enough to realize what situation is. He he trusted his defense there to stop him. And um
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you know, I get it. Every situation is different. I I think if if he had a mulligan, which we all want mulligans in life, he probably would would have gone
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for it. And I bet you he will going forward. I I don’t think that’s changed.
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I mean, that’s just one of those things where at that moment, I don’t know what the metrics say or said at that point that he felt like the odds were his
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defense was going to be able to stop him. Uh but yeah, I I was surpris you know what and he’s got one of the best play callers in the game. Charlie Weiss
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Junior’s as good as it gets laying offensively, a great mind. You’re you paying both those guys a ton of money.
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You paid a ton of money to put that roster together and and I think if you’re an LSU fan, you step back and take emotion out of it. You’re like, “All right, you know what? If we can’t
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get fourth and a yard or fourth and less than a yard with everything we’ve invested in the program with one of the better offensive minds out there, we probably don’t deserve to win anyway.
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Well, Chris, six games into Kein’s first season here at LSU, when you look at
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this team, not so much, you know, the nuances of Keifin and Weiss or what have you, but just this team, what is the
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biggest limitation that you see and and how much responsibility for those limitations or limitation belongs to to the coaching staff?
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probably what Glenn just said. They they’re not as good right up the middle in in the offensive line. They’ve not
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been able in key situations um you know to get to convert, you know, to move the football. I mean, I I
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thought in that Old Miss game really after they got punched in the mouth in the first half, they showed a lot of uh
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a lot of metal there in the second half in that environment to come back and and I’m not making excuses for Lane at all.
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Um although he made a couple after the old miss game and and I heard about it from him when I wrote about it but you
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know he lost his best player there on that last drive. If TZ Green’s in the in the lineup I just think they score there at the end of the game. He lost one of
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his better uh defensive backs, you know, Spears. Um, so
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they paid enough on that roster that that depth should not really be a problem. They’ve got as pricey a roster
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as there is in college football. So I think there’s probably some, you know, some blame to go
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are both at home, Texas and Alabama. And I I do think they have been right there
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in their two losses. You know, Priscilla probably won the last game. Um had a shot there at the end of the game in in a really tough environment against Old
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Miss, but we all know that when you pay as much as they’re paying their coaching staff, when you’ve got a roster that’s close to 50 million, he’s been handed
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the keys of the kingdom, even in your first year, even with the transition that’s going to be difficult for a lot of people. uh two or three losses is
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never probably gonna be looked upon as being okay.
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Did Chris, do you think he got the right quarterback? Is is Sam Levit the right quarterback for him or should he have tried to get somebody else? He did try a couple other ones.
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Well, there there were a lot of people who tried to get Levit, you know, and I think LSU took a few swings, a lot of guys out there, and they paid him a ton
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of money, so somebody was going to pay him, you know. I think the quarterback’s always an easy target. They have not been maybe as polished in the passing
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game as you’d want to be. But you know what? The balance on that team is pretty good. I think Miami and LSU are the only two teams in the country that are in the
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top 10 in both total offense and total defense. Now, I haven’t looked at the SEC games, you know, but I think he’s, you know, he’s he is what he is. I don’t
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know when you look back at what they’ve done in the throw game and it’s not just him but in the passing game the first few
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weeks and again taking Green out of the equation makes a big difference that they’ve been probably as good as
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Lane wanted them to be or thought they would be and a guy like Jace Brown who was expected to be a major part of this offense has just completely disappeared.
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I mean, they they’ve they’ve the wide receiving core for the most part, I mean, Jackson Harris has had some moments, but
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mostly this wide receiver core is underwhelming.
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Yeah, that I don’t think that’s a surprise to Lane to Charlie on the offense. I think when they sort of went through might have lost Chris. There he is.
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Okay.
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No, I I I don’t think they thought in the preseason or the spring that they were lead at receiver. I really don’t.
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Now, that’s not to say they thought they were bad, but I think that’s an area that they will get better at going forward. That will be a place on the
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team that they will address in a big way in the portal.
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Looking at the rest of their schedule, Chris, Mississippi State Saturday, then Auburn, Alabama, and uh Texas and
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Tennessee. What What do you think of Mississippi State first off, and then skip to Alabama? Yeah, I don’t I don’t know that that um Taylor’s going to
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play, which would be a bummer for college football fans. It wouldn’t be so bad for LSU. If he does play, Glenn is going to be limited. I was at the the
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Bama game. You know, Turfto is a tough injury for a skilled player, you know, that’s moving. And you’ll watch that Alabama game. He sort of played
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flatfooted the whole game. And he’s had a week to rest. Uh but that’s an injury that really the only way you get better is if you stay off of it. So, we’ll see.
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where he is. Um he’s a tough kid. I’m sure he’s going to try to play. I just don’t know if he does play, you know, where whether he is or he will be close
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to 100%. Then then the running back, Fluff Buff Bath, that’s hard to say. Uh did not play much at all with a a lower
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leg injury against Alabama. We’ll see where he is after the week off. I guess they’re just not healthy. Mississippi
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State is going there to LSU. I was I would suspect LSU wins this football game. And as I said a minute ago, I the
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fact they get BAM and Texas at home good. They got to figure out a way to get probably both of those. I don’t know that they get in at 9 and three, you
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know, and I don’t think the Tennessee game will be a walk in the park, especially Lane coming back to Knoxville. So, they still got a lot of they got a lot left, a lot of meat left
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on their loan that they need to take care of. I I thought this was a team that would struggle to get in the playoff. I thought they’d be on the
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threshold back in August. uh just because it was year one and I still repeat what I’ve told you Glenn and told everybody. I have no doubt Lane will win
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big there. There there’s I just have a hard time believing that he won’t win either a national championship or be right there pushing for one. I just
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never thought the first year would be the year he did it.
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Chris, thanks a lot. Good thoughts. We appreciate it, man. Thank you very much. We’ll get you back on here soon. Okay, guys. Take care. Thanks, Chris.
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Chris Low from onree.com. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio right after this. How you doing? This is Snow Dog.
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Chapter 10: Men’s basketball and show wrap
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LSU men’s basketball will be action uh Wednesday night against UCF. Uh the most publicized, the most hyped up, the most
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anticipated men’s exhibition game in the history of exhibition season. The exhibition season is like the greatest basketball
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exhibition season of all time. And I covered Shaq in Bunky when I was at the town talk. They play That wasn’t even an exhibition. That was a scrimmage.
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Scrimmage. Okay. It’s also got to be the most anticipated season for a team that’s predicted to finish 14 in the SEC. It is
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with only four players are on their Well, they got 10 now. They got 10. They got 10. Right. Right. Right.
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But there’s a big asterk next to them all. It’s like a daily update on the on the roster. It’s really entertaining.
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It’s it’s funny. And you got to you got to go to Tiger Rag and read this Glen Gilbos guys uh story on uh Will Wade and
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Pat 40 headtohead. It was pretty entertaining.
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All right. So, explain that for people without giving away your whole story. Well, let let me start it off at first.
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For people that don’t know, today was SEC media days. LSU was not able to fly to where the SEC media days was because
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because of the fog cuz we had I thought I thought it was a conspiracy at first and there’s a lot in the national media that were quick to point out, well, look
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at that Will Wade and Kim Moy. They’re, you know, they’re not showing up. Look at them. Man, it it was amazing how they
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were getting dunked on because they didn’t show up.
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Yeah. And a lot of the media that were dunking on them didn’t realize that they went from four to 10 on the roster. And that was the quietest ad of six players
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in sports information history. They didn’t even mention it. I just happened to notice it Monday when I was looking at something else. I think it was
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actually up there on Saturday. So, so this morning then they Will Wade did a Zoom and uh his good friend Pat 40 was on there.
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Yeah. Yeah, it was pretty it was pretty funny. Pat asked a question. First he thanked Kent Low for letting him ask a question. I thought that was
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interesting. And Pat’s a great guy. I know LSU fans don’t like him over the whole uh yeah strong ass offer, but he’s he’s a great writer. He’s a great guy
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and he’s he’s a pro. and uh he asked but he did he did not realize that uh Santos
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was um no longer on the team, right? You know, he thought he thought he was still so so so he asked about what where’s where’s Santos stand and and Wade just
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jumped on it and he he said, “Oh, well, he hadn’t been with us with our stuff.” I love how he said stuff when he was talking about
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his roster uh since July, which that was not really true because nobody in the media knew that Santos was no longer
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going to be with LSU until late September. Okay, so I’ll give Pat that.
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But but uh and then they just had a quite an exchange there and and Wade was kind of yelling and everything and Pat was just kind of like, “Okay, I’m trying
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to ask you this, coach.” But it’s pretty funny.
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Yeah. So Will kept saying, “Are you just here to ask gotcha questions?” Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right.
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Are you just here to ask gotcha questions? And he didn’t ask one gotcha question.
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He just asked about the players current roster.
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And then Wade eventually gave his standard answer. We’re waiting on the NCAA to declare these guys eligible. We believe they will. And when we got 15
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guys, we’ll be hells on wheels or whatever the heck he’s saying when it comes to that. So, uh, as Todd alluded to, um, they’re picked to finish 14th in
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the league. Will one better than last year, progress, but Will really thinks that this team is
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going to be very good. You were in Lake Charles. What did you think of them? First of all, that’s an awesome arena. It is a very awesome arena.
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And, uh, you know, well done by the MC Cowboys.
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Yeah, I thought they looked okay. You know, I thought they looked like they could be scratching to be a 500 team in
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the SEC, but with with five scholarship players or four scholarship players.
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Well, you know, and if if they get Sky Clark, which they may not, that’s going to be a a great addition. Donovan Dent
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looks good. The the point guard uh from Michigan State, uh Devine, I can’t say his last name. He looks pretty good. You
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know, they got they got some decent players. Uh, but I feel like I’m talking about McMahon’s team last year before the injury to the to the point guard,
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but but they they’re they’re going to be better than than that team. Um, but you know, he’s he’s got a long way to go. He
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he uh he thought he would get more players out of the portal early than he than he did and then he had to go all
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European. He was going to go European anyway, but but he had to go all almost all uh European. But it’s going to be exciting. I mean, I I I do think that
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they’re going to keep everyone interested and they’re going to win enough games in the SEC to keep things interesting,
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right? And Will Wade’s postgame rants are going to keep Yeah, I mean, he is he is funny. He’s he he he can do a rant. He’s funny. He’s
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not always angry like he was on the teleconference today. He was kind of he was kind of bobbing and weaving after the MC game, but that was fun, you know,
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like he took a little shot at Toyo for asking a question about Rusk. like is Rusek all the way eligible which is a good question and we was like what do
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you mean all the way eligible? Well, let’s look at your history will you know that’s what I was thinking you know and
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and uh but he apologized to later in the in the press conference and and he had a little exchange which me with me which was funny
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or I thought so but he he’s going to be fun to cover there’s no question about it.
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All right let’s take our final break more of Tiger Rag Radio. We’ll wrap things up after this here from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. the main library on Goodwood Boulevard. Back after this.
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio as we wrap things up. Apologize on the uh phone connection on with our guest. Uh we’ve been having some issues all day and uh hopefully it’ll be resolved next week.
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And if you missed any of the show uh you can always catch it anywhere you get your podcast or it also gets uploaded to Tom. Give me that. What? What’s your impersonation of the uh phone tonight?
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Just tell somebody talking to me.
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I’m going to I’m going to do that next time you’re telling me what to do.
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Again, I think it’s Greg Sanki. That’s all I got to say. That’s all.
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Thanks to uh Preston Preston Guy. He was a lastm minute fill in for Brett Martell of the Associated Press who agreed to do the show, but then he forgot he had to go to a big dinner.
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Oh, thanks a lot, Brett. No, but we’ll have Brett on again. Gail Benson must have invited him to a dinner.
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You know, I I I wanted complain about the Saints.
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I wanted to tell you guys, too, since LSU is now dropped to four and two and officially on the on no margin left to make the playoffs, I’m not going to be
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trying as hard anymore. So, I’m not going to be doing my workouts on Sunday.
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And I just wanted you guys to know I’m I’m official.
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Will you not be showing up at the office?
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I’m just gonna, you know, like Lane said, he wanted to make sure everybody stayed and did all their Sunday workouts. I got you. So, I’m I’m I’m out.
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Are we We were talking to Chris about how Lane has changed or what? That’s the perception.
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We did get that. What’s your take on it, Todd? I mean, do you think I honestly believe that that he is the same coach and I think that he honestly
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looked at the the conditions on the field on that fourth and one and his interior of the offensive line his guards and he said I like my punt
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better than Yeah. than his defense had been playing well very well up to that point. Yeah.
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So it it it made sense but you know still he and as he said you know we can end the game right here. Yeah.
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Yeah. I I do believe if he had to do over again knowing what he knows, he would he would try it.
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Yeah. But because there’s there’s a whole plethora of plays he could have tried because he he uh
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he calls a really good game and and you know I think a lot of things could have worked, but a handoff off tackle or off guard probably would not have.
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I found it interesting that Chris when we were asking him about wide receiver and Chris has got lanes here. It it sound they they’re probably texting
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buddies, but when he said that next year at the wide receiver core is going to be it’s going to be different.
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Well, I think what they’re going to do, not if they don’t get east. No, I don’t think they’re getting east.
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I think that’s done. I think Preston’s right. I think that’s done now. He could come back the next year.
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Yeah. As we discussed, but I think LSU goes into the portal and gets a number one receiver next year. Yeah. Out of the portal.
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It’s it’s lacking. And they won’t have trade next year. So, you got to find somebody that can that’s going to be your alpha dog out of that group.
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They’re they’re desperately Well, you think they definitely won’t have TZ? Uh, I mean, I I I can’t imagine him coming back
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because he might want to come back and have a healthy year, but you know what?
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He’ll probably he’s he’s going to make a lot of money. Yeah, he’ll make a lot of money.
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He could just come off and have a good few games and then have a great combine. He’ll be off.
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He sounds like he’s getting healthy quick.
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We’ll see. And uh that does it for the show. So Todd, Glenn, Case, and all our guests, we appreciate and the phone lines. So we got to thank
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