Brett Martel of the Associated Press joins the show as we break down Will Wade’s latest additions to the LSU basketball roster. ESPN’s Peter Burns talks the chaos of the Southeastern Conference and Auburn’s upset of top-ranked Georgia. Jordy Hultberg, the new voice of LSU basketball, discusses Wade’s talented newcomers and the energy in the program. Lonn Phillips Sullivan of LSUoddysey.com gives his take on Lane Kiffin’s Tigers and their upcoming road trip to Auburn.
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Chapter 2: LSU basketball roster update
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Welcome to the show. Glad you’re a part of it. Got a great lineup of guests. Brett Martell from the Associated Press.
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He’ll join us in about 20 minutes. We’ll hear from Peter Burns from the SEC Network. He’ll be on the show later on.
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Jordy Halberg, the new color analyst on the LSU radio broadcast. And of course, former LSU Tiger, he will join us as
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well to talk some hoops. And then Lon Phillip Sullivan of LSU Odyssey.com will also join us later on in the show as we
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got a lot to get to. Obviously, football. We’ll get you ready for the Auburn game coming up at at 11:00 a.m.
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on Saturday. But we’re going to start off the show actually talking some hoops because that’s where the breaking story is at. Uh coach Will Wade has been
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confident that he will have a roster of more than just four, five or six players, even though in last week’s
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exhibition game against Wake Forest, which was actually very entertaining. Wake Forest. Wake Forest.
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What did I say? Central Florida. Black and gold. That’s what I was thinking.
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[laughter]
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UCF. uh the exhibition game against UCF.
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Uh very uh entertaining game. Uh but LSU only played six players. But now it sounds like when LSU goes to Tallahassee
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this Saturday and plays Florida State, uh he’s going to have a lot more as uh a lot of these players, especially the international players that they were
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waiting on have finally gained eligibility.
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So uh why don’t we I Case has been working on this all day. every minute he stopped and thought he had the story completed, another guy became eligible.
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So, kind of give us a rundown of where we stand at this moment. Case, yeah, I mean, the day kind of started off this afternoon with Salunyang, the
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Sagalles Italian pro who uh finally got his eligibility cleared and he’s good to be added to the roster and play this weekend. Right after that, it came out
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that R.J. Luis, the former NBA uh Boston Celtic and Utah Jazz player, never really played in a regular season game,
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but signed those uh NBA and GLeague contracts, came out that he would not be expected to to get his eligibility. That was kind of the expectation from anyone
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who was really covering the situation, but that was confirmed. And it also came out that Will Wade was kind of ready to to put that to bed and and let that
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rest. you know, it’s been cited at the center of the uh SEC’s federal lawsuit against LSU. So maybe that plays a role in it there. But that was the really the
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only loss from the day. Uh because then after that, Bryce Desert, the French center uh who was playing in the Turkish league most recently, he got his
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eligibility. And then finally, Donovan Dent and Sky Clark, the two UCLA guards who are involved in a California lawsuit
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against the NCAA, they got a preliminary injunction to play for the entire season. So, originally Dent just had the temporary order that has allowed him to
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play in the exhibitions. There’s been a lot of chaos with Clark going back and forth and requesting to be dismissed from that case, but then trying to get back on it. He is listed as a plaintiff
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on the official court filings. Uh, so they should both be eligible for the rest of the season. We’ll see if that gets appealed and what happens there. It It’s like a national signing day.
Chapter 3: Basketball roster implications
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[laughter] I mean, that’s what I said to Jeff earlier. I said, who someone got the schedule wrong. They need to tell Will that it’s not October 20th. I I think maybe
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there’s no room for RJ Louie too, especially with his uh baggage that that Sanki doesn’t like. No, they weren’t going to get him anyway. But that’s four
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well three really good players. Niang, uh Desert and Scott, by the way, Dair, I’m sorry, Dair.
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Uh case with the Louisiana Tech pronunciation there. It’s French. It’s French.
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And uh and Sky Clark. Uh, I mean those are all three, especially Sky Clark are all three really good players and the other guys are really big. They boy, this team has some height.
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Yeah.
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And and u now Donovan Dent’s already been playing and playing very well.
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He played very well in the exhibition game.
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So So Case, why is it that that uh Dent had this pending situation and he’s playing and Sky I know it’s a little different and and he wasn’t playing.
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Yeah. So, the situation’s still evolving and still kind of unclear, but they’re both original plaintiffs in that
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California lawsuit that Dent got the temporary restraining order so that he could play. But near the beginning of August, Clark actually requested to be
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dismissed from that case and instead focus on a Kentucky case that was then later dissolved. And so, his eligibility
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status was kind of up in the air while Dent was okay because he was still firmly on that case. Wow. So, if Sky stays with the other with the original case, he could have been playing all this time.
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He could have, but I I guess the the lawyers kind of said it’s better for you to just focus on one, and so he chose the wrong one cuz that one got
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dissolved. [laughter] But now that one also got a new TTRO after being originally dissolved, and that got a new
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uh restraining order injunction on last Friday, so he’s covered from both sides.
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And the one he asked to be to be released from in California never released him.
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He’s still listed as one of the 76 78 plaintiffs in that case. Isn’t that crazy?
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So that’s a good thing that they didn’t release him. Good for him.
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Right. Right. Right. So So what time is that tip off against Florida State Saturday? Noon, I think.
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Noon. Man, the b and the football games at 11:00. Right. That’s quite I wonder if that that Well, that’s that’s an exhibition. It’s not going to be on TV.
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Um, but uh I guess you get radio on it, but man, that’s no radio. Oh, no radio. Okay, that’s right. Because it’s in Tallahassee.
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Yeah, right. And he got the football game going on. Now, um, the SEC Network Plus did televise the UCF game, but I don’t know if the
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ACC network will [laughter] talk about an game TV, but they got some players. And then and then there’s a 7
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foot3 guy uh case. What’s what’s the latest on him? Galad Levy, I believe is how you say that. The Israeli center. Uh
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he seems to be a similar case to Niang and Desair. Uh just waiting on the the paperwork to go through on that one. But I don’t see why those two guys get their eligibility and he doesn’t.
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Wow. That’s quite a team, man. And they’re all like 35 years old.
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[laughter]
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No, they’re they’re close to they’re 23 24. I think the oldest guy is 24. Nang was drafted last year, right?
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Yes. in 2025 in the second round. Uh but he chose to stay in Europe. He played in the Euro League and the Italian League instead of going to the NBA.
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Yeah. Didn’t even like go to a practice or anything.
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Okay. All right. And that’s not against SEC rules, obviously, if he’s been sign.
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If you play pro ball outside of the continental United States, it’s not considered pro ball. [laughter] And and and meanwhile, you know, they
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got some players that are that are playing that are really good like Rusk.
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Uh Michael Rusk. I was just writing about him for our magazine and uh of course Donovan Dent has played really
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well. So it’s it’s looking like it’ be quite a kid from Omaha. What? Um oh uh uh Basher.
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Yeah, he was pretty good last week as well.
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He missed everything against Mcnes and then he made everything. [laughter] He said he hadn’t played in six months.
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So, so, so you guys with all these 35 year old 25 pro players who don’t play pro ball,
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do you still think they’re going to finish 14th in the SEC?
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Well, that was on based on the roster at the time and and all those people at the freaking media days thought they were still only four on the roster when
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actually they had 10 for two weeks. So, uh you know, it’s not that hard to keep up with it, but um ask Pat 40.
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Yeah. Well, [laughter] it was more it was more the other writer. Um Pat was asking about some Well, yeah, he did miss one guy.
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Yeah, Wade overreacted. Wade was in mid-season form.
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Yeah. No, he was way Will was ready to pounce. That’s for sure.
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I I did confirm last week that all 15 players, including Louise, uh that have been practicing Yeah.
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are being paid in full for the year. Wow.
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Even Louise. So, even every single one of them. So Louise, who’s not gonna play, is still gonna get his NIL deal. Yep.
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That’s That’s ridiculous. I I guess LSU they agreed to that beforehand, like we’re gonna pay That’s the logic.
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That Yeah. So just in case they could get him.
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Yeah. Huh. Well, so what what you’re paying buyouts, you might as well pay a guy who’s leaving. The coach left.
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What avenue does Louise have at this point? Go overseas or hope a G-League team signs him or I I would imagine that he goes overseas.
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Yeah, would probably be the most direct course for him to play this year.
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I don’t think that the NBA has released any rulings like the NFL did on players who attempted to go back to college but then couldn’t, you know, the NFL kind of shut the door on some of those guys trying to come back.
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So, do you think since uh because it’s also been it’s just come down I think in the last hour again Liz Merrell, the
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attorney general for Louisiana filing um another motion to dismiss the case. Now that it’s been, even though it hasn’t
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come from Will Wade’s mouth, we haven’t heard him actually say it, but it’s been reported that he’s given up on the hope
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that R.J. Louise would be rostered. Do you think that’s why Merl once again filed a motion to dismiss the federal
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lawsuit against LSU? cuz it seems like that was the that was the SEC was hanging that over LSU’s head saying,
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“Look, if if you do try with Louise, we got this lawsuit sitting in our back pocket.” Yeah, I would I would imagine so. How about you, Case?
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Yeah, I mean, that seems like it would be the the kind of reasoning behind it is just what leg does the SEC have to stand on now? What rule? The LSU never
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broke a rule, but now they’re not even thinking about breaking a rule. They’re just they’re distancing themselves from the rule they almost broke. [laughter]
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So, and and I’m really excited cuz cuz last Friday I wrote that it was good that Will Wade said about a week ago that we haven’t rostered RJ Louie yet.
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And I and I wrote that he said, “Well, you need to completely distance himself from him.” And that’s what he did today.
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So, I think Will Wade is really wising up if he’s starting to to, you know, take my advice even though I’m sure he didn’t read it.
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I mean, the season’s right around the corner. You’re either going to get them on here or you’re not. And I guess the writing is on the wall.
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See, that’s the thing about the SEC’s whole logic. And I know I’m alone in this because it’s like what were they what were they arguing about to begin
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with? Like you said, I don’t think you’re alone. I I think most people think the SEC is very illogical with that whole lawsuit.
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I mean, what Well, most people around here. Uh but you’re right. People, some national writers just everything anything Sanki says, they think it’s gospel.
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Yeah. And and it’s like honestly LSU never did anything wrong. Now they may have had motive. Yeah.
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But they didn’t actually do anything.
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They kind of pushed the edge of the envelope.
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And they admit and they admit to pushing the edge of the envelope, but they did not break any rules. And the the thing
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about the SEC’s stance right now, regardless of what Mer Liz Merrell was saying today,
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um, and I agree with her, by the way, their whole thing is based on a future violation. You could violate something
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whether it’s Brown Louise or not. It’s about it could be about anybody. Well, anybody at any point could could violate something in the future. Yeah. And will Yeah.
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And to and to say that that it’s um what’s the term? Lack of institutional control. That’s a ridiculous charge by
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Sanki because I mean we know what lack of institutional control is. That was weighed the first time. That was Mike
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Dubos at Alabama. That was Charlie Pel at Florida. You know, that’s real lack of institutional control. This is just
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trying to, you know, finesse some players.
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Push the boundaries as far as you possibly can until somebody tells you no. And that’s what’s happened here. and and but and maybe they could use maybe a small
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penalty for that, you know, but not what the SEC is thinking of. Sorry.
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Todd, I have so many thoughts on it. We could talk about it for an hour.
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Well, why don’t we take a break so we can talk to Brett Martell. Not to cut you off, Todd, I’m sure you’ll write about something.
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I will. [laughter] I will check out Todd’s thoughts at tiger.com. But we let’s take this first break a little bit
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early so we can uh have a little bit more time to talk with Brett Martell from the Associated Press. So that’s coming up next here on Tiger Egg Radio.
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Chapter 4: Brett Martell interview
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with Todd and Glenn and Case. And we bring in our first guest of the night. That is Brett Martell, who’s
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been covering LSU and the Saints and Louisiana sports now for a couple decades for the Associated Press. Brett,
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thanks a lot for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. How you doing?
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Uh, doing great. Uh, enjoying the beautiful weather. Uh, glad to be on the show.
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Yeah, glad that you’re a part of the show.
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Uh, Brett, can you pronounce every member of the LSU men’s basketball team as of today and what city and nation in
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Europe they’re from and America? Go ahead.
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Uh I cannot. No, I cannot. [laughter] Uh but I know that uh I know that we’ve got a nice diver group. [laughter]
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That’s a good way to Brad. I’m I’m going to ask you what I asked Jeff and and Glenn and Casease earlier. Is do you is
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there any way that this team that will Wade is assembled by Nook Cook Crook and Cranny? Maybe crook’s not the right word. Um through the United Nations.
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Yeah. Do do you think there’s any way they actually finish 14th in the SEC?
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14th? Uh, no. No. I suspect they’ll be better than that. I mean, McNe State is supposed to be pretty good uh again this
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year. And definitely like one of the best in their conference, if not the best. And I think LSU beat him with
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basically six guys um in Lake Charles, right, in that first scrimmage.
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Yes. Um, and so I mean I know they played seven, but one of them played like what, 11 minutes, right? And then they only played six
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against Central Florida, right? And they beat them too, right?
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So, right.
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Um, yeah, I think uh I think they’ll be better than that. I mean, you know, it’s obviously uh took an unconventional
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approach and over completely overhauled the team and was relying on a lot of NCA waiverss and so forth to get it together. and maybe the best guy he got
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isn’t going to be able to play. And so, um, most likely won’t be able to play.
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And so, uh, yeah, I mean, I I wouldn’t expect any, uh, SEC championships or anything like that, but it could be a
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very interesting team. And certainly, it’s an interesting story for us.
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Do do you think that the crowd is just going to be the fan base is just going to be totally [snorts] interested in it
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because it’s almost like an underdog role from the very beginning even though they they are very talented team.
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I don’t I don’t think anymore. I don’t think Well, they’re they’re not they’re not going to be favored to win the SEC.
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No, but I think they’re going to be top six, something like that.
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I think they’re mysterious. You haven’t seen any of these guys play and you just hear I mean they’re four or
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five of them from Europe and some of them are 23 24 years old. There’s just a lot of intrigue about it.
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Right. Well well Brad let me ask you you’ve covered LSU since the 1990s.
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What do what do you think of how this place is from your view? Because you don’t cover LSU on a daily basis. You pop in every now and then pretty
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consistently while you’re covering the Saints. just what do you think of LSU under Lane Keifin and and Will Wade in the two big sports? H what do you what vibe do you get?
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I mean it’s definitely different. I would say I really took over covering LSU in 2006. I moved I I did back up
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Mary Foster in 99 a little bit. Um so I was here for the very end of the Jerry Dinardo era. I was here for John Brady,
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um, you know, Poke Time and, uh, and all that. But, um, yeah, I I think that this is this is
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different. I mean, you know, Will Wade was was kind of, uh, a renegade when he was here the first time, but, extremely
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popular with the fan base. And, um, it was the loudest I had seen the PMAC um,
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in quite a number of years when he had them rolling. and uh and now he’s even
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more so, you know. Um but it it seems like the the fan base that likes him is really passionately
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behind him and and emotionally invested in his success. Um it’s kind of an interesting dynamic. Um and it should
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make home games, you know, uh compelling really. Um especially if they can gel,
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you know, and develop a little synergy between all these like we’re talking about diverse pieces of various ages,
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transfers from various places or um like you said um you know minor professionals from overseas coming in and a translator. They’re probably going
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to need a translator. [laughter] I don’t know. We’ll see. Um but uh yeah,
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I I think I and obviously with Lane um he’s just he is a lightning rod, you
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know, um like very few people on a level that, you know, on a level that’s that’s more or less unrivaled, I
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think, among among coaches. It’s just he, you know, he’s so he’s he’s genuine.
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I mean, first of all, he’s genuine in a way. It’s just that he’s he’s he’s genuinely sometimes uncuth or or brash
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or whatever you want to say. Um but he uh yeah, I mean I think that the two of
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them combined is um it’s it’s interesting. I mean, I know it rubs some people the wrong way and maybe in the
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long run, um, LSU, you may live to regret aspects of this era, but for now, I I I guess
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I’m just really eager to see how it plays out.
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Yeah, it’s it’s it’s interesting. It’s almost I mean I don’t want to characterize it as the TMZ effect, but it’s like with those two guys and Kim
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Moy that LSU’s brand across the country, whether they’re winning or losing or getting upset in
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games they should win, what have you, they’re always in the news. They’re whether it’s Lane Wade or Kim Moy, they’re always making the news and
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and definitely always making social media, right? And that’s good for LSU’s brand, you know. It helps.
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I think it is good for Yeah, it could probably have a somewhat, but but yeah, you’re right.
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Well, I mean, I just keep thinking of what cracked me up. There was somebody did that um that meme on social media
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from Superman 2 cuz you remember there were those three those three uh I guess bad guys you call
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them one one woman and two men in Superman 2 that came from the same planet. They all wore black
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and played them as Wade and Kim instead of [laughter] you know [snorts] and it was it was
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funny the way it came out you know and I remember that the all that stuff. So, yeah, but you know what? Whatever.
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Everybody loves the AM. It is good. It’s at least people are interested.
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You’re right about that. The interest is very high in men’s basketball and football and it’ll be interesting game this Saturday on the planes. Brett, thanks a lot for your time tonight.
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Yeah, you got it. Glad to be on Brett Martell from the Associated Press.
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Chapter 5: Peter Burns interview
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polarmo, news and sports director, Louisiana Radio Network along with Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, and Case Kishnik as we
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continue on with Tiger Rag Radio. We bring in now Peter Burns from the SEC Network. Peter, how you doing tonight?
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I’m doing uh I’m doing a lot better with the way that Sam Lev and the Tigers looked [laughter] over over the weekend, man. And I know I know Kamario and Fluff are out, but you never know. 11:00 a.m.
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kickoff and you know with the turnovers that Sam had had. I mean that was probably I think he looked even better in that game than he did in the opener
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against Clemson which was an absolute butt whooping.
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Yeah. I’m sorry. And and Peter, you can’t you can’t have any empathy for Kamario Taylor and Fluff being out. You
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you just because LSU, you know, they’ve lost all Americans. Nobody’s lost more than LSU’s lost. So you can’t have any empathy for that. Well, I I got empathy
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for both, right? Because I mean, and Lane talked about that. Lane was like right off the right off the jump in his presser like, “Hey, we got two number sevens, arguably our two best players.
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They’re not playing, right?” I mean, so it is I mean, it’s it’s becomes like an NFL world that we live in and the
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NFLization of college football is is finally here. And I think that’s that’s why Lane and I I I talked to my staff about it whenever we were doing the show on Monday and his presser.
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What I do appreciate about Lane is when Lane is asked a question, I think he takes a beat and I think he’s as it gives as thoughtful of an answer as possible.
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I agree, you know, and and I think and and I think I appreciate that because some coaches will just give you theund, you know, the the coach speak and this and that, but I do think Lane uh is
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comfortable enough in his own shoes in those press conferences to tell it how it is. And some guys don’t do that. So, yeah, he was right. I mean, both teams are banged up. And that’s why this game
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against Auburn is so important because you beat Auburn, you get your by-week, you get right, and hopefully some of those guys come back and you and you can make a run right now.
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Yeah. And that’s it really is a very interesting, crucial time for LSU football right now. I mean, like because
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like you said, they could conceivably make a run and be in the college football playoffs. But that kind of leads me to my next question for you.
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Have you ever seen an SEC season where it’s been this difficult to figure out who the best teams actually are?
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I mean, I don’t know what it was like in the, you know, 19 38, [clears throat] you know, I mean, I have to ask Paul Fball about it, but I mean, like,
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literally, I don’t I don’t know. I mean, because we’ve never seen this type of parody in the league. And and again, that’s that’s just kind of like how if
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we’re talking about the Saints or we’re talking about the NFC South or anything in in in the NFL, we look at and go, “Hey, we got an idea for who should be good because basically a lot of it is
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quarterback and coach and if they got a couple of stars here and there, but outside of that, the NFL is built to be
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a a 500 league. It’s built to have everybody be pretty good and then a couple of outliers and they make the playoffs and they determine the best
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team.” And that’s what we’re seeing is that there is a a minimalization of how much parody there is in college
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football. And and and that’s why the decisions I kept watching that game, guys, against Mississippi State. And I after every score, I got more and more
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upset that Lane and Charlie didn’t go for it on fourth to one against Kentucky cuz then I’m sitting there going, “Holy hell.” I mean, you’d be sitting there at
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what 6-1 or 5-1 or whatever it is and all the chaos around the SEC. you’d be in the Catbird seat.
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Yeah. Well, which team in the SEC do you trust most right now?
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None of them. I mean, [laughter] I I still I still trust Georgia. Um because, you know, a it was a rivalry game,
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albeit it was at home. And I I honestly I don’t think Gunner was right. Gunner Gunner Stockton went out on the first play of the game, kind of got banged up.
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They took him out, did all the concussion protocol and and made sure he was okay. Then they put him back in, but he never looked like the same Gunner.
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And I thought Mike Boowbo did them a disservice because, you know, they kept trying to throw the ball deep and that’s just not their MO. Um, their MO is just,
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hey, they’re going to play good defense, run the ball extremely well, take a shot here and there and they just they started playing like Texas and trying to throw the ball over the map and that didn’t make a whole heck of a lot of
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sense. So, I still think Georgia top to bottom is the most consistent good team, but then there’s going to there’s going to be other teams here in this
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conference that if you catch them on a bad week, they’re going to look horrible. If you catch him on a good week, but you know, buckle the hell up because you’re in for a fight.
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What What uh what did you, Peter, this is Glenn, what uh what did you think of Auburn before the Georgia game?
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I thought Auburn was a team that was trying to find its identity with with Alex Gooish. And I spent some time with Alex at his house this this summer and
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we got to know him a little bit. and and I I I knew that there was a passion for what he wants to do, but I knew, hey, it’s kind of predicated on how many guys
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can buy in and what your quarterback play was going to be. And I was really excited when he got Byron Brown because I don’t know if you guys have interviewed Byron or know him. I’m
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telling you, he might be the smartest human being I’ve ever met. I mean like our you know just an absolute I mean
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again he he’s he’s so smart and cerebral and but I also noticed too it’s kind of
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like John Matir coming from Washington State no different than Byron Brown coming from South Florida is that the level of play that they were playing up
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against made him look really good but that margin of error like the SEC is just different and so you know I I think
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he’s learning and Alex Gooish is learning what they can get away with and they they had a great game plan against Georgia and caught them slipping.
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And how do you see how do you see this Auburn LSU game going?
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I I see it a lot guys on on how all these games have gone when you are coming off of a of of a big emotional
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victory, right? Because think about Miss, right? They get the big win, Lane’s homecoming, that whole that whole deal. And what happens the next week?
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They got absolutely trounced by Florida.
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like just Florida just absolutely just crushed them, you know, and then Florida gets a good win and then they get
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trounced backtoback weeks. I mean, you could argue, you know, Georgia, Alabama losing that game to Georgia, that was an emotional game. They come back and they
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drop another one. Georgia is the same thing. You know, they win that game.
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It’s highly emotional and they they end up losing to Auburn. So, you know, the Deep South rivalry is is a big deal.
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It’s it’s Magnolia Bowlesque. It’s, you know, it’s a rivalry game. I still think that LSU right now is a much better team
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than Auburn and I expect to see that on on down on the planes on Saturday.
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It doesn’t bother you that LSU hadn’t won a road game in the SEC in two years.
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No, because I I think we look at these stats now and I I think you know we could look at stats as kind of an outlier or not an outlier but just a way
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a clue of what was what this team has been trending. Nobody knows anything anymore, right? I mean there when you’re
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when you got 60 new players sometimes you even know if they they even know what the rivalries are but they don’t know what last year was like they don’t
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they don’t look at LSU and going well we haven’t run a road game cuz you know it was Brian Kelly it was it was Garrett Nusmeer it was a bunch of different
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players and so I think I I think for us to be able to carry over stuff yeartoyear is very much again like it is
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on Sundays in the NFL it it it changes and it doesn’t carry near as much weight as we the fans fans give it than the than the than the coaches do and the players do.
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Yeah, the game has is changing quite a bit and that’s definitely one of the ways it’s changing. Another way it’s changing is it looks like this will be
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the last year for the SEC championship game. Are you sad to see it go?
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Yeah. Uh I I am, but I’m also, you know, I’ve seen it slipping over the last couple of years. And you know, I can
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remember being there when Georgia went toe-to-toe.
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G I think that was a 2023 season where Georgia had won back-to-back national championships. They lose 27 to 24. They
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lose by a field goal and they don’t even play in the playoffs because it’s a four four team playoff. And I honestly thought Georgia was the best team in 2023. So I feel like that was the last
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one that was truly alive when when you walked into the building you’re like holy hell this is a big game. I think the last two years have just or last
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three years or whatever it’s been have been okay. Um that even though last year we knew Georgia and Alabama were going to play, but Bama was so banged up they
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didn’t even practice all week long and Georgia was just, you know, foaming at the mouth to get a little comp, you know, a little payback on them and
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especially for Kirby to get over the quote unquote Abama hump. So it it stinks. Um, but again, I I I don’t
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necessarily love the changes of college football, but you know, I can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. I just have to understand what it is forward. And if
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I got to lose the SEC championship game for my favorite team, LSU, to have more opportunities to win a national championship and be in a college
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football playoff, that’s I’m willing to do that.
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And Peter, how do you see LSU’s U schedule after Auburn? they’re open, then Alabama, Texas at home, and then at
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Tennessee. Uh it it it’s it’s fluctuated this season as to which one of those is the is the toughest. How do you see that that uh trio of games now?
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I mean, I I look at it it through the prism of all right, if you’re sitting there four and two, I think there’s going to be a lot of nine and three
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teams, maybe a couple 10 and two teams that are going to be in college football playoff contention. And I look at this and go, how do you how can you limit it
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to three losses? Because you could win them all. I mean, every every game is winnable. We we’ve seen that. Um at Tennessee looked a whole lot tougher
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right now, but I think LSU is still more dynamic, but it’s a tough tough tough place to play. But how do you go and win a couple of those games? And I I’m
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really curious to see how Texas bounces back because let’s say you lose Alabama.
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You don’t want to do that, right? I’m actually more afraid of te Alabama and Tennessee than I am Texas right now. Um,
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and so you gotta at least win, you know, you got to win two of those three. And if you win two of those three, you’re sitting there at nine and three. And now
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you’re hoping that Clemson at least, you know, doesn’t fall apart. And you’re hoping that they finish the season 9 and three or 10 and two or eight and four.
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So that way you can go out and say a 9 and3 team will get in as long as you got a power four victory. and and it was a
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decisive as decisive a power four victory as a 9 and3 team can get.
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Peter, you brought up Texas and I know we’re almost at the end of the segment, but what is what’s going on at Texas? Is Sarkeesian toast or what?
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Yeah. I mean, it’s just tough because you spend $50 million on a roster, people expect returns. No different than Lane right now. Oh, and and I think people get frustrated because at least
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with Lane, they’ve seen, hey, yeah, Levit turns it over, but I also see when this offense is humming, holy hell, it looks good. You can’t really say that
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about Texas. And that’s a couple of years where he’s supposed to be this juggernaut of an offensive mind and it hasn’t worked. I think they’re a little too complex. And I think, you know, they
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got punched drunk on on Arch Manning who is a good quarterback. I mean, people are saying he’s the worst, blah blah blah. That’s not that’s not fair. He is
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a good quarterback, but he’s not great and he’s not elite and you need to be elite at that position and they’re just
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not. He doesn’t make any changes right now. So, I mean, they gave their backups some first team reps this week. I think that’s more of just a kind of push arch,
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but I think they kind of get caught up in the name more so than anything else. Peter, you’re elite. We appreciate it.
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Thanks a lot for your time and your takes. We’ll talk to you again soon. Anytime, boy. See y’all.
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All right. Peter Burns of the SEC Network. We’ll be back after this here on Tiger Rag Radio. Now back to Tiger Rag Radio.
Chapter 6: SEC schedule and playoff debate
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff along with Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, and Case Kein. Good stuff from Peter Burns.
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So 2014 playoff is coming. Even though I said Todd was an idiot this summer that uh it would not be coming here. Um it’s
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getting here in a different way than I ever thought it would get here. I I just want to call him I don’t think you called him an idiot. Not that that would have been incorrect. No.
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Oh my god.
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No. [laughter] I don’t I don’t think you called him an idiot. I’m just kidding.
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What did I call What did I call You called me an idiot. [laughter] You called me No. I think what you said was that’s idiotic. Like you didn’t say he was an idiot. You said that notion.
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I was behaving like an idiot.
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No, no. I think I think you said what you were saying was idiotic.
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But I I think it was more centered on the fact that I told you that they were going to get rid of the SEC Championship game within two years. And you
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So you were wrong. They’re getting it rid of it within one year. So you [laughter] actually with the operative word is within.
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Okay. Okay. All right. We’ll let you go.
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Um but it’s at this point it’s the right move to make. Wouldn’t you agree?
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I think it’s been the right move to make for years. It’s it’s been going down for years, I think. But go ahead.
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Well, as far as getting rid of the SEC championship game or playing Okay. All right.
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I I I think it’s right now. It’s definitely the right move. And I we were just talking off the off, you know, off the air, but this whole nine game SEC
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schedule it is just stupid. I mean, why why would he do that for TV for T? I mean, they didn’t get
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I don’t know the exact numbers, but they I’ve been told we didn’t get anything
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out of for the nineame schedule. The SEC didn’t get anything.
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No. Yeah, the SEC teams, the schools did not get anything. That doesn’t mean they didn’t get anything, but it’s like it wasn’t enough.
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He got hoodwinkedked by the Big 10 because he the the belief was that the Big 10 was going well Big 10 had already been at
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nine games, but then the Big 10 would agree to play a non power play a power school from a non
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from another conference, which they never agreed to do. And and I and you know this is a little off the cuff, but I was watching the Georgia Alabama I
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mean the Georgia uh Auburn game this weekend and before the game while Georgia was waiting to come out from under the goal post.
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Kirby Smart, they were talking about Kirby Smart and what he was saying before the game and he was like, “Okay, we’re we’re cooked right now. We are
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mentally and physically exhausted as a team. I just hope we can make it through the day.” They were just you only
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who was he saying that to he was they they were quoting what he had said. They were reporting what he had said to at a press conference or something.
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Yeah. Whatever where I don’t know where he said it but where he told them but the announcers were reporting it. And I stopped and I was thinking about I was
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like hey I mean you’re only you only six games into the season.
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They played five straight SEC games without a buy.
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And that’s exactly what they were referring to. He’s like, he’s like, “This is just you have no idea how this is taking it out of us, right?” Cuz an SEC team playing nine
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games is different than a Big 10 team playing nine games, conference games.
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And Tony Patiti just outsmarted Greg or hoodwinkedked him, I I believe. and the
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the uh you know the balance that Sanki was always preaching when he stopped winning national championships.
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You know, he should have listened to his his own statement because because of the balance and that good teams toward the bottom more so than other leagues.
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That’s why the nineame schedule should not have been approved by the SEC until they went to 24. Well, I think as Lane
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said too, until you got in a you got an assurance from the College Football Playoff Committee that you would take into account strength of schedule.
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Yeah.
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Um I mean, which they still have not done, right? But yet they still went ahead and think he did that.
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Um now, as a fan, I love it.
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But because there’s been more there’s been better games in the SEC.
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Well, it’s like Peter said, it’s it’s parody. It’s like the NFL now. And the SEC really is from top to bottom.
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Yeah, there’s parody. I mean, you know, every once in a while there’s a really good Georgia team or a really good uh Alabama
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team or a really good LSU team like 2019, but for the most part, they’re they’re pretty much even.
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Yeah. And I find it hard to watch a game that’s not an SEC game. I mean, the BYU Notre Dame game. That was a very interesting game.
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Ohio State’s had some big games. Yeah, but it’s it’s really it’s a it’s a league apart.
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Miami Florida State, it was intriguing at the end there. Yeah, but I can’t watch Notre Dame, man.
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I I don’t know what it is about. It’s just disgusting.
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Well, what is disgusting is how these teams are basically just trying to get around it
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like Notre Dame softening their schedule so much.
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But it but it is it is smart though because that’s how you win the national championship.
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I understand that. It’s just it just sends the wrong message, right?
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It just sends the wrong Hey, I don’t think Indiana’s worried about sending the wrong message.
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I I understand, but to me it does. And it aggravates me. And I’m glad Indiana lost. I’m glad Notre Dame lost. And Notre Dame can lose to Miami on November
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7th and still somehow get in there. How about the Big 12 somehow figuring out that Texas Tech, Utah, and BYU, their
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top three teams, they figured out this schedule. So this year, those three teams don’t play each other to give themselves a chance to get three teams in the in the college.
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Pretty smart. They might not like it, but that is that is pretty that is pretty [laughter] good leadership from a commissioner, which the SEC is not getting.
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You know what I think is going to happen, though? I really do. And I’m not being a homer here. I think that LSU is going to beat Auburn, and I think they’re going to beat Alabama, and I
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think they’re going to beat Texas, and I think it’s going to come down to Tennessee because I think they’re going to beat Arkansas.
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Yeah. Yeah. that could uh that could be a playoff for for the for the playoffs.
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But, you know, you say that, you know, it’s not written down that that the CFP is going to take uh consideration of um
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schedule, but yet every year the SEC gets more teams in the playoffs with worse records than other conferences.
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So, it it’s almost like they subconsciously do.
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Well, let’s see. Let’s see. They did last year, but it’s not in the rules. But I know it’s not happen.
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You only got Alabama in there with three losses last year because they lost in the SEC championship.
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But you had five SEC teams in there last year.
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Boy, but just think last year they almost did not put Miami in.
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Well, that’s what I’m saying. You could have put Vanderbilt in over Miami. Yep.
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I mean, they didn’t though. All right, let’s take our final break of this hour. More of Tiger Rag Radio after this. We now return to Tiger Rag Radio.
Chapter 7: Jordy Hultberg interview
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Only got about a minute or so left here.
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We’ll get back to some more basketball talk. Jordy Halberg will join us coming up after the top of the hour break, but uh just want to clarify a little
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something I said there. I mean, I would rather have the 12 team playoff. I think that or as Nick Sabin suggested, 16.
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16 makes sense to I think 24 is a little bit too much, but uh I if all the other conferences are going to and teams or
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Notre Dame or whatever just basically stack the deck so they can get into the tournament. And meanwhile, you have the
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possibility as Brad Crawford from CBSports.com, one of his bold predictions for the second half of the season is that you
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could have five SEC teams finish with nine and three records. And that’s quite possible. Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, LSU, and Tennessee. It it’s it’s easy.
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It’s a it’s it’s something that you really I I know he calls it a bold prediction, but it’s something that could easily happen.
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But well, don’t you think that four of them will get in and maybe in a 12 team playoff? I don’t know. I had five last year.
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But but if you have, let’s say, Notre Dame has two losses and you have three Big 12 schools that have either one or
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two losses. Miamiy’s getting in. You know, Indiana, Ohio State’s gonna get in. Who knows? UCLA could get in. I I mean, all
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the SEC still gets a lot of respect come playoff time, even if they supposedly don’t look at strength the schedule. They still got a lot of cash.
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We’ll see. Jordy Halberg will join us coming up here after the top of the hour break. Stay tuned for that as we continue on here on Tiger Rag Radio. Y’all ready? Y’all ready?
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two of the show. Coming up a little bit later on, Lon Phillips Sullivan of LSU Odyssey.com. But first, let’s get back
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to talking some hoops. And uh the new voice on LSU radio broadcast along with Chris Blair is a familiar voice. Uh we’ve all heard him, we all know him.
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Former LSU Tiger Jordy Halberg joins us on the show. Jordy, welcome. Um welcome to Tiger Rag Radio. And I know you got
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to be pumped to have an opportunity for uh to be there in the in the front row for Will Wade part two.
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Uh never a dull moment. Hey, first of all, thank you all for having me. Three hosts to one. [laughter] Wow. Wow. Little zone defense here, Jordy.
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Tiger Rag Radio must be [laughter] off the ch. Maybe y’all are getting that NIL money. I don’t know. [laughter] Uh, well, you were triple teamed at
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Dillisowl, Jordan. They triple teamed you there, man. It didn’t work.
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[laughter]
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Don’t be talking about that. You know, Rumble did the same thing, so I don’t want to hear all that stuff. Um, but it was it’s a it’s been a really
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interesting day. A good day for uh Will Wade. Uh, and yes, I’m very excited. I think they’re going to end up having a
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really good team and I get a front row seat to to watch it and to uh share some insights along the way. So, yes, very excited about it.
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Yeah. What do you think of the the team, Jordan? They got a lot of height. I mean, they got some sevenfooters, uh, Michael Rusk, uh, Bryce [snorts]
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Desair, uh, I I really like Donovan Dent, and now they got Sky Clark. Those are two good fifth year seniors from
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UCLA. uh you see him as maybe a a top five SEC team.
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It’s so early to say. I haven’t seen any of these other teams play to be quite honest with you. So, I’m going to defer for that. But, but what I did see
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without the new additions. I saw a team that had, you know, what a coach loves and that is a dynamic point guard who
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who handles it, can distribute it. We saw against UCF, boy, he he can get to the rim and he can score. Maybe not the
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best three-point shooter out there, but um when he gets more consistent hitting free throws, uh he’s he’s big, Kyle.
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He’s a good player. Rusek, uh wow, he is um he’s all that in a handful. Uh we’ll see what happens when he gets up against
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uh physical uh frontline players in the SEC. But what makes him special is he can take you outside and he’s got that that ball
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handling and footwork where he is uh pretty adept at shooting the three. You had the three-point shooter in uh Abdir
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Abdi Basher um who 44% for his career, hit six of 12 against UCF. You got the guy that can’t shoot beyond three feet
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but gets to the rim and can really hustle and do a lot of things and Mo Diabato. Uh, but I think the guys that
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they have now in uh, Niang, in Desair and Sky Clark, those guys are going straight to the starting lineup. Um, I’m
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really curious to watch Niang play. He is one of those. I I saw a picture. He’s playing in Europe and guess who he’s guarding in in a European game? Luca
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Donic. What? [laughter] Wow.
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What? There’s no Luca Donices playing in the SEC. I’m sorry. So, he’s guarding him. It just goes to show you the level
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of competition he’s played against. So, long story short, uh Will Wade’s won every uh it’s always an exciting style of
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basketball. He lets you have some creativity on the offensive end. Uh they’re getting better defensively, but the key addition to me is the share.
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He’s a big 611 big body guy. Now, you got some rebounding help and it lets Rick uh float around the perimeter a
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little bit more. So, I think they have a really good team. Um, I’m not so sure what’s going on around the SEC yet until
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we see them play. Uh, but, uh, look, he’s he’s gone to the NCAA tournament so many times and with the field expanded,
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it would be a total upset if they don’t get, uh, aren’t playing meaningful games in March.
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Jordy, uh, the the it it’s just been amazing the excitement level around this program. Uh I I know you’ve been close
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to the program uh through thick and thin since your playing days. Um but it has been a just an injection of energy that
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Will Wade has brought in. I I I mean I just can’t believe these two exhibition games against MC and UCF how much
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interest there were in those games. I mean it’s just amazing. uh what do you make out of it as someone that has been
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a big supporter of this program again like I say through some really tough lean years to some really good moments
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uh some final four trips with you know obviously with John that John Brady team so how do you how do you what do you make out of it?
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Well you know LSU basketball has um some very very loyal fans through thick and thin and they have been like Moses of
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late. They’ve been roaming the desert with no no hope whatsoever. Will Wade has proven that he wins. Um first year
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goes to the NIT in one of the bigger better games we’ve seen in a long time with the the animosity with UL uh
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Lafayette and LSU in that Bob Marlin game. It was it was a packed house. Then he goes to the NCAA tournament every
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other year every year other than when COVID cancelled all of postseason play alto together. So, he has proven he can
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win. And when you win in LSU basketball, you got to show it. And if you show it, the people will come. And that is a
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tremendous homec court advantage. But you got to be good. LSU football’s different. LSU baseball’s different. LSU
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baseball’s always good. They’re always in contention. LSU women’s basketball with Kim Moy always in contention.
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Football, whether they’re good or bad, people want to go because of the the social event. There’s only one a week and it’s not every week. Basketball,
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it’s a Tuesday night or a Wednesday night or a Saturday. So, you better be good and if you are, they’ll pack the
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place. And again, Will Wade has proven that. He has uh it’s a fun style of play. He’s an emotional coach. Uh he
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shows you that he wants to win. He loves to win. He’s one of the best talent evaluators I’ve ever seen to be quite
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honest with you. No offense to Matt McMahon, but with just the five players he’s out had on the court in two exhibition games, those five were better
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than any contingent that Matt had during his time here. He just knows good players. Um, so the hope springs eternal
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aspect of it and that’s why there’s so much excitement because basketball is a when they’re good, it’s a great venue.
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It’s two hours. It’s climate controlled.
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You don’t have to worry about a 4hour uh departure uh in stuck in traffic. It’s great. Bring the kids, bring everybody.
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It’s a It’s a great venue. And let’s face it, some of the greatest athletes to ever play sports at LSU were on the basketball court. So, um I’m excited.
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It’s going to be fun. I think they’re going to be really, really good. I really do.
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Talking to Jordy Hulkberg here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jordy just recently named the uh new color radio analyst uh replacing
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John Brady on LSU radio network. So you can listen to Jordy all season and in in future seasons. And and Jordy, when was
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the last time before last week that you that you did a game on radio? Wow.
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Because you sounded you sounded like you’d been doing it every night. I mean, I gotta tell you, you sounded great, man. I listened to most of the games.
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Very very you’re very very kind. Thank you. Um, it’s been a while since I’ve done radio. I’ve done television my, you
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know, ever since uh LSU started Tiger Vision way back in the early early 80s. Um, Right. Right. So, I and I’ve worked on every network.
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I’ve even I’ve done games with Jeff Polarmo as my playbyplay guy. So, so we’ve been around the block and done a lot of things. I’ve done some color on
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the radio uh in the past, but that’s been a long long time ago. Uh, but thank you for the compliment. Um, just got to
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get out, get a feel for the the partnership between Chris and myself.
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And, um, you got to be quick. You got to be succinct because, um, there’s no time. People want to know what’s going
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on and and where the ball is and what the score is. So, um it it’s going to uh it’s a work in progress, but for for a
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debut, I thought I thought it was a Look, it’s a lot of fun. And if you have fun with it, I think that will uh uh show other people, and I think they’ll get some enthusiasm out of that as well.
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But I promise to be upbeat, uptempo, and I think uh I think Jeff can attest
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always um high energy uh no matter what the game, no matter what the score, no matter what the opponent.
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Jordy, going back to the uh the roster there, it kind of sounded like you expect some of those new additions that came through today to slot right into the starting lineup. You’ve got the the
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UCLA guards in the back court. Do they go big with both Rusk and uh Desair down low? Does Nang go in for Diabate on the
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wing? What do you think that that initial starting five looks like when they tip off?
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I um when they take on LSU New Orleans, I think it’s going to be uh Donovan Dent. I call him the 3D downhill Donovan
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Dent if he can get to the rim. Um I think I think Sky Clark’s going to move in at the other spot. I think Naang’s going to be on a wing and I think
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they’re going to go with two bigs. I think they’re going to go with Rusk and I think Dair will be there as well. That’s a big lineup, man.
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It’s a It’s a big lineup and other teams have to adapt and adjust to it. Um and then you know you don’t need 10 11
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players in basketball. You get eight good players, you’re good to go that way. No question.
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You know Dale Brown had his best teams when he when he had seven or eight players because nobody was ever looking over their shoulders. If you made a
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mistake, you knew you weren’t getting pulled and coming out. So, you gain confidence that way. You get a rhythm that way. Everybody starts to understand
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their role and how they play with one another. Where this guy wants the ball to shoot it, where this guy likes the ball on the low block. Um, so eight
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players is all you need. And I think they’ve got eight pretty darn good ones with some versatility. The one thing the
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one thing I’m worry about is just how good will they be from uh the three-point line. I I think they’ll be a
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good inside. Uh I think Basher is a good good three-point shooter, but after that, I’m not sold yet, but but we’ll see. We’ll see. Time will tell.
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Yeah, I think Sky Clark and Donovan Dent can do Well, especially Sky can do okay uh from three-point land. Uh, but Jordy,
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I got to ask you. I remember watching you when you did the SEC TV games. Are you going to bring back I was listening for it the other night. Are you going to bring back the nylon song?
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Oh my god. [laughter] Well, that was kind of an ode to uh a gentleman that helped me an awful lot in my career in Joe Dean. You al he always
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called it string music. So, uh yeah, I that may come back. Yeah, thanks for remembering that.
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There you go, man. I can’t give I can’t give everything on an exhibition game that not the entire network is listening
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to. So you you got to give little bits and pieces along the way.
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All right, Jordy. Well, thanks a lot, man. You’re right. You’re going to bring the energy and you could tell that even for an exhibition game. Uh when LSU won
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that game, you would have thought they just uh [laughter] moved on to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
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Let’s be honest, like Will Wade said before these guys got eligible. It can’t get much worse than where we were. Yeah.
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So, every win, every win, whether it counts or not, it’s a win, baby. Let’s win.
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And now I I I said it and again, no offense to Matt McMahon, that was the most entertaining game since 2022. I mean, it just was it was even though
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they played six guys and and you know, I mean, it was it was just it’s it is it’s an interesting style of basketball.
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Entertaining. I told Donovan dead after the game, I said, “Son, you you’ll never be in as good a shape as you are right
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now. They don’t come off the floor.” And
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[laughter]
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I mean, I said, “You’ll never be in this good a shape in the years to come, so enjoy it.” And he smiled and laughed and all that stuff. And uh but now they some
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help is on the way. Yes. I think they’ve got eight players. Uh Bender is going to be a nice player down the road, but I don’t think they’re counting on him this
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year that much. Um, but I sit tight, man. I’m telling you. And they play some really good games against teams that
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will test them. They go play Gonaga. Uh, they play Houston to name just a few.
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So, uh, I like that aspect. That gets you ready. That gets you to know exactly where you stand and what’s about to hit
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you once you get into this monster of a league.
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Hey Jordy, thanks a lot. We’ll be talking throughout the course of the season. Looking forward to it.
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Thank you, buddy. Thanks. Hey, the three-headed monster. I just want to get on that payroll, man. Three home. [laughter] Unbelievable.
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We We’ll try to find a spot for you.
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All right. Jordy Halberg, former LSU Tiger and now him and Chris Blair will be handling the uh the call on radio and they and they did. They they sounded
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like they’ve been calling games uh together for a long time. I I I like John Brady’s style. I I love the education that he was able to bring
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across the radio, but looking forward to what Jordy has to bring this season.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back.
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Oh, back here on Tiger Radio. Jeff Polarmo along with Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, and Case Kishnik. Uh Auburn
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coming off the huge win against Georgia and um let’s hear a little bit of Lane Kitman, what his thoughts were. The fact
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that Auburn played the uh game of its season so far and got a huge signature victory between the hedges.
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No, that’s a that’s a real thing. Relief syndrome is is real and doesn’t mean we’re going to win this week and they’re going to lose, but that is a real thing.
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That’s a real challenge. Um, and especially now, I I say all the time, I think it’s a harder challenge now because of all the access on their
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phones of of people and media and all the stuff they see in social media. So, you know, start to be told how great you are, you know, when you have those ones.
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I was rooting for them at the end of the game to win, you know, when we were playing them next week. Um, just cuz I just makes it more challenging.
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I I agree with Lane. I think a lot of time I I’m one of these guys that look at and see what did you do the last game or you always hear about the phrase it’s
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not who you play it’s when you play them and Auburn may have just played it’s best game of the year and there’s no way
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they’re going to be able to match that again. And I think Lane what he was saying right there at the end was he he was pulling for Auburn to win because of
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the relief syndrome not because it makes it more of a challenge. He kind of threw that in at the end, I think. But it’s amazing. I’m watching the Nicks, excuse
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[clears throat] me, the Nick saving uh documentary on uh Disney Plus and uh uh right now. It’s really It’s really good.
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And there’s a part of a lot of it when Lane is at Alabama and he’s and he was talking about how he had a lot of
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trouble understanding the relief syndrome at that time. Yeah. And and now he does. And he was just talking [snorts] about it. Well, here’s Auburn coach Alex Golish.
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Now they all got everybody telling them how good they are, you know, and like I still have 500 some unread texts on one phone and god knows how many on the
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other. Like after the Florida game I only had like three and two of them said I suck and one of them was my wife that said, “Man, like maybe you don’t suck as
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bad as everybody says, but we suck, you know?” So like, so there’s now 497 more people that just said how good we are.
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Like somewhere in the middle is probably the truth. I don’t suck, but probably not a genius either. Like somewhere in the middle, you know? I can humble myself. Can we all humble oursel on that?
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So, what do you think we’re going to see out of Auburn on Saturday?
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I think they suck. [laughter] I I I think that they’re going to play um they’re going to play well. I think
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it’s exactly what Lane said on Monday in his press conference. You know, you he’s trying taken away from the fact that
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LSU’s lost eight consecutive SEC games on the road. He’s like, it really doesn’t matter. It comes down to who makes the less mistakes, who executes
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the best. I think uh I think Auburn’s going to play well. I think actually LSU with Sam Levit, believe it or not, is uh
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has an advantage that Georgia did not have. And I think LSU is going to be able to take advantage of Auburn’s defense better than Georgia could.
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Why do you say that? Hold on. Why Why do you say they have an advantage?
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Because I think that LSU’s passing game is stronger than Georgia’s [laughter] passing game. And I think they’re going to be able to exploit uh Auburn’s
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defense, especially on a second level, more than Georgia could.
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I think uh the tough thing for LSU is the fact that Auburn won that game, but they won it on the road and now they’re
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coming home. So, the place is going to be more electric than usual because Auburn is starved. I mean, Auburn is is is uh this would be their sixth straight
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losing season, which is what LSU had back in the 90s, you know. So they are extremely hungry. This is the first time
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they really had there was a couple of seasons in the in the recent past where they might have could have had a like a six or seven win season. You know, this
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is really their their first really what looks like a really good season. So that place is liable to explode before the game.
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I think it’s going to be electric. I think I think any LSU Auburn game is going to be more and you never know what to expect.
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Plus, they haven’t played in a few years. That that adds to it. and and you never know what to expect. I mean, there could be a fire, there could be an earthquake, there could be cigars
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bursting out all over the place. Things are going to happen that are not expected, but I think at the end of the day, LSU breaks its its losing streak on
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the road. And like I said earlier, I really do believe that this is going to be an exciting fiveweek period for LSU football.
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Auburn, do you think Auburn is better than Kentucky and Miss? I no.
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Okay. You think that you think they’re better than Kentucky? I think that no.
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Okay. I don’t I I don’t and I don’t I think that if Georgia wouldn’t have been worn out that and and I and I agree with
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what Peter Burns said earlier. I think Gunnar Stockton was not Gunner Stockton in that game. Uh I’m not taking anything
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away from Auburn, but I do believe that LSU is the better football team and I think LSU is actually coming into its own right now.
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Right. And I don’t think that LSU is going to make the type of mistakes that they made against Kentucky. They clearly should have won the Kentucky game. They
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clearly, in my mind, should have won the Old Miss game, especially had they shown up in the first half defensively. And I don’t think you’re going to have those problems against Auburn.
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Definitely could have won the Kentucky game more so than the Old Miss game. But they had a shot in Old Miss, too. Um, I I think Old Miss is is better than
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Kentucky and might be uh still might be one of the better teams in the in the league, but but man, this is a this is a tough game.
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I think Georgia, you know, the way the SEC we’ve talked about the parody earlier. I think that Georgia is going [music] to is going to just clobber Miss
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and [music] I think that, you know, talk about three five three loss teams.
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There’s going to be multiple three loss teams and a lot of two loss teams.
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Yeah, there certainly will. We’ll be back after this here on Tiger Egg Radio.
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Chapter 10: Lon Phillips Sullivan interview
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Palmo along with Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo, and Case Kishnik. Let’s bring in our next guest from lsu Odyssey.com.
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It’s Lon Phillips Sullivan. Lon, how you doing tonight?
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What is up my Tiger Egg crew? How are you guys doing tonight? Hey, we’re doing well. We’re doing well.
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So, Lon, this is Todd. Uh, I got to got to get you to early on to promise not to make any inflammatory comments, okay?
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We’re going to calm down, right?
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Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. [laughter] We will. We’ll be all calm. No more inflammatory remarks.
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That’s Todd’s sense of humor, Lon. I’m I’m just I’m just I want you to be inflammatory. I want you to be yourself.
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All right. I want you I want you to tell me, Lon, I want you to tell me that Lane Kein has figured out how to win on the road. Lane
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Kein has got the depth that he needs. uh even though he’s brought in all these new players and rebuilt this roster and
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had these major injuries that you know when they go to Auburn this weekend they start the next six weeks of uh LSU football that’ll we’ll remember forever.
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Tell me that.
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Oh man. I mean, that’s that’s kind of what I talked about on on our show just the other day is like I don’t want to look ahead because this game is so
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important and it’s it’s such a dangerous, you know, game going to Jordan Air this weekend. But you kind of have to say like that’s what’s necessary
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for LSU to get into a playoff is they’re going to have to win out and you’re going to have to win three SEC road games. you haven’t won an SEC road game
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since, you know, the the Honky Badger game against Arkansas in 2024. So, I mean, it’s it’s been ages. So, you’re
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going to have to do it in Jordan Hair this weekend. And that this is the team that just went on the road to to Athens
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and took down the number one team in the country uh in, you know, doing all these crazy things, blocking field goals,
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scoring on trick plays. I mean, they did everything in that game to win. and it was it was wild. So, it’s going to be a it’s going to be a monumental task this weekend.
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What what are some of your biggest memories of an LSU Auburn game? You know, they’ve had so many memorable games through the years. What What is What’s your biggest memory?
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Oh, the bird the bird catch from Flynn in 2007. Um my gosh. Um that season.
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Can’t see me. Can’t see me. Demetrius Bird. He was a great player, man. I I I was really privileged to uh do an
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interview with him a few years ago. He’s he’s fallen on hard times, Demetrius Bird, but but I’m always rooting for him to to turn it around.
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Um absolutely love that guy. Um I just that that moment is is etched in my mind. That season is filled with moments
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like that. The Florida game, even even in defeat, the the triple overtime loss to Arkansas. There’s so many of these
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moments in 2007. Um, and we kind of saw echo e echoes of the 2007 season college football wise uh this this last weekend.
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Maybe are there some uh 2007 vibes uh LSU’s way uh this year with with the two
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loss win uh team potentially uh winning a title.
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They lost at Kentucky that year in a in a close game.
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Exactly. Another another triple overtime game from 07. Yes. Yes. Well, Lon, let
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me ask you. Um, what do you think LSU needs to make sure it does or doesn’t do to pull out the win at Jordan Hair?
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Oh, god. Turnovers. Um, you know, Auburn in that game forced three turnover turnovers against Georgia, but it’s
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really when they did and then how they capitalized off the turnovers that that really sealed Georgia’s fate. But
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really, you you have a quarterback that leads the SEC in passing yards. Sam love it. the other quarterback that leads the SEC in completions, but he also leads
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the SEC in interceptions. And and you know, finally, he goes a game without having an interception this last week.
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Uh four touchdowns, you know, just under a 300 yard game, 31 completions, a few drops. Um you know, really just just
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really poised and accurate. finally he’s finally uh getting that rhythm as a as a passing quarterback, but but at the same
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time, we’re still seeing batted passes at the line. We’re still seeing, you know, potential havoc there from from
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the passing game. It’s not all on Sam Levit. There’s been a lot of, you know, drop passes that go flipping up in the air, those type of things. But Sam Lev
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has got to find a way to not throw an interception in this game. That’s number one. really you you’ve got to generate the running game if you can get Dylan
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Jones, you know, fully going, fully active in this game, man. We we’ve seen what he can do as a receiver as well out
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of the backfield, but but if you can really get the offensive line in some type of rhythm and and get the running game going, it just opens up everything you want to do offensively from there.
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So, I mean, you handle those two things right there, you you you’re off to a great start. But the defensive line, I
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think, is going to be a huge factor for LSU. If you can stop Byron Brown getting going in in his running game, which is
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it. This is a quarterback that usually is going to hurt LSU. You know, you’re looking at what Byron Brown did against
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Georgia. He’s almost got almost 500 rushing yards this season already, five rushing scores.
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is a stout dual threat quarterback that usually hurts, you know, a Blake Baker LSU defense that we’ve seen in recent
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years, but LSU has had success against Lorra Sellers in a few of these games. Knocked them out of one of these games.
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There there is signs of life in this defense. They’ve I mean, if there’s going to be a defense that’s finally going to overcome the dual threat
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quarterback curse for LSU, it’s got to be this year’s defense, right? Um, you know, the injuries hurt, not having
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Deshawn Spears, not having Whit Weeks, it it it’s it’s a big deal for your defense, but I I really think they have
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enough to stop Byron Brown. It it’s it’s going to be another tight, close game, but he’s still going to get his joy.
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Still going to make his plays against against this uh LSU defense. The question is how many? And I think all of that is up to the defensive line. If if
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we have a good game from the defensive line pass rushing wise, run stuffing wise, then then we can really start
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dialing up those exotic exotic blitzes, and maybe Blake Baker can get a little more creative on third and long and and situations like that.
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Lon, are are you a little surprised that with all the players that Kein brought in that that the interior offensive line
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has been struggling as much as they have this year?
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Oh, yeah. I mean, I thought uh I thought Devin Harper would would play a role. Um I thought Aloo Ba uh you know, getting
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him from Maryland, like okay, that guy’s played over a thousand career snaps coming in and he really started the season like you thought he would. And
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now you you see him and then you Sadder White has come in from Bo Bordalon and both have have been really shaky. I’m
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glad you pointed that out and Kein actually addressed that and said even the bad plays that our tackles have made
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has be become, you know, be been because of the guards.
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And so he he really called his guards out and the guard play out is a return to Bo Bordalon something that they might
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want to entertain is, you know, maybe going to Devin Harper finally. I mean, that guy has barely any experience. I think three or four games if that of
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experienced Deon Harper, but uh before at least he played at LSU. Um I’m not sure how many snaps he has this year, but it’s not it’s not many at all. Uh Darren Stray potentially another option.
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Um I I I figured he might play right tackle, but it looks like he is also someone who could be in there at right guard or left guard. But Aluba, I think they’re going to stick with obviously.
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um he he’s too much of a veteran and and you have, you know, a very short supply of veteran offensive linemen who maybe
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one snap they’re out of their minds, but the next snap they can get they can get it together. I’d like to see them give Bo Bordalon another chance, but maybe
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that ship has sailed. It’s it’s it’s got to be Dylan Jones making guys miss though a lot in this in this uh rushing game to get this rushing game going.
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It’s been seven missed tackles for us this last uh this last game. He’s constantly in the top 15 of of missed tackles for us uh nationally. He’s
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constantly having to make guys miss at the line of scrimmage to make some plays. And I think once again, you’re going you’re going to see that uh being
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being called upon in this game. Of all the newcomers, Dylan Jones, Sam Levit, all the receivers, all the offensive
Chapter 11: Game predictions and wrap-up
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linemen, couple of the defenders, who’s stood out the most to you on this particular team,
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all the newcomers, all the transfer guys. Um, man, that’s a good question. Obviously, it’s got to be Prince Will.
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um just just being able to to really address the pass rushing issue at LSU and really just set a bar of leading the
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nation in tackles for loss and sacks for most of the season until uh I believe this last week, having a sack in most of
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the games, having three sacks in one game, two in in a couple as well, just just really stuffing the the stat sheet,
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but also paving the way for guys like Duce Gerald and now Jordan Ross who had a hell of a game this last weekend. Uh,
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six pressures, a sack, two and a half TFLs with Prince Will off the field. So, um, it’s got to be Prince Will just
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because he’s been so dynamic and dominant up front at a position that and a statistic that LSU have been suffering
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at. I mean, guys, we only had 27 and a half sacks last year on defense. That
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was five fewer than that hideous, legendarily awful Matt House defense.
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Five fewer this season already through seven games. We are at 26. We are about to to to go across that Rubicon of how
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many sacks we’ve had uh this, you know, compared to last season already in just seven games this year. And Prince Will big big key to that.
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Speaking of Prince Will, um do you think he he plays Saturday?
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Oh, I hope I I I it looked like it was more out of precaution um than anything because I think everyone knew at 14
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nothing the game was pretty much already over. There was just no signs of life from Mississippi State. But yeah, from what I’ve been told it’s just um
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precaution, but you know, with head injuries, you never know how things um might unfold. So, I’m not going to say
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much more than that. But I’m just I I think he’s in a good spot to play and I think I think he likely will.
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Lon, you um you seem to have some inside information at times that that no one else has, including us. Um I wanted to
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ask you about when do you think Trey Green is back? He looks pretty healthy on the sidelines. When do you think we see him again? Alabama. Go ahead.
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[laughter]
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you know, he’s in he’s in that better he’s in a better shape than than Whit Weekes is for coming back, but both have
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that outside chance of of returning. And Trey Green, I think you’re either looking at Alabama or Texas. And I think
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I think it does depend on LSU’s win loss record. I got to be honest, by that point, I think that’s just kind of the strategy I’ve heard is is they could
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shut him down if there’s nothing to play for um out of preservation and then comes back another season. Um not not
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the situation that he would have wanted, uh the trajectory he would have wanted, but that’s kind of that cards he has dealt. Hopefully, we can see LSU beat
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Auburn. we enter in the bye-week and we can get him back for Alabama or Texas, but he is in a lot better shape to to
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return. Uh, however, I guys, I’m so worried about that becoming a theme where we can’t really cover him. We
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can’t really double team him because it really we he still can can beat the double team and it takes away from
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somebody else and and he’s hard to body like go for his knees, go for his legs.
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I I’m very worried that that’s going to become a theme with how to stop TDZ Green is people uh defenders going low
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on Tradez Green to try and stop him and that’s that’s what we saw exactly in that game that has led to this injury. I hope that does not become a theme.
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Yeah, I hope so too. Or hope not to because he is definitely going to be probably a top five, top seven pick in
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the NFL draft if he doesn’t even come back. So, it would make sense for him to think about that and maybe not come
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back, especially if they don’t need him, like if they were to lose to Auburn. Uh, but if they do beat Auburn, I think it would be hard to keep him off the field.
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Absolutely. This is this is a gamer.
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Trade as Green’s a gamer and he he is a little bit old-fashioned, old school with that. But let’s be real, it is a
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business and um some of these injuries that we’re talking about are pretty nasty that that both him and Whit are coming back from. And so and so there’s
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got to be there’s there’s there’s got to be something for them to play for to put them out in that situation, especially Whit weeks. Um he he’s given so much of
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his body to LSU. Three injuries on the same leg, the same side. Uh, we got to be really careful with him.
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And the first one occurred in a meaningless bowl game. That’s the That’s the Texas Bowl. The horror of it all.
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Third tier Texas. [laughter] All right. Hey, thanks a lot. We appreciate it. Thanks, Lon. We’ll talk to you again soon.
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Hey, you guys are absolutely the best. Todd, keep the up the wonderful riding.
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Glenn, you are the best provocator of all time. You guys, you the Tiger Rag crew. Peace out. LSU Odyssey out. We love you guys. Go Tigers.
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All right, Lon Phillips Sullivan from ls odyssey.com. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio after this.
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This is Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polarmo along with Todd Horn and Glenn Gilbo. I got a question to ask you guys. I was wondering if you knew this stat.
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Maybe you already know this statistic.
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There’s been 32 games played in the SEC at onampus
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venue. So basically I’m excluding the Texas Oklahoma game.
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How many of those games has the home team won?
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I I would you want is this of the 32? Yeah.
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20 25 I would say 20. 16 and 16. Golly, that’s amazing.
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Time for LSU to win a road game.
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Yeah. Well, I think they will. I I know I’ve said it multiple times. I think it’s it’s going to happen now. And then the two best teams they played this year were on the road. That that is a true fact.
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It is. And the three SEC teams they played at well, excuse me, the the three power four teams they played at home, their offenses were garbage.
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How much do we know about LSU’s defense?
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And if you don’t have Prince Will, that’s a huge loss this Saturday.
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Well, if you don’t have Prince Will, it’s a huge loss that you don’t have Prince Will. It doesn’t mean they’re going to lose, right? No. Right. I just wanted to clarify.
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Yeah. I’m not I’m not predicting a loss, but that’s a that’s a big loss if they don’t have him.
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Yeah. But I do think a bigger loss than Whit Weeks really, because I think Davon Keys is about as good as Whit.
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But I I think that LSU has the ability to not have Prince Will for one game and still survive.
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Yeah. But this is a really good quarterback, man. That’s I’m not I’m not taking that away. And they’ve been susceptible to that.
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And Kevin, you know, referred to him along the same lines as Sers, Norris Sers, big, tough, hard to bring down.
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Uh, so yeah, it would hurt not to have Prince Will, but I don’t I I think they they could survive it this weekend, but they need him back for that stretch run.
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That’s for damn sure. How good is Auburn’s run defense? Look pretty good against Georgia.
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Scouting report, man. Case, you need to work on that because that Well, wait, wait, Case said. Go ahead, Case. It looked pretty good against
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Georgia that, you know, Georgia’s pretty well known for their their rushing attack and they were all but non-existent against Auburn. And part of
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that’s because Georgia didn’t really commit to it like they they might usually do. But the the Auburn defense showed up. Let’s see if they can do it again. But
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cuz that’s that’s the way you win it a a a tough game at a loud place like Jordan Harris. That run game and your defense
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can kind of quiet things cuz if you know if if if they can’t run the ball with Dylan, that’s going to be trouble. I’ll be very interested to see in the first
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quarter the two road games, Miss and Kentucky. A lot of penalties by for LSU.
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It took them a while to settle in on both. Even though they got off to a better start against Kentucky than they did against Miss, there was still a lot of penalties in that first quarter.
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Yeah. Lane made a good point when he got asked about the uh the road situation and he said, “Well, you know, sooner or later we’ll get good at it because we
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got five of them.”
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[laughter]
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I mean, but they they you you can think that they’ll get better each time.
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Yeah, you’d hope. All right, let’s take our final break. More of Tiger Rag Radio after this. How you doing? This is Snow Dog. Tiger Rag. Tiger Rag Radio.
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All right, we only got a couple more minutes left. Uh Todd, you seem pretty confident about LSU’s chances on the planes this Saturday. I do. I just And it’s mostly intuition.
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I just have a really good feeling about it. I do think that this team is really jelling, coming into its own. I think
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that uh I think that they’re going to break that road loss streak. I think
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that this is going to be a big month and a half for LSU football. And I like LSU 31 to 23.
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Whoa. Wow. Score prediction. I wasn’t expecting that. What do you think, Glenn?
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Um I’m I’m worried about this game because um from LSU’s perspective because I think they’re they may have
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trouble running the ball and I think Blake Baker is going to have trouble stopping Auburn’s offense.
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And uh it’s going to have to be Sam Levit and Charlie Weiss and Lane Keifin figuring out um how to finesse a team when you when you can’t really run the
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ball. They have they’ve never really had a bad running game, just a terrible running game, but they’ve been average a few times and they’ve been good a few
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times, but they’ve never really run superlatively against a good run defense. And they they really need to do that, particularly without, you know,
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TDZ. Um, so but I like the short passes to to Dylan Jones. I really think that that that worked well. Um,
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maybe Auburn will actually adjust to it, unlike State.
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Yeah. [laughter] So I I think it’s going to be I think it’s going to be a thriller, man. It would be great if fellowship
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