We break down the Southeastern Conference’s lawsuit against LSU and the amendment filed on Tuesday stating the conference’s intention to hold a vote to expel LSU from the SEC on Thursday. Glen West with The Bengal Tiger of on3.com gives a break from the legal battles to recap The Tiger’s 51-10 dismantling of Clemson in the season opener on Saturday.
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another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Palmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn. Gwen Gilbo, the editor, will join us here
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shortly. And we have Case Kishnik, our fearless producer here as well. And what a show we have for you tonight. We got
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some great guests lined up. [snorts] And it’ll start with Glenn West from Go247. He will join us later on in this hour.
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We’re going to hear from Matt Mason from After Further Review, ESPN 1045 and 1049 Baton Rouge. His show every day from 3
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to 6 airs statewide. And we’ll hear from the attorney general of Louisiana, Liz Merl. And I didn’t know it would uh be
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as interesting of a conversation as it will be now. And I was really hoping, Todd, to uh start off the show here tonight talking about just uh what an
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amazing performance by the LSU Tigers on Saturday. What an amazing day on LSU’s campus. Uh just everything about it.
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Even I think the 2-hour weather delay actually added to the theater of the entire event. And unfortunately uh a
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cold bucket of water was uh thrown on that. And we’ll have to start off the show talking about uh the potential of
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the SEC being rem or the the potential of the SEC removing LSU from the
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Southeastern Conference. Well, it’s um as hard as it is to imagine that a brand
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with as much power and attraction nationally and internationally, but certainly nationally as LSU has, as much
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revenue as they create, as important as they have been since the beginning of the SEC in 1932.
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Uh they actually started competition in 1933 and LSU is a founding member and clearly one of the top two or three
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brands in the SEC uh that anybody would would consider kicking them out especially over the
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absurd situation that we’re facing. And I know there’s a lot of emotion uh especially throughout the country,
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but especially directly in the SEC where uh LSU and Lane Keifin have become a a
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target for animosity uh for people who are protecting the tradition of amateurism which no longer exists and hasn’t for a while.
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Um, but they they target Elaine Keifin and LSU and that, you know, I think they kind of conflate what’s going on right
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now with with the SEC with that and and I’m pretty close to the situation.
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This is nothing but a power shove between Greg Sanki, the SEC, and they’re
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quite honestly pissed off at LSU, and that’s all this is right now. I do not believe that LSU will be expelled. Um,
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that’s a threat. It’s a real threat, but this is just a power move. And I expect we’ll have that confirmation from people who are much smarter and much more
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directly involved than than we are by the end of this show. Um especially when uh Liz Merl comes on at the at this in
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the 7:30 hour uh because she’s been named in the lawsuit uh in the amendment to the lawsuit today which will take
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place tomorrow. But I found Senator John Kennedy’s uh comments perfect. Well, you want to hear from Senator John Kennedy right now?
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I’d love to hear from John Kennedy.
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All right. This was Senator John Kennedy earlier today. Um he was speaking at an event in Ascension Parish. And of course, as we’re doing this show on a
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Tuesday night, it was announced that uh the Southeastern Southeastern Conference was gathering its presidents and
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chancellors to held a vote to kick LSU out of the Southeastern Conference. and they amended their lawsuit that they
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filed against LSU and the board of supervisors and President Wade Roose and Coach Lane Keifin. They amended that
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lawsuit today. Um, and they got John Kennedy’s uh reaction to it all. And of course, Senator Kennedy, as always, he’s never a loss for words.
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That’s bone deep down to the narrow stupid.
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I’ve got I’ve got rocks in my driveway that are smarter than me. They’re not going to throw LSU out of the SEC.
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Prizes, please do so. Let me tell you something.
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I and a lot of other people in the United States Congress w will will be on them like a hobo on a ham sandwich. LSU
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hadn’t done anything wrong. It’s called a court of law.
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God made courts to decide disputes. Now, whether you agree with what LSU did or disagree, we did the right thing by going to court. We didn’t just do stuff.
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we went to court and we’re going to abide by the court decision, but they’re not going to start all this stuff. I
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mean, I’m [laughter] if I have something to say about it.
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Well, the one thing I want to say about that is he was obviously very colorful and very passionate and uh also was like saying again, if you think you can do
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this, we’re going to show you you can’t talking to the SEC. But the thing that I
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think he’s wrong about and I think that mangles the discussion,
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LSU not only didn’t do anything technically wrong and at least there’s been no proof that LSU did anything wrong.
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The SEC didn’t assert proof that LSU has done anything wrong. They asserted that they uh coordinated.
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Can I read exactly what it says?
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Yeah, read exactly what it says. And then I wanted to show you that inside of the document, they can’t support anything that they said. uh in the amended uh portion of the lawsuit today
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expressed great concern that defendant Lane Keifin was working in concert with counsel for the Plyburn plaintiffs with
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the support and involvement of defendant Liz Merl. The AG has now been added as a defendant in this case and the Louisiana
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governor expressed great concern that the defendants Wade Roose and athletic director Verge Osbury have no meaningful
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control over Kein or the football program at LSU. Even though section 6.1 of the SEC constitution specifies the
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chief executive officer of each member of the conference is charged with full responsibility for enforcing the
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constitution bylaws and other rules, regulations, and legislation of the conference and the NCAA at his or her
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respective member institutions. Based on the significant concerns expressed by the CEOs, the conference’s presidents,
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the conference’s president has directed the commissioner to give formal notice that a previously scheduled meeting of the CEOs on September 10th will be a
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special meeting of the conference for the purpose of considering termination of LSU’s membership in SEC persuant to section 3.15 of the constitution.
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So, back to my point. So, in court last week, Judge Jordan added LSU
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to the lawsuit to the uh preemptive um whatever it’s
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called, I can’t even think right now, but preliminary injunction preliminary injunction to protect LSU from punitive actions from the SEC.
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So right now, so the SEC then would be violating state law.
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They would be violating the court’s ruling right now by doing this. So that’s why they preemptively filed in federal court and then took this
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secondary action today because they’re trying to defy the court and they’re
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trying to win a stronger reaction by federal court being stronger than state court. That’s what’s going on. That’s
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why I say it’s a power shelf. LSU did not sue the SEC. The SEC is suing LSU and individuals within LSU.
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The SEC and the NCAA caused this problem because they cannot follow their own
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damn rules. [snorts] Okay? They put their rules in place.
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They don’t even understand the rules they put in place. They don’t understand the timing of the rules they put in place and then they turn around and uh
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harm individual players and that’s who the court was protecting in their words.
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Okay. And that’s just a as as Senator Kennedy said that’s just a procedure.
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You don’t have to agree with what LSU was uh taking part in by protecting those individuals.
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But the SEC is now defying the court and trying to basically arm wrestle the court with with another court. And
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that’s what tomorrow’s hearing is going to be about with the SEC. Will that federal judge in Alabama
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tell everyone that the SEC has the authority that the basically the Louisiana court stripped from it at least temporarily.
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That’s the whole thing. It has nothing to do with uh the two LSU football players that Lane Kein left off of the roster.
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So technically LSU has not done anything wrong yet. This whole idea that LSU orchestrated this and created it. I want
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to understand how that happened when the timeline doesn’t even indicate that that’s possible.
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Why do you say that? because the lawsuits uh the more than 60 lawsuits now containing more than 450 players
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across the country, most of those were initiated prior to LSU becoming involved. Now, if LSU did contact
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players directly that were in NFL camps and did encourage them to get involved, that’s a slimmer issue than what the SEC
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is alleging currently. That is a secondary issue that they are alleging in the in their amendment and what they’re saying, but they don’t have
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proof of that. Their proof is a news article that ran on CBS Sports with with unnamed anonymous sources.
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This is absurd. And by the way, Alabama last year played an NB former NBA player through multiple games by following a court injunction.
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And there was no lawsuit. There was no lawsuit filed by the SEC. All right. What the hell’s going on?
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How much does the vote, the 160 vote that Wade Roose when they voted for the
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new policy regarding players that had signed contracts with NFL, NBA, and WNBA
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teams. The fact that Wade Roose voted for that. Now, he did not vote for the penalties that commissioner Let me just finish. Let me finish.
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So, he votes for that. He says, and he’s on record with that vote. And I understand that there’s a lot of people that have
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said, “Well, the vote was actually closer than that.” You know, but but yes, he’s on record with that. So, if
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he’s on record with that, what I’m presuming, what the SEC is expecting to see out of Wade Roose is telling them,
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that’s great that Xavian Harris and Daycoin Wright have won their court hearing, but they shouldn’t be on your
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campus and they shouldn’t be practicing with your football team because you voted to say that pro players aren’t supposed to be back, and I’m using pro
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loosely. I get that. that are not supposed to be participating with your team.
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That’s all fine and dandy except the court in Baton Rouge on Thursday of last week said screw that because you have no
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authority right now to enforce that and they took that away from them and now they’re trying to
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sidestep that and with a federal with a federal order. That’s exactly what I’m I’m trying to describe. That’s what’s going on. This is an arm wrestling match. This is a power shove.
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This is Greg Sanki’s feelings being hurt.
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It’s amazing that a conference would do that.
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Yeah. Especially whenever [clears throat] that same commissioner sat on the witness stand for 3 hours and 10 minutes on Thursday and couldn’t
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answer a question coherently for most of it.
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He’s just upset that that’s what it’s all about. He’s mad and he’s used to getting his way. like uh um Liz
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Merl told us, he’s used to getting his way and he’s used to being treated with kit gloves by by the national
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media. They just think he’s like some kind of president or something. He’s a freaking commissioner of a league that gets its money from the members and
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basically doesn’t really have a lot to do.
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Well, I’ve always said this about conference commissioners. these guys and gals, all they want to do is hand out trophies,
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um, hand out TV revenue checks and walk around in a polo shirt at the SEC baseball tournament acting like they’re God’s gift to college athletes.
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Exactly. And they really don’t do a lot.
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[laughter] You know, the guys who work in sports information departments, they [snorts] work a lot and and a lot of them kind of graduate to those places,
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but it’s a it’s a they don’t do a lot at those conferences. I’m telling you the thing that I’m most interested about, not to get back into the details,
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but to get back into the details, is there the literal amendment today is that that they made so that they can try
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to block being blocked is that’s exactly what they’re doing. They’re trying to block being blocked by the Louisiana court
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to have this meeting with these 15 people who could vote or 16 people including Roose who could vote and they need 11 votes to expel LSU.
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They’re doing that based on a CBS sports news report that
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had anonymous sources. They have zero evidence.
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Right. Right. And that that’s a great point. You made that a minute ago, too.
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Um, [clears throat] I’ve read a lot of lawsuits and sometimes they don’t have a lot in the lawsuit that you get a copy
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of and a lot comes out in the trial, but a lot of lawsuits have a lot of stuff in it and like Greg Brooks lawsuit a couple years ago.
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I mean, it was very convincing and they had a lot of information. This lawsuit has nothing. I mean, it’s it’s amazing
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how they have nothing in it. There’s a column that I wrote earlier today on tiger.com that breaks down this whole case right now and I tried to do it as
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fairly as I possibly could and it there I list the things that they do not have that they do need to have. Now somebody
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told me today sorry that uh it’s discovery. You don’t have to do that in the deal. That’s true. Okay. How they said it.
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Yeah. [laughter] That that is exactly how they said it.
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And I said it’s true. Discovery goes deeper. But discovery is when the other side says, “Give me your evidence for
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that.” In order to make an allegation, which is not a finding, you have to supply the evidence that you have to make the allegation.
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Well, we’ll keep talking about this. They did not do that.
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Let’s take our first break. We’ll keep talking about this. We will talk some football, talk about the Tigers huge win on Saturday over Clemson, get into some
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other things. also have to uh uh say uh our thoughts on the unfortunate and and
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the the timely untimely passing of Mike Datilier. So, we’ll get into that and a lot more here on Tiger Rag Radio. Don’t go away.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor, Glenn Gilbo. One of the reasons
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why I believe the SEC has taken a hard stand on this is that they don’t want What’s wrong, Todd?
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I just get sick of this. Go ahead. I’m just sick of it. I’m sick of it because it’s a the whole thing is a fight. That’s all it is. It’s a power fight.
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What were you going to say?
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Yeah. I don’t I didn’t mean to cut you off, but Well, okay. I I think the one the SEC and I I’d throw the NCAA into this
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as well is that you is you need they want to stop the precedent of a player
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whether they’re on the whether they actually practice or appear in preseason games or not go from an NFL training
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camp to and if it doesn’t work out with an NFL team or an NBA team or a WNBA
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team. They don’t want that to now become something routine that allows those players to go back to college. Now, you
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you might say, well, if they pass the Protect College Sports Act or if they pass some sort of federal legislation,
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they’ll they’ll get the antirust exemption.
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My thoughts on that is one, there’s no guarantee that Congress is ever going to pass anything. And then the other part
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in in all of this is that even if there’s probably members of Congress, and I would say probably members of the
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Congressional Black Caucus that look at this and say, you know what, this is this isn’t that bad. If if somebody wanted to go and try for the NFL or NBA
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and gets hurt or whatever, they can they should be able to go back to college and make their six-f figureure NIL deal.
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I agree. And but but but the here’s the thing. It all comes I said earlier that the SEC and NCAA caused this whole thing
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and the reason they caused this whole thing. The way they caused this whole thing is by their inconsistent application of rules. All right. Greg
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Seni sat on a stand for three hours and 10 minutes in Baton Rouge the other day and could not define what a pro was.
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All right. He is the commissioner of the SEC. He could not define what a pro was.
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And he said he didn’t have time to research it.
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That’s right. [laughter] Okay. Again, he doesn’t have and he doesn’t have that much to do. But he had enough time to sue LSU. Yeah.
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And and and concurrently, while he was sitting on the stand, the lawsuit this lawsuit was announced. Mhm.
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But he could can’t define a pro because he hasn’t had enough time to research all the different instances of the way
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they’ve been inconsistent in applying the rules across all their sports.
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He he also cannot recognize the rule when it’s the five for five rule when
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it’s placed on a projection screen in front of him as it appears in the NCAA manual
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because it’s not the way he remembers the way the rule looked.
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He also doesn’t like the NCAA which is is weird because he’s a part of the NCA.
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But Jeff, you’re saying that that they want to stop this trend of players trying to come back. Every player that’s trying to come back this year is
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involved in a lawsuit that is a one-year thing.
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But it just it sets I don’t think it does.
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I think it will. I think some lawyer might argue that exactly an argue [laughter] but but that would happen anyway. And
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you’ve already had but once you once you crack that door open, Glenn, you knock it.
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That’s a slippery slope argument you just made. We’re going back. We’re going back to the the fact that the rule as stated in the NCAA manual as it exists
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right now does not eliminate 2022 players, athletes at all. It does not.
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All right, we’ll talk some football with Glenn West of onre.com when we come back here on Tiger Radio.
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All right, we’re going to talk some ball here with Glenn West with three.com.
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Actually, I was going to start off by asking Glenn [laughter] West. Glenn, could you break down SEC Constitution
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3.12 persuant to the Alabama federal law jurisdiction?
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Uh, I think you have the wrong Glenn West. [laughter] All right. Well, let me ask you this.
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What was the most impressive aspect or what stood out for you the most about LSU’s dominant victory over Clemson? Was
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it the offensive line, the running game, or the defensive line, or some other area that we haven’t talked about?
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Yeah, look, I I think the entire defense is probably the thing that I would point to the most. I mean, I just was I the further and further we get away from
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this game. I just I go back and I look at the stats of just what this defense did. I mean, they were on the field, guys. I mean, Clemson had less than 50
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plays in this game, they forced 10 punts, eight three and outs. Um, you know, if not for that first quarter turnover, uh, that led to a 50-yard
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field goal, LSU would have been up 51 to nothing in this game at at various points of it. And so, like, I just I am
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so impressed by what Blake Baker’s unit did. And it started up front. I mean, I thought the defensive line got great pressure. Uh, Oman Allen, Jordan Ross,
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uh, Dylan Carpenter, uh, all played extremely well. uh the interior guys were able to get some good push uh in the middle and and and allow for you
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know Whit Weeks and TJ Doy to make some plays in the back field as well. So like the front seven was on it and you know we asked Tomarcus Koolie today just kind
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of you know what he thought of the defensive line’s performance and kind of the front seven’s performance and he said I didn’t have to do anything in the game because those guys did all of it
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because they weren’t testing us down the field and um you know I think that says a lot about what those guys did up front and that’s kind of what the Blake Baker
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scheme is built on right is just getting uh getting creative blitzes and exotic looks and applying pressure on the opposing offensive line and and
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quarterback And I thought the defense did that in spades. So I I would say the defense is probably the biggest the biggest standout, but the offense played great, too.
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Now, let me ask you this before we start talking about the offense or other aspects. Is Clemson just that bad or is LSU that good?
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I I think LSU is just this good. I mean, I don’t want to be prisoner of the moment here because I want to see what they do against uh Miss in two weeks and
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uh&m in three weeks, but uh I I I was looking at a couple mock drafts today and there were there were two Clemson
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Tigers in the first round in and a lot of different mock drafts. And I think that there are probably five five or six maybe seven players on this Clemson team
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that could be future NFL players. And so like I I I think that Clemson is not going to be terrible this year.
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Obviously, they’re not going to be very good, but you know, if they’re six or seven win team, I mean, like that’s, you know, pretty pedestrian by, you know,
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their standards over there, but I I just the the way that LSU just just boat raced them and manhandled them throughout the entirety of this game, I thought was just extremely impressive.
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Like, their athletes were just so much better than their athletes. And I think that says a lot about the kind of players that Kein and his staff
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identified. and then just how well they built him up in the offseason conditioning wise because that’s something that you ask any player uh
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this off season. Uh they they they rave about how well conditioned and how how ready they were for the start of the
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season. And so uh I think I think it probably says a little bit more about LSU and just how good they are.
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My last question and then I’ll let you guys do something. Dylan Jones, [snorts] Sam Levit more impressive.
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Um, I’m gonna lean Sam Love it just because I think for all of us, we were just waiting to see what he would look like in a game setting and he was
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absolutely [clears throat] not worried at all about his his foot or his leg or anything. I mean, he was out there running like gang
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busters. He was a real real threat with his legs going for 113 yards. Uh, Dylan Jones was phenomenal as well. Just every
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time they handed him the ball, he was just, you know, four, five, eight, 12, 14 yards. yards. I mean, it was just there wasn’t really like one huge big
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explosive run where he got all of his yards. It was just very very consistent uh in terms of the production that he was giving LSU. And you know, I thought
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Levit as the game settled in really got going with the passing game as well. In the third quarter, he was seven of nine uh for over 100 yards and a touchdown.
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And so, like I I think he really set the tone with his legs, but by the end of the game, he was doing both and u made for, you know, really strong first debut performance. So, I’ll say love it.
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The receiving core, Winnie Watkins, ended up being the leading receiver in this game. Do you see that being a every game it’s someone different, Glenn?
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I don’t know. It’ll be someone different. I do think that Watkins will be pretty consistently involved. I think that TDZ Green will be pretty consistently involved. Eugene Wilson, um
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I think those are maybe the the core three when you look at the passing game.
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But I do think that there are going to be opportunities for other guys like Jackson Harris, Jace Brown, Philip Wright, who had an awesome fourth quarter in this game. Really explosive
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athlete. Um, but yeah, I I do think that LSU will probably settle into four, you know, maybe five guys if somebody really
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kind of comes along. Um, but I I just I I thought that Watkins has great route running ability. He’s able to affect the game in the middle of the field. Uh,
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Tradez, same deal. Uh, and then I think on the outside, uh, you know, Eugene Wilson is somebody that LSU is really excited about and just wants to get get
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the ball in space and and and have him go make some plays for him. So, I would probably lean those three. Uh, but there’s opportunity for other guys to
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certainly slide in and make major impacts throughout the course of the year.
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Uh, Glenn, that offensive line, I think, was a big question mark for a lot of people coming into this season opener because of how they performed last year.
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Obviously, great rushing attack from the Tigers on Saturday. Um, but Glen Keifin kind of pointed out that it maybe wasn’t
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quite up to the standard that they still expect. What did you make of the offensive line’s performance? No sacks, a lot of rushing yards. Is that just a
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product of Lamb of Sam Levit doing what he can with what he’s got or is it really improved?
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Yeah, I I think it’s getting there. Like I I think for to your point about the run game, that was the most important thing for me to see. They they were opening up holes for Dylan Jones. He
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wasn’t just creating them. he was, you know, definitely identifying him and running through him, but they were there. And I think that’s a huge credit to the offensive line in the run game
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perspective. I think probably what Keith was is alluding to is more so in the passing game, and I think that’s where, you know, Sam Levit’s improvisational
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skills really kind of help LSU and can bail them out of some of those situations. But, uh, I think, you know, it’s a long season. Uh, there’s still
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room to improve there. Uh but if if Levit’s going to keep running like that, then you know maybe it’s not even that that big of a concern at this point. So
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uh I think that they’re they’re going to be fine in the long run. And uh you when you think about it, they’ve they’ve really only got two new guys in there. I
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mean for all the overhaul they have had, you know, Satan’s back. I mean, uh you know, Bo Borderon’s back, Weston Davis
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is back, Brilland Moore’s back, and that’s three or five right there. And I think if you would asked me or anybody uh back in January or December just kind
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of how many new pieces that they would have on this offensive line, I probably would have said four or five. And so the fact that they have three returners who
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have been in the program for a little while now and then the two transfers in and BA and Satan, I think says a lot about how the other guys have developed
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and how Eric Wilford and James Craig have really kind of coached that room up. Glenn, whenever you were watching the game from the press box, two or
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three seats down from me, I was going to ask you a couple times during the game, but you were always so busy, I didn’t want to disturb you. Um, okay. But did
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uh did it the thought ever occur to you watching Levit run and break out for some of those unplanned runs that even
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though LSU’s offensive line basically sucked last year that it would have been very uh interesting if we would have had
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a quarterback who could break out in runs last year and Garrett Nmire refused to do it.
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No, absolutely. And that’s not really Nus’s strength as a quarterback, right?
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and as we came to found out find out, you know, he was dealing with a lot of lot of issues last year in terms of his health. And so, um, yeah, look, I I just
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think last year was just a complete, you know, from from game one, they were doomed. And even though we didn’t know it, right? I mean, we we we we we didn’t
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really see that until, you know, the the Florida game and then certainly the Old Miss game and all that stuff last year.
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But, yeah, I mean, look, I I think college football now is definitely more ta uh catered towards the running quarterback. You see it a lot of the top offenses, you know, whether it’s, you
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know, miss over there with Shamblas. I mean, those guys, you know, guys can run and and and you need to be able to have that element to your game as a quarterback now, uh, to be the really
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really really explosive uh, offense in this day and age. So, uh, yeah, I would I would say that it certainly would have helped last year, but, you know, look,
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you know, you’re you’re you’re now back to to Levit here with this year, and I think he’s going to be a a great dual threat option and just the perfect fit
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for this team. And are could we anticipate Dylan Jones getting 85 90% of the carries
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at this point? You have to consider it, right? I mean, he was so good for them in this first game. And you know, look, I I I I’m a little bit surprised at just
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kind of how um not much of a factor Harlem Barry was. like I I I kind of thought most of the offseason he’d be somebody that LSU would really turn to.
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Uh it’s kind of a change of pace back, but um clearly they didn’t have him in the game plan for this week. Maybe he’ll uh start surprising the coaching staff
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as the weeks go along and he’ll make the most of when he gets in the game. But um you know, I think right now you’re looking at a situation where Dylan Jones
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is your bellcow and then whoever has the hot hand between Stacy Gage, Kaden Durham, and Harlon Barry is going to be kind of the number two option in that in
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that back field. Glenn, with uh LSU up 31-3 at halftime, and as you said earlier, it could have been much more uh
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at least 10 points more probably at halftime than it was. Were you uh how were you able to get that that sneak
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down into the locker room and and get that recording of of Kein’s [laughter] halftime speech? And what did you think about it? You must have been really low, too.
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[laughter]
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Yeah, I was I was I was I was I was playing at Koi there, guys. You caught me. Uh, you know, I that that was a side
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of Kein that I don’t think I had expected. He he was he was he was he was shouting at the top of his lungs there and uh clearly he feels some kind of
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way. I think this team internally feels some kind of way about the way that people have been talking about him. And so, uh, they’ve got a chip on their shoulder. And I think with today’s
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stuff, you know, also now being thrown into it as well, like, uh, when SEC play comes along, this team, if they’re going to have that opportunity to, they’re
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going to try to run out some scores on some of these teams in the SEC. I I I fully wholeheartedly believe that.
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Well, speaking of that, did you watch the Old Miss Louisville game? And what do you think that of that matchup in two weeks right now?
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I did. I did. I watched a lot of the second half. I missed some of the first half, but You didn’t miss anything in the first half? Yeah, the secondary [laughter] for
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Old Miss looks Yeah. very susceptible and you know, I’m sure Charlie Weiss and Lane Keifin were watching and and you know, already scheming up some ways in
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which maybe they can have some success here in a few weeks. But, uh, yeah, look, I I think that that’s going to be the that’s going to be the one, right?
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If if LSU can go into that building with all the distractions that are going to come from it and walk out of there with
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a win and if it’s a comfortable win, uh I think you’ve you’ve announced yourself even further to the college football world that you’re a true title contender at that point.
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Yeah. Hopefully Trinidad Chamblas doesn’t have a sore throat or something like that, you know, and they can blame that. I I’m I’m actually convinced that
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the entire SEC, all the presidents, the head coaches and everything watched the LSU Clemson game and decided we got to get LSU out of the conference,
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[laughter]
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which is amazing.
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Maybe maybe that’ll be a nice 30 for30 uh wrinkle in in a few years when they have the documentary on this.
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And meantime, they haven’t won a national [snorts] championship in years and it looks like LSU might be their best chance and Sanki’s trying to kick them out because [laughter] it’s more
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important for competitive balance for Greg Sanki. How about that? How about that, huh?
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All right, Glenn, we’ll let you get going. Uh, let us know next time you get in the locker room how you do it so we all can get in there. All right. Yes, sir. Thanks, guys.
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All right. Glenn West from onree.com covers the LSU Tigers. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio right after this.
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo, Todd Horn, Glenn Gilbo, Case Kishnik. Let’s hear a little bit from what Lane Kein had to say Monday. Here’s his thoughts on the offensive line.
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300 yards rushing. We had no sacks, but at the same time, Sam got us out of trouble a couple times. So, you got to be careful with that stat and thinking,
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“Oh, we played great up there.” So, we did some really good things, but we’ve got to improve. We got to play better at the guard spot if we’re going to
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continue to improve and play really consistent. So, I you know, the the line did play well and and but he’s right.
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Sam Levit’s mobility and his pocket awareness, his ability to escape the pocket several times did probably save
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them from having a couple of sacks. But compared to what we were used to seeing, that offensive line is like day and
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night. Well, you would always dread when it was like third and one, fourth and one, even when they had Emery Jones and Will Campbell on that offensive line.
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You go back to that Florida State game in Orlando where they could not convert on fourth and one, third and short, they they have struggled in that department.
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And in this game, they had several of those third and shorts, and it was it was no problem.
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Yeah. And part of the reason why from a scheme standpoint is not only that they’re they’re operating so fast that
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they’re eliminating the ability for, you know, substitutions substitutions and and they’re also but they’re diverse in their plays. You
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didn’t know what would what to expect at any time. Now, you got several plays where they snapped on short yardage where they snapped the ball direct to the back, but you never knew where they were going.
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It was beautiful, though. And you know, they got so many plays running off of that. like they showed that a lot against Clemson, but you know, there’s going to be so many wrinkles coming off of that as the season goes along.
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Go ahead, Glenn.
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Um, have you two guys said what was most impressive to y’all? No, we never got to that.
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Yeah, cuz Well, we can uh take a break and then why don’t we do it then and close out the the the first hour doing it that way since we’re running up against the break. We’ll take a break
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and then we’ll talk about what we thought was most impressive amongst us, uh, Casease, Glenn, Todd, and myself, Jeff Bl. So, stay tuned. More of Tiger Rag Radio after this.
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio. All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Well, before the SEC decided to kick out LSU out of the league, uh I had a whole um plan here to start off the show, so we’re getting into it a little bit late.
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I wanted to ask each of you, Case, Glenn, and Todd, what you thought were the most impressive thing. Todd had
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already asked Glenn uh a similar question to Glen West. Yeah, Glenn West again. Thank you. With onthree.com. So, the three options are
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run game, Sam Lev, or defense. What was the most impressive? Who wants to take a shot at it first? I I’ll go first because Glenn West kind of
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echoed mine. I I you know, I was impressed with all three aspects, but I think like I actually wrote this on Tiger Rag I think on Sunday. Um
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tiger.com. I I the biggest takeaway to me that drives my confidence the highest with this team is the defense and especially the defensive line. I was
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most concerned about that heading in. I knew that the offense would if not good against Clemson, they would be good because Kein would deliver. Keifin and Weiss would deliver a good offense at
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some point early in the season. But defense wins championships and uh I think LSU has a defense that can win a
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championship and can go toe-to-toe with the best in the SEC and they’re going to need that. Uh, I also was most impressed with Kein’s three-point shooting style while LSU was kicking extra points.
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[laughter]
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Or how about Cookie’s use of a fire extinguisher? Did you like that?
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I did like that. [laughter] All right. What about uh Glenn?
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I I was most impressed with uh the speed of the and execution of the quick tempo
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offense. I mean, that’s hard to do and they really didn’t make a lot of mistakes. They looked great. They look like they’ve been practicing for months
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and it’s the first time an LSU offense reminded me of the 2019 LSU offense.
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All right, Case, I think that you have to point to Sam Levit and his ability to run the ball. I think he he got you out of plays that
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the offensive line didn’t give up any sacks and I don’t think it was because of their own play. I think Sam Levit got them out of situations where he was scrambling for his life in the back
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field and sometimes he tried to make a play out of it with his arm and sometimes he just took the ball, made three defenders misss and ran for a good
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20 yards and it was really miraculous to to watch honestly. Yeah, I would go with the uh run game just because it’s been
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torture to watch this team run the football the last couple of seasons and I really was blown away with the running style of Dylan Jones. The physicalness
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that he brings to it, his ability to hit the hole as hard as he did. I I’m an idiot. I I honestly had LSC only win
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this game by a touchdown. I just never would have thought that the offense would have looked that smooth in game one. Hey, I tell you what. We introduced
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a new feature on tiger.com uh in the game game week prior leading up to it where Casease and Joe Gallinero
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put together uh what was it called? Case a the EA college football 27. We uh simulated the game prior to the matchup
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and and the final score was 4410.
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4410. And I was I was sitting there halfway through the fourth quarter [laughter] looking at Lane Kein going for two and doing the math and thinking there’s a world where this ends up 4410.
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And it was dang close.
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Hey Case, during the game at some point, didn’t I turn to you and pretty much name the score early on?
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I don’t know about name the score, but I will give you your credit. You told me I should bring this up on the radio. He turned to me after the first offensive drive for the Tigers and said LSU Tigers
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I should say and he said they’re going to win by 30 40 points because he watched that offensive line and I’m assuming here he watched the push the offensive line got the run game
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and I guess it wasn’t their first drive because the first drive ended an interception but after that second drive well I I call a ton of high school games
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as many of you know and there’s a lot of games that I show up and uh I’ll watch the first two series and say there’s no chance like one team is way better than
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the other like this is this is pretty obvious it’s it’s going to be a blowout one way or the other. And that’s how I felt after watching a like two or three
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series of this game. I’m like, Clemson doesn’t have a chance in this game.
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They’re getting overwhelmed at the line of scrimmage both ways. They look clueless on offense. They got some serious problems there. I know you asked
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Glenn about, you know, is Clemson a good or bad team. Um I don’t think they’re very good at all.
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I don’t I don’t either. I think offensively uh I didn’t realize how much I think the hire by Davo Sweeney hiring Chad Morris
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is equivalent to Ed Orron hiring Bo Pini.
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Did you hear Davo after the game when they asked him what what he thought of Morris’s performance? He said not good.
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[laughter]
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Well, yeah, that’s a good idea, I would say.
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Well, I thought I thought Lane had an amazing quote when he was talking about how well we wanted to make him one-dimensional and we ended up making him no dimensional [laughter]
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and that was actually my favorite quote from the SEC lawsuit by the way. Go ahead.
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But that that’s actually my favorite Kein quote from the whole weekend whenever he’s talking to Holly Row afterwards and and he says that his
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scout team outperformed Clemson’s offense. [laughter] Well, I I think we now know why Sanki is is suing LSU because LSU really messes up his uh competitive balance.
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You said that earlier.
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No, [laughter] I I didn’t say it that same way. All right, hour number one in the books.
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Hour number two. Matt Mccona joins us after this.
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