In hour one, the crew speaks with Mark Etheridge of D1Baseball.com to break down what has been a disastrous 2026 season for Jay Johnson and the LSU Tigers. Preston Guy of TigerBait.com kicks off hour two, sharing his take on what he’s seen from LSU football this spring as the Tigers wrap up practice this week. Also in hour two, Mike Detillier of WWL Radio joins the show to preview the NFL Draft and where several former Tigers could land. The final guest of the show is Hunt Palmer of LouisianaSports.net, who discusses LSU baseball’s struggles.
Here is the complete transcript of the show from YouTube. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes:
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And good evening everyone. Welcome to another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo, news and sports director of Louisiana Radio Network along with Todd
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Horn, the executive editor for Tiger Rag and the editor Glenn Gilbo, Andre Champine, our producer, who also works for Tiger Rag and the Louisiana Radio
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Network. Boy, we have a lot to get through here over the next couple hours. I hope we’re able to get to all of it.
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Obviously, a lot of baseball talk, some huge injury news that has broken over the last 24 hours. Uh, men’s basketball
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finally has a transfer portal commitment. Football also picked up a commitment this week. We also heard from
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Lane Keifin today. Um, hey, softball’s doing better. Uh, baseball though looks like it’s going nowhere at the moment.
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So, I think that’s probably where we need to obviously start the show. Uh last night on his coach’s show, Jay Johnson announced that Cooper Moore will
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miss the rest of the season due to a stress fracture in his throwing elbow.
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And then the news came out Tuesday morning that Jake Brown broke his hammade bone in the series finale
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against Texas A&M on a swing and he is most likely out for the year, will have surgery and is most likely done as an
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LSU Tiger. Jay Johnson said that Cooper Moore will come back next season, or at least that’s the plan. We’ll see how
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that changes. But for LSU, who’s lost six straight SEC games, they are six and 12 in the SEC. They’re not even on the bubble anymore when it comes to getting
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into the NCAA tournament. They got to fight their way to get on the bubble. Not having one of your better hitters,
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even though he wasn’t necessarily hitting a lot in SEC play, but still not having a guy like Jake Brown in the
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lineup is the last thing that coach Jay Johnson in this team needed right now.
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So guys, uh, your thoughts on the state of the LSU baseball program as it stands now?
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Well, I’m I just I’ve got to apologize.
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I feel bad for constructing this team the way I [laughter] did.
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And uh you know it’s never going to happen again. Yeah.
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And I’m talking about the broadcast team. [laughter]
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You’re never going to go to the the portal again. You signed your last Portal player, Jay.
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No more Tommy White. You’re not going to go get Paul skins if he calls you up in the transfer portal.
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I’m going to make sure that they know how to work out and that they can swing.
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They have bat speed that’s good enough to be able to get the ball to the opposite side. They’re good people. Yeah. [laughter]
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Um, no, it’s a he’s very disappointed and it’s understandable. Um,
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not and I’m not saying it’s understandable that he’s disappointed in some of the players. I’m saying it’s understandable that he’s disappointed with total effort because this is not up to the standard of this program, period.
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They’re just not they’re not talented.
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The the portal players he was he was talking about, they’re they’re not that talented. They’re kind of one-dimensional. Um, and then some
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players that he was really counting on haven’t come through, like Kase Evans and William Schmidt. I mean, I know those two guys haven’t gotten a lot of
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help on defense, but they also just have not really looked like two starting pitchers in the SEC for the most part.
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Um, you know, they’re not lasting in games and um, you know, and Steven Milm has started hitting lately, but he’s not
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hitting as well overall as he did last year. They just they just they’ve had an off year.
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They certainly have. And it is it is a little bit now when they had
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2024 was kind of expected after 2023 when you had two of the best players in college baseball on your team and you had three and 12 wasn’t expected.
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No, it wasn’t. But they still rallied enough and they and they got to a regional championship game and and they did. So there was a this season though I
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I just never would have thought would have occurred.
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They had two great pitchers on that team. Not maybe not as great as last year’s pitchers, but they were still good starting 24 one and two were Gage jump. Yeah,
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they were both very good pitches.
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Well, they’re better than these two this year right now.
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Yeah, and that to me, you know, there’s been so much talk, guys, about uh the the transfer portal editions. It seems
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like there’s a lot of piling on those two guys and four guys.
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Yeah. Yeah. Did I say two guys? Four guys. But while yes, uh if Trent Carowway and Zack York were going to be solid players at first and third,
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this team would look a lot different. I I I get that. But the fact that Kase Evans and William Schmidt did not take
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the step that you expected them to take and it’s not even close to where it was where it’s supposed to be. I I think it’s a combination of them not taking
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the steps that they thought they were probably going to take and being the level that they thought they were going to be at and the fact that when that happens,
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they’re putting the ball in the play more and that defense is the worst defense they’ve ever had probably. Yeah. Statistically,
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that’s true. And the pass balls and wild pitches. But but [clears throat] still,
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even with that, they wouldn’t they haven’t taken that step. The two pitches.
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No. when you were watching William Schmidt on Saturday. I mean, he is literally just throwing fast balls down the pipe and Texas A&M is whacking him.
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I mean, I I don’t know what the game I don’t I don’t I don’t is he is he I I understand that it’s not sometimes easy
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to locate the ball, but I mean, it’s literally he’s putting it on the plate for those guys and and for someone that
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going into or in the 2024 draft, do I have that year right? I guess 2023 draft. 23 draft. No, no, you’re right.
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24 draft. 24 draft.
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Yeah, 24 draft. Was expected to be a first round pick. I mean, and what you’re watching right now, it’s just he’s just
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he’s not even an average SEC starting pitcher. But I wonder how much of that throwing the ball over the middle of the plate this past week was a result of LSU
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focusing on throwing more strikes overall because they weren’t hitting the the spots that they needed to to pitch the way they wanted to pitch, the way
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they usually pitch. And I I I get it too, the defensive issues too, like you can’t throw the ball in the dirt because the catchers can’t stop it that you know
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maybe every now and then they are, but the amount of wild pitches they are great catchers and if they could catch they would be in the major leagues.
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But that’s that’s the other thing again going back to my point of so much has been on hey the uh the transfer portal editions didn’t work out. Jay Johnson
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didn’t have the money to go out and get real players.
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That’s not true at That’s not well that comes into effect next year.
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But but I think that the nobody was talking it we just heard it last week for and I have all the respect in the world for Ryan Tero.
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Yeah, he got that wrong. He was off.
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But he’s not the only one that’s been saying it. Everybody has been using that as an excuse for why this team was bad.
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But nobody was saying that when this team was ranked number one or two in the preseason. No one was saying that when they were 8 and0 to begin the season.
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it. All of a sudden, people started looking for an excuse and why this team was bad and they started pointing to,
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well, Jay didn’t have enough money to go out and get real players.
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His his payroll this past year was was competitive and as good as anyone. Worried that it won’t be next year.
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He did lose out on a couple of players he wanted,
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but it wasn’t because he didn’t have the money.
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And he did the year before, too. That that happens.
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But it’s the the the those new guys or the transfer portal auditions are just one part of it. It’s the lack of development from Evans and uh from William Schmidt.
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Cooper Moore’s injury. Uh Cooper Williams lack of development.
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Maverick Rizy’s lack of development. Uh lack of development for Cade Arendi as a defensive catcher. I mean, it’s it’s it’s all around.
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Well, the biggest I Tanner Reeves was supposed to be a guy that was expected to be taking a step up this year. I was just we were just
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talking about this 15 minutes before the show started and my biggest takeaway from everything Jay has said. My biggest takeaway is is that that team is not
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strong enough and fast enough. They don’t have enough bat speed and they can’t they they can’t compensate for their lack of defense because they can’t they can’t hit the ball the right way.
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It was startling. I I remember towards the end of the Paul Manera Paul Man era Paul Maner era Paul Maner era that other
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teams were were like so much bigger and stronger than LSU like you know we’re talking about here I got Paul Maner’s
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last few years you know the the uh the 22 20 you know after the COVID or even going into kind of the 21 season he recruited differently
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yeah he rec but all of a sudden you know the everybody was getting these big short stops big middle infielders and that changed
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uh you know Jay Johnson kind of changed that.
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Yeah, he went for more offense. Maner always went for defensive guys sometimes. This past series against&m
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was the first time probably since that 23 season with Paul Maner or excuse me not the 23 yeah 23 se uh
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no 21 season 21 season excuse me 21 season with Maner where you really thought they don’t have
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they don’t have a chance like the the other team is more is bigger stronger more physical better players
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he still got to a super that year though I know I And and you know, by the way, Paul Maner had a hole in one yesterday. He was in the newspaper today.
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[laughter] Did you see that? He was at the the top [clears throat] agot. You know, people might not know what agot is, but the fine print where the box scores are in the major league
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standings. Where did he hit it? Where did he hit? Uh local golf course with his two sons.
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[laughter]
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Um it was it was hole in one. It was it was like the first headline. Paul [laughter] Maner. So congratulations, Paul.
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All right. So, what’s going to happen now is, you know, LSU’s lost Brown and they lost more and so now they’re going to sweep Mississippi State.
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That would be just like SEC baseball. It really would beep sweep South Carolina and then Yeah, I keep waiting.
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Two weeks from today, we’re going to be here at 12 and 12 talking about how LSU’s going to uh still vying for a regional. keep waiting for Evans and Schmidt to just to just
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wake up and and you know they they they unlike the 3 and 12 season in 24 where they started 3 and 12, they were just 6 and six two weeks ago and they were
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right there. So this this kind of happened quicker.
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Yeah. So sweep state and sweep South Carolina, you’re 12 and 12 and vying for a regional. It’s not going to happen.
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Not now. Could they potentially could they potentially win four games over here over these next two weekends? Yes,
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I think so. They’re not they’re not they’re not going to beat Georgia. No, they got South Carolina after.
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No, I’m saying they’re not going to beat after that. They’re not going to beat Georgia at Georgia more than once if
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they can take them once. And they’re not going to beat Florida more than three straight. Yeah.
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Let’s hear a little bit uh from We’ve been kind of alluding to it. I know a lot of people have heard the the comments already, but let’s uh hear a little bit from uh Jay Johnson’s viral
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press conference that occurred on Friday night. Go ahead and play cut one. Andre,
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I made some mistakes in constructing the team and trying to replace two guys that were irreplaceable where we should have looked for replacing them through guys
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that were already in the program and then replaced the guys that were athletic and could play defense and be more complete players. Okay, we won’t make that mistake again. You know, the
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power moving forward will come from players that start their career here and develop into it like Jake has per se this year.
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And hope they don’t break their Yeah, don’t break your All right. Uh here’s another one from Yeah, here’s another one from uh Jay on changing his philosophy going forward.
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I think it’s always under construction.
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You know, I it has there’s a the base of it has stayed the same for a long time and it hasn’t mattered whether it’s said Nevada, Arizona, or LSU on my jersey. Um
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there’s things that have been brought to light now with so many changes with how things are off the field, on the field,
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you know, and even at at this place and at this place with the success that we’ve had that I have to relook at um and am reooking at, you know, in terms
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of what we do with players in the summertime, you know, what we do in the month of September, what does fall baseball look like? There’s there’s some
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things and you know watching that team it’s a really good team you know like and maybe some some things how I’ve seen a couple of their players grow. Um I
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mean they’re much stronger physical team you know that you know we have to get that element back and we’ve certainly
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had that you know so does that adjust what we do from a strength and conditioning standpoint? Does it adjust with what we do with some players from the summertime the fall baseball? I
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mean, I just it’s the West Coast in me like I like to play a lot and that didn’t land, you know, as well this
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year. Um, and maybe it’s because of you’re playing to the very last day of the season and coming off a championship. I think it’s always under
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construction and it it will be in in a big way.
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Already evaluating what needs to be done next season to get this thing back on track, but um really uh tough tough uh
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season, that’s for sure. We we’ll continue the baseball talk and into some other things as well. We’ll have more of Tiger Bag Radio when we come back.
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Jeff Polmo along with Todd Horn and Glenn Gilbo as LSU on the verge of potentially not making the NCAA
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tournament for the first time since 2011. The Tigers went 36 and 20 that season. They went 13 and 17 in the SEC and missed out.
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Usually that gets you in 13 and 17.
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Yeah. Uh and that that might get them in as well this year even though their RPI is very low. Um, you know, a lot of
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people, it seemed like from the fan base, uh, a a lot of people believe Jay Johnson could turn this thing around,
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and I think he could turn this thing around for sure. I think he is evaluating a lot of the things that he has made mistakes on, and um, went away
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from going out and getting more complete players. And he talked about trying to fill the hole of finding guys to hit home runs to make up for the loss of
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Jared Jones and Ethan Fry. And uh he he I I think one of the things that’s really good about Jay Johnson, like a
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lot of good coaches, is that he’s not going to make the same mistake twice. I I think that was always one of the great things in the time covering Nick Sabin
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never would make the same same mistake twice. Whether it was how they prepared for a game, if it didn’t work out, they wouldn’t try that again. A game plan
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wouldn’t try that again. if he took a chance on a a player on a certain character issue, he wouldn’t do that again. And I think Jay is the same way.
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But when you look at Jay’s history as a head coach, it’s just it’s just a I
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don’t know what it is. Um he had obviously two outstanding seasons at Arizona where he took him to the College
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World Series, came a game away from winning a a national championship one year and then the other years were just
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ah you know 16 and 14 in the Pack 12 or whatever the heck they call it 14 and 16
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15 and 14 and here obviously at LSU we saw two national championship teams. I I’d throw out the 2022 season just because that was such a transition year,
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but 2024, as Glenn alluded to, three and 12 in the SEC at one point. Now, this year, they might not make the NCAA
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tournament. And I’m just wondering, is is he I I don’t know what it is. A lot of that, Jeff, I can tell you I I I’ve
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done some stories on this in the past and and um actually um our our guest at uh 7:30, Hunt, has has talked about this too.
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Since the portal uh and actually right before the portal,
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the teams after they win the national championship, they go down. I mean,
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actually, the 24 team by LSU was one of the better ones. Old Miss and Mississippi State were terrible. Tennessee was okay after they won it,
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but but there’s and there’s some other ones in there. It’s just I think these rosters are there’s such turnover. I think that’s part of it.
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I agree with that. I I agree with that wholeheartedly. I mean, Jay was talking about last night um on his radio show on
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how while they’re in the College World Series, some of the guys that are the freshman that didn’t play, they’re they’re just they’re not really into it,
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[laughter] right? because they know they’re not going to play and they’re looking at their options. And so that’s why guys like Mikey Ryan move on to North Carolina State and he’s hitting
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328 there and Ryan Costello moves to Maryland and he’s got 13 home runs this season. These were freshman
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that and way Jay explained it last night was he never really had a chance because those guys were doing their own
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research and homework because they didn’t want to come back to LSU and not play again. You only got so many years.
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So you got to take you gotta use but they might have played had he not signed those guys from the portal.
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Well, this was even before this they left before these guys came in.
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But but getting back to I agree with your point, Glenn, but I’m just looking at Jay Johnson’s coaching career and I don’t know what happened at Arizona. I’m
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not following Arizona Wildcats baseball and I understand it’s not um it’s not a premier program and he the fact that he took him there twice to the College
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World Series is great, but I’m just wondering why is there these these years where it’s just not
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it’s not that five, sixyear run of just boom, you’re in the regionals every year. You’re super regional team like we saw with and I understand it’s a different era.
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That’s the whole point. That’s the whole point. It is a different era and right now you can’t compare what’s happening right now with what happened prior to
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the transfer portal because there was no transfer portal and so they didn’t they had [clears throat] to develop teams. They had to recruit
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high school players. Bring those players in, go to junior colleges, bring those players in and develop a team. Whereas right now you’ve got four holes to fill.
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You want to fill them with a 310 pound first baseman. a a third baseman from,
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you know, Oregon who went on a tear in the World Series. So, he made some miscalculations.
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The thing that is a little scary when you take a look at it next season, look at who he’s got to replace next year. Yeah,
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he’s got to find now a new right fielder. Curiel’s gone. Stanfield’s gone. Milm’s likely gone. Brown.
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Yeah, that’s what new right fielder you are literally looking at. And now you’ll your catchers will return, but you’re looking at potentially seven new position players next year.
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Well, you’re going to have three pitchers back next year. Uh all three of your starters from this year will be back next year.
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He’ll have more time to recruit this year because he’s going to be done earlier.
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He will. That that could be key. That will be beneficial. He’ll have more revenue sharing dollars as far as we know. That might help as well.
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We’ll never know [laughter] for sure. But um we’ll see. We’ll see.
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It’s um it’s right now it’s this is just to me just startling as far as what has happened here to go from number one number two preeason.
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Talk about the most talented team and then watching this past weekend and seeing they didn’t even belong it. It
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didn’t even look like they belong to be on the same field as&m. And I know that’s maybe a little bit too harsh,
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but&m completely dominated him this past weekend.
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When you think about what&m did to Brian Kelly’s football team, you think about what&m did to Matt McMahon’s basketball team this year. And when you think about
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what happened this past weekend, I think&m needs to uh be reckoned with.
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Their beach volleyball team is really good, too. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that. [laughter]
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All right, let’s go take a break. We’ll have our first guest when we come back.
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Mark Ethridge from D1 Baseball will join us when we come back on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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We now return to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy [music] Dealers Studio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio talking a lot of LSU baseball as we do the show every Tuesday night and we are so glad our affiliates around the state able to
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hear us from the Super Chevy dealer studio. The youth movement is on for LSU baseball. Three freshman starting
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tonight as William Patrick getting to start in right for the injured Jake Brown. Jack Rucker getting another opportunity at second base. It’s been a
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while for him. Uh he is starting at second. A lot of that because of injuries and ineffectiveness from the other second baseman on the team. And
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then Omar Cerna is dhing. Let’s bring in our next guest and that is Mark Ethridge who was at the box this weekend to see
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what was a lopsided affair. Texas A&M sweeping LSU. The Tigers have lost six in a row. Of course, Mark does outstanding work for D1 baseball.com.
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Mark, thanks a lot for joining us. How you doing tonight? I’m doing great. You know, it’s it’s my time of year with the
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the stretch run of the conference season heading into regional play. There’s so many story lines and certainly no shortage of story lines in Baton Rouge right now. And one of the storylines,
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Mark, we’ve talked a little bit about it here since the start of our show a half hour ago, is uh defending national champs here over the last few years have really struggled the following season.
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I mean, how much of it is just the the transactional status of rosters now? And there’s so much more there’s so much more fluidity
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with the rosters from one year to the next. It’s just hard to after you win it to regroup and make another good run at it the following season.
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Yeah, I think there’s something to that.
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I really do. It’s each coach that I talk to, especially now in the portal era, the longer you
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play, the harder it is in the portal because you’re having to split your attention and recruit while you play for a title. Meanwhile, all your, you know,
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all the teams whose seasons have ended can devote their full attention to the portal and have been able to have success that way. U I’m not sure that’s
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the whole story. Certainly there there it’s a complicated uh factor, but the results and the evidence certainly leans
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toward teams struggling the year after they win the title. Some of that I feel like is is is just so hard when you wear
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that target to to continue to do the little things to prepare yourself. You get everybody’s best shot. They make
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their season if they’re able to have success against you. Meanwhile, you’ve got to focus on today when every when
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all anyone’s talking about is can you repeat, right? And and you you you can’t win a title in February, but you can certainly lose it. and and and I feel
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like that’s where where a lot of this is going.
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Mark, um you know, LSU is at 23 and 18 right now and and 6 and 12 in the SEC.
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And since you were in town here at at Alex Box sitting in the press box watching that debacle this weekend, you
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LSU just doesn’t look just beaten right now at times. They look like resigned to the fact that they’re just not that good. Is is that too harsh or did you
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see that too this weekend? Well, part of Yeah, part of that is&m is really good
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and and that lineup is going to give everybody they play problems. Uh the the pitching for&m is the question and and I
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felt like LSU would have some success against them and and it really never came. Uh, I I think that
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one of the things I noticed is that I felt like in order for LSU to have success last weekend,&m
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would need to help them and and kick the ball around and and walk people, but instead it was LSU doing those things.
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and and that was, you know, in order to when you’re at a deficit and and not so much a talent deficit, but just a
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performance deficit because that because playing at a high level and LSU is not you need those things to even the even
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the gap and it just if anything it went the opposite way and and that that explains, you know, what we saw. with three three games and, you know, in various levels of of of competitiveness,
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but I didn’t feel like LSU was ever, you know, in position to win those three.
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Uh, and I I do think that there’s and that was with Jake Brown, right? And
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and and I do think, you know, with that news coming, I guess it was today, um,
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that that makes it that that climb that much steeper. Uh, I did get the feel from from Jay that
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he’s he’s ready to not so much throw in the towel, but certainly take some
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drastic measures uh from a lineup perspective from a playing time, pitching roles, that sort
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of thing to just kind of let’s shake it up at this point. I mean, at this point,
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why not? And and I I wonder if you know that can go two ways. Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle and you find
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the right mixture and and things get better and sometimes it it goes the opposite way. And and with the schedule
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L O L O L O L O L O L O L O L O L O L OSU’s got to face. I mean it’s not going to be, you know, it’s not easy to to try to climb back in this thing and and and
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make the last month interesting. Um if anyone has earned the benefit of the doubt, I mean Jay’s won two of the last three titles. the guy can coach. So,
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it’s just a question of of can this roster as it’s built in in its current state, is it good enough to compete in the best best conference in the country?
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And, you know, indications were this weekend that it’s not.
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So, what what do you think their top two biggest weaknesses are that are holding them back right now that are preventing them from being able to compete
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at the level they’re used to competing at? Yeah, I think one is they’re so one-dimensional offensively. If I mean,
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you’ve got a lot of guys that are really power focused or big swing focused and they are not versatile enough to to get
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to beat you in different ways. They can’t beat you with defense. They can’t beat you with with with a small game or,
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you know, hitting behind the runners and all those things that last year’s club was able to do in addition to hit home runs, right? It was a great defensive club. They they did the little things.
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They didn’t beat themselves and they were able to manufacture runs when when the opportunity um you know forced them forced them to. And I think the other
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part is just a lack of um out collecting for lack of a better
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term. uh a after the first three or four pitchers. I mean,
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it’s been a struggle after Evans, after Schmidt, and sometimes they haven’t, you know,
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everybody has has up and down, but after that, it’s just been inconsistency. And that’s a tough way to go through a
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conference season when you don’t know who you can depend on on the mound. And and there’s loads of talent. There’s there’s guys with great stuff and high V
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low and and all of these different things, arrays of pitches, they’re just not getting enough outs. And and that for me is I don’t know if it’s approach,
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I don’t know if it’s just the right guy,
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the wrong guys in the right roles, but it just hasn’t been good enough uh on the mound to overcome the the lack of versatility in the lineup.
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talking with Mark Ethridge from d1baseball.com and you know Jay said a lot of different
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things especially this past weekend it does get the sense that it he’s come to a conclusion finally about this team
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that they just don’t have what it takes to to win consistently enough for them to really make a a serious run through the postseason out of the stuff that he
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had to say that made sense to you as far as changes that he can make that would work. Uh, what stood out to you?
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Well, I think one thing is that just because something has worked in the past doesn’t mean it will work today. this
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sport and and really college athletics in general, but but baseball certainly fits into this has has undergone so much
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change in the last few years with the portal with the the the with the NIL with um in from a baseball perspective,
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the emphasis on metrics and analytics as opposed to production and um
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performance. Uh, and I I do think that’s part of this where you have to adjust. And this this is not specific to LSU.
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This is for everyone. But if you you’ve had so much success, you you think that,
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okay, well, I’ve got a formula that works. I can roll this out here at least the year after I win the title and feel
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pretty good about it. But instead, it it didn’t. And and I do think that causes introspection. I think it causes you to
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re-evaluate things and and and and I asked Jay about that and and I guess it was on Sunday and and that was kind of
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where he you know the answer that he led is just cuz just because it worked you know for two titles in three years doesn’t mean it’s going to work in every
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area right you’re going to have to tweak some things he he called it under construction and and I do think that’s a big part of it the other part of it is
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who you target in the portal He certainly mentioned that trying to uh lean more on his homegrown prep class or
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at least guys within the program for multiple years and develop them physically. Uh he noted how physical
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the&m lineup is and he is right. I mean he he was closer than I was but those are some some really impressive guys
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that they’ve got swinging the bat and they weren’t just home run guys. they were they were able to do multiple things and take take the ball the other
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way that take some walks those and I and I do think that that’s something that LSU will put up put a big focus on is
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not being so onedimensional at the plate well we’ll see how this all works out Mark thanks a lot hope you enjoyed your stay in Baton Rouge it was a pretty uh
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interesting weekend regardless of uh the the play on the field from LSU wasn’t very exciting but a lot the probably the
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first LSU baseball series where the postgame press conferences were more entertaining than the games themselves or more um inform informative I guess
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would be the best way to say yeah and and just to comment on that I mean I I I give Jay a lot of credit for being so candid a lot of coaches aren’t
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aren’t that way and and he certainly just kind of bared his soul there in postgame and and and gave us all a view on what he’s thinking
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yeah it was the fir he is always so supportive of his players he he he really is he’s always compliment mentary of him. He always, you know, even on his
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radio show last night, he talked about how well he thought Kase Evans and and William Schmidt through this past weekend, even though the numbers and the eye test doesn’t really tell you that,
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he’s still behind them. But I thought for the first time in his career, he basically admitted, you know what, some of these guys that I have on this team,
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they’re just not good enough and they’re not doing it the way they need to do it in order to win, and I got to change things. And that’s that was the first
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that we’ve heard from him say something like that. So that’s why it obviously uh raised a lot of attennas and caught a
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lot of people’s attention. So we’ll see how it changes. Thanks Mark. We appreciate it. You got it. Anytime.
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All right. Marks from d1baseball.com.
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We’ll take a break. More coming up from the Super Chevy dealer studio when we come back.
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Now more Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polalmo along with Todd Horn. Oh, and Glenn Gilbo from Tiger Egg. Andre Shan
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Pine, our producer as well. So, good stuff there from Mark Ethridge. Um, as I mentioned in the last segment, William Patrick starting in right field for the
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injured Jake Brown who will undergo surgery Wednesday for that broken hammade bone in his wrist. Jay Johnson
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has been talking about wanting to play William Patrick, looking for ways to get him out there. This is going to be the opportunity for him. I wouldn’t be
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surprised if we see Daniel Harden. Do we see Mason Braun play a little bit more in the outfield? Does Chris Stanfield move to left to right in certain
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situations? That’s a possibility. As far as the injury to Cooper Moore, I know a lot of people have been talking and I
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like what Devin Shearan is bringing. I like the the attitude he has. uh the the the presence that he has on the mound,
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but Jay has been talking quite a bit about Marco’s pause and what he’s been able to do. And again, I think a lot of
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this here, these final 15 regular season games, these final 12 conference games,
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the group of freshman that he has on this team, I think he wants to find out about them. And starting a guy like
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Marcos Paws, a freshman on the road at Mississippi State, I think would be a good test. So, I’m thinking he’s going to be the Sunday starter.
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Well, it helps that he has a 98 mile per hour fast ball and Yeah. a pretty pretty decent curve, huh? Yeah.
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Um, what what did you think about what Mark said that this is not a very good LSU baseball team?
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I I what I gathered what I gathered from what he said was that LSU can’t hit,
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they can’t pitch, they can’t catch, and they can’t run.
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What getting back to the Yeah, that that that a lot of that is it. Um getting back and covers it.
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[clears throat]
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I don’t I don’t know if this would change this at all. Um but you know, Jay talked about it and in that clip that we
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played about how he he always wants to play. He’s a West Coast guy. One of the things that I thought this team when
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they were kind of they were mentally struggling and they were having a hard after they start 8 and0 and then they
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had that stretch against Northeastern and Sacramento State. They weren’t playing.
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I just thought there was probably a time there where he just needed to say, you know what, hey guys, game’s at 6:30 tonight. Show up at 5:30 and let’s go.
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instead of practicing 3 hours before the game, it seemed like this team needed a mental break. Mhm. And and Jay’s theory, and I don’t know,
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this might not change anything, and this might have been only a little thing, but Jay’s philosophy is nope, the only way you get better is if you practice. You
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take a thousand swings in the in the batting cage. That’s true. And do all these things where sometimes, you know what,
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it’s and I don’t know their practice schedule. Maybe they did have a a day,
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but it never seemed like him he never came to the mic and said, “You know what? I’m giving these guys a day.”
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Well, well, he he did just the opposite on on Sunday after he got swept for the second time. He said he said, “Well, I’m giving him the day off because I have to
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[laughter] because that’s the NCA rule on on Monday. That’s why he practices on Tuesday before the game, you know.” Uh but yeah, I’ve I’ve thought about that,
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too. They they they but you know they do get the Monday day off and I I don’t know what they might get something on Wednesday when this team was struggling uh because
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and we know baseball is such a mental game that this team needed just a a mental breather and it happens in the
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major leagues. It happens. There’s times the coaches say no batting practice tomorrow. You’re not getting here till 5 5:30 and then you’re just going to go out there and you’re going to play.
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Well, he’s given some players a lot of time off. He gave Zack York a lot of time off. [laughter] gave Carowway a lot of time off. Other players are getting time off because they’re hurt.
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Yeah, but I’m saying as a team, get away, go out, do something, go play golf, do something other than play baseball. He he talked about it after I
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think it was during that series of Nor Eastern where he saw Zack York and Milm in the batting cage till 10:00 that night after they played a day game. Tell those guys to go home.
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Yeah.
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Well, yeah. I I I think though, you know, everybody’s kind of reaching. I mean,
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I know everybody’s bottom line. They’re not good.
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They’re just not good. Exactly. And and they might he might be able to have the exact same approach next year and they’ll be good.
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Well, it does because the the 2023 and 25 teams, those guys,
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you could have practiced them 22 hours a day and they still would have performed very well on the field. It was just a different group. And I don’t know if he
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understood that about this group early on in the season. That’s my point. All right, let’s take a break. We’ll uh finish up hour number one here from the
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Super Chevy dealer studios. This is Tiger Rag Radio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo, along with the editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Gwen Gilbo, and the
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executive editor, Todd Horn. Uh we’re going to turn it over here to football.
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Preston Guy from Tiger Bait’s going to join us. We’ll get into some draft stuff with Mike Datilier. Hunt Palmer also set to join us an hour or two. Uh we haven’t
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gotten to it yet. Your thoughts on uh Garrett Nusmire and the cyst that changed the world of LSU athletics.
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I my my first thought and I don’t want to sound negative, but I’m I’m going to sound negative.
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I I’ve been the negative guy all all night.
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So why didn’t why didn’t the LSU medical staff and uh Ool figure that out? You mean the Dr. Vinnie Boom Ba,
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[laughter] they missed Nusmeer. They missed Cooper Moore. They had to get a second opinion for Cooper Moore. And and and God knows they missed Greg Brooks.
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They missed on Greg Brooks. I mean, that’s a legitimate question.
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And I understand that the cyst on the spine was away from where the pain was in the ab, you know, in the the what’s it called?
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Yeah. But still, you would think that they would have been able to figure that out at some point. I’m gonna give them a
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I’m gonna give them a pass because the human body is tricky and you just they’re doctors. I understand that. I understand that.
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And I’m not a doctor either. So, I’m not I’m [laughter] not going to secondguess them.
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Maybe as much as I’m going to second guess Jay Johnson because I’ I watch baseball games, but I don’t watch operations or any of that kind of stuff.
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What about Greg Brooks?
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The Greg Brooks is very troubling. It’s just troubling. Is it not symptomatic of the same?
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I don’t know, man. Similar. I’m not I’m not going to talk about brain cancer and a cyst.
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The thing with Nusmeer was they they misdiagnosed it. According to Nusme at the Senior Bowl, they missed it during
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the season and then he had doctors get it right. That’s one. And then and then secondly was the the uh they missed the
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cyst. So that so that’s two. and and with Cooper Moore, they they missed a broken bone by the elbow. Now, Greg
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Brooks was different because they actually got the u diagnosis right, but they waited too long to do the test to get the diagnosis. I don’t know.
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Because they didn’t think he was that serious when they told him he had vertigo and put him back on the field for 3 weeks.
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I know that. Well, okay. Well, that I’m sorry that that was a misdiagnosis at that point and they didn’t do the the testing because they they didn’t take him seriously. They they just thought,
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“Oh, you know, he’s just hurt or what.”
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I mean, he’s just it’s in his head. And and that’s what LSU people were saying.
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That’s what was coming out of LSU late last season with Nusmeer, too, including some people on the radio here. Oh,
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that’s in his head. Yeah, it’s not in his head. It’s on the freaking X-ray.
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Well, not surprising that the news breaks uh during draft week that we finally get some uh final some finality
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in all of this and we’re no longer just wondering what the heck happened. Well,
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I’m still wondering why he doesn’t just go ahead and have the surgery so it doesn’t come back up.
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Well, he who knows, maybe in June or whatever, he might he might.
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Yeah, that’s just a two or three week uh thing. But we we always knew it was the abdomen. We we knew that from uh September on. We just didn’t know where it was coming from, which was the spine.
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Talk a little NFL draft involving the LSU players and then Hunt Palmer as well. Uh but let’s uh bring it in. Let’s bring in Preston Guy who joins us here
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on Tiger Rag Radio. Preston, thanks a lot for spending some time with us. Um,
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you had like the most depressing tweet earlier this week. I I don’t remember what day it was, [laughter]
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but but I did I did LSU men’s Well, there’s only men’s football. LSU football, men’s
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basketball, and baseball in conference play this year, their record is 12 and 32. That’s pretty depressing. But then if you start thinking about it, hey,
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they got Lane Keifin and Will Wade. That puts a smile on your face if you’re an LSU fan. But that just gives you an idea of just uh what a a grind it’s been here for the three major sports uh for LSU.
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Yeah. I mean, if I were to write a book about how to motivate your boosters to give you $200 million, that would be it.
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[laughter]
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Win 20% of your league games. That’ll get the the cash registers clicking. Did Did any Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Did Preston, did anybody block you for being negative? [laughter]
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You know, I don’t get a notification on that, but I’m sure that somebody thinks I’m terrible at my job for for stating that.
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That’s not why I blocked you. [laughter]
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I blocked you cuz you cuz you kept talking about Billy Napier too much.
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[laughter]
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And and let me tell you something.
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I had about four to seven reasons to talk about it, though. Glenn James Madison is going to win the national championship this year in beach volleyball. [laughter]
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In beach volleyball. You sent me that text and it said, “I don’t know about uh much about US presidents. Why why are we talking about them right now, [laughter] man?
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Billy Ball has come to James Madison.”
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All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. So, we got to get serious.
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Yeah. Because we’re 12 and 32 over the last three sports. So the Preston the offense has picked it up as Lane Kein
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basically said just give them a little time and and they’ll pick it up. But my biggest question right now and I I wanted to talk to Andre about this since he was out there this morning.
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Dylan Jones, is he going to be the number one running back?
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You know, he got a lot of reps early and often. Um I I I and he does look sharp.
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I was very disappointed in his short yardage performance because that’s kind of where I thought if he does chisel out a niche on this team, it’s going to be
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that. But he’s he’s looked better than that. But, you know, on the goal line,
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he actually had a fumble on the one yard line. Uh he had nine carries for 10 yards in the scrimmage on Saturday and,
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you know, wasn’t so much better catching the ball. So, I’m not going to say he won’t be. He looks sharp, but if I had to put my money on it, I’m still
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thinking it’s gonna end up being Harlem Barry. Worth noting in the scrimmage,
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Harlem Barry was the first back to go out there with the ones, right? And he did. Now, look, in the scrimmage, this
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team cannot run the ball in between the tackles. To run the ball, they have to get crafty, do some things on the outside. And I think if that’s how the
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identity of this running game is going to be, I think Harlem Barry is the guy who complements that much better because he is very polished as a receiver. Um,
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so I mean maybe it’ll be Dylan Jones and certainly he’s done enough for me to go ahead and say he’s going to get some carries on this team. He might have
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passed up Kaden Durham which is no small news, but uh I’m not going to say he’ll be your number one back right here as of
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what is this today? April 21st. That’d be a pretty uh that’s a good way to make yourself look pretty stupid.
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Well, my other question for you before I turn it over to the rest of the guys is how do you judge
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speaking of the running game, how the offensive line has improved or not improved whenever they’re really not making real contact out there? I mean,
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how how do you know what’s happening with the offensive line and defensive line for that?
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That is a little bit of a I’m not impressed with the offensive line so far. I’m not buying yet. Now, obviously,
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real game action. We’ll see. But, I mean, they can’t run the ball in between the tackles. Now, they they are doing
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seemingly an improved job pass blocking in 113 snaps this weekend. They gave up five sacks and a lot of that was, you
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know, reserves and whatnot. Uh, I I I I’m predicting they will be better by simple odds of chance that they cannot
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be worse. So, um, but I mean, so I I haven’t seen any hardcore evidence to
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suggest that this is going to be a strong unit yet.
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Talking to Preston, guy from tigerbait.com does a great job covering spring football. Preston, what what has
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what has excited you the most from LSU during spring drills about next season?
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Well, um I’ll just start with an anecdote, then we’ll get with some hard numbers. Uh there’s a lot of one-handed grabs going out there on highlights
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right now. A lot of receivers are showing some really elite ball skills.
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Uh from the scrimmage, I’d say it’s Tucson Long Street’s development. I mean, I’m a little cautiously optimistic about um Sam Levit. We’re talking about
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a guy, he did throw for 2,800 yards and lead Arizona to the playoffs. He had what, 24 touchdowns, six interceptions,
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ran for about 463 on the ground and a touchdown there. We’re not talking about a guy who had, you know, a 5,000 yard
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season. Uh we’re not talking about a guy who did it in the SEC, although he looked good against Texas. And we are talking about a guy who before his
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injury this year went to Mississippi State and looked dreadful. And if going on the road to Mississippi State’s going to give you problems, I’m worried about
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what basically the other 15 or 14 schools are going to do because like that’s like the easiest of the four of the other 14 you’re going to play out,
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right? So, I have my reserves, but uh on Long Street looked really good on
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Saturday. 22 of 29, 367 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions. He did
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have one dropped interception, but he was finding guys. He looked really good.
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I I think if you have to roll with long street as your starter, I feel I’m not feeling bad about that at all. That that
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that gives me a tremendous amount of confidence.
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So, skill-wise, you think he’s he’s ready, but what about the mentality of playing in the SEC if he has to?
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Well, you you’ll never know until you turn the lights on about that particular part. I’ll say mentality of the game. He did not find the open receivers the way
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he should in his first Tiger Stadium scrimmage a week before Saturday. He threw two interceptions and one of them
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was the DB made a play that was Aiden Nanding before he tore his Achilles. He just went up there and took it. The other was a pretty ugly interception and
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he really early in that scrimmage. I mean, he started something like two of nine, like really had trouble jelling.
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And I think that the step he show, he opened up this scrimmage basically with like what I call the Joe Burrow stat line. It’s like whenever you’re like
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nine for 11 for 150 yards in a pair of touchdowns. Like I always call that the Joe Burrow statline because that’s how he opened every single game, every
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single first quarter. That was the exact stat line he had in 2019. That’s what that’s what it looks like.
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Okay. And he uses his legs well, but I I I think that the only hint I have of his mental game is how much strides of
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improvement and how much better he read the field and found his open receivers from one week to the next. And it’s a positive sign is what I have.
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President, we also wanted to ask you a little bit about the men’s basketball transfer portal. Uh, right now LSU has
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one player on its roster. So, I guess they’re going to play some zone defense next season because I [laughter] can’t play man. But what is my starting five right now? You got that?
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Okay. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. And and then tell us who who you think they might be getting or have a chance at getting. [snorts]
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Well, you got Johnny Jones at the point and he has experience playing point guard at LSU. There you go.
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I think Will Wade could probably be your your two.
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Oh, no. He needs to be the big man underneath. Will Wade’s underneath.
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Jones is out of eligibility, but I guess he could just get it back. Yeah, just sue.
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Just hire Tom Mars. Get [laughter] an injunction. Get Tom Mars. There you go.
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Get a local LSU alumni, law school alumni to rule on the case and you’re good to go. And then look, just stick you know who does have eligibility? You
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got Tuba Kent at at center. And don’t tell me tuba players can’t play center for LSU basketball because we’ve all seen it happen.
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Yeah. No, I think you’re right. Okay.
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So, so what players what might be the next portal addition or two for for coach Wade?
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Yeah, there’s a couple guys we’ve got our eyes on. Allan Graves, he’s a forward from Santa Clara. You know, he’s from Pontula originally. Uh, you know,
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he’s kind of deciding between LSU, Duke,
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and the NBA drafts, which is kind of kind of a crazy list if you think about it. So, wait, you mean your choices are Duke, the NBA, or LSU? But hey, you take
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that, right? Um, I guess that’s that Louisiana feel. Uh, Aaron Bradshaw, he’s big. He’s 71. He’s from Memphis, but the
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relationship with Rick Stanberry is going to be a lot there. Of course, he was the one who got him to transfer initially from Kentucky to Memphis. So,
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those are two names to watch out for. And, you know, if you pull those two in,
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you’re in a good shape. You only need about, you know, what is that, 13 more players or so. [laughter] That’s amazing. Does it concern you,
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Preston, that that he’s that Wade has missed supposedly on some of the players that he was targeting? And by missed, I mean that he was reportedly targeting
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them and they’ve already signed somewhere else or committed somewhere else a little bit. But I mean, I think we all know that’s not necessarily like Will
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Wade’s a bad recruiter or anything. It’s just a money situation. You know what I mean?
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I I guess I would be very curious where is there any money left for the basketball program, you know, to get
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players. That’s where my concern would go into because he’s going to have to do it through NIL. It’s not like basketball’s going to get this super
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high portion of um, you know, revenue sharing because they’re already making a commitment to baseball. They’re making a commitment to women’s basketball. And
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you have championship coaches there. of course you’re going to give them what they need to succeed while you’ve got them because basically you’re sitting on
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a dynasty in those sports. So that is where my concern comes in. Does he have the money to be successful? I think we all know though he has um he has an
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extended like uh he has extended experience of working in NIL. He’s been working in NIL a lot longer than most people have.
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And I I think he does have the money. Uh but the and he had the money last year too at North Carolina State and he
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signed his first player in the portal last year uh 12 days in. He got his first one here 14 days in and then he
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went another 17 days last year before he got his second guy and he was signing guys through May and June and he ended
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up with eight. So So he is meticulous and and slower. Of course he’s also getting beat on some guys and it and you
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know it it may not be money. it it they may have the same money and they’re just going to another school and and Wade doesn’t have a have a great rep either
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and that might be filtering down to some of the players, but I think eventually he’s going to get his guys in and and
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he’s and he’s going to be better this season next season.
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Well, if it’s not money, he’s got a great opportunity for playing time on his hands.
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Yeah, he certainly does. Preston, thanks a lot for your time tonight, man. Good stuff. We appreciate it. All right, guys. I’ll see y’all soon.
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All right, Preston Guy from Tiger Bait.
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When we take a break, let’s and we’ll take this a little bit early here,
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Andre, since we got Mike Datilier coming on. Talk a little NFL draft, Monsour Delane, Garrett Nusmire, Harold Perkins.
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We’ll get into all that when we come back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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It’s draft week. It kind of snuck up on us this year. I don’t know why it is.
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It’s uh maybe because it’s been all about coaching searches and all the other drama involving LSU. But here we
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go. Um there’s several LSU players that will uh find new teams coming up this
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week. Mike Datilier from WWL radio draft analyst. Uh good guy to have on. Hey, how you doing tonight, Mike?
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I’m doing great. Thank you, Jeff.
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Hey, uh obviously Garrett Nusmire is even though he’s not going to be selected in the first round, he’s the headliner here because of the situation.
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Um, no surprise that finally the the uh health issues have become public and we got a I think everyone now has a better
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understanding of what happened during the 2025 season. But what do you think uh where do you see Garrett going? Is
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second, third round, something like that. And is it is it a team that kind of has an established quarterback, say like the the Los Angeles Rams and
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Matthew Stafford, but they see something in in Garrett Nusmeer and say, you know what, maybe he might be a guy that u could potentially be Stafford’s replacement.
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There’s a lot of teams in the NFL looking to upgrade either their starting position or it’s, you know, the backup
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position. And um they’ve got a quite a number of quarterback gurus that are head coaches. So they’re always looking
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for that guy they don’t have to spend first round pick money on that they can get in second or maybe early part of
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round three. Garrett would certainly fit that build. And uh you go back to that 2024 tape and and just how good he was
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for this football team at LSU and his accuracy skills. And yes, he did have some erratic nature to his throwing, but
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man, he he could hum it downfield, took a lot of chances, has some rubber ball gambler in him, but u you know, a lot of
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teams like the fact that he understands this game in a certain way, uh certainly growing up with it. And I can’t teach
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accuracy. Either you have it or you don’t. And he’s got that. Now, I think he won the postseason.
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Uh, as bad as things were during the season, um, you know, him being able to come back and play at the Senior Bowl
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where I thought he really looked good and then he throwing at the combine and in his individual sessions, he won the second season. He won the offseason,
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he’s put himself in a position to certainly be a top 75 pick in his draft class.
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Hey, Mike Glenn here. thanks for joining us. Um, do you do you still have Garrett as the third quarterback taken in the
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draft and and do you think he has a chance to go in the second round with that? I think he’s I think he’s got a chance to go in round two and he is my
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number three quarterback uh in this draft class and I just look at it pedigree
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understand this game 2024 season he played really really well and uh so
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[clears throat]
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there’s going to be you know because this is the season Glenn you and I have done this a long time nobody tells you
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the truth about anybody okay They’ll lie to you about any player at any spot. And
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I do think that there’s a couple teams out there that would love to get their hands on Garrett Nesmar, understanding
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what happened in 2025 and feeling as though they can work out the kinks in his game.
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Yeah, I I think he’s the ultimate sleeper. It kind of reminds me of Alvin Chimera. remember he went in the third round I think and should and he played
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like a first rounder his whole career o almost his whole career um and Mansour Delane where where do you see him going
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in the first round is he still top 10 first quarterback taken or what are you thinking
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he’s a top 10 player and um I did my mock a couple weeks ago and uh I found out throughout the years don’t change it
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you better with your first shot unless that’s a trade I got him going to the Saints with the eighth overall pick.
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Wow. Wow. That would be history. [laughter] First LSU player ever. Story. History.
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That’s awesome. That that would be pretty cool.
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And um you know, you think about you never know who gets picked ahead of you.
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Uh and so there they may be somebody there they like, but you think about you lose Alante Taylor. It’s a big part of this Saints defense. uh playing out
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wide, playing in the slot and u I think you could move either Kool-Aid McKinstry or Quincy Raleigh into that slot
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position and have Mansur Delane play out wide. Uh he is such a smooth athlete and
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I I tell this to people in all the shows that I do. The two things he has that’s so impressive to me. one, you can see
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the athletic skills skills that he has and he is technically really sound, but
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one he’s got football amnesia and the few times he makes a mistake, it
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does not happen to affect him the next snap. I’ve seen a lot of really good
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players in this league and they get beat and then all of a sudden uh it’s an Ed
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Reed line about they break you mentally and then you start making physical mistakes
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and that doesn’t happen with Delane um you know has a pass maybe he gets beat next play that does not affect him the
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second thing is he never panics as a quarterback when I watch corner turns today. And a lot of it too, they play
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this cradle position, which I don’t know why the hell they teach that, but that that’s horrible uh to keep their back turns uh to a receiver all the time. But
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when he gets beat, he does not panic.
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And that that’s what that’s happens to defensive backs, especially corners.
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They panic and then they start grabbing the receiver and pulling them aside.
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He’s got ball skills. He can find it quickly in flight. Doesn’t panic. Got amnesia. Athletically, he’s got what you’re looking for. And here’s the crazy
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thing. We have not seen this since 2006.
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That was the last time they did not have an SEC player picked in the top 10.
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And Sir Delane may be the guy to bail the SEC out this year. But because that that to me it goes to show you how the
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Big 10 has closed the gap and overtaken the SEC, especially for that front end
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because I still think the SEC will have more players selected than any other conference. But goes to show how the Big
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10 has closed the gap. They will other than Delaney. Name me another guy in the SEC.
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Could be a top 10 pick. Where do you uh got that?
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That’s nutty. I got about 10 seconds here. Mike, where do you see Harold Perkins going?
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I think he’s a middle round pick. Okay. I don’t know what position he plays. Yeah. Yeah. He’s schemeoriented.
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Yeah. Hey, Mike, thanks a lot, man. Enjoy the draft. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it, guys. Thanks, Mike.
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More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio right after this. Live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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We’re back to Tiger [music] Rag Radio. All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with uh Todd Horn,
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Glenn Gilbo. As we continue on from the Super Chevy dealer studio, we bring in our next guest who had just uh what a
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weekend. You probably couldn’t wait to get to work on Monday over at ESPN 1045 and sit around the water cooler and talk about all your great stories from this last weekend and how much fun you had,
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Hunt. I I mean it’s got to be a top 10 weekend for you, right?
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Well, I’m uh waking up at 4:15 on Friday to drive to Starkville and do it all [laughter] over again. You tell me.
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And you’re excited about it, too, from what I understand from listening to you on your own show.
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Starkville’s beautiful this time of year, huh? It’s exciting.
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Well, I I have not been to Starkville since 2013. I love their their baseball passion there, and I haven’t seen the
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newly renovated stadium. So, we got together as a station in November to kind of set the budget this year and said, “I’d like to go to Startfield for that series. They’re going to be good.
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LSU will be good. I think it’ll be great for the station.” I was unaware they’d be six and 12. Their best player have a broken hand. Their second starter would
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be out for the year. And none of that was was divulged to me.
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So, all right. So, let’s just get this out of the way. It’s kind of like the elephant in the room. you’re you’re still holding on to hope that LSU can
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make the postseason tournament right now, even though they’ve lost one of their best pitchers and one of their best players.
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Well, I think hope is is an accurate assertion. I I’m holding out hope. I don’t have any confidence at all, but I am holding out hope. Yes.
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All right. All right. So, let’s move on to the next elephant in the room.
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Are LSU fans being too emotional about the state of the baseball team or are they seeing exactly what is in front of them right now?
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No. In my experience, I mean, I’m reading our, you know, chat on YouTube.
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I’m reading uh, you know, the comments on my Twitter articles. I’m reading message boards. Like, it feels like everyone is just kind of going, “Okay,
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well, you live in a transfer portal world where you go out there and you you try to grab transfers.” And like I’m not sure how you differentiate between Danny
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Dickinson and Braden Simpson. They both dominated at low levels for three years and one came in and was a perfect uh addition and one came in and couldn’t
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help at all. Um I you know I uh and so I think everyone just realizes hey they went out in the transfer portal they got some offensive players. It
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didn’t click. They’re two you know talented talented freshman got put into the weekend rotation in the SEC and were
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just okay. I don’t know how you differentiate Kate Anderson from William Schmidt as a freshman. They both had 18 erraas in the SEC and kind of worked in
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the midweek and one became the best pitcher in the country and the other one became a guy who gives you four and two/3 of four run baseball every Saturday. It’s just this one didn’t
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work. I think there’s a lot of confidence in Jay Johnson. I think there is an understanding that things are going to be different financially for
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this team next year and you just realize that you’re not going to win the national championship every year and this one didn’t hit and hopefully over
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the next four weeks some of these young players, two of which got a chance to start in the starting lineup tonight kind of hit their stride and gets their
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feet wet and go out to summer and improve and they’ll be fired up again in February. And you know I I think again I don’t I don’t want to write the season
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off. I’m not wired that way. and they got to play 12 SEC games, but realistically looking at it, it would be quite a shocking turn of events if they
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figured something out over the next month.
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Talking to Hunt Palmer from 104.5 FM in Baton Rouge. That That’s a good point.
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That that happens in major leagues a lot, like three or four guys that have been good most of their careers and then they throw in a free agent guy and they
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just don’t pan out and the team is just not good. And that’s kind of what happened this year. Some Portal guys
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didn’t live up to billing. Evans and Schmidt not that great as we thought.
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But Hunt, you had a great comment on your show Monday. Uh you were talking about how you’re not in favor of of coaches in press conferences sometimes.
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And you made an excellent point. You said that Jay should not have said some of the things he said in the Friday press conference, which we’ve discussed
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here at Nauseium, when he was talking about the mistakes he made with the roster. If you if you could discuss that again, that was awesome.
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Sure. Um, I realize that I’m in the business of writing and playing what coaches and players say in press
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conferences, but I still don’t believe them to be a court of law and believe that there are some things that are
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probably good to say and some things that are not. Um, and I just felt like what Jay said on Friday felt like a a
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June 15th press conference, not we still have 14 SEC games left to go. because what he essentially said was, “We’ve got
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players on this team that aren’t good enough.” And I just don’t know how that helps morale in the locker room or the team that’s got to go out there and play
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14 more times in the league and three more midweek, 17 more games, plus guaranteed one in the SEC tournament when the coach went out and said that the the players weren’t good enough. So,
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I I think that it’s a good thing that he acknowledges some things that weren’t properly done in the offseason and that
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he feels like he knows how to correct that for the program moving forward. I just don’t know if it’s the best thing to put on camera and on recorder right
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there in the middle of the season. And I just thought he may have misststepped.
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And my my gut tells me that he did a good job. He may have known this earlier and he’s kind of suppressed it and
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suppressed it and finally he’s just so competitive it just boiled over and he determined like I just he just he didn’t he didn’t lose his cool in the press
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conference I think he just lost his filter.
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So and that’s exactly what I was going to ask you. You know we all know him fairly well. We spend time with him in the offseason and pre-season talking to
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him in depth and it did seem somewhat uncharacteristic of him like you said Hunt. Do you think it’s primarily
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because he was you say he lost maybe lost his filter a little bit, but maybe he’s just really embarrassed by the the way this team is playing.
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I think um frustrated is probably a better word than embarrassed, although that may be a question for him in the
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offseason. Um I think he takes a lot of pride in in LSU baseball. There’s no question about that. I asked him on my
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football pregame show back in September like, “Okay, you’ve won two titles in three years. Like, what motivates you to get up and go to work?” And he said,
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“You know, you just have to take pride in your performance.” It’s just hard to take pride in a team that that has trouble beating midweek teams and got
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swept back-to-back weekends and is six and 12 in league play. Like, that’s not something to be proud about at LSU. So, that’s probably eating at him for sure.
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And then I think there’s an element of frustration to the way that the transfer portal went last year in terms of dollars and cents. He spent his entire
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career feeling like he hustled. He was a great evaluator and he was a great closer in recruiting. And I think it’s
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been evident in some of the things that he’s said and kind of the things that that are are obvious that he feels like there should should be some guys on this
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team that are playing other places. not because he didn’t hustle or because he didn’t recruit hard, because he didn’t have enough money to give it to him. And
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that I think is really really frustrated him in this whole new world of the transfer portal. Yeah. I don’t know if that’s true,
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though. And and that’s that’s some debate. I I think his concern with the money starts uh next year. I think he
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had the money this year. He just he just missed some guys is what we’ve been told. But, you know, you you made a good point a second ago. He he said in the
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press conference Friday, he said he saw this coming on at old he he he didn’t go into the Old Miss series with a lot of confidence. He kind of said that at the
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press conference, too. So, he did kind of see it coming on. But, I wanted to ask you, do you think what he said Friday night, and this is a hard
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question because they didn’t play well Friday night either, but do you think what he said Friday night after the game, you know, may have impacted how
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some of the players played the next two nights?
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It’s just impossible to know, Glenn. I mean, you’d have to talk to the guys individually and get something that was candid. I mean, some guys may say, “Man,
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I’m trying here for and and Jay did say the guys are trying, but like don’t don’t tell me I’m not good enough to the media.” And there may be some guys that say, “Screw you. I’ll prove you wrong.”
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But I have no idea, you know, how these guys individually are are wired. I I never really get to talk to them once a week in in a post game or something. So,
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um I don’t know. I just I just feel like they’ve built such a great culture at LSU baseball. There are so many guys
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through the last three years that have taken on limited roles or platoon roles and and embraced them so much. Guys that
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have been in starting rotation and lost their spot. I’m talking about like Chase Shores lost his spot last year in the rotation and became a superstar closer.
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Jake Brown didn’t start last year against left-handed pitching and Josh Pearson did. Jake Brown’s going to be a second round pick. John Pearson, Josh
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Pearson is not really a professional baseball player. Um, guys like Riley Cooper lost his job. You saw platoon at catcher for multiple years and everyone
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just embraced their role and did what they were asked to do. The culture has been phenomenal. And I think it’s just hard to to carry that through the next month with this team when the coach has
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gone out and said, “Yeah, this is the roster we have and I kind of screwed up putting it together.” Like I just don’t think that’s that’s great for morale. Yeah. You know, one [clears throat]
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thing about this team, there’s nothing to to hang your hat on. You you you don’t have a good offense. You don’t
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have a good defense. You don’t have pitching that’s been solid. You don’t have any intangibles that I can point to. So, what are you basing your hope on from a tangible standpoint?
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He didn’t say he had hope. He said he had hope. [clears throat]
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I said he had no confidence. That’s right. I’m sorry.
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No conf. Right. the the hope is based in Kase Evans against Oklahoma, William Schmidt against Kentucky, Steven Milm
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last June. Uh Kate Arbidi’s got 11 home runs now. Um I’ve seen
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Murray State and Kent State and Stonybrook make runs. I’ve seen a a 14 and 16 Old Miss team win a national
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championship. Again, I have no confidence LSU is doing any of this stuff, but college baseball allows you to win some games you may not supposed
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to win. And so, the problem is that those teams did it by winning a regional
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or and in a in a twoame super. You’re asking LSU to go do this for for four weeks against Mississippi State on the
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road and Georgia on the road and a ridiculously talented Florida team. I mean, South Carolina is horrendous, but it’s just like it’s it’s going to it’s
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it’s a tall ask, but I just I just don’t have it in me to transition to football in April and May. It just
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that is that’s a that’s a personal thing. I don’t want to do it. I’m perfectly happy to do it in July when we go to media days. And I’m fine going out
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there right now in nice weather and writing about it. But I just it’s it’s a great thing for my job to have LSU
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baseball relevant into June because it’s something to write and talk about and I just I’m not going to shut the door on just yet.
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You never know. You never know. Hey Hunt, thanks a lot man. We appreciate your time tonight. Yeah guys, y’all be well.
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All right. That is Hunt Palmer, host of ES on Hunt Palmer show 1 to 3 o’clock at ESPN 1045. did he really did a great job
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with uh the the play on the field was bad, but him and Chris in the booth this past weekend, those guys were terrific.
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And uh good stuff from Hunt as always when he’s ever the color analyst on the LSU Sports Radio Network. Let’s take a break. More coming up from the Super
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Chevy Dealer Studio after this on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. All right,
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back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo along with Todd Horn and Glenn Gilbo.
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Quite a weekend this past weekend when it comes to LSU athletics. Uh we talked about obviously what happened with baseball uh football. Uh the offense
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looked much better in the scrimmage on Saturday. Um, it it does make me chuckle uh on how much there’s it’s it’s and I know you Glenn,
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I know you it’s spring football, but the way that some people like describe what’s going on at spring football, it’s like they’re describing what happened
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when LSU played Alabama in you know what I’m saying? Like they’re treating it like a real game.
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That’s right. They’re just and [laughter] they’re in shorts.
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They’re young and they’ve had a lot of coffee.
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It’s It’s just spring practice, man. to settle down.
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And and Lane doesn’t even say they’re that good. Today was the first day he said they were really good.
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I I I heard so and I’m listening to it because I I don’t have the ability to get out there. I I got other commitments and all this kind of stuff, but I heard someone like complaining about penalties being called in a spring game. I’m like,
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“Come on, let’s They’re not even [laughter] tackling either.” Lane said that today. They’re not even tackling. I mean, come on.
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Let’s just settle settle down. But it it is good.
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Penalties are disrupting. [laughter] It is good insight, but sometime I I I chuckle at it. That’s all I’m saying.
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Um, but gymnastics on Saturday, man. Uh, what drama that was.
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It was drama. It was absolute drama. And I I don’t, you know, and I know a lot of people were saying, and I was kind of following along on social media, uh,
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when they were going into the fourth rotation, hey, same thing. They’re on beam to finish it up. But I don’t know
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why. I just didn’t I didn’t have a good feeling because I knew Oklahoma was on the floor and you can score high on the
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floor and the beam it’s such a mental thing but still and you’re a gymnastics guru I
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wouldn’t say that if they wouldn’t have had and I’m not blaming it all on the beam but if they wouldn’t have had just a couple steps yes
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they would have won yes just a couple and you just don’t know if If Lexi Zeiss
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doesn’t fall and let’s just say she had a mediocre didn’t even you know she only scored like a a 98 or something
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if if that doesn’t when she falls that just amps up the pressure on everyone else because they knew if you fall
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and a lot of the missteps were actually on the dismounts and on the landings, right?
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But still it it’s just the it’s just the mindset of it all. And how did that delay happen? That may have
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There was a scoring. You have four judges. Six judges. Six judges.
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Six. There you go. You see, I’m not much of a guru, Todd. They have six judges.
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So, if there’s a big difference there,
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but it only happened and and Luke, you can uh correct me if I’m wrong here.
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The the disagreements with the judges only happened on LSU performances.
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That is correct. Because they were multiple times. They were discussing Kylie Kylie Cohen’s first turn, which
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turned out to be a 99125. And and like you said, I I know you said you didn’t have a good feeling about it, but when Kylie Cohen went out and gave you a 91125,
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who’s usually a 985 type of routine,
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it felt like it was going to happen. It did. It did feel like that it was kind of destiny like kind of how it was in 2024 when they started off really hot on beam. So,
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well, I mean, let me I want to I want just this timing of this. I still felt good about it whenever um Cho Choi was
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going to be going last on the game because Yeah. When Chio Yeah. When I mean, what I say Choi [laughter] Chio,
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but no, I really did. I at that moment I was like, “Okay, well, it could be she literally needed a 10.” And but the
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thing is is like that’s way too much pressure to ask of somebody. And Jay Clark was was really good about, you know, protecting his team in the end and
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especially Zeiss because it is true they could have found a tenth somewhere throughout the entire meet. I mean, you look at how LSU has performed
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over the years on vault. you would have thought, hey, Vault would have been one of their stronger suits, especially with the talent that they have. And and this
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year, they just they couldn’t really put it completely together with Vault. And and that’s been their that that’s been the heavy hitter
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over the years. And I think, you know, it’s kind of like how what happened in the SEC Championship,
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Todd. They kind of had a few hops and that really did cost them. I think you go down and see how well they did on
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bars, but I mean when you when you look back at it, yes, the fall hurts obviously and you can honestly you don’t
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it it doesn’t it doesn’t go on just Zeiss because Kalia Lincoln didn’t have her greatest meet. She was battling through injuries, but but they battled
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like I said and if if you just found a tenth somewhere in those first two kind of rotations, you know, it could have been different.
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So they lost by a tenth of a point. No, he lost by less than a lost by 0.08.
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Do we know? Do they track that? Like what’s the closest national championship loss in history? Is that was that I don’t think that was I don’t think it was. No, it was
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it was close though. It was close. It was that close.
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Lost in all this is the performance Conor Mlan had in the semiis and the finals while being hurt still.
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Yeah. And I the they released it on social media the on the LSU gymnastics social media channels what Jay said to
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the girls right after that final. I mean that’s pretty amazing stuff.
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That was about that is about as good as it gets from a coach trying to and he just lost too. Yes. Just keeping
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in perspective of what happened here and that was u that’s why he’s one of the best and um they gota now unlike
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baseball they got a lot of people coming back next year and they’re going to be they’re going to be right at it again. Portal is not as big in gymnastics.
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[laughter]
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Can portal is not that big. You’re right. You’re right. Can pitch or hit? [laughter]
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Honestly, yeah. Maybe lay told us Haley Bryant could play short last year. That’s right. [laughter] That’s right.
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Have they Have they Do they uh go against uh Oklahoma every year? LSU.
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Well, now they do cuz they’re in the same conference. This was the third This was the You don’t always go against the fourth time they faced him in in SEC Ch and
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they faced them twice in the regular season.
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They tied with him at the start and then lost twice in the SEC championship.
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All right, only got about a minute left to go here in this show. Hey, uh, Andre,
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can we had these lane keen cuts, we just got all offg guard. Let’s play a quick one here about him helping the other coaches stay in shape as a health guru.
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Over these years with my change in nutrition and exercise and everything, I feel like we’ve had a lot of people jump
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into that and we motivate him. Actually had a number of wives over the years thank me because they’re like, “Hey,
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you’re improving my husband, how he’s in shape and how he thinks and probably how long he lives.” So, our new project is T. Martin. So, we’re on about week
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three. And so, he’s doing good and um buying in. And so, we had a series of stuff last night like 8:00 and then this
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morning at 6:00 a.m. again. So, it’s it’s kind of fun, especially as coaches come together and don’t know all each other. And we have some good before and
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after pictures, you know, we’ve put up before.
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You know, spring practice is getting too long.
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He mentioned Pete Golding as a [laughter] before after. We should get Will Wade over there. There you go.
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OMG. OMG. [laughter] Good thing we only have 20 seconds here, huh? He’s got to get some players. [laughter] Yeah, he’s hustling. He’s hustling.
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