We recap LSU’s big recruiting weekend and how strong of an impression did LSU make on 5-star wide receiver Easton Royal. It was a quiet weekend at Alex Box Stadium, but Jay Johnson and his coaching staff are busy digging through the transfer portal as they look to build the next Tigers championship team. The SEC and Big 10 ask for Congress’ help in fixing sports, but they do not like their suggestions.
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And good evening everyone. Welcome to another edition of Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Palmo, along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag Magazine, Todd Horn, and
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the editor, Glenn Gilbo, and Case Keatsnik, our producer here tonight. That That’s Glenn Gullible.
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Glenn Gullible. Well, we we’ll get into that here in a second. But, uh, hey, there’s nothing to get to. That’s fake news by [laughter] Todd. Wrong.
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Boy, we’re already off to a a splendid start here as Todd and Glenn are at each other’s uh throws. But, uh, glad you
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could be a part of the show here tonight. Got a lot to get to over the next couple of hours. Got a good lineup of guests. We’ll talk some football
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recruiting with Andre Champine, our good old friend, who’s now at 247. big recruiting weekend this past weekend.
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We’ll talk some college baseball, some transfer portal stuff with Hunt Palmer of ESPN 1045 and 1049. Blake Top Meer will join us in hour number two as well.
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We he is with the USA Today Network.
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We’ll talk about the Senate bipartisan legislation that is designed to fix college sports. A big
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talking about dull. [laughter] A big that’s going to work.
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Yeah. A big Senate hearing will take place tomorrow, in fact. And then Garrett Ren, who is the uh head women’s golf coach for LSU, will join us in our
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number two, former men’s assistant as the men are still competing out there, right?
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No, they they they finished yesterday, but both teams made it to the NCA championships and LSU finished in the finished 12th. The men did.
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All right. Okay. So, uh not a bad finish considering how many teams that are out there. So, we’ll get Garrett’s perspective on that. But uh this past
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weekend it was strange. No LSU baseball to watch. Uh no rain delays to sit
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through. No, uh sunshine delays as we’ve had with previous NCAA baseball regionals at the box with Jay Johnson at
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the helm. Uh so you didn’t have that distraction. So if you were an LSU fan and if you were looking for something uh
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to foul when it comes to purple and gold, it was certainly the the big recruiting weekend. And and that’s why we’ll have Andre come on a little bit later on in the hour to wrap it up. But
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you had several five-star prospects on campus, including Eastn Royal, the number one wide receiver in the nation
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from Brother Martin. And he had Ed Orron doing defensive line drills with one of
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the top players in the 2027 class. So that got everybody fired up. And then you also had the viral video of Ed
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Orzron uh getting the recruits and their their parents, their families fired up and giving them an idea of what it’s
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like to run through the tunnel and then through the uh goalpost there at Tiger Stadium in front of 102,000 fans. So
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that got everybody fired up and Ed Orron might have made his u $100,000 that he’s getting paid. He might have uh he might have earned that check this past weekend.
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I I think he did. I think that uh he’s the biggest deal and steal that’s happened. Uh I guess but I don’t know.
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Are they making up for that 17 million?
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[laughter]
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Yeah, he can’t really feel like he’s underpaid cuz he got a lot of money without doing anything. [laughter]
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But it but it is funny. I mean that’s compared to the salaries. I mean, they have two one, two, $3 million coaches on
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salary, you know, and uh and Ed’s making 100,000, but uh he did make uh6 million uh sign a bonus, but he had he had to pay half of that to his ex-wife.
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Remember that?
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I thought he got away with not having Supreme Court ruled that he had to give him back or had to give her half. So, Right. Right.
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That’s That’s why you should never get married. [laughter] All right. Well, there’s another show uh topic or another [laughter] that that gets into all those kind of
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we got Dr. L out here, but um it was a big weekend. I I don’t
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know how you guys I I mean I I follow recruiting. Uh I’m not a recruiting junkie, but do you feel like in today’s
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day and age of uh college athletics and we all know recruiting is the the the is
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certainly uh the centerpiece of anything that comes when with a program. Uh it is the the heart and soul of it. But in
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today’s day where players it’s so transactional as Lane Keifin would like to say
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um how important is it? I mean obviously you get them on campus that’s great. If you can get them to sign that’s great
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but the majority of these guys are not going to be at that particular school
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for more than a year. But I think you still want to get the best of the best that you can possibly get out of the
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high school ranks when they’re coming in. And then you can decide who you want to invest in and who you want to keep, who you develop,
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who develops at the right pace. I think LSU is one of the few places still in
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college football that has tradition and reputation of developing NFL stars or NFL talent, I should say.
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And I think they should use that to their advantage. And I honestly believe that’s why Lane Kein one of the main reasons why he’s here right now.
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Well, I I think you know the the best recruits that you get and I mean if if LSU gets Jaylen Brewster, the number one
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defensive lineman in the country and and uh Eastn uh Royal Eastn Royal, the number two wide receiver, I mean those guys aren’t going to transfer cuz those
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after they get to LSU cuz they’ll be playing a lot. Most of the guys who transfer are ones who uh aren’t playing.
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But I I think it’s great because uh one of the best parts of the LSU job for a football coach is still the recruiting
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geography. And I think Lane, that’s one of the reasons he took the job. And after he had that first portal class of
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42 players, that’s really a two-year class. That’s his base. I think you’re going to see him recruit more and more
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[clears throat] high school players. and he’s going to have less and less portal guys where he’s just, you know, picking and choosing the very best ones. And
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that’s a better way to build a program because you’re going to have the guys on the team longer, which is kind of what Indiana did. Uh, and so I I think that
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bodess extremely well because what is that? That’s LSU taking advantage of its strengths, which is its recruiting base.
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and he has done more in 6 months to entrench himself and his staff in
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Louisiana and Louisiana high schools than Brian Kelly did in four years.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they’re all over the place recruiting. Now, it is interest.
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It kind of shocked me a little bit because in the story I did about coach George Ron that’s on the website now in his weekend, LSU is currently ranked
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52nd in the country. It’s 2027 class, but they only got five commitments.
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Okay. I mean that that can change overnight, but but I mean they they got a long way to go for that that class, but they are also coming off the the number one
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portal class. And I think that what is there that football class from 26 from high school, I think it’s about 15 or 16. Yeah. I mean, that’s that’s a that’s
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a pretty good base. I mean, they’re they’re set for two years even without this class.
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But the 2026 class was ranked that. But it was actually if you did it on a ratio of players, it was actually number one.
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What? What? What do you mean? They had fewer players.
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Oh, the quality of those players whenever you rate it that way was actually number one.
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Yeah. Well, that’s a good point because, you know, a lot of times when you sign 28 or 30 players, usually only half of them coming out of high school are good.
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But, uh, if he if he can get that kind of a return, you know, if he has like 15 good players in that class, well, then that’s that’s quite a class added to the 42 he’s already got in the portal.
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Well, Ed Orron, I certainly made his case to to bring these kids in. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of dent they have. It seems like there’s
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momentum building with Eastn Royal. It it seems like it. Uh there was also the report of uh LSU’s apparently putting together the largest uh NIL package.
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How how do you know? I don’t know.
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I I I would love to know how people know that. [laughter] Well, and you know what what’s amazing, too, is I mean there’s 12 receivers in
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in Lane sport. So, and and a couple more in the in the last high school class.
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So, that might be something that Eastston’s looking at, too.
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Yeah. But you’re right on Jaylen Brewster. Uh you get guys like that. I mean, if he ends up signing at LSU,
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um, and you have that viral video of him doing the defensive line drills with coach Ed Orzron, I mean, that’s just,
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uh, that that’s just adding that that’s just that’s impressive.
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So, you know, we know that that that coach is one of the best recruiters in the country. Yeah.
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Yeah. Glenn Gullible keeps telling me that he’s the best def one of the best defensive line coaches in the country. I’m I’m not sure about that.
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Uh I I think once again you are tied wrong. [laughter] I haven’t I haven’t said that about him as being a defensive line coach, but but he’s he’s a he
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always has been a very good defensive line coach. And and Jaylen Brewster, not only is he the number one defensive lineman in the country, according to 247
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Sports out of Cedar Hill, Texas, he’s the number one player in the class of 2027, period. Plus, uh we we mentioned
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Eastern Royal. And then uh Xavier [clears throat] Sab is a highly ranked in in the athlete category. And then
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then uh Cece Alvador Cece uh I’m sorry, I’m getting his first name wrong. He’s the number six edge in the
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country. So that’s quite a group to have on on one weekend.
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Hey, can any of these guys play baseball? Can they pitch? I don’t [laughter] know. Abraham Cece. I’m sorry. Abraham Cece.
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Yeah, the pitchers are coming, man.
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They’re going to be signing some pitchers. I don’t think there’s any question.
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Well, the baseball transfer portal opened up on Monday and uh you’re getting rid of um the attrition has
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started, which you would have expected and we we heard it last week when we had the uh when we were on that that was I think the first day was announced that
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Maverick Rizzie was going to get in the transfer portal. Interesting in that um you know a couple guys there in Jaden New uh you know
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and DJ Primo DJ Primo both of those guys leave LSU with two national championship rings.
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And uh and interesting also that Primo and Rzzy and N um even though Rzy’s erra
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is a little bit lower in 2026 than it was in 2025, the walks and the hit batsman and all that stuff. Wild pitches.
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Wild pitches. I I he had like eight guys than Maverick Rizzie and the wild pitches are way up there as well. But in
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the case of N and Primo, [snorts] uh those guys were, you know, they were not your your your first line.
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They were not your high leverage relievers, but they were guys that uh did pitch in 25
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in 2025. And they pitched several innings and they were part of the team.
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They were part of uh of the equation, if you would, as far as how Jay and Nate Yesi would would deploy those two guys.
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And yet they regressed or they didn’t had what DJ barely pitched pitched at all.
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Primo only had one appearance in the in SEC play.
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Yeah, I was about to say I I hardly remember him pitching at all this year. And N didn’t pitch much at all either.
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No, they just they kind of made room for the for the freshman. Yeah.
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And and put them aside. Uh but uh yeah, it’s uh it’s amazing they what what LSU
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really needs to do. Jay Johnson and and Nate Yesi, they got to decide who’s good and who’s not, you know, and who they’re going to
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try to keep because I think they made some mistakes with position players last year, letting some guys go that maybe should have been kept and keeping some guys that maybe
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should have been let go and then we we saw the mistakes in the portal. So, they got to be really exacting with who they decide is going to be on that roster.
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Uh, I would love for LSU to have Mikey Ryan right now. Yeah, I watched him play this weekend. So, yeah. Yeah. No, he was a guy that they
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uh they certainly missed. No doubt about it. Um not to say that they they they ended up pretty good with Kate Arendi and Omar Cerna, but Brady Neil behind
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the plate for Alabama. That’s you know, he’s he’s been pretty good. He’s been a big force for them and they’re in the super regionals this weekend as well.
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We’ll talk a little bit more about NCAA baseball football recruiting. Uh great interview that our friend Jacques Duceay did with Verge Osbury. We’ll get into
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that as well. So, a lot to get to here on Tiger Rag Radio. If you’ve missed any of the past episodes or if you can’t listen to the entire show tonight, you
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, we’re going to have
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Andre Champine of 247 Sports, former Tiger Rag and Louisiana Radio Network personnel member, reporter, and producer
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of Tiger Rag Radio. Uh we’ll get to him here. Uh the other thing that had LSU BA baseball fans attention this past weekend, even though LSU was not in the
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tournament, was just the craziness that we saw in the NCAA baseball tournament.
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And you started to get that feeling, you know, when Milwaukee beats Auburn on Friday, UCLA loses, and you’re saying, “This this is could be a very
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interesting tournament.” And it always is. It’s always a great weekend. I I I’ve said it where I’ve said it on previous shows. I think I say this all
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the time. I I think for me, I’m a Plus, I’m a bigger baseball than basketball fan. I think the NCAA baseball tournament is much more interesting,
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much more dram. You had walk-off home runs. Uh, you had singing at the end of the West Virginia regional championship.
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My favorite part. [laughter] I mean, you just had you just had so much uh St. John’s
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coming out of nowhere. Little Rock, St. Mary’s. St. Mary’s, right? St. John’s, too.
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St. John’s, too. They beat Florida State. Uh, and Cal Pali’s in a super regional.
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Just that’s amazing.
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I think it’s a little bit too much as far as the upsets. I I think when we get to Omaha, we’re going to be looking around and saying,
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“What is that? Kansas. What? What’s What is all you know?” I mean, like when Stony Brook made it.
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Yeah. But you’re going to have multiple Stony Brooks. Troy crushed Florida, man. In the final.
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Yeah. Troy and they were one of the last teams in what a 33 and 29 record, right?
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What do you make out of all this craziness? Parody, man. Parody. NIL.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I think I think the portal too, you know, the players just keep keep moving and that that balances
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things. That that’s why the SEC has not won football championships the last three years, I think, is the is the main
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thing. But, you know, it is it is amazing and and it’s it’s great that those games are good. I don’t know how many LSU fans are are watching it, but
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to me, whenever LSU doesn’t have a home regional or or at least, you know, when they were in North Carolina, you could watch it on TV, but when they’re not in
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the postseason, it reminds me of uh 2005 when the football season didn’t start on time because of Katrina. I mean, it’s
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like Baton Rouge was just empty, you know? [laughter] It’s like it was just like what’s going on, you know, because you’re so used to that baseball
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tournament. Little Rock made the super regional.
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That’s right. That’s right. It really has been an amazing tournament.
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And you know, you go back to country roads. West Virginia is building a program.
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Yeah, they are. They can keep their coach.
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Yeah. That dude, what’s this? Steve Sabin.
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Yeah. Yeah. And then and so yeah, the two teams, uh, you know, LSU, obviously Little Rock was the only team to beat LSU in the NCAA baseball tournament last
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year. West Virginia, of course, was in the super regionals. Um, Georgia able to get to the super regionals. I I think they’re now the best team left.
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Yeah, that means they’ll lose.
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Yeah, we’ll see. Yeah, Milwaukee was in there. Nor Eastern, two teams LSU played.
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Yeah. Um, the Milwaukee thing was just crazy because LSU just absolutely beat the drum out of them in those first three games of the season when we all
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thought LSU was going to go back and potentially repeat again. Uh, but they play in a in a league with just five
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teams in it and they they got hot and and that that’s the other part with baseball. It is it’s the randomness.
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It’s all it takes is one of your starting pitchers not to have their day.
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Uh, an air here, a base hit there, a three-run home run here, and the momentum shifts. And it’s it’s something
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that you just it’s it’s hard to, you know, in football you could just overpower an inferior team. basketball, you know, it it basketball there is a
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little bit of randomness in it, but not as much as there is in baseball. I mean, if you if you come out in basketball and hit a bunch of three-pointers, you can
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beat a team that’s better than you, but doesn’t always work.
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The thing that stood out to me watching the games this this past weekend was they didn’t throw many wild pitches
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[laughter] and they played defense and didn’t make any errors. Well, and and I think, you know, there were some
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there were certainly some highscoring games out there. There’s no doubt about it. There were some games where they got out of hand and you just kind of let
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your, you know, your sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, 10th pitcher go out there and just try to get you through it to save pitchers for the rest of the regional. But, you know, a team like
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UCLA to to be as dominant as they were, they had won 29 straight at one point, right? and to just fall flat on you and
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not even to to lose even before he gets to the regional finals.
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Yeah. And and then the team that beats them doesn’t even win the the regional. Yeah. St. Mary’s.
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Right. Right. Cal Pal is the one that that’s going to be in there. So, I don’t know. Um I I know there’s parody. I I’ve
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also said this about where there is a bigger divide it seems obviously with football between your
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your your power conferences in the mid majors basketball the last couple of years of the NCAA tournament very few
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Cinderellas but if there is a sport if you’re an athletic director if there’s a sport where you want to get some eyeballs on you and want to get some
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attention for your school baseball is the you know look at all the attention Little Rock Troy St. John’s, you know, St. John’s gets
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attention in basketball, but you know, Calpali, how much attention they’re going to be getting now.
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Calpali’s, that’s got to be their first super regional ever. I’ve never heard of them being in a super regional. And and the other and talking about getting
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attention for your for your school because there’s no other sports going on right now collegiically. That’s the cool thing about baseball, man. The SEC dominates men’s golf.
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[laughter]
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No, seriously. Well, well, that’s about to end. [laughter] They’re in their last couple of days of of that is what I meant. But yeah, I the
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uh I was really entertained by the uh the LSU at the men’s golf. I mean, they they shot 18 under uh as a team on on Monday and and picked up 20some strokes.
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Uh but um and um you know, the women women did well, too. That’s uh that’s a cool program that LSU’s building up, both of those.
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All right. Well, we’ll talk a little more golf in hour number two. We’ll get back to football recruiting when we come back. Andre Shan Pine with 247 Sports will join us, so stay tuned for that.
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Yeah, we’re back here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealers studios, Jeff Polarmo, Todd Horn, Glenn Gilbo, our former
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coworker, Andre Shani. Joining us now from 247 Sports recovering or covering recruiting for um
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maybe he is recovering from you recovering. [laughter] You can say recovering after this weekend, Luke. So, were you just
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What’s up, gentlemen? Were you just hanging around Tiger Stadium watching all these five-star prospects walk around campus? I was not. I was working the phones.
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Honestly, I know LSU doesn’t uh a lot of programs. You guys would be surprised like they the Florida and Florida states actually allow guys to like hang out on
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campus like um on that last day and and interview the guys, but that is not the case at LSU. Wow.
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So, uh but no. Yeah, it was a very busy weekend. Um, very fun weekend though.
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All right, so give us an idea. How much headway did they make here on some of these guys?
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Ethan Royal was the biggest one in my opinion. I mean, uh, obviously he cancels, uh, his visits to, uh, Tennessee and Miss, which is pretty big.
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Um, but I kind of got that sense when I talked to him earlier this summer. Um, it sounded like it was a three-man race between Florida, LSU, and Texas, and it
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still is. Um, so I mean I guess you know the we’re we’re learning something but not much as well. But um I mean he he he
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loved every second of it. You could tell uh he was there with his mom and his other family members and they looked like they enjoyed it um just as much as
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him. And but like he talked about how he he you know a few weeks ago he he talked about how he loved the way Lane Keifin’s
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offense was structured and how he would fit in it. And then he also talked about how he literally idolized Odell Beckham growing up and how he watched the Tigers
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on Saturday. So like look, he’s interested in playing for LSU. But look, I think also Texas holds a really really special place in his heart. Why? I have
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no clue. But I mean, you could think it’s money, but he was very transparent with me that money is not going to be a
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factor in his decision. Um, but I I think it’s going to either come down to to Texas, him staying with Texas or an LSU flip uh when when things are done.
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Andre, uh, is it true that Eastern Royal cancelled his visit to Old Miss because his grandparents said that they didn’t want him to go there? [laughter]
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I can’t say I I wouldn’t I wouldn’t think it’s that. Um, but that’s a good question. Seriously, did did you ask Eastston or or what do you think
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Eastston’s thoughts are on the, you know, dozen wide receivers Lane brought in from the from from the portal this
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this past year? Does the number of receivers does that impact his decision at all, you think?
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I I don’t think so because he knows how talented he is down down the line. I mean, this we’re talking about a generational talent. Um, this guy has,
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you know, like the Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson pedigree written all over him because look, I mean, look at his track numbers. 10, like he ran a 1021 seconds
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in the 100 meters, like a 2047 in the 200, guys. That’s that’s track athlete speed. And the guy is built like a wide receiver, like a true wide receiver.
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He’s almost six foot. He’s 200 lb. And he’s just a physical guy, but he’s also just one that you’re not going to be able to catch at the end of the day.
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Well, go ahead. compare him to one of the one of the LSU greats.
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Um, I’m not sure honestly. I I would probably say Jamar Chase just in terms of the route running and and the kind of
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balance that he has. He’s, you know, for his size, he’s he’s still really physical. I would say I would say that uh because he’s not as tall as as one
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would be, but man, in that Lane Kein offense, that is like the typical uh you know, wide receiver that he goes after.
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How are his hands? Can he I mean, is he I mean, can he catch Did you watch the uh Did you watch the Under Armour American?
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I did not. Missed [laughter] it. Missed it, big guy. I’m sure you did. I did. Yeah, he had a one-handed catch.
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It was It was insane in the end zone uh for for one of the touchdowns. It was wild.
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Hey, Luke, [clears throat] didn’t didn’t LSU tell him that, you know, he wherever he decides to go, he’s going to be a superstar, but if he comes to LSU, he’ll be a legend.
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Uh, I I something along those lines for sure. Uh, I mean, sources have told us that like, look, they’re they’re full in. Like, they’re full in on this guy. I
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don’t think money is going to really be an issue here. They’re willing to probably pay him whatever he needs at the end of the day, but he really does
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have a relationship with Sarkeesian and that Texas staff over there in Austin.
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So, um, you know, it’s going to be telling what happens these next couple of weeks. And I wouldn’t even rule out Florida, man, with the way they’re recruiting. Uh, and you know, he raved about their staff earlier this summer.
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So, um, I I will like like he told me, he said, don’t count anything out. So, I that’s what I’m doing. I’m I’m not going to get ahead of myself here and say
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that, you know, a lot of lot like like a lot of these LSU people that, you know, it’s inevitable for a flip because it’s not.
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Well, hey, when when recruits are talking about LSU now, uh, what what what is the main selling
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point? Is it Kevin’s offense? LSU’s NFL history. Is it the SEC, Baton Rouge, or is it like you were talking about money?
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Man, I think it’s culture. Everybody that I’ve talked to has raved about the environment around Kein um and that new
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staff, right? Like they said, there’s just a lot more excitement there and there’s a lot more people connecting with you, if that makes sense. Like the staff is full in on these people.
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They’re giving them the time of day, if that makes sense. you know, we we kind of talked about how how, you know, Brian Kelly had, you know, had to schedule appointments. That’s not what it’s like.
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And here’s one thing, you know, like Lane Keifin is not like the most outspoken person. We’re we are all witnesses to that. we kind of know how
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he is. But with the recruits, you know, he’s able to talk ball and stuff and bringing Ed Oron in is is kind of what might save him in terms of becoming the
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next step of recruiting because I mean the guys that I’ve talked to already are like Ed Oron is a legend and and like it
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it was they were all starruck, you know, meeting him this weekend.
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Hey, Andre Jaylen Brewster, the commitment to Texas Tech, number one defensive lineman in the country, number one overall prospect in the country.
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What do you think LSU’s chances are of uh flipping him? Flipping him?
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Yeah, with with Ed back in the mix of things, I mean, they really hit it off with Brewster and his family uh this weekend. That was a guy that no one
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really on the national level even knew that LSU was kind of still in it, but behind the scenes, you know, Kevin Peoples and Ed O were working their
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magic and and they they blew them away this weekend. Um, now the thing about I just said Royals recruitment is not going to be strictly about money at the
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end of the day. And you know, but you know, I I would probably Glenn, I would say Brewster’s recruitment will. Um, you
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know, this is a guy that’s committed to Texas Tech and they’re not really turning heads in terms of their recruit recruiting class. Obviously, we know the
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kind of NIL money they have to work with. So, I I I would believe that’s probably why he’s still committed there.
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Um because if not, I mean LSU and Florida would be right in the mix for him and he’s heading to Gainesville, you know, this weekend where he really
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really loves their defensive line coach and John Summer down there. So that’s going to be one that, you know, I I think LSU definitely, you know, made up
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some ground, you know, this this weekend, but it’s going to come down to look, LSU has some work to do still. And
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if another thing is if general manager Billy Glastock is willing to open up the checkbook for a guy like that.
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Well, hey, uh, doesn’t Texas Tech have extra money now since they don’t have to pay that quarterback? [laughter] Yeah. Um, maybe. Or maybe he already
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used it on. [laughter] Oh, wow.
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You think he You think you think you think he gambled it away already, huh?
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He might have. Who knows, [laughter] guys?
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We’re You know what? You tell you you want to That was LSU’s first choice. Yes, it was. Recruiter did.
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They really dodged the bullet. And then look at Chaz Coleman. He’s no longer with Tennessee.
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That’s right. Right. Tennessee removed him from the team and that was their only top five ranked position player in their portal class.
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They’re they’re going to be in trouble down there in Knoxville this year. I can I’ve been saying it for two years.
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Brian Kelly’s record is better than Josh Hypel’s record. Hey, let’s get back to real real talk right now. Um, [laughter] that was real talk.
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Yeah, I know. Gullible. I know. But, um, odd wrong. [laughter] Um, we miss you. We miss you, Andre.
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So, Luke, yes, I know. I’m loving this, Luke. I have a I have another question. More.
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Okay. So, what what do you think? Do you think that um question?
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Yeah, kind of. Is is Lane is Lane improving LSU’s national reach and scope in terms of
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say is Lane in trouble? [laughter] I I would say so. Now, here’s the thing.
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LSU’s like recruitment nowadays is, you know, with the transfer port and everything, they’re not going to be as
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heavy. I think what you’re going to see from LSU’s classes moving forward, though, they’re going to be topheavy.
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So, what that means is they’re going to be willing to spend on the guys that they know will produce probably right away. And the, you know, the the lower
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half is where you’ll see a lot of those three star guys where that makes sense to be diamond, right? And and it does.
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Um, and it’s going to be smaller classes. I I think I said they might sign up to 25 guys or something like that. It’s not looking like it now.
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They’re losing a lot of guys right now um that they really aren’t necessarily prioritizing, if that makes sense. So, a
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lot of three star guys um that were in the mix, but I mean what what they’re going to do is just make up for it in
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the transfer portal at this rate. So, so Lane Keifin at LSU creates a different kind of recruiting problem for
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the rest of the SEC, right?
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Yes. I would think I would think he is definitely going after the the major players um and and leaving kind of the
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not, you know, scrappy seconds, but the guys that aren’t going to contribute right away to them. You know, he’s I I
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don’t think Lane is willing to go after kids that he doesn’t really think can develop for one, but also contribute right away.
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So, let me ask you one last question, Luke. If Eastston Royal ends up deciding to go to finally to Texas or to Florida,
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does Lane Kein hop on a plane and meet him at the airport when he lands in Austin or Gainesville and give it one more shot?
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Oh, yeah. They’re not they’re they’re not giving up on this kid. I can tell you, especially with him right in their backyard, they’re not giving up. Um but
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but if he was to just say, “Hey, Texas, that allows you to do a lot more.
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They’re going after a bunch of fivestar edge rushers and trench guys that um they really need, honestly. like looking at it, they don’t have that much depth
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on the defensive uh tackle position right now. They don’t have that much depth on the offensive line um in terms of kind of youngsters, right? So, uh it
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it opens up, you know, a few opportunities if that doesn’t happen.
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But, man, if you miss on Easter and Roy, you you’re definitely you’re you’re going to be pissed about that for not only this year, but for many years to come.
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But wasn’t Jamar Chase going to go to Florida originally? Auburn? Yeah, I think Auburn.
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He was going to Auburn. No, no, he was he was committed to Florida. He was initially Kansas, then went to Florida, and then decommitted from Florida.
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I think you need to check that big guy.
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I’m pretty No, he was committed to Auburn. That kid that that kid went to my high school, man. Tamar Chase was committed to Auburn before he he went to
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LSU. All right, we’ll we’ll we’ll check on that. But I do want to give you credit. You Anybody want to bet Sorsborg? You want to bet on this?
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You were one of the last I’m ready to bet right now.
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[laughter]
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Andre Andre Laneby style Lane Keifin has not tweeted since May 11th and one of his last tweets was a rec.
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Yeah. Yeah. Andre Andre broke the internet. But Jamar Chase went to Auburn.
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Committed to Auburn. [laughter] All right, Andre. You know we’re late for a break, so we got to let you go. Good job, man. I do. I do.
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Appreciate that. Thank you.
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All right. Andre Champine, good catching up with him. Good recruiting breakdown.
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And I I love the fact that he’s it’s still going to be a battle uh between LSU and Texas for Eastern Royals.
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Certainly, they made some ground up, but it’s uh it’s there’s still more work to be done. Let’s take another break. More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio when we come back.
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Back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. That was good stuff from Andre Champine.
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We’ll have uh if you missed that interview, you can uh check it out anywhere you get your podcast or if you go to YouTube after the show is over
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with about 30 minutes from uh the show ending. We’ll have the uh whole show that you can listen to there. Um excuse me, Jeff. Uh Stan corrected.
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Andre was correct. Jamar [laughter] Chase did commit to Florida then decommitted. I don’t know where I got Auburn from. Sorry about that.
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You got Andre and Sorsby won his bet.
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So, [laughter] all right. Um, good stuff uh from Jacqu
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Dusay on his uh YouTube podcast. Uh, sat down and talked with Verge Osbury, LSU’s athletic director for about 30 plus
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minutes. A lot of things he could take away from it. Um, still believes Jay Johnson is the best coach in America.
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Believes he’ll get that turned around.
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Strong support for Beth Torina. Um, and there’s really no reason to make a a change there unless you thought you you
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can bring in, you know, what do you think about her losing Jaden Heer again? That’s two years in a row.
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That’s rough. But what Verge said and and I don’t think Jacques asked him about her because I I don’t think he
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knew. Uh, but Verge said, “Hey, she’s bringing in number one recruiting class in the country.” She is. She told us that a couple weeks ago when she was on the show. That was
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um and he he just talked about you got can’t beat the 16 seed, right? If you’re the 16 seed, you got to go on the road,
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play the top seed at their home park. Uh not not very easy. But yeah, that was, you know, that would be to me like if
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Kase Evans or William Schmidt got into the transfer portal.
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That’s that’s tough because I just said a minute ago, most of the time when you lose players in the portal, it’s because they’re not playing. They feel like they ought to play more, have a bigger role.
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She had a great role. She was the ace.
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She was involved. Remember when they had that big announcement with Nike being involved? She was part of that,
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right? And that’s two years in a row that she lost her top pitcher. Yeah. To the transfer portal.
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So, I’m not uh I’m not but really very if you listen to the interview, uh he was to me he got more excited about
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talking about Beth Torino than a lot of the other topics. Not to say they I mean he was really decisive in his support for Beth Tiny.
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Yeah, that’s cuz he was under a lot of pressure to fire when he first took over. Oh man, I thought it was about the pool.
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I thought like maybe he like spends time at a pool. [laughter] She’s got a great swimming pool. I don’t know. I don’t know about that.
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Uh he denied uh let’s get back to maybe the reality. [laughter] Reality is a good word. He denied that
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reality she has a great pool. there’s uh been any anybody or at least from him.
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He did not tell Lane to cut out on Twitter, right? And if you remember when Lane
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Kein was introduced on December 1st, one of the things he said that he liked about Verge was that he leaves him alone.
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Yes. And Verge didn’t even say that in the interview.
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And that and Verge isn’t going to tell I mean Verge might tell Lane some stuff, but he’s not going to talk to him about freaking social media. I don’t think
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Burge cares about that. I think I think that was probably Lane’s call. Um, who knows?
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Well, he I know Andre the Andre story was the last thing he retweeted, but the the story right underneath it is the Vanity Fair article.
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Yeah, I I I honestly think Lane I I know Lane, you know, he says things to get a
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reaction. I don’t I think he didn’t expect as strong of a reaction on the Old Miss stuff.
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Maybe so. Maybe so. He although he did sense it though because after he said it, he came back and told Chris Smith, “Hey, I hope you didn’t misunderstand
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the next day.” Right? Is that what he said in our interview with him?
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Yeah. Yeah. And he he probably knew it was coming. But I think, you know, it was time that he that he take a break from it. Maybe maybe there was other
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things involved and his and his daughter did say uh Lane giving tweets too much.
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That’s his Twitter cover. But uh you know, plus maybe he just was and the he when he first started not tweeting, he
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went on vacation. Yeah. Okay. So that might have been it. And then maybe he said, “You know what?
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I’m not going to do it for a while.” And then the uh I think the other thing that Verge said that was pretty interesting when uh Jacques was asking him about the construction of the LSU
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basketball roster. He’s all for it. He said, “Push the limits. We’re we’re here to win.” Well, well, the question was,
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are you concerned that, you know, he might not get some of those players, you know, with that new NCA rule that we
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wrote about in Tiger Egg last week a couple of times, but uh and the you know, in the RJ Louie thing, that was just kind of a shot in
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the dark and and I I I think Wade was right to that for that to try to you poor choice of words, gamble, take a gamble and and [laughter] take him. But
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but he could well lose a couple of the the other guys from this. But but Verge is like you know go ahead and try to get the best players you can and we’ll figure that
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out later. And that that’s a you know that’s a good approach cuz you know he said every Verge said everything’s within the rules now. Well there’s not really a lot of rules, right? You know
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and the one rule they do have you know you can’t take an NBA player. He already broke that but but he [laughter] just but he’s honest about it. So, but I mean
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he he’s uh I don’t think the roster, you know, Will Wade’s fans are never going to admit it, but I don’t think it’s going quite as well as he thought it would.
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I think he’ll still have a pretty good team and it’s it’s still early, you know, for him to get some new players in, but I think he’s beaten having to
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beat the Bushes more than he probably thought he would.
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Yeah. All right, let’s take our final break of hour number one. More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio.
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All right, just a couple more minutes left to go in this hour as we wrap up Tiger Rag Radio and look forward to hour
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number two. Loaded with guests in hour number two. Hunt Palmer from ESPN 1045 and 1049 will join us. We’ll talk some uh LSU baseball and some NCAA tournament
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baseball with him. Blake Topmire, looking forward to this interview uh with USA Today Network to talk about the Senate legislation that was approved. Um
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and I don’t I don’t really have time to get to it here. We we’ll get to it in a couple segments, but the SEC and the Big
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10 have issued a joint statement regarding that legislation. And guess what? They don’t really like it.
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Yeah, but Lee Mallet has approved it.
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But didn’t I see that he wanted his name taken off of it?
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Yeah, because he thought it was a score ad, [laughter] which was already not passed, which has been put in the trash can.
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Basically, that’s our LSU board of supervisors
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[laughter]
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always on the cusp of information.
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So, uh, but we’ll we’ll get into that a little bit more, but it it just amazes me. And I understand no legislation is
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perfect. Uh it’s it’s hard to pass good legislation.
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The best bills are the ones that a lot of people don’t like uh for various reasons. So, but but the SEC and the Big 10 and they
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invited Congress in, right?
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And that’s what Blake’s going to talk about. They’re the Fox. You invited them in. The Fox has taken over regardless of whether you like it or not.
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And there’s only two areas that the SEC and the Big 10 don’t like about it. It’s the media rights conglomeration and it’s the um the uh
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well it said it’s going to still not give them enough enforcement too and we we’ll get they’re making up crap.
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Jeff along with Gwen Gilbo, Todd Horn, and Case Kishnik. By the way, the latest edition of Tiger Rag Magazine is
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out for those listeners in the Baton Rouge area. There are a variety of places, multiple places that you can get it. Lane Keifin is on the cover and
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again [laughter] he might set a record before it’s all said and done. Uh many times the coach
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appears on a on a u on the front page of Tiger Rag but uh and it obviously a lot of stories to get to baseball
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uh the magazine covers it all. So you want to certainly pick it up or you can go to to tiger.com and you can download the PDF of it. So, um, don’t forget to
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do all of that and glad you could join us here on Tiger Rag Radio. And joining us now on the show, Hunt Palmer from
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ESPN 1045 1049. How you doing today, Hunt? I’m doing quite well. How are you all?
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We’re doing well. You can hear Hunt’s show 1 to3 and you can also read his stuff at louisianaapasports.net. I have the I have that right, correct?
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Is that the right uh URL that I just gave on that? That is the right URL.
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Louisianaports.net. Okay. What was your favorite part of the NCAA baseball tournament so far this past weekend?
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I really honestly think it was just a new perspective. I generally am watching from the box or around LSU games or
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worrying what that might impact LSU’s travel or opponent. And instead it was just more of like what cool baseball’s
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on and there was a lot of cool baseball on. Um it started on Friday. Weird and wacky stuff happened all weekend. Seven
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regional hosts lost. Four teams lost on Friday and came back and won regionals.
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You’ve got a Little Rock Troy uh super regional coming up. You’ve got, you know, huge national seeds that have have have vowed out. It’s it’s been really
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really fascinating. And usually I’m some combination of traveling and working or writing. And this time it was more just watching. And I I enjoyed it. I don’t
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ever want to do it again, but it was great. [laughter]
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[clears throat]
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Well, hey Hunt. Um, let’s let’s start with the blunt question first.
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[clears throat]
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Jay Johnson, is he shopping the portal for arms, bats, defense, maturity, or toughness? Yes.
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Okay. [laughter] Is there He’s shopping for all of that. They’ve got plenty of room to fill on that roster, plenty of holes to fill, and he
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will he will take a new approach this year, I think.
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So, this really isn’t a normal roster refresh. It’s more of a fullscale rebuild.
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Yeah. And I think there are some different ideas behind it. I mean, he was transparent in those postgame interviews um right in the middle of the
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season and said they chased home runs to try to replace Brian Jones and made mistakes. And what he means by that is
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that they got some players with power profiles into the program that could not hit SEC pitching for power. And then at
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that point, they could not help because they weren’t hitting the ball the other way hard. They weren’t drawing walts.
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They could not play defense. They didn’t have any versatility. They didn’t run well. They were here to hit some home runs. And like those four transfers they brought in hit 60 home runs last year
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between them. I think they finished with 14 at LSU and all lost their jobs except Dardar. So they’re going to use the the
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players that are in-house Karen Bey, Mason Brawn, Omar Cerna, even William Patrick to an extent. Those are going to
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be the power bats in the lineup that have grown up in the program like Jake Brown did and developed into a power bat like Jared Jones did and developed into
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a huge power bat. And then they’re going to go get guys into the portal. It’s my understanding that more often than not have high averages, have low strikeout
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rates, can play corner infield and corner outfielder, can play both middle infield positions and and be a little bit more athletic, a little bit more
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defensive, he’s not going to chase power in the portal. Now, that’s not to say if someone falls in their lap that they absolutely love, I mean, you’re not turn
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down Tommy White in the transfer portal, but you’re also not going to get guys with a profile that you had last year that just did not work. So you today on your show, you talked a little bit about
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what you were just talking about the type of hitter that Jay will probably go after being more of a a contact hitter, a leverage hitter than a power hitter.
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And that’s because a power hitter has a certain type of liability that the other type of hitter doesn’t. You want to go into that a little bit?
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Yeah, I think it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a deal where you take individual player, but if you’ve got a the example that I
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gave is the the shortstop third baseman from Texas Tech who is 6’5 and he hit
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350 as a freshman in the Big 12 and he hit five home runs. Well, okay, you can
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project a 6’5 player to put on 15 pounds in college without much of a problem.
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And you can also project a guy that can bat to ball it to 350 as a freshman in the Big 12 is going to get more comfortable in the box against velocity
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as time goes on and can play out in front of home plate a little bit more, which is where you catch the ball out front and drive it out of the ballpark with some power to the pool side. And so
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that’s the type of body type and profile that you’re looking for out of guys that they’ll they’ll they’ll grab. They’re they’re not going to necessarily be in
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the mold of getting a a junior who’s not going to get drafted to play his senior year at LSU to come in and hit 20 home
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runs. That’s just not what they’re going to try to do. They’re going to get some younger players. Another guy that comes to mind is is is Tyonus who played shorts stop for for Maryland this year.
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He started every game for them. Um he didn’t hit 350, he hit closer to 300, but he played good defense. He was a
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freshman last year. he handled um Big 10 pitching and is a guy that has a projectable frame and has two years left
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to play college baseball. That’s the kind of guy that they’re they’re going after, not somebody who is going to have to come into the SEC, then figure out how to hit 98 mph fast balls every
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single week and then try to to contribute 20 home runs. That’s just a lot to ask somebody who’s that far along in his baseball journey.
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Talking to Hunt Palmer from 104.5 FM in Baton Rouge here on Tiger Egg Radio.
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Hunt, are there some pitchers names out there that you’ve heard that uh Jay is targeting in through the portal?
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There are. I mean, I Trosclair is the obvious one. Uh Trosclair was a freshman at um Northwestern State this past year.
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He was the Southland freshman of the year. He was brilliant. His RA was under two high strikeout totals. He’s really got a good breaking ball and field to pitch. He’s undersized. He’s 5’10.
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That’s how you end up in the Southland.
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He’s from South Louisiana in the Homa Tibido area. The problem with Brody Trosclair, and it’s a significant problem, he had elbow surgery in the
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middle of this season. I do not believe it was Tommy John’s surgery, but I do believe it’s prohibitive for him being ready to go in the fall and early
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spring. So, as far as like impact arms, I don’t have that pinned down just yet.
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Keep in mind, the portal opened yesterday. Yesterday was a day for social media contact, for text messaging, for phone calls, for Zooms.
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Then if you find somebody that’s got interest, you book flights, and that’s when Tuesday, Wednesday, especially Thursday, Friday, Saturday, LSU should
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see significant guys actually showing up on campus now that most seasons are done and the portal is open. So um that that
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concrete information will be out as the week progresses. right now. I think Tros because of his proximity to LSU, if he didn’t have to get on a plane, he could be here today.
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Well, because the way the NCAA tournament is has with all the chaos that’s occurred here, Hunt, the there’s
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there’s a lot of good players that were on some really good teams that now could decide to get into the transfer portal.
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So, maybe this makes it a little bit easier for Jay. Do you see him potentially because a lot of these position players or several of the
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position players or at least a couple of them and I guess I’m thinking of Braden Simpson and of course uh Zack York.
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Does does Jay look more towards the power four schools instead of hoping to get a mid- major guy? Obviously it
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worked with Daniel Dickinson, but was there a lesson learned there?
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It worked with Dickinson. It worked with Luis Hernandez. to certainly work with Anthony Iansson. They had a lot of success with small schools entering the 2025 season and it did not work as well
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this past year. I think it’s a deal where you’ve got to trust your instincts and keep in mind that Simpson hit 22 home runs. York was the all-time leading
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Grand Canyon home run hitter. They were not known as defensive players. They were bats and they came in and couldn’t hit and then you got nothing to add. So
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when he does dip into the smaller schools, I think you’ll see a guy that hits 350 360 at that level. I think you’ll see a guy that steals 25 35 bases
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at that level. Maybe I think you’ll see a guy that plays center field or shortstop really well at that level. You just won’t see the power profile be the
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predominant feature. You’ll see a more rounded baseball player for the transfer portal guys.
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I was just going to ask you um and I I may be getting off of the transfer portal for a little bit, but uh is there
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anyone hunt on this current roster that you build around? I know you mentioned Cerna and you mentioned Aaron
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Bey earlier, but is there anybody else aside from those two guys that you would actually build around right now?
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I think Mason Braun for sure. I think Mason Brun’s going to be a star. I think he’s exactly the guy you want to get into your program. and he’s obsessed
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with baseball and he’s missing missing a major league baseball tool. The reason he is at LSU and not in a minor league
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system is because he’s 5’11 instead of 6’4. He’s a great bat-to ball hitter.
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He’s a hustler. Um he does provide a little bit of positional versatility.
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He’s not a great outfielder. He can go play left field like like Rafe Rimes played left field like you know Gavin Dugos played left field. He can go do that. Um I think he’s going to be a
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great hitter for LSU. I think those are the three impact bats for next year. It’s beyond.
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We’ll see what Jack Rucker develops into. We’ll see what William Patrick develops into. And those guys are certainly in the program as well. But um the rest of the lineup’s going to have
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to be rounded out. But then, you know, you got the pitching staff as well. And as it stands right now, I expect William Schmidt, Case Evans, and Cooper Moore to be back. And those three guys along with Marcos Paw started a lot of SEC games.
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They did not do a great job, but they’re certainly part of the puzzle here. And that’s what makes it intriguing with the transfer portal. You think about it like
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a Major League Baseball uh well more so like an NFL salary cap where you’re going to all lot each amount of money to
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each position. Like you kind of got four guys with starters pedigrees.
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How much more do you want to invest in starting pitching? My answer would be heavily. I want to go get I think there’s nothing more important than a one-two punch in college baseball like
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Anderson and Iansson or Holman a jump or skins and void at the end. Um that’s that’s a huge deal and Old Miss is riding that right now and I think they got a really good chance to make a push
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at this thing um because they’ve got such a good starting rotation and I don’t think LSU’s got that for next year right now. So I think that when you talk about build around like Kase Evans,
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William Schmidt and Cooper Moore would be names you would toss in there, but I’d certainly like to add to that as well.
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Is is John Pearson your third baseman next year?
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He would not be for me. Um, John Pearson on a championship level team to me is a
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a spot third baseman, is a right-handed designated hitter, is a pinch hitter off the bench. Um, that’s what John Pearson
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is to me on a championship team, especially considering the fact that we don’t know what four the other positions are going to be. Now, if they fill those
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with superstars and if you could tell me that Curiel Brown, Curial and Brown were coming back, which they’re not, and Milm was coming back, then all of a sudden I would be a little bit more open to it.
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But right now, I would not lean that direction.
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All right, Hunt, thanks a lot for your time, man. Good stuff as always. We appreciate it. Who do you like uh to win it all at this point? Or is it too hard to tell? Troy. He’s going for Troy.
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George is hard to pick against at this point, but I would really watch out for Miss. They’ve got three legitimate starting pitchers and uh and they can hit the ball out of the ballpark. So I
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would I would watch out for Miss I thought you were going to say Troy, man. Come on.
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I was not going to say Troy. [laughter] Calpali St. John.
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Not Calpali either. [laughter] Little Rock. Little Rock. All right. Hey Hunt, thanks man. We appreciate it. All right. Y’all be well.
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All right. That’s Hunt Palmer from ESPN 1045 and 1049 in Baton Rouge. And also you can catch his stuff over at louisianaapasports.net.
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We’ll take a break. When we come back, get back into we’ll talk a little bit more about the legislation filed in the
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Senate that is trying to fix college sports. Already pushed back from the SEC in the Big 10. Big hearing tomorrow.
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We’ll get into that here over the next 20 minutes or so. So stay tuned for that here 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 dealers studio. [music] Well, legislation was filed last week by
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Senator Ted Cruz and Maria Canwell and it’s going to get its first hearing in the US Senate. Blake Topmire from USA
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Today Network, he’ll join us in the next segment. Uh there were some LS LSU fans get defensive whenever they feel like
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they’re being called out upon or and some didn’t necessarily like the the so-called Lane Kein role. Um I I I don’t know if you need to legislate that.
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Obviously, if you change the football calendar, it would be different. But if you’re going to ask Congress to come fix
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college sports, that was a huge, and I agree with what Verge Osbury told Jacqu Duce. If it wasn’t LSU that was going to
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hire Lane Ke and somebody was, and again, the calendar opened up the door for LSU to go after him. And and there were two other schools that did the same thing.
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Yeah. And LS and Lane was willing to leave. So you you needed some parties to you needed some individuals, you needed some entities to all go along with it
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and it and that’s what happened. But um you know some people get upset that it’s this is kind of picking on Lane and and
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LSU. But you also have to look at it is we’ve ne in the history of sports, we have never seen what we saw last
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November where a team is set to go in the postseason and their head coach, granted he wanted to stay, but still he
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he still in the end voluntarily left. He could have stayed at Old Miss. He still voluntarily left Old Miss and came to
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LSU. And again, if you’re going to ask Congress to come in and fix what’s wrong with college sports, that’s something that shouldn’t happen on any level of
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sports. I understand why it did. I’m not criticizing anyone. I it it occurred, but it shouldn’t have occurred.
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Yeah. So, I I listen to both sides. I understand both sides, and I just say change the calendar. Yeah.
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Just change the calendar.
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Right. But it doesn’t seem like Greg Seni is willing to change the calendar.
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it it doesn’t seem like there’s a lot and I’m not and and I’m not one that’s uh a big about moving this season up
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before the week of Labor Day. I love the fact that it start I I love the fact that week one is Labor Day weekend.
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You have to get rid of a regular season game and I don’t see them doing that.
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Yeah, that’s just it. They they there there’s there’s ideas out there that could fix things, but they don’t want to do it because they’re going to lose
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money. Yeah. and and you know that’s that’s just a ridiculous stand because they’ll make the money back eventually
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in other ways. If they get rid of the SEC championship game, they’ll make the money back in other ways because they’ll have more teams in the playoffs. They’ll
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probably have more teams win the championship game if they get rid of that. And you know, I mean, how many boats how many yachts can you sail
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behind? like like Michael Douglas said, like uh Charlie Sheen said in Wall Street about Michael Douglas, but uh you
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know, they they they make a lot of money. They need to do what makes sense schedule-wise.
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Well, and uh we’ll get into a little bit more about this with uh Blake Tott, but I mentioned this a little bit earlier on tonight, the uh with the hearing taking
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place tomorrow. The um the Big 10 in the SEC, which um a lot of people feel like they don’t see eye to eye on a lot of
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things. Actually put out a uh a joint statement today and uh this is how it reads. The big top, the Big 10 Conference and the SEC support a
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sustainable national framework for college sports, one with an effective transfer portal, clear eligibility standards, and protections of benefits
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for student athletes. We appreciate the leadership of Senators Cruz and Canwell in pursuing the shared goals. We do not
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support the Protect College Sports Act as drafted. The bill leaves critical issues unresolved. It does not meaning meaningfully
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preempt the patchwork of state laws or provide the protections needed to make and enforce consistent rules both essential to long-term stability in
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college athletics. It also shifts ongoing rulemaking to Congress, limiting, which is I thought that’s what you wanted to do, but anyways, limiting
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the ability to [laughter] that’s what they have to do.
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Limiting the ability to adapt quickly as the landscape evolves. Rather than reducing litigation, the bill likely expands it without offering clear alternatives for dispute resolution.
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Finally, the bill alters the House settlement revenue sharing framework in a way that may result in fewer student athletes receiving direct revenue share
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payments. committed to working with the senators and other members of Congress to improve this legislation so that it can provide lasting stability for college athletics.
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All right. So, I’m just going to give you one interpretation of that. Okay. We wanted to have full control like the NCAA used to.
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Yeah.
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But we really didn’t want full control like the NCAA used to have because we want to go start our own league. Yeah.
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That’s what they’re really saying. Yeah. And that’s what it really comes down to.
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And we don’t want to have to share who how we’re distributing the revenue to the sports because we don’t believe in title 19. That’s a bunch of gobble guil.
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Yeah. You know, and we don’t want to have to deal with all that. We want to go do our own thing. And why do you want our money? Why do you want our media money? We’re the ones making all the
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money in the media. Why do you want that? Why do you want to share in that?
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You know, why why would we want to share that with you? No, we’re not going to do that. How would an SEC and I would
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imagine if there was a separation, how would that look, Todd?
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It would look like uh 18 teams from the Big 10 and 16 teams from the SEC and
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that would be that would be the the NBA GLeague.
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So on a Tuesday night at Alec Bach Stadium, is is um is Ruckers in for a midweek game? Yep.
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There you go. It’s not going to happen.
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[laughter]
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I bet it happens in two years. Two year. You’re giving it two years?
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No, I don’t think it’s going to happen in two years.
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They got to They got to get some ACC teams with them, right? They’re going to want a few of the ACC, maybe even a few of the Big 12.
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Yeah, they’re But you’re not going to There won’t be more than 40 40ome teams. I don’t see it happening in two years. Okay.
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Why Why do you say We got 30 seconds here. Why do you say in two years? cuz Sorsby told me it was going to happen.
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[laughter]
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You’re gambling on this, huh?
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What I want to know is how did the Big 10 get the first billing in that statement you read? How’d Sanki let that go [laughter] because Big 10’s won the last three national championship?
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But the SEC was better by Greg Sanki [laughter] metrics. We’re still waiting on that.
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They should have applied golf to it because the SEC finished with six of the top seven.
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All right, welcome back to Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polmo, Todd Horn, Gwen Gilbo. Glad you could join us. And again, if you missed any of the show, you can uh get us anywhere you get your
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podcast. Uh you can relisten to the show, listen to previous shows. Also, we’re up on YouTube about 30 minutes after the show is over. Joining us now
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from the USA Today network, Blake Topmire. We were just talking about it, the Senate legislation that is uh attempting to try to fix college
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athletics. It’s already receiving push back from the SEC and the Big 10. Big hearing Wednesday as they continue they begin marking up the bill, taking
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testimony on the legislation. Blake joins us now to talk about that and more. Thanks a lot, Blake, for your time tonight. How you doing?
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I’m doing well. Good to talk to you guys.
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I’m doing well. What did you I’m sure you caught the statement that was issued by the SEC in the Big 10 tonight. Your thoughts on that?
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My thoughts are careful what you wish for. Greg Frankie was at the vanguard uh begging the federal government for help.
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He once said that quote only Congress could fix what ails college sports.
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Well, here’s your fix, Greg Stany. How do you like it? He doesn’t like it very much. And this is this is what you risk
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when you spend five years um begging the federal government for help as Greg Sanki did. Well, you spend five years
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doing that, you just might get the federal government’s help, but you might not like the form in which that help comes. And that’s now the situation that
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that Greg Shanki and the SEC find themselves in. Hey Blake, this is Todd.
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And I think what you just said is really important, especially when you consider that the bill itself appears built to
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pass in the Senate with the Republican chair, the Democrat ranking members, bipartisan co-sponsors.
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Uh, is that the most important thing about this bill is that it it’s constructed around the vote first, vote count first?
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We’ll see. We’ll see if it gets to 60. I mean, I do expect and I’m I’m no political expert, but uh I do expect
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it’s going to receive some push back in the Senate, particularly from the Democratic side of the aisle. You’ve already um you’ve already seen a little
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bit of that. Um they need, if my math’s correct, they need need seven Democrats to vote for this to get to 60 in the
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Senate. And you’ve you’ve probably got two, you would think when you think that Maria Canwell, the Democrat from U
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Washington, co-wrote this bill and um another Democrat co-sponsored it. So if you got two there, you need five more
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Democratic votes. Can can they get that to get to seven? Uh assuming all the the Republicans vote for it, maybe. You know, I I guess I’m still in the camp of
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believe it when I see it, but I I do think this is this is further down the road than anything we’ve heard about for
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the last 5 years. So, um it’s got a shot. I I will agree with you there.
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The Have you paid any attention to what’s going on in Louisiana with the privacy laws, uh the HB 608? I’m just
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curious if you’re familiar with some of the things LSU is trying to shield that the way this law is currently or this bill is currently written would actually
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open some of that back up that they’re trying to shield especially when it comes to revenue share.
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Uh I’m not familiar with those cases in particular. No. But I mean I think um across the country ba basically what you’re describing I would I would think
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that across the country there’s going to be a number of situations like this because in the last 5 years um all these issues have been sort of tackled and
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governed at the state level and then now here comes the uh the federal government to supersede that. So, uh, I’m not familiar with the details of what you’re
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describing, but again, um, when you’ve had a patchwork of, you know, state laws and state initiatives
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helping govern this space in so much as it has been governed for 5 years, uh, I would think a lot of, um, a lot of, uh,
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that legislation is is going to be trumped if if this would u, this federal bill would become law. Hey Blake, where
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do you think Greg Sanki and Tony Patiti are on the media rights? Greg pushed
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back on the media rights from with the bill. Uh do you think he you know are he and Tony in any kind of agreement on the
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media rights or or do you see them agreeing on many things?
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I I think they’re in agreement that they don’t want to pull their media rights. Okay.
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Uh pooling Yeah. pulling media rights is good when you’re not the two richest conferences in the sport, right? I mean, if you’re Cody Campbell University,
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which is what uh used to be known as Texas Tech, um you know, if you’re Cody Campbell University, I I think you know
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this the idea of pooling media rights is very favorable to you, right? or or if you’re any school in the Big 12 or if
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you’re any school in uh the ACC, I I think the idea of pooling media um revenue, media rights is is favorable to
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you because you’re playing catch-up with the SEC and uh the the Big 10. And so, if you can kind of get in on that action, pull the money, uh that’s that’s
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great. I I think um the SEC and and the Big 10 are are fairly naturally aligned
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on that one particular issue of being um skeptical to uh borderline resistant to the idea of of pooling media rights.
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But, you know, that’s one of I think multiple ways in which this bill has Cody Campbell’s uh fingerprints on it.
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Now, the senator who wrote this would tell you that they wrote it and not Cody Campbell, which may well be true. Um, but it it does read as if it it does
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have uh some some notable influence from Cody Campbell.
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It if it were to make it through e in this form or in a form close to it, let’s say that it has the media rights
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intact and it it passes, does the SEC and the Big 10 break away sooner rather than later?
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Um, well, I mean, this bill would attempt to prevent them from breaking away, right? So, you’re saying would would they break away before it becomes
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law, right? Um, or or would they just ignore the law? I who knows, you know? I mean,
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truly, who who knows? Like, like last week, we we went to SEC spring meetings with the Georgia president u University of Georgia President Jerry Morhead
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acting like, you know, the SEC could break off and do its own thing. won’t.
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That from many other constituents there seemed highly implausible, highly unrealistic. So, I’m sure if you
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gathered 20 different stakeholders in a room, you’d probably get about 14
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different answers at a minimum. So, is anything possible? Sure. Um, do I think an SEC Big 10 breakaway is
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imminent? I’m skeptical of that. But, you know, if if they get answers from the federal government that they don’t like, then then potentially that that
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nudges them forward. But again, I would go back to to me all of this is high comedy when it was the FCC fearless
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leader, Greg Sanki, repeatedly going to Capitol Hill and telling them, “You guys are the only ones the only ones that
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[snorts] can that can solve these problems.” And now here is proposed legislation. And Greg Sandy says, “No,
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no, no, no, no. I don’t like this
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[laughter]
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high comedy.” But we speaking about high comedy, tomorrow is really just big theater, this hearing, isn’t it? Or is it valid
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in any way whatsoever? Is it meaningful in any way whatsoever?
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Well, for the bill to advance forward, you have to have meetings such as this.
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This is, you know, I think what the political class would call the markup phase of the bill. So, um, another way
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of putting that in layman’s terms might be like the airing of grievances phase of the bill where, um, you know, you you
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get your objections in, see what revisions need to be made, if if you’re going to push forward with this, push toward a vote, uh, you mark it up, you
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revise, and um, and then you put that revision forward to a vote. So, uh, yeah, it is theater certainly. Um I I
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would say in so much so as the bill is relevant, the the theater surrounding it is relevant because um you know if there
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are senators who are hung up over certain portions of the bill and you need those senators to get to 60, then
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this would sort of be the phase where you kind of haggle over that and and see what uh what you can mark up and revise
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to to get the necessary votes uh to get to 60 again. and and you guys have raised this point. This this thing can’t
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advance out of the Senate without having some level of of bipartisan support. You
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know, I mean, Chris Murphy is one Democratic senator who’s been very outspoken um on the issues of college
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athletics and and I know he has um raised some skepticism [clears throat] that this bill does enough um for the
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rights of athletes. Well, I mean, this bill could get to 60 uh without the likes of of Chris Murphy. Um but as I
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said, it does need some level of of uh Democrat support other than just um the two Democrats who who’s named on it. So,
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you know, this would to me be sort of the compromise date.
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What What does Chris Murphy want that the Democrats aren’t getting now? I mean, they they’re getting health insurance. They’re getting a number of other protections athletes are that they weren’t getting before.
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of what would those protections be other than health insurance, right?
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I mean, this this this bill caps um student athlete compensation. It it
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enforces a a cap. It also puts a cap um on their representation ability to earn money. Um, I don’t think
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anybody’s capping Jimmy Sexton’s ability to earn money. But if you’re the quarterback for LSU, this bill, this
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bill, uh, if passed into law, would cap your representation’s ability to earn money at 5%.
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Um, you know, some people in the athlete community, uh, think that it’s unfair to have caps um on athletes earnings or on
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their representation, their legal representation’s earnings. um you wouldn’t see such cap for coaches, athletic directors, conference
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commissioners um or their legal representation. So um yeah, I I think it it depends how you’re viewing this, but
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overall I would say that this is a bill written much more favorably toward the
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institutions than it is toward the athletes.
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Blake, thanks a lot for your time. We’ll see what happens here. um as uh Congress really uh starts to try to do what they
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can to fix college athletics even though SEC and the Big 10 are not so excited about it anymore. We appreciate your time man. [laughter] Okay, thanks guys. Good talking to you.
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Thanks Blake. Blake Topmire from USA Today. When we come back, Garrett Renan, the head women’s golf coach for LSU.
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Continue on here with Tiger Rag Radio as we have our next guest on the show. That is Garrett Renan from the LSU women’s
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golf program, the head coach as he joins us. Uh, the men and the women had some strong showings out in California at the
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NCAA championships. Coach Ren, how you doing tonight? Thanks for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. You got Jeff Porl and Glenn Gilbo. How you doing?
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I’m doing great, guys. Thanks for having me on.
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Hey, Garrett, your uh your women’s team did very well in the NCAA championships.
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Missed the top 15 cut by one stroke.
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Taylor Riley had a spectacular uh senior season and playing in front of her home crowd there, that must have been some
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pressure. But just just your thoughts now uh looking back on the finish and just your season.
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Yeah, we we had a very young team, but um you know, we we had a good season and and um I’m very proud of the fact that
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we were one of two SEC teams to have made the national championship the last six years. And um and Taylor Riley was a
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big part of that. And uh most people may not know, but her her dad is Chris Riley who played on tour and was Tiger Woods’s
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partner in a Ryder Cup. Not not too many people can say their daddy was a partner and got asked to be partners by Tiger
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Woods in the RDER Cup. And so being from San Diego, it was important for us to to get back there to her and kind of end
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her college career there. But um they they they did a good run there. And um it was a it was with a younger team. It was it was a good run for us for sure.
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And and Garrett uh to our listeners, he was also an assistant coach with the the men’s golf team and as a former player
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for the men’s golf team. So I’m sure you were watching the men uh or or paying attention to them as well. What did you
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think of that? Uh on Sunday they moved up 15 places
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and shot 18 under and and coach Amos had had even said that they were he was packed and ready to go before. Yeah.
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Uh how surprising was that for for you?
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It it was pretty incredible. And I text I text Jake Amos the uh the morning before and I said, you know, crazier things have happened. basically fight
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like hell and and no telling what could happen because you know in golf there’s no defense and you need a little bit of help. But they had the horsepower to get
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after it and and you know, you get a a three or four under, a three or four under, and a three or four under and all of a sudden it it looks different and
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they got off to a good start and um they kind of kept it going and you know I was I I was texting Kent Low who’s RSI and
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he was out there for the the men as well and I I was like like what does this compare to with the with with certain
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sports in the last with LSU sports in the last 20 20 years? I mean, I was kind of calling it the the California comeback, uh, things like that. I mean,
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it’s up there with the Bluegrass Miracle and the Rally Pawsome and all those those great comebacks with LSU sports and, um, unfortunately, there’s not a
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lot of video or or things to kind of really understand, but it was a a heck of a run and, um, I was very, very proud
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of the way they did it and, um, and give himself a shot for sure.
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And has Kent Low made it back to uh, Louisiana yet? He was out there for three weeks, I think. But
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it it felt like it felt like a while. Um Ken is great on the road with us. We our I know the ladies team, they love him on
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the road. He’s uh he’s a calm calming effect and he is just full of history and everything. And uh and he’s our
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little good luck charm. But I think they think they made it back yesterday. And uh the funny thing is I think they booked flights to come back and then
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they started playing so well and had to cancel their flights and and stay an extra day which is which is always a good thing. But um he’s you know Kent
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Kent is synonymous with uh LSU golf and and LSU men’s basketball for sure. Yeah, he really knows the game too.
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Well, well, the consistency that that the women’s program has had, what what do you do to, you know, how much has
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that helped recruiting and how can y’all uh take the next step and and get deeper into the NCA championships?
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Yeah, I tell people, and this kind of surprises a few people, I don’t want a good team. I want a good program. And to have a good program, you need to be consistent. You need to be around it.
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Um, we’ve we’ve made it to the national championship the last six years. I think there’s only like four or five other schools in the country that can say
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that. Um so I’m proud of that. We we’ve made the top 15 cut five the last 16
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years. We’ve made match play. Um you know you you need to be playing well.
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You need you need to make um you need to have some things go your way and and and we’ve done a lot of good things.
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Unfortunately we just don’t have that big trophy at the end and and we’re going to continue to fight for that. But um I’ve been proud of the consistency
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and you’re right in recruiting and everything. It it helps big to um to be able to consistently produce top players
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that put you around it. And you know, I remember when I was a young assistant and coach and and I was fortunate enough to be able to talk to Skip Bertman and
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he said, “Look, when you’re you got to be around it. You got to be around it and then you’ll you’ll eventually get it and stuff.” So, um, we we’ve been around
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it a little bit and, um, I’m still I’m getting a little impatient, but, um, I’m still I’m still really proud of the team we have and and we’ve got the last few
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years and being able to do it with with multiple of players that have come through over the years and everything and then have gone on to a have a
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successful LPJ tour career. So, it’s um, it’s been a nice run here and and we’re not looking back. We want to keep it going for sure. Yeah, that’s an
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excellent point Skip made because he went four times to Omaha before he won it all in his uh in his fifth try. But
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uh we’ll look into next year. You said you had a young team. Who who do you think is the the next Taylor Riley for you or who are some of the top players going into next season for you?
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Yeah, we uh returning players, we have Rosio Tahedo, which um she’ll she’ll be a junior. She was the SEC freshman of
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the year last year and an all-American honorable mention um last year for us.
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She’ll be a junior. And then Francesca Fiorini um was from Italy. She was a um
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a transfer for us, a first year at LSU here as a sophomore. She came from uh UCLA. And then incoming freshman, we
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have Reagan Denton, who um if some people were watching the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, she just finished fourth in that. Um she’s she’s
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top 50 in the world in the world amateur golf rankings. Um you know a big tall blonde from uh Australia that has a I
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like to say she has a little little bit of spit with her and um a fiery competitor and um I like that and um so
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those those are some of the the top players that that we have coming in next year and um we look to uh keep it going for sure.
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Talking to Garrett Renan, LSU women’s golf coach. When does your NCA transfer portal window begin or has it begun?
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Yeah. So, they they just they just changed the rules this year for us and it was the the first year where it opened up two days after the national
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championship. So, uh last Thursday was the day that it opened and it’s created a a frenzy and everything. You talk to
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some people and it’s [music] um it’s a little wild, but um it it it’s real.
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It’s here and it’s you got to adapt and and be able to adjust and um [music] and we’ve been trying to work on that for sure.
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Coach Run and we got to run as we’re up against the clock. We appreciate your time tonight. Appreciate it. Thanks guys.
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LSU women’s golf coach Garrett Renion.
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We’ll wrap up the show when we come back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back on the air live from Super Chevy Dealer [music] Studio.
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Well, another good show. We appreciate you joining us. Again, if you missed any of it, uh you can catch us wherever you get your podcast or uh wherever you can
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go to YouTube as well as we’ll be uploading the show here in just a few minutes. We had Andre Shan Pine from Go247 on the airwaves with us. Hunt
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Palmer from ESPN 1045 and 1049 and Baton Rouge Blake Top Meer from USA Today.
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That was good stuff from him. And Garrett Renan, LSU women’s head golf coach. So for Case Kishnik, our producer did a great job tonight. You’ll be
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hearing more from Case as the weeks and months go by. For Glen Gilbo, Todd Horn, I’m Jeff Polmo. Thanks for listening to Tiger Rag Radio. And for the latest in LSU sports, check out tiger.com.
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