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In hour one Tuesday night, Tiger Rag Radio visits with LSU Radio Network football sideline reporter Gordy Rush – Guaranty Media vice-president/general manager – to break down the opening of the Tigers’ spring practice and what to expect in the coming months as new coach Lane Kiffin builds his new program.
In hour two, the crew is joined by LSU women’s basketball assistant coach Joe Schwartz to discuss the Lady Tigers’ performance in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament and preview their matchup against Duke.
Caroline Fenton of Yahoo Sports also joins the show to share her outlook on LSU’s chances for the rest of the tournament.
Here is the complete transcript of the show from YouTube. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes.
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We’ll break into LSU football talk here just in a few moments. We’ll talk a lot of Lady Tigers basketball talk in the
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second hour and we’ll get to some LSU baseball discussion. What’s going on with the Tigers, maybe talk a little Garrett Nusmeire, talk a little Maner.
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So, man, a lot of topics to jump to here over the next couple of hours. So glad you’re with us and uh we should uh get
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you all informed, all caught up on everything that’s happening when it comes to LSU sports. Guys, first day of spring practice. What did you think?
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I love the music. [laughter] Different energy. Totally. Yeah, totally different energy.
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There hasn’t been that type of music at practice before cuz I thought there was.
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Not since I’ve been Not since I’ve been going to spring practice or fall practice or fall camp. I’ve I’ve heard
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music coming from the practice field during the season before,
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but what was it about this kind of music that was a little different from what we saw maybe with Brian Kelly or even at Orron?
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It was mindshatteringly loud. [laughter]
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All right. It was You must You must not go to You must not go to practice a lot, dude.
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I do. I swear Brian Kelly did not do that. Well,
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well, other than the music, was even even though it was just spring football,
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did there seem to be a different sense of Well, well, when it first started, there was, you know, they they they ran out like they were starting some type of
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Broadway play or something. Everything was orchestrated is what I mean by that,
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you know. So, there was they were following a blueprint or a game plan.
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Uh, we were only allowed to go to the watch the, you know, the calisthenics. No, the the first the 30 minutes or so. 20 minutes.
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20 minutes. 20 minutes. But at first we were not allowed to go to watch where the first team was. We were watching basically the second team
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and they were in a hurry up offense, but it’s really probably not a two-minute or a hurry up offense. It was probably their offense. Yeah, that’s what Ron Higgins said.
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Yeah, that was interesting. And so, you know, when you when you looked at that frenzy and that quickness that was going
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on with that music blaring as loud as it was, it was it was totally different than anything I had ever seen since I
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came back from California three years a four years ago now.
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Well, I I thought it was interesting what Lane said about the defensive line.
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He said they have a long way to go to play fast.
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And and uh he he he made a definite point about about that. He said, you know, because when when you especially when you practice against his team,
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they’re going to they’re going to have to learn how to do that. Uh but um well, and he pointed out that you may have just said this, but that the defensive line especially,
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that’s what I said.
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Yeah. Was not used to playing fast. They got a long way to go.
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Yeah. But what what was your biggest takeaway of the entire thing besides the music?
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Well, actually I tried to enter through the wrong entrance. [laughter]
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I went I went to where you go to the press conference and one of the the uh student employees brought me said, “Oh,
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no. You come over here.” So, she brought me all the way through the building and I saw stuff in there that I hadn’t seen before. Man, that is a beautiful
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building. And then I I I I got to the place where you go on the field and I thought, you know what? I’m not supposed to be here. I better go around.
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[laughter] So So I went all the way around and went in the right direction.
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Did you think you were like a scout of some sort? Left scout from proday.
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But I but I was watching practice as I walked around the building cuz I could see it cuz you know it’s all glass wall
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and and I got that same feeling too that that everything seemed kind of orchestrated.
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But um but let’s not get too carried away. You know, it was it was 20 minutes. was the first practice,
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59 new players on this team. Let’s hear a little bit from what Lane Kein had to say. Uh, one about uh the process of
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trying to rebuild this program. And as we were just talking about, this was this one small step towards where they eventually want to go.
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Like I said, I think we put together a good roster of some good talent in a number of positions, but that’s a long ways away from being a really good team.
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It’s going to take a while. And this is what spring practice, what many have called one of the more important spring
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practice practices in LSU football history when you consider there’s so much on the line, so much money invested, not only in this coaching
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staff, but in the players. and the idea that you need to have a really good season next season, an exceptional
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season next season to continue to have the money keep come flowing in, not only for football, but for the other sports
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as well. There is a lot riding on this program, but it’s going to take a while for this to come together as a team, and
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there’s the chance that it might not. It might crash and burn, but uh the talent is certainly there like Lane Kein said.
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And that that was obvious. I mean, you could see the the talent on the field,
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but you could also tell in the frenzy that was going on that, you know, they they they weren’t a team yet. You could see that.
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You could see that they are not a team yet. And that’s what I think he was talking about. It’s a process and it takes time. And but it’s also a very uh
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not to use the word orchestrated again but a very uh guided directed process like he knows what he’s doing
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um in terms of trying to build that offense get that defense conditioned to be ready to go. Um but they you know
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they were mainly we were only there 20 minutes they were mainly doing drills.
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Now Sam Levit was was on the working with the first team. He didn’t do team drills, but he was throwing the ball and
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he didn’t have a brace or anything on his on his foot. So, that that was interesting. Um,
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but the the the again the talent of this team is I think unquestionable and the
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speed of this team, you can see it, you can feel it, but they’re not a team. Yeah. You know, they’re not a team yet. Well,
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what I like about this team is the the offensive staff. I never liked the offensive assistant coaches after Den
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Brock left uh Brian Kelly’s staff, the offensive line coach, the offensive coordinator. Um I I think these guys are
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really good coaches, particularly Charlie Weiss Jr., their offensive line coach from Kentucky, Wolford, and and they got the old offensive line coach that was at LSU in 2019,
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James Craig.
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James Craig, great coach. Uh, so that I I think it’s just it’s going to be organized. They’re going to be smart.
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They’re going to be prepared. They’re going to be more of a a team. The coach is going to be there during the off season. [laughter]
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Even if he’s at parades or at Phil’s Oyster Bar, he’s going to be in town and working and working all the time. Um,
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he’s he’s got that uh commitment and I think his uh his staff does, too. So,
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it’s going to, you know, I I think if it crashes and burns, I think the worst would be four losses. Yeah. You know, I I think that’s that’s the worst. Uh but,
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you know, he did have trouble when he had a great class uh in 24. You never know. It’s it’s it’s a lot of people to get together. I I think they’ll be
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improved and um you know, I I think they’ll be competitive and if they don’t make the playoffs, they’ll be pretty close to it.
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And I think that that that was his point in the postgame press conference. He’s like, you know, like we were just talking about, we have a lot press conference, [laughter]
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postpractice press conference. He he he said, “We got a lot of talent.
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We’ve rebuilt, but we this is rebuilding.” That was a seven and six team last year that basically basically they weren’t any good or they
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weren’t nearly good enough. They’re they’re not as good as we want to be.
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Yeah. He he also talked about the fact that he was shocked himself to realize that LSU in the last 18 years
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had only had three really truly successful seasons. Well, he said he said three New Year’s Day bowls over 18
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years, but yeah, I’m wondering what he means by that because they did win um three national championships over that span,
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but they have they never really played in any of the New Year’s six games other than when they were in the national championship.
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Yeah. But that was four times. So, I mean, you know, they won three and they played in another one.
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There were just a lot of nine and three seasons there. A lot of 10 and maybe 10 and even 10 and two. missed a lot of nine and three seasons when you look
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back at and I think that’s what he’s that’s what I took it to mean is that the persona or the the perception you
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have of LSU is that they are always battling for what now is the college football playoffs what then was a new year six bowl yeah
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in contention for the SEC title and it and in reality that that’s not been the case but that’s what he wants to to to
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take it to but this is a rebuilding year and and all the variables come into that. Now, that doesn’t mean they can’t go 10 and one
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or 11 and 10 and two or 11 and one, but the the fans right now, I think, look at the number one portal class. They they
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look at the fact that he’s an offensive genius. Uh they look at the fact that Blake Baker is back and they look at the
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fact that they had a good recruiting class. you know, arguably the top recruiting class in the country per rated player, you know,
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but Kein’s like, “Slow your slow your roll.” Yeah. You know,
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no, he’s got to manage the expect. And I think you’re going to hear that message quite a bit. Not to say that he doesn’t
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that the ultimate goal is not to get to the college football playoff, but I think Lane understands. I mean, I I
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think 20 24 for him was a was a learning experience, right? I mean, they they they had the huge they they won the off
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seasonason, if you would, with with their transfer portal class, and it didn’t materialize into what everybody thought was going to happen that season.
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Yeah. And that and that’s a good point because I think that you know this system of his is totally different than
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anything as we’ve discussed a little bit that Brian Kelly did at LSU. It’s a it’s a completely different system and
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everybody sees the tempo like we saw that I mean it just jumps out at you when we walked when we walked on the field. But but what Kein sees is the
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responsibility that he has to build into those players.
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And um you know, you talked about the quarterback is such a vital part of that. It’s not just that, you know, oh,
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the quarterback’s got to know what he’s doing. It’s No, he’s a driver. He’s a point guard. Yeah.
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Yeah. He’s he’s everything runs through him. Speed, decision making.
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Well, let’s hear from Lane Keifin on that very point uh before we uh hit our first break.
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It’s a lot on that position in our system because they drive everything because we do go so fast. That’s a lot on those guys. They’re really like the
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point guard, you know, that if if they don’t know what they’re doing really well and they don’t drive it, you know,
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the system doesn’t doesn’t work as well as it has for a long time. And they have three new quarterbacks. Mhm.
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Well, um, let me just tell you real quick. Since 2001, LSU has played in seven New Year’s Day bowl games and four
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national championship games because they played in two Sugar Bowls that weren’t national championship games and a Fiesta Bowl. So,
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okay. But but he was saying he did that by counting them on his fingers.
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Well, he he was going over the last 18 years though. He was going from 2008.
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But probably since Yeah. Yeah. 20.
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So So maybe Verge just did a real good selling job on length.
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But it’s still a play. But still the fact that they’ve won three national championships since 2000. How many other programs can say that? What? Alabama.
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Yeah.
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And then that’s it. Right. Right. Nobody I mean Clemson’s got two and nobody else has multiple at after that. Florida has two.
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Florida’s got two.
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Georgia’s got two. Right. So it’s Alabama and LSU the only ones with more than two over that span. Right.
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But when you listen to that clip and I remember today thinking while we were at the at the press conference, I was
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thinking so much of this team success is going to rely on on that offense.
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Yeah, it certainly will. Let’s take our first break. When we come back, we’ll dive into some more stuff that Lane Keifin had to say. Gordy Rush, LSU
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little bit later on in the show, we’ll hear from Gordy Rush. Actually, that will happen in the next segment. A lot of women’s basketball talk coming up in
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Looking forward to that interview. And we’ll also hear from Caroline Fenton,
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our old pal from Yahoo Sports. But we’re talking LSU spring football first day of spring football. Lane Keifin spoke
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today. Uh he was asked uh what he talked for about 20 minutes today. Uh one of the things he talked a little bit about
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was the fact that uh there’s not a ton of depth here, right? Um, well, let’s hear a little bit more about him saying that LSU is is topheavy.
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You know, they’re more dispersed throughout the country and that’s because there’s money involved. You know, it’s like the NFL. They’re not going to all go to the same three teams
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like they used to. So, um, I think in that, you know, we probably don’t practice as much as we used to. I don’t
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[clears throat] because of that and understanding the depth issues and concerns and and I look at it more like,
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okay, hey, we we appear to be early that we’re going to have really good frontline guys on our roster and we’re going to have some depth issues.
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Gotta stay away from the injury sounds like.
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Yeah. So, they’re not going to practice tough. They’re not, you know, they’re not going to be doing any hardcore scrimmaging or any uh tackling drills.
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Well, he said he just had to be careful with it, right? I think they’ll still do some of that, just not much. And he also said that what he was just saying right
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right before that was cut was that all teams are kind of like that now.
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Yes. Well, and I think that’s why you see more parody in college football now, too.
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Yeah. Well, and that’s that I think that was his his overriding point is is that everybody has money now to offer these
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players and and they’re not all funneling into three or four schools anymore like they were for, you know,
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the first part of, you know, from 2012 till till now. Um, but also the the part
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about the toughness that they they do not practice. Even Kelly didn’t practice as hard as as they used to.
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Yeah. The NFL doesn’t either. They haven’t done that in years.
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So, and and this is the economic reality of as Hawaii. You can’t afford to have,
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you know, someone hurt. You can’t afford to get your quarterback hurt. You can’t afford to get, you know, Brian Kelly
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let Garrett Nusmark get hurt on the second day of camp last year.
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To be fair, it kind of worked out for Lane in company last year with Old Miss the way that he he kind of did that
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because Trinidad Chamblas was relatively healthy the whole year and so was Kawan Lacy. Who you trying to be fair to?
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Well, and Nusmeire was not hurt [laughter] in contact. That was that was a second day of practice. They weren’t in pads. It was a freak thing as he
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explained it. But really even before long before the portal, Sabin, you know,
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old school Sabin was one of the the coaches really behind getting rid of two a days,
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you know, and and that wasn’t about money. That was just kind of like,
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you know, why are you doing this, you know, but they still had a lot of contact back then, even without without two days. Um, and Les Miles had a had a
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lot of contact, but that there’s just been a movement away from that. And then you throw in the portal too and it’s more but I think it was interesting that Keifin said he would like to do that.
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Yeah. Oh yeah. I think they’re still going to do it. They’re just going to do it at times and be smart about it.
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Yeah. Here’s him talking about trying to stay healthy not only through spring but also fall camp as well.
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So I think you just got to be really careful with how much you do and and you can’t do the old school way. Um as much as I’d like to from a toughness
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standpoint um you got to be somewhere in the middle.
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All right. So, we’ll see how uh and we don’t know exactly yet how much really access the media is going to get. Of course, Brian Kelly opened up the
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practice fully to the media. I don’t think that’s going to happen. So, it’s going to be hard to judge.
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I I think we got a schedule today how long Well, I mean, isn’t that just one week? I don’t know. Yeah, I thought it was just one week.
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What I said, but regarded, even once they get into preseason camp, how much team drills, I don’t know how much uh the media is actually going to see. You
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know, one of the favorite words as we got just a couple more minutes in this segment for any college football coach seems to be the word culture. And we’re talking about trying to put the pieces
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together on this team and trying to get the the talent uh position where it needs to be and everybody knowing the
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system, but then also trying to make sure everybody understands what the culture of LSU football is all about.
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And here’s a little bit of what Lane Kein had to say about that.
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teach the recruits and the players like if you’re going to come here with the way that we do it here, it’s going to be really different and you’re not going to
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like it. Like if you want to get a check and be pretty good, like you’re not going to it’s not going to work. You’re not going to like it. Like if you don’t want to that the number one thing that
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you’re doing is being the best player that you can the entire year and that is your number one focus outside of
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everything else. um it’s it’s not going to be a great experience for you because you’re not going to feel comfortable here in it because those are the people
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like Tradez, like Tai Wit has it, like the people that we’re going to bring here, but that’s how our coaches are.
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Interesting stuff there. Um you know,
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and Lane has taken that approach himself. Even though he’s making $13 million a year, uh he is not just
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collecting a paycheck. The guy is constantly working. We’ve already hit on this a little bit. Just because he goes to a couple parades and u you know goes
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to a restaurant at 9:00 in Baton Rouge doesn’t mean that uh you know well he’s not work he’s not working to try to build something special.
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Yeah. And the other side of that which he went into a little bit that we didn’t have on the clip was that
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the way they evaluate players in the transfer portal. That’s a key part of it is what their mentality is, what their approach is. Yeah.
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And he talked about Jordan Seatens coming in and already having lost like 25 pounds, having a different body and working out at nine o’clock at night on
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his own out on the field doing drills by himself.
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And he said that that that’s the type that they were they brought in here.
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Yep. All right, let’s take our second break of the show. When we come back,
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one of my favorite guests that we have on, we haven’t had him on in a while.
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Gordy Rush, LSU Sports Radio sideline reporter will join us when we come back here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio.
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All right, we continue on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Jeff Polalmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine,
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Todd Horn, and Glenn Gilbo, the editor.
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Let’s bring in now uh the headman over at Guaranty Broadcast and he’s even been elevated past the headman. It’s a it’s a
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crazy title. Uh congratulations on the promotion, Gordy. And he is still the LSU Sports Radio Network sideline
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reporter. Uh looking forward to the Lane Keifin era, I would imagine. So, Gordy,
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thanks a lot for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. How you doing tonight?
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Hey, doing great guys. exciting time obviously here at LSU with Lane Keith and the excitement that he and his staff have brought in.
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Yeah. So, Gordy, hey, this is Todd. Um,
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congratulations on your promotion by the way. How do you get promoted above the head man? Is [laughter] that does that mean you’re like a deity or something?
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Well, you know, look, the the way that that works is you just when you’re able to promote yourself, you promote yourself and get your own raise and just
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get some some free publication. Look, I I’m sorry that I did that. We just changed me to be more business development and we kind of wanted to let
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the public know and it’s kind of like what birthdays have become on social media. You spend the whole day returning thank yous and stuff like that. It was really counterproductive. So [laughter]
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I’m thinking about next week just unpromoting myself so I don’t have to deal with that.
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Well whether you unpromote yourself or you leave yourself where you rightfully deserve to be I’m sure. Um, you were
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talking about Keifin and all the excitement and obviously the ticket sales, season ticket sales are a great barometer
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uh of that that excitement that the fans have. But I got a question. What What do you think the one thing that Lane Kein
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changes immediately at LSU that fans will feel on Saturdays this fall?
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Oh, I I mean, they’re gonna run the football. I think that since Jane Daniels, you know, uh really cleared up
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a a running game that didn’t exist his two years. I mean, because they were so dependent on him, uh you can’t be onedimensional in this league. I mean,
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you know, as long as Glenn and I have been around the game, you got to run the football in the SEC, you have to stop run to be successful, and they do that.
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And I I think just the idea that that LSU is going to be dynamic on offense simply because Lane’s been dynamic wherever he’s been, I I think that’s going to bring excitement.
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What do you think about the uh emphasis? And he talked about it today, Gordy,
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about, you know, he’s got three new quarterbacks coming in. They’re all they’re all great quarterbacks. Levit,
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of course, is, you know, somewhat injured right now. And but the emphasis that Kevin puts on that quarterback,
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that that’s obviously going to be instrumental this this spring and heading into the fall.
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Well, look, I I think he does an excellent job with his offense. We know that it’s going to go they’re going to go fast. they’re going to spot the ball and it’s going to be a whole lot of
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tempo and and I think, you know, his offense is based a whole lot on arming the quarterback um with with usually
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making one read and and uh getting a line of scrimmage, get snapping the football very quickly and and then he’s
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got to be able to recognize that it’s it’s either A or B and go with it,
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whether it’s a zone read, whether it’s a a playaction pass and things like that.
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the the great thing is I think for his um all the hype that that Lane Keifin gets and deservingly so um I think the
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core of his offense isn’t quite as complicated as it’s made out to be and there there’s a ton of repetition and and I think this is what right now this
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installation period is is this is our system. uh we’re going to run a lot of plays and try to get the timing down. A lot a lot of repetition of the same
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similar plays, get the timing down, and then he kind of eventually gets to the season and builds from that. And so I I I think what I I’m interested in seeing
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is the installation. How much does he get in in spring ball with the all the new bodies? And this is different,
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right? This isn’t you’re you’re basically returning 75 80% of this roster is new. So, how much can you put
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in and how much timing can you get with the skilled people, the quarterbacks,
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the receivers, and the running backs with this new system that’s based on again going very, very quick and and getting the ball out and moving moving it very quickly.
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Gordy, a whole new set of receivers other than Philip Wright, who’s the only returner that caught a pass a season ago. You’ve been on the sideline, you’ve
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watched Lane Kein teams. What is it about when you watch them on especially on the field level going back to those Old Miss teams, those LSU Old Miss games
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where Keifin was on the opposite sideline. What was it about those wide receivers that maybe he’s trying to replicate here at LSU?
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Well, I I I think that on on the edge,
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and that’s what I’m really going to be interested out on the edge, and we saw that last year when Old Miss had a lot of success on uh going away from Dellay
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and and had some big plays with that, is understanding man-to-man matchups,
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understanding um being able to get separation. I I think all of his receivers uh they’re they’re obviously taught well. they they do a great job of
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getting sep separation off the line of scrimmage and they’re so difficult, you know, they’re so difficult in in in man
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coverage uh because of the concepts and what they do. And so I I’m interested to see who adapts quickly. They’re all again all coming from different worlds
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and you know different different uh programs. How quickly can they digest what he’s trying to get done uh and and
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get on the same page with those quarterbacks? And and Gordy, Blake Baker has made steady improvement his first two years. Where do you see him going in
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his third year? And what do you think of the of the overall talent on defense?
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And just what do you think of him as a DC?
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I think the world of him is a DC. I I think he, you know, LA last year obviously he was on the field way too much and um because of LSU’s inability
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to to run the football and then they were a little light at linebacker. So, I I I think, you know, on the surface and what we’ve seen talentwise, they certainly looked the part. You know,
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Glenn, what I’m really going to be interested to see is Blake, who’s been known for being really, you know, exotic with all sorts of different looks and
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some specialized packages. We know he does a great thing on second and long and third and long. He he brings in a lot of different uh personnel groups.
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And with that, how is he going to adjust to having to go every day against Lane Keith, right?
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And because they go tempo, right? And so is he going to how how much of his defense uh is he going to be able to
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really install and work on during spring? Uh because Lane goes tempo and you I I I’m still it was the longest
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first half of the season last year because our our offense didn’t move the football very well and we’re LSU was out on the field the whole time and that
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defense seems like was on the field forever. But Lane did such a great job of um when you go quick like that, you you really can’t you got to run a base
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defense. You can’t do a whole lot of changes and and you have to be very vanilla. And so how does that affect his installation for spring? because I in
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spring you want to throw enough stuff out there in terms of different looks and different concepts to see uh how
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these kids are able to absorb and digest it and what they’re not to be rude their football IQ, right? How do they adapt to what you’re trying to teach and how much
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of that’s limited because the guy you’re going against every day in team period is trying to go as fast as possible.
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So, you know, Gordy, you you started out talking about the excitement and that and obviously there’s tons of excitement in Baton Rouge and across the whole
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state of Louisiana and with LSU fans everywhere. But, you know, Kein today, I think, did a good job of trying to manage those expectations, especially at
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this early stage of the team development, and I think he was key focusing in on that, you know. Um, but
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what what’s realistic in year one? a realistic expectation for Kein in terms of record and trajectory?
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Well, you know, it Vegas is Vegas for a reason. What happened at nine what?
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Eight and a half, nine and I I think nine and three in this new world where you get an SEC game, an extra SEC uh
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game. I, you know, I think that’s kind of realistic. I mean, this is a really difficult schedule. And I think the hardest thing I uh you know, I I continue to bang the drum on this.
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There’s no more great football teams.
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Nobody’s 12-0 in this league. The Alabama Sabin years are over and nobody’s bad anymore. And all August I went around speaking and said, “Man,
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Andy’s not going three and nine anymore.” I didn’t think they would do what they did, but um it’s just it everybody’s got new people. Everybody’s,
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you know, got rev share and every week’s going to be an absolute war. I I think nine and three um is probably my best
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guess right now, just from what little I’ve seen on paper. And that being said, I don’t know what everybody else has.
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And I can’t tell you if nine and three gets you in the playoff this year with the one extra SEC game because you got to figure everybody’s going to take at
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least a half a game a hit having to get away from a rental win and and putting an extra conference game in.
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Gordy, thanks a lot for your time tonight, man, and we really appreciate it. Good stuff. We always enjoy your insight. We got get we got to get you on more. We appreciate it.
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Thanks, guys. All right, that is uh Gordy Rush, sideline reporter for the LSU Sports Radio Network. Let’s take a break. When we come back, uh more Tiger
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All right, talking LSU football so far through this show. We’re going to talk a lot of women’s basketball in hour number two, so this might be our time to uh get
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into a little baseball talk. Really tough weekend for LSU baseball. in that you got off to such a great start. You
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had a one of the best pitching performances in regular season SEC history for LSU on Thursday night. Case
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Evans striking out 15 over seven and two/3 and then you just don’t score enough on Saturday
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and really didn’t score or yeah, Friday and you didn’t really score enough on Saturday as well. Um you make a critical
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error, you walk guys. It’s kind of the same old same old with this team. And that was a tough loss when you consider
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that they’re now two and four and you’re playing backto back weekends at home trying to turn the ship around and you
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you only allow nine runs for the three-game series, but yet you lose.
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That’s not a good sign at all. No, I mean, you lose 42 and 4-3 at home and and um you know, the bullpen gave up key
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runs in those in those late innings, but but overall the pitching was good enough to win, right?
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And they you know, they had people on base. They just didn’t clutch up and and get hits. It’s it’s it’s been hard to watch. And this Kentucky team that’s
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coming in this weekend is a is is number 19. They’re really strong team. So, they uh they got to start uh getting back to
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500 in the uh in the SEC, but but right now they’re they’re hard to watch, you know, because they don’t hit, they don’t
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field, and and they they’re pitching pretty well, but you know, Gavin Gibry walks a leadoff hitter in the uh in the eighth. You know, you just can’t do that.
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I didn’t understand why he was still pitching to be honest with you. And I understand what Jay’s explanation was that the shadows and the breaking ball,
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but the guy just went through two he two of his three innings were very high stress innings trying to get out of
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that fifth and the seventh inning and he was able to do it, but you could tell
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that he was up against his limit after the seventh and he walks the first guy on four pitches and yet they kept him out there.
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Yeah. Are you being critical?
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I’m being critical of Jay J. He didn’t have a good He did not manage the the that game very well at the end.
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You You know, I’m going to change the subject a little bit, but because I don’t like you picking on Jay like that,
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but um I’m just kidding. Um the thing that bothers me, guys, is that they’re
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they started out eight and0. We’ve listed all their problems. They’ve gone eight and nine in their last 17 games.
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The only time that I can remember them hitting well is when they scored 33 runs over a three-game series at Vanderbilt.
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And it turns out Vanderbilt’s got the worst pitching in the history.
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And the wind was blowing out was a you and blowing out pretty fiercely on that last game for sure.
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Yeah. And Vanderbilt goes to Mississippi State, I think it was this past weekend and gets Yeah. just rocked,
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right? So, it’s like, you know, the only time they’ve actually hit the ball decently, it’s it was against nothing.
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Yeah. And you go back to opening weekend against Milwaukee, they hit the ball well. They they hit the ball well in the series in Jacksonville.
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Um, to me, I look at it, you go back to last year’s team and you look at the the
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huge transfer portal additions and how they hit on them, right? I mean, Chris Stanfield, Daniel Dickinson, Luis
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Hernandez, those three guys specifically, those were such those three guys were so huge for that national championship team last year.
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This year, Zack York, Braden Simpson, Chase Dardar, uh Trent Carowway,
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you’re not getting much out of those guys.
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You’re getting you’re and it happens in the major leagues, too, right? you teams go on big spending sprees in the off season and the free agent guys they
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don’t they don’t hit or they don’t pitch like you. So that’s not a criticism of Jay. It’s just they these guys have not
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and I think it’s it’s put extra stress on the pitchers because they’re not hitting and it’s put extra stress on the
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defense because they’re not hitting and they can’t field the ball.
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They don’t have a second baseman. They literally don’t have a second basement.
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Yeah, that’s another decision that he made in that Oklahoma game that really came back to bite him. The was putting Rucker.
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Yeah, that was frustrating because he he’s made a couple errors already and this and this is your defensive replacement. And I understand he’s
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probably making all the plays in practice, all the plays in infield practice. And I think Rucker could be a really good player before it’s all said
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and done. I’ve watched him for several years at Catholic High. He’s he’s a really good player. But right now, to me, he’s not ready for this level.
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Well, and I I don’t think it’s even a subjective uh thing when you’re when you’re talking about that. He’s made like, if I can remember correctly, three
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key critical errors that one of them cost him a game. Yep. Yeah. It’s tough sledding. And the thing is,
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um, you go back to to the 2024 season and when they started three and 12, a lot of that you kind of chocked up three
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and 12 in the SEC, you chocked that up to, man, they just they went through a gauntlet there of tough teams.
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Yeah, that’s the amazing thing. Oklahoma was the first ranked team they played.
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And you knew in the second half of that season that it would it would be easier for them. Uh it’s this year it’s they’ll
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they’ll play South Carolina in the second half. That will be, you know,
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probably three wins or at least that’s the only gimme.
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That’s the only gimme that there. It’s not going to let up for him this year.
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And this and that’s why this backto back stretch of hosting two consecutive weekends is so huge. And you you blew
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the first opportunity, you better not blow the second one or I don’t know how they’d really do. I I know eventually they’re going to get hot. you know,
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Chase Dardar may eventually turn around.
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Maybe Zack York does go on a a home run hitting spree and ends up banging out 15 home runs this season and all that kind
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of or gets into one of his stretches and and the offense eventually turns it around. But now you throw into the issue
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uh you don’t have Cooper Moore and we could get into that a little bit more here uh coming up after our final break of the first hour. So let’s do that
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Tiger Rag Radio. back here on Tiger Rag Radio talking some LSU baseball before we talk to Joe Schwarz uh with LSU
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assistant women’s basketball coach. U we’ll get into that and talk a lot of Lady Tigers as they’re on their way to Sacramento to play Duke in the Super
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Regionals. LSU baseball though has a lot of LSU fans wondering I I thought this team was supposed to be pretty good.
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They’ve been struggling. We talked about the hitting woes. Omar Cerna has been a little bit of a bright spot, but still defensively behind the plate, it hasn’t been great.
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What’s up with that? I mean, the both of those catchers, Cerna and Bey, are really good catchers. Why can’t they catch the ball?
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I don’t know. Really? And a lot of throws out to center field. The throwing errors has been just crazy.
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Like, they had another one tonight. Jake Brown misfires over to third and and John Pearson can’t get in front of it.
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And it’s what do what do we think about Zack Yard?
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That’s a good question. I mean,
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you’re talking about a guy that was able to hit um mid- major pitching and
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he’s his last home run was that game against MC. It’s it’s funny how he hit that home run. and they went up two to nothing in that game and they were 8-0
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at the time [laughter] and the team after he hit the home run the team has not been the same since then he hasn’t hit a home run since then. Um you know
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some guy I was talking about it in the last segment about how they hit on all those transfer portal guys. Some guys flourish in this atmosphere and some
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guys when you start struggling a little bit man you start putting a lot of mental pressure on yourself. Like when you’re at Grand Canyon and you go 0 for four, nobody’s talking about it,
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right?
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You go 0 for four here with four strikeouts, everybody’s talking about it. And then you make a throw in air.
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You throw in air. Yeah. And you and you’ve made some other miscues at first.
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Um, you know, Cerna played first on Saturday and he only had like one tricky
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play, but he looked halfway decent there. So, I would especially against left-handed pitching, I think you’re going to see a lot of Omar Cerna at first base now.
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Cerna got the start catcher tonight. Yeah. Uh, and Aaron Bey’s the DH. So, no, actually Eddie Yammon.
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Is it Eddie Yammon? Oh, I’m sorry. I don’t know what why I thought I saw Aaron Bey. I guess he’s not out there. Yeah, you’re right. Eddie Yammon. Okay.
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And it’s going to be interesting to see who he starts for the third starter this weekend. And I know last night on his radio show, you know, probably could be Zack Cowan Fontnau and Santiago Garcia.
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Both are coming off backto back good relief performances. He mentioned those two guys. So, um, you know, and he may
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move William Schmidt to Saturday and and put the new guy in on on Sunday. Um, so that’s that’s going to be interesting to
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watch. And then and if Cooper comes back uh three or four weeks, then then maybe they would would have had a uh you know discovered another pitcher, help him in the midweek games.
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I think they’re just going to throw whatever they can at it those first two games. And if that means you got to use Zack Cowan for three innings on Saturday
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or something like that, then you use Zack Cowan on three innings for Saturday. So what what is Kentucky like? I mean,
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it’s it’s going to be stolen bases.
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It’s kind of identical. Yeah. Good pitching. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh interesting. They lose this series,
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man. It’s it’s I think at that point then you’re like, man, you got to you’re going to be fighting to u you probably
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hosting a regional is out of the out of the question. I got to be honest with you. You’re panicking right now. Yeah, I think you are panicking. I am panicking.
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I would say ho not hosting a super regional is out out the window, but they could probably still host a a regional.
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I mean, as bad as 2024 was, they hosted a regional.
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They did not host a regional. They would have hosted a regional had they won against North Carolina. I’m sorry. You’re right. You’re right. I mean,
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All right, let’s take a break. Uh Jill Schwarz, LSU women’s basketball coach. When we come back, y’all ready? Y’all ready? Let’s go. Come on. Tiger Rag Radio is on the air.
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Talk some uh women’s hoops with her. But let’s bring in a member of the assistant of the coaching staff for the LSU women’s basketball team, Jill Schwarz.
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Lady Tigers getting ready to play Duke in the Sweet 16 on Friday night at nine o’clock. Gonna be a late one for LSU
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fans uh to watch this one coming up on Friday from Sacramento. Joe, thanks a lot for being a part of the show tonight. How you doing?
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I’m good, man. Thank you all for having me. I really appreciate it.
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Well, it’s great to have you on. Uh what a performance this past weekend to uh really jump on both of those teams
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early. Never really give them an opportunity to get into the game. I mean, could you have played any better than what you played in those first two games of this NCAA tournament?
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Well, it was a fun weekend in the PAC.
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It was a great atmosphere and one thing we always talk about early in the season when we set our goals for the year is
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finishing in the top part of our league so we have the opportunity to host those first two games at home. Give yourself an opportunity to play in front of a
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home crowd who we think is one of the best home crowds in all of women’s college basketball. So, um, check that goal off and then when you get to those two games at home, just like you said,
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you want to put those teams away early.
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leave them no hope and I think we did just that. Starting with the Jacksonville game on Friday afternoon, I
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think we did a really good job of executing offensively. Our defense was very, very good. And you know, some people who don’t know much about basketball probably look and say, “Oh,
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two verse 15, this should be a blowout.”
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But go look at the other scorers across the bracket and you’re not seeing massive blowouts like ours was. And then
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for us to follow it up on Sunday afternoon in front of a packed house with a great crowd, great atmosphere,
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another 50point win against a really really good Texas Tech team. Um it was it was special. We got um we got a lot
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of work to do this week, but um obviously it’s nice to still be one of the 16 teams playing right now. And even
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though we’ve got to adapt to the time change and sit around for a few days,
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there’s there’s other options that other teams have and that is being at home not playing. So, the fact that we’re still playing right now um and playing really
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good basketball on both ends of the floor um is really exciting.
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Hey Joe, this is Andre. Just I I know y’all were on fire scoring wise, but that wouldn’t have been possible without the defense that y’all played this
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weekend. So talk about that defensive effort that you saw this weekend from the ladies.
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I think the biggest key to our defense this weekend was being intentional and that started in practice. One thing about the NCA tournament is when you
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finish your SEC tournament, you got a full week of nothing and you take a couple days off, you get back on the practice court and you work on yourself.
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And we were working on ball screen defense. We were working on different game situations. we were working on executing in the half court, um running
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in transition, just all the little things about ourselves that needed to be touched up and fixed after the SEC
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tournament. So then you have selection Sunday, you find out who you’re going to be matched up with and what that first
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round game and then if you’re fortunate enough to win the first round game, what that second game could look like. And so we broke it down into really three parts
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after selection Sunday. We actually worked on Texas Tech the Tuesday, the Monday and Tuesday after the selection
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show just to if if Chalk held knowing that Texas Tech was a higher seed, that’s who we would
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play. And then on Wednesday, we worked on Villanova because they were Texas Tech’s opponent. Thursday, we presented the scouting report on Jacksonville and worked on Jacksonville. And then Friday,
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we beat Jacksonville. So, it wasn’t raining when Noah built his arc. got to be prepared for what other teams may throw at you. And we had enough
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confidence in our in our team that we were going to take care of business against Jacksonville. And we wanted to be prepared for anything and everything that Texas Tech or Villanova had to
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offer. And obviously after a big win on Friday, you can’t do much on the practice court on Saturday. You can walk
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through, you can watch film, but you can’t have a two or three hour practice.
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And so we got a lot of work done in the film room. And then man, Sunday we came out guns blazing from the tip. I think
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we started 10 to nothing and we took Texas Tech out of everything they did on the offensive end. Now, they threw in a couple threes. There were a couple questionable calls that led to some free
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throws um early on, but Texas Tech’s a good team and they they they had some really good wins in the Big 12 this year
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and and they beat some good teams um in non-conference. So, we knew that we were going to have a game on our hands if we didn’t come out ready to play. And man,
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it was it was a sight to see. um just defensively holding a team like Texas Tech to 47 points was their season low.
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talking on defense, communicating with each other, communicating with the coaching staff on matchups, and then just the level of execution,
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ball screen defense, uh transition defense, it all starts with defense because as you go out to California now,
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you hope your offense travels, but the only chance that we can really count on winning or having a chance to win these next two games is our defense. We hope
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we make shots, but you got to control what you can control and that starts on the defensive end. And I think we’re really locked in right now. Our players are in a good place and and I think just
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a high level of excitement knowing that like I said, we’re one of the last 16 teams remaining and we feel like we still have some work to do.
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Yeah. And just kind of sticking with that defensively. That defense leads to transition buckets, which is, you know,
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the bread and butter of of coach Moy’s philosophy. So, I guess talk about what have you seen from this team’s ability to score in transition and how that
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compares compares to years prior that you’ve been here uh in Baton Rouge. Like it it just feels like this year they’re really able to run.
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Well, I think a lot of that comes with our guards and committing to running. I think in years past we’ve had some really dominant post play with Angel and
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Ana and we like to work through the post. Now, don’t get me wrong, we still like to run our offense through our post. We’ve got to have good post play
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to have a chance to win games. But when you don’t have to run offense and set up in the half court, it’s so much more
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exciting and it allows your guards to do what they do best and that’s get out and run and make layups and showtime. I mean, we we call ourselves the show and
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it’s not to boast or brag about who we are. It’s literally our style of play.
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It’s behind the back passes. It’s um running out after a long rebound. It’s one through four players bringing it up
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the court and it allows us to one have other teams on their heels because when
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you’ve got someone like Jada or Malaysia pushing the ball up the floor and then wings like Faj Michaela Bella running it
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gets you easy opportunities to score or get to the free throw line. And I think that’s one thing that needs to be highlighted as well. Um the past two
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games were plus 23 and plus 17 from the free throw line. And if you’re getting to the foul line that much and making them, I think we shot 83% in the first round and 92 or 93% in the second round,
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like if you’re making and shooting that many free throws, you’re going to look up at the end of the game and you’re going to be pretty happy with what you see on that scoreboard.
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Yeah. And usually, Joe, in the NCAA tournament, upper classman leadership is crucial, right? So with FJ and Michaela heating up, can you talk about how
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crucial it is for both of them to be efficient kind of moving forward,
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especially during this weekend against you know possibly uh you know obviously Duke is a team that’s been here before.
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Uh they they’ve had tournament experience and then you know just the possibility of playing another team. Um you know I don’t want to look too far down the line, but you do have to look
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forward to to playing UCLA or uh whoever they may may uh take on. But just just talk about I think y’all are seven and
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one in games that they score 15 plus. Uh so just talk about th those two and how crucial they are going to be this weekend.
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Well, they’re going to be very crucial and I think they’ve made a concerted effort to really take over the locker room from a leadership standpoint. One
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because they’ve been there and two because that’s just how bad they want to win and they’re they’re true competitors and they don’t want to see this thing end with a loss. And you know what?
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There’s still some really, really good teams out there, but we can’t worry about what’s going on in the other three regions. We’ve got to take care of our
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region, and that starts with Duke, like you said, and the two of them, we go as they go. And Fra has been a great leader
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this year, and being able to pull Michaela with her and basically say, “Hey, I’m on this last ride with you,
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but I got to get you ready for your last ride, which is next year.” And I think the conversations that FJ and Michaela have in the film room, team meetings,
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going to dinner with the team, just making sure the chemistry this time of year is at an all-time high is the most
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important thing. We know how talented the two of those are, and if you can get them to be productive, but also bring
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some players with them. I thought our freshman played so well this weekend and that was important for them to not only
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gain some NCA tournament confidence, but it allows Fl and Michaela to look up now as we get out to California and say,
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“Hey, our freshman are ready. We got dogs on our team and we recruited these kids to play in games like this. We recruited Zakayiah Johnson and Grace
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Knox to bang with the best post and to run these. They can guard down low. they can rebound, but what teams aren’t going
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to be ready for is how quickly they get up and down the court. Um, and they’ve got so much room for growth, but their
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ability to just follow Michaela and FJ um is special. And I think um like like you were talking about FJ and Michaela
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scoring. Yeah, that’s important when they’re scoring. Um but not we’re not relying on them to score. What their scoring does is force teams to make
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decisions. And there’s some hard decisions to make when FJ’s got 15,
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Michaela’s got 15, Jada’s got 10, Kate has eight, Grace has six. Like, we’ve
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got so many options. And you got to pick and choose who you’re going to try and stop. And when we’re all clicking, I think you can see how
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dangerous this team can be. And it starts, like you said, with Faj and Michaela.
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Yeah, that’s a great point. And just as we have kind of two minutes here just to kind of wrap up, I guess looking forward to this weekend, Joe, what what ways has
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this Duke team improved since y’all played them in December?
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Well, I think the one thing is from a confidence standpoint, I think that bigger than anything after we beat after we beat them up there, they rolled off 17 wins in a row and they win the ACC.
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They win the ACC tournament. They’re playing good basketball right now. Um,
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but I think the biggest thing is we’ve got to be us. I think you go back and look at that Duke game. We didn’t start
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great. We got down 17 to4 and we turned the ball over a lot. We weren’t taking good shots to start the game. So, I
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think a lot of that’s keeping our composure. And you’ve got to know that Duke’s going to be extremely motivated.
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I think Duke thinks they let one slip away. And with a slow start in an elite or in a Sweet 16 game, you don’t want to
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give a team the opportunity to put you away early. Luckily, we were able to come back and beat Duke in that game up there. But, um, I think it’s just a high level of respect for each team. Um,
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Duke’s a very good team. They’re good defensively. Um, they get out and run.
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You you watch their their more recent games. Their transition offense is very good. People want to say that Duke can’t score. Well, go watch some tape on them because they get up and down better than
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most teams. Um, and and we’re going to have to be good defensively, especially in transition. Um, but Duke shoots some threes. I think they make six a game.
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Um, shoot about 19. So, we got to expect some long rebounds on missed shots and get out and run. So, I think a lot of it is having a high level of respect for
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Duke and their players and then doing what we do and see if we can’t put ourselves in a position um to make it to an Elite 8 game and potentially play to go to a final four.
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Yeah, just about a minute left here.
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Joe, just real quick in your eyes, what are the biggest keys to to beating this team the second time around? I know you kind of talked about it, but that rebounding, it really does seem like
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that’s going to be uh a really important aspect here, especially I think they had eight offensive boards against y’all last matchup, but uh since they do shoot
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the three and they have who’s really really good down low, just talk about that real quick. I think like you said, it’s rebounding,
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it’s taking care of the ball, limiting their second chance shot opportunities and their second chance points, and then like we always talk about getting to the
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foul line. I think um we’re deep. We we’ve got uh a deep bench and we’ve got kids that can go and um if we get into
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their bench, I I think we’re going to like like the outcome of the game, but um we’ve got to be aggressive. We we can’t be passive. Um we can’t expect the
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game just to go. We we’ve got to set the tone early. Um it’s going to be like a boxing match. That’s that’s what we like to kind of relate these things to. It’s
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it’s going to be a four round boxing match. And um you got to throw punches,
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you got to take punches, you got to get up. and then uh hopefully at the end of the end of the quarters um you look up and you’ve won enough quarters um or
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rounds to to advance. So I think taking care of the ball, rebounding and just being who we are, playing with a level of um intensity um and just having fun
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with it, enjoying the moment and and like Fl said like you don’t know how many more of these you’re going to get and we never take these for granted.
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Four straight Sweet 16s um and hopefully a chance to move on to an Elite 8 and then potentially a Final Four.
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Well, thank you very much, Joe. Uh we really appreciate your time tonight here on Tiger Rag Radio. Uh best of luck to
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you and the ladies uh out out west this weekend here in Sacramento.
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Well, I appreciate y’all having me. I know it’s a late game. Um so take either drink some coffee, stay up late. Um it’s
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going to be fun. Uh I’m excited for it and I know our Tiger fans who aren’t making the trip out west are definitely going to enjoy watching us on TV. And um the good news is I think it’s an early game on Sunday if we’re able to advance.
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Great insight as always, Joe. Thank you very much, man. Thank you. Appreciate y’all.
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Big thanks to LSU assistant coach Joe Schwarz. We’re going to be back here after this break here from the Super Chevy dealer studio. This is Tiger Rag
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LSU and Duke at 9:00 on Friday night. I haven’t looked at the other matchups. I mean, did they have to put an East Coast team on at 9:00 at night?
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Well, since UCLA is basically a home game for them essentially, they’ll play the the earlier game, which 6:30 Pacific time.
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Um, who’s UCLA playing? They’ll play Minnesota. Yeah.
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Who they beat by like 28 points earlier this year, something like that.
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23, I believe. That was uh one of the thing I know there was a two seed that lost in this tournament, but it’s amazing to see Iowa.
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Iowa. That’s right. In double overtime, too, right? Wasn’t it? Yeah. To Somaya Smith, former LSU team.
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Ah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but it was amazing to see. Not amazing. uh too strong of a word, but it was crazy, I
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guess, to see the lopsided scores involving the one and two seeds playing in the second round. I mean, they’re
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they’re winning these games by 40 points.
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Yeah. And honestly, like LSUB, Texas Tech, a team that was pretty good this year and and I think that just shows you what the gap really is. Yeah.
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In women’s basketball right now with with what NIL is and what it’s gotten to. I I would imagine there’s only a handful of schools and it’s the schools
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that are your one and two seeds that are putting a any kind of source of m a significant dollars towards the program
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and they got the best players and it’s hard for now there’s competitive matchups between these four and five
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seeds in the three and six games uh but when you get to the one versus eight or the two versus seven other than that Iowa game it’s blowouts City. I mean,
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they’re not even close. I mean, they’re just crushing these teams. So, uh, but Friday night, what kind of game are we looking at here?
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I think it’ll be a a battle in the paint. I think that’s what this this one’s going to come down to. Both teams
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shot more better than 50% in uh last last matchup, which was in December. And both teams are very different now.
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They’re they’re LSU can still score at will, but Duke is going to really um focus on playing better defense. They’re
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only allowing about 55 points a game since that matchup, which is pretty interesting. And in the first matchup,
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both teams turn the ball over 18 to 19 times. That’s that’s we’re going to see probably that go down. I would say half
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that’ll be half of that. But I think LSU, they they dominated the first game in the paint. They they beat Duke 52 to
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36 in pain points. Kate Koval really had a great game in that first game. So did Amaya Joiner. They match up better
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against this Duke team than um they really did against any of the first round teams they played. Duke does have a little more height than the first two
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teams that they played. I think their tallest players 6’4. Kate Koval is 6’5. So just a better matchup I would say.
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But Duke does have some very physical post players and Toby Forier and um that that’ll be the biggest challenge is
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keeping her at bay and really winning that rebound battle.
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So Forier is really the key though for Duke is that’s what I’m ging. Yeah. 6’2. She’s like a point forward.
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Um you know how Zion was kind It’s kind of crazy but that they’re they’re bringing point forwards over there. Zion was a point forward at Duke in his time
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and Forier can run the court. She can play guard but she’s going to most likely beat you. um down low, averaging 17 points a game, shooting 53%
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from the floor. Uh LSU Duke nine o’clock on Friday night. We’re going to take another break here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer studio. And
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when we come back, Caroline Fenton from Yahoo Sports will join us. We’ll talk more about the women’s basketball tournament with her, get into some other topics as well. So stay tuned for that.
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio,
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Jeff Polmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn. Andre Champine, our producer tonight. And we bring in our next guest
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as we continue the women’s basketball talk. That’s Caroline Fenton of Yahoo Sports. Caroline, how you doing tonight? I hope you’re enjoying March Madness.
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Oh my gosh, how could you not be enjoying [laughter] March Madness? I mean, March has been marching. The madness has been madnessing both on the
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men’s and the women’s side. We get a Cinderella in the women’s tournament this year. 10 seed Virginia going to the Sweet 16s for the first time since 2000.
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So, it’s it’s all great over here. We’re not sleeping a lot, but that’s fine. We’ll uh we’ll sleep next month.
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And LSU fans are not going to be sleeping on Friday night. They got to stay up late to watch the Lady Tigers and Duke. How do you see this matchup?
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I love this matchup. And look, this has been, and I will take my purple and gold tinted glasses off when I say this on
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Yahoo Sports, but even if I wasn’t an LSU alum, even if I wasn’t a diehard LSU fan, this would be my number one game to
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watch this weekend. It for a couple of reasons. Duke LSU is unstoppable force
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versus immovable object. I mean, this LSU backcourt with Michaela Williams and Bl Johnson. The way that LSU’s been able to score. I mean, LSU’s, you know,
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putting up a 100 points per game almost like it’s their job. Then you turn around and you look at Duke, a team that has been has really, you know, made its
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reputation and playing hardnosed defense. Duke wants to play you in a phone booth. Duke wants to keep it within, you know, like a 55 to 53 type
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of game. They want to keep things low scoring. That’s what they do best. So,
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that’s one. It’s kind of it’s a clash of styles. It’s a clash of head coaches. You know, Carol Loftton and Kim Muly,
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although they I do think they are, you know, cut from the same cloth in terms of their their toughness, in terms of dedication to what they do, they just have two very different coaching styles.
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So two just different teams stylistically, two different teams in philosophy, two different teams in the way that they want to play basketball
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games and the way they want to win basketball games, but also because it’s a rematch of what we got in December.
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Duke and LSU played before uh they got into conference play and obviously that went LSU’s way. FA
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absolutely went off in that game. You could tell it meant a little something extra to her. you could tell that she was definitely fueled by her experience
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having Carol Lawson as a head coach in USA basketball. Uh but this matchup,
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while that was a great matchup, while that was a fun game, while LSU fans should be in should feel encouraged by the outcome of that game, this matchup
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feels wildly different because I think that Duke is playing much much better basketball, much more consistent basketball than they were in December. I
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mean, LSU shot 60% from the field in that game. Duke is not going to let LSU shoot 60% from the field. Duke has
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really upgraded and elevated their defensive game throughout the course of ACC play. But on the other side, LSU is a better defensive team, too. I mean,
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Duke shot 50% from the field in that matchup. And Duke is not a good enough offensive team to let them shoot 50%
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from the field. So, while we’ve seen this match up before, it does feel different because both of these teams have evolved so much throughout the course of the last three months.
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Caroline, that was a a great analysis. I just I want to tell you, I mean, I mean that sincerely. As you were talking, I was playing the game through my mind and I see LSU went in by 16.
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So, um that that’s what I saw as you were talking.
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16 is awfully specific. Is there a reason why it’s 16? Because it’s sweet.
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Good. It is sweet. Fair point. Very [laughter] fair point.
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But no, realistically, um, if LSU does make it out of that, they’re probably
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going to be playing UCLA, a rematch of last year where UCLA defeated LSU in the Elite 8. UCLA stacked. They’re arguably
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the best team in in the country right now along with Yukon probably. What do you think would happen if LSU does make
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it into a contest again with UCLA?
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I can absolutely see LSU beating UCLA and I don’t want to disrespect UCLA.
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Look, I I understand UCLA only lost one game in the regular season. I understand that UCLA won their conference
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championship by 50 points. Let that sink in for a second. a conference tournament championship game by 50 points in what
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is I think the Big 10 is rivaled only by the SEC and level of depth and level of competition. But UCLA is just a really
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difficult team to trust. UCLA is a team that’s been here before. They were in the final four last season. Gabby
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Hawkins, Kiki Rice, Lauren Betts, their three leading scorers and their core on their team. They’re all seniors. like they’ve all been here before and I think
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they all understand that UCLA if it’s not now then when when will Corey Close the head coach at UCLA have a squad this
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prepared and this ready to make a run for a national championship? It’ll be their first in program history, but it feels like they get off to slow starts.
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It feels like at times they can shoot themselves in the foot. And while I don’t think clearly LSU doesn’t have
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anyone sizewise to match up with a 6 foot7 Lauren Best, nobody in America has anyone to match up with Lauren Best.
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What I do think LSU has is a certain level of physicality, a certain level of speed, and a certain level of shooting
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that a if all of those things click. If Sl is having an on day because we’ve seen Faj not be 100% have some off days
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or at least off times in critical moments in critical matchups in big time matchups. If she steps up big, if
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Malaysia full WY has one of her games where she’s good for 20 to 25 points off the bench, I think LSU can absolutely
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beat UCLA and get to the final four, but it’s going to have to be with Fel and Malaysia both playing up to their peak
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because we’ve seen both of them kind of falter and step back and and play short of what we’ve seen them uh be able to do and play short of expectations. But if
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those two are hitting and if those two are firing in the right cylinders like we’ve seen them do throughout the course of the tournament, I think LSU can beat UCLA. They’re not an unbeatable team like it looks like Yukon might be.
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Caroline, this is Kim Muly’s best team at LSU, period. Better than 2023. True or false?
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That’s a really great question. I I’m going to lean false just because, you
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know, that team had Angel Ree and this team doesn’t. And I don’t think that you can underrate or underestimate how big
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it was to have Angel Reese’s presence in the paint, Angel Ree protecting the rim.
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Angel Reese was good for a double double on any given night. The swagger. The swagger is what the the killer instinct
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that this team has lacked in the close games this season. Uh Angel was not Angel Angel didn’t have time for that.
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[laughter] She they were going to win those kind of games and they uh that’s what they they’ve missed. They’re they’re almost too nice of a team. You
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know, Flage is a great person. Michaela Williams is a great person. They didn’t they don’t have that killer instinct that Angel had.
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Angela had an us against the world mentality. Yes. That I think is intoxicating in a locker room that can I
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think everyone in the locker room can buy into that of you know what? I don’t care if they’re not picking us. I don’t care if we’re not a one seed. I don’t care what they’re saying about us. All
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that matters is what we’re doing in this locker room. Angel had that I think arguably better than anyone I’ve seen in recent memory in in women’s college
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basketball. Does this team have that same killer instinct? I think Malaysia full wy we saw at South Carolina and
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we’ve seen this season at LSU. She can be an absolute spark plug that when she comes out on the floor, it feels like
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the rest of the team gets elevated. It’s not the same level of maybe swagger or chip on her shoulder maybe that Angel
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had. She’s not as um you know vocal maybe as Angel was, but her presence on the court like I can feel it watching
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games. It is palpable what she means to the rest of that squad, the way that she going to energize the rest of that squad. Um, so I would say if this team has that, it comes through Malaysia.
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Can, and this is a real question, can LSU, since they’re going to be together on the road,
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away from home, so far away from home in Sacramento for these two games. Can they develop
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that killer instinct, us against the world, because they’re by themselves, isolated?
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That’s kind of what March is for, I think. Um, and you know, I think the positive thing to point out, too, is not only is LSU on the road, you know, in a
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different time zone. Duke is too. Duke’s got an even further road trip ahead of them. They’re crossing three time zones where LSU is crossing two. None are easy
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feats, but at least not LSU is not alone there. But I think there’s a level of swagger that you can carry with you from the tournament. That I think is probably
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the source of a lot of great March Madness moments. I don’t think St.
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Peters went into the men’s tournament just a couple of years ago thinking that, hey, we could get to the Elite 8.
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But once you win one game and then another game and then another game and you’re taking down some of the best teams in the country, you get this
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certain level of buyin. I think I mentioned Virginia at the top. I think that Virginia is feeling that as well.
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Virginia was in the first four. Now they’re the first first four team ever to get to a sweet 16. You don’t think that they’re kind of swaggy walking a
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little bit into I believe they’re in Fort Worth, wherever they are, you don’t think they’re swag swaggy walking into it. You don’t think they’re going into it with this feeling of invincibility?
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So, while I don’t think that you can completely change the culture of your locker room overnight, nor do you want to change the culture of your locker
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room on March 24th, I think what you can do is start to build up that us against the world mentality because if you can’t
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do it in March, when in the world can you do it? Caroline, should be a fantastic weekend.
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Looking forward to it. Sweet 16, Elite 8. Uh, some good basketball this weekend. We appreciate your time tonight.
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Absolutely. Thanks so much for having me. It’s a blast. and enjoy the game.
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All right, Caroline Fenton from Yahoo Sports, one of our favorite guests here on Tiger Rag Radio. We’ll take a break.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with the executive editor of Tiger Rag Magazine, Todd Horn and Andre Shan
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Pine. So, while LSU was struggling at the plate on Friday, I was started to flip around, looked at what some other
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games were going on in the FCC and saw the South Carolina um saw the South Carolina Arkansas score
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and I was like, “Wow, this is 22 to four, something [laughter] like that.”
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This is just horrendous. This is horrible.
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That’s almost as bad as the game I called last night. [laughter]
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Who won that game? By Dunham won 20 to nothing. They called it after two innings. Two innings. Two innings. Wow.
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They didn’t actually finish the second inning.
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Um, so you just knew I mean I didn’t know. Uh, well, Andre, you said that he wasn’t going to make it to Baton Rouge that they would fire.
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Yeah. So, I didn’t know it was going to happen after a game. I could see like after the weekend, let the weekend play
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out, but it was just so brutal and they had already gotten swept the weekend before by Florida. And so it was just time to
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pull the plug on this. So Paul Maner said he is done coaching for good.
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You know what that feels like? That feels like when LSU gets beat that bad in&m that you cannot let Brian Kelly
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coach another game. That’s kind of what that felt like.
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Yeah, I I agree. I agree. I thought um and this is why Ryan McGee is where he’s at and I’m where I’m at. I thought Ryan
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McGee from ESPN summed it up very well as far as uh the tenure of Paul Maner at South Carolina. This is what he tweeted
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three days ago. I hate to see Paul Maner’s time at South Carolina end the way it did because I’ve always liked him so much. The classiest of class acts and
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a Hall of Famer by any measure, but I’m also glad that it’s over. That was hard to watch and it was. It was hard to see
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them go through a really difficult season last year and there they had a decision to make even after the end of last season whether to give him one more
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year and then as you were watching this season trans as you were watching this season unfold it it wasn’t getting any
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better and it’s a shame to see a guy who had a hall of fame career is the one of the classiest coaches that you’ll ever
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work with um this is how it ends. And I I think when we look back at it, you know, this is just a little small blip
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on his career, what he did at LSU. It was still amazing. I know it was only one national championship, but the level
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of consistency was always there here at LSU,
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but I read um I read an article that Ki Riley of the of the advocate.com wrote the other day, yesterday, I guess it was. Well, I think it was in today’s paper,
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but it might have been published. I think it was last night.
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Yeah, it was online last night. But where he’s talking to Manary and Maner says what you just said. It’s it’s only an 80game blip, you know.
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But at the same time, I can’t help, and this is not against Maner, but I can’t help but remember whenever
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he was hired. Everybody was like, “Wow.” Yeah.
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There’s two things that athletic directors have to do. They can’t hire their friends and they can’t hire who
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the players want them to hire. Those are two mistakes athletic directors could always make. And heck, we saw it with when Les Miles went to Kansas. I mean,
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it was almost kind of the same thing. Yeah. You know, pull less out of retirement.
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Less is enjoying himself, being a family guy, doing all these things. He he had kind of built up his built back his reputation in a way. He was in movies.
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He was doing all those kind of things and then they you bring him back to Kansas and it goes awful and this goes absolutely awful and it’s just Yeah.
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What were you thinking? I mean, this is a program that just won a n two back-to-back national championships, at least in recent history. It’s not like
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it’s it’s not like they’re, you know, just a horrible program. No, they’re the last team to win back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 2011.
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And the thing is is Ray Tanner, who coached that team,
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was the [snorts] AD at the time that hired Paul. Yeah.
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Here is maybe the I I like I like villains in sports. Uh I like tension.
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So I think here’s the the best maybe the best news out of this. This means that Carolina uh Coastal Carolina’s baseball
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coach could be the South Carolina coach next year.
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Yeah, I mean Kevin Yeah, I think Kevin I mean why wouldn’t they hire him? That would be a great hire. Yeah.
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And and I I just I mean we’re we’re missing something now that uh uh Tony um
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Tony V is in at the Giants. It’s not the same. Here’s one thing I don’t know though if it’s attractive to him is the
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amount of money that they’re pouring into that baseball program years prior when they were as successful as they were. They they were able to kind of
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spend a little more money. Now it seems as if the NIL collective over there is really just topheavy on women’s basketball.
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It could be.
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But but then but wasn’t that one of the programs that has been rumored where there’s more revenue sharing going into it? Was it that was it that one that you mentioned, Todd?
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Yeah, the their distribution is different than the 7515 and five from what we understand. But but that’s still only an
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extra million or whatever. I mean, it’s not Yeah. They you know, they South Carolina
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under Don Staley, the basketball program loses about $6 million a year. they do
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make more money in terms of revenue than LSU and so I would think that may warrant in
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their minds giving them a little bit more of the revenue share but we don’t know that for a fact that’s just rumor gossip and innuendo
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what we do know in terms of more rumor gossip and innuendo is that Don Staley runs the
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ship over there for the entire athletic department [laughter]
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and I you know it’d be interesting to talk to to Paul one day and and see what his thoughts are on that if he would share them with us. I think that would be a great idea.
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Let’s take our final break. This is Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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LSU Pro Day was on Monday. We’ll end the show on this topic. Garrett Nusmeer was out there. Garrett Nusmeer looked healthy.
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Garrett Nusmire still probably a middle round draft pick though.
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He completed uh what 69 of 72 and he should against the air against error. You should be able to do that.
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Still I mean that that’s good. It shows and like you said it shows he’s healthy.
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I understand that uh you know he was competing head-to-head basically with Carson Beck for the number number three quarterback to be taken in the draft.
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Yeah,
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from what I hear, and I don’t have any inside scoop or anything like that, but Carson Beck has the advantage over him for that number three. So, that would
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push Nusmeire back to four. And if you look at the the draft needs, that means he’s probably not going to go until the third day of the draft,
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but you never know.
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You never know. Um, you know, there could be a team that believe, you know,
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like the Saints believe that Tyler Shuck.
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I could certainly see the Saints picking up. No,
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Nusmart. I really could. I think Rattler’s going to be dealt soon.
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I I could see Arizona. I could see Pittsburgh. I could see teams like that. Jets maybe.
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I hope not.
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God bless him if he has to go there. Um there’s already I speaking of that,
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there’s already talk how the Mannings are going to make sure Arch does not go to the Jets. We’re going to see the same thing we saw with Eli and making sure he
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didn’t go to the Chargers, I think it was back then. Yeah, that’s who it was.
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Yeah. Um, but anyways, that’s another topic. Um, we got about a minute left. I kind of I guess I’m kind of ready, you
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know, especially with spring football and Lane Keifin. I’m just kind of done with the whole Garrett Nusmire injury thing. You know, more and more he lets
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out about it. I I don’t want to say it’s excusem, but it’s I’m just tired of it. You know, that was
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such an a just a such a let down of a season. and obviously got screwed up on the second day of practice and um you
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know it’s just tough. I I think he’s a good kid. Um I I just don’t know how you hurt yourself throwing the football.
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Pull the muscle.
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That’s that’s not a good sign in my opinion.
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I think he’s overworking. I think Well, maybe that could have been it too.
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That could have been it too, but Well, my question is why does a coach cover it up and play him anyway?
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[laughter]
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That’s that’s the that’s the million dollar.
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Yeah. Tyrann Mathieu had some very interesting comments on that podcast. By the way, the Honeybadger ate up Brian Kelly.
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