In hour one, Tiger Rag Radio speaks with former LSU baseball star Ryan Theriot about the Tigers’ recent struggles. To open hour two, the crew talks with LSU men’s basketball Sports Information Director Kent Lowe about working with Will Wade again, along with Johnny Jones, and how rare it is to have two former LSU head coaches on the same staff. Also in hour two, the crew visits with LSU gymnastics public address announcer Mike Smith to discuss the Tigers’ week at nationals and what it will take to bring home their second national championship.
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Andre Champine, our producer for tonight, who does terrific work for LRN and Tiger Rag. Man, we got a lot to get to here over the next couple of hours.
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Obviously LSU baseball who could potentially be in a tail spin right now.
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They’ve lost four in a row. They’re trying to break Yeah, I if they lose this weekend to Texas A&M, I think the tail spin is um
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fully on. Heck, they may not even win tonight. We’ll see. We’ll we’ll see what happens. Still a chance to correct it,
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but we’re going to get into that here really quickly uh very soon. But uh we got to talk baseball.
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another significant player uh on that LSU defense is lost for the season.
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We’ll get into that and uh some comments that Lane Keifin had to make today just overall about the team and the performance of the team in the uh
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scrimmage that was seen by the media on Saturday inside Tiger Stadium. Got to talk obviously some LSU basketball very quiet in the transfer portal for men’s.
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Uh Kim Moy made some moves. We’ll get into that. LSU Gymnastics competing for a national championship this week in
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Fort Worth, Texas, and also some doings at the state capital when it comes to revenue share and making those
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um payments to players, the direct payments by the university athletic departments to players, whether to
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shield those or not. Discussion about that today in House Governmental Affairs. We’ll get to that. Am I missing anything? I think I hit on everything.
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Yeah, but what you just said is going to confuse the hell out of all the lawmakers that were [laughter]
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participating in it because they didn’t understand any of that.
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All right. Well, we’ll get into that here a little bit later. Can you understand what the heck is going on with the LSU baseball team right now? They’re playing very poorly.
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Yes.
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And I don’t mean that uh facitiously. I mean that they are not executing fundamental baseball plays, right?
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And that’s what surprises the heck out of me. You know, Jay said it early in the season whenever Glenn and I went and sat down with him in February, I think
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it was, uh, that this was his most talented team and and I I don’t think that you can say they’re not talented,
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but they aren’t any good right now and they’re playing very very poorly.
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Go ahead. Yeah, like you said, they’re not they’re not playing baseball right,
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you know. They they uh they’re getting guys picked off of third and first for absolutely no reason, you know, and and
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then they’re getting they’re they’re in a force out situation on defense and the guy doesn’t touch the base and uh Kate Aaron Bey, he’s he’s always
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had trouble catching the ball. Now he can’t find it after he he misses it. um and they’re just all kind of problems um
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just with how they play the game. And I and I think it’s an example of um you you know Jay said that it’s his most
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talented team, but you know, you shouldn’t say that in in January because you you’re not spending a lot of time signing these kids and recruiting them,
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particularly the ones out of the portal.
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You you really don’t know. And I think the the portal is is very frequently fool’s gold. And that’s what we’re
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seeing this year with some of the players LSU’s gotten in the portal. Now now players that have gotten in the portal in the past have been real gold. Yeah.
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But it’s it’s it’s a crapshoot much like you know high school seniors are a crapshoot often in in football. But you
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know LSU’s u true freshman are playing a lot of them are playing much better in their first year than some of these transfers are.
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Yeah. Mason Braun,
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Morris Cerna, even though he can’t catch either, but um as far as being a bat, I mean, those are two true freshman. Yeah.
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And you don’t see I don’t even know if any if there are two freshman starting on any other SEC team on a regular basis now. Well, I think I thought I heard Jay
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say on his coaches show last night like Old Miss only had maybe one true freshman that played this past weekend where LSU is obviously relying on Cerna
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and then they’re relying on Mason Braun and then you because of injuries you had to have Ethan Claus out there in a
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pivotal point on Friday night and he made a a big mistake uh not stepping on the bag to get the force that opened up
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the three-run inning in the eighth. So yeah, they’re relying on a lot of young guys because of injuries and lack of productivity. You know, Zack York didn’t play at all this past weekend. So,
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and it doesn’t sound like he’s going to be played.
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Well, I Yeah, I I think he’s he’s lost his spot, and there’s really no reason to put him out there. The only position he could play is first. Uh it’s not like
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he can move him to DH. So, that that might be it, you know, as long as Mason Braun is hitting as well as he as he’s
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hitting. I mean, this team just can’t I was listening I’ll attribute this to what um I was listening to Mikey Muk and
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Jared Mitchell’s podcast last night and and I think they they hit it very well on that this team has nothing it can
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hang its hat on. You know, last year you knew you had you had Kate Anderson and and and
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Anthony Ison and hitting over the course of a 56 game season or 162 game season,
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whatever it may be, is going to come and go. You’re going to have stretches where you don’t hit it very, you know, you don’t you’re not getting guys on base.
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You’re not scoring a lot of runs. That’s going to happen over the course of a season. But last year’s team could really rely on those two guys. And they had Evans [clears throat] and Cowan in relief.
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Exactly. And they had outstanding defense, right? And now you don’t have any of that, right?
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Yeah. And I mean, look, you know, Gavin Gry, he gave up three home runs in one inning, right?
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Um and the inconsistency, the the the appearance before for Gavin Gry what, five innings, one run.
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Yeah.
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Then in this outing, he gives up multiple home runs.
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Yeah. Uh William Schmidt looks like a potential first round pick in the first three innings on Saturday and then in
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the fourth inning it he of course it’s a leadoff walk and then all hell breaks loose and he hasn’t seen the seventh inning
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yet in a start. I mean he he’s got to go deeper into a game and they really needed him on Saturday.
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they they he was going up against another potential first round draft pick and they needed him to really Okay, this
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is your time and he it just didn’t come through.
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Right. Right. Yeah. It’s uh and and you know the u Seth Dardars had had trouble in the in the field. Yep.
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Um John Pearson um he strikes out so many times with runners in scoring position.
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It’s amazing. Um they just uh you know the the only guys really playing consistently well are Derek Curiel and
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and Jake Brown. And even Jake Brown’s had some key strikeouts with runners on.
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Yeah. He’s also had a couple bad throws from the outfield.
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Yeah. And um yeah, it’s uh it’s been tough to watch, but the main thing is just how they’re playing baseball. Not
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the way you would think a Jay Johnson team would. Now, the funny thing is, you know, you got you got some crazy things going on in the in the league. Like, uh,
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Mississippi State was 7-2. Now, they’re seven and eight. They got Yeah.
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Yeah. They got swept back to back at home, back to back, which is nearly is really hard to do.
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Right. Right. And then Tennessee bounced back last week. They they won two,
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you know. So, uh, it’s it’s it’s kind of crazy. Um I would I would not be surprised if they um you know this this
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game at home here series at home they they they’ll they’ll have a shot to win two. Um but um you know I don’t uh it’s it’s they’re hard they’re hard to read.
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Texas A&M’s coming off an emotional series against Texas because you know the the uh I mean yeah Texas A&M uh
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and then they spent all day there Sunday waiting to play. Yeah. So they’re fresh.
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[laughter]
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So yeah, so you know, you don’t know how they’re going to be coming in here. And you know, Kase Evans needs to have a game where he goes into the seventh
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inning and and you know, two hits somebody in one run. He had had that ace type game yet other than the 15 strikeout performance
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against Kentucky. That was it. That was the only time he’s really been the guy,
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the dude that you were expecting him to be. I think the disconcerting thing this weekend is Texas A&M, even though they
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are coming off of an emotional win over Texas, you know, two games this past week, they are the number one statistically offensive team in the country. I mean,
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in the conference right now, and it’s not just one or two hitters,
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it’s it’s across the board. And that’s not a good quotient for LSU right now.
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No. And on Friday and Saturday, what was somewhat encouraging is they actually went out and they grabbed the lead
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early, but they don’t play consistent enough baseball to to keep that lead and then things eventually
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just um go to go sideways for them. You cannot and this these are these aren’t the fundamental things we were talking
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about but in that situation where they jumped out to the 20 lead and then you go out and you have your Friday night starter give up four out of five hits. Yeah.
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First first four out of five batters get hits. Yeah. How do how do you how does that happen?
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And you get a runner picked off at third too to end your rally in the first which like that momentum that you just secured kind of goes away.
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That was Aaron Bey on third. What was he doing? I don’t That was like a little league play.
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No, they’ve made a lot of little league plays. Um or plays that actually you don’t even see on the little league level. [laughter] I mean, I was telling you guys before,
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you know, there’s a pass ball on Cerna and the ball actually rolls back to the pitcher. I’ve never seen that before. Yeah, that was wild. [laughter]
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Crazy, man.
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So, they’re six and nine and the magic number is probably 13 wins in league play to get you in to the NCAA tournament.
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They have yet to play the two toughest teams on their schedule in SEC play.
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That being Georgia and Florida, and maybe you can even put&m in there as well. South Carolina’s coming back.
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Yeah, they just swept Missouri. And now you got to go to Mississippi State in two weeks. Are they really going to lose two more games at home? Well, here’s the
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thing, you know, with six wins right now and and they need to get to that Magic 13. They have five more series. Jay says that they’re really good at coming back
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on Sundays against bull deep bullpin pitching. So, you know,
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he said we don’t have much, but we got [laughter] that. That was the quote of the year, man.
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So, maybe they’ll win all five of those Sunday games.
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Did you get the sense? And I don’t know how much you guys watch the John Eid,
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who does a terrific job covering LSU baseball. He put the postgame up on YouTube for WFB.
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It seemed like Jay is he’s at his wits end here. I I you know, every button he’s pushing, every button he pushed
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last year, it near it pretty much always worked in his advantage. This year it’s not. No, it’s not.
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He’s got to be just almost suicidal. I don’t want you shouldn’t joke about that.
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Yeah. Right. Right. No, it’s it’s keeping him up at night. No doubt about it. frustrated and he and he’s at his wits end and and uh definitely um you
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know but like he says all he can do is is is keep working. Uh they they might need a day off is what they might need.
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I know today they had like a full practice before today’s game.
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Yeah, he does that a lot. He gives them Monday off and they practiced Tuesday before the non-conference game that he’s pulling out the secret
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weapon today. He he got Skip Urban on the field to talk to the team before the game tonight.
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Well, maybe that war. And again, um having Zack Cowan start shows you the level of seriousness that they need.
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They can’t lose any more of these midweek games if they’re going to be a potential bubble team. And uh they got to figure out a way to win these games.
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And the the big problem, you know, last year they had William Schmidt start a lot of these midweek games and he can go out there last year against
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non-conference opponents, go out there and give you four or five innings and LSU’s offense would score its runs and they would get a big lead and, you know,
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coast to a lot of these midweek games.
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But in these midweek midweek games this year, you’re using eight, nine pitchers and undoubtedly two of them are not
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going to have it. I was listening to Hunt Palmer earlier this week or maybe it was today, I don’t I don’t remember.
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And he said, you know, it’s like you go out to a midweek game now, you’re expecting Jay Johnson to use 11 pitchers. Yeah. You know,
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and I don’t think that’s that’s and it’s I know you want to get everyone work,
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but I don’t think that’s really a success, a path to success.
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No, I don’t think so either. I don’t think he’s doing it on purpose. I think he’s doing it because he has to because he can’t ever find anybody who can put the ball into the strike zone when they need to.
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Coming up a little bit later on, we’re going to hear from former LSU star and national champion and two-time World Series champion Ryan Teriel. He’ll join
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us later on in this hour. We’ll get his thoughts on the LSU baseball team. And then we’ll talk with Kent Low, LSU men’s basketball sports information director.
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And also set to join us uh on the show is Mike Smith, who is the voice of LSU Gymnastics as far as their public
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address announcer. We’ll talk about uh LSU gymnastics as they’ll be competing for a national championship this week.
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Uh let’s talk a little football. Some uh bad news on the injury front. Looks like Aiden Anding, who was working as a number two quarterback, but had two interceptions in Saturday’s scrimmage,
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will miss the 2026 season as a result of an Achilles injury. That is now the second player on this defense in the two
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deep depth chart that has suffered a season ending injury here in the spring.
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And this one’s going to hurt because they don’t have all that much depth at cornerback.
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Yeah. And the previous one was Gabriel Reford, the uh defensive end. He had a ACL. He’s also out for the year. Uh but
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yeah, Anding was um they they he was one of two defensive players of the game uh in the in the scrimmage Saturday and and
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uh he hurt his um uh Achilles on the interception like as as he landed cuz right after it he kind
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of limped off uh or he was on the ground then he got up and limped off and he looked like he was okay but you know you never know and
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he was on the sideline. Uh so that that was that was kind of rough. Um and he’s consistently been the number
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running as a number two quarterback. So he’s one of the top four cornerbacks on the team.
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But he was he wasn’t um they didn’t look at him at Nickel though, right?
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I I’m not sure if he’s been getting any time at Nickel or not. I just know that he was p he was listed as you know on the two deep
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type. Yeah. and he only he only played special teams last year, but they they had high hopes for him this year. He was definitely going to be in the uh in the
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rotation. And you know, Lane was talking about, well, we can’t go. There’s no more portal window. You know, you can’t go in and get one. Although, you know,
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the the guys that entered the portal in the last window. Yes.
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That weren’t picked up. They can be picked up, right?
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You know, now you know and there’s lot a lot of them. You know that that’s kind of the unwritten story is these guys who enter the portal and never get picked
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up. If you remember uh uh shoot who was the quarterback from Mississippi LSU had um Miles Brennon Brennon.
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Miles Brennan. Yeah. He went in the portal and he really got no attention and then Kelly took him back. He maybe could have gone to Southern Mississippi,
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but he was lucky to find a spot coming coming back. That happens sometimes. But if they really need somebody, I mean,
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they they could go back into the guys that are still in the portal.
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Now, there’s a reason why those guys that are still in the portal are still [laughter] in the portal.
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Yeah, it’s you’re you’re you’re pulling off the scrap heap, if you would, if you’re a major football program. Andre, you got something to add?
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Well, I was going to say a guy like Javon Toviano is a guy that has not been picked up and uh that he did play corner his freshman year, so
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yeah, that would probably be a better route.
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Maybe. Is that worth going back if you if if you’re that LSU staff?
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May maybe they should, you know, he could be considered on the taxi squad like they say. Yeah, but uh Yeah. Yeah. And that, you know,
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and that’s happened before. You bring somebody back who uh who was on your team and and didn’t get picked up.
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Now, Saturday in the scrimmage, it was um a scrimmage where the defense had the upper hand against the offense. Of course, no Sam Levit out there. Lane Keifin talked about the fact that hey,
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the defense won the day on Saturday and it it probably helped that Sam Levit remains sideline as he recovers from the Liz Frank foot surgery.
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You know, Charlie reminds me that, you know, when we made a decision to sign Sam that this was going to be part of it. You know, that you weren’t going to feel as good in the spring because he wasn’t going to be available. You know,
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so you don’t have your quarterback, you don’t have arguably your top receiver out there. And so, but there’s a lot of work to do there. It doesn’t happen overnight.
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So, you know, last week Lane was talking about that they he he looked back at a
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year ago with Trinidad Chamblas and he didn’t arrive until the summer. So, he he still felt pretty confident that hey,
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once uh Sam gets is is ready to go and you he’ll be able to lead the offense and the offense will be good. Maybe I
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know it’s just a scrimmage and it’s it’s it’s only April, but maybe seeing that scrimmage and the amount of plays that they ran, seeing how the defense
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dominated, is it maybe becoming more of a I don’t want to say a concern, but uh it’s really in Lane Kipman’s face that man, this offense has a long way to go.
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Well, he did say that today. He said he was discouraged by that. So, that means it was somewhat unexpected.
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Yeah. Uh you I mean he may have known they weren’t where he wanted them to be,
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but it sounded like he was absolutely discouraged by their lack of competitiveness against that defense.
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Now, as he pointed out, that that is bodess well for the defense. The defense is playing well, but you you know, it
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sounds like Charlie Weiss had to remind him that they were going to be in the situation from from that comment.
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And I think that he is concerned about it. But, you know, I think that later on in today’s press conference, he was
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asked about the offensive line’s progress, and he basically said that offensive line is leaps and bounds. He
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didn’t say that, but they are much further ahead than they were last year. Uh, Andre, let’s go ahead and play. Uh,
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one of the surprises of spring is Bo Bordalon, the fifthear senior out of Newman, uh,
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getting reps with the first team at left guard. Here’s uh Lane Keifin talking about Bo Bordalon today.
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He’s just done a really good job. You know, we moved him into guard and had a competition going there and as of Saturday won it even though obviously
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we’re not playing a game, but we don’t just make a depth chart and you stay there. We if you get outplayed, we move the depth chart, you know, daily and
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he’s been doing a great job and deserved the right to go in there and start.
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Good stuff there to see that Bo Bordalon has been able to get to the number one spot. We’ll take a break. When we come back, get back to baseball talk here on Tiger Rag Radio. Ryan Tero will join us.
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Hey, we’re back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Jeff Palmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor, Glenn Gobo. And joining us now, former LSU star, twotime
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World Series champion, two-time NL Central champion with the Chicago Cubs.
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See, I’d get that in there, Glenn. Ryan Tero joining us now here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio. Ryan, how you doing tonight, my friend?
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Hey guys, I’m doing great. I appreciate y’all having me. Well, it’s great to have you on. Uh,
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what are your just general and then we’ll dig into it some more, but just your general overall thoughts watching this 2026 LSU baseball team.
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Man, it looks a lot like 2021 to me. Uh, excuse me, two 2001.
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um you know, we we had um we had a just uber talented team and and a lot of big leaguers all over the place and just couldn’t quite put it all together. But,
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um you know, I’m still holding out some hope. I I think that uh you definitely got some good pieces out there, but baseball’s a funny game as you guys know
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and and uh you know, it takes more than than than talent to win games.
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Ry Ryan, are you seeing a trend with this team? Are you seeing the same things happen series after series or are
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you seeing different things that are that are sort of bubbling to the top?
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That’s a that’s a great question. Jay made a made a good point um you know the other day when talking about ways to win games and ways to lose games. I I you
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know I I I see the same things over and over again from a loss standpoint. You know
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um it’s a story as old as time. You got to you got to be able to throw strikes.
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you can’t give away free passes and and you got to catch the ball and play good defense. And um you know, it’s 27 outs
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and if you start to give the opponent more opportunities and more outs to score runs, man, bad things happen. And that’s really been the MO from the
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beginning. Um you know, you couple that with with uh you know, not being able to score with the other guys, which is a
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thing, too. Uh and and you start to see what’s happening.
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I I think that, you know, consistency on the defensive side of the ball has has not allowed um the pitchers to really
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get in the rhythm and get going. The flip side of that, pitchers, long at bats, uh walks, hit by pitches, free
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passes, has put the defense on their heels. Um it’s never easy to play defense in that scenario. And I see a lot of guessing offensively, truthfully.
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You know, I I don’t see a ton of just grinded out at bats. It looks like to me that uh guys are sitting on certain pitches and and and when they get it,
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they’re just not being able to execute. Hey Ryan, thanks for joining us again.
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This is Glenn. Um you you know the team somewhat. Can you say who who are the leaders of the team or who or maybe who
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should be the leaders of the team or can you tell?
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Yeah, man. Look, Glenn, and and good to hear from you. It’s it’s great to hear your voice. Um, I know the team well, man. Actually,
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this is probably the best team that I’ve known since the Bregman teams when when I was just very very close with a lot of
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those guys right after I retired. Very similar here with these guys, man. Um,
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you know, that’s a that’s a good question. like like the first person I would say would be Gavin Gry just because we see how excited he gets on
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the on the field when he pitches and he’s been there for a while and he’s a Louisiana guy, but it’s really unfair to ask a reliever to be a leader when he’s
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in the bullpen for a lot of a lot of the game, you know. So, so in that regard,
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it’s got to be a position player. Um Jake Brown and Steven Milm would be, you know, the first two guys. Um, but it
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doesn’t necessarily have to be, you know, one of the superstars. It can really be anybody. And, um, you know, I I do think that’s probably one of the
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issues going on right now is you just really don’t have that one person that is the go-to leader like a Blair Barbie type or a Gavin Duga or Kade Bosso. Uh,
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you know, that we’ve seen in the past.
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Ryan, talk about the the difficulty of for some of these players. What one of the big storylines
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on this season for this season is a lot of the transfer players just haven’t panned out where Jay is Jay’s had a lot
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of success with that in the past but this year it’s just not paying panning out but how difficult it is when these guys are coming from whether it’s High
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Point Grand Canyon and nobody’s really talking baseball there like they talk it here and then you and there’s so much more talent here and you’re constantly
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looking over your shoulder because there’s a guy sitting in dugout ready to take your spot. How hard that is for a player, especially if they get into a
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rut, that it really does start playing a mind game on them. And we just haven’t seen these guys take off like we thought we were going to see.
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Yeah, I think um I think those guys are giving us everything they got and and um you know, playing their butts off. It is
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not for a lack of effort. Uh this team that’s really the only thing that really drives me well two things drive me
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crazy. And when I watch baseball, lack of effort and also mental errors. And I don’t see really either one of those with this team. I I also think that it’s
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unfair to ask those guys to be uh Tommy White and or Paul Skins because that they just aren’t of that caliber. Let’s
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call a spade a spade. You guys can read read the tea leaves and I know you’ve been listening to Jay’s interviews recently, but when every other SEC team
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has double sometimes quadruple the amount of money to spend from a revshare standpoint, you’ve you’ve handcuffed your ball club. Period. End of
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discussion. The game has changed. This isn’t this isn’t 11.7 anymore and you can survive on tradition and great coaching. That’s not how this works.
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This is who can pay the most money.
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Period. End of discussion. and LSU baseball was put in a bad spot. I mean,
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that’s just just is what it is. And and we’ve seen a few interviews recently where um the administration has has said
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they’re going to rectify that and get Jay where he needs to be. But, you know,
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you you can’t bring a butter knife to a gunfight, guys. It it when when you look around and see what these other schools are getting and what they’re paying,
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guys, um it’s it’s you know, why does why does the uh Pittsburgh Pirates lose every year? Well, it’s simple. the Yankees spend more money.
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So, getting away from the revenue share,
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I think that’s a good point. But I also think another good point about the revenue share is right now they’re they’re trying to pass HB 608 in the House.
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And if they do, which they did uh move it forward today,
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we’ll never know if uh LSU has moved things around with their revenue share or not. We’ll just have to trust them at
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their word because we’ll never know. We won’t have access to that. But beside that, Ryan,
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getting back to just baseball on the field, what is what is the biggest lie that a struggling baseball team tells themselves in midappril?
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Oh man. Uh I don’t know what the biggest lie is.
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um you know, look, the negative the negative mindset, uh when you’re in a
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rut like this is really the worst thing you can have. And and you know, so I I don’t know the answer to that question because truthfully, you know, I think it’s the game itself is so hard. I mean,
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those guys are all geared and taught from babies to be uber resilient and
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super positive, you know, because of the way that the game is is structured, you know, through failure. Um, you know, I
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the the the dog days of summer from a major league standpoint, June, July, August, and then
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and then this time frame right now in the SEC when your team isn’t playing well, it’s really hard to get up and get excited for games and for series. And,
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you know, my encouragement right now to these guys, you know, when I talk to them is, you know, you’ve got a lot of eyeballs on you. There’s a lot of tradition and there’s there’s a lot of
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folks that are pulling for you. Um, you know, don’t feel like you’re in a silo. You’re not by yourself. You know, uh,
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wins wins are great, losses suck, but,
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you know, this is baseball, man. And it’s hard. It’s hard to win games.
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Do Do you think that this team right now thinks that they can still salvage this season, or do you think they’re getting to that that point where it’s like, uh,
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it’s getting too late?
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I think they can. They I think that they think that they can still salvage the season. Um, I also think uh that this is
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a, you know, before last weekend was the most dangerous two seed in the country.
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Um, I don’t know where their projections are going to are going to lie now from a, you know, projection standpoint for the tournament, but um, you know,
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anything can happen once you get in a three-game set. I believe that William Schmidt’s going to pitch in the major leagues and I think his arm is electric
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and on any given night I think he can totally shut down a team. Um I believe that Kase Evans is going to pitch in the
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major leagues as well and the same goes for him. So, you know, you get in a super regional scenario, you know, you got to win two and I think we have two
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arms that can do that. Now, are they proven like last year um you know, with those two guys? No, not yet. But, you
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know, from a stuff standpoint, I think you’ve got two horses that can that you can ride. Um, so yeah, man, I I I think
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the opportunity is still there, you know. I think the better question is what would salvage the season look like,
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you know, and what does that mean to an LSU fan or or uh or to this team, you know, and I and obviously Omaha is is
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the is the um is the goal, but guys, I mean, going to Omaha and losing sucks.
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So, you know, it just I’d almost rather not go if you’re going to go and lose,
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you know, and so, um, you know, that’s where I kind of have some angst where like, yeah, we got two, but who’s the third? You know, I’ve been waiting on an
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arm to step up, man, for about a month now that you could say, okay, there’s there’s the third guy that we have to have, and it just hadn’t happened.
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What do you make out of the inconsistency with pitching? I mean,
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William Schmidt looked great for three innings on Saturday and then the wheels fall off in the fourth inning. You know,
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Case Evans will go from striking out 15 in one game, walking six in the next.
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I’m not a pitcher, so I don’t pretend to know what’s in those guys heads. I think they’re all a little bit crazy, to tell you the truth. Hey, you pitched against Old Miss, Ryan.
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Come on. [laughter]
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You did. Oh, it’s my favorite memory of college. I sure [laughter] did. Um,
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uh, you know, look, I think I think William should have stayed in the game.
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I think I think Jay should have left him in, honestly, uh,
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um, this last weekend, you know, and I know it was it I think that was a little bit of a quick hook, truthfully, but man, you know, he’s been consistent.
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Evans was the one that’s been kind of very, very just weird to me. Um,
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that’s true. You know, up until last weekend. Yeah, Williams been I mean he look he he’s
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from the the all through the fall of last of of this last year going into the season he’s he’s been that guy but but
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Evans man you know at some point I thought it was maybe the catcher because they were changing catchers on him. Um you know and so that
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could have been it. I just and I don’t know you know it’s the hardest thing in the world. I played with a guy, you guys probably remember his name. If you
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don’t, please Google him after this because it’s it’s an awesome story. But,
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uh, his name is Rich Hill, I think. 21 years in the big leagues. Yeah. And look, so I I came up with Rich and we’re very good friends to this day. But he
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would, guys, he would he would throw nine, 10, 12 balls in a row, like to the back stop, like not even close. And then
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he would throw nine pitches and strike guys out. Like it was just the weirdest thing. and and and all I can say and then the guy ends up spending, you know,
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21 years in the major leagues, but all I can say is, you know, from a maturity standpoint, you know, it just it just takes some time for those guys to get
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consistent. And remember, Evans hasn’t started a ton of games in the SEC either. You know, he was a back end of the guy back end of the bullpin guy last
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year. Um, you know, so I I mean, I expect him to get better, but golly,
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you’re right. That that’s the craziest thing in the world, but also makes him dangerous and scary.
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Hey, Ryan, thanks a lot, man. always uh enjoy your perspective. Uh we’ll see if these guys could turn it around and hopefully give us a good run and maybe
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they won’t lose in Omaha. Maybe they win go all the way. We got staying positive, I suppose. That’s right. That’s right. [laughter]
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All right, Ryan, you have a good one, man. Thanks again. We appreciate it. Hey, always great to hear from you guys. Y’all have a good one, too.
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All right, Ryan Tero joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. We’ll be back right after this here from the Super Chevy dealer studio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor Gwen Gilbo, Andre Champine. We
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are inside the Super Chevy dealer studio. Good perspective there from Ryan Tero. And Ryan had he expressed a theme
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that we’ve heard quite a bit. uh some of it has uh been you know spoken not in public some like Ryan speaking in public
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that this team was didn’t have the uh finances in order to go out there and compete with the big boys and um that’s
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why you you ended up getting the the players out of the portal that you did.
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You didn’t get the top-notch guys. You had to go bargain shopping and that’s the result of of what you’re seeing out
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here. But I I can accept that to to a certain level, but I thought
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but when you see guys like and he’s right, you know, for the most part,
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William Schmidt has probably been one of their more consistent pitchers, but I don’t think he’s been he’s been dominant as a guy that you would hope that would
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really make that next step. Kase Evans has been inconsistent as heck. Gavin Gry has been inconsistent as heck. Um, you
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know, and you know, offensively it’s some guys have gotten hot at certain
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points. Jake Brown got really was hot at the beginning of the season. Courier was really hot in that week where they played Kentucky and Tennessee, but you
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know, some of the guys I think that you were depending on that were they haven’t necessarily picked up the slack here
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either. the only player that came out of the portal this year
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that has really helped this team the way I think that he Jay expected them to is Cooper Moore and then he gets hurt.
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Right.
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Right. He’s been he he was a consistent pitcher, but he wasn’t setting the world on fire, but he was he was dependable.
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Right. And they need him back and and you know, hopefully he comes back this weekend at least for a stint. But that’s
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it. I’ll tell you though, it it it it can happen quickly. I mean, at this time, two years ago, they were three and
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12 and they got to 13 and 17. I think the schedule’s tougher this time, but it’s much tougher this time around.
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But yeah, but you know, how is Mississippi State any good? South Carolina, they do have South Carolina,
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you know, um Florida and Georgia are are definitely good, but I’ve seen it happen so many times where it just kind of
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flips. Um well, you go back to the [sighs] what was it the 08 team they were 610 and one
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I think when they then they went on that run where they won 23 in a row.
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And you see and that’s that’s kind of the flip side of it. That’s why I was asking Ryan, do do you think this team still thinks they can turn it around?
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Because if they think they can still turn it around, I think they do have the talent to do it if they’re just not making all these I think. I mean, they’re young. They
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don’t see things the way the way older people like us do.
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How much of a is this a must-win series this weekend?
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I I I think it is a must-win series. I think it absolutely is a must-win series. In fact, I think it’s to the point where that if they lose this
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series and then have to go to Mississippi State, it that’s it. Yeah.
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You know, that that’s really where where it comes down to. Well, they could they could have Cooper Moore starting at Mississippi State, you know, that that
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could help things. Uh and and maybe William Schmidt or Kase Evans or both of them might just flip that switch and get hot the rest of the season.
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That’s what they need. That type stuff can can happen.
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Those two guys need to pitch like double aces. And maybe not to the level of uh Kate Anderson and Anthony Iansson
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because that was like unique, very unique, but it’s got to be better than what you’re getting out of those two right now. Let’s take a break.
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One more segment to go here from on hour number one of Tiger Rag Radio. Kent Low set to join us here soon. So is Mike Smith from LSU Gymnastics. So stay tuned
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for all that here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back on the air live from Super [music] Chevy Dealer Studios.
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio as we wrap up hour number one. Coming up in hour number two, Mike Smith, Kent Low will join us as we’ll talk some men’s basketball, some gymnastics, got to talk
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about what’s happening at the state capital as well regarding the revenue sharing bill and whether that should be
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shielded from the public. Um, so we as we wrap up baseball here, we were talking about how&m it’s it’s a critical
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series. If you fall to I guess would be seven and 11, right? Seven and 11. Say if you you end up losing two out of
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three, then it gets it it’s it’s crunch time at that point.
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Yeah. And then you have to go into Mississippi State into Starkville after that where they’ve lost, you know, two
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straight home series, been swept twice and that’s probably not going to happen again this year. Yeah. So, your back would be against the wall.
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We and and it would be over if you don’t win.
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Yeah. Well, uh the league has been crazy. Uh a lot of crazy games, a lot of um Still early.
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You still think it’s early? It’s still early.
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Well, what Skip, wouldn’t Skip say tomorrow the season really starts? April 15th. Um, I don’t remember him saying that.
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Well, I’m just saying April 15th is the time where you start. That’s when you you button it up. Nose to the grindstone.
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I’ve just seen too many teams back into the uh regional with a with a strong finish. And even if they’re 13 and 17 uh
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and then uh that’s that’s the cut off point though. If you can win 13, yeah, and do something in the SEC tournament, like just have a win,
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uh, you got a shot. They got they got six wins right now. You, let’s just say they sweep South Carolina. That’s nine.
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So, they only got to get four wins.
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That’s one win out of each of the other regionals. So,
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and this single elimination stuff at the SEC tournament doesn’t help him out either. I mean, they could be one and done. I hate that, by the way. Well, he
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he would um you know, he would probably throw his best pitcher. Yeah. In the first game, which he hadn’t done the last game.
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Well, I don’t know. That’d be tough because he’d be coming back from Thursday and then having to turn around and pitch him on Tuesday. I don’t know.
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But, uh maybe that’s why Zack Cowan is starting tonight because he might be starting on Tuesday in the SEC tournament.
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The the LSU LSU athletics is sitting at a fin a fascinating crossroads right now. You got the lawmakers trying to hide more of the money. You’ve got
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baseball trying to stop a slide. You got Will Wade trying to build a team like a man in a hurry and he’s got one guy and you got he’s
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[laughter] got one more player than the Tennessee women’s team had.
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And and you have and you have gymnastics already living at a standard everybody else is talking about. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
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Going back for their what? This is their fourth loop. Fourth straight. Fourth straight.
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I mean at the same time though, let’s not get too greedy. They did win two national championships in the last three years. If they don’t make the postseason this year, it’s not the end of the world.
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You’re right. All right, we’ll take a break. More coming up after the top of the hour. Y’all ready? Y’all ready? Let’s go. Come on. Tiger Rag Radio is on the air.
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along with the executive editor Todd Horn and the editor Glenn Gilbo. Andre Champine our producer tonight. Coming up
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a little bit later on, we’ll get you a preview of LSU Gymnastics as they will begin competition in the NCAA Championships on Thursday, the
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semi-final round. They’ll be competing Thursday afternoon in the first session in Fort Worth, Texas as gymnastics tries
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to win its second state championship in program history. LSU men’s basketball,
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well, it was the talk of the town a couple weeks ago when Will Wade was hired and um we let it settle down a
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little bit before we get uh our good friend Kent Low on the program here to talk about Will Wade part two.
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Kent, how you doing tonight? Uh, I I hope you’re getting ready to write some press releases here soon about some guys coming to LSU men’s basketball, but
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other than that, I’m sure you enjoyed the Masters and you’re you’re pretty excited about the future of men’s basketball.
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Well, it’s just been a couple of normal weeks to go. [laughter]
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How bizarre is this for you in that Will Wade is is back and then uh you look up from your desk and here comes Johnny Jones walking into your office.
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Well, I hate to tell you I’ve known Rick Stanbury [laughter]
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just about as long. So, I mean, you know, it’s uh it’s uh it’s been fascinating to say the least, but uh you
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know, it’s an exciting interesting time and uh now it all you know in the next month we’re going to see what kind of
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roster LSU has and uh we’ll go from there.
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Kent, what what is this is Todd by the way. What does this new staff,
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you know, you mentioned Johnny Jones and Stanbury and of course, uh, Damon Starttomire, Damon Starttomire along with Wade.
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What What does this new staff tell you about LSU’s urgency and ambition, uh, as it’s directed towards men’s basketball now?
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Well, you’ve got uh, one a guy in Damon Starter, the the newest one we coach that was officially announced on Monday.
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You’ve got a guy with a ton of NBA experience,
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uh, a ton of coaching experience, a two head coaching locations along with num numerous years as a assistance in the
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NBA and college. All these players, they really want to end up in the NBA. Even though now players seem to be staying
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longer before they go to the NBA, that’s their ultimate goal or pro basketball overseas. So starter certainly brings
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that uh you know designation to the staff. Johnny Jones has so many contacts
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in the AAOU world around Texas around Louisiana. I mean he’s well known around
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here obviously for his many years as an assistant and a player on the Final Four team. So, he has that LSU love, that LSU
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brand experience that I think helps. Rick Stansbury has been involved in a lot of places. I
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mean, he brought a lot of those players that got Mississippi State to the Final Four uh when he was under Richard
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Williams. Uh then ran the program very well there. He won a a conference title in Conference USA at Western Kentucky.
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Plus, he’s also been uh very involved overseas in uh involvement with some
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European teams and all and consulting and those type of things. So, I think there are a lot of avenues this coaching
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staff can go over the next month or so as they put this staff together and see where we end up.
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Hey, Kent, thanks again uh for joining us. Um, what’s what’s it like with Will Wade comparing his first few days on the
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job with you back in 2017 to his first few days this time? Is he is he like the same or is it I mean, I know it’s different because of the portal, but just how’s it been in comparison?
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Well, when he came in 2017, I didn’t know him, right?
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You know, I did not have a relationship with him. You know, I’ve and I don’t mean this in an egotistical way, but
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because I’ve been here so long, I’ve broken in a lot of coaches when they came [laughter] to LSU to coach the
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basketball team, you know, but this was just rolling back into the routine more
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than anything. Uh, you know, where we were texting each other and answering each other’s questions and things like
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that. I mean, it’s just, you know, more just the the routine returning and resuming. You’re right. It’s different
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now with the portal. Uh, you gota, you know, do a lot of leg work right now that he’s involved in and the staff’s
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involved with. So, I’m not as have been able to spend as much time with him probably as I did when he got here in
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17, but I can reach out to him and get any questions or anything I need or he needs answered very quickly.
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Hey, Ken, I know um in the past Michael has had releases written and ready to go on coaches that LSU was about to hire,
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but then they didn’t hire him and the release never was released. I’m wondering if you have some releases
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written on some Portal players ready [laughter] to go. You got you got three or four on deck or uh what can you tell us?
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No, I really don’t to be honest. I had thought about that to be honest with you. In fact, the funny thing is I’m
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leaving town tomorrow for like 10 or 12 days because I’m going to the two SEC golf championships. So, I figure probably about the the turn on Friday,
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we’ll probably be announcing someone and I’ll be scrambling to the clubhouse. I mean, we’ve seen the names that uh
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that sites have put out, sites that some people hate and some people like and or
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you know, whatever you want to call them. But we are keeping a list of those just in case we need to start researching something in the, you know,
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next few days. And I don’t know if it’s next few days, next couple of weeks. I mean, you know, I’ve read a couple of
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stories where, you know, it was, you know, into May before, you know, it like
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NC State he really got his roster into some, you know,
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that’s true, you know. So, you know, I’m not sure if we’re going to see something right away or if it’s going to be seven or eight days or two weeks. So, I mean,
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that’s that’s kind of where we’re all going to have to be patient here and wait and see how it plays out,
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right? Because the the the this portal window’s deadline is April 21st, correct? To enter,
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right, for them to enter, for them to enter,
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right? So, they can sign them for weeks after that.
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Yes. Yes. Most definitely. So, what I need to know, Kent, is is Jaylen Ree just absorbing all of this attention from all these four coaches now? I mean,
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is he just getting tons of technical and skill work on a daily basis? I’m I’m joking. But, um, what what I really want
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to know, and I know you had a a strong relationship with with Matt McMahon,
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what is your take on the overall program and any progress it may have made under Matt McMahon?
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Well, I I would like to have seen,
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and this is just a personal thing, I would like to have seen how the season would have played out with Reed and Thomas healthy.
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Definitely. You know, I can’t say to you, oh, hell,
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we’d have won seven more games, you know, in the league. I can’t say that. I don’t know. But, you know, we never really had that opportunity, you know,
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and when it comes down to it, it’s, you know, in this day and age that we’re in,
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it is winning that, you know, controls the the the the game, you know, for
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coaches. And uh unfortunately the circumstances went against uh coach McMahon as far as health you know and
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that’s that you know I just don’t know what that’s the thing I don’t know how much better we’ve been you know and I
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don’t know that you or Glenn or anybody could actually say we’d have won this many games but it would have been
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interesting to see how it would have played out. Do you think that at the end of the day, keeping in mind how the
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health situation went, at the end of the day, LSU just really needed a a bigger personality that Will Wade certainly brings to the table?
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I don’t know. I’ve heard a lot about that. That’s hard for me to say. I mean,
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I’ve seen a lot of different varieties of coaches here and in this league over the years, but I mean, certainly, uh,
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you know, again, it all is a lot of it’s based on winning, Todd. I mean, you
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know, it’s it’s, uh, this [snorts] this league is tough and you’ve got to be able to win. I think Matt McMahon’s a
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good coach and I think if he wants to, I think he’s going to have success somewhere either as an associate coach
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or again as a head coach. It just for whatever reason didn’t develop here.
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Yes, people are very excited. Everybody is excited that Will Wade is back here and you know, we’re the benefit of that
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for the future now. And certainly his personality is one that the fans gravitate to. You’ve seen the ticket request,
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couple of emails about that. And you know, again, we’ll just have to see how it all plays out.
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Kent, uh, with you out of town coming up, who’s who’s going to replace you? Is it Will is Will Wade just going to take over as SID because he says he’s the GM as well,
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or is Mason putting in overtime? I I have written lots of releases on uh golf courses and [laughter] clubouses
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and bowling alleys for several years and bowling alleys.
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Yes, I have written lots of uh releases of bowling [laughter] alleys.
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All right. That’s versatile, man. That’s awesome. Well, they have club houses, you know.
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Well, Kent, we’re looking forward to that first one. It’s uh you know, the portal opened last week and uh I know they’re uh they’re being diligent. So,
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uh, can’t wait to see how this roster comes together. We appreciate your time. Uh, where are the two golf tournaments, by the way? Uh, well, I’m heading first to, uh,
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outside Tampa to, uh, uh, the women’s SEC tournament and then the men that
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starts on Friday and then the a week from tomorrow, the men’s tournament starts at uh, St. Simon’s Island in
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Georgia. It’s a difficult It’s a difficult assignment, [laughter] but someone has to do it. So So thanks Ken.
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Well, tell us uh do the women or men have a chance to win it? Men do definitely.
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The men definitely do. They’re seventh in the country. Uh they are like the fourth or fifth ranked SEC team. The
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women have battled a few health issues as well and uh trying to get a lineup set, but I think they’ve got a chance.
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They’ve got a very good chance to keep up their streak of making the uh top eight and getting into match play. So, I
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think they’ve got a shot to do that and and once you get into match play, anything can happen.
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All right. Got got to lay off those workouts there for the women’s golf team then to stay away from the injuries.
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[laughter]
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All right, Kent, man, we’ll let you go.
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Have fun in Florida and Georgia. We appreciate it. All right, thanks guys.
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All right, Kent Low, the longtime SID for men’s basketball. Good stuff from Dr. Kent Low. You should have said boot up. [laughter]
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Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. I guess so.
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Yeah, Wade’s going to drop five on Kent while he’s [laughter] watching the 18th green with an Arnold Palmer in his hand.
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[laughter]
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I love that, man.
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with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Glenn Gilbo, and the editor is or no, executive editor is Todd Horn.
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The editor is Gwen Gilbo, Andre Shampines, our producer. And I’m Jeff Polmo, news and sports director of Louisiana Radio Network. Uh, as many of
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you know, uh, Tiger Rag is involved in a in a lawsuit against LSU over whether the revenue sharing agreements between the student athletes and the university,
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which is uh, public money. And if you don’t believe it’s public money, then we’ll never see, we can never really move further on this conversation, but
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it’s public money. and um whether those should be shielded from public view or whether they should be uh made
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available. And uh the Louisiana legislature is also trying to address this issue. The House Governmental Affairs Committee approved legislation
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today that would prohibit the public from seeing how much student athletes receive from a public university is part that they get in a revenue sharing deal.
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Uh here is some of the comments that were made during today’s meeting. This is New Orleans Representative Candace Newwell who voted for the bill. She says
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she has the nephew on the LSU football team and that’s why she supports the legislation.
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No one needs to know how much money he makes cuz although he’s a great athlete,
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very smart young man and he’s made money, he’s not that mature.
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Um, attorney Scott Sternberg, who is representing Tiger Rag in this uh,
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lawsuit against LSU, and he’s also representing the two other media members involved in it. He says these are public
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dollars going to student athletes, and the public has a right to know how that money is spent.
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If you have a football coach who has a son on the team, like our previous coach at LSU, knowing how much that son makes
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might be interesting. Of course, Scott there alluding to Kenzel Kelly and we don’t know. Kenzel Kelly could have been
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breaking in six figures. We we have no ideas. I And so, but that was the point that he was making. Uh back to uh
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someone who’s in support of the legislation, Alexandria Representative Ed Larvadane talking about and this was uh during the committee meeting. This
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seems to be and there was another committee meeting on this as well, House Education. This seems to be the major overriding theme of why lawmakers are
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looking to uh shield the public or the uh revenue sharing agreements between the universities and the student
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athletes. It’s over safety. Here’s Alexandria Representative Ed Larvaday.
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When kids are concerned with what you make and what I make, we’re going to have problems. I don’t want them to be harassed in class. I don’t want them followed. I don’t want them stalked. And
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then uh par president Stephven Proopio uh because a lot of people make the argument hey this is TV money this is
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ticket sales money this is that but Proopio does bring up the point all athletic all public athletic departments
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in the state now are receiving tax dollars from a bill passed last year that was signed by Governor Jeff Landry
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that that gives each athletic department it’s about a million dollars uh tax revenue from online gambling. So that
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means it is public money and Steven Proopio says, “Hey, the taxpayer has the right to know how the school spends it.”
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So let’s be really clear. It is tax dollars going to these purposes. And I can’t see any reason why if tax dollars touches part of this that the public does not get the ability to know.
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Todd, you watched the meeting and then you wrote a column about it at tiger.com that already has a ton of views. Just your thoughts on what you heard today.
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I’ve never seen so much confusion uh PR trying to make things into what they
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weren’t. This is very simple. You said something a minute ago uh when you started that we’re talking about the use of public money for revenue sharing only. Okay.
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There’s no question in in anybody’s mind who understands that if a dollar passes through LSU, whether it comes from ticket sales, donations,
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uh seat sales, TV revenue, wherever it comes from, it is public money. That is money that is run, collected by,
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allocated by, and spent by LSU. Now the legislature is trying to turn this into a privacy issue.
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There are privacy mechanisms already in place where they can protect the names
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of the athletes so that you cannot see what some player Sam Levit Jordan Sean
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whoever else um miss Newell’s nephew what they’re making they can redact it or what have you it so they’re talking
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about a privacy issue it’s not a privacy issue this is a secrecy issue. They’re trying to keep secret all of the money
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that LSU is using for revenue share, not just to the athletes specifically, but also to the
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sport. You know, Verge Osbury in the last couple of weeks has been talking about how Jay Johnson needs to get more money next year for his revenue share so
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LSU can be more competitive with the baseball teams and he’s committed to doing that. they pass this law, which it looks very much like they are going to
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pass it, you will only be able to see the the pi, the total number of revenue share. You will not be able to see how
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it’s divided up into the sports. And that’s because that’s the way LSU wants that to be right now.
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And they’re using the privacy argument to to veil that. That’s right. And there the and again,
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let me repeat what I said earlier. If they want to protect the privacy of an individual athlete, they can certainly
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do that. There’s a mechanisms already within the current laws to do that. But they’re introducing a new law to shield
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that. And it’s dangerous because LSU is a public university and those are public funds. And there is no question about
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that. You can argue it semantically all you want to, but the bottom line is those are public dollars. Period.
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doesn’t mean they’re taxpayer dollars. It means they’re public dollars.
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We got only about 20 seconds here. A lot that I could say. Maybe we could pick it up after we uh talk to Mike Smith and probably that’s probably the best thing to do. Maybe we’ll get we’ll get back to
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this. But there’s a lot more uh to dive into onto this. Uh so let’s take this break. When we come back, uh we’ll get into uh what’s happening on the I guess
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you could say the floor, the balance beam, [laughter]
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[gasps] the vaults. We’ll do that when we come back here with Mike Smith from LSU Gymnastics.
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All right. Uh we’re going to get Mike Smith on here just to to wrap up on the revenue share. Here’s my take as again
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someone that’s covered the state legislature here for a couple dozen years.
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What I I’ll start off by saying this. I don’t think this is this is what makes this so tough, Todd, because I don’t
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think LSU and again this I know the the lawsuit and this legislation is kind of more directed towards LSU and or or any
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university in Louisiana should have to do something that no other university is doing. So really what needs to happen and we’ve talked about this before is there needs to be some sort of legislation in Congress.
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But the bottom line is is that you have a public institution that in this moment
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is trying to act like a private corporation.
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And so if you let them slide on this issue, there is going to be others that come out and say, “Well, now we should
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be able to protect this kind of information that are public entities.”
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One of the arguments that has been made a lot of is, hey, just who cares? Just just let them do what they they they
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need to do. We’re also talking about the same university that overpaid its coach by $1 million multiple times.
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So there there needs to be a watchdog on it. Again, I I I don’t I don’t think we
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I I don’t again, I don’t think LSU should have to do what they what something [snorts] that Auburn and Alabama and all these other schools have
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to do. But it’s obvious they recognize that what they are doing is against the law, or else they wouldn’t try to change
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the law. So, they know they’re doing something that’s not right. And so,
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that’s why they’re in support of this legislation. And to hear lawmakers, and I hear them,
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hey, we need to know where this dollar is going and we know need to know where this dollar is going. And then we hear a lawmaker today say, “Well, you don’t
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need to know where this dollar is going because it involves my nephew.” Come on. Come on.
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Yeah. And and the the the argument that uh was it Candace Newell made, I mean,
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it was a strong argument from an emotional standpoint, but it blurred the issue.
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Yeah. Because again, if they’re just seeking privacy for the athletes, there already are mechanisms in place to keep
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the names and the specific payment information to those athletes out. I want to make just one more point and
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then we’ll get to Mike Smith. Um the other and I mentioned in the last segment, a lot of the discussion here is around safety. Hey, don’t want to have
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these players harassed if people know how much money they’re making.
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But then then why are people in Louisiana allowed to to bet on LSU football? Because if a kid drops a
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touchdown pass that would have given them a that would have gi that would have allowed them to win the, you know, to to beat the spread or whatever it may be or
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if you’re betting the money line or whatever. Don’t you think that kid’s going to get harassed? So why don’t we just It’s just It’s just the double
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standard on this whole entire thing that just drives me up the wall.
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Well, I think that at the end of the day when it comes back to this issue, the biggest issue is that there’s a sincere lack of understanding apparently on
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lawmakers behalf as well as the general public as to what a public dollar is. Yeah.
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And I think that’s that’s one of the most confounding disruptive issues about the whole thing. It’s a It’s a public dollar when it when it’s not a public dollar, right? Because for one lawmaker,
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it’s not a public dollar because her kids getting it. I don’t know. Yeah.
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I don’t know. All right. Let’s uh that that’s uh that was our two cents on it.
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We’ll see what happens with it, but uh looks like uh it’s heading to the House floor and we’ll uh keep you updated on the discussion as it continues to go on.
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All right, let’s bring in Mike Smith,
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the voice of LSU Gymnastics, public address announcer for LSU Gymnastics. is very he’s also accustomed to what’s
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happening at the state capital. He understands it’s a [laughter] it’s a bit of a [gasps] a lot of two-sided talk at the state capital, isn’t there, Mike? Um
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but but anyways, uh how about this LSU gymnastics squad? Uh your thoughts on their chances to uh to get it done this weekend in in Fris?
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You know, you can’t bet on collegiate gymnastics, but [laughter]
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if if I could, I would say I’d be I’d be betting good money uh on the LSU Tigers to do very very well in Fort Worth. I
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think uh you know they are hitting a stride right now through the regional uh that was just incredibly impressive and
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uh when you size it up against you know the rest of the competition um you know I think they’ve got to be considered one of the one of the top favorites to to bring home the gold.
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Well Mike they’ve been close with Oklahoma all year. you know, met him twice and and sort of had a disadvantage
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health-wise one time and then I think they even had some injuries the second time, but but they’ve really been close
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and if you score, you know, keep track of their scores all season, they’ve been really close. So, what why do you think
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LSU may have an advantage this time if they were to face up against Oklahoma again or get them in the field again?
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It’s a great question and I I would say this and that is that if you look at the body of work of where LSU has been you know through its regional um and this is
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not to diminish Oklahoma in any way but you know myself and other u you know watchers of the sport u have noticed
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that that Oklahoma has been you know a little down maybe they peaked a little early uh you know certainly you know their performance in the regional was
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was was good uh but it wasn’t great I’ll tell tell you who was great and that’s Florida. Uh Florida, I think, is really
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got is the team along with LSU that that are really the two to to watch and they’re paired up together, you know, on Thursday. So, you’re going to get a
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really great look in the semi-final uh at exactly what I’m talking about. So, uh you know, and then I think, you know,
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we’ll see if if Stanford can push LSU again like they tried to do in the regional and the PAMAC. Uh but but
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really this part of the season, guys, is all about those matchups. It’s about who you have. You just have to finish in the top two on Thursday, advance to the
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winner take all final on Saturday, and and uh and that’s where I think that both Florida and LSU have an advantage.
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Mike Andre here, how how critical is it for this team to have Conor Mlan for for not only Thursday, but on Saturday? And
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in your eyes, does does she have to go in order for this team to be at their best?
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Uh, I I think they can certainly do it without her. There’s plenty of talent to to go around, but that road is so much easier when you have her in that group
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of what I’ve become to call the special case. Uh, you know, you certainly special K group led by Kalin Chio, uh,
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Kalia Lincoln, and Connor Mlan. You know, those three Ks are uh are are good to strike out most teams that are that are, you know, in in this tournament.
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And uh I’ll tell you what, uh they are uh three special athletes uh that are that we’re going to look back, I think,
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when this run is complete and say that they were they were three of the biggest difference makers in the history of of that sport at LSU. But
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what is the situation with Conor Mlan right now specifically?
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Well, you know, if you hear Jay talk about it and and what some of his comments that he’s made, um I I think he
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he steered everybody’s attention toward that elbow. Uh you know, I think that she um uh she just tweaked that elbow a
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little bit uh during that bars routine in the regional. It caused her a pain in the hand that she fell. But from
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everything that I understand, uh that was actually um and this is a poor analogy, so forgive me, but it’s the best I’ve got. And that is, you know,
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when old guys like us bang our elbow on something, you know, and you get that tingling sensation all the way up your arm and into your hand. It’s akin to
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that, but magnified. And uh so, you know, but of course that that nerve’s got to settle down and and it sounds like all indications are that it’s
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headed in a good direction. I think a good one and you and you mentioned this a minute ago about the challenge uh at
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the SEC championship uh you know with uh with with LSU’s health and it was Kalia Lincoln waking
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up in the you know in the morning with a with a with an elbow uh that was similar to what Conor Mlan faced.
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Mike just normally you have to hit your ceiling as a team to have any sort of shot at winning a national championship.
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So I guess just how important is it that these leadoffs like Lexi Z, Kylie Cohen,
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Nina Baloo, Emily Inis just hit their strides this weekend to take the pressure off of those others from getting like like Chio getting that 10
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and kind of having to rely on that every single routine.
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When you guys ask me a question about Oklahoma, I think this is the big difference now between when LSU met them before and and today, and that is the maturation of those that you just named,
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those lead off the one two spots in the lineup. LSU is stronger today in those one two spots than they were six and
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eight weeks ago. And uh and and I think that is going to be a big difference maker come Thursday. Uh, I think that’s
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going to be uh it be something to watch because you know when those athletes are on they are incredibly special and and
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other teams including Florida have a really difficult time matching up in that one two three uh of the lineup.
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Everybody’s great four, five and six and uh you know there are numerous teams that are great. Even UCLA is in that
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mix. But it’s that in that in this championship part of the season, it’s one, two, and three that set that table
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uh that that put that ceiling for the scorers for four, five, and six.
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Hey, Mike, thanks for joining us. This is Glenn. I I wanted to ask you,
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changing the subject a little bit, we had Dee on the show a couple weeks ago.
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What What What did you think of the documentary on her by by the SEC Network?
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Well, Glenn, in in in all transparency, um I haven’t watched it. And [laughter]
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uh I thought for sure you would have watched it. I’m sorry. You should watch it, dude. It’s good.
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[laughter]
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I I I haven’t I haven’t watched it. And uh um you know, that’s a that’s a that’s an emotional subject for me. Uh I worked
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with Bey Bro longer than anyone. And uh um and and certainly there are a lot of stories to tell. Uh but uh but you know
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I I’m um uh I I certainly wish her all the best. Uh she continues to be supportive of of the program. Uh but you
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know I tell you what uh what Jay Clark has done for for this program in the last few years has taken it into the stratosphere and uh and I think that that is also to be celebrated.
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All right, Mike. Well uh we’ll see. Who do you see uh in the final four?
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Well, I think uh I think you’ve got Florida LSU coming out of of one semi-final. Uh and and then on the other side, uh I’m thinking it’s going to be
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Oklahoma and UCLA most likely. Uh you know, if UCLA has has enough gas left,
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uh I I see them making it to to Saturday, that’s going to make for some great television. And uh it it really is on on Saturday afternoon. Um, you know,
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I think the Tigers have got a better than even shot of of of finishing on top. Uh, Florida’s going to be right there. They are incredible and uh and
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and they’re peing at just the right time uh as well. So, I think the horse race really comes down between those two teams.
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All right, Mike, it should be fun. We appreciate you heading up to Frisco.
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No, I’m not going to be able to make it up this year. So, I’m gonna do like you guys. I’ll I’ll I’ll watch it on television. I’ll absorb it and uh we’ll we’ll go from there.
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Sounds good, man. Thanks a lot. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Mike Smith, the voice of LSU Gymnastics.
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back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Just a couple more segments left. Haven’t gotten to uh FA J. Johnson’s big night.
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Uh getting drafted eighth overall by Golden State. And then shortly after that, I don’t know what was it about 40 minutes later, Andre?
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Yeah, about 40 minutes on the dot.
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Her draft rights were um traded to Seattle.
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So, uh in the stupidest trade of all time,
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did she get to keep the hat? did like did they [laughter] give her a Golden State hat or her family like quickly put on the the Seattle Storm hats. Uh
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I’ve seen that before, but usually not in the first round.
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Well, the thing is it’s not uncommon in the NBA for that to happen, but it is uncommon for it to happen before the
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draft after the draft picks. So, usually they’ll talk beforehand, which they did.
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They did talk beforehand, but the weird thing is that they didn’t announce the trade beforehand, which was just a little odd. So usually, let’s say if a
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team like Seattle, they they’ll talk before. So like they they would have said, “Hey, can you pick this person at this?” They would arrange it.
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They would have arranged it, right? And so it was announced way later than initially [clears throat] supposed to be.
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The two things about it were that you traded a lottery pick number one draft choice in Fl Johnson, right,
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for two number TWS. No, not even for two number TWs.
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Yeah. number two for this year and a number two for next year, right?
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It was just one number two pick and the rights to the Seattle Storms uh Marta Suarez who was drafted second in the second round, right?
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Yes. Yes. Correct. Correct. So, two number two. Yeah. 2028 second round pick. Yeah. Okay. So, so that’s that’s goofy.
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But now the good news, Dana Pokey Chapman is the assistant coach for Seattle. How about that?
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Ain’t that something? Well, she was just at the Chicago Sky and was Angel’s uh assistant, wasn’t she?
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Well, she was the former head coach there, but I don’t think she was with I don’t know. I I’m not keeping track. I’m not I’m not going to say there.
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[laughter]
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Anyway, so now FJ will have played for Kim Moy and Dana Pokey Chapman. Yep. All right. And that’s something.
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Well, see,
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well, is the is the Seattle team that that Floj is now on, is that is she going to a better team than Golden State? They were both 23 and 21 last year,
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but more of an opportunity at Seattle.
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Way more of an opportunity. FJ is going to play right away. Um,
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she didn’t play right away at Golden State.
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Um, she would have fought for some playing time there for sure. She would have played, but she’ll play, she might start right away at Seattle because they
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just traded one of their best guards to Chicago. Seattle wanted her. They said because she’s the type of driving
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scoring guard that they need in their offense right now. And not only that, all the changes. Fel Johnson is going to sell tickets.
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Like she’s just she’s she’s going to be one of the faces of the franchise for them. So I listen to her rap the the raps uh
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album she just released or whatever they call them now. Uh last night I think they still call them rap albums.
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Yeah. So [laughter] I listened to it last night, man. I listened to every track, man. It was pretty good. Yeah.
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What what was what [laughter] was your favorite line?
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Speaking of music, man, [snorts] um uh Lane Keifin finally quit playing freaking Belinda Carile [laughter]
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at practice. Joay and I made such a ruckus over Was that song? Heaven. We we don’t want to talk about it.
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[laughter] I agree. But today, today the music was a little better. They had a little AC/DC in there. So, it was cool. Back in Black or what?
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Um I forget which one it was. It wasn’t that one, but it was a famous one.
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Knocking me out with those American thought. No, [laughter] it wasn’t that one.
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They have been pretty atrocious. I will say that. All right, let’s take our final break.
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Uh, and we’ll wrap up the show. We’ll give uh some more music critique when we come back here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealers studio.
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Back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. So, a big week coming up of LSU athletics spring football. Still got about uh what about
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five more practices? Is that about right? That sounds about right.
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Thursday, Saturday, and then three more next week. Uh, obviously LSU baseball a huge series. Uh, LSU softball won
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tonight. They destroyed the Cinjun 8 to nothing. Tough times for the UL Lafayette softball program right now.
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But, uh, LSU softball playing better.
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Those were big wins over Arizona. They won. Yeah, they should have won all three.
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They’re playing better than the baseball team. They had a chance. LSU is tied one to one in the fifth right now at Northwestern State.
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Thank goodness they started Zack C. Well, Colin only went what, two innings? Two innings.
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Two innings. Grant Fonto win the next two. And now Reagan Ricken is out there. It’s been a tough year,
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man. Man, tight tight game there in the midweek.
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It looks like it’s going to go down the wire tonight. They [laughter] can’t hit the ball. So, can’t hit Northwestern State pitching here.
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But a big series coming up against Texas A&M. Uh it’ll be interesting to hear,
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you know, if they get down uh a little bit. Do we hear some booze and all that kind of stuff? Uh not in Alex Fox, huh? No. No.
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No, I don’t think so. What do you think?
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Paul Maneri. Paul Maner’s going to be [laughter] in the crevices. If they if they fall behind like early,
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if they’re wild with wild pitches and airs.
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Yeah, I could see some booze. I could I could hear some booze.
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I don’t see them playing as bad as they’ve been playing at home. I just don’t see that happening. Espec I know Texas A&M’s a great team. I just don’t see them playing bad this weekend.
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Yeah, I think they’re all going to be competitive games. I don’t think they’re going to get run ruled like they got run ruled last weekend. So, they’ll be in it. I think there’ll be a lot of drama.
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Uh I I mean, this is a team that’s that’s fighting it right now. And they they got to they got to reach deep down
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inside to to figure out a way to to at least win this series.
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It’s almost similar to what Texas A&M did to LSU last year. Yeah,
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that’s a good point. And then went into that that series against LSU with their backs against the wall and they made it happen.
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Yeah, it helped that they played a double header. I think that Yeah, I mean that completely [laughter]
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that they they were definitely the beneficiaries of that.
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And so yeah, you’re right. A&M was in a a very difficult but it didn’t work out for&m because they got swept by Missouri at the end. Is that right?
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Yeah. Literally that next weekend.
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Yeah. The last weekend of the season they got swept. That’s crazy. Um All right. But it’s baseball. Anything could uh potentially happen. So as Yogi Bear said, you never know. Yeah,
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you never know. You never know. All right. Well, that’s going to do it for another great show. We got to thank all our guests, Ryan Tero, Kent Low, Mike
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Smith. If you missed the show, um, and you’re just hearing us now, you can always catch us anywhere you get your podcast. It’s also uploaded to YouTube.
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You can look for it there. Look back at some previous shows as well. So, uh, and again, tiger.com,
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tiger.com. Keep a keep an eye on that for the latest, especially when it comes to men’s basketball transfer portal. Um,
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and because uh Gwen Gilbo will be all over it. He’s been waiting anxiously. As soon as we get one, as [laughter] soon as they get one.
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Um, he’s been waiting patiently to write something and he’s not making any comments about the fact that they haven’t gotten anyone just yet. So, that
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does it for us for I’m going to soon [laughter] don’t stir up the LSU fan base. Glenn, get him going. That’ll get him going.
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Going to [laughter] have to get Glenn Secret Service.
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Yeah, that’s what happens when you hate LSU. Witness witness protection.
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I hate the Cubs. I don’t hate LSU. I hate the Cubs.
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In Will Wade’s defense. In Will Wade’s defense. Very few teams have any.
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All right. Well, that that does it for the show. Have a great night, everyone.
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