In hour one, the crew speaks with former LSU star pitcher Anthony Ranaudo to discuss LSU baseball’s latest struggles. In hour two, Tiger Rag Radio goes down memory lane with the legendary Warren Morris to talk about the Tigers 1996 national championship team, which will be honored at Alex Box Stadium on Saturday. The last guest of the night is Senior Bowl Executive Director Drew Fabianich, who recaps the NFL Draft, highlighted by Barion Brown and Garrett Nussmeier.
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And good evening everyone. Welcome to another edition of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Jeff Polalmo, news and sports director of the
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Louisiana Radio Network along with the executive editor Todd Horn, the editor Gwen Gilbo, and Andre Champine, our producer tonight. as uh we’ll give you
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what’s the latest in LSU sports. Another disappointing baseball series for the Tigers as they get swept again. First time in program
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history now that they’ve lost nine in a row. Uh we’ll get into that. We’ll talk about Garrett Nusmeer’s fall in the NFL
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draft and some of the other guys that were selected. was a very interesting three days when it comes to LSU players
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and uh spring football which is actually where we’ll start our conversation tonight as Lane Keifin spoke with the
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media today to recap spring ball and first of all guys uh spring football is over with unfortunately they ended up
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having a couple of um season ending injuries but I would say other than that it it seems
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like mission accomplished as far as feeling a little bit better about where the offense is at after really you’re
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starting from scratch with basically a whole new team. I know you got Tradez Green out there and a couple of running backs from a year ago and your starting center comes back, but you don’t have
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your starting quarterback really going full throttle yet. So, they had to take some baby steps, but it sounds like uh
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they were doing much better once spring football finally wrapped up this past weekend. They were wearing shorts the whole [laughter] time.
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So, nothing to read here for the last month. It it means absolutely nothing. I’ve been telling you that for decades.
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[laughter]
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I I I I think that, you know,
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realistically they they were able to put together the offense and and make, you know, some advancements in terms of the system and things like that and get a
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look at some of the players and avoid injuries for the most part except for Aiden Anding and Gab Gabriel Rford.
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referred u which are two actual injuries that are going to hurt that hurt their depth significantly at edge and at cornerback
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and and he talked as Glenn I’m sure we’ll talk about a little bit about the especially cornerback today.
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Um but but I think they feel good that they made progress. I don’t think if you could sit down and put Kevin under a
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heat lamp that he would tell you that he’s excited right now.
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Yeah. But I think that he feels comfortable that they made progress.
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I thought he seemed pretty comfortable or pleased, maybe not excited with the offense today. Said they’ve been good
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the last couple of Saturdays and you know that was pretty big news. I think that Sam Levit came back because because
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Lane didn’t think he was going to come back after they took the screws out of the foot and he he just went through seven on seven drills, eight plays on
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Saturday. Technically not a part of the of the scrimmage, but he threw a touchdown on the first play and it seemed like he may have thrown a
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[snorts] second touchdown close, but you couldn’t tell if Lane was talking about the same play or not. But he seemed pretty happy that that happened. So that
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was that was good. Uh, and he raved about uh Sam today for just hanging around at practice when he was hurt and talked about his uh work ethic,
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which he echoed what his high school coach told us, John Eagle, if you remember. Yeah.
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Uh, so that that’s good news. Uh, so I I think he’s going to be fine uh in in August. and the receivers look great
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during um spring practice, you know, and there’s there’s no tackling, but a one-handed catch is a one-handed catch.
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Um and uh and and I think the best thing is everything’s new about the team, but the defense is the same. That that’s
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that’s very important. The defensive coordinator is the same, and it’s his third year. He made steady improvement his first two years and uh I think he’s
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going to be have have a you know maybe one of the top five or six defenses in the SEC this year I would think.
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Let’s hear a little bit from Lane Keifin. Let’s go back to some of the things you were just talking about Glenn. Uh this is Lane talking about how
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Levit was limited at practice but was certainly trending in the right direction when spring football wrapped up on Saturday.
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He’s doing a great job. I just met with him this morning on some things and um he he’s a really competitive want to be great, want the team to be great. He’s
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in a really good place that way and um just still working through his foot and and getting out there and being able to play with the guys more.
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Here’s Keifin talking about Levit’s great work ethic.
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Very few of them really like love love the game, like the work that’s within it. And Sam is that we talked about that like he loves to work. He loves to go
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home at night and spend more time on football and things he can develop, not just physically, but mentally also.
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So, a little bit there from Lane Keifin on that. Let’s uh play another one here,
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Andre, about how the offense showed improvement over the last couple weeks of spring.
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Made a number of plays, the system was kind of working as far as tempo and spreading the ball around. you know, we
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we held after the first series a few defensive players, so that obviously helps in that situation, but I was very pleased with that.
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So, yeah, there’s a little bit of uh Lane uh talking today, and who knows,
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this might be the last time we hear from him really. Um it might not be till July till we hear from him again.
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Exactly. He he hasn’t done really any uh we’ve we’ve tried to get him obviously.
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I haven’t heard him on on uh any of the radio stations in in town either or or in New Orleans. You know, he’s just done a few press conferences and he’s done
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some he spoke at the coaches clinic uh and he’s had some other speaking engagements at business
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um events around town. But yeah, he hasn’t uh hasn’t really been hadn’t done any national radio shows either, you know. I in fact, I don’t think he’s done
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I don’t think he’s done one national radio show since he got the job. He did that thing at the bowl game,
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you know, which I guess was on a national network. But yeah, he hasn’t he’s kind of kept a low profile.
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I’m sure we’ll hear from him and, you know, when they head to Destin, he’ll start showing fine Bob.
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Yeah, he’ll he’ll be speaking at Fine Bombs in Destin, too. So, yeah, he’ll he’ll do some stuff there. And I’m sure they’ll have him set up. They they maybe
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a handful of coaches in Destin, they have a special press conference with just them, whereas the other ones are on the side. So, I’m sure he’ll be one of those. And of course there we’re talking
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about the SEC spring meetings that happen in Dustin, Florida. So um spring is in the books and they have who they
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have. There is no spring transfer portal. I mean yeah he talked about that today too. He he was he would wishes he still had one
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especially because he’s a first year coach plus he lost two guys. But you know I think overall it’s probably best that they don’t have one. [laughter]
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What what what I tell I’m I’m actually going to publish a column about this later on tonight or tomorrow morning,
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but it sounded like to me he was talking about an NFL team the whole time. Yeah. All spring even but especially today.
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You he started talking about the cost benefit of the salaries of some of the players uh in proportion to the their
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odds of them getting injured in in practice.
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uh as to why it would be, you know, a good idea to end spring now instead of extending it another week.
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He just really is to me the right type of coach for college football, a college football team right now given the environment,
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the total environment. Yeah.
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That you know, roster building, player management, personnel. He’s getting ready for his move to the NFL is I think I think this is I think he’s pioneering the NFL.
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What do you make out of college?
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The NFL draft where just two of the players from this Old Miss team were drafted. He had a whole bunch more
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drafted a year before but just two. What does that say about that team? Him as a coach.
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Does he have a lot of players? Are there a lot of players coming back that weren’t in the draft that weren’t you know I would say they have a lot of returners. Yeah, but yeah, and then there’s a couple that are on LSU’s team,
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too,
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right? No Sage Ron, guys. No Sage Ron draft, [laughter] right? That’s a shocker. So, no loss there, huh? That was a shocker that Sage didn’t get.
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I didn’t even think about it. He did get a combine invite. [laughter] Mini camp invite, not combine.
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Well, well, and so we’ll see. We’ll see how it all shakes out. I guess we can uh I I know we’re going to have uh a little
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bit later on in the show, we’re going to talk a little bit more about the uh the fall of Garrett Nusmire. Uh we’ll have the Senior Bowl director on a little
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bit, but what was your take guys as you were watching that as he was falling and falling and you know, we had Mike
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Datilier on last week, but he he echoed I think what a lot of draft analysts expected Garrett Nusper being the third quarterback taken.
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You know, I said Garrett Nusmire is too statuesque and can’t run. And I still believe that was the primary reason why
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most most teams passed on him when they did. More so than the injury issues. I think more so than the injury issues.
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Yeah, I would I would I would agree.
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What What in the end? What was he the ninth quarterback? No, ninth quarterback.
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Ninth quarterback. No, 10th quarterback before. All right. Okay. 10th total. Yeah, that’s amazing because, you know,
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Mike Tatilier said second round or third round and even the conservative guesses uh were fourth or fifth, you know. Yeah.
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And uh to go all the way to the seventh, man, that’s that’s kind of amazing.
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So, I think it was his I think it was his lack of ability to run, but I also saw an article today uh a podcast on on
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the Athletic. I can’t remember who it was, but they were saying that he had talked to a he was saying he had talked to a lot of the NFL teams and that they said he did not interview well,
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which was a shock to to him because of his NFL pedigree, his dad being a coach.
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And they said he was not good in the interviews,
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you know, and that’s what brought down the quarterback from Colorado last year was I maybe not the same Shader Shador Sanders,
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right? Maybe not the same type of bad interview because he was very cocky as what they said. Like I don’t but who knows? I mean that that’s kind of
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surprising to hear. I mean and and you know I don’t know. Um gosh I I I just don’t know how I mean how did Dan Marino
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interview you know I mean some of these great quarterbacks did they interview well?
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I also wonder Don Schula thought he interviewed pretty well.
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I you know we had he fell in the draft though. Marina when we were going through the through the rough of the part of the
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season and you know Mike Scarboro came out and talked about he didn’t work hard enough in the off season and we had Mike on the show to explain that report. I
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wonder how much that got into it as well. I I think it’s just a combination of things. I think it’s the medicals. I think um it’s what you saw this past
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season. I I agree. I think it’s he’s a guy that’s not your what you what you see out of NFL
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quarterbacks now that could that can move a little bit that can and he there were times that he did look to run but
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he was never it was never explosive or anything like that and I’m not saying he’s got to be Jaden Daniels but
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I heard that he had the one of the lowest ratings ever for improvisation when a play breaks down. Uh
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what about the Old Miss game in 24? I mean, that’s the one that’s all he did in that game.
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That was the one game grade from the the scouts. I’m not talking about But that was really the when you go back into the Nusmeer era, that was really
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the one game where he was throwing on the run.
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He and he was taking off and he was he was putting his head down and he was trying to get the extra yards and stuff like that. I mean, that was really the one game that he did that,
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right? But it was it was just one game,
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you know. You know, all that said though, I still think he’s better than several of those guys that went before him, particularly the uh the Penn State
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quarterback. In fact, they even said that when he got picked, right?
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One of the analys an analysts said, “Oh, I ought to have taken Nusmeer instead of him.” And that was in the third round. Wow. You know.
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Yeah. and the we and again we didn’t really see it in 2024 because Chris Hilton was hurt but the the lack of
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pushing the ball down the field too I would think um there there’s got to be concerns on how well he can throw the deep ball you just
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never really last year you didn’t see it at all because he was not physically able to do it and then in 2024 it was very it was a lot of just crossing
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patterns a lot of dinks and dunks and so forth it wasn’t necessarily he was really pushing the ball downfield. So, I think it all adds up, but it was still
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shocking to see in the seventh round regardless. So,
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and if he if he interviewed poorly that the one thing I noticed about all his interviews with the media, and they may be different with his interviews with the
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NFL people, he always seemed kind of defensive. Yeah. You know, uh and maybe that came out too, but who knows?
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it is. And he’s It’s not like he’s someone that provides a lot of detail either. It’s just very basic blah answers to the media. Very
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robotic. And if he was like that to the NFL teams when they’re trying to dig and get a get to know him a little bit, it especially when you get only 20 minutes
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or 10 15 minutes to talk to someone, it leaves a bad impression. Let’s take our first break. We’ll come back. We’ll get into some more stuff as well. Hey,
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LSU baseball taking on Southeastern Louisiana. They’ll try tonight. They’ll try on Friday to snap a nineame SEC
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losing streak. We were talking about the fall of Garen Nusmeer. How about the fall of this LSU baseball program
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number one or two depending on what poll you look at and now sitting in 15th place in the SEC. They are below South
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Carolina who of course they’re hosting this weekend. It’s just it’s been remarkable.
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If the season goes from this point the rest of the way chalk, they will have a losing record.
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What I mean by that, if they lose the game overall, Yeah. they will have a losing record.
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I believe their first losing record since 81.
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Right. Right. Yeah. They were I think they were 23 and 30 that year under Jack Lame. Right. Um Yeah, they’re only three games above 500 right now. Uh so yeah,
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it’s that’s that’s going to be close,
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man. It it is it is amazing. Uh and just six SEC wins. Uh and uh you know, I
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don’t think they’re going to get to double digits probably. No,
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you know, the most they could get would probably be nine. Yeah.
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And uh they’ll probably win one or two this weekend. I would [laughter] think I would think they can win one or two. I’ll tell you what’s going to happen.
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What’s going to happen is they’re going to start out in the first inning and [laughter] they’re going to go up three nothing. Go up three nothing.
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That’s the amazing thing. They’ve lost every possible way. They’ve they’ve gotten early leads and blown them.
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They’ve come back late. They’ve lost highscoring games. You remember the two games to Oklahoma? They lost four to three and four-2. Now they’re finally hitting the ball.
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And uh the bullpen has been awful. And you know, really that I know Kasein’s hurt right now, but but Kase and William
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Schmidt uh have just not really developed like we thought they would. Uh especially, you know, Kase is nowhere
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close to where he was last year, and then they lost Cooper Moore, the other starter. Uh but yeah, it’s it’s been hard to watch because the the one
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constant is the wild pitches and the errors. You know, they’ve had a couple.
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Speaking of errors, Zack York starting tonight at first base. [laughter]
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What I you were talking about losing in different ways or to to see it happen
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twice basically that a middle infielder fails to get the force out at second base. You know last it was first time it
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was Ethan Clauss who just completely missed a bag and then this time your your gold glove shorts stop the best probably defensive shorts stop.
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foot comes off the bag before the ball goes in his glove. For that to for that kind of situation to happen twice, it’s
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basically telling you it’s not your season. No, no,
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it’s not your season. And I I tell you what, on Friday they they really did battle and and Jay, I thought managed
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his butt off and he tried at you lose two position players during the course of the game. pitcher.
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Your starting pitcher is scratched before the game and then you get a lead and you do everything you possibly can.
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And if Milm steps on the bag, they win.
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They win. Zack Cowan could probably be brought back Saturday or Sunday, you could have used him. And then who knows,
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the the series looks a heck of a lot different maybe.
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Yeah. And four years ago or five years ago,
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we’d have been out anyway because they wouldn’t have been an instant replay. And that was an that’s an automatic out. That’s a neighborhood play. Yeah. Straight up cursed is what I say.
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Yeah. Yeah. This team is literally cursed.
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And but it also does come down to development. I mean, when they brought Cooper Moore in there in on Saturday night, did did any Cooper Williams,
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excuse me. Uh, did anybody have any confidence that he was going to get out of that jam? He he he falls behind two
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and 0 and then he just hangs one up there like a whiffle ball for the guy to jack out of there.
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The thing about this team, to your point, no confidence. Okay. No confidence. But Jay Johnson spends more
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time on the mound than LSU’s pitchers do. [laughter] What’s his ERA? [laughter]
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[snorts]
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But that I mean if you if you want to think about what can go wrong has gone wrong the transfers don’t hit uh your
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return you you’ve hit some injuries um this this season was already tail spinning before the injuries really
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started to mount right um the lack of development you mentioned William Schmidt Evans I’d throw I’d throw Cooper Williams Maverick Rzzy in
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there right Maverick Rzzy has not had a good season uh Stanfield has not been the what’s he hitting 230 30 after leading a team in hitting in SEC play last year.
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He’s been hurt most of the season. I’ll give him That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I’m saying is that he he probably shouldn’t be out there, but he is.
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Jeff, are you are you not focused on Omar Cerna Jr. And Iman are hitting the ball.
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I And that was Kate Aaron is hitting the ball. Well, he’s not a freshman.
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No, he’s a sophomore. And to be honest with you, the one thing that could have saved this season is if the one thing that could have saved this season was if
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the freshman came in and injected some life and really performed very well and and that’s exactly what they got,
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especially from two guys. I mean, Mason Bronze four hits, Cerna’s huge weekend.
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William Patrick would have had to go run go um the the game-winning hit on base hit.
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Yeah, base hit in on Friday night. And Rucker was steady at second. I mean, not great, not spectacular, but steady. And you’ll take steady on this poor defensive team.
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And and Mil is having a great year out in the field. He’s starting to hit, too.
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And yeah, and he’s raised his batting average almost 100,
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but the pitching is pathetic now. And so, well, thank goodness South Carolina’s coming in this weekend, so a chance to win a game or two.
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Yeah, but South Carolina’s thinking, hey, we’re going to [laughter] LSU.
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They’re going to make a bunch of Harris and look out for those wild pitches. All
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[gasps]
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right, let’s take a break. Anthony Ranado will join us when we come back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio live from Super [music] Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Balmo along with Gwen Gilbo, Todd Horn, Andre Champine. Thanks for joining us. We
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bring in our first guest and that is national champion on the 2009 team.
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Anthony Ranado joins us here on Tiger Rag Radio. Anthony does an outstanding job as a as an analyst now as he’s with
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the glue guys. He’s with him and Chris Phillips, which is really a great podcast if you’re a college baseball fan. SEC Unfiltered as well. Um, and so
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he he’s always giving his takes on what’s going on in in college baseball.
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And I know Anthony, it’s been uh it’s been tough to watch watching your alma mater and your LSU Tigers struggle the way they’ve been struggling. What do you
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you know, we’ve been we were just talking about some of the issues and there’s a litany of them with this team,
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but let’s start off with Kase Evans and William Schmidt. What how have those guys not taken the step that I think
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many people expected them to take? What have you seen from those two guys specifically this year?
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Yeah. Well, first of all, thank you guys for having me. It’s always a blast coming on the show, so appreciate you guys. Um, and appreciate the kind words.
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Um, but yeah, man, it’s it’s been a tough go for these LSU Tigers. Um, and the sad part is, man, when when when when I first started analyzing this
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team, the first four non-conference weekends, I was, you know, thinking William Schmidt turned the page and and we’re looking at a top 10 pick next
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year. And, um, I thought his maturation in the first four to six starts was really, really impressive. Um, you know,
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once SEC play started, I I kind of noticed a little difference in the fastball command with William. Um, and Kase kind of struggled with it a little bit throughout the year, in my opinion.
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And you know, as a Friday night starter,
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you got to be able to go out and throw um you know, be able to go six, seven innings each time out. And that means that you’re getting ahead in counts and
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you’re you’re attacking guys, right? K has fallen behind a lot of guys this year and had to throw pitches over the plate and he’s been suffering, you know,
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through that that process. And then lately, William is just not commanding his fast ball in my opinion, you know,
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and we’re throwing more sliders and curve balls rather than that 96 to 98 mph heater that he throw that he has,
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right? Um, and if you look at those stats, in the beginning part of the year, he was throwing his fast ball 60%
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of the time and for 70% strikes. Now he’s throwing it 40% of the time and he’s only throwing it for 60% strikes.
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So, those are the little things that I think, you know, are just making a big difference. And, you know, that’s a that’s a that’s a big tone setter. When you’re when your starting pitcher isn’t,
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you know, commanding the strike zone, it can lead the defense to be on their heels a little bit, right? And we’ve seen some defensive struggles. So, I think it’s a little bit of a culmination of that kind of stuff. But yeah, man,
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it’s been a little disappointing because you were expecting those guys to take a big jump this year.
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You know, Anthony, the way you describe that, it kind of sounds like you said it was, you know, you didn’t use this word specifically, but contagious. You know,
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like you you’re you know, Schmidt and and Evans aren’t executing their pitches, their command the way they’re
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supposed to. Uh, and it sort of spreads throughout the pitching staff. I is that accurate? Does it happen that way? Is
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that why the bullpin throws so many wild pitches and there’s so many pass balls or what’s going on with that?
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Yeah, there’s definitely an element to that, right? It’s almost like the hey,
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don’t think of a red car type thing and then you’re thinking of a red car because I just said it, right? And so it’s one of those things that all right relievers, you know, the bullpen, you
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know, the starters didn’t fill up the strike zone. Don’t go out there and throw a ball. So, there’s a little bit of that element. Um, but I really think it’s more of a mindset of a pitching
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staff, right? And especially with these guys that throw 96 to 98 100, you know,
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some of these guys have such power stuff. I I really think that we got to be able to command the fast ball and pitch off of the fast ball. We see
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William Schmidt have some of the best secondary that I’ve ever seen. Same with Case Evans, right around the league. But it’s really uneffective if you’re falling behind in counts and you’re not
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pitching and tunneling off that fast ball. So, uh, that to me is the biggest thing and I’ve seen that throughout the bullpen, right? like the fast balls are electric, but they just don’t know where
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they’re going. And you can’t set up any other pitches and really set yourself up for success long term doing that. And that’s kind of what I’ve seen just as a pattern from this staff this year.
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Anthony, have you noticed anything that other teams are are doing against LSU?
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Other teams offense is like from scouting LSU or are they just,
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you know, taking a lot of pitches, which would be smart?
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Yeah, I think that’s what it is. If I were playing them, I’d say, “Hey guys,
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make them throw strikes. They can’t throw their heater for strikes.” Right?
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So, you know, when I got to the big leagues, one of the things I struggled with was my curveball was nowhere near effective as it was in the minor
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leagues. And so, all they did was eliminate that pitch. And without that weapon, right, I was, you know, feed me to the wolves. And I think that sometimes that happens with these guys,
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too. And we’re seeing some of that. Talking with Anthony Rnado. Anthony, what about the guys out of the bullpen?
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I mentioned a couple, you know, even Gavin Gry’s been up and down here. I mean, guys that you were counting on, Cooper Williams and Maverick Rizzy.
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What What’s been the issue with those guys as far as what you’ve seen? Yeah, and those two names too, right?
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Cooper Williams and Maverick Rizzy after their freshman year, you were really hoping they were going to turn on and be high high leverage guys. And you know,
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Ri Rizzy does come in in those high leverage situations, but I feel like a broken record, but you know, when I watch the game as an LSU fan, and I love
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Maverick. He’s a great kid. I’ve met him. I’ve shook his hand and and had conversations with him. So, this is nothing personal, but I just don’t trust that he’s going to throw strikes. And
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and that’s the biggest thing is, you know, you you need your relievers to come in and fill the fill up the zone and set a you know, set a tone and a presence in those late innings. And I
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that’s the biggest thing that I’ve just seen is um when you don’t throw strikes out of the bullpen, it’s just really hard to get into those situations to set
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yourself up for success. So it sounds like a broken record, but it really is as for me as simple as being able to command the zone. There’s there’s control and command. And you know, when
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I watch the games and the catcher trying to set up a pitch and go inside or up and in and the pitcher is yanking it in the lefties batters box, I mean, that’s a non-competitive pitch. And it’s just
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like, man, what what are you going to do with that with some of these really electric SEC lineups? You know,
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Anthony, what what can Jay Johnson do at this late stage? Is is the season pretty much I mean, obviously, they’re not they’re not going to the postseason, you
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know, to the NCAA tournament more than likely. I mean, it would be a miracle for them to make it right now. What What can Jay do for the rest of the season?
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What’s already baked in?
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Yeah, man. It’s, you know, it’s funny because I was part of that magical 2008 team where if we were having the same conversation, you know, in 2008, they
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were they were probably saying the same things about our team making a run, right? And then we won 23 in a row. So,
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I’m not saying that this team can do that. Um, or we would expect that, but nothing’s ever out of the question. So,
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I think Jay realizes that, but at the same time, right, I think what he can do is try to give a little silver lining. And I think we’re starting to see that.
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is talking about Mason Brun and Omar Cerner, right? And the guys that are coming back that he can build around and and putting different guys in different positions to see how they can succeed
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and see if we can take a different approach rather than just heavy heavily relying on the portal to fill gaps, you know, from this year’s team like they
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did last year cuz it seems like that’s what Jay is saying where he missed the the ball a little bit, right? Um and so for me, I think it’s really just honing in on the fundamentals. like this team,
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we knew last year was a top 10 defensive team and this year they’re in the bottom, you know, I don’t even know what percentage, but I know at one point they were like, you know, 270 out of 300. So,
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those little things I think are the are the things that he can build upon and start building for next year.
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Anthony, the poor defense that we’ve seen from this team and we’re talking with Anthony Renado and the the wild pitches, the pass balls, how much does that play in a pitcher’s mind? meaning,
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man, my my I don’t if they hit it, I don’t know if my guys are going to make the play or how much does that does that force a
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pitcher almost to say, I got to throw the perfect pitch here and that’s maybe where you see more of the wild pitches or some of the uh the fast ball location issues that you were talking about.
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I don’t know. Well, I think I think when we talked about earlier, you know,
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things being contagious. I think that’s a little bit of the the contagious, you know, effect. I think, you know, wild p it’s just one of those things keep
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spiraling out of control and the pass or the wild pitches and all of that I think is really a fundamental issue. And I think one thing leads to another, right?
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When a pitcher isn’t filling up the strike zone, the defense is a little bit more complacent on their heels. They’re not expecting their pitcher to throw strikes. So, when the ball gets hit to them, maybe they’re not as alert, right?
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and then the pitcher feels like, “Oh my god, I got to throw a strike.” Because it’s this weird cycle that you’re in,
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right? So, there is a little bit of that element element, but I think for the most part, the pitchers are really just trying to fill up the strike zone. So, I don’t think they’re as worried about
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that. And I don’t think that’s a valid excuse if any of them start using that. You know,
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one more going getting back to Case and Evans. How much of a jump is it to be the Friday night guy? And and we we’ve seen this kind of play out with Zack
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Hess back in the day. I think Zack was on your team, right? Wasn’t weren’t Weren’t you guys kind of or No, Zack was I appreciate you thinking I’m not young.
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No. Yeah. Okay. So, Zach [laughter] was Yeah, Zach was more 19. That was Yeah.
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10 years later. I’m sorry. Gosh, that screwed that one up. But still, uh, you know, we’ve seen we’ve seen that before
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where like it it just seemed like for Case Evans, he was he played such a perfect role and he was so dominating last year in the role that he had as a
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bullpen guy and he actually got a few starts at the end of 2025.
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U actually had a really good start against Tennessee if you remember. uh and you just thought it’s just the
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natural step for him to then [snorts] be that Friday night guy, but you know,
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other than the the the high strikeout game, I think it was against Kentucky or it was Oklahoma, one of those two. Um we
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we just we’ve never seen the dominating Case Evans that we thought we were going to see.
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Yeah. And and I think what we saw is that what is hard about transitioning from a bullpen role into a starter now.
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Obviously, he had been a starter, you know, in high school and things like that. So, it’s not like he was just this boring reliever, right? But when you have such success as a high-profile
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reliever and your heart rate and your adrenaline is used to those situations,
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right? Trying to lengthen your stuff out for six or seven innings can be a little bit of a um, you know, mess with your mind a little bit. Um, and and change
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your stuff. And I think that’s what I’ve seen from Kase this year where it was almost like he was nibbling too much. he was trying to be, you know, it looked
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like maybe too be too much of a starter rather than just attack guys and be aggressive like we saw him do last year.
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And I think that’s the case in Evans that has the most success. I I don’t think starting’s out of the question. But for me, one of the things, you know,
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and again, I I was fortunate enough to play with a guy named Daniel Bard who was one of the best relievers ever in the game of baseball and then unfortunately I was there when they
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tried to make him a starter and it kind of ruined his career, right? And so for me, I’ve I’ve seen some things where some of the relievers are that elite.
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It’s almost like I if it ain’t broke,
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don’t fix it. So, you know, obviously I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors and you want to give a chance a kid a chance to be a starting pitcher in college if he wants to be. Um but at the
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same time, he was so he was such a weapon last year and I think he played such an integral role in that team success. So, um yeah, it’s it’s a hard
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thing to do and it’s hard to watch cuz you watched him dominate so much last year and you feel for the kid. Um but yeah, man, it’s it’s a really tough transition. It is
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Anthony. You know, Nate Yesi is a proven winning college baseball pitching coach. I mean, he’s multiple World Series,
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multiple teams.
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What is he thinking right now? What do you think he’s thinking on a daily basis right now with this team? Yeah, I do
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feel for Nate a lot, you know, and when you have the team, you know, the success that he’s had, he knows the things to do
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to win and and when you’re walking guys and throwing wild pitches and, you know, you’re doing the things that are just,
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you know, the the things that are in your control cuz there’s so many things in pitching that are out of your control, whether you know, elements, you know, once the ball leaves your hand,
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we’re always taught that everything’s now out of your control except for your response, right? So for me, I feel for Yate Nate because, you know, when guys
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are throwing balls, there’s really nothing he can do. He just has to start correcting things and, you know, maybe trying different visual cues or different mindset things to get guys in a better position to fill up this zone.
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But I mean, you know, like I said, I’ve watched a lot of LSU baseball this year and the fastball command is one of the biggest concerning things. So, you know,
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it’s almost like when you know, you don’t have a staff that can control the fast ball. It’s almost like you got to press restart and find some guys that can really do that and have a staff that
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has an identity of controlling and commanding the fast ball where they look like LSU pitchers.
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[laughter]
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Exactly. Exactly. Yep.
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Anthony, thanks, man. We appreciate your insight. Always a pleasure to have you on the show. Absolutely. Anytime. Thank you, guys. Appreciate.
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All right. That’s Anthony Rnado, the great Anthony Ranado on that great 2009 National Championship team. Him and Lewis Coleman. A great one-two punch.
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How about this start to the game, guys,
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with Reagan Ricken. Walk, single, hit by pitch and they pull him. Jay’s on the mound. [laughter]
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Jay’s We should have tracked how many steps Jay [laughter] has taken to go to the bullpen this year. You know, can that be a great story.
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It’s just it’s head scratching at this point. My gosh. All right, we’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio.
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Let’s go.
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We now return to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio is uh LSU baseball. I mean, it’s been what we talked a little bit about it
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last week, but you know, football season was done in October, other than obviously the very entertaining coaching search and and all the twists and turns with that.
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And um basketball, men’s basketball was over in January and it’s just it’s amazing to think that this LSU baseball season is done in April.
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Well, the the amazing thing is the the only great things about this sports calendar year is the coaching changes. Yeah,
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that’s that’s what people are excited about. Lane Keifin and Will Wade or they were excited about Will Wade. [laughter] Still only got one player.
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He’s in Europe today. And I know I know he’s got time, but uh and and and you know, the women’s basketball team had a you know, had a very good season, but
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compared to the previous seasons, just the Sweet 16, but that’s still a great program. Yeah. But but uh boy, nothing else is, man, right now of the of the major sports that you follow.
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Yeah. If you didn’t have the the the circus that was the Lane Keifin coaching search and everything that went with that and the whole new athletic director
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and all that kind of stuff, uh it just be boring. Yeah.
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[laughter]
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But Wade’s in Europe today. Why is he Well,
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I guess he’s given up on the US
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[laughter]
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players in the portal.
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I mean, aren’t there still players in the portal? Aren’t there like still thousands of guys? Yeah, there are.
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There are there are ways in Europe. So, what’s the holdup?
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Well, I I don’t know, man. I mean, I I think he’s shooting high, you know? He’s shooting for the uh for some of the higher ranked guys, but he he may have
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to uh start start settling. and and you know at if you look at the calendar from last year he’s he only had about one or
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two last year at this time too uh this deep into the portal but still I mean you know he is in his third job in in
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three years and his his North Carolina state class last year was not great like 14th you know uh so boy I I mean even if
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I was like a a a died in the wool Will Wade fan and there’s a lot of them I would be worried operate. Yeah,
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he’s nothing to worry about. Kim picked up a Noah, what was her name? Noah Morrow from Spain and that’s in Europe.
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And so she called Wade and said, “Hey,
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[laughter]
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there’s some more players.
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There’s more players over there.” And so he hates to ride.
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I wonder what this what the player from Kentucky who transferred. He’s [laughter] like, “Hey, when’s all my friends coming in?”
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It’s like the Will Smith meme where he’s just by himself. No, I said if Will Wade doesn’t get any players soon, he’s going to be recruiting out of Bian High School real soon. [laughter]
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The thing is is, you know, he’s going to get some players because you have to have players.
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Yeah, you have to have players and it’s easier now to make the NCAA tournament. Maybe we’ll talk about that when we come back. One more segment in our number one here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Glad you could join us in case you’ve missed any of the show or want to listen to previous shows. Uh we are uh available anywhere you get your podcast.
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Also, the show gets uploaded to uh YouTube about 30 minutes or so after the show. So, um if you missed anything, uh
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good stuff there from Anthony Rnado. We will have coming up uh here Warren Morris will be joining us uh coming up
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after the top of the hour and then it is uh what did you say was Drew Fabianic? Fabianic. Fabianic. Right.
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Fabianic. I I want to understand something. Every time you mention Warren Mars, you never explain who he is. Does he need no explanation?
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No, I don’t I think everybody knows who he is. They are honoring the 1996 uh World Series team and of course he hit
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one of the most legendary home runs in LSU college baseball history. His name is Drew Fabian. [laughter]
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Now there you Fabian.
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Now you need introduction for Drew Fabian. Drew Fabian, senior bowl director.
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All right. So we’ll talk to him about Gary Nusmire and some of the other guys. But um I was saying in the last segment,
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guys, that it’s going to be even easier to get into the NCAA tournament. According to Pete Tham over at ESPN,
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both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments will expand to 76 teams, most likely starting next season. So,
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basically what that would mean is that you would play Yeah, it is gross.
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That is a terrible idea. Why are [laughter] they doing that? Well, it’s gross. It’s going to be more money.
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[clears throat]
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[laughter]
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Now, Thamble is saying it’s not expected to be a financial windfall, but sources stress there will be a profit.
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Well, he’s taking a perfect sporting event and and you’re messing it up. You’re going to mess it up, man.
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Not only that, making a bracket. Give freaking luck now.
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Well, so you’ll have a whole bunch more games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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So, more playing for Yeah. So that number now includes eight teams who would have qualified for the traditional bracket will square off
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against eight large eight at large additions.
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Well, I’m boycotting all that. I’m not watching [laughter] till Thursday.
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What if LSU’s in there? I mean, will we just had a team in the play playing game? You’ll have to cover it. Or are you going to cover spring football instead that day?
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Neither. [laughter]
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Well, what do you think on the college football playoff? We go into 2014 2014.
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Now that makes sense. That that makes sense. I could see that going to not next year. But when is the SEC going to relent?
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Just too many.
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Whenever ESPN renegotiates their contract with them. Yeah. I don’t know.
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I mean, there’s been blowouts in the college football playoffs as a 12 team playoff. Do we really need 24?
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I don’t think we need 24. I I’m I would be fine, I think, with 16. I think I’d be fine. I would I’d be fine with 16, too. I think they
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need to open the portal back up at the end of spring so so Lane Keven doesn’t have a hissy fit.
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It’s funny as as he was leaving the press conference today, Michael Kbble asked him, “So, so what are you going to do now? Uh, you know, you got you got some time off.” And he goes, “I don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow.”
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[laughter] I said, “So, I think he wants to port.” So, so he has something to do.
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[laughter]
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Well, uh, he’ll be more active on social media. I know. I’m sure he will. I know his assistant coaches went and visited a lot of high schools today, so we saw a
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lot of those photos. All right, that does it for our number one. Warren Morris, former LSU Tiger, hit a dramatic home run in the World Series in 96.
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He also threw a guy out at the plate and [laughter] hit a single.
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I would say I would say it’s the most prolific play in college baseball history. And I was sitting along the right field line watching the ball fly right down my face.
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Oh, wow. All right, let’s We’ll be back after this.
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show. as we continue on from the Super Chevy dealer studio, Jeff Polalmo along with Todd Horn and Gwen Gilbo and Andre
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Champine. Coming up here in just a few seconds, uh we’ll go ahead and bring them in right now. In fact, uh legendary
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Warren Morris joins us here on Tiger Rag Radio this weekend at the box as LSU is taking on South Carolina. They will
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honor the 1996 team. So that means it’s been 30 years since that memorable championship. And Warren Morris obviously a huge part of it.
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That’s that’s unbelievable that it’s been 30 years. No, really. That that’s like unbelievable.
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Warren, can you believe it’s been 30 years or does it seem like three days ago?
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[laughter]
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No, it it doesn’t seem like 30 years.
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That’s for sure. Thanks for having me on, guys. Yeah, it’s great to hear your voice.
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Feels like yesterday, [laughter] but it’s uh it it’s been every bit of 30 years, but yeah, the memories are still fresh.
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You know, Warren, um I was telling the guys before, uh I was in Omaha that day sitting along the right field bleacher
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around the foul line in the bleachers and the ball zoomed right past my face.
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Now I could the fact that I was aware of that and saw it uh is one story, but it was an amazing thing. And
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what did what were you thinking the moment you hit the ball? Did you know it was gone right when you hit it or what were you thinking?
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No, not at all. Um, you know, just from being injured most of that year and I mean batting ninth in the batting order
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and playing those first few games of the regionals, just not even being able to take a full swing because I wasn’t fully healed. So, yeah, that the home run was
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the last thing on my mind. And, you know, even when the ball took off off my bat, I know I hit it pretty well, but I was running hard trying to get to
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second. thought it was a double until I saw it, you know, inch over that that wall and right and our first base coach Daniel Tomlin jumped higher than I’ve
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ever seen him and, you know, just see then I touched first and I see all the Miami players including Alex Kora, you
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know, who was with the Red Sox is right there at shortstop face down in the in the grass and uh that’s when it really registered we just won this thing and
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you know just jumping around going around the bases get to home plate and and all your teammates there waiting on you and you know you just somehow get
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off the bottom of that pile and just an unbelievable feeling. But uh no, I was as shocked as anyone. Definitely, you know, my first home run of the year
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after being injured. So uh couldn’t believe it either. So it just happened so fast. But uh yeah, no, it’s just cool for somebody that had to watch and cheer
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on from being injured most of the year to be able to be that exclamation mark on that championship.
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Hey Warren, this is Glenn. Thanks for uh joining us. Um, didn’t you get left at the uh stadium after the so many
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interviews and uh how’d you uh end up getting back to the hotel? I think the team bus left without you, right?
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They did. That is that’s kind of a funny story. So, yeah, you know, it’s just chaos and, you know, interviews and all
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that goes on after the game and uh you know, it’s probably partially my fault,
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too. Maybe was talking to family and people, but the next thing I know, the bus is not there anymore. And you know th these are you know the days when you
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just after the game you’re still in full uniform and you know the the car my dad rode into the game with was parked in somebody’s backyard in a neighborhood
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across the street from you know Rosenlat. So yeah in full uniform after winning the national championship. I was walking through people’s yards to get to a vehicle just to get back to the hotel.
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[laughter]
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That’s amazing. And you know, look,
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people forget, you know, Warren, you earlier in that game before your home run, you threw out a guy at the plate,
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you scored three runs before the home run, you had a single and a double, and you had just said that uh, you know, you were just kind of bunting because you
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were still kind of sore. But, but when you woke up on national championship Saturday, I think you told Skip later
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that that’s the first time you felt normal with with the wrist, right?
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It was. I mean, I I guess it was just meant to be that day cuz uh I do I vividly recall telling him in batting
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practice before the game, this is as close to 100% as I’ve been all year. And uh yeah, you know, I was able to take
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full swing and drive the ball and uh you know, as fate would have it, I was up with two outs in the ninth inning and that ball, you know, makes its way over the fence. And if you recall that day,
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the wind was blowing in hard and Pat Burl for Miami had hit a towering ball with the bases loaded that you know on the replay it’s obvious he thought it
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was a grand slam. He’s kind of going into his little motions and the wind held it up for a sacrifice fly. Uh but
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it was blowing in from kind of left center in. So that ball down the right field line might be the only ball that you could sneak out with that wind
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howling that day. What what did Skip tell you when you told him, “Hey, I feel good today.” You remember what he said?
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No, not so much. I mean, I just think he was happy and, you know, glad that uh,
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you know, he could kind of have, you know, the the full force of of the team. And, uh, you know, he was great. Like, even when I came back from the injury,
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he said, “Hey, understand you might have to bunt, you might have to slap at the ball, you know, just want you to play good defense and do what you can to get
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on.” and uh you know so he never put any kind of pressure on me. I mean I would have batted me ninth too because like I
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said I wasn’t really 100% but uh yeah just um over time as we kept winning those four games in the regional and
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then the four games in Omaha I guess you know just the hand healed and the the the incision from the surgery that day
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was kind of the first day that I felt more like myself and uh you know it was good day to get back feeling good again.
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talking to Warren Home run Morris here on Tiger Egg Radio and Warren’s going to be at the game uh Friday, right? Is is when the or is it Saturday, Jeff?
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Saturday.
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Saturday they’re celebrating the uh anniversary of the team with a lot of your teammates. And I wanted to ask you,
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Warren, after you got hurt and you were trying to come back and you had the surgery and and um how were how were
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your teammates? Like how were your teammates before and then after the injury and then and then as it as it ended?
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No, they they they were always great,
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you know, just a great group of guys and, you know, had guys that stepped up,
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you know, while I was out and uh, you know, Jason Williams at Shortstop, who,
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you know, a lot of people forget was on the Olympic USA team in Atlanta with me later that same summer and we won the
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bronze medal. Um, Coach Burkeman was the coach. You know, Nathan Dunn played third. Eddie Furnus who’s, you know,
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numbers retired, was our first baseman and Tim Laneir, our captain, was the catcher. Um, you know, just a great group of guys and, uh, we just had, you
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know, just a belief, you know, that’s what coach was big on, the belief that you can overcome anything. And I I do,
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that’s another thing I I really remember coming into the dugout after the top of the ninth whenever Miami went ahead. I
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just somehow I didn’t definitely didn’t think it was me, but I felt like somehow someway we were going to find a way to win that game. I just felt like we were
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a team of destiny and it was just kind of a meant to be type of thing and uh you know you can’t always will yourself to to victory but you definitely can try.
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Yeah, I was going to ask you that because during the uh during your run in Omaha, you start off playing Witchah State. That’s a very tight game there.
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You win by a run and then Florida who swept you earlier in the season which swept LSU and and you also lost to them
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in the SEC tournament. So you were 0 and4 against the Gator and you had to beat them twice to get to the championship game. Kind of talk about
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just the obviously everybody remembers the home run and your trip around the bases, but just uh that week leading up to it and and some of those games that
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you played prior to that memorable matchup against Miami.
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Yeah, you know, I think we almost had a reset and after the SEC tournament and you know, obviously Coach Bertman knew
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what B buttons to push and knew what we needed to do. Um, just something as kind of silly as we came in from batting
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practice before that first game in the regional. We’re playing Austin P and as a total surprise in our lockers were
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those gold jerseys and you know now you see them on Sunday wearing that championship gold.
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LSU had never worn gold before. So that was kind of the spark and you know we all were pumped up about it and uh we just I don’t know maybe we felt like we
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couldn’t lose in those uniforms but yeah once we got in the regional we got on a roll and then it didn’t matter who was on the other side and yeah Florida had
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beaten us four times in a row during that season but you know we were going to be in Omaha and things are different for LSU when you get to Omaha and you
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know maybe they felt it a little bit because we beat them that first time pretty handily 9 to4 and then they came back and we had to beat him again which
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was a really tight game 2 to1 to get to the championship and you know even beaten Miami who had blown their way through their side of the bracket we
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were definitely the underdogs that day but uh you know I guess that’s just part of kind of the lore those those uniforms we as as long as we wore them those
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eight games we were undefeated and it’s still kind of you know very special to me that they they wear those on the Sunday games and uh you know win or lose
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it’s cool to see those uh championship gold and remember when that was a new thing and nobody had ever seen him before and it started with that 96.
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Hey Warren, what what do you think your experience your college career would have been like if it were
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transported into today’s environment? I mean with with the transfer portal and you know the NIL money the revenue share
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how would it have been different? Can you imagine how it would have been different?
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Well, I know there was no NIL money in the 90s, that’s for [laughter] sure.
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But, uh, yeah, I mean, it’s definitely different. Um, I the transfer portal, I mean, it’s great when you get a Paul
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skins that comes in that you didn’t, you know, get from high school, but at the same time, it was really special that as, you know, if I look on a roster of
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the guys that were there with us, for the most part, it was the same guys that came in from high school and you kind of had like a family bond. I know that’s a
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little different now, but uh I I don’t know. I mean, the feeling’s the same,
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the fan, the the atmosphere at the box is the same. Um, you know, I guess it is a little different with the the whole
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NIL and you know, guys are getting paid things, but uh you know, you can still watch the games now and see they still
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have that strong desire and that fight to try to do what they can to get back to Omaha and they know it means something to get there. So, uh I don’t
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know. That’s a good question. and what would it be like today? Um, you know,
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definitely different, but I don’t know if it would be all bad, but then, you know, there’s some things definitely that was special about dur just during
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those 90s when hey, you know, you all you were trying to do. You didn’t care,
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you know, who did it, but you just wanted to try to get the win and try to get a championship. And I mean, when I was there 91, they won one before I got
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there. 93, I red shirt. I didn’t do anything, but you know, Todd Walker,
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Brett Laxton, those guys win a championship. I get a ring to prove I was on the team and then we won in 96.
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So just go from one to three and now they, you know, they’ve got eight. So it’s just cool to see just the program continue to exceed and and do so well.
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I can’t imagine a guy like you, Warren,
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from Alexandria would have ever thought about entering the transfer portal after red shirting your freshman season.
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[laughter]
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No, I doubt it. And and I I really I I I do I I I like it whenever nowadays I know it’s not the popular thing to do,
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but whenever those guys that maybe it’s not their turn yet, maybe they get limited action, but whenever they decide, you know what, I’m going to stay
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here and I’m going to fight my way onto this roster and they get their chance the next year and do well. I love that.
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Um just and I know there’s reasons why guys go to different places, but yeah.
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know I I you know my story is I I I felt like I don’t know if I’m good enough to play at LSU but I don’t want to be 50 60
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years old wondering what would it have been like if I’d have gone there. So there’s only one way to find out and I took that chance and it worked out for me. So yeah I don’t think I’d have been
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looking to do any transfer portal and I mean I had an awesome experience even including the red shirt year where
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I didn’t play in one game so I know what that’s like too. Well you’re now 50s something years old. So, what does it feel like? [laughter]
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Yeah, you’re right. But I was still I was still holding on to that. It feels like yesterday. [laughter] Warren, always great hearing from you.
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Enjoy the weekend. I know this is going to be a blast. The 30-year reunion of the 96 World Series team. We appreciate you taking a few minutes and talking with us and going back down memory lane.
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We appreciate it. I I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, guys. Thank you.
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Warren Morris, the great College World Series hero. That was fun. All right,
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we’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio when we come back.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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We’re back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Palmo along with Glenn Gilbo, Andre Shampine with you as well as uh we’ll hear a little bit now more from Lane
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Keifin. We uh played some stuff from him as he wrapped up spring football today.
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We heard him talk about Sam Levit and how he’s developed along with the offense despite Sam being limited as he continues to come back from the Liz
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Frank foot surgery. Let’s talk a little um defense. Desawn Spears, a lot of people are hoping that he can have a big season. He’s going to be playing the
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star position, or at least that’s what he did in the spring. Here’s what Lane had to say about the former Denim Springs Yellow Jacket. If you can blitz
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like he can cover and have length because the length’s really important there to play blocks to get hands on things and RPOS’s, he’s he’s really valuable and really pleased with him.
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Probably one of the more pleasing, you know, improvements of a player since we’ve gotten here.
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All right, good stuff there from Deshawn Spears. Guy that could cover, right? I mean, I guess the question is, can he be physical enough? Is that really the the big knock on him?
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I think I think he’ll be fine in that aspect. I think they make up for in the linebacker room. What he’s really going to bring that that star position was
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kind of missing is the ability to cover and and and I don’t know if you remember this, but Spears had a I think he had a
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couple of sacks last year and so there he has an ability to get to the quarterback and he can pressure the quarterback so I think he’ll be fine
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with that and he he’s actually a pretty sound tackler as well. But I think uh for them to find somebody that can cover
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and pass coverage and zone, that’s big because Harold Perkins couldn’t do it last year.
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Well, it’s uh a lot of talk during the spring about Richard Anderson. Uh here’s again Lane Keifin answering another Richard Anderson question.
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He’s just really unique. He’s one of those really unique high highend top first round potential um that no matter
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what you coach, you can’t coach guys in at that position. You can’t coach guys into into that. Um and he has that.
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Yeah, we’ll see. Uh I mean, he’s I’m a big Richard Anderson fan. I think he can have a really good uh impact on this team next season. So, we’ll see what uh he’s able to do.
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Yeah, I think I think he’s probably going to be a starter. I don’t know if Andre agrees with me, but he’s he’s he’s definitely going to play a lot, but I think he might start. He could be a starter.
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I see it. I see it. I mean, he’s he’s taking first team reps this spring. I mean, take that with a grain of salt,
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but they they really are kind of throwing everybody in the mix. And I would say from the 11 on 111 stuff that we’ve seen, Rich, Big Rich has been able
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to kind of at least stop the run. And I mean, that’s kind of what you’re asking for from a big dackle like that. uh
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cornerback is a certainly a question mark especially to death after the injury to Aiden Anning. Here’s what Lane Keifin had to say about the cornerback room.
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That that’s a huge emphasis for us um into this offseason to look at um because some guys did some decent things
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but nobody stepped up to make you feel uh great in that. And so got a lot of work to do in that. And that’s why I said there’s no portal to go to. So, we
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got to develop our guys and get the most out of them and um look at what coverages we’re playing with everybody and all those things because again, it’s different. This is your roster. This is
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what you’re set with. There’s nowhere to go. So, how are you going to what programs are going to make the best even utilizing whether that’s position changes, whether that’s different
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schemes like I said earlier um to make the most of what you have.
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Yeah, you know, that tough injury uh for the for the defense with Riferford and Anding, but I just think it’s really
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good fortune for LSU when you have this new coach coming in with a brand new offense, new quarterbacks, new wide receivers. You got Blake Baker going
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into his third season. And I think Andre, would you agree? Do you do you think I mean, some of it’s young, okay,
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like Richard Anderson, but I I think this might be his most talented defense he’s had. Blake Baker.
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Maybe. Maybe. Last year was pretty talented. I think they were underwhelming for how talented they were
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last year. But as far as the top heavy hitters, yeah, I would say that this is probably the most talented because you do have a really good edge rusher, you
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have a really good linebacker, you have still a really good quarterback. Like,
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you know, from the top to bottom, it’s more talented. the depth maybe last year was a little better, but I guess that’s
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just what it’s going to be like with the transfer portal now. But I think defensively on the Dline, it seems like there’s more talent. I mean,
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there was not there was not one defensive lineman from LSU that got drafted.
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Yeah, there’s big boys. And this this is like big boys.
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I mean, there’s potential NFL players on that D line now,
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right? I could see that. And then even from the quarterback room that we were just talking about, like guys have stepped up. I mean, that hasn’t been
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really talked about that much, but I thought Havon Finny has had a pretty good spring. Uh, especially in the 101’s. You know, you would think a guy,
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a freshman corner coming in would get a little picked on, but I haven’t seen that yet. And there were even times where DJ Picket was getting kind of
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picked on last year from some of these wide receivers. So, I think that’s a positive. Like Craig Walton is a guy uh he’s a red shirt junior. He’s been with
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the program for a minute now, but he’s he’s even played well this spring. And so I mean they have guys that are stepping up. Maybe not to the caliber
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that they want them to, but they’re still stepping up.
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Uh one more to play from Lane here. This is on Bristen Martinez, the offensive lineman from East Ascension.
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Yeah, he has a really good skill set.
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Really stood out, you know, as a guy that eventually be a premier player at one of the spots probably left. But um I
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was really pleased in that. You don’t know, you really don’t know with high school kids. um till you get I mean they like I say everybody thinks you’re supposed to you know that every high
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school kid that’s ranked this is going to be this and they miss in the NFL and top 10 picks with all that information.
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So you never really know till you get him and he’s a guy like I told our guys that if you looked at him without ranks any of that stuff and said hey this is
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you know one of the top guys in America young players that we got you you would say that. So he’s got a really high ceiling. Really excited about that. Not sure how much he’ll play next season,
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but certainly a very good depth piece. We’ll take a break. When we come back,
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Senior Bowl director Drew Fabianich will join us. We’ll talk with him about Garrett Nusmeer and other aspects of the recently completed NFL draft here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Tiger Rag Radio is back on the air live from Super Chevy Dealer [music] Studio.
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Hey, we’re back on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polalmo along with the editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Gwen Gilbo and Andre
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Champine. We bring in our next guest that is Drew Fabianich from the Senior Bowl. He is the Senior Bowl director.
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Drew, thanks a lot for joining us. Uh I would imagine he had a lot of fun the last uh over this past weekend watching the NFL draft players you got to know
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and then get to see them hear their name called, their reaction to being drafted.
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And a lot of these guys saw their draft stock uh improve based on what they did in Mobile for that one week.
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Well, uh, put it this way, the draft has never been fun for me. It’s always always been business. Yeah.
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And likewise, it’s the same way with the Senior Bowl because again, there’s a lot of quote talking heads, there’s a lot of draft nicks, there’s a lot of, you know,
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mock drafts out there that have no accountability whatsoever. Well, I do.
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Yeah. And the the league expects me to put on, you know, the best against the best and I do my best to do that. And,
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you know, I think we achieved that this year. And you’ll see in the next probably 11 days, you know, there are players
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that increased our draft stock exponentially by coming to this game. uh because I’ve got access to a lot of
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teams where they had players and where they ended up after this and you know again I think this is so important to
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you know the NFL and people don’t realize how big this is this is their first NFL practice and it is the best
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against the best and the the funny thing is when I’m talking to players or talking to agents you know and whether it’s SEC Big 10 you know Big 12 whatever
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you know there are times when a player lines up, you know, against a player over a four-year period where that player is going to be working at UPS
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next week at our game. They’re all playing on Sunday.
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And that’s why this is so important to the NFL because I was part of the NFL for 18 years. And that’s I mean heck that’s why we drafted Demarcus Wear as
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high as we did because quite honestly he didn’t play anybody at Troy but when he came down here he dominated and that’s
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what made our decision taking him over Shawn Marman.
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Hey Drew this is Glenn thanks for thanks for joining us.
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Um Barryian Brown selected by the Saints. Uh he had a good uh senior bowl.
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What what did you think of his uh prospects in New Orleans? Well, you know, the the thing with him is um he
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fought through an injury, you know, all week and which spoke volumes for me, you know, because he could have tapped out.
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He could have said, “Hey, you know, I I I’m going to prepare for the combine,
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whatever.” but he saw the value in playing and practicing in this and I thought he increased his value by coming
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here and doing what he did because the NFL respects guys that go through the process because this is a business once
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they get to the NFL and they have no babysitters. They have no tutors. They have nobody walking them to class, you know, taking care of them. I mean, if
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you’re mature, you’re responsible, you take care of your business, you know,
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you handle NFL coaching, I mean, that’s what the league’s looking for. And he did that. And, you know, I liked his I liked his tape before he went down to
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LSU. Uh, but I like what he did this year, and I like what a lot of the LSU players did. And, you know, again, I think he helped himself a great deal.
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Talking to Senior Bowl director Drew Fabian here on Tiger Egg Radio. Well,
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Garrett Nusmeer had a great week and game at the at the Senior Bowl. Uh,
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conservative estimates even had him going in the fifth round. He’s in a great situation now looks like with Kansas City. But why do you think he fell to the seventh round?
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I think it was probably the injury. Okay.
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U, I think it was probably the, you know, uh, the cyst on his, you know,
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spinal cord. Um, saying that he needed another surgery. Um because there is no reason on this God’s green earth that
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Garrett Nusmire should have been drafted in the seventh round. Um he should have been the third quarterback taken in my opinion and I would say that regardless
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of whether I knew him or not, whether I knew his dad and I work with him. Um that’s how I had him stacked and I thought he had a great week. Um, you
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know, his last year was not anything to jump up and down about, but he was playing injured almost the entire year,
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but you know, you go back to his junior year. I mean, he did throw for 4,000 yards and 24 touchdowns, didn’t he? And he sure did.
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Yeah. So, I mean, I think that, and again, there’s a lot of Okay, I’ll give you I’ll give you the other example.
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German McCoy, why do you think he fell to the fourth round? Injury. Injury. Yeah.
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Yeah. And now you’re a quarterback and you know you have to go through the you know the whole gamut of going back to
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the combine recheck and everything else and they find that I mean and then it makes people panic you know um you know
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the drama McCoy thing I mean you know they say it may be the bone plug or may be uh degenerative you know and that might be part of that you know also.
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Now, what if it what if it’s not? You know, um we actually drafted a kid out of Memphis, um Liry, that had a uh you
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know, supposedly degenerative knee, and he ended up playing for seven years. So,
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you you never know sometimes on the medical reports, you never know what happens. But, you know, we got Larry as a free agent because of that. And you
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know, so it it’s you always have to gauge the risk and reward on the medical because you don’t want to take somebody,
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you know, is only going to last two years in the league. You don’t. And maybe the medical came back, you know,
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as a risk that a lot of people didn’t want to take, but there is no reason that he should have there’s no reason he should have went to seventh at all.
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Drew, do you think that is Garrett going to have a a procedure before uh training camp, you think? Or or uh and from what I understand Go ahead.
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You know, I don’t know. I’m not a physician. I mean,
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I would say that he probably doesn’t have enough time, right? You know, before training camp, um to,
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you know, handle that. Maybe he does it after the season. Um but, you know, I’m sure he’s going to do whatever’s best for him and, you know, his family’s
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going to say, you know, do whatever’s best for you. And you know, and the chief’s physicians are going to do the same thing. They’re going to say, “Look,
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we need to get this done now or this can wait. Uh, you know, but you know, if it flares up again, if it causes another
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issue, you know, then maybe he’s put on IR and you know, and that and that may be okay, you know, because there are a
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lot of guys that, you know, kind of have a red shirt year because of the injury type of thing.”
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Yeah. You know, I mean, heck, we took Jaylen Smith knowing that he wasn’t going to play for a year. We took him
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there. And, you know, was it worth the risk? Yeah, he played pretty damn well for about four or five years. So, uh,
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again, I I I don’t want to keep harping on it, but there’s, like I said, I think there was probably a medical concern that that dropped him that far because it damn sure wasn’t playing ability.
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Drew, Drew, when do you uh I mean, how much work are you putting already into uh the 2027 Senior Bowl?
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We already have 180 guys on the board already. Yeah.
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And a lot of guys, you know, what helped us is there were a lot of, you know,
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kind of middle to late round guys that did return. There were a few guys in the upper rounds that did return and that
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was more so because of quote the NIL news that they, you know, gotten. You know, I’m not going to say where, but
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you know, there’s a player up in the Northwest that probably made as much as he would have made as a first round pick.
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Yeah. Well, Drew, can you give us an idea of some of the guys you’re looking at from LSU that are seniors? You know, no,
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too early. Okay. too early, you know,
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because I hadn’t gone through the whole roster, you know, so far, and I’d hate to leave somebody out because again,
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they feel slighted if I didn’t mention them to be honest with you. Uh you’ll see when I put out the 300, uh we put out our top 300, you know, in August,
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and those are the guys that I think, you know, could possibly be drafted. And now, that doesn’t mean that they’re all going to be senior bowlers. Doesn’t mean
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that you can’t play your way in. uh doesn’t mean you can you can’t play your way out of it, but we do that. We work
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our tails off all summer. Uh we get our area scouts involved in it too. And we put that in we put that out in August and you know it actually was, you know,
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pretty accurate to be honest with you. Yeah, if you go back look at it. Drew, thanks a lot for your time, man. We appreciate it. Keep up the hard work.
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Well, I appreciate it and thank you guys for having me and and hey, go Tigers.
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[laughter]
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Thanks, Drew. Drew Fabian, Fabianic, excuse me, the senior bowl director.
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We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio when we come back.
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Live from [music] Super Chevy Dealer Studio. We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. LSU women’s basketball made a little news today and that is Khloe Larry who played at Parkway along with Michaela Williams.
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They won an a state championship together. And then uh when Michaela came to L LSU, Larry won another one. Uh the
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native of Boer City, she helped uh the Lady Panthers to the 2023 Division One State Championship. She’s transferring
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in from Tennessee Tech after a couple of seasons there. She was named to the Ohio Valley Conference all newcomer team
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where she averaged 12 points a game. and um she can knock down the three. Shot 36% uh from three-point territory for the LSU men.
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Silence just one player so far. Ban telling Bo [laughter] chance.
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Yeah, it’s uh it’s it’s amazing. I think uh they they missed on Micah Mirin who
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uh from um Serbia who is going to Arkansas and John Kelliperry’s been recruiting him since 20124. So
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that was tough. But just from according to uh various sources uh the the guys they’ve missed
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on are uh Aiden Charelle, a uh the number seven center from Alabama. He went to to uh Indiana.
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Uh a former North Carolina State forward, number 25, small forward,
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Terrence Arseno, went to George Washington. Number five, combo guard. I know they were targeting this guy,
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Jeremiah Wilkinson of Georgia, also Arkansas. Yeah.
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Um you know, Caliperry’s been doing this a long time. Uh number 18, small forward, KJ Lewis of Georgetown, uh went
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to USC. Number 17 shooting guard Devin Vanderpool of FAU Florida Atlantic went
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to Providence. Uh Jaylen Low, number 11 point guard from Kentucky, went to Georgetown. And of course that first guy that everybody thought they were going
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to get, the number one point guard in the portal, PJ Hagerty of Kansas State, went back home to Texas A&M.
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And there’s not any incoming high school seniors as well, right? There’s no no there were there were three but uh
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they all left. They all left. I don’t know if Wade was interested in him. You I don’t think he was as of now that is now that could change
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and he you know Rick Stanbury was brought in because of his contacts with European players and uh Will Wade is reportedly in Europe. Were you just
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kidding about that time or he’s he’s actually in in Europe. So uh maybe uh maybe the floodgates will open soon but
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[laughter] I think LSU fans are getting worried man. Maybe he could make a strong ass offer to Javvante Smartility.
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[laughter]
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The offers have been not strong enough. Apparently apparently. Well, everybody else has stuff to offer, too.
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[laughter]
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That that’s that’s the thing. and and uh you know, a lot of people love Will Wade, but but um you know, I I think
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these players, they’re looking at money for one thing, but they’re also, you know, looking at at the program, like what what kind of program it is, and it’s been pretty bad for a few years,
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and and their coach has been at he’s in his third job in three years. So, but you know, he’s done it before. He got he he got the number 14 class last year. He
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signed eight guys last year at North Carolina State and he’s about on the same pace, but he’s got to sign about 13.
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Yeah. He at least had a base to work with. Here you don’t even have a base.
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Yeah. And also those guys that went to North Carolina State, North Carolina State was just in the final four like the year before, right? Yeah.
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You know, and th this team has not been in the NCA tournament since uh he’s been there. Johnny Jones was the Well, I’m sorry,
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since Will Wade’s last few years. They went Yeah. three times.
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So, what about the the recruiting of the high school players? Is there any news on any of that right now as far as basketball?
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Yeah,
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I think they were targeting one kid from North Carolina State’s uh transfer I mean not transfer class, high school
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class, but he is not committed anywhere right now. I think he I think he decommitted from North Carolina State,
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but there is he hasn’t done anything yet. Maybe maybe they’re they’re waiting as far as the financial things to to give them a number or something like
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that. That that’s the only thing that I can think of.
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Now, I do remember there was a term back when I was covering recruiting of LSU back in the 80s. It was called a double secret commitment. [laughter] They they
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would commit to LSU but but not tell anyone. So, they kind of had these guys gathered and then they would release them all at the same time. But that
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doesn’t happen anymore. And I I see that on Twitter a lot like he’s got guys locked up. It just hasn’t been announced yet. Sometimes it could be happening.
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[laughter]
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That that just doesn’t happen usually when it I mean the kids love the social media so much as soon as they just the commit they putting it on.
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Yeah.
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Okay. So all all joking aside, when does this become really concerning?
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When timewise? Yeah.
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I guess June 1st, right? If I would [laughter] I would say June. Next week.
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you know, uh, in in his class now, the North Carolina State class last year, it the the portal opened earlier. It was in March, and he got his last guys in June.
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Okay.
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Okay. So, so, uh, you know, you would think, uh, mid June he’d have to be finished, I would hope. Yeah. You know,
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again, there’s still hundreds of guys in there.
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Yeah. And you just eventually uh I don’t know why I say you just got to take what you can take, but we’ll see. We’ll see
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how it all works out. There could be a flurry of guys next week. You never know.
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What if it’s a bunch of mid majors? Then what happens?
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Then they’re a mid- major team next year and you just take your They’d be about the same as last year. Yeah. I mean,
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they’ve been a mid- major team for years. [laughter]
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It’s no different. Now you got more of a coach of a personality who’s gonna yell at his players and give good sound bites. I mean, that’ll be the only
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difference. All right, we’ll take a break. When we come back, uh oh, it’s going to be sad. We’re going to say goodbye to Andre. So, we’ll get to that when we come back here on Tiger Rag
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Thanks for joining us for another great show. If you missed any of it, you can catch us anywhere you get your podcast.
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Also, you can uh see the show, listen to the show on YouTube. Had a really good conversation with Anthony Renado. That was pretty enlightening. Warren Morris,
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great to go back down memory lane with him as the 96 team will be honored on Saturday. He’s got a good memory. [laughter]
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He does. He does.
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Well, it was only yesterday. Yeah. And then uh Drew Fabianich, who was very business-like, the senior bowl director
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talking about the draft and Garrett Nusmeer. So, uh he is certainly in the corner of Nusmeer’s medical issues as
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the reason why he fell all the way to the seventh round. Well, uh it is sad to announce that Andre Champine, who’s been
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a such a pivotal part of this show. He’s been a pivotal part of the operations of Tiger Rag and Louisiana Radio Network is
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moving on and uh I will I guess the first one to say it’s it’s been a pleasure, Andre. Um we uh I know you you
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were searching for a job when we got you. We kind of took a flyer on you if you would. Um and man, you excelled at
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both positions. You did a great job as the producer and wish you all the best of luck. Don’t go. [laughter]
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Don’t go, Lukey.
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Yeah, I was going to say you never did get his name right that whole time.
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[laughter] You kept calling him Andre Shampine. His name is Luke. Luke Skywalker.
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You know, Luke, your time here was was relatively short. Uh, but you certainly made great strides from the the day you
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started. Uh, I think you would be the hardest working member of the both staffs, Louisiana Radio Network and
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Tiger Rag uh over your time and I think you should be uh commended for that. Um,
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I also think that you have tremendous talents and skills and I know you’re going to do great wherever you go and uh
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the door will always be open for you as long as I’m here for you to come back. So,
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congratulations. I appreciate both of you guys. Thank you. And can you talk about your new job?
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[laughter]
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I can’t. I can. Okay.
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But but I I do appreciate you guys. Uh you know, you guys all all three of y’all took a chance on me coming out of school. You know, I was really scared. I
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wasn’t finding anything after looking for about two months. And you know, that opened the door for me here after, you know, a few conversations with Jeff and
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and Todd. And so I’m super glad and thankful that y’all did take me on. And I will never forget um December I think it was No, it wasn’t December 2nd.
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Oh, you already forgot. No, no, [laughter] I’ll never forget it.
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No, no. I’m I’m talking about the the night that Brian Kelly was fired. That was the most electric night of of my life. I feel like [laughter]
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because Well, yeah, you did a great job that night. Andre went down to the October October 26.
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October 26. You got video of Brian leaving the office and and it was just like my uh you know I had so much energy running through me.
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It felt unreal, you know, but it was pretty good. It was I will say this though, you know, I’m I’m hoping So did Brian, actually. [laughter]
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Excuse me. I I’m hoping that now that you’re no longer going to be working here that I’m not going to be getting
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texts at 2:00 in the morning. Is Is that Well, maybe not. Who knows? [laughter]
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Maybe not. Uh, I I know Glenn is going to be thanking thanking the Lord that I won’t be texting y’all like that later,
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but [laughter] but yeah. Yeah. Well, no more no more text that uh you know,
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but you’re not off the hook yet. It’s going to be coming later tonight. I got some things I got to work on. All right. All right. Well, hey, again,
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congratulations, Andre, on a great first professional run at it as far as your employment goes. And, uh, I know you’re
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only just going to go up from here. We appreciate it. And uh that does it for another show for Andre for one last time. Glenn Todd, I’m Jeff Blero. This
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