In hour one, Tiger Rag Radio visits with th SEC Network’s Peter Burns to discuss new men’s basketball coach Will Wade’s electric introductory press conference and his expectations for year one in Baton Rouge.
Burns says Wade and new football coachl Lane Kiffin will be under pressure to win immediately, although that is a reach as it is only year one for each.
In hour two, the crew is joined by WAFB-Channel 9 sports director Jacques Doucet to break down LSU’s buzzer-beating loss to Duke in the women’s NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 along with takeaways from Wade’s press conference and LSU spring football.
Mark Etheridge of D1Baseball.com closes out hour two, discussing LSU baseball’s first SEC series win of the season against Kentuckyi over the weekend and what the Tigers need to do moving forward to find more consistent success.
Here is the complete transcript of the show from YouTube. Tiger Rag apologizes for any AI generated mistakes:
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Rag Radio. Jeff Balmo along with Gwen Gilbo, Todd Horn, Andre Shan Pine, and what a show we have lined up for you
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here over the next couple of hours. We got some great guests including Peter Burns from the SEC Network. He will join us. We’ll hear from Jacques Ducey from WFB,
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uh Mark Ethridge from D1 Baseball. So,
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we’ll get into all those topics and of course a lot of talk about Will Wade, where the LSU baseball program is at.
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We’ll put a a button on the LSU women’s basketball season. We’ll talk a little football. Lane Kein spoke once again
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today. And so, man, just a ton to get to. We got to change the open to the show again.
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[laughter]
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Maybe this time it sticks for a while. I don’t know. We’ll see. We got North Carolina State’s exchanging a lot of their shows. [laughter] They only had him up for not even a year.
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Yeah. Right. Right. Uh but my girl Michelle Southern was a little too busy.
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I understand. I understand. But we we’ll get it for you next week with the Will Wade. At least we don’t still have Kelly on.
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[laughter]
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We don’t. We don’t. But uh man, what a what a time to be alive if you’re an LSU fan. um just the amount of and to be
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someone that’s covering the program because there are some interesting people that are running uh the major sports over at LSU. They have
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interesting things to say. They’re interesting personalities. Even Jay Johnson who’s a guy that uh doesn’t make too many waves uh every now and then. Uh
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he gives you some good stuff. I thought what he said after the game against Kentucky was one of his better postgame press conferences. We’ll get into that.
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But even just the the last few days here in the world of LSU sports with the uh the Will Way news coming down Friday,
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the heartbreaking buzzer beater loss on Friday night for the Lady Tigers. And the ball’s still going around the hoop.
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[laughter]
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Three revolutions.
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Yeah. And then LSU baseball coming from behind down seven to to beat Kentucky 17- 10. And then uh Will Wade’s uh press
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conference on Monday, which was it kind of went like how I expected it to guys. I mean, it was a pep rally.
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It was a pep rally media. It really wasn’t a press conference,
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but he delivered he delivered the the the sound bites. He he said exactly what LSU fans were hoping to hear him say.
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And um we’re off and running now with Will Wade. Uh, we’ll we’ll see if the sequel is uh as good or better than the original.
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What do you think it’ll be?
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Man, that’s a good question. I think it’ll be entertaining. Um, I think the SEC is different now, but I think I think he’ll be productive.
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There was a question that I was going to ask later on in the show. I don’t want to bring it up right now, but I’ll bring it up later. I mean, out of these out of these between Lane Keifin, Jay Johnson,
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Kim Moy, and and Will Wade, who’s going to be the first one that’s not going to be the head coach, but we could talk about that a little bit later, but you already got the firing.
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Well, no, I’m not saying necessarily firing. He could have a retiring in there as well. Um or leaving or Yeah. And I’m not an AI bot. I’m, you
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know, this is this is going to be radio discussion maybe later on in the show,
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but um I I you know, Wade’s got a seven-year contract and I I think he’s going to be here for a majority of it,
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if not all of it.
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You don’t think there’s enough to go around? Is that what you’re saying? I think there’s uh a lot of egos,
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personalities, there’s a lot of money that’s belt I don’t want to say belt tightening, but there the expectations
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are really really high. And not salary money, roster money. Yeah. That’s what they’re going to be fighting over. Yeah. Yeah.
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Um but uh yeah, it’s amazing. I mean,
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Will Wade spoke on Monday and Lane Keifin speaking on Tuesday today was kind of an afterthought, [laughter] you know, the former rock star. Now Will
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Wade’s the lead singer for a little while. [laughter] It’s kind of like David Lee Roth and and uh Sammy Hagar flipping off there.
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But uh no, I I think you know it is it is a different league. The SEC is better than it was when Wade was here last time. And it it is a little harder to
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get players because everybody’s paying for players now as opposed to just Will and some other guys back when he was here the first time.
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But, you know, e even if a even if even while Wade was cheating as LSU’s coach, he still had to know how to recruit.
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Mhm.
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And and and all the coaches in history that have cheated, they still got to know how to recruit because there’s a lot of coaches who were cheating that still weren’t any good.
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Right. [laughter] One of the things that I always and I even saw this with um when he was at McNees,
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there’s a a particular type of player that he’s always looking for. And I I think he’s always done a very good job
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in recruiting guys and having a vision for them. And I think he he’s done very
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well with that. And that to me is one of his I think that’s one of his specialties of of being a coach. And when you look at his coaching record,
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he’s never had a losing season. He’s won four regular season championships now at Yeah. four regular season championships
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at three different stops. Um he I understand North Carolina State two years ago was in the final four but
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still first year there 20 win season get into the f the first four the guy just Yeah. And the team he inherited was pretty bad.
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Yeah. and after the Final Four, the year after.
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And I think there was I think for Wade, he re you know, some of the stuff that he said, especially after the ACC tournament, I I think
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there was a I think he really didn’t mean it. That he he planned to come back for year number two and it was going to
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be a different basketball team. I think players more that players that he the
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different type of players obviously and I think he really thought that he was going to get that program really moving in the right direction and then
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Oh, no. I think he was thinking of leaving for several weeks.
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Yeah. But I and that and that and that makes you wonder how how much his heart was in it when they lost eight of their last 10 games.
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Maybe so. Maybe so. But but he I mean he didn’t just decide to come to LS.
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No, he didn’t. No, he didn’t. I I understand that. But I think there were still some things that he needed asurances for, including have making sure Heath Freyer was here.
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Oh, right. Right. Yeah. I thought you were Yeah.
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saying that about North Carolina State didn’t come through. I mean, he was only there a year, right? Right.
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They couldn’t come through. But to answer your question of a minute ago, I think they’re going to be better and I think he’s going to get to be about as good as he was before. It just might
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take him a little longer. But he’s he’s gonna win, man. I I I think they’re going to win immediately. I I think they’re going to be hovering around 500
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in the SEC next year and then they’ll move on from there. What do you think, Todd?
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I think he’s going to have a top tier salaried roster and I think he’s going to have the best players that he can
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possibly get that money can buy. And I think that they’re going to have excitement galore next year and they’re
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going to finish in the top four of the SEC.
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Wow. top four. See, I I could see more of a 500 type season in league play. Um,
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just because you got so much to build up here.
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Yeah, I think he’ll be in the top half of the of the league.
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Do you do you think his roster budget will go up from 12 or 13 million to like 20 million? I think when you add the
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12.5 million that I’m convinced NIL is going to give to him plus the 3 million
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from revenue share you’re at 15.5 million and that puts him like three or four in the SEC based on this year. Okay.
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And I think that’s right where they will finish.
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And then he interesting sorry because they have zero players on April the 7th more than likely right now.
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Yeah. with Mazy Mosley entering the portal or saying he’s going to enter the portal today. That that’s four of the
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remaining six players they had with eligibility left. So,
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I think he should try to keep some of the guys that are well that are here.
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He’s already talked to six of them and four of them are in the portal right now. So,
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but but how but we don’t know if he wanted them or not. He could have spoke to them, but we don’t know if he wanted them. Well, he said if they wanted to be here,
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he wanted them here. Oh, he he did say that. Well, he he said that in a press conference yesterday. He says a lot of things. [laughter]
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Well, uh let’s hear a little bit from what uh Will Wade had to say. Uh let let’s uh let’s hear from uh this is one
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I think one of my favorite things that he had to say. This will be a Will Wade three. Andre,
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I want everybody to know with LSU basketball like our time is now with LSU basketball. I didn’t come here to reflect and talk about the past and any
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of that stuff. I came here to win and we’re going to win immediately.
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[applause]
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LSU and Louisiana deserves a winner and that’s what we’re going to deliver and we’re going to deliver that in short order. In short order. Listen, everybody
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has this notion like LSU basketball is not meant to be average, mediocre or pretty good. You can throw that stuff out. That’s not who we are. That’s not
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who we are. This this program
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[cheering]
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this program is meant to be great. This program is meant to compete at the highest levels of college basketball night in and night out. And as we say down here, it just means more.
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Just a passion from Will Wade. That that’s what great stuff.
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You know, that’s [clears throat] what that’s what’s been missing. It see what the fan base wants. That’s what this is going to excite the fan base.
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But that’s not the the the substance of what LSU has done.
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LSU didn’t go on a coaching search here. They went out and executed a plan.
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They plan to bring in and build the revenue for the only other sport besides football that makes money for this
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program that was basically apathetically dying.
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Yes. And so they said, “Hey, if we’re going to pump some money into this,
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we’re going to make some money out of it.” And they’re they’re putting their money where their mouth is. Now they’re,
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you know, Matt Musa asked uh asked Will Wade yesterday about, you know, the commitment on the roster and and the
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comment was basically uh there is no commitment, but but at the same time, he said,
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“We’re going to spend as much as we need to spend.” So there is no ceiling apparently either. But the reality of it
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is is they’re going to they are going to spend way more than they spent with Matt
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McMahon because they believe that the return on that investment is going to be there. This is like a professional team
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who’s executing a a roster build that is and and I believe this too. I believe that Will
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Wade knows exactly who his 13 to 15 players are going to be. Oh yeah. Exactly.
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Yeah. I remember when he was hired at McNiss and as soon as that transfer portal window was open, he was getting commitments left and right. I mean, it’s
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crazy how he’s able to identify and that’s what I was talking about a few minutes ago. Uh here’s let’s go ahead and play Will Wade four here, Andre,
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about the identity of the teams that he wants here at LSU. We’re going to be rooted in aggression. We’re going to be rooted in toughness.
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We’re going to be rooted in discipline.
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And we’re going to recruit competitors that want to play that way. We’re going to rec recruit competitors that understand what it means to put those three letters across your chest every
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day. You won’t find anybody that’s more proud to wear that LSU and state of Louisiana than this guy right here. And we’re going to find 15 players that are willing to lay it on the line for us every night.
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Go ahead and play five, too. Um because that that’s a good followup to this.
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We’re going to come back. We’re have a top 10 offense and a top 10 defense at the same time, which will allow us to compete at the level that we want to compete at. [applause]
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Defensively, we’re going to be disruptive. We’re going to play aggressive defensive defensively and be disruptive. Offensively, we’re going to be relentless attacking the paint,
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attacking the rim. Then, we’re going to have the details and discipline with our special teams. All right.
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So, he’s never been a great defensive coach, but he did say yesterday that he’s learned how what the formula is,
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and he he’s promising a top 10 defense and a top 10 offense next year. He knows who his players are going to be.
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All right, let’s uh take our first break of the show. Come back, we’ll dive into some more of the stuff that will Wade uh
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talked about. We’ll have to get to some LSU baseball talk. got to talk some Lady Tigers as well. And again, if you’re not
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able to uh catch the entire show, uh it will be available up on YouTube once the show is over with. And also you can catch us wherever you get your podcast.
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You know, we’re coming back to make history. We’re going to make history one way or the other. We’re coming back,
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like Dr. Roose said, to try to hang a banner, win a national championship, or I’m going to be the first coach fired from the same school twice. But one way
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or another, one way or another, we’re going to make history and it’s going to be a it’s going to be a uh it’s going to be a fun ride one way or the other.
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Ain’t no doubt about that.
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That was a great line there from Will Wade. And and when he said that, that was the first I would say the first humorous line of his press conference. I said, “He’s back. [laughter] He’s back.”
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When he said that, that was a great line. I believe him too [laughter]
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because LSU has made such a big huge commitment here financially. Yeah. They literally are saying we’re we’re going
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for it all and if they don’t get it, it is going to backfire and but I think they will get it. Yeah.
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And I think Well, what what do you deem as success for LSU men’s basketball? To me, it’s
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11, 12, 14 million worth of revenue generated, maybe even more than that in
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terms of sponsorships that is brand new and driven. Uh, packed assembly, a packed PMAC, um,
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special promotions and event sponsorships and things like that that they have absolutely no chance of pulling off under their right present.
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I get that. But as far as winning, how far I mean is there a mandate for him to win a national championship? Like I don’t think so.
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No, it’s a it’s a to be relevant and and he wants to win the national championship and and they’re going to try and they’re going to be competing at
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that level. You know, the bottom line is is if they make it next year into the NCAA tournament and win week one and win week two,
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that’s a successful season.
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That’s hugely successful. And then if you make it that far, you can go all the way.
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Well, what I was thinking is like pretty much what he nearly did in his first five-year run if it wasn’t for co four NCAA tournament appearances in five years.
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Yeah, you’re going to have a year where you just Well, yeah. His first year here, he didn’t he didn’t make the tournament, but there was still a lot of excitement.
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And that could happen this year. They could sell out the building, have a decent season, and not make the NCA tournament. That’s still a success. But
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why? What’s stopping them from being in the top upper echelon of the SEC right now? It’s
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not You don’t have two years to build the program anymore. You’ve got the financial commitment to build your
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roster, go get the players that you need and turn it around right now. And then you got to lather, rinse, and repeat and do it all over again the next year.
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But that’s what all the other schools are doing, too. They can’t all do it at the same time.
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No, but LSU is making a commitment to do it.
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Well, okay. But they might not be able to do it in the first quarter.
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Of course, they may not be able to. Only a couple of them are going to be why not LSU. Why not LSU?
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I agree with you. But maybe not the first year though. It might What’s the difference between first year and the fifth year?
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Development and and he’s going to keep some players. He even said there might be sticker shock on his first portal class, but he’s going to keep the guy.
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So that means they get a little better the second year. Just just like Kein. I think I think he’s in a better point than though than Kein because of the familiarity of the terrain here at LSU.
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Fewer and fewer players.
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He also said the last couple years he was here at LSU before, even though the SEC wasn’t nearly as good as it is now, that he was only operating at 60%
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because of all the penalties and things against him.
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I found that a very interesting statement. I never I never really looked at it that way that he they were still having success and the sanctions hadn’t come in yet. I don’t know what he was talking about.
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Well, but there were still some selfimposed penalties that the school had put on themselves to try and deflect and he was also
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but not immediately later. But he was hamstrung. Uh he was not allowed. I mean he was Scott when especially when Scott
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Woodward took over his ad he was they were he had all eyes on him. He couldn’t do anything crazy.
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The reality of it is and he couldn’t be on the phone talking with recruits.
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They had recruiting restrictions. They couldn’t go visit as many times as other play as other teams could. They couldn’t
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make as many phone calls. They they were restricted for the last couple years. Last couple years.
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And and I would imagine some of the under the table deals were axed because he was caught on an FBI. I mean, some of
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that had to be he was still cheating until the very end.
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There’s no doubt about it. But but only at 60%. He was [laughter] only cheating at 60%. That’s probably that that might be a good way to look at it.
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Uh here was another great line from Will Wade yesterday. Uh this is going to be Will Wade number seven, Andre about uh how he left North Carolina State.
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I’m I’m at peace with with with how I left. I’m at peace with what we did. And um you know, look, I mean, they’re pretty mad for a coach they didn’t think was very good. So,
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another great oneliner from Will.
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They’re mad because they lovebombed them. That’s what I learned that term today. I didn’t know that. Love them.
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That’s actually a great uh what’s comparison right there, Tom.
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Well, and they thought they’d have him for more than one year, even though his first year was a little disappointing and ended weekly, eight of 10 losses,
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but they were still much better. That’s what love bombing than last year. Love bombing. Love bombing. Sorry, Andre. You got this.
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Love bombing is whenever you meet somebody and they tell you everything that you want to hear and then all of a sudden they pull the rug out from under
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you and they’re gone. because as late as last week he was saying everything they wanted to hear. It’s like leading you on. Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean Yeah. And uh who was the guy we had on Glenn two weeks ago? Freedellander.
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Freedellander who was pretty sure that 70%.
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Yeah. Will was not going anywhere. And I thought there was a lot of people in denial. There’s still a lot of people in denial here. When when you had the story
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uh Glenn of Heath Shroyer coming here, I said March 13th I said it’s that that’s a done deal. if if he’s coming, he Shroyer is not coming
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here unless Will Wade’s coming here. And at that point, I’m like, “Okay, this thing’s really going to happen.” Uh he he was the necessary person they needed,
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a buffer between Will Wade and Verge Osbury. Not to say that those two guys hate each other, but you have to figure there’s got to be some trust issues just
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because Verge was I don’t think so, man. I I I I think a I’m not saying that uh Verge is I think Verge really wants Will Wade now,
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but I I but I think from W. I’m sure there were things that were told to him during when all this stuff and it still came from Woodward SLOs.
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Yeah, but that was that was Woodward’s call on on I I understand that, but still Verge is the right-hand man. It’s kind of like dealing with the it’s like dealing with the vice president, you know? I mean,
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it’s just it’s that regime. there was still he needed he needed Heath there just to be the guy to to kind of buffer
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it it there and that’s the guy I’m going to report to I don’t need to go to Verge all the time I’m going to go to Heath instead maybe so maybe so in Will’s mind but I
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think Will is going to be an excellent coach at LSU even if all these MC people weren’t here okay [laughter]
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because Will’s a good coach and he doesn’t need all those people now they need some people doing that but it doesn’t have to be those guys but it just happens It’s a that way now.
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It’s a comfort level.
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I think you’re underestimating Heath Heath’s role.
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Oh, no. I think Heath has a big role. I just think there’s a lot of people out there that can do it.
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I think he’s got a hotline into some huge money. Yes.
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And I think that’s exactly why he’s here and that’s exactly why Wade wanted him.
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Not just because he likes him, but because he thinks he can get him the revenue that he needs to be successful here.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with Glenn Gilbo and Todd Horn as we continue on from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Let’s get right to our
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first guest of the night. That is Peter Burns from the SEC Network. Peter, how you doing tonight, man?
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Man, I um I’m doing I’m doing decent. I mean, I’m sitting here talking to you guys and and once again, Baton Rouge,
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Louisiana is the home of everybody’s talking points between spring football and Will Wade and Moy and Jay Johnson. I
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mean, it’s a it’s a damn good uh day to be alive, to be a Tiger fan.
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Well, what do you make out of the fact that it seems like LSU has uh become the heel here? They’re the villain. Uh do do you do you uh like a lot of the LSU fan
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base say, “Yeah, that’s right. Who if you don’t like us, too bad. It’s the reason why you don’t like us is because you don’t have what we got.” Is that how you look at it?
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I I remember one of the first people that ever one of the the vice president Fox Sports Radio when I first started uh radio, one of my first shows after a
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commercial break, he goes and I said something that was kind of controversial and he and and I said, “Man, I don’t know if I should have said that.” He goes, “You got two, you know, there’s
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three different ways in life. either people are going to love you, they’re going to hate you, or they’re going to be in between. And you don’t want to ever be in between. [laughter] And I was
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like, well, that that is that is Verge and and the and the governor and all of that coming together in the 225 right
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now. Like, if you’re an LSU fan, you love it. And if you’re not, you you hate it. And that’s okay. At least you have
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an opinion about it. And and again, I you know, on paper, it’s $200 million um of investment over the next two years,
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but I broke it down on my radio show a couple days ago that as long as football carries the weight, as long as Lane makes the college football playoff in
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back-to-back seasons and hopefully at least one deep run, then the finances of it actually pay off. You’re going to get
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that in athletic revenue. You’re going to get that in donations and booster support. and you’re probably going to get another uptick because it’s already the strongest brand in college sports in
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out of state tuition which is only going to give you a little bit more money in the coffers as well.
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So why does the rest of the country paint LSU as a villain right now? Just put it in plain English.
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Well, I mean they look at it as the fact of all right well Will Wade was caught on a a federal wire tap and he got
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fired. Okay. And and and and removed back in the day. So all of a sudden,
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wait a minute, you’re bringing this guy back. Okay, that’s that’s one part of it. People are going to hate LSU baseball just cuz they win national championships. They’re going to hate Kim
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Moi because she’s won a national championship. She’s got a different little cander about her. And they’re going to hate Lane Keifin just because he knows how to troll and he trolled everybody on his way out of Oxford. So,
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I mean, I think those are all the the storylines and that they always don’t like LSU to begin with because it’s the best damn fans in in in the country.
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What do you think Will Wayade does next year at LSU? Needs to make the tournament. I mean,
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that you know that that was that’s the thing for Will is is Will loves LSU. LSU loves Will, right? And so now you you
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sit there and go, “All right, what can you bring down to Baton Rouge, right? I mean, and the question was and and obviously strong ass offers, you know,
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back in the day, you know, was that kind of the same world that Hugh Fes lived in at Old Miss where they had some players
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down there that might have been out, you know, in in down in Mississippi that weren’t necessarily just there for the scholarship. Well, when Hugh Fes got
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back to Auburn when everybody could do it, he didn’t stand out. So, the question is is all right, if Will comes
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back in here, can he stand out? And I think he’s a firestorm enough of a guy and a good co coach that he can stand out. And LSU is gonna have talent. Hell,
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Matt McMahon was able to get talent.
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Just they were banged up and they could never just get the support. And now Will’s going to have that support behind him to get a roster together and make a tournament.
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So Matt McMahon was not a bad X’s and O’s basketball coach. He just never could get the support Yeah.
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that he needed and he couldn’t go fight his own fights to get the support that he needed. you agree with that or disagree with that?
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No, I I think I believe in that because I mean I think I think the you know I I said the Brian Kelly and Matt McMahon situations were very similar in the fact
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that when they decided what they were going to do were they going to stay the course or they were going to make a change. They went to the the powerful power brokers and the people with the
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money and those people said, “You know what? If you decide to run it back one more year with these guys, the money’s dried up. I I I just can’t. But if you
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make a change and it’s this person in football it was Lane Keifin in basketball it’s Will. Well all of a sudden maybe I might be able to open up
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my wallet. So you know Verge and the and the university president and and and even hell all the way up to the governor
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have to decide are you going to have to pay a premium to get people excited and to donate back into the program. And
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that’s why this is going to be a great litmus test across the country on whether or not a big investment like this is is is it a home run or does it end up being a strikeout?
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There’s nothing to stop Will Wade Arlane Kevin from being successful in year one now the way the sports are built,
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right? So, realistically,
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Wade should make the tournament. And even though Kein has to play nine SEC
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games and a very, very difficult schedule, he should at least show progress over that seven and six team last year.
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Yeah. And progress will not cut it. I mean, I mean, anything less than nine and three is an absolute disaster for Lane in the first year. And truthfully,
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it needs to be a college football playoff birth. I mean, you know, can you be one of the tw top teams? You have a great recruiting class. You have a a
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brilliant offensive mind and and Charlie going to be calling the plays. You still got Blake Baker there who’s I think one of the best defensive minds. You got Lane who’s the portal king and he’s
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landed all these guys. You know, I I would be vastly extremely disappointed um if it isn’t a college football
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playoff team. And and that’s why because that’s why you brought Lane in there.
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And I think a lot of people were earlier, you know, last week we’re talking, you know, with Lane going, “Oh,
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we need patience.” I don’t think people understood that the full the full part of that conversation. That quote had nothing to do with patient this year.
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That meant more patient here in spring football and patient building up to this upcoming season because Lane knows like
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you don’t spend however many millions and millions or tens of millions of dollars to go throw out nine and three in that schedule, right? You don’t.
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Well, but sometimes the portal players don’t work out. That’s what happened to Nate Oats this year. Sometimes those guys Kein two years ago.
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Yeah. And it happened to Kein and when he had the number one class at all miss in 24. They they were better this past year. Sometimes it doesn’t work out and
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he he might go 9 and three and MC and Wade might not make the NCA tournament this year, but they’re not going to get
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fired. And and and their portal classes are still going to be good, especially Lanes because he really signed two portal classes.
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So I I think I think the key is more the the second year for for both of them. I will, but I I I say that, but then
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again, how many of those people have have put their money that you that that that you know, Tiger Athletic Foundation and all the NIL stuff, how many times
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have they made got, you know, got a picked up their phone cuz somebody’s begging, you know, asking them for more money to donate and they donated and
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they don’t they’re not patient. Rich people are not patient, my friend. Like they, if you’re going to give money to it, you want you want something to happen right here, right now. They don’t
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care. They don’t want excuses. They don’t want, oh, well, the schedule’s really tough. Oh, well, we’ll get them in two years from now. That’s not because if you don’t get it in year one,
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what’s going to happen is the next time you call, are those people willing to give more or less?
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They won’t have to give more. They won’t have to give more the second year because Lane and uh Will are both spending heavy the first year. That’s what that’s what’s happening.
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But, but then but but guess what? You know what happens if they’re not, you know, they can go all in on this first year, but if it doesn’t hit and let’s
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say they go eight and four, even nine and three and don’t make the playoffs, what do you think they’re going to do? Spend less money the next year?
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No. It’s like a guy that’s at at the blackjack table and he’s he’s down. He’s going to he’s going to spend even more money and say, “Well, we’re already pot committed. We have to go after it.” Now,
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I say that with with the same sense that I believe that Lane will get them to the College Football Playoff. I believe in
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Lane and especially this roster and this hell yeah this coaching staff and I believe Will will do that as well too and they know what they’re walking into
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like they they understand that there’s a lot of pressure. We talked about it on our show. I think there’s two coaches that have an unbelievable amount of pressure in SEC football this year.
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Number one’s Lane Keifin and number two Steve Sarkeesian. Yeah.
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And it’s and it’s not it’s not because they’re coaching for their jobs. It’s because you can’t have Arch Manning coming back and land Cam Coleman and
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have, you know, a $40 million roster, no different than LSU, can’t spend all this money on this coaching staff and all these changes and buyouts and not expect to be in the playoff in year one.
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Well, how it would be something else if uh that game in November in Tiger Stadium. Uh I know it’s not the last game, but that game goes a long way in
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deciding who makes the college football playoff out of those two. Peter, can we take a quick two-minute break and then bring you back just for a few more minutes after that? Yes, that means I don’t have to put the kids to bed. So,
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yeah, [laughter] I’m absolutely good for that.
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Peter Burns from the SEC Network. We’ll have more of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio when we come back.
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Live from [music] Super Chevy Dealer Studio. We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio. Yeah, we are back on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Jeff Palmo along with Todd Horn, Glenn Gilbo, Andre Shampine. Let’s get right back to our guest, Peter Burns from the SEC Network. Hello.
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Yeah, there you go. There you go. There you go. Hey, Peter. Uh, let me ask you a question. Uh, LSU spring practice,
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practice number four today, postgame press conference. Kein’s saying, you know, you got to you got to take this slow. We’re just getting to know each other, etc., etc.,
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but he complains that they he wishes they were executing better, especially in the passing game. You sunk $5 million
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roughly into Sam Levitt. He’s gimpy right now.
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Does that concern you at all heading into Given’s first season?
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Yeah, I mean to a certain extent. I mean that was part of the deal right when whether it was Deont Williams or who they were chasing is the fact of there was musical chairs at the quarterback
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situation. And I was always a little bit worried of like, hey, are you going to put a bunch of money into a person coming off of an injury who’s not going
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to be 100% in spring practice? And then I go back and look at it and they go,
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“Well, I can remember when Jaden Daniels didn’t have spring practice at LSU and he he did all right, you know, like he he figured it out.” So Chambers, too.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, again, that’s a great that’s a great point. So there is concern. Um there’s no doubt because you want to have him at a skill set, but
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right now this is more about learning the the team, learning the concepts, learning the install and what it’s like.
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So, it’s, you know, I I look at it still as, you know, it’s so funny because I remember, you know, now now Glenn and guys, I I’ll tell you how old I am and
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we’re all kind of the same age. Back at back back in the day, there really wasn’t that much spring football,
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especially with new guys that got on the team. You didn’t see them until fall practice. And so, I’m I again not too concerned right now. I’m more concerned
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if you said, “Hey, they’re not going to be able to run the ball.” Because as much as they think as much of people think that Lane Keifin is a throw the
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ball first offense guy, he he definitely is more of a run first guy. You know,
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when you when you look at the the the run pass breakdown. So that’s the one thing that LSU has to do better this year if they really want to compete for
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a College Football National Championship.
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So LSU right now, I believe they’re an 11 and a half point favorite over Clemson on opening day. [laughter]
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That’s crazy. I I got spring football and God bless football, right? Yeah.
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Realistically, what do you think that that day is going to look like or that night is going to look like in Tiger Stadium?
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Uh, you know, it’s it’s going to be just a new journey, like a new beginning. And and I think that’s the biggest part of
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it is it’s not even so much it’s that it’s Clemson. It’s the fact that it’s Lane. this is the guy that you chased.
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This is the homecoming queen that you wanted to land and you did. And so now what does this look like, right? You know, and I think that’s that’s kind of
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the situation right now. And and it’s going to be electric. And I’ll tell you what, as electric as Tiger Stadium is going to be, it will pale in comparison
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to how electric Oxford, Mississippi is going to be in that first SEC opener when Lane returns to the Grove and to the Square and to, you know, VA. I mean,
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that that’s going to be the biggest football game, honestly. I I said it a couple days ago, there are three games in the last 15 years, guys, that have stood out.
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It was Texas and&M the first time they played again at Kyle Field a couple years ago. That was a huge one. It was
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number one versus number two. LSU Bama in 2011 in Tuscaloosa. And it’s LSU, Miss and Oxford this upcoming season.
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Yeah. Yeah, I would agree. I mean, those uh those three those three games will be impressive. Peter, thanks a lot, man,
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for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it.
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Can’t wait, boys. Going to be a hell of a run.
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Yes, it will be. It will be. And it’s as he’s saying it, as he said it, it’s going to be a journey. It is a uh it’s not going to be a one-year wonder with
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Lane. It’s going to be this what I think at least four years or so of uh and then we’ll see beyond that. Whatever
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may may or may not happen. Maybe five or six. Yes, something like that. Who knows who might what what other opportunity may open up
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for him. But uh it is going to be a journey and it’s going to be fun and it’s going to be interesting and there’s going to be twists and turns along the way. Let’s take our final break of hour
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number one. We’ll have more of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio when we come back.
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Now [music] back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. [music]
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Palmo along with Tiger Rag editor Gwen Gilbo and the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn. Uh we’ll have
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Jacques Duceay on from WFB. He was out in Sacramento. turned out to be a shorter trip out west than many of the
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uh media conglomerate and the LSU women’s basketball team thought. But um and we’ll get into that and and a lot of other topics here with Jacques.
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Was was Jock out there primarily to cover Kim’s retirement? [laughter] What about all that?
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It’s craziness. It’s absolutely craziness.
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And there, you know, and there was one about a week before that Patino was going to retire. Same type thing. Yeah. same guy on Twitter probably.
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I don’t know if it was the same guy, but you know, Kim did have that that illness um a year or so. So that she she had a heart issue.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And um you know,
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so I could see why some people took the bait right off. Well, and I and Patino’s 72 as well.
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Yeah. And there’s just not many I I’ve alluded to this myself. There’s just in this world of college athletics, more
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and more of these coaches are are bailing, especially once they get up to the age that Kim is at. I mean, you see very few coaches that are
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well, there was 60 plus.
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Well, there was like about four of the men’s coaches that were in the Sweet 16 that were all late 60s and 70s.
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Uh like Caliperry was one of them and and and Patino. But yeah, thank thank goodness that that wasn’t true. But yeah, it’s you got to be real careful,
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man, because it’s easy to fall for one and hit that retweet, you know.
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Well, yeah. And it’s just a it’s a shame because there is just no consequences for the person behind this AI account or
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whatever the heck it is that is is firing these things off.
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But but I will and you know, Kim Kim made a point. She said that that makes y’all look bad. It does say that and it especially since okay let’s say you see
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that on Twitter and then there’s a Kim Moy press conference you know as a a reporter if I was there I would have like asked the SID or ask
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somebody around LSU before the press conference before you just throw that question out there because that’s kind of sensitive you know people don’t want to hear about their retiring.
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Well it was the uh one of the main uh ba women’s basketball writers for ESPN that was the one that asked the question. Yeah. Well that’s what I’m saying.
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That’s that’s need to do a little background.
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I’m glad that person did because it made for made for wonderful theater. Exactly. [laughter]
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Oh, great. Jeff, you just brought journalism back 20 years.
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Yeah. I mean, he gave me a story on Friday.
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Well, and that was the thing. I was like, uh, me, you know, when they lost,
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uh, I’m texting with my assistant news director, uh, uh, Andrew, and I’m saying, you know what? I’m just going to go through the sound tomorrow and we’ll see what we got. You know, if it’s just,
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you know, and we were trying to figure out what sound we were going to use on Monday. And for whatever reason, something compelled me, you know what?
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I’m going to stay up the extra 20 minutes because I was tired. I was exhausted on Friday. Um, watched a bad LSU baseball game and then, you know,
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you you see that shot go down and that was and and it was an intense game in the last few minutes. I mean, that was about as intense of a a women’s
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basketball game that I can remember. And so I was like I was drained. I was emotionally drained. I was ready to go to sleep.
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It wasn’t a bad baseball game, but go ahead. Yeah, they lost. Well, but they can lose and still play.
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It was a good game to watch. They they almost pulled it out. You’re resultoriented [laughter] Cuban.
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They had to tie and run. Yeah, they had to tie. Whatever. It was seven to2. you threw dirt on and I know they only lost
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seven to four, but regardless, I was Hey, if they would have got the pitcher out one inning before, Jay says they would have probably won the game,
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but my journalism instinct told me I got to stay up and see what Kim has to say.
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And I’m glad I did. And then all of a sudden, I’m up an extra hour and a half more than I thought because I had to put a story together. Boy, you got a sharp instinct.
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[laughter]
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Some some people were saying some people believe the retirement story because that’s when the Will Wade story was breaking. So she’s like, I’m out of here. Will Wade’s coming in. I’m out of
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I’m not going to get any more uh roster money.
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But she she does fuel the fire when and we could ask Jacques about this when she made that comment to those reporters there about
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oh here’s Will Wade’s f favorite reporters. I don’t know why she does that.
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She is every bit of a a provocator as as there is anywhere.
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What did she mean by that? You I don’t know. We’ll ask when we come back. She meant what she said, [laughter] which was what?
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What? Why are you here? You should be covering Will Way.
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Yeah. No, there’s there’s there’s some there’s there’s a little It’s hard to get from Sacramento to back that fast, but All right, we got we got to go. We’ll be back after this.
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fantastic work for Tiger Rag and the Louisiana Radio Network. Wears many hats around here. Let’s bring in another guy that uh zips around the country and is all over the place. That’s Jacques Duce,
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who was out in Sacramento. It was a shorter stay than most people would have thought as LSU women’s basketball was
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eliminated in the Sweet 16. And I was talking to Jacques, thanks a lot for being on the show. Um, I was talking to
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Patrick Wright, I think it was on Sunday, of course, the voice of the Lady Tigers. And I said, “Hey man, where does that loss rank in your tenure as the voice of the Lady Tigers?” And he said,
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“It’s right up there with Van Chancellor’s final or the the one season that he did bring LSU to final four. If you
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remember, LSU lost to Heartbreaker in the semifinals that season in the national semifinals. Uh what was that
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postgame like outside of the whole uh retirement thing which that was a whole separate saga but just the way they lost
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the way they came back to take the lead showed a lot of grit showed a lot of fight determination and then to lose it
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on a and it wasn’t a swish. It wasn’t a shot off the backboard and in. It’s a it’s spinning around the rim and you’re like is it going in? Is it going out? Is
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it going in? Is it going out? and they lose that way and uh for this to all of a sudden come to a sudden end Johnson’s
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career at LSU comes to an end all that Jacqu where does that kind of where do you put that as far as covering that postgame scene
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well I was at the game in Tampa Florida in 2008 when Van Champser was at the final four uh a young lady by the name
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of Alexis Hornbuckle who I did not who I think did not make a bucket the entire game got a rebound and put it hack. Uh,
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it was a it was a rough game. I think it was 4847 was the final.
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Yeah. Yeah, I was at that one, too. That was crazy, man. [laughter] Alexis Hornbuckle. I forgot about that. Yeah, she had no points that game.
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That’s right, John.
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Yeah, it’s that’s Don’t ask me anybody else on that Tennessee team, but I remember that name. Alexis Hornbuckle.
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Uh, yeah, that was Van Chancellor. He was like he they’ve been to the final four four straight years. I’m not going to screw it up, you know.
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[laughter]
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and uh his first year they went to the final four and then they didn’t go back until 2023. There was a 15-year gap there. But uh
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that that was rough. Uh certainly I remember the first final four of that run it was in New Orleans and I think
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you know Tama Johnson lost the ball and Tennessee laid it in at the very end.
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Right. They were setting up like the game-winning shot.
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She was dribbling it up into the front court and got her pocket picked and it was a layup the other way. That was brutal. Complete reversal. Yeah.
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A lot a lot like the Duke game the other day.
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Yeah. That was in New Orleans. Uh exactly.
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Uh in in the Smoothie King and uh you know I I remember and then on the men’s side I was in Pittsburgh in 2015. Johnny
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Jones. That name has come up in the last couple days. Uh [laughter]
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the the one team that he had went to the NCAA tournament. They came out like gang busters. They were beating NC State by I think 16 in the first half. They looked
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like a final four team. Then in the second half they just died and uh NC State rolled a shot in at the buzzer and didn’t box out. Didn’t box out on the
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rebound. Guy scor that was tough. That was tough man.
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That I I remember Jordan Mickey man he was just sobbing like a baby and that was that locker room was a morg and that that was the same thing the other night.
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You know, uh I I heard Gina Oramma talk about the bad shooting percentages and how the NCAA overinflates these
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basketballs and they they can’t dribble them and the shooting percentages are poor. I thought about that the next day.
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Yeah, that the ball touched every bit of the rim three times. Uh and it looked like it might spin out and spin LSU to
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the Elite 8, but instead it it went down. And so that was a that was definitely a real rough locker room to go into and try to talk to these young
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ladies after the game including Fij Johnson whose career ends. But you know that that’s that’s how it goes. Like when they won the national title in
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Sweet 16, they played Utah and some lady went to the line. She was a great free throw shooter. She airled the first one and then missed the second one and you
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know LSU got the breaks and and went to the national championship and won the whole thing. And in this case uh you know Duke Duke made the shot. Uh I I
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just don’t think they ever really obviously they weren’t playing in Baton Rouge with 10 11,000 fans behind them and obviously Duke was a better team
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than the teams they played in Baton Rouge, but they just never really kind of hit their stride and when they did it it was it was too late and uh so it’s
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it’s tough uh when your season ends like that obviously that’s that’s a rough way to for everything to come crash into a thud. Jacques, in the moment whenever
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LSU had, you know, I think they went on a 12 12 to one run to take the lead with 10.9 seconds to play or whatever it was
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there at the end and then they, you know, Duke shot from the corner, ended up getting possession of the ball, 2.9 seconds left. Were you thinking,
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honestly, that LSU was going to win the game at that point? I I didn’t like it. I I I when they did
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not get the rebound on Duke missing the shot, I’m thinking you just gave him another chance to win the game. And uh I
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think throughout the game that Duke kind of out hustled LSU for some loose balls.
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I think that’s going on all season really. And uh you look I like Kate Kaval, I like Amaya Joiner, but they
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need to go out and throw some NIL money at a post, a dog in the post so to speak to get those because they’re lacking in that in that
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in that area. they can get if they can get Malaysia full wy back, Michaela Williams, Jada Reard, these outstanding
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freshman like Grace Knox and Zakayia Johnson and they can add a post or two.
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That would that would be a big uh be a big help. But yeah, to answer your question, I didn’t feel good about it when they didn’t get the rebound there and u you know, Duke got one more shot
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and then I guess the uh the Duke men paid for it because the basketball guys paid him back [laughter] and uh they they lost on that long shot. So,
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well, and and then you you got the scoop on on Kim retiring afterwards.
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[laughter]
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Yeah. I mean, look, the one thing I hate is media police. I I don’t like to be somebody who who like tells some people
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how to do their job, but these the these clowns are not media. They they are um it’s AI. They were AI generated. This
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Tyler Dagel and this Joseph Abear, I joked, you might as well call them Budro and Tibido.
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[laughter]
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It’s it’s it’s like it’s like the Wizard of Oz really. It is a real person behind a curtain who’s pulling strings. And um
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and look, just remove me from the equation. Uh the people like Michael Cowell, Chessa Boucher, uh Reed Darcy,
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uh uh Corey Diaz, the people that go to all the games, all the press conferences, and cover the team all year long and are at this press conference
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afterwards have to deal with this mess when some national reporter says, “Oh,
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Kim, the Tiger Insider says you’re retiring.” You know, and um and and she answered it the best she could and you
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know, she could wake up tomorrow and decide she’s going to retire. It’s it’s not so much about the information maybe as it is about, you know, as Jerry
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Seinfeld said, who are these people? You know, who are these [laughter] people that are put putting this stuff out? And
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then and then it’s like, we all know the rules, right? I mean, if one of us says that Kim Moy’s retiring and and she isn’t or or Matt McMahon’s coming back
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and he isn’t. I mean, that’s on our tombstone, you know? But they they they feel like they’re living by baseball rules and if they go three for
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10, they’re making the Hall of Fame and they’re going to talk about the three hits they had and not the seven strikeouts. So, it just it just upset me really. It just annoys
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the hell out of me, but um I I don’t want to share too much, but from what I understand, this account tweeted from the Will Presser yesterday and they may
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have pieced together some information of where this person was standing and whatnot and identified this person. Oh, triangulation. There we go. [laughter]
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And And is that person in the cellar of the assembly center right now? In the dungeon. He’s in the dungeon.
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I think he’s running suicides for Kim as we speak, [laughter] maybe.
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Well, well, Jacques, was Paul Maner at the assembly center yesterday?
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[laughter]
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Yeah. No, I was not. Todd, I think you know better. Why would you ask something like that? [laughter]
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I don’t guess he’ll be in the I don’t guess he’ll be at LA box either in in early May. So he might he might be he might be hanging out there. He’s He’s [laughter] still
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got his house in St. Gabriel. So we’ll probably see him, man. Yeah, that was that was a tough deal for Paul, man. I mean, I know you you like to do that imitation, but you love Paul as as do I.
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And um that was that was just a tough job. And he uh he had some bad luck and it it’s tough that that goes on his resume.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you look at what he did at Notre Dame and you look at what happened in Notre Dame after he after he left and you look at what he
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did at LSU and I know he wanted more than one national title, but I mean he put out a consistent I mean every week
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when the polls would come out they’re number one, two, three, you know, seven straight years, top eight national seed.
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He had one team that won 54 games that didn’t win a title. He had one game one team that won 57 games that did win a title. I mean, he put a consistent great
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product on the field. You can’t tell me that. No question.
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You can’t tell me that uh South Carolina’s record is a reflection of what kind of coach Paul Maner is. And so, it just it just goes to show you in this new era of NIL transfer portal,
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it’s really hard to judge really who are the good coaches and who aren’t good coaches just because it just feels like you’re just you’re buying your your
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victories. Well, well, speaking of coaches, Jacques, LSU’s got some the some of the biggest personalities when it comes to coaches. How do you see this
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all working out here with Lane, with Kim, with Will, and you know, Jay Johnson as well. All of them are
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expecting to win big. They want to win big. It’s going to take money to make it all happen. Don’t forget Jay Clark.
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Jay Clark as well. That’s that’s pretty good. What about Dennis Shaver? [laughter]
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Dennis Shaver, another national champion.
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The segment’s only so long here, so I can only me mention a few coaches, but uh how does this work, Jacques? How do you think that they can all all these
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coaches can be successful at the same time? Can it be?
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Well, they’re all they’re all fighting over the dollars and uh how it’s divvied up and I think we kind of learned some
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things yesterday in terms of like Verge and his responsibilities and he’s Troyer and his responsibilities. I heard Verge
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say that Zack Greenwell is in charge of NIL fundraising for baseball. I’m like I thought he was like a communications guy, like a media guy. Like he’s in
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charge of raising. So they’re all trying to raise money. You hear that like Lane Tiffen is sucking up every dollar in
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town and what’s left and um but obviously Will Wade wouldn’t come to back to LSU unless he felt like they
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were going to fund his roster. And you know, we interviewed him two years ago and and he was talking about then he’s like, “Look, we we got to a point where
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we were pretty good.” But, uh, to make it people are going to start getting tired of that and say, “Hey, when you when are you going to go to the Final Four and whatnot?” He used to say things
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like, “Tiger time. We’re working on Tiger time around here. Everything’s slow.” Or, “I’ve got two teams to I got two teams I got to play today. Alabama tonight and LSU before noon because of,
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you know, their lack of support for basketball.” So, um, and then Kim Bulki,
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uh, I think has has gotten a pretty, you know, she’s been compensated pretty well in terms of, um, you know, the roster and what they get and, um, you know,
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she’s had no competition. The men’s basketball team has been atrocious and a lot of those people have gravitated over to women’s basketball or gymnastics and
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so now Will Wade will obviously have a better product. So, I it’s going to be fascinating to watch. I think you could do a documentary from October the 25th
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until now in terms of the day they fired Brian Kelly to the day they introduced Will Wade as the new head coach again. Um it’s I it really
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is. I mean that that’s that’s never happened. Has that happened anywhere in any college? I know Patrino was the interim coach, but for a school to fire
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a coach and bring him back again as a head coach is just incredible.
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Yeah. the the only comparison I could find was Billy Martin being fired by the Yankees and brought back by [clears throat] the Yankees four times.
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I don’t think it’s happened on the on the college level quite like that.
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I was I was talking to Jim Ingster about it and he said that he you know the closest comparison he can make and it’s not really the comparison per se, but
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Paul Diesel leaving LSU and [clears throat] coming back as AD that that’s the closest he could come.
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Yeah. Well, he wasn’t fired though when he left LSU, but I know what you’re saying. Yeah.
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Well, Les Miles got fired and retained on the same night against Texas State. That’s true. That’s [laughter] true. That’s good.
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Speaking of Les Miles and football coaches, uh what do you think the You’ve been out at spring practice. What do you think uh Kevin’s looking like out there right now?
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Well, um we’ve been allowed to I’ve been out there twice. Went out there this morning. They’re letting us watch uh some individual drills. I think we’re
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out there for five periods today. So, I appreciate that. I think even Keifin and Michael Bett started the presser in
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terms of it looks like there may maybe even some more give and take in terms of letting us go watch some more practice and do some more stuff in the spring and
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then maybe in, you know, August and the fall it’s going to be shut down completely. But um I you know when he’s out there he’s just kind of watching and
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observing uh you know where where we’re allowed to stand. We we’ve seen Kevin Smith the new running backs coach. He’s real animated. Had a chance to see him
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work with uh with the running backs a lot. Um you know I think the wide receivers are exciting in terms of who they picked up. They picked up uh a lot
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of guys that averaged over 15 yards per catch. And so it looks like they’ve got speed to stretch the field uh which they they they were set up to do last year.
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The problem was Garrett was hurt and couldn’t throw throw the ball down the field. So hopefully Sam Lev is healthy and can and can go and was hurt.
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How is uh how is Sam looked uh throwing the ball and moving around, Jock?
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Well, I I think he’s moving around a little bit more than than maybe we expected. Um I mean they’re not going to do a spring game, right? I mean, so it’s
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just I don’t know what they’re going to do exactly some sort of spring showcase,
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but um you know, they’re doing player interviews on Thursdays. They did them last week. I wasn’t there for that. And they’re going to do them again Thursday.
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I don’t know if we’re ever going to get a chance to talk to Sam in the near future or not, but uh I mean, looks like he’s got a strong arm and can throw it.
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Um he’s got the same thing Matt Maul had, albeit that’s a long time ago. um 2002 and and Matt told me he had, you
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know, he lost some speed running back then, but it made him more of a pocket passer and he threw the ball better from the pocket. So hopefully, you know, two
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decades of me of medicine make uh Levit better. But uh yeah, it’s it’s um it’s kind of hard to tell watching him do
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individual drills. I think Kein said he’s not happy with the offensive execution right now, but he also said,
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“Hey, look, you know, we got 60 new players. This whole thing is new. Uh, so it’s gonna take some time and it’s gonna take some time for you to get your Lane Keifin imitation down. Do
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you get you got anything, Jack? Do you got anything on him yet? Uh, I I I I do not. Uh, yeah, he’s kind of clear [laughter]
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he’s non-discret.
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He clears his throat a lot. He He’ll say something. He like, you know, look guys,
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first, you know, he [laughter] does that a lot. Uh, but but certainly but certainly the regions of my brain that
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remembered Will Wayade th those started coming back like Do well. Do well.
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Yeah, we’re Hey, we’re definitely going to make history, guys. Either I’m going to win big or we’re going to be the first coach to be fired twice from the same [laughter] school, you know.
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That was good, man. That was good. Do Maner talking [laughter] to Wade.
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Do Maner interviewing Wade since that’s going to be Maner’s what’s what he’s going to do next year. [laughter] Well, Maner Maner might say, you know,
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will the first time you were here, you were a little cocky. You know, you’re a little fun yourself even just going to the Sweet 16, which to me is just like
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making a regional. You know, if I don’t make the final eight, which is the World Series, they’re all over me. Hey, hey,
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Paul, listen. We’re going to get it done. [laughter] We’re going to get it done. Okay. That’s awesome, thank you, Jacques. I appreciate it,
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man.
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Hey, have you got your uh have you got your tickets to the Final Four next year?
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[snorts]
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Uh for the men? Yeah. Where is it? I don’t know.
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I don’t know. I I I I hope the uh WFB sports department’s really busy. You guys are all over the country next March. So, men and women. So,
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hey Jacqu, we got to run. We appreciate it, man. Thanks for the last. All right. See you later. Thanks.
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All right, Jacqu Duce, WFB sports director and uh great pulmonary impersonation. That Wade one is spot on.
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We’re going to have Mark Ethich from d1 baseball.com coming up here. Only got a couple minutes in this segment. I wanted to get uh that game on uh Sunday with
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LSU coming from behind and beating Kentucky about as ugly as it could possibly be in those first two and a half innings and the Tigers rally to win it. And I thought, and Glenn, I believe you were there.
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Yes.
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Um I thought that was I cover the team. I go to most of the game. [laughter]
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I thought out of and I don’t watch every Jay Johnson postgame press conference,
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but for a regular season game, I think that’s the most animated he’s ever been.
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Yeah. Yeah. And and and you know, a lot of baseball coaches, including Skip, and they try not to say how how big a game is, especially this early in the season.
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I think he points to that game as a turning point. Oh, he he did, and so did Derek Curiel.
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Yeah. and and uh and I was trying to get that out of them the day before after they won the first game kind of setting that that game up and they didn’t they
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didn’t really bite but but but Jay did he said he said tomorrow we got to play our best game you know let’s hear so that was key let’s hear the soundbite from Jay
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Johnson after they beat Kentucky on Sunday we’ve had a hard time getting to the next thing whether that’s game to game
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or and I was like man I guess everybody went to the concert last night and went to bed at 4:00 a.m. and did who knows
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what and didn’t give a rear end about today. Or maybe it’s just the game’s really hard at times and we got to be
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harder. They did though. That’s that’s my team out there today. That’s that’s our program out there today and I very proud of them for that.
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Identity. I think this team discovered their identity. Yeah. This past weekend.
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It was a great win. We’ll see if it carries over to uh Knoxville this weekend. Well, then that that team’s identity is to go to a concert late the
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[laughter] night before a big win because a lot of the team was at the concert.
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But no, but you’re you’re right. That was that was a key weekend and the the win on Saturday was obviously just as important.
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All right, we’ll be back after this here on Tiger Rag Radio. Back to Tiger Rag Radio [music]
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo along with the editor for Tiger Rag Magazine, Glenn Gilbo, and Andre Champine, our producer. Looking forward
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to talking to our next guest. That’s Mark Ethridge of D1Baseball.com.
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d1 baseball.com. Does a great job covering SEC baseball, has been doing it for a long time. Mark, how you doing tonight? Thanks for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Yeah, absolutely, guys. Love talking ball. I’m doing great. And you know,
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it’s it’s we’re at about the midway part of the of the season and we’re starting to be able to understand a little bit
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about who’s good and who’s not, but I think we might have more questions than answers, honestly, especially down in your neck of the woods.
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Well, I was going to ask you that. What do you make out of this LSU team? The the thing that I can’t get past and I think the offense is coming around.
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certain guys are starting to swing the bat better, including Derek Curiel,
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who’s driving the ball the opposite way again, which is is so nice to see. And Stanfield at the top of the order, I think is a really good addition. But
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what I can’t get past uh and before I really start buying back into this team is the amount of walks that this pitching staff is issuing, the hit
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batsmen, the wild pitches, it’s the free base runners, it’s the free bases. Uh,
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and then obviously the defense has been a little has not been nearly as sharp as it was last year. You knew there was going to be a drop off. I didn’t think
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it would be this bad, but what’s your take on this team?
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Well, certainly there’s loads of talent and I I think that that’s kind of an era that we’re in right now where the teams
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at the top of the sport, which certainly LSU is is is the epitome of that, are able to go out and get guys that throw really hard and run really fast and have all the measurables you can ever want.
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And sometimes the skill level is still a work in progress. And I think we’re seeing some of that is especially on the
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mound. You’ve got guys with high spin rates and and really uh you know high velocity and they really understand uh
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or they’re still learning how to understand how to pitch and and I think because of that you’re going to have inconsistent results and and I think
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that’s what we’re seeing cuz some days you you go out there and they look like one of the best teams in the country and then the next day it’s like man what
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happened? Um and and and I do think that that the talent is there that certainly the coaching staff. I mean Jay’s one of
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the best coaches in the country. You can make a case he is the best. He’s won two of the last three titles. Um and and even at you know at Arizona went all the
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way to the championship game. So I I don’t think that’s the question. I think it’s just trying to you know push the right button. And certainly he’s trying
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a lot of things just watching from afar watching these games. Uh certainly a lot of chats in the dugout, a lot of
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different lineups, a lot of changes. Um he I I think he’s tried the the the motivator uh tool. He’s tried the the
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nice guy tool and and I think it’s probably a different combination uh for for each situation. And and and because
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of that, I I think you’re going to continue to see some uneven results. The other thing about playing in this league
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is there there’s there’s no getr right games, right? You I mean you might get them in midweek, but you’re not going to get them on the weekend. And and the
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these teams scout each other so close that if you have a um a an area that can be exploited, they’re going to find it,
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man. And they’re going to they’re going to hammer it until you’re able to to counter it. And I think that’s where LSU is right now.
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Right. talking Mark Eths from D1 baseball. Have you ever seen um every almost every team in the league get swept? [laughter]
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Like well well I’m sorry at least half almost half of of the teams in the league got swept last weekend. LSU was
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the only one not involved in a sweep. And now LSU goes to one of those teams this weekend, Tennessee,
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that got swept by Vanderbilt. How do you see this series going down in Knoxville?
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Yeah, it was interesting. I think it was seven out of eight were sweets and and um yeah, I don’t know what to make of that honestly. I I think part of it
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is momentum and part of it is just being teams are are able to to once they find something that works just keep hammering
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it. And Tennessee, I mean, they got walked off three times. Oh, that’s that’s uncanny.
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And and one of those I mean, they led 15-10 in the ninth inning and got walked off on a grand slam.
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Gosh. I mean, one of those was 16 innings and you lose on a suicide squeeze. I mean, they were they were
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really close, Glenn, to to sweeping Vanderbilt and instead they get swept and and I do think that’s there’s an art to being able to win close games.
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How good is Tennessee kind of how talented are they?
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Um, talent’s not the problem. I saw them against uh Georgia earlier this year and I like their lineup. They’re certainly
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in the middle of the order. Blaine Brown is a guy to watch. Just uber talented transfer from Bryce. Two-way guy. He looks great. Um,
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uh, Henry Ford, the Virginia transfer,
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is one of the best hitters in the conference. He’s playing third base for them. I mean, he’s he’s a legit guy, but they haven’t been consistent. And I do think that in that ballpark, you know,
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it can play kind of cozy. Uh, they can exploit you if you put free runners on base and then hit the bomb behind it. I
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I think that will be key for LSU is avoiding those free bases before the home run because the home runs are coming. It’s just you want them to be solos.
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Talking with Mark Ethridge of D1B baseball.com. Who’s really impressed you through the first three weeks of SEC play? Mark,
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in the league, I would say Texas and Mississippi State are are my top two. Uh and I would say Missouri and South
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Carolina are my bottom two. In everyone else, it’s week to week. [laughter] I mean, it’s it’s really going to be a,
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you know, who’s hot that week, who doesn’t make the key error, who throws strikes, all of that kind of stuff. Um, it’s I mean, and and that’s the thing,
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right? You’re going to have a whole bunch of 50/50 games, and if you win your share of those, you’re going to host. And if you don’t, you’re going to be on the bubble when you, you know,
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struggling to make the tournament because I do think it’s going to be the margins are so small that that’s what it’s going to come down to. Hey, uh, any
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word on the who the next South Carolina coach might be? What do you see down there?
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Well, it’s Kevin Small’s job if he wants it. You know, he’s the Coastal Carolina coach. Uh, he will be the top candidate at whatever the top job is. I mean,
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right now we South Carolina’s the top job because it’s early and we don’t know what other changes might happen. I mean,
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who knows? Somebody might take a pro job as we saw last year. We never really know. So, I I I I do think that he’ll be
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the play and if he wants it, if if they can put the together the right package and if South Carolina’s the number one job, I think he’s it. Otherwise, it’s going to be really fascinating. I mean,
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I I do think that South Carolina is spending spending more money uh from an NIL standpoint to be competitive.
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They’re not at the top of the league,
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but but they’re good enough to compete and and and certainly there’s a lot of history there. his commitment to winning all those sorts of things to make it
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attractive. The problem is you’re playing in a league where everybody’s doing the same thing. Yeah.
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If not more. So that that that certainly is, you know, if you’re coastal, you’re coastal, you might not make as much money, but you might have a clear path
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to Omaha, right? So you have to weigh those kind of things.
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Sundays, it seems like is you you’ve been following this league for a long time. You follow a heck of a lot closer than I do. um and following all the
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different teams, but it seems like Sunday, man, there it’s runs a glor. I mean, it’s just all over the place. I mean, softball, you know, big like slow
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pitch softball score kind of games. Are are you noticing that a little bit more a little bit more offensive explosions, especially on Sundays?
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Well, I I certainly see it with teams that are struggling to throw strikes in the bullpen. I I think that’s what, you know, that that’s where that comes in.
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Kentucky was that way. LSU’s been that way some. Uh Georgia is a team that may may not have the pitching depth that that I expected them to have, although
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their frontline guys are really really good. Um and but then you also have, you know, Alabama. I was at Alabama and Auburn on Sunday and that was like a 3
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to one game. Yeah. Right. So you do have you you do have a few of those that that you have a Sunday guy. Dylan Valantis of
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Texas is one of the best pitchers in the country. He pitches on Sunday. So you’ve got a few. But yeah, I think overall you
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I mean the pitching depth is is not as consistent. I I think you got a lot of stuff guys but not a lot of pitch guys and because of that you’re gonna have uneven results.
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What have you seen from Case Evans? What have you been surprised that he has struggled if you want to use the word struggled uh on Friday nights?
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Yeah, it’s certainly been uneven uh with with him. I mean, when he’s when he throws strikes, I mean, he can strike out 15, as you guys saw a couple weeks
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ago. And if he if if the strikes don’t come, I mean,
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it’s it’s a struggle, man. And that surprised me cuz he he was so good as a freshman last year. I know it’s a
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different role, but from a makeup standpoint, he’s what you want. From a stuff standpoint, he’s what you want.
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Um, and it just, you know, to this point, it just haven’t hasn’t been an every week thing. And that’s I mean it’s
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tough being the Friday night starter at LSU. That’s not an easy job. Uh you’ve got a a guy like Paul Schmes and Kate Anderson who you’re trying to to to
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follow their their shoes and um but but I do think that you bet on stuff right and he certainly got it and
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and I do think that uh you’ll take your chances with him. I think the bigger question is after after uh William Schmid, you know,
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what does Sunday look like? Is it Zack Cowan? Certainly he pitched well in relief of of Schmidt the other day. Um
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what does that look like? Yeah, that’s what they’ve got to answer while Cooper Mo’s out.
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Yeah, and I don’t think Gavin Gry is the guy and you know they threw Jaden N tonight against Southern and I saw he gave up two runs and I was thinking well
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maybe he might be a possibility and I I didn’t see how the two runs were scored.
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Who knows? It might have been might have been fluke but uh yeah they got to figure out something. You can’t count on scoring 16 15 [laughter] runs on Sundays to win. [gasps]
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Mark, thanks a lot for your time, man.
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Great uh to hear from you and love reading your stuff at d1 baseball.com and the SEC Extra. We appreciate your time, man.
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Absolutely. Take care, guys.
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All right, that’s Mark Ethridge of D1B.com. We’ll take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio when we come back.
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And we’re back with Tiger Rag Radio live from Super [music] Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Continuing on here with Tiger Rag Radio,
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Jeff Polmo along with Glenn Gilbo and Todd Horn. Big win for LSU baseball on
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Sunday. Thought it was a game that they had to have. They thought it was a series that they had to have. They figured out a way to do it.
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But now they got to follow it up. You know, if if it’s this big landmark win,
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you can’t go out and lose three at Tennessee.
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Yeah, you’re right about that. But but the thing is the fact that they won that game, it gives them a little breathing room cuz really if they lose two out of
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three over the next two weekends, which that’s not bad on the road, um they
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would be um six and uh nine. Okay, so they’re still right there. You know, they’re right there around 500 and then,
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you know, they’re going to get a sweep at home at some point, you know, or they can steal a series on the road. They’ll
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get back to 500 and then, you know, they just got to if they can finish 16 and 14, there’s a good chance they can host,
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you know, uh that that’d be close. But,
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you know, last, you know, 24, they they still went at 13 and 17. So, if they can if they can hover around 500, they’re
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going to be good. These are the numbers that I just can’t I can’t get past at at the moment with this team. The 135 walks
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issued by their pitchers. That’s among the most in the SEC. That’s uh that ranks 14 from one down to 16. Obviously,
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uh the only two schools that have walked more, South Carolina and Missouri. And we just heard Mark say those are the two worst teams in the SEC. Actually,
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Vanderbilt’s walked 139. So, they’re right in there, too. And but they’re way up in strikeouts, though.
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They’re way up in strikeouts. But the wild the wild pitches, it’s not even close. 46 wild pitches. That’s a free base, man.
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Uh I I mean, it’s just uh No, actually,
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hold on. My computer’s not working the way it’s supposed to be. Let’s see.
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Yeah, they’re sloppy, man. They’re 41 41 wild pitches. And it’s like the next highest is like 29. Gosh.
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And it’s both pitching and catching on that one. And then 37 hit batsmen. it it it’s all these free runners and then the
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mistakes that they make out on the field. Um you look at their team fielding percentage, it’s still among the bottom in the SEC. It’s 14th.
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Yeah. You know, I meant to say this when when Mark was on, you know, he he’s trying everything. He’s trying this,
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he’s trying that. He’s also trying not making any changes. He did that on Saturday. He made no subs. And then on Sunday, he only subbed to DH. So he’s
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he’s kind of settling on on an infield with with Seth at second and Pearson at third. It looks like that might be how you see it from now on.
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Is Kate Aaron Bey going to play again this year? Yeah, he is. He started at catcher.
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Yeah, he actually did eventually admit that there was a issue there. Like some I think Koke might have Kokei Riley asked him and he said there was nothing.
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I saw somebody that report it was a coach’s decision and then he said on his coaches show last night that he had he was dealing with something. So, well, but Omar is also playing better,
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too.
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Yeah, but it’s still not as far as defensive hitting better. I’m sorry.
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Defensively behind the plate. It’s not where it needs to be. So,
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but uh seeing Seth Dardar come through the way he did uh John Pearson’s Grand Slam.
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They needed just somebody um to one of these, I guess, new additions to the team. And I know Braraw playing well.
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Yeah. Uh, and I know John was on the team last year, but let’s, you know, more of a backup.
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Yeah, he was a a backup to a backup in a way. Exactly.
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Uh, so they needed someone other than Curiel, Jake Brown. Um, you know,
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Stanfield has has been a he’s been good a good addition. Very good addition. And and you know,
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eventually because we just we saw his first two seasons. eventually, maybe when it heats up, when it gets closer to postseason time or it’s postseason time,
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Milm will be there for you offensively.
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You just kind of go with it with whatever he gives you. But defensively, he’s one of the best.
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He’s probably the best one they’ve ever had, I think.
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So, uh, yeah, it’ll be interesting because the next two here are on the road for LSU baseball-wise. So
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losing back-to back home series would have been close to devastating for this program.
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It’s going to be an interesting two weeks because Tennessee just got swept at home. No, swept at Vanderbilt. I’m sorry. Old Miss got swept at home by
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Mississippi State. They play them next week. So, it’s going to be a good chance for LSU to steal one of those two uh
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series, win two out of three. They’ll be in really good shape. All right, let’s take our final break.
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Last segment of Tiger Rag Radio. when we come back from the Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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We now return to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super [music] Chevy Dealer Studio.
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio as we wrap up the show. Fun show tonight. Obviously, a lot to talk about with Will We now back at LSU
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and Will and Paul were both with us [laughter] on the show. That was good. And and Lane was here, but he was just coughing.
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Yeah. Clearing his throat. [laughter] Yeah. Uh, so it’ll be interesting.
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Spring football will continue on and we’ll see. Uh, the transfer portal will be open next week and let’s see how uh how quick Will is able to start uh
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building this roster. It’ll be fascinating to watch. That’s for sure. I I’m going to say he’s going to have 13 by Wednesday.
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13 by Wednesday. Wow. And 13 in three days.
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And Glenn, so is is Johnny Jones gonna be the assistant coach?
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Yes. And Rick Stanbury may be an assistant coach.
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So, we know he’s not going to be the general manager.
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No, Johnny is going to be an assistant coach. And uh Rick uh is possibly going to be an assistant coach.
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Uh it was close to happen and then it fell off a little bit, but Rick did not coach this past year. He was at at Memphis and he was at Western Kentucky
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when Zack Greenwell, who’s now in charge, [laughter]
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is no longer in charge of the media. I wonder if Zack knew that was coming.
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I don’t know cuz that that just happened on the side. Yeah. All that happened.
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It’s all hands on deck when it comes to raising money at LSU. They may they may call one of us up. Maybe Andre might uh get the call. Hey man, go to Appaloosis and raise some cash.
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The key with Stanbury is [laughter] he has a pipeline to European players. Yeah,
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that that’s one thing that uh Will is interested in him about. And uh you know Johnny’s 65. He’s close to retiring. So
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I think I think he kind of wanted to come home. But uh that’s going to be interesting. Both of those guys, you know, head coaches in the SEC and, uh,
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Johnny was also an assistant at LSU, uh, before he was a head coach, a player,
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and he was an assistant at Alabama. Rick was at, uh, was at, um, Mississippi State for a long time. So, that’s going to be interesting.
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And no, Ronald Dri.
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Well, we we’re and we well, we’re not sure about some of the uh,
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Tasman, Marcus Thornton, all these guys that have been Tasman was at the Tasman was there. Yeah, he was at the press conference.
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But you know that those guys are kind of up in the air. I’m not sure on that.
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And Taz was on Will Wade’s first half in uh That’s true at LSC.
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That’s right. That’s right, man. That’s good memory there, Andre. Good job.
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He was also on the uh Trent Johnson SEC Championship team [laughter]
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that uh Trent gave Brady a ring cuz every one of the players was on Brady’s team. And remember, Tasmin had a medical
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red shirt where he would not he would not have been on that SEC championship for probably still been the coach [laughter] at least for another couple years,
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right? [gasps] It’s it’s funny how things happen. But uh like Jacques said,
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uh I think it was Jacques who said he could do a documentary on uh what ever since the second half of the Texas A&M
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game. And to me still a big part of that documentary, Glenn, would be when you went to the fourth floor of the state
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capital and asked Governor Landry about Scott Woodward because to me that still really got the ball rolling on a lot of this stuff. And he said, “Are you the only one here?
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I [laughter] thought there’d be more people.” Thanks a lot, Gov. I didn’t think you’d win, pal.
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[laughter]
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But that uh that it’s it’s the second half of the&m game and it was that day.
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Now granted, I’m sure Landry was making his thoughts known to everyone behind the scenes, but for him to say it publicly like that, it really got the
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ball rolling on a lot of this to where we’re at today. Will Wade, no question about it.
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Well, the that whole thing at the at the capital, you you were a plant.
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[laughter]
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Yeah, I was I was a plant.
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Yeah, if you think about it, Glenn Exactly. By Jeff cuz he didn’t want to go. Yeah, he asked me to go. Glenn may be the reason playing golf.
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I will back in Baton Rouge [laughter] if you think about it. I was a plan according to all the fanboys.
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You’re you’re an AI. It was just AI. It was an artificial intelligence. Glenn Gilbo. Yeah, [laughter]
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I I did I did have a good talk with Will yesterday. I I I kind of chased him down after the press conference to get a comment about Johnny and Rick, which he
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kind of didn’t really give, but and uh but but he shook my hand and said hello.
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You know, he’s he he was nice and uh and uh so it’s going to be exciting. No question about it.
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That was a great story, Glenn. All right, [laughter] we’ll be we’ll see you next Friday or next next Friday. We’ll see you next Tuesday here on Tiger Rag
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Radio. Thanks for listening and watching on YouTube. Uh until then, have a great night, everyone.
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