We go over the many headlines surrounding the SEC Spring Meetings. CBS Sports Brandon Marcello gives us an up to the minute update on what’s happening in Miramar Beach, Florida as SEC leaders come together.
We also hear from columnist and author Jeff Duncan of NOLA.com and the Baton Rouge Advocate who is writing a book on the growing business of college athletics with a strong focus on LSU, which is at the epicenter of the new world of collegiate sports. Duncan also gives us his thoughts on how college football needs someone to steer the ship as the sport navigates the potential of a larger College Football Playoff.
And we hear from LSU sports information director Kent Lowe, who is in California with the men and women’s golf teams. He updates us on when LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade may announce his new roster.
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Tonight we are at the Goodwood Public Library here that is part of the East Baton Rouge Library System and we’ll be
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hearing from some library folks a little bit later on in the hour. We’ll hear from three of them in fact to talk about some of the great things that are
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happening with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. But we also have a lot of LSU stuff to talk with talk
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with you about. This is Jeff Polmo along with the editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Glenn Gilbo, and Todd Horn, the executive editor, will be joining us
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here at the Goodwood Library in just a few moments. But certainly a lot going on now that everything is done on the field for LSU. Softball lost in the
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super regional to Alabama. just a a superior Crimson Tide team. LSU baseball, of course, as expected, did not get into the NCAA tournament. We
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already have our first defection from the 2026 team. Maverick Rzzy has jumped into the Travis or Travis to into the
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transfer portal. If uh as long as William Schmidt and Case Evans don’t get in, I I think anybody else that decides
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to hop in there, then uh so be it. I think at this point, um I think they certainly need those two guys, uh to
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return next season, but everybody else uh well maybe maybe some of the freshman, you would like those guys to come back as well. But uh Maverick Rzzy
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did not improve this year, so he’s moving on. Uh Gage Jump making his major league debut tonight. But um former LSU
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Tigers, he’ll be making his major league debut for the A’s tonight. But the uh the big story right now, Glenn, is what is happening in Dest Florida, the SEC
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spring meetings, which kicked off this morning. We actually heard from Commissioner Greg Seni on Monday night a lot of talk about where the SEC stands
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on the 2014 team college football playoff. Of course, the SEC at this moment continues to be the holdout as far as moving to a 2014 playoff in 2027.
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And then just about an hour before we got on the air here, Lane Kitman spoke at the SEC spring meetings and there’s
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talk about him potentially being reprimanded for some comments that he made to Vanity Fair regarding the
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controversial comments that he had talking about Old Miss and its ties to the Confederacy saying that’s what
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grandparents of recruits said and it’s not his words. Uh but we’ll see if uh he’ll be fined or any kind of reprimand
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or anything will be announced. Uh but uh the main thing he kind of talked about today um is uh the return of Ed Orron to the LSU football program.
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Right. Right. And uh he said that he and Ed talked a about that just just recently before they finally finalized it. and uh you know they were trying to
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make sure that you know they knew what Ed wanted to do and and how he wanted to uh be a part of the program again. But
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uh also uh this afternoon uh and and Destin uh Lane gave more good reports on
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uh the Lisf Frank injur injury of Sam Lev. He said he’s been running 21 miles per hour, which you know I’m familiar with pitchers throwing 100 miles per
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hour. I guess that’s fast if you can run 21 miles per hour because uh running the ball is a big part of Sam Levit’s game and LSU hasn’t had that since Jaden
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Daniels. So that’s good news. And but I do remember Brian Kelly giving a similar figure when he was talking about Garrett Nusmeer.
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Well, Garrett Nusmire might have run 50 miles an hour, but it didn’t matter because he he chose not to run uh most of the time. And and he was hurt, right?
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despite what a lot of people are trying been trying to say that it was in his head, he was definitely hurt all year.
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But, um, Lane has been saying quite a bit that he thinks Levit’s going to be at or near 100% when practice starts in
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August. So, I think that’s just more good news there. Quick note on Maverick Rzzy. You know, the thing about the portal, a lot of times, you know, the
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the coaches in the school doesn’t come out and say it, but sometimes they politely say, “Hey, look, it might be a good idea if you enter the portal.” And
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I think that might be what is the case with with Maverick, you know, because if you got more players and more pitchers coming in and you’re trying to get
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better, you’re not going to want everybody to come back uh that’s already on your team, you know. I think they do
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want uh obviously like you said, William Schmidt and Case Evans and and probably several other pitchers and most of the uh the the freshman that they signed
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last year. But uh when you have that type of season, um I can guarantee you that there’s probably some players that
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might think they’re welcome back, but they might not be.
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Yeah. I I can also just see it from Maverick’s point of view if it if this is the case. Hey, I I had a rough season this year. I was not connecting with
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what Nate Yesi was trying to teach me. I might need to go somewhere else where where where you don’t have to go against SEC hitters.
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Maybe so. Maybe so to help try to find your confidence. But and maybe the strike zone’s bigger.
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Yeah. May maybe so. Uh because ABS is probably coming to the SEC after what I think was what did she say? I I think it
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it went well in the SEC tournament. The AB ABS challenge system.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it was it was funny how you when when I was listening to games and watching games and how the uh the voice over would kind of come in that there were and it it kind of went
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smoothly and quickly for for the for the most part, but uh it’s just one more thing that delays the game. I I would not prefer not to have it myself. Well,
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we’ll see when they may implement it for SEC regular season games, but your thoughts here on a lot of the discussion
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regarding the 2014 playoff, whether to keep the SEC championship game, can the you know, there’s a lot of, you know,
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we’re hearing from um, you know, Georgia’s uh, leaders about, hey, let’s create our own rules when it comes to NIL. What’s And then you even heard
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Kirby Smart say today, uh, he he’s all for, you know, the SEC in the in the Big 10, you know, breaking away and doing
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their own thing. I mean, you know, I think Greg Sanki, listening to what he had to say on Monday night, really tried
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to tap the brakes on a lot of this stuff that we don’t need to be rushing into, don’t need to be rushing into a 2014 playoff and don’t need to make any, you
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know, huge announcements, huge decisions here, especially over these three days in Destin, Florida. We’re going to have Brandon Marcelo on by the way in hour
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number two from CBS Sports who is in Destin and we’ll looking forward to that interview coming up in the um 7:00 hour.
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But it doesn’t seem like you know we had we had Matt Hayes on from the USA Today network last week and he talked about
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how huge the spring meetings were going to be. I think it’s a lot more talk. I don’t know how much action it usually is. It usually is talk and Sanki tends not to like to take action.
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and he tends to just like to talk and go on about parliamentary procedure. Um, and frankly, um, you know, I I think
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sometimes when you listen to him talk, you wonder why they even having the, uh, meetings like when he was speaking last night. But, you know, whether he wants
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to admit it or not, as Matt Hayes said, the the SEC coaches and athletic directors, they’re really split on what
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what they want to do. You know, some of them want to stick with with 16, but but Kirby Smart, uh, you know, he he he said
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he would like 24 in the playoffs. Sanki definitely does not want 24. Matt Hayes definitely does not want 24. Um, I I
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think 16 would be good from from 12. Um, I I tend to agree. I I don’t I don’t think um, you know, there there’s
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already some questionable teams getting in at 12, right? you know, so I definitely don’t think you should go uh
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past 16, but you know, and and the the SEC championship game logically just doesn’t fit, but they’re not going to
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get rid of it because it does make so much money, right?
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You know, and and uh you you could recoup that money if you get more teams into the playoffs, but they don’t seem
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to want to take that risk. Uh, but it it’s just to me it’s just very frustrating because as as Jeff Duncan, our first guest, wrote earlier this
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week, you know, the the uh college football needs to be more like the NFL and the NFL there, like Verge Osbury has
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said this a couple of times and he said it he said it last week when he met with a lot of media. The NFL is all together
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Tuesday through s through Saturday with the exception of the Thursday night game which you ought to get rid of anyway.
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you know, the only time they’re not together is when they’re playing, but but every time else they’re they’re all for one, you know, and and they’re they’re together. They have a great
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schedule, you know, and they don’t have so many voices, you know, there just a couple of voices that make the decisions in the NFL, you know. So, the NFC South
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and the NFC Central, they don’t have their own commissioners, right? You know, and they don’t play each other before the playoffs to see who wins that region like like the SEC does. And I
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think that’s the biggest problem with college football. There’s just too many voices and too many people who want to do things their way and they can never get get together.
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Well, the problem is is that there are too many separate TV contracts in the NFL. It’s and granted, you know, there’s
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different TV deals with CBS, NBC, uh Amazon, Netflix, and all that. And but
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the difference here is the SEC is looking out for the TV contract that it has with ESPN, right? The Big 10 is
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looking out for the contract it has with Fox, knowing that if you had 24 teams in a college football playoff, some of
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those games would would allow Fox to televise some of the playoff games, right? And so the Big 10 is making making this push because of that because
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they’re looking out for their TV partner and and and that’s that’s a huge Yeah. And issue in this thing.
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ESPN is also not for 24. They’re they’re pretty much for for 16, you know, and and Matt Hayes brought up a great point
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on on Tiger Egg Radio last week, you know, no matter Yeah. The Big 10 won three national championships. They they have the bigger enrollments. They’re in
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bigger cities. They they put out more money to their members every year, which the SEC has kind of been good at keeping that quiet. But still, the bottom line
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is the SEC games, even if it’s Mississippi State and Kentucky or, you know, some second line game, they draw
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extremely better than the Big 10.
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And I’m glad that Greg Seni talked ye on Monday about expanding to 24 teams and what that might mean for rivalry games.
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If in the case of Michigan, Ohio State or Alabama, Auburn, thinking that Auburn eventually will get good again that you
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have and Alabama stays good. Uh that you’ll have teams actually resting players in a rivalry game because this
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doesn’t the Iron Bowl doesn’t mean anything. It’s you got to get ready for your first round opponent that could potentially be the next week, especially
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if you get rid of the conference championship game.
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Yeah. Yeah. They the I think the perfect thing to to do would be 16 teams in the
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playoff, no championship games, and make the regular season 11 period. You know,
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they they always had the big rivalries when there was just 10 game schedules.
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You know, just just go back to 11 and don’t have the uh easy games. Have a little time off before the playoffs start. Don’t have the championship game.
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I don’t see them ever going back down to 11, but um I I agree with a lot of what you have to say.
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Yeah, I wasn’t making a money money argument. I was just saying that that’s what makes the most common sense and and you know they would recoup
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the money I I feel in with more playoff games and you’ll have more playoff games with with 16 and that’s that’s what the
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Big 10 says. if you go to 24 playoffs game 24 playoff teams that’ll recoup what you lose from the championship game but maybe not.
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All right. Uh so later on in this hour we we will hear from Jeff Duncan of nola.com and the advocate. Yeah, he had a great article looking at uh the future
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of college football and the talk of expanded playoffs. We’re also going to hear from Kent Low, sports information director for LSU men’s basketball. Uh
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Will Wade obviously has been in the news here uh as he has received a lot of commitments from some older players. Uh we’ll get Kent’s perspective on that.
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And as I mentioned uh we’ll hear from Brandon Marcelo from CBS Sports as he’ll give us a report on what was an
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interesting first day of the SEC spring meetings. We heard from a lot of big-time coaches including Lane Kein, Kirby Smart, Mike Elco, all of them
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giving their thoughts on the future of college football and a potential 2014 playoff. So stay tuned. We have more
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coming up from the Goodwood Public Library, part of the East Baton Rouge Library system. As joining us coming up after the break, we will talk to an
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Super Chevy Dealer Studios on the road tonight as we are at the main library of the East Baton Rouge Library System on
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Goodwood Boulevard. And joining us now, he’s been on our show before here from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library
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System. That’s Brandon Riley. Brandon, how you doing? Hey Jeff, how’s it going? I’m I’m great. Happy to be here.
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It’s always good seeing you and good hearing your voice. Uh today you’re talking about the uh summer reading program. We are officially in summer. I
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know the calendar still says spring, but let’s face it, school is out. We just got past Memorial Day weekend. Uh starting to get hot out there. tell us
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what the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System has to offer when it comes to summer reading programs.
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Well, every year we do a theme. This year’s theme is sort of related to nature. So, it’s plant a seed and read.
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So, I’m in charge of the adult portion of this. And uh we’re kind of doing the same thing we did last year, which is you get a bingo card, you read three
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books, uh you get incentives, you get a chance to to sign up for some drawings we have at the end of the summer. Um, you get a nice tote bag. Yeah.
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And then we have various challenges uh like we’re continuing our lender challenge from last year, which is if you visit every all 15 locations in a
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day or across the summer, you get a special certificate. And we’re uh we’re bringing in a new challenge this year called the Barrower Challenge. It’s
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named after uh the first library card that we have on record for the system, a person whose last name was Barrow. This one you read 26 books by the end of the
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year. you get uh you become a a barrower and so you can be you can both a linder and a barrower be
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wow that’s great that’s terrible but it’s a lot of fun uh thousands of adults participate every year in our
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summer reading uh adult summer reading challenge and we hope this year that we put up even bigger numbers tell us why so many adults get involved
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in this what what kind of feedback do you hear from them well people in uh East Baton Rouge Parish they love to read um they love to
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engage with the library. Uh because it’s not just reading, you can also participate by going to our events. Uh you can go online and use our electronic
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databases and uh for whatever you need to. We count all those things. So uh people are very engaged with the library. Uh they like uh engaging with
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the community and we’re going to have a lot of events uh that sort of bring people together to sort of um you know just experience the summer together as a community.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. What are the type of books that most adults are reading? Or is that even a Is that an easy question to answer?
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Well, I I I try not to look at what people are reading. I I believe in privacy, you know, that sort of thing.
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But people love fiction in East Baton Rouge Parish. They also love history. Uh we’ve got a lot of people that check out a whole lot of history books, whole lot
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of fiction. So, uh but all kinds of readers in East Baton Rouge, uh reading all kinds of different uh genres. Are
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there any particular books this summer that seem to be more popular than others? I mean, I I would imagine you got multiple multiple copies of certain books.
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Oh, you got the wrong guy up here for that question. I look at the programming stuff. Uh but in terms of what’s being
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read, all the all the all the usual suspects, you know, James Pattersons and the But yeah, so I would have to look
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into that. Come back. I’ll circle back as they say. Yes. Uh so tell us again how you can get involved uh if you if
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you want to get involved and then get uh you know the the certain uh prizes or rewards uh that you may get for reading uh so many books.
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Right. Right. So just uh signing up you get an incentive. It can be anything a pin, a a USB cord, something like that.
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Uh you read three books. Um you finish it, you get the tote bag and you get the drawings for the end of the year um incentive drawings that we have. Um, to
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sign up, you can either go to our website and go to Beanstack or just follow the the links for adult summer
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reading, or you can go in person to a library, any of our 15 locations, talk to somebody at the circulation desk, and
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they’ll set up your Beanstack account for you, and that’ll help you track your reading throughout the summer. And if, again, if you don’t want people to know what you’re reading, you can do it all
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on paper. We have a neat little bingo card with some nice graphics on it that we hand out to folks, and you can track your reading there. And all it takes is getting reading three books, right?
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Just three books. And you get the tote bag.
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And you get the tote bag. It’s very patriotic this year, too. Red, white, and blue.
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Oh, that’s perfect. And I would imagine there’s some that surpass that that three number.
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Oh, yes. Yes. Every year we have a couple people that make it into the hundreds across the summer. I guess all they’re doing is reading.
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This weekend would have been a great weekend with all the rain, right? There wasn’t much to do outside.
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So yeah. All right. Well, that’s that’s a terrific is this, you know, obviously there’s a lot of um programs that are
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catered around kids or maybe kind of a specific uh interest levels, but this is just very general. I would imagine this
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is one of the bigger programs that you have or has the most participation.
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Absolutely. Yeah. Uh, like I said, every year, uh, at least 200 um, I’m sorry, 250,000.
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At least, uh, 2,00 2,500 people sign up and and complete the challenge, and way more sign up and never complete. So, yeah. All right.
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A lot a lot of interest.
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All right, Brandon, I appreciate it, man. Thanks a lot for stopping by.
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Always good seeing you, as I mentioned earlier. And again, it’s the summer reading program. And give me that website address again. It’s ebrpl.com.
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All right, that’s pretty easy to remember. All right. So, if you’re looking to get involved in summer reading, don’t necessarily want to, I don’t know, buy a few books, you can always come out here.
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Yeah. Don’t buy books. Come check them out here. We’ll save you a lot of money that way.
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Exactly. Exactly. And you can get a a free tote bag if uh you read three of them. Thanks a lot for your time tonight, Brandon. Absolutely.
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All right. Brandon Riley with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. We’ll take a break. We’ll get back into the football talk. One of the more knowledgeable people when it comes to
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Louisiana sports will join us when we come back. That’s Jeff Duncan had a terrific article a few days ago looking at looking at the uh college football
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playoffs and how it compares to the NFL and so forth. So Jeff Duncan from nola.com and the advocate. He will be joining us here shortly on Tiger Rag
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Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio tonight broadcasting from the main library of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System on Goodwood Boulevard.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo, along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag Magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor, Glenn Gilbo, Super Chevy
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dealer studio on the road tonight as we are at the East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library on Goodwood Boulevard. Let’s bring in our first guest of the night
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and that would be Jeff Duncan from nola.com and the advocate. Jeff, thanks a lot for joining us tonight. How you doing?
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Doing great guys. Glad to be on. Thanks for having me.
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Well, it’s great to have you on. and you had a very interesting article and obviously you do a lot of uh covering of uh the NFL and you’ve seen how that
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league has grown here and you’ve also obviously covered college athletics and you got a book that’s looking at that as well. Maybe we’ll get into that topic as
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well. But your thoughts on the talk of expanding the college football playoff to 24 teams and how dangerous that could be for the future of college football.
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Well, I’ll be honest with you, Jeeoff. I’m kind of a proponent of expanding it.
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I I’m not sure I’m ready to see it go to 24. I’d certainly be willing to listen to some of the arguments for it, but I
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definitely think uh going to 16 teams is a perfect kind of compromise between uh
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where they’re at now and where some of the other proposals have been. You know, I I started out in Louisiana, uh, up in
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North Louisiana and Monroe covering, uh, you know, it was back then it was Northeast Louisiana, Gramling, uh,
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Louisiana Tech at one time had been onea, you know, they’ve had a 16 team playoff for decades and it’s worked just
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fine. All the lower levels have always had 16 team playoffs. Uh, they’ve managed to do it. they have classes to
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go to and you know things to negotiate the same way and I realize the bowl system makes it a little bit different
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for uh you know the highest level of college sports but I think we’re able we’re able to see that we can merge
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those two agendas incorporate the bowls the way the Sugar Bowl has been incorporated in the college football playoff and make it work and I really
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think that’s going to end up being the solution long term look I think the driver of all this as we all know is money, right? and it’s going to provide
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more revenue for these universities like LSU uh and and like the schools in the SEC that desperately going to need it if
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we’re continuing to go on this uh just un you know it’s the Indie 500 uh with
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no guardrails and I don’t know where it’s going to stop but right now finding more revenues the only solution I hear
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and I think expanding the playoff would would provide more revenue.
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Hey, Jeff. This is uh this is Todd. I think what you just said about about this really being driven by money and
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the fact that you’ve covered the NFL for so long and and paid so much attention to the NFL,
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you know, when we start talking about money in college football or college sports, but college football specifically, I think most people start
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thinking about NIL, you know, and and I don’t for for me just me looking at it right Now, it’s way more than the NIL.
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It’s like what you just said. It’s like a capital era of college sports where they’re they’re just hungry for revenue.
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And it’s it’s not just coming from TV now. It’s not just coming from ticket sales. It’s not just coming from sponsorship sales. It’s coming from
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anywhere they can get it, including taxing districts and just a whole bevy of other areas. So, so do you think this
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is really a capital era? It’s more like professional teams operating like
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private franchises inside a public infrastructure.
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Todd, I definitely think that’s where this is going. I think we’re already seeing in some uh universities a
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branching off or restructuring of the athletic departments into basically professional sports models. Uh, you
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know, I had an athletic director, actually the old athletic director of LSU, Scott Woodward, tell me he he could one day see a similar setup the way way
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we see LSU, the hospital or Tain Hospital branded by the universities, but really totally separate entities
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from those universities. He could see one day the athletic departments being set up in a similar way. And I think we’re already seeing that. If you look
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down at South Florida right now, uh, their new AD, uh, used to be the head of the Tampa Sports Commission, really doesn’t have an academic background or
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background in athletics at all at a university, but he knows how to run a sports business, and everyone in their front office now is being hired from
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similar backgrounds. And South Florida is going to be run very similar, I think, to an NFL franchise. I think that the threading the needle to make that
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work with the responsibilities that these universities have uh is is the you know that’s the magic formula. How do
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you solve that riddle? I think everyone right now is trying to figure it out.
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But I think a lot of this would be solved and I’ve read a lot recently in the news. You know, if everyone would
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just kind of adhere to the rules, as you all know, when you get college athletic directors and coaches and everyone
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involved, everybody’s looking for an edge and they find the edge wherever they can find it. That’s why I think my column trying to address, you know, the
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NCAA was at one time in charge of college sports and it’s been taken off the rails and it’s unregulated right now. There’s no one to be the heavy.
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There’s no Roger Goodell to hold everyone in line and everyone is just kind of running rampant like the Wild West. There’s no regulation involved. I
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think the NCAA was trying to do it for decades and once they saw where this was going, I think they threw up their hands and said, “Hey, we’re being sued into
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oblivion. You guys have at it and this is kind of where we’re at now. I’m not sure if we can solve it.” And I think that’s why everyone’s wanting Congress to get involved.
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Yeah. Exactly. And that’s so so but but then the score act which was just shot down is really just a way to
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establish control for the NCAA again and and almost I hate to say it this way but limit limit the compensation ability of
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the of the players or am I wrong about that? No, I think I think there’s there’s a way to get to the I think the
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intent of that is probably uh good, but it needs to be adjusted. You’re exactly right. I think the problem is and you
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mentioned NIL, right? I think the general fan thinks NIL was going to solve the problem. And I think it was
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meant, we all know what it was meant to do. It was meant to allow college athletes to earn earn compensation, be compensated for their name, image, and
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likeness because they couldn’t have jobs according to the old NCAA rules. Wasn’t fair to be a college athlete, not be able to make a little money. That was
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the intent of NIL. We all know that’s not what’s going on here. It’s all pay for play and and the the the revenue
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share teams are using the NIL uh formula to get an edge. they’re able to pay more
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above the cap, if you will, from the revenue share and that’s how they’re getting the edge on their competition and there’s no guard rails in place.
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That’s why we see, you know, the NFL there’s a salary cap, you know, that there’s something to keep everyone in line and that’s why that league has
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become the Goliath. It has that it that the Dallas Cowboys have to operate under the same rules as the Green Bay Packers
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and and the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Giants don’t have an edge over a small market New Orleans. And that’s why that league has become so popular
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because everyone can compete. You don’t have uh the big brands dominating the small brands. And that’s what’s going on
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in college sports right now. Everyone the bigger brands are saying, “Well, why do we want to share with the smaller brands? We what do we get out of it?”
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Well, in the end, everyone will will be better if you come together as opposed to trying to branch off and self-govern.
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That’s that’s fool’s gold.
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Yeah. And and when you mentioned NIL especially, it it’s like NIL started out as a private to private name image and
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likeness way for the players to monetize their name brand. But it wasn’t supposed to involve the universities at all or
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the programs at all. Now it’s like the programs, like you say, it’s pay for play. They’re they’re in charge of it.
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Our guest for another segment, it’s Jeff Duncan from nola.com and the advocate.
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Hey Jeff, Glenn Gilbo here. Um, tell us about the new book you’ve uh just u been cleared to write for uh Harper Collins
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about the new landscape in college athletics and based on LSU.
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Yeah, Glenn, thanks. And this is kind of hot news. I was just uh able to sign that contract just last week. So, it really hasn’t been announced nationally
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yet. I’m sure you’ll see some announcements coming forward, but uh Tiger Egg on it first, baby. We got it.
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Breaking news. But, but look, I think I think you all all three of you all understand. I mean, this is a dynamic time in college athletics. Really
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unprecedented, transformative period. And LSU is probably the epicenter of of this
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transformation. What we’ve seen happen in the last 6 months at LSU, uh the turnover in the athletic department, uh
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the all-in approach that the university is taking, I think is fascinating. Uh and I think it’s one of the more compelling stories that I’ve come across
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in by now 20 uh really 30 years of covering sports in Louisiana. U with the characters involved. I think we all know Lane Keifin, now Will Wade’s in the mix.
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Uh the fact that Burge Osberry has been promoted to the AD. There’s just so many fascinating uh threads in this story.
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And I think what LSU is doing in many ways is at the forefront of this changing landscape of college athletics.
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And Harper Collins, the the publisher, uh reached out to me and basically said, “Hey, you know, we think there’s a great
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story in Louisiana and particularly at LSU and uh we think you’re the guy to tell it. I was very honored and very
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excited about the opportunity to tell that story. I think it’s going to be a fascinating next year. I’m going to basically follow the athletic program
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for the next uh athletic season and just write about it through the prism of this changing landscape of college athletics.
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That that’s interesting. What Jeeoff, what do what do you think, and I agree with you, but what what do you think it is about LSU that makes it like the
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epicenter or the the the microcosm of of this transitional transformational change?
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Well, Todd, we we’ve just been talking about it, right? I mean, right, it’s about money, right? I mean, pretty clearly LSU is throwing a lot of money
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at its athletic program. I think the impetus behind the changes at the football program and the basketball program were to increase revenue, right?
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I think LSU is seen as a Fortune 500 company in this state. And I think the governor sees that. We all know Jeff
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Landry, a big part of his agenda and his tenure so far has been bringing business to the state. I think he knows LSU
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athletics is good for business in Louisiana and it needs to be successful and I think they understand that it is a
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business now and and Verge Osbury will tell you it’s no longer the days of of you know and these were great ads in
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their time but Joe Dean and Skip Bertman former coaches that moved into athletic director share that’s that’s an another
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era a bygone era today it’s all about revenue generation and LSU is the most compelling storyline there. But I don’t
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think they’re alone. My my alma moater, University of Louisville, has come out and said they’re losing money and they’re still pouring money into their
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athletic department because they see this like a lot of schools as a game of musical chairs and they want to have a
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seat at the table at the end. I think everybody does. And to do that, you’ve got to be successful. So you got to invest now and and let the chips fall
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where they may. And obviously LSU is making a big bet a a you know what would we call a nine figure bet on their
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athletic program right now. And I think the governor is involved in that bet as well. And it’s just going to be fascinating to see if the gamble pays
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off. I think everyone in the nation is going to be following LSU athletics in these storylines. Well, how do how do they balance the fact that that they’re
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a public university operating with public money and in some cases and more apparent cases moving
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forward tax money, not just public money, but with being having to report that because
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they’re they’re trying to get more shielding and more privacy around that that how are they going to do that? Well, I I think we’re seeing right now.
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They’re going to basically strongarm the legislature into following what they want. I mean, they that’s what we’re seeing happening. I certainly do not
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condone that. I think that anytime you’re involved with public money, taxpayer dollars, there needs to be transparency. If you read the the report
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South Florida just put out, uh, and I encourage everyone to read that, their athletic director is saying the exact opposite. He realizes they’re going to
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be asking for more and that they’re going to be uh out in the community doing more, expecting more donations.
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And he said to do that, we need to be more transparent than ever. And I feel like LSU is doing the exact opposite.
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And I certainly think that’s wrongheaded, especially for the taxpayers of our state. We all know the state struggles uh you know,
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economically, financially. Uh, I think in when you’re asking this much for taxpayers, you need to be transparent.
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Hopefully that doesn’t get pushed through, but doesn’t look good right now.
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LSU and transparency have never really matched well. But it’s a good thing for LSU that there’s no other school in the
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state that they really have to compete with when they go strong on the legislature. Like imagine these other states with three and four big time schools.
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It’s the history at the capital though.
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If someone from LSU shows up, uh, usually they get what they want, right?
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I mean, these lawmakers, they all get tickets to football games when they grad when they when they go play in the SEC championship game, all the lawmakers get a ticket.
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That’s because LSU in Louisiana is not just football. It’s a religion. It’s It is.
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No, you’re right.
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Is No, you’re right. And I tell you, we all saw we all saw right after the LSU women
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won the national championship and Kim Moy went to the legislature and say, “Hey, we need a new arena.” Which I agree with her. I mean, yes,
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LSU’s the PMAC, I loved it for years, but it’s outdated. But the legislators fell all over themselves, but still no arena for some reason.
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There’s a lot of reasons, but there’s some plans, but you know, it always takes a long time. Hey Jeff, thanks a lot for your time. Meanwhile, the Oh, go ahead. Meanwhile, the library is leaking.
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That’s all I got.
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And there’s And even Wade Roose said the other day, we’re still looking for funding for this library even though they announced it like a year ago, I think it was. Hey, we’re building a new
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library, but yet they don’t have the money for it yet. So, anyways, all about priorities, guys. Priorities.
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Hey, Jeeoff, thanks a lot for uh making it a priority for you to be on our show tonight. We really appreciate it. Anytime, guys. Thanks for having me.
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Look forward to talking to you more in the future.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. interesting book that Jeff Duncan is putting together from nola.com and the advocate.
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We’ll take a break. When we come back, we’re going to talk to Darcy from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System.
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So stay tuned for that here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polalmo along with Darcy Roar from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System
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as we are broadcasting from the Super Chevy dealers studios which are mobile tonight as we are at the Goodwood Library, the main library for the East
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Baton Rouge Parish system. And Darcy has been with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System for 12 years, right? Is that what you told me?
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That’s correct. It’s been 12 years.
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Yeah. So, you’re a longtimer and you’ve been involved in teen summer or teen programs for about the last decade. And
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of course, with summer rolling around, that means we have some teen summer reading programs. And tell us uh what what are you doing? What are you doing
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this year for teens to uh make sure they uh keep their nose in a book this summer?
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We’re doing tons. So, we’re just about to kick off the summer reading program.
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Um, so this year, teens, if they read at least three books, they can get involved with our um basic summer incentives. But the real thing for teens is we like to
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do these raffle tickets. So, for every three books that they read and log with us, uh, they can enter to win a one of our weekly raffle prizes and then we try
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and match them with something extra cool that we have from our like closet of prizes that we always get together.
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Oh, that’s cool. That is cool. So tell us how uh the teens can get involved and what it takes to potentially win some of these prizes.
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Yeah, so they need to be uh registered for summer reading with us. So they can either do that at any of our locations.
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They can come to the teen desk and get signed up or they can do it on their own if they want. They can go to ebrpl.beanstack.org uh and sign up online and then log their
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own books entirely without even stepping in. At least not yet. They have do have to come see us for prizes.
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Okay. All right. So, and so I was asking these kind of questions to Brandon, and he he wasn’t going to uh look behind the curtain, but give us an idea what teens
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are reading. I asked him about what adults are reading nowadays, and he’s saying a lot of fiction and history, but for teens, what are they uh what are they uh really interested in right now?
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They read all over the board, but they’re still really into the Percy Jackson series. Okay.
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Still a huge popular thing. And they really like their spooky books. We get a lot of Five Nights at Freddy’s.
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Yeah. um and a lot of the other kind of creepy horror books, right? How has or how have you seen or or how does the East Baton Rouge Parish
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Library battle with obviously it’s just for a lot teens it’s just a lot more fun to have the iPad or I don’t even know if
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teens are looking at iPads anymore their phone obviously or you know doing all that and instead of actually picking up a physical book and reading it
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we just like to give them as many options as we can so we have a ton of graphic novels and we do see a lot of kids coming in and teens coming in just for those they want to read you know it
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may be more similar to what they’re seeing on their iPad, but they still are interested in reading and excited about it. As long as they get to pick, that’s really what we see a lot of.
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Yeah. Yeah. And and what’s the participation so far this year or what have you normally had?
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We’ve had a lot of participation, so it’s been um pretty high. We we’re not quite started yet, so we don’t know how many we’ll have.
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Um but we’ve had quite a few, you know, at least 500 participants that have gotten their prizes in the past years and then more that, you know, maybe haven’t gotten to come visit us yet.
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Yeah. Okay. All right. And it’s what?
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Just three books, right? just three books. And if they keep reading three books, then they can go on and on. And a man, we have a our top reader prize for the the teen who reads and logs the most
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books um is a big gift certificate to Barnes & Noble, so they can keep getting books. But those the competition for that is steep. Those kids are intense every year. It’s great.
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Yeah. Well, uh thank you very much, Darcy, for stopping by. We appreciate it. Again, if uh you know a teenager or you are a teenager listening and you
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want to get involved in the teen summer pro reading program, how do you do that?
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You can come visit us at any of our locations. We would love to see you and we’d love for you to come to our like event programs too. Um or you can always go to our website ebrpl.com.
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Darcy, thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it. Thank you. It’s been great.
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Robin Dao is our producer tonight. Jeff Polmo along with Todd Horn and Gwen Gilbo of Tiger Rag as we are broadcasting from the East Baton Rouge
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Parish main library on Goodwood Boulevard. The Super Chevy dealer studio on the road tonight. Spoke with a couple
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of folks from the library already and we still have one more guest to come in about 20 minutes. But, uh, let’s bring
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in our next guest, and he is the sports information director for the LSU men’s basketball team, who will have to be
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working on some really good pronunciation guides in the uh, in the game in the game notes coming up in the
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2026 27 season. Kent Low joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. Kent, how you doing?
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Don’t y’all have to keep your voices down if you’re in the library? That’s a good question, Ken.
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We’re we’re we’re in a lobby where they let you talk freely. They’re right outside the the library.
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We’re at free speech alley over here. Uh Ken, no, no one has come up and said, “Sh, that’s but that’s an excellent point, Kent.
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I’m I’m just glad I got my time zones correct because I’m out in California at the NCA Golf Championships where it’s
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just after five o’lock.” All right.
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Yeah. I I I remember adjusting to that all the time myself.
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Well Well, Kent, you’ve been in Carl’s bad for the uh the NCA championships for the for the women’s team and LSU’s women’s team did did very well and then
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you’re staying over for the for the men’s team. So, you’re going to be there longer than Frank is in the typical Omaha summer, right?
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I’ll be paying taxes here in California before this is over. Uh Well, you you’ll be broke. You’ll be broke.
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Yeah. No kidding. No kidding.
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You haven’t been asked to evacuate for any particular reason, have you? No. No. I was very calm here.
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Okay. All right. Lot of good golf. That’s the main thing. Beautiful course. My goodness. Well, we we want to talk about the golf.
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We want to talk about the women and we want to talk about the men’s upcoming chances. But Jeff was talking about the pronunciation of the soon maybe to be announced roster for men’s basketball.
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I’m also concerned about their age. I mean, are you going to have to have some type of geriatric uh
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they’re all Well, you you never know. I know I I think it’ll all shake itself out and
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figure itself out in the next several weeks. But uh you know, we’ll we’ll we’ll go and learn and if we have to put
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uh someone next to him like uh other sports do, we’ll put an interpreter up there.
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There you go. Yeah. Well, well, Kent, when you’re when you’re dealing with transfer portal guys that come in from other colleges in the United States,
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like what is the difference when and you know, uh, Coach McMahon had a uh, player from overseas last year, the guard, like
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what what different uh, hoops do you have to go through or does do the coaches have to go through before they can, you know, get all their papers in
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and everything? Is it is it a little more cumbersome is what I’m asking.
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I’m sure it is, Glenn, but I can’t give you any specifics on that because I just
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really don’t know that. Um, I’m sure there’s paperwork cuz I mean I’m sure any international student coming in,
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even if it’s just a general student population, I’m sure there are more forms and papers and things that have to be filled out and uh things like that.
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But honestly, I can’t really even tell you where that all begins. I assume it involves compliance. I assume it
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involves admissions, probably the academic center. I’m not I just really don’t know. That’s a question I’ve never
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really, you know, thought of or had to deal with to be honest with you. Well, Kim, when do you think I I know
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officially LSU hasn’t announced any uh signes for the basketball program or any
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commitments, but when do you think we’ll see a roster begin to materialize officially? I would
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think uh it’s going to kind of be like baseball has done in past years where
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maybe we’ll get everybody and then you know maybe we’ll have a press conference or something and will present the roster
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you know to everyone. I don’t really have any specifics on that cuz obviously
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I’m on one coast, Wills and Destin at SEC meetings and I’ve been out here uh
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uh I have been out here a week and so I really haven’t had a chance to talk with him because in most of this month I’ve
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been traveling with golf teams. So, I have to admit I have been a little away from the campus and the subject for for
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most of this uh middle part of May and end of May.
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Speaking of golf, uh the women’s team had a really strong showing. Uh didn’t didn’t make the the I guess the NCAA
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finals round, but got pretty close. And then there was an exceptional effort by one particular golfer.
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Yeah. Taylor Riley. Uh, LSU missed the 15 cut, which is the first cut after 54
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holes by one shot. And you know, as I wrote, um, Garrett has said several
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times leading into this tournament, it always comes down to one or two shots.
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Last year, they were on the right side of the cut. This year, the left the wrong side of the cut. And you could
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find anywhere in 54 holes where there’s another stroke that could have been made up. Taylor Riley, what happens is they
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take nine players from the 15 teams that missed the cut and they play for the individual title as well on Monday.
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Taylor was in a tie for the final spot and it turned into a fivehole playoff
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that ended well after dark for the four first four holes Sunday night and then they came back on Monday morning and
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Taylor parred the uh par4 17th to get her into the final round Monday afternoon. Finished two over finished
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30th in a field of 156. That’s pretty good. but it’s her final college tournament. Her mother played at LSU.
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They’re from San Diego, so she had a lot of friends out watching.
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Well, Kent, the the men’s uh start uh Friday. What What do you think of their chances going in?
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Well, they’re the seventh seed. They’re in what I call the good wave. They’ll play with the top 15 seeds late Friday
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afternoon central time, then play Saturday morning in the first two rounds. That’s uh really an advantage on
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on this course. It’s really a shot makers course. Second shot’s important being on the right side of the green. I think they’ve got a really good chance.
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two Louisiana guys, Noah McWills from up in Northwest Louisiana, Jay Mandel from
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Lafayette area who’s well known over there, uh, lead this team, and and three other really good players, including a
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freshman who’s kind of overlooked, Dan Hayes, who’s really solid. I think they’ve got a great chance to possibly
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go into match play in this thing, which is the uh cut to eight after Monday, next Monday’s play. I think they’ve got
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a shot at it. This is a pretty solid team. They’ve had a really good consistent year.
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And you mentioned the the women’s coach, Garrett Ren, and the men’s coach is uh is Jake Amos. I mean, both of those coaches
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is is are really uh both of those teams have been improving in the in the last few years, and they’ve uh those both of those coaches are pretty uh they haven’t
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been at LSU long, and they’ve both had a major impact.
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Garrett is of course played at LSU, was an assistant on the men’s team that won the national championship in 2015.
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He’s taken LSU the last six years, which is a school record, to this national
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championship tournament. Jake Amos, who took East Tennessee four times to this
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event, back with LSU this year. He’s excited. This team’s ready to go and and
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I think uh if they get off to a good start on Friday, watch out. They could be a tough out here by the time it gets to next week.
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Ken, for for listeners who may not know, because golf isn’t like football or baseball or basketball. Sure.
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But it it has a gravity of its own, a strong following of its own. Can you sort of describe that what that’s like?
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Yeah. I mean it and it’s been really cool especially Memorial Day out here to see the number of kids that parents
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brought out here and watch the girls stop and sign autographs and all. Uh there’s a large following and they’ve
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kind of this year asked people to follow the players in the fairway which gives
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it a better look on TV and all but uh it’s a fun sport. It really is. And I’ve watched these girls and the guys for a
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number of years and the golf is pretty amazing. I mean, it is really really high quality players from all over the
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world playing college golf for for these colleges.
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And LSU’s had its share of uh former players that have made it to the pros uh to the PGA and I guess the LPGA.
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Sure. Yeah. Ingred Lind Ingred Lindblad of course is the most notable from two years ago who has already won. She won
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every player of the year award in 24 uh from Sweden. She won on the LPGA as a
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rookie. Maline Sagstrom who was back in the 215 era is was really great. Carla
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Tahedo uh Rosio’s sister who plays on this year’s team is on the LPGA tour. of
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course Sam Burns, David Toms on the men’s tour. So, yeah, there’s some LSU
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flags out there on both of of the big tours.
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Kent, uh, so when’s this all wrapping up? It seems like when you’re talking about it goes into match play, I mean, this is this is going on forever.
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Well, the the women’s tournament ends tomorrow with the championship match.
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Right now, they’re playing the semifinals. It looks like it’ll be number one Stanford and number two Southern Cow tomorrow in match play. And
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then the amazing thing happens as they clear holes tomorrow. They will start expanding this course. The women play at
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63 something yards. They will make this course 7300 plus yards for the men.
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There are a lot of spots that are closed off during the women’s tournament, which is where tea boxes will be. And so it becomes a behemoth for the men’s tournament which will start on Friday.
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They’ll play 54 holes. There’ll be a cut to 15. They play a fourth round next
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Monday and the top eight go to match play to decide the national champion.
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All right, Kent. Well, hopefully have an ex your extended stay will get even more extended. We appreciate your time, man.
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Oh, my pleasure, guys. Thanks. And don’t get too loud in the library there. We’ve been kicked out before. It’s okay.
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Thanks a lot, Kent. Thank you guys. Thank you.
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All right, that is uh Kent Low for LSU sports information director for men’s basketball and of course men’s and women’s golf. And it kind of sounds like
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we’re not going to see official announcements as far as transfer portal guys. That sounded like August to me. I
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I’ve heard through the grapevine and I’m not as close to it as Glenn is, but that we may not have an official roster until the first day of school.
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Yeah. Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.
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Yeah. And that’s how it is with baseball often. And they’re probably not going to get Allen Graves, though. There he’s going to probably stay in the NBA.
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Yeah. All right. Well, let’s uh take a break. More of Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio at the Goodwood Library for the East Baton Rouge Parish Library system. When we
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polmo from the Goodwood Library,
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the main library of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. This is Tiger Rag Radio. We’ll get back into the uh SEC spring meetings talk. Brandon Marcelo
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from CBS Sports will join us coming up in about 10 minutes or so, so you want to stay tuned for that. Uh a new rule
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was actually just passed today and we’ll get Brandon’s take on that. uh as far as football scheduling, no more uh
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non-conference games that second to last week of the regular season. So, we’ll get Brandon’s take on that. Remember, that’s when everybody would play, you
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know, the Citadel and uh at whatever school they can find from the the Southern Conference or something like that. That’s all over with. It’ll be a a
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conference game that you play the second to last week. and also Lane Keifin spoke today. So, we’ll get Brandon’s take on what Lane had to say. But we’re also
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since we’re here at the library, we’re talking about the various summer reading programs that they have with the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. And
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uh Tara Daring is with us. She’s been at the library now for 20 years and she handles the children’s summer reading
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programs. So, this is for kids 11 and under. So tell us uh how the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System gets kids involved in summer reading.
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So there’s various ways for them to participate. Uh the reading challenge itself uh can be done uh either online
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or on paper. Uh we have a lot of people that still like to continue on paper. Um they can go to ebrpl.beanstack.org
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or and sign up online or they can stop by any of their local locations and um and get signed up uh that way as well.
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So that’s the reading challenge itself, but we can also get them involved through attending programs. We have over
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300 free programs over the course of the summer.
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That’s that is awesome. Well, for those that want to get involved in some of the reading challenges and then we’ll get into the different programs.
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What does that entail? What kind of challenge is it to to make sure that the your child or a child that you know is reading uh every week if not every day?
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So um you know uh 20 years ago when I first started working at the library uh it was a very simple program. If you
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were a non-reader you had to listen to 10 books and if you were a reader you had to read five books and it was very
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simple but it was over as soon as you finished. And our goal now is to keep kids reading every single week, if not
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every day, as you said, because that prevents what we call the summer slide. Yeah.
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Statistics show that if they don’t continue reading throughout the summer, all of their skills that they’ve built up during the school year start to slide
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down. Uh they they lose math comprehension, reading comprehension.
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There’s a lot of things that are affected by not reading over the summer.
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So we try to incentivize it and u make it a little bit more fun and exciting to actually participate in that reading program.
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How do you incentivize the children?
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What kind of what’s what’s in it for them other than obviously gaining the knowledge of reading and learning and all that stuff? They want some other little fun things to go along with it.
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They like rewards and so we do reward them. The base program they have to earn 30 points uh they get one point per
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title uh that they’ve logged. They get two points per 30 minutes that they’ve logged depending on how they would like
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to log it. And once they reach 30 points, they’ve completed the the base program. But the incentive to continue
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is they get up to six drawings to participate in our weekly drawings, but they have to continue reading each week
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to go ahead and uh be eligible for those drawings. And so by continuing to read, they get more entries into uh that
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weekly drawing. And that weekly drawing is sponsored by local vendors around town for free items, gift packages, gift
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cards, different things like that. Um we also have an end of the summer reading drawing and that is for $50 gift cards
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and so we we let them know that you know the more chances you have to win the better better chance you have. So, so
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okay, got about a minute left. You say there’s also all kinds of different uh summer reading programs. So, I don’t know any way you can sum that up in about 60 seconds or so.
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Absolutely. So, craft activities, performers, we have live animals, we have comedy, magic, um theater, ballet,
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all sorts of different things that they can participate in. Well, I I might need to be a kid again.
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That sounds like they need to come watch all the the wonderful shows and participate in the crafts and activities and that’s at all the different
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locations throughout the East Baton Rouge Parish Library system. Absolutely. Yeah, that’s awesome. That’s awesome.
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What What have you seen? Again, I I know we we’re a little short on time, but what have you what kind of involvement have you seen from kids over the last 20 years? Is it picking up?
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Um, precoid it was really picking up very very a good bit. Um, and we are starting to pick up again these last few
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years. Um, but we did see a fall off during CO as everyone did, but but it’s really starting to pick back up again.
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We hope that with the digitization and the additional incentives that we can really uh can continue to increase our numbers.
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Tara, keep up the good work here at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. Thank you very much for stopping by. Thank you for having me.
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All right, Tara Daring from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library System. We’ll take a break. Uh when we come back, Brandon Marcelo from CBS Sports. He will
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join us from Dest, Florida, the site of the SEC spring meeting. So stay tuned for that here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studios
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Hey, we’re back here from the East Baton Rouge Parish main library as uh we are done with the library guest. But once
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again, want to thank Brandon, Darcy, and Tara for stopping by, telling us about all the great summer reading programs.
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But uh if you want to read about what’s going on at the SEC spring meetings, check out Brandon Marcelo’s stuff over at cbsports.com
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as he has been there since I would imagine Monday when Greg Seni spoke.
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Brandon, thanks a lot for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio. How you doing tonight?
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Doing all right, Dad. Uh, it’s been a newsy couple of hours here and especially these last 15 minutes uh with the learning here that the the Cruise
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Antwell bill on college sports is expected to to to fall and drop here the next few days. So, wow. Okay. All right. So, this would be
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the bill that obviously would provide some NIL regulations and then obviously all kinds of other stuff to help uh reform college athletics, right?
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Yeah. And you know, we’re speaking to Greg Seni just uh I guess about an hour or two ago now, and I was asking
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questions about like do you have any confidence? Do you feel that you’ll have confidence that this bill is going to be
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introduced before the summer recess in August? because a lot of people have said if there if something there’s not movement before August, this thing’s never going to get done because yeah,
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the recess happens and then everybody’s in campaign mode for the midterms and but now that this news is dropped here,
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um a little bit more confidence that maybe there could be some headway made in Congress because this is a bipartisan bill which is important as we know and
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then also it’s being introduced in the Senate which is where this the House they expected to maybe have the votes for the previous bill, the score act but
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they didn’t have the votes in the Senate. But doing a bipartisan bill coming out of the Senate gives this thing a little bit more hope than what we saw previously with the score act.
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Now, just out of curiosity, who’s leading the bill, even though it’s bipartisan, is it Ted Cruz and someone from the Democratic side?
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Maria Canwell. Okay. Yeah. From Washington. She’s a senator from Washington.
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Yeah. Maria Canwell. She’s been big in um in some of the push also for uh pooling media rights, for example. uh
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which by the way I’m expecting some form of that to be in this bill uh from my sourcing. So there’s going to be some interesting things that are going to be
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in this bill that weren’t in the score act that might ruffle feathers uh one way or another. Of course this is a lot of compromise. They’ve been negotiating
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on this Cruz and Canwell and the White House for several weeks. So, there’s going to be some things that collegiate leaders don’t like, but I think that a
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lot of the things they really want, especially antitrust protection, is what is what’s really crucial here for them.
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Do do you think the antitrust protection is actually good for the sport long term?
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Um, it’s a great question. I think at the very least it actually gives rules some teeth and then maybe it helps level
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the playing field, so to speak. You’re going to see some sort of salary cap in this bill, too.
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uh for players when it comes to uh some NIL and rev sharing stuff. You’ve seen a lot of schools redirect their uh
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multimedia rights money uh to players to try and help that uh kind of curve kind of go over that salary cap right with
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rev sharing that’s at 22% of your budget. So there’s going to be some things there that if passed that when it becomes law, if it does become law and
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gets passed, that’s going to allow these universities and these conferences and the NCAA and the CSC to actually enforce
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these rules that they have in place now that just have really had no teeth and why there have been so many lawsuits.
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Talking with Brandon Marcel from CBSports.com. And then the other piece of news that I know that has dropped since we’ve been on the air, no more powderpuff game that second to
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final week of the regular season. So no more non-conference games there where you’re playing the Citadel or Western
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Carolina or Middle Tennessee, any of that. That’s all gone. It’ll be all conference games in the month of November.
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Yeah, it’s good for the fans and a natural and organic uh um uh transformation here with the introduction of nine conference games
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from eight and you know you guys know it and I’m look trying to find my stats I had picked up here but last year there
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were six games on that weekend that involved FCS or group of six teams and there were only four conference games in
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the SEC and only one was against was a ranked on ranked matchup which was OU and Missouri. Meanwhile, the Big 10, you
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know, you look at the SEC the last three years, I should say, they’ve played 17 combined non-conference games on that second to last weekend against FCS or
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group of six teams. The Big 10 has played nothing but conference games on that second to last weekend. 23 conference games in that threeear span.
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So, this helps with the television inventory. It helps with fan interest and, you know, helps spread out, you know, probably the schedule a little bit
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more for these SEC teams. Brandon, you’ve had a great career to get you ready to cover the SEC. You covered uh
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you were an Auburn beat man, a Old Miss beat person, Arkansas beat person. Um when you covered Old Miss at the Clarion
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Ledger in Jackson, uh who was the coach for the Rebels at the time?
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Oh, I I covered Mississippi State actually. Um Oh, okay.
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Yeah, I was Dan Mullen at the time. At the time, Old Miss had um the tail end of Houston Nut and then of course the introduction of uh Hugh Fes and that
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that that that craziness that was which one of which one of those were crazier, Houston Nut or Hugh Freeze?
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I would say what?
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It was a lot of fun. The Egg Bowl rivalry was a lot of fun when Fu got there and Dan was there because Mississippi State was starting to win at
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that point winning nine games a year and miss was trying to get back on track and they hit it big obviously in recruiting getting guys like Robert Kandichi and
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everybody was going what’s missing up there are they doing things legally and all that and Dan Mullen was very much a person who was uh not afraid to kind of
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let his words fly on that and so it was a very fun rivalry to cover in those first couple of years when when uh he was out there.
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Yeah. And Dan used to never uh call Old Miss Old Miss. He would always say the other school, Tiss Tissson, the school up north.
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Right. Right. Lane’s tried that a few times by not mentioning Old Miss, he would just say the the previous school.
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But uh well, from so a guy who’s been around the SEC, just what is your view of of Lane at Old Miss and his his
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switch to LSU, you know, kind of outside looking in. What what what is your uh opinion on on Big Lane?
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Well, I love him as a personality. You know, I’m sure he’ll tell you too. He probably just needs to keep his mouth shut on certain things sometimes and you
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know, he likes to talk and sometimes he says things maybe doesn’t even quite mean or get, you know, misconstrued. Um, I will say this, I was scheduled to fly
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into Baton Rouge and have a one-on-one with him uh the week that the Vanity Fair article came out and uh that was
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cancelled uh by his party and uh I was told he had some event to go to, but um and I’m still working on getting that
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one rescheduled. Uh I’m I know I’m putting like the pressure cooker on LSU, but I hope we can schedule something for that one-on-one. So, I’d love to chat
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with them. But um you know he’s good for the sport because we all love personalities and there’s nothing worse in college football, college athletics
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than a just mundane, boring coach. You guys know that. And uh so that I I love Lane Keith for that.
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How was Lane uh press conference? Uh what what what are your takeaways from his press conference this evening?
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Actually missed it. I was uh outside talking to some ads and uh some uh some other coaches, uh Brent Benal, so I I missed it. one of my B partners was was
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in there and said, so I honestly have no idea what he actually said in there. He could have he could have said he’s going back to Old Miss and I wouldn’t even know.
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We we’d have heard about that. But yeah, but seriously, Brandon, do you do you think that Lane Keifin is uh we always
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compare him to Brian Kelly, of course, but I haven’t heard that one.
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You shouldn’t say compare. I should polar opposites. Contrast. I would say contrast. Yeah.
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There you word I should have used. But but do you think he is uniquely qualified for this era of college football especially?
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Oh, certainly. I mean you I mean the moment he got to Old Miss and the transfer portal was around and then the
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NIL era hit back in 2021 20 uh he was perfectly prepared for that and that’s why they did so well immediately when
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that all came into be. you know, the the nickname of transfer portal king. It’s legit. And you look at the pieces he picked up at Old Miss and he’s just kind
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of supercharged that at LSU. I mean, Sam Levit’s a quarterback that everybody wanted. Um, and listen, I
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it’s going to be interesting just from the standpoint of LSU is obviously a different beast as far as fan expectations, the media coverage than
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anywhere else he’s been other than being the OC at Alabama. and he was protected from that there because assistant coaches didn’t talk under Nick Savings
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in the media. So, but he imagine that assistant coaches don’t talk under Lane Kein. Go ahead.
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So, he’s going to have to be measured probably if let’s say LSU losing a couple of games because there will be
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questions of course and I don’t think he’s ever been put in that type of situation.
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Yeah, the pressure cooker here, especially with how high the expectations will be. You know, they lose a couple games early on, it’s uh
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you know, it’ll be interesting to see how he reacts. Brandon, but before we let you get out of here, uh you wrote the article on doing the survey as far
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as the the future on the college football playoff as you’ve spent a couple days there and you’ve talked to more ads and you’ve talked to more
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coaches. How big will that playoff system be in 2027 in your mind?
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Well, I think there’s momentum for 24. I really do. Um, it’s just I the thing is is like the SEC kind of continues to
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kick this fan down the road and by that I mean they just continue this process of let’s get more information. Let’s get more information. Yeah.
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And no, your your decision- making is only as good as the information provided to you. And so like what kind of information are they actually getting?
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Is it just strictly coming from a perspective of there should be no more than 16? Because you know ESPN has said
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to these conferences, we want nothing larger than 16. A the AC commissioner Jim Phillips said that two weeks ago, which was he said the quiet part out
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loud finally. And you know the Big 10, they’re they’re affiliated with Fox and obviously they want an expanded playoff because they want to get in on that uh
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with some media rights. So, what what what information is the SEC athletic directors and coaches being provided?
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And is kicking the can down the road and continuing this conversation beyond Destin setting something up where maybe these ads who have been maybe kelting a
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little bit more toward 24, at least being interested in it, will that push them back toward the 16 model or just staying at 12? And if that’s the case,
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the longer this goes, I feel like honestly I think I’m thinking the opposite of a lot of people. I think the longer this goes in the SEC, the more likely this thing just stays at 12.
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Brandon, thanks a lot for your time. I know it’s been a busy day. You got a couple more busy days to go. Thanks a lot for spending a few minutes with us. Hey, no problem. See you guys.
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All right, Brandon Marcelo of two CBS Sports College football writer. Let’s take a break. More coming up here from Tiger Rag Radio on the Super Chevy
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All right, back here on Tiger Rag Radio as we continue on from the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, the Goodwood Library, Jeff Polmo, Todd Horn, Gwen
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Gilbo with you here tonight. And uh guys, a lot of topics we want to hit on here before we get out. Uh we’ve been kind of bantering about them here. First
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of all, your impressions of Ed Orron returning to the uh turning returning to the coaching staff. Could anything bad come out of this?
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I I don’t I personally don’t think anything bad at all can come out of it.
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I think it’s uh I think it’s a rare move. I mean, I was we were talking about earlier today. Can you imagine like if Brian Kelly had gone
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15 talking about Brian Kelly if Brian Kelly had gone 15 and move on. it’s time to move on at Notre Dame. And then all of a sudden, three years, four years, five, six years
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later, he’s going back as a recruiting specialist.
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I could see him going back to Grand Valley.
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But but to answer your question, I think it’s a great move for LSU. I think it’s a great move for Lane Kein. I
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think it’s a great move for Ed Oron. And I think it’s one that Louisiana loves.
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Yeah. I think I think it’s an awesome move. and and uh you know it’s good good for Lane to have somebody who’s who’s coached at LSU and coached extremely
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well at LSU and and was a great recruiter of high schools which that’s what Lane wants to do. I mean, I think
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he had a great he basically signed two portal classes in his first class of of 41. And I think that sets them up for
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two years. And I think you’re going to see him go more into high schools from from now on. really he’s still going to
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pick some some big ones from the portal, but I I think with Ed and Cory Raymond, you know, they’re going to just control
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the state and and and not let guys get away like uh Brian Kelly did. Sorry, bring him up again, Todd. So, yeah, that’s but uh you know, and so I think
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that really bodess well for that because he’s going to travel. You know, that was one of the things written about that when it first happened. He’s he’s going to be on off-campus recruiting and he’s
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also a heck of a defensive line coach and and defensive coach. So, that’s going to help uh Blake Baker as well.
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I I I don’t see a a a downsides to it downside to it. The only downside to it is is, you know, he’s he only signed a
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one-year contract. He may want to get a head coach somewhere a coaching job somewhere else. Well, I think the best thing about it, and I saw this on a
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video the other podcast or earlier this week, is Lane said that he can talk to Mike. That’s right.
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The Barto podcast.
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Not a lot of coaches have talked to Mike. In fact, not a lot of people have talked to Mike really.
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Should uh Lane be reprimanded for what he said to Vanity Fair and Old Miss’s I’m alone in this from what I can tell
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and I do lead a relatively secluded life, but I don’t think he said anything wrong at all. I think that what he said is true.
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Yeah.
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And I don’t see a problem with it. And I think everybody’s uh acting uh ridiculous.
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I think the reason in my mind, I’m not saying that he should be, but the reason why he’s in trouble is because he said what he said about Old Miss, which Ed
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Orron backed him up with in the interview with uh Mike Datillia, I believe, with WWL. But then when he turned around and said, “Meanwhile at
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LSU, everything is great. we got all this diversity and this and that. That’s really not factually right.
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When you go to the state capital right now and you can cut you can cut the racial tension with a knife over there.
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Well, yeah. And if he if he left the LSU part out, I don’t know. I I I think that’s where I
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think that’s where it really where Miss is saying, “Oh, you’re so you’re so much better than us.” Well, so so then basically you’re saying if they’re going
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to sanction him or they’re going to reprimand him, it should be because he lied about LSU, not because he lied about Well, he he tried to use it as a recruiting advantage, too, right?
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That’s basically what he was doing.
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Yeah, I I think so. But I maybe, but I think the main thing is Lane needs to get Old Miss out of his mind. You know,
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he he’s the one who left like Roanne Roan Davies said. He said, “Hey, leave the leave the girl alone. You left you left her. he needs to move on. He’s
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still mad because he didn’t get the coach in the playoffs. And I think he had a very good argument for that because Miss was better had he stayed
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and been the head coach. And as he said, Pete Golding was in the booth calling plays, which was he was best at. And I
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think Old Miss hurt its chances of winning a national championship by not letting him coach. But I think um I think Lane is is wrong to continue to
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talk about Old Miss, good or bad, uh particularly bad. And as I said last week, you know, Nick Sabin never ever
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said anything bad about LSU when he was with the Dolphins or with Alabama.
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And I I think that’s the way to go. You you stay above it. But Lane, he he he has flashes of immaturity. Well, he I think he learned his lesson because
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today at the SEC spring meetings, he was asked about the game against Old Miss and he said, “I can’t even think about that right now.” We have Clemson first
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and so he gave the proper based on what I can tell now. I haven’t seen the video. I’m just reading the quotes. So maybe something he did say something
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beyond that, but that’s a start. That’s a start where you just say I’m not going to get into that right now. They’ll we’ll have a whole week on that come
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midseptember. Let’s take our final break. When we come back, a little baseball talk here on Tiger Rag Radio from the Super Chevy dealer studio broadcasting today from the Goodwood
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Now, more Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Only a couple more minutes left. Want to thank all our guests tonight. Jeff Duncan, Kent Low, Brandon Marcelo, who uh was kind enough to join us from the
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SEC spring meetings where there’s a lot going on. Uh not a lot going on over at the at Alec Bach Stadium this week, unfortunately. Usually we’re getting
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ready for a regional selection Monday has come and gone and the LC Tigers were not part of the team of 64 after uh
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seeing that experience seeing all the 64 teams that got in. I guess just uh final thoughts wraps on the 2026 season that will that most LSU fans want to forget.
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Yeah. You know what’s what’s amazing about what you just said? The last time they didn’t make it, 2011, they were on the bubble and they thought they were going.
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They were 13 and 17, right? And in 2007 when they didn’t make it, they were also 13 and 17 and they were on the bubble. This year they they
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they knew it was over before it even started. Yeah. You know, it’s it’s amazing how far down Yeah. they went.
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And no Vandy in the tournament either, right?
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Louisville, too. I think Louisville is another team that didn’t make it that’s been a a consistent team that goes every year.
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They were um you know they were a bad team, bad pitching and but then they also really had key injuries because Cooper
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Moore was kind of early in the season and they were already clearly a bad team when they were teetering when when the left fielder Jake Brown
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when Jake Brown was lost uh I’m sorry, right fielder Jake Brown.
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if if he if he would not have got hurt and if Cooper wouldn’t have got hurt, I think they would have probably got in. Could possibly. But but that’s that’s a couple of ifs.
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Yeah.
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But they uh you know, they got some key players they got to get in the portal we were just talking about. They got to get a starter uh a rotation starter probably
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because the three coming back. There’s no Friday night guy out of Kase Evans and William Schmidt. Maybe maybe Cooper Moore.
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I think they need two topline pitchers out of the transfer port. No question.
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Yeah, for sure. and not from a mid major. Go out there and see if you can’t get somebody from whe whether it’s Mississippi State, whoever, you know, just uh someone significant like that.
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All right, guys. That does it for the show. It was a good show. Thanks a lot for joining us here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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