On this edition of Tiger Rag Radio, we begin the show talking about Will Wade’s pursuit of professional players (because the rules allow it) and how others in college basketball believe he’s ruining the sport, even though other schools do it. We hear from LSU softball coach Beth Torina as the Tigers head to Tuscaloosa for a Super Regional series showdown against Alabama. USA Today college football writer Matt Hayes talks about the SEC Spring meetings as athletic directors and coaches will discuss college football playoff expansion and the future of the SEC Championship game. We also connect with Lonn Phillips Sullivan of LSUodyssey.com to talk about the differences between Lane Kiffin and Brian Kelly. Also Lonn gives a great breakdown on the offensive line and the wide receivers. Also joining us…Andre Champagne of 247sports gives us a recruiting update. We finish the show talking about the latest with the proposed on-campus arena.
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This is Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio and good evening everyone. Welcome to
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another edition of Tiger Rag Radio. Jeff Polalmo, news and sports director of Louisiana Radio Network along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag Magazine,
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Todd Horn, and the editor Glenn Gilbo. A packed show for you here tonight. Coming up a little bit later, LSU softball
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discussion over a 24 college football playoff. Lon Phillips Sullivan of LSU
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Odyssey also will join us to talk LSU football and other things. And then our good old friend Andre Champine from 247
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Sports will join us to talk football recruiting. And recruiting is where we’ll start the show off tonight. Guys, how you doing?
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Good evening. How are you?
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We’re doing well. Doing well. We’ll get into some baseball talk as well as it’s possible the season comes to an end tonight or tomorrow or
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You sound hopeful that it comes to an end, Jeff.
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It it needs to come to an end so he can recruit.
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Yeah. Well, yeah, it certainly would help. Uh, let’s start off on our big topic tonight. Will Wade is in the news
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and he’s apparently aggravating every coach in college basketball because that’s uh that’s what he likes to do.
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That’s what he He’s like Tony Vatel. He’s a Tony Vatello of college basketball.
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It’s like if there’s a rule, then he wants to stretch that rule.
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Take the gray area. And it’s funny, LSU fans love him, but Tony Vatello is the same guy and they all hated him. It’s who you It’s who you’re coaching for.
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Yeah, no doubt about it. But what we’re talking about, in case you’re not aware, uh LSU has apparently signed the Big East player of the year, and that sounds
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like fantastic news. But RJ Louise, who um was an outstanding player for St.
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John’s, an all-American there, um where he averaged 18 points and seven rebounds in 30 as a starter in 32 or 35 games for
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St. John’s two seasons ago for coach Rick Patino. Uh the problem is is that um he was signed by the Utah Jazz,
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traded to the Boston Celtics, was then sent to the Celtics GLeague team in Maine, but he never played in a
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professional game, but yet he was signed by a professional or an NBA team uh because he went undrafted in the 2025
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NBA draft. And he’s been paid. He’s been paid and of course that’s not a big deal anymore.
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College coaches peanuts compared to what he’ll probably be making.
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Just just a minor rule according to Will Wade. He will Wade doesn’t really pay attention to rules. He’ll get around it.
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That’s just a little distraction.
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But um this All right. Give me your guys take. I think I think they may not get him.
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They have a chance to get him. And uh Will Wade feels like he’s worth taking a chance on. And I I think he is too. He’s
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he’s a very talented player. He’d be one of the best players in the SEC. They’re going to try to get them. They might One
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of the things that they’re going to uh push with a judge or with whoever they talk to to try to get a ruling is the
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fact that he has not played. Whereas the Alabama player who lost his eligibility, he did play. Now, that might not mean anything because whether he played or not, he he did sign with the NBA team.
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But that’s just one wrinkle that they’re trying. And they they uh they think they have a have a chance, but they’re not like thinking that they automatically got him.
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Well, but they think they have a chance.
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I think that they have a good chance because it’ll probably be in Louisiana over there in the 19th district judicial court and they’ll probably, you
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know, they’ll probably get it just like Chamblas got it in Oxford or wherever outside of Oxford. LSU’s got a great law school and
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Baton Rouge is crawling with lawyers and judges who graduated from LSU. I’ll never forget a friend of mine told me that there’s there’s more LSU law school
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graduates in Baton Rouge than there are hookers in Vegas.
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So, but no, realistically that, you know, you talk about the fact that we’re joking, but we’re also serious. When’s
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the last time the NCAA won a case like this? Yeah. Yeah. And why why is the NCAA still around?
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Well, they well they Alabama did lose its player eventually, right? But I mean, he only played a couple of weeks, so I guess you could say the NCAA won that one.
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Well, yeah. And and and the fact of the matter is the the rule is is that if you sign, it’s not if you play. Yeah. Right. Right.
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Right. Now, that kid from Alabama played 82 games or something like that.
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Right. Right. That’s a little different, but it might not mean anything.
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Right. Well, apparently nothing means anything That’s true. anymore, but it’s worth a try. I mean, if it’s the Wild West, you might as well take a try.
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And that’s and that’s what it is. So Wade is being smart for for trying to get the kid, you know, because now
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nowadays, you know, if you try to follow the rules, you know, you you lose, you know. So So
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why why follow what? There’s a gentleman’s agreement among the other coaches not to go after this kid, and that’s why they’re mad at Wade.
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Yeah. and and everybody else on his roster is from Israel or from somewhere in Europe. Uh that that’s on the roster
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right now. And they’ve all played pro ball, but it doesn’t matter. You can play pro ball over there and come play college ball here, right?
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Although there may be some challenges to a couple of those from what I understand. But you you can’t touch the NBA players.
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Well, I think with Wade, and maybe he’s already done this, the first thing you do is recruit a judge. Then you recruit the player.
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Does he have any any attorneys on his staff? I mean, that would be a good idea. I’m sure I’m sure there’s plenty of attorneys with
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LSU degrees in Baton Rouge who are willing to help Will Wade. He’s he’s he’s a rock star in Baton Rouge.
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So, Jeff Goodman’s been on a tirade today against uh Will Wade. He is the co-founder of the Field of 68. um he got
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a quote from what he called a top 20 head coach which was later identified according to John Rothstein as Tom Isizo
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of course the legendary coach at Michigan State and the quote that Jeff Goodman uses again Goodman doesn’t say who the coach is he says you’re being
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there’s I have to take some words out of there because there’s some profanity in this you’re being an idiot for the sake of being an idiot what you’re doing is
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screwing it up for everyone else. Um, and John Rothstein also then added to
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those comments. And John Rothstein’s kind of in the but him and Will Wade are good friends. So, um, John’s getting this getting this stuff.
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He broke the story about Wade. Yes. Coming to LSU.
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And then, um, Rothstein also said that Iso remarked, “Wade is one of the most useless basketball minds in the sport.”
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Wow. He We don’t know if said that, but that’s what he’s saying. Is said that’s what according to Rothstein. Wow.
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ISO said Wade is one of the most useless basketball minds. Why? Why is he upset with him?
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They’ve been upset with him ever since his days at VCU’s. Uh they they’ve never liked this guy.
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I know. But I want to know why they’re lashing out at him right now specifically because he’s trying to stretch the rules
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and that this because everybody on his roster is 24 25 years old right now.
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No, no. I I think I was particularly mad about the uh Ru the Luis just that’s what he’s really mad about. Right, Jeff?
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Yeah, I would. Yeah, this was in response.
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I don’t think he has an issue with the other guys. the but I mean you’re seeing the the 24 year old Brazilian power forward and then you’re hearing about
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the reports of this other guy from Israel who Well, that’s not new though. You you got you got 23 and 24 year old guys from uh
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overseas playing on at at other colleges.
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Well, let’s talk about the Israel kid, the uh Yam Madar, the 25-year-old Israeli point guard. I’ve seen I’ve seen
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reports in the last 24 hours from reputable sources saying he’s signed and it’s $5 million
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and um I can’t locate anyone at LSU who knows anything about it.
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Um can I add something here because Jeff Goodman just tweeted this out about 10 minutes ago. I don’t mean to just completely ignore what you just said, Todd.
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Sounds like it, but go ahead.
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Goodman is reporting that Will Wade has landed a six foot six foot6 wing player.
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I believe his name is Salu Naen. We were expecting that one, right?
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20 22 years old, drafted by the Cavs in 2025.
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Yeah, we’ve already written about him, right?
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He’s he’s the kid from Italy, right? Right. He was uh he’s he’s being um you know, supposedly recruited and
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trying and close to signing. So, but he’s he’s reporting that he’s signed. Uh, that is according to Jeff Goodman. Wow. Okay.
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Yeah, that’s another good player.
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I’d also like to point out that I don’t believe LSU has officially announced any of these signings but how much of their you have to make
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sure that it sounds like you have to figure out if more than half of these guys are even eligible to play. Well, and and if they’re on social security yet.
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Here’s another tweet from Jeff Goodman.
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Will Wade is bad for college basketball right now.
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And I don’t understand. I’m not saying I disagree. I I want them to quit throwing out these comments and talk about why they say that. And I know we can sit
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there and assume and project and be pretty much dead on with what we think, but I would love for them to clarify what they’re talking about.
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Yeah, there’s a there’s a lot of reasons potentially why Will Wayne’s back for college basketball. Todd, just looking for some specivity.
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But it is amazing how much he gets. I mean it it’s and you know Illinois could go do this. A lot of other schools can
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go do this. And it’s Will’s only got five players, man. He’s he’s he’s not being picky about the
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rules or about what Tom is thinks the rule is.
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Well, um this is I Here’s what I don’t I don’t understand how we’ve gotten to this point. I I really don’t because
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it’s pro basketball and pro- football being played under the infrastructure of pro of public universities. That’s what it’s really all about.
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The NCAA is governing or it it’s been established and I don’t think the rules have changed to be a amateur sport, right? it’s governing an amateur sport.
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And when you when you sign with a professional team, and I understand the definition of amateur has changed uh because of NIL and how revenue sharing
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and all that, but when you sign with a professional team to me, whether it’s in the United States, if it’s in Italy, Antarctica,
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um Korea, agree, I agree. You should play it.
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You’re done. To to me, I mean, that’s how But they fell out foreign players that were professional players to play college basketball. long time. I don’t
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know exactly when it started, but it’s been for several years. And how did it happen?
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I don’t know, but it’s a classic case of when you start bending the rule a little bit, it then it it it’s going to try to eat more ground up elsewhere. And that’s
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exactly what’s going on. And and the fact of the matter is is that ever since the House um you know revenue share
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legislation passed and was mandated down, it weakened the NCAA’s ability to govern and have rules because now you’re
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uh you have 50 different states that are dictating the rules of the NCAA or the the teams competing and you’re affecting
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the compensation of generational wealth to a did.
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Well, they were getting weak long before that, too. I mean, the the portal in the uh NIL severely weakened them because they lost every lawsuit they ever had. I
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mean, they they’ve lost more lawsuits than that burger guy against Perry Mason. Um so, you know, and this is this is what happens. The NCAA can’t do anything.
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Hamilton Hamilton Burger because they they lose every lawsuit. I bl I blame the lawyers for all of this. Kill all the lawyers.
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And my brother’s a lawyer, but he’s retired.
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I think I I’m sorry, Jeeoff. I think it’s time for the NCAA to say bye-bye or at least the SEC in the Big 10 to say bye-bye.
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Well, it seems like there is go form their own super league.
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And who’s going to run that league? Greg Sanki, Nick Sabin, whoever. Yeah, that that’s what people forget. Oh, let’s let’s form our own league. Well, who’s going to run it?
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Well, I trust me, I think they’ve got plans with two commissioners that can’t agree on a lot of stuff, but it would be one commissioner because it would be a super league. And
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so Sanki is gonna just retire and say I don’t want to be a part of this anymore.
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I’m not dictating or predicting what that personel look like.
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The problem is you got way too many people trying to run college athletics and you know they they can’t decide on a
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schedule. I mean just just look at the NFL. Verge. H I probably shouldn’t say this, but well, Verge Osbury has spoken in the past about how the NFL
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and and it’s a different comparison, but the the NFL is so unified. He told us, Todd, he says,
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“From Tuesday through Saturday, the NFL is one one entity. On Sunday and Monday,
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they fight each other, but back on Tuesday, they’re all together.” And that’s exactly and and the NFC South doesn’t have its
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own conference. And the NFC North doesn’t have its own conference with a commissioner. There’s one guy and he runs it all. And you know, that’s that’s just the way it is. And it’s organized.
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They know how to make decisions. They know how to make schedules. They know how to market. And it’s hard for colleges to do that because there’s so
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many teams. I understand that. But they’re just so unorganized and they all want to fight each other. You know, Seni just wants to fight all the other
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commissioners whether he’s wrong or right. And I think he’s being outcommissioned, outcommissionered by Tony Patiti at the Big 10 and has been for years.
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Well, that’s why I’m looking forward to hearing from Matt Hayes from the USA Today a little bit later on. We also have coach Beth Torina. We’ll talk about things that are actually happening on
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the field or diamond. So stay tuned. A lot more to get to here on Tiger Rag Radio.
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We’re back to Tiger Rag Radio.
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Jeff Polmo along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor Glenn Gil. LSU baseball in action tonight. Might be the
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last time we say that sentence until next February as the Tiger season could come to an end tonight as they take on
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Oklahoma. uh so far today at the SEC tournament. How about Missouri pulling off the bit of an upset beating Old Miss
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and then it was a win for Vandy over Kentucky.
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So the two the two worst seated teams won.
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No, Vandy was seated higher than Kentucky.
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Oh, but but Kentucky led up until like the seventh.
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Vanderbilt has a better seed than Kentucky. Vandy went 14 and 16 in the SEC. Kentucky went 13 and 17.
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I was just going to say what you see a lot in that tournament is like the teams that are doing pretty well and think they have a bid, they kind of they kind of want to get out of there. They just
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kind of want to have a practice, pitch a little bit and and get out of there. So you you might see some lesser teams win
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and uh that’s why LSU is going to win five games over the next six days.
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You know, it was interesting in that in that Kentucky game. Kentucky really had them throttled through, like I said, like six or seven innings and then I guess Vanderbilt erupted for like five
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runs in one inning and and they were and they were fighting about how uh like the uh I think the Vanderbilt pitcher kind of tries to
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quick pitch him sometimes and the Kentucky batters do all kind of like little cheers and stuff. It’s like junior high in Hoover.
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Well, uh, this could regardless of whether it happens tonight or tomorrow, this looks like this is the end of what
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has been a historically bad season. Um, when we join when we come together again next week, guys, we’ll be looking ahead
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to the future, but any final thoughts that you want to provide on how bad this season has been?
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Well, yeah, I mean, um, it’s been horrible. Um, I think that there’s been some good, you know, obviously Steven Milm’s been a bright spot. Um, I think
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he’s probably finishing off a career that’ll be remembered as one of the best in LSU baseball history.
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Great short stop.
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Great short stop. Um, I think that, um, I think the biggest things that stand out to me when I think back on this
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season are just how could every pitcher on your pitching staff suck and how could five wins is the is this is the team leader. Five wins.
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Yeah. I mean, how could they all perform badly compared complete games to what was expected of them? And then how could you fail
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flatly in the transfer portal at the same time that your pitching staff just flops? Yeah.
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And and to me that’s just it. And then the injuries, but the injuries are secondary.
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The injuries happened after they were already bad, too.
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But I looked up a stat last night because Jay Johnson had an unbelievable quote over the weekend where he said, you know, I used to always believe that
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if you score seven runs 80% of the time you’re going to win. and he said, “We screwed that statistic up.” And sure
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enough, they they’ve had 11 games this year where they scored seven or more runs and and uh you know, lost. Wow.
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And all and nine of those are in the SEC. So, they they actually started hitting later on in the season. They they they hit well enough to to be a decent team,
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but the pitching never got better. Well, but but but but because of that because they are able to hit the ball right now, they literally could make a run.
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And yeah, they could. I’m not saying they will.
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I’m not saying they will, but they could make a run.
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I really feel that this I I know there was a lot of talk about the transfer portal flops or Jay didn’t have enough
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money. uh all this kind of stuff that Jay didn’t have enough money is is untrue.
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I I I agree with that. I agree. And I think it started becoming too much of a lazy excuse to be honest with you by by some people in the media and even some
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fans. Well, they’re losing because they don’t he doesn’t have enough money.
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That’s true. But but I really feel uh to hit on your point, Jay, or Todd is that the pitching was just
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awful this season. Not there. There’s not one guy that you can look on that stat sheet and say, you know what, that guy had a pretty good season.
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And it has nothing to do with the portal. And a lot of it is just development.
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They just completely struck out when it came to getting K Evans, William Schmidt, Cooper Williams, Maverick Rzzy,
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Maverick Rzzy, all these guys to the next level.
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And it has nothing to do with the portal. Exactly. Which which was another lazy uh excuse.
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Oh, well, they won the championship, so then you’re bad the next year. No, the players that they were expecting to be good based on how good they were last
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year were not good this year. Kase Evans before he got hurt, William Schmidt, Maverick Grizzy, Gavin Gdry,
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and you don’t have anybody on that staff right now that you can look at and say we can depend on them next year.
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Right. Right. And and no freshman really came up as a pitcher. Usually there’s at least one or two that kind of rise to
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the top. You had a little bit with Santiago Garcia and a little bit with Marcos Paws, but not really that much.
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All right, let’s take a break. More of Tiger Radio after this.
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Now back to Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio. Jeff Polalmo
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back inside the Super Chevy dealer studio along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine Todd Horn and the editor Glenn Gilbo. We go to our first
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guest of the night and that is LSU softball coach Beth Tina. The Tigers will be heading up to Tuscaloosa for Memorial Day weekend. I couldn’t think
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of a better place to be for Memorial Day weekend, but especially if you’re an LSU softball fan, you’re pretty ecstatic of what’s how this team has been playing as
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of late. And uh Coach Torina joins us now. Coach, thanks a lot for spending some time with us. How you doing? I’m doing great. Thanks for having me.
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Good to talk to you.
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Yeah, it’s great talking with you. Uh what was your favorite part of the weekend? Some clean softball this weekend and winning the Baton Rouge
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regional. Really just three solid victories.
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It really was. There was so many cool things. It’d be tough to pick just one.
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Um I did head back out to third base for a minute and we scored four runs while I was over there. So, you know, I think I’m pretty lucky out there. Um, but no,
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it was a great weekend. I mean, the offense was incredible, just scoring runs off a really tougher Virginia Tech pitching staff and then three complete games from three different starters. I
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don’t know if I’ve ever heard of something like that in the postseason.
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It was a really, really incredible weekend.
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So, coach, heading into Alabama, obviously they’re the number one seed. You guys are very familiar with Alabama because they’re in
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the SEC and you play against them all the time.
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Is it an is it a jump up in competition this weekend or is it just a continuation of the the momentum you guys have established?
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Well, they got the number one seed for a reason, right? I mean, they’ve had a great year. I mean, they have a really complete team this year. Their offense has been outstanding and then they have
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the SEC pitcher of the year on the mound. So, I mean, they do a lot of things right, but um again, it’s a brand of softball that we understand, right?
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It’s in the same league. We understand how people prepare. We understand how they compete. So, I don’t think our kids will be or our team will be out of sorts
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at all. I think it’s some place where they can feel comfortable and, you know, they just have to go out and play their best game, but it’s something they’re capable of doing.
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Beth, your schedule early in the season was was difficult. You played at number one Tennessee and some other ranked
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teams. You were seven and four at one point and then finished really strong.
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Did you like reap the benefits as the season went on from those highly ranked teams and opponents?
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Yeah, without question. I mean, that’s kind of the the tale I think of this group is the adversity that they went through has made them really tough. And
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I think they’re peaking at the right time, but they also can take a punch, you know, and it it when you’re playing against a team as talented as the ones that are still left playing this
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weekend, um really anywhere in the country, you got to be willing to take a punch, right? It’s not going to go perfectly. you’re going to have to fight back when something doesn’t go your way.
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And I think the early part of this season, the adversity they went through has made them battle tested, so they’re able to do that.
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This team compared to the last couple of years of your team seems to have more just depth and breadth. Would you say
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that’s true? And obviously, if it is true, you built it that way intentionally.
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Yeah, I I do think we got a few things right with this group. I think, you know, when Bryce came and he worked with Zach, who does our data and and
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information, they they kind of have established what types of players are successful in Tiger Park, we looked for a little bit different type of athlete and the portal um what we’ve recruited.
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I mean, we’re sitting on the number one recruiting class in the country coming next year, too, which is made up of a lot of these players that we feel are going to have a lot of success in Tiger
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Park. So, the roster was built a little differently um with a lot of intention and you know, I think it has paid off here at the end. I think we’re seeing
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great offensive numbers. I mean, um took them a minute to get going, but take out the first couple weeks and this is as good as an offense as we’ve ever had
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here. And then, um the pitching staff is doing exactly what, you know, we needed them to do. A last minute addition of Payton Monoselli has just proved to be a
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huge lift for this team, too. So, um I think you know the roster built with a ton of intention has done what we wanted it to do.
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Without giving away any trade secrets, what what would be the keys to coming out of Alabama victorious and headed to the uh to Oklahoma City again?
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Well, I mean, we’ll have to make all the routine things routine, right? We’ll have to play out the solid brand of defense we’ve been playing. I think not
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going to be able to give their offense extra outs. Um, I do like the fact that they have five left-handers in the lineup and, you know, we have some
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pitchers that are successful against left-handers. So, I mean, I do like that for us. Um, but the real test, I think, is just to crack the code of their
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pitching staff, especially Joselyn Briskkey, the pitcher of the year in the league. I mean, we just have to kind of crack the code and get on to her, make
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her feel our presence, and um, you know, put some pressure on her. And I think that, you know, that that’s going to be what the how it really goes this weekend.
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Hey Beth, I wanted to ask you a history question a little bit. When when you were at Floren International and Patrick
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Murphy got named the LSU coach, had LSU already talked to you or did they come to you after Murphy left following three days and just how did that all go down?
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Yeah, I I don’t know if they made any other calls besides Patrick Murphy when it first happened. I think it was like a oneand done, but I don’t know if that’s
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true, but I think it is. And then um when he decided not to take the job, I made sure to take him out to dinner in the summer and thank him for the
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opportunity cuz uh it’s been life-changing for me and my family. That’s for sure.
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Wow. That’s awesome. Awesome story. And this is the first SEC team you’re playing in a super. Correct.
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I I think it is. I It’s It’s crazy to believe. I think we’ve been in eight or nine super regionals here in my time.
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Um, and I do think this is the first SEC team, which is crazy to think with the strength of this league. And I mean, there’s nine SEC teams left playing this
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weekend. It’s it’s incredible to think about. Um, so it is strange that this is our first one, but it is.
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And um, you did not play Alabama this year. You beat him two out of three last year. What is how does that place rank
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as far as crowd noise and and difficult place to play? What’s it like going into that park?
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Unfortunately, it’s the toughest one.
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You know, I think that they do the best job. I mean, they have the best crowds.
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We we haven’t played at Oklahoma in in their new stadium, so that may be comparable, but um it’s the toughest one. They have the largest crowds in the country. Um some of the loudest fans.
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So, um you know, but we understand atmosphere. We play here at Tiger Park and it gets loud and you know, people get going and they may have more of them
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over there, but they don’t they don’t have them the same way we do here at Tiger Park. Our fans are a little bit different, you know, so we can hang with anybody in that respect.
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Little bit different. Talking like Lane Kein, Ben, coach.
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Speaking of Lane Kein, he was out here playing ball on the field today. Playing a little slow pitch game out here on the field today. So interaction with him.
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Can he swing the bet?
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He wasn’t too bad. Actually, I was surprised.
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That’s great. Well, you know, it must be all that yoga that must keep him flexible and able to able to move and
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twitch quickly. Um, when when you talked about constructing this team for Tiger Park this year very intentionally, how
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is that how does this park in Alabama compare to Tiger Park? I mean, is the team compatible to that park?
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I think so. I mean, I think as far as that goes, this is a tougher park to play in. Um, especially for for an offense. Our park just plays big. um you know, our winds blow certain directions.
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So, I think um probably for an offense, it lends itself a little more to their park. Um and again, like our pitching
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staff was created to have a lot of different looks. So, I think we fit in about anywhere. We got an up baller, a down baller, a left-hander, and a change up, you know, we we’ve kind of got all
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the looks. So, I think our pitching staff can fit in really anywhere in the country.
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Coach Tina, good luck. Congratulations on getting back to the Super Regionals.
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We can’t wait to see you guys play this weekend and uh let let it’s always great when LSU beats Alabama. So, we we’re all rooting for you.
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Thank you so much. We appreciate it. That is LSU softball coach Beth Torino.
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us now, senior national college football writer for USA Today and also he hosts his own radio show in Jacksonville 10 on
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1010 XL. It is Matt Hayes. Matt, thanks a lot for spending some time with us tonight. How you doing? Hold on a second. I got to hit a button. Go ahead. Go ahead, Matt. I’m sorry.
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Doing great, fellas. How are you? Hey, we’re doing well. We’re doing well.
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How significant are these SEC spring meetings coming up next week?
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As big as they’ve ever been, I think. I mean, I I think you can make a argument that they are the biggest that they’ve ever had there in Destin. It’s uh there’s a lot going on, man. A lot going
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on. Um obviously within the structure of the SEC, within the structure of the NCAA, the playoff, um the the
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enforcement, you know, how are they going to enforce rules? What rules are they going to have? Um will the CSC have
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any kind of factor at all in private NAL deals, which are right now running the sport? um which we all knew, all of us
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knew this, yet apparently they couldn’t figure it out when they did it. Um it so it’s just there’s a lot going on, man. A
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lot going on. And the 16 presidents and chancellors of that league have the have the ability to either take
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a stand and say, “Look, you know, I wrote this earlier. We are the 300 Persians and you or we are the 300, you’re the Persian Empire coming at us
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and we’re not moving.” and and I I think they’ve got they’ve got a chance to just say, “No, we’re not going to 24 teams.” Okay, we’re either staying at 12 or
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we’re going to 16. That’s it. End of story. And then it’s what what do those what do the other conferences want? Do they forge ahead without them? And if
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they do, that would be a gigantic mistake because not notwithstanding the three straight national titles by the Big 10, that’s impressive, right?
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There’s no doubt about that. But if you get down to brass tax and what it’s all about, the television ratings between
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the SEC and everyone else, it is literally like a Grand Canyon size chasm between them. Now, the the Big 10 has
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the ability to make that up, I think, with with with becoming a better conference and the fact that they’ve added Washington and Oregon and USC and
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and and uh UCLA. So, if you get those major markets like to a point where those teams are starting to play better, then you got a chance. But right now, I
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mean, right now, you get Miss and Kentucky or or Mississippi State and Kentucky and that’s a three maybe four million people watching that game.
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That’s amazing, man.
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You get Illinois against Ruckers and it’s 1.2.
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Yeah. And the Big 10 schools are in much bigger, larger um population centers
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than these little towns in the SEC, but obviously it’s uh it’s throughout the whole region that’s that’s watching it.
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But that is an amazing stat. Now, now Matt, I’ve been to a lot of those SEC media spring meetings and and the talk
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going in is like this is the biggest one ever like you said, but but sometimes, you know, the votes aren’t taken or they really don’t decide anything. They talk
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about a lot, but I mean and and that and there is going to be huge conversations, but do you think anything’s going to be, you
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know, voted on or done that’s really significant, or is it just going to kind of set up later things? You know, I I think it’s going to be more the latter
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than the former, but but you know, like like you know, you’ve been through these things a lot, Glenn, and the reality is this. This conference has always been a
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conference that when they agree on something, it’s unanimous. It’s 120 or it’s 140 or it’s now 160. And I don’t
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think you’re going to see them say, “Okay, we agreed on staking at 16 and it was a 10 to6 vote.” It’s going to be a 16 to0 vote or we agreed to do whatever.
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It’s going to be that because they they have always, you know, whether it’s right or wrong or indifferent, they’ve always prided themselves on, look, we’re
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doing everything together. We share all the money. It’s equally, we do everything equally. And they’ve you’ve never heard that dissension in the
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within the troops. And now I think you’re starting to see a little dension within the troops. Like you see Josh Hypel talking about he wouldn’t mind a 24 team playoff. Even Kirby said he
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wouldn’t mind it. Um, we’ll see what happens when they get there because Steve Sarkeesian, his preference is he said, “Hey, I’d go back to four. If it were up to me, I’d go back to four.” You
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you know, you you know, the other conferences can have their mini playoffs to get your team to the to the final four, but let’s just stay at four.
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He makes it he makes a very good argument about it, too. So, there’s a lot of a lot of possibilities on the table. I guess the overarching question
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is do they dig in and say no, it’s not happening because I think if they do those other conferences will back down.
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I really believe that because you you can’t go from January backing the SEC and it’s everybody against the Big 10 to
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four months later all of a sudden now we’re all against the Big 10, now we’re all with the Big 10 and it’s against the SEC. I I to me it’s really bizarre
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fellas because I don’t see how these other conferences can’t see what’s going on. It’s the same thing the Big 10 did with the Pack 12 in the ACC. When when
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Texas and Oklahoma went to the SEC, the Big 10 panicked and they tried to get Notre Dame and USC and Notre Dame said no and USC obviously came. So since it was USC, they took the other LA team.
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All right. And then the whole idea was before that was look, we’ve got to stop the SEC. They’re going to take control
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of college sports. Remember this is before they added USC and they got the alliance. Remember that? The alliance between the ACC and the Pack 12. Less
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than a year later, they stabbed the Pack 12 in the back, take the two LA schools, the most important television properties of that of that conference and left them
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dead. Literally left them dead, and then they died like a year and a half later, that conference. So, they stabbed their partner in the back. What makes them
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think that now the Big 10, four years later, isn’t going to do exactly the same thing? If they all agree and
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somehow they forced the SEC into a 2014 deal, what makes them think that the the the Big 10, which went to an atlarge all
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at large 2014 philosophy instead of the SEC and the Big 10 getting four or five automatic bids, what makes them think
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that once everybody’s on board and it’s 24 that all of a sudden the Big 10 says, “Yeah, I think we’re going to go back to that automatic automatic bid thing.”
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Like to me, I I would to me, look, they’ve showed you who they are. Why believe them now?
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How much longer do you think we’ll see the SEC Championship game, Matt?
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I mean, until they can be until it can be proven that they can earn more money in any other situation than they earn
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now, I I don’t I think they’ll it’ll be on for as long as it has to be on. That that that game is not only a money maker.
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100 million future. Yeah. Yeah. In the future, it could be even more. In the future, that could be a standalone game.
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You could literally sell that to like you could have your your whole deal with ESPN and you could one off that thing with Amazon and they God only knows what
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they pay you for that, right? So you you could do that and as well as it’s it’s a game I think and this is as big I really
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do is it’s a fabric of what that league is. That league began booming because of the conference championship game. Yeah.
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I it’s not going to be just like a flipping okay, we’ll get rid of it. It’s just not going to be like that.
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Yeah. But but you had like you said earlier, you know, you got these splits like Greg Burn was saying they should get rid of it, but it’s it’s not that
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easy. I mean, how long is the contract with ESPN for that game?
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Well, it’s through the end of the deal, so it’s going to be what 2033 is that.
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And it makes so much money. I mean, I I can’t see them getting rid of it either.
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You know, maybe if they went to 24, you could recoup that money, but I don’t know. I mean it I don’t know how you do it because I I
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mean who’s what I mean we’ve all seen the the breakdowns of what those games would have looked like the last two years. Who in their right might do you really think you’re going to sell to
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Amazon and Netflix and and forget about the regular your regular partners?
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You’re going to sell Syracuse? What was the one game Syracuse versus uh shoot what was it? Georgia Tech maybe. Yeah.
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I don’t know. It was it Navy against Alabama. Like who do you really think you’re going to sell that game as a as a like a marquee game? Come on, man.
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Matt, we got It’s not going to work like that. And and and that’s another thing, too. See, this is another thing that I think never gets never gets talked about. And Sarkc
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was the guy who talked about it when I talked to him. And all anybody saw was the dopey, you know, Miss basket weaving. Nobody saw what he really the
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point he really made was no one knows what goes on in that room, the the the the college football selection committee room. They don’t
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know how it’s it happens. So, are you going to tell me once it gets to 24 that you’re not all of a sudden going to see 18, 17 or 18 Big 10 and SEC teams in that in that thing? Of course you are.
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Of course you are. And I don’t think those other conferences think that. I think they think, “Oh, it’s all at large. It’ll be great. We’ll all have have teams in there and they’re all
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going to end up getting hosed by it.” Matt, we got to go. We could talk for hours with you. You very very insightful
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stuff. Uh we really appreciate it. Uh we’ll have to get you back on again. Uh, enjoy the time over in Destin and we’ll talk to you again soon.
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Okay, fellas. Thanks, Matt. Thanks a lot.
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All right, that is Matt Hayes with the USA Today Network. We’re late for a break, so let’s go ahead and take it here on Tiger Rag Radio. Let’s go.
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Yeah, tremendous stuff there with Matt Hayes from uh USA Today as he was rolling, man. He was rolling. It uh just good stuff.
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Um, you know, after listening to him, I’m I think I’m convinced more than ever that we will not see a 2014 playoff. And
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one of the points that I heard ESPN doesn’t really want a 2014 playoff.
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Oh, they don’t want a 2014 playoff. And I think what he said about don’t trust the Big 10. Don’t get in bed with the Big 10 because they’ll stab you in the
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back like they did Pack 12. And uh I I think that’s I think I think that’s um he’s right. He’s right. How do you trust
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them? Just because they’ve won these three national championships in football, they think they can dictate now what how college football is run.
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It’s they still pale in comparison to what the SEC has won. I mean, it’s and seven in a row at one point.
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Yeah. And it’s not I mean, the SEC will be back.
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And and one of the points I’ve heard Matt make is that if you open it up to a 2014 playoff, you have this How many
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guys are on this guys and gals on the selection committee? 10, 12, whatever it is. How are they going to watch all of these teams to determine the seating,
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determine who should get in it? And I understand they have to do it for college basketball and there six, but there’s all there’s a lot of automatic qualifiers and I think it’s a it’s a
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little bit easier and the games are spread out.
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I think Matt’s point was was right on that there is no intention of doing that. It’s just to to pack it with more Big 10 and SEC teams if they were to do
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that. But I think the big point and he didn’t necessarily address this or at least I didn’t hear him address it is
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that Seni basically shot it down. Said that’s not happening.
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Yeah, it it’s not happening.
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All right, let’s take a uh break, top of the hour break and when we come back uh looking forward to hearing from Lon
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Phillip Sullivan from LSU Odyssey. So stay tuned for that here on Tiger Rag Radio. Y’all ready? Y’all ready? Let’s go. Come on.
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Dealer Studio and welcome to hour number two of Tiger Rag Radio. Glad you could be a part of the show here tonight. Jeff Polmo along
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with Tiger Rag executive editor Todd Horn and the editor Glenn Gilbo. Um we’re going to have uh Lon Phillip
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Sullivan from the LSU Odyssey on here in a second guys. Talk a little bit of uh LSU football. Um, hey Todd, Glenn, I I
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need you guys to uh talk here. Um, what because I got to get I got to get L on. I got to get L on.
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Well, let’s talk about Lane Kein and Brian Kelly and the contrast in the two before we get Lon’s opinion on that.
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Why do you want to talk about Brian Kelly?
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Because I think that where LSU football is right now is not just about football.
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Even though we’re talking football, I think it’s about the types of coaches and the speed of the coaches and the way
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they operate and the contrast between the two I think is relevant. It’s like LSU went from this traditional
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winningest coach in college football, active coach in college football who was very processoriented,
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very templated in the way he built or thought he was building a program and then LSU just said, “Hey, you know what?
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This isn’t working.” And now they’ve got Lane Keifin who’s this innovative uh mind that, you know, takes advantage
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of the portal, takes advantage of NIL, takes advantage of revenue share, takes advantage of building a roster, developing a team, uh, quick offense.
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It’s just totally different. And I think it’s that’s a conscious decision that LSU made whether it was Verge
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predominantly making that decision, which I believe it was, but I think it’s it it shows the state of of the mind, if you will, of LSU as an institution.
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Well, he was the best coach out there and um Verge knew that immediately. I don’t think they looked at anybody else.
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um if the if Lane had fallen through, they were probably going to hire Eli Drinkwitz, which um would have been a
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probably a big drop, but but Verge told us he was very impressed with Eli. That that might have happened, but uh yeah, I
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think um you know, I think Lane is is a terrific hire. Uh I think um it might
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take him a little longer than people think. Like I don’t think he’s going to be great in September. I think he might be really good in November and December,
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but it’s it’s going to be it’s going to be fun to watch. And and you know, the um
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the Old Miss is better than LSU right now. I mean, I I think LSU is eventually going to be better than them. If LSU
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played Old Miss later in the season, they’d probably beat them. But Old Miss is going to be probably the best team
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they play next season. So LSU could lose that game and be better than Old Miss by the end of the season and it’s such an
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early game that it’s it’s it’s not going to matter, but um it’s going to be such a big game. But either both teams either
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team loses, they could still make the playoffs. But uh are we joined by Lon yet?
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We’re good. Go ahead. Lon Phillips Sullivan from LSU Odyssey now joins us here on Tiger Rag Radio. Lon, thanks a lot for spending some time with us tonight. How you doing?
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Doing good. How’s it going, guys? Thanks for having me. Hey, no problem. Thanks for joining us.
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Lon, we were just talking about the contrast in coaching styles and philosophies between Brian Kelly, old
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regime, Lane Kein, of course, new regime, and just the contrast between the two. Just totally. What What are your thoughts on that?
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I mean, you couldn’t go from, I think, two more different wildly contrasting coaches, u coaching styles, coaching personalities.
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Um, you know, and and Kein, for all of the the stuff maybe his detractors and haters want to say about him, the guy
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was a part of, you know, a key part of recruiting and developing and play calling, you know, one of the greatest
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uh college football dynasties we’ve ever seen at USC as a very young assistant.
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this guy has championship pedigree even though it is as an assistant coach and so more achievements than Brian Kelly at
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the highest level you know did it Alabama as well probably Alabama’s best offenses um under Kein as well so that’s even just before he’s a head coach but
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then you see what he was able to do at Miss for a sustained amount of time really wish he had had a chance to to
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coach in the playoff because then a lot of these debates would have been solved I think and a lot of these uh you know how how he would be able to handle a
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team going into the playoff and and also a pre-LSU team just you know so people you know he he could only win with LSU
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maybe that could be that’ll be a future narrative because of that uh being not being able to uh coach uh miss in the
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playoff but two very wildly um contrasting coaches going from Kelly to Kevin I don’t think you can have two uh
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more different coaching um uh moves from from Kelly to to Kein You know, and I think one of the major
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accomplishments that Lane did at Old Miss line was, you know, and and I don’t think people realize this because LSU
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and Florida because they had such a great recruiting base before NIL and the Portal and their stadium and their
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success and tradition, they were slow to get into the portal. You know, LSU really didn’t get into the portal until significantly until after the 24 season.
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But Lane and Old Miss, man, they had it together right off. And they I remember Matt Mone talking about that back in
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like 21 and 22. They were way ahead of LSU at that time. And part of that was probably Old Miss, but I think part of
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it was uh Lane and Chris Smith, the Vanity Fair writer. That’s one of the things he said. He said there’s no coach
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in the country right now that’s better equipped for the way college football is right now than Lane with uh the the portal in
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the NIL. So, you know, it’s it’s a it’s a slam dunk hire. And you got to remember he he he’s he’s signed really a
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two-year portal class. Uh in fact, I was wondering if he signed any guys to two-year deals instead of one. I
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understand they they all signed to one, but LSU is going to be really good for at least two the next two years with this group of players and then we’ll see what else he brings in.
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That’s the thing people don’t realize about a lot of the the the um portal u portal targets that LSU went after and
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then eventually signed brought into LSU for this class. A lot of these guys have multiple years of eligibility. So you’ll
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be able to see u you know year to year uh this class grow hopefully with retention and it seemed like Keifin was able to retain players pretty well at all.
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He did. That’s the other thing. He sure did. Kind of kind of like the Indiana coach. Absolutely. Signetti.
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So Lon, do you do you believe that you there’s a there’s a sentiment that Lane has to win and win right now? Do you believe that?
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There’s definitely that sentiment. I personally don’t don’t believe that. I I think when you’re going to see in the
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grand scheme of things, a lot of the rosters around college football cost $40 million if not more. Um, but this is a
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brand new thing for LSU, a new frontier by, you know, double. I mean, $18 million was what we spent on the on the
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roster in 2025, and that was a ton. It felt like it felt like LSU had spent more than we have the entire portal
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combined in one single spree and um it it didn’t quite work out. Too many uh big- time guys on the defensive side,
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maybe not enough help on the offensive side or maybe the going after the wrong guys. Um Kein given $40 million, you get the number
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one quarterback Sam Levit. You get the number one offensive lineman Jordan Seat. you you get the number one edge rusher in Prince Will, who Kein has
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already coached for a full season at Old Miss. You you have all of these um you have all these pieces, but you got to
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see this team gel like any other team just because you have a number one this, a number one that, a top five this, and even our backup is a top 10 quarterback
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as well, a top 10 uh ranked Portal quarterback. So, Kein has done an incredible job of locking and loading this roster, but really it is like we’re
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we’re like any other team. you you have to see this team gel. You have to see this team uh come together. And really for me, it’s all about two guys who are
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who are injured right now who are who are out. I mean, they’re technically they’re they’re close to full health, but Sam and Tradez Green you’re talking about?
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Well, well, actually Sam Levit and Whit weeks. Oh, right. Right. I’m sorry. Right.
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No, no. One on offense and one one defensively. uh guys that you haven’t really seen the offense or the defense play around and and really they’re the
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central focus of both sides of the ball on each side of those balls each side of the ball there. Um so
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it it is kind of an unknown quantity of what LSU will be in year one under Kein but Sam Levit exciting dual threat
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quarterback. If you can get this uptempo offensive setup going with Sam Levit he he’s fully healthy. you don’t see much
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of a a speed taken away from uh from his uh rushing abilities, then uh I think I think LSU will have a strong chance. I
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mean, you marry a keen offense, Weiss play calling, a dual threat quarterback who had just two fewer missed tackles
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forced than Jaden Daniels did in his Heisman’s winning season. Uh with 38, Sam Love it. really able to to make guys miss,
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not just uh, you know, be kind of elusive, but also make guys miss in the open field and show some real speed.
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Will, you know, if we’re able to see that married with a Blake Baker defense, you know, I mean, where you’ve got
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pieces all over the field as long as this team is healthy, um, both of those are such exciting potential. uh Glenn
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and when you see both of these, you know, a Blake Baker defense, a Lane Keven offense, such unbelievable
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potential for success there if if you stay healthy and you see every every, you know, at least most buttons uh
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pushed correctly. The thing that that concerns me and I I I share your excitement and your enthusiasm. those pieces are obviously there and and you
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know Kein’s an offensive genius and play caller and I think you know with Weiss and and everything that’s going to work exactly the way you know conceptually
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you you’ve outlined it but the big thing that sticks in my mind is yeah you did bring in Jordan Seed but your offensive line was the worst offensive line in the
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history of mankind last year and your wide Curly Hullman offensive line was pretty bad in ‘ 89 buddy I bet you if you compared the two man I
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I All right, whatever. They they were both horrible. Okay, but the point is is can can you raise the level of that
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offensive line enough to get it to a wide receiver room, which I know you’ve been chronicling this past week, which is is built to succeed, and maybe you can go into that a little bit.
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Oh, a fantastic question. I I just this offensive line I think the way Lane Keifin’s play calling and the way Lane
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Keiffin’s system is set up I think it can also paper over the cracks of a weaker offensive line and
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and you can really gash and really wear down a defensive front even if you if if your offensive line isn’t really that
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good and and maybe you have some holes some mismatch opportunities for for a defensive front to take advantage of I
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with that, you know, uptempo, uh, no huddle, hurry up, you know, heavy metal type of offensive attack that, you know,
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we’re seeing our offensive line kind of get weathered through storm and through, sorry, weathered through the storms through spring to kind of a get adjusted
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to. You know, it’s not just play calling. It’s not just learning the the playbook and your teammates, but also just the conditioning of being able to
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do this. Uh, Jordan Seaton, I was very comfortable with what I saw out there. I saw a lot of impressive battles between
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him and Prince Will on the wing. Really love what I see from Jordan Season.
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Absolute knockout there. No problem. But left guard, is that going to be Bo Bordalon? Is it going to be Devin
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Harper? Is it going to be, you know, William Satwite? There’s a few there’s a few uh candidates for that role, but
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none of them have much experience. And then right tackle Weston Davis. uh you’ve seen him have to get a lot of
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help from from usually tight end Malachi Thomas being over there, a lot of 12 and 13 personnel um just to supplement
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Weston Davis over there and a lot of you know combo blocking with the guards as well. I love what I’ve seen from right guard Alu Ba out of out of uh Maryland
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who’s who transferred over here. I I really was worried about that spot. He alleviated all of my worries. I think he’s going to be solid for it for LSU
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center Brilen Moore. fantastic. But once again, you’ve got to make sure all these guys stay healthy. Brillin Moore, he had
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some injury troubles last year. Um, I think this offense is has every potential to be fantastic, but Eric
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Walford was one of the most maligned offensive line coaches in the SEC. His own fans,
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Kentucky fans, messaged me in mass and said, “Thank you for taking him from us.” You know, well, he was really good at Alabama, though. And he and I don’t care how
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maligned he was at Kentucky, he was better than Brad Davis. I’ll give you that.
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Let’s go ahead and take a break. Lon, if you can hang on uh through this commercial, we’d love to bring you on for another segment. Of course. Of course. Thank you guys.
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All right. Lon Phillips Sullivan of LSU Odyssey. Let’s take a break. We’ll get into that. Talk more about the wide receivers. Variety of them. A lot of big time players. They can make some plays.
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Back here on Tiger Rag Radio, Jeff Polalmo along with Glenn Gilbo, Todd Horn. We’re talking with Lon Phillips Sullivan. Earlier today, we talked with
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after the show. Look back at previous shows as well. As I mentioned, we’re talking with Jon Phillips Sullivan from LSU Odyssey. And Lon, wide receivers, uh
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there’s a bunch of them. Which uh four or five guys that you think will really stand out this season?
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Tool that entire receiving core top to bottom there, guys. I mean, just top to bottom. And really what’s exciting to me
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is the first guy that we actually got in the entire transfer portal, Jackson Harris out of Hawaii. He’s the leader in production coming into the receiving
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room. But he just shows me such all-around just pure receiving talent. Whether you
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need a big play on third down, he’s there for you. A big play downfield, he’s there for you. a big play over the middle. Uh, you know, he’s he’s really
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shown out in spring practices against tight coverage against guys like DJ Picket and PJ Woodland, which I was looking for like, okay, you were you
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were solid at Hawaii, just under 1,000 yards. How good are you going to be against SEC coverage? He’s really, I
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mean, against some lengthy uh some experienced guys like like Picket, like Woodland, he’s really stood stood on his
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own two feet and and really showed out in spring. But, you know, there’s there’s some other guys that really have caught my eye. Jace Brown and Trey
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Wilson. I think this team is going to need some burning speed. Winnie Watkins as well. These guys I want to see getting the football over the middle um
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constantly throughout the game. You got to be throwing the football over the middle for these guys in space, in stride, and let them, you know, exercise
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their their absolute um virtuosic yards after catch abilities. Um Trey Wilson, just to illustrate, in his in his
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freshman year when he was at his best before injuries kind of robbed him the last few seasons, 480 yards after catch
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from 544 total yards. a lot of short yardage stuff, but he’s just making people miss, making a lot of moves after
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the catch and um really very exciting weapons with him. Jace Brown, former
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Kansas State guy. Trey Brown out of Old Dominion as well, averaged 20.1 yards per catch in the Sunb Belt Conference.
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You know, torched Old Old Old Dominion’s opponents, you know, at that level. But now coming into spring practices, I
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really wasn’t. Um I I was expecting to be blown away by him. I was kind of expecting him to to take the bull by the horns and he really was quite lukewarm
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in spring. I’m I’m really hoping for him to to break out coming here up coming up here in fall camp. But you know, if not,
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there’s there’s other guys. Roman Mothership, motherhood, as I call him, the mothership. He is absolutely massive. 65208.
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Um, you know, that’s the thing about this group. There is a complete length and and and strength and power dynamic upgrade here with this receiving core.
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Um, way way, you know, updated and upgraded in that uh respect for this receiving room. Uh, you’ve got I don’t
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think I think the shortest guy um you know those go those guys are usually the speedy Bernie guy burner
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guys like uh Trey Wilson or Jace Brown and it doesn’t really matter if they’re they’re really short but other than those guys you just have length
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everywhere you look. Um Corey Barber a young freshman he he’s he’s really looking like he’s going to be a star.
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Jabari Mack, he made that generational ESPN one-handed catch, but then um he hasn’t really done anything after that.
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He had a lot of drops. He had a lot of disappointing performances in spring, a lot of lack of daysical play. So like
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freshman superstar, you know, maybe not quite just yet, but he’s shown a lot of incredible uh explosive promise. Jabari
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Mack and definitely one to keep your eyes on still even though I I think some sometimes uh in spring he was actually
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quite um quite disappointing even though he made that incredible uh face melting catch. But Winnie Watkins he had this he
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had this scrimmage where he went for 164 yards, 10 catches, and it just it really said like that’s a dude who Kein’s going
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to want to feed. But as we all know, it’s all about trade as Green. feed him, feed him, feed him, and and really
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that’s that’s where the bulk of the passing game should be going to.
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Lon, it should be interesting to see how it all sorts itself out. We’ll have to get you on a little bit later on in the offseason, talk some more as we preview
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what will be a very interesting 2026 LSU football season. Thanks for your time, Lon.
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Oh, you guys are the best. Thank you guys. Thanks you, Tiger Rag. Have a good night. Go, Tigers.
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Back here inside the Super Chevy Dealer Studio, Jeff Polmo, along with the executive editor for Tiger Rag magazine, Todd Horn, and the editor, Gwen Gilbo.
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We bring in our uh our old friend Andre Champine joins us here on the show now,
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of course, with 247, former Louisiana radio network and Tiger Rag reporter. Andre, how you doing today, my friend?
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I’m doing well, guys. It’s nice to hear y’all voices again. It’s great to hear from you.
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That’s good to hear from y’all, too. Um, h how are things how are things going?
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Well, you haven’t turned in a story in I don’t know how long. What the hell’s going on?
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Good point. Good point, Todd. Good point.
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All right. All right. Let’s just jump right in, man. because you’re the you’re the recruiting guru now.
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Yeah, you’re all over the state. What what have where where have you not been and um that’s a good question. I I’ve uh I’ve given my car a break for the week.
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Um it’s uh you know, my Honda’s putting in some work. Uh we’ve been to Mississippi and we’ve been all around uh Louisiana so far. So,
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all right. So, with your boots on the ground, uh, working the way they have and now you’re giving your car a break, I I don’t I don’t quite understand how
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how you’re still boots on the ground if your car is getting a break. But what what’s going on? I mean, I understand
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that LSU had a a top-notch cornerback that they were going after and now he’s sort of decided to go elsewhere or what’s happening there?
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Yeah. So Josh Dobson cancelled his visit with LSU that he was, you know, supposed to take on June 12th, which was really
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from the staff’s point, uh, that was going to be a pivotal weekend at his recruitment for LSU, but it looks like he’s going to Michigan now. And, uh,
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that one, it did come as a surprise, but it’s one where Josh Dobson, his recruitment has been really, um, you know, prioritized with his with his
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agent. It seems like they have a price for him. Um, it seems like LSU may not be willing to pay that price. Um, you
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know, from the sources that I’ve heard from, but LSU still has some guys that they’re, you know, turning to right now.
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Uh, you know, whether that’s Mai Williams, a Florida State commit right now who’s a safety. He’s a four-star
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safety out of Rustin, Florida, but he’s getting recruited by Corey Raymond as as a cornerback. He’s a big guy. He’s 6’3.
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So, um, you know, they have options, but Dobson is definitely going to be one that, uh, they’re going to wish they had, you know, a chance with, and it
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might it might not be done with, you know. Um, Cory Raymond is a guy where, look, you saw what he did with, uh, you
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know, going in house with Dobson earlier this this spring. So, I mean, you you really can never give up on a guy like
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Corey Raymond and his stature who’s been able to get the best of the best. Andre, how many um I know it’s a long way off,
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but uh how many players do you think are going to be in Kein’s class of uh 2027?
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You know, the the early signing period plus uh next February, I would say somewhere around 25 to 30.
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Now, that’s going to be a lot more uh than they did, you know, have this this last signing class, but that’s because
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Kein really had to put it together within about five days or so. um it seems like so I I would say about 25 to
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30. You know, there’s going to be a lot of late offers that that are being picked up right now. So, that number could rise, but when you look at, you
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know, the quarterback depth right now on the roster, uh they’re going to definitely try and add a few more quarterbacks than they probably need uh
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in terms of numbers, right? So, I think quarterbacks are going to be heavy. wide receivers. You know how Kein is, he brought in nine with the transfer
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portal. So, he’s not going to be scared to bring in one too many uh from the high school ranks. Let me ask you this, Andre, real quick.
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Sorry, Todd. Um, okay. He signed 41 players in the portal and a lot of that
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first portal class is going to be at LSU for for two years. Do you do you think he’s got that base in? Do you think he’s
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going to kind of become more of a high school recruiter than he ever was at Old Miss and and kind of start leaning that way?
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Go ahead.
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Yeah, I definitely I definitely do, Glenn, because um all the guys that I’ve talked to, you know, um have said that Kein has talked to them and said, “Hey,
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like, you know, especially with the 27 guys, like you’re going to be our true first recruiting class that we really signed.” So, we’re making it an effort
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to say like, “These are the guys we really want.” um these are the guys that fit our description and our system. Uh so it’s important for those guys to kind
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of come into the system early, right, and learn those things as opposed to grabbing 40 new guys from the portal.
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Now, the portal is still going to be heavy for LSU, especially when you look at maybe who’s seniors and juniors and draft eligible and all those kinds of things, but I don’t expect 40, right?
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Like that’s that’s a complete rebuild. Maybe we’re looking at like 25 to 30.
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Same same thing with the high school guys. We might have like an even split there.
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Andre, what are what are the when you’re talking to these the these players like the Eastern Royals and and the the high
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caliber targets that people want, not just LSU, what how do they characterize Kein as a recruiter, as a coach?
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They they actually it’s pretty funny.
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Like they they say he’s he’s just intense, right? like um he’s that like one recruit told me uh the other day he
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just gives you that look and you kind of know like he’s really about this like he really lives breathes football like he doesn’t really care about anything
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outside of it and that’s the kind of feel that they’ve they’ve gotten too like Eastston Royal uh really loves that coaching staff down uh in Baton Rouge
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same thing with Albert Simeon he really loves coach uh Wolfford but Keifin is a guy who’s not going to give up uh in terms of recruiting recruitment. He just he’s a guy that doesn’t like to lose.
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We’ve talked about it uh with Levit, right? Like earlier this year, he hopped on a plane because he heard that Tennessee might have gained some
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traction after that visit. So, he he went to to see him in Knoxville and made sure that he could close the deal, and it obviously it worked. So, I mean, he
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the guy’s not going to give up and and that’s going to be the same for a guy like Albert Sime and East and East and Royal who are really uh two program
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changing type of uh players in this recruiting cycle.
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So, we’re specifically with Royal right now, he he committed to Texas uh the day before Kein was hired at LSU, if that’s correct on the timeline there.
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But but like you said, now he’s really attracted to the program. Could do we see some movement? Do you I mean I I know you can’t predict the future, but what are you seeing in your mind?
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It feels inevitable. I mean, it really does with Royal now. I think he’s down to three options really. I know that he’s kind of come down to uh four to
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five schools that he really thinks um have stood out to him. But after talking with him a couple weeks ago, it seems like it’s it’s going to either be stay
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stay at uh Texas, um a flip to LSU, or maybe even a possible flip to Florida is what I’m hearing. Um as of late, uh
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Florida, he he really raved about that coaching staff and what Summer’s been able to do since he got to Gainesville.
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And um as far as LSU, I mean, he he said it himself, it’s home. It’s who he grew up watching really. Uh and so there’s
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obviously an emotional tie to LSU. It’s just going to come down to um I guess you know, a few things as far as the staff goes and and kind of what his fit
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is. Um you know, just especially he he you know, he’s watched the Old Miss offenses in the past and he told me he
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really likes how they use the wide receivers. So, you know, Kein and that offense jump out to him. I think a big factor that we’re not really talking too
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much about is NIL. like he completely told me, hey, NIL plays a factor for me, but it’s not, you know, the number one
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thing. So, I think um you know, when a lot of people say, hey, this was just a money thing, it’s not going to be the end all beall for East Royal. It’s going
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to be, you know, what what is going to be the team that develops me, you know, the best of their ability and that I can
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win a national championship with at the end of the day.
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Talking to Andre Shampagne from uh 247 Sports. Andre Ahmad Hudson, the number one tight end in the country, fivestar
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from Rustin, he has said that he wants to play basketball too for coach Will Wade. What’s your feeling on or or what
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are you hearing if anything? How how you think Lane is going to be about that? How is he with dual sport guys?
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Yeah, that’s a good question because I talked to Ahmad last week and he told me like, you know, that that was a deal breaker for him. So, I think they’re
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going to let him kind of try it out. I will say I think Ahmad Hudson’s a way basketball a way better basketball player than Trey Ez Green was. Um so I
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think he could make it work. Now do I think he’ll you know play a lot of basketball? I don’t think so. But you
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know he firmly believes that he can do both and I think they’re going to give him a go at it because Will Wade obviously he does want him. Uh Ahmad
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Hudson said that his dad has has known Will Wade for a while now. Uh, and the two have kind of, you know, actually became friends over the years of his
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recruitment. So, and they need an American on the team.
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Right. Right. I mean, but but his name doesn’t sound totally He doesn’t He doesn’t, but his he is an American and his dad’s an American.
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He is. He is. Um, but yeah, that I see what you guys did there. Um, yeah, maybe he’ll start maybe he will start going
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after more high school recruits. We’ll see. Um but uh but anyway, Ahmad, yeah, Ahmad really expressed that he wanted to
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play both. Now, I I could see it working out in the way that hey, Ahmad joins the team a after the football season. Uh
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which could be trouble really because it could be kind of a trade dead situation where he joins the team during SEC play down the stretch. Um but I I want I’m
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I’m interested as well to see how they work out those kinks. Andre, do you do you believe getting back to football recruiting, do you believe that Given’s going to land in the top five with this 2027 class when it’s all said and done?
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I’d definitely give them a top 10. Um, I think top 10 is inevitable. Obviously, uh, they have a lot of guys. Uh, right
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now, obviously, it’s quiet, but after OB uh, season, uh, I I expect things to ramp up pretty quickly, especially with
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some of those high talented guys. um you know, like the Eastn Royals and the Albert Simeons. Um but I mean, they’re going to they’re going to land, like I
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said, a lot more guys. So, I I expect it to be a pretty pretty high class. I I won’t say top five yet. Um I I need to
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see some things have some things work out. Uh especially since Dobson doesn’t, you know, probably end up with the Tigers, right?
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But, um I I think top 10 for sure. one quarterback only or do you expect another one to be added?
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Pton Peyton Houston is their guy. Um and and you know obviously there’s going to be there’s that you know that
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conversation of why didn’t they go for Elijah Haven? Well, Lane Keifin and and um you know they they were the first
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team to offer uh Peyton Houston SEC wise. So, uh, he holds that dearly and they’ve stuck with him and so I think he’s the quarterback of the future.
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Andre, great hearing from you. Good work with 247. We appreciate it, man. We’ll get you back on later. Thanks, guys.
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All right, Andre Champine, or as we affectionately called Luke here on Tiger Rag Radio. Let’s take a break, more of Tiger Rag Radio when we come back.
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Now more Tiger Rag Radio live from Super Chevy Dealer Studio.
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Jeff Polarmo inside the Super Chevy dealer studio with LSU executive LSU
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LSU Tiger Rag executive editor that is Todd Horn. We are going to hear in a second here from LSU system president
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Wade Roose. Uh he was at the Bat Rouge Press Club, talked about a wide variety of things. I I don’t know if he really
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broke any news. He was asked about the LSU Arena and there’s really not much going on with the arena. Here’s a a snippet of what he had to say when asked about it.
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I wouldn’t characterize those as the arena taxes, but there is an economic development district that is that is a much broader economic develop district
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and a and an athletic athletic district.
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Those taxes are being um collected to be completely transparent. That was a good question for us about a month ago because we had no idea where it was at.
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And Brandy, our CFO, started really working hard to try to figure out what’s going on and where it’s at. We have an account in place. We’re setting up all of the destructors. I had to actually
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sign on as the EDDD president and give them my uh driver’s license and everything else as the fiduciary of that account. Uh so there is money in that
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account. Where is it? Nothing has been spent yet. Where it’s going to be spent kind of depends on if we end up getting an arena or not. As you know, the EDDD
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has has some earmarks in terms of uh structural issues that it needs to be uh spent on. You can imagine if you drive
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our campus and see some of the potholes on our campus and and and and uh curve um concrete that is broken that we have
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a lot of places to spend them, but we’re going to put a real strategy in in order to try to prioritize where that needs to be done and where it needs to be spent.
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But the we finally do have it in place.
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We have an account in place. This is like this is like breaking news. This is like this week. Uh it was all put in place. So, uh we do we do have it in place. Brandy Roberts, our CFO, Dr.
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Roberts, is doing an amazing job. She’s got her hands around it. Uh and we’re going to put a priority list together in terms of how that money is going to be spent.
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And that money he’s talking about is money being generated from a tax that was placed on businesses in that area through the LSU Economic Development
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District. some of that funding or at least that tax that and you you know a heck of a lot more about this than I do,
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Todd. But uh the reason why this uh economic development district was formed was to help generate funds for a new arena. But in that soundbite that you
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heard from Wade Roose, he talked about there could be arena, there might not be arena. So it it doesn’t sound like the
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ball’s really moving down the the field on this.
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No. And and I think that it was a actually a very revealing press conference and and to President Roose’s
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credit, he was very transparent. What we did not know before that meeting uh at the press club was has had the taxes
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actually been collected and they they started being collected on October 1st of 2025 and where the money was. Well, now we
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know that it’s in an account and that account that money which will amount to about $161 million projected over 30
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years uh is pretty significant. And even though LSU and Roose yesterday said it
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was not geared towards the arena, there is a lawsuit by Daryl Glasper Senior that was filed in December of 2025. And
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the attorney for that case is William Moost. And he’s done discovery and found documentation in terms of emails and
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memos uh saying that the money both cents meaning both 1% tax collections of
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that money were to go to the arena. And one of the biggest things that that Bruce said yesterday in the press club
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meeting was this arena is going to cost LSU money. It’s not going to be like it
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was originally proposed where it wasn’t going to cost us anything. A private firm was going to come in. We were just going to lease the land. Now, he didn’t go into all that detail.
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Yeah. He talked about how they’re going to need the state to help come up with part of the funding.
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Yeah. Exactly. and and so it was a very revealing thing. It was actually refreshing to his again to his credit
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for him to be open because one of the biggest concerns about this project is not that conceptually the arena is a bad
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idea or having the arena uh and the whole economic development district with hotels and and restaurants
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um in the area around that arena which is not just to be a home for basketball and gymnastics but also a home for
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concerts and entertainment. ment uh and and an additional revenue stream in and of itself that way. But the whole point
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was that if you’re going to do this, let us know what’s going on. Where they got into trouble with this economic
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development district tax is no person that lives in the area was allowed to vote
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on that tax and that remains the the basis of the lawsuit moving forward.
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But the tax is only impacting businesses.
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Yeah. Well, it’s only taxing businesses, but that’s, you know, there are people that live there. And so, as William Mo
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says the attorney, you cannot tax, you cannot have tax without representation,
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you know. So, it’s an old American issue, right? Let’s take another break and then we’ll wrap up the show. When we come back, this is Tiger Rag Radio. Chevy
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Beth Torina, LSU softball coach, Matt Hayes of the USA Today, Lon Phillips Sullivan of LSU Odyssey, and Andre
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Champine, formerly of Tiger Rag. Now, 247 Sports with a recruiting breakdown.
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Uh LSU baseball set to still play Oklahoma tonight. God bless you for if you are planning to stay up till
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midnight to watch this thing. If you It is going to be bizarre uh Todd, come Monday, uh when we’re not breaking down
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brackets and looking at regional opponents and all that kind of stuff. Um for some that are that really love this
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part of the year, it’s it’s it’s it’s also very sad and it’s amazing how far they it it’s not even close when it comes to them even being on the bubble.
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If they did, I know we talked about it earlier in detail, but if they did make a run, would would you be just totally shocked?
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I would not be surprised if they won tonight, and I I partly would not be surprised if they would if they won tomorrow because it’s LSU baseball and they find a little magic in this place.
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Tomorrow, if they win tonight, tomorrow they’re supposed to be going 70 75 pitches against Auburn’s ace. Yeah, right.
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which defies convention.
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Yeah. You know, so you never know. You never know. But I’m not counting on it just because it’s just been that bad. But uh they maybe
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they they find a little magic, get a win tonight, and then uh yeah, maybe it all ends tomorrow and then Jay Johnson and this coaching staff get
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to work. But um the transfer portal isn’t quite open just yet, but uh they can be out there recruiting and all that kind of stuff and get the exit meetings
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out of the way and evaluate everything that and that evaluation has been ongoing. But um your opinion biggest biggest thing they
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need to do in the portal pitching comes down to pitching to me.
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chance to they obviously have a good little group of position players here, but as you mentioned earlier in the show, who do who are you really counting
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on next season to be good for you? Who’s your Friday night starter? I I don’t know if you got one.
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When’s the last time LSU was looking forward to another season at any point and didn’t have an idea who their anchor pitchers were?
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Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know. Well, hey, that does it for another show.
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Thanks again for everyone that was listening. For Glenn, Todd, I’m Jeff Polmo. Have a great night, everyone.
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