October 31, 2025 • 14 mins
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is drawing backlash after suggesting that former President Donald Trump should pick the next head football coach at LSU instead of the university’s athletic director. The comment follows the recent firing of head coach Brian Kelly, whose highly anticipated tenure failed to deliver top-tier results. Critics are calling out the governor for politicizing college sports and ignoring more pressing state issues like literacy and public safety. Landry’s controversial remarks come shortly after he also suggested a statue of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk be placed on LSU’s campus. With college football being a major cultural and financial force in the South, the debate raises questions about the influence of politics on athletics and who should really be making coaching decisions.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's been a conversation in years past about athletes needing
to shut up and dribble and keeping politics out of sports,
and now all of a sudden, we have literally the
governor saying that he would rather have the President of
the United States choose the next head coach. This is convenient.
It's so convenient when we are allowed to inject politics
in sports. You know, Samaria, you from the South, and
(00:26):
you are the college football and football affects Sionado. You
just this is your world for real. This story really
scuffed my teams this morning. So down at LSU, there's
been a lot of controversy over who should be or
should not be the next head football coach at LSU. Right, so,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry made a statement saying that he
(00:46):
would rather have Donald Trump select the next head football
coach for LSU rather than the ad. Can you help
me just understand Southern politics and what be going on
in the water down there, because I'm a little confused,
Can you feel me?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, this is rare.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't think that I've ever seen a governor so
involved like That's how you know that they ain't got
nothing going on in Louisiana for real, because there's things
that you should be worried about.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You should be worried.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You should be worried about the Kyra and Lacy case.
That's what you should be focused on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Why are you talking literacy rates? They should be worried
about the literacy rates.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, that too. I didn't want to go that low.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But yes, right, like there's some some some national rankings
that y'all are at the bottom of that that you
should be worried about. And it seems as though you
you're upset because things in panout with Brian Kelly. Fine,
but let's not forget that when Brian Kelly was named
the head coach at LSU, like that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He was a very sexy hire.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
People were excited to have Brian Kelly at the helm
of the football program. They really were. And it didn't
pan out. That's fine, But you center for talking about
you Let Donald Trump over Scott Woodward. That's his job.
That is literally his job to do that. And I
think that up until this point he has done a
great job with a lot of the programs, like not
(02:05):
just football, but y'all have a solid baseball program every
year you have a solid women's basketball program down they're
under Kim Walke, Like, come on, like LSU is really
good and so just because the Brian Kelly situation didn't
pan out, not you sent up here. And on top
of that, earlier this week you said that the university
(02:26):
should have a statue of Charlie Kirk on campus, and
Flage Johnson responded to that like, h.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know what's listen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is why I can't understand how y'all end up
at these schools and at these universities when the culture
is this, like, these are the people that you are
entrusting yourselves with to help you achieve your highest, loftiest
goals and not even just athletically, but academically as well,
Like this mentality, these ideologies, these thoughts. You know, yes,
(03:01):
this is the governor, but it fills over into the university,
right like this is this is just the kind of
culture that is bred in the South and a lot
of Southern spaces. To me, unfortunately, because it's just not
how I align myself. You did, Nick up a phen
You made a phenomenal point in just acknowledging all the
other wins that LSU has had over the last few years.
(03:22):
But we all know that regardless of how good the
women's basketball team is, you know, if you do not
produce on the football field because it is such a
revenue driver, then ultimately none of those other wins matter.
So Brian Kelly's departure is the ultimate sting for any
athletic director because of how important football is in the South.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, and I mean, I just feel like the ad Okay,
he had one hiccup, right, and I think that they
were able to do what I wish my Auburn Tigers
would do and going and you know, cut ties so
that you can go and find somebody before the.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Pool of coaches it's picked over, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So I think that he's still doing a good job
and realizing, Okay, we have given Brian Kelly too many opportunities.
He has had, like the best rosters, the best recruiting classes,
and he's still not able to get these big wins,
and so we're gonna move on. Like if he was
doing what he's doing at LSU at Auburn, he would
still have a job, because that's what we're seeing with
Hugh Freeze.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He still has a job.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So there's obviously this level, this expectation that LSU has,
so I think that you have to kind of give them.
You can't knock him for that, you get what I'm
trying to say. Yeah, Also, and he's a man. The
governor is a man, and I think that a white
man can get up and say whatever because I live
(04:45):
in Michigan. If Big Gretch got up here and was
talking about the ad at Michigan, they would write, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know what, you're right, Because if a woman came
out and said trying to insert herself into a sport conversation,
then she would definitely be dismiss your thousand right in
that you're.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Look at the Indianapolis Coats and their owner and Carli
ers Gordon, who is on the sidelines every week with
her headset in the call sheet, and people are like,
what is she doing down there? She's like, no, I
want to listen and I want to see what y'all
talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Pay y'all, but are there other names? In fairness, are
there other owners that do that? So I don't that's
that's a little bit of an outlier. I do think
that's a bit intrusive, Like, yo, you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Money, you think so. Now people are like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, but see, but that's but that's random. It's not
because she on the sideline. What if y'all want to
make believe that she's a good luck charm.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, I don't think so. I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I don't think that she is. What I'm saying is
is that she just has her like. She's not saying anything.
She just wants to hear what they're saying. She wants
to be able to Maybe she's micromanaging a little bit.
But the point I'm trying to say is the outrage
from people when she first started doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There is nothing more indicative of how nosy women can
be than her being on the sideline. Sorry, I had
to say it. The joke was right there. Okay, the
joke was right there. I had to make it. Damn,
y'all knows. Anyway, we talked earlier in the week about politics, right,
and the points of intersection between politics and sports, and
(06:14):
we had we asked, you know why there seems to
be a transition from collegiate head coaches transitioning into politics, right,
And this is this is how when I say there's
a real pipeline, this is how we know right, because
there's been a conversation in years past about athletes needing
to shut up and dribble and keeping politics out of sports,
and now all of a sudden, we have literally the
(06:36):
governor saying that he would rather have the president of
the United States choose the next head coach. This is convenient.
It's so convenient when we are allowed to inject politics
and sports. And it is so interesting to see those
who oppose when people use their voice for a certain
group of people, and how they land bassed and talk
down those people that make it sound like they are
(06:56):
the worst people on the face of the earth. But
the moment one of these southern white individuals has a
desire to say something that that that injects politics in
the sports, and it's all it's all good. Everything they
said prior to doesn't matter anymore. It's I actually applaud
the level of of loyalty they have to their team,
(07:16):
like Team Red, team Team Red be riding for each other.
It's powerful to see, No, I agree.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And you brought up earlier the culture down there and
how maybe you don't align with it, And that was
what I was trying to say about the Pearl situation
is that there's a lot of people moving, you know,
that are that are doing stuff, puppeteers, if you will, right,
that are pulling strings behind the scenes that we don't see.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But they probably share this same ideology.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Anyways, I did find a list of the odds for
the next head coach, and it seems as though John Sumraw,
who is the head coach at Tulane, is at the
top of the list. I don't think that that's a
bad get because he's already in the state. He's already
recruited in the state. He has has had some success
at Twulane.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Recruiting two and three stars is very different than recruiting fives.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But because you're at LSU, the pool is there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Fall The coaching carousel is so interesting because there's so
many retreads that just get passed around and passed around.
You know. It really is interesting to see who lands
where because most of the people who I think are
having a high level of success right now are newer
faces and newer voices in the sport. Yeah, you know, so,
I don't understand why you would go back into the
(08:36):
same well and pick somebody else's garbage Like that doesn't
make sense to me. But I know it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It is a thing, especially when you look a certain way.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know what. I saw somebody who said they'd like
to put their name in the pot, though, who the
honey Badger? Tarron Matthews said that he's down to coach LSU.
He said that he should be given consideration. And I'm
gonna be honest with you. I feel like in terms
of recruitment, he would do a phenomenal job. You could
bring in supporting staff around him. He will galvanize the team,
(09:07):
and he will endear himself to the modern athlete in
a way unlike which any coach that's currently out there could.
I'm telling people, like kids, people in general, I'm just kids.
People love Toron Matthews, love him.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I and I understand that. However, that is not enough
to watch football games. Wow, because it's just not because
it's just not.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But but what else? Okay, but what made Brian Kelly
the right guy?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like, what makes people the right guy? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I mean I think that Brian Kelly had success at
Notre Dame, which is a premier football program.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He doesn't tackle nobody.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I understand it. Listen, I'm biased.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I'm all for former athletes coming back and coaching because
I think they have a different perspective than people who
had not coached. However, I do you understand in the
same vein, there's a lot that goes into coaching. It's
not just being a face, right, Like you got you
gotta have a level of intelligence that some people don't have.
And I'm not saying that Tyane don't have that, Like
(10:13):
I'm not I'm not saying that, But I'm just saying
just the name alone is not enough.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Like he like, he really would have to build, Like
he would.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Have to get very tenured veteran coordinators. He would have
to get like you know what I mean, Like you
can't just you can't just be hiring your homeboys.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well see, I see, I don't like that. I don't
like that. I gotta got No, it's the truth. He
wouldn't just It's the truth. Yo. Everything about his life
from the time he left LSU to the man that
he has now showed growth and evolution. Like I think
that his individual development has been on full display for
most of us to bear witness to, especially considering his
starting point. So I don't think that that Taran would
(10:54):
actually would actually be somebody who goes in there and
just starts trying to do nonsense. I truly believe that
he had as an uncanny ability to understand football at
a high level. His football IQ is top is top
tier to me, and I just that's that's just my
virtue of having watched him play and seeing his impact
on the field, even even at that size. Right. But
(11:17):
I agree, every head coach is going to have to
have good coordinators, every head coach is going to have
to have a good staff around him. But when you
put a guy at the top of that pyramid who
has intellect, which I think he does, who has the
energy and a spirit, who's been a leader of men,
I don't think that there's anything less. I don't think
(11:37):
anything about him is less worthwhile than a Brian Kelly
or a Lane Kiff. And none of these needs, none
of these white men have had success and at the
top level. I just I don't see it, so why not.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm kidding, but I'm saying I think that to just
go from sitting at home to the head coach at LSU,
that is a very tall task. I'm not trying to
be negative I'm just I think I'm giving a real
like I think that like people don't really understand what
goes into coaching, and I'm telling you, like as somebody
who sees it like it's a lot, and I think
(12:09):
that some people think that they can just go in
and do it and it's not that easy. And what
I'm saying is that I don't want him to fail
because he's I think if he goes into a situation
like that where he has the governor who is all
into whatever the inner workings of the program and all
of the things, his lease is gonna already be so
short that I don't want him to go into a
(12:30):
situation and maybe not as prepared, Like let's let him
come in and be the safety's coach and see how
well he does with the safeties and then be a
court Like that is just the level of progression.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That that even that's just that puts you in a
box because then it's like, oh, he only works with
the dbs, he doesn't know what a quarterback can do.
That's that's what it's what happens. I'm telling you, Like,
just I mean this, these are there are certain people
who can scale and do all the things, But I'm
just saying, like, the the ultimate test of equality is
allowing people of to fail and then seeing how they're
(13:03):
handling the aftermath, and that that is the that's the
ultimate test of That's the ultimate test of equality. Like
how bad, how mediocre can I be and still get ahead.
That's let me suck and still be able to advance
because there's a lot of white people out there who do.
So that is the definition of equality by from my perspective.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, they do, but they don't do that at LSU
because if you have if you lose games, that yeah
they do. He meant, okay, but I'm just saying, and
now he's fired. Now he's fired.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, but you know what he's fired with with fifty
four million dollars old to him. Let my boy to
a Ron Matthew get an opportunity to have that kind
of money sitting at home doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Anyways, we want to hear from you all because Rodney
and I will go on all day talk some of
the comments and let us know your thoughts on Jeff
Landry's saying one that there should be a Charlie Kirk
statue on campus and two that he would rather Donald
Trump name the next head coach for Louisiana State University's
football program.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
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very kind of like
There's been a conversation in years past about athletes needing
to shut up and dribble and keeping politics out of sports,
and now all of a sudden, we have literally the
governor saying that he would rather have the President of
the United States choose the next head coach. This is convenient.
It's so convenient when we are allowed to inject politics
in sports. You know, Samaria, you from the South, and
(00:26):
you are the college football and football affects Sionado. You
just this is your world for real. This story really
scuffed my teams this morning. So down at LSU, there's
been a lot of controversy over who should be or
should not be the next head football coach at LSU. Right, so,
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry made a statement saying that he
(00:46):
would rather have Donald Trump select the next head football
coach for LSU rather than the ad. Can you help
me just understand Southern politics and what be going on
in the water down there, because I'm a little confused,
Can you feel me?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, this is rare.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't think that I've ever seen a governor so
involved like That's how you know that they ain't got
nothing going on in Louisiana for real, because there's things
that you should be worried about.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You should be worried.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You should be worried about the Kyra and Lacy case.
That's what you should be focused on.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Why are you talking literacy rates? They should be worried
about the literacy rates.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, that too. I didn't want to go that low.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But yes, right, like there's some some some national rankings
that y'all are at the bottom of that that you
should be worried about. And it seems as though you
you're upset because things in panout with Brian Kelly. Fine,
but let's not forget that when Brian Kelly was named
the head coach at LSU, like that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
He was a very sexy hire.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
People were excited to have Brian Kelly at the helm
of the football program. They really were. And it didn't
pan out. That's fine, But you center for talking about
you Let Donald Trump over Scott Woodward. That's his job.
That is literally his job to do that. And I
think that up until this point he has done a
great job with a lot of the programs, like not
(02:05):
just football, but y'all have a solid baseball program every
year you have a solid women's basketball program down they're
under Kim Walke, Like, come on, like LSU is really
good and so just because the Brian Kelly situation didn't
pan out, not you sent up here. And on top
of that, earlier this week you said that the university
(02:26):
should have a statue of Charlie Kirk on campus, and
Flage Johnson responded to that like, h.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know what's listen.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
This is why I can't understand how y'all end up
at these schools and at these universities when the culture
is this, like, these are the people that you are
entrusting yourselves with to help you achieve your highest, loftiest
goals and not even just athletically, but academically as well,
Like this mentality, these ideologies, these thoughts. You know, yes,
(03:01):
this is the governor, but it fills over into the university,
right like this is this is just the kind of
culture that is bred in the South and a lot
of Southern spaces. To me, unfortunately, because it's just not
how I align myself. You did, Nick up a phen
You made a phenomenal point in just acknowledging all the
other wins that LSU has had over the last few years.
(03:22):
But we all know that regardless of how good the
women's basketball team is, you know, if you do not
produce on the football field because it is such a
revenue driver, then ultimately none of those other wins matter.
So Brian Kelly's departure is the ultimate sting for any
athletic director because of how important football is in the South.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, and I mean, I just feel like the ad Okay,
he had one hiccup, right, and I think that they
were able to do what I wish my Auburn Tigers
would do and going and you know, cut ties so
that you can go and find somebody before the.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Pool of coaches it's picked over, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
So I think that he's still doing a good job
and realizing, Okay, we have given Brian Kelly too many opportunities.
He has had, like the best rosters, the best recruiting classes,
and he's still not able to get these big wins,
and so we're gonna move on. Like if he was
doing what he's doing at LSU at Auburn, he would
still have a job, because that's what we're seeing with
Hugh Freeze.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
He still has a job.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So there's obviously this level, this expectation that LSU has,
so I think that you have to kind of give them.
You can't knock him for that, you get what I'm
trying to say. Yeah, Also, and he's a man. The
governor is a man, and I think that a white
man can get up and say whatever because I live
(04:45):
in Michigan. If Big Gretch got up here and was
talking about the ad at Michigan, they would write, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
You know what, you're right, Because if a woman came
out and said trying to insert herself into a sport conversation,
then she would definitely be dismiss your thousand right in
that you're.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Look at the Indianapolis Coats and their owner and Carli
ers Gordon, who is on the sidelines every week with
her headset in the call sheet, and people are like,
what is she doing down there? She's like, no, I
want to listen and I want to see what y'all
talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Pay y'all, but are there other names? In fairness, are
there other owners that do that? So I don't that's
that's a little bit of an outlier. I do think
that's a bit intrusive, Like, yo, you.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Money, you think so. Now people are like, Okay.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, but see, but that's but that's random. It's not
because she on the sideline. What if y'all want to
make believe that she's a good luck charm.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, I don't think so. I don't.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I don't think that she is. What I'm saying is
is that she just has her like. She's not saying anything.
She just wants to hear what they're saying. She wants
to be able to Maybe she's micromanaging a little bit.
But the point I'm trying to say is the outrage
from people when she first started doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
There is nothing more indicative of how nosy women can
be than her being on the sideline. Sorry, I had
to say it. The joke was right there. Okay, the
joke was right there. I had to make it. Damn,
y'all knows. Anyway, we talked earlier in the week about politics, right,
and the points of intersection between politics and sports, and
(06:14):
we had we asked, you know why there seems to
be a transition from collegiate head coaches transitioning into politics, right,
And this is this is how when I say there's
a real pipeline, this is how we know right, because
there's been a conversation in years past about athletes needing
to shut up and dribble and keeping politics out of sports,
and now all of a sudden, we have literally the
(06:36):
governor saying that he would rather have the president of
the United States choose the next head coach. This is convenient.
It's so convenient when we are allowed to inject politics
and sports. And it is so interesting to see those
who oppose when people use their voice for a certain
group of people, and how they land bassed and talk
down those people that make it sound like they are
(06:56):
the worst people on the face of the earth. But
the moment one of these southern white individuals has a
desire to say something that that that injects politics in
the sports, and it's all it's all good. Everything they
said prior to doesn't matter anymore. It's I actually applaud
the level of of loyalty they have to their team,
(07:16):
like Team Red, team Team Red be riding for each other.
It's powerful to see, No, I agree.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And you brought up earlier the culture down there and
how maybe you don't align with it, And that was
what I was trying to say about the Pearl situation
is that there's a lot of people moving, you know,
that are that are doing stuff, puppeteers, if you will, right,
that are pulling strings behind the scenes that we don't see.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But they probably share this same ideology.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Anyways, I did find a list of the odds for
the next head coach, and it seems as though John Sumraw,
who is the head coach at Tulane, is at the
top of the list. I don't think that that's a
bad get because he's already in the state. He's already
recruited in the state. He has has had some success
at Twulane.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Recruiting two and three stars is very different than recruiting fives.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But because you're at LSU, the pool is there.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Fall The coaching carousel is so interesting because there's so
many retreads that just get passed around and passed around.
You know. It really is interesting to see who lands
where because most of the people who I think are
having a high level of success right now are newer
faces and newer voices in the sport. Yeah, you know, so,
I don't understand why you would go back into the
(08:36):
same well and pick somebody else's garbage Like that doesn't
make sense to me. But I know it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It is a thing, especially when you look a certain way.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
You know what. I saw somebody who said they'd like
to put their name in the pot, though, who the
honey Badger? Tarron Matthews said that he's down to coach LSU.
He said that he should be given consideration. And I'm
gonna be honest with you. I feel like in terms
of recruitment, he would do a phenomenal job. You could
bring in supporting staff around him. He will galvanize the team,
(09:07):
and he will endear himself to the modern athlete in
a way unlike which any coach that's currently out there could.
I'm telling people, like kids, people in general, I'm just kids.
People love Toron Matthews, love him.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I and I understand that. However, that is not enough
to watch football games. Wow, because it's just not because
it's just not.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's just not.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
But but what else? Okay, but what made Brian Kelly
the right guy?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Like?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Like, what makes people the right guy? Well?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I mean I think that Brian Kelly had success at
Notre Dame, which is a premier football program.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He doesn't tackle nobody.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I understand it. Listen, I'm biased.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I'm all for former athletes coming back and coaching because
I think they have a different perspective than people who
had not coached. However, I do you understand in the
same vein, there's a lot that goes into coaching. It's
not just being a face, right, Like you got you
gotta have a level of intelligence that some people don't have.
And I'm not saying that Tyane don't have that, Like
(10:13):
I'm not I'm not saying that, But I'm just saying
just the name alone is not enough.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Like he like, he really would have to build, Like
he would.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Have to get very tenured veteran coordinators. He would have
to get like you know what I mean, Like you
can't just you can't just be hiring your homeboys.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well see, I see, I don't like that. I don't
like that. I gotta got No, it's the truth. He
wouldn't just It's the truth. Yo. Everything about his life
from the time he left LSU to the man that
he has now showed growth and evolution. Like I think
that his individual development has been on full display for
most of us to bear witness to, especially considering his
starting point. So I don't think that that Taran would
(10:54):
actually would actually be somebody who goes in there and
just starts trying to do nonsense. I truly believe that
he had as an uncanny ability to understand football at
a high level. His football IQ is top is top
tier to me, and I just that's that's just my
virtue of having watched him play and seeing his impact
on the field, even even at that size. Right. But
(11:17):
I agree, every head coach is going to have to
have good coordinators, every head coach is going to have
to have a good staff around him. But when you
put a guy at the top of that pyramid who
has intellect, which I think he does, who has the
energy and a spirit, who's been a leader of men,
I don't think that there's anything less. I don't think
(11:37):
anything about him is less worthwhile than a Brian Kelly
or a Lane Kiff. And none of these needs, none
of these white men have had success and at the
top level. I just I don't see it, so why not.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I'm kidding, but I'm saying I think that to just
go from sitting at home to the head coach at LSU,
that is a very tall task. I'm not trying to
be negative I'm just I think I'm giving a real
like I think that like people don't really understand what
goes into coaching, and I'm telling you, like as somebody
who sees it like it's a lot, and I think
(12:09):
that some people think that they can just go in
and do it and it's not that easy. And what
I'm saying is that I don't want him to fail
because he's I think if he goes into a situation
like that where he has the governor who is all
into whatever the inner workings of the program and all
of the things, his lease is gonna already be so
short that I don't want him to go into a
(12:30):
situation and maybe not as prepared, Like let's let him
come in and be the safety's coach and see how
well he does with the safeties and then be a
court Like that is just the level of progression.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That that even that's just that puts you in a
box because then it's like, oh, he only works with
the dbs, he doesn't know what a quarterback can do.
That's that's what it's what happens. I'm telling you, Like,
just I mean this, these are there are certain people
who can scale and do all the things, But I'm
just saying, like, the the ultimate test of equality is
allowing people of to fail and then seeing how they're
(13:03):
handling the aftermath, and that that is the that's the
ultimate test of That's the ultimate test of equality. Like
how bad, how mediocre can I be and still get ahead.
That's let me suck and still be able to advance
because there's a lot of white people out there who do.
So that is the definition of equality by from my perspective.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, they do, but they don't do that at LSU
because if you have if you lose games, that yeah
they do. He meant, okay, but I'm just saying, and
now he's fired. Now he's fired.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah, but you know what he's fired with with fifty
four million dollars old to him. Let my boy to
a Ron Matthew get an opportunity to have that kind
of money sitting at home doing nothing.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Anyways, we want to hear from you all because Rodney
and I will go on all day talk some of
the comments and let us know your thoughts on Jeff
Landry's saying one that there should be a Charlie Kirk
statue on campus and two that he would rather Donald
Trump name the next head coach for Louisiana State University's
football program.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
I want to hear your thoughts in the comments. Please
and use us.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes yes, And then once you give us your thoughts,
make sure you're head over to our newsletter. The link
could be found in our bio. Just keep you all
up to date on all things going on in the
world of sports. Somarrio, I love you. I love when
we debate. Hopefully you receive my words with softness and
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