October 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Victor Wembanyama is proving he’s the real deal — the Spurs’ superstar is changing the NBA fast. Plus, could Steve Sarkisian be headed to the NFL after Texas’ hot start? And with Brian Kelly fired at LSU, who should the Tigers hire next? We’re breaking down all the biggest stories in NBA and college football on this week’s Fitz Take Podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Brian Kelly is officially out as the LSU head football coach.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And you heard it here first on the fitz Tape
podcast when I told you.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
That last week. Welcome into another episode, Ladies and gentlemen.
I'm your guy, Ja Marcus Fitzpatrick, but you know you
can always call me fits. That man in boxes with
me is Elijah Nixon. Guys, hit the bell down below
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if you are listening wherever you get podcasts from, as
you will know whenever we're dropping an episode. And I
had to come in hot like that, man, because like
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it was time, it was I go live.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I just thought you didn't like them, man. I asked
you that last week. I said, you must don't like
this man and something. But I mean, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I mean he seems cool in the media and everything.
You know, he talked, you know, with media members other
than the blow up that he had with Michael Cabbo
a couple of weeks ago call him spoiled and all
of that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like, he seemed very cool. He answered all my questions
that I asked him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The opportunities that I had to talk to him, but
wins and losses, which we'll get into that more later
in the show.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Wins and losses, Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Kelly just wasn't what they necessarily needed in that position,
and they don't play about football around here in the
state of Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So we'll be.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Talking about Brian Kelly going out and who we think
should be the next head coach of LSU. We're also
going to be talking about Steve Sarkjian and whether or
not he should go into the NFL after reports came
out that he had potential thoughts of going there, as
Elijah shakes his head, But before we get into that,
we're going to talk about Victor winbin Yama, the center
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of the San Antonio Spurs, and how special.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
He has been.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
My goodness, the dude is something special, playing absolutely out
of his mind to start off the season.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But before we get into that, Elijah, how you doing, brother?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Doing good?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm doing good, man. A lot of news been coming out.
I mean, it's hard to choose three topics with everything
coming out, man, because like you just mentioned, Brian Kelly
getting fired, and I mean I thought it happened after
the season, but these colleges ain't playing by.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They said, just the semester in I need you going
before Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's too much money Invincent man, Like we said, it's
too much money on the table, people spending their money,
too much to be talking about some Let's wait, let's
if we're gonna pull the trigger, let's go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And do it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So if we got to have some more potholes around here,
if the potholes don't get filled, if the end of
state don't get fixed, if the roads keep getting cracked,
people will do that for.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The sake of winning national championship. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But this is the thing though, Like I mean, don't
get me wrong, I'm not saying bright Kelly should have
been fire whatever. It just to me it was just
like you don't get up a good head coach until
next year. Anyway, you might just let the man just
finish it out and go. Because it wasn't like I said,
it wasn't like it was a losing season. He was
getting smoked. It wasn't like he was oh eight. He
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lost to give some high caliber teams, even though we
thought LSU was a high caliber team as well. So
just you know, you know how that gets, Like that's
what I was just thinking it was gonna happen after.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We know how it gets, man, we know how it gets.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
With that, Ladies and gentlemen, let's start things off with
talking about the NBA. As the season tipped off last week.
The San Antonio Spurs are currently three and zero on
the year, and it is mainly because of their big man,
Victor Winbin Yama, who became the first NBA player in
history to record one hundred points and fifteen blocks in
the first three games of the regular season after the
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Spurs beat Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The other night. And Wenby is some special man.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean, like, I don't think we've ever seen anything
like this before. Like when we talk about generational talents,
like this has to come to mind. Like we've seen
a lot of big men that can handle the basketball,
like we've seen Jokic do it and all those, I
don't think we've seen it at this level where he's scoring,
he's rebounding, he's blocking shots, and he's just carrying this
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team like we've never seen before. Like what do you
think about Winby?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I mean, got of his world. I think, like you know,
and it's crazy because you know, when you talk about
the San Antonio Spurs, their fours and fives are always great.
You have David Robinson, Davids Robinson thrown was taken by
Tim Duncan, and now Tim Duncan thrown has a chance
to be taken by Winmby amos so I like what
they're doing out there. And with Wimby, let me tell
you something. You just said something that he could be
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able to change the game. We've seen so many players
throughout the generation changing the game. The last person before
Lebron was Mike Goden. Then there was Lebron of course Steph.
And now it's a chance being Wimby seven four guard
seven four FOURD that plays like a guard, block shots.
He could defend all five positions. H He's gonna be
one of those guys that we're gonna have to keep
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an eye out on.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The sad thing is, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Nothing to us.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Don't just respect the San Antonio but you know, it's
just not one of them high markets that you don't
get to see all the time. But that's okay because
with Timon Duncan and David Robinson, their name was still
held with the greats because of what they were able
to produce.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
On them on the court.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So Wimby, that's a different animal there. He's everything that
that you know that you will want. He doesn't go
into the media and complain. He on the offseason decided
to work out on his game. He comes back and
look at him in the beginning, I think the first
game he dropped forty or fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thirty he dropped, he went thirty one, twenty nine and
forty thirty one and fourteen, twenty nine and eleven, forty
and fifteen and then to add on to it, thirty one,
fourteen and six blocks in the first game, uh, twenty nine,
eleven and nine blocks in the second game, forty fifteen
and three blocks there in the third game.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Just are you to me he's on the pace to
win if because I know the MVP is going to
the best, he's going the pace to win MVP player
year say the way how he's playing.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So I think I think, like I said, Whenby, we
all know when.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Whenby is the truth and it's and then shown in
the first two games he got seventy nine more left.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But we all know what he could do, and they
proved on the first three.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, man, this is just a phenomenal showing, averaging thirty
three points a game, thirteen rebounds, and six blocks. Like
I said, very much a generational talent, and I think
that a lot of that comes from the type of off.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Season that he had.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, he was very much on his spiritual journey,
getting his chakras aligned and all that stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, and when you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Become one with yourself, so to speak, and you're able
to block out a lot of the noise, the outside noise.
You know, he trained with Hakeem Olijah Wan over the
summer as well. When you're able to do all of
those things and really tap into your bag like the
way he has, it's speaking volumes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You know. In the article that I was reading where.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It said that he had, you know, trained with Dream,
he told him like, man, you got everything that you need.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You you don't need Nothe with me. He was like, nah,
like I watched you play. I need that. I need that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So for him to be as young as he because
he's only twenty one, twenty one years old, so it
is just a tip of the iceberg of what we're
gonna see from Winby. Like we've got years to come
of this, and he is. He's not even in his
prime right now. Bro, Like we still got another three,
four or five years before he gets into his prime
and he's already playing at this elite O level.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Now. Is it going to be sustainable for him?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That is to be seen, because I think the biggest
test that he's going to have in front of him
is going to come on Black Friday when he has
to take on that man in Denver, NICOLEA.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Jokic.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
If he could go toe to toe with the best
big man in basketball and can put up remotely anywhere
these type of numbers, women gonna be their dude for
quite some time. He's gonna take over the league and
it's gonna be the Spurs and the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
In the West for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I know, like I said before that it is you
know uh SGA and Oklahoma City Thunders. It's their world
right now because they're the reigning and defending NBA champions.
But I mean early on, they had what two double
overtime games that they had to kind of will their
way through to start the season off. Like if they
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are able to get their foot in going because I
know Jalen Williams is out of the lineup right now.
But Whenby coming he here, now, y'all gonna come off
because he is here right now. The unicorn is here,
and he's here to stay. Twenty one years old putting
up these type of numbers. Man, it's getting dangerous out there.
It's getting dangerous out of the game. It's completely different.
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He's shooting the three ball. I think he was like
fifty percent in two of the games of those three
games that he started off with. So this is only
the beginning. This is just the beginning of what we're
gonna see. So the NBA action is going to continue
to pick up, and it's gonna stay really, really good.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And I'm excited to see how this turns out. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Like I said that, when the NBA Cup starts, that's
when we'll see Weinby and Yokich go at it in
the NBA Cup.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They'll be there on Black Friday.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So after y'all finish eating your turkey and your dressing
and ham and potato salad and all that good stuff greens, beans, potatoes, tomatoes,
lamb ram, all all that stuff like that, when you
get done with dad. The next day, you got a
good matchup there as the Spurs will be taking you
on the Denver Nuggets Wemby and Nikole yolkis is gonna
be a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So shout out to Wemby.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Man he putting these numbers up, bruh, And like he said,
you would definitely be in the conversation for the MVP
and for the Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So very exciting times in the NBA with the guys.
We're gonna move forward and we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Start talking about Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, Elijah's favorite coach,
and all of college athletics, not just college football all
I'm talking about all the college sports. And recently a
report came out from Diana Rassini saying that his agency
had been putting feelers out there saying that he would
be interested in coaching in the NFL. In the process,
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that also means that he would be available for the
Tennessee Titans job, because it's available, it's out there now.
Steve Sarkisian refuted that he did it pretty emphatically afterwards,
and he's like, you know, I'm tired of this. This
is what's wrong with the media. I have respect for
what you guys do, but stuff like this is wrong,
and my agency had to put out a statement and
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blah blah blah, such and such this and that, and
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it more than
he's selling it. I'm not buying it because we've seen
coaches live before, sure, And I'm not saying Diana Rassini
is right one thousand percent of the time. But she's
a national beat reporter. Somebody told her that, and she
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took the information because whoever it was had to be
somewhat reliable, had to be somebody close to the fire,
you know what I mean. Like, only is she saying
that if you out in the colder, you know what
I mean, Like if you're on the outside of the building.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
She not taking the information to run it with. I
think what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Is somebody that might be, you know, a first year
this person secretary heard a little information slated to Diana.
The agency didn't want it out there, so they put
the statement out as a form of image control.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Because I get it. That can ruin a locker.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Room, because you know, you you on a run right now,
right now, y'all battling y'all six and two, trying to
shake back after losing a couple of games. You almost
lost the Mississippi State over the weekend, so you're battling back,
trying to figure out how can we make it on
a run to the college football playoffs? And news comes
out that you're head coach could potentially be leaving.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh that's a shatter a locker room. I get it.
But come on, bro, and you know what you know.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't even say much because I'm gonna be honest
with you. I'm tired of this, tired of Steve Sarkizan guy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Look, I'm not saying he's a bad coach, but he
hasn't done anything.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
He struggled against Arizona State in.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The playofs last year, they lost to I think Ohio State,
which you know that was their championship. So we give
him a pass for that. But I'm not giving a
pass for lou To doing an overtime of Kentucky. I'm
not giving him a pass for struggle in Mississippi State,
which really should have lost the game. It was just
God said, hey, we're going to give you a nothing.
That's what he just really did. So you're sitting here
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and saying all this and then you want to go
to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
How about this, Steve.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know who went to the NFL from the college
football Nick same You know what Nick Saban did, They
won a championship.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know who else did it?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Jimmy Johnson. You know what Jimmy Johnson did, He won
a championship. What have you done, Steve? There is nothing
in the world that makes me believe that this guy
is one of the greatest coaches that never Just because
he brought back a Texas program that Matt Brown had
doesn't mean anything because he won five You know what,
you might as well say stuff like Jeff Fisher is
a great coach, because if you're so great with metiocrity,
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that you might as well say Jeff Fisher the lord
to be in the Hall of Fame, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
To me.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I don't see what y'all see in Steve Sharkisian. Steve
Carthesia has the best. To me, has the best team
in college football, but never put it together. It's never
put together. I don't think arch Man as bad as advertised.
I don't think that Offenser line as bad as that advertised.
I don't think the skill places as bad as advertised.
I think the guy that's wear in that headset is
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not great. It's not great at all. Texas has all
these resources where you can get nil deals, They got
one of the best players, they got everything out there.
But you're telling me Texas Tech is better than you,
Like I'm not forget Texas A and M text A.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
M is in the world of his own right now.
But you're telling me Texas Tech is better than you.
Texas Tech is like the third school out there behind
y'all with resources like That's that's the part that I
don't get. So Steve starkeysing you you don't need to
go to the NFL you need you need to go
to U, Well, you need to go somewhere where you
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need to go somewhere where if you could build back
up a program and start from there.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Because I'm not a big.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Fan of what you're doing at this college at the
college level right now, I'm not even going to sugarcoat it,
and y'all can get mad at me on you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I don't think going to is insane from great. You're
in one of the best schools in the country.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
No offense to the University of the Louisia de Lafayette,
where I cover it in the city. But my god,
that is a fall if I've ever did here and
see one.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Bruh.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Listen, man, you know Sarkas continued to keep Texas in
the conversation. But like you mentioned, he hasn't won the
big game, which is as we've seen now, that is
what's getting coaches fired. Billy Napier couldn't win the big game.
James Franklin couldn't win the big game. Brian Kelly couldn't
win the big game. He out of there, all three
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of them. They talking about getting rid of Mike Novel
with Florida State, and I keep checking my phone to
make sure ain't none of that happening as we're.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Recording, because you never know.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You never know nowadays, Bro, if you're not getting a
job done, they're getting rid of you. But we all
know how this goes. These agents have a list of
clients and when john our openings come become available, they
slip the candidate's name, and then the franchise or the
school or whoever organization decides, hey, we want to pursue
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this candidate and try to see if we can make
this work.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's how things work in the business.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's why the agents are there as the middleman to
try to make it all work. If you don't have
that in place, a lot of this information don't get
put out there. If all if all it was is
just coaches calling saying hey, I'm interested on the job,
I'm interested, it would be a right in between. But
you got this middleman, You got all these people working
around that's what's allowing this information to get out there.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So good on Diana Rassini for putting it out there, bro,
because that's her job. At the end of the day.
Like Sark, you can.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You can holler and scream all you want to, But
I tell you what, if that boy is done and
that tennessee what colors they got that blue and it
red whatever it is, the navy and light blue and
all them colors and stuff like, if he's wearing it
on the sideline next season, I mean, what was the
rent for?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What was all that for? I get it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You trying to keep your locker room intact while these
guys are battling for you so you don't lose the
locker room.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Bro, But all of them hollering and screaming and all
that stuff like that, just say, hey, man, you know,
there is nothing that I want to get into about
the job. I don't know where she got the information from.
I'm here at the University of Texas and I'm here
to win football games. I'm trying to lead this team
to a national championship.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's it. Leave it at that. Come on, man, I
don't know, but I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm speaking it from the journalist's perspective because I know
if I get information, and if it's from a reliable source,
I have to put it out there.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's my job. If you don't want it out there,
don't tell it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But what I've learned a lot also is that people
that have information love telling other people about it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They love being it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Girl, I got the teeth for you, man, you won't
believe it. I just heard people that know stuff wi't
to tell somebody.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And in this business, in sports, with as much money
as puts on the table across the collegiate level and
even the professional level, especially that information getting out there, bro,
that's how these people feed their families. Adam Schefter, Sean Sharania.
That's how they pay, they rent. They do this for
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bread and butter. You think they're not going to get
that information, Come on, man, So I hear you, sart
I respect you trying to maintain the culture in your
locker room and trying to rally your team as you're
trying to, you know, get a hold of this season
with two losses and making sure that you can try
to get in the home stretch and potentially qualify for the.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
College football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But you as good as going if the opportunity smells
right for you, if the money lines up good, you
as good as gone. So don't even trip. Don't even trip.
But we're gonna spin the block now to back what
we started with. As we're gonna round out the show
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talking about LSU head football coach Brian Kelly, or former
head coach Brian Kelly, that is. And as we were
recording this episode, offensive coordinator Joe Sloan have been relieved
of their duties. The school announced that Joe Sloan was
let go. Brian Kelly was let go as of Sunday night,
and it was a very mid tenure there in Ben Rouge.
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The overall record looked really good thirty four and fourteen.
But the big picture thing that a lot of people
are missing out on is winning the big games. So
I was looking at a stat and I believe it
was either CBS or No, it was ESPN Ban Ruin.
Shout out to them for putting out this graphic. The
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last four head coaches at LSU in their first four seasons,
Nick Stavin thirty nine and thirteen, Les Miles forty two
and eleven, Ed OIDs Run forty and nine, Brian Kelly
thirty four and fourteen. You want to know what those
three head coaches had that Brian Keller didn't have in
those first four years. An SEC title and a national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Brian Keller made it to the.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
SEC title the first year. We was like, okay, we
said you Bka, you made it there. You know, you struggled.
Jay Daniels had that ankle injury and US was gun
slinging it. But Georgia, the eventual national champions have won
the game. We got you, but we expected the next
year you get into the SEC championship game, you you're
supposed to be right back.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We need that. But you did.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Like we said last week on this show. As I said,
winning cures all and losing changes minds. You lose some
important games in year two to crush your chances at
the college football playoffs, and then last year you lose
three straight games to slam the door on your chances
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at the college football playoffs. As a result, guys were
fired Matt House, which he should have been, because that
defense was atrocious. You come in the door, out the bat,
and you get rid of Tommy Moffatt, who now helps
to kick you out the door with Texas A and
M the strength coach. He was a lot of the
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reason that those guys were as physical and as dominant
as they were in building Texas A and M to
what they are now. You put yourself in a position
now where it's all on you, but you're trying to
find every way to make it not about you. The
ESPN or ABC broadcast showed a cut where Brian Kelly
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was talking to Joe Sloan and that was there at
the end of the half, Joe Sloan calls a screen
and the time is running out and they have to
end up I think kicking a field goal or something
like that, and they're not able to score and He's like, Joe,
you can't effing do that when you don't have any timeouts.
He made sure that he said that so people could
see it. Like, Bro, you sitting there with the headset on,
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you heard the play call. You could have literally said, nah,
we ain't finna run that, and you bet not. You
ain't finna run that play, you bet not. And if
Garrett would have read it, take him out, get him out,
because when he did take him out there in the
fourth quarter, he took him out of the game. Garrett
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was huffing and puffing and blowing his house down like
the big bad wolf. But listen, man, this this Brian
Killy tenure was something. It was something, And to a
lot of people on the outside they'll say, well, he
had a winning record, but against ap top twenty five teams,
he was five and eleven when it mattered the most,
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he couldn't get the job done. So because you can't
get the job done, you ain't got no job. You're
about to lose your job. Now you done lost your job.
That's what happens when you don't handle business. I'm ranting early,
but you got the floor man. First of all, this
was your power.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Wow. Because you you you called it. I'm just gonna
I'm gonna keep it like sweet about it because like
you this was your power. You called this. You've seen
them from first I've been saying this is last year.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yeah, so it's like it's like I don't the only
one to say it. I'm really because like this is
this is you know what you said. But basically, you know,
Brian Kelly was never a guy that, in my mind,
that was gonna take it to the next level for real.
The only time you seen him against the SEC schools
when they played Alabama and that wasn't curbs dump.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So when he got here, of course he won some games.
You win some games, you lose some games in the SEC.
And he was really fortunate to have a talented team
when he first got here. Like that, that's what we
really don't talk about. He really had a talented team
when he first got her day. It was Elak Neighbors,
Brian Thomas before then Kimbudi. He had a lot of
people on that roster, Will Campbell like, he had a
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lot of talent. So it saved his coaching, uh say,
it saved his coaching job for a while. But then
this year, everything collapsed, and you couldn't blame everything on
players because according to most people rankings, you dominated the portal,
you dominated.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The reproving class. You dominated that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You just had.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's just your job to put it together. They want
to talk about Steve Shark, and you have to put
it together.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That is your job.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
So I'm not even gonna go deep into it. I'm
just you know, you called it, you you shot it.
I'm not even gonna say too much about it. It's
that was all you right there.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Let me tell you something, man, you spend as yourself proclaimed,
twenty million dollars in the transfer portal, or twenty million
dollars to build this roster, so to speak. Overall, if
they spend twenty million on the roster and you getting ten,
that men and y'all spend thirty million dollars on this
one season and it didn't cash in. If you don't
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get a return on your investment, you know what you do.
You pull out, You come on back with it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So you spend all that money and it doesn't pay
out for you and Scott Wood, were you in off
the hook? Come in, Scott.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Your last two football hires have cost upwards of one
hundred and twenty million dollars in buyouts. Jimbo Fisher is
still laughing to the bank right now. Seventy six million
dollars from Texas A and M make him leave. Now,
you got fifty four million dollars to make Brian Kelly leave.
We'll let you slide a little bit because you brought
(24:55):
in Kim Moulkis, she got a national championship, Jay Johnson,
that brought you to in baseball, slide a a bit.
But when it comes to football, you don't need to
have no say so in this.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You need to be in the other room.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This need to be Jeff Landry often Thomas the general manager,
and somebody else who you don't need to be in
the room for this. Your resume says that you don't
know what you're doing. Pick the Mother Sports and Gordon
and Gordon McKernin that's it. Bring Morris Bart too with
the biggest checkbook that you get, and Todd Graves with
(25:28):
Raisin Kyns. Bring the Todd Graves, Gordon McKernon, Morris Bart,
Jeff Landry.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And Austin Thomas. Then that's that's your that's yes, you're hiring.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Committee right there. That's it, That's all we need. Don't
bring Scott Woodward in there. Don't bring him in there.
I'm just saying bring him in there. And it speaks
a lot too also because after the news of Brian
Kelly being fired, a lot of former players sending out
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subliminal messages. Dwight mc author puts the smile of emoji
with the quarter tweet. Trey Holly says, Karma Malikue neighbors
an alumba. This show puts kick rocks on his story.
Bro Obviously they really didn't rock with you. They was
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playing for that purple and gold. They wasn't playing for
Brian Kelly. And you know, the culture thing, it speaks
a lot to it. Because I was reading this article
that resurfaced back from twenty twenty one. Tobias Meriwether was
a Notre Dame commit Back in twenty twenty one, Brian
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Keller was the head coach.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The day before he was announced as the.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Head coach of LSU, he was in Vancouver, Washington, at
the Meriweather's home eating they burnt In's Barbecue, shrimp and Devil.
Diggs got a phone call saying pac touchdown. He didn't
tell them people that he was leaving at all. He
proceeded to eat their food and get in the car
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and drive down the road. As the news broke, the
daddy saw it on his phone screenshoted is send it
to Brian Keller. He said, that's bs proceeded to get
on a plane and fly to Baton Rouge. That was
announced as the LSU head football coach the following day.
That's who LSU hired. So it seems like brother was
very far removed from the program. And like I said before,
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if you not liked and you losing, you got to
get up out of hit brother. You don't stand a chance.
You don't stand a chance at all. So that's that's
that's how I feel about Brian Kelly. But when we're
looking at, you know, main candidates for who should be
the next head coach? For me, number one, you need
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to find the biggest blank check that you can find
and mail it to Nick Saban and Miss Terry and
say write whatever number you want on there. You got
to off the strength of who he is, how he
brought a national championship to LSU back in the early
two thousands, and who he is to college football. If
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he says no, then you go to the next best thing.
Lane Kiffin right now is a hot commodity. His name
has been linked to the Florida job, and now with
this one, the LSU job is better than the Florida job,
so his name will be linked to this one.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So you go to him.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But also if he decides to just use y'all to
get a big raise from Old miss and pulls out
of it, I think the next person that you call
is John Sumral at Tulane. John Samraw started at Troy,
won a sum Belt championship, proceeded to come to Tulane,
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and has his team in position now to potentially be
one of the group of four to be the group
of four qualifier for the college Football Playoff. Right, you
talk about wanting to fit the culture the brothers from
Texas the South, So he understands what college football means
in this area. He already has a Louisiana pipeline because
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he is in Louisiana already. He's an hour down the road,
and he played at Kentucky as a linebacker back in
the day. He gets this, he understands this, hes a
winning record. Now I get it right now. You're not
in a position to be saying we need to take
a chance on somebody, we need somebody that can be
(29:42):
approven winner and all this stuff like that. But hey,
Nick Saban has won a national championship before. Lang Kiffin
has been a part of a national championship program but
hasn't won it as a head coach. John Sumraw is
a winner. So I'm thinking Nick Saban, Lank Kidd, and
John Somemraw and then everybody else after that. I don't
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think it gets far down the list with this type
of job. Somebody gonna them first two to three. I
don't think you making past John Someraw.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I don't think you do. Who who you thinking.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'm not a fan of Lane Kift. I'm just gonna
put that out there.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I I don't like none of them.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Dog going assist, No, I like I like I would
say this. I like Lane as a coach. I like
Lane as a as a player guy.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
But for this job, I really don't really like Lane
because at the end of the day, I don't think
he brings more to the table that with Brian Kelly brought.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But I think if you talk about what.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Louisianan to stand for Louisiana, stand for locking down that area,
the Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, locking down those those recruits in
that area. So why not John summer Off, he understands
the culture. He won at Troy, which was in Alabama.
He did a great job in two lane as you
as you just said, And I think that if you
talk about not letting your players leave the state, like
Louisiana has a lot of great talent in that state,
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and then you lock that down and you make sure
you go grab because if people look at Tulane roster
two lane roster, yeah, consists of different areas, but it
has a lot of Louisianan and talent that didn't go
to lgib There was a lot of loser to tell
it that you know, probably had the potential to go,
but they that doesn't want to get playing time at Tulane,
so they probably went to That's why they went.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So again, you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Don't have to look too further around now. The only
thing that I'm going to ask if that happens, just
be patient with John.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
John. John will be He'll be associated.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Let me tell you something that.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
It's just it's just the first year in the SEC.
I'm not saying that he's not. He's gonna come in
here and go win three games. And I think if
John get the job, he wins way more than three games.
But don't just think that, Okay, he's signed, that's as
good as good national championship. I say give him two
years like Nick same Nick Saban didn't come and just dominate.
It took him like two or three years to get there.
So I feel the same way about John Summer wrong.
Let let him just explore the SEC a little bit
(31:54):
and go. I mean, because at the end of the day,
I feel like you're already O'Brien Kelly fifty four million dollars,
not John summerle. I don't think he's gonna be that
much until he proves itself in the SEC. And I
think that's where he that's where his money would be made.
So again, just let him dominate, let him dominate, and
let him let him grow in that in that role.
But I think that would be a great move for
him because John can win, is a winner on it
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on both levels, from some Belt now to the Twain Conference, and.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I think he could do it in the SEC, so
I think that'll be pretty good for him.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And then I also think, you know, I've seen a
dark horse name that I'm not saying it's linked to
the job, but I saw someone mentioned on social media.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Delvin Shepard is the defensive coordinator and with the Detroit
Lions right now, and he played for l s U.
So that's an option on the table.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Obviously, he's not, you know, proven as a head coach
at all, but that's also a name that's potential as well.
It'll be interesting man in the coming days and come
in weeks, because I believe you have to get this
ironed out before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You have to because National signing Day is well, I
think like.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
December fifth, like early December, if I'm not mistaken, right
around or right after state championships or something like that.
So somewhere in the early part of December, right you
got to have somebody in in here in house hitting
the ground running saying stay committed to LSU, because you
got some dudes committed to your to your team already.
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I think Lamar Brown is one of them. Let me
see if I can find it real quick for twenty
twenty six, and you got football commits for twenty twenty seven,
like Peyton Houston out of evangel Streeport Shout Out three
committed to LSU with Brian Kelly as the head coach,
does he stay committed? So right now, you got Lamar
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Brown committed. You have Trenton Henderson out of Pensacole, Florida committed,
Richard Anderson from Ending the Car committed, Jabari mac from
dester hand Ayden Hall. You got guys from the state
of Louisiana, Kenny Darby committed. You've got guys from the
state of Louisiana that are committed to this class. You've
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got to keep them in the house. Then you got
guys on the roster. You got to keep him on
the roster. You got Jawan Johnson on the roster that
are from the state of Louisiana. You've got offensive lineman
Tyree Adams, Weston Davis. You got all these guys on
the roster that could potentially be gone. You got dj Pickett,
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a six y five, one hundred and ninety five pound
corner which he has hit the portal multiple times on
college Football twenty six.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
But you have him on the roster. You got to
keep him. You got to get it done. So, like
I said, keep Scott Woodward out the room, make the
right higher, get this done.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Brian Keller era is officially over at LSU as
he will be old fifty four million dollars. That's somewhere
around I think seven hundred to eight hundred thousand dollars
a month until he's paid up, I think until twenty
thirty one. So them pockets gonna be hurt for a
long time. Them potholes is not gonna be filled. So Louisiana,
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we're just gonna get ready. We're gonna have to put
up with it because.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
That's that's the cost.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And you're gonna you're gonna have to spend upwards in
total of one hundred million dollars because you're gonna have
to pay his buyout, and you're gonna have to go
get somebody else, and then going right for a head
coach right now is between ten to twelve million dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's just what it is. So you can either spend
the money and go get saving or kiffing, or you
can stay.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Local, probably pay us a little bit under ten, get
a hometown discount, and go with some raw and see
how that goes, but again, like I understand, there's very
small window, very little time to be wasting.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Joe Sloan is also out, Brian Kelly is out at LSU.
So with that, ladies and gentlemen, that is gonna wrap.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Up another episode of the Fit Stake Podcast.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
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(36:41):
with some of the great players that we've spoken with
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Speaker 2 (36:46):
That we've been doing this, trying to get some new
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Speaker 1 (36:51):
But for now, signing out for Elajah Knicks, I'm JaMarcus Fitzpatrick.
We'll see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
There
Brian Kelly is officially out as the LSU head football coach.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
And you heard it here first on the fitz Tape
podcast when I told you.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
That last week. Welcome into another episode, Ladies and gentlemen.
I'm your guy, Ja Marcus Fitzpatrick, but you know you
can always call me fits. That man in boxes with
me is Elijah Nixon. Guys, hit the bell down below
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if you are listening wherever you get podcasts from, as
you will know whenever we're dropping an episode. And I
had to come in hot like that, man, because like
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it was time, it was I go live.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I just thought you didn't like them, man. I asked
you that last week. I said, you must don't like
this man and something. But I mean, I understand, I understand.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I mean he seems cool in the media and everything.
You know, he talked, you know, with media members other
than the blow up that he had with Michael Cabbo
a couple of weeks ago call him spoiled and all
of that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Like, he seemed very cool. He answered all my questions
that I asked him.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The opportunities that I had to talk to him, but
wins and losses, which we'll get into that more later
in the show.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Wins and losses, Brian.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Kelly just wasn't what they necessarily needed in that position,
and they don't play about football around here in the
state of Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So we'll be.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Talking about Brian Kelly going out and who we think
should be the next head coach of LSU. We're also
going to be talking about Steve Sarkjian and whether or
not he should go into the NFL after reports came
out that he had potential thoughts of going there, as
Elijah shakes his head, But before we get into that,
we're going to talk about Victor winbin Yama, the center
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of the San Antonio Spurs, and how special.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
He has been.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
My goodness, the dude is something special, playing absolutely out
of his mind to start off the season.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But before we get into that, Elijah, how you doing, brother?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Doing good?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
I'm doing good, man. A lot of news been coming out.
I mean, it's hard to choose three topics with everything
coming out, man, because like you just mentioned, Brian Kelly
getting fired, and I mean I thought it happened after
the season, but these colleges ain't playing by.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They said, just the semester in I need you going
before Christmas break.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It's too much money Invincent man, Like we said, it's
too much money on the table, people spending their money,
too much to be talking about some Let's wait, let's
if we're gonna pull the trigger, let's go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
And do it.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So if we got to have some more potholes around here,
if the potholes don't get filled, if the end of
state don't get fixed, if the roads keep getting cracked,
people will do that for.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
The sake of winning national championship. They're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I believe it.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But this is the thing though, Like I mean, don't
get me wrong, I'm not saying bright Kelly should have
been fire whatever. It just to me it was just
like you don't get up a good head coach until
next year. Anyway, you might just let the man just
finish it out and go. Because it wasn't like I said,
it wasn't like it was a losing season. He was
getting smoked. It wasn't like he was oh eight. He
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lost to give some high caliber teams, even though we
thought LSU was a high caliber team as well. So
just you know, you know how that gets, Like that's
what I was just thinking it was gonna happen after.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
We know how it gets, man, we know how it gets.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
With that, Ladies and gentlemen, let's start things off with
talking about the NBA. As the season tipped off last week.
The San Antonio Spurs are currently three and zero on
the year, and it is mainly because of their big man,
Victor Winbin Yama, who became the first NBA player in
history to record one hundred points and fifteen blocks in
the first three games of the regular season after the
(03:25):
Spurs beat Brooklyn.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
The other night. And Wenby is some special man.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I mean, like, I don't think we've ever seen anything
like this before. Like when we talk about generational talents,
like this has to come to mind. Like we've seen
a lot of big men that can handle the basketball,
like we've seen Jokic do it and all those, I
don't think we've seen it at this level where he's scoring,
he's rebounding, he's blocking shots, and he's just carrying this
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team like we've never seen before. Like what do you
think about Winby?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I mean, got of his world. I think, like you know,
and it's crazy because you know, when you talk about
the San Antonio Spurs, their fours and fives are always great.
You have David Robinson, Davids Robinson thrown was taken by
Tim Duncan, and now Tim Duncan thrown has a chance
to be taken by Winmby amos so I like what
they're doing out there. And with Wimby, let me tell
you something. You just said something that he could be
(04:19):
able to change the game. We've seen so many players
throughout the generation changing the game. The last person before
Lebron was Mike Goden. Then there was Lebron of course Steph.
And now it's a chance being Wimby seven four guard
seven four FOURD that plays like a guard, block shots.
He could defend all five positions. H He's gonna be
one of those guys that we're gonna have to keep
(04:40):
an eye out on.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The sad thing is, you know, and.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Nothing to us.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Don't just respect the San Antonio but you know, it's
just not one of them high markets that you don't
get to see all the time. But that's okay because
with Timon Duncan and David Robinson, their name was still
held with the greats because of what they were able
to produce.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
On them on the court.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
So Wimby, that's a different animal there. He's everything that
that you know that you will want. He doesn't go
into the media and complain. He on the offseason decided
to work out on his game. He comes back and
look at him in the beginning, I think the first
game he dropped forty or fifty.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Thirty he dropped, he went thirty one, twenty nine and
forty thirty one and fourteen, twenty nine and eleven, forty
and fifteen and then to add on to it, thirty one,
fourteen and six blocks in the first game, uh, twenty nine,
eleven and nine blocks in the second game, forty fifteen
and three blocks there in the third game.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Just are you to me he's on the pace to
win if because I know the MVP is going to
the best, he's going the pace to win MVP player
year say the way how he's playing.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
So I think I think, like I said, Whenby, we
all know when.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Whenby is the truth and it's and then shown in
the first two games he got seventy nine more left.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
But we all know what he could do, and they
proved on the first three.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, man, this is just a phenomenal showing, averaging thirty
three points a game, thirteen rebounds, and six blocks. Like
I said, very much a generational talent, and I think
that a lot of that comes from the type of off.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Season that he had.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
You know, he was very much on his spiritual journey,
getting his chakras aligned and all that stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You know, and when you.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Become one with yourself, so to speak, and you're able
to block out a lot of the noise, the outside noise.
You know, he trained with Hakeem Olijah Wan over the
summer as well. When you're able to do all of
those things and really tap into your bag like the
way he has, it's speaking volumes.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
You know. In the article that I was reading where.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
It said that he had, you know, trained with Dream,
he told him like, man, you got everything that you need.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You you don't need Nothe with me. He was like, nah,
like I watched you play. I need that. I need that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
So for him to be as young as he because
he's only twenty one, twenty one years old, so it
is just a tip of the iceberg of what we're
gonna see from Winby. Like we've got years to come
of this, and he is. He's not even in his
prime right now. Bro, Like we still got another three,
four or five years before he gets into his prime
and he's already playing at this elite O level.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Now. Is it going to be sustainable for him?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
That is to be seen, because I think the biggest
test that he's going to have in front of him
is going to come on Black Friday when he has
to take on that man in Denver, NICOLEA.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Jokic.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
If he could go toe to toe with the best
big man in basketball and can put up remotely anywhere
these type of numbers, women gonna be their dude for
quite some time. He's gonna take over the league and
it's gonna be the Spurs and the Nuggets.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
In the West for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I know, like I said before that it is you
know uh SGA and Oklahoma City Thunders. It's their world
right now because they're the reigning and defending NBA champions.
But I mean early on, they had what two double
overtime games that they had to kind of will their
way through to start the season off. Like if they
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are able to get their foot in going because I
know Jalen Williams is out of the lineup right now.
But Whenby coming he here, now, y'all gonna come off
because he is here right now. The unicorn is here,
and he's here to stay. Twenty one years old putting
up these type of numbers. Man, it's getting dangerous out there.
It's getting dangerous out of the game. It's completely different.
(08:16):
He's shooting the three ball. I think he was like
fifty percent in two of the games of those three
games that he started off with. So this is only
the beginning. This is just the beginning of what we're
gonna see. So the NBA action is going to continue
to pick up, and it's gonna stay really, really good.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
And I'm excited to see how this turns out. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Like I said that, when the NBA Cup starts, that's
when we'll see Weinby and Yokich go at it in
the NBA Cup.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
They'll be there on Black Friday.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
So after y'all finish eating your turkey and your dressing
and ham and potato salad and all that good stuff greens, beans, potatoes, tomatoes,
lamb ram, all all that stuff like that, when you
get done with dad. The next day, you got a
good matchup there as the Spurs will be taking you
on the Denver Nuggets Wemby and Nikole yolkis is gonna
be a good one.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
So shout out to Wemby.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Man he putting these numbers up, bruh, And like he said,
you would definitely be in the conversation for the MVP
and for the Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
So very exciting times in the NBA with the guys.
We're gonna move forward and we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Start talking about Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian, Elijah's favorite coach,
and all of college athletics, not just college football all
I'm talking about all the college sports. And recently a
report came out from Diana Rassini saying that his agency
had been putting feelers out there saying that he would
be interested in coaching in the NFL. In the process,
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that also means that he would be available for the
Tennessee Titans job, because it's available, it's out there now.
Steve Sarkisian refuted that he did it pretty emphatically afterwards,
and he's like, you know, I'm tired of this. This
is what's wrong with the media. I have respect for
what you guys do, but stuff like this is wrong,
and my agency had to put out a statement and
(10:05):
blah blah blah, such and such this and that, and
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it more than
he's selling it. I'm not buying it because we've seen
coaches live before, sure, And I'm not saying Diana Rassini
is right one thousand percent of the time. But she's
a national beat reporter. Somebody told her that, and she
(10:29):
took the information because whoever it was had to be
somewhat reliable, had to be somebody close to the fire,
you know what I mean. Like, only is she saying
that if you out in the colder, you know what
I mean, Like if you're on the outside of the building.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
She not taking the information to run it with. I
think what happened.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Is somebody that might be, you know, a first year
this person secretary heard a little information slated to Diana.
The agency didn't want it out there, so they put
the statement out as a form of image control.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Because I get it. That can ruin a locker.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Room, because you know, you you on a run right now,
right now, y'all battling y'all six and two, trying to
shake back after losing a couple of games. You almost
lost the Mississippi State over the weekend, so you're battling back,
trying to figure out how can we make it on
a run to the college football playoffs? And news comes
out that you're head coach could potentially be leaving.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Oh that's a shatter a locker room. I get it.
But come on, bro, and you know what you know.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I don't even say much because I'm gonna be honest
with you. I'm tired of this, tired of Steve Sarkizan guy.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Man.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Look, I'm not saying he's a bad coach, but he
hasn't done anything.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
He struggled against Arizona State in.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The playofs last year, they lost to I think Ohio State,
which you know that was their championship. So we give
him a pass for that. But I'm not giving a
pass for lou To doing an overtime of Kentucky. I'm
not giving him a pass for struggle in Mississippi State,
which really should have lost the game. It was just
God said, hey, we're going to give you a nothing.
That's what he just really did. So you're sitting here
(12:09):
and saying all this and then you want to go
to the NFL.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
How about this, Steve.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
You know who went to the NFL from the college
football Nick same You know what Nick Saban did, They
won a championship.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
You know who else did it?
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Jimmy Johnson. You know what Jimmy Johnson did, He won
a championship. What have you done, Steve? There is nothing
in the world that makes me believe that this guy
is one of the greatest coaches that never Just because
he brought back a Texas program that Matt Brown had
doesn't mean anything because he won five You know what,
you might as well say stuff like Jeff Fisher is
a great coach, because if you're so great with metiocrity,
(12:41):
that you might as well say Jeff Fisher the lord
to be in the Hall of Fame, because that's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
To me.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I don't see what y'all see in Steve Sharkisian. Steve
Carthesia has the best. To me, has the best team
in college football, but never put it together. It's never
put together. I don't think arch Man as bad as advertised.
I don't think that Offenser line as bad as that advertised.
I don't think the skill places as bad as advertised.
I think the guy that's wear in that headset is
(13:06):
not great. It's not great at all. Texas has all
these resources where you can get nil deals, They got
one of the best players, they got everything out there.
But you're telling me Texas Tech is better than you,
Like I'm not forget Texas A and M text A.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
M is in the world of his own right now.
But you're telling me Texas Tech is better than you.
Texas Tech is like the third school out there behind
y'all with resources like That's that's the part that I
don't get. So Steve starkeysing you you don't need to
go to the NFL you need you need to go
to U, Well, you need to go somewhere where you
(13:41):
need to go somewhere where if you could build back
up a program and start from there.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Because I'm not a big.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Fan of what you're doing at this college at the
college level right now, I'm not even going to sugarcoat it,
and y'all can get mad at me on you.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I don't think going to is insane from great. You're
in one of the best schools in the country.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
No offense to the University of the Louisia de Lafayette,
where I cover it in the city. But my god,
that is a fall if I've ever did here and
see one.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Bruh.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Listen, man, you know Sarkas continued to keep Texas in
the conversation. But like you mentioned, he hasn't won the
big game, which is as we've seen now, that is
what's getting coaches fired. Billy Napier couldn't win the big game.
James Franklin couldn't win the big game. Brian Kelly couldn't
win the big game. He out of there, all three
(14:38):
of them. They talking about getting rid of Mike Novel
with Florida State, and I keep checking my phone to
make sure ain't none of that happening as we're.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Recording, because you never know.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
You never know nowadays, Bro, if you're not getting a
job done, they're getting rid of you. But we all
know how this goes. These agents have a list of
clients and when john our openings come become available, they
slip the candidate's name, and then the franchise or the
school or whoever organization decides, hey, we want to pursue
(15:11):
this candidate and try to see if we can make
this work.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
That's how things work in the business.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's why the agents are there as the middleman to
try to make it all work. If you don't have
that in place, a lot of this information don't get
put out there. If all if all it was is
just coaches calling saying hey, I'm interested on the job,
I'm interested, it would be a right in between. But
you got this middleman, You got all these people working
around that's what's allowing this information to get out there.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So good on Diana Rassini for putting it out there, bro,
because that's her job. At the end of the day.
Like Sark, you can.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
You can holler and scream all you want to, But
I tell you what, if that boy is done and
that tennessee what colors they got that blue and it
red whatever it is, the navy and light blue and
all them colors and stuff like, if he's wearing it
on the sideline next season, I mean, what was the
rent for?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What was all that for? I get it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You trying to keep your locker room intact while these
guys are battling for you so you don't lose the
locker room.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I understand it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Bro, But all of them hollering and screaming and all
that stuff like that, just say, hey, man, you know,
there is nothing that I want to get into about
the job. I don't know where she got the information from.
I'm here at the University of Texas and I'm here
to win football games. I'm trying to lead this team
to a national championship.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's it. Leave it at that. Come on, man, I
don't know, but I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm speaking it from the journalist's perspective because I know
if I get information, and if it's from a reliable source,
I have to put it out there.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's my job. If you don't want it out there,
don't tell it.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
But what I've learned a lot also is that people
that have information love telling other people about it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
They love being it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Girl, I got the teeth for you, man, you won't
believe it. I just heard people that know stuff wi't
to tell somebody.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
All of that.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
And in this business, in sports, with as much money
as puts on the table across the collegiate level and
even the professional level, especially that information getting out there, bro,
that's how these people feed their families. Adam Schefter, Sean Sharania.
That's how they pay, they rent. They do this for
(17:35):
bread and butter. You think they're not going to get
that information, Come on, man, So I hear you, sart
I respect you trying to maintain the culture in your
locker room and trying to rally your team as you're
trying to, you know, get a hold of this season
with two losses and making sure that you can try
to get in the home stretch and potentially qualify for the.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
College football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
But you as good as going if the opportunity smells
right for you, if the money lines up good, you
as good as gone. So don't even trip. Don't even trip.
But we're gonna spin the block now to back what
we started with. As we're gonna round out the show
(18:17):
talking about LSU head football coach Brian Kelly, or former
head coach Brian Kelly, that is. And as we were
recording this episode, offensive coordinator Joe Sloan have been relieved
of their duties. The school announced that Joe Sloan was
let go. Brian Kelly was let go as of Sunday night,
and it was a very mid tenure there in Ben Rouge.
(18:41):
The overall record looked really good thirty four and fourteen.
But the big picture thing that a lot of people
are missing out on is winning the big games. So
I was looking at a stat and I believe it
was either CBS or No, it was ESPN Ban Ruin.
Shout out to them for putting out this graphic. The
(19:02):
last four head coaches at LSU in their first four seasons,
Nick Stavin thirty nine and thirteen, Les Miles forty two
and eleven, Ed OIDs Run forty and nine, Brian Kelly
thirty four and fourteen. You want to know what those
three head coaches had that Brian Keller didn't have in
those first four years. An SEC title and a national championship.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Brian Keller made it to the.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
SEC title the first year. We was like, okay, we
said you Bka, you made it there. You know, you struggled.
Jay Daniels had that ankle injury and US was gun
slinging it. But Georgia, the eventual national champions have won
the game. We got you, but we expected the next
year you get into the SEC championship game, you you're
supposed to be right back.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We need that. But you did.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Like we said last week on this show. As I said,
winning cures all and losing changes minds. You lose some
important games in year two to crush your chances at
the college football playoffs, and then last year you lose
three straight games to slam the door on your chances
(20:13):
at the college football playoffs. As a result, guys were
fired Matt House, which he should have been, because that
defense was atrocious. You come in the door, out the bat,
and you get rid of Tommy Moffatt, who now helps
to kick you out the door with Texas A and
M the strength coach. He was a lot of the
(20:35):
reason that those guys were as physical and as dominant
as they were in building Texas A and M to
what they are now. You put yourself in a position
now where it's all on you, but you're trying to
find every way to make it not about you. The
ESPN or ABC broadcast showed a cut where Brian Kelly
(20:56):
was talking to Joe Sloan and that was there at
the end of the half, Joe Sloan calls a screen
and the time is running out and they have to
end up I think kicking a field goal or something
like that, and they're not able to score and He's like, Joe,
you can't effing do that when you don't have any timeouts.
He made sure that he said that so people could
see it. Like, Bro, you sitting there with the headset on,
(21:18):
you heard the play call. You could have literally said, nah,
we ain't finna run that, and you bet not. You
ain't finna run that play, you bet not. And if
Garrett would have read it, take him out, get him out,
because when he did take him out there in the
fourth quarter, he took him out of the game. Garrett
(21:39):
was huffing and puffing and blowing his house down like
the big bad wolf. But listen, man, this this Brian
Killy tenure was something. It was something, And to a
lot of people on the outside they'll say, well, he
had a winning record, but against ap top twenty five teams,
he was five and eleven when it mattered the most,
(22:02):
he couldn't get the job done. So because you can't
get the job done, you ain't got no job. You're
about to lose your job. Now you done lost your job.
That's what happens when you don't handle business. I'm ranting early,
but you got the floor man. First of all, this
was your power.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Wow. Because you you you called it. I'm just gonna
I'm gonna keep it like sweet about it because like
you this was your power. You called this. You've seen
them from first I've been saying this is last year.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Yeah, so it's like it's like I don't the only
one to say it. I'm really because like this is
this is you know what you said. But basically, you know,
Brian Kelly was never a guy that, in my mind,
that was gonna take it to the next level for real.
The only time you seen him against the SEC schools
when they played Alabama and that wasn't curbs dump.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So when he got here, of course he won some games.
You win some games, you lose some games in the SEC.
And he was really fortunate to have a talented team
when he first got here. Like that, that's what we
really don't talk about. He really had a talented team
when he first got her day. It was Elak Neighbors,
Brian Thomas before then Kimbudi. He had a lot of
people on that roster, Will Campbell like, he had a
(23:20):
lot of talent. So it saved his coaching, uh say,
it saved his coaching job for a while. But then
this year, everything collapsed, and you couldn't blame everything on
players because according to most people rankings, you dominated the portal,
you dominated.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
The reproving class. You dominated that.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You just had.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
It's just your job to put it together. They want
to talk about Steve Shark, and you have to put
it together.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That is your job.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
So I'm not even gonna go deep into it. I'm
just you know, you called it, you you shot it.
I'm not even gonna say too much about it. It's
that was all you right there.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Let me tell you something, man, you spend as yourself proclaimed,
twenty million dollars in the transfer portal, or twenty million
dollars to build this roster, so to speak. Overall, if
they spend twenty million on the roster and you getting ten,
that men and y'all spend thirty million dollars on this
one season and it didn't cash in. If you don't
(24:18):
get a return on your investment, you know what you do.
You pull out, You come on back with it.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
So you spend all that money and it doesn't pay
out for you and Scott Wood, were you in off
the hook? Come in, Scott.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Your last two football hires have cost upwards of one
hundred and twenty million dollars in buyouts. Jimbo Fisher is
still laughing to the bank right now. Seventy six million
dollars from Texas A and M make him leave. Now,
you got fifty four million dollars to make Brian Kelly leave.
We'll let you slide a little bit because you brought
(24:55):
in Kim Moulkis, she got a national championship, Jay Johnson,
that brought you to in baseball, slide a a bit.
But when it comes to football, you don't need to
have no say so in this.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You need to be in the other room.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
This need to be Jeff Landry often Thomas the general manager,
and somebody else who you don't need to be in
the room for this. Your resume says that you don't
know what you're doing. Pick the Mother Sports and Gordon
and Gordon McKernin that's it. Bring Morris Bart too with
the biggest checkbook that you get, and Todd Graves with
(25:28):
Raisin Kyns. Bring the Todd Graves, Gordon McKernon, Morris Bart,
Jeff Landry.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And Austin Thomas. Then that's that's your that's yes, you're hiring.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Committee right there. That's it, That's all we need. Don't
bring Scott Woodward in there. Don't bring him in there.
I'm just saying bring him in there. And it speaks
a lot too also because after the news of Brian
Kelly being fired, a lot of former players sending out
(25:58):
subliminal messages. Dwight mc author puts the smile of emoji
with the quarter tweet. Trey Holly says, Karma Malikue neighbors
an alumba. This show puts kick rocks on his story.
Bro Obviously they really didn't rock with you. They was
(26:20):
playing for that purple and gold. They wasn't playing for
Brian Kelly. And you know, the culture thing, it speaks
a lot to it. Because I was reading this article
that resurfaced back from twenty twenty one. Tobias Meriwether was
a Notre Dame commit Back in twenty twenty one, Brian
(26:43):
Keller was the head coach.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
The day before he was announced as the.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Head coach of LSU, he was in Vancouver, Washington, at
the Meriweather's home eating they burnt In's Barbecue, shrimp and Devil.
Diggs got a phone call saying pac touchdown. He didn't
tell them people that he was leaving at all. He
proceeded to eat their food and get in the car
(27:09):
and drive down the road. As the news broke, the
daddy saw it on his phone screenshoted is send it
to Brian Keller. He said, that's bs proceeded to get
on a plane and fly to Baton Rouge. That was
announced as the LSU head football coach the following day.
That's who LSU hired. So it seems like brother was
very far removed from the program. And like I said before,
(27:34):
if you not liked and you losing, you got to
get up out of hit brother. You don't stand a chance.
You don't stand a chance at all. So that's that's
that's how I feel about Brian Kelly. But when we're
looking at, you know, main candidates for who should be
the next head coach? For me, number one, you need
(27:57):
to find the biggest blank check that you can find
and mail it to Nick Saban and Miss Terry and
say write whatever number you want on there. You got
to off the strength of who he is, how he
brought a national championship to LSU back in the early
two thousands, and who he is to college football. If
(28:19):
he says no, then you go to the next best thing.
Lane Kiffin right now is a hot commodity. His name
has been linked to the Florida job, and now with
this one, the LSU job is better than the Florida job,
so his name will be linked to this one.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
So you go to him.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
But also if he decides to just use y'all to
get a big raise from Old miss and pulls out
of it, I think the next person that you call
is John Sumral at Tulane. John Samraw started at Troy,
won a sum Belt championship, proceeded to come to Tulane,
(28:58):
and has his team in position now to potentially be
one of the group of four to be the group
of four qualifier for the college Football Playoff. Right, you
talk about wanting to fit the culture the brothers from
Texas the South, So he understands what college football means
in this area. He already has a Louisiana pipeline because
(29:20):
he is in Louisiana already. He's an hour down the road,
and he played at Kentucky as a linebacker back in
the day. He gets this, he understands this, hes a
winning record. Now I get it right now. You're not
in a position to be saying we need to take
a chance on somebody, we need somebody that can be
(29:42):
approven winner and all this stuff like that. But hey,
Nick Saban has won a national championship before. Lang Kiffin
has been a part of a national championship program but
hasn't won it as a head coach. John Sumraw is
a winner. So I'm thinking Nick Saban, Lank Kidd, and
John Somemraw and then everybody else after that. I don't
(30:04):
think it gets far down the list with this type
of job. Somebody gonna them first two to three. I
don't think you making past John Someraw.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I don't think you do. Who who you thinking.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'm not a fan of Lane Kift. I'm just gonna
put that out there.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I I don't like none of them.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Dog going assist, No, I like I like I would
say this. I like Lane as a coach. I like
Lane as a as a player guy.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
But for this job, I really don't really like Lane
because at the end of the day, I don't think
he brings more to the table that with Brian Kelly brought.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
But I think if you talk about what.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Louisianan to stand for Louisiana, stand for locking down that area,
the Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, locking down those those recruits in
that area. So why not John summer Off, he understands
the culture. He won at Troy, which was in Alabama.
He did a great job in two lane as you
as you just said, And I think that if you
talk about not letting your players leave the state, like
Louisiana has a lot of great talent in that state,
(31:00):
and then you lock that down and you make sure
you go grab because if people look at Tulane roster
two lane roster, yeah, consists of different areas, but it
has a lot of Louisianan and talent that didn't go
to lgib There was a lot of loser to tell
it that you know, probably had the potential to go,
but they that doesn't want to get playing time at Tulane,
so they probably went to That's why they went.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
So again, you.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Don't have to look too further around now. The only
thing that I'm going to ask if that happens, just
be patient with John.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
John. John will be He'll be associated.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Let me tell you something that.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
It's just it's just the first year in the SEC.
I'm not saying that he's not. He's gonna come in
here and go win three games. And I think if
John get the job, he wins way more than three games.
But don't just think that, Okay, he's signed, that's as
good as good national championship. I say give him two
years like Nick same Nick Saban didn't come and just dominate.
It took him like two or three years to get there.
So I feel the same way about John Summer wrong.
Let let him just explore the SEC a little bit
(31:54):
and go. I mean, because at the end of the day,
I feel like you're already O'Brien Kelly fifty four million dollars,
not John summerle. I don't think he's gonna be that
much until he proves itself in the SEC. And I
think that's where he that's where his money would be made.
So again, just let him dominate, let him dominate, and
let him let him grow in that in that role.
But I think that would be a great move for
him because John can win, is a winner on it
(32:16):
on both levels, from some Belt now to the Twain Conference, and.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I think he could do it in the SEC, so
I think that'll be pretty good for him.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And then I also think, you know, I've seen a
dark horse name that I'm not saying it's linked to
the job, but I saw someone mentioned on social media.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Delvin Shepard is the defensive coordinator and with the Detroit
Lions right now, and he played for l s U.
So that's an option on the table.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Obviously, he's not, you know, proven as a head coach
at all, but that's also a name that's potential as well.
It'll be interesting man in the coming days and come
in weeks, because I believe you have to get this
ironed out before Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
You have to because National signing Day is well, I
think like.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
December fifth, like early December, if I'm not mistaken, right
around or right after state championships or something like that.
So somewhere in the early part of December, right you
got to have somebody in in here in house hitting
the ground running saying stay committed to LSU, because you
got some dudes committed to your to your team already.
(33:33):
I think Lamar Brown is one of them. Let me
see if I can find it real quick for twenty
twenty six, and you got football commits for twenty twenty seven,
like Peyton Houston out of evangel Streeport Shout Out three
committed to LSU with Brian Kelly as the head coach,
does he stay committed? So right now, you got Lamar
(33:54):
Brown committed. You have Trenton Henderson out of Pensacole, Florida committed,
Richard Anderson from Ending the Car committed, Jabari mac from
dester hand Ayden Hall. You got guys from the state
of Louisiana, Kenny Darby committed. You've got guys from the
state of Louisiana that are committed to this class. You've
(34:17):
got to keep them in the house. Then you got
guys on the roster. You got to keep him on
the roster. You got Jawan Johnson on the roster that
are from the state of Louisiana. You've got offensive lineman
Tyree Adams, Weston Davis. You got all these guys on
the roster that could potentially be gone. You got dj Pickett,
(34:37):
a six y five, one hundred and ninety five pound
corner which he has hit the portal multiple times on
college Football twenty six.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
But you have him on the roster. You got to
keep him. You got to get it done. So, like
I said, keep Scott Woodward out the room, make the
right higher, get this done.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
The Brian Keller era is officially over at LSU as
he will be old fifty four million dollars. That's somewhere
around I think seven hundred to eight hundred thousand dollars
a month until he's paid up, I think until twenty
thirty one. So them pockets gonna be hurt for a
long time. Them potholes is not gonna be filled. So Louisiana,
(35:23):
we're just gonna get ready. We're gonna have to put
up with it because.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
That's that's the cost.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
And you're gonna you're gonna have to spend upwards in
total of one hundred million dollars because you're gonna have
to pay his buyout, and you're gonna have to go
get somebody else, and then going right for a head
coach right now is between ten to twelve million dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
That's just what it is. So you can either spend
the money and go get saving or kiffing, or you
can stay.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Local, probably pay us a little bit under ten, get
a hometown discount, and go with some raw and see
how that goes, but again, like I understand, there's very
small window, very little time to be wasting.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So we'll see.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Joe Sloan is also out, Brian Kelly is out at LSU.
So with that, ladies and gentlemen, that is gonna wrap.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Up another episode of the Fit Stake Podcast.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
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We're trying to circle back with some of those interviews
(36:41):
with some of the great players that we've spoken with
over the year and a half.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
That we've been doing this, trying to get some new
faces from different places on the show as well.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
But for now, signing out for Elajah Knicks, I'm JaMarcus Fitzpatrick.
We'll see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!