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00:00Who do you wish would come back home for the city of Houston?
00:03713-572-4610.
00:06This is inspired by Louisiana State University,
00:07who subscribes in the same way that I do,
00:10to the theory that you can always go back home.
00:13Now, go back is a little bit of a stretch,
00:15because Ed Orgeron, since he was released from his duties,
00:19released of his duties at LSU as the head coach there,
00:21kind of been around at some level of consultant or whatever.
00:24He will take an active role on Lane Kiffin's staff now for LSU.
00:29He's going to be, I believe, some level of head of recruiting,
00:31which, by the way, do you remember Ed Orgeron?
00:34Oh, he's the best.
00:35Like, some people don't know.
00:35Oh, he's the best.
00:36People think about just that.
00:37Go back to USC.
00:38Yeah, incredible, incredible recruiter back in the day.
00:42I mean, so, yeah, man, the legend of Ed Orgeron as recruiter is huge,
00:47which is funny because you think of LSU and you go,
00:49it kind of recruits itself.
00:51Yeah, but still.
00:52But in the modern NIL space.
00:54Or even before, like I said before, you have to get him.
00:56No, you have to go and get him.
00:57You have to go get him.
00:58So this was, I feel like actually this is like a really smart move for Lane Kiffin.
01:02Sometimes I wonder if coaches of a certain magnitude get too high on their own,
01:06on their own, what is it, scent or whatever.
01:10And Lane Kiffin felt like it could be that where he goes,
01:12I'm at LSU, I'm Lane Kiffin, I'm going to make it happen.
01:14Like, hey, hey, hey, hey, that sounds all fine and good.
01:16Let's make sure we get somebody that knows how to apply this trade in a way
01:20and not just depend on my status or the, you know, the prestige of the program
01:24or maybe even the money that's coming in.
01:26Yeah.
01:26Let's make sure we do this right.
01:27So I thought this was a really smart move to make sure that LSU can bounce back
01:31off of the Brian Kelly years.
01:33Well, you know, it's funny, and I want to get y'all's answers to this.
01:36Who do you wish would come back home?
01:38Active, active coach, player, front office, whatever.
01:40But I saw a great tweet about LSU.
01:44It said basically, LSU is doing everything the guy at the end of the bar says
01:48they should do when they're losing a game.
01:50Like, fire Brian Kelly, I don't care what it costs.
01:53Well, okay, we'll do that.
01:54What did they pay him for, like, five years?
01:57Yeah, I mean, and then, you know what?
02:00Go get Lane Kiffin.
02:01All right, we'll go get Lane Kiffin.
02:03You know who we need?
02:05Ed Orgeron back.
02:06All right, we'll get Ed Orgeron.
02:07I mean, it's like basically the guy at the end of the bar is running the LSU program.
02:12And you know what?
02:13In college football, sometimes the guy at the end of the bar is right.
02:16Like, if you compare a guy at the end of the bar for any sport,
02:19college football might be one of the ones where you have the best chance
02:22for a guy at the end of the bar to be right.
02:24All right, can you imagine?
02:25Guy at the end of the bar when it comes to, like, oh, man.
02:27Oh, what about the basketball coach, too?
02:29The basketball coach?
02:31Wade, Will Wade.
02:32Will Wade.
02:33Man, they have just.
02:33You know what?
02:34Bring back Will Wade.
02:35They brought back Will Wade.
02:36I think, is it Johnny?
02:38Oh, man.
02:39It's one of the basketball coaches that they have back on their staff as well.
02:43LSU was just like, we want that old thing back.
02:45They're like basically a fan forum.
02:48The AD is like a fan forum.
02:49The epitome of spin the block.
02:51Hey, big head.
02:52I was just thinking about you.
02:54That is Louisiana State University right now.
02:56You know what?
02:57$54 million buyout for Brian Kelly.
02:59I don't care what it costs.
03:00Okay.
03:01I mean, that one made sense, if for no other reason than people just don't like him.
03:05We will pay you to go.
03:06But I thought that was a great tweet.
03:07It's so accurate.
03:08Like, everything you see on the fan forums, they're doing.
03:11And so, with that being the case, who is, and you only get one, right?
03:15This ain't a genie where you could just hit it up for a whole bunch.
03:17You get one.
03:18One?
03:18For the city of Houston to improve the outlook of this and bring someone home.
03:23You don't get to be the full LSU.
03:24You don't get to bring all of them.
03:26Yeah.
03:26Man, I'm going to toss it to Figgy here because I thought yours was really, really good when we were
03:30talking about this.
03:31Mike D'Antoni on the staff.
03:33Now, not as head coach or anything, but bring him in as an offensive coordinator or whatever title you want
03:39to give him.
03:40For the Houston Rockets.
03:41Yeah, for the Houston Rockets.
03:41That's a tough one to top.
03:42Remember what Calvin Sampson did as the defensive guy for Mike D'Antoni.
03:45Huge.
03:46Right?
03:46He was so good.
03:47So, just flip the script a little bit.
03:50Yep.
03:50Keep E-May and bring D'Antoni in for the offense.
03:53Have him run the offense.
03:54Dude, that's, I can't top that one.
03:56I mean, I know there's a lot of options.
03:58The thing with D'Antoni that scares me, if you did make that move, Mike D'Antoni clearly very good
04:03at offense,
04:04but it was a particular style of offense that very much was a sign of the times.
04:08I do wonder, does his offensive philosophies, does it track in the modern game?
04:13I don't know.
04:14It will be better than the one they got right now.
04:16Not only that, but there are D'Antoni disciples excelling right now.
04:19There are.
04:20You know, so it does track, you know, to what's now.
04:23But if I had to, just to make another selection, it's not as, I think, good as Figgies.
04:31But, you know, I like DJ Reader coming back, man.
04:34DJ Reader in the middle of that defensive line with these dudes.
04:37It'd be fun, but I do wonder, like, are you getting the best bang for your buck,
04:40considering that Tommy Togiai has taken quite an uptick,
04:43which I'm not trying to say that DJ Reader is.
04:46Reader's better.
04:47As Tommy Togiai.
04:48Yeah, Reader's better.
04:49But then you, this is the first time, like, if we had done this four months ago,
04:53three months ago, maybe you go, okay.
04:55Yeah.
04:56But you bring in, they actually made the investment of the best interior defensive lineman in this draft
05:02and a dude who feels like he absolutely can be some facsimile of DJ Reader in the relatively near future.
05:09And so, yeah, I think that the bang for the buck has diminished over the last month or so
05:13compared to where it probably would have been, you know, a few months ago.
05:17Yeah.
05:18So I don't think you're wrong, but I do wonder.
05:20Like, when it comes to Texans specifically, it feels like a lot of people,
05:24at least I preemptively thought that a lot of people would go Kubiak.
05:27It's the thing that we hear a lot when you talk about guys in the bar.
05:29Yeah.
05:30I think that there are better options if you're looking for how can we make the offensive coordinator spot better,
05:36and especially ones that are active.
05:38I mentioned Mike McDaniel, who's now doing that same role with Miami, right?
05:42He was here at a lower level position.
05:45But why not go for the whole shebang?
05:46It's going to be a – it would never happen because he already has a bigger job.
05:50Why not just go for Kyle Shanahan?
05:51Like, go for the best version of that in that space as offensive coordinator here.
05:56I think that that might be the second best option to what – I think Seth came in with the
06:02really good answer here,
06:03which is Josh McDaniel.
06:05Josh McDaniel would be a good one.
06:06I didn't even think about that, but especially with the clear penchant that they have towards Patriot-style offense,
06:13he's the dude that you could say has done this where it's actually worked.
06:17There's been maybe – some other maybes, but the one that clearly can do this
06:20and can do it in the modern era where it works is Josh McDaniel.
06:24So just get the dude who does it, right?
06:25Yeah.
06:26No, I don't think – somebody said Dylan Brooks.
06:28Yeah.
06:29I don't know.
06:30I don't know.
06:33Deshaun Watson.
06:34That was the one where I was going to be interested to see.
06:36Deshaun Watson.
06:37Come on.
06:37We ain't here yet, man.
06:39I thought we passed that.
06:39He said yet.
06:40I thought we passed that.
06:43I thought we passed all that.
06:44I think you would need to see a Deshaun Watson play better in the first few months of this season
06:49in order to get there.
06:49Because the question I have is clearly the nasty man portion of this has made it so that, yeah, I
06:54don't know about that.
06:55Even with Seth getting out here saying that the Texans might need to just be more horny,
06:58a statement, mind you, that I did not think I would hear on this Thursday.
07:02But that's too far.
07:04I also don't know if he can still do it between the ears.
07:07Because in Cleveland, once he got to playing, there was conversations about him being injured.
07:12And then once he had taken enough time from being injured, he got out there and it still looked like
07:16he stunk.
07:17And I wonder – or stunk, rather.
07:18And I wonder, okay, now is this a between-the-ears thing where mentally he has lost it, the capability
07:23of doing this?
07:24You want to bring that in sight unseen without knowing if he has gotten that –
07:29Could Deshaun Watson win no playoff games like C.J. Stroud did?
07:32Yeah, but if that's a bar –
07:34Can you not have seven turnovers in two games is a very low bar, and I don't think that's the
07:39one that we should use here.
07:40So you're saying yes.
07:42He could have beat the Patriots.
07:44I still go back to what Figgy said, yet.
07:46Like, give me about three months.
07:49Hey, give him about a year.
07:51This season, if C.J. Stroud ain't playing that good, we probably will get more texts like this.
07:56Oh my gosh, that would be so funny.
07:57Hey, let's state the obvious, like a lot of texters are, Jeff Luno.
08:02That might be the best answer because it feels like the Astros are dealing with a crisis in leadership.
08:08We've talked about this in a number of ways.
08:10And the last time that you had the leadership that was comprehensive, the guy who helped build this,
08:16and I think as Seth mentioned, and I think he is right, a guy that clearly holds respect of your
08:21owner,
08:21and that is not something that is easily won, apparently, I think that having that deference to be able to
08:28do this,
08:28clearly the analytics that he utilized were beneficial.
08:32It feels like if he was willing to do this, that would be the A1 answer of all this.
08:38Because also, you get back to that leadership, now we're talking about an Astros team that can then come back
08:43and add on to a legacy that they've already built up really, really well.
08:47Yeah, no, you're right. Bring back Fromber.
08:51That was on my list.
08:53That's the funny thing because when I was looking at the Astros,
08:56because the way that I tried to do this, maybe too logically, was what is the worst part of this
08:59team
09:00and how do I make it better with a singular move?
09:03And clearly, if you go to the Astros, the starting rotation is where you think about.
09:07But I was like, who are the actual pitchers that you could get to fix that?
09:11And the guys that you think about, at least the guys that you kind of think about nostalgically,
09:16none of them are still playing or good anymore.
09:18You already have Lance. You already have Christian Javier.
09:21Like Verlander.
09:24Bregman?
09:24If it's not Bregman, maybe, but that's not helping the pitching necessarily.
09:27You've got a couple of guys that are playing a good third base.
09:31Maybe even if you slide into shortstop, I think you like Kenya there as well.
09:36Who are the guys?
09:37Keichel's clearly not doing this anymore.
09:39Name the guys.
09:40Garrett Cole was the only one that I got to where I was like,
09:42maybe this is the answer for a guy that you drop in.
09:45Garrett Cole's a good answer.
09:47He's back from Tommy John surgery, and his first start is going to be tomorrow.
09:52Garrett Cole would be the answer, you know, in terms of, like, just anyone.
09:55I mean, he's not going to be worse.
09:56Hell, I mentioned it earlier, kind of halfway kidding, but not really.
10:00You say Kikuchi.
10:01Yeah.
10:01I'll take Kikuchi right now, man.
10:03Yeah, maybe he can help old boy.
10:05Yeah.
10:05Oh, that too.
10:06That too, yeah.
10:07Yeah, a personal one for me, and this ain't going to help anything,
10:11but bring back Dusty.
10:13You just want to bring back Dusty.
10:15You want all the arguments that come with that as well?
10:16Yeah, just for the hell of it, so he can get Chandler Rome a hard time.
10:19He said, we want to get the people going.
10:21Springer?
10:22Yeah, outfield being, although Springer right now.
10:26Is Springer a Tucker?
10:28Tucker.
10:29Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:30Tucker.
10:30The answer is Tucker, and I don't know how Astros fans actually feel about that.
10:35Springer like that.
10:36Oh, they would welcome him.
10:37I mean, yeah, you kind of rolled your eyes.
10:40Is it kind of silly that Astros fans just don't like him anymore at this point?
10:45Him, yes.
10:46It is silly.
10:47You think it's silly?
10:48It is.
10:48What did he ever do?
10:50I mean, his demeanor was –
10:51First of all, the Astros traded him to the Cubs.
10:53Exactly.
10:53And he signed for a billion or whatever dollars to the –
10:56They had a chance to sign him themselves.
10:59They could have signed him themselves.
11:00Yeah, I can't be mad at him.
11:02No, I think part of it is his demeanor.
11:03And he always looks like he's, you know, picking daisies out in the hot field.
11:08It is a little irritating he went to the Dodgers, but I ain't about to be mad at him.
11:11Hell no.
11:12Hell no.
11:12All that money.
11:13Yeah.
11:13No, for sure.
11:14Somebody said, can we pull Clint Kubiak from Vegas?
11:16I don't think that you have the actual come back home of that.
11:20No.
11:20He was in the building at one point, right?
11:22As a kid.
11:23He was.
11:23As a kid.
11:24We might be stretching the boundaries a little too far.
11:26All right, so now let's make the decision.
11:28Because I was like, we didn't dig too deep into Rockets.
11:31Like, are there any players?
11:32Someone was like, Jim Harden.
11:33Dylan Brooks would be about it.
11:35And then coaches, would Jeff Game Van Gundy do anything for you?
11:38Would like a Sam Cassell do something for you?
11:40Yes and yes.
11:42Yeah.
11:42They would.
11:43Yeah.
11:44So, okay.
11:45I mean, Van Gundy's big blind spot was offense, but okay.
11:48And that's the thing, right?
11:49Sam Cassell as a coach?
11:51Mm-hmm.
11:51Mm-hmm.
11:52I was like, I can't think of any.
11:54Has he won two championships?
11:55Cassell won.
11:56He won one with the Celtics.
11:58Yeah, Celtics.
11:59Somebody said Dubon.
12:00I was waiting for that one.
12:01He has been good thus far.
12:02Dubon has been killing it.
12:04They love him in Atlanta.
12:05I don't know that he's fixing all the issues that are with the Astros.
12:08All right.
12:09So, the answer, if we have to give one as a show.
12:11Mm-hmm.
12:11It's Luno, right?
12:12Like, that's the one?
12:13Luno or D'Antoni?
12:15I roll with D'Antoni.
12:16Yeah.
12:17Oh, okay.
12:17Mm-hmm.
12:17Yeah.
12:18Get his offense together, man.
12:20Mm-hmm.
12:20I'm like, yeah, getting the offense together is one thing.
12:23I'm like, I feel like we can, the entirety of the organization of the Astros faces peril,
12:27if not for somebody at the Astros.
12:29Look, the Astros had a great run, man.
12:30I appreciate that.
12:31All right.
12:31That's fair.
12:31But right now, I want to win an NBA championship.
12:34You're like, 30 years is too long.
12:36Yeah.
12:3730 years is too long to have not brought the Rockets back to the promised land.
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