re: Kirby Smart asking Jared Mitchell if he’s ever been to Omaha

I was raised an LSU fan but didn’t go to LSU or even an SEC school and most of my college buddies can tell you who Jared is. Many of them actually thought he was a better natural football player than baseball.

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Jared is not a household name

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He is well-known among Tiger fans; you even referred to him as "Jared" instead of Jared Mitchell. I doubt Kirby knows most of the LSU baseball players, and I personally believe he doesn't care much about players from an opposing team.

I think people forget that Kirby was on Saban’s staff when Saban heavily recruited Jared. Kirby knows Jared, he likely forgot he played baseball.

During the 2009 Regionals I was in a near empty Alex Box watching Minnesota vs. Baylor and looked one row behind me and Jared was just chilling by himself watching the game. Spoke to him for a while he was very nice

The point I am making is simple: coaches at the highest levels of sports, like Kirby, typically have background information on the people interviewing them. That’s part of the preparation process.

Whether through technology or traditional methods, a coach’s PR staff, sports information department, or athletic staff usually provides key details about the interviewer beforehand. I am trying to tell you guys something about the interviewing process for coaches. This is not a guess.

That’s why it’s reasonable to believe Kirby knew Jared’s background at LSU, including his role as a national champion in baseball, even if he chose not to mention it. He knew.

Anyone in sports or media understands that this type of preparation happens every day. Reporters do their homework, and coaches have people doing theirs. It doesn’t matter whether the interviewer is new or experienced.

Bottom line: preparation and information sharing are standard in sports interviews. That’s the point I was making.

Again, he knew that Jared play in the College Baseball World Series before he sat down in that interview based on his intel. Jared was a Champion.

I am saying years ago but before the interview.

You guys are giving lying A@@ Kirby too much credit. He slighted Jared.

But you are willing to absorb all the BS people say about Coach Kiffin.

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Funny enough my mom was with me and she walked up while I was talking to Jared. She goes full airhead mode and says “who are you? Do you play any sports for LSU or something?”

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Actually it's a compliment if she asked using the present tense. Means he's aging very well.

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The point I am making is simple: coaches at the highest levels of sports, like Kirby, typically have background information on the people interviewing them. That’s part of the preparation process.

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You are basing this on what exactly?

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I worked in media for a long time. He’s not doing recon on a barbershop quick hit.

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I’ve worked in media for awhile too and it’s always amusing when someone here thinks they know how media works. It’s usually very arrogant, like “do you honestly not know this is how they do it?”

No I don’t. Because it’s not.

And he was getting recruited as a sophomore…. Like most guys who end up top 100 recruits in the country (which he was).

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here is a video on SEC Network’s website of Lane walking into the barber shop and Michael Bonnette introducing Jared and telling Lane his accolades - of which Lane was clueless. So, no… again, you don’t know what you’re talking about here. They are not doing recon on a quick hit.

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Exactly, look I love the guy, represents LSU well. Glad he is a Tiger.

Outside of LSU fans, and even then maybe....maybe half of our diehards could pick him out of a lineup, most sports fans of other schools have no idea who he is.
Nothing wrong with that - I couldn't name one player on either of the Ole Miss or Mississippi State NC rosters and that was much more recently.