Hey, fighting tigers,

All right, welcome back to another edition of Hey, Fighting Podcast,

joined today by LSU Defensive Line Coach Andre Carter.

Coach, thank you for being here

today I know you uh you have some travel plans I appreciate you sticking around to do this

yeah yeah thanks for holding me back man I appreciate it's Gabe blame Gabe it's uh it's not it's not me so

obviously uh new new in town um I guess really for a couple months now but yeah first year here at

LSU um just kind of give me the the the scoop on what it's been like the last couple months,

getting here, getting through spring, getting your feet settled and getting to know the team.

Oh, it's been great.

I mean, obviously with a new coach, new environment, you always try to get a layer of the land.

And everything starts up, you know, up top from learning you know, learning about Austin Thomas in his history, which was ASU of LSU athletics, Coach Orison, obviously we had history in the past. But then just the dynamics of LSU, you know, from the facility, the people that upkeep it, and then obviously the players. So, but overall, I've loved it and it's been a great journey for me

obviously there's a lot of history here when you walk around especially in our facility you see

the athletic accolades from all you know all SEC all americans it's great to be a part of

some special speaking of other sports i saw the video the other day where Coach Mulkey was doing her tour and got down in a three-point stand. Look at it. She's a fiery personality, and, I mean, she's a great fit for other teams, so expecting big things. I'm excited for her. Yeah, it's been great getting to know her.'s start at the beginning how did how and why did you get into coaching i know you come from a coaching family with your father but a lot of guys they go play at the next level and you know they're happy with what they've done there and they want to put the game behind them what made you want to stick around and going to coaching well i just i i basically fell into it um you know even as a player in one of my mentors, Terrell Williams, who's the D-Line coach at Tennessee Titans, he always told me, said, you're going to be a coach one day. I was like, I don't know. You know, you always try to, you know, see what's kind of out there, but I'm a passionate about the game. I'm passionate about just giving back to what was given to me, what wasn't given to me. I always tell the story that, you know, as a D-Line coach in the NFL, 13 years, I've had basically, you know, eight-nine position coaches. So I had eight-nine guys, somebody eight-nine different things. You know, some are good and some are like, okay, you know, I'll take it around with it. But overall, you know, as far as a coach, you know, the main thing is you want to be in these, the players' lives, you know, consistently. And it doesn't necessarily have to be on the field. It's also off the field well. And I'm all about building relationships, but also want to help them grow. And that's, you know, that's the joy of being a true position coach. With your father having been a coach for such a long time, and then now you getting into your career in the last few years, what did you pick up from him as you got into your own kind of coaching skin, and then where have you gone in a different direction? Maybe added something else of your own to the table. Well, you know, I think in general, one, you learn from people that have done for a long time.

So obviously my dad's been in almost 30-something years.

But then I also worked with other coaches.

Joe Vitt was part of the Northern Saints and that you made his run in Seattle.

I'm always big into just talking to the coaches that have obviously a history of

working, you know, NFL coaching history, the NFL lineage. You know, those are the coaches

that last so long time and understand the game. And it's so much about, you know, the technique and

scheme, but just the functionality of building a winning organization.

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