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Best of 2022-23: Cutting Edge with Jack Marucci

Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

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4.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Tiger fans: We're giving you an exclusive look into a full (and free) episode of The Cutting Edge, a premium podcast on LSU GOLD with LSU Director of Performance Innovation Jack Marucci.

Back in September, Cody, Jack and Mario broke down LSU's use of S2 Cognition technology, which measures and quantifies an athlete’s cognitive skill sets and identifies their strengths, weaknesses, and the “whys” behind their performance. The guys also took a look at Joe Burrow's S2 report and what separated him from the rest of the pack.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back to another edition of The Cutting Edge with Jack Marucci, Cody Worship, Mario McElucosa, Jack Marucci, all here today for the show.

0:15.5

And really excited about this one, Jack and Mario.

0:17.9

We wanted to dig into cognition, which is something that we've talked about

0:21.6

in previous iterations of this show. And I know it's something critical and key to everything y'all

0:26.1

do. And we touched on it in the last episode about the offensive line in that as sort of like

0:32.4

a smaller piece of the evaluation process. But I know it's a larger piece of the evaluation process for the

0:38.5

entire program. And Jack, correct me if I'm wrong, this goes back to what, the 2019 season.

0:43.1

This is something you've been doing for a few years now. With the group is S2, and at some point

0:46.9

I think we'll bring S2 on the show to dive deeper into the cognition perspective from their

0:52.1

perspective. But for LSU's perspective, this goes back to the 2019 season if my memory serves me.

0:58.0

Right.

0:59.0

And actually we've used the company, Brandon Alley, Scott Wiley, were the founders.

1:09.0

They were neuroscience guys at Vanderbilt. They've studied the founders. They were neuroscience guys at Vanderbilt. They were, they've studied the brain.

1:15.0

They've studied different brain traumas, aging of the brain. So they've had a good extensive,

1:22.3

probably 20 plus years in looking at how the brain works, how people process.

1:28.3

And we've got together.

1:33.3

Actually, Tommy Moffat was a strength coach at Tennessee at the time,

1:39.3

and Brandon was an athlete there.

1:41.3

He was a cross-country runner.

1:43.3

And that was the athlete there. He was a cross-country runner. And that was the initial contact. And

1:46.6

Tommy brought me in the loop. And obviously there was a lot of pieces there that we really liked.

1:55.0

I think to me it was one of the things that I always was kind of obsessed with because you have to

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