Defensive coordinator Daronte Jones on Scheme, Spring, Travel, Bourbon, Books, and More
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Daronte Jones has been everywhere, man.
Paris. Amsterdam. Milan. London. The list of destinations visited by LSU's well-traveled defensive coordinator is endless. But now, he's in Baton Rouge, looking to build a defense that can bring the Tigers back to championship heights.
On today's episode of Hey Fightin' Podcast, Jones talks about his journey around the world and back to Louisiana, touching on scheme, spring takeaways, bourbon, books, and, of course, travel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fighting Tigers, |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to another episode of Hate Fighting Podcast, as always, Cody Wersham here. |
| 0:18.9 | Join today by Durante Jones, LSU Defensive Coordinator, on a special live edition of the podcast, Coach always, Cody Wersham here. Join today by Durante Jones, LSU defensive coordinator, on a special live edition of the |
| 0:23.6 | podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | Coach, appreciate your time. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:26.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:27.5 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:28.1 | Coach, before we get to the fan questions, just fill me in on what the last couple of months |
| 0:31.8 | have been like for you, getting settled in and into a new home and into a new position |
| 0:36.7 | here with LSU. |
| 0:37.7 | It's been good, actually. |
| 0:39.5 | So as you can imagine, things got started pretty fast with taking the job |
| 0:45.1 | and getting ready for spring ball. |
| 0:46.5 | And I thought spring ball was positive. |
| 0:49.7 | A lot of good things came out of that. |
| 0:51.0 | And got a chance to know the guys, got a chance to know the staff, |
| 0:59.4 | right? We're a new staff as well and just kind of get engulf into the LSU culture. And then right now we just been doing some self-scout, which has been good. So, you know, again, just trying |
| 1:05.5 | to look at things that we need to improve on and go from there. But I think so far, everything's been |
| 1:10.6 | great. So speaking of the spring |
| 1:12.7 | game, we all watched. I think we like what we saw defensively. It looked like your guys played |
| 1:18.9 | pretty well. Secondary made a lot of plays. What can you read into a spring game that you saw |
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