Hey, Fighting Tigers,

All right, welcome everyone back to another live edition of Hey Fighten podcast.

As always, Cody Worship, Digital Media Reporter, Fellowshoe Athletics, joined today by

passing game coordinator DJ Mangus. Before we get to Coach Mangus, I want to thank our friends

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than halftime. Visit assurancemortgage.com, proud sponsor of LSU Athletics. All right, let's get to Coach Mangus now. DJ, what's going on? Welcome back to Baton Rouge, to Louisiana. As people started asking their questions, I'll kind of get us started. How's it been getting resettled, getting readjusted to life back in Baton Rouge? Yeah, everything's been great. It's been a little bit easier. I know you guys just had Jake on. I would imagine then, Jake, I was here in 19, so I'm very familiar with the setting. And as you know, the department here in ops, there's a ton of people. There's a ton of faces to get to know, let alone the players.

And I've already had a head start on that, given there, there hasn't been many faces that have changed from that front. It's more so good to know the young players, the players that weren't here. So that part's been the biggest challenge, which isn't really challenging at all. and yeah, so it been, let besides the fact that I don't have six kids to worry about like, it's been, uh, it's been very smooth. I'm, I'm very excited to be back to say the least. Yeah, speaking from, uh, from personal experience with just two kids, it makes, it makes a difference. So I can't even fathom six. Like I just, it, it blows my mind. You wouldn't even be able to tell with Jake. I mean, he comes in here. He's the first one in the office. He's usually the last one to leave and he's got the same type of juice and energy every day. So when I see that and I'm a guy with no kids and I see a guy with six kids bringing that same type of mentality every day, it's like, well, I better set my stuff. So it's inspiring to say, you know, to be around. I felt the same way. Like I just asked him, the last question I asked him was what his favorite kids movie is to put on for the kids. And he was like, well, for Lent, we give up movies. And I was like, give up movies. That's like what I do to like get my kids to leave me alone. It's like put on a movie. And he's like, yeah, we give it up. We're going to dig into it.

So yeah,

that's,

that's definitely. movie. That's like what I do to like get my kids to leave me alone. It's like put on a movie. And he's like,

yeah,

we give it up.

We're going to dig into it. So yeah, that's, that's definitely inspirational. All right. We got a couple questions already coming in. Andre's Felencia asked. And this kind of touches on, on what we were just talking about. What is the difference, the biggest difference or change you've noticed around the program from 2019, excuse me, from 2019 until now?

The biggest difference, I think the most obvious thing is just the faces, the players.

I mean, we lost a lot of players just like you do every year.

And even though it's only been a year, it was, we had a veteran crew.

So there's a lot of new faces,

but there's a lot that similar, the way we run things, the way we, just the daily routine. It's a lot of things that I'm very familiar with. I joke the, the biggest thing that I probably noticed beyond the players was the coffee machine that we have, you know, big time upgrade there. We got all the options.

So that's been a big, big plus, big time upgrade there. We got all the options.

So that's been a big, big plus, a big bonus. But for the most part, it's been very, very similar

just from the daily routine, which is anytime I think you walk into a situation, a new situation,

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