Forever Linked: Jeff Marx on the Bond Between Joe Burrow and Ed Orgeron
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🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Before Joe Burrow goes No. 1 overall in the NFL Draft, Pulitzer Prize winner Jeff Marx joins the show to talk about his three-part series on Ed Orgeron and his Heisman winning quarterback. Forever Linked: The Story of Heisman Joe and Coach O is the story you need this week. It goes deep on Joe's recruitment, how he won over the team, and the connections he formed with Coach O. On the surface, the two are opposites -- the introverted QB from the Midwest, the outgoing Cajun from down the bayou. At their core, however, they're made of the same stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Fighting Tigers, Fight all the way. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Hey Fighten Podcast, the official podcast of |
| 0:19.7 | LSU Football. |
| 0:20.8 | As always, I'm Cody Wersham, digital media reporter for LSU Athletics. |
| 0:25.0 | Coming to you today with a special episode of the podcast, sat down with, not with, |
| 0:30.6 | remotely, with Pulitzer Prize winning author and writer of the latest feature for The Advocate. |
| 0:41.0 | Forever Linked, the story of Heisman, Joe, and Coach O. His name is Jeff Marks. You know him, you know his work. He's a fantastic writer. |
| 0:46.7 | He's been on the scene in Baton Rouge for quite a few years now, wrote the book Walking with Tigers |
| 0:52.4 | and has been a close observer of |
| 0:55.1 | LSU Athletics for a while now. And he wrote a fantastic three-part story about Joe Burrow and |
| 1:01.3 | Coach O and their relationship and their bond. It's very, very in-depth. It's a very, very good story. |
| 1:06.9 | It's at The Advocate. I'll link it in the description of this episode. |
| 1:18.4 | It is 7 o'clock right now as I record this on Wednesday, which means the NFL draft is just 24 hours away. |
| 1:22.4 | And thank you all for the support so far with the Road to the Pro stuff that we've been doing. |
| 1:23.8 | Hope you've enjoyed it. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm excited. I'm excited that the draft is here. |
| 1:28.6 | It's good to finally have some real sports content coming up and something to consume, something can get excited about. Could be a |
| 1:34.1 | record setting draft for LSU. Could have as many as 16, 17, 18 players go in the draft. Could |
| 1:40.7 | have a record number of first rounders. I'm excited. It's going to be different. These guys don't get to go to the draft and experience the draft in person because of the |
| 1:48.9 | situation we're living in, but at the same time, they're going to see their dreams come true, |
| 1:52.7 | and we're going to get to experience it in a slightly different way than we would normally. |
| 1:58.3 | Guys are going to be watching from home and spending time with their families and probably |
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