Gold Standard with Bill Franques: Game Week + Josh Jordan Interview
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LSU Sports
4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Gold Standard: an LSU Baseball podcast with Bill Franques, the Voice of Alex Box Stadium.
Nobody has had a better seat to The Powerhouse of College Baseball than Bill, who has witnessed all seven of the Tigers’ national championship runs as the program’s Sports Information Director.
This show will feature interviews with coaches, players and staff, as well as former players and broadcasters from around the sport.
As the Tigers gear up to open the season on Friday afternoon, Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator Josh Jordan returns to the studio to be the first-ever guest.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to the Gold Standard podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | My name is Bill Frankez, and I'm pleased to be joined by my young son, William Franks Jr., |
| 0:25.4 | aka Will Frankes, as he's known professionally here around the LSU Athletics Department. |
| 0:30.6 | It's a great pleasure to be joined by William and have the opportunity to talk about LSU baseball. |
| 0:35.4 | Of course, it's a passion of mine. |
| 0:36.8 | This would be the 37th year that I've worked with LSU baseball in a public relations, |
| 0:42.1 | communications capacity. |
| 0:43.7 | And of course, working as the voice of Ellicbach Stadium, which has been a tremendous privilege |
| 0:47.7 | and something that I always look forward to and can't wait to start. |
| 0:51.6 | This Friday, William, 2 o'clock, LSU versus Purdue Fort Wayne, the opening of the 2025 season. We're very much looking forward to it. Son, welcome to the goal standard. So happy you're here with me to talk about LSU baseball, something we both really love. Yes. First of all, I have to say, I got goosebumps hearing that intro. now it's just Friday, 2 o'clock cannot come fast enough. |
| 1:14.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:14.6 | But, yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:16.0 | You know, it's an honor to be able to not only work for LSU and, you know, get to work with you in the communications department, |
| 1:24.6 | but have a podcast, man. |
| 1:26.1 | I mean, you know, you would think it's, |
| 1:29.4 | it is, it is very much a pinch myself moment because, you know, people, people who work |
| 1:34.7 | with their families, they talk about how great it is. And, you know, I don't, I don't live |
| 1:39.3 | with him anymore. Obviously, I'm 24 years old. So it's not like I don't get to go, yeah, right? |
| 1:44.5 | I don't get to go home and see him every day. So to come into the office every morning and get |
| 1:49.0 | to see my dad and talk to him about whether it be LSU baseball, you know, whatever it may be, |
| 1:54.1 | it's, I'm so thankful, so grateful. I can't think of any more, you know, adjectives to describe how appreciative I am of you |
| 2:03.0 | and this great, you know, university we get to work for. And, but yeah. Yeah, so I think that what you |
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