JaCoby Stevens on Changing Positions, John D. Rockefeller, Perfectionism, Opening Up, and Breaking Out in a New Defense
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LSU Sports
4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
JaCoby Stevens bounced around between positions for the better part of two seasons at LSU, before breaking out late in 2018 as a star safety.
His transformation at LSU, however, extends well beyond defensive schemes.
The junior safety sat down for a wide-ranging, eye-opening 30 minute conversation on everything from Rockefeller to the LSU Barbershop (where he has recently ascended to first chair) to considering transferring and finally finding a home where he started all along.
JaCoby also talks growing up an LSU fan in Tennessee, inventing the College Football Playoff, his top five cereals, and he constructs an offense made entirely of Tiger defensive players.
Trust me: you don't want to miss this conversation with one of the smartest football players – one of the smartest people, period – you'd ever be lucky enough to sit down with.
Back next week with a camp wrap-up and, believe it or not, the first game week of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | We lived on a quarterstack when I was younger, and I'd go outside after school and make sure my mom make sure I have my homework done. |
| 0:06.4 | I'll just go take the football and just throw the football to myself and picturing that I'm playing in Death Valley. |
| 0:11.9 | Like in Baton Rouge, I grew up an LSU fan. |
| 0:14.5 | And I don't tell most people this. |
| 0:17.4 | People are going to hear here first. |
| 0:19.9 | I feel like I'm the creator of the playoff. |
| 0:38.6 | Hey, fight, |
| 0:41.6 | Hey, fighting podcast, |
| 0:43.7 | the official podcast of LSU football. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm Cody Worsham, |
| 0:46.8 | digital media reporter for LSU athletics, |
| 0:48.6 | and I'm really excited about today's show, |
| 0:52.3 | mostly because you don't have to hear me do the whole babbly part at the beginning, |
| 0:53.2 | where, you know, |
| 1:14.0 | I like talk about football and camp and all that stuff. Hopefully you do enjoy that part. Hopefully, though, like me, you enjoy the part more where we actually hear from the players. Because it's something I try to emphasize in this job, and I believe is really important. And what I do is that these guys have great stories to tell. And the guy that we have on today, LSU Junior Safety, Jacoby Stevens, not only has a great story to tell, but he's just a really smart, engaging guy, a guy that sat down with me for |
| 1:19.3 | about 25, 30 minutes on a Tuesday of this week and talked about everything. |
| 1:24.4 | And when I say everything, I mean everything. |
| 1:26.8 | We talked about the fact that he feels like |
| 1:28.7 | he invented the college football playoff, which you heard there at the beginning, and we'll go into |
| 1:32.4 | detail on that in a little bit here in the interview. We talked about serial. We talked about |
| 1:37.3 | John D. Rockefeller, who is one of his heroes. He is not John Rockefeller, Jacoby, is a huge football nerd. |
| 1:46.6 | So he nerded out on football. |
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