NATIONAL CHAMPS | CWS Press Conference: Jay Johnson, Thatcher Hurd, Jordan Thompson, Dylan Crews, Cade Beloso
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
TIGERS WIN. LSU Baseball claims its seventh national title. Head coach Jay Johnson, pitcher Thatcher Hurd, designated hitter Cade Beloso, centerfielder Dylan Crews, and shortstop Jordan Thompson recap the Tigers' 18-4 win over Florida in Game 3 of the College World Series, as the Tigers claim yet another national championship.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jay, give us an overview, please. |
| 0:09.2 | Yeah, I don't know where to start, so I'll do the best I can with this. |
| 0:14.3 | National championship team, I think the most gratifying part of it is they were national |
| 0:20.5 | championship people every single day of this thing. |
| 0:23.8 | And, you know, kind of feels like a two-year win, if that makes sense. |
| 0:30.4 | You know, I think about, you know, meeting with Cade right when I got the job and said, |
| 0:34.5 | hey, we're going to go to work and change a lot of things. |
| 0:36.9 | And just his coachability, amazing. |
| 0:40.2 | Dylan is the best player in college baseball history, in my opinion. |
| 0:45.0 | And just so thankful. |
| 0:48.2 | And frankly, it was a big reason that I accepted the job. |
| 0:51.1 | I probably would have looked at LSU anyways, but knowing that I was going to have |
| 0:56.3 | a once-in-a-lifetime player on my team for two years was a big deal to do that. |
| 1:02.7 | And I think about Thatcher. |
| 1:05.1 | I told him, you know, when he said yes, that he was going to come to LSU, I said, hey, big guy, |
| 1:11.2 | you might be the most important recruit of my entire career because I knew what the other three |
| 1:15.4 | on the stage we're going to do, but to win a national championship and get through the NCAA |
| 1:20.3 | tournament, we needed real aces, and that's an ace right there, and one of the best pitchers |
| 1:25.1 | in the country. And so it's kind of cool to feel that full circle. |
| 1:30.2 | And, you know, I mean, I don't know that I'll ever have children. |
| 1:34.3 | Like Jordan is close to what I would consider like a son as anybody. |
| 1:37.7 | And I'm so proud of them. |
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