Hi again, everyone, Count Low, welcome you to our next edition of sports information, our LSU podcast with Bill Frank is, Michael Bonnet.

And as you see, we are starting early with our special guests this week. He's just that special.

Jacob Hester, former Tiger Great, local radio show host, national radio show host, color analyst on the LSU Sports Network,

and I'm sure several other things, or you have seen and heard him, but we're glad to have you here,

Jacob.

Yeah, Kent, when you have five kids, you've got to find every job you possibly can.

You've got to maximize your day, so we're up to, I think, four jobs now,

and we're looking to add more if anybody's hiring. Jacob, y'all, I know you and Matt on your

morning show, y'all have done a tremendous job going through all this portal stuff. I mean,

it's amazing to keep up with it. All you guys are really doing a great job

with it. I'm just curious to start this off in this portal era. Does the Jacob Hester that played

football at LSU wonder what the Jacob Hester, if he played in 2025, it'd be available to get, and who may be coming after him? I wouldn't go in the portal. I can tell you that. I mean, LSU is incredibly special for me. I grew up in Louisiana, and if you grow up there, y'all all know you're from Louisiana. That's where you want to play, right? And you dream of playing for LSU. for lSU so i wouldn't have gone into the portal nil sure you make a couple of dollars there it is crazy

i mean you got a lot of people making more money in one year of college football than i made six

years playing in the NFL so that that is completely different you know and so you see that and you're

like okay and look i'm all for it you, hopefully we can get some guardrails here pretty soon. But, you know, going into the portal every single year, it's a slippery slope. And I understand why it's attractive right now because you're, you know, you're going to get a big paycheck if you go in the portal every year. If there's a demand for you. But I would say it's a now decision and not a decision for down the road because, like, for me, I'm 40 years old and all of us here have had relationships for two decades. And I can come back and I can walk by a Bonnett's office. And it's like it could be six months since I've seen him, although we don't have an

opportunity to go six months without seeing each other.

But if it was, we'd pick right up where we left off, you know. It's just we've known each other for so long. And those relationships were built after four years of being in the fire together, going through battles together. and I know like when I come back and when I come home when I I go to an LSU game, even if before I worked here, doing the broadcast or anything, like, I was going to get taken care of.

And people were going to, you know, be excited to see you. You're going to be excited to see them. And so, like, for me, to have a place to bring my five children, for my wife and I to take them to a game and knowing it means something

like it's going back home and these guys that play in three and four different spots like I always say

like I understand why you're doing it but man there's something about going home and going back to a game

years later because if you went to three schools where where do you go? Do you go to three different

games? So like for me and just look, my dad's a Marine, he's a city policeman. We grew up 11 LSU.

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