The HallWay Podcast is back after a long hiatus dropping jewels to LSU about their college football expectations as well as sharing his newfound belief in his Atlanta Braves team

What up, what up?

It's your boy Marcell hall.

And thank you for listening to the hallway podcast.

As usual, we talk about sports, hip hop, life kingdom, you name it.

Whatever's going on in the news.

We talk about it.

I know, I know it's been a long time since your boy is dropping an

episode and I am sorry for that.

COVID.

Everything's blamed on COVID man.

Sorry about that.

But your boy's back trying to bring you the hallway podcast on a consistent basis.

So let's go ahead and let's get into it guys.

It has been a tough fall for me so far.

As those who know me know I am a USC football fan and things are not good.

. It is a historically.

Bad season for the Trojans.

They are losing to a team for the first time in 16, 80 and a hundred years.

And not only are they losing, but they are getting spanked.

When they do lose.

Then my 49ers were supposed to be good this year and we are not, we

are looking like last year where we had injuries and we might end

this season with a losing record.

So it has been very tough angels.

Didn't even get close to sniffing the playoffs.

However, however, there has been some encouragement.

From the Atlanta Braves.

And so those who know me know the angels are my American league

team, but the Atlanta Braves are my national league team.

Yes.

I started liking them in the nineties.

David Justice get.

Uh, Terry Pendleton and the whole squad.

And so the Atlanta Braves are doing their thing.

So as we stand right now, the braise are up to zero against

the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers.

And I won't lie to you.

When we got the match up, your boy was scared.

And I'll be honest with you.

I'm still a little bit scared because we were up to oh, last year.

No, in fact, we were up three, one last year and still lost the series.

Still very salty about that.

However, after these last two games, I have become a believer.

I am a believer in my Atlanta Braves.

SI SI.

Yes, we can.

Yes, we can.

I believe it.

If the Cincinnati bear cats can be the number two team in college

football right now, then my beloved Atlanta Braves can beat the Dodgers.

If straight out of Compton.

Could be nominated for.

An Oscar.

. Then I believe the Braves can win this series.

If a black president can go to terms without being assassinated or

even an attempt at an assassination on his life, then yes, the braids

can go to the world series.

And guys, I'll be honest with you.

I need them to do this.

I do.

Or I'm going to need some sports therapy.

Because emotionally, I can't take it Saturday and Sundays.

They're very tough for me.

I have a great time worshiping the Lord.

One of my brothers and sisters at the OSI church of Christ, but man on man, when

I get home or the day before, and I see these scores from my team, it's tough.

So I need the Atlanta Braves.

So if you love me at all, if you love the hallway podcast, then please.

Please root for the Atlanta Braves to beat the Dodgers.

Cause if not, I can't take it.

I can't take it emotionally.

I mean it's affecting me.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm getting old and I'm over 40 now.

I'm not sure what it is, but emotionally I can't take it.

But I want to talk about some more college football right now.

LSU and coach ETO.

And.

Oh, drawn have decided they are going to part ways after the season.

That's interesting.

Making that announcement now I'm sure there's some rhyme or reason to that maybe

that helps them for their recruiting.

Uh, even though ETO is known to be a phenomenal recruiter wherever he's

been Miami, USC, Tennessee, back at USC, Ole miss, and LSU has always had

top tier talent that is joined him.

But they've decided to part ways after the season.

Now, this is just two years, not even two full years.

Not even two full years since LSU won a national championship.

Now they had a terrible season last year, but they did have a number of players.

In fact, Jamar chase.

The, the star wide receiver who's balling right now in the NFL, him

and several other players chose not to play because of COVID.

Then he had some injuries.

This year, they're four and three, but they actually, I think can

still win the sec and still go to the sec championship game, which

would put them in a, a new years.

A bowl game.

So I think.

I think that's correct, but they can still have a 10 win season.

And they decided to fire the coach who just won a championship two years ago.

Now say this.

I don't know if he's the right guy.

I don't, I don't know.

I won't ever claim that, that he is.

And I know this is not just.

How many games you lose, even though that's huge.

But it's also how you lose the games.

LSU.

Probably sealed his fate once they got whooped by Kentucky.

Yeah, I'm still talking football here.

I'm not talking basketball.

When LSU put a whooping on Kentucky.

I believe they felt like this can never happen.

We have to go a different direction and it's true.

LSU should never get their butt spanked by Kentucky in football, basketball.

You know, lacrosse, any other sport, don't have a problem with it.

But not in football.

That's like carrot, top carried time should never win a comedy

battle against Kevin Hart.

That should never happen.

Just like Kentucky should never, ever whoop up on LSU.

But I will say this to you, LSU.

You need a reality check.

LSU you are an LSU is a top.

Top 15 program.

Yeah, I would say definitely a top 15 program.

Top 20 all time.

But they're not an elite program.

Now, hold off.

And let me finish.

LSU has been elite.

For several years.

But we're talking about the grand scale of college football.

LSU was not in that top tier.

See the elite programs, the top tier programs I'm talking of all time,

not this past decade of all time.

Those elite programs have been doing this since world war one.

We're talking world war one.

Now they're second and third tier programs, which are outstanding.

But, but let's remind people of the all time elite programs we're talking.

Every decade since the world war one.

All right.

USC.

Notre Dame, Alabama, Oklahoma.

You get the Michigan and Ohio state in there.

And then you have your second tier teams.

They've been doing it for the last 30 years.

Uh, maybe even 40 years.

Okay.

You got Miami, Florida.

Uh, Florida state, Texas.

, maybe even throw Nebraska in there, but you know, they've been down, , over the

last five, 10 years here, but Penn state and LSU and Auburn probably are near.

Maybe I'm missing another group there.

Now I know some of you say, well, what about Clemson and Georgia

these are top programs right now.

But Clemson even before the last 10 years was not a top tier program.

Okay.

Just because you have a decade where you're really hot doesn't mean that

you're in leap program all time.

If that was the case, then army.

Which there'll be a top program cause they were bawling and way back in the day

when it was Notre Dame, USC and Michigan.

Okay.

And so LSU.

Is somewhere in that second tier of maybe third tier of all time.

Programs and that's good.

That's not bad.

There really isn't you can still jump up into the top

tier, but you're not right now.

Now here's the thing LSU could, and in fact should be better.

But there's a difference in your expectations.

Or let me say this.

There's a difference between could and should.

In your expectations.

You see, LSU could be a top five program every year with championship.

Expectations and championships every decade.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that you should expect to have championships.

Every decade.

That's not who you have always been.

Now you've had some success.

But to think that's who you are all time now.

That's not logical.

This is where you need some self awareness that we all need this to life.

We all need to be self aware.

Self awareness.

This is like the guy who thinks that he should be dating somebody

that that's on par Beyonce.

That's their expectation, man.

I should be dating some girl who liked Beyonce.

However, RO you aren't that Jay Z in your field or life.

And so you shouldn't be thinking, Hey, I should be dating me.

I'd say when you were not at Jay Z over at your department.

You got to have realistic expectations.

You better step your game up.

And go after that background singer.

That's what you do.

Okay.

If you're not Jay Z, then you don't go try to holler at beyond two.

You go and try to holler at the backup dancer because that's where your

rat that's, that that's who you are.

And there's nothing wrong with that, but just have some self-awareness.

Again, I'm not sure if ETO is the guy.

But all these programs and it's not just LSU, but I've seen this

now with a number of programs, all these programs who expect.

To win every year.

But the last time you won a championship, Woodrow Wilson was the precedent.

Now if that's you and your program, that means you have lost self-awareness.

Look, could you become a top tier program that eventually one day

will be a part of the elites?

Yes, you could.

But should you expect that that's the case right now?

That's the problem.

And so strive to be a top tier.

But don't expect at anything less.

Is unacceptable.

And that's the problem when you think, man, we are winning the

championship every other year, but.

Here's the thing you've never won a championship every other year.

Do you have no right then to think that your results are unrealistic.

Or unacceptable.

That's been who you are.

So why do you put this unrealistic expectation on yourself and others?

I mean, just be like the UCLA Bruins.

They don't expect to be good at football.

They don't.

Because they never were.

And you know what?

They never should be.

That's right.

I said it.

But I'll even say this look, I'm a USC fan.

Now it's safe to expect to have a good basketball program at USC.

We're right there.

We have the resources we should expect to be good, but we're not

foolish to think that we should fire coaches who don't make the final four

every year, like duke and Kentucky.

If we're measuring our success to duke and Kentucky, then we

are foolish, blind and illogical.

Because we, that's not who we have been.

That's not what, who we have been in, in basketball.

So we shouldn't have that expectation in LSU.

You shouldn't have that expectation on yourself right now.

Again, ETO might not be the guy and you might get the right guy in there.

But go ahead and be self-aware.

LSU calm down and realize that you're more like Jay-Z's cousin.

And so there's nothing wrong with trying to date the backup singer to Beyonce.

It's your boy Marcel hall.

Tune into the next episode of the hallway podcast.